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When shopping, heavier items end up in my manbag.
On a typical day my manbag might already contain a notebook, a phone and a snappy camera.
Putting heavy items on top of these is normally fine. Putting heavy items on top of a two-pint bottle of milk on top of these is not fine, apparently.
On future typical [...]

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Having my weekly rant this morning, I remembered something trivial that annoys the shit out of me, and thought I’d share the love.
See, now, I hate adverts generally, and I reserve a special bile for ones in which two of my favourite TV people prostitute themselves at the altar of car insurance, but there’s a [...]

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Anyone who’s walked along Brighton seafront this week will know that, after decades in which the West Pier was neither fixed, sold or – ultimately – restored, the sorry remains of the concert hall are now being recovered from the sea.
I’m not clear on the point. The West Pier Trust says that it’s a requirement [...]

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via youtube.com
Thanks to Alan C for pointing to this, hadn’t seen it until a few days ago – Stewart Lee calling out the nonsense of corporate values.

Posted via web from Charlie’s posterous

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**Updated below**
I got a worrying email last night from a friend and ex-colleague, letting me know that he’d had a phishing message purportedly from my Last.FM account.
Oops, we both thought – I’d been hacked. I went in and changed my password.
I subsequently discovered an email to me ‘from’ another colleague that also looks very much [...]

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via andybarefoot.com
via @shanerichmond

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You know when something odd or remarkable or weird or painful happens and you end up remembering it for life; boring people with an anecdote about it at Christmas parties?
This is one of those times.
In short, after 2 1/2 years of fund-raising, discussions with neighbours, and battles with rubbish – possibly corrupt – managing agents, [...]

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This advert just came up on Facebook.

It’s the first time I’ve ever been tempted to give one the thumbs up.

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