IQ TESTS FOR MPS

 Interview with Edwin Poots Northern Ireland Minister for Culture on the BBC.

Part of a discussion on evolution………….. starting at the “Big bang theory”

Edwin Poots: Matthew, you’re telling me that cosmic balls of dust gathered and there was an explosion. We’ve had lots of explosions in Northern Ireland and I’ve never seen anything come out of that that was good. And you look at this earth and you tell me that there was a big bang and all of a sudden all that is good about this earth came out of it?

Matthew Parris: Good heavens! You’re the culture minister and you don’t believe in evolution?

Edwin Poots: Yes, absolutely. And you’re telling me that all of this evolution took place over billions of years, and yet it’s only in the last few thousand years that Man could actually learn to write?

William Crawley: How old is the earth?

Edwin Poots: My view on the earth is that it’s a young earth. My view is 4000 BC.

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Now maybe we are expecting a bit too much from Edwin, basically hes a farmer and an excellent one for all I know, but what is he doing as Minister for Culture. Its embarrassing for the people of Northern Ireland to be represented by someone like this. One of the blogs I read had a comment that said “My God these people are watching the Flintstones and think its a documentary”

I know its a paradigm shift that is required, but could we not have some small intelligence test for MPS, even the 11 plus would do. Oh and maybe a little test to see if they are actually sane!

YOU ENGLISH…. Teh

I remember reading years ago about a guy in Australia who had the same name as a particularly nasty spider. This could be an urban myth but the story goes he changed his name to Smith and when the Aussies heard about this on the News they started calling the spiders “Smithies” Keep this in mind.

I was reading today about Jeremy Clarksons campaign to raise money for the injured soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan and the treatment of one Ben Parkinson who lost both legs and suffered  injuries so serious he has been described as “the most wounded soldier ever to survive” Now thats bad enough ,but …

1. His comrades were not allowed to visit him in an NHS hospital while in uniform because it might offend Muslim patients and Staff………. Do Muslims not get embarrassed about this stuff?
2. His first offer of compensation to cover his lifelong medical expenses, hes 23, was £152,000. A Typist in the RAF was awarded £484,000(yeah 484k) for a repetitive strain injury to her thumb. (Sunday Times today). …….What is going on in England?
3. If you can donate, go to www.timesonline/sundaytimesappeal. Please note donations are not for the typist.

Meanwhile an English Schoolteacher is incarcerated in Sudan for letting her pupils name a Teddy Bear Mohammed. Hmmmmmm Aussie guy, spiders……Opportunity knocks here , I personally am very tempted.

GOOD FOR GUINNESS

“Guinness said Wednesday evening’s heist was a serious security breach. In all, 360 kegs of Guinness and Budweiser, and 90 kegs of Carlsberg were taken from the huge distribution complex on the busy Victoria Quay. The beer and stout was worth 64,000 euro.”

This is the best thing that ever happened to Guinness, it could even be a very clever marketing ploy (probably not though) but, look at the advertising generated for a paltry 64,000 euro. Covered in all TV NEWS SHOWS, Newspapers, websites and blogs. How would 64k euro compare to the millions spent on their excellent and artistic advertising campaign. Maybe there will be a load of copy cat heists, Murphys Stout people are probably sitting in the brewery right now with a truck loaded up with 800 kegs and their fingers crossed that somebody will steal it.