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		<title>A Face-Saving Exercise</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2010/11/a-face-saving-exercise/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Nov 2010 14:46:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The BBC&#160;reports: A former soldier who was jailed for refusing to fight in Afghanistan has handed back a medal in protest at Britain&#8217;s involvement in the&#160;war. &#8220;There&#8217;s a real up-swell of awareness now among military families and among the military, and among the people in this country, that this conflict is, has kind of turned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>v v good fun</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2009/10/v-v-good-fun/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 22:57:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This [HD YouTube video] is a bonkers slab of wonderfully British-sounding soul-pop from V&#160;VBrown. Shame about the over-compressed production/mixing/mastering that turns every peak into white&#160;noise. This [HD YouTube video&#8212;censored version] is an equally bonkers slab of ironic hair metal from the self-proclaimed &#8220;modern Spinal Tap&#8221;, Steel Panther. I know it&#8217;s meant to be a joke, [...]]]></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>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=4389</guid>
		<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>&#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>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/12/its-not-the-despair-i-can-cope-with-the-despair-its-the-hope-i-cant-stand/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 10:38:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=4035</guid>
		<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>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/12/jumpers-for-goalposts/#comments</comments>
		<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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=3831</guid>
		<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>Those Beige Headlines In Full</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/11/those-beige-headlines-in-full/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/11/those-beige-headlines-in-full/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 12:53:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[TIGER WOODS WINS 2008 US OPEN DESPITE KNEE INJURY CAUSED BY ILLEGAL KARATE ATTACK FROM EVIL MAFIA GOLFER ROCCO MEDIATE. OBTAINS CRUCIAL PAR SCORE ON SUDDEN-DEATH HOLE USING &#8220;CRANE KICK&#8221; BEFORE COLLAPSING ON THE FINAL GREEN IN AGONY, MUTTERING &#8220;I DID IT FOR YOU,&#160;ELIN!&#8221; LEWIS HAMILTON CLINCHES WORLD F1 DRIVERS&#8217; CHAMPIONSHIP IN HIS MCLAREN, &#8220;HERBIE&#8221;, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How I Became A Blogger</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/09/why-i-became-a-blogger/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/09/why-i-became-a-blogger/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 21:02:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=3316</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My getting into this game had nothing to do with some kind of 9/11 epiphany. No, it was the insanity of the property bubble that started me writing spoofs and screeds on the Web, originally at the excellent, skeptical, principled, and free Motley Fool UK site. I retired from posting on its &#8220;Property: Markets and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;That they may see your good works&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/09/that-they-may-see-your-good-works/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/09/that-they-may-see-your-good-works/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 08:47:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=3310</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I like that one of the authors of this US paper describing gene therapy to restore sight in sufferers from a rare form of blindness, itself a refinement of a treatment first given in the UK, is called &#8220;Elizabeth&#160;Windsor&#8221;: &#8220;One of the patients said that the dim red light from his alarm clock had gotten [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John The Savage and Bela Emerson</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/08/jon-the-savage-and-bela-emerson/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/08/jon-the-savage-and-bela-emerson/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2008 12:53:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=3294</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This week, I saw John The Savage and Bela Emerson at&#160;Komedia. John The Savage is an experimental post-something-or-other band featuring my friend Richard Brincklow on piano. Don&#8217;t be put off by my arty-sounding and vague description. They have tunes and they can play. They groove and they rawk. But they&#8217;re also very unusual indeed. Go [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good Sports</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/08/good-sports/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/08/good-sports/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:31:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=3288</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the summer of 2006, a particular grim one for British sport, this blog made public the list of new events planned for the 2012 London Olympics. Following the nation&#8217;s successes in Beijing, that has been further revised to include the following, again in alphabetical&#160;order: 4x4 Hundred-School&#160;Run Aussie&#160;Baiting Chopper-, Grifter-, Strika-, and Tomahawk-Class&#160;Cycling Eton&#160;Fives Guyball [...]]]></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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=3289</guid>
		<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>&#8220;At least we&#8217;re still ahead of New Zealand.&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/08/at-least-were-still-ahead-of-new-zealand/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/08/at-least-were-still-ahead-of-new-zealand/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:47:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=3286</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the sweetest things about beating the Aussies is that they are spectacularly bad&#160;losers.]]></description>
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		<title>Brighton Carnival 2008</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/07/brighton-carnival-2008/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/07/brighton-carnival-2008/#comments</comments>
