It doesn’t get worse than this…

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Jul 232010
 

The lyrics to ‘Birthday Party’ by Grandmaster Flash. They crept into my head from my laptop, and I had to rewind to check I hadn’t heard wrong. I hadn’t. This really is a low point of rap:

Overtime, overtime, rock your mind
Melle Mell and I’m here to say, I was born on the 15th day of May
And I’m mister Ness and I love myself, and my date of birth is November the 12th
I wanna tell you that my name is Raheem, my date of birth is February 13th
I’m Kid Creole and I’m on the scene, I was born on February 19th
I’m Cowboy and you must remember, I was born on the 20th of September
And Grandmaster Flash is here to stay ’cause he was born on new years day
Now we got something else that we want you to say
Just shout out your birthday
But to play this game, and to rock this rhyme
Shout the date and the month out one of a kind
Say 2 4 6 8 everybody shout out your birthday
Say what’s that date?
Say what’s that date?
Now to keep these piggies movin’ right along, shout out the month that you were born
I say “What’s that month?”
I say “what’s that month?”

Define “lucky”

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Jul 212010
 

A heartwarming ‘Forces’ story from the Sun:

Luke, a 22-year-old lance corporal, was on patrol in Nad-e-Ali in Helmand when an insurgent’s bullet hit his body armour and ricocheted into his face.It tore into his cheek, broke his jaw and came out through his mouth.

Mum Kim, of Torquay, Devon said: “He knows he’s very lucky but he’s trying to play down his injury.”

Bloodhound SSC versus UltraSpeedMAX-FLASH

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Jul 192010
 

Wowing the crowds at this year’s Farnborough International Air Show is “The Bloodhound SSC” (where SSC is short for SuperSonic Car). The Bloodhound team are aiming “to confront and overcome the impossible using science, technology, engineering and mathematics”, by which I think they mean “to achieve the possible…”

I have to admit, the car looks pretty snazzy:

Snazzy yes, but SuperSonic? No. It turns out that what’s been wowing the crowds isn’t the Bloodhound SSC itself. It’s a model. The Bloodhound SSC doesn’t exist. They’re just hawking for backers. The latest, according to the Bloodhound Team is that: “50% of the fuselage build now secured thanks to key product sponsor Hampson Industries”. All that exists right now is a snazzy model. And a sales pitch. Which makes me think that I should be over in Farnborough wowing the crowds and rattling a tin myself, with my design for the UltraSpeedMAX-FLASH, a wave-powered supercar that can do 10,006 mph. Check it out:

Damn, I forgot to label the leather driving wheel. Oh, and a should say, 50% of the leather driving wheel funding is now secured.

Why fucking bother?

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Jul 192010
 

According to Yahoo!, “Trending now” are:

* 1. Cheryl Cole
* 2. Louis Oosthuizen
* 3. Paris Hilton
* 4. India train crash
* 5. Inception
* 6. Zsa Zsa Gabor
* 7. Big Society agenda
* 8. Job centre
* 9. Justin Bieber
* 10. Weather forecast

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