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Monthly Archives: July 2012

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The Utter Twits.

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by Anna Raccoon on July 31, 2012

Dear God,

This has gone too far. Please send a thunderbolt. Urgently.

A teenager, excited about the Olympics, as ordered by our glorious leader, has just been arrested.

For tweeting to Tom Daley as follows:

@Rileyy_69 which said: “You let your dad down i hope

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Give and Take.

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by Anna Raccoon on July 31, 2012

Oregon. It’s that wide open state of mountain and forest where American’s dream of a life of self sufficiency, fish for your supper, shoot your breakfast, camp fires, and a thumping great 4 x 4 to tear

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The Sunday Ramble – Standing Room Only

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by Gildas the Monk on July 29, 2012

This is the house where Chris used to live. It is a half timbered effort, dating I guess from somewhere in early 1800’s. As you can see, it is not situated in bucolic seclusion, at least

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The Last Flight of the Great Auck.

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by Anna Raccoon on July 28, 2012

The Great Auck, a humourless, preening bird, thought to be deservedly extinct, has been sighted flapping its ungainly wings in the Blogosphere. Whilst agile enough in the boardroom of Northcliffe’s regional media division, it is clumsy

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Underwhelmed.

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by Anna Raccoon on July 27, 2012

I’ve just turned on the news to see ‘the best of Britain’ to quote our glorious leader…

Shot of a grey leaden sky over the Olympic stadium, cut to a grubby Union Jack fluttering somewhere in

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Equality for All. The Right to Be Bullied, Courtesy of Islington Council.

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by Anna Raccoon on July 27, 2012

Back in 2009, in the bad old days of daft legislation (sic), one of my favourite quango’s, the Equality and Human Rights Commission, launched its latest brain dead salvo.

They decreed that in order to

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The Dead Tree Proles.

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by Anna Raccoon on July 26, 2012

It is not M’lud Leveson that will see the Dead Tree Proles out of work and unemployable; they are more likely to condemn themselves by their own fair hand in their increasingly hysterical efforts to be seen

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Who gets the wet patch?

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by Gildas the Monk on July 25, 2012

It was last year when our landlady scandalised (possibly) some of our readership with a blog post that began with the immortal opening lines…

“There was a lengthy period of time, during which,

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Silence is Guardian.

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by Anna Raccoon on July 25, 2012

I have been waiting in vain for several days for the Guardian’s coverage of the latest ‘Domestic Violence’ outrage. I know how passionately they feel about the subject. 65 articles in the last 30 days alone –

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RIP Captain Haddock.

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by Anna Raccoon on July 25, 2012

We have lost one of that happy band of commentators, without whom, we Bloggers would have no purpose in life.

Their wit, their erudite comments, their support when times are hard and inspiration is low, are the very life blood of any

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Why can’t the English be more like the French?

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by Anna Raccoon on July 23, 2012

I’ve been pondering the rash of new regulations over the week-end in the US, a country the UK grows more alike every week.

First the cinema chain AMC banned ‘Joker’ costumes, and fake fire arms being carried into

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The Cat With No Name

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by Gildas the Monk on July 22, 2012

About three years ago I had the misfortune to run into some financial problems. The details don’t matter. All I would like to say is that it was not a case of me being improvident or

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Bring Me the Head of PC Simon Harwood on a Platter!

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by Anna Raccoon on July 20, 2012

If they desire a thing they declare that it is true. If they desire it not, though that were Death itself, they cry aloud, ‘It has never been.’ Thus their talk is the talk of children, and

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One Man and His Shed.

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by Anna Raccoon on July 19, 2012

I needed to open a can of treacle today. Mr G was off in the middle distance, roaring up and down the field on his tractor; the man who cut the hay had had a

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***Exclusive*** Paedophilia and Bizarre Uses for Parliament.

