tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-257282292012-01-24T09:28:32.524ZRestless Cynicismhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11920660780424805259noreply@blogger.comBlogger2461100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25728229.post-91868954608360005682011-11-21T12:32:00.001Z2011-11-21T12:34:13.347Z

Dear Tamara I feel compelled to write you this little note after watching all three episodes of your reality TV show. Firstly, I'd like to make it clear that I understand that everyone is free to choose the way they want to live their life and how they want to spend their money, OK?  So all the haters, don't start with me..........This blog is just my opinion and I am only responsible for what

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By Sophie Heath Like the original Madonna and child, the young woman on the Tube has her beloved draped around her, his head nestling on her shoulder.  As he snoozes, she texts idly with one hand, while the other absent-mindedly strokes his arm, soothingly, maternally. But this is no serene scene of mother and son — this is a couple. A couple of adults. If you are forced to use

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This was taken from Craigslist and is especially for all you Childfree out there: ===================================== Yeah, we get it - You're pregnant. BIG FUCKING DEAL. It's not like you went to school for three years and had to take some excruciating multi-day certification. It's not like you saved a Golden Retriever puppy from getting run over by a bus load of Norwegian tourists. It's

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Posted on the Take That official forum in response to other posts about Drunk people at Manchester: ======================= I have to agree here. Your enjoyment of the concert is purely down to the luck of who you are standing or sitting near. I was at Manchester last night and I got there at 9am to queue and was near the front of the C gate. Queueing was fine with all in good humour, though

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WARNING: Do not attempt this drinking game if you do not have access to multiple compatible livers, a team of trained medical professionals and a death wish. This drinking game should not be attempted by those under the age of 18, over the age of 18 or anyone exactly the age of 18 - side effects may include vomiting, temporary blindness and permanent death. To play this game you will

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So I spent this morning invoicing, packing, franking and processing 3 sacks full of orders, all the while watching "Mary Portas: Secret Shopper" on 4oD (http://www.channel4.com/programmes/mary-portas-secret-shopper/4od#3155506).  it was spectacular viewing because customer service in shops is one of my pet peeves, and to see this lousy service exposed on national TV was most Epic. I headed

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This is a fantastic read: http://www.truth-out.org/healing-wounds66740 Some extracts - We blithely exist in a culture of violence at almost every level, from our food and entertainment to the economy and what passes for politics. The better part of our creative and pecuniary energies alike are expended on the ceaseless operations of a military machine that we service as human cogs rendered

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“Do not burn yourself out. Be as I am-a reluctant enthusiast… a part time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure. It is not enough to fight for the land; it is even more important to enjoy it. While you can. While it is still there. So get out there and mess around with your friends, ramble out yonder and explore the

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So yesterday a woman was caught on CCTV stroking a cat before dropping it into a wheelie bin and walking off.  (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1305751/Cat-bin-woman-Mary-Bale-Whats-fuss-Its-just-cat.html)  The cat wasn't found for 15 hours.  When it was fished out of the bin, the owners immediately released the footage onto a Facebook group so they could identify the culprit. Now there

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In response to http://www.blogher.com/yes-virginia-there-are-nice-childfree-people?wrap=free-tagging/childfreechoice&crumb=68345 To the Raconteur....if you wanted to just discuss books, the arts, careers, gardening, or pretty much anything NOT involving kids/being childfree, then why not join just a normal "General chat" forum?  Here are some for you - http://www.handbag.com/forums/channel http

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http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/twn_up_fls/Rolling%20Stone%20McChrystal.pdf "His slate-blue eyes have the unsettling ability to drill down when they lock on you. If you’ve fucked up or disappointed him, they can destroy your soul without the need for him to raise his voice." That's the sort of person you need commanding armies for sure! "Obama has quietly begun to back away from the deadline

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An excellent article by Carolyn!=============================== Priceless quote (8/8/2000) from a reader's letter: "My husband and I (both child free, 15 year marriage) have likened staying child free to running down a hall with people throwing chairs in your way, trying to trip you up. The journey requires a definite thoughtful resilience in the face of overwhelming disapproval from family,

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I've just watched all the episodes of this programme and I have mixed views from eye-rolling at the hypocrisy of the World Cup being held somewhere so poor at a cost of millions that would have helped so many of the people, these girls and their partners enormous salaries, to genuinely liking one or two of them by the end of the series.It's good that the programme got the appalling poverty and

