Jack Yan on Vox

Kiwi troops greet First Lady Laura Bush; race debate emerges on YouTube

2008-06-14T08:13:07Z

Finally, one of the Bushes meets some New Zealanders—the First Lady is greeted by New Zealand soldiers and police officers in Afghanistan. The haka is a customary greeting, borne from Māori culture. I was going to go in to a bit more depth on t...

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Ooh, You Are Awful: Mandy on ﬁlm

2008-06-08T05:30:37Z

I wasn’t a huge fan of Dick Emery but I have £9 left over from an Amazon UK coupon and have been considering buying his 1972 film, Ooh, You Are Awful (a.k.a. Get Charlie Tully). It is a trivial, film-buff interest: the movie formed the basis of th...

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Mr Lee gets off a speeding ticket

2008-05-27T06:08:59Z

This has been, apparently, doing the rounds for a while, but I have missed it. It finally came on PDF today from a colleague. Normally I don’t have a lot of sympathy for law-breakers, but this gets extra marks for imagination. A Mr Justin Lee w...

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Capt Kirk gets off a speeding ticket

2008-05-11T00:14:58Z

Just as I finished writing about Philip Glenister getting his driver off a ticket by acting as Gene Hunt, I surfed over to an article about Canadian actor William Shatner linked from the Daily Mail page I cited earlier: http://www.dailymail.co.uk...

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Gene Hunt is a law unto himself—even in real life

2008-05-10T23:50:18Z

The first time I read about Philip Glenister getting his driver off for speeding (35 mph in a 30 mph zone) I chuckled, as he adopted his Gene Hunt persona. The cop saw the actor and said, according to Glenister, ‘I’m terribly sorry about this sir...

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Psycho Missouri cops

2008-04-24T10:25:38Z

This is from a friend of mine living in the US. This is disgusting behaviour, and comes on the same day I find out that one in four prisoners on this planet are in the US. Today, **** went to the **** Missouri police department to ask them if the...

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Britney Spears’s motorcade: $25k

2008-02-02T06:02:09Z

I wouldn’t be happy being an American taxpayer right now. The Los Angeles Times says Britney Spears’ hospital motorcade, probably smaller than the one Dick Cheney has for his annual heart attack, cost the LAPD $25,000. There were motorbikes,...

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Red China gets whatever it wants from Labour

2007-03-27T11:30:10Z

[Cross-posted] The press release says it all, really. No one voted in the Communist Chinese as the government of New Zealand, even if a lot of us voted Labour. Pity that some of our senior government ﬁgures and cops decided to take their orders f...

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Darth needs a Mentos (the freshmaker)

2007-03-26T05:15:52Z

The home of achingly uncomfortable reality shows where people humiliate themselves badly is not the Netherlands. No, the Dutch don’t have a patch on the Japanese, usually known as civilized and formal. That means that Japanese humour can be both s...

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