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[news.bbc.co.uk] Voters are becoming more rude to politicians – and the BBC’s Jeremy Paxman is to blame, a senior Tory says. Caroline Spelman said she was “shocked” by the hostility she encountered from the public during the general election. “The practice of not allowing people to finish their sentences has really caught on,” she told

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Well the deposit has gone in, and the ETA is sometime in March: All of the Trice models have good handling characteristics but the XL is superb and really must be experienced. The XL is super-stable because of its relatively low seat height and the result is a Trice, which is fast in a straight

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Further to my recent posting about The Daily Show arriving in the UK, I just got off AIM with a widely-travelled American friend who took me slightly to task: (Notes in [brackets], mildly edited for clarity/grammar/speeling) Him: I think you’re missing something about “The Daily Show“ Me: Hmm? Him: It’s hard to explain… It has

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It’s exactly what every British person will think it means, and nothing to do what any American might suspect. [wellhungmeat.com]

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I really have no idea how successful this will be, but amongst the goodies to soon be arriving on yet another (hooray!) Channel4-Themed Channel – More4 – will be the “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart” [en.wikipedia.org] on a 1-day delay. Some of my colleagues in the USA worship this program – but then the

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This is Part 2. You might want to read Part 1 first. There are three kinds of Little Old Ladies in England; there are some who are made of tweed and oak, and others who are made of silver and mother-of-pearl, and some who are made of finest paper-thin porcelain, and the one sat across

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There’s a certain decadent pleasure in going into a moderately posh restaurant and announcing to the staff that you’ld like a table for one, for dessert, please; if the front staff are young – as hotel front staff tend to be – they get this deer-in-the-headlights look, say “Yes, sir.” and then dash off to

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This is just so wrong: [www.ps260.com.nyud.net:8090]

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I wonder if Schneier also gets these things. Nah, he probably gets Mafiosi who want to break into banks. Perhaps I am blessed to only have to deal with… well, the attached. People: be sympathetic to me, and to Alejandra. Once you too were that young and tiny nitpicky interpersonal things were your entire universe.

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In the past 14 days there have been 1185 direct and 780 + 695 + 250 + 225 + 204 + 186 + 159 + 157 + 130 + 98 + 89 + 88 + 87 + 83 + 75 + 72 + 60 + 59 + 57 + 57 + 41 + 37 +

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On the advice of a SunBlogger, I went to Woogle at [www.gujian.net] and fed the phrase “love is blind” into it. The results are/were unspeakable.

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ph33r m3, f0r 1 h4v3 ch0r1z0 nunchuk4s!!!

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