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I've just finished flicking through a copy of GLAMOUR magazine that a friend dropped on my desk when she'd read it. Well that was an hour and a half of my life I'll never get back. How disappointed I was at your various choices of "Women of the year" and especially the choice of the ubiquitous Cheryl Cole as the ultimate "Woman of the year". Oh please. It's bad enough she was voted "Most

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All these articles are talking about how the gap is widening between rich and poor people attending Universities. And they all mention how Universities are being told to allow "poorer and lower class students" to attend Uni. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1279498/Universities-aim-break-middle-class-dominance-family-backgrounds-checks.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/

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I am still trying to break my car-crash rubbernecking addiction to the Daily Mail website, although I *DO* surf other news websites too. One thing I've noticed over the past few years, particularly on the Mail website, is the rise and rise of "headlines" pertaining to the manufactured and staged "controversies" on TV "talent" shows. These "controversies" have grown alongside the headlines,

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Tom Cruise may be playing the Last Samurai on the big screen but in Taiji, Japan, American Nicholas Hensey is the Last Samurai on the present day reality stage. Since September 29, Nik has been hunkered down in the southeastern coastal village of Taiji, Japan, home of some of the world's most vicious and cruel dolphin killers. Each day that he is there, the killers become angrier and more

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By Helen Kirwan-taylor The other week, an old friend arrived at our house for dinner.She is a feisty Oxford graduate who was once beautiful, but she was wearing a skirt that was way too tight - because she had filled out - and she hadn't bothered to redo her highlights. My heart sank when I saw her because I realised that here was yet another clever, pretty woman who had chosen to

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Cameron Diaz admits she's happy to be childless. Yet few women - or men - will praise her stanc, writes POLLY VERNON in the Guardian.============================== Cameron Diaz always struck me as sensible. Maybe because she never joined Scientology, or married anyone patently ridiculous, despite toiling

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Found this post here: http://unmarriedestate.wordpress.com/2009/07/22/the-trouble-with-single-childfree-women/Great blog!========================They must be stopped. They are dangerous. American society has a fear of single childfree women. Can you really blame them? Most people are under the impression that once a woman reaches a certain age (usually before 30), she is supposed to “settle down

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T4 started badly when they didn't use the original theme tune, which is sacrilige....Superman Returns managed it, why not T4?They seriously need to get Cameron or Ridley on board with this franchise. I found the plot to be thin, two pointless characters in the Moon Bloodgood girl and the mute little kid. WTF was the point of those two? No real character plot around them at all, apart from her

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I really think there should be designated "Child-free" days at a lot of attractions, paraticularly ones that aren't always "kid-friendly", ie stately homes and gardens. There was talk of CF days a London museums but I'm not sure if this has happened. I had a day out at Blenheim Palace yesterday - a place I've always wanted to see - and it was ruined by kiddies/bad parenting.Admittedly I knew

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1162503/The-real-telly-tubbies-X-Factor-failures-83-stone-family-claim-simply-fat-work.html"They haven’t worked in 11 years, claiming their weight is due to a hereditary condition. Instead, the family spend their days in front of a television borrowed from a friend. Mr Chawner said: ‘We love TV. It’s on from the moment we get up. Often I’m so tired

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Just got back from the cinema from seeing Young Victoria....I assumed I would have an undisturbed performance as it wasn't the sort of film that young kids or Chavs would go to see. But I didn't figure for the bunch of fat housewives who had also come along and were sitting on the back row. I guess I should have seen the warning signs when they didn't shut the fuck up during the trailers....or

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So I finally bought the Collectors Edition DVD of Close Encounters (not the version with the "inside the spaceship" rubbish bit). I've not watched it for at least 7 years and last night while sewing a pile of Fuzzbutt gear, I totally enjoyed every minute of it. It's soooo utterly Retro now that it's almost in fashion again. How fab was it to watch a UFO film that didn't involve cellphones,

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I should have learned my lesson when I went to a teatime showing of WALL-E last year. The cinema was like a fucking nursery. Kids wriggling around, kids running up and down the stairs, kids babbling, kids crying. And their parents doing nothing to stop them. And the cinema staff doing nothing to stop them (they were all teenagers and I'm betting, utterly untrained in how to deal with such

