Congratulations to Barnsley

Found this on the comments section of the The Times following an article about the future of Newcastle United.

"Michael, Sydney - they won't even enjoy the sight of Barnsley next season. Barnsley will be venturing to the NE but to play the Mackems and Hull instead.

Andy, London, "

So there we have it, congratulations to Barnsley for successfully getting promoted to the Premier League without anybody noticing. Except that is Andy in London, who we should also congratulate for superbly living up to the ignorant Londoner stereotype, and not been able to tell the difference between Barnsley and Burnley (or possibly Birmingham, all those Bs must be very confusing).

Bitching about people you have never met

Online journals are the most fascinating, banal, truly terrible things to browse for a while. I may start a bitching blog theme here doing this. But there are some great examples of the hilariously mundane out there. Reading other people's melodramas can be quite fun.

'K@TT' is 24 believe it or not, from California and really needs to grow out of the emo phase. I'm not sure if she is supposed to be a parody of herself, but reproducing Fall Out Boy lyrics while pining for men who quite understandably probably want to get the hell away from you is a good way to start.

Anyway I also have discovered an intense, Nirvana fan here. That always ends well. Plus, if being depressed and listening to Kurt be depressed isn't your thing, listen to God's will be expressed through the medium of the Lion King musical.

People should learn to love life more, it's so stupidly absurd at times.

Bird adverts

I like this

Not very scary at all.

So Mexico has cut the number of deaths from swine flu down to 101 as reported here. Which it turns out, is what you would expect from seasonal flu.

Great. It was merely ordinary flu with a healthy dose of pig, hysteria and hypochondria. Oh well, the press will now have to find something else to be hysterical about.