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Explaining supply and demand to the Daily Telegraph.

Trump & the Russian Prostitutes Part 1: The 'intelligence'

Trump & The Russian Prostitutes Part 2: BuzzFeed fell for a 4Chan prank.

Trump & The Russian Prostitutes Part 3: "No we weren't!" says Buzzfeed (not entirely convincingly) "and they're all nasty trolls, so there!"

The 74 year old who has been playing Asheron's Call since 1999. So it's a shame that the game is stopping at the end of this month.

Long, but well-argued article on "Fact-Checking's Infinite-Regress Problem". Short version: Don’t expect “fact checkers” to be any less biased than the media they claim to police, especially ones already predisposed towards particular mindsets.

New Swansea City boss Paul Clement will make use of 'Moneyball'.

"Grandma accidentally prays to Elrond"

Star Wars actors before they were famous. (Worth clicking through at least as far as number 17 to see just how tragically dorkish the young Samuel L. Jackson looked…)

Are we seeing the end of the super-jumbo?

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The Top 100 Things I'd Do If I Ever Became An Evil Overlord (An oldie, but a goldie.)

Ridiculously expensive options on fancy cars. (This struck a chord with me. My car wouldn’t have been cheap when it was new (18 years ago). It doesn’t have any way to keep the rear wiper on or even on intermittently. You have to press the button every time you want to wipe the rear windscreen. Apparently, this was an expensive option that the original buyer didn’t choose.

Maybe this should be our new immigration policy post-Brexit. Everyone's allowed in, but we can kick out the annoying ones...

Confused about the true meaning behind Pepe the Frog? Read this and you probably still will be…

The new king of Rwanda is a 56-year-old security company boss who lives in a coucil house in Manchester.

Here's the major Labour Party donor trying to end press freedom in the UK punching a policeman, back when he was a famous fascist.

98.4% of all mass public shootings in the US since 1950 took place in 'gun-free zones'.

I know it's almost a month after Christmas, but our sale is still on!

Start your collection of Hieronymous Bosch figurines today!

US boot brand recalls shoe that leaves swastika imprints.

Remember that muslim kid who brought a fake bomb to school, claimed it was a 'clock' and then got gullible celebrities to say that any criticism was islamaphobic?

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Applying that decluttering bollocks to a post-apocalyptic world.

This guy really didn't like this year's Sherlock. (SPOILERS in the article.) I gave up on Sherlock years ago. Much prefer the ITV series.

Most A/B testing is bollocks.

"'No regrets': Pakistani mom promised her daughter a wedding reception. Instead, she burned her alive. Nice…

Always funny: posh students completely unaware of quite how patronising they are.

The best and worst memes of 2016.

On the question of whether the government should tell women what they can and cannot wear, Americans are very liberal, and Germans are really illiberal.

A truly bizarre BBC article attacking Donald Trump for being teetotal. That’s not the most ridiculous part. The worst is that they quoted Ted Kennedy explaining why Jimmy Carter being teetotal was so bad. TED KENNEDY??? I bet Mary-Jo’s family wish that Ted had been teetotal too!

"Taliban bomb expert accidentally kills himself and 4 sons" I question the use of the term “expert” in this news story…

CIA assessment of British politics from 1985 "The Labour Party is in the hands of urban leftists given to ideological extremes with only fringe appeal". It also identified Jeremy Corbyn’s links to Marxist guerrillas in El Salvador. Since that’s only mentioned in passing, I assume that everyone already knows that Corbyn is friends with mass murdering scum…

Some really nice photographs of trees.

Trump returns Churchill's bust to the Oval Office.

Life in a nutshell according to Google. (Thanks topum.)

The Tunguska Event might not have been a meteorite impact.

The best day to trigger Article 50 would be March 25th. For the lolz.

"75+ Hobby Ideas for Men"

Rather odd article from a website called The Art of Manliness (logo: handlebar moustache, so I approve of that bit at least). I daresay most if not all of these could be enjoyed by women too, so I thought this had the makings of an LJ meme.

Bold the hobbies that you regularly take part in and italicise the ones you’ve tried at least once as an adult. Ones that you do as part of your job, or did as a child, don't count. It also doesn't count if you did the activity as a chore rather than as a hobby to be enjoyed.


Copy and repost on your own journals, or just comment here. This might be a way of finding someone else who shares a hobby with you but never posts about it because they didn't think anyone else would be interested.

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