the perils of the garden shed
Got the trampoline out of the shed today, it was like a scene out of “The Mummy”.
narrowest house in the world
The above house in Warsaw will be the narrowest in the world. I’m embarrassed by the frequency that I seem to link to Daily Mail content, I must look like a regular reader. I’m absolutely not though, it’s just that sometimes when googling for an article like this, the Mail seems to have the best online presence. Still, it worries me.
There is one positive aspect of it though. Laughing at Sun readers may seem to be picking on an easy target, rather like going to alt.christian for a theological debate, but it’s fun anyway. I’m pretty sure some of them must be ‘trolling’ as well.
“Well if thats where polish people have to live then it’s no wonder they all come to england.” – Just Jules
“A sign of things to come if the population rate and immigration influx continues unabated in the UK. Estate agents will still ask for lottery style price tags for such a matchbox, you wait.” – Pete
Amusingly, “Pete” gives his location as “UKIP you’re our last hope of sanity in this country, United Kingdom” He’s not the only person commenting who seems to use his location as an excuse for a political rant. Roger’s ‘location’ description with his comment tells us that he has his, “flight booked to now leave this once great country” – Is he talking about Poland or The United Kingdom? It’s not clear from the article context, and of course, we don’t actually know where he’s from.
On the other hand some Mail readers seem to stand out as likeable people. Leonie from the Netherlands comments that,
“These kind of houses always make me think of Sirius Black’s house in Harry Potter.”
Leonie is of course not from the United Kingdom, therefore probably not daily Mail reader. Perhaps like me, she just stumbled across the article.
“’6 feet in diameter’ – is that house circular then?” – Liz, Brighton
Well spotted Liz!
“Just the other day, we read about a prisoner demanding pornographic material in his cell. Why dont we put these prisoners there. Saves lots of space in jails which can be converted to community halls.”
- Somasundaram Sathish, Doha, Qatar
I’m somewhat bemused what brings netizens from Qatar to the Mail Online to comment, on prisoner’s conditions of all things. I see only a few possibilities to this trend. Perhaps Melanie Philips has begun creating pseudonyms round the web. Or perhaps, more likely in my opinion, a new game of ‘Mail Online Bingo’ has become popular.
Mail Online Bingon (aka: MOB – an acronym which conveniently describes the comment posters it is intended to mock.) have a bingo card of ‘key themes’ of the Daily Mail community. MOB players aim to mention, in some relevant way, these themes in their comments, by doing so they get to tick off their bingo cards.
Imagining what these cards might look like, we can see the players of this game are already doing quite well on what was essentially a non political article.
- house prices [tick]
- diana
- sharia law
- polish immigrants [tick]
- why britain is no longer great [tick]
- the persecution of christians
- benefit scroungers
Perhaps some of you fancy your hand at a game of MOB? Let me know of your successes.
why the change in causation?
I’ve never really understood why causality would switch after the first 800 years. Could someone please explain? I’m missing something.
Age limit of 18 to audition for “Belfast shore”, this won’t be representative of local nightlife at all.
help improve facebook
Has anyone else been seeing this box in facebook?
I wasn’t really sure how to respond. On the one hand, “Provide Feedback” is 100% accurate translation of “Provide Feedback” and “Payments functionality disabled” looks as though it’s up to scratch too. On the other, its not really a translation at all, especially if it was meant to be changing language, in which case it really fails to meet the definition at all.
In the end, I decided to click Good. Turns out the dilemma was a waste of time anyway. Nothing happened as the button was unresponsive.
Here’s a way to ‘help improve facebook’ – fix the response buttons.
really, learningni, must you maintain yourself the night before my A2?
they say our phone’s autocorrect can say a lot about us, mine just changed “phone” to “Phoenix” and “leaves” to “Pegasus” in my last text, interesting but not quite a freudian slip.
has noticed a sudden migration to twitter, ultimately self defeating I suppose.
has fallen out with Italy and every other country that didn’t vote Sweden.
just looked at my “Textsurfer classic” – way to sex up a highlighter Staedtler.
