Posts by Mark Summers

That 'Elderly Persons' sign: Can you do better?

@ Messrs Berry and Jones

OED lists the stem kypho-, from the Greek for crooked, as a variant of cypho-. Cyphosis has a main entry all to itself, just after cyphonism, "punishment by the {kappa}{guacu}{phi}{omega}{nu}, a sort of pillory in which slaves or criminals were fastened by the neck... ...by which the neck of the malefactor is bent or weighed downward".

As Wiki doesn't have the variant spelling, it may be fairer to say OED two, Wiki one.

Paris, because her neck has been bent downward (or so I've heard)

It's official: The Home Office is listening

What is the point of commenting?

The entire government should be sectioned as soon as possible. They've even gone as far as to morph their maniacical laugh into soothing tones of reassurance.

Fuckwits the lot of them.

Bus-spotting paedo terror bust: Shock CCTV image

Brilliant

In future of course, all this will be avoided by using a CERN-generated black hole to suck the perpetrator out of existence.

Jacqui Smith un-downgrades cannabis

@Steve

"In English, sentences start with capital letters. If your going to cast aspersions about my intelligence and employment, you should have, at the very least, a rudimentary grasp of grammar and punctuation in order to prevent you appearing a pillock."

Your appearing a pillock to.