Another list of the odditioes from around the web (y'know like an old school we b log ) whilst I process what this is for and if I want to do it. KFC has made a puffer jacket filled with real pickles, and yes, it has a straw Whilst the jacket s deliberatley odd there's simply no excuse for Dyson's new hanheld fan . None. I mean they designed it so that you have to point that at your face. Horror movie plot incoming:  Radioactive wasp nest found at site where US once made nuclear bombs . Becuase I really eenjow concepts that change how you perciepve the world; there's no such thing as now.

I wonder why my dishwasher gets tablets and all I get is counselling. I sit down next to it to talk. I tell it I think it may be overmedicated, I tell it of my concern that its cleanliness obsession may be unhealthy. It gives me the silent treatment, and then a passive-aggressive hum. I tell it I think it should get out more, try and make friends with some other major appliances. Has it fallen out with the washing machine? What about that thing they all used to do together with the dryer? Unhelpful silence. A little sass from a flashing light. I wonder aloud if it could drink less, cut down on the rinse aid. Maybe go for a walk in the fresh air. Could it do some more creative work? Break the cycle of filling with dirty things it feels it has to clean and ending up feeling emptied out? Could it at least try something different, maybe in another room? A hobby? One that doesn’t involve tablets and rinse aid. Lastly, I try to coax it into thinking about the effect its behaviour has on othe...

  ANZAC Day Service - Cromer RSL Whilst I have studied the history of the First and Second World Wars and firmly believe that understanding that history, why and how it happened, is important in understanding the contemporary world, something about the memorial ceremonies sets my teeth on edge. I think it's the way they become an excuse for mawkishness and fawning over the military, which I find more than moderately distasteful.  Remembrance Day, ANZAC Day and others are also used by the jingoistic to goad and brow-beat those less inclined to take the 'my country, right or wrong' approach to these conflicts. We are asked to remember the fallen without also necessarily remembering the cavalcade of negligence, incompetence and stupidity from their leaders that set them on the path to death. ANZAC Day at least has slightly less of this as Australia and New Zealand commemorate those sent to die at Gallipoli by their leaders half a world away; although I will qualify this with t...