tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57343762008-12-23T22:27:17.136ZRandom thoughts in a random world<br> <a href="http://www.rhodesfamily.org.uk/blog/2003/08/to-blog-or-not-to-blog-blogging-not.html#blog">But why Shooting Parrots?</a><br><a href="http://shootingparrots.tumblr.com/">Polly takes a Tumble</a>Shooting Parrotshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07503757845024102476noreply@blogger.comBlogger1046125This is an XML content feed. It is intended to be viewed in a newsreader or syndicated to another site, subject to copyright and fair use.tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5734376.post-81549927296742480012008-07-23T18:53:00.003+01:002008-07-23T19:04:42.857+01:00

Love this video. Strange that I came across via the Telegraph's re-designed website, not known for its support for the Democrats. See the website.

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Before I start, I must make clear that I have nothing against GPs. For the most part they are dedicated professionals who provide a much valued service and have their patients interests at heart. (I have to say this as there is at least one GP who drops by hear now and then.) No doubt you can that there is a big *BUT* coming up and here it is -- they do have schizophrenic tendencies. Many

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If you're having trouble reading the above, push your chair back a few feet.

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Bad day to choose to drive to Bolton. The bikers added their weight to the fuel protests by bringing the westbound M62 to a grinding halt at rush hour. To be honest, I'm not quite sure why. The message seemed to be: "Don't put the 2p tax levy on petrol, put it on general taxation instead." Given that motorbikes tend to use less fuel than cars you'd think that the fuel tax versus PAYE question

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We Brits are really good at stereotypes, from "all immigrants are illegal and only here to milk the NHS and the benefits system" to " all ManU fans live in the home counties and Asia". The former is bigoted and reactionary and especially so the latter. Yes there are plenty of Cockney Reds and the foreign following is is massive, but in my experience of trips to OT the accents are local One of

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A lot has been made about the history and destiny behind Wednesday. Fifty years since the Munich disaster, forty years since ManU first won the title (and I was there) and Giggs coming on to break Bobby Charlton's club appearance record. Pity that 1999 didn't quite fit the decimal pattern. The thing is, footie fans are ridiculously superstitious. Even me, rational and logical in most things,

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Love this Lego Road to Wembley by Cardiff City. Now the BBC have lost the rights to the FA Cup, why not Lego Match of the Day? I also think that Do the Ayatollah is a much better FA Cup song than the James Fox official title, at least I know which one the fans will be singing. Plus any song that has the line in its opening bars "we're ready for a new tale, at the helm is Peter Ridsdale" is

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Canyon DefenseBuild an ideal defense system and save the inhabitants.Play this free game now!!Great game this even if they do spell it 'defense'!

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Thanks to Manchester Confidential Well it all ended in tears as some Jonahs were predicting beforehand and there have been plenty of recriminations and 20/20 hindsight as to why things went wrong. The main culprits appears to be the failing big screen and the city council which is a bit rich as:a) the Rangers fans scared off the technicians sent to fix the screen by hurling bottles etc at them

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I got home early tonight with vague headache. From the first thing this morning wave after wave Gers fans arrived in Manchester in their tens of thousands (last estimate 120,000 to 150,000). It wasn't too bad at first. They were noisy as in singing and shouting, but come the afternoon they were drunker and the air horns came out. It isn't easy having a work phone conversation when it sounds like

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I read in the Mail that the law is to ban the traditional taking of photos of newlyweds signing the register. I've only got their word for it of course as the story only seems to appear on the web in their slightly more rabid sister paper the Evening Standard, but then you can't imagine them making it up. Can you? I mean, they don't have an agenda do they? Anyway, if true, it's all to with data

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I can't believe that I haven't an LLI since 2006 because so much in life is irritating. I mean, so much of modern life is a pain in the arse and we all love a good moan at the rubbish up with which we have to put. I guess it must be my naturally sunny nature. But petrol pumps. My local Morrisons has changed them lately. On the face of it a good move. You can opt to choose between paying at the

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I haven't written anything for ages partly because I've been busy at work and too whacked in the evening to think about it, but mainly because I seemed to run out of things to write about. I did start a post on an eventful outward holiday journey to Cyprus which culminated in Master P losing his passport less than an hour after landing, but I decided to spare his blushes. (It turned up

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It goes without saying that when someone dies there is a hole left behind. Especially when you thought that someone would live forever. In this case, the once partner of my late father-in-law. No names, no pack-drill, just a love of life. As witnessed by this non-PC lyric. It has a tune and a song, but I have neither the technology or the voice to give it its true worth. Be thankful: Outside a

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I'm a great believer in happenstance, those moments in time and space that seem perfectly choreographed and just meant to happen. Or synchronicity as Jung would have it, but it really does happen. Sometimes fictional, as in The Eagle Has Landed, and often the factual and mundane. Take our hostess trolley. We've had it for the best part of 20 years and it has been an integral part of our Sunday

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Brilliant!

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The Telegraph's Screen Break is rapidly becoming a favourite in my personal Brief History of Time Wasting, not for itself, but for the wonderful places it takes you. Like the above paper sculpture by Peter Calleson made from a single A4 sheet of the sort sitting in your printer's paper tray . Fantastic. And check out the other examples. Then there is Shift, one of the most compulsive, original

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Despite all the divisions in the world on religion (and what a waste of time and lives that is) the one I struggle most with is the creed of climate change. It isn't that I'm in denial as climate change sceptic or that I'm a rabid environmentalist. I guess I'm what you'd call a climate change agnostic. Take this, for instance, from the Guardian:In 2004, 73% of the growth in global emissions came

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Who would have guessed that when you remove Garfield from the Garfield comic strips, the result is an even better comic about schizophrenia, bipolor disorder, and the empty desperation of modern life?I love this Tumblelog, Garfield minus Garfield -- it really works. I came across it courtesy of the Telegraph's Screen Break which is also worth a visit if you fancy an animated history of evil, an

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Who says signwriters don't have a sense of humour?

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clipped from www.claybennett.com

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