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Sigh. Yeah, that's right. Sigh. Two years ago, almost to the day, I wrote a piece about the world's bizarre insistence on marrying me off, prompted by three separate incidents in which strangers chuckled at my shambling incompetence and suggested that what I needed was a proper sorting out, which could only arrive in the form of a wife. Cue much indignant spluttering on my part. For one

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Where was I? Ah yes.....awesome evenings and dubious men. Need to get this blog finished before all memories fade!Dubious men.. Met another one the following day as I was wandering back to camp from Centre Camp. He caught up with me on his bike and asked the usual "where are you from" etc questions. His name was Chris and he seemed a LOT younger than me. We chatted and he came back to the camp

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Where was I? Ah yes, we'd just got into Black Rock City and the sun was coming up, it was 5.30am, and we'd gone all night without sleep. We decided to stay awake and just get the tents and camp pitched.Drix was knackered so he had forty winks in the car and me and Jim set about building the camp (time-lapse movie of this is forthcoming!). Jim had devised a great scaffold shade structure so we

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I stumbled out of bed bleary-eyed at 6am to grab some more brekkie at the Coffee Shop (got lost again, fecking mirrors!), then caught the hotel shuttle to the airport for my Vegas flight. I was meeting two guys from the Neon City Garrison who were going to give me "the tour"...I didn't want to wander around alone, not knowing where I was going, looking like a saddo lost tourist, and potentially

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The day had finally come, after 7 months of build up and anticipation, Burning Man (BM) was about to happen. My alarm went off at 0245am on 22nd and I was out the door bleary eyed in the taxi for 0345am. My bathroom was being refitted while I was away so I was happy that I'd have a presence in the house during my holiday - plus to come back to a spiffy new bathroom!The short taxi ride to the UEA

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Save the males! A new book says society is biased AGAINST men. Ridiculous? Hardly, says Amanda Platell in the Daily Mail.Every once in a while, a book not so much lands on your desk as lobs itself like a hand grenade, exploding preconceived wisdoms and shattering the bones of the status quo. Save The Males is such a book.It is the fiercest and most fearless defence of men, fatherhood and

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http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/print/200803/single-marryI read this with my mouth open as the author, a single mother, pretty much writes with an air of annoying presumption that if you are over 30 and still single, you are panicking - and if you are over 35 and still single, that you may as well rip out your ovaries and kill yourself, for Your Life Is Over. What a crock of shit.Here are some

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My friend Jamie forwarded me a copy of an email correspondence he had had on Fri. First he sent this:======================Sent: Fri 02/01/2009 19:41To: JULIESubject: Barometer EnquiryDear JulieI have a barometer that used to belong to my grandfather, and which - so I am told - has not been seen to work for years. I'm interested in exploring how it might be fixed, and how much that might

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Here are my movies from Burning Man, one of the best - if not THE best to date - experiences of my life!

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"We're our own worst enemies a lot of the time, but I still blame men."- Janeane GarofaloFirst of all, I wouldn't pick on single mothers. Anyone trying to do their best and raise a proper kid is fine by me. It's a tough job, and the ultimate example of the phrase "Hard work is its own reward." I have one issue with divorced mothers. I know a lot of women here want to defend themselves as a gender

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If you hire a joiner to do some work for you and he does a shit job, you don't pay him until he rectifies it.If you hire a plumber to do a job and he floods your house, you don't pay him.Why then, are we forced to pay our taxes to a Government who is metaphorically flooding our house on a daily basis?Our Governments bailed out our failing inept banks who I say are partly to blame for the current

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A heavy metal band due to perform in Britain has been blamed for an horrific school killing.Slipknot, who play the Reading and Leeds festivals this weekend and are expected to announce a UK tour, are said to have inspired a teenager to stab a fellow pupil to death with a samurai sword.The unnamed boy walked into his school in Krugersdorp, west of Johannesburg, South Africa, yesterday morning and

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Two adverts have stood out to me of late - the first is a Special K advert, which shows a young woman in her red swimsuit, looking horrified and embarrassed each time a photo is taken of her - she hides behind anything that will disguise her "fat belly" - which in reality, looks perfectly un-fat and quite normal. The girl in the advert IMO has a perfect figure. Yet she's portrayed as being

