News, Humour28 June 2006 / 23:39

LAGOS (Reuters) - Crime-infested Nigeria, famed for its email scams, has warned citizens travelling to Britain to watch out for conmen who use tricks to rob or rip off visitors.

Is this not a tiny bit rich for a country that is infamously associated with crime, scams and fraud?

Politics26 June 2006 / 15:04

A national ‘respect squad’ is being launched by John Reid to help in the battle against anti-social behaviour.

I’m astonished. How on earth could even this lot come up with something as utterly awful and deranged as this?

What do I say? Fuck him and fuck the horse he rode in on. Now, how’s about that for dishrespek’?

News21 June 2006 / 20:47

Hundreds of schoolchildren caught up in an alleged World Cup ticket fraud will get to watch a game after government talks with Fifa, Downing Street said.

Another blogger has said it much better (and in a funnier way) than I can do here.

So children, lesson of the day: if fuckwit incompetents order tickets from a blatantly unreputable source and they don’t deliver on their promises, don’t worry! Populist Tony will bail you out! Isn’t our great leader so generous? All hail the Maximum Tone!

Photography 20:43

Been a while since I posted on this owd thing!

Another selection of images, this time from Colne in eastern Lancashire, is up on the Images of Lancashire photoblog.

Photography10 June 2006 / 10:22

I’ve set up a photoblog on Blogger. All the pictures I take will be posted on there from now on. I’ll still link to them when I have new entries, though.

Paul’s Photoblog may be found here.

Internet2 June 2006 / 22:01
County map
I’ve visited the counties in yellow.
Which counties have you visited?

made by marnanel
map reproduced from Ordnance Survey map data
by permission of the Ordnance Survey.
© Crown copyright 2001.

For reference, that’s:

England

  • Cheshire
  • Cornwall
  • Cumbria
  • Dorset
  • Isle of Wight
  • Lancashire
  • Greater London
  • Greater Manchester
  • Liverpool and Merseyside
  • Nottinghamshire
  • West Midlands
  • Worcestershire
  • Yorkshire
  • Wales

  • Denbighshire
  • Flintshire
  • Pembrokeshire
  • Scotland

  • Ayrshire
  • Dumfries and Galloway
  • I haven’t been to the Isle of Man yet but plan to visit later on in the year. I haven’t been to any of the counties in Northern Ireland yet either.