tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5064047336609097392Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:10:03 +0000Humbug, vitriol and social commenthttp://vitriolfordummies.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Ianklych)Blogger43125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5064047336609097392.post-7470683030180891077Sat, 11 Oct 2008 09:14:00 +00002008-10-11T09:22:25.159ZFor having this on your front page:Panel: Palin 'Abused Her Power' Ethics inquiry concludes Palin was 'proper and lawful' in firing a state commissioner but failed to keep her husband from meddling in trooper's discipline.-----------------------An interesting précis of the report in which the BBC seemed to think the author, investigator Steve Branchflower, concluded with:"I find that http://vitriolfordummies.blogspot.com/2008/10/thanks-fox-news.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ianklych)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5064047336609097392.post-6048123079731247709Mon, 15 Oct 2007 19:15:00 +00002008-12-12T00:49:02.692ZBumI have been roused from my blogging slumber by a recent poster advertising campaign that has left me all a-flutter and aghast. If you are of a delicate disposition I would advise that you look away, and skip the photograph that follows. It is not for eyes of decent folk - you have been warned.Exhibit A.Those who did not heed my warning and looked will probably be feeling quite nauseous and more http://vitriolfordummies.blogspot.com/2007/10/bums.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ianklych)9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5064047336609097392.post-7015040625004783Sun, 23 Sep 2007 19:46:00 +00002007-09-23T19:48:27.840ZYikes. How can one small child take up so much of two adults time? Is this normal? Why hasn't the human race died out yet? This can't be right.Right must dash. Have to buy custard.Arrrgh!http://vitriolfordummies.blogspot.com/2007/09/busy-busy-busy.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ianklych)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5064047336609097392.post-4630876091813283808Fri, 10 Aug 2007 18:26:00 +00002008-12-12T00:49:03.118ZI use to work for a company. They were okay, they had a tendency to to use nouns as verbs, but mostly they spoke English. Then they got taken over.This is an excerpt from their current website:We co-ordinate our work-loads through Global Delivery which implements our continuous improvement methods, tools and techniques and performance measurement approach.Implementation embeds our range of tools,http://vitriolfordummies.blogspot.com/2007/08/were-in-bollocks-business.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ianklych)7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5064047336609097392.post-7323725493425075303Wed, 08 Aug 2007 21:16:00 +00002008-12-12T00:49:04.602ZAround the end of April, I went to Surrey, to see two men about a Land Rover. My Land Rover.A week later, I took my precious back to Surrey and left her there.[Lone flute plays the theme from "Our Tune" with Simon Bates]It wasn't easy but I had to do it. Since then, as you may have noticed my blogging tailed right off, I wasn't eating properly and I had a deep, gnawing emptiness inside of me. http://vitriolfordummies.blogspot.com/2007/08/shes-back.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ianklych)6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5064047336609097392.post-7214131087265614557Mon, 06 Aug 2007 20:10:00 +00002008-12-12T00:49:05.089ZFrom Chatham to Chicago, a 900 miles bored game for all the family!Start:6:30am.Leave Chatham, Cape Cod, MA only 20 minutes later than planned - not bad. Move forward one space.Drive the first 70 miles to Boston in one hour! Hoorah! Move forward 2 spaces!Drive next 15 miles in one hour - poop. Miss a turn.Satellite Navigation system knows the way back to the car rental place! Hoorah! Move forwardhttp://vitriolfordummies.blogspot.com/2007/08/fun-for-all-family.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ianklych)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5064047336609097392.post-6211980411212359408Tue, 31 Jul 2007 22:21:00 +00002007-07-31T22:49:05.508ZGosh, is it really two and a half months since I wrote anything? How time flies by! Well I've just had a most splendid holiday; far, far, away, in the land of the Baconator. Half the story can be read here the rest will be coming here soon... It will please you all to know that I got my Baconator. Mmmmm bacon.... it was, like, you know, like, totally awesome, and Antonia was, like, Oh My God, http://vitriolfordummies.blogspot.com/2007/07/my-word.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ianklych)10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5064047336609097392.post-6278541189929005222Sat, 12 May 2007 16:50:00 +00002008-12-12T00:49:05.614ZI have invented a whole new food thing!Well, I expect someone else *might* have invented it before, but if they did they never told me and I'm not searching t'internet just to prove myself wrong. That would be daft.Anyway I invented the Honey Omelette!Just mix up one egg and add two BIG dollops of honey. I thought this might make a big claggy, sticky, egg, mess that stuck to everything* but it http://vitriolfordummies.blogspot.com/2007/05/new-food.