Mark has a poll up: How long does your journey to work take in the morning? Selection Votes less than 15 minutes 30% 24 15 to 30 minutes 23% 18 30 to 60 minutes 29% 23 60 to 120 minutes 16% 13 more than 120 minutes 1% 1 Bill Quango commented: Most days about 6 [...]
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There’s a purpose to this, believe it or not [Leno, Maher, Fey]: On Israeli settlers It’s very sad. They tried everything to get these people to leave. They tried water cannons. They tried special forces. They tried wire cutters, and finally, as a last resort, they had a black family move in next door. Terrorism [...]
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Bet no one gets through these four.
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Let’s get back to this Worldwide Civil Disobedience from April 15th to 18th, via Fausty. We were discussing it today and as we spoke, I felt an attack of hypocrisy coming on. We could think of a number of reasons why it might not work because it is asking people to take an action. Suddenly, [...]
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Question – do the irreligious have a better sense of humour than the religious?
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Lord T shows just how easy it is to get explosives past security. It seems to many concerned citizens, including your humble blogger, that the issue is not actually catching anyone these days but rather a double-edged agenda – 1. make air travel super expensive again and bring it back to the province of the [...]
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It’s not only the authorship of Shakespeare’s works which has come in for scrutiny but also the authenticity of the portraits. Xensen says, of the different portraits below: The three likeliest portraits are the Cobbe portrait, which portrays the forty-something Shakespeare as a gallant young courtier; the Chandos portrait, which presents him as a comfortably [...]
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Give an English equivalent if you can: 1. Lege et lacrima 2. Justitia omnibus 3. Spectaculorum procedere debet 4. Vincit omnia amor 5. Carpe diem Answers Read it and weep, justice for all, the show must go on, love conquers all, seize the day
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With the dropping of Jonny Wilkinson, rather than put in Toby Flood, how about Mr. Blobby? He’s been well trained.
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CNN reports: The Celebrity Mercury cruise ship is returning to port a day early and delaying its next sailing to address an outbreak of gastrointestinal illness that sickened 350 passengers. The outbreak is the third consecutive outbreak on the ship in a month. The latest outbreak is the ninth incidence of gastrointestinal illness reported to [...]
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Cristina Odone, in the Telegraph, wrote: I’m sick of the feminisation of politics. If it means having to meet Dave’s mum, Gordon’s auntie and Nick’s granny, give me macho politics any time. Politicians once needed to prove their trustworthiness, efficiency, authority. Apparently these days they need an emotional hinterland to appeal to voters. Don’t get [...]
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My semi-betrothed who cries out her own name in climax and whose epitaph reads: My name was writ on Diet Coke … has finally got her butt into gear and reached 100 fine comments. Ubermouth spends 50% of the time happy with me and 50% of the time never speaking to me again. This girl [...]
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I just love my Google ads.
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“Indifference” depresses me [though I'm drawn back to it] because it is redolent of a time and a place far away. This reminds me of Piaf in a rundown cafe, a lifestyle so far from mine and yet close. In Russia while I was living there, accordionists would sit, everyone had a glass or eight [...]
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If a dish was given the following label in each case, what would it be signifying? 1. a la Florentine 2. Cacciatore 3. Cordon bleu 4. Nicoise 5. Wellington Answers 1. Spinach; 2. prepared with a rich tomato and vegetable sauce including herbs, onions, wine, and mushrooms; 3. stuffing for meat made of cheese and [...]
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Beeb: Baldness is caused when hair follicles become exposed to too much dihydrotestosterone (DHT). This is a chemical produced by the male hormone testosterone. Experts believe that men with high levels of testosterone are more likely to lose their hair, especially if baldness runs in the family. Prostate cancer sufferers are often given drugs to [...]
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Asia Times: There exists the possibility that the whole thing [the US-Israel altercation] is a masquerade designed to divert attention from an impending joint US-Israeli strike on Iran. Obama is unlikely to be comfortable with such a decision, but a number of analysts have argued that in the end, he might not have much of [...]
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This world circumnavigation lark is bigger than thought. There seemed to be two out there – Jessica Watson and Abby Sunderland, with Laura Dekker‘s new boat being prepared. Actually, there are more but it was only in a comment at the Abby Blog that I saw it: # Jessica Watson, doing fine, non-stop. # Abby [...]
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Your humble blogger has no more energy – these imbecile MPs have sapped it all. Take it away, Boris: Being an even-tempered fellow, and given that we have already put up with so much nonsense from the Labour Government, I find there are very few ministerial pronouncements that make me wild with anger. We have [...]
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They say a picture is worth a thousand words, so here’s one for you: Part 1 here. Part 2 here. Just a nice convivial TLC gathering of peace and mutual understanding [above]. Let’s look at whom each of these is: # Zbigniew Brzezinski [mentioned in Part 1] # Peter Sutherland [European Commission] # David Rockefeller [...]
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1. They don’t look anything like the creatures in the photo; 2. They’ve colonised almost every landmass on Earth; 3. Estimates in different environments suggest that they contribute 15-20% (on average and nearly 25% in the tropics) of the total terrestrial animal biomass, which exceeds that of the vertebrates; 4. Males only last a few [...]
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Musically and lyrically unique, Harley’s ego let him down and eventually the public just tired of it, long after almost his whole band quit on him and the music press turned hostile. He sits uneasily in a niche he made for himself, neither here nor there but still a talent that was to be reckoned [...]
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Part 1 here. Part 3 here. In Part 1, it was argued that there are many groups about, many thinktanks and all have a view of the world which they’d like to see implemented. In the end, it comes down to traction – how much notice is taken of them. As you saw, the TLC has [...]
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Here are some men You wouldn’t know it to look at me now but I have been gym training for some years and after the dental horror, it’s back to the gym tomorrow. The first difference between Russia and here is that there is an incremental range of weights over there but over here, there [...]
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Part 2 here. Part 3 here. Let this series of three posts walk you through one thread in what the hell is going on right now and why people are suffering. As each new screenshot goes up, the question is, “So what?” Be patient because it is leading somewhere. There are so many organizations out [...]
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Though illegal, paying for sex is widely accepted by many Russian men. The eight-laned highways which stretch out of the sprawling capital of 10.5 million teem with prostitutes, some of whom agree demand for sex has fallen. “Now they often talk about work.” On a website where men can search for prostitutes in their area, [...]
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The sort of thing they have to put up with in Russia:
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Don't forget these either:
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