I’d assumed that this almost unanimously a male habit, but apparently 41% of the women surveyed also admitted to using the quality time afforded by a bowel movement to read.

Now I could see this sitting happily in the ‘society’ or even ‘life and style’ sections at a stretch, but since when has biology sat under the aegis of culture?

I’m cynically assuming that, like the rest of the media, The Guardian assumes that ‘celebrity’ parturition is an extraordinary event; something completely different to regular, ordinary hoi polloi birth. Perhaps there’s less shit, blood and screaming and there’s a publicist present to assist the midwife?

Even the venue for the event is worthy of comment and assessment for appropriateness. We learn that the child was delivered at a private clinic in the “chic 16th arrondissement of Paris.”

How comforting to know that it wasn’t dragged out with the aid of a rope around its ankles by an immigrant locum at a local general hospital in somewhere less salubrious.

Listening to III by Chickenfoot.

This one’s my favourite:

6. Nobody wants to fall into a safety net, because it means the structure in which they’ve been living is in a state of collapse and they have no choice but to tumble downwards. However, it beats the alternative.

You can read the full list here.

…why public sector projects seem to take so long to come to fruition. Take a look at this redacted reply from our IT department as to why our web developers can’t have access to a mailbox on the corporate mail server due to security issues:

For us to overcome those issues there would need to be a certain amount of due diligence to perform in relation to the third party requesting access. This would then feed into a risk analysis process that would need to be undertaken, resulting in a summary report and recommendations presented to ••••••• for his decision on approval as Security Officer.

And this non-decision was only reached after several emails and phone calls over the course of a week to try to get things done!

Got my tickets booked already!

With his bargain basement Spawn outfit and real-life antics, he’s the perfect underdog/super hero for the current depression.