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Monthly Archives: August 2015

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Rush Hours

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by Gildas the Monk on August 31, 2015

I watched a film called “Rush” a while ago. It tells the story of the rivalry between James Hunt and Niki Lauda. Since I am not a petrol head I did not really know the story.

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The Shipping Forecast

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by Petunia Winegum on August 30, 2015

So many nautical terms are open to misinterpretation by landlubbers that anyone poised to set sail really needs to know a gash fanny from a cunt splice; failure to do so could result in kissing the gunner’s

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A Kiss is just a Kiss…

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by Anna Raccoon on August 29, 2015

Trading masticatory juices with someone who may have just consumed something on the menu that you wouldn’t have dreamt of choosing is such a part of western culture that virtually all of us have engaged in it at

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Obama Vista Social Club

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by Petunia Winegum on August 28, 2015

Family feuds can drag on for decades. We’ve all known siblings who had a big bust-up over something years ago, something nobody can even remember anymore, and still refuse to be in the same room as one another,

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Blowing One’s Trumpet

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by Petunia Winegum on August 28, 2015

Momentarily putting aside those issues that invoke impassioned debate as well as those that inspire apathy, allow the management the luxury of basking in the rewards of their endeavours, pop-pickers. The latest figures for the top

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Virtual Murder

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by Petunia Winegum on August 27, 2015

The great sea change, believed JG Ballard, was the assassination of President Kennedy. The author whose theory was expanded in his 1970 collection of stories, ‘The Atrocity Exhibition’, saw the shocking events of November 22 1963

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Greyfriars’ Blobby

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by Petunia Winegum on August 26, 2015

‘What are you beastly rotters smirking about?’ asked Billy Bunter as he stepped outside of the Commons and saw the Bullingdon Boys chortling over something they were looking at in the newspaper they were all gathered round.

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Is it coz I is Black?

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by Petunia Winegum on August 25, 2015

I know some of you out there are regular Radio 4 listeners and I know some of you are familiar with the station’s forays into the world of situation comedy. I myself only find a couple of

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Proctor Gambles on Fairy Transparency.

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by Anna Raccoon on August 25, 2015

Harvey Proctor has unsheathed his ‘sword of truth’ and come out fighting; unwilling to cower in the closet any longer whilst rumours swirl around the Internet.

Taking the lectern in the Marlborough Suite, he issued a

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Stormin' Corbyn

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by Anna Raccoon on August 24, 2015

Ah, Jeremy ‘I’m too sexy for my vest’ Corbyn; the political gift for whom everyday is Christmas Day. It has made the dog days of August so much more enjoyable watching the Labour party tremble lest one of

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A Quick Pitt Stop

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by Gildas the Monk on August 23, 2015

I came across this photograph the other day. It made me smile and it made me a bit sad. It was obviously taken at the height of the Hammer Horror craze, and summed up all the

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Saturday Superstore

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by Petunia Winegum on August 22, 2015

The Great British shopping experience as it had been known for generations received its first vision of the future at precisely the halfway point of the twentieth century – when Sainsbury’s opened their first self-service ‘supermarket’

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Snail’s Pace Development.

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by Anna Raccoon on August 21, 2015

One of the few beliefs in their own omnipotence that the Romans didn’t hold, was a belief that they could walk on water; thus when they wished to travel from the sand dune known as Great Yarmouth to

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Madison Avenues and Alleyways

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by Petunia Winegum on August 20, 2015

16 million private records leaked online, including credit card transactions linked to email addresses, dates of birth, telephone numbers – the work of hackers yet again. Not nice, this is true; but context counts for a lot

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Bullying and the Misuses of Social Media

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by Gildas the Monk on August 19, 2015

When I was at school, in my mid teens, I was relentlessly and pretty badly bullied for a couple of years. It was very bad stuff, mostly but not always psychological. I can see now, with

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Laugh? I Nearly Had a Legal High

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by Petunia Winegum on August 18, 2015

Young people discover a new way to enjoy themselves that doesn’t adhere to the official social guidelines and the government intervenes on behalf of those it doesn’t affect under the guise of doing so on behalf of

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Time to revisit Gillick?

