On joining the upper-middle-class

Part One of an occasional series. Today: On Owning a Garden.

Someone is torturing ponies next door. This won't do. It makes the neighbourhood look bad (neighbourhood, hurr hurr), and I'm about ready to call the SSPCA.

What's that you say? Small humans make noises like that?

Can we have the wet weather back again, please?

Linkdump 18-06-2012

• Kurd with lemon accused of supporting terror
  25 years for possession of half a lemon. Turkish government claim that if you have nothing to hide, you've nothing to fear. No "lemon Kurd" jokes please.
  (tags: terrorism politics acab news )
• Bangor night-time ban on young criticised as 'madness'
  Meanwhile in local news: north Wales outlaws being under 16 in a public place.
  (tags: acab news )
• Asylum-seekers are told: 'Go home and lie'
  If you just /pretend/ to support the oppressive totalitarian regime, then you wouldn't need to claim asylum, would you?
  (tags: politics news asylum )
• The Oatmeal v. FunnyJunk, Part IV: Charles Carreon Sues Everybody
  Somehow this lawyerly spat became EPIC BATTLE while I wasn't looking, and Popehat skewers everything once again.
  (tags: litigious bastards )