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The Daily Mail quandary – sorted

By 6000 | 6000 | March 3, 2010

I can’t be arsed with the Daily Mail anymore. Who could forget the infamous Peter Hitchens piece in the Daily Mail last year, covered so adequately in my “The Daily Mail Quandary” post? The quandary being that while the Mail is seventeen different sorts of crap and provides a platform to ill-informed and racist bigots, it [...]

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Another reason that South Africa can’t host the 2010 World Cup

By 6000 | 6000 | January 19, 2010

Forget the Angolans, the sharks and the naughty people with knives. Have you seen the number of flippin’ terrifying bugs there are out there? Even in my Cape Town garden (which is actually in Europe), there’s some nasty stuff about: And I haven’t even mentioned the killer bees and the moths, (which are probably, like, killer moths). Once the [...]

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Utter tosh

By 6000 | 6000 | January 15, 2010

But it’s not just the SA papers that write complete rubbish. Step forward our old favourite the Daily Mail – describing the shark attack at Fishhoek. Fiddling with his swimming goggles as he strolled across one of Cape Town’s most popular beaches, Lloyd Skinner did not notice anything amiss. With temperatures in the 90s, the sand was [...]

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Jan Moir on Stephen Gately – nearly right

By 6000 | 6000 | October 16, 2009

Incoming: As a Brit why haven’t you written a post today about this Stephen Gately Death Column by Jan Moir in the Daily Mail and all the scandal it’s causing? Well, OK… Jan Moir’s piece in the Daily Mail about the recent demise of Boyzone’s Stephen Gately was originally titled: Why there was nothing ‘natural’ [...]

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I need more money

By 6000 | 6000 | July 30, 2009

I think we’ve all thought that at one time or another, haven’t we? Laura Ripley is thinking it right now: A 25-year-old unemployed woman who was given an £8,000 operation to help her lose 16 stone is complaining because, as well as her weight loss, her benefits have been reduced. Laura Ripley, who has never [...]

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