050706: Bits
I thought the world was ending yesterday. There was thunder, lightning, and heavy, heavy rain. The power went out across the whole of Northamptonshire, no traffic lights were working and civilisation was breaking down. I was driving home from work like a man in a disaster movie, trying to reach his family before the looting began. Awesome.
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Isn't Israel going into Palestine and holding half the country hostage until the bad guys return the kidnapped Israeli soldier just the geopolitical equivalent of keeping a class back until someone owns up to writing SOAPY TIT WANK on the board?
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North Korea tested missiles yesterday. You know, missiles - the kind of stuff we've had since World War 2. They didn't work. And we're scared of these people?
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Confession: I've never seen a World Cup final. I've only ever seen one European Championships final, in 1980. I rarely watch the FA Cup final. And don't even ask about the Carling Cup. It's weird, I'll watch two teams play a game with nothing at stake because I can appreciate the football, but if either team is someone I HATE, and there's a competition to be won, I just don't want to know. Even if one of the teams is a team I like, I won't watch them because the team I don't like might win. And I'd hate to see that. So, for me, the World Cup ended on Saturday, when the last team I cared about even slightly got knocked out. Fuck 'em all. If they play a World Cup final and nobody's watching, does it count?
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Last summer, you may recall, I made a pirate ship out of cardboard for the libraries summer reading promotion. This year, it's a motherfucking SPY-DOME~!
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Isn't Israel going into Palestine and holding half the country hostage until the bad guys return the kidnapped Israeli soldier just the geopolitical equivalent of keeping a class back until someone owns up to writing SOAPY TIT WANK on the board?
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North Korea tested missiles yesterday. You know, missiles - the kind of stuff we've had since World War 2. They didn't work. And we're scared of these people?
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Confession: I've never seen a World Cup final. I've only ever seen one European Championships final, in 1980. I rarely watch the FA Cup final. And don't even ask about the Carling Cup. It's weird, I'll watch two teams play a game with nothing at stake because I can appreciate the football, but if either team is someone I HATE, and there's a competition to be won, I just don't want to know. Even if one of the teams is a team I like, I won't watch them because the team I don't like might win. And I'd hate to see that. So, for me, the World Cup ended on Saturday, when the last team I cared about even slightly got knocked out. Fuck 'em all. If they play a World Cup final and nobody's watching, does it count?
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Last summer, you may recall, I made a pirate ship out of cardboard for the libraries summer reading promotion. This year, it's a motherfucking SPY-DOME~!