Severed head prank

What do you get when you put a very realistic severed head on someones chair?

Push the button

Another quick rant about the day to day idiocies on the streets of London. This time I set my focus onto pedestrians who fall into two categories, whose remedy is a simple one: push the bloody traffic light button!

Suicidal impatients:
These are the people who can't wait those few extra seconds standing on the pavement to cross the road safely. Ok, there's crossing when the cars are a far way away and the light is red still (everyone does that), but then there are the tards who run out straight into the traffic as if it's life or death if they get their KFC a second late. They're prime candidates for the Darwin Awards and get no sympathy if they get hit and explode like the packets of ketchup they so desperately want to squeeze onto their mechanically seperated meat.

Lazy/imbecillic hopefuls:
These always make me smile. Standing at the traffic lights, patiently waiting for them to turn green and allow them safe passage across the road. Sometimes a muttering of complaint accompanies this display as they cannot fathom why the traffic gods have foresaken them. Do they not see the button or expect some divine intervention to take place that does it for them? All of this passes when someone with an iota of sense arrives and realises they haven't pressed the damn button on the traffic lights >.<

Sadly both of these cases are terminal and you can't rescue those afflicted, even though it's with a simple press of a button. Just make sure you don't become one, and to help just remember this song :)

24 back on form *S7 spoiler alert*

There's something strangely addictive about 24. Even when it reached ridiculous levels in series 6 where they nuked LA (the fridge), you still felt compelled to carry on watching. Though from that series onwards everyone knew they were on very thin ice, so what do they do? They have terrorists take over the Whitehouse.

I was worried they'd make the show all soft when you found out CTU was dismantled and the new President is a Captain Janeway-alike, but 12 episodes in and a truckload of tough moral dilemmas (coaxed along by Jack) we're safely back on track. The current bad guys have infiltrated the Whitehouse and are holding the President hostage, all in a oddly beleiveable way.

This leads to my last point, something that 24 manages to do that no other show can. It's formulaic but not predictable. You know it's all going to go tits up in the last 10 minutes of an episode but you never know how, and that's 24's unique brand of televisual fried gold that keeps it's broad spectrum of viewers coming back for more every single week. Oh, that and the whole unique real time story telling thing :v

My only concern is that the show has all but exhausted the US's well of generic enemies; Germans, Mexicans, Chinese, Russians, Middle Easterns, Eastern Europeans and Africans. So I finish with my own recommendation that will allow the shows eighth season to top the benchmark it's current one is rapidly setting.

Zombie Nazis:

Cyclists and Schrödinger's cat

Before I start with this tirade I want it on the record that I have a lot of friends who cycle in London and they are in no way the people I describe below (one of the main reasons for this is that they have brains and like to keep them inside their head).

Can you remember back to the days of GCSE physics where you heard about Schrödinger's cat? No? Anyways, in a nutshell it was a thought experiment where something could be in two states that contradicted each other at the same time. In the case of the poor cat it was alive and dead.

This same rule can be applied to cyclists in Central London. where some believe they can be a vehicle and pedestrian at the same time. For example;

• Riding on the road and coming up to a red light? You're no longer a vehicle, you're a pedestrian now and that green man applies to you as well as those silly people walking across the road directly in your way!
• The roads got a traffic jam? No worries. Just switch from a vehicle to a pedestrian and you can cycle down the pavement scaring the shit out of those idiotic people using their legs to walk down it.

It's this retarded attitude of switching between states on a whim that risk them crashing into a law abiding pedestrian or causing some poor sod in their car to swerve to avoid smearing these tards across the tarmac. I've lost count the amount of near misses I've had with them which that makes me want to stick my brolly in their spokes next time I see one >.<

300 year old meme found in Oxford

Whilst wandering the university colleges in Oxford I found myself in a couple of their little churches. Setting aside how the churches got their money to build these things and the problem with religion in general, I still have to admit they've made some damn fine architecture in their time.

So whilst admiring the prettiness of a stained glass window I couldn't help but see an om nom nom nom scene.

This window is at least 300 years old, so have I found one of the worlds oldest memes? Find anything older and I'll be impressed :)