9 month ago
nelson : Prince Harry story was held - I was wondering how we got such great photos all of the sudden
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nelson : Prince Harry in Afghanistan - Great slideshow
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12 month ago
nelson : Kenya sex tourism - Interesting story about older British women going to Kenya for nookie
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14 month ago
nelson : Queen wins school lottery - two bars of soap and bath oil
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17 month ago
nelson : Old english money - Sovereigns, pence, shillings, crowns
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plasticbag : We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to replace the national anthem with 'Gold' by Spandau Ballet - The British, as ever, cutting to the heart of the world's big issues. Altways believe in your soul. You've got the power to know. Britain, you're indestructable...
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26 month ago
Rod Begbie : YouTube - England vs Croatia : Paul Robinson BIGGEST BLUNDER Own Goal - Schadenfreudetastic! #
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28 month ago
Rod Begbie : UnNews:England shocked by occurrence of summer for 21st year in a row - Uncyclopedia - "We didn't anticipate this level of heat this year — we never thought we'd get a twenty-first hot season in a row!" Extra marks to the authors for the Tribe of Toffs reference. [via] #
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29 month ago
philgyford : Analyst Equity: Mid-Atlantic reading on the English - I like the summary of American/English character differences (via ObLinks).
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36 month ago
philgyford : Pepys' Diary: Thursday 27 November 1662 - "But Lord! to see the absurd nature of Englishmen, that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at every thing that looks strange." Nice to know we've progressed in 343 years. Er...
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38 month ago
plasticbag : Societies 'worse off when they have God on their side' - “In general, higher rates of belief in and worship of a creator correlate with higher rates of homicide, juvenile and early adult mortality, STD infection rates, teen pregnancy and abortion in the prosperous democracies."
jkottke : No need for God to have a healthy society - From a recent study: "In general, higher rates of belief in and worship of a creator correlate with higher rates of homicide, juvenile and early adult mortality, STD infection rates, teen pregnancy and abortion in the prosperous democracies". This seems l
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42 month ago
Jason Shellen : The Great British Venn Diagram - Handy for those of you who aren't a geographical smarty pants like me. [via gwaldon.blogspot.com] #
Rod Begbie : The Great British Venn Diagram - Tell your "United Kingdom" from your "Great Britain" [via] #
kayodeok : The Great British Venn Diagram (or the difference between England, Great Britain, The British Isles and the United Kingdom) - So I guess a lot of people are in some doubt as to what the difference is between England, Great Britain, the British Isles and the United Kingdom. Here I present a handy-dandy Venn diagram to explain this.
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plasticbag : Many of my American friends have no idea that the UK, Great Britain and England are different things. So I thought I'd link to this page on the Act of Union... - So first England and Scotland merge to become "Great Britain", and then later Great Britain merges with Ireland to become the "United Kingdom". Wales had been previously annexed in 1536...
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46 month ago
Rod Begbie : 2001 Election Map of the UK - Gradiated map of British political persuasion. Slightly flawed in that it ignores the nationalist parties in Scotland and Wales (Those big patches of Tory Blue in Scotland represent the SNP seats), but gorgeous nonetheless. [via] #
plasticbag : Awesome Flash electoral map of the UK demonstrating the relative party strengths by shade - Based upon the purple maps of the USA that followed the 2004 election. Very cool. Interestingly simply use of Flash too...
Simon Willison : 2001 Election Map of the UK - Inspired by the purple US one that did the rounds a while back.
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49 month ago
plasticbag : For everyone who doesn't live in the UK - here's a brief explanation of Guy Fawkes night - "Bonfire night is now just as celebrated within Britain's Catholic communities. The once common practice of burning effigies of the Pope is now largely discontinued..."
Tristan Rivoallan : Guy Fawkes night - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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plasticbag : Attack of the Clones: How Britain came to be full of millions of identical trees - 25 million English elms died from Dutch elm disease in the 1970s, and the reason? Turns out that every single tree was a clone of a single elm introduced by the Romans...
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