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People often wonder just why it is that I harbour so much animosity towards my fellow man, why the wellspring of my cynicism never runs dry, and where much of the naive liberalism of my youth went to.
I shall explain.
Once upon a time, I held to the belief that no one is beyond redemption, that [...]

Emily Brontë – My Lady’s Grave

The linnet in the rocky dells,
The moor-lark in the air,
The bee among the heather bells
That hide my lady fair:
The wild deer browse above her breast;
The wild birds raise their brood;
And they, her smiles of love caress’d,
Have left her solitude!
I ween that when the grave’s dark wall
[...]

There and back again

There are many things to do in Yorkshire, it’s a county with a long and vivid history, possessed of paralleled beauty*, and filled with loads of people convinced of its innate superiority over all other counties; if nothing else, you could wander around arguing that Lancashire is where it’s at. I chose not to – [...]

Rage

Woman burnt to death after setting her own car alight in road-rage incident
It was the ultimate expression of road rage. A furious woman driver died after ramming another vehicle and spinning her wheels so fast that her own car burst into flames.
Serena Sutton-Smith, 54, burnt to death after refusing to get out of her Vauxhall [...]

A gulf in understanding

Welcome to the world of memes, a place where unicorns frolic, porn proliferates, and cats want cheeseburgers. Here, the in-joke reigns supreme, here, knowing really is half the difference. Welcome to the internet.
Now, I’m not saying that the internet isn’t serious business – and I promise I’ll stop dropping references soon – but there is [...]

Boredom

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What?
Gallery: The Everyday

Belatedly

Long ago, in a time of Myths and/or Legends, I went to the Sealife Centre at Birmingham with three trusted companions to investigate reports that fish are awesome and octopi slightly unsettling. Later, we ate our own bodyweights in cod and chips; delicious was not the word.*
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Sadly, because of the nature of our quest, people [...]

Confessions

…I have of late—but wherefore
I know not—lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of
exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily with my
disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to
me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy,
the air, look you, this brave o’erhanging firmament,
this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why,
it appears no other thing [...]

How work becomes bearable

Hmm. I wonder, if you can de-update something, could it be that the down escalator is really a de-escalator?
nunoncastors, 13:05, Thursday 18th Sep
You just reminded me of the dream I had last night. Dreamt I was running up the down escalator and it kept on speeding up. Then some random attractive girl started coming [...]

The comeback kid

How you’ve been?
It’s just the usual here
And days are feeling like years
And every day’s without you.
I am return’ed from the Kingdom of Jórvík with news of feats beyond imagination or, at the very least, near the edge of imagination. You know the place, it’s just past the point of expectation and not far from that [...]