Brenda has a Beaver
bedtime stories for kids has changed a mite since my day . . .
You Have to Fucking Eat
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some time ago I posted a funnier (in my opinion, anyway) poem by Adam Mansbach about the trials of a parent trying to get their child to sleep called ‘Go the Fuck to Sleep‘
you can read it – here
I have a little SatNav
I have a little Satnav, it sits there in my car.
A Satnav is a driver’s friend, it tells you where you are.
I have a little Satnav, I’ve had it all my life.
It’s better than the normal ones, my Satnav is my wife.
It gives me full instructions, especially how to drive
“it’s sixty miles an hour”, it says, “You’re doing sixty-five”.
It tells me when to stop and start, and
National Poetry Day
Mathematics || Spoken Word
there has been a worrying increase in reported incidents of hate crimes in the UK following the brexit referendum result in which a narrow majority voted for the UK to pull out of the EU – http://tinyurl.com/j5yl4cl – anyone who does not have a white skin or whose clothes or accent mark them out as non-christian and/or foreigners being targeted for abuse
much of this xenophobia is based on unfounded fears of, and false beliefs about immigrants
Frustrated Poet
There once was a poet on Twitter
who grew increasingly bitter.
He couldn’t surmount
the strict character count
and so his poems got even shi
via B&P
Much Ado About Nothing
today marks the 400 year anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare, reckoned by many folk to be England’s greatest Bard and by me, its greatest Bore!
[I was subjected to Shakespeare’s incomprehensible drivel at school and it left a lifelong antipathy towards the man and his plays]
it seems, however, I am in good company – I am not the only philistine when it comes to Shakespeare and his plays . . . http://tinyurl.com/jb6j89l