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By Herring (Thu Mar 09, 2006 at 01:53:45 PM EST) (all tags)

Going out in a minute. Realised I haven't been to a pub in two weeks. There's a thing.

Evil little story in Private Eye: Thousands of Muslims Don't Protest Shock. An enourmous demonstration did not take place today in Trafalgar Square, as thousands of British Muslms did not protest angrily in the streets at the blowing up of a sacred Mosque in Samarra in Iraq.

Apart from the fact fewer people read it than the Jutland Post, I am surprised that nobody's complained about the Eye's occaisional dig at Muslims (e.g. woman trying on a burkha: "Does my bomb look big in this?").

I didn't realise you couldn't use the word 'bloody' in a TV ad (incidentally, USians, no offense but please don't ever use this word - it sounds silly).

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Look: by ambrosen (2.00 / 0) #1 Thu Mar 09, 2006 at 01:58:46 PM EST

use all the words you want in the poll, but don't use the O word.

You know, the last option.

I use the word from time to time by MohammedNiyalSayeed (2.00 / 0) #2 Thu Mar 09, 2006 at 02:04:25 PM EST

But only to describe crime scenes.

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You can build the most elegant fountain in the world, but eventually a winged rat will be using it as a drinking bowl.

Huzzah by cam (4.00 / 1) #3 Thu Mar 09, 2006 at 02:11:43 PM EST

So work was what was doing it to you then?

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Freedom, liberty, equity and an Australian Republic

: I think he sounds better, too. by ambrosen (4.00 / 2) #4 Thu Mar 09, 2006 at 02:13:15 PM EST

All round, this can't but be a good thing.

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Private Eye. by ambrosen (2.00 / 0) #5 Thu Mar 09, 2006 at 02:16:39 PM EST

Can we assume that it's because there's no way for a complaint against a British magazine like that to take root and spread as easily.

Maybe if Denmark's a tinder box, then Britain's a soggy pizza box that's been lying on the pavement for three days of rain.

Probably by jump the ladder (4.00 / 1) #6 Thu Mar 09, 2006 at 03:16:52 PM EST

Because it didn't purport to be the Prophet.

Plus I don't think there were British imans going to the middle east trying to stir things up.

oh man by MillMan (2.00 / 0) #7 Thu Mar 09, 2006 at 08:37:01 PM EST

I totally hope there is a big muslim protest when I am visiting Trafalgar Square so I can photograph it.

I never really considered face-to-face contact a possible thing. -CRwM

: No by jump the ladder (2.00 / 0) #8 Fri Mar 10, 2006 at 04:22:24 AM EST

It's all calmed down. They're just waiting for the next stupid infidel action to get in a huff about.

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Leverage is perfectly acceptable by Cloaked User (2.00 / 0) #9 Fri Mar 10, 2006 at 07:21:48 AM EST

But only as a noun, and even then I get twitchy if you're not using it in an engineering context.

Use it as a verb at your peril - are you listening to me, co"workers"¹?

1 Actually, I hope not...

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This is not a psychotic episode. It is a cleansing moment of clarity.

Short diary | 9 comments (9 topical, 0 hidden) | Trackback

-	Bloody	5%
-	Fuck	10%
-	Cunt	25%
-	Bitch	5%
-	Arsenal	10%
-	Synergy	85%
-	Leverage	70%
-	Rendition	25%
-	English	5%
-	Blair	45%
-	Cowell	45%
-	Other	10%


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