If these two don't become the most famous Chinese students on the planet for at least 168 hours then I guess I'll have to resign as the most famous Matthew Wharton on the planet.

Was there ever a better time to dump David Beckham as captain of the England football team and give John Terry the job than now. But getting sent off for sarcastic clapping is the fucking pathetic shite we expect of Rooney not an England captain. Notably I missed the sending off but only noticed via the BBC News article about sarcasm.

I never believed Beckham should be captain, as great a footballer as he is and he is amongst the best England has ever produced he clearly lacks the necessary attributes of a leader of men.

It's quite fascinating the reason why the White Sox aren't the White Socks.

Also fascinating is the end paragraph about the former names of the team that is now universally known as the New York Yankees. Apparently amongst the many names they were known as in the early 1900s was the Porchclimbers.

The Porchclimbers! What the hell is a porchclimber?

The Pseudodictionary would have you believe that Porchclimber is Cheap wine; or any wine that is consumed through the course of an entire evening.

Well I shall go with that made up explanation and refer to the Torres Sangre de Toro I'm drinking as porchclimber.

This Worth 1000 contest is a doozy

If the renaissance took place in more recent times, and the models were famous movie monsters/aliens, what would the artwork have looked like?

There are many excellent entries but I think that the following one featuring Sadako is my favourite.

Writing double entendres doesn't give me joy anymore but this Sony advert does especially the frog.

I think the 13 hours I worked at the cinema yesterday really took it out of me plus I couldn't get to sleep properly even though I was dog tired and now I've managed to waste the entire day doing fuck all even though I have a ton of shit to be dealing with.

Instead I shall drown my sorrows with a bottle of Torres Sangre de Toro and watch some excellent US television that I've downloaded. I'm sure I'll wake up tomorrow with a fucking stinking hangover and waste that day as well.

Babycal Throw click them and bash others on the head in the result. Keep going and going. Addiction is inevitable. Here ends.

I got attacked by a dog today.

I was walking into town to the post office when I saw quite a way in front of me on the pavement the ugliest woman I've ever seen (well perhaps not ever but she was quite ugly). She was feeding a large black dog biscuits from out of a box she had in the plastic carrier bag she held.

There she was just standing feeding this dog biscuit after biscuit. As I drew close to them the dog snarled and as I passed by the dog leapt at me and bit me on the arm and then leapt and bit again. Luckily the leather jacket I was wearing protected me.

Out of shock I just carried on walking by and didn't even look round at them. The woman didn't apologise, I think she was a witch and the dog was a hellhound.

The more I think about it the more I feel that she was evil personified. It is perhaps an omen of disaster.

A damn cool illusion which may have been posted here before but in the spirit of the deja vu I've been experiencing here it is again.

It's funny how transient an experience the web is especially in comparison to books. Thoughts about Creationism v Darwinism have been in my mind recently and sitting in my living room I happen to come across a copy of the Darwin Awards book that I had forgot that I owned.

The book was a spin off from the website which I haven't visited in years and probably never would have ever again had I not seen the book. The site is as crudely designed as it ever was and in these days of pretty template based sites by the bucketload it is positively archaic looking. It looks to be updated still although I'm not sure how often it is.

It was a cult thing amongst the internet community that I was a part of in the late 90s but it faded away from my sphere and until now it's almost like it didn't exist until rediscovered the book. Do people still visit regularly? Do people still happen across it following links from elsewhere having never known of its existence?

Vote for The Europeans of the Year

Bastards forgot to add me to the ballot so you'll have to vote for some other chumps.

If you wish a little help in regard to Europeans you may never have heard of then NoSoftwarePatents.com have produced a handy guide.

I went with most of their choices. The poll is open for all Earthlings non-Europeans included.

A little rebellion now and then is a good thing.

Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) 3rd President of the United States

Unfortunately in the case of ID cards the rebellion was too little (BBC News).

So I turn to the words of Thomas Jeffereson's predecessor.

Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have a right... and a desire to know; but besides this, they have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge, I mean the characters and conduct of their rulers.

John Adams (1735-1826) 2nd President of the United States

We can only hope that the unelected House of Lords are more questioning of the ID card bill than the majority of the Labour Party MPs in the House of Commons. The Government's claims that their ID card proposal will solve many serious problems facing our society simply do not stand up under analysis.

