One of my favourite Monty Python sketches was Bicycle repair man, the story of a place where everybody is a bike riding superhero except for Bicycle repairman. As he is the only person who can fix bikes he is the most super of all heroes.
When I saw today that a new vocational course in bicycle mechanics has been launched in colleges I jusdt had to post on it in Boggart Blog.
Why is it OK for ’scientists’ to spend billions of $ loking or aliens but when ordinary folks do it much more cheaply and with greater success they are dismissed as nutters. This story throws some light on the situation.
When a computerised marking system was introduced some of the English languages greatest writers including Charles Dickens and Jane Austen failed their examinations. Read what happened in Marking Computer Says No
On the day when a whistleblower reveals a UK Government plan to record all our phone calls, e mails, texts and browser sessions we retuen to a plan floated in New York to ban people from using the word bitch by making it a criminal offence.
The first thing this will achieve is to make all dog breeders criminals.
Boggart blog proudly announces the return of our stupid criminal of the week award.
The storm over government drugs policy in the ~UK was kicked off by an official scientific advisors showboating. Celebrity science in other words.
That Satan character is a devious little bugger, he gets everywhere, even into your digestive tract. This post from the Boggart Blog archive will help people who are not into religion to recognize ( SLIPS INTO VOICEOVER MAN VOICE) The Stools Of Satan and thus purge yourself of evil should the Devil manage to jump up your arsehole while you aren’t looking.
Boggart Blog and our parent Jenny Greenteeth the monster who strikes fear into the hearts of all children have blogged many times on the weird and wonderful ideas education academics come up with to explain away the fact that their incessant meddling with time homoured ways of educating children have failed to the extent that we now have school leavers who do not know their own name.
The latest of these is that children do not know how to sleep properly and need to be taught the good sleeping techniques devided by experts and education academics.
Do you ever get the impression that these people have their heads so far up their own arses they can scratch therir heads from the inside.
Geenteeth Multi Media just published A Wellspring Of Human Rights
Promising that access to good water is a basic human right is easy for politictians. They are not the ones who will get their hands cut off when they stray onto a rival tribe’s turf on their way to the well. Wellspring Of human Rights
So its almost a year since Barack Obama was elected, how is America shaping up under it’s first black President?
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