Adventures in Goat World » Britannia

And Now, Your Moment of Zen

Ellen — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 01:32:00 +0000

Courtesy, as it often is, of the Brits and a formerly pay TV channel going free and rounding up Celebrities to make them do absurd things:

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaQ1s7hlXjQ&hl=en]

British Frog Gives A Whole New Meaning…

Ellen — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 05:24:00 +0000

…to one of my favorite expletive phrases, fuck a duck.

Courtesy Dave Barry’s Blog.

Sarcastic British Geeks = Hilarity

Ellen — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 14:11:00 +0000

My cousin Mark, who enjoys the Halo series very much, sent me the following video, which he said captured his feelings about Halo 3 very well.

I’m not a gamer much beyond Tetris and desperately trying to find a Wii (and then finding it at the one point I couldn’t afford it) for the last few months, but I thought this review by a Brit for an Aussie magazine was hysterical:

Now every time someone says the words “Easy Street” I’m going to picture a little sign below it that says “We’ve got hookers!”

On a separate but related note, I was listening to one of my BBC podcasts and I heard a member of Parliament (a Conservative who was chairing some committee related to finance) describe the missing data fiasco I wrote about the other day as “a major cock-up.”

It still sounded more dignified than anything anyone in Congress has said in some time.

Oops!

Ellen — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 04:35:00 +0000

If you thought the incidents where various American companies lost laptops with 300,000 or 400,000 people’s financial information were bad, then be very thankful you don’t live in Britain.