Burma shave

I wasn't really sure whether or not this needed mentioning, as I don't really have anything new to bring to this arguement, but holy tittyfucking christ, the Burmese junta are a bunch of fucking fuckers.

I know full well that there are arguments that can be made that their refusal to allow in foreign aid will in the end hasten their demise, but I struggle with that. We're talking about hundred of thousands of people in need of help. As much as I want to see Burma's military dictatorship crumble, I don't want one and a half million people to die to make it happen.

I suppose this is one of those end justifies the means things that I struggle with so much.

Normal service resumed?

If there is such a thing.

Between snowboarding and work I've been rather hectic of late, and so there have been no updates to this blog (despite Barn basically begging me to get off my arse and updaterate).

In the end, I've been shamed into action because Eoin looks to be sorting his shitty blog out; and there's no way I can let that gangly irish git upstage me.

I'm back motherfuckers!

Canadian humour.

So, the old standard is that Canadians love hockey. Well apparently they now love hockey a bit too much, and it's got to the point where the Canadian Hockey Association are actually worried enough that they're making adverts trying to stop parents being stupid fucks.

That's right - the governing body for a sport where you only get sin binned for 2 minutes for having a full on brawl are worried that hockey parents are getting out of hand.

I found myself wondering what the fuck is going on at these games. After all I thought it couldn't be that bad...until I clicked here. And here. And here!

While I'm not sure there's an arguement for banning the sport of ice hockey - on this evidence, there's definitely an arguement for banning anyone from watching ice hockey. But hey - at least noone's dying over it.

Farewell California

Well this could be interesting...scientists have detected a swarm of earthquakes off the west coast of America.

Well then. Who knew that a group of earthquakes is called a swarm. I'd have thought it'd be called something more like an apocalypse - but there you go (hell, I still don't know why it's called a murder of crows).

Anyway - a swarm of earthquakes. 600 in the last ten days in fact. So if you know anyone who lives in LA, you may want to give them a call and say goodbye before the place drops into the ocean.

You should stock up on pine cones.

According to Komsomolskaya Pravda, a pack of squirrels have attacked and killed a large dog in the park in the centre of Lazo - a town in the far east of Russia. Witnesses have said that the big stray dog was nosing around trees and barking at a gang of squirrels hiding in branches overhead when a number of them suddenly descended and attacked.

"They literally gutted the dog," local journalist Anastasia Trubitsina told the newspaper.

A (rather mysterious) Lazo man who called himself Mikhalich said there had been "no pine cones at all" in the local forests this year.

"The little beasts are agitated because they have nothing to eat," he added.

So there you go. Stock up on pine cones - they may save your life, because once those fuckers have eaten all the dogs, they'll be coming for you.

China's Olympic Adventure

I haven't stuck my hat in the ring on this one yet...but I want to say something.

Sharron Davies went on the record saying that athletes shouldn't boycott the Beijing Olympics because of their horrendous human rights record, that they shouldn't boycott the Beijing Olympics because at this very moment China is busy killing Tibetean protesters, and that they shouldn't boycott the Beijing Olympics because the Chinese government is horrible, manipulative and one of the most oppressive regimes on the planet.

Writing for The Sun (yeah - that tells you just how much attention we should be paying to this woman), Sharron says -

"As an athlete, you can’t just say: “Oh well, I will go to the next one.” It might be the one moment you are at your peak, at the right age, at a crucial stage in your performance. You cannot just put it off for four years."

So apparently, being an athlete means you no longer have to be a human being. Well isn't that great. Sharron, apparently your BBC commentary chair for the Olympics will be made from the skins of three year old baby girls. Make sure you enjoy that comfortable seat while you earn your wage talking about other morally bankrupt competition junkies.

Here's a question

Where exactly is the International Space Station? I know it's a question that we'd all like answered.

Well thanks to n2yo.com, you can now find out for yourself.

By clicking here.

Yeah, it's unbelievably geeky.