That's fucking stupid

Nationwide: irresponsible, or bloody clever?

Sensibly Common — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 08:40:54 +0000

The UK’s Nationwide building society is going to be offering (to a few select customers) mortgages of up to 125% of the value of a property. Technical bit for mortgage nerds like me: 95% LTV on a new property while carrying over up to 30% of the value of an existing property, with a 7 or [...]

It’s not a new OS, it’s an old one with a new browser

Commonly Sensible — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 12:52:45 +0000

The BBC and many other ‘news’ outlets have been breathlessly reporting the rather uninteresting news that the ad broker and geek paradise, Google, are to release an operating system. The BBC, known for the fact that their reporting of all things technical is a little cack handed, seems to have read the headline of the Google [...]

Too late to #stopthebnp

Commonly Sensible — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:11:06 +0000

OK, it’s not actually too late to stop them but it is too late to stop them getting elected to the European parliament; this is because they have already been elected. It’s not deterring some folk though, the guys over at Hope Not Hate for example, who seem to either not understand the democratic process [...]

Just so we are clear…

Commonly Sensible — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:32:17 +0000

Justgiving have a hiccup

Sensibly Ginger — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:32:17 +0000

Justgiving.com is a business that was set up with one goal: to make it easier for people to raise money for charity by letting individuals create their own online fundraising pages. To date, they have helped 8 million people raise £476m for 7,479 charities. This is great work. They have received criticism before, from ignorant fools [...]

#iran is actually none of our fucking business

Commonly Sensible — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 21:14:51 +0000

Here’s a quick tip, if we continue to fuck about with foreign politics we’ll end up being hated by other nations and people will feel the need to blow shit up to make their point about how we need to stop fucking with foreign politics. Oh, fuck, too late. We seem to like to think that we [...]

Gayby baby

Commonsensical — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:18:53 +0000

Oh noes! The American gay movement doesn’t like new Sacha Baron Cohen film Brüno because they claim it enforces gay stereotypes and will actually confirm and entrench the prejudices of those who think gays ought to die a fiery death morally object to man-love (because let’s face it, it’s never the lesbians people have problems [...]

A really fucking boring post for 90% of you

Commonly Sensible — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:44:00 +0000

Let’s talk about browsers and the news that Microsoft will be selling Windows 7 (or Windows Vista Service Pack 2 with added XP as it should be called) in a special EU flavour that does not include Internet Explorer. OK, I know it’s not the most thrilling of things to talk about but it’s a fucking [...]

Guest post for the fatties

Commonly Sensible — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 08:27:31 +0000

Sensibly Ginger says: Weight loss. It’s simple:, if you eat more food than you need, you put on weight. If you eat less food than you need, you lose weight. Your body’s actually quite good at gauging how much it needs. It regulates this by hunger. When hungry, eat. When you’re not hungry, don’t. Unfortunately, this system [...]

Tasteless but funny

Commonly Sensible — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:54:44 +0000

Twat from the Mirror, Kevin Maguire, dropped this little classic when asked what he thought Gordon’s chances were of staying in power after an election. “The only way Gordon Brown can win the general election is if Madeleine McCann’s body is found in David Cameron’s garage.” Of course the truth of the matter is that if this [...]

Quote of the day

Sensibly Common — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:15:45 +0000

Letter issued from the McTimoney Association to all its members which appears to be in response to the Simon Singh libel case (here’s some background information): Date: 8 June 2009 09:12:18 BDT Subject: FURTHER URGENT ACTION REQUIRED! Dear Member If you are reading this, we assume you have also read the urgent email we sent you last Friday. If [...]

And the award goes to…

Commonly Sensible — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 12:23:49 +0000

Google, while creating a showcase of how ‘celebs’ use the iGoogle service, seems to have managed to accidentally create a list of the top 30 douchebags in the world. http://www.google.com/help/ig/showcase/index.html Seriously, click on some faces and read their bios, they’re fucking hilarious.

Ticketmaster you are fucktards!

Commonly Sensible — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 09:54:22 +0000

I just finished buying some tickets on Ticketmaster and at the end they offered me a choice of how I would like my tickets delivered. There were two options: Get a link sent to me by email, click the link and then visit a page where I can print out the tickets myself. Cost: £2 processing [...]

Quote of the day

Sensibly Common — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 13:39:49 +0000

Joel Anderson, Republican assembly member, wants virtual globe services to blur potential targets: “It struck me that a person in a tent halfway around the world could target an attack like that with a laptop computer…There’s got to be some common sense.” Anderson is introducing a bill to enforce virtual map services (like Google Earth) to blur [...]

Oh nose, the #bnp are coming!

Commonly Sensible — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 09:17:50 +0000

Britain has a long tradition of fringe parties and it is a hallmark of our great ‘democracy’; it’s pretty much possible for anyone to stand in any election provided they stump up a deposit and meet some very basic criteria. We have seen numerous elections where one policy parties such as the greens have won [...]

#AMS as the Enterprise Tsar? Your’re shitting me right?

Commonly Sensible — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 12:25:37 +0000

It can only be a pitiful attempt to court publicity; surely no real power or decision making responsibility will be transfered to Sir Alan ‘Fired’ Sugar? I only say this because while it’s fun to watch that one trick pony perform his little “I’m in management, me” skit on the telly it’s not the sort [...]

Is it just me…..

Commonsensical — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 20:56:02 +0000

Or is calling the initiative aimed at advising police forces on how to increase the number of rapes reported, as well as convictions, “The Rape Support Programme” just a wee bit of a misnomer? Just a thought.

But he is!

Commonly Sensible — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 09:42:01 +0000

10 points to the Lib Dem candidate Anna Pascoe for calling Mebyon Kernow* candidate Stuart Cullimore a “greasy-haired twat“. * That’s some sort of Cornish Nationalist party to you and me. Not sure what their manifesto says as I couldn’t find it on their webshite. Their core values state that they want an independent assembly to govern Cornwall. [...]

I shall probably not be voting for the #bnp

Commonly Sensible — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 08:19:51 +0000

There are some crappy european elections coming up and everywhere I turn there seems to be a billboard or a Facerape group telling me that I mustn’t vote for the BNP. Er. I wasn’t going to. But here’s the thing. I wasn’t going to vote for them because I have read several of the party manifestos and [...]

So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, adieu

Sensibly Common — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:43:25 +0000

It appears that our favourite target, Jacqui Smith, is to leave the cabinet next Thursday. I think this is appropriate: Now fuck off back to Redditch where you belong.