Trouble With Dreams » politics

Desperate times for the North Koreans

sam — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 22:36:43 +0000

.. the chance of them having to face Justin Bieber are somehow above zero.

The caption attached to Kim Jong-il is brilliant:

Bet he is.

Election Losers

sam — Sat, 08 May 2010 12:22:05 +0000

Congratulations to Godfrey Spickernell for getting 17 votes for the Blue Environment Party in Chelsea & Fulham — as far as I can see, the lowest total in the country.

I was a little disappointed nobody matched the heroic efforts of Catherine Taylor-Dawson, of the Vote For Yourself Rainbow Dream Ticket Party, who managed to get just one vote in Cardiff North in 2005, apparently a record low for any candidate in a general election since universal suffrage. And she wasn’t even registered there!

Debate Throes

sam — Tue, 04 May 2010 21:35:34 +0000

Charlie Brooker on the final leaders’ debate:

According to some polls, Cameron won, or at the very least tied with Clegg. Which is odd, because to my biased eyes, he looked hilariously worried whenever the others were talking. He often wore a face like the Fat Controller trying to wee through a Hula Hoop without splashing the sides, in fact.

So Break Me

sam — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 12:38:40 +0000

Some fascinating pictures of foot binding on Yahoo at the moment, in particular this one. Toes by heels underneath your feet 0_o Great piece about it all here.

Iain Paisley sat next to Sinn Fein what the hell is going on? Not fully side by side though, let’s not get too carried away with ourselves.. Long may it continue!

A useful Firefox thing:
To stop windows being resized by websites click – Tools \ Preferences \ Content. Click the ‘advanced’ next to ‘Enable Javascript’. Uncheck ‘Move or Resize Existing Windows’. Live happily again. Oh it’ll screw your popups over though, if you still live with those (..?!)

Finally: Why doesn’t the Firefox spellchecker recognise the word Firefox?