By WENN world entertainment news - Monday, June 9 11:20 am
From www.yahoo.co.uk.
“Outspoken actor Rupert Everett has sparked fury from British soldiers after branding them “whining wimps” who are “pathetic” compared to recruits in the days of Victorian Britain.
The Stardust actor, whose own father was a major in the British Army, made the controversial comments in a [...]
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An update on the soundbites of our politicians and media.
Previously I wrote a post on the matter of the Bridgend suicides and the rather simplistic explanation offered by the local MP, Madeline Moon, that it was all down to Facebook, Bebo, Myspace and other such ironically termed ’social networking sites’.
I read some further commentary on [...]
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Its about time I made my feelings on foxhunting perfectly clear; its a contentious issue for sure and one that raises many heated arguments.
I live in a predominantly Tory, Countryside Alliance area and I have grown more than a little weary of the continued use of car bumper stickers protesting the injustice of the foxhunting [...]
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I had an experience which made me truly question Democracy, in the tearoom my colleague Keith came up with the premise of all Arabs being Bastards.
I challenged him by asking him why he thought that they were, his reply was ‘because they were’ again I asked him why and he said ‘because they were Arab [...]
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Here is an example of not thinking on just about every level there is.
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Colorado Rep. Tom Tancredo’s campaign stood by his assertion that bombing holy Muslim sites would serve as a good “deterrent” to prevent Islamic fundamentalists from attacking the United States…“If it is up to me, we are going to explain [...]
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Posted in Idiocy, Society on July 31, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I nearly made it through eight whole hours in Petersfield without having random abuse thrown at me only to be thwarted in the dwindling last moments of my protracted stay as a passing driver decided to yell some illegible abuse at me as I walked along the pavement.
Seriously, people think I make this up, truth [...]
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I’ve often wondered what it would be like if I could just for a day make it so everyone acted exactly the same on foot as they would whilst driving a car, I think it would be hilarious but tragic simultaneously.
For a start people wouln’t stroll about, they wouldn’t meander, they’d run full pelt wherever [...]
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It struck me today whilst conversing with a colleauge about the nature of the current industrial dispute that the fashionable fervour for a free market ignores one very interesting fact.
The idea behind the free market is that by introducing competition to previously state owned monopolies you will initiate a sudden rush to become more productive, [...]
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I really don’t know why I bother keeping this blog sometimes, all I come up against is either indifference or outright hostility, it amazes me that you can hold true to your views and be threatened with violence as a result, in an alleged civilisation its not what you expect, what also never ceases to [...]
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Posted in Comedy, Idiocy on June 17, 2007 | No Comments »
Here are some quotations from various people regarding the Daily Mail (please note these are not actually real)
Al Gore: I used to worry about global warming…and Manbearpig; but ever since reading Richard Littlejohns column I’ve realised that global warming will kill people like him and so will Manbearpig, so its not all bad and I’ve [...]
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