Quite Literally ....

I wasn't one of the lucky folk who watched Saturday`s Arsenal v Manchester United game in glorious 3D, but Sky Sports News spoke to one chap live who summed up the thrilling experience in terms I suspect he has since regretted

"It really gives it another dimension,"

Yup

Not On A Shoestring Any More ...

Waking The Dead's Trevor Eve is reportedly the highest-paid actor on British TV.The star of the popular BBC One drama gets £1million per series, putting him ahead of the likes of David Tennant and David Jason, reports The Sun
I only mention this because Trevor Eve is a running joke in our house for the wooden and mannered delivery of his shouty nonsense . (Who got the titile then ...come on, own up it was only the 70s )

Open Air Passive Smoking ? I Think Not

The State , in the form of bonkable Caroline Heart-of-Flint, justified ruining our Pubs and working men’s clubs, by reference to “Passive Smoking”. I never saw any evidence there was any real risk to Australian bar staff , above that endured by anyone breathing English air . In fact , call me a cynic , but I always suspected that smoking that was the target and passive smoking was only an invention to get round the old “ None of your business” conundrum . Certainly Liberals that supported the ban, as they do , leant on that disingenuous try -on .It was all about the freedom to live, love and quaff foaming ales, untainted by passive smoke they said.
As usual they were talking out of their collective hairy arse as Andy baby-doll-eyes Burnham has now made entirely plain. He proposes extending the ban to include office doorways and pub gardens , areas outside pubs, bars and nightclubs as well as bus shelters. Now if the evidence for a passive smoking risk inside was weak what on earth are we to make of the supposed risk in the open air ? In think we know the answer to that.....
Meanwhile The Sun reports that “The Home Office has called in a team of designers to develop a new range of safer drinkware.The move follows growing concern at the number of violent incidents involving glass pint jars.
.....People are quite used to drinking beer out of plastic and paper things but there is a feeling that in public, it is a traditional thing to drink beer out of a glass." Mr Conran said that reducing the estimated 87,000 injuries caused every year by glassware is the key behind the initiative. "
Now I will happily admit that the combination of lubricated males and shards of glass is not a happy one but I also do not want to drink from plastic . What is required is precisely a safety glass that falls into harmless cubes when smashed thus obliging the would be aggressor to throw beer mats ,in a Ninja style, until his rage was spent . Technology and working with the grain , that will get results without subjecting people to a new childhood in which we are ordered around by New Labour Nannies . I hope this is what the Home Office come up with .