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So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell…

By BigBrother, on October 29th, 2009, 10:22 pm.

And with that, the Minister and the Minister's Wife depart for the Emerald Isle.

Think of us and the stress we'll be under as we gaze out on this view every day for the next fortnight.

No mobile coverage; no emails; no texts; no Twatting.

In other words, it'll be just like things were 15 years ago.

Mind you, this is the first and last time I go away for 15 days instead of 14.  All my tablets come in strips of seven or 14, so it's all got very messy…

Until 14 November (assuming we don't kill each other), arrivederci.

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Honk, honk

By BigBrother, on October 29th, 2009, 4:38 pm.

QUOTE OF THE DAY

“If I see another David Gold interview on the poor East End Jewish boy done good I’ll impale myself on one of his dildos” – tikka-tinged Crystal Palace owner Simon Jordan doesn’t fuel speculation that the then-Bongo FC co-owner might be about to purchase a certain football club in sarf Lahn, 2 April 2006.

“All that stuff was tongue in cheek and is in the past now. The fact is, David Gold is a very successful businessman. He has done very well at [Bongo FC] and made a lot of money, so fair play to him” – tikka-tinged Crystal Palace owner Simon Jordan fuels speculation that the former Bongo FC co-owner might be about to buy a certain football club in sarf Lahn, 29 October 2009.

via football.guardian.co.uk

In the immortal words of Cyndi Lauper: “Money… money changes everything.”

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They’ve been spending most their lives living in a chancer’s paradise

By BigBrother, on October 29th, 2009, 9:31 am.

When exactly was the Contempt Of Court Act 1981 repealed?

Or does it just not apply to Wapping…?

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Disco as chillout

By BigBrother, on October 29th, 2009, 8:28 am.

Proving again that any Bee Gees song can be improved without the involvement of (a) falsettos, and (b) Steps.

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SEXY PEOPLE: Mark

By BigBrother, on October 29th, 2009, 8:24 am.

via sexypeople-blog.com

This individual is probably now a senior banker.

And there you were, wondering why the Clusterfuck To The Poorhouse happened…

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The wisdom of crowds

By BigBrother, on October 26th, 2009, 9:35 am.

I may be wrong (incredibly, that did once happen…) but I suspect
this is not the result the Alpha Males were hoping for.

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Hard to believe circulation figures are falling across the board, isn’t it?

By BigBrother, on October 24th, 2009, 2:30 pm.

Read this.

That is all.

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I hate you, Arnie Becker

By BigBrother, on October 24th, 2009, 9:11 am.

It's uncanny: this is EXACTLY what last Wednesday morning was like for me.

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Cassetteboy vs Nick Griffin vs Question Time

By BigBrother, on October 23rd, 2009, 6:34 pm.

Yes, it's silly.  But it's funny anyway.

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Wild kind of look to the day

By BigBrother, on October 23rd, 2009, 6:30 pm.

The most considered thing I’ve read on the whole Griffin-Question Time debacle came this afternoon in a series of Twitter posts from a musician of whose work I’m a great admirer.

There’s a seed of a political ideology in this:

Is it me or did people get all irate before Question Time was broadcast and then just go, “Oh, OK then,”? I don’t think anybody learned a thing.

Some of the rhetoric and soundbiting being thrown about was quite embarrassing.  A calm, intelligent debate would have been more interesting.

But we live in a sensationalist age in which everything has to be sensational in order to appear purposeful.

Politics is meant to be dull – it’s a complicated thing and to always be finding issues to be hysterical about is not getting it at all.

It’s like music – if you just go for whatever is the latest sensation, you’ll probably never hear music for what it can be.

David Ford, @davidfordisdead
http://www.myspace.com/davidford

David Ford begins a UK tour next week:
25 Oct  Phoenix, Exeter
26 Oct  Thekla, Bristol
27 Oct  Albert Rooms, South Parade Pier, Portsmouth
28 Oct  Rescue Rooms, Nottingham
29 Oct  Black Bottom Club, Northampton
31 Oct  Boardwalk, Sheffield
1 Nov  Duchess, York
2 Nov  Cabaret Voltaire, Edinburgh

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