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Indeed it is, remind me who the spiritual head of the C of E is again? Why, it's William's grandmother.

wills gran

she's cute

Indeed it is, remind me who the spiritual head of the C of E is again? Why, it's William's grandmother.

heh, good point, forgot that...kinda just adds to the bullshit.

Doesn't it just.

much as i am fascinated the prospect of the impending nuclear armageddon (and the royal wedding/minebang natch) i can't help but have got distracted by the bbc's prediction that IT MIGHT SNOW!!!! SNOOOOOOWWWW!!!! YEAH!!! SEND US YOUR PICS!!!! HOW IS WHERE YOU ARE?!! IT'S SNOWING!!!!!!!!! WOOOOOOOO!!! COUNTRY AT A STANDSTILL!!! KEEP SENDING PICS!!! OLD PEOPLE DIEING!!! PICTURES OF SNOWMEN!!! CARS SKIDDING!!!! NOT ENOUGH GRIT!!!!! WHY ISN'T THERE ENOUGH GRIT?!?!?!?! SCHOOLS CLOSED!!! CHILDREN PLAYING!!!!! GETTING BEHEADED BY BARBED WIRE SLEDGING ON A CAR BONNET! WOOOOOO!!!!! KEEP SENDING IN YOUR PICTURES!!!!! SNOWWWWWWWWW!!!!

then again it might not snow.

True.
I am also fascinated as to why, whenever there is a flooded street, they always have to show somebody cycling through two feet of water.

Smug canoeists, yes.

Funny motorboats on the high street, ok.

But why the perpetual need to show cyclists riding through floods?

It's raining.

What a plucky chap, pedalling through the floods.

This happy nodder couldn't give a cunting fuck if it's flooded or not! Good show!

Rain? Floods? Where?

Ha ha!
Ha ha ha!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAH heeeee... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

You need the Hippy in a puddle pic to complete the set.

ha! it's part of the nationally agreed language of news. much like the nationally agreed units of news measurements:

weight: bags of sugar/family dogs/small family cars/elephants/double decker buses
area: football pitches/"an area the size of wales"
height: double decker buses/nelson's columns
distance: london to edinburgh/round the earth/to the moon... and back

i was reading something in a book review in the graun yesterday and it gave an amount (gold produced by the sun i think) as being "sufficient to cover scotland to a depth of 362 feet". which really helped put it in terms i understand.

You need the Hippy in a puddle pic to complete the set.

Here it is:

Is that chinbreaker in the background there?

This happy nodder couldn't give a cunting fuck if it's flooded or not! Good show!

How come he's cycling through floods like that but the bloke in the suit behind him clearly doesn't give a shit he's walking to work in a suit and up to his ankles in water?

Why do the Americans give this cock-socket air time?

How come he's cycling through floods like that but the bloke in the suit behind him clearly doesn't give a shit he's walking to work in a suit and up to his ankles in water?

From the look of the wheels it's only a few inches deep. The suit is a few inches higher up, on the pavement.

Just now on the BBC news, story on the tuition fees demonstration.

Reporter, to blatant 'anarchist' trustafarian nipple-dick - 'what's that in your hand?'

Him - 'it's a ras-clart weapon.'

Safe blud.

what the fuck is a ras-clart weapon?

^^Similar to a bumbaclart weapon, innnit?

anyone else have a secret desire to see what it feels like to throw a rock at someone for two-timing, or what it feels like to have a rock hit you for two-timing?

obviously, you cannot reply in the affirmative as it would no longer be secret.

No, no I don't.

In other news, SNOW!!!1!

I can't believe the Met are kettling children and people aren't making more of a fuss. Kettling is wrong anyway, but people are tweeting about policemen kicking unarmed 15 year old girls and 'hitting a kid in the face breaking his braces'. The BBC News coverage at 10 was absolutely shit, presided over by that shitty little Tory catamite Nick Robinson, completely focused on the politics, not that London's police force are forcibly detaining children on the streets at the end of November. Fucking disgusting.

to be controversial: making a fuss of injured police is kinda like making a fuss of a junkie getting aids. neither of them chose it, but knew it could happen. state-officials injuring citizens is far more newsworthy IMO.

Injuring children - even more newsworthy. I don't condone violence and anyone who injures a po po should be dealt with - I've got nothing against them, they're just a tool of the state. It's like hating a hammer if I hit you over the head with it.

But if anyone wants to go and peacefully protest it is very likely they will be rounded up like sheep and detained for hours even if they've done nothing wrong. And even if they're children. Makes me really angry.