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Potted Twitter

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by Gildas the Monk on August 1, 2011

I have been a little distracted from blogging over the past week by matters temporal, but have been keeping my eye on the lawless, crazy and often profane and sometimes witty World of Twitter. Below is a random selection of those tweets

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Skiing Down the Angel Escalator

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by Matt Wardman on July 31, 2011

Yesterday evening, I asked in the comments for favourite Underground videos.

This is one of mine. A sensible gent who is late for work skis down the escalator at the Angel tube station, which

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When the flan hit the shit (caption competition)

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by Matt Wardman on July 26, 2011

The Register have a model explanation of what really happened when Rupert and James Murdoch were examined by the  Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee.

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Northern Wisdom from Mr Ed

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by Matt Wardman on July 20, 2011

Another hard-hitting interview from political heavyweight Ed Miliband. Voice-sync Wallace and Gromit, without the Cheese, may get slightly

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Hari Potter

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by Matt Wardman on July 17, 2011

Some silliness for a Sunday Evening. Young Wizards Hari Potter and Johann Hari look surprisingly similar. Johann Hari has remarked about interviewees thinking he

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I’m still in love with Gildas, Baby

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by Sister Eva Longoria on July 13, 2011

Dear brothers and sisters,

As many of you may know, I have long considered that I am a SPECIAL friend of one of the occasional contributors to this blog, namely GILDAS THE MONK. However, I must confess

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Password Problem or User Problem?

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by Matt Wardman on July 6, 2011

Anna was all over people being silly with their passwords yesterday, in the serious context of phone hacking at the News of the World.

But do you remember *this* episode?

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Health and Safety Vision On

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by Matt Wardman on July 3, 2011

Revisit your childhood as Vision On – that iconic kids art show from the 60s and 70s – returns…with a twist. This is from the same maker as the video I posted previously.

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How Rory McIllroy learnt his golf

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by Matt Wardman on June 21, 2011

The 22 year-old winner of the US Open, Rory McIllroy, appeared on Ulster TV when he was 9 years old, to demonstrate how he practiced. There’s

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Juan Sheet

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by SadButMadLad on June 20, 2011

Juan replaces Brenda and Audrey as icons for the kitchen towel product Plenty, which was called Bounty.

Does the company know what they are doing with changing the name of the product and

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2 Cows

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by SadButMadLad on June 19, 2011

  • Socialism: You have 2 cows. You give one to your neighbour.
  • Communism: You have 2 cows. The state takes both and gives you some milk.
  • Fascism: You have 2 cows. The state takes both

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Anhedonia

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by Matt Wardman on June 13, 2011

Laura Peony has kindly done another guest post.

Hello the blog.

I’ve started a new secret project; it’s the homework for my “Increase your Wordpower” course. I’ve got to get as many

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Now we are Nyx – Life as a Journalistic Goddess

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by Matt Wardman on June 9, 2011

A guest post from Laura Peony.

Hello, the blog.

It’s been a very strange few months. Things have

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Picture Caption Contest.

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by Anna Raccoon on May 24, 2011

Just think, if all the footballers in all the world kept their dongle in their trousers, we could have saved an entire rain forest from being cut down to provide news paper…..

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Laurie Penny going round in circles over the Spanish Revolution

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by Matt Wardman on May 22, 2011

This morning, Laurie Penny our fearless investigative reporter set out to research the stories covered by the papers, taking grave personal risk to read the Internet. And a detailed

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Could be a serial killer?

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by Anna Raccoon on May 21, 2011

Who said Plod was thick? Eh? Eat your words now! He knows exactly where to look for a body – and may shortly be widening his enquiries, after he finds several more…… The sniffer dogs will

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The Right Wing Radio Duck conspiracy

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by Matt Wardman on May 19, 2011

[Update: I’m having a couple of problems embedding video, so I’ve used links.] The best “patchwork” video I have even seen – one constructed from a montage of sources – is “Right Wing Radio Duck”, where “Donald Duck

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Great Inventions of Our Time – Halogen Bulb Taker-Outer

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by Matt Wardman on March 17, 2011

We’ve all seen it; those kitchens where they’ve caved in to the idea of environmental friendliness by combining a half-arsed version of “but halogen bulbs are more earth-friendly than the ones that were banned” with “I

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Removing dictators

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by SadButMadLad on March 10, 2011

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Hookahs & H&S

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by SadButMadLad on February 22, 2011

A 19 yr old was fined £2,000 for breaking Health & Safety laws. For smoking a hookah next to gas cylinders at his workplace. He also suffered burns and had to pay £2000 costs.

The company had already received

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Sound of music

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by Sister Eva Longoria on February 20, 2011

Flash Mob!

Let’s leave aside the political and moral maze. Let’s see what can be done with the Sound of Music, a train Station in Belgium, and some very silly people. Get your speakers turned up, sit

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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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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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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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I Present The Anarcho-Dandyist Ball

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by Andrew P Withers on November 12, 2010

Gentlefolk, The Chap Magazine, in association with Bourne & Hollingsworth, puts its best
brogue forward to stage the year’s most dapper shindig. This “night of a
thousand waistcoats” will give followers of

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