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Jenny is a boggart or water spirit who lives under the green algae that grows on stagmant pools in the North of England. She is reputed to pull in children who ignore their mothers and play near the water. Jenny says this is slanderous and a calumny (she is not pretty but is very astute and insists that the only people she ever pulls into drowning pools are deserving of their fate or very drunk.) Jenny and her friends have built this labyrinth of creative writing, drama, music to provide a unique experience, a website where the emphasis is on entertainment and the web design is focused on helping visitors who love to read, listen and be entertained will find much to appeal to their individual taste.



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The Labyrinth

is a haven for seekers of quality entertainment on the World Wide Web. Explore the Labyrinth and you will find all types of material presented in the best form, video, audio, music and in the written word a cast range of subject matter; fiction, drama, comedy, documentary, science and technology, social comment, travel, leisure, politics, philosophy, poetry and biography.

Enter our world and you will at once be released from the cyberbog that the world wide web has become and freed to wander in a perfumed (well - rather smelly, but bogs tend to be like that) garden of creative endeavour.

Fiction Menu


Stories, the most important way we have had of communicating ideas since primitive humans developed language and took the first steps on the road to civilisation. Where other types of writing, news, history, biography, travel etc. are contrained by the need for fidelity to facts, they fiction writer or story teller can use whatever devices work best to get the message across. Here you will find stories in many categories; relationships, love, murder, betrayal, mystery, supernatural, adventure, historical tales, science fiction, nature, anything in fact that the human mind can imagine.

Comedy Menu:
Comedy writing, verse, poetry, comic songs, cartoons, comic fiction, comic verse. If you are looking for a laugh and you can't find one here you are very hard to please.

Wide World


Join our writers as they take you around the world in words and pictures. No typical travelogue this because we try wander away from the usual tourist destinations, to delve a little deeper into the nature of the place, locals you might travel to, investigate the culture, how communities developed and what has made things the way they are. Look for overlaps here with our history, food and music menus as we try to recreate a little of the atmosphere. Nobody has yet found a way to digitise smells but as soon as the technology is abailable we will bring you that aspect of the ambience too.

Health and Wellbeing


How to make healthy eating fun, exercise that is not a chore, lessons in how to chill, sensible drinking. Health and Wellbeing are one of the main concerns that cause stress in this increasingly crazy world. In this menu find articles, spoken word and video on how to cope with the stresses of modern life, how to make a personal refuge for yourself even in a crowded place and how to fend off the pressures of the aggressive consumer society we inhabit.

The Natural World


Anything to do with nature can find a place here, from exploring a cave complex to articles and video on wildlife. There are obvious overlaps here with travel, health and wellbeing and the environment menus but that is the nature of The Greenteeth Labyrinth. Just as a walk in the woods might lead one of our writers to record the habits of an animal colony or write on the breeding cycle of birds, so in the Labyrinth you never know where a link might lead you to.


Real Lives - the biography menu

Biographical writing on the lives of the famous and the unknown (who often have the more interesting stories to tell,) memoir, stories told in verse, in pictures with commentary, in any way because Greenteeth Labyrinth is about using the power and versatility of new media to communicate in new ways. Everybody has a story to tell and their own way of telling it. Cameraderie, shared hardship, life on the factory floor or in the field, triumph, tragedy, survival, if it is true life it belongs here and we will find the best way of presenting it. THIS MENU is not live yet but find A Stroke Of Luck, Ian Thorpe's memoir of recovery from a massive brain haemorrhage available to read free online. Go to A Stroke Of Luck - Chapter 1

Past Perspectives: New Angles On History
History as it is taught in conventional schools and colleges is mostly wrong. Not slightly wrong, not just spun a bit to fit a political agenda but blatantly wrong. Worse, it is deliberately wrong. The Roman Empire, usually presented as the great civilising force in the western world, the enlightened society that dissed its enemies as Barbarians and Heathens was in many ways actually less civilised that the Bararians it conquered. The Celts of Norhern Europe, the Moors of North Africa and the Persians all had well organised societies and in many ways were ahead of Rome in technology and scholarship.
The American War Of Independence was not fought for religious freedom of in the first instance for freedom of any kind. The rebels were asking for seats in the British Parliament for the colonies, "no taxation without representation." The rebel leaders were British Gentleman Adventurers and many of the senior British Officers were supporters of the Stewart claim to the throne, regarding the Hanoverians as usurpers. Thus they were tacitly sympathetic to the rebellion. These are just two of the instances in which history needs to be viewed from a different perspective if a true picture is to be seen. There is much more in this menu.

Philo & Sophia - Philosophy can be fun

From the core philosophies of the great religions to the ideas of modern existentialists, philosophy is regarded as dull, heavy and irrelevant. But philosophy is ideas and ideas are the most exciting things in the world. In the Greenteeth Labyrinth we try to bring you philosophy lite, wisdom without weight. From the origins of the Universe to the myseries of quantum physics, from the earliest forms of Goddess worship to the quasi - religious ideas of self help gurus, all is examined here. You will even find some articles in this menu showing up in the comedy pages too.The overall message of Philo and Sophia though can be summed up in the words of Hypatia of Alexandria, proto-feminist of the ancient world who said, "All formal and dogmatic religions are fallacious, to teach superstitions as truth is the most terrible thing. Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all."
What happened to her for thinking like that? Enter the menu to find out.

