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Today I kick started my TweetDeck for the first time in quite a while. Sniffing around I came across a Tweet from Charlie Brooker; Can I be the latest to point out that @Herring1967 is about as racist as Shami Chakrabarti? ‘New Offenders’, my tits. This intrigued me, so I followed the trail via a [...] Viridiana, Spanish director Luis Buñuel’s masterpiece about a beautiful young nun and her brush with a lustful uncle, unleashed a storm in Spain when it was released in 1961. The Vatican called it “blasphemous”. The conservative Catholic regime of the dictator, General Francisco Franco, banned it from Spanish cinemas. Spanish film buffs delighted in silence [...] Every now and then something will grab my attention and I’ll run with it, not really knowing when to call it a day; kick the arse out of it… #stupidmovietitle was one of those occasions. Yesterday, don’t know where it came from but, #stupidmovietitle hit Twitter and I got caught up in it. [...] The wonderful thing about Twitter and, to an extent, Facebook is the ability to instantly share. Someone Tweets a URL saying, “Very dark and very funny” and within minutes their followers have clicked, watched , agreed and ReTweeted, and so on, and so forth… Anyhoo, @jupitusphillip (Phill Jupitus) passed this on [...] Police have put an arrest warrant out for @stephenfry as government officials have declared his Twitter following to be officially a cult. PC Plod said today: “The government science man involved gave us the following guidelines for identifying cults. We read this, looked some words up in the dictionary and then acted. Or maybe we [...] Florists: Are they part of a massive nationwide conspiracy? In recent years it seems to have become de rigueur to place a floral tribute at the scene of some tawdry death. Whether that be some old dear knocked on her arse by another old soak in gimp chariot, a murdered adulterer in then home of [...] So, Carol Thatcher has been grassed up for an off-the-cuff (and ostensibly private) utterance in the BBC’s ‘One Show’ green room. A throwaway comment comparing an international tennis star’s hair to that of a ‘Golliwog’ has landed her in a jam. Green rooms are notoriously ‘public’ places where the great, the good, and the bad try to [...] |
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‘Jack Frost’ in Hot Water
Yet more nonsense;
Jason ‘sorry’ for Pakistani joke
Actor Sir David Jason has apologised for a joke he made about Pakistanis on Tuesday morning on national radio.
Speaking on Christian O’Connell’s Absolute Radio show the day after the joke was broadcast, the star said it was a “silly little play on words”.
He added: “It [...]