What happens when a well endowed soccer streaker meets a bee? It’s unexpected, painful but, very funny!
Watch what happens but, ladies avert your eyes in the middle section of the video. I think the bee would make the England rugby team.
Entries from December 2007
The Football Streaker & The Bee
December 30, 2007 · Leave a Comment
Categories: Bees · Humour · Video
Tagged: Bee, Football, Mascot, Soccer, Streaker, Tackle
Did You Consume An Illegal Substance on Christmas Day?
December 28, 2007 · Leave a Comment
OK “fess up”….did you eat a mince pie or, two on Christmas Day ?
Shhhhh…… I would keep it quiet if I was you because, it is actually illegal to do this!
It’s one of a number of historic laws which have never been repealed, including:
I’m sure in another 50 years there will be an even longer list of absurd laws, still on the statute book, as part of New Labour’s bequest to our nation.
Categories: History · Humour · Politics · crime
Tagged: Illegal, Mince, Pies
Exclusive Video of Secret Downing Street Xmas Bash
December 21, 2007 · Leave a Comment
Exclusive to this site… watch Gordon Brown with Alistair Darling & Ed Ball, all in fancy dress HERE (it takes a minute or two to load so be patient, it’s worth the wait!)
Gordon is quite a mover.
Since blogging will be light over the next few days may I wish you all:
A very merry Christmas and a happy & prosperous 2008.
Categories: Christmas · Gordon Brown · Humour · Politics · Video
Tagged: Downing, Dress, Elf, Fancy, Fun, Party, Secret, Street
Is E-Mail CC: Overloading Your Work Place Inbox
December 21, 2007 · Leave a Comment
E-mail overload is now an endemic work place disease. E-mail overload has reached such crisis proportions in the US that some companies are declaring Fridays as a “No e-mail day”. It won’t work! The root cause of the problem is the sheer volume of unnecessary cc: mail. Copying others on your work e-mails is easy for you but, work for others.
Welcome to what’s been called the “CC disease”. It’s a pandemic, spreading inefficiency & despair through every organisation in the world.
In my consulting work, I advise overloaded executives to institute 4 basic rules, about e-mail, within their organisation:
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Ban the use of the ”REPLY TO ALL” option.
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Ban e-mails which are a commentary on progress or, difficulties in completing a project. Ask colleagues just to tell those who NEED to know that the job is either done or, assistance is required!
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Do not cc: your boss …effective bosses will trust you to get on with what you’re paid to do.
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When you get unwanted/unnecessary e-mail invest a little time by replying “Please take me off your distribution list on this subject unless you want me to do something”. Over time your colleagues will become more selective and also pick up your habit. It takes a little more time but, it’s an investment that pays off.
Categories: Technology
Tagged: cc:, e-mail, Inbox, Overload, Virus
Is Marriage in Britain in Terminal Decline?
December 21, 2007 · Leave a Comment
A read through the official historical data for births in England & Wales (HERE …note this is a large file 6.4MB) is a fascinating chronology of social change. One of the most remarkable changes has been the huge increase in births outside marriage. The percentage of births, outside marriage, between 1840 and the mid 1960’s, was consistently in the range of 4 - 6.5% of all live births, except for a brief period in the mid to late 1940’s when our troops were returning home.
Starting in the “Swinging Sixties” births outside marriage steadily increased to 11.8% by 1980. This figure more than doubled by 1990 to 28.3%. but has since raced upto around 50%.
Put another way, there are now over 300,000 births/year outside marriage. Until 1984, there had never been a year when live births outside marriage exceeded 100,000.
Does it matter?
Whether it’s a moral or, religious isssue is down to individual conscience. But, what we should all care about is whether the State is increasingly taking over responsibility for the family through skewing economic choices….particularly for low income families.
What we are witnessing is the cumulative effect of couples making rationale economic choices. The welfare state puts economic pressure on couples by penalising the visible presence of a male earner. A “single” female with a child receives housing benefit/council house, child support etc. The current Government recognised the difficulty of proving that a “single” mother was actually cohabiting with a mail and changed the rules by setting up the Child Support Agency to tackle the problem. However. this agency was only successful in driving low income fathers underground.
What started out as the state seeking to provide a cushion for single mothers has progressively become a rationale lifestyle choice for many. Marriage now pins unacceptable (to many) state obligations & burdens on fathers. Marriage for most low-income families has been robbed of its economic rationale & the state has taken over the historic role of the father as the main provider.
