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		<title>Mass tourism &#8211; scourge of the urban environment</title>
		<link>http://talkingbollocks.net/2011/06/13/mass-tourism-scourge-of-the-urban-environment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 20:50:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonesxxx</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Garry Kilworth Let’s Go to Golgotha]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The concept of tourists destroying what they visit is not new and was deftly described in a 1975 Science Fiction story by Garry Kilworth named “Let’s Go to Golgotha”. To quote Wikipedia: “In the future period where the story takes place, time travel has been invented and made commercially available. Among other historical events, tourists can book a time-travelling "Crucifixion Tour." Before setting out, the tourists are strictly warned that they must not do anything to disrupt history. Specifically, when the crowd is asked whether Jesus or Barabbas should be spared, they must all join the call "Give us Barabbas!". (A priest absolves them from any guilt for so doing). However, when the moment comes, the protagonist suddenly realizes that the crowd condemning Jesus to the cross is composed entirely of tourists from the future, and that no actual Jewish Jerusalemites of 33 AD are present at all.”
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		<title>Spring in London</title>
		<link>http://talkingbollocks.net/2011/03/27/spring-in-london/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Mar 2011 16:26:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonesxxx</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Trafalgar Square the Fourth Plinth currently supports a large ship in a bottle. At around 11am people gathered as for the anti-cuts demonstration and a group of women from the Association of Child Psychotherapists sort of put the cuts into perspective.

Further toward Victoria, in St James Park, the squirrels are practically tame and leap onto the railings to beg for food. Once they receive something they rush away to bury their little treasure in the flower beds.
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		<title>The West Pier &#8211; Leave her in peace</title>
		<link>http://talkingbollocks.net/2011/02/05/the-west-pier-trust/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Feb 2011 21:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonesxxx</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I believe that the Wets Pier Trust is a classic example of a self sustaining publicly funded bureaucracy. Event when its raison d'etre is removed the executives cannot bring themselves to dissolve the trust and go home. Even as the gutted ruins crumbled into the sea and as late 2007 the trust continued to proclaim their mantra that they would rebuild it. I would have loved to to attend the meeting where the staff of the trust finally acknowledged that the West Pier would never be rebuilt and then scrambled around for something to spend the money on and some way to keep themselves in jobs. One wonders what will happen once the viewing tower is completed? Will the West Pier Trust discover some other vital role it needs to fulfil? I have no doubt that they will surprisingly discover that managing the new structure takes the same if not more staff and a budget which seems to increase year on year.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingbollocks.net&amp;blog=2000120&amp;post=3616&amp;subd=talkingbollocks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>45 minutes to get out of Asda car park</title>
		<link>http://talkingbollocks.net/2011/01/30/45-minutes-to-get-out-of-asda-car-park/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Jan 2011 19:17:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonesxxx</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It really makes you wonder what our city council is thinking of. What possible sway could large rich developers have over city councillors? It beats me.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingbollocks.net&amp;blog=2000120&amp;post=3578&amp;subd=talkingbollocks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Love Police</title>
		<link>http://talkingbollocks.net/2011/01/03/the-love-police/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2011 16:49:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonesxxx</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a video by some guys called The Love Police who are highlighting the increasing restrictions on individuals in public/private spaces. e.g. the way the police claim powers which they do not possess to stop filming.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingbollocks.net&amp;blog=2000120&amp;post=3455&amp;subd=talkingbollocks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Singing, Ringing Tree</title>
		<link>http://talkingbollocks.net/2010/12/22/the-singing-ringing-tree/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Dec 2010 11:21:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Singing Ringing Tree<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingbollocks.net&amp;blog=2000120&amp;post=3348&amp;subd=talkingbollocks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Wrong Floor</title>
		<link>http://talkingbollocks.net/2010/12/12/the-wrong-floor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Dec 2010 18:46:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An exhausted traveller arrives in Prague on a bitterly cold winter's night and finds himself several miles from his hotel. He trudges through the snow toward the hotel while an eerie bell tolls portending he knows not what.
When the stranger finally reaches his hotel he accidentally gets out of the elevator on the wrong floor and is met by a disturbing doppelgänger version of reality haunted by sinister manikins. After retreating back to the elevator he finally reaches his room and, thankfully, TV.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingbollocks.net&amp;blog=2000120&amp;post=3285&amp;subd=talkingbollocks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Snow in Prague</title>
		<link>http://talkingbollocks.net/2010/12/05/snow-in-prague/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Dec 2010 17:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Tuesday evening I ate at a traditional Czech restaurant. By traditional I mean that we ate traditional pork with dumplings and an excellent Czech lager. Very good. I am not certain whether the jovial and sarcastic waitress was traditional or that the constant greetings in numerous European languages was in any way a feature of Prague life. The meal over, we hit upon the idea of sampling a selection of Czech spirits. Plum, Apricot and Grape were the last I recall before staggering off up the hill back to the Castle to meander the disturbing “other” floors.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingbollocks.net&amp;blog=2000120&amp;post=3202&amp;subd=talkingbollocks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Feisal Abdul Rauf &#8211; champion of the American way?</title>
		<link>http://talkingbollocks.net/2010/09/30/feisal-abdul-rauf-champion-of-the-american-way/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Sep 2010 20:28:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonesxxx</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If a madman dressed up as Ronald McDonald, took a machine gun and murdered a lot of people in a parking lot would McDonalds have the right to build a restaurant on the site? Absolutely! Should they? Hell NO!

The guy behind the plan for the mosque is apparently Feisal Abdul Rauf. If he goes ahead with this mosque then I hope this defender of liberty, champion of free speech and the American Way will be out there defending the rights of all Americans to act without sensitivity. I hope we never hear this man whingeing and taking offence in the name of Islam.

However, I am not holding my breath as I suspect that Feisal Abdul Rauf is an insensitive boor and an offensive hypocrite.

The building of this mosque will do nothing to help repair the rift that is opening up between Islam and Western countries and should be condemned.

I heard that, in India today, a high court has announced that the site of the Ayodhya mosque which is claimed as sacred by both Hindus and Muslims is to be divided between the two religions. What may have been more sensible would have been to build a joint religious building to be shared by n=both faiths. Similarly in new York, if Muslims had wanted a mosque in the area, it would have been more in keeping with their penchant for respect if they had offered to build some kind of religious centre to be shared by all religions.

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		<title>Dead Ringers &#8211; Disney Land &amp; the Kremlin</title>
		<link>http://talkingbollocks.net/2010/09/05/dead-ringers-disney-land-the-kremlin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Sep 2010 21:19:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am informed by The Economist that the Walt Disney company are opening schools in China! As if that were not bizarre enough a photograph in the Guardian suggests that they are also running the Russian military. What this could possibly mean I have no idea.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingbollocks.net&amp;blog=2000120&amp;post=2911&amp;subd=talkingbollocks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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