h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

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Sainsbury's boss caught singing 'We're In The Money' after announcing that he's selling out to Walmart.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-43959687

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Ambulance Loses Drunken Brit

"... the ambulance lost him on the way to the hospital..."
http://www.theseasidegazette.com/2018/05/52593/ambulance-loses-drunken-brit/

I think I saw this on one silly movie time ago.

Definitely rates an "Ouch!"

The climate change has been a very pressing subject recently. Today we're facing the tendency to a significant increasing of cataclysms for a short period of time, though before the scientists had stated the idea about the gradual climate change. Let's take, for instance, earthquakes which are easy to monitor even for schoolchildren https://allatra.tv/en/earthquakes
Except this issue, there're also the distortion of magnetic poles, glacier melting, as well as dangerous hydrometeorological phenomena. That's why it's important to raise the society's awareness about the issues of the nearest future as many people still underestimate the scale of these issues.

The recent history of the migration of the magnetic north pole and the southern hemisphere changes corresponding to that are important climate issues that have not been adequately covered in the popular media.

Here's a clickable link to the article mentioned above.

http://allatra.tv/en/earthquakes

The PM decides to ruin a Wight wedding:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-hampshire-45558945/pm-s-wedding-crasher-photo-surprise-for-cowes-couple
Vicar: Do you take this man to be your lawfully wedded husband?
May: I May!
Vicar: And do you take this woman to be an awfully dreadful Prime Minister?

What you can't see off to the side is that half the Tory Party were desperately trying to give Theresa away…

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http://www.iwcp.co.uk/news/16894720.electoral-boundary-map-looks-like-it-was-drawn-after-a-few-drinks-says-isle-of-wight-councillor/

It is reported that the proposed new Isle of Wight Boundary Map - the result of non-stop proposals since 1955 – looks like it was the result of a few drinks.

The Isle of Wight has had a tricky political history. With the exception of the town of Newport in 1295-8, It was entirely unrepresented in Parliament before 1584, when from 1584-1832 the Island had 6 members of Parliament representing 3 boroughs (Newport, Newtown and Yarmouth). Then in 1832 the evil mainlanders declared that just because Newtown had been destroyed by the French centuries earlier and no-one actually lived there any more, it had less right to be represented in Parliament than say, mainland places like Manchester, the Island went from having 6 MPs and, since 1885, only 1.
For over a century it has been the least represented part of the UK, having a political constituency of 110,000 when the average size is 60-70,000 and the smallest only 22,000. The second-largest constituency is 90,000.
Since 1955 there have been calls to split the Island into two constituencies, with proposals usually involving a cross-Solent constituency so that at least one is not an Island constituency but also shares with the Mainland. There are already well-over 600 Mainland constituencies in Parliament!

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Those districts look perfectly sensible and compactly drawn to me.

Here's what the congressional districts in and around Houston look like. This is what gerrymandering looks like.

http://www.chron.com/news/politics/houston/article/Gerrymandering-A-look-at-Houston-s-congressional-12526409.php

I think it is more that this is the result of continuous work and study that has taken place since 1955. Yet finally after 63 years the result is published – and it spells the Island place names wrong. So it says Ventor and Wroxhall not Ventnor and Wroxall, and these are some of the largest places on the Island, not minor hamlets. It doesn't exactly fill you with confidence that great care has gone into it…

However it is good to know that they have taken care enough to include Ryde Sands – a sandbank that is submerged except at low tide that can be seen on the top right of the Island's coast – as part of the boundaries. I'm sure all the crabs there feel reassured they've not been forgotten, but if I was a crab living in, say, Bembridge ledge, I'd feel snubbed.

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It's obvious, but now the Isle of Wight has been officially recognised by the University of Westminster as being in the top three best places to be during a zombie apocalypse:
http://www.iwcp.co.uk/news/16980620.how-do-you-rate-your-survival-chances-isle-of-wight-named-one-of-the-best-places-to-flee-a-zombie-apocalypse/

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Zombies OR angry plants. That's some refuge cred.

Do you think I could suggest:
Do YOU encounter angry zombie Triffids? Then why not take a break on the Isle of Wight
As a slogan for the Isle of Wight Tourist Board?

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In the sequel “Night of the Triffids” ( not by Wyndham), the US Army tries to invade the Isle of Wight, iirc.

And fail.

I bought and read it – they had a big launch at Newport's Ottakar's Book shop with the author Simon Clark and a big Triffid-themed display in the window. Shame the isn't very good.

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Shortly after the Theresa May video starring Andy Serkis http://youtu.be/Tjp5OmoDYQM goes viral (It was written & directed by the Isle of Wight's Dominic Minghella, younger brother of Oscar-winning Isle of Wight writer/director Sir Anthony Minghella ('Jim Henson's The Storyteller', 'The English Patient', 'Cold Mountain' etc), there's a Vote of No Confidence in Theresa May


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Brilliant.

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They probably could not find it!

Gollum! Gollum!!!