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ianklych)7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5064047336609097392.post-8927252686677829342Wed, 09 May 2007 20:11:00 +00002008-12-12T00:49:08.186ZAntonia went out at the weekend leaving me with an Esme. Esme wanted a nap so I found a camera and wrote my first photo story for children.Magic Bunny Meets A MoonbeastMagic Bunny and Bear had been out with Esme, who hadbecome rather sleepy and was having a nap.Sweet dreams Esme!Magic Bunny heard a noise.'Did you hear something, Bear?' asked Magic Bunny.'Do you mean the sound of an ageless http://vitriolfordummies.blogspot.com/2007/05/antonia-went-out-at-weekend-leaving-me.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ianklych)14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5064047336609097392.post-1944149910523767148Tue, 17 Apr 2007 20:45:00 +00002008-12-12T00:49:08.846ZA beautifully sunny weekend! Spring is truly upon us!I spent Saturday morning driving to Surrey and back, and I must say deepest Surrey countryside really is quite something. Like an arse I didn't have a camera with me, so you'll just have to put up with a description, I guess if a picture is worth a thousand words, then a hundred words will give you a squishy thumbnail in which you can almost http://vitriolfordummies.blogspot.com/2007/04/sunny-days-and-childish-dreams.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ianklych)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5064047336609097392.post-7786757842857463550Mon, 09 Apr 2007 20:30:00 +00002008-12-12T00:49:09.128ZI keep thinking of things I want to write about, then either think about them too much 'til I'm bored of them, or completely forget them. So a mixed bag of thoughts and jottings today.Mahmoud AhmadinejadThe president of Iran, or, according to some UK tabloids 'The Evil President of Iran', has been in the news a lot, and he has a beard not unlike my own. I think he played the whole thing very wellhttp://vitriolfordummies.blogspot.com/2007/04/mixed-bag.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ianklych)7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5064047336609097392.post-7834490406375384753Thu, 29 Mar 2007 20:03:00 +00002008-12-12T00:49:10.101ZGosh. It's been a while. I've been busy, busy, busy. I am a year older, I am now the proud owner of a beautiful walrus, I've fitted a new gear stick to my broken Land Rover, I've been working too much, But most of all, I've been growing a beard, which is hard work and doesn't leave much time for blogging. Come September 1st the Handlebar Club is hosting the World Beard And Moustache http://vitriolfordummies.blogspot.com/2007/03/ive-been-quite-busy.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ianklych)7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5064047336609097392.post-4577941255090894160Mon, 19 Mar 2007 22:21:00 +00002007-03-20T08:25:54.006ZThis weekend we did many things, though mostly we went to Devon to see my aged P's and Grand P, who hadn't yet met Esme. Along the way we passed to wondrous Stonehenge, and it got me all remembering. Many, many moons ago, when the Earth was young, mammoths ranged over what is now Surrey and the ice caps came down to just past Penge. I was a teenager, I had hair, and in those days, long before I'dhttp://vitriolfordummies.blogspot.com/2007/03/friend-in-need-is-friend-indeed.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ianklych)11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5064047336609097392.post-648544378861322707Thu, 15 Mar 2007 21:24:00 +00002008-12-12T00:49:10.665ZFans of Viz (see below) will no doubt have noticed the lovable, wife-beating alcoholic Eight Ace has been in the news."I mean the language of war is victims. I don't like to kill people. I feel very sorry they been killed kids in 9/11"I hope they have their man. Four years detained by the CIA, somewhere secret and presumably worse than Guantanamo Bay, and I'd probably confess to most things.http://vitriolfordummies.blogspot.com/2007/03/it-werent-me-luvit-were-tfckin-ace-wot.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ianklych)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5064047336609097392.post-853647179644839153Sun, 11 Mar 2007 20:17:00 +00002008-12-12T00:49:10.879ZFrom Viz magazine, a while back. I love cormorants - doesn't everyone? - and having had a particularly bleak period in my early twenties I especially love the Chadwell O'Cheese and his Cormorants Of Futility.http://vitriolfordummies.blogspot.com/2007/03/cormorants-of-futility.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ianklych)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5064047336609097392.post-6483887653544903723Sat, 10 Mar 2007 18:21:00 +00002008-12-12T00:49:11.611ZI've had a few motoring problems in the past. I've broken my big end, warped my head, endured a weak, then perished, diaphragm. I've suffered seized drums, blowing pipes, sticking floats and all sorts of other auto-mechanical indignities. More recently I have had other vehicular woes when my pride and joy was stolen from me (see here). The ne'er do-wells that took her did this to the poor old http://vitriolfordummies.blogspot.com/2007/03/it-just-came-of-in-my-hand-fnar-fnar.