Just back from five days in Barcelona. Great city, but it's a pity about all the graffiti. It's nice to see that bars in Barcelona know their audience. Note the sudden change into English on the following receipt: L'ARC TABERNA VASCA MEIR-TETRO S.L. N.I.F:B-61.791.216 RAMBLAS, 77 (BARCELONA) 11/03/2003 20:47 ****** *02* T001 CAJERO-2 MESA 59… Continue reading Barcelona (with the emphasis on the Bars)
Author: Richard Carter
A fat, bearded chap with a Charles Darwin fixation.
The Carter Manoeuvre
Today, BBC News published an interview with Henry Heimlich of lifesaving manoeuvre fame. The interview got me thinking. It must be really cool to have an actual manoeuvre named after you. So I've gone ahead and invented a manoeuvre of my own, henceforth to be known as The Carter Manoeuvre. The Carter Manoeuvre is used… Continue reading The Carter Manoeuvre
Weather forecasting
Jen has this crackpot theory that it always snows in this neck of the woods on her friend's birthday. The theory might well be ludicrous, but it is at least capable of being falsified (i.e. it is possible to devise a test that could disprove the theory). According to the philosopher Karl Popper (1902-1994), this… Continue reading Weather forecasting
Undies
According to a passing visitor, gruts is Kiwi slang for underpants. Cool.
I need to get my ears tested
Conversation at work: "I remember when I was on my sex-change course…" "What did you just say?" "I remember when I was on my exchange course…"
Precision surgery
Conversation with Carolyn while removing a splinter from her finger with a tiny pair of tweezers: C: "Richard, why is your hand shaking like that?" R: "Parkinson's."
Just for the record
Irish Mick just emailed me to point out that my last one to him had kisses at the end. Look, I was tired, and for some reason I signed off with the valediction I usually reserve for Stense. Sorry to have got your hopes up there, Mick.
Famous people lucky never to have met Rev. Spooner:
Ursula Andres Nick Price (golfer) Jill Dando Friar Tuck See also: Roonerspism
Psychobollocks
Observer: Students face personality tests for university places [UK Government] Ministers want universities to adopt methods such as psychometric testing, the psychological questionnaires widely used in City recruitment which explore personality traits and ability to learn, and US-style aptitude tests as fairer ways of assessing teenagers. And these morons have been put in charge of… Continue reading Psychobollocks
Ruddy hell!
BBC: Duck cull ruffles feathers The [UK] government is planning a nationwide cull of ruddy ducks to protect another species from extinction. Forget the ruddy ducks, when are we going to cull some ruddy cats?