While this has hit the headlines: Global boss of Burger King brands British women unattractive … or, as the Daily Mash put it: British women not as attractive as a smoked bacon and cheddar double Angus … one group of those women, the English, have been doing great things in their own right and are [...]
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Via JD: Some facts for you. I bet this will make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside! Can you imagine working for a company that only has a little more than 635 employees, but, has the following employee statistics..
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Now it’s got into Hong Kong, itself no stranger to sleaziness [H/T Graham]. Hard to know just how to stop these people. They’re infiltrated right through the community now and the odds are that if you need something – a nomination to the masons, a document, a council service, redress over some issue - it [...]
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A nation dies. José: Rumpy, did you see that poll in the Mail? Pumpy: [chuckles like Herman Munster] Very suspicious about this. This blog and many others have invested much time and effort into bringing to the public the reasons why we should leave the EU. The TPA have been on about it, every serious [...]
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This photo is Crown copyright – if the Queen has a problem with it, I’ll take it down.
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I’ve been steadily reading Before We Say Goodbye, by Louise Candlish and perhaps a series of interim reviews are better than one big review at the end. Up to Chapter 4, what I take from this London author who writes from personal experience, with some outside embellishments [as I do], is an insight into the [...]
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If you are not offended by this please let us know. Your name will be placed on the register of potential offendees and everything will be done to find suitable material to activate your offend-ometer in accordance with EU regulations. Thank you for your co-operation. _________________________ JD‘s profile and a list of his posts can [...]
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Karl: The fact of the matter is that it was not all that long ago that you could buy a firearm through the Sears Catalog, and have it delivered in the mail. Nobody thought a thing about it. It was also not all that long ago that shotguns and rifles adorned racks in the back of pickup [...]
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British dodgem car- American bumper car-
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Ian Parker-Joseph wishes it to be known that he shall henceforth be known as Not Applicable. [Smiles quietly to himself] Read the details here. There’ve also been some adjustments to my blogrolls.
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This is a pre-review. Have you heard of Louise Candlish? Wiki clearly isn’t interested although it makes mention of one of her novels. One site says this about her: After reading English at University College London, Louise Candlish worked as an editor and a copywriter. It was while thinking of something new to say about [...]
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H/T Not Applicable
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The Swiss have a poll on sport: While that’s most encouraging, why does it need a law? What the hell happened to sport in schools anyway? There always used to be a two hour sports session on one afternoon and two lessons of P.E. a week plus one swimming session when I was at school [...]
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[Thank you to my Russian corespondent] There is an island – Курильские Oстрова – and it has been disputed by Russia and Japan for a long time. At the end of WW2, the matter was resolved by nuclear radiation [Hiroshima and Nagasaki] and thereafter, the U.S. considered the island belonged to the Soviet Union.
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The peerless David Lindley on violin. Wiki says: He has mastered such a wide variety of instruments that Acoustic Guitar magazine referred to Lindley, not as a multi-instrumentalist, but instead as a “maxi-instrumentalist” in a cover story about his career to date in 2005. The majority of the instruments that Lindley plays are String instruments [...]
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The Jacobites were always going to take it up to the Sassenachs, always and the scrappy play was neither here nor there – there’ll always be errors strewn across the game in an encounter like this. Scotland wanted it badly. Well done, England. We know how the Irish can spoil dreams, especially over there and [...]
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This gets my vote for the most beautiful of all time: 1959-1968 Austin Healey 3000 – this is the 1967. One for sale.
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When the dubious John Fordham writes: As with circus clowns, there’s something touching about functions bands, those indefatigable troupers of the wedding and conference circuit. They put expertise to completely pragmatic uses, and if there’s the faintest spark of artistic purpose, they have to throw a fire blanket over it pronto and hope that no [...]
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Here is some advice from the Government on how we can all do our bit to ‘save the planet’ and to reduce our electricity bills:- _________________________ JD‘s profile and a list of his posts can be found in the left sidebar at this site.
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Jesse: Someone might actually demand legitimate reform. Oh, they already did. Well, perhaps they might actually do something to force the issue, like pick a key vulnerability like the silver market, and take these jokers to the wall. Oh, they’re doing that as well. This is going to be quite the ride then. This is [...]
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Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun and not so very far from that sun, a green planet with an island from where an infinitesimally insignificant little blogger says: Aum Shinrikyo. Means Aum accumulated great wealth from operating [...]
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One for Dearieme: One for my pet canary: One for JD:
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[MSNBC]
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I like empty aeroplanes. The cabin service is first class. It is the closest I will ever be to travelling in a private jet. oh look! an interloper on my private jet… _________________________ JD‘s profile and a list of his posts can be found in the left sidebar at this site.
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A “civil society leader” Encapsulated in this one opening paragraph are so many false assumptions that it’s worth studying: As you read this, civil society organisations and their leaders are fighting fires on all sides. In some cases, a desperate battle for survival is being waged in the face of funding cuts and rising demand [...]
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Moderation about to go on, as usual, people [24 hours]. Should be interesting to see how the new anti-spam handles it. No comments on this h/k post.
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Fondly remembered: At 8:37: “Commissioner, let go of my leg!”
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[MSNBC]
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I see Barking Spider‘s been having issues and this is the lot of the political blogger, particularly if he is forthright. One blogger, Anna Raccoon, was in tears about what was happening to her and gave the game away for a time. We all have our crosses to bear and mine include a longtime stalker. [...]
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