Fools and Dreamers - the poetry pages


Like philosophy, poetry is a type of literature easily shunned as boring. Often that dismissal is accurate, particularly in the case of modernists, whose self-indulgent navel gazing verse is deliberately made so obscure and complex it is doubtful even the poets themselves understand WTF they are banging on about. On the other hand there are maverick bands of poets, freal traditionalists, wandering the net attacking the unwary readers with their polysyllabic peregrenations through poetry's more arcane medieval forms. Bad traditional petry can be as much a turnoff as modern do-it-yourself psychology poems. At Greenteeth we publish the poets we think are fun, especially those who bring us their work in audio or video form. Poetry is about rhythm, pace and timing as much as language. Words can lie dead on a page. Let us bring them to life for you and maybe help you find a new form of entertainment to enjoy.

Poetry Life And Times
is now hosting poetry Life and Times an online poetry magazine that has been publishing poetry selections featuring poems by some of best poets currently publishing on the World Wide Web
This archive edition from Poetry Life and Times - April 2008 includes poems from featured and resident poets of several nationalities.
There is no specific theme so use the left menu to skip to the area that interests you and then the drop menus to show titles of every poem featured.

Other Poetry Menus: [ Comic Verse ]
Latest Posts
[ Helga Ross ] ... [Ancient Lover - Janet Caldwell] ... [ Armageddon - Ian Thorpe] ... [ Attack Of The Killer Trousrrs ]

The Science and Technology Menu
Science and Technology is not a collection of work lauding all things scientific but is somewhere you will find objective and independent writing on technologies including sustainable power generation, internet developments, IT hardware, transport technology, food production and all areas of research and development while articles on natural sciences will set out to challege orthodox thinking. If you are one of those people who is trying to establish science as a rival to religion you will not feel at home here but if you like to keep up with at the latest developments from a wide perspective while reasing about them in a style that does not attempt to blind readers with science you will be in your element.

Humanitas - Everything That makes Us Human
Who are we, where do we come from, what's it all about, is there any point to all that we do ? Should we give a damn?
There is a very nasty tasting mindset being bred in the academic world, and particularly in the fields of science and technology, that insidiously suggests all the qualities that make being human so wonderful are in fact weaknesses and should be resisted if not eliminated. "We should all try to live scientifically" one eminent scientist recently suggested as if there was anything about life that could even loosely be described as scientific. In the end the scientists and tech-heads, with their insane belief in reason, logic and evidence based knowledge are little different to religious fundamentalists in the way they cling desperately to their certainties while the rest of us blunder hopefully through life trying to make some sense of it all.
Sub Menus: [ People and Customs ] ... [ Who We Are ] ... [ Work and Play ]

Faith and Spirituality
Wander through the writing of followers of various faiths, belief systems and traditions and maybe feel inspired to explore your own spirituality. You will find no preaching here, while all are welcome to submit to us their point of view, christian, muslim, jewish, hindi, buddhist, pagan and all their variations any work that tries to suggest one faith has the right understanding of life, the universe and everything while all the others are wrong will be rejected.

LATEST POSTS: [ What A Pagan Believes ] ... [ The True Tale Of The Easter Bunny ]

‘There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.’

from In Memoriam by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

The Daily Stirrer


The Contraversialist Blog that aims to bring you the most provocative and fearless opinion on the topics of the day. Daily Stirrer contributors write from the heart and shoot from the hip on all the topics that are making news. They will tackle business and politics, bureucracy, health society, science and technology. education, transport and any other issue where the media conspire with the money men to make sure the difficult questions are not being asked.

The Stirrer Archives: { October 2009 ] ... [ stir09september.shtml] ... [ August 2009 ] [ July 09 ]...[ June 09 ] ...[ May 09 ] ... [ Mar - May 09 ] ...


Bog of Blogs

Links to our favourite Blogs around the web. If you can't find enough interesting content in our pages, the Bog of Blogs will give even the most avid readers enough to keep them happy for a long time. Humour, celebrity, sport, politics, entertainment, observation, relationships, nature, its all here.

Boggart Blog Central
Find selections from Boggart Blog, our flagship daly publication.
Boggart Network News: [ 1 ] ... [ 2 ] ... [ 3 ] ... [ 4 ] ... [ 5 ] ... [ bogboggart6 ] ... [ bogboggart7 ]

The Audio Menu


Music, Fiction, Poetry, hear them all when you explore the Labyrinth's audio menu. First up as we launch this new menu is Brother Bastion. Click the name to go to his page, read about the act, hear sample tracks and find out how to buy Brother bastion's music online.

Picture Gallery


This menu is being populated with a few posts before we open a dedicated menu. First up is Gull In Flight at Robin Hood's Bay
[ Travel ] ...

Young River photo accompanies a nature poem by Ian R Thorpe [ Poetry Menu ] ... [ Featured Writer ]

More typical of what we are doing (and more intersting perhaps are the photosets which will build into a tour of an area. We start these with Rievaulx Abbey [ 1 ] ... [ 2 ] ..., the spectacular ruin of a Cistercian monastery in North Yorkshire that did not survive being knocked abut a bit by King Henry VIII and his boys.



