Pre Xmas edition

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Topics in this edition:-
(1) The Royal Wedding
(2) Something worth Saving
(3) Xmas markets
(4) Joke corner
(5) Republic news
(6) What happened to?
(7) The Video Bar - Xmas hint

The Royal Wedding - Possibly the most over hyped and most boring news item to dominate some of the newspapers and all of the BBC for a long time. As a member of the Republic movement you would guess my view on this. The BBC had so many complaints about the amount of coverage while so much else was going on that it organised a forum online after the announcement(no really they did!) My favourite was "Presumably since we're all having to tighten our belts during this time of financial hardship the wedding itself will be a little register office affair with just immediate family present and the bride's family picking up the bill". I also laughed at The Bishop of Willesden who said "We need a party in Calais for all good republicans who can't stand the nauseating tosh that surrounds this event," he wrote of the wedding day. Unfortunately he had to retract this pretty quickly when he realised The Queen is his ultimate boss. Proving my belief that 2 of my favourite organisations - The Royal Family and the Church consist of total idiots. The third is Catholics but that will keep. But one point worth considering is the fallacy that they are popular with tourists so bring in revenue that way. No part of the royal family stuff appears in the top ten of tourists attractions in The UK. Windsor castle comes in at about 17, ten places below Windsor Legoland. I rest my case. You can't even get in Buckingham Palace so what is the point of all the paintings and treasures nicked over the centuries hidden away there? Move the scroungers out and let the tourists in and that will make money for the UK.

Something worth saving -A recent survey showed only 2000 Bengal tigers remain in the wild and there is a real chance they could be extinct in a short time. And they are the most highly populated of the various types. Being wiped out by human hunting and habitat erosion. How many rats are out there or boring grey squirrels? Use their penises crushed to powder as an aphrodisiac as there are millions of them.! Could we really let this beautiful creature become extinct and still have to look at what The Royal Family, The Church and Catholicism have to offer from the ugly tree.? Which would you rather see become extinct? So contribute to wwf.org.uk/Tiger, join the republic organisation, become an atheist and wipe out rats and grey squirrels we can make the world a better place.

Xmas marketsA recent report commissioned by Manchester Markets revealed that in 2009 a staggering 1.3 million visited the Christmas markets with the overall economic impact of the Christmas markets on the city totalling £49.9 million. And this year is apparently increased from last year. I guess with 1.3 million visiting the markets there will be a lot of money made. And it explains why it is so busy with people obviously in from the surrounding hill towns struggling with how traffic lights work and how to cross a road - instead they walk out choking on a Bratwurst when the red man is showing and I am just coming round the corner in the car. Would it be manslaughter or euphanasia? Still it is a stonking amount of money and explains why a beer and a sausage is £10 and a wedge of cheese is £5 even if it is made in the hills of France.

Joke corner - A teacher in Liverpool revealed to her class that she was a Liverpool football fan. "Put your hand up if you support Liverpool too" she asked excitedly. All the class except one little girl raised their hand. Surprised she asked her "Oh who do you support then Coleen?" "Manchester United" she said. Annoyed the teacher asked "And why is that then?" "Because me ma and pa support dem too" she said. The teacher said "you don't have to be the same as your parents all the time. It's ok to be something different. What would you be if your mum was a prostitute and your dad a drug dealer" she said. "A Liverpool fan " Coleen said.

Republic news - Until January 1st Republic membership is just £3 - and don't forget you can also buy an "I'm not a royal wedding mug" mug for just £3.49! Republic will be arranging an alternative wedding to publicise for THAT day. Only with real human beings. Would be great if they could find a couple called Royal getting married on the same day. Just think of the publicity and souvenirs. Even better if it was in Barbados - I'd go!

What happened to? - Swine flu. We're all still here. See my blog 04/09.

Breaking News ! - England World Cup bid fails as the deciding committee are seduced by the Russian bid team's presentation. Time for England to grow up. If you are going to bid then do it to win. Yes the process is obviously corrupt and Russia have many years of practice at putting people in their debt. So play the game. Sending some twerp royal and the pm will not impress delegates from countries which are mainly republics. I'm sure Russia tuned in to what the delegates were turned on by in a more practical way. Having the best technical bid was probably trumped by having the more attractive and rewarding bid. Just listened to interview with that twerp royal but fell asleep after 4 words. Oh no now Geof Thompson on - mogadon man. Just seen clip of the russian team celebrating and looks like a fashion event. On no now Boris Johnson moaning. England got two votes and one of those was our delegate! The other was Mr Magoo. FIFA don't like too much press and media attention so step forward Russia and Qatar - no problem there the. Qatar? Too much, I really hope Scotland qualify(unlikely I know). Qatar population 900,000. There were more at the Xmas market on Saturday
PS Having seen the BBC Web site news of England's lamentable failure I was provked to post a comment on their 606 service. In it I refered to some twerp royal and my comment was removed by the moderator for being defamatory! And I thought the BBC was independent. A sad day for democracy and free speech.
Now Putin is on the news - just flown in for the party. His english is quite good but the accent is strong. Was shocked when he said he was from Leningrad and during the war Leningrad was bummed every night! Slight correction from the interpretor - bombed not bummed! Phew that's better.
Video bar - click on the videos below for ideas on Xmas presents for anyone you might still not know what to buy for!
http://www.unesco.org.uk/Vacancies