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While uttelry bored at work (again) I stumbled upon the True Wife Confessions website. And this particular caught my eye:"Confession #2630I am so disappointed in myself. And so jealous of her. We are the same age. We both graduated from high school the same year, went to college and both have a bachelor's degree. She makes $50,000 a year and I make $14.00 an hour. I feel like a failure. That

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I read an unbelievable story at the weekend in a magazine about a guy who had been dumped by his girlfriend, and had sued her - AND WON - for £6000 that he claimed he had spent on her during their relationship.They didn't live together or have any children, they were just boyfriend and girlfriend. He got clingy, she backed off, they ended up finishing and she met someone else and was happy. He

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More news headlines today about the obesity epedemic that is taking over kiddies, with the story of 9 year old Sam, who weighs a staggering 14 stone (http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2007090577,00.html). This follows on from 8 year old Connor who also weighs in at 14 stone and who has been allowed to stay with his pasty, overweight unhealthy mother, instead of being taken into care and put

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Found this article on the Daily Mail website, never a truer word spoken.....==================================We exist in two different time zones. Men want to be happy right now, today, preferably in the company of a beautiful woman. Tomorrow can wait. Women, on the other hand, are constantly concerned with the future, and with their

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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Householders will have pay to take rubbish to the tip under the punitive new regime for refuse collection. The charges will be introduced to deter those who try to dodge the impact of strict rubbish quotas at home. Families will be fined if they exceed a set amount of rubbish they leave outside for the dustman. But if they try to avoid these charges by driving their domestic

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Parents must allow their children to play outdoors - even if it means they get hurt, a safety campaigner has said. Research published last week by the Children's Society suggested that too many parents are refusing to let their children play by themselves outside in case they are injured. It found 43 per cent of adults think children should not be allowed out with their friends until they are

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When her daughter fell under the spell of Disney's Princess brand, Peggy Orenstein was horrified. But now she wonders whether she, as an ardent feminist, is just as guilty of peddling outmoded fairytales I finally came unhinged in the dentist's office where I'd taken my three-year-old daughter for her first appointment. Until then, I'd held my tongue. I'd smiled politely every time the

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I am at the moment reading quite possibly one of THE best books I've read in my entire life. It's called "Childfree and loving it!" by Nicki Defago. I'm halfway through it and have spent the entire reading time nodding, agreeing and laughing at the author's words.....everything she said is SO TRUE. I've witnessed it and even had similar experiences to the ones she talks about. She talks of the

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Just reading about Britain's biggest lottery winner who scooped £35m in the EuroMillions lottery. And I quote:"There will be no Rolls Royce to replace the battered Fiat she has been borrowing from her sister since writing off her Seat Ibiza earlier this year. "I'd rather stick with the same car," she said. "I like driving a small car."A shopping spree seems unlikely to make much of a dent in the

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=472084&in_page_id=1770So a guy who pinched a reporters' bum as she was LIVE on national TV, has sparked a Police Investigation.Critics are ranting how insensitive the guy was, due to the reporter talking about the devastating floods in the area when the incident happened. So now ££££ is being spent on a Police

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I gave in to the incessant naggings of other Facebook friends, and did my own page. So I now have a Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=759492523).

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So I've sent a letter off to try and reclaim £25 that was charged to my account this weekend, for a cheque that bounced. The day BEFORE the bounced cheque went thru, another cheque I'd paid in was showing on my balance sheet, therefore I assumed there was enough money in my account to cover it. But no, it bounced and I get slammed for £25. So I emailed Cahoot for an explanation and they said

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I read this news item today with an open mouth: A mother who scolded her tantrum-throwing daughter in a shop was outraged to be visited at home by police who told her it was inappropriate to reprimand the girl in the light of Madeleine McCann's disappearance. Ruth Ball was at home when police officers knocked at her door and and ticked her off about the way she had chastised four-year-old Leigha.

