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		<title>Tough Characters</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2010/07/tough-characters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 20:29:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Web time, this is an ancient (1991) essay, so I don&#8217;t feel guilty that I can&#8217;t remember who drew my attention to it today: &#8220;Why Chinese Is So Damn&#160;Hard&#8221;. Someone once said that learning Chinese is &#8220;a five-year lesson in humility&#8221;. I used to think this meant that at the end of five years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;There is an appropriate use for paper&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2010/04/there-is-an-appropriate-use-for-paper/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2010/04/there-is-an-appropriate-use-for-paper/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 11:21:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Paperless Office, like The Flying Car, is one of those technological icons of the future whose ascendancy, no matter how much time passes, seems stuck in the future; but I reckon offices without paper are going to become more common more quickly than cars that fly. Indeed, we do seem to be printing fewer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Smell Of Home</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2009/07/the-smell-of-home/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 23:17:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been known to be uncomplimentary here about Tamworth, the town where I grew up. Back in the 80s, an Australian barman once told a friend of mine that, travelling around England, it was the place where he had been beaten up most frequently for being Australian. And he was&#160;white. Thanks to Paulie for drawing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Son Of English Teacher Resists Using Name Of Austrian Modernist Writer In Blog Post About Interminable Bureaucratic Torment</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2009/07/interminable-bureaucratic-torment/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2009/07/interminable-bureaucratic-torment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 09:35:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the past four years, I have been involved in a dispute with a utility company over a sum that ultimately amounted to several thousand pounds. The company will remain nameless here because, today, thanks to the intervention of the relevant government watchdog, we finally settled without having to go to court. It is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When It Hurts To Ask</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2009/05/when-it-hurts-to-ask/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 11:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Actually, it does hurt. It does hurt to ask the wrong way, to ask without preparation, to ask without permission. It hurts because you never get another chance to ask&#160;right. If you run into Elton John at the diner and say, &#8220;Hey Elton, will you sing at my daughter&#8217;s wedding?&#8221; it hurts any chance you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where Are They Now?&#8212;Taff Trot / Brummie Schoolboy Edition</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2009/03/where-are-they-now-taff-trot-brummie-schoolboy-edition/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2009/03/where-are-they-now-taff-trot-brummie-schoolboy-edition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:39:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in the 80s, I used to be in a band with a guy called Martyn Hope&#8212;indeed, we went to school together. Back in the 90s, having read that, surreally, Elvis revivalist Shakin&#8217; Stevens was a closet Red1, I went searching online to find out if he was a member of a late 70s cohort [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Eight-Year-Old Watches Man&#160;U Versus Liverpool</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2009/03/an-eight-year-old-watches-man%c2%a0u-versus-liverpool/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2009/03/an-eight-year-old-watches-man%c2%a0u-versus-liverpool/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 11:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From The Motley&#160;Fool: My 8-year old daughter enters the&#160;room. Millie: Aww, football?! Football is such&#160;rubbish. As the daughter of a life-long Saints supporter she has a&#160;point. Me: That&#8217;s true, but it&#8217;s not on for&#160;long. A lump of sulk flops down next to me. I try to remember why other teams seem to pass the round [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Diversity Training</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2009/03/diversity-training/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2009/03/diversity-training/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:14:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day, I was (as one so often is) on the door at the latter stages of a central Brighton soul and Motown event with a mixed-race lesbian bouncer. She leerily told me tales of her days running sapphic club nights, and how the punters only really started to pile in when she imported [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jew Do You Think You Are?</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2009/01/jew-do-you-think-you-are/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2009/01/jew-do-you-think-you-are/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2009 12:44:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whenever someone implies that anti-Semitism isn&#8217;t racism, I point out that it&#8217;s one of the few examples of discrimination that really is racism (unlike, for example, the invented thoughtcrime &#8220;Islamophobia&#8221;1 ) because the Ashkenazi Jewish population is as close as you can get scientifically to the common (and deeply flawed) notion of what a &#8220;race&#8221;&#160;is. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy (western, heliocentric) New Year!