Tag Archives: Culture

Alan Coren

October 19, 2007 – 12:42 pm

Alan Coren, author, broadcaster, columnist, take your pick, has died aged 69. Coren has a small place in my heart as the first grown-up humourist I read, probably when I was in my early teens. Until then I liked funny stuff, of course, but my definition of what was funny was, well, that of someone [...]

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Laziness

October 1, 2007 – 8:16 am

Text of my complaint to the BBC about this article. The thinking behind the photo on this story seems to be “Oh, Maori, slap in the picture of a funny brown man with tattoos on his face sticking out his tongue.” From memory, I don’t recall articles about the army featuring pictures of red-jacketed soldiers [...]

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Practical Strength

September 7, 2007 – 10:01 am

There’s being strong, and then there’s being able to put it to practical use, like in Japanese game shows.

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Don’t Ask

July 16, 2007 – 9:21 am

Notice outside the army recruiting center in a recent episode of Family Guy: BE ALL YOU CAN BE Unless you’re gay Although if you’re gay and not too fancy about it, that might be all right

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Happy 4th

July 4, 2007 – 5:49 am

We’ve been trying to work out something to do to celebrate our first 4th of July back in England. Naturally we don’t get the day off, so time is limited, so we’ve decided that ‘smores will be our tradition. This isn’t as easy as you might imagine – Graham Crackers aren’t available here, neither is [...]

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