Meanwhile, in real life

I don’t really like writing about things that affect my real life on this blog, as you will have gathered.  I would like to give the impression that I am a disembodied intellect drifting high above the surface of the planet, occasionally focussing on some aspect of the scene below, but I am not, and [...]

Old Mr Buffett sat on a tuffet…

I was watching TV on Monday night, and I heard a man say, about Wall Street bankers and financiers, something like this (I’m paraphrasing from memory):

This idea that the class of people who move money around are somehow special, and deserve special treatment – well, it’s getting pretty far away from where we should be, [...]

Did you know this about the postal strike?

Because I didn’t.
In all the talk about the postal strikes, we’ve been hearing a lot that the Royal Mail is dying.  No-one sends letters anymore, we’re told, they use email instead.  It’s a persuasive argument, because it seems intuitively correct – I send quite a few emails, and I almost never write a letter.  But [...]

Help! I’m an idiot

Picture the scene.  It was early evening, and I was, as is my wont, footling around on my computer.  I decided I would like to download and install some new software that would allow me to bulk-grab images from websites.  Er… that’s websites with addresses like lookattheprettyrainbows.com, obviously.  What sort of a pervert do you [...]

How low can you stoop?

As you may have heard, Jan Moir, a columnist for the Daily Mail, wrote a vile, hate-filled column ladling serves-him-right spite all over the (at the time) unburied coffin of Stephen Gately.  I was going to do a take-down of the column itself, but many, many people have beaten me to the punch, so there [...]

200 posts

…that’s nearly enough for a fence!
Yes, loyal blog-readers, this is my 200th post.  I know, it feels like I’ve been wittering on for longer than that to me as well.  I don’t want to say a huge amount about this – these kinds of posts can end up being very narcissistic, I think – but these [...]

41 semi-sentences

Well, I haven’t done a meme for a while, so I thought I’d give it a go.  Eroswings (from whose blog, Eros Den, I’ve stolen this idea) answers this much better than me, so be sure to go and check it out.  The basic idea of this meme is that there is a sequence of [...]

A rigorous soft-toy reconfiguration exercise

Here at Aethelread the Unread, we’re committed to providing you with the very best blog-reading experience.  Day in and day out, our hard-working team of blogger strives to provide you with the finest content he can squeeze out of his addled brain.  As with any busy organisation, things don’t always go according to plan, and [...]

David Cameron + Incapacity Benefit + Basic Arithmetic = FAIL

David Cameron has announced that he wants to reassess every person on Incapacity Benefit to see if they are fit for work within three years of a Conservative election victory.  Let’s do some maths.  (No, wait, come back!)

‘Pitchers’ & ‘Catchers’: Thinking about gay sex

(Note: this post contains rude words, and talks about people’s naughty bits, and the things that they like to do with them.  If you’re accessing this somewhere where such things might be frowned upon, then you might want to go and look at this entirely-safe-for-work picture of kittens instead…)
There’s a rather cute assumption amongst some [...]