Categories: Financial · History · Marriage · Poverty · Research · Social Care · Women
Tagged: CSA, Fathers, Marriage, Mothers, Single, State
Queen Achieves Record as Oldest Monarch
December 20, 2007 · Leave a Comment
The Queen, 81, has today officially become our oldest ever serving monarch, surpassing the 81 years and 243 days of Queen Victoria, her great-great-grandmother.
Well done Ma’am
Top 50 Baby Names Registered in 2007
December 20, 2007 · Leave a Comment
OK my first name is Jack and most of my life people have tended to assume my real name is John (Jack is the nickname for boys called John & comes from the French name Jacques, which means John …….geddit?). Strange then that for the thirteenth year running “Jack” has been the most popular boy’s name and “John” is nowhere to be seen in the top 50 list.
Biggest risers this year are Jayden (+36 places), Isaac & also Finley (+13) & Mohammed/Muhammad (+11). Owen & Liam show the biggest declines (-16). Cameron is also down (-3)…….does this tell us something about the political opinion polls?
For girls, Grace was the top name and the biggest riser was Ava (+23) and new entry Summer (+15).
Research suggests that if you have an unusual name in your generation, you are more likely to report to a mental health clinic with problems……so beware. The tables suggest that traditional names continue to dominate the top 50 and media related names come & go (Ronaldo increased over 500 places last year).
Full tables below.
The +/- indicates the change in position since last year
Boys
1. Jack
2. Thomas
3. Oliver +1
4. Joshua -1
5. Harry
6. Charlie +4
7. Daniel +2
8. William -1
9. James -3
10. Alfie +6
11. Samuel -3
12. George +2
13. Joseph -1
14. Benjamin -3
15. Ethan +4
16. Lewis +4
17. Mohammed +5
18. Jake -3
19. Dylan +4
20. Jacob +1
21. Luke -4
22. Callum -9
23. Alexander +1
24. Matthew -6
25. Ryan
26. Adam
27. Tyler
28. Liam +3
29. Harvey -1
30. Max -1
31. Harrison +5
32. Jayden new entry +36
33. Cameron -3
34. Henry +5
35. Archie +5
36. Connor -1
37. Jamie -5
38. Muhammad +6
39. Oscar +8
40. Edward +1
41. Lucas +7
42. Isaac new entry +13
43. Leo -10
44. Owen -10
45. Nathan -8
46. Michael -4
47. Finley new entry +13
48. Ben -10
49. Aaron -6
50. Noah -4
Girls
1. Grace +1
2. Ruby +2
3. Olivia -2
4. Emily +1
5. Jessica -2
6. Sophie
7. Chloe
8. Lily +1
9. Ella +2
10. Amelia +6
11. Lucy -3
12. Charlotte
13. Ellie -3
14. Mia
15. Evie +6
16. Hannah -1
17. Megan
18. Katie -5
19. Isabella
20. Isabelle +9
21. Millie -1
22. Abigail
23. Amy -5
24. Daisy +1
25. Freya -2
26. Emma +1
27. Erin +1
28. Poppy +2
29. Molly -5
30. Holly -4
31. Phoebe +3
32. Jasmine -1
33. Caitlin +2
34. Imogen +14
35. Madison +4
36. Elizabeth +5
37. Sophia +12
38. Keira -5
39. Scarlett +7
40. Leah -8
41. Ava new entry +23
42. Georgia -5
43. Alice +4
44. Summer new entry +15
45. Isabel -1
46. Rebecca -10
47. Lauren -9
48. Amber -8
49. Eleanor -7
50. Bethany -7
Categories: Personal · Personality · Psychology
Tagged: 2007, Baby, Grace, Jack, Names, Popular, Ronaldo, Top. Most
Daily Food Allowance: Armed Forces ₤1.63, MPs ₤20
December 20, 2007 · Leave a Comment
Great blog by both Dizzy & Guido on the treatment of our armed forces by this Government. The chart below shows how the daily food allowance for our armed forces compares to other groups. The top blue bar for children only covers one meal (lunch):
DAILY FOOD ALLOWANCE
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₤’s per day
Categories: Financial · Gordon Brown · Iraq War · Politics · Security
Tagged: Allowance, Armed Forces, Food, Government Funding
Mole Valley Liberal Democrats – Hellooo Are You Out There?
December 19, 2007 · 1 Comment
Hello Mole Valley Liberal Democrats! Do you know that the link to your web site is a “dead link”? Or, perhaps, it is down to update your web site for a change of leadership?
Just thought I’d be helpful.
Categories: Local Politics
Tagged: Liberal Democrats, Missing, Mole Valley, Site, Web
