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Tired, and I still have four hours to go. I may actually get off my lazy behind and do something this weekend...or maybe not.

Where's your motherf*%&ing flag pin?

by Drew J Jones (blahblahblah@blahblahblah.com) on Fri Mar 28th, 2008 at 02:53:53 PM EST
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Hi In Wales and Crew.

Privileged to have some time at home before rehab. Checked out of the renown Fabricius Klinik today, 9 days after having a solid piece of titanium ceramic technology stuck in the place where my bruised old femur hip joint used to be. The intense pain (heavily medicated) subsides after a few days, to be replaced by constant soreness as the slit muscles and stuff react and come back together. Beat the standard 12-14 days by a few (for my type joint), after some particularly focused effort and lots of muscle cats.

No place found yet for rehab, so they basically said get yer ass home, a decision of which i strongly seconded. There's still weeks of training, but i can already feel the difference, and my girlfriend no longer thinks i walk like a besotten duck. I think of my crutches as preventing the devolution where i return to walking with my knuckles.

Did i say i missed my ET fare? Do i surmise that Colman and Sam (er, Sam and Colman) have a son? Congrats! All the best.

At least the entire surgical scrub 'n cut team knows they have the same color uniforms as the Solingen Alligators, as i'm reported to have discussed with them while resisting the urge to succumb to their injected concoction, along with the virtues of sliding into second on your left ass cheek as opposed to your hip.

I also received a certificate which looks as if it was printed in the 20's (18 or 19, take your pick) designed to calm the TSA when i kick off the alarms.

Did Gore win yet? Did i dream under narcosis that Brown and Sarkocy had nuclear sex?

Skennah Kowa

by Crazy Horse on Fri Mar 28th, 2008 at 04:31:33 PM EST
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Sounds like things are going well, given the circumstances.

It also sounds like you're probably too busy for me to bother you, but did you get an e-mailI sent you nearly 3 weeks ago?

It'd be nice if the battle were only against the right wingers, not half of the left on top of that — François in Paris

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Mar 28th, 2008 at 04:42:44 PM EST
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Good to know that you are making a quick recovery. Keep it up! Nice to have you back again.

Ad astra per aspera

by In Wales (inwales aaat eurotrib.com) on Fri Mar 28th, 2008 at 05:15:05 PM EST
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Yup, little Christopher, born Sunday morning.

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Fri Mar 28th, 2008 at 05:19:52 PM EST
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Good to hear you're up and about, CH.

by Metatone (metatone [a|t] gmail (dot) com) on Fri Mar 28th, 2008 at 06:14:20 PM EST
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Spitting Image loses the latex but stays satirical and sharp - Times Online

Politicians will come to dread Sunday nights again when ITV reinvents Spitting Image as a computer-animated show with a fresh mandate to be merciless.
So many suffered at the comic hand of Spitting Image's latex caricatures that the only ignominy worse than being lampooned was to be excluded.
Twelve years after the programme ended, Spitting Image's head writer, Henry Naylor, and Rory Bremner are preparing to show Headcases, a new £2.5 million topical satire show in the same ITV Sunday night slot.

I linked to this, this morning in the Salon. What I did not see that there is a link to a small video featuring Sarkozy.

by Fran (fran at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Mar 28th, 2008 at 02:14:42 PM EST

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*Traitor*, n.
A benighted individual who perceives an illusory distinction between serving his nation and abetting the criminals who govern it.

by DoDo on Fri Mar 28th, 2008 at 02:18:06 PM EST
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Heathrow sucks. Fuck BA and the BAA. Yes I had the joy of being a Terminal 5 passenger yesterday. Fucking incompetent assholes.

Message to customer service people - if the company you are representing has just committed a major screw up then you are going to have a long day dealing with testy people. Complaining to the passengers that they have an annoyed tone and are acting frustrated and that the fuck up is their problem, not yours, is just going to make your day a lot more unpleasant.

by MarekNYC on Fri Mar 28th, 2008 at 03:34:53 PM EST

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I'd recommend Gatwick (connects with Newark and perhaps others if you're headed back to New York) next time. It's farther away, and the scenery isn't amazing unless you have a thing for council houses, graffiti and trash, but it's probably a lot less headache.

Where's your motherf*%&ing flag pin?

by Drew J Jones (blahblahblah@blahblahblah.com) on Fri Mar 28th, 2008 at 03:56:37 PM EST
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Hi all (none / 0)

I just found this rather disturbing quote when reading an article on the growing Dutch migration to Sweden.

