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20060627 Tuesday June 27, 2006

 Stupidest piece of tat with football branding on...?

I appreciate I'm only supposed to whinge about something once a week, but this football malarky is just getting out of hand.

I was in B&Q the other day (national hardware supplier for you colonials out there) to buy a piece of dowling. I discovered, to my horror, you could now buy a set of 'Patriotic England Red and White striped screwdrivers'.

Can anyone beat that for the most idiotic piece of trash daubed up to flog at double the price to undiscerning punters by simply sticking an england flag on it?

Answers below!

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20060621 Wednesday June 21, 2006

 Football

How I hate football!

I don't know if I'm the only person in the whole of Europe who hasn't got the slightest interest in this overhyped and pointless game, but it seems like it. Work stops, traffic stops, people get stupidly drunk and all the decent pubs are ruined for the duration.

Not that I've watched it, but apparently England haven't been playing very well so far. Big question then, what do they actually do that makes them worth their utterly stupid salaries?

Worse than this though are the stupid flags people are sticking on their cars. I bet they are popular with bikers as they are ripped off at highspeed on the motorway. Duh. I saw one car with its wing mirrors painted with an England flag, enough is enough!

I expressed my opinion that I hoped we got knocked out soon and was told I was being unpatriotic! (Well, I'm not english anyway so I didn't care).

I listened to our rubbish entry in the Eurovision song contest, how much more patriotic can I be? ;-)

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 Karate update...

Just managed to get my Orange belt, so that makes me "Mostly Harmless" I think!

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 Nerina Pallot's new album

Fantastic album and well worth getting, I'd sum her up as a modern day Suzanne Vega with a bit more zing, not that I am a very qualified popular music buff or anything. Worth getting though.

Quite surprised by the advertising for the album though. The tagline at the bottom is a quote from the Sunday Times which describes the main track "Everybody's going to war." as "A record of optimism and hope." which leads me to wonder whether or not they actually listened to any of the lyrics...

I found the song as a the cry of a melancholy, disheartened generation voicing their damning critique of the Blair/Bush "War on Terror". Can't quote the lyrics obviously, but check it out and see what you think. It's a great album and the "War" song is brilliant.

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