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by Anna Raccoon on July 18, 2012

It is easy to wonder ‘What is the purpose of Parliament’ these days, when all they seem to do is conduct a childish haranguing match over the dispatch box. John Hemming MP has today reminded us that the whole

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Science as religion.

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by Pericles on July 17, 2012

Contemplating protests so widespread in America about genetically modified organisms (G.M.O.s), I’m struck by the facts that Americans to-day, just as peoples around the World, are taller and generally have a greater life expectancy than ever before.  (Admittedly

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Nappy Days are Here Again.

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by Anna Raccoon on July 17, 2012

Not for me Thank God, just watching the BBC2 documentary on Taxi firm Addison Lee was enough to send shivers down my spine.

Following on from yesterdays post, I bring

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Just colour me Dormouse….

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by Anna Raccoon on July 16, 2012

Don’t fight it, don ‘t panic, just pack up your things quietly and leave the country.

No wonder they’ve called the military in to guard the Olympics, who could they hire in the civilian world? This

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Don’t mention the ‘F’ word.

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by Anna Raccoon on July 16, 2012

We have the likes of Cosmopolitan magazine circa 1960 to blame for modern women’s fear of the ‘F’ word. They sold her the idea that to have a fulfilling life, she must have a ‘C’ word in

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The Sunday Ramble – If I was a Duck

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by Gildas the Monk on July 15, 2012

If I was a duck, I would speak to other ducks. If I was a little boy I would play with other little boys. And if I was a slightly sinister, faceless corporate machine with my

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The ShambOlympics.

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by Anna Raccoon on July 14, 2012

Well over a decade ago, a motley collection of dreamers, thinkers, artists, radicals and romanticists decided to get together under the stars over a summer weekend. We wanted to make a place to party, free

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For the easily offended.

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by Anna Raccoon on July 14, 2012

Over six million people bought this Donald McGill post card and weren’t offended. However, local councillor’s were on his tail, and in 1953 he faced a show trial, and was ultimately fined for his ‘obscenity’.

It seems that local councillors

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It was 50 years ago today…

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by Anna Raccoon on July 13, 2012

The evening news was full of interviews with The Rolling Stones, ’50 years since they played their first gig at The Marquee Club’. I’m puzzled by the dates.

For a variety of reasons, Ms Raccoon knows

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Blogging Police Inspector Unmasked!

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by Anna Raccoon on July 13, 2012

God God! – Is Inspector Gadget really a teen age belly dancer in Scunthorpe? An unmarried Mother of four different brats with a Brazilian wax and ‘I shagged John Terry’ firmly tattooed on the left buttock?

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Of Mice and Men

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by Gildas the Monk on July 12, 2012

My parents’ house was invaded by mice recently. Now don’t get me wrong, I love all God’s creatures. So when a tiny mouse about the size of fifty pence piece poked its wiggling nose out from

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A Question for You on the Risk Adverse Society.

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by Anna Raccoon on July 11, 2012

How much control should the authorities maintain over those that they decree might pose a risk to society? Any, marginal, none? What is your choice?

Let us take two ‘risk regimes’ and two hypothetical people posing

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The Longest Walk ….

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by Constable Chaos on July 10, 2012

It’s only been a few weeks since I posted about the number of RTC’s we attend where a major contributory factor to the injuries received is the lack of wearing seat belts.

Yet this in

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Leveson Schmeveson, it’s a waste of time and money…

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by Anna Raccoon on July 9, 2012

The media will never change, not so long as the dual pressures of vanishing advertising revenues and 24 hour rolling news schedules to fill are in place. Leveson can invite as many ex-Prime Ministers and newspaper editors as he

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Classic FAIL!

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by Anna Raccoon on July 8, 2012

That is one Hell of a way to describe your dear husband, Madam, we are indebted to you……

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The Sunday Ramble

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by Gildas the Monk on July 8, 2012

Shine on, you not so crazy Diamond!

It was billed as either the day when Bob Diamond spilled the beans and came out with all guns blazing, taking down former colleagues, officials from the

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