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Carrots

Posted in wolf-crying, tagged on 17 August, 2009 | 8 Comments »

The next food scare: the New York Times (via Slashdot) announces, to a chorus of hostile comments, that fatty foods not only make one (assuming one is a laboratory rat) more or less incapable of exercise but also cause one to be so stupid as to forget how to run around in one’s exercise-wheel.
I am [...]

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You know it’s good for you

Posted in wolf-crying, tagged on 12 August, 2009 | 6 Comments »

I went to see a friend earlier. On his kitchen table was a copy of the Daily Express.
Today’s front-page scare-story was this one.
Apparently ‘fizzy drinks’ (unspecified) are as likely to cause liver damage as alcohol.
So, apparently, is fruit juice.
These are to be cut out of the proles’ diet immediately. All they are to be [...]

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Dreadful example of animal abuse

Posted in wolf-crying, tagged on 28 December, 2008 | 3 Comments »

Embarrassed by my increasing resemblance to Jabba the Hut, and hoping to observe the sunset (which was satisfactorily picturesque), I went for a walk (well, a stagger with occasional lurches) along Valley Bottom.
In the field at the end (persistent readers may remember this as the one in which the clever-sheep were not really confined) there [...]

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I don’t believe it

Posted in wolf-crying, tagged on 28 October, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Ken Frost, at Nanny Knows Best, reflects on the imposition of CRB checks.
One hesitates, one really does, to correct anyone with so many letters after their name but I have to say that I don’t believe this is anything to do with protecting anybody against anything.
It’s just another tax. Pay us £70 per annum (the [...]

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What immortal hand or eye, etc.

Posted in wolf-crying, tagged on 17 October, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

An enthusiastic member of the Spies reported a driver to the police for carrying in his car a tiger, which turned out to be what our American cousins call a ‘plushie’. Details from the Ambush Predator.
The police did not prosecute the would-be informant for wasting their time, despite his having asserted to them that the [...]

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Economy in all things

Posted in wolf-crying, tagged , on 17 October, 2008 | 5 Comments »

Because of the economic catastrophe, it has become necessary to streamline and slim down the state terror apparatus.
Hitherto it has been the practice of the state to use ‘paedophilia’ and ‘terrorism’ to frighten the public into acquiescing to yet more assaults on the freedom of the individual.
These two terror campaigns will now be combined. Ministers [...]

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