Rotring - classic writing kit

Cleaning Rotring pens

They are a design classic, and they’re great for drawing and writing and doing anything else you can do with pens (not sure what that might be). They do need the occasional clean-up, and I’ve ignored all the tons of expensive kit and gone for the empty curry paste jar, hot water and fairy liquid.

I’m sure that’s probably enough to have Rotring purists grinding their teeth. I probably should only clean them in a solution of angel tears in holy water, in the holy grail, and wipe them clean on the Turin shroud. Or something.

Anyway, those that were in robust good health (four out of seven – the older ones) just needed topping up and a quick shake, the others made my hands (and bits of the sink, worktops, washing up bowl and some kitchen textiles) black. Luckily I was wearing black tracksuit bottoms and a black hoodie (both of which now have very small slightly blacker patches).

The weird case of the disappearing gun

The police marksman said:

“I clearly saw that he had a gun” so far so good.

“It was concealed in a sock”. Right, clearly a gun, clearly concealed in a sock.

“Then I shot him and the gun had disappeared.”

To mysteriously reappear yards away behind a fence. Wormholes in space? The Tottenham gun space / time portal playing up again. Who can say?

Bailed-out-banker-bashing

One of the guys at one of the banks we (the taxpayers – reluctant or otherwise) own, has been done for another massive swindle involving currency exchange.

The NHS should abandon all those injections we give the kids, MMR, polio, TB, throw away the flu jabs and inoculations for foreign travel. All they need to do is take bankers’ blood, and extract one thing and give everyone a one-off, all purpose jab:

Immunity to Everything.

The worst countries to be gay in

What century are we living in productions present:

Mauritania: any adult muslim man who commits an indecent act or an act against nature with an individual of his sex will face the penalty of death by public stoning.

If you believe the bull, why do you need to inflict these things on Earth?

Togo: impudent acts or crimes against the nature with an individual of the same sex are punished with imprisonment from one to three years and 100,000 – 500,000 franc in fine.

Gambia: I’ll cut the crap – fourteen years inside.

Jesus. Or Allah.