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Fry Cocks up again

By 6000 | 6000 | November 20, 2009

With at least eleven people including a police officer currently missing and livelihoods, houses and belongings lost in the floods in Cumbria, Stephen Fry feels that it’s a good time to make a cheap and smutty gag about the worst hit area: I’m sure this will be lauded by his legion of 1,000,000+ automatons followers as hugely amusing, but [...]

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Weathering the storms

By 6000 | 6000 | August 19, 2009

I’m almost back in the land of the living and so is the Mother City following a 24 hours of horrendous meterological conditions which left us facing the triple onslaught of rain, snow and hysterical news reports. With the N1 flooded and De Waal Drive full of big rocks, there was sudden interest in Cape Town [...]

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