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Any other map nuts?

I like this a lot – Worldmapper “Worldmapper is a collection of world maps, where territories are re-sized on each map according to the subject of interest.”

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Now they are at it on Radio 4

:rant: Can things get any worse? Over the weekend I read a set of estate agents particulars “in our opinion a 4 bedroomed detached house”. Good to know that your estate agent can recoginise a house when he/she/it sees one, … Continue reading

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I ongo, you ongo, he ongoes

:rant: It started with ongoing, but is now pandemic. Today’s annoyance, in press articles about Tessa Jowell, DOWNPLAY. What is wrong with “play down”? why do we need to keep inventing new verbs to say things we can say perfectly … Continue reading

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Seven Things

7 things to do before I die Learn to play the saxophone. Finish getting my black belt. Get a skipper's certificate, buy a yacht and sail it round the world. Watch earthrise from the Libya Montes. Do something perfectly so … Continue reading

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Sometimes in our lives…

  We all need somebody to lean on.

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Think

What luck for rulers, that men do not think. Adolf Hitler

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Don’t play with your food!

Sausage Origami?

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Look, I have got a personality!

Advanced Global Personality Test Results Extraversion |||||||||||||| 56% Stability |||||||||||||| 60% Orderliness |||||||||||| 46% Empathy |||||||||| 36% Interdependence |||||||||| 36% Intellectual |||||||||||||||||| 76% Mystical |||||||||| 36% Artistic |||||||||||||||| 63% Religious |||||||||||| 50% Hedonism |||||||||||| 50% Materialism |||||||||||||||||| 76% Narcissism |||||||||||||||| … Continue reading

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RNLI

I have just been watching an RNLI advert. “Every day the RNLI rescues 20 people from the sea around our coast.” It said. No, what I want to know is, what happens if you are number 21? And what does … Continue reading

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Surreal in N.E. Derbyshire

Jax: The bath sounds cold. Me: What? Jax: I heard you running it and it sounds cold. Me: What? Me: I’m going to blog that.

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Very nice lady, very. very nice

Just rang from a shop in Doncaster to tell Jax she has left her phone there and that they will put it aside for her to collect.

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Lowest form

Is not getting sarcasm a feature of all five year olds? If not, I want to swap ours for one who gets it, or alternatively, get remedial treatment for ours. We have spent years here, honing and polishing new nadirs … Continue reading

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Chemical substances.

Ever been prescribed Tretonin, Synthemesc or Focusin? Need to know the chemical properties of Administratium, Uridium or Plutonium-186? Wikipedia has all the answers.

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Shin pads cannot protect any part of the body they do not cover.

Today’s find:- Michigan Lawsuit Abuse Watch announces the 2004 Wacky Warning Labels Awards. And in ‘Time-Wasting In Cyberspace, Episode II’:- Amazing Card Stacking Why would you want to do that? Oh yes, while we are about it, did you hear … Continue reading

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Good News?

I don’t quite know what to make of this. Is the world a better place, or is this just spin?

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Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas everyone.  

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Some links…

People Will Sign Anything Geek Squad – which seems to me to be a really good idea. This is the kind of reaction we used to get from Big – until she learned the formula Santa = Presents Scared of … Continue reading

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Minister for Education

I still don’t understand how this guy got to be the Minister of Education, and you would never believe he had given birth to four children., would you. Well, I’m impressed, definitely an improvement on Plunk It. and so much … Continue reading

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Crocheting Chaos

Fascinating

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What would you like for dinner?

“You can have some chicken or there are two bits of pizza that Big has refused to eat” Umm. Tough choice that. Shall I have something I like or shall I have something the kids can’t stomach?

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