Meditations


A series of evocative photographs with commentary aimed at reminding people that is the hetic world of work, amition amd conspicuous consumption we must not forget how to simply be.
Sunsets, rivers, hills and valleys, gardens, seascapes, churches, temples and sacred spaces, architectural features, anything that might make people take time to appreciate their surroundings and just feel a sense of connectedness with their world can feature here. Intro and Menu for this section [ Have We Forgotten How To Be ]
LATEST POSTS:[ Aysgarth Falls ] ... [ Yacht Heading For Harbour ] ... [ The Old Gravel Pit ] ... [ In The Skerries ] ... [ Wycoller Walk ] ... [ A Walk In The Park ] ... [ Industrial Nightmare ] ... [ Beach At Alvor ]



Education Menu
As the rhetoric of politicians, academics and leaders of the teching professions gets more lurid the product being turned out by the education system gets dumber. So what can be done? The thing politicians, teachers and academics hate more than anything is ridicule. So the Boggart Bloggers say "On With The Motley."

LATEST POSTS [ Lazy Pupils Exam Guide ] ... [ Duming Down Conspiracy ]


Food Menu Greenteeth continues to expand, the addition of a food menu is our latest venture. This is in the very early stages of its gestation period at the moment but here are links to the first two items added.

[ Snacks: Egg and Onion Sandwich ] ... [ Hot and Tasty - Bolton Hot Pot ]


CATEGORY MENUS:
[Climate Change] .. [ Education ] .. [ debt crisis ] ... [ religion, faith, belief ] ... [ Christmas ] ... [ fear and panic ]


Latest Posts

Former Government Adviser Condemns Green Scaremongering.
Some people accuse The Daily Stirrer of being anti - science. This is not so, we are simply endowed with a healthy scepticism about all things. Thus the trend among people who like to label themseves "scientists" to brush aside criticism from highly educated and well informed individuals outside their specialist field by saying "You're not a scientists, you don't understand science," arouses deep suspicion. We are rght to be sceptical and suspicious ...

A Little Knowledge Is A Dangerous Thing
It was the poet Alexander Pope who coined the phrase 'a little knowledge is a dangerous thing'. Pope had no idea how true his words would become in a world where anyone can get a qualification in anything and people can sret up in business as tree surgeons without having to know anything about trees.

Labour's Minimum Wage Scam
When you hear of a Conservative politician praising Labour for creating a 'flexible job market' that benefits British employers it does not ring true. What Lord Freud was really praising the government for was letting bosses screw their workers by turning a full time job into a part time job. Not the sort of jobs policy you expect from Labour but we're always said they are more Tory than the Tories.

Authoritarian Box Ticking Culture.
by Ian R. Thorpe
Among the things that have alienated people from the Labour party apart from generakl incompetence, is their arrogant and patronising conviction the public are resady to believe anything the government tells them so long as it is dressed up in statistics and delivered by some fresh faced, smooth talking Labour spinmeister. It is very like the authoritarian regime of Orwell's 1984

Teen Binge Drinking Crisis
Politicians, medical experts and church leaders here in Britain are panicking about the binge drinking antics of teenagers. All around the country young people are getting rat-arsed and behaving in an offensive and embarrassing way. I've read things are pretty much the same in the other English speaking nations so we must wonder is something going on, is there some social trend that is...

A Little Bit Of Knowledge Is A Dangerous Thing by fatsally

I know times are hard and people are setting themselves up as small businesses and that is all well and good, much better to work than to get depressed being fucked about by the Jobcentre, but you'd think people would...

Change You Can't Believe In
by James Dahlberg
For his first contribution to The Daily Stirrer James looks at how the popularity of Barack Obama, the Yes We Can" man has collapsed from the record levels seen right after his inauguration as President to the latest polls that make him the most unpopular president ever after a year in office. The economy, unemployment, the disatrous health reform bill and weakness on foreign polcy have played a big part but how much is due to the failings of man himself.



Massive Overdose Protest
by Ian R. Thorpe

Te Merseyside Skeptics Society (or more accurately the selective Skeptics Society as they only seem to be skeptical about what it is fashionable to be skeptical about) are going to protest about homeopathy today by gathering outside Boots Chemist, Liverpool and taking massive overdoses of homeopathic remedies...Right, who gives a shit, but this is a very funny post on the irrationality of the protesters without supporting homeopathy Homeopathy: Massive Overdose Protest



Poverty: Labour Succeeds Where Thatcher Failed.
At last, a success New Labour can claim as their own. Under the party's rule over the past twelve years the gap between rich and poor in Britain has gone bak to the level of 50 years ago. We get a view from the MP for Rawtenborough since 1832 Hector Gobbett - Broadsides on what this means for unemployment, the revovery and the election prospects of conservative and labour... [ Ian at Authorsden ]



Keep Health Out Of Politics

Have those government sponsored health scares about fats, alocohol, chocolate and ciggies ever got up your nose? No? They would if you knew the special advisors dreamed them up over brandy and cigars after a jolly good lunch.



