Oi! Ringo, No!
the man at the end of the best put down I’ve ever heard, Ringo Starr has just said he’s not going to sign anything or read his ‘fan’ mail anymore, because he has “to much to do”. maybe it’s just to many people from Liverpool asking him if there are anymore topiary figures they can chop the head off.
I don’t know what I find more shocking – a) that he gets fan mail or b) he has a website
oh and can he stop doing the peace thing everytime he says anything? it’s sad.
It’s true, all no mater where you are getting your information from, but as it becomes easier and easier for anyone to write anything on the Internet, one of the great skills of the future will be separating fact from fiction.
Tim Berners-Lee, the bloke who thought it would be good to have documents link together over a network1 (not the inventor of the Internet) says we should be looking at ways to help us tell is sites are trustworthy. only problem with that, one persons trustworthy is another persons heresy.
Teaching people to research, check facts from more than one source and learn to distinguish between reliable and unreliable sources of information is something we should be pushing as a key part of learning.
1 He’s a very clever man; I don’t want to belittle what he did, just make a point he didn’t invent the internet as so may people say!
I’m pretty sure I’ve started other posts with that title. I say it a lot.
The BBC keep telling me (they seem quite excited about it) that the boffins are trying to recreate the big bang in a tunnel in Switzerland. I’m not being funny, but what if they actually manage to create a universe? A universe inside ours, that will grow and grow until there’s nothing left of our universe, and we’re all dead – which, Kevin assures me, would take a fraction of a second, so at least we wouldn’t notice.
It all sounds unfathomably foolhardy, to me, and I can’t quite understand why no-one else seems to think so…
It turns out that until the 14th of July we we’re living in a Anti-Social dispersal area which ment that the police had the power to give “a direction requiring the persons in the group to disperse” for a group of two or more (i.e anyone). and if you refused you would get
(a) a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale (£2,500), or
(b) imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 months,
So as far as i could tell if a police officer stopped Ruth, Daisy and Henry in the street and told them to disperse – there refusal (because they would refuse) would result in either 3 months or £2,500. I’ve read the legistation and I don’t see how you appeal against any of this.Anti-Social Behaviour Orders. really are anit-social.
it should also be noted that it was the 13th July – the last day of the order – when our street was filled with police because people where drunk and throwing vases at each other. arguably the removal of the order has made the area safer,
I’ve found the merseyside police newsletter that tells me about the order although it really doesn’t tell me much, and all that did is got me worked up about that stupid flashing smiling speed sign.
Surely it’s more of a distraction having a flashing face by the side of the road?. We went the Isle of Wight last month and they’ve removed speed bumps / chicanes and replaced them with speed signs – which don’t flash and smile at you – and that works. not smiley happy faces for me to look at while I hit the man on the bike!!!
grrr arggg…
