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Supercasinos

Is there anyone who can be happy that this evil and corrupt government has granted a licence to build a so-called ‘supercasino’ in the heart of Manchester? It’s a monument to greed and easy money that will cover five thousand square metres of godlessness. Did our politicians, who seem at pains to curtail just about […]

Please Tell Me This Isn’t Real…

I’ve nicked this photo from Bigmouth Strikes Again’s comments. (Sorry - I had to download the photo, my Wordpress wasn’t happy with linking to imageshack - and I’m not sure to whom I should give due credit).
Someone please tell me it’s not real, or at the very least just an advert aboout visiting The Orwell […]

Learning About Modern Britain, In Quotes

On being Tony Blair’s director of government relations…..:
I hadn’t really any intention of joining the Labour Party, I just fell in with the wrong crowd.
Yes, yes I only just spotted it, even though it’s from Saturday’s Guardian. But it is on page 14. And I’m a slow reader…..
Song playing as this was published: Dar Williams […]

Training

( Running )

Another of my group of close friends has fallen. Actually, that’s not yet true, although he began the slide a long time a go when we shared a flat in Glasgow – a dark descent, which shall end in April when he gets married. As well as meaning that I shall have to buy a […]

Dust. Bites The. Another One.

So. The TEFL Smiler is no more. Well, actually he is. Probably. Just with a newer, more secret identity, a batcave and a career fighting grammatical errors using sleek, matt black, carbon fibre gizmos (have you seen the new, spring-loaded, rocket-launched OED - with integral grappling hook that has up to 47% more tensile strength […]

Learning About Modern Britain, In Quotes

E-mails:
Nach einem am Dienstag durchgeführten notwendigen Update der E-Mail-Server-Software laufen die Software-Caches, die zur Zwischenspeicherung der E-Mails dienen, noch nicht stabil.
Dadurch treten seit Donnerstag Nachmittag erneut Störungen beim Abruf der E-Mails per POP3, IMAP oder Webmailer auf. Nur ein Teil der Mailbox-Abrufe kann bedient werden.
Ah, that’s not actually modern Britain is it? Still, the mailservers […]

The Problem With Applying For Jobs…

Is that they might say ‘yes.’
And they might be academics (and therefore pay badly) and be computer literate enough to be able to google the fact that I might not want to work for that salary for the four years that their funding lasts….
So, I’ll not say anything, except that [edited]
Anyway, I think the major […]

Men! Worried About Hair Loss?

Then crystal meth is for you!
(ask your local, unemployed biochemist - who needs to pay off some debts - for details…..)