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Monthly Archives: April 2007

Smugness - open source

I’ve being trying to nail smugness myself and there are too many variations.  Take the graph below - what would you make A and B to arrive at smugness?  I started with A=religious zeal and B=narrow mindedness but it doesn’t feel quite right.  Answers in the comments please - what are A and B?
 
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Diets - sorted

It’s simple - eat less and exercise more.  That’s weight loss in a nutshell.  But people are bone idle, they want to lose weight quickly without taking their stubby little fingers off the remote control.  Enter the fad diets.  By fads I mean the Atkins diet, the east coast, the west coast, the bondi beach, […]

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Men and Jewellery - what’s that about?

I’ll be whacking out another ‘open source’ ploop science graph tomorrow (basically everyone who comments comes up with better ideas than me!). 
In the meantime:

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ploop TV - no one cares like Blair

Exhasperated that not one single member of the British public cares about people as much as him, Tony Blair calls in some favours from his Islington TV buddies. A meeting is called in a ball-breakingly fashionable cave carved from bat shit underneath Battersea Power station.  In between far too many uses of the phrases, “you […]

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Hilarious restaurant jokes

Went out for lunch today.  Quite a top end restaurant - with very low quality guests.  They were low quality for this reason: they didn’t think of their audience before cracking jokes.  That worries me.  It’s arrogant joking.  It’s thoughtless joking.  In fact, if I were the waiter I’d have simply driven the steak knife […]

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