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Sue The Bastards

18/2/2013

I’d love to sue them myself, but I won’t be eligible as I haven’t bought anything from a supermarket in the last 8 years. But for anyone who has bought one of the “value” ranges from Tescos which they promised would be beef and turned out to be horse, there’s a great opportunity to get their own back. Tescos (and all the others for that matter) are liable in damages for misrepresentation to all those customers who they duped. How will anyone be able to prove that they bought the stuff? That’s easy if they have a Tesco loyalty card.

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The Garlic Smugglers

17/2/2013

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It seems almost incredible that someone has just been sentenced to jail for smuggling…garlic. Who would have thought that such a crime existed in the 21st century? And the poor guy’s sentence is an unbelievable six years. That’s about what you get for manslaughter and three times the sentence for grievous bodily harm.

The miscreant was caught importing garlic from China disguised as ginger.

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The Racist Effect of the War on Drugs

12/2/2013

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Who won the American election, was it Tweedledum or Tweedledee? In terms of policy there was hardly a whisker between them, and that’s how it turned out on voting night, but when you drill down into the figures it was remarkable that Tweedledum (Ok let’s call him Obama) got 97% of the black vote, and only 39% of the white vote. But his winning margin would have been much larger if so many of the black electorate hadn’t been banged up in jail.

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William Robinson – Wild about the Wild Garden

11/2/2013

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It was quite easy to get up William Robinson’s goat and one sure way was to misunderstand what he meant about the Wild Garden. It’s lucky he wasn’t able to hear Carol Klein on Great Lives saying that she loved the idea of a wild garden, just as William Robinson recommended. She was honest enough to admit that she didn’t actually know what his views were, but said that the idea of letting her garden grow wild really appealed to her. Carol Klein’s idea of a wild garden is nothing like William Robinson’s, as he repeatedly had to explain, all through his career, to his intense irritation.

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Yorkshire Pudding with Golden Syrup

3/2/2013

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It’s not Sheila Dillon’s fault that she has a dreary voice, but it is the fault of the BBC to inflict her on us week after week on the Food Programme. Her monotonous voice combined with relentlessly holier than thou topics make the Food Programme one of the dreariest on air. There was hope for a livelier affair when she announced that Paul McCartney was her special guest, but all he wanted to do was to drone on about why he won’t eat meat. But it was interesting to hear him repeat the oft-told story about why he became a vegetarian.

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Life Skills Classes

1/2/2013

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As I was driving Sara back from school today she happened to mention that one of her classes had been on the subject of “Life Skills” “What on earth’s that?” I asked “Oh”, she replied “It’s where we get told about drugs and cigarettes”. How things have changed. In my day none of the teachers did drugs and when we arrived at Uni we were completely clueless. We weren’t even given basic advice, such as how to smoke a spliff and keep on passing it round. Of course, nowadays there’s so much more to learn, with so many more drugs being available.

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Sue The Bastards

The Garlic Smugglers

The Racist Effect of the War on Drugs

William Robinson – Wild about the Wild Garden

Yorkshire Pudding with Golden Syrup

Life Skills Classes

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Sue The Bastards

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William Robinson – Wild about the Wild Garden

Yorkshire Pudding with Golden Syrup

Life Skills Classes

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