Category Archives: annoying people

Shocking report was shockingly reported – shock.

By 6000 | 6000 | May 22, 2013

When that BBC report came out, someone remarked on Facebook: Kan dit nie glo nie. (I can’t believe it.) I commented: You’d do well not to believe it. Or indeed anything else that uses Ernst Roets as a credible source. But how was I to know just how right I was? Do 400,000 whites live in [...]

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By 6000 | 6000 | May 22, 2013

Ever since I found out that Nutella, the delicious chocolate hazelNUT spread is actually pronounced NEWtella, I’ve been waiting for the pronunciation rug to be pulled from under me again. And it seems that me patience has paid off, because now it has happened. It came in a short interview with a man called Steve Wilhite in [...]

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If you can’t read this…

By 6000 | 6000 | May 20, 2013

If you’re having trouble getting through to 6000 miles… it’s because (and here I quote): There is high load on the server, causing requests to be slow (and timeout) even though the server is up. This was also the case last Wednesday, last Thursday and last Friday. And again this morning. Afrihost, who were previously [...]

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In case you need to be told

By 6000 | 6000 | May 18, 2013

Because some of my FB friends do: Likes don’t save lives. That’s the tagline of a new campaign by UNICEF in Sweden. They’re encouraging people do donate money rather than just click a button. Because while the clicks are absolutely lovely, they don’t actually do anything. They’re just an easy way to pretend you’re making [...]

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H.J. Jenkins is very unhappy

By 6000 | 6000 | May 13, 2013

I think it’s fair to say that here was a mixed reaction when Margaret Thatcher died last month. And I’m not here to comment on any one of them. What I am going to say is that there was also a reaction to those reactions. Private Eye’s take on it (I felt) wasn’t particularly spectacular. [...]

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