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Reading the press coverage of Celebration Europe I can't help getting a bit fucked off with the stereotypical attitude of the mass media. Once again they dredge up the old "nerd" stereotypes, and make out like we are all a bunch of freaks who don't live in the Real World (well the state the Real World is in, who'd want to live in it??)The Sun did a one page article featuring a close-up photo of

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Exciting was not the word for that morning as I made my way to the hotel to meet Tim, Andy and the GMTV driver.  I was bricking it as John H was too busy to attend so it was just me and the guys.  I'd had to liaise with Nick the GMTV dude who sounded really nice and he sorted a lift for us and gave us numbers to ring if I had any probs.We got to the gates and people were waiting outside for the

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It's Graduation Week here at the Uni - and you can't walk anywhere without being shoved out the way by enthusiastic mums in flowery dresses taking multiple photos of their kid in a stupid gown and hat.  One bint barged into me, didn't say sorry, I tutted and she tutted back at me even louder.  I resisted the urge to scream "your kid with a £10,000 student debt will be working in admin in 6 months

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I read today a very well written and true article on The Times website (read it here). The comments left by members of the public are equally interesting to read, and it shows the tide is turning against St Madeleine and all the press furore surrounding her disappearance.I too think that it is hyped beyond belief and the press need to stop whipping up such hysteria. I learned today that there

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Found this article on the Daily Mail website, never a truer word spoken.....now bring on the comments from Smug and Happy Couples - bring em on!!!!!!!!!!My comments are in bold/italics.....==================================We exist in two different time zones. Men want to be happy right now, today, preferably in the company of a beautiful woman. Tomorrow can wait. Women, on the other hand, are

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I went out on campus on 15th March for Comic Relief - Viv and Shaz were my two spotters and bucket collectors, they were under pain of death to not stray even 2m away from me and they were GREAT - felt very safe with them, Viv was counting the stairs down as I went up/down them so I knew when they ended or began :D, she let me know if there was so much as a speck of grass in my way :hugs: and

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The news today tells us that more and more people and families are getting heavily into debt, and more people are declaring bankruptcy. One of the main reasons for this is the new generation of loan companies that spam us on cable TV every day, making out it's so easy to just take out a loan for that new car, new kitchen, or a nice holiday. And people are so easily fooled by them. Blame was

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So all the Sunday papers are today full of the blonde air hostess that shagged Ralph Fiennes, selling her story about their "passion" in an aeroplane toilet. How Fiennes, who was on his way to a UNICEF conference about AIDS, didn't bother to put a Johnny on (do as I say not as I do) and how they continued their shenanigans in his hotel suite when the plane landed.Then she speaks of her "

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REST OF THE WORLD VERSION:The squirrel works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building and improving his house and laying up supplies for the winter.The grasshopper thinks he's a fool, and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.Come winter, the squirrel is warm and well fed.The shivering grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.THE ENDTHE U.K. VERSION:The

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Well I've decided - I'm gonna be a Stormtrooper! A 20+ year ambition and last week I thought "f*ck it you only live once". So I'm researching all the diff types of armour at the mo then I will raid my ISA and go for it. I've joined the UK Garrison web forum and what a friendly bunch they all are, offering tons of help and advice about choosing armour. They travel the country and attend LOADS of

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by jfharleyA gorgeous pic from my friends at The Collings Foundation in America, click to enlarge.

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Jeeez what a day first off, the new departmental website I built and uploaded on Tuesday had several "issues" that had to be straightened out, and some bigwig was ranting about how it may have lost us potential student applications due to broken links. Hmmm so if a website link is broken you can't pick up the phone and say "your website is broken can I have postgrad application details please?"

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Why is MySpace so popular? It's hideous!!! Awful layout, difficult to customize, garish and untidy, yet everyone goes ape over them. So, being shameless and wanting to promote Fuzzbutt, I have created a Fuzzbutt MySpace at www.myspace.com/fuzzbutt_uk. Check it out!I've disabled band websites from adding themselves as my "friends" as it's bollocks, they aren't a friend they just want to plug

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Spare a thought for my poor rattie Franklin, who at 11 months old, had to have a tumour removed yesterday. Despite the tumour being about 2", the cut on his back is almost 3 times that. Frankenrat!I'm pissed at the vet because a week ago she told me it was a harmless cyst and not to worry and bring her back in a week, but during that week it morphed into a full-on tumour. THe earlier you get

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Unbelieveable news yesterday that one local council had reduced it's binmen collections to once a fortnight, and was then fining anyone £100 who put extra bin bags out with their over-stuffed wheelie bins. Residents have complained that their wheelie bins are already smaller than the average bin, and fortnightly collections are forcing them to put extra bin bags out. Then they get fined for

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Well we got there at 9am and there were queus already. Got a good spot in the Golden Circle queue and when they opened the gates we bagged a spot RIGHT AT THE FRONT at the barrier, stage right. A FABULOUS night, great show and the RObster was about 3 metres away from us all night....ohhh the temptation!!!! We even got on Sky One for about 4 seconds ........

