Monty you terrible cunt! For sale for just(!) 145K GBP is the long abandoned property where Richard E Grant and co were filmed for Withnail and I. Sounds like an amazing place. If only I were rich. Isolated Sleddale Hall near Shap, will be put up for sale by water giant, United Utilities, with a [...]

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Wonderful story over at Drunkard.com about Andre the Giant: As far as great drunkards go, there is Andre the Giant, and then there is everyone else. The big man loved two things: wrestling and booze—mostly booze—and his appetites were of mythic proportion. First, consider the number 7,000. It’s an important number, and a rather scary [...]

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Oh I don’t know, I leave England for a couple of years and what happens, you get a poor PM who is probably going to be kicked out by his own Party. Very Thatcher-esq. A fitting end for New Labour? It would be a very neat circle. The try to become the Tories and what [...]

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A sinkhole has opened in Texas, not much detail as to the cause as yet but no-one was injured. From the BBC: A massive sinkhole has opened up in south-eastern Texas in the US, swallowing up vehicles and oil field equipment. It is not clear what caused the collapse, but the history of the nearby [...]

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Arg arg arg. No, not hot coffee in the lap again, but seeing the same post on so many different sites. Take for example these animal silluettes on boing boing, neatorama, productdose and cribcandy. That’s just a quick example of how the same thing will spread across big sites that really shouldn’t be repeating each [...]

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Wired takes a lot of flak these days. Yes it’s down from the heady Wired of the 90′s but sometimes Wired still shines. One such glimmer is the current write up of how the iPhone has started breaking up the wireless behemoths view of how business should be done. Considering how behind the USA/Canada in [...]

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