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I was peacefully working my way through a bottle of Pimms yesterday afternoon, when a horrifying thought intruded on my enjoyment. What if the unthinkable happened and my newfound, if slightly vague, patriotism paid off? What if Andy Murray actually won Wimbledon?
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You might think you are above watching appalling trash such as this, but a true intellectual knows that ALL information about one’s fellow man is valuable.
To date, no one has managed to prove or indeed put forth any evidence to support the validity of that assertion, but no matter. These people have in excess of 3m Twitter followers between them. They’re taking over the world.
This will help you communicate with them until you work out an escape plan.
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In case anyone missed England’s games vs. Germany and Ukraine, FIFA prez and all round good egg Sepp Blatter helpfully demonstrates what it looks like when a football crosses the goal line.
Referees and their assistants continue to look on, helplessly.
Future Prime Minister? Could happen. Image: REUTERS/Toby Melville.
Have experienced the full horror of playing for the England football team, Gary Lineker really should have learned to recognise a pointless exercise when he sees one.
Of course, Lineker played at a time when football wasn’t in the public domain and therefore not subject to the opinions of people for whom football is just another entertainment format. As the figurehead of the BBC’s Euro 2012 coverage recently, one would imagine he’d at least be conversant with reality.
It may not have been earth shattering for all of us, but Gary was so incensed by Stuart Pearce’s omission of David Beckham from the GB Olympic football team that he issued a tweet of condemnation. This prompted a Twitter backlash against the decision, which then resulted in #pickbecks trending and general agreement that Pearce is a mean git.
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I know I’m with the woman I want to spend the rest of my life with… I won’t let this woman get away.
Literal or figurative? We’re going to find out now, aren’t we…
Rumours of a conspiracy are circling Downing St after treasury minister Chloe Smith was hurled into the Paxman-infested waters of Newsnight on Wednesday. Smith, who is secretary to the Exchequer, appeared on the show to defend the government’s deferment of a 3p rise in fuel duty, but froze in the face of the BBC’s foremost political predator and ended up on the receiving end of a severe mauling.
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When you consider that the human race survived for several thousand years without global connectivity, it hasn’t taken us long to forget how we managed before. A technological snafu this week gave me the opportunity to experience the full horror of a wifi-less world first hand, and let me tell you. I learned more about myself and the world in that short space of time than I do from my usual hourly rotation with Web MD.
It was almost as scary, too.
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This photo of a beggar lying in a Athens street beneath a photo of the Greek national soccer team reminded me of a quote by legendary comedian Bill Hicks from 1993. Bill was talking about defence expenditure coming before third world aid, but the current financial crisis that has seen the disparity between rich and poor only widen further is just as relevant a context.
Take all that money we spend on weapons and defenses each year and instead spend it feeding and clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would pay for many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, forever, in peace.
I doubt Bill, if he had survived pancreatic cancer that eventually killed him in February 1994, would have been surprised that his comments would still be so relevant nearly twenty years on. He may have been a cynic, but he was also a realist.
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What happens when an irresistible force meets an immovable object?
The logical, scientific answer to the age old question is that something has to give, right? Nowhere is this truth more starkly and painfully played out than in the Himalayas, where the irresistible force is money and the immovable object is Mount Everest.
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