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ianklych)5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5064047336609097392.post-4717812589752359797Wed, 07 Mar 2007 21:54:00 +00002008-12-12T00:49:11.980ZHave you ever read the ingredients of Lea & Perrins' rather famous Worcestershire Sauce? They are (and I hope they don't mind me listing them) : Malt Vinegar (from barley), Spirit Vinegar, Molasses, Sugar, Salt, Anchovies, Tamarind Extract, Onions, Garlic, Spice and, here's the punchline -Flavouring!They obviously looked through the ingredients list and thought 'Well it will be a nice colour and http://vitriolfordummies.blogspot.com/2007/03/its-bit-bland.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ianklych)5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5064047336609097392.post-6931300202670007937Wed, 28 Feb 2007 20:57:00 +00002008-12-12T00:49:12.469ZThere's a chap where I work whose mobile phone has the theme from 'Red Dwarf' as the ring tone. Now this should really piss me off. I should be outraged. I should be planning all sorts of nasty things. But I'm not. I may hear it two or three times a day, but I sort of like it. It's quite cheery.What's happening to me? Is parenthood turning my brain to soft cheese?*My brain, yesterday.* When I http://vitriolfordummies.blogspot.com/2007/02/strange-effect-of-fatherhood.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ianklych)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5064047336609097392.post-5177145459036567416Sun, 25 Feb 2007 15:31:00 +00002008-12-12T00:49:12.821ZThis day a year ago Antonia gave me a most tricky task. Her favourite long black swishy coat had developed a hole in the pocket and some loose change had fallen through. There were two or three coins trapped in the lining and yours truly, as Man of The House had a duty to retrieve said coins. I had just navigated one of the coins through endless miles of lining and was aligning it with the hole,http://vitriolfordummies.blogspot.com/2007/02/year-ago-today.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ianklych)7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5064047336609097392.post-4190422358872551640Sun, 18 Feb 2007 17:29:00 +00002008-12-12T00:49:13.479ZCatsBabiesDerek, our rather lovely, stately and rotund old lady cat is scared of little. When things go bump in the night and Clive ('tother cat) hides under the bed, Derek will, most often, go and investigate. When foxes put their heads through the cat flap and send Clive into a desperate tizzy, Derek will go and punch them in the nose. Not much ruffles her feathers. Not much, that is, except The Hoover http://vitriolfordummies.blogspot.com/2007/02/beware-hoover-of-doom-my-cat.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ianklych)7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5064047336609097392.post-6050899657800465841Sat, 10 Feb 2007 12:08:00 +00002008-12-12T00:49:13.763Z...and their super-groovy model railways. The latest sets of model people help to provide a rather 'European' realism for your train set.The story is here, and more photos are here .*I especially like the heavily armed police and deeply suspicious looking foreigners.Antonia is a very impressed as she was planning something very similar for the garden railway train set I accidently** bought last http://vitriolfordummies.blogspot.com/2007/02/those-crazy-naked-germans.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ianklych)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5064047336609097392.post-7468488388330982193Sat, 10 Feb 2007 00:33:00 +00002008-12-12T00:49:13.955ZIs carrying this picture:With the caption:'Driving conditions are less than ideal in some of the worst-hit areas.'Hoorah! for the BBC. We British may not be able to confront rude morons very well, but we are quite good at understatement.More pictures of the snow in New York State here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/6348947.stmhttp://vitriolfordummies.blogspot.com/2007/02/good-old-bbc.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ianklych)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5064047336609097392.post-9199355257922786141Fri, 09 Feb 2007 21:18:00 +00002007-02-08T21:52:05.880ZIn the lobby of the building where I work there is a little coffee and snack stall. It is usually run by a chap, but sometimes, like today, by an always polite but not overly confident Asian lady.I ordered a small black coffee shortly after a middle-aged, well-dressed woman ordered a large latte. Despite the large latte being started first, not surprisingly my small black coffee had finished http://vitriolfordummies.blogspot.com/2007/02/mrs-daily-mail-buys-her-morning-coffee.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ianklych)7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5064047336609097392.post-2980176763066513087Thu, 08 Feb 2007 18:27:00 +00002008-12-12T00:49:14.173ZTonight is Wednesday night which is folk night on the wireless (we only have one radio station here at Cornwell Towers). Tonight is their annual awards night, and listening to it has brought home to me just how much I hate Folk Music. Now I have very broad music taste. I like all sorts of music but Traditional British Folk (or Fulk as one old friend insists on pronouncing it) music stands out as http://vitriolfordummies.blogspot.com/2007/02/folk-music.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ianklych)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5064047336609097392.post-3833568017745914013Thu, 01 Feb 2007 20:43:00 +00002007-11-02T19:27:02.086ZFilmEsmeBlueshttp://vitriolfordummies.blogspot.com/2007/02/my-baby-got-no-teeth-so-my-baby-done.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ianklych)7