Skuds’ Sister’s Brother

No its not Tom Watson, but a chap called Richard Layard.  I must admit I had never heard of him and didn’t know that such a thing as a ‘happiness tsar’ even existed, but that’s not the point.  There was a story about him in the G2 section of today’s Guardian, that led me down [...]

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Is this the best advert on TV at the moment?

The only thing that could have made it better is if there had been a close-up of him opening the bottle that featured real hands.

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This game must be old news, but I only stumbled across it this evening.  Great fun, but quite difficult, and nearly as good as the knife-throwing game.  Basically, you have to control ‘Dangerous Dave’ Cameron on his bike.

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I love this!

The ball is now in Kraftwerk's court to invite Bill along to join them in singing Das Hokey Cokey… somehow I can’t see it happening though.

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I came across a great quote today. It was from Alex Turner of the Arctic Monkeys talking about his German language skills. I think I may have to steal it and use it to describe my own abilities in French:
I’m not fluent. I can’t even get by as a tourist. But [...]

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I think that Sam Allardyce was having a bit of fun in his post-match interviews after his team lost to Derby the other day. Either that or the Newcastle air is getting to him and he has started channelling Viz magazine.
When I was reading the match report in Yesterday’s paper I found this masterpiece [...]

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Two headlines from the Argus this week:
Tuesday 29th May:
Brighton among most secure places in Britain
Wednesday 30th May:
Police officer’s car stolen - from police station
Slightly spoiled by the fact that, when you actually read the second story it is not about Brighton but Arundel. Even so, the first story does have Sussex Police boasting that [...]

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A bit premature, as our two local weeklies don’t come out until tomorrow, but I can’t see them beating this one from the Brighton Argus website today:
Restaurant boss shocked at size of marker pens packaging
Must be a slow week in Brighton.

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Another great photo from StefZ on Flickr. He has a good eye for quirky signs which feature quite a lot in his photostream and his blog has long been a favourite of mine.
I have often thought that signs for disabled parking bays should have a similar touch of brutal honesty and say at the end [...]

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After working all day, then going straight out delivering election addresses it was quite late in the day before I got round to reading what should have been my morning paper, but it was worth it for the West Ham/Everton match report.
describing the end of West Ham’s season and the effect it has on supporters [...]

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