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Anyone remember the infamous Neville Purvis episode?
Sure. It was on TV last night. Look out for a repeat of C4's Rocked The Nation 2: 100 top pop culture moments (or something like that.)
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Federer / Roddick: the last 5 minutes.
Plus: How to beat Federer. ;)
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I am sure I am not the only person who thinks the coverage of the Sophie Elliot trial has descended to the level of coarse pornography.
Certainly not; it's disgusting, and I hope certain editors are being told so.
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Another epic Wimbledon final, though I'd still rate last year's as better.
Federer was clearly a bit below par, or else he'd have blown Roddick away, but huge respect to Roddick; he played his arse of till the end, embarrassed Roger, and accepted the defeat with great humility, especially for an American (joke.)
It's about time the women played 5 set matches.
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No pineapple? ;)
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I've been a 'cannabis criminal ' for a long time.
Me too. I made sure to get extra toasted this weekend in tribute to the above-mentioned hypocrisy, and had a very nice time listening to the Jackson Five, Zeppelin, Small Faces, France Gall, Morricone, Amedeo Tommasi, Mario Molino, Mink Deville, The Troggs, Velvets, Ramones, Danzig, Kraftwerk, Neil Young, Iggy Pop & James Williamson, Dwight Twilley, Jean Michel Jarre, and so on.
I've been an off-and-on toker for about 20 years. I still enjoy it, and I'll decide what's good for me. As with most here, I'm hardly surprised by last week's vote but 'whatever.' I try not to care about the petty morals of old men.
If I ever get busted, I forsee a successful defence, on Bill of Rights grounds. :)
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I just don't want to blow too much bandwidth on 82MB file downloads ...
Rapidshare?
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Hmmm. Yeah, OK, probably true, but aren't there a lot of goods we rich westerners buy which cause suffering elsewhere?
Danielle beats me to the punch (again.)
Quite so. Even just considering Colombia, you can't even buy Coca-cola without tacitly supporting this sort of thing:
In Carepa in north-western Colombia, Coca-Cola has a fairly typical bottling plant. Until 1994, the workforce was unionised, and successfully bargained for the basic workplace benefits we all want: bonuses, overtime and healthcare. But the corporation wanted to cut costs - and around the same time, the armed gangs arrived. The far-right militia the AUC presents itself as "the defenders of business freedom" in Colombia - they massacre trade unionists.
Soon after they showed up, Enrique Gomez Granado - one of the Coke-plant union leaders - was shot in the face on his doorstep, in front of his wife and kids.
Five more union leaders were hunted down and murdered. There was, as Thomas puts it, "a campaign against the union at the Coca-Cola plant".
It seems unfair to call Coke(aine) users hypocrites. Likely those who buy fair-trade coffee would buy fair-trade cocaine, if such a thing was available. Nevertheless, the article is more thoughtful than the headline and pull-quote would suggest.
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dont go down the hydrocortisone path unless the itching is extreme
Why?
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Hmmm. I agree, pretty much.