Monthly Archives: August 2011

That time you were watching Celebrity Salon and you felt a shooting pain down the left side of your soul? It all makes sense now.

Dr Lennert Veerman, from the School of Population Health at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, and colleagues report their findings today in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.

“If our estimates are correct, then TV viewing is in the same league as smoking and obesity,” he said.

His team estimated that every single hour of TV watched after age 25 was associated with a reduction in life expectancy of around 22 minutes.

According to our calculations, Bodger’s been dead since March 1896.

TV Shortens Life By 22 Minutes Per Hour (ABC News Australia)

‘TV Kills’ by MadelonMeijer
(Thanks Mark J Geary)

Well, this is ‘Bang Bang’, real name Thomas Dudley, in a rarely seen photo from a collection of old Dublin images newly uploaded to Facebook by Jim Gibson.

Bang Bang’s lovability was earned by going up to people in tram queues and shouting: “BANG BANG”.

And if that didn’t make you literally poo your underwear he would then point his gnarled finger a Chubb lock key to your temple like a gun and cackle soundlessly.

Then he was considered a harmless lunatic.

Today he would be nominated as the Fianna Fail presidential candidate.

Old Images Of Dublin (Facebook)

Bang Bang (Wikipedia)

Thanks PT

Clive Goodman, former News of the World Royal correspondent who was jailed for phone hacking members of the Royal family, and (below) the letter that may help bring some of his former employers to prison.
Also:

The company also faces a new claim that it misled parliament. In earlier evidence to the select committee, in answer to questions about whether it had bought Goodman’s silence, it had said he was paid off with a period of notice plus compensation of no more than £60,000. The new paperwork, however, reveals that Goodman was paid a full year’s salary, worth £90,502.08, plus a further £140,000 in compensation, plus £13,000 to cover his lawyer’s bill. Tom Watson said: “It’s hush money. I think they tried to buy his silence.” Murdoch’s executives have always denied this.

Phone Hacking Live (The Guardian)

AC/DC have teamed up with Australian winery Warburn Estate for the release of AC/DC The Wine, available in Oz from Thursday. There’s (and we’re not kidding here) Highway to Hell cabernet sauvignon, Hells Bells sauvignon blanc and You Shook Me All Night Long muscat.

AC/DC launches its own wine brand with Warburn Estate (News.com)

(Thanks Oisin)
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