The Truth About The Economy, Crime And Everything Else.
by Ian R Thorpe
2010-01-26
The Labour government has been telling lies again, about unemployment, the economy, education, and crimes. And they are really really angry that us ungrateful oiks refuse the believe the official statistics that prove what a good job the government is doing.

[ Greenteeth Blogs: [Greenteeth at Yahoo ] ... [ Boggart Network News ] ... [ Boggart Abroad ] Snack Science Reveals Unsuspected Crocodile Intelligence
Recently we have reported extensively on mouse related science involving the use of snacks to get mice to behave in ways that appear intelligent to scientists. We have confined ourselves to reporting projects involving mice and snacks only while important work has been going on involving crocodiles and the science of snacks.



Quis Custodiat Custodes (Who watches the watchers)
Living in the surveillsance society. Governments keep announcing plans to increase the surveillance ability of security forces, the latest outrage being the proposal that military drones of the kind used to kill civilians in Afghnistan and Pakistan be deployed to overfly British cities taking high definition photos of everyday life.



Diabetic, Unconscious and Dangerous
We live in dangerous times but when the anti - terror squad are called to deal with comatose diabetic of mass destruction we have to wonder what kind of world we live in. Diabetes is a terrible thing in mant ways but it is not, to the best of our knowledge, likely to make people explode in public places

Mouse Science Reinvents The Wheel (Again)
Scientists love to reinvent the wheel and if it involves mouse related research, even better. Here's our take on a project involving science, mice, snacks and a wheel to prove exercise makes humans more intelligent. So how much running does Setphen Hawking do?

Willy Wonka-Kraft Lands On Cadbury Chocolate Factory
The takeover of British Chocolate Maker Cadbury by American cheese into plastic food processor Kraft has gone through. But how will it affect our favourite treats. Boggart Blog's fatsally speculates...

Money Fruit When we were young we were all told Money dies not grow on trees. The message did not get through to gordon brown however. His lastest insane spending plan is to give free computers to the needy...
Millions of Americans Are Giving Up Looking For Work (and things are just as bad in Britain)
News that many unemployed Americans are simply giving up looking for job openings and resigning themselves to long term unemployment should come as no surprise in Britain where the number of real jobs in the economy has been blatantly massaged by creation of public sector vacancies, closure of many careers to people without Uiversity degrees and the policy of pushing people into higher education.

BBC Weathermen To Be Sacked?
News that BBC weathermen may be sacked for always getting the weather forecast wrong is wecome. This unfortunate breed of humans are an example of what happens when scientists become besotted with their science and lose contact with reality. Weather forecasts are not that big a deal but when the arseoles cannot correctly tell us what the weather is like outside by looking through the window we have to ak are they worth their salary

Science Can Seriously Damage Your Mental Health Do you get pissed off with all those reports issued by scientists about how the food you eat or lifestyle choices can damage your health. The thing is whatever on scientific report says be it on diet, drink or drugs, the next one is sure to contradict it. Well now Boggart Blog Central has produced a report of our own. We did not look at diet related factors, drugs of choice or alcohol comsumption Our scientists' work reveals too much science can turn you into a mentalist.

Privatise The Profit - Nationalise The Losses.
Governments and politicians of all shades like to talk of gbeing fair, equal opportunities for all, an aspirational society with upward social mobility. How does that equate though to the fact that for many years taxpayers will be paying interest on money borrowed from China and India in order to bail out our failed banks and financial insitutions. Being unfair to the rest of us so they can be fair to the bankers who got right by stealing from ordinary people does not equate to equal opportunity in our view

Pigeon Racing - Sport Or Business Breaking news, pigeon racing, the favourite hobby of many working class men for generation is to be downgraded in status from a sport to a leisure activity. We interviewed two raging pigeons, old timer Percy Feathers now enjoying a well earned retirement and rising star Jason Woodcock who represents the new celebrity culture of the pigeon racing world...

Spunky Internet Entrepreneurs
There is nothing you can't buy on the internet these days. Several online entrepreneurs will even offer a DIY artificial insemination kit comprising a turkey baster and a shot of sperm. CAll us old fashioned if you like but we thinkhere's a lot to be said for the traditional way of making babies. Still, for the young woman in a hurry......

Frightening Lack Of Imagination And Merit
While we old dinosaurs at Boggart Blog and The Daily Stirrer grump and grumble about bogus science (stopping mice getting alzheimers disease by giving them mobile phones for example) in fact the creation of useless science projects is linked to the work of another government department that is in the forefront of creating jobs to drive the economic recovery, the Ministry of DOISBUM...

The Jobless Economy Politicians, economists and others with an interest in talking up the economy to get us all spending and taking on debt and mortgage loans again may rave about recovery. With our industrial base so depleted where will the jobs come from that we need to lead a recovery?" They may call it fiscal prudence, we call it loonytoons economics...

12 January 2010
Politicians Just Don't Get It About Change
Why do politicians keep banging on about change when it is clear people do not want change. Talk of change will not win the election for Labour or Conservative, the electorate are sick of change, they want security.

