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Oh my.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfre ... ce-cartoon

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By the way, exactly how cross am I allowed be to a young head teacher who won't let me take an upset 9yo kid with ASD (299.00 if you were wondering, and so were we until six months ago. He's nine.Thank you Virgin "healthcare") out of school to calm him down after an incident when he hid hi...

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Post work chillaxing update - C4OD have Black Mirror at the top of their homepage. *edited* That's not to say it's the most popular, it's just where it is. Like when I posted something similar about an item on iPlayer recently - I think it was the popularity of Corbyn's first PMQ and that it had app...

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Here's a little something I've just noticed - make of it what you will - but looking for something to watch on iPlayer after work, I notice that PMQs appears on the list of today's most watched programmes.

Can't really recall seeing that before.

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StephenDolan wrote:20000. Over how many years?

Another easy headline grabbing figure that the BBC can lap up.

Over five years. And it's "up to" as well.

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In the end it was beautiful.No pain,sickness,just slow sleepy passage.Surrounded by her loved ones at home.On her late dad's birthday.A shooting star to be seen in commemeration.If it had to be it couldn't have be better.I am of course inconsolable but take solace from that. Consolation can wait. I...

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Public relations body investigating DWP fake welfare claimants leaflet CIPR has written to members who work at DWP to find out if they had any part in producing document which featured two non-existent benefits claimants http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/aug/19/public-relations-body-cipr-inve...

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ohsocynical wrote:My banana tree is in blossom

The ewe barks at midnight and my escutcheon is well-found.

I luuuuve secret societies

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I think I've gone from "not here for a while" to "shouting too much". I'll let you get on with it for a while, I think. Sorry for going on. Don't you bloody dare! You've turned up alongside a bunch of other old hands returning to the coop, just as the stay-at-homes are picking o...

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Trump Trumps Himself.jpg Please someone tell me the USA media is full on denouncing the possibility that this man could be selected as a presidential candidate ... please. The USA wouldn't be that daft, would they? There is an issue with some left(ish)-wing activists in the US making up quotes and ...

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Snap AAW. It's getting more flagrant by the minute eh? It is, and I despair, I thought I hated tory's more than any group but I'm actually beginning to hate the (what did Sue call them?) Nialix(?) more. They refused to vote Labour as they weren't left enough. Well guys you dropped so many in the sh...

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... This is, of course, the land of the Literal Democrats. Down there, they could claim to be the Littoral Democrats - still true for the Hon. Member for Orkney and Shetland ;) Sorry. I'll try to find my hat... http://www.radioparadise.com/scripts/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/img/icon_drummer.gif Boom...

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Evening all.

More electoral shenanigans coming to light down here in Devon....http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-33444137

Dare say he'll get away with it, they always do. This is, of course, the land of the Literal Democrats.

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Apropos nothing much in particular other than to mourn, yet again, the death of satire on the BBC. Just seen the latest edition of Mock The Week. Pitiful. It's almost as if they've been told to lay off the politics and go for the celebrity shit. But it's our BBC, surely they wouldn't do such a thing!

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Remember the good old days when a heatwave meant your TV reception went all fuzzy? Lance Corporal Hobiejoe of Her Majesty's 4th Lightly Pedantic Dragoons writes thusly: "As far as I can remember, it was in fact high atmospheric pressure that caused the problem, although, of course, in summer t...

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Ladeeez'n'gennelmen, a big hand please, for the first COBRA meeting of the new guvment!

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015 ... s-migrants

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Blimey! Is this the most overtly political act by Brenda yet? Or am I, as is so often the case, getting over-excited? http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jun/24/the-queen-hints-at-desire-for-britain-to-remain-in-european-union Hard to tell, and I do have previous re the latter. Especially as it'...

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Can't find the Evans review itself, but insight into it here. https://sanseverything.wordpress.com/2009/09/15/great-moments-in-selective-quotation/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; In the August 21 & 28, 2009 number of the Times Literary Supplement, the historian Richard...

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Is there some kind of lefty penance I can do to atone for watching Andrew Roberts doing his Napoleon thing on iplayer? Other than a muttering grumpiness every time he tries to bend history to his agenda. Which I've tried, instead of hurling something at the telly. Didn't work, but then again, the TV...

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Somewhat OT, but a quick, and literal, heads-up - strong chance of a good aurora from midnight onwards, especially from the Midlands northwards.

http://www.aurora-service.eu/aurora-forecast/

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Cheers Hobiejoe Learnt something new in the process.There is a 28 day rule for DLA and therefore CA for hospital stays after which they are suspended,this does not apply for charitable hospices.In the words of the nurse that told me -do not tell them,if they happen to find out quote the charity num...

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Very reticent to relay such personal information but it was linked to a news item in my defence.Thanks for responses. No need at all to be defensive. In fact personally I'm humbled that you'd choose to share such difficult thoughts, as I would think all of us here are. I reckon you're amongst frien...

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http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/sick-kids-denied-chance-spend-5931905?utm_content=bufferd7449&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer Sick kids denied chance to spend final days at home due to lack of nurses Better half living longer than first thought,barring ...

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2015 really was a dirty dirty election ... Was this the story where the Times quoted "internal Treasury figures show..." where it was clear that Osborne had simply asked his officials to come up with something and forget all that 'being in purdah' nonsense? Patrick Wintour ‏@patrickwintou...

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Bugger. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/19/denmark-swings-right-centre-left-coalition-faces-defeat Hmmm, Up until polling day, the incumbent centre-left coalition had hoped to score a spectacular comeback – Thorning-Schmidt’s government was trailing by 17 percentage points two years ago af...

