Category Archives: uk

Someone saw this coming…

By 6000 | 6000 | October 12, 2011

For some reason, this BBC comedy clip from last Christmas seems to be getting a lot of hits this week, so it seems perfectly reasonable to share it again:   We did warn you to steer clear of BB. Maybe next time you’ll listen to the voice of reason.

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It’s all kicking off…

By 6000 | 6000 | September 9, 2011

Ah. The perils of supporting England in the Rugby World Cup. Actually, there really aren’t very many of them. It isn’t that important to me: after all, this is just rugby, it’s not football. But there’s always someone that suggests that because I’ve moved to SA, I must support the Boks. Yeah right, because when [...]

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History today

By 6000 | 6000 | August 19, 2011

While commenting on this post, I was reminded of History Today – a series of sketches by David Baddiel and Rob Newman of Newman & Baddiel in Pieces and The Mary Whitehouse Experience fame. Brilliant early 90′s “alternative” comedy:   TMWE started out on radio in the late 80′s and I can still remember listening [...]

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Needed some laughs

By 6000 | 6000 | August 12, 2011

It’s not been the best day ever, at the end of what has not been the best week ever. I need some laughs and I headed to my handily-placed YouTube comedy wardrobe in search of them. Here’s what I found.   Hopefully, that R2.4 billion will enable the Swazi people to improve their small talk [...]

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Out of the bad

By 6000 | 6000 | August 9, 2011

Out of the bad, and it is bad – ridiculously, stupidly, embarrassingly bad – comes some good. Step forward, photoshoplooter, whereby images of heinous acts committed over the last few days are turned, via the medium of Photoshop, into embarrassing identikits of the guilty parties. I could do stuff like this. All I need is [...]

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