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	<title>PooterGeek &#187; Englishness</title>
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		<title>&#8220;It&#8217;s not the despair; I can cope with the despair. It&#8217;s the hope I can&#8217;t stand.&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/12/its-not-the-despair-i-can-cope-with-the-despair-its-the-hope-i-cant-stand/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 10:38:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cornershop Man watches every single cricket international he can on his satellite TV under the counter&#8212;and, unlike me, he fails the Tebbit test. At the start of the week, I asked him: &#8220;Suppose you&#8217;re looking forward to whupping England&#8217;s backsides?&#8221; &#8220;Hmm,&#8221; he inhaled, &#8220;I don&#8217;t know. You&#8217;ve got some good bowlers with you. You could [...]]]></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>Let&#8217;s Saint George!</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/11/lets-saint-george/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/11/lets-saint-george/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 12:17:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While I&#8217;m on a Radio 4 kick, I heard Mark Lawson interviewing the soon-to-be-stepping-down Andrew Motion and Andy Burnham, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, on Front&#160;Row yesterday evening about the appointment of the next Poet Laureate. Apparently, although they were quick to say it wouldn&#8217;t be a TV talent contest, there&#8217;s going [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Men Are From Mars&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/08/men-are-from-mars/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/08/men-are-from-mars/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 21:49:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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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>Gallery: England Struggles To Rebuild Its Shattered Infrastructure In The Aftermath Of Hurricane Nigella</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/02/gallery-england-struggles-to-rebuild-its-shattered-infrastructure-in-the-aftermath-of-hurricane-nigella/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/02/gallery-england-struggles-to-rebuild-its-shattered-infrastructure-in-the-aftermath-of-hurricane-nigella/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:09:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=3139</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d like to take this opportunity to reassure my readers that I survived the horrors of this morning, and am now doing all I can to help with the aid effort and piece together the scattered fragments of my life. Here is my photographic tribute to those who were less&#160;fortunate:]]></description>
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		<title>Not English</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/02/not-english/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/02/not-english/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2008 13:52:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just back from lunch watching the first half of Villa versus Newcastle at my local. (Joey Barton is a dirty&#8230;) I live dahn Sarf now so there were about five people apart from me interested in the Midlands against the North-East dotted around the fairly large TV&#160;room. In walks a big black Senegalese bloke I&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gum Shoe</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/01/gum-shoe/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/01/gum-shoe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:34:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mick Hartley links to a Times report of a &#8220;serious&#8221; novelist suing the proprietors of a neighbouring factory because the fumes it produced so affected her concentration that she was reduced to writing genre fiction. It&#8217;s not just a funny hook for a news story; it&#8217;s a delicious illustration of how class and status in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lightly Worn</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/08/lightly-worn/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/08/lightly-worn/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2007 09:16:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=2937</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Beachy Head[click image to enlarge it] I was eating breakfast in an hotel in Cambridge the Saturday morning after I shot that college ball. A tall, intense-looking man with a beard sat down at a table nearby. He pulled a hardback book out of his briefcase and began underlining paragraphs heavily with a soft pencil. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Off The Grid</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/08/on-the-road/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/08/on-the-road/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2007 10:45:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[the middle of nowhere[click image to enlarge it] [A dirt track in Wales exactly seventy-five miles from the nearest Starbucks. POOTERGEEK is laden with three cameras, several lens bags, and a tripod. He is trying to open the gate to a field full of sheep by pressing a London Transport Oyster card against the hinge [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bismillah!</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/06/bismillah/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/06/bismillah/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2007 12:49:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did anyone else hear that BBC news soundbite from a representative of the emergency services reviewing the effects of the sub-tropical storms that hit parts of the UK this week? Amongst other things, he described them as &#8220;very, very&#160;frightening&#8221;. If so, did you manage to resist singing, &#8220;Thunderbolt and lightning / Galileo! /&#160;Galileo!