I've never studied Dutch so this translation is bound to be a bit crude.


Van de 1.069 ondervraagden noemt 56 procent de islam een bedreiging voor de Nederlandse identiteit en 57 procent vindt het toelaten van grote groepen immigranten de grootste vergissing uit de Nederlandse geschiedenis.		Of the 1.069 surveyed 56 percent felt islam was a threat to Dutch identity and 57 percent felt and that the admission of large numbers of immigrants was the biggest mistake in the history of the Netherlands.

!!!

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.

by Starvid (arvid.hallen at gmail.com) on Fri Mar 28th, 2008 at 05:36:18 PM EST

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The first statistic (Islam) I don't know about, but I can confirm that the second is widespread. And was already widespread from at least the second half of the 1990s.

It will differ, though, depending on which group you ask about. And the funny thing is that the groups people are most concerned about were not 'admitted' to the Netherlands, but recruited on a large scale to come work there in the 60s and 70s.

People don't like to be reminded of that, because it implies a responsibility they need to avoid, psychologically, if they want to blame their nation's problems on these 'immigrants'.

by nanne (zwaerdenmaecker@gmail.com) on Fri Mar 28th, 2008 at 06:08:49 PM EST
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the funny thing is that the groups people are most concerned about were not 'admitted' to the Netherlands, but recruited on a large scale to come work there in the 60s and 70s.
People don't like to be reminded of that

I note that the article also states that a test on history was done as part of the interviews, and the average score was 5.2.

In the Netherlands, we use a scale of 10, 10 being flawless, and 6 needed for a pass.

So this is not all too surprising.

...

Once again this proves the enormous diversity of the Netherlands! One moment we have you fooled, thinking we are all open and liberal, only to turn around with a breathtaking display of insecure provincial smallmindedness. Bleh.

by nanne (zwaerdenmaecker@gmail.com) on Fri Mar 28th, 2008 at 06:19:38 PM EST
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Well, at least you're exporting some of the assholes.

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Fri Mar 28th, 2008 at 06:20:39 PM EST
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Don't know if it's the assholes we're exporting. Starvid said he found the quote in the context of a report on Dutch people moving to Sweden, but the percentages are from a national poll.

by nanne (zwaerdenmaecker@gmail.com) on Fri Mar 28th, 2008 at 07:06:49 PM EST
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PSSST (none / 0)

http://www.eurotrib.com/?op=displaystory;sid=2008/3/28/18735/7549

"This is nothing compared to how Putin rigged Eurovision."

by poemless on Fri Mar 28th, 2008 at 06:22:48 PM EST

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Good one. Completely missed earth hour. But my city is not participating.

I'll write Wowi a letter for next year.

by nanne (zwaerdenmaecker@gmail.com) on Fri Mar 28th, 2008 at 07:30:14 PM EST
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I keep meaning to look at rg's song diary but have a youtube malfunction. Perhaps I'll try with IE.

Here's some singing and dancing:

P.S. I'd consider this diary to be spam.

by nanne (zwaerdenmaecker@gmail.com) on Fri Mar 28th, 2008 at 07:52:11 PM EST

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I'd have to agree about that diary.
Looks like classic blog SEO.

by Metatone (metatone [a|t] gmail (dot) com) on Fri Mar 28th, 2008 at 09:09:54 PM EST
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I agree.

My suggestion: kill it and ban the user.

Och nu den svenska kocken bakar en Alaskan älg jägare. Bonk! Bonk! Bonk!

by ATinNM on Fri Mar 28th, 2008 at 10:24:27 PM EST
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Ditto ATinNM. Kill it, ban.

Facts, selfish little bastards. They don't even care about your feelings.

by Francois in Paris on Fri Mar 28th, 2008 at 10:43:12 PM EST
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For the French and French-speaking crowd, very good debate at Le Figaro (gasp) with Jean-Marc Fitoussi, one of the rare non-stupid economists in France.

http://www.lefigaro.fr/economie/2008/03/28/04001-20080328ARTFIG00542-fitoussi-le-rapport-attalia-ete -survendu.php

Facts, selfish little bastards. They don't even care about your feelings.

by Francois in Paris on Fri Mar 28th, 2008 at 10:40:59 PM EST

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