I thought we’d already disposed of this shill but today the Telegraph brings her back in full cry. For goodness sake! As was said back then: There are so many things about it. Firstly, she is precisely that type of Blair Babe, the right age [meaning too young to be making policy moves which affect [...]
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Lord T speaks of Libertarian Lite, a good concept and what it boils down to is classic liberalism – freedom to do as you wish, as long as it doesn’t incommode others. Sadly, there have to be some laws, if only to protect the innocent because not all people, especially young children and the insane [...]
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When you buy a new pair of leather shoes which require breaking in, just insert John West tuna lunch lids [cardboard and octagonal] down the backs of your socks so the edge of the upper doesn’t dig into the bone. This will eventually tame the shoes whilst turning your motion robotic. Remember – the fork [...]
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It’s all rather sweet, isn’t it? Fox cable biggies Glenn Beck and Bill O’Reilly could hardly contain their delight at being labeled GOP shills Sunday by Obama administration Communications Director Anita Dunn, a charge that will likely prove a big ratings booster for the Rupert Murdoch-owned outlet. “They’re more worried about the war on Fox [...]
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This evening’s presentation is dedicated to Bob G, especially N1: Continuing the female motif which has been dominating for a few days:
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Yes, it’s a mishmash of a picture but there aren’t that many junks and viking ships around and I haven’t time to photoshop all night. Basically, this is what it’s about. It uses a narrower version of the lapstrake [clinker] Viking ship, 53′ long and 8’6″ wide, with a wineglass hull section, decked in [sorry [...]
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Excellent point by Tom Paine about the concept of “innocent until proven guilty”. He was referring to the Hampshire matter where a dead man has a stigma attached which has not been proven in fact. As Tom says: Whatever the truth of the charges against their husband and father, they are suffering innocents. That the [...]
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For a start, David Blanchflower is a Labour troll and this is borne out in the article on his call to ditch Brown. On top of that, he’s a BofE troll as well and therefore anything he says needs to be treated with suspicion. Now what he’s doing, at the end of the former link, [...]
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H/Ts Mark Wadsworth, Quiet Man Sign here [or at least check it out]. If you’re still on the front page, you’ll need to click the heading to get the link or else the red arrow here.
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1. Myopic and hypermetropic are two sight defects. Which is which? 2. What are the two main components of bronze? 3. If the vowels are a, e, i, o and u, then what are the three other letters sometimes used to approximate the role of the vowel in a word? North Americans might have problems [...]
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Two excellent posts at The First Post today – one on the economy tomorrow morning – can’t face economics in the evening and the other on the influence of Messalin Carla Bruni. We’ve all seen those nude shots and she’s not bad, we’ve all heard her voice and she’s not bad, we’ve all heard her [...]
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This post is dedicated to top blogger Tom Paine. If you listen to no other track, at least try the last one, Shayla – it shows she can actually sing. Everyone has his Blondie moment and mine was when we went to a pub to watch Graham Parker and the Rumour [I've probably mentioned this [...]
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As Matt says: As if #1 were not an important enough legacy to the US, our country used to be referred to as Columbia (a feminization of Columbus’ name). Our unofficial national anthem (before “The Star Spangled Banner”) was “Hail, Columbia”. So, to everyone, I wish you all a Happy Columbus Day and all Hail [...]
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Karl Lagerfield has reacted to Brigitte‘s banning of skinny models: “No one wants to see curvy women,” Lagerfeld was quoted as saying on the website of news magazine Focus on Sunday. “You’ve got fat mothers with their bags of chips sitting in front of the television and saying that thin models are ugly,” he added. [...]
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The reaction to the INLA announcement was welcome for afficianados of Irish politics but for the ordinary person on the main island, what does it all mean? An excerpt from IRA Guerilla Tactics says: When the original IRA went Marxist, the Provos split off, and dedicated their lives to war. The war they fought is [...]
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No, not Gordo. The Tower of Babel principle. Lord T is of the opinion that true AI is a long way off: Personally though I think we are so far from a learning machine that could think and act like us that I see AI splitting into two branches. One where we use fast and [...]
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All right, if you won’t let me have my crossbow, how about the slingshot? Is it legal? You could get up some power with one of these [above and below].
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I’m going to save Dearieme’s other two contributions for Wednesday and run this for the third clip this evening:
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All right, I completely bu–ered up the Sunday lunch, didn’t I? Couldn’t be a—ed cooking so I cheated – took a tin of ratatouille and a tin of that horrible compressed chicken. Had some roasted taties left over from last night in the fridge and so it was all in the foil pan, mixed up [...]
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Don’t get me wrong – the junk sail is a great sail for what it does. It’s for people with not a lot of money, it reduces in storms beautifully and is so easy to use. It’s problem though is its flatness. Flat sails have no power, especially to windward because what a sail needs [...]
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Who is the least deserving Nobel Peace Prize winner? Selection Votes Henry Kissinger (1973) 6% 5 United States High Commissioner for Refugees (1981) 0% 0 United Nations Peacekeeping Forces (1988) 3% 2 Kofi Annan and the United Nations (2001) 3% 2 Al Gore and the IPCC (2007) 53% 41 Barack Obama (2009) 25% 19 Other [...]
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Fran Lebowitz said, in Metropolitan Life, in 1978: Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women, it is merely a good excuse not to play football. Women are endlessly fascinating to me and I’m certainly no transsexual. They’re so complex and it’s so difficult to get a line [...]
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It was Woody Allen, in one of his skits who said he saw his life pass before his eyes and then realized it was someone else’s life. In a similar way, there’s a personal crisis I’m deeply involved in at the moment and it’s not mine. Even if it were, it’s not blog material. What [...]
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Rainy day, sunshine girl [Faust 1972] The original of this first song was from a couple of Brit DJs – this is made a bit snazzier here by Paul Oakenfold: Gregorian chant and all that: Sounds electronic but Can played it all themselves: Simple rhythms overlaid, Faust surprise for 1972: Hope you made it so [...]
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This does not necessarily mean the Greatest Film Villains or the creepiest but it means more the most physically menacing – the ones you felt unsafe with the moment you saw them appear and reappear. My list: 10. Dracula Doesn’t matter which version. 9. The Birds themselves The way they quietly gather, just perch there [...]
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I’ve just been trawling through the Beeb’s comments on the award. We’re in real trouble with the woolly thinking of some of those people. For example: After thousands of years of bickering, fighting, it is time to come together in peace, stop being critical or haters or prejudice, or ignorant, or stupid, but be friends, [...]
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Question – what is the difference between Didier Lombard and anyone in Nu-Labour? Answer – the Frenchmen can say the words “mea culpa”. Après vingt-quatre suicides de salariés en dix-huit mois, le PDG de France Télécom Didier Lombard fait son mea culpa. Les mots sont sans ambiguïté. «On n’a pas… je n’ai pas pris en [...]
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You know, the Beeb occasionally comes up with something very interesting: Many of the fatalities involving cyclists happen in collisions with a heavy goods vehicle (HGV). This year, seven of the eight people killed by lorries in London have been women. Considering that women make only 28% of the UK’s cycling journeys, this seems extremely [...]
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It pales beside the 5,301 on the old blog but still, it’s a start. Early days yet but hopefully the word will get around.
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Music has evolved to the point where masters of the art now strut the stage, relegating all the others to Past Masters. Listen and internalize the sublime tones of Modern Man: … and don’t forget Kung Fu girls. The shots of the audience show that 80-90% of them look this way – it’s a hard [...]
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