Author: Four-eyed English Genius

What’s the difference?

What is the difference between H2S and HS2?

For those of you who may not be aware, H2S is the formula of hydrogen sulphide, or rotten eggs gas, which is actually more poisonous than hydrogen cyanide, but less dangerous as it is so easy to detect it by smell. Mind you, once you have stopped smelling it, it is either because it has gone away, or is so concentrated that it has destroyed the olfactory cells in your nose!

HS2 is the planned high speed rail folly planned by the UK government that will a) cost a fortune, b) ruin a lot of countryside, c) need to be heavily subsidised by other rail routes and/or taxpayers d) take a WHOLE 35 minutes off a train trip from London to Birmingham. It is not even planned for it to go to any airport or meet up with HS1, the high speed rail link from London to the Channel Tunnel.
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It just keeps getting better

The Labour Party should avoid all usage of Twitter.

I am sure you have all heard of that repulsive woman Diane Abbott’s little faux pas on Twitter by now. You know, the ones about White Folk liking to Divide and Rule and also the one about Black Cab (ironic or what?) drivers not stopping for black people hailing them.

Now Ed Milliband has had an even bigger cock-up on Twitter. In commenting on the sad reports of the death of Bob Holness of Blockbusters fame, he tweeted thus:

He is now trending on Twitter under the hashtag #edmillibandgameshows, where tweeters are invited to come up with suitable game show titles that he could sponsor. It is worth a look if you want a laugh!

The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures

I have finished watching the TV series of Christmas Lectures for Young People at the Royal Institution in London, that I recorded during the Chrimbo festivities. This year they were on the subject of The Brain, by Professor Bruce Hood. Not so much on the biology of the brain, but the way it handles and stores information. As usual, they were very entertaining. The lectures were started by Michael Faraday in 1825 and have been a feature ever since.
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Wavy Davy is doing his best to lose his new found popularity.

David Cameron’s standing in the eyes of the British electorate has gone up steeply recently, mainly due to his definitive NON und NEIN to the Merkozy plan to tax the City of London out of existence.

No sooner has this happened, than he immediately starts adopting the pink Wavy Davy image again. This time, he is proposing that there should be a “minimum price” on alcohol, either by having a minimum price per unit or a certain tax per unit, a typical socialist response to the acknowledged alcohol problem in the UK. Instead of punishing those who abuse the stuff, he intends to punish those who do not abuse it, in case they might. Those who do abuse it will just give up something else instead, or start mugging to pay the extra.

At least it will drum up extra business for the Eurotunnel and cross channel ferries as booze cruising starts in earnest again!

Results of the 19th Nervous Photographic Competition.

The deadline is here, so, as Gregg Wallace says “STOP COOKING NOW!”

It is a shame there were not a few more pictures, but the ones that are there are varied and show some great imagination. I am surprised no-one took a picture of the fairy on the Christmas Tree. Yes, I know the joke about Grumpy Santa and his striking elves!

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