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Knock shop to get knocked down

Looks like Auckland’s got some of those cracked old buildings just like us here in Invervegas.  They are going to have to knock down a 124-year-old building that was going to be a brothel during next year’s Rugby World Cup. Imagine that, if they hadn’t discovered the problems today: it might have fallen down while […]

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Interview goes West

Not content with making something of a dick of himself at last year’s VMAs, Kanye West has polished up his King of the Arrogant Morons crown in time for an interview on the Today show. He was on the show to respond to George Bush’s claim that West calling him a racist was the worst

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What’s black and white and …

It looks like the new England rugby team uniform hasn’t got the fan overly excited. Especially when it comes to the price for one of the new dark grey shirts. Traditionally, fans like to wear all the same gear as their grunting, sweaty heroes. It wouldn’t be the same without a grandstand-load of loud rugby

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Freedom took its time

While it’s amazing that Burma’s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is finally free it’s also sad that it took so damn long. And that the push to have her freedom restored hasn’t really been as strong as it could have been on a global level. Yes, there has been a bit of hand-wringing and

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Cranky wife versus snoring hubby

Like many blokes, my my well-insured husband snores. However, he who is well-insured (hereinafter known as HWIWI) is pretty talented at the whole thing, able to be heard from one end of the house to the other when he’s in peak snoring mode. When he inhales it sounds like he’s trying to inhale the curtains

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Is another 16 years enough?

I see the lovely George Baker was in court today (again) facing a whole raft of charges:  attempted kidnapping, kidnapping, threatening to kill and assault with an offensive weapon in fact. Just in case the name doesn’t ring a bell, this is the scum-sucking piece of shite who bashed teenager Liam Ashley to death in the back

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