Showing posts with label United Kingdom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label United Kingdom. Show all posts

Saturday, 24 April 2010

You're kidding right?



There's about to be a historic election in Britain, thousands of people are still stranded and trying to get home thanks to last week's ashcolypse and yet this is what the Daily Mail has as its front page story:

With everything else in the world the Daily Mail has decided that wheelie bins are the enemy of everyday families. Not financial ruin due to unethical business practices of certain lending and investing institutions, but wheelie bins. God forbid you have to put yourself out by separating your rubbish and then put the bins in front of your house one day a week! Surely this is an infringement on our civil liberties!!!

This is an ongoing assault that the Mail has launched against a necessary recycling scheme. As usual instead of reporting real news that is going on in the world, the Daily Mail is furthering their right-wing political agenda. Fortunately for the Mail a majority of their readers are simple minded consumers who believe whatever crap the Mail tells them is important or true. Unfortunately for the rest of us there are far too many readers who take the Daily Mail seriously.

Okay rant over. Back to packing up my flat.

Wednesday, 27 February 2008

EARTHQUAKE!!!!

I thought that I had escaped earthquakes by moving to the UK. Apparently not! At 1AM last night an Earthquake rolled through the English and Welsh countryside. Did I feel it? Nope. I slept right through it. Granted the epicenter was over a 100 miles from me and it was only a 4.3 (I've been in higher), but many of my colleagues, students and/or their parents felt it.

This the fifth earthquake that I've been in and the second that I've been in and not felt.

Back to work...