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The latest entries into this pit of despair

Wimmin filming: 7 November; Kristen Stewart is not a happy bunny. It seems that some within the privileged Hollywoke bubble are more privileged than others.
(more…); celeb; entertainment; oh, the fragility!
How many urinalists does it take?: 5 November; The BBC has set three of its crack nose-pickers to investigating a Kurdish crime network that's enabling immigrants to work illegally in small independent businesses the length and breadth of Britain. Their work could not have succeeded without the collaboration of two Kurdish undercover reporters, posing as asylum seekers to gather intelligence.
(more…); crime & punishment
Just get on with it already: 2 November; Remember Jonathan King? Described by some, or at least Gareth Roberts, as a pop impressario? I really only remember him for the bloody awful Una Paloma Blanca and being a convicted paedophile.
(more…); celeb; culture vulture; wit & wisdom of the comments section
The admiral for vice: 2 November; With all his other titles gone, Old King Cock wants to strip Mr Andrew Mountbatten Windsor of his rank of vice admiral in the Royal Navy. Which is ironic really.
(more…); ethics; random thoughts & brain farts; what's in a name?
Person of unassumed indentity of the match: 1 November; According to England Rugby, the term man of the match is offensive and the team recommends that player of the match should be used as a gender-neutral alternative. But it doesn't stop there, because a lot of phrases in sport include the word man or men, which can feel exclusionary.
(more…); pandering; sport

The latest updates to past woes

Snow White: streaming sensation: 18 September; Bloody hell, that was brief!
(more…); entertainment; gotta respect the grift; wit & wisdom of the comments section
Australian graffiti: 7 September; …And, sure enough, as with that other story, the original page capture has returned to the Internet Archive.
(more…); crime & punishment; elementary, my dear Watson!; Hasmyback Machine
The murderous professor: 7 September; Christ only knows what's going on!
(more…); crime & punishment; Hasmyback Machine
Butt of the joke: 13 August; Mark Meechan has this to say: Imagine just having really great seats at the front and you just get blasted in the back of the head with a rampant rabbit. Really, really put a damper on the whole day. Oh, I dunno, Mark, that would depend on whether it'd just been used or not.
(more…); quoted for WTF?; sport; wit & wisdom of the comments section
Variety is not the spice of life: 6 August; Robert Meyer Burnett had an interesting take here: I think I would always have to rank Iron Man one as the number one MCU movie because if it didn't work, there would be no MCU.
(more…); culture vulture; quoted for WTF?

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