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Exaltation1

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by SadButMadLad on February 18, 2011

News reaches us that Ecstasy isn’t as bad as the authorities have led to us believe.

Politicians always seem to be on the prohibitionist side and have been telling us that drugs are bad.

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Best comments of the week (BCotW)

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by SadButMadLad on February 13, 2011

Caedmon’s Cat in ‘Why do you Blog?’

I blog during the course of my mouse-catching activities. I do so because I’m the only moggy in the area who’s interested enough to do it. Life is getting

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Saturday posts worth looking at

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by SadButMadLad on February 12, 2011

Things Real People Don’t Say About Advertising. Bruce Schneier on bomb sniffing mice. John Adams on the need for a Cream Buns Act.

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Touch me!

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by SadButMadLad on February 11, 2011

The do gooders who think they know best usually end up getting the reverse result that they are aiming for. This is because they go purely on instinct and emotion and not actually looking at the issue and

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Proofreading is a dying art

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by SadButMadLad on February 11, 2011

Proofreading is a dying art, wouldn’t you say? I should say that I am no expert at grammer or spelling and use the tools available to ensure I don’t make too many mistakes but it’s easy to miss the

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Instead of prisoner votes, care for pensioners

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by SadButMadLad on February 10, 2011

Let’s put the pensioners in jail and the criminals in a nursing home. Solves two problems in one.

Pensioners

This way the pensioners would have access to showers, hobbies and walks.

They’d receive unlimited free prescriptions, dental and medical treatment, wheel chairs etc and they’d

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Why do you blog?

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by SadButMadLad on February 9, 2011

As I’m left holding the reins of AR I got to thinking about how I got into blogging.

I work in the computer industry so blogging, tweeting, facesitting, weren’t unusual terms

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Mumbo-jumbo

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by SadButMadLad on February 8, 2011

The Department of Communities and Local Govt have recently published these forgotten documents commissioned by the previous government but for some reason not released until now. It should be noted that the cost of

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Unattended responsibility

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by SadButMadLad on February 8, 2011

So its now a crime to leave a child unattended for 30 minutes. It seems that is the case now that some police authority has cautioned

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PeterPan in porn shocker

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by SadButMadLad on February 4, 2011

I notice from my perusing of various left wing blogs that Liberal Conspiracy is making a big thing out of the fact that Vodafone shut down it’s mobile phone operation in Egypt

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Party!

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by SadButMadLad on February 3, 2011

Party! There’s going to be a party on the street. Well so long as the council allow it.

Andrew Withers has previously mentioned the Royal Wedding where

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Cardboard milk

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by SadButMadLad on February 2, 2011

A new eco friendly milk bottle has been invented (or is it recycled because the inventor first thought of it in 2007). A papier-mâché version. If you’re wondering how it doesn’t disintegrate then be

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Poor dumb dog

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by SadButMadLad on February 2, 2011

Most of the main stream media are bleating about some animal cruelty being carried out during the making of a film. The film is about the end of the Zeppelin and includes

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Minister for Silly Crimes

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by SadButMadLad on January 31, 2011

James Brokenshire (not just his name but his ideas are broken) as the minister in charge of crime prevention has just thought of a new wheeze and a method by which he can raise his image

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White middle class terrorist

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by SadButMadLad on January 28, 2011

From America comes news of an internal (or is it infernal) terrorist called Kevin Theodore Simon who managed to bring down a plane.

Security around planes is extremely high because

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Death

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by SadButMadLad on January 25, 2011

Redditch council is planning on using the waste heat from a crematorium to warm up a swimming pool. Their plan is to save money, nearly £15K/yr by diverting the heat that would normally go

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2 litres

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by SadButMadLad on January 23, 2011

We are always told to drink lots of water. We are bombarded with these messages from TV/Radio health programmes, government health propaganda, and advertising from drinks companies.

All this on the basis that our bodies

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The greyness of law

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by SadButMadLad on January 18, 2011

A relative of mine recently changed their number plate at the same time as exchanging cars. Due to problems along the way they had two cars with identical number plates. Garages are not that efficient and the DVLA

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How to handle interviews

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by SadButMadLad on January 13, 2011

In the light of MP Kerry McCarthy saying that she was misquoted in a sunday newspaper about the call to DNA test every male in the Bristol and surrounding areas here is a

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Vegetarianism

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by SadButMadLad on January 13, 2011

Why are we so picky about eating animals. Many vegetarians are veggy by choice not because eating meat causes them problems but because they are picky about the

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When laws aren’t needed

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by SadButMadLad on January 13, 2011

In Tuscon, Arizona there has been the shooting rampage where 6 people were killed by Jared Lee Loughner and Democrat congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and more than a dozen others badly wounded. As the families in Tucson

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The perfect MP

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by SadButMadLad on January 7, 2011

The ideal politician is one who does nothing.

A politician who jumps up at any opportunity and makes a name for himself by grandstanding and coming up with new laws and opinions every other

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Second hand Brussels Sprouts

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by SadButMadLad on January 6, 2011

No, I’m not selling used Brussels Sprouts, I’m talking about second hand, third hand, and fourth hand second cigarette smoke.

It’s not just the UK which has banned smoking in enclosed spaces. Ireland started it.

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Saturday posts worth reading

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by SadButMadLad on December 11, 2010

Dick Puddlecote says let teachers teach. WattsUpWithThat highlights the dangers of Dihydrogen-Monoxide. JoNova has a long story about big Oz government changing the rules and hurting the little person. Continue reading →

Childhood moments

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by SadButMadLad on December 8, 2010

Christopher Graham, the Information Commissioner, says that taking pictures of children at nativity plays is not against the Data Protection Act. Thank god someone has seen some common sense. However the DPA is not the reason

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A Matter Of Testing

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by SadButMadLad on December 7, 2010

The MOT test is to be changed in the new year. The government has also announced that it will review the MOT test. They will look into the initial exemption period, the testing frequency, and what

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Aliens have landed

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by SadButMadLad on December 4, 2010

NASA has just announced that they have found some alien life forms. But before you get too excited about little green men, this is actually about little green bacteria. Well maybe not green as they are

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Child safety

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by SadButMadLad on November 28, 2010

Proof that child safety is more about protecting children from the perceived extreme risk of pedophiles and similar abuse than about protecting them from accidents is shown by this quote from the CoE policy document on

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Strive for failure

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by SadButMadLad on November 22, 2010

“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas Edison

All around you people are striving to avoid failure. In all

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Happiness

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by SadButMadLad on November 21, 2010

So the goverment wants to find out how happy the country is via statistics. Dry statistics will never show the state of happiness of the country. It it is too ephemeral.

Happiness is

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