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One of those strange weeks where a national celebration leaves people like me utterly alienated. How are you supposed to celebrate 70 years of a monarch's reign when you think the institution is an insult to democracy, and the apparent 'stability' it provides really means maintaining the class system that locks society into the privilege and ( Read more... )

Same old, same old really. Overworked again, five team members left in the last two weeks, out of around 12 of us. It used to be that people would take the relative earning penalty in working for a charity in nice surroundings, that economy no longer really exists, and like anywhere else we were already expected to do more with less prior to these ( Read more... )

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So I'm reading in the news about the euthanasia/suicide storyline in Coronation, not that I watch it much, I'm a superior Guardian reader after all, but clearly there's something culturally significant happening there, and I make the mistake of reading the comments posted at the bottom of the BBC News webpage about it...


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Wenyu just made me laugh.

The silly season story about the Essex Lion, which the sensible voice in our head always knew was just a someone's cat. She said it's like bit like this...

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...not properly anyway.

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Almost goes without saying that run won him the World Championships, even if that sort of riding clearly comes from another planet.
A comment on Youtube asks "HOW DOES DANNY HART SIT WITH BALLS THAT BIG?!".

Also, these guys should commentate on everything.

A spot of random Fox News awfulness while I was flipping channels this morning...

The 'Fox and Friends' anchors reacting to a horrible story about orangutans being forced to box in a Bangkok theme parkThe Blonde Ditz: I never liked boxing until I saw that ( Read more... )