Don’t watch this if you’re an admirer of Michael Flatley or neo-Irish step dancing:

Stavros Flatley

(Via The Thoughtful Dresser)

The Germans do do some things very well (I’m not sure if Craig and Robert would agree).

New Orleans Rhythm Brass Band from Nuremberg

10. Fürther New Orleans Festival

David Jackson has initiated legal proceedings in Spain. The other side seem a bit slow on the uptake and failed to notice Jackson was represented by a law firm. His lawyers replied, inter alia, that it must be blindingly obvious that Spanish lawyers wrote the correspondence, since it was impossible for British citizens to write clear technical and legal Spanish:

To which I have just spotted (in the middle of 55 pages of closely typed legal arguments) that our reply is:

(..)no se concreta “ en ningún momento , que se trata de un Despacho de Abogados” , ello no es asumible pues, por un lado, del contenido del escrito de alegaciones se infiere claramente su carácter técnico-jurídico, por lo que difícilmente lo podía redactar un ciudadano inglés(..)

Thanks to, er, Barcelona.