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MANBABIES

Take a picture of a man and a baby.
Swap the heads and you get:
Man Babies

Friday, June 27, 2008 9:06 AM 1 comments

Bad Translation

I saw this on the wall of a toilet in Nerja, so thought I'd share. This wasn't translated by FreeTranslation.com which to be honest makes even less sense of the original.

Tuesday, June 24, 2008 9:25 PM 2 comments

Science

Confused. That's how most people are about the scientific claims they hear in teh medias.
"Last week they said red wine gives you brain cancer, now they say it can cure AIDS! I wish the scientists would make up their minds; is red wine good for you or not?!"
Of course, in such cases it is often not the scientists that are at fault, it's the journalists that are reporting (or to put it more accurately - misrepresenting) their claims which are to blame. The problem is that people trust the media. They pretend they don't, they pretend that they "know newspapers can't be trusted and shit" but the fact is that if the BBC put on its website that scientists have welded a cat onto a donkey, then the very same evening a thousand pub conversations will begin with the words "Did you see on the news today that scientists are now welding cats onto the back of donkeys? Makes me sick. You couldn't make it, you just couldn't make it up."
The reason I mention this is because for the last few months I've been an avid reader of Ben Goldacre's Bad Science blog. His blog shines a light on bad science, and misrepresentation of good science, and does so in a very accesible manner. I can't recommend it highly enough really. His summing up of spurious claims of a miracle cure for dislexia is a good example of his work, and for lolz check his latest post about a creationist getting out of his depth.

8:49 PM 2 comments

Costa Del Sol

I was up Spain last week, for Liv's best friend Cathy's wedding in Frigiliana. We stayed in a lovely little cottage with a view out to the sea, surrounded by beautiful gardens, and fig, prune, orange, olive and lemon trees (though the lemons didn't necessarily offer as much juice as their size promised).
It was far too hot for sight seeing, so our days rarely deviated from a simple plan: get up, eat breakfast, go to the beach and sunbathe/swim, go back to the cottage for lunch and a siesta, go back to the beach for a swim, then go back to the cottage for dinner. All very relaxing and lovely.
A beach holiday on the Costa Del Sol wouldn't have been our choice for a holiday, but I'm really glad we went as I needed a break and it was so nice to completely switch off and mentally re-charge.

Sunday, June 22, 2008 9:03 PM 1 comments

Dolphins

Isn't this the sort of incident that happens towards the start of disaster movies?
"I have never heard of anything like this, certainly not in the UK and possibly not anywhere," he said. "My own personal conclusion is that there was some sort of disturbance that has caused the animals to panic."
You say disturbance, I say Godzilla.
In fact, I have visions of some John Cusak type character in some anonymous whitehall building, saying "You don't understand, this is way beyond the normal behaviour for dolphins..."
Robert Downey Jr.: We know that beardy, that's why we're carring out full autoposies on all of them, to find out what caused this.
Cusak: If you'll just listen, I think I already know what caused this...
Robert Downey Jr.: You've taken up enough of my time, good day say...
Cusak: But the prophecy...
Robert Downey Jr.: I SAID GOOD DAY SIR
Cusak (being led away): The Prophecy....
Cut to:
A fishing vessel in the Bristol channel, hauling in its catch. The ship twitches unexpectedly. The crew looks at each other mistified. Suddenly, the whole vessels rises up out of the sea. The camera pans down to reveal a huge beast, like a dinosaur, the ship resting on its nose. The beast flips up its head, sending the ship high into the air. At the top of its trajectory, the zenith of its parabolo, the crew have just enough time to reflect on their contribution to the world. Everything they've ever regretted, everything they haven't said flashes through their minds for just a moment before the ship crashes into the jaws of the beast, who tosses it towards the camera, melodramtically.
The whole thing is whitnessed by a Japanese tourist on a sea safari boat.
"Gojira!" he murmers, struck by Awe.
Man in red shirt: "What did he say?"
Wife: "Godzilla!"
Man in red shirt: "Really? I'm pretty sure he said Gojira"
Wife: "No, definatley Godzilla."
Man in red shirt: "It's just...
Wife: "Godzilla."
Man in red shirt: "Goj..."
cut to:
A tv, showing footage of a man in red shirt being eaten by a huge sea monster.
Christian Guru Murhpy (off of the telly): "...dzilla. And in other news tonight, Noel Edmonds has been arrested on charges of..."
The camera pans down to reveal a bar. John Cusak is taking in Christian Guru Murphy's every word.
Cusak (to himeslf): "My god. It's happening."
cut to:
Whitehall...
Robert Downey Jr.: Get Me John Cusak, now!
cut to:
the bar, the news is still in the background, but Cusak has gone from his stool. Which is spinning. To cleverly show how Cuask has just rushed out. You see?
Christian guru murphy: ...before smearing the animal's blood on his genitals. That's all for now. Ba-bye.

etc.

This is precisely how I think things will pan out. Mark my words.

Labels: wearedoomed

Wednesday, June 11, 2008 2:20 PM 5 comments