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January 1, 2014

heroic…

Men are brave. Right?? I mean, if we gave birth we’d do it in the pub whilst playing darts. Or at White Hart Lane on match-day. Right?? No, probably not. Men are ‘brave’ but mainly only in really stupid ways that run so contrary to any form of common sense that you could replace ‘brave’ – Read More-

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December 31, 2013

tolerant…

Are you intolerant to intolerance? Do you have any right to be so? When I hear about racism, sexism, homophobia, hatred of Spurs, I immediately raise my liberal hackles and think ‘why can’t people just be more tolerant?’ Then I think ‘fuckers!’. Because I hate intolerance and tend to loathe those who lack tolerance and – Read More-

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December 29, 2013

damned yanks…

I did a ‘stretch’ class on the beach this morning with Mel. She loves that shit. I was one of only two men. The other guy was probably gay. Even though he was with his wife. And I’m so assured in my heterosexuality that I can take the strange looks from, mainly the American men, – Read More-

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December 28, 2013

jet slag…

What’s the point of sunrise? Ok, its biblical; let there be light, and there is light, every day, reaffirming our belief in a supreme being even after Zidane retired from football. But sunrise is something you just take for granted, presumptuous fuckers that we (homo sapiens, early 2nd Millenium, face-lift version) have become. There are – Read More-

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December 27, 2013

how YOU doin’…

I’ve never been to Mexico before. Unless you count a day in Tijuana in 1981 when Paulchi & I walked across the border from San Diego, decided we needed neither hookers and drugs, nor hand-tooled, leather rifle cases and walked back to ‘merica and civilistaion. Yet here I am, on the Mayan Riviera. And I – Read More-

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December 26, 2013

not Mexico…

London is ‘blessed’ with 3 airports. Luton, which is about 70 miles from London, and has that inbred rustic feel to it since they shut the Vauxhall factory down and left the place to the ‘natives’. Its about as ‘London’ as Beirut. Yet is convenient to get to. Then there’s Heathrow or The Big One, – Read More-

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December 25, 2013

smokey…

Another year over. Almost. Christmas symbolises a kind of ‘getting ready to welcome the new year’, a process that gives a week of reminiscing about the old one before the new one starts. Which also means most of the journalists can have the week off as all the papers publish for 7 days is lists – Read More-

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December 24, 2013

warning…

the following contains scenes of violence and brutality and there’s bad language from the start. We’re all used to such warnings before news reports and tv programmes. They’re all over the tv. 20 years ago you’d have work out all by yourself that a report from Syria in the wake of a bombing would probably – Read More-

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December 23, 2013

the next episode…

previously on THFC Blue… After Gareth went ran off to Spain to be with Christiana, Daniel was bereft and Andrea the Very Beautiful was trying everything to make him happy once more. She brought in loads of hopeful replacements but it just wasn’t having the desired effect and Daniel became miserable. Ok, even more miserable – Read More-

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December 22, 2013

because they’re worth it…

Here’s an interesting fact (may be true, may be fabricated, you’ll never know). For Mandela’s funeral and ensuing festivities, ITV sent 17 people over to South Africa to cover the event. The BBC sent 120. What the f–??? Because they don’t care. Because its public money (my frikkin money, let the truth be told) and – Read More-

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