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Throw rioter’s families out of their homes and stop their benefits? Don’t be daft

I keep hearing people calling for the families of anyone convicted of the recent rioting to be thrown out of their social housing or council houses, and have benefits stopped. Even some politicians are joining in this crazy rhetoric.

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Goal-line technology in football

There’s been repeated calls for using goal-line technology in football for years. Fifa has stubbornly refused to implement it, pathetically quoting cost as one of the main reasons when they are one of the richest sports on the planet. I always said the real reason was that Fifa actually prefer all the controversy and publicity created by the constant arguments about whether a goal was a goal or not.

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Why do UFOs always have lights?

There’s another UFO story in the news this morning as, “Several viewers contacted the BBC about strange lights that appeared in the night sky over Merseyside.” ( Mobile phone UFO footage )

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Music. Musings on the power of music

I was abducted by two she-aliens recently. Apparently they singled me out because I was driving along with me music so loud I stole their attention. By a bizarre quirk of fate, the combination of Bjork and my unique vocal harmonies created a sound strikingly similar to the mating-call of one of their alien men-things. I hadn’t seen their spaceship because they were in stealth mode. They were apparently playing a game where they hover invisibly over a car throughout its entire journey and change all the traffic lights to red as it approaches them. It seems the sounds emanating from me car got them all horny, so they twiddled the tractor-beam control and I found meself in a predicament.

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Is it best to leave the central heating and hot water on all the time?

I was talking with a friend the other week who said they leave their central heating on all the time because they had been advised it was cheaper. The same applied to their hot water heating system which, “costs much more to heat up from cold than to maintain at a constant temperature”.

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Positive thinking

I’ve been practising my own version of a positive thinking philosophy for a few years now. It’s not based on anything I’ve read, it’s just something I developed as I’ve recognised that many of the events I think are bad for me actually turn out to be good. The same thing happens to everyone else too. It took a couple of years for it to become second nature to me, but now that it is I’m even more chilled than I naturally was anyway. I don’t tend to get upset about most of the negative things that happen and realise that time may well uncover something very positive in them.

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Me and my bitch

We entered the pet shop having decided to buy a cat, and came out with a dog. Don’t ask me what happened it was a long time ago. She was mostly, but not entirely, border collie. She had a beautiful coat which was black, white, brown and grey, a really cute face and a price tag of just £6.00. We named her Lassie, and to this day, I can’t believe I was so unimaginative as to call her that.

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Confessions of a firestarter

Me and my brother had a fascination with fire when we were young, and both managed to set a house on fire. Steve did the first one when we were about 6 and 4 respectively. One of my earliest memories is of a fireman patiently questioning us both after our Oak Street house was rendered uninhabitable.

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FAQ on exercise & burning fat

Do I have to work very hard to loose weight?

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More of my thoughts & musings

My Poems

The Music Effect

Music reaches deep inside me, invokes feelings that I need. Fills my head with pleasure on which my soul can feed. Takes me to another place, immerses me in lakes of sound. Free to float or dive deep down – no longer feel earthbound.

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Butterfly

One day I sat alone when it settled on my arm. A lovely little butterfly, someone had done it harm. It had a damaged wing, which was very badly frayed, it made me feel quite special. I was happy when it stayed.

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Do it?

Don’t spend the rest of your life waist deep in cold water. It’s no excuse to say, that if you swim over to another shore then you’ll be wetter than you were before. For after reaching dry land, maybe you will find, that you will soon be wet no more

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In a nutshell

We have a precious gift, to give at our discretion. Enough for all we meet, a truly great possession. No matter who we give it to we always have some left – but if we give it no one, it’s us that are bereft.

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Go to sleep!

Look; you can’t wake up in the morning if you haven’t been to sleep. This is your final warning
I won’t hear another peep. If I have to come upstairs (apart from nipping to the loo) I’ll be bringing smacks in pairs -that’s right – one for each of you.

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Interesting Things I’ve Found

Swede admits home-made split the atom experiment was crazy

This is hilarious. It’s so much like a spoof that I half think it is – but it appears to be real. Listen to the interview and his answer to the question, “The (radio active) materials you were using are very restricted where did you get them?” I burst out laughing

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Sleepwalking dog – (or rather dog having a nightmare)

This video is extremely funny but it’s a guilty pleasure because as an animal lover I realise the dog is unfortunately having a nightmare and something’s clearly gone wrong with the mechanism that is supposed to stop us all from acting out our nightmares by paralysing us during dreaming. It certainly proves animals (at least dogs) do have dreams and nightmares like we do and that presumably a common nightmare is one where we are being chased by something very nasty and dangerous.

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Dead mouse in loaf of bread

Don’t look at this picture if you are squeamish. I must admit it’s not a pleasant sight – and I think mice are quite cute (when alive and not decomposing). This must have been a nasty shock. The mouse was, “embedded in the base of the bread” so imagine if he hadn’t looked at the bottom and just started to use the loaf? He might have had half the tail before noticing..
Man found dead mouse in malt loaf

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Piano playing cat (Nora)

I just found one of those, “and finally” news items (pioneered by ITN) on the BBC News website about a piano playing Cat named Nora who has found fame on the Internet. A Lithuanian conductor contacted her owners after seeing the video which led to him creating a four-minute piece for the Klaipeda chamber orchestra, which was performed with a video of Nora the piano playing cat in the background.

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Has Wallace got a new voice in Wallace and Gromit?

I just watched a video showing a short animation of Wallace & Gromit but I think the voice sounds different. It sounds more like someone mimicking him (reasonably well) but that’s not Peter Sallis – is it?

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