&#8221;? (And why [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The PooterGeek Argus Headline Collection: Hove Special</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/06/the-pootergeek-argus-headline-collection-hove-special/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/06/the-pootergeek-argus-headline-collection-hove-special/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2007 10:13:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I admit that I have, in the past, given my readers the impression that the more genteel half of Brighton&#160;&#38;&#160;Hove is a sleepy, geriatric, upper-middle-class, conservative place. Indeed, one resident commented here: After all the effort I&#8217;ve put into making Hove sound like the hipper and more cosmopolitan sista of Brighton, you&#8217;re making us sound [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scissored Sisters</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/04/scissored-sisters/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/04/scissored-sisters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:50:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=2836</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The official name for the place where I live is &#8220;Brighton &#38; Hove&#8221;. A friend of mine was recently asked at interview to characterize the difference between Brighton and her non-identical Siamese twin town and came up with something along the lines of Hove being a respectable older aunt and Brighton a wayward younger&#160;sister. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Citizen Ghale</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/04/citizen-ghale/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/04/citizen-ghale/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Apr 2007 15:20:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My dad has long been associated, as a member and officer, with the largest UK teaching union, the NAS/UWT. Indeed, in classic working-class northerner style, he first had a heart attack as he arrived at a union conference. Equally typically, after it was initially misdiagnosed by a junior doctor as a digestive problem, he just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Say It Loud: I&#8217;m Chippy And Proud</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/03/say-it-loud-im-chippy-and-proud/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/03/say-it-loud-im-chippy-and-proud/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2007 13:33:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Chippy!&#8221; is the cry of a winner in the lottery of birth losing an&#160;argument. There&#8217;s a scene near the beginning of Casino Royale in which Vesper Lynd practises some amateur psychology on 007 as they sit opposite each other on the Eurostar. She says something&#160;like: You&#8217;re Oxford, but not from money, hence that huge chip [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reach For The Pie</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/02/reach-for-the-pie/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/02/reach-for-the-pie/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Feb 2007 14:35:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sitting here eating a microwaved vegetable biryani in front of my computer, having returned from a Ginsters-fuelled morning shoot of a band at Shoreham Airport, a cute, art deco building surrounded by dodgy Italian mopeds of the sky&#8212;not just propellor aircraft that look like they are powered by elastic bands, but helicopters that were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Never Mind The Barmy Army&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/01/never-mind-the-barmy-army/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/01/never-mind-the-barmy-army/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2007 14:38:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;what about the shocking behaviour of Australian cricket&#160;fans?]]></description>
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		<title>RIP</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/01/rip/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jan 2007 09:20:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, over the phone, my dad and I held our own Ashes inquest. It was&#160;brief.]]></description>
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		<title>Sex-u-a-lity</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/01/sex-u-a-lity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 2007 14:53:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Given that I spent New Year&#8217;s Eve alone at my computer keyboard tidying up my remote UNIX home directory, this is going to read like a middle-class white guy wibbling on about how &#8220;vibrant&#8221; the local &#8220;community&#8221; is as he moves into a flat in one of London&#8217;s tiny ethnic war-zones instead of the Georgian [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Overheard In New York</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/12/overheard-in-new-york/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Dec 2006 15:33:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Someone at Harry&#8217;s Place comments that Until now, I thought Gwyneth Paltrow was&#160;Welsh.&#8221; which reminds me of being in a video rental store in NYC in the late 90s with a local. An old Tom Jones song starts playing. &#8220;Well, I never,&#8221; says I to my native companion in my conspicuously British way, &#8220;This is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mild For The Time Of Year</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/11/mild-for-the-time-of-year/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/11/mild-for-the-time-of-year/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Nov 2006 21:14:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the past week, two shops within two doors of each other in my street have decorated their respective forecourts with a giant fibreglass ice cream cone and a lifesize inflatable Santa&#160;Claus.]]></description>
