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Hoo-flipping-ray
It's a shame when a supposedly democratic regime needs to be forced to do the right thing. -
Happy new year
It's Advent again, folks. Here's wishing you and yours a happy and many-times-blessed year. -
Underground geek
Not that anyone cares, but I now know how to identify LUL's A-stock, C-stock and D-stock just by taking a quick look ( Read more... ) -
Teh Ghey!!! (and sheep)
Copy this sentence into your LiveJournal if you're in a heterosexual marriage, and you don't want it "protected" by the bigots who think that gay marriage hurts it somehow. -
DfES and that happy feeling of being nice to Ethnics
I've just filled in an application form to send my children to nursery school. On the back page was the usual make-us-feel-happy question about ethnic origin. As a rule, I always put "refused to answer" so they'll think I'm black.
Unusually, this particular form had a detailed list of who fits into which category, all approved by the DfES. It ( Read more... ) -
Straw poll
I guess this is aimed at the womenfolk of my flist, but I'm not going to restrict.
Just to help with a debate I have been having with $someone, how would you feel if someone referred to you as "on heat"? -
Praise so far beyond achievement that it is no longer funny
Your result for The Commonly Confused Words Test ...
English GeniusYou scored 100% Beginner, 100% Intermediate, 100% Advanced, and 100% Expert ( Read more... ) -
Detention without charge
I wonder why Tendai Biti's arrest and detention for a week (ed:three times the legal limit) before he was charged made the news. After all, he's clearly a terrorist, and his organisation is trying to destabilise the Zimbabwean government. We should be perfectly content to let the detention last up to 42 days before we get even remotely concerned ( Read more... ) -
Journeys through time
2008What does the colour of his hair have to do with anything? Or do you just pick something about something that they cannot deny and define this as being shameful by naming it in such a derogatory tone of voice? Do you care that he's going to spend the next week/month/year/lifetime with a shitty body image because he will always have ginger ( Read more... ) -
Living on a ball
On a thread on garpu's journal, I was discussing great-circles. It also became apparent that Cambourne is pretty much the same distance from Los Angeles as it is from Seoul (approx 5450 statute miles). Far from obvious if you look at a flat (Mercator or similar) map of the world.
So anyway, I fired up Google Earth and drew a couple of lines.
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