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What? No "Cooking with Wonko" thread this year?

No. So that makes you quite special really.

Well done, you sound like just the kind of customer we're looking for. I'll have a rummage, I think I might have just the thing - they're not cheap, but I'm sure I'll be able to make you a special offer.

Mr Barnum. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnum_effect

How bulky are you? It's an old sofa and not as stable as it was. Perfect for ranting about Jamie Oliver and many other subjects though.

I'm on my sofa. I'll let you know when we put it on ebay. It'll probably be after the kids have left home, but I've made a note of your interest.

Go straight to the top of the class! I'm rare too! Anyone here not rare? If Architects and Advocates are rare, there must be type which gets told "You are as common as muck". Anyone found it yet? Come on, who are you?

"Neuroscience" sounds seriously scientific. Is it one of those words like "Nutritionist" which anyone can use? I don't suppose we could ask the ASA to get them to change it to "Oxford Psychobabble", or even "Oxford Quackery"? "Dr Sharpe, Head of Quackery, Oxford" has a certain ring to it. Why...

TiredSam's Software Development Academy Final Exam Task 1. Design a program which starts with a questionnaire asking the user to answer a series of subjective questions about how they see themselves 2. The program should use these answers to construct a text which confirms the user's view of...

I just did it. I'm an architect. Amazing. Apparently I'm the bitterest of cynics, which is probably why I still think it's a load of bollocks. Fun though, like having your fortune told or astrology or anything else where it's all about me. I wish it didn't have the status it did and that...

I've long thought that the field of personality testing is a pile of steaming horse shit, so I enjoyed reading this article.

These tweets demonstrate that he is either a complete hypocrite, or more likely, that his lack of self-awareness is bordering on delusional. Considering the harm he has caused, it is worth recording them. They are also free entertainment, and since he has done nothing else for us, we might as...

I'm sure that anybody else, when confronted with the sight of a large blue cock, would stop whatever it was they were doing immediately, reflect upon any damage they might have caused, and resolve to do things differently in future. Only Michael Sharpe takes a picture for twitter and carries on...

Michael Sharpe now reduced to making "have you seen this big cock" tweets. He'll do anything to distract from the real story. Whatever next.

So why name and shame the sinner?

I completely agree with this. As someone who suffers from an unfortunate genetic predisposition to occasional lapses into sarcasm and vitriol, I have at least never kidded myself that it has ever got any results or achieved anything apart from allowing me to blow off steam and perhaps give...

I thought seeking help online was a big no-no for ME sufferers, they should be dissuaded from googling ME and joining online support groups at all costs? Now that Crawley's pushing FITNET, suddenly we have "research" from her (9 participants, usual spin) showing that the internet is suddenly a...

Looks like the prospect of Michael Sharpe's letter writing and twitter campaign must have scared them all off. Who wants to be on the receiving end of the PACE authors' vexatiousness?

That's the second newpaper article on ME I've read today with no mention of "yuppie flu" and a passable (if less than perfect) description of ME uninfluenced by SMC unpleasantness. Things are looking up. EDIT: Didn't watch the video, no time.

Straws, bricks, pigs ... Can somebody say "Once upon a time there were three little ..." and have done with it?