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Category Archives: United Kingdom
Shitterton Tired Of People Stealing Its Signs
Maybe you have seen the previous stories that I have written about Fucking, Austria. Yes, it is a real place. Fucking has a problem with people stealing its signs and people pretending to copulate by the signs while another person … Continue reading
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British Conservative Party Axed Racy Campaign Ads
Britain’s Conservative Party planned some racy ads during May’s Parliamentary elections. The ads were part of the “I never voted Tory before” campaign. The ads, costing somewhere between $150,000 and $700,000, never aired. That is probably just as well. One … Continue reading
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Study Finds 30% Of British Soldiers Losing Battle Of The Bulge
If British soldiers are any indication how fit the rest of NATO and American soldiers are, then that may help explain why they are having so much trouble with the Taliban. A recent study found that over 30% of British … Continue reading
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2053 — The Number Of Nuclear Explosions Between 1945 and 1998
This is a hauntingly surreal video of beeps and flashes of light. It starts off slow, but witnessing the scope of over 2,000 nuclear explosions is powerful and oddly irrestible. For a while it looked like the U.S. and the … Continue reading
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London Museum Makes Churchill A Non-Smoker
Straight out of an Orwellian-style revision, someone in the London Museum has airbrushed the cigar from a famous Winston Churchill victory photograph. In the original, Churchill had his famous cigar, but that is too obscene for pure British minds of … Continue reading
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Gordon Brown Leaves His Mark
When newly-anointed British Prime Minister David Cameron and his staff set up quarters at 10 Downing Street, they discovered deep slashes and grooves in an antique mahogany table. It shortly became clear that the scratched table was used by former … Continue reading
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Embarrassed U.S. Sends Birthday Greeting To Queen A Week Early
As State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said, “Better a week early than a week late.” Unfortunately, it is still an embarrassment when the United States sends birthday congratulations to the Queen of England, and it is not her birthday. Although … Continue reading
Britain’s Voter Outsourcing May Come To United States Next
I’m an internationalist, but this is just a dumb idea. In this month’s British elections, Give Your Vote urged British voters who are either apathetic or undecided to let foreigners in Bangladesh, Ghana and Afghanistan make their voting decision for … Continue reading
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British Health Agency Asks Its Staff, “Is Hitler Cool?”
Britain’s National Health Service conducted a staff survey asking employees to compare their director to Hitler. The same survey asked for people to rate whether Hitler and other past and present world leaders were “cool.” “Cool” hardly fits the description … Continue reading
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Gordon Brown’s “Bigotgate” Already A Video Game
A street-fighting video game including the three main candidates for British Prime Minister has quickly added a new feature. It now includes Gillian Duffy. She is the Labour Party supporter that Prime Minister Gordon Brown referred to as a bigot over an … Continue reading
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British Foreign Office Apologizes To Vatican For “Benedict Condom” Joke
An inside office joke at the British Foreign Office has led to an apology to the Vatican. Pope Benedict XVI upcoming September trip to Britain inspired some Foreign Office employees to circulate a memo ridiculing the Pope’s visit. The memo … Continue reading
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UK Bans Atheist From Having Religious Materials In Public
At Liverpool John Lennon Airport, a 59-year-old atheist was arrested for distributing anti-religious posters in 2008. Harry Taylor was charged with three counts of causing religiously aggravated harassment, alarm or distress. The British jury returned a guilty verdict in 15 … Continue reading
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British Media Tries To Take Down Agnostic Who Wants To Be Prime Minister
Nick Clegg, the leader of the UK’s Liberal Democrats, has been criticized by the Telegraph for finding religion weeks before May’s Parliamentary elections. The Liberal Democrats are in a three-way race with the Conservatives and Labour. While Clegg has little … Continue reading
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Use Humor To Fight Al-Qaeda, say UK Researchers
A group of British researchers have a secret weapon to defeat al-Qaeda. They are urging society to ridicule al-Qaeda, make it uncool for new people to join. “Young Muslims are drawn, like young people throughout the ages, to excitement, rebellion … Continue reading
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British Police Drop “Gang Rape” For More Politically Correct “Multi-Perpetrator Rape”
The British police are turning politically correct. Well, even more than politically correct. For example, Scotland Yard has ordered its officers not to us the phrase “gang rape” because it is too emotional. The preferred term is “multi-perpetrator rapes.” Needless … Continue reading
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