May 2015 – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

English / Spanish phrase shape comparison

Here.

If FIFA were a bank

And what to do with the Moscow and Qatar events and with Sepp.

If car-drivers become arseholes because of deindividuation

… then why do single cyclists end up the same despite lacking most of the contributory conditions?

Why London property costs so much

And how not to fix it.

IRQ posts a brilliant photo of Espe and abstentionist dog above a piece by “Hughes” which kicks off with Ana María Jiménez. The former presumably owns several palaces and speaks decent English. The latter has been living in a glorified cardboard box at Sofá de la Frontera for a couple of years to protest the…

Bull attack cures wheelchair woman

As a student I was the token honky in the horn section of a Brummy gospel-funk band, whose performances regularly led to crutch derogation and such, but I never saw anything to equal this: Insurance companies and quack therapists, take note.

Cómo ganar Eurovisión

Según Popbitch.

Two versions of Flann O’Brien’s “The workman’s friend”

With some relevant chunks of Henry Fielding.

Contemporary etching of Fielding from his <em>Jonathan Wild the Great</em>.

Stalin’s organ works

But all its pipes are the same length, so it only plays one note. Plus totalitarian musical dogs and terror management studies.

Small (Australian) boy with a pet dog singing in (peaceful) unison (1939).

Sheer callous laziness on the part of nurses who are too busy to deal with patients in agonising pain

Good morning, Mary Anne from the Philippines and Florence from Zimbabwe. If dying with dignity is a goal, then making it impossible for (night) nurses to access Facebook and the rest of the internet would make a huge difference in terms of willingness to go and cast a glance on the moribund, who to be…

Month: May 2015