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Must mean that daylight savings is finally over. And all is right with the world again. Mostly. I was flicking around late night tv yesterday and found that this was on. *heart* Sure, some of the acting is fairly ordinary, and a few of the lines are pretty trite, but put it in perspective. This [...]

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I felt I needed to point out a relatively minor matter. It’s in regard to the post two entries down, regarding the Egyptian lawyer who is planning to sue Israel over a passage in the Bible. Kimber posted some comments which I certainly agree with in principle, but I get the feeling she missed the [...]

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From BBC News A County Fermanagh businessman has paid more than £50,000 for a car registration plate. The plate, WIL 1, reached the Northern Ireland record price of £40,000 at an auction near Belfast on Wednesday. The man also paid an extra £12,000 in VAT and other fees on top at the Cherished Registration Auction [...]

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1. What is your favourite type of literature to read (magazine, newspaper, novels, nonfiction, poetry, etc)? Books, of course. Since when do magazines and newspapers count as “literature”? Anyway, poetry is OK in small doses, but I’m sometimes turned off by the fact that roughly 90% of it is pure wank. 2. What is your [...]

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Looking for Wedding Invitations and Wedding Anniversary gifts, first you need to know what to give for each year. Did you know in some countries the Queen (British Queen that is, not the rock group ) will send a wedding anniversary message for diamond (sixtieth), sixty-fifth and platinum (seventieth) wedding anniversaries and then every year [...]

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I was at a medical ethics lecture at University this morning, ethics being a philosophical subject which I’m quite passionate about, and afterwards while I was driving home, I developed this long, introspective, psuedo-stream of consciousness, pseudo-Kantian line of reasoning regarding my own views on the matter. I told myself to scribble it all down [...]

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