Please if you want to make a request for a rant review or podcast please email us your suggestions to:
maybesoproductions@gmail.com
Subsequently if you wish to skype phone in during a podcast email us with your contact details and we will devise suitable times to host the call.
Check out the podcast network in Itunes ( as seen in the miniplayer >> )
The Government has signalled a possible end for anti-social behaviour orders with Theresa May, the Home Secretary, saying it is “time to move beyond” ASBOs.
”It is time for us to stop tolerating anti-social behaviour,” Mrs May said. Instead strong community action must be used to bring back a sense of personal and social responsibility and to make crime and anti-social behaviour ”unusual, abnormal and something to stand up to”, she said.
”We must turn the system on its head,” Mrs May said. ”There is no magic Whitehall lever we can pull simply to stop anti-social behaviour. No magic button to press or tap to turn to stop the flow of misery.
”The solution to your community’s problems will not come from officials sitting in the Home Office working on the latest national action plan.
”We will put power into the hands of our citizens and we will put our trust into the professionals.”
If I may say so myself I think that it is an excellent idea to be putting the safety of our society back into the hands of the police rather than social working schemes which try to rehabilitate people who were clearly born with the instinct to do wrong. If a young person has the will to carry out ASBO worthy offences they should therefore be grouped with those older offenders committing the same offences only receiving much heavier sentencing; by grouping them, they should face equal consequences for their socially unacceptable behaviour. After all, the majority of young offenders receiving ASBOs are bordering on the line between lighters sentencing and full adult treatment, meaning that they have passed the age to out grown poor behaviour and by simply branding them as ‘ASBOs’ we are only boosting their street egos; they see it as a symbol of statutory of street authority.
Five years ago Downfall’s release saw the German film acclaimed for its portrayal of Hitler’s last days. But since then it has become almost as famous for a wave of internet parodies of its climactic scene.
Let me set the scene…
Hitler is sat in a room and orders a large group of people in the room to leave whilst he expresses his sheer anger at those remaining individuals left in the room. It is the internet parodies which have change the subject which has made him so angry.
He is angry because Cristiano Ronaldo has been sold to Real Madrid. Or because the ending of Watchmen has been changed. Or that Hillary Clinton has lost the Democratic presidential nomination. Or that Kanye West interrupted Taylor Swift at an awards show.
It’s become one of the best known “internet memes” around, a comic construct that has spread inexorably on YouTube and other platforms like a cultural version of Japanese knotweed.
It is one of the most exquisite views we have ever had of the Earth.
This colourful new map traces the subtle but all pervasive influence the pull of gravity has across the globe.
Known as a geoid, it essentially defines where the level surface is on our planet; it tells us which way is “up” and which way is “down”.
It is drawn from delicate measurements made by Europe’s Goce satellite, which flies so low it comes perilously close to falling out of the sky.
Scientists say the data gathered by the spacecraft will have numerous applications.
One key beneficiary will be climate studies because the geoid can help researchers understand better how the great mass of ocean water is moving heat around the world.
The new map was presented here in Norway’s second city at a special Earth observation (EO) symposium dedicated to the data being acquired by Goce and other European Space Agency (Esa) missions.
Hmm interesting… certainly make good toilet reading material in my opinion.
I think that it is possible to say that this years Glastonbury artists line up is similar to that in a 60+ karaoke bar. Yes it is official Glastonbury is now a saga holiday spot; the temperatures are in the 80’s and so are all the performers. I mean come on… it wouldn’t surprise me if George Formby crawled on stage and started singing about how he never averts his eyes when he is cleaning windows.
"...Happy birthday?"
When I tuned in I found this two old men who could barely even sing happy birthday without there larynx’s seizing up completely. I’m sure they had to take puffs on oxygen masks between lyrics. No offence to old people intended but Glastonbury is a youth orientated thing, the whole crowd is full of young people, they want modern, youthful music that they know the words to sing along to without the aid of lyrics projected up onto a large screen. Steve Wonder and all the other golden oldies sell out when they do gigs like this… you can sometimes hear the desperation in their tones.
Possibly one of the greatest market ploys ever seen.!
In most UK shop the cheapest Iphone 4 available - presumably the one with the smallest internal memory – starts at £499 if you do not get the phone on contract. Utter madness! I do not see why you would want to buy such an unattractive and useless smart phone. Apple boasts that it could do suck wonderful things: Video call… shame its only to other Iphone 4 users; Record HD videos… Some sony ericssons have been doing for the past year; They also say that now you can run multiple applications. I’m sorry but until this point i respected apple. This premature release of a shocking phone has destroyed Apple’s indigenous reputation in the world of technology.
For the life of me I cannot understand why anybody would buy such an incapable piece trash. You can’t even hold it in your hand and make calls send messages or use any other signal based methods of communication, which correct me if I am wrong, is the whole point of a mobile phone.
Steve Jobs quotes that you need to
OK thanks Steve… that’s some really professional advice you’re giving us there.
Basically my outstanding consumer advice is that if you like a phone which you can hold whilst you take calls and messages don’t get the Iphone 4… Also if you want a phone which supports java, like most phones have for the last 10 years, once again don’t go for the Iphone 4.
It’s the big J dog here, mixing it up with a beautiful picture of… A FLOWER! You know you love it folks, dig in!
Got to love that boke in the background!
Here we are, the forth part in our MaybeSo photography journey.
This episode we have ventured slightly further than the UK, the reason being is that the UK is fairly boring and we love to keep our audience interested. This photograph was taken at the top of the highest peak open to skiing in Lake Louise, Alberta. Enjoy.
This, as suggested by the title, is the third episode in the MaybeSo photography posts. We are aiming to publish 1 post of this nature a week to satisfy your pleasures for fine photography.
This particular edition features a serene image I managed to capture off my phone whilst visiting Wales with a MaybeSo colleague (Brad), it shows a view out of the harbour in Porthmadog. One of the most peculiar things with this photo is the snow which had fallen on the beaches; quite unusual considering it is right next to the salty sea.
The world cup is fast approaching and its a safe bet to say that everybody has caught ‘world cup fever.’
I however, do not have this fever… (are you surprised?)
I am still a profound believer that all football players are an over dramatical, over paid, bunch of oscillating testicles.