1. What width are the commercially bagged chips at your local chippy: 1/4 inch, 3/8 inch or 1/2 inch? 2. According to a 2008 Glamour magazine survey, is the average woman’s bust size these days 34B, 36C or other size? 3. The paperclips you’re likely to use vary in wire width between 1/32 to 1/16 [...]
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There are two Jessicas in the public eye at the moment – the one who has just rounded Cape Horn and the other one, she of the dagger. Certain words she used, certain things said of her by her ex-lover, certain aspects of her story are quite indicative of a malaise which was not only [...]
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Perhaps this blog has posted on the McCanns before, perhaps it hasn’t, I can’t remember. However, today it’s going to. Unlike the Knox conviction where it was pretty clear in the end, this one is not clear and your humble blogger is dead centre on the issue, not knowing one way or the other. As [...]
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Bill Cameron has battery issues: A few of my Swatch watches have been out of action for several years because I couldn’t seem to get a hold of the correct replacement batteries and local jewellery stores didn’t stock the correct batteries either. My current car (as did the last few) has automatic door-unlocking and no-key [...]
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Peter, your wish is my command:
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Sadly, Jelena is not quite up to it and there are three major things against her – her brittleness, her age and her past. She really doesn’t have the temperament: With a preparation that included a dismal effort at the Hobart International, a mid-air dispute between those among her entourage and the flight staff of [...]
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I’m sorry not to be able to run a photo of Martin Turner PPC here – Martin doesn’t show his face on his front page or in the “about” at his site. He uses a photo of the Haitian children instead. It’s not until replies come in from prospective parliamentary candidates that one sees, first [...]
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For twelve years, your humble blogger was living in a Russian republic alongside Muslims. I don’t recall once seeing women wearing burquas – they were too westernized for that although there were nationalist families and I knew a few of these. I travelled to Moscow with one so I’m thinking of that family and of [...]
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GK Chesterton’s land reform “three acres and a cow” for each and every one of us is utopian, yes, just as anarcho-capitalism, Rothbard and Hayek will never be taken seriously while the corrosive bunch in charge are in charge. Good people all and coming from a sound view of economics and society but they presuppose [...]
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The sturm und drang of Wagner is a fine thing if one needs stirring. The passion and emotion of Beethoven have no peer but for drawing room listening, genteel listening in comfortable surroundings, please just give me Wolfie.
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My stepfather bought a late model Honda Civic and this was a surprise as he’d always been a large, six-cylinder-with-towbar man before. He was making concessions to age, based on his own judgment of his declining faculties, which was more than my mother did. She didn’t do a lot of driving in later years – [...]
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Yesterday’s little bit of nastiness went off all right and as the dental specialist they’d brought in said to me, “It’s not a torture chamber, you know.” Could have fooled me but we’ll let that pass. The really interesting part was beforehand. There are many taxi firms around our way, some regional, a few local. [...]
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Interesting thought at Lord T‘s: 1 From bondage to spiritual faith; 2 From spiritual faith to great courage; 3 From courage to liberty; 4 From liberty to abundance; 5 From abundance to complacency; 6 From complacency to apathy; 7 From apathy to dependence; 8 From dependence back again into bondage. The conclusion from this is [...]
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Barking Spider has posted a fab youtube by Pat Condell: … and Karl also hits the nail on the head: One wonders when our government will recognize that a loan made to someone who claims to have $200,000 in income but really makes $50,000 simply cannot be refinanced into anything the borrower can afford nor [...]
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Youtube has this thingy where you can respond with a video. Well, this is my post-midnight response to Calum whose posted some wonderful Ry Cooders for his Sunday coffee. Enjoy.
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When a man with an English heart of oak, such as William Gruff, writes: I’d love to back the Albion Alliance, Higham, but it’s just another damp squib. There is no one with the money required to make a difference who is prepared to put it into making a difference, because we the little people [...]
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These are mine: 1. Eine kleine nachtmusik 2. Temptation 3. In my own way 4. Il faudra leur dire 5. Du hast nicht
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As Angus pointed out yesterday, the election bid wars have begun, which gives a grassroots British reaction to the proposals and neither large party come out looking good. Witterings from Witney says: Witness David Cameron’s speech today at Chatham House. His idea that there should be co-operation between army and police is no more than [...]
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Make sure you catch the last 20 seconds of this; it’s surprising In keeping with yesterday’s list of the 12 people who’d be represented on Voyager, lets’ say it was your decision which 7 actors and which 7 actresses you’d include clips of their work on the Voyager mission. Who would they be? My list, [...]
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This came through an email: Which is the most expensive disaster in history? The top eleven are listed below, in order of increasing expense: No.11. Titanic – $150 Million The sinking of the Titanic is possibly the most famous accident in the world. But it doesn’t quite make the list of top 10 most expensive, [...]
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“Best of” lists are almost impossible. For example, Jerry Rice would be on many Americans’ best footballer, Gary Ablett would be on many Australians’ and perhaps Pele in soccer but only Pele is world famous. Where would Don Bradman or Babe Ruth be? Where would you put Stirling Moss or Bobby Moore? A different way [...]
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Gee, this is good news – hope it happens: A simple eye test might be able to detect Alzheimer’s and other diseases before symptoms develop, according to UK scientists. The technique uses fluorescent markers which attach to dying cells which can be seen in the retina and give an early indication of brain cell death. [...]
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Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, in a major appeal to voters before Sunday’s ballot, said she will restore harmonious relations with Russia if she is elected president. Tymoshenko led the peaceful Orange Revolution in 2004 that turned Ukraine away from Moscow’s political orbit and toward the path of European integration. But Tymoshenko has sought to [...]
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Поздравляю со Старым Новым годом! Congratulations on the Old New Year! I’m afraid Babel won’t help you much here so I hope you can accept my translation, which puts it into more colloquial language in places: January 14: the Old New Year – this is an additional holiday, which was caused by the change of [...]
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Things other pundits come out with often give pause for thought. This is not a post about climate change but about many things pundits come out with. Take Andrew Scott, a good chap who once visited here. He wrote: To attempt to comprehend the complex patterns of weather and climate we do need to look [...]
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The Times had this below and Alison also posted on Levi Bellfield: Only now can the true extent of Bellfield’s intense loathing and predatory attitude towards women be revealed. The judge in the case ruled that much of the evidence gleaned while Bellfield was a suspect was too prejudicial for the jury to hear. It [...]
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