Rand Hobart's Random Homilies » johnny foreigner http://blog.randhobart.org.uk Between outraged ranting and mediocre mundanity is the time I'm allowed... Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:16:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Blackpool Lass in Canada… http://blog.randhobart.org.uk/2009/10/14/blackpool-lass-in-canada/ http://blog.randhobart.org.uk/2009/10/14/blackpool-lass-in-canada/#comments Wed, 14 Oct 2009 08:36:59 +0000 RandHobart http://blog.randhobart.org.uk/?p=5891

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]]> http://blog.randhobart.org.uk/2009/10/13/fuck-wii-heres-shii/feed/ 0 How One Dreadful Article Led to a Delight… http://blog.randhobart.org.uk/2009/07/28/how-one-dreadful-article-led-to-a-delight/ http://blog.randhobart.org.uk/2009/07/28/how-one-dreadful-article-led-to-a-delight/#comments Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:00:48 +0000 RandHobart http://blog.randhobart.org.uk/?p=4843 Today I kick started my TweetDeck for the first time in quite a while. Sniffing around I came across a Tweet from Charlie Brooker;

Can I be the latest to point out that @Herring1967 is about as racist as Shami Chakrabarti? ‘New Offenders’, my tits.

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]]> http://blog.randhobart.org.uk/2009/07/28/how-one-dreadful-article-led-to-a-delight/feed/ 0 Clever ‘Eastern European’ Scam http://blog.randhobart.org.uk/2009/07/13/clever-eastern-european-scam/ http://blog.randhobart.org.uk/2009/07/13/clever-eastern-european-scam/#comments Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:39:43 +0000 RandHobart http://blog.randhobart.org.uk/?p=4354 Over the last month I became the victim of a clever ‘Eastern European’ scam while out shopping.

Simply dropping into my local Tesco in Blackpool for a bit of shopping has turned out to be quite traumatic. Don’t be naive enough to think it couldn’t happen to you, or your friends.

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]]> http://blog.randhobart.org.uk/2009/06/06/the-dell-saga/feed/ 0 Millions Died… http://blog.randhobart.org.uk/2009/05/01/millions-died/ http://blog.randhobart.org.uk/2009/05/01/millions-died/#comments Fri, 01 May 2009 09:13:43 +0000 RandHobart http://blog.randhobart.org.uk/?p=3475 … didn’t they…?

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Jason ‘sorry’ for Pakistani joke

Actor Sir David Jason has apologised for a joke he made about Pakistanis on Tuesday morning on national radio.

Speaking on Christian O’Connell’s Absolute Radio show the day after the joke was broadcast, the star said it was a “silly little play on words”.

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As France rejoins NATO, a humorous reminder of why we never missed them

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A statue built for Iraqi journalist Muntazer al-Zaidi, who hurled his shoes at former US president George Bush, is seen in Tikrit, 150 km (95 miles) Baghdad, January 27, 2009. An Iraqi town has unveiled a giant monument of a shoe in honour of the journalist who [...] Related posts:

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