Survivors: Gordon Brown Cancels Election, Declares State Of EmergencyAs a new series of the television science fiction drama Survivors begins we can't help but look at our increasingly chaotic, catastrophic, dystopic world where fear and panic rules and wonder is the show a post apocalyptic drama or a lightweight domestic sit - com?

11-Jan-10
What Are You, Man Or Mouse?
What should we make of a claim by scientists in South America that they have grown human sperm in mice? Ought we to be amazed at the brilliance of scientists and the advances in medical science or should we say WTF? What will they think of to waste taxpayers money on next?

9 January '10
More Demented Mouse Science
What we love most about scientists is that like religious fanatics they are totally unable to give up titally6 bonkers ideas. One such is the notion that making mice bhave in innatural ways will teadh us something about human health problems like Alzheimer's disease...

8 January '10. Science - Who To Believe We are all aware of how the climate change scientists kept insisting in response to anybody who pointed out their sums did not add up that "the science is settled", resistance is futile. It has had theeffect of making most people a lot more sceptial about science and...

7 January '10. Human Mothers To Bear Intelligent Mice?
A new science reports tells us parents who want to have brighter babies should make sure the mother easts plenty of fried food during pregnancy. Problem is the method has only been tested on mice.

The Ship of Dead Dreams. (The Fate of X-Factor Losers)
The X Factor ended another run in December, the winner had a hit record, No 2 in the pop music charts, the other finalists up will get their moment or fifteen as the show goes on tour but what of the rest. For them the New Year is a ship of dead dreams.

The Craziest Doomsday Cult Ever?
America is known as the spiritual home of crackpot religions. There are hundreds of tree worshipping churches, people who pull snakes out of each others' arses, Old Testament goat shaggers and post modernist computer worshippers. People seem to be so needful any control freak with a world domination complex can set up a religion or cult, find some followers who will hail this person as the prophet of their faith, lead the poor saps into the mountains or desert and turn formerly straightlaced people into enthusiastic Jesus loving debauchees. And so long as they invoke God or Jesus often enough nobody seems to mind. They are a bit more suspicious of Hindu's Buddhists, Pagans and other no Abrahamic belief systems. At least not until the kool aid has been handed round and it is all too late...
Things Are Getting Weirder On Planet Guardian.
It is three weeks since the Daily Stirrer editor cancelled his subscription to the Guardian newspaper. The paper, once famed for its independence and unbiased reporting has recently fallen into the trap of mixing opinion and comment with factual news. This is most noticable in reporting politics or science and technology....

Interesting Times - Which Way Will The Global Economic Crisis Go In 2010?
Which way will the economic crisis go in 2010? Cracks are apearing in the Europen Single Currency scheme and China which has massive holdings of US treasury bonds is making unhappy noises about the dececits being run up by the Obama administration as they pursue loonytoons economic policies....

Just Say Grace by Esther S.
Amongst other things The Daily Stirrer is dedicated to highlighting the idiocies of poltically ncorrrect thinking in public services. Today a guest writer, Esther S. from Texas tells us of a situation in her own family in which politically correct policies and a refusal to considere real evidence have combined to create an injustice. The Grace whose name appears in the title is no angel but she is not a child abuser and even if she did...

31 December 2009
Fondue Of Terror

The war on terror could be coming to a suburban living room near you very soon as new food related weapons of mass destruction are developed by Al Qaeda. Boggart Blog has already reported on dangerous cheese, exploding gravy, sauces of fear and panic and the soup of death. But now we must bring news of a worse threat.

28 December 2009
The Little Cellphone - A Christmas Story
What happens to all those cellphones that have given loyal and efficient servive only to be abandoned to their fate at Christmas when a newer model with more bells and whistles, apps and software widgets replaces them

What Am I Bid For The Gold Plated Dog Turd
Boggart Blog reports in its usual inimitable style on the auctioning off of various heavy metal tat from the redundant Hollywood home of Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne...

23 December 2009
Join The Christmas Resistance Ever felt like asking yourself what this annual insanity called Christmas is all about and then taking yourself off to a Buddhist monastic retreat from December 21st to Jan 6th thus letting Christmas pass you by completely? More and more people are rejecting the idea that we can all be happy if we buy loads of stuff we do not need, will never use and after it has cluttered up our living space for a year will throw out just before next Christmas to make way for next year's Christmas tat? If you have you are not alone. Welcome to the Christmas Resistance.
link url: Join The Christmas Resistance

Defying the Tyranny of Consumer Christmas
Manipulation is everywhere from the X Factor to Christmas, media hype is the tool that influences the sheeple to think what their masters want them to think. The careers of people as diverse as Michael Jackson and Barack Obama as well as the political success of Tony Blair are all built on nothing more substantial than spin. Repeat the lie often enough, that Michael Jackson is the most talented performer ever, that Barack Obama represents the dawn of a new era in politics, that Saddam posed a threat to the west, and enough people will believe it. So what can you do to regain your freedom. You can start by resisting the tyranny of the consumer Christmas
link url: http://www.greenteethmm.com/christmas_tyranny.shtml

A Child Is Born On The Bog

The people who run television channels have a weird idea of what will entertain us at Christmas. Or do thhey perhaps understand better than we do that what the public wants amid all the Bacchanialian feasting and Lupercanian unsrestrained shagging of the modern Christmas festival what we really want is Roman Circuses?...
A Child Is Born On The Bog

January Is Getting Earlier Each Year
Maybe it is we who are getting older but it seems while Chistmas lasts longer, January comes a little earlier each year...
January Getting Earlier

22 December 2009 Climate Change:How Much Blame Must Science Take?
After the Copenhagen climate summit failed to agree a plan of action to combat climate change the science lobby have been quick to blame capitalism, business, politicians and the public. But a critical and objective analysis reveals there is oly one culprit. Science alone is to blame.

