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politicky (nothing to see here, normal folk, just walk on by..)
"In many cases they have voted for other parties such as NO2EU and even the BNP."
- Some UKIP wanker on the election ballot papers that had been folded with UKIP under the fold so it was mildly difficult to find.
This, of course, is because the fascist BNP, the ex-leftist fascist NO2EU, and the idiotic petit bourgeois fascist UKIP are all basically ( Read more... ) -
Little things that make life better
I found out today that Julie Andrews used to drive around with a bumper sticker on her car that read "Mary Poppins is a Junkie".
Delight doesn't begin to cover it. -
Liberal-Progressive Confession
It occurred to me that it might be nice if we had people trained up to take a secular liberal-progressive version of the Catholic confession. It would be a place to go to confess your sins against your own values - the thoughts you had of someone being an idiot, when you know it was really their social circumstances that made them that way; ( Read more... ) -
Sexy sexism
I've just discovered a very funny effect of the old sexist use of male pronouns for the person - the impression it gives of homosexuality when "the person" is discussed in sexual terms by a male author. I'm reading stuff on the philosophy (mainly ethics) of sex, and having (I think straight) male authors talking about the arousal of guys, and ( Read more... ) -
Clarification and pictures...
So yes... the "again" in my last post was an error. My neighbours have never had me chucked out before, nor even (to my knowledge) complained about me. But they'd have been within their rights last week, as I was carting around boxes and stuff loudly at unearthly hours. I did, however, save the vacuuming for the next afternoon.
And here are some ( Read more... ) -
Gradually Americanised (but not yet Americanized)
I've realised that I no longer bother to convert temperatures from the weather forecasts into Centigrade/Celsius (not being sure which of those is the weather temperature has nothing to do with coming to America, though; I never knew which "C" stood for there). More troubling to me is no longer being able to remember which spelling is English and ( Read more... ) -
Hoaxes and self-inflicted wounds...
I read about this story - http://electioivens.foxnews.com/2008/10/24/mccain-campaign-volunteer-admits-alleged-attack-hoax/ - in a New York paper yesterday, before the 'hoax' part of it was revealed. I immediately thought it was a fake, and not just because of disliking obviously racist Republicans.
I doubt this story's reached my friends in England ( Read more... ) -
Writer's Block: Six-Word Story
Sweet Baby James: Decline, fall, comeback.
