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Email pricing

The following pricelist was received from a spammer who thinks that a Taiwanese email address is worth 70 times as much to me as an American one.

America

175 Million Email Address

$220 US

Europe

156 Million Email Address

$250 US

Asia

168 Million Email Address

$150 US

China(PRC)

80 Million Email Address

$200 US

HongKong

3.25 Million Email Address

$200 US

TaiWan

2.25 Million Email Address

$200 US

Japan

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gay/lesbian adoption

Spanish bishops are convinced that children need to have a mother and father. Why then have they not in the past attempted to use whatever moral authority they retain to force heterosexual widows/widowers with children to remarry asap?

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Moron

Interested to note that the campaign to reduce the amount Catalonia contributes to central government - part of which is destined to help poorer regions like Andalusia - is being supported among others by the president of the Casa de Andalusia in Sant Boi de Llobregat, Mr Pedro Moron.

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lost in translation

I’m slightly confused that Asian Media Watch is condemning Lost in Translation but supporting The Last Samurai in AA campaigning. Although the latter film is more explicit in its rejection of the present and embrace of the past, the positive use of Japan clichés (chanting monks, temples, flower twiddling) by the former makes it clear [...]

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Mr Hammond is looking for sponsors for his 24-hour (church) organ marathon (with webcam) next Tuesday at St Edmund’s (that’s the king), Northwood, Middlesex. Lohengrin is somewhere after three in the morning, Italy at five, and fortunately there’s no Spanish repertoire. A month ago he was having the odd problem with Widor.

Barcelona still gets a substantial volume of stag and hen traffic. This party consisted of a dozen supermen and a dozen ladies done out in Southend style. Note to tourists: Catalonia is not Krypton.
zorro and some blue superhero don't know how to get to barcelona

This seems a bit harsh on the Barça president but the comparison is a standard feature of any Spanish debate:

People I know are voting for the motion of censure on Sunday to fack this one off rather than in the expectation that the next one will be less of a mafioso. Some of the family are nice so there’s hope yet.

A malfunction of the public address system produces a rather pleasing strobe:

At the end of this clip, a crude example of the wagon wheel effect, caused by what the brain, fooled by the camera, takes to be a succession of evenly spaced, identical Quercus ilex:

More educational train journeys here.


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