Telly Savalas — Birmingham
I want to know precisely the circumstances by which this video came about. Then I want to make a film of that story, with this playing during the credits.
MacGruber — Think your shit don’t stink?
Me and Soph flicked onto Sky Movies Comedy the other night, we had no idea what was on. MacGruber was on. It was amazingly funny. Not clever, just very funny — like Hots Shots 3 for the noughties, but with Kristen Wiig, being predictably awesome.
David O’Doherty — My Beefs
Yeah it’s almost a year old, but this is still one of the funniest things I’ve seen all this year. This, and those 10 seconds from MacGruber which features the line: “You think your shit don’t stink, well I’ve got news for you, it does stink, it stinks of shit.”
Marcus du Sautoy doesn’t believe in maths
So Marcus du Sautoy’s Wonder of the Universe for Maths, The Code, finished last night. It was fine, and at points, really interesting, but I did notice that Marcus himself clearly isn’t completely sold on the whole “maths” thing.
He made this big song and dance about being able to predict the flight of this ball with maths alone, and fair enough, he did. However, he isn’t so convinced that it stops him lifting his feet to protect himself as the massive thing flies towards his smug little face on his deck chair.
Stuart Broad’s nice hat
So what if Harbhajan got a massive inside edge on it. They didn’t want DRS did they? So there. There.The Film Drunk Guide to Dirty Talk
Starts funny, gets quite dark and then there’s that scene from Crash. Genius.
Robin Ince rant
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Robin Ince’s rant from Friday’s Now Show about newspapers.
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Who the fuck is he on the phone to?
This kind of shit on news reports fucks me off — it’s unnecessary and amazingly stupid.Bercow goes Beronkers
Pompous, preening, self-regarding — yep he’s all of the above. But he’s also a great speaker, because you need to have all those things to keep such a partisan house in order.
George Monbiot gets slightly carried away
The Guardian columnist calls Murdoch’s withdrawal from BskyB bid — Our Berlin Wall moment.
So the phone hacking scandal has been pootling along from one nut-busting revelation to the next for ages now. Until today when this happened.
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As you can see this is clearly big news, as the usually reserved Tim Gatt has employed full caps for this tweet, and hasn’t even bothered adding the correct suffix to one of his words. Unsurprisingly this news sparked a wave of contentment to spread throughout Twitter.
| “ | So BSkyB bid over. PCC to be abolished. Senior News International staff arrested. Inquiry into police and press on its way. Yep. I’m happy | |||
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| “ | You liberal punks enjoy kicking Murdoch when he’s down. I appeal to you to show him the same respect & courtesy that he has shown to others. | |||
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And so forth and so on.
But easily the best moment of the day came when George Monbiot — an awesome thoughtful and courageous journalist — got a bit carried away and well, here’s his tweet.
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Really George? Really?
| “ | OK, that was a bit over the top, I admit. But it’s hard to find the right words for how big a moment this is. | |||
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But he’d said it.
| “ | Hahaha. I’ve just seen this. PAGING MR CRAIG BROWN… RT:@GeorgeMonbiot This is our Berlin Wall moment. | |||
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| “ | Why stop there, @GeorgeMonbiot? Isn’t it more like HIROSHIMA? Is it not, in fact, tantamount to PUTTING A MAN ON THE MOON??? | |||
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Alright Hugo, it was probably said in a spirit of exaggeration. We’ve all got carried away from time to time. I would read what you think about the matter, but of course, all your articles are behind The Times paywall, so therefore no-one is reading them.
It’s easy to forget or certainly become apathetic to the significance of this story, especially receiving it in the piecemeal way we have. But let Jon Stewart put in some sort of perspective for you.
Crispin Blunt floundering
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Crispin Blunt advocates market-lead housing solutions
The Justice Minister Crispin Blunt seems to just keep saying, well if you’re poor you can’t afford a house. A market lead solution that demonstrably doesn’t work.
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Asylum’s Flugtag head. With hinged jaw, chomping action and badass air of prehistoric nonchalance.
Muddled Maude gets a mauling on Today
Kudos (or mad props to the ironically street among you) to Mark Serwotka General Sec for the Public and Commercial Services Union and Evan Davies for exposing the clear nonsense that Francis Maude has been talking about the teachers’ strike and public sector pensions.
What proportion of MPs’ earnings are added to their pension by their employer? 33%. Teachers? 13%. How about you start with your own pensions hey? Then we’ll see where we are. Here is Maude’s mauling on The Today Programme if you missed it:
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