BBC (Have Your Say): Should Germans attend D-day events?
Germany’s Gerhard Schroeder has accepted a French invitation to events marking the 60th annivesary of the D-Day landings … Is France right to invite Germans to the ceremonies? Sixty years on, is it time to move on and allow them to attend?

Isn’t it time to forgive and forget? Aren’t we all supposed to be part of Europe now? It’s the 21st Century, for Pete’s sake! Aren’t we mature enough to forget our past differences? Of course the Germans should be invited—provided they promise not to hog all the deck chairs.

Conversation with Jen this evening:

R: You can cheat at Scissors, Paper, Stone, you know.
J: …
R: I’m quite good at it.
J: …
R: It’s all to do with the timing.
J: …
R: As you’re counting 1…2…3…, you delay your hand movements ever so slightly, to see what your opponent goes for—then you go for whatever beats them a split-second later.
J: …
R: They usually don’t notice.
J: …
R: …What?
J: …
R: WHAT?!!!
J: …WE’VE played Scissors, Paper, Stone.

BBC: Martin case tops BBC’s Today poll
A proposal to allow homeowners to use “any means” to defend their homes, has topped a BBC poll on the bill people would most like to see become law.

This proposed law is designed to allow respectable and responsible members of society, such as paranoid personality disorder sufferer and convicted child killer Tony Martin, to employ more than the reasonable force they are already entitled to by law to protect their property. Which I guess would give us all carte blanche to use unreasonable force.

Jehovah’s Witnesses, door-to-door salesmen and cats of Great Britain, your days are truly numbered. Yeeeee-ha! Let the lynchings begin!

Happy New Year.

The final score for my 10 bullshit predictions for 2003 (based on anagrams of my friend Carolyn Farthing‘s name) is just in…

8 out of 10.

Remarkable, in an entirely unremarkable kind of way.

Remember this the next time someone tells you they’ve had a psychic experience.