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Fresh Squeezings from the veins of the internet:

• One of my current favourite blogs is Crust of the Grouch (crust_of_the_grouch_feed). Grouch is a non-aligned political commenter. The text of her comments tends towards the pithy, so she won't overwhelm your f-list with essays like some. But the best bit is that she's an artist, and therefore each post has a satirical illustration of some kind. The one that jumped out to me today is here.


• Count Packula, Prince of Markness documents what happens when the twitterverse applies itself to a Daily Fail poll. Basically, hilarity ensues.


• The European Court of Human rights has SENSE shock! Via Feminist Law Professors (feministlawprofessor_feed) comes the news that the European Court of Human Rights has unanimously found that a state violated the human rights of the applicant and her mother in failing to protect them against domestic violence. Hurrah!


• Of all the fallout from my resignation from Liberal Conspiracy, this is the bit that makes me saddest. Aaron was the person who convinced my to write for LC in the first place, and although he might not have the purity of liberalism some of my fellow Lib Dems would like to see, he's a good man, and his heart's in the right place, even when his typing fingers aren't. Hope the sanity break does the trick, sweetie.


• Today's Lib Demmery: Mr Quist is one of many commenting on the Michael Brown thing today. Honestly, other parties have SHITLOADS of dodgy donors. We have ONE and nobody will ever let us forget it... And Lib Dem Voice has a post illustrating the importance of literacy. Nob = posh person. Knob = cock. Spelling is important!

And now for today's meme:

If your comment to this post includes the words Peter Cushing lives in Whitstable I will ask you five questions. You must then answer those questions and make a similar offer on your own blog.

sideshow_meg asked me the following five questions:

1. If you could buy anything, what would it be?
2. What did you want to be when you were little?
3. What is your favourite tv show?
4. What is your favourite alcoholic drink?
5. Where would you like to travel if money was no object?

and the answers are here:

1. If you could buy anything, what would it be?
   A nice house, with a garage bg enough for all the motorbikes I would like to own. It would be SO nice to not have to worry about the roof over my head.


2. What did you want to be when you were little?
   A female version of Rumpole of the Bailey. I got quite a long way towards it, too...


3. What is your favourite tv show?
   This is a hard one. The obvious answer is Doctor Who, but I haven't even seen most of the most recent episodes because my dislike of ten is so strong. Then there's Top Gear, but Top Gear is more of a guilty pleasure (if they still had VBH, or if Suzi Perry was on it, I'd feel a lot less guilty about my love for the show). I love Red Dwarf, and Question Time, and Being Human... But I think I'm going to have to say This Week. Always irreverent, always interesting, and crammed with UST between Michael and Diane, This Week is possibly my perfect TV show. They always have great music, they have lots of geeky injokes, and they get Hot Sexy Vince as a guest on a regular basis. What more could a girl ask for? The only fly in the ointment is that they still keep having that sexist pig Quentin Twat on it as a commentator.


4. What is your favourite alcoholic drink?
   Arrgh! Another hard one! I may have to break this down... My favourite beer is Sarah Hughes Dark Ruby. My favourite gin is Hendrick's. My favourite brandy is Remy Martin XO. I also like Bailey's, Malibu, lots of cocktails, various single malts, the mighty Jack, several other gins, brandies and beers... I don't like Vodka - or rather, I don't see the point of it, because it doesn't taste of anything - and I don't like cider/perry. I like red wine, but it doesn't like me, and I am picky about whites and rosés. I like rum, especially Captain Morgan's Spiced... Basically, I'm a pisshead. I'm not that picky about the type of drink, but I'm extremely picky about brands within types. And if you ever buy me a pint of lager, expect to wear it, rather than see me drink it.


5. Where would you like to travel if money was no object?
   This, on the other hand, is EASY. I'd go into space.

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1, What is your favourite memory of HGS?
Driving past it and knowing that I never have to go back. I know that probably sounds a tad harsh but spending the best part of seven years being told you're lazy and useless by a number of different staff really didn't do much for me. I was good at everything else, clearly the reason I kept coming bottom in maths exams was due to me not trying hard enough and not at all down to the dyscalculia that uni picked up after *one* class. I mean, it was bad enough being picked on by the poor little rich kids every day, I never expected the teachers to join in. Did I end up a slacker though? Probably. When you're told that it's not good enough even after you have tried your hardest, you just give up trying.

Of course there are a few notable exceptions to that, your dad never ever made me feel like a prat and was generally lovely but you already know that. Mr Jones used to be driven to despair by me muddling equations up but he never gave up on me. I always got on with Mr Rushton too, even if he did dogear the corner of one of the Radiohead albums he borrowed.

Heh, thought after so many years I wouldn't be bothered by this stuff anymore but the eye leakage says otherwise.

2, Roxy or Byron?
They're both lovely but I got the sense that Byron is very much your doggy and I was but a poor substitute you. I imagine that over time, I'd like them both equally and maybe even find having a Roxy shaped shadow a bit annoying but that weekend I needed a snuggle.

3, What is your favourite BPAL?
Embalming Fluid.

4, If you could go back in time to any period, when would it be?
Hmm... Edwardian probably but only if I was loaded.

5, Jack Daniels or sex?
When I was with Mike, if the question was "Toilet cleaner or sex?" I'd have asked whether I got to pick between pot pourri or pine but quite happily downed a bottle of both. Now, I would rather go teetotal... will probably need a holiday to recover when I get back from Clogland >.>

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I've still got a couple of Mr Rushton's albums, I think...