</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2009/01/happy-western-heliocentric-new-year/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2009/01/happy-western-heliocentric-new-year/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 12:38:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I hope that, wherever you are, you enjoyed the extra second imposed upon you by the imperialist forces of the dominant scientific-capitalist worldview and that you have a prosperous&#160;2009. As for my year so far, I jogged wearily to the gym this morning, dreading the crowds of resolutioners (though it hasn&#8217;t been too bad in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jumpers For Goalposts</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/12/jumpers-for-goalposts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2008 13:02:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=3984</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[[UPDATE: For the hordes arriving here after searching for the comedy catchphrase &#8220;Jumpers for goalposts&#8221;, you&#8217;d probably be better off reading this.] Yesterday afternoon, I interrupted some desk-bound consulting work that, even if I weren&#8217;t prevented by an NDA from doing so, would put you to sleep instantly if I told you about it, to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mini-Me</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/11/mini-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2008 12:47:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A lot of people spend their youth experimenting. As my mother often tells people who really don&#8217;t want to know, I spent my youth experimenting: with chemicals, electricity, and the flora and fauna of Birmingham&#8217;s green belt. Just like my peers who took part in drug parties, random sexual coupling, and street violence&#8212;I suppose I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Geek At Work</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/11/geek-at-work/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:44:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=3749</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[And now, like a page from Where&#8217;s Wally / Where&#8217;s Waldo?, see if you can spot the wedding photographer in this [large!] image. He&#8217;s cunningly camouflaged by being the same colour as the&#160;furniture. (The camera to my left has a 50mm f/1.4 lens on it and the one in my hands a 100mm f/2.8. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top Brand</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/10/top-brand/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 02:32:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Further to my last post about this, Russell Brand makes a proper apology to camera here. I can think of several politicians (amongst others) who could learn from it. He doesn&#8217;t mess about with words like &#8220;inappropriate&#8221;, which these days is used to describe everything from ironically referencing a passage in the Koran to trying [...]]]></description>
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		<title>11.05 Miles</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/10/1183-miles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 12:35:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I typed the postcode of the house in which I grew up into the box here and it turns out that my childhood decision to support Aston Villa cannot be challenged under the manly rules of&#160;manliness.]]></description>
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		<title>Double Exposure With Cream</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/10/old-cafe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 12:39:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember that very &#8220;English&#8221; black-and-white print I made of a caf&#233; in&#160;Hove? This supersaturated colour medium-format slide film shot of another corner caf&#233;, taken in Argentina, is a nice counterpoint to it; even the angles of the shadows are similar. As the photographer says, the stock it was taken with came out of the&#160;freezer. Old [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Client I Won&#8217;t Miss</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/10/a-client-i-wont-miss/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/10/a-client-i-wont-miss/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:29:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[BY&#160;TELEPHONE] CLIENT-I-WON&#8217;T-MISS: [giggling] &#8230;and I saw the pictures of that gay wedding on your&#160;Website. POOTERGEEK: I shoot Gays, Catholics, Protestants, Humanists, Blacks, Whites,&#160;Jews&#8230; CLIENT-I-WON&#8217;T-MISS: Well, I suppose you have to be prepared to work for anyone when you&#8217;re starting&#160;out.]]></description>
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		<title>Men Are From Mars&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/08/men-are-from-mars/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 21:49:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Both of these photos are from the same wedding, at the most excellent Barn at Bury Court. I took the first on one side of the venue (with my camera in a transparent shower cap to protect it from the rain) and the second, later, on the other side, when the rain had&#160;stopped. Boys with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Say What You Like About Joseph Stalin, At Least He Made The Underground Trains Run On Time</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/08/say-what-you-like-about-stalin-at-least-he-made-the-underground-trains-run-on-time/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/08/say-what-you-like-about-stalin-at-least-he-made-the-underground-trains-run-on-time/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 11:07:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was quiet here last week because I had a lot of things on&#8212;to the extent that I had to stop off at the 24-hour Tesco superstore in the small hours of Saturday on the way back from singing at a gig to do my week&#8217;s shopping. I&#8217;ve read some extreme tales about the goings [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brighton Carnival 2008</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/07/brighton-carnival-2008/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 00:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A fortnight ago, I shot the Brighton School of Samba at Brighton&#8217;s Second revived carnival. Congratulations to them. They went on to win the prize for best&#160;band.]]></description>
