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ridiculous

Half of Spain has been walking round for the past decade chanting “Aznar, murderer,” which is demonstrably untrue, and nothing at all has happened. Now a kid down in Seville has put a picture on his website of some virgin (sorry, Our Lady of Hope of Triana) with a willy in her hand and a [...]

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logic

Over at El Racó Català they’re suggesting that if the removal of Carod was a necessary consequence of ETA’s alleged Catalonia-only ceasefire, then the Islamo-Nazis’ alleged Spain-only ceasefire should logically lead to the resignation of our new leader, Señor Ostrich. What nonsense!

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untied states

In a different world Dominique Moïsi (social network) might have made an excellent French foreign minister. Here’s yet another good piece by him, rounded off with a distinctly Freudian typo.

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When is dancing terrorism?

When I’m involved, is the short answer. Just as enthusiastic but slightly less individualistic are the dances that are virtually always created as part of the branding process of a deranged sect. That’s why in India

The Supreme Court (coram, Babu, Mathur, Lakshmanan, JJ) in a majority judgment today held that Anand Margis can’t perform the [...]

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gm gardens

This story in the Daily Telegraph isn’t going to over-please sustainable horticulture advocates like Barcelona eco-specialists designsonyourgarden.com:

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why don’t i get these gigs?

Fuarosa Tamati and her daughter were given $26K by the New Zealand government to go to New York, LA and a bunch of Pacific islands to listen to hip-hop:

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Slaves

Drunk slaves

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the world in a sentence, part i

Over the next few days I will be posting in instalments a sentence from Seres Míticos y Personajes Fantásticos Españoles by Manuel Martín Sánchez. Here are the first 68 words:

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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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