Four Christmases
Reese Witherspoon & Vince Vaughan
Summary: Felt like eight Christmases
Recommended: If you enjoy seeing a baby vomit on Reese Witherspoon. Twice.
Sunday, November 30, 2008
Saturday, November 29, 2008
Saturday Fun
Your Saturday fun today comes courtesy of South Yorkshire police.
Do you drive? Have you noticed trucks recently? Specifically, have you noticed their tendency to
- Blunder into your path because the driver is preoccupied with eating a pan of spaghetti
- Delay your journey by crashing into low bridges. (The driver being unable to compare the height of his vehicle with the height painted in foot-high letters on the bridge)
- Mow down queueing traffic at toll booths
Although no doubt there are many fine upstanding truckers without whom this nation etc., etc., as a car driver I find it much safer to treat any truck in my path as though it is being driven by a knuckle dragging non-English speaking moron who paid a bribe to get his license, is drunk, eating a plate of spaghetti and has been awake for 48 hours. Because the chances are it is.
The policeman in this clip should have borne the above in mind. He's driving along normally in the outside lane of a virtually empty 3 lane motorway at 130MPH (!!!) with his headlamps flashing when up ahead he sees a truck in the inside (slow) lane. In the UK, trucks are banned from the outside lane of motorways with 3 or more lanes. What do you think happens?
Enjoy!
Do you drive? Have you noticed trucks recently? Specifically, have you noticed their tendency to
- Blunder into your path because the driver is preoccupied with eating a pan of spaghetti
- Delay your journey by crashing into low bridges. (The driver being unable to compare the height of his vehicle with the height painted in foot-high letters on the bridge)
- Mow down queueing traffic at toll booths
Although no doubt there are many fine upstanding truckers without whom this nation etc., etc., as a car driver I find it much safer to treat any truck in my path as though it is being driven by a knuckle dragging non-English speaking moron who paid a bribe to get his license, is drunk, eating a plate of spaghetti and has been awake for 48 hours. Because the chances are it is.
The policeman in this clip should have borne the above in mind. He's driving along normally in the outside lane of a virtually empty 3 lane motorway at 130MPH (!!!) with his headlamps flashing when up ahead he sees a truck in the inside (slow) lane. In the UK, trucks are banned from the outside lane of motorways with 3 or more lanes. What do you think happens?
Enjoy!
Thursday, November 27, 2008
Beneath Contempt
In the UK An opposition politician, party spokesman on immigration issues, has been arrested by anti-terrorism police
His crime? Receiving documents from a government mole which showed that the government has completely lost the plot on immigration - which anybody with a pair of eyes and an IQ in double figures has known for 10 years.
Really and truly, the British government is beneath contempt.
His crime? Receiving documents from a government mole which showed that the government has completely lost the plot on immigration - which anybody with a pair of eyes and an IQ in double figures has known for 10 years.
Really and truly, the British government is beneath contempt.
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Financial Meltdown Explained
"Long Beach Financial, wholly owned by Washington Mutual, was a great example. Long Beach Financial was moving money out the door as fast as it could, few questions asked, in loans built to self-destruct. It specialized in asking homeowners with bad credit and no proof of income to put no money down and defer interest payments for as long as possible. In Bakersfield, California, a Mexican strawberry picker with an income of $14,000 and no English was lent every penny he needed to buy a house for $720,000."
Read it all
Read it all
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Busted
In light of the fact that Illinois now insist State Troopers call and get permission before doing more than 20 over the speed limit... here is a somewhat grainy clip from the UK way back in 1991.
On a warm July evening a couple of officers doing 92 MPH (in itself 20 over the limit) in an unmarked Rover 827 - basically a British Honda Legend with a somewhat tuned 2.7 V6 engine - were undertaken by a guy in a Porsche 911 (passing on the left is an offence in the UK) who then proceeded to crank it up to no less than 145 MPH!
This guy isn't as unobservant you might think, because British unmarked cars don't stand out a mile like American ones do.
All the same, I bet he had a bit of a red face when they pulled him over and showed him this film!
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