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Did they really?
Posted on Dec 31 2007 | Tagged as: Media, Eyebrow-raisers
Detectives estimated that the pet, which was shot dead by a police marksman after the attack, weighed up to 63kg (10st).
I can’t imagine any British copper going, “Yeah, I reckon he weighed about 63 kilos.”
It’s not just because it’s metric: it’s just too damn precise.
More likely that he guessed the weight of the latest killer dog at 10st, which the Guardian has converted into kilograms for the benefit of, er, nobody, and then back again.
Who’s afraid?
Posted on Dec 30 2007 | Tagged as: Politics, The Stupid, Eyebrow-raisers
Hang on.
On Downing Street’s website a couple of days ago, on the assassination of Benazir Bhutto:
The Prime Minister has said that “cowards afraid of democracy” assassinated Benazir Bhutto earlier today.
This from the man who wouldn’t allow a referendum on the EU reform treaty because he was afraid of losing, wouldn’t call a general election because he was afraid of losing, was crowned by his party rather than properly elected, and wants to make political parties state funded because he’s scared people will give money to the ‘wrong’ parties. For Gordon Brown to call anybody else “afraid of democracy” is truly staggering.
