According to the Netmums website, over 100,000 women a year are being conned into paying money for useless fertility treatments. A survey of 2,000 women found that one in three of those trying to have a child were so desperate that they spent over £500 on bizarre treatments. As well as acupuncture and aromatherapy, many [...]
Over the past few weeks, rumours have been growing that the gold which forms a large part of the reserves of many major countries may not be all it seems. The Chinese government, it is said, took delivery of some 400-ounce gold bars last October and decided to do a random test. To their surprise, [...]
It wasn’t so long ago that we reported the academic study that found that Ginkgo biloba had no effect whatsoever on memory, despite all the claims made for it. Now another study finds that people taking placebos which they believe will help their memory see a real improvement. Dr. Sophie Parker of Victoria University in [...]
GOVERNMENT IGNORES THAT THERE ARE MILLIONS MORE NI NUMBERS THAN VOTERS In yet another instance of right-hand-not-knowing-what-left-hand-is-doing government, The Daily Telegraph reports today that the right to vote is going to be linked to people’s National Insurance numbers in future. After July, everybody wishing to keep their entitlement to vote will be required to give [...]
COULD AN AVATAR HAVE INFILTRATED GORDON BROWN’S CABINET? Okay, so this isn’t proper Zebu. However, for various reasons too tedious to recount here, we haven’t be able to update the blog for a couple of days. This is something we made earlier and thought you might enjoy, Zebu or not. As ever, the trick to [...]
YOUR TRAIN IS OFFICIALLY “ON TIME”, EVEN WHEN IT IS LATE Waiting in the cold for a train that seems to take forever, do you ever look at those “Aren’t We Punctual And Wonderful?” posters from train companies and marvel at their claims of 90%-plus punctuality or whatever. Do you ever feel it doesn’t chime [...]
MPs GIVEN STAGGERINGLY SIMPLISTIC GUIDE TO UNDERSTANDING STATISTICS According to exam results, Britons get cleverer with each passing year. That may not be true, however, of our politicians. For, at our expense, a guide has just been produced for them called Statistical Literacy: How To Understand And Calculate Percentages. It poses staggeringly advanced questions like: [...]
FOOD NETWORK ADMITS “WHITE HOUSE” PRODUCE WASN’T FROM MICHELLE’S GARDEN America’s Food Network had a hit on its hands with a special two-hour edition of “Iron Chef America”. Its top chefs met Michelle Obama in her White House garden where she did her bit about how people ought to eat healthily. The chefs then gathered [...]
TENS OF THOUSANDS OF CCTV CAMERAS IN RUSSIA’S CAPITAL FED FAKE FOOTAGE TO THE POLICE After an investigation lasting several months, Moscow police have uncovered a massive security fraud. The company StroyMontageServices was paid to instal CCTV cameras throughout the city and then feed live images from them to the Police. What was actually appearing [...]
IS GOOGLE CENSORING ITSELF WHEN IT COMES TO ISLAM?On January 5th, thenextweb.com noticed some odd behaviour with Google when you type in search suggestions for various religions. Type in “Christianity is”, for instance, and Google autofills with a few ideas for things it thinks you might be hunting for. “Christianity is a lie”, for instance, [...]
THE SWINE FLU “PANDEMIC” TURNS OUT TO BE NOTHING OF THE SORT“All of humanity is under threat”, said World Heath Organisation director-general Dr. Margaret Chan in April 2009 as the WHO, reacting to H1N1 virus – swine flu – raised its alert level from phase 4 to phase 5. The UK Government’s Chief Medical Officer, [...]
FORECASTERS AIM FOR CONSISTENCY. BUT THE MET OFFICE’S CONSISTENCY IS IN GETTING ITS PREDICTIONS WRONG Forecasting is an inexact science, no matter what the field. It’s said, for instance, that economists have successfully predicted 14 of the last five recessions. Yet Britain’s Met Office has achieved an extraordinary consistency in its long-range forecasts – by [...]
NOT ENOUGH “FRIENDS” ON FACEBOOK OR TWITTER? WHY NOT BUY SOME MORE? One of the Oxford University Press’s words of 2009 was “defriend”, coined to explain somebody jettisoning a Facebook “friend”. For many people, however, that’s the opposite of what they want. Feeling lonely and without enough friends on Twitter or Facebook, more and more [...]
ARCHAEOLOGISTS CLAIM TO FIND SWISS WATCH IN TOMB UNTOUCHED FOR 400 YEARS Picture the scene. A Ming Dynasty tomb in Guangxi in southern China, undisturbed since between 1368 and 1644. A pair of archaeologists are working in utterly virgin territory, alone other than for a pair of documentary-makers. The People’s Daily reported what happened next. [...]
Zebu Organization of the YearWhat else could it be but the House of Commons, the high reputation of which has been brought low by the Expenses’ Scandal? It’s as if our 646 MPs lined up their feet and took aim at them with shotguns. What is most disgraceful is not the claims that have been [...]
A ROUND-UP OF THE MOST GLARING, RIDICULOUS AND EGREGIOUS LIES, DECEPTION AND BULLSHIT OF 2009 Zebu OrganisationsRoyal Mail clearly deserve to be singled out for their “Sorry You Were Out” cards, pushed through letterboxes, whether people are out or not. Initially, facing an imminent strike, Royal Mail’s less-than-stellar management maintained that this hardly ever happened [...]
A ROUND-UP OF THE MOST GLARING, RIDICULOUS AND EGREGIOUS LIES, DECEPTION AND BULLSHIT OF 2009 Zebu OrganisationsBritish Telecom make the list, primarily for telling the villagers of Hambledon in Oxfordshire that it was impossible to provide them with broadband. That might not have been so difficult to live with, had they not then discovered that [...]
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