Posts Tagged ‘england’
Happy anniversary to me
Wednesday was the 8th anniversary of me moving to Canada. In some ways it doesn’t seem that long but in other ways it feels like forever since I lived in England.
So what do I miss? Friends and family, of course; real beer; watching motor sports (F1, BTCC) live; driving on the correct side of the road; errr…. that’s about it.
It’s amusing/frustrating that I see job ads for scrum masters in England and nothing here; mind you, there seems to be lots for Australia and the US, so maybe it’s time to try out a third continent? Either that or Vancouver, which might be easier. 
Anyway, back to my anniversary. I should have opened one some of the English beers I have at home (Sam Smiths or Fullers) but instead a few of us went to my new regular bar (Taps and Tales) for some local beer: Denison’s weissbier, which is brewed in Etobicoke, just a few miles from here.
Cheers!
How blogging started
The irony of me posting this hasn’t escaped me!
Found on MyConfinedSpace.
Update: Cartoon by Hugh MacLeod (@gapingvoid)
Fox News published a story entitled “Padded Lampposts Tested in London to Prevent Cell Phone Texting Injuries” in which it claims:
A London street is experimenting with padded lampposts to protect those not paying attention from banging into them
and points at an ITN story re-posted on Yahoo which adds
The charity Living Streets is so concerned that it has teamed up with the directory enquiries service to test a scheme to wrap up the nation’s lampposts.
Seriously? Are you sure this wasn’t meant to be published in about three weeks, say on April 1st? Oddly enough I can’t find any mention of this on the ITN website or Living Streets’ site.
Thoughts for the day
Only two years ago terrorists blew up a Tube train and two buses in London. Two years ago – in some ways it seems a lot longer because we still hear more about September 11th, and that was 2001.
“In total 52 people lost their lives in the London bombings, 700 people were injured.” [source: BBC; BBC "In Depth"]
There are a lot of crazy, fanatical people out there … but I still don’t understand what makes a bunch of doctors and other health professionals lose their minds and launch attacks against innocent people anyone?
“Sometimes I think we’re alone. Sometimes I think we’re not. In either case, the thought is staggering.” – R. Buckminster Fuller [source: QuotationsPage.com]
Is that really the best we can do?
I saw the logo for the 2012 London Olympics … what a hideous monstrosity! I freely admit I’m no artist but even I would have been too embarrassed to submit this: 
Oddly enough the BBC reports that there’s “an online petition calling for it to be scrapped has more than 25,000 signatures [there's actually 48,615 at the time of posting] and over 3,200 messages have been posted on the BBC Sport website”.
The same BBC article says the logo “was designed by the Wolff Olins agency and cost £400,000″ – I hope the designers will be suitably ashamed and maybe even offer to produce a real logo, not one created by three year old. Or maybe they’ll be so proud of their baby’s barf that they’ll use it on their own website. Yeah, probably the latter.
