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FUNNY
My spanish boss complains that his English co-workers are stupid and slow, in a thick incomprehensible accent.
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The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger (with Yoko Ono) 17th June
I arrive for a Sean Lennon gig at Cafe Oto, Hackney. A venue that seats 100 people maximum. Sean Lennon arrives and mingles with the crowd. Then, Yoko Ono turns up. The club promoter pushes me and my friend to one side and Yoko with a burly looking security man in a polo top ushers Yoko Ono, wearing black clothing and Marc Jacobs shades with a ( Read more... ) -
We Need Gay Pride in Doncaster!
The title of this post is taken from a headline in this week's copy of Workers Power, the publication of the British section of the League for the Fifth International.
Jan Willem Stutje recounts an amusing story within the pages of 'Ernest Mandel: A Rebel's Dream Deferred'.Ernest Mandel, as some of you may know was a Trotskyist Marxist theorist ( Read more... ) -
"Heroic Abortion Provider"
This is the headline of an article noting news of the assassination of abortion-doctor Dr. George Tiller of Wichita, Kansas in the "Marxist Working-Class Biweekly of the Spartacist League of the U.S., Workers Vanguard".
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fuckunny
I just tiredly clicked on the online internet profile of a friend of mine, without thinking I glanced at the black and white image of the side of a face, and given his love of monotone self-portraits, I fire away a message: "free this saturday? Would love to see you at 10. Hyde Park. Everyone will be there". I followed this message with the web ( Read more... ) -
(Untitled)
I wonder if it's wrong that while I hate my job I derive some small comfort from the fact that whenever someone calls for the manager and the announcement is made over the shop floor that it is a call for him, I smile at the thought that it could be devastatingly bad news.
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The Interview
Today was the day of my job interview ( Read more... ) -
can-do not car-accident
a friend of mine works in telemarketing flogging life insurance by cold calling potential customers. Yesterday, on a particularly unremarkable day, he called a particularly unremarkable number and started his scripted speech introducing himself and asking if the person on the other line had life insurance. She replied that she did not, and that her ( Read more... ) -
my gumtree advert
Dear Gumtree ( Read more... )