Women's football

I think we should invest more in womens football. This picture sums up the benefits of doing so:



Really redefines "Fantasy Football".

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In other news, John Major reveals how he succeeded in gaining party support where Margaret Thatcher hadn't:

Sweet science

Today, my mother asked me to go to the corner shop and buy two four-pint bottles of milk. After throwing a complete strop and declaring loudly "I'M NOT YOUR SLAVE!" I took twenty pounds from her purse and trumped off to buy the offending liquid. While I was there, something caught my eye. Wiping a tear of pain away, I picked it up, wondering why someone had launched it at me so viciously. It was ... a pack of Skittles. I know you're as excited as I was. Anyway, as you do, I wanted to arrange them into rainbows, but what I realised when I got home is that, despite the "taste the rainbow" advertising campaign, Skittles DON'T COME IN BLUE. I was most upset. The only way to rectify this, of course, was to go buy similar sweets that come in blue, this left me with a choice of smarties and M&Ms. Being the glutton that I am, I bought both packs, thanking my superior genetics for my fast, chub-busting metabolism.

Anyway, first some pictures of my sweetie experiment, then some conclusions:

Conclusions:

• You cannot 'taste the rainbow' with Skittles alone.
• Skittles > M&Ms > Smarties
• There are far too few orange skittles (compare three orange to 19 red)
• Eating a pack of Skittles, M&Ms and Smarties in quick succession, WILL make you ill.

Anyway, since I was taking photos, I thought I'd take a pic of the beautiful and magnificent Lady-Dog who is known as THE PI. However, as per usual, she refuses to sit still and so her moving, combined with the 'soft' (i.e. shite) lighting in our living room, means that all you can see is a furry blob (which is actually quite a good description of The Pi, now I think about it).

And yes, I did completely forget to rotate that photo, but now you fat bastards (oh, hi Deea!) can engage in some gentle exercise by tilting your head gently to the right. Good good, now, deep breath and back to the centre. Well done! You just burnt 0.000054kcals. Award yourself with a stab in the face.

On the topic of dogs (or is it excercise? I forget.) Mili and I thought we'd throw in a pic of Pedro for you, so here is Pedro, looking suave:

The pair of us thought it would be cool if they had a little doggy marriage, but it transpired that neither dog liked other dogs at all (Pedro likes chasing small furry dogs and The Pi IS a small furry dog.) and therein lay an incompatibility. Tis a shame cos now I've bought that bridesmaid dress for nothing -sobs-.

As if I hadn't buggered up the layout of this entry enough, here's an old pic of the Pi (before her fluffiness developed properly):

Bah, you can barely see that one either. Ah well, she is going to have to remain elusive and mysterious and you can dream about her and write fanfics about her just like I do. Anyway, bleg ontry ends here.

Separation of Powers

As I sit in the university library, procrastinating well enough to represent my country, I console myself with the fact that, although I don't like writing essays or even reading about what I'm supposed to be writing an essay for (due in at 4pm today), I can apply the legal principles behind them. Take the separation of powers of the executive, judiciary and legislative for instance. It can be loosely defined as such:

a) members of branches of government will not occupy roles within the other branches of government,
b) a given branch of government will not control another branch,
c) a given branch will not perform the role of another branch.

Relating this to the UK Parliament (as my essay prescribes) is somewhat boring, so instead I'm going to relate it to Mugglenet Chat.

In Mugglenet, there is no deliberate attempt at a separation of power. There is also a distinct lack of democracy but that's a whole different issue and not one I care to address, since it is due to this fact that I thrive there. Your standard IRCop is a member of the judiciary - we read and interpret the rules, then kick people out for the hell of it. The admins occupy a role which I would say is the executive - they drive things forward, such as recruiting more IRCops and seeking out ways to fix problems and improve Mugglenet chat as a whole. The server owners are the legislature, as far as I can see. I add that qualification as no one is really sure quite what the server owners do anyway, but I'm sure they must get a fair bit of influence of what becomes new legislature (that's rules to you and me, http://www.mugglenet.com/chat/rules.html <-- I can type that at lightning speed now. Bow to my modliness.)

There is no separation of power in regard to the judiciary since IRCops, admins and server owners all get to come into main and boot people. The judiciary also can't deem a new piece of legislature as unconstitutional. The executive also put a lot of legislature forward, although they seem to need to be ratified by the legislative before they can be implemented. The legislature can do what the f*** they want. They pwn the whole system.

I should've just made that point before I bothered thinking about it at all. Problem solved. I wonder if my public law tutor will accept this in lieu of my actual essay? I'd say it's a lot more interesting, but it's not actually. The separation of powers is about the most boring thing you can write about. Luckily for me, it is 3/4 done and I have two hours in which to finish, so I'm going to steamroll through it, then make up some references and fancy quotes, then look forward to my geaming feedback in a week's time. Honestly, they'll frame it and lawyers for centuries will gather round to look at it, mouth's open in awe and tongues salivating in anticipation of its aromatic something or another.

Anyway, back to work.