2011 – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

How many days to save the euro?

I think I know what a day is, but I’m not so sure about “save” and “euro.”

But is that acorn-fed Iberian black pig or shoe leather you’re chomping?

Christmas time is ham time. It’s also a time when, knowing that some of you may have had one or two bottles too many, some tapas bars and restaurants will flog you cheap ham as something rather better – cat for hare, as the Spanish say. In the run up to Christmas last year the…

Black Iberians ranging free-ish, Sierra de Aracena, Andalusia, Spain.

El nombre de la bestia

En el mercado de abastos: – Ese queso, ¿es de León? – No, de oveja. En el zoológico: – Disculpe, ¿dónde está el gorila albino? – Lo siento, la cocina está cerrada. Simple things, simple minds.

Si su hermana hubiera querido, ya estaría libre Miguel Francisco Montes Neiro

Si indultar banqueros es de izquierdas, ¿quién les queda a los piratas?

Festina’s Lotus range: watches for people too stupid to need them

We are too smart to buy this crap off Festina, because we happen to know that according to Maya prophecy on December 21 2012 we will be so smoothly and swimmingly plugged into the Earth’s electromagnetic battery that all our timepieces will explode and we’ll need to buy new ones. Neither the copywriter, nor the…

56K pre-1600 ghits for inauthor:”Desiderius Erasmus” on Google Books

That’s a pretty big WTF.

With Spain about to call in the IMF, the spectre of Cain on Abel returns

We’ve had quite enough of this Civil War jaw-jaw.

If Merkel complains about how much TV3 costs, ask her about Bavaria

The television arm of Bayerische Rundfunk inflicts roughly the same relative damage on regional GDP as its Catalan cousin.

Springfield school bus-driver alive and well and eating bits of dead animals in Huesca

EFE: Obesity tripled in twelve months

Malaprensa explains how the publicly-funded news agency converted Eurostat highest and lowest obesity percentages for EU member states for the year 2008/9 into year-on-year growth figures for the EU as a whole, and how the fatherland’s press repeated this unquestioningly. Pay a translator and avoid being stamped as incompetent and ending up on the street…