21 - December 2009
Cheque In To A Future Of Medieval Serfdom

The Boggart Blog Irrelevant Christmas Charity Appeal. This year as well as our appeal for on behald of Fletcher Memorial Homes for seperated socks we are throwing our weight behind a charity that works to provide shelter over the festive season for abandoned hi - vis jackets...

Climate Change: Little White Lies and Big Brown Lies
The Copenhagen summit conference on climate change was never about climate change. It was about money, power, control and the need to divert attention from the failure of globalization by the spreading of fear and panic. The idea was to make us feel dependent on our leaders. Pity the science used to back up the case for action was so easily exposed as fraudulent. Read more...

Nike Will Stand By Its Tiger
The Tiger Woods dickgate scandal bandwagon rolls on as a tenth woman claims to have helped the golfer get a hole in one. We predict a new verb, to Tiger will soon be added to English dictionaries. Read below about the reactions of Tigers sponsors to the allegations of porn actress Joslyn James
Pizza Noel Noel - The Boggart Blog Christmas Lunch
The Boggart Blog Irrelevant Christmas Charity Appeal. This year as well as our appeal for on behald of Fletcher Memorial Homes for seperated socks we are throwing our weight behind a charity that works to provide shelter over the festive season for abandoned hi - vis jackets...
Electric Cars - A Mini Adventure In Futility
The famous advert for the BMW owned Mini depicts plucky little cars getting into scrapes and escaping by using their speed, engineering quality and a bit of panache. Governments and climate weirdie beardies may push electric cars but somehow we can't see these slow, heavey, short range vehiciles cutting it as objects of desire...
2009-12-15
Olympic Weightlifter Gives Birth While Training
by ianrthorpe

When I saw this rather bizarre news story of a female weightlifter from Chile who has previously competed in the Olympic Games. She was in training for one of her sport's...

2009-12-14
READ ALL The Time Has Come...
by fatsally
Indeed the time has come to start spending the money neither we, nor the banks, have got, but Gordon the Terrible has the printing presses working 24/7 in order to maintain a constant supply of the old filthy lucre to slip through our fingers into the hands ...

We're All Going To Die. WTF?
Another seasonal rebellion from Boggart Blog against the annual crop of killjoy health warnings from governmet departments aimed at spoiling the holiday for the impressionable by spreading fear and panic. More hilarious stuff from the UK's top satire and humour blog.

Creepy Christmas Presents
What Are The Creepiest Christmas Presents Of The year?

The Time Has Come The Gordon Said
The Boggart Blog Irrelevant Christmas Charity Appeal. This year as well as our appeal for on behald of Fletcher Memorial Homes for seperated socks we are throwing our weight behind a charity that works to provide shelter over the festive season for abandoned hi - vis jackets...

The Boggart Blog Christmas SOS - Save Our Socks
The Boggart Blog Irrelevant Christmas Charity Appeal. Our inaugural Christmas Carity Appeal requests your help in providing shelter and support for homeless socks, those unfortunate items of hoisery that have become separated from their partners and are now homeless and hungry. These sockes are often given as Christmas Presents without the giver forst checking what kind of home they are going to. All over Britain single, homeless, pairless socks are sheltering in the recesses of laundry baskets, hiding behind radiators or cowerting in changing room lockers. Please help us to help them.

14 Dec 2009
You Scumbag, You Maggot, You Cheap, Lousy Meat Product

The Christmas song Fairytale Of New York by The Pogues and Kirsty McColl has been around for twenty years. So why now have the Politically Correct Thought Police chosen to brand it homophobic because it uses the word faggot. In the context of the song faggot does not refer to homosexuals but is used in one of its several other senses. You could be forgiven for thinking the shirtlifters want to make us hate them so they will have something to whine about.

11 December 2009
Copenhagen Climate Conference: The Stink Of Shit And Corruption

The spiel from the control freak governments of developed nations in the run up to the Copenhagen Climate Conference billed as the last chance to save the planet from a global warming catastrophe went something like this."You must listen to the scientists, you must not think for yourselves, you must never question authority," Luckily we all knew the scientists chanting this mantra were as much crooks and liars as the politicians and billionaires they worked for...follow link and read the whole sordid story in a new window:
Copenhagen Climate Conference: The Stink Of Shit And Corruption.



Solipsism: Symptoms And Cure
Solipsism, if you are not familiar with the word, can be defined in two ways:(i) the theory that the self can be aware of nothing but its own experiences and states. n(ii) the theory that nothing exists or is real but the self. I don't know where this belief origniated but it was very popular with the more space-cadettish hippies I knew in the...

