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For crying out loud

My parents sell their house in Richmond, North Yorkshire, and look what happens immediately afterwards.

Maybe she’ll change her mind and come to Bury in Greater Manchester…

Kostnice Ossuary

Constructed at the end of the 14th century in the middle of a graveyard that had served the nearby Cistercian monastery since 1142, is a Baroque style church (remodelled in the 18th century on the site of the original Gothic church) – completely unremarkable from the outside, just one of the many religious buildings of the same style that dot the landscape in Central Europe. But underneath this particular church, there lies a chapel. And this is not just a chapel like any other.

This is:

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Single entendres

Single entendres, originally uploaded by Jez.

Airport security had a go at me for taking this photo without permission. I didn’t apologise.

Point and laugh

I have to agree with Duncan, comments sections on newspaper/TV websites are a waste of time. They’re an admirable idea, but unfortunately any reasoned, intelligent comments get drowned in a morass of ill-informed gibberish. And based on such comments, the average level of literacy in British adults is slightly lower than that of a baboon colony. Just take a look at the BBC Have Your Say page if you don’t believe me.

Of slight comfort is the fact that many people who foist their rabid dribble onto feedback pages reveal themselves to be so objectionable that nobody should have the slightest qualms about publicly ridiculing them.

A new(ish) blog does just that. The chap behind spEak You’re bRanes bravely sifts through the verbal effluence of Have Your Say to showcase the most highly polished of comment-turds, showing us the full horror of the tiny minds disgorging their bile-filled, grammatically anarchic non-sequiturs before restoring our karmic and comedic balance with the cutting wit of his ripostes.

Never read Have Your Say? Well, picking a random thread (Will you be watching the Tour de France?), we find gems such as these:

England has not been part of europe for centuries,and Richard lived there because he conquered it.please don’t talk rubbish.funny how most people in favour of the tour de france are not those who face the disruption it causes,my son has had his work hours changed because of it.cycles should be banned or at least pay towards the roads like us drivers have too

Last man standing

Last man standing, originally uploaded by Jez.