“Practice screaming into a pillow. This makes it much easier for beginners”

How to scream for metal/hardcore/screamo

“Drink lots of water before, during, and after screaming.”

During? “Gottle of GEEEEEER!”

Crane protest

Right now Greenpeace protestors are dangling outside the House of Commons. This morning they scaled a crane on a barge beneath Westminster Bridge and unfurled their banner, which says:



While I support wholeheartedly their right to protest—even, if you can imagine such a thing, without a permit—I have to object to the banality of their slogan. “You love it. You want to marry it.” It’s not much of a clash of ideas, is it?

There are four protestors, all with hard hats and harnesses, taking it in turns to stretch out on a kind of hammock suspended to the side of the crane, while two policemen stand guard on the barge below them. No-one, in defiance of the current climate, is trying to storm the crane on the grounds of national security and detain the protestors as “terrorists”. It’s all very civilised, which is something to celebrate. The banner’s still crap, though.

Paint us a word picture

In the middle of quite a good contribution to the debate on Lords reform, Lord Lipsey [Labour] chooses inexplicably to focus our minds on the amount of money involved (£2 billion over 15 years for a fully elected House, based on conservative estimates) thus:

Lord Lipsey: Two billion pounds, my Lords, represents a pile of £10 notes a mile and a half high.