The Scots, the Northern Irish, the Welsh, even the Cornish have all expressed a desire to have more autonomy from the United Kingdom in recent years. The announcement came this week that the Scottish referendum is now scheduled for the fall of 2014, but the Christian Science Monitor says that the latest group to be feeling its oats a bit is the English themselves. Public opinion in England proper is beginning to show a bit of resentment towards the other nations, particularly Scotland, for the amount of money the national government spends to support them, and a bit of old-fashioned John Bull-ism.
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The British news site The Metro reports about an English family that lives with a lazy, good-for-nothing, TV-watching Emo….hmm, what’s that? Not Emo? Emu? Are you sure? The big, flightless bird? Quite sure? Oh, well, that’s totally different. A lazy, good-for-nothing, TV-watching EMU. Named Beaky.
Apparently Beaky is quite tame and friendly, which certainly isn’t the reputation most emus have. Emus are generally considered hostile and dangerous creatures, unpredictable and unpleasant. Just like this:
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It might be a little difficult for you to make out, but that picture is a screenshot of a video of a seagull stealing a package of Doritos from a beachside convenience store in England.
According to the Daily Mail article (via), the bird always takes the same flavor — Chili HeatWave — and does this on a daily basis. His M.O. is always the same: he comes in when the door is ajar, looks to see if the store owner is paying attention, grabs the Doritos, and hightails it. Once back outside, he enlists the aid of the pigeons to open the bag and gives them their cut of the action.
Don’t believe it? Watch the video!
I wonder if he’s part of a sort of bird mafia, working along with those coin-thieving starlings.


