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Theories

There’s an urban-legend-in-the-making doing the rounds that the colour of judo belts were so chosen as to allow the impoverished practitioners to die their belts a darker colour the more proficient they become, instead of having to buy a new … Continue reading

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>Wouldn’t that be indecent exposure…?

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>Feeling a bit buggered

> On Saturday I drove 900km from the South of France to Mayence On Tuesday, I drove 350km to the university where I do a 2 hour lecture on the impact of culture on business processes. Today, I’m flying 11 … Continue reading

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>Not quite sure which I prefer…

>   Qantas’s apocryphal fan mail from the 1980s or Lufthansa apocryphal amenity kit fan mail    

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>So if I say…..

>..”fuck alcohol”, that’s bad for my health?

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>Bedoin? Baudouin?

> It’s difficult to overlook the fact that Bedoin down here in the south of France is overrun by Les Belges. The language is a dead giveaway – Frutch/Dench. You think you should understand it, but you don’t.Not a chance. … Continue reading

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>And you thought the New Seekers were bad….

> Look at this mob. If you must. Hopefuls in the Eurovision Song Contest Jedward (JEDWARD?) from Ireland singing “Lipstick” Anastasiya Vinnikova from Belarus singing “I love Belarus” (I suppose you have to go to these lengths to stay out … Continue reading

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>Who is it?

> Apparently, 1 in 5 people in the world are Chinese. And there are 5 people in my family, so it must be one of them. It’s either my mum or my dad. Or my older brother Colin. Or my … Continue reading

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What do you think of euthanasia?

  “I think have we have to look after our own kiddies first.”

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>Who needs a car?

>  Hechtsheim to here takes 16:25 – only 5 minutes more than the same trip in the car Even WALKING only takes 37 minutes, for goodness sake

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