Voting for policies, part 2

Who should I vote for in Scotland? I expected the Scottish National Party but the quiz recommends the Green Party. A coalition of those two should do the trick.

Take the Who Should You Vote For? Scotland quiz

Green				51
Scottish National Party				47
Liberal Democrat				27
Labour				7
UK Independence	-28
Conservative	-55

You expected: SNP

Your recommendation: Green

They say mine, we say ours

Voting for policies

The British elections are upon us again and as usual there is a handy guide to voting based on matching your preferences to policies and advising you which party to vote for, rather than relying on shallow gimmicks like TV debates.
My result was rather predictable: massively Green Party with a hint of Liberal Democrat (well, Nick Clegg was the best looking one, if you permit me my moment of shallowness).

5 years ago, I was advised to vote Scottish National Party, not an option in the above survey.
So let's do that survey again (unfortunately it's the general UK one);

Take the Who Should You Vote For? England quiz

Green				63
Liberal Democrat				39
Labour				11
UK Independence	-30
Conservative	-59

You expected: GRN

Your recommendation: Green

UPDATE: I re-did the quiz because it has been split up in regions and a question about Trident added. No significant change in result though.

Malcolm McLaren (1946-2010)

Malcolm McLaren, patron saint of rock band PR publicists and managers, Chelsea's version of the Wizard of Oz, cultural revolutionary and Situationist iconoclast, has died.
I've never met the man, but have always been amused by his tactics of getting up the noses of many in the establishment, from ITV hacks, Royal Jubilee organisers, tabloid newspaper editors and record company execs to even his former protégé, John Lydon.
He was always worth listening to, his cutting commentary on contemporary culture was always wry and biting. They could barely shut him up when he was on the radio or in nostalgic punk rock documentaries!
Of course he didn't invent punk rock or was its midwife and nanny, but you can't help but think subcultural history would have been different, much less infused with a 1968 ethos, if he hadn't been there. I'd like to remember him as the Daniel Cohn-Bendit of punk, channeling the zeitgeist of the late 1970s and nurturing it into something we can still feel vibrate today.

Scandinavian humour is very droll (again)

What do Swedish men in their midlife crisis? After all that Ikea flat pack assembling, Volvo selling, Ericsson calling, Swedish au pair seducing lifestyle, they apparently feel a little flat like the rest of the 40 something male world and, incongruous as that may sound, call it a midlife crisis.
Nothing like a little Swedish droll humour to tackle the big issues in life (see Kitchen Stories), so a few of them have decided to join a male synchronised swimming team called "Sinking Men".

Dutch television station VPRO is showing a documentary about them and this is the promo:

Sex shopping in the news

Stop the press: All Black and rugby mates are shopping for sex toys in Christchurch boutique. Owner spied (and recorded) the transactions but is surprisingly coy about it, considering her line of work.
What we want to know - and a good gossip columnist would tell us such essential details - is how big the dildos were the boys bought for each other.