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Hollywood star Lindsay Lohan had a bag containing a reported £530,000-worth of jewellery stolen at Heathrow Airport. Lohan reported the theft to police yesterday evening after noticing her expensive orange Hermes handbag had disappeared from her luggage trolley as she left Terminal One.Er why on earth did dear Lindsay have £500k worth of jewellery perched on her luggage trolley? Why was it not

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Take a look at these images:Now, replace the world "boys" with either "blacks", "Jews", or "girls". Would there be an outcry if tshirts with these slogans attributed to blacks, Jews or girls were put on general sale? You can bet your boots there would.So why are they allowed to be sold featuring boys? Why is it acceptable for boys to be vilified like this?"Oh it's a bit of fun" say the

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Roll on Sat :D:D

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Off to Scotland this Saturday for a week, can't wait - my first holiday since last OCTOBER. Don't care if the weather's crap at least I won't be rotting away at my desk where, during the big summer term break, there is NOTHING to do. Which is great cos it's easy money but it can be so BORING - specially as I have so much Fuzzbutt sewing to do at home!Here is my latest FuzzFilm, enjoy!Was at V

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Not many posts of late as Fuzzbutt has taken off very well and I've been very busy sorting orders and sewing new stock. Last night I was introduced to Microsoft MovieMaker, and produced my very first Fuzzbutt Infomercial: I also came across this video of two little hammies in their wheel, so funny I nearly wet myself :D specially when both of them are in there!Enjoy folks!

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I saw this poem while visiting the 95th Bomb Group USAAF museum in Horham - it was in a book of "thank you" letters from a local school who had visited the base. Their teacher had asked them to write letters of thanks and a poem about what they had learned about WW2."I wish I was not on this plane, because I might not come back.I wish I was back at home because I do not want to fight.I wish the

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Read this report then BOYCOTT!http://www.jakobo.net/14-worst-companies/It's amazing that we call ourselves a Civilized World and we trumpet our advancements in society and engineering etc etc, and yet there are still atrocities being committed in this world by some of the richest and most powerful people who HAVE the power to do GOOD with all their profits.... :o(

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Been a long time since I waffled about life, the universe etc on here....but on Sunday a display pilot from a nearby airfield crashed into the back garden of a house in my friend's village, and was killed instantly. My friend saw the crash from another old WW2 airfield as she stood on top of the old Control Tower. She saw the plane looping and turning and running through it's display, then she

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This from the BBC News website:A vicar has stepped down as a school governor after kissing a primary pupil on the cheek to congratulate her.The Rev Alan Barrett, vicar of Tamworth, Staffordshire, kissed the girl in front of pupils and teachers because she had done well in maths. A church spokesman said a police inquiry found no offence had taken place, but the vicar was told to have no contact

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I went to a fortieth birthday party on Saturday - friend of a friend....I won't go into too much detail in case one of the comes across this blog :-D But HELL it was scary!I discovered I'm physically incapable of making chit-chat conversation with Fortysomething couples. It's SO BORING. Is that because they can't really be bothered to make chit-chat with you, since you are only sharing a few

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You remember my garden about 6 months ago:Well here it is now!!Wildflowers for the insectsThe ratties get some sunTons of foxgloves and other seedlings

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This extract from a DAILY MAIL article - how true!-----------------------------------------------------How depressing it is that the World Cup, which is supposed to celebrate football, should instead bring out so much that is ugly about our society. In their way, the antics of England's wives and girlfriends — the so-called WAGs — are every bit as disheartening as the glorification of Wayne

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An addition to my earlier blog about schoolkids and their jumpers, news today that youngsters were sent home from a Norfolk primary school for wearing their England footie kits.And the reason......? "Because they are made of nylon which is not a good fabric to wear in this hot weather".So the schools force you to wear jumpers and swelter to death in the heat, but then send you home for wearing

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Read article HERE.Unbelieveable news today about the schoolkids who have to keep their sweaters on during the current heatwave "because of health & safety rules".Despite soaring temperatures the youngsters have been ordered to wear the offending item at all times, unless their parents sign a consent form. But the school's headteacher defended the policy and said it was among a string of safety

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Interesting news today that schoolkids may be fed Omega 3 and 6 fish oils at school, to "help improve their brain power and concentration".Utterly useless however, if the schools continue to spend less per head on school meals, than what we spend on our prisoners and Police dogs.There are lots of young kids in the cul de sac where I live. And it sees that from the minute they wake up they are

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Amongst all the hype surrounding today's date 6-6-06 and all the AntiChrist bollocks that come with it, spare a few minutes thought for all the WW2 veterans, who today will have thoughts of fallen comrades, death and violence on the beaches of Normandy.Much better to hype about those brave men and their sacrifices than some overinflated Devil story ...

