Category Archives: Bloody hell

Obama and Biden debate NSA surveillance – 2006:2013

Posted on 16 June, 2013 by
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Artybollocks generator

Posted on 10 June, 2013 by

I translate artists’ websites and exhibition catalogues. You have NO IDEA how close to home this is. Don’t believe me? The open hollow forms may at first glance appear ambivalent. Borrowing elements from the classic vessel form, they reveal themselves … Continue reading →

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“Where are you staying? The back of beyond?”

Posted on 28 May, 2013 by

Said Ms  jb’s Dad when we called him from the Provence and mentioned we were having trouble finding a bar to to watch the Champions League final last Saturday. And this is the sort of internet connectivity you experience. If … Continue reading →

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Just for the record

Posted on 30 March, 2013 by

My mobile bill looks something like this €7 a month for unlimited calls with the same provider network€0.09 a minute for national calls €15 a month for uncapped data at this speed up to 1GB and then unlimited at 64 … Continue reading →

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If you’re under 25, you’ll have NO IDEA what I’m talking about

Posted on 14 February, 2013 by

Modems were the way you connected to the internet – such as it was – back in the day. Plug one cable into your computer, the other cable into a phone jack and away you went. At 300 bits/second. Or … Continue reading →

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The weather forecast says…..

Posted on 26 January, 2013 by

…snow overnight and then freezing rain…

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You’re meant to TACKLE him..

Posted on 14 December, 2012 by

Precondition for that, of course, is that you can actually get CLOSE to him…

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Don’t be so bloody silly…

Posted on 13 December, 2012 by

I used to live there and visit the place fairly frequently (and I KNOW it’s the “Daily Express”), but dimness of this magnitude never ceases to amaze me. Listen. Grit is small chips of granite or similar rock. It melts … Continue reading →

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Late Great Paul

Posted on 12 December, 2012 by

Actor David Kossoff, Paul Kossoff’s father, talks about his son (in the third person) and acts his behaviour in the late stages of heroin addiction to a group of schoolchildren in 1992. I have no understanding of how he managed … Continue reading →

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“Hello wildcats…”

Posted on 4 December, 2012 by
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