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Okay, so something a little lighter. How about some mellow Paul Weller? Wild Wood should do it. As performed by a complete fruitcake known as Ash Mandrake , in my very own pub on a Sunday lunchtime as he not so much covers, as completely deconstructs the song. In a silly hat, and with a guitar that'...

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Goodnight to all those who have already toddled off for the night :hug: – and hello to the night-owls :D Here is Cartoonist Rowson's offering on the anniversary of the signing of Magna Carta, entitled 'Runny.' It centres upon TCC who is seated on a Serco-sponsored throne engaged in the signing of h...

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Sir Simon Hughes.

For services to oleaginous bigotry, one presumes. The straight choice for a knighthood.

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Apologies if already mentioned, I've been working up to now, but it seems that new Norwich South MP Clive Lewis has come out swinging..... http://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/jun/10/labour-mp-norwich-south-academy-maiden-speech :fight: *edit* That's a boxing reference, by the way. http://www.r...

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Just a thought that occurred as I make my way to bed, and you may take my opinions as lightly as I do. Even when I myself don't want to. But I did notice a big no to Europe statement from Bamford, the JCB bloke, recently. Very chummy with Our Dave, apparently. Could this suggest that a leaving of th...

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Either absolute rubbish, or scoop of the year. Probably the former, but here you go.... http://news.bfnn.co.uk/douglas-carswell-to-defect-to-liberal-democrats/ Having had a look at the home page of that site hobiejoe - absolute rubbish indeed. But clever as it could so easily be true ... nothing se...

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Either absolute rubbish, or scoop of the year. Probably the former, but here you go....

http://news.bfnn.co.uk/douglas-carswell ... democrats/

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The Daily Telegraphs has a front-page article claiming that the over-70s will become second-class citizens in the NHS because of new UN targets on preventing premature deaths. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/elder/11637179/Elderly-face-NHS-discrimination-under-new-UN-death-targets.html Yet m...

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The Daily Telegraphs has a front-page article claiming that the over-70s will become second-class citizens in the NHS because of new UN targets on preventing premature deaths. The NHS will be forced to discriminate against the over 70s to meet ‘highly unethical’ UN health targets which seek to redu...

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As promised, Johnny Cash covers Hurt by Nine Inch Nails. A cheery little number about heroin reinterpreted by a gravely ill Cash.

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I hope some of our absent friends at least pop in occasionally, because this board isn't going to survive with just a few of us trying to keep it going. Still lurking whilst working behind the bar! I promise to try harder - I've got some more unusual cover versions to post in The Pub in the meantim...

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I was ambling around t'interwebs, and I found this. From the BBC. How utterly, utterly depressing. You don't have to click on it, in fact I'd strongly suggest you don't. I've seen it, and my will to live is gathering in a little pool right by the drain that I noticed needing clearing out last week. ...

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I was ambling around t'interwebs, and I found this. From the BBC. How utterly, utterly depressing.

You don't have to click on it, in fact I'd strongly suggest you don't. I've seen it, and my will to live is gathering in a little pool right by the drain that I noticed needing clearing out last week.

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Hmmm, seems to be a Nordic Nutters theme developing here. These guys are Norwegian. This gem was introduced to me over a late-night post-gig beer with a band performing in our local music festival this weekend. Ladeeez'n'Genlemen, I give you the Hurra Torpedoes and their faithful rendition of Bonnie...

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Just "treated" myself to ten minutes of QT. The establishment used Farage to draw disaffected Labour voters to UKIP, and now that the useful idiot has delivered, he is to receive the "Full Crosby", led by his ex-BFF, Dimbleby, because "they" want us as Europe's sweatsho...

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Danny Blanchflower ‏@D_Blanchflower 47m47 minutes ago Hanover, NH To those out there who always tell me that France under Hollande is such a disaster just note it's currently growing twice as fast as the UK Business Insider UK ‏@BI_Europe 14h14 hours ago French GDP smashed expectations — and growth...

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Hi Angry. Well, it wasn't easy. But like I said on Saturday, they're going on the list (when the shit hits the fan they'll be the first to come bitching to the union rep). All I could think of at the time was this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29Mg6Gfh9Co" onclick="window.open(this.hre...

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Tim Shipman ‏@ShippersUnbound 3m3 minutes ago Explaining Shapps move. Senior Tory: "The campaign was run by Crosby, Textor & Gilbert reporting to Cameron & Osborne, paid for by Feldman." Faisal Islam ‏@faisalislam 3m3 minutes ago So party chairman oversees first majority win in 23...

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Just a quick thank you for all (bar one) for the camaraderie, support and, often gallows, humour. It's made a difficult time much more bearable. Personally, my lowest point was when I had to back to work last night, knowing that some openly tory locals would gloat, but also knowing that others, peop...

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Sorry about this folks :( Dave Jones ‏@WelshGasDoc Hearing a rumour from a well placed source that Shapps is going to Health. Mr How To Get Stinking Rich ... should be a perfect fit for all the creaming off that's going to be done asap. Sick in every sense. I was just going to say something similar...

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Right. The sky is lightening. Going to see if I can get a couple of hours of shuteye.

Goodnight/morning

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I noticed Clegg thanked the residents of Sheffield Hallam. As opposed to the student population, presumably. Should've thanked the tory tactical voters as well.

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Hey look! At the Uxbridge result. It's the other Monster Raving Loony guy, Deputy Loon, I guess, in the white suit. Alan Hope, I think he's called. In charge since Sutch's passing.

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LadyCentauria wrote:Thurrock: Con hold, lab 2nd, UKIP 3rd

And so bloody close.

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YEEESSSSS!!!!!

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