Archive for March, 2007
Tuesday, March 27th, 2007
A giant douche or a turd sandwich?
Believe it or not there is a republican movement in the UK. Unfortunately for Britain however, they are far from having anything resembling political clout.
If you take a look at their website: www.republic.org.uk
Their arguements for a republic are about as compelling as a lukewarm cup of cocoa. Reasons for becoming a republic include [...]
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Monday, March 26th, 2007
Oh dear, I’ve become a Republican
A recent article by Agnes Poirier got me to thinking. She suggests that right about now would be a good time to seize the opportunity (of Lords reform) to do away with the artistrocray once and for all.
At first I regarded Ms Poirier’s comments as a good old-fashioned wind-up and judging by the comments [...]
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Wednesday, March 21st, 2007
The Patron Saint of Binge Drinking
It is a little known fact that When St Patrick chased away the serpents and introduced catholicism to Ireland, he was all the time, smashed out of his brains.
Chasing serpents is hard work after all, and with so many great drinking establishments around the emerald isle, he couldn’t but help partake of the odd snifter [...]
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Tuesday, March 20th, 2007
Ten good things the EU has done
I’m often asked by certain members of the preceding generation why I’m so pro-European. I would guess for some people the positives are hard to see when the media love to leap on all the negatives day-in day-out. The straight Banana myth lives on after all.
So for all you sceptics - here’s a [...]
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Sunday, March 18th, 2007
Minority report
I’m in a minority in more ways than one:
Firstly, I’m a foreign national living in France.
Secondly, I’m one of the 30% or so of British nationals who can speak a language other than English.
Thirdly, I’m a man.
Let me explain this last point. I can’t help noticing that my French classes [...]
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Wednesday, March 14th, 2007
Not-so-mean testing
When we took our son along to the “Maison d’Enfance”, to sign him up for nursery, and there was mention of ‘means testing’, we panicked slightly - because we were under the impression that all childcare in France was free.
Not so. When you sign your child up for state nursery - you are required [...]
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Monday, March 12th, 2007
three stroke four
When is a bedroom not a bedroom? When it’s a dining area! (no it’s not supposed to be funny)
We have discovered, in our search for a new pad, that there are many shysters out there who are optimistically describing their two-bed places as three-bed. More exactly, they are hoping that a large [...]