		<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>Job Creation Scheme</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/07/job-creation-scheme/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/07/job-creation-scheme/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:02:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Surely Margaret Thatcher doesn&#8217;t want a state funeral? I mean, that would require the government to pay people to dig a hole and fill it up&#160;again.]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Let Them Eat Smoke!&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/07/let-them-eat-smoke/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/07/let-them-eat-smoke/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:31:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Norm asks two questions: People on the wrong end of social and economic inequalities don&#8217;t just experience health disadvantages from smoking, but disadvantages across the board - in every area of health, in life expectancy, in the pattern of life chances in general. Shall we impose compulsory legal norms about diet, about exercise, about whatever [...]]]></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>
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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>Late Local Election Result</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/05/late-local-election-result/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/05/late-local-election-result/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 23:38:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Boris Johnson&#8217;s Hair: still No Overall&#160;Control.]]></description>
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		<title>Signs Of The Times</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/04/signs-of-the-times/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 08:06:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The &#8220;pictures&#8221; included a front-page one of the torturer dressed in a pink nurse&#8217;s outfit that stopped just above the tops of her black stockings For those of you not up to date with the PooterGeek soap opera, having been made redundant from my first permanent job in science (when the Medical Research Council closed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When Brighton Hen Parties Go Bad</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/03/when-brighton-hen-parties-go-bad/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/03/when-brighton-hen-parties-go-bad/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Mar 2008 01:11:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<title>Future News: Headlines Of 2108</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/03/future-news-headlines-of-2108/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/03/future-news-headlines-of-2108/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 23:41:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NASA ASTRONAUTS ARRIVE ON CENTAURI IV AND ENCOUNTER POPULATION OF HUMANOIDS SO PRIMITIVE THAT THEY STILL HAVE FACEBOOK&#160;ACCOUNTS. PANEL OF HISTORIANS VOTES ON MOST HATED FIGURES OF 21ST CENTURY. SADDAM HUSSEIN, CLONED HITLER, HEATHER MILLS-MCCARTNEY TOP&#160;POLL. HUMPHREY LYTTELTON FORCED TO STAND DOWN AS PRESENTER OF I&#8217;M SORRY I HAVEN&#8217;T A CLUE AFTER EXPOSURE TO SUNLIGHT [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Parallel Lives</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/03/parallel-lives/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/03/parallel-lives/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 19:45:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s all over for the &#8216;Head On the front page of The Spectator online, Fraser Nelson suggests that David Cameron could be &#8220;the British [Barack] Obama&#8221;, which struck me as a coincidence, because I am the British Gore&#160;Vidal.]]></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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		<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>Guests? But I Haven&#8217;t Hoovered For Days!</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/02/guests-but-i-havent-hoovered-for-days/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/02/guests-but-i-havent-hoovered-for-days/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 14:11:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of my friends txted me this morning to let me know that PooterGeek is in The Guardian&#8217;s Guide today. Unfortunately, as has been the case for most of the past week, I&#8217;m too busy to write anything new and the best-of section is over a year out of date. Come back next week, [...]]]></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>British Corruption</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/02/british-corruption/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/02/british-corruption/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2008 11:19:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The latest political scandal uncovered on BBC Radio 2 news this morning was a Conservative MP being &#8220;late to declare hospitality from McDonald&#8217;s&#8221;. Imagine an Italian person hearing that report and trying to make any kind of sense of it at&#160;all.]]></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>A Series Of Unfortunate Events</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/01/a-series-of-unfortunate-events/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/01/a-series-of-unfortunate-events/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2008 22:55:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<title>They Do Things Differently Down South</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/12/they-do-things-differently-down-south/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/12/they-do-things-differently-down-south/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Dec 2007 14:07:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thank you to Beardsleys and Counsells for their hospitality and generosity. Oop North, they know how to enjoy themselves, but local children don&#8217;t have it as good as my niece and&#160;nephew: fattist oppression in action]]></description>
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		<title>Overheard Outside An Antiques Shop Yesterday</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/09/overheard-outside-an-antiques-shop-yesterday/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/09/overheard-outside-an-antiques-shop-yesterday/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2007 07:57:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[FIRST ANTIQUE DEALER: Do you have a double-U-double-U-double-U&#160;number? SECOND ANTIQUE DEALER:&#160;? FIRST ANTIQUE DEALER: An, er, Internet&#160;address?]]></description>
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