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So that’s what happened to Hoon

April 24th, 2010 · Comments Off on So that’s what happened to Hoon · Life

Geoff Hoon has been low-profile since his attempted overthrow of Gordon Brown and here is the reason – it looks like he has been down under, and in the process has performed some sort of agamogenesis and reproduced himself, judging by the start of the story: Intimidating bikies and packs of hoons who cram into […]

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Black to the future

October 15th, 2009 · Comments Off on Black to the future · Life

For a change I was ahead of the curve.  Everyone has been piling in to criticise the Australian TV show ‘Hey Hey Its Saturday’ after the appearance of a group of amateur entertainers called Jackson Jive on a special reunion edition of the old programme – but I have spent twenty years disliking the show!

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Street Life

March 25th, 2009 · Comments Off on Street Life · Life, Technology

I am really loving Google’s Street View at the moment.   Google’s cameras have not yet penetrated West Sussex so I can’t look at my house, but that doesn’t bother me too much: if I wanted to do that I could just go outside.   What I have been doing is ‘visiting’ old haunts to see if […]

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The power of whingeing

November 28th, 2006 · Comments Off on The power of whingeing · Life

I was totally gobsmacked by this story in the Guardian today. Lets see if I have got this right… the entertainment at a cricket match included a song parody which accused us Brits of whingeing, so we (or our representatives out there in the ‘Barmy Army’) whinged about it, and got an apology. I though […]

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