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		<title>Beige Girl In The Ring</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/11/beige-girl-in-the-ring/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/11/beige-girl-in-the-ring/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Nov 2006 11:56:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following on from my previous post, the entertaining flickr pages of a posh Asian-Italian woman called Robyn are at the end of this link, including her own pics of Brighton from her recent visit with her man. (They seem to be public so I don&#8217;t think this makes us voyeurs. She&#8217;s part of the Bobbie [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Orb In Sky</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/11/orb-in-sky/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/11/orb-in-sky/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Nov 2006 08:34:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I enjoyed a beautiful drive through Autumn English countryside to a job in West Sussex yesterday. Driving back blind into low sunlight wasn&#8217;t quite so&#160;pleasant. This random November photo from flickr is lovely&#160;too.]]></description>
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		<title>Ungentlemanly English</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/10/ungentlemanly-english/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/10/ungentlemanly-english/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Oct 2006 11:13:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the accordion but doesn&#8217;t. Gentlemanly English is when you can read Martin Amis without resorting to a dictionary, but people are unaware of this fact when they read your own writing. Gentlemanly English is when you have a knighthood and a seat in the Lords, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hot Wheels In Hot Pants</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/07/hot-wheels-in-hot-pants/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/07/hot-wheels-in-hot-pants/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jul 2006 12:52:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sorry it&#8217;s been quiet. I&#8217;ve been working my way through hundreds of photo scans. Once I&#8217;ve finished I&#8217;ll be back in action here and on the Wedding Photography&#160;Blog. In the meantime I couldn&#8217;t help but notice something familiar about one of the snaps I took on the river in Cambridge at Hot Wheels Helena&#8217;s 30th [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Admissions</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/07/admissions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/07/admissions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 10:03:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marvel at this unintentionally revealing Guardian story about the lengths middle-class parents go to to get their children into church schools. It opens with a Jewish mother admitting that she feels hypocritical attending Church of England services so that her two kids can get into the local church school. At least she is honest about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Like Watching&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/07/its-like-watching/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/07/its-like-watching/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jul 2006 08:23:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Isolated a talented striker up front. Lost possession cheaply. Couldn&#8217;t score from open play. Vulnerable defending set-pieces. Star player sent off for violent conduct. Beaten on penalties. Who says England weren&#8217;t in the World Cup&#160;final?]]></description>
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		<title>Shrinking England</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/07/shrinking-england/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/07/shrinking-england/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jul 2006 07:52:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via the Rubbish Man I came upon this. Despite the inherent wrongness of psychoanalysis, it&#8217;s rather a good&#160;read: &#8220;England&#8217;s repeated failure in penalty shoot-outs is not down to bad fortune, as the English media, with its empiricist presuppositions, insists. To lose once might be an accident, but to lose five times demands a psychoanalytic explanation. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Have Pity On Their Souls!</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/07/have-pity-on-their-souls/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/07/have-pity-on-their-souls/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jul 2006 18:51:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On average, over the rest of their lives, each of these children will have to endure the spectacle of England crashing out of international football championships on penalties a further twenty-nine times. Look at those fresh, hopeful faces and imagine a football boot stamping on each&#160;one&#8212;forever. Surely there is no&#160;God.]]></description>
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		<title>Yah!</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/05/yah/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/05/yah/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 May 2006 09:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A while back I linked to Saturday Night Live&#8217;s excellent &#8220;Narnia Rap&#8221;, Lazy Sunday. Via An Englishman In New York, I have now experienced Britain&#8217;s response to this online hit: Lazy Sunday UK: We Drink Tea. [Requires Macromedia Flash&#160;Player.] Unlike the US original, the rapping is painfully inept, but I think that&#8217;s the point. It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We Remain, However, Firmly Opposed To Incest</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/04/we-remain-however-firmly-opposed-to-incest/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/04/we-remain-however-firmly-opposed-to-incest/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:36:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Looking very relaxed, Adolf Hitler on vibes.&#8221; They said we were in trouble when Bill Kristol and Michelle Malkin gave their support for the Euston Manifesto. But now we have a morris dancer on the&#160;books.]]></description>
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