Category: Other stuff

Just now I saw a video of a YouTube personality who now works for the BBC, Lucy Edwards, talk about how her new flat in London that she shares with her boyfriend and guide...

Charles and Camilla (as in, Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, previously Parker-Bowles, for anyone who hasn’t been following that story intensely — not that I have, but it turns up like a...

Last week I stopped watching EastEnders (this is a BBC soap opera set in a fictional mostly white east end of London, without any Bengalis or Somalis) because I finally became exasperated with how...

Anyone out there who’s using Facebook using a name that doesn’t look like a name needs to be aware that their account will be suspended as soon as they get found out. Just the...

Yesterday I got a tweet from one of my Twitter friends that most of my “followers” (I hate that term) aren’t aware of saying that she had decided that someone she had been friends...

BBC News - Vanuatu PM loses parliamentary seat over blunder All because he failed to send an explanation to the speaker of Parliament. Back when I was the chair of council in my student...

Wheelchair Dancer: Dreaming on Wheels Last night, I had my “first” dream about me as a disabled person. It was scarily vivid. Law and Order style, I shouted to, well, whomever — faceless dream...

Hat tip to iMuslim: ten things Muslims find scarier than Halloween. Number 3 is a perfect opportunity for a sister to pull a Towanda, don’t you think? Possibly Related Posts: Why the male pill...

Organica inspired me to post this picture of my own home-made pizza, which I eat on average twice a week. It might not meet everyone’s idea of home-made since I didn’t make the dough...

When I first saw this story, I thought they meant goats kept by prisoners as a possible food source, but no, they really were there awaiting trial: The beasts were due to appear in...

Comment is free: Hygiene obsession Katherine Ashenburg (author of a forthcoming book, Clean: An Unsanitised History of Washing) on American toilets (sorry, bathrooms) and the various methods deployed to prevent people getting their hands...

I was not going to comment on the latest twist in the divorce saga of Paul McCartney and Heather Mills until I saw the front page story on today’s Daily Mirror, in which Mills...

These tots in PVC don’t scare me (The Observer) Christina Odone (regular in the Observer and noted contributor to the Catholic press also) noted in last Sunday’s Observer the popularity of indecent clothing for...

Duncan Mac-Vicar P.: LISTEN I HAVE MY RIGHTS!!!! This is a blog entry I pulled off one of the tech sites I read, which tells the story of what happened when a man in...

The Guardian reports today on the declining popularity of jeans, which it attributes to their ubiquity and their escalating prices: The sight of Victoria, Coleen, Carly, Elen and the rest desperately trying to out-Wag...

The Guardian: Patrick Barkham on the rise of the man bag This is what they were talking about on the Vanessa Feltz show yesterday: the phenomenon of some men carrying what amount to handbags...

Has anyone else been receiving the same flurry of 419-type email scam invitations I have been receiving the past couple of weeks? Every day I receive a few of these emails inviting me to...

OK, well, this is the second time I think that I’ve been tagged for the “seven things” meme - first it was by Safiyyah and this time it’s by Izzy Mo [1], [2]. Since...

You read Blogthings’ “You Know You’re From London when …” and realise it wasn’t written by a Londoner. Actually, I suspect UZ’s You Know You’re From New York when … was not written by...