Dont You Just Love The Sun? Nobody can beat their headlines - except Boggart Blog perhaps, where you will find the rest of this post.

Infamy, Infamy, (they've all got it in for me)
As the media ridicule another government initiative Gordon Brown must know how Julius Ceasar felt when he utters that immortal line from Shakespeare's pla (or was it Kenneth Willians in Carry On Cleo?

Iraq Inquiry: Cab Driver Of Mass Destruction
When the Chilcot Inquiry into the war in Iraq revealed that the British Intelligence source for information on weapons of mass destruction was a Baghdad Cab Driver, Boggart Blog had to find out more...

NVQ In Retail

University education is not for everyone. Some people are not happy in the academic environment and yearn to get into the workplace. Why are such people who have a go - getting attitude rather than a dossing around listening to Coldlay albums attitude treated so dismissively by the careers service and other government agencies then.
I Accuse The Elk In The Orchard With The Fermenting Apples

Stories of drunken animals, reported at this time every yearn by Boggart Blog, are usually amusing. Now however, in keeping with the degeneration of society in general we must report a darker side to alcohol related animal behaviour problems. This story, from Sweden, will make even the fearless think twice about confronting the most docile of species .

Brown: A Lust For Glory

With Obama hasmstrung by the refusal of the US Congress to pass his climate change bill without reading it first, Gordon Brown sees a chance to grab the limelight as the chief global warming warrior...
Climate Change Killed A Guardian Reader
The Copenhagen Climate Summit threatens to be the biggest ever festial of bullshit and hypocrisy. Can politicians emplty talk save the planet? Are they even talking about the right things? Does the planet need saving? Do we really care? Which way is doomsday party?

Ig - Nobel? No, Just Science
The Ig - Nobel Prizes are awarded annually for stupid science and pointless research. This is a roundup of some of the whackiest recent winners...more Ig - Nobel Science

Copenhagen - The Real Agenda
Governments, corporate interests and academics have been spreading fear and panic about climate change in advance of the Copenhagen Climate Change Summit billed as our last chance to avoid catastrope. But in the light of recent revelations about scientific fraud is Copenhagen really about the climate catastrophe or is there a hidden agenda

Why Copenhagen Climate Change Conference Must Fail
In a surprise statement today the world's leading climate change expert annouced that he hopes the Copenhagen climate change summit, billed as our last chance to avoid a global warming catastrophe, ends in failure. Any deal struck, according to James Hansen, would involve the creation of a carbon trading market and in putting the interests of capitalism ahead of solving the problem would only make matters worse

Looks Like A Job For …… BICYCLE REPAIR MAN!
One of my favourite Monty Python sketches though it is remembered by few other people which may prove I am more of a Python geek than I thought, featured a Superhero called Bicycle Repair Man. A bike mechanic superhero? you might well ask...

A-Nice-Cup-Of-Tea-And-A-Sit-Down.com
Saga have announced the launch of the first sovial networking site for old people. Boggart blog ponders whether senior citizens will be tempted online by the prospect of a geriatric internet...

The National Mottery

It has been suggested Britain should have a national motto. To avoid politicians and bureaucrats saddling us with something crappy Boggart Blog has some ideas on how it should be chosen.

The Renewable Energy Con

Governments in the developed world are busy spreading fear and panic to soften us up for punitive carbon taxes and help corporate nazis turn a fast profit from dodgy technologies. But people have seen through the con. It's too late, we cannot halt climate change with technogimmicks and taxes. It has gone too far.

Starve Yourself And You Might Live Longer
New scientific research advises us to starve ourselves if we want to live longer. But is it as usual just a case of you will not actually live longer, being permanently hungry on your calorie free diet will just make it seem so...

Just Who Is Undermining Obama's Credibility?
"The 'Birther' movement in the USA questions the elegibility of Barack Obama to serve as President because his father being non - American means he is excluded from the Presidency under the US Contitution. The official response to the 'birthers' is to ridicule them as conspiracy theorists but if that was the case the expensive legal actions to prevent lawsuits challenging Obama from comng to court are, are they not, an over - reaction.

Health And Safety Halloween
First they killed bonfire night with stupid, petty rules and regulations, now the politically correct thought police and the nanny state conspiracy are trying to kill halloween. It will be another step towards abolishing everything that puts people at risk of having fun.
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Is The Turner Prize Just Shite Or Is Talking Bollocks Really Art?
Everyone knows modern art is a load of bollocks so nobody is surprised when the Turner Prize, the premier prize for modern art goes to some con artists who walks round an empty building dressed in a bear costume. But who is stupid, him or the art critics who give him the prize money?
Shite And The City
When we heard the prducrers of cult TV series Sex And The City were suing everyone who infringed their "copyright" on the title, from a gym called pecs and the city to a petshop called Pets And The City, we though they needed putting in their place. After all, peddling the most seually repellant woman on the planet as a sex symbol has to be some kind of fraud related offence. OK Shite And The City, we wanna hear from your lawyers. BRING EM ON.
TV Phone-in scams – punter to blame:

A major scandal in 2007 concerned the rip off television quizzes that raked in £££ millions for dodgy premium phone line operators. But you have to wonder on seeing some of the answers given to simple questions wrere the punters ripping themselves off?

