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Day: March 28, 2007

  • Guido takes on the establishment

    Guido Fawkes has been given a spot on Newsnight. He asks some perfectly legitimate questions, and gets some perfectly legitimate answers, but both sides appear to be missing the point. Ultimately, it is healthy in a democracy to have people like Guido sticking their fingers in the air at the establishment. They often go off…

  • Funny racism

    Come off it guys, this is just a joke! Where’s your sense of humour? It’s political correctness gone mad! To make amends, perhaps Cllr Gordon ought to send Nelson Mandela the gift of poo. You know, for a larf. Hat tip: Recess Monkey.

  • Do bears poop in Berlin?

    The answer would appear to be, not always. Apologies for another poo related story, but it appears that Berlin Zoo’s Panda has died of heart failure caused by acute constipation. But there is speculation of a cute other cause (geddit? GEDDIT?!). I warned you.

  • Poo to nationalism

    A couple of weeks ago, I was castigated for saying that nationalism was an ugly thing, citing the example of “Scottish Nationalists chucking faeces through English people’s letterboxes“. I later apologised for capitalising the en in Nationalist (I never meant to imply I thought it was SNP policy), but insisted (and insist) that it is…

  • Doctorin’ the Companions

    Daniel Martin has listed his five favourite – and five worst – Doctor Who companions. In doing so he exposes himself as a member of that odd bunch of people: Doctor Who fans who liked Ace. There’s a lot of them, but I’d love to know why. As an attempt to make the companion a…