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For Russ and for Shankly!
OK, deep breath in. This is gonna be geeky and weird in equal measures, but here goes...
I wrote a note on Facepalm recently where I said that I can see real similarities between Liverpool FC (the team I support) and the Space Wolves Chapter of Space Marines (an army in Warhammer 40k that I used to collect). Bob asked me to explain this bizarre ( Read more... ) -
Oh dear
Seems any ability for irony or proportion Americans may have had before has now gone out of the window.
It was badly judged, but obviously unintentional. Can everyone please stop being so jumpy?!
*le sigh*
Guess our bretheren from across the pond just ain't too bright. At least it's all good fodder for Family Guy/South Park/Simpsons.
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I can't remember who said it...
but be careful what you wish for kids. It might just come true!
I don't actually wish death on her. But a year ago, how many of us would have said things along the lines of "god, I wish she would just contract cancer and die".
Odd the way things pan out, eh?
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talk about devotion to the cause
Well, this story pretty much makes me sick....
I mean, how many wrong things can one bloke do at once?! Who says men can't multitask?
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Techy question
I'm trying to set up a mailing list for my work. I was wondering if there's any sort of management software out there that's ( Read more... ) -
Cold War? Cold snore more like! Amirite?!
From here
"Mr Putin added: "The American side in effect armed and trained the Georgian army.
"Why... seek a difficult compromise solution in the peacekeeping process? It is easier to arm one of the sides and provoke it into killing another side. And the job is done.
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Toffling My sweet whore
When Labour got into power in 1997 I was 13. The shift of power though was well felt in my house. With a father like mine, the political landscape was better known than the howgill fells which surrounded us in our Ruskin-inspired upland homeland. The feeling of something new, of something modern, reflecting what people wanted was palpable. In my ( Read more... ) -
Cheer up Goth
Reading this, I wonder if there's a case to change 'racially aggravated crime' to 'xenophobically aggravated crime', whereby any crime motivated by a someone's difference from the 'norm' of society is heightened in it's severity. It would definitely step up the number of people prosecuted anyway!
In the same way as the Eastern European is our ( Read more... ) -
Land of gross bigotry
All of this St Georges stuff really winds me up. I can't see nationalism, patriotism, or even the idea of nation state as anything other than an expression of humanity's base animalistic group behavior. Celebrating a framework which excludes those unlike us, a way of proclaiming conservative values and parochialism as positive attributes, of ( Read more... )