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Archive for March, 2011

Songs for Japan gives frustrated altruists avenue to help Japan, pad out iPod

Care-worn armchair humanitarians with no clue how to help those suffering from the effects of the Japanese earthquake and subsequent tsunami, were finally put out of their fortnight of misery over the weekend, as ‘Songs for Japan’, a rag-bag of random rehashed pop was released on iTunes last Friday specifically for them.

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Posted: Mar 28th, 2011
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Big Society permits killing of chuggers, says Cameron

David Cameron has announced that, as part of the Big Society, British citizens will be allowed to kill any student on minimum wage who accosts them in the street, pretends he is working for Save the Squid and treats them as their greatest friend on Earth.

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Posted: Mar 28th, 2011
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First-time buyers still struggling to get on the petrol ladder

most now renting or getting help from friendsDespite government assurances that the budget would help them out, millions still can’t afford their first gallon of petrol.

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Posted: Mar 28th, 2011
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Recipients of wrong number calls required to play along

now a legal requirement to wind them upIn an effort to reduce levels of frustration in society, the think-tank Reform has proposed that people receiving misdialled calls should no longer be able to say, ‘Sorry, wrong number,’ and put the phone down, but will be required to act out the part of the person the caller had meant to ring.

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Posted: Mar 27th, 2011
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Tramps go multi-lingual for London Olympics

The organisers of the London Olympics have confirmed they’re to offer every person living rough on the streets of the capital free language lessons ahead of the opening of the games in 2012.

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Posted: Mar 27th, 2011
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