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Cardiff, England? Ugo.com, you fail.

August 31st, 2010 WelshPixie 3 comments

http://www.ugo.com/?cmpid=le_mgid_ugotsg_weap#img=17 Yesterday this self-confessed ‘trusted publisher’ published a still image from Torchwood with the phrase; “Weevils are the mysterious humanoid aliens from beyond the time/space rift that happen to reside in Cardiff, England. If you encounter one, the best thing for it is the very matter-of-factly-named Anti-Weevil Spray.” This is how people end up believing [...]

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Plah

August 25th, 2010 WelshPixie 4 comments

http://gawker.com/5619136/ I despair. Absolutely. What state is humanity coming to? If I had superpowers I’d break the land mass of north America into lots of itty bitty pieces and scatter them across the globe, throwing the inhabitants into the midst of all the people they hate the most but know nothing about. (Apart from the [...]

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The Cinema Saga

May 16th, 2010 WelshPixie 7 comments

Sunday 2nd May, comment I left on hellopeter.com: Last night, May 1st, my partner and I went to the last screening (10:45pm) of Iron Man 2. It was, I believe, the second day of release in SA so I assume that the movie had been playing, most likely on the same screen (#1), for two [...]

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People Who Emote in Cinemas

February 6th, 2010 WelshPixie 6 comments

4pm and we were flopped on the sofa contemplating life in an un-air-conditioned bungalow in the middle of a South African summer. Not good. Usually when we’re fed up of the heat we escape to the nearest mall and go to see a movie, but there was absolutely nothing on at our mall here that [...]

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Another little bit of ‘insane’, straight from America

January 25th, 2010 WelshPixie 5 comments

(As if a story like this could originate anywhere else in the world!) http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/01/oral-sex-defininition-prompts-school-district-to-pull-dictionaries.html This is absolutely crazy. I wonder how many of these people have read 1984 and how many of them see the irony in their actions. I’m willing to bet it’s a minimal percentage. Here’s the article – ‘Oral sex’ definition prompts [...]

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