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Here is the news, so pin them back:

1. If you thought that Scrabulous would win, and be allowed to stay on Facebook, you are an idiot. I mean, really.
2. If you are Hasbro/Mattel, and you didn’t just buy Scrabulous out and rebrand it, you are also an idiot.

Now can we move on?

–c.

The ever-excellent Charlie Stross tells us why – in his opinion – unplugging wall-warts to save energy is just silly.

Big up, Charlie, I’m with you.
–c.

SPOOOOOOOOOOOORT!!! SPORT!!!

Sport sport sport sport sport sport sport fucking sports sport in my ass SPORTS football rooney SPORRRRTTS.

SSSSSSSSPPPPPPPPPOOOOOORRRRRRRRTTTTTTTTT FOR FUCK’S SAKE!

SPORT!!! WOW!

–c.
PS. Oh, and the Middle East is still fucked. And some people died.

“Mobile phone calls will be allowed on planes flying in European airspace under new European Commission rules.”

FUCK.

That’s it, no more European flights for me, ever.

–c.

This is why guns should be illegal, you fucking MORONS.

–c.

BBC Radio 1 has decided to censor the word “faggot” from the Chrimbo classic “Fairytale of New York”, by The Pogues & Kirsty MacColl, due to it presumably possibly offending some narrow-minded imbeciles (of no specified sexual orientation).

Cheerfully Radio 2 will be playing the full uncensored version.

As the article points out, several humans with brains (both straight and gay) have derided the ban as ludicrous, but ‘veteran gay rights activist Peter Tatchell’ quoth

It is shameful that BBC Radio 2 and other radio and TV stations are continuing to play the full version with the word faggot included. It shows that they don’t take homophobic language as seriously as racist language.

Another line which has been censored is where Shane dubs Kirsty “an old slut on junk”. What? Why? Is it offensive to sluts? Or junkies? Or is it simply the fact of “Ooooh you can’t say nasty things at Christmas!”

The song is about two people having a screaming row at Christmas time and using offensive language to each other. If this is a problem, then simply don’t play the song – and while you’re on, why not distribute free Soma* to us all at the same time! A gramme is better than a damn, after all!

–c.
* If this means nothing to you, please mentally substitute Prozac. Similar thing.
PS. If Radio 1 would like to play an alternative version of the song, it’s possible they might find an (unauthorised) instrumental version of it somewhere…

What the flying FUCK?

Jesus Fucking Christ. Hang on, I must have read that wrong. Let me look again.

No, I was right. There are actually learned (pronounced “lern-ed”, by the way – two distinct syllables)  people out there who recommend “that the spelling of English needs simplifying so children’s literacy can improve.”

Example phrase: If u hav a por memmory yor chances of becumming a good speller ar lo.

Fuck. That. Noise.

If that’s what you think, move to the USA* and get down with “thru” and “donut”. I’ll stay here and speak English.

–c.
* Apologies to any USAnian readers out there – I’m not anti-American at all, I’m just a bit anti-”American English”.

True. True.

–c.