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The passages below have been excerpted from "Love & Its Disintegration In Western Society," a chapter in Erich Fromm's The Art of Loving (New York: Harper & Row, 1956), pp. 2-3, 72-74."Our whole culture is based on the appetite for buying, on the idea of a mutually favorable exchange. Modern man's happiness consists in the thrill of looking at the shop windows, and in buying all that he can

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http://www.protestvoteparty.org/P56681.asp?bb=58&bx=1Interesting concept. But would it work??

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A TV advert encouraging viewers to sponsor a child in the Third World has been banned for being "an unfair attack on football". The World Vision ad, to have been screened during the Cup, shows an African boy playing with a ball made of maize, bags and string. The advert then says: "England's team are sponsored for £49million. Masidi is sponsored for 60p a day." The Broadcast Advertising Clearance

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Good Lord I should go into hiding!Red hair is seen on the heads of only four percent of people. Most of these exist in the U.K., the Republic of Ireland, and Australia. There is a belief that redheads are prone to industrial deafness. This actually could be true as the melanocytes are found in the middle ear.A 2002 study found that redhead are harder to sedate than any other people requiring

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Very VERY interesting article here:http://www.prisonplanet.com/archives/peak_oil/index.htmSeems plausible - scare the public into thinking oil is running out, then put the prices up and make even bigger profits - while happily knowing there is MORE than enough oil left in the ground to run the world for another few million years.Bastards.

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Interesting report here http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/5003766.stm about "fat tests" for young kids at primary school. The report says "From next year, parents of any obese four or 10 year olds can expect a letter telling them their child faces long-term health damage unless they lose weight. "Erm do parents need a letter from the Government to tell them their kid is fat? Are they blind?

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http://www.planetdan.net/pics/misc/georgie.htmClass! :-D

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For every £10 spent on fuel, £8.50 is taken in tax.The Treasury generates nearly £33 billion from drivers, but less than 5% is re-invested in roads,and no more than 20% in transport as a whole.It is estimated that within 5 years, petrol will cost £7 per gallon.£1.34 per mile to go on a motorway says Labour - if they do this are they going to abolish or cut the licence fee??? Shit, I won't be

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Ambling around Asda tonight I walked past a muscly black man with dodgy skin. Saw him again in the checkout queue 3 down from me. En route back to my caar with trolleyfull of goods, he appears and says hello and tries to talk to me in a decidedly weird accent. I said hello and carried on walking. He follows me to my car and gives me the old "I think we've met" line. "I don't think so" I say

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http://b3ta.com/questions/crapmealsout/F*cking hilarious, I got hysterics in the middle of the office reading this .....

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Here we go again .... in the run up to the World Cup, we Brits are being told we can't fly the St George Flag or the Union Jack, "in fear of upsetting ethnic miniorities".I'm sorry but IF YOU COME TO LIVE IN OUR COUNTRY YOU HAVE TO DEAL WITH US FLYING OUR OWN FUCKING FLAG. If we went over to S. Africa or the Balkans or Lithuania and started pissing and whingeing about seeing their flags

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Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he's in love with her. - Agatha ChristieCan you imagine a world without men? No crime and lots of happy, fat women. - Marion SmithI require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid. - Dorothy ParkerMarrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get

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Apparently panic buying of water butts has hit the shops, because of the impending hosepipe bans and water shortages that are hitting us even before the hot summer gets here.How amusing that again, we have to pay for our Government's lack of action on this issue. Why hasn't legislation been put into place to force ALL new buildings to use water-saving toilets, and to use rainwater for their

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My ex (the one before the current ex) told me on MSN yesterday that he has a new girlfriend. After over a year of him being single, I've finally been replaced. They met at a track day when he was still with me, and after we split they started talking over the internet when he went to Florida. She's just been out there to visit him and they finally got it on.Even though we didn't work out and

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