Fotos of Hairy Fadges

Readers: Oh. We were expecting photographs of... well, you know.

Blogista: Yes. I too feel disappointed. Cheated, even. Though it is true that 'fadge' can refer to flat Irish potato cakes, inter alia.

Readers: They aren't even hairy.

Blogista: Is there no end to our misfortune?

Are You..?

Are you

• just past your 54th birthday?
• long-term unemployed?
• recovering from multiple fractures to the right shoulder?
• insomniac?
• only sober because you couldn't be arsed today to go down Tesco for the daily bottle of Famous Grouse?
• possessed of assets totalling a mere £750 in this world?
• too depressed to write to your nephews and nieces thanking them for their lovely birthday cards?
• having to look up 'possess' and 'niece' because your brain is so corroded that your spelling is suspect?

If so you get no sympathy from me, unless you've just broken your other arm trying to get out of the bath. I nearly did just now. My heart goes out to you.

Old Russia in Colour

A blog devoted to old Russia in Colour.

Featuring the photographs of S. M. Produkin-Gorskii,  who toured Russia between 1909 and 1915 along with a railway darkroom car provided by Nicholas II.

Those Killer Sausages

Sausages kill.

Worried Reader: What if I swallow an aspirin after consuming a sausage?

Blogtor: The aspirin will thin your blood but you will suffer from internal bleeding. Before either really takes effect the sausage will kill you.

Worried Reader: Then I will not eat this sausage. Thank you, Blogtor.

Blogtor: No need to thank me. Saving lives is what I do.

Turks Disgusting

The Turks would appear to be disgusting or worse.

Fuck Off Radio 4

I am unemployed again, somewhat but not largely due to alcoholism.

The worst thing about unemployment and somewhat alcoholism is Radio 4. I end up listening to it all day while sitting in a freezing flat poking away at job prospects on the Interweb.

Repeated twice today, some amuse-the-middlebrows twat has been busy claiming that the entire English language relates back to farting.

Terms such as 'feisty', 'clamorous', 'caring', 'honourable', 'decent', 'reasonable', 'intelligent' and 'so forth' all supposedly strandentwine back to some embarrassed OED suggestion about the onomatopoedic... clattering of the buttocks.

Just after14:00 tomorrow it will be the Archers again and then more stupid nonsense and more fat girls doing stuff in Brighton and

French Despicable

The French are despicable.