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My dog Jasper died, he was 12 years old.

Can't I beat level 11 of TwinSpin?

With friends like these who needs enemies.

Basically it boils down to "Do unto others what you would have them do unto you."

The following quotes are from Why the Court Should Hear Hamdan by David H. Remes an article written for The Blog of the American Constitution Society

The United States in fact adopted the Geneva Conventions to protect American soldiers captured in battle. As Secretary of State John Foster Dulles stated, America’s participation in the conventions was needed "to enable us to invoke them for the protection of our nationals." Our consistent application of the Conventions to all enemies – from signatory states to Somali warlords – has saved untold numbers of American soldiers from torture and death.

When North Vietnam insisted that the Geneva Conventions did not apply to American POWs because they were "pirates," President Nixon demanded – and had the moral authority to demand – that Hanoi apply them. On the 50th anniversary of the Conventions, Senator John McCain stated that he and his fellow POWs would have fared "a lot worse" without the Geneva Conventions' protections against "the cruel excesses of war."

The decision to deny the rights under the Geneva convention of Salim Ahmed Hamdan, who's accused of conspiring with Al Qaeda, and other foreign nationals by President Bush has far reaching implications and in doing so he has undermined the well-being of US soldiers around the world.

Sometimes it is better to never learn the truth, knowledge can never be unlearned once the Genie is out of the bottle.

The bottled genie in this case being Dr. Claw from Inspector Gadget.

I know. I brought on myself, but I just couldn't resist taking a peek.

BBC News: Oldest noodles unearthed in China

The remains of the world's oldest noodles have been unearthed in China.

The 50cm-long, yellow strands were found in a pot that had probably been buried during a catastrophic flood.

Radiocarbon dating of the material taken from the Lajia archaeological site on the Yellow River indicates the food was about 4,000 years old.

Controversially if these are remnants of the Flying Spaghetti Monster during his creation of the Earth then the date of creation would be some 2000 years later than that accepted by many creationists as calculated by James Ussher (January 4, 1581–March 21, 1656), Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland between 1625–1656 and a prolific religious scholar who most famously published a chronology which dated creation from 4004 BC.

It seems clear to me that in our modern times with greater archaelogically knowledge and technology for dating of items that evidence would suggest the Earth is much younger than even the Creationsists believe.

As our date is later than theirs I believe that makes us the winners so Speghetti-Monsterism triumphs.

Frankly it looks like England don't based on the first half of tonight's match against Poland. He might well be the best English player but the team seems much more balanced without him in it.

Not only that but the movement has been excellent as has the movement of the ball and the possession of it with the structured passing to build up the pressure on the opposition.

This is the England team performance we should have been seeing throughout the qualifiers not now that we are in a position of already having qualified. Perhaps the relative easy group that we found ourselves in was of detriment to the team performance as I think the team only truly shines when the pressure is really on against a difficult opponent.

Conversely now having qualified the pressure is off a bit so the team can relax and this also allows the team to play it's best now we are playing for the honour of topping the group against the only truly worthy rivals in the group.

At last something to get your teeth into in the Intelligent Design debate some actual scientific evidence which lends credence to the theory. This experiment into the creation of the previously unobserved species Noodleous doubleous certainly has me convinced. The estimated probability of this spontaneous generation event is too low to be explained by thermodynamics and therefore apparently represents intelligent design.

I think the dissection is particularly illuminating.

Please note that as the experiment involves the extremely hazardous substance Dihydrogen Monoxide it should not be carried out at home by anybody other than trained professionals.

Whilst we are in the mood for learning why not check out the fun to be had at Sobics School. Damn those little pieces of wall, I can see they will be the bane of my life for days to come.

A possibly dodgy penalty decision then another one that was more clear cut that wasn't given and now two yellow cards within the space of a couple of minutes for Beckham.

Could a ref be any more controversial than in this match?

Well I guess this might solve the midfield problems as there remains very little option without Beckham in the picture.

Then you need Leninade.

"Leninade is a soda pop that truly captures
the spirit of the Russian Revolution!
It's Red, it's Bubbly, and it goes well with Vodka!"

-- Former Communist Party Official; now a used car salesman in Tampa.