What I’ve been up to, week ending 2010-04-25

• I'm quite enjoying the ban – off to meet up with a friend who's supposed to be back in the UK, but instead is loafing in Sydney #
• has been the general manager of a large establishment, but still never would've thought they'd have put him in the Good Squad. #
• derives pathetic childish joy from listening to Armed Forces by the best Elvis. #
• until last week, i was delighted to be out of the uk for the election. but seriously, the least unpleasant party are winning in the polls. #
• Damon Albarn QOTD: did he call his third band The Good, The Bad & The Queen so they'd be next to Gorillaz whenever browsing the alphabet? #
• Only since I've been in Oz have I understood why the collective noun for crows is "a murder". Horrible, unearthly beasts… #
• I don't know why #davidcameronsexface is a thing, but since I've encountered the concept, y'all can too. #
• ONLINE. Properly. On a real computer and everything. Hell yeah. #
• Finding it deeply tedious watching people equate #globalfinancialsystemfail with #labourfail. #
• Seriously, how much of a partisan idiot do you have to be to believe that NuLab did anything other than follow general economic orthodoxy? #
• (clue: the correct answer is "lots", and I say that as someone who's never voted Labour in my life…) #
• I'm pretty sure the fact that crime in the UK has just massively fallen and everyone's ignored it is #nickcleggsfault http://bit.ly/bq9WUZ #
• This is properly scary: http://bit.ly/bofPNa – bets on either the Indy changes its angle or News Corp puts out nasty stuff on Lebedev? #
• Weird: http://bit.ly/cnevXb – sheer churnalism, but all the local press juniors I've met in years were vaguely liberal (via @darryl1974) #
• Apparently #toryfail types are upset about Sky comparing Nick Clegg to 'Ghandi'. Damn right, I'd say he was far closer to Martin Luther Kong #
• I know it's like saying "Mussolini was my favourite Axis leader", but Yelland was always my least despised Sun editor: http://bit.ly/cHiOdX #
• Haha, #torypressdesperation RT @unslugged DM poll: "Who would make the best Chancellor?" Options are Darling, Cable, and… Clarke. #
• You meant "relieved", right? -> RT @Anthropith Be afraid. This could happen on May 7th. http://bit.ly/cugX2H #
• Up far too late, now that the UK election run-up has actually become interesting again #nickcleggsfault #
• The markets, unlike halfwit Tories, don't think that a hung parliament would harm the #ukeconomy: http://dlvr.it/b7P3 #hangem #ge2010 #
• Surely the #Tory candidate Martin Coxall who's just been arrested for alleged assault isn't the same MC who trolls @libcon? #
• Fair clarification, and yes he is -> RT @Anthropith Important to note he's not a PPC. Martin Coxall is a council candidate and a twat. #
• If You Vote Lib Dem, You Will Kill Rebekah Brooks And James Murdoch's Careers http://bit.ly/9MEucv #nickcleggsfault #
• I'm assuming that @polfret's assault on John Prescott was probably #nickcleggsfault #
• Of course that's true @Anthropith – but reason it's getting Twitter interest is because he's a prominent online Tory defender #
• YES! Cassetteboy does the One Show: http://bit.ly/d69yLw (via @catdonn) #
• Nike drops stars who're guilty of crimes; doesn't drop stars who aren't. Hence, they're misogynists http://nyti.ms/9hDmdw #woollyliberalfail #
• The whole thing is leftie puritanism at its worst. *Raping* women is a terrible thing. *Drunkenly hitting on women in clubs* is not. #
• I do like bit.ly's customised ntyi.ms links, though. Presumably that's some kind of JV I've missed? #
• Google seems to have taken a dislike to me. From #1 for 'john band' and 'banditry' to page 2 and #3 respectively. Weird… #
• Given the subject & the ease of missing out reading little words like "on", I should've phrased this differently: http://bit.ly/92fVMc #
• Back online, so back on #ebz – that's the way it goes. http://fallenlondon.com/c/57780 #
• Haha, @qwghlm has updated the Daily Mail-o-matic for #ge2010 http://www.qwghlm.co.uk/toys/dailymail/ #
• 4AM. Ooops. Skype's a dangerous tool, a bit like George Osborne. #
• Party like it's 1999: http://youroldcrapwebsite.wordpress.com/ #
• Entertained that second-biggest podcast on iTunes UK is some teenage idiot's bedroom japery entitled Mock The Weak. Good work, illiterates. #
• Unpleasant man, unpleasant website: http://www.philwoolas.org.uk/ #
• Of course you've seen this already, but it's 100x better than Dawkins at making the same point: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0W7Jbc_Vhw #
• Hungover, watching TV and playing #ebz- this is officially the life http://fallenlondon.com/c/58708 #
• Can you guess she's gone home to Ireland? RT @catdonn Waiting for bacon sarnies. Sitting with Dad who's flicking between football & snooker. #
• Me: "did you see The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo"? My dad: "yes, but I switched off because I was hoping it'd be a kung fu movie" #parentWIN #
• Anyone watch the #rebus TV shows? I love the books, but am worried the adaptation will lose their excellent, cynical-smart vibe #
• WhateverYouWantGuv fail: http://bit.ly/9F07HN #
• This evening, my tweets have been mostly homosexual. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRUPgyk5njQ #
• Nobody's ever going to answer my #rebus question, are they? The only thing people care about on Twitter is gay sex, weird deaths & Lib Dems #
• …which reminds me, I tried to explain Jeremy Thorpe to an Aussie the other day, and he didn't believe me: http://bit.ly/9zx5Sk #
• My first thought, 5-4-3-2-1-RAGE! RT @mrpower Up with the lark. Breadmaker on. Hens let out. Mug of tea. Now to peek at the news… #
• This song will be the second-most karaoke'd song today: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmyEv4n8ERI #
• This song will be the first-most karaoke'd song today: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNT7uZf7lew #
• This country will be my first-most favourite country forever. Well, unless they kick me out for being foreign. #
• Then again, only a country as cold and miserable as the UK could have done this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZwMs2fLoVE #
• Or this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9Krvl7AEAs #
• Anyone know whether @mtuckerno10 is actually Jesse Armstrong, or an amusing faker/fakir? #
• Nobody, in history of Internet (or Google, which is close) has ever made the gag "You've had a lot of Dick Cheney, but you ain't had mine" #
• Let-downs: @MrEdByrne just endorsed Avatar; @herring1967 just endorsed Andy Parsons. You're brilliant people; why d'you respect this shite? #
• Twittered out. Night all. #
• This is excellent on immigration: http://bit.ly/b1gtU1 (via @bellagerens) #
• Cab Calloway, and #ebz, are enjoyable: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33nTnawq6jk http://fallenlondon.com/c/59677 #
• In Soviet Russia, computer puns you -> RT @RedScareBot That's Czary! RT @johnb78 socialism & capitalism equal in terms of 'word-dirtyness' #

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