Book Review: How To Talk About Books You Haven't Read.
Can we really talk about books we haven't read as the title of the book reviewed here suggests? The author, french literature academic Pierre Bayard argues that it is perfectly feasible as books are not so much about narrative and characters as ideas. Does Bayard's argument hold up? Poet Ian R. Thorpe reviews How To Talk About Books You Haven't Read (without having read it of course)
Rompuy - Pumpy Rules EU
The newly reformed, even less democratic than before European Union has its first President. But will Herman Van Rompuy achieve anything or will his name just inspire rumpy-pumy jokes?

A Fit And Proper Person
by ianrthorpe

The dark forces of football oligarchy are ganging up on little Chester City but it looks like one rule for the minnows, another for the big clubs. The FA have ordered Stephen Vaughan, Chester’s owner and main financial prop to sell his shareholding because he is not a “fit and proper person” to be...READ ALL A Fit And Proper Person

Presidential Pardon For The A Team?
In a little reported incident in 2007, in odrer to stop the costs of the Iraq war running out of control President Bush offered a full pardon to The A Team if they could get some of the combat vehicles wrecked by roadside bombs back into action.
2009-11-19
Playing Politics With The Dear Old Queen
by ianrthorpe

The Queen’s Speech by convention, wile setting out the government’s programme is not about party politics nor is it supposed to be about a failing government shafting the opposition that will soon replace them by making it impossible for the new lot to...READ ALL Playing Politics With The Dear Old Queen

Science - A Career For Tossers
Science is a career for tossers. That sounds like a sweeping generalisation so let's clarify. Nothing wrongs with physics, chemistry or biology, stuff like oceanography, electronics, hydraulics, applied sciences, they're good too. When people tell you they are scientists though its too vague. It usually means they are irritating little droids who go around with clipboards asking stupid questions.

2009-11-17
The Real Queen's Speech Redux
by ianrthorpe

It is well known that every year HM The Queen writes her own speech for the state opening of parliament and that every year The Government goes to great lengths to ensure the draft is lost and Queenie has to read the speech prepared for her by the Prime Minister. Last year one of Boggart Blog's unseen reporters managed to obtain...READ ALL The Real Queen's Speech Redux

Goodbye Analogue, hello BskyB. The Digital TV Scam
The great digital television switchover is well under way but do we really need digital TV and as usual should we not be asking cui bono? Who benefits. Digital is an inferior technology for all but cable TV and do we really need 200 channels all of which are showing pure shite and 195 of which show shite we have seen before?

Jehovah's Kiddie Fiddler
Can a man claim his penchant for touching up children in an inappropriate way is excused because he is a man og God. The Daily Stirrer says SAME RULES APPLY

We Must Stop Some People From Breeding
The ice caps melt at an accelerating rate, despite all the hand wringing of "progressive" politicians a global economy built on perpetual growth cannot reduce its greenhouse gas emissions and the scientific quick fixes offered by the academic community get whackier and potentially more catastropic. Is it time to say the unsayable?

2009-11-17
Fear And Panic And HP Sauce
Those who live by fear and panic die by fear and panic. The government's attempts to bully us all into giving up our civil liberties so we may be safe from terrorism has failed. Only the security forces are afraid of their own shadows, the rest of us stoically get on with our lives.

Beards Of Terror 1
Throughout the War On Terror which started after the 9/11 attacks on The World Trade Centre on thing we have noticed but the authorities never refer to is the role of beards in the terrorist effort to disrupt national life by spreading fear and panic

Scientists In Denial
People who call themselves scientists are often a tad obsessive - far be it from me to say borderline autistic - as the boy scientists are always telling me, I'm not a scientists so I know nothing. But do scientists know anything or are they just deluded?

2009-11-14
Bog Butter - The Ancient Mystery Of Mum's Fridge

Archaeologists thought they had stumbled on the find of a lifetime but the stuff they found was very familar to Boggart Bloggers Ian & fatsally. They had been seeing it in their Dear Old Mum's fridge for as long as they could remember.
Things Just Keep Getting Better!
by fatsally

The other day Boggartblog brought you the news that we're just not drinking enough, tipping the unfinished bottle down the sink wastes an incredible amount of the old Mucho Collapso and so we should all ensure that we drink every last drop, a practice Boggartblog has advocated for years. But things just keep getting better...

... but some of us are looking at the stars...


Why is it OK for 'scientists' to spend billions of $ looking for aliens but when ordinary folks do it much more cheaply and with greater success they are dismissed as nutters. This story throws some light on the situation.

Swine Flu - If You Need A Crisis Just Invent One
The Daily Stirrer has always been sceptical about the Swine Flu epidemic. It first hit the news just before the G20 economic summit meeting of world leaders earlier in the year. The summit was ostensibly convened to hack out a solution to the global financial crisis but was in reality a front for the first step towards creating a world government. One of the delegates even went so far as to hint at this in a television interview. Asked if the task the summit had set delegates for the future was to create a global economy this man said, "Our task is to create a global culture."

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