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A collection of 65 posts

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Carlton Mansions Eviction

Lambeth council are acting very unreasonably towards my neighbours in Carlton Mansions. Brixton Buzz have the story here. I've written to the Coldharbour Ward councillors. Dear Councillors Anyanwu, Heywood & Parr, I am writing to express my concern and disappointment with the way the council is treating my

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Poorest hit hardest as Rio prepares to profit from World Cup and Olympics

A couple of independent filmmakers have released this partially completed documentary charting the corruption connected with Rio's megasports preparations. Favelas are being cleared by very underhand means with the police and militia illegally forcing people out of their homes so that developers can build and profit from the

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My TalkTalk nightmare enters its second year.

It is now exactly one year since my troubles with TalkTalk began. In a nutshell, they came to door offering to match the price of my existing service. I was interested and gave them some details. It turned out they couldn't give me a better deal so I

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How to complain effectively: a case study.

TalkTalk never listen to me on the phone so I am having to write them a letter. Without any sense of irony, they have an article on their site instructing you on how best to complain when you have dealings with shitty companies. When things go wrong after you’ve

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I'm sorry Alice

Maybe it is the recent experience of protesting against the pope that has me seeing paedophilia everywhere. Or, without knowing it,  i've become a Daily Mail reader. Which gives much the same effect from completely opposite causes. Anyhow, somehow my mind has been poisoned and I  see peedos

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Three out. Of three.

[caption id="attachment_982" align="aligncenter" width="640" caption="~Nadja ~Max & ~Tessa\'s room"] [/caption] Who needs an octopus to demonstrate publication bias? The door of my spare room has pretty good track record so far. Although, it is more

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It's not funny but grudgingly engaging.

I've never laughed at the "antics" of Noel Edmunds, Jeremy Beadle and all the other Candid Camera cunning stunts. Antics are all very well when it's Tom and Jerry or other cartoons but i've always felt very uncomfortable with any smug twat

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Break-up or breakdown? You decide!

Here is the transcript on my text-messages yesterday. These were all from me to Tessa and only one of them got a reply (between 22:11 and 0:38) unfortunately I've lost it. During the day I called and wasn't answered numerous times so I left

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Day 002

Pic of the day Word of the day - Deuteranomaly Colour blindness not all it seemsbbc news

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understanding the unimaginable

a utterly bleak story that allows no straight-forward narrative escape from the indifferent callousness of the universe. very bad things happen for no good reason and some people have to live through that.. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/27/AR2009022701549.html

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Waiting for your call waiting

It's a mild coincidence that happens to everyone, you call a friend and as your phone is dialing or reaching their answerphone message, the little blinking message on your phone tells you that they are trying to call you. So naturally you want to hang up your call

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Do as we say not as we do..

http://foiorder2009.writetothem.com/write On thursday MP's are going to vote to exempt their own expenses from the Freedom of Information requirements that apply to all public institutions. I suggest you tell your MP that you are not happy. FOR THE ATTENTION OF: Tessa Jowell MP Dulwich

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Profit without Honour

There an excellent review by Adam Mars-Jones of the latest pile of Paulo Coelho in an old Observer. There aren't many authors more despicable than Jeffery Archer, who has at least written two half-decent books and is not fooling anyone. Paulo Coelho is a worse writer and a

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SPSS 16 = Stupid Pile of Stupid Shit x 16

I have always hated SPSS, the statistics program unaccountably popular in British Psychology departments. It is badly designed, it has very slow and very clunky interface. It has a very unintuitive set of menus with an untransparent way of operating. The results are shown in a very primitive and buggy

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run for the hills, the mountains and the lowlands

i never thought i'd say this but i am taking up jogging. since the first time they made us do cross county aged 8, i've known i am a dreadful runner, even when i was incredibly fit from 6 days a week swimming training i couldn&

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Disappointing the stupid and credulous since 1999

Either the silly season started early or they've finally run out of things to write about Diana & Maddie because for some strange reason the News of the World are now calling me. I just got a call from some guy asking about my cocaine order form on

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The Scent of Many Women (in a bottle)

Vulva Original Yes, it seems to be real. And yes it's certainly.. original. No.. I am not going to buy any. Thanks to Nadja and Martina for the tip! Update: Now I wondering what goes into my aftershave.

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saul bellow and john updike?

I went to the 12 bar on Denmark street on tuesday night the music started well and got worse. once again i was perplexed by this graffito on the condom machine. Can anyone explain what it means? And what on earth will be written on the tampon machine in the

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parcourski

some incredible russian free running [ifilm]2684760[/ifilm] i wouldn't mind his shoulders but i wouldn't like his knees a few years from now.

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Obligatory Obituary

Do you know what a Humanist is? I am honorary president of the American Humanist Association, having succeeded the late, great science fiction writer Isaac Asimov in that functionless capacity. We Humanists try to behave well without any expectation of rewards or punishments in an afterlife. We serve as best

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technically illegal

GLORIFYING TERRORISM (Rackstraw Press) is, technically, illegal - because every SF/F story in this anthology breaks the current UK law that bans the glorification of terrorism. Whatever that is, of course. - Karen Travis Technically illegal is practically my middle name, so I've ordered my copy. Have

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an infantologist writes

an online discussion of whether all babies are cute lead to a friend stating this Who said babies are interesting?  They need to get out more.... The possibility of life on Mars is interesting, something that dribbles a lot and craps its pants all the time, is not. But some

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Institute of Measurement and Control

http://www.instmc.org.uk/ The Institute of Measurement and Control is located at 87 Gower Street, which is diagonally across from Waterstones and a building that I have walked past almost everyday for the last 18 months. I had never noticed it before. I doubt they'd have

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This is your captain

I was fairly early for my flight back from Amsterdam today so I chose to sit in seat 1A. Which meant I got to sit next to a pilot catching a lift back to London. Didn't really have much to say to him but until he got to

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Corporate

Whilst packing up surfeit of possessions prior to moving back to yuppie-duppie loft appartment in it's gated community, I watched a few bits of excellent anti-capitalist propaganda. And naturally they are completely free! The Corporation is a multi multi award winning docco about the history of corporations and