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The New Puritans

Now we all know that the so-called Safety Camera Partnerships are staffed by wannabe policemen – probably those who failed the entry requirements – with no sense of humour and limited social skills. After all, who else but loners with voyeuristic tendancies would want to spend their days in the back of a van peeping through a zoom lens at people? On sunny days only, of course, because that’s when their tally of tickets is likely to be highest and after all points (and more particularly fines) make prizes for these sorts of people.

But for a complete lack of humour and for the best “think of the children!” moment of the week, this news story and the quote from the (no doubt) polyester-suited, greasy loser wins the prize:

Jeremy Forsberg, of the Northumbria Safer Roads Initiative, said: “This behaviour is simply ridiculous – it’s clear what he was thinking with what he had on show.

“Not only is it disrespectful, but distasteful and offensive, particularly to children who may have been exposed to this nonsense.

“This prank could have been a real distraction from the driver and that is not something to laugh about.”

Maybe not, but you are, Jeremy! What a puritanical jobsworth he sounds!

Kawasaki Day at the Ace Café London

A bit cold and wet to start off with, but Sunday saw me heading down to the Ace Café London for Kawasaki Day.

Photos on Flickr:

Kawasaki Day at the Ace Café 2008

Geek Comedy

I’ve been enjoying the latest series of “The IT Crowd“.

But one of the geek in-jokes I’ve been picking up on is Roy’s T-shirts: this week’s one simply said “meh.

:)

RIP Jane Tomlinson

1964-2007

Jane Tomlinson

http://www.bbc.co.uk/leeds/features/jane_tomlinson/jane.shtml

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Tomlinson








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