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Classic Clarkson
November 21, 2009
by Dave
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Clarkson is the archetypal grumpy old man, and he’s really excelled himself this week in his column in the Times
Then you have the chaps and chapesses who can’t stand the constant raids on their wallets and their privacy. They can’t understand why they are taxed at 50% on their income and then [...]
Ex-soldier faces jail for handing in gun
November 11, 2009
by Dave
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What a completely fucked up country we live in, I can’t even summon the words to describe how depressing this is; five years seems a lot given the pathetic sentences you hear being handed out to real criminals.
A former soldier who handed a discarded shotgun in to police faces at least five years [...]
Dark Night of the Soul
May 16, 2009
by Dave
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Gizmodo, taking a rare break from hyping up Steve Job’s over-priced iDevices, alerted me to the existence of the rather excellent album Dark Night of the Soul, from the same genius responsible for the Grey Album. Apparently, like the Grey Album, DNOTS will never see a retail release 🙁
I’ve been [...]
Philosophy in the Boudoir: Piety
July 2, 2004
by Dave
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If you’re not up to reading the entire extract, try skimming the highlighted parts – hopefully they give a reasonable overview of the ideas in the text.
…from The third dialogue
Eugenie:
[The women, having calmed down during this treatise, are once more clad in negligees and reclining on the [...]
Moving (Again)
June 29, 2004
by Dave
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Today we ofiicially agreed to move into the new house, contracts signed, all that’s left now is to physically move (again).
Excessive Sun
June 4, 2004
by Dave
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It [Derby City Council] said teachers should consider “postponing or cancelling events… in periods of excessive sun“.
LMFAO!!
Poor Miss Emin
May 30, 2004
by Dave
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Tracey Emin turned up on Breakfast with Frost this morning saying how offended she is that the British public are laughing at her ‘loss’
“The majority of the British public have no regard or no respect to what me and my peers do, to the point that they laugh at a disaster like a fire. We really [...]
Missiles, aircraft? Same difference.
April 9, 2004
by Dave
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From BBC News:
The army Patriots were mistakenly identifying friendly aircraft as enemy tactical ballistic missiles
Truth is stranger than fiction, especially when there’s a bunch of US soldiers thrown into the mixer.
Not that solid
April 5, 2004
by Dave
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Colin Powell recently conceded that the ‘evidence’ the US presented to the UN to justify it’s war on Iraq ‘appears not to be … that solid‘ — no shit Colin, that’s why the rest of the World (bar Britain — cheers Tony) told you to go to hell when you told us that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction [...]