Social Control
Satan's Call Centres
Sunday, 14 December 2008

Call centres.  Nearly, but not quite, as evil as Satan Himself.

I just tried to sort out a problem with my internet connection.  It's quite a simple thing really.  It keeps cutting out and I'd prefer it not to. I need to know if the problem is with the exchange or with my network.  Piece of cake.  You'd think...
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Close of Play
Friday, 21 November 2008

Sometimes, I think that people at work, particularly managers, think I spend all my time sitting on my arse waiting for them to send me urgent deadlines.

An email came through from the director today, which just typifies all the crap that goes with working in the public sector. Titled, as they always are, "URGENT - Reply Needed" it contained a 84 page word document and the message "New Equality Scheme - public health contribution is required by the close of play today"
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We Know Where You Are
Saturday, 18 October 2008

Imagine that you've just crashed your car, fallen off your bike, slipped over on some ice or have some other urgent need for the emergency services... You're also lost.  But you have a mobile phone, so you call for an ambulance.

The emergency operator asks where you are and all you can reply is "Well, there's a road, a few trees...and..erm..oh, and there's a rusting Asda trolley in a stream behind the hedge..." pause, "No good..?  Ah.  Ok then, thanks for your help.  I'll just lie here and bleed to death.  Goodbye."
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Thatcher is the New Black
Monday, 13 October 2008

It's official: Thatcher is the new black.

According to the fashion consultancy HeadlightVision "the boundaries of cool are changing dramatically. Young people are losing interest in the obvious and looking towards the more individual.  This break away from the pack mentality is making the unlikeliest of things trendy, including playing Scrabble at the hippest nightclubs."
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I'm a Celebrity
Sunday, 12 October 2008

Alas, it is autumn and that means only one thing.  It is that time of year when a bunch of pointless celebrities are sent into the jungle to save their flagging careers.

With nothing but the bare essentials - make-up, cigarettes, the most rudimentary GPS powered cellphones, several dozen production crew, caterers, etc etc - they do what celebrities do best - cry.

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Bollocks Theory
Sunday, 12 October 2008

Chaos theory is all the rage at the minute, with the Black Hole machine at CERN making headlines for, well, not working.

Whilst we don't pretend to be experts in Chaos Theory, we know bollocks when we see it.  Which leads us to our own theory of the universe.
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Impossible Decisions
Saturday, 11 October 2008

Suicide is a topic surrounded by stigma and shame. Everyone knows about it but nobody talks about it. So we thought we’d start an argument.

Picture the scene.  You're on the 100th floor of the World Trade Centre on 9/11.  The building is burning around you.  The heat is intense.  There is no way out and no hope of rescue. 
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On the Edge
Wednesday, 08 October 2008

It seems like everyone, from the media and politicians, to the bloke in the pub, thinks that Britain is on the edge of a gun and knife crime epidemic.  But what is really going on behind the headlines? 

Are we really all about to die, horribly, alone in a back alley, bleeding profusely from a gaping stab wound to the chest?  Probably not.  Although you'd be forgiven for thinking otherwise.

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Celebrity Breakdown
Monday, 06 October 2008

What is this obsession with Amy Winehouse’s latest freak- out?  Celebrity breakdowns are like a car crash.  Unpleasant, but unmissable.

Another week and another string of celebrity breakdowns hit the headlines.  Already this year we’ve watched Gazza, Heather Mills, Amy Winehouse, Britney Spears, Kerry Katona and Lindsey Lohan all fall apart before our unbelieving eyes.

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Additionality
Wednesday, 01 October 2008

New Bullshit words.  They're created in meetings.  Those tortuous, round-the-table official statutory-sector meetings that everyone attends because they have to, not because they choose to. 

Meetings where the secretary minutes every item under the label DRE:230506/2.3a.  Meetings dominated by a fat, balding, opinionated bureaucrat who doesn't know when to shut the f*ck up.

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Celebrating Sameness
Tuesday, 30 September 2008

There is a trend currently for Celebrating Diversity - that we should embrace the differences between cultures, races, sexes and age groups.

It’s true, Celebrating Diversity is infinitly preferable to kicking peoples heads in, and for that, there is no arguement here. However, to celebrate difference, we must first identify difference, and therein lies the problem.

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US Elections 08

Not that we're partisan, but we're really glad the moose-hunting psychopath didn't make it to the White House. 

Completely impartial observations from across the Pond.

Social Control

So, you think politicians are in charge?  Think again.

Breaking free from the shackles of mind control 

Random Musings

Sometimes we write stuff that just won't go anywhere else.  General insane and random mumblings from the minds of deranged fools.

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