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by Anna Raccoon on August 17, 2015

Medieval schoolgirls had to hunt their own contraceptives…

Way back in the mists of time, when the Labour party was merely middle aged, Jeremy Corbyn was still wearing short trousers, and no one knew that veering to

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Sunday Miscellany

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by Gildas the Monk on August 16, 2015

Hello Raccoonistas. I have been away for a while. Some things have diverted me. But I could not let this weekend pass without a voice. 70 years since the end of the Second World War. I

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Parish Notice.

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by Anna Raccoon on August 16, 2015

Ms Raccoon duly attended her quarterly interview with the oncologist on Friday; delighted to tell you that you will have to put up with me for longer than predicted – it seems the Letrozole is having some beneficial

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The Saturday Matinee

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by Petunia Winegum on August 15, 2015

Art has the ability to facilitate change, particularly how one looks at the world and the people in it. Both novels and albums have done it for me at different times of my life, but before either

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Global Swarming…

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by Anna Raccoon on August 14, 2015

Listening to Radio 4 in the car the other day, to a sympathetic voice interviewing one of the sad ISIS fighters migrants refugees trafficked persons, that had just been hauled out of the briny by an Italian rescue boat, something about their story

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Married to The Mob

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by Petunia Winegum on August 13, 2015

Collective hysteria can take many forms. One of the first examples I was ever exposed to was ultimately benign and came in October 1973. I was watching ‘John Craven’s Newsround’ covering the chaos that accompanied The Osmonds

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Never Mind the Bollocks.

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by Anna Raccoon on August 12, 2015

One of the enduring on-line Savile myths is that the arch anarchist ‘Johnny Rotten’, as John Lydon became known, ‘warned the BBC about Savile’ in 1978 – but the interview was ‘censored by the BBC’. The sub-text being ‘If

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The Single File

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by Petunia Winegum on August 11, 2015

Bachelor is still a word that conjures up a certain antiquated cool; it evokes images of glamour, both in the surroundings a bachelor knows as home and in his swish sartorial uniform. One thinks of convertible sports cars, jet-setting

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Batman n' Robbin'.

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by Anna Raccoon on August 10, 2015

There can be no sadder sight than a hot air ballon collapsing in ignominy. Speaking as someone who once spent some months working for a hot air balloon company, I know just how many hours go into stitching

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Time Gentlemen, Please!

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by Anna Raccoon on August 9, 2015

Years ago, I found a small brass object hidden at the back of the drawer in a desk I had bought at auction. It sits on my windowsill to this day; partly testament to the years it took

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Off He Went with a Trumpetty-Trump

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by Petunia Winegum on August 8, 2015

For those old enough to remember Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker, observing the current Labour leadership contest is a bit like having to decide between Colin Baker and Sylvester Mc Coy as the next Doctor Who. Jeremy

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I Think We’ve Been Here Before

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by Petunia Winegum on August 7, 2015

It may surprise you to know that we on the management side of the Raccoon Arms have occasional episodes in our lives that don’t involve pulling pints and breaking-up fights. Both me and ‘er upstairs have each enjoyed

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Hiroshima, Mon Amour

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by Petunia Winegum on August 6, 2015

Our touchy-feely age is one in which families are encouraged to be ‘open’. The old notion of skeletons in the ancestral closet being kept there has been usurped by the growth of the genealogy industry and the

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What about the Boyos?

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by Anna Raccoon on August 4, 2015

Amnesty International is as right-on, bleeding heart, liberal as it comes. Since 1961, when it was launched hand-in-glove with the caring souls at the Guardian, it has redefined colonialism by imposing the views of the Islington crowd on

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