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		<title>Nokia 6300 Review</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/07/nokia-6300-review/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/07/nokia-6300-review/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:32:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had to replace my mobile phone recently, so I deliberately downgraded. After perfunctory Internet research, I got a Nokia 6300. If you are not one of the Young People and you use your phone for business then it is a most excellent tool. If you want to blog or surf the Net from your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good Advice</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/07/good-advice/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/07/good-advice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 10:54:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[These are both old (by blogging standards) and from the unlikeliest of sources, but I think they&#8217;re&#160;excellent: Marketer Seth Godin on how to send email&#160;and 79-year-old Catholic priest Pat Connor on how to choose a&#160;spouse.]]></description>
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		<title>Merrit</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/06/merrit/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/06/merrit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 00:10:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you remember&#160;Wei? Well,&#160;Wei&#8230; &#8230;wed&#8230; &#8230;Bobby&#8230; &#8230;in Edinburgh earlier this month, and I was hired to shoot the&#160;event. It wasn&#8217;t my first tri-lingual wedding, but it was my first Cantonese/Mandarin/Scottish one. And it was the first one from which the happy couple excused me in the small hours because the tea ceremony was&#160;over-running. [Unusually for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Racism And Sexism To Be Protected By Law</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/06/racism-and-sexism-to-be-protected-by-law/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/06/racism-and-sexism-to-be-protected-by-law/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 10:05:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is simply wrong: Harriet Harman has defended plans to make it legal for firms to discriminate in favour of female and ethnic minorities job&#160;candidates. The equalities minister said firms should be able to choose a woman over a man of equal ability if they want&#160;to.]]></description>
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		<title>Trouble At T&#8217; Degree Mill</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/06/trouble-at-t-degree-mill/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/06/trouble-at-t-degree-mill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 10:43:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another &#8220;shocking state of our universities today&#8221; story has appeared on the BBC news Website. A report from the Quality Assurance Agency says the degree classification system is broken. I smiled when I read this&#160;bit: The reports from the QAA raise some worries about the effectiveness of the external examiner system, in which examiners from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pussy Pedantry</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/05/pussy-pedantry/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/05/pussy-pedantry/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 13:29:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My last post prompted a reader to send me photos of her tortoiseshell cats. [Thank you!] Such a flow of cat pics is of course unconventional in cat blogging, but it gives me an opportunity to point out that it&#8217;s only some of the much rarer male tortoiseshells that are the true chimeras, mixtures from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Growing Up</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/05/growing-up/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/05/growing-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 09:25:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[UPDATE: Edited to use the version of the body text that actually makes some sense with the originally posted&#160;title.] I&#8217;m not that old, so I&#8217;m often puzzled by people who make historical pronouncements in ignorance of recent, relevant history, sometimes history that happened within their lifetimes but not mine. Of course, as Catholic dogma would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thamesmead, Riverside School, 76&#8211;78</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/05/thamesmead-riverside-school-76-78/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/05/thamesmead-riverside-school-76-78/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 12:16:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For a long time, PooterGeek&#8217;s homepage has been decorated with a school photo of me shot in, I think, 1979. I&#8217;ve taken the sensible advice of one of my readers and moved it. It&#8217;s still here, but on the &#8220;About&#8221; page where it doesn&#8217;t unbalance the new site&#160;design. The original print from which the image [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Busted By Aunty Beeb&#8217;s Licence Nazis</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/05/busted-by-aunty-beebs-licence-nazis/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/05/busted-by-aunty-beebs-licence-nazis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 10:29:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stephen Pollard (under the title &#8220;Is the BBC out of control?&#8221;) and the Centre Right Blog at Conservative Home (under the title &#8220;Big Brother Corporation&#8221;) embed video of the recent, and undoubtedly threatening, ad warning unlicensed TV viewers of the completeness of the TV licensing authority&#8217;s database of UK addresses. In SP&#8217;s comments, Nicholas writes: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Unpleasant thuglike looking Jew&#8221; Also Jungle Bunny</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/05/unpleasant-thuglike-looking-jew-also-jungle-bunny/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/05/unpleasant-thuglike-looking-jew-also-jungle-bunny/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 12:30:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like me, Clive Davis is a product of one of those godless unions of black and white, but, because I am an expert on the conspiracy of sinister media Jews, when I took his byline photo I offered to make him look more Jewish in order to help his career. Now see what&#8217;s happened. I [...]]]></description>
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