England in disarray

According to Sky Sports, and courtesy of Angie J, there was a degree of upset in England after the recent football match against Spain.

Riciculin

I don't know how you feel about this referendum campaign poster.

Frankly, I find it particularly patronisin.

However, take a look at this article in The Times and you'll see that it thinks it's riciculous.

Cold as a well-digger's

Looks like the temperature has bottomed out in Kansas City.

High-powered movement

I think it's fair to say that neither the advertiser of the cold remedy on the right nor the writer of the article on the left could have seen this coming.

But I get the feeling that the page layout designers knew exactly what they were doing.

Cruz conrtol

Oh look. The US Presidential campaign is getting into a higher gear.

Never mind, Rafa. I'm sure there'll be many more like this from your rivals before too long.

Well I'll go to the foot of our stairs

Spotted at the Wetherby office of its Member of Parliament a couple of Saturdays ago.

On the stairs that lead up to the office. Open to the public.

At a communal address.

And unattended.

So, not quite 'delivered exactly' as quoted in DX's marketing.

Papal bull

With the Pope's visit flooding TV news channels in the USA last week, I guess it had to happen at some point.

Well, it is the easier, safer way to pray.

It's plain, Jane

Goodness me.

It doesn't take much imagination to work out how Jane managed to earn that nickname.

When David met Dafydd

Sent in by Greg L whose friend captured this scene in Cardiff after the Wales v Israel international football match a couple of weeks ago.

'Remember, Bubala, what happens in Cardiff, stays in Cardiff.'

Charlie girl

Jon C spotted this caption on the Sunday Times website this weekend.

Presumably after the cord had been cut.

Anyway, it's good to know that Cat and Billy Windsor have named their daughter after their favourite TV character.

Quite the role model.

Harder than ever

The Large Hadron Collider has been out of the news for a couple of years while it's been shut down and upgraded.

But now it's back with double its previous capacity.

And with it, the same old headlines from BBC News which, clearly, hasn't matched the upgrade to its spell-check system.

Counting the cost

Here in the UK we're in the middle of an election campaign during which no photo opportunities are missed or wasted.

Since, as political commentator Paul Begala once said, 'Politics is show business for ugly people', the results of such opportunities can be pretty horrific.

Few are in Hillary Clinton's league, however, when it comes to photographic gaffes.

The confession of the seal

Ann F reminded me that I'd forgotten to post this one from CNN.

I'm not sure which was the more surprising.

The news that the US President was dead. Or that he was killed by a seal.

Let alone a talking seal.

Fries with that?

This might help explain why obesity rates in the USA are among the highest in the world.

Stimulator simulator

Tom L quite fancied downloading this game until he saw the strapline.

So that's what real Subway Drivers are doing in their cosy little cabs.

And all in glorious 3D.

Durga Mata

Thanks to football fan Ann F for this one.

I guess Juan Mata, the midfielder who plays for Manchester United,  should be relatively happy with the nickname the NBC subtitles department has given him.

He could have been Mary Jane.

At least NBC was right on one count.

He was out on the grass.

New Year's Resolution: Whats Your's?

Unfortunately, IQ pays little heed to grammar-bility.

Brooklyn: my kind of town

Ellie J stopped dead in her tracks at the weekend when she stumbled across this t-shirt for sale at Primark in Nottingham.

It has the word Brooklyn emblazoned across it, together with New York USA.

It also has a photograph taken in er, Lincoln Park, Chicago, nearly 800 miles away.

I've read that Primark has plans to open some shops in New York in 2015.

It'll be interesting to see exactly where they end up.

Be wear

Thanks, Dennis A, for this one.

There's some debate about whether the caption is, in fact, intentional or a typo.

Either we are Number 1 in which case we're definitely not as far as apostrophe placement is concerned.

Or we were Number 1, in which case we might have been at one time but we're certainly not now.

Either way, it's not particularly good news for the UK.

As for the hoodie, where would we wear it?

Well, we're wearing it on the weir now but where were we when we were wearing it where we were then?

In the warehouse. Which, if there's any justice, is to where these were wares which we were wearing would wend their weary way.

Size matters

Statisticians claim that, in the UK, you're never more than 20 feet away from a rat.

In the US apparently they use a different unit of measurement.

Not exactly a standard length though.