Silliness

A Common European Language

May 8, 2012
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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility. As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5-year phase-in plan that would become known [...]

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Sunny Hundal’s Political Full House

May 3, 2012
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(Trivia Warning: London Mayoral froth) Brilliant stuff from the Hundal Monster, explaining to the world from how he will be voting in the London Mayoral Election:  I said on Twitter today that I would be voting for Jenny Jones as my first preference and Ken Livingstone as my second preference. I wonder if the world [...]

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Fantasy government

March 29, 2012
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So we know that the current government are a shower of numbnuts by their handling of the tanker driver’s dispute and subsequent fuel shortages. We also know that the previous lot were worse seeing as we are now in a recession and they didn’t plan ahead and save for the rainy day. Most of the [...]

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Now for something completely different…

March 14, 2012
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After the seriousness of the last few posts I think we need a bit of light relief. Doing my stuff in the back office (not orifice, read it properly!) I was checking the site’s ranking on Alexa.com. I read the description of the commentators commentards customers of Raccoon Arms and though it quite good to [...]

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Diabetics get more Legoff

March 7, 2012
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Latvia has its one-legged lesbians, according to Mr Webcameron. Bristol has its one-legged diabetics, according to the journal Diabetologia, or – rather – makes more of them than elsewhere in the country: Amputation rates for diabetes patients are 10 times higher in some parts of England than in others, according to a study. Researchers say [...]

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Dr Eoin-a-Likes

March 3, 2012
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This is a completely frivolous post, especially in that in mentions Dr Eoin Clarke, who stamps roses on everything in search of a sweet-smelling but prickly existence. Dr Eoin Clarke and Diana Johnson, Labour MP for Hull North, both from their Twitter profiles. Any more ‘Labour Roses’ elsewhere?  

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Da-da-da-da Da-da-da-da Gnatman !

March 1, 2012
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There are three truths that are unlikely ever to be universally acknowledged about Scottish Politics: Firstly, that First Minister’s Questions at Holyrood are even more a game of buffets than Prime Minister’s Questions at Westminster. Just

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