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Footballing street signs

Would any legal types care to speculate on the the enforcability of street signage that requires a knowledge of local fixtures in order to comply? The assumption is that all men and women who drive cars must take an avid … Continue reading

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Calling Bullshit on Colgate

A giant advert near Aldgate proclaims that Colgate’s brand of toothpaste is “Used by more than 70% dental professionals”. From this I guess we are supposed to infer that most dentists endorse Colgate’s toothpaste, however as I motorbiked past this … Continue reading

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To Serve and Protect

What was the inspiration for Sir Ian Blair (the Metropolitan Police Comissioner’s) allegedly covered-up shoot to kill policy? I suggest that he is modeling the new London police-force on the characters from this “Police Vs Bad Guyz” playset that I … Continue reading

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Inappropriate use of MS Comic Sans

While spending a week’s holiday in Gran Canaria, (it was a last-minute deal, we booked it the day before) my girlfriend and I noticed the preponderance of Comic Sans, a horrible font. As we noticed more and more instances of … Continue reading

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Centre Point in Puddle

Centre Point in Puddle Originally uploaded by salimfadhley. On a blue-blue day I looked into a puddle and everything was transformed.

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Hitchhiking Prisoner Graffitto, Archway Roundabout, North London

He’s been standing at the roundabout for the last two weeks… will somebody pick him up? Could this be another work of the world-famous basstensil anarch-artists of Argentina, the people who created the Disney War stensil I reported on a … Continue reading

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An oddity in Highgate Woods

As I walked home through Highgate Woods today I noticed an tiny green caterpillar dangling from a long ‘thread’. It’s tiny green body was suspended at approximately head hight. It seems so odd that a bright green creature might have … Continue reading

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Unintentional art at the top of the Alps

Once the site of a gas-works, the Becton Alps is perhaps London’s most inappropriately named geographical feature; For starters there is only one of ‘em and you can cycle to the top in less than five minutes. Instead of a … Continue reading

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Spiral Water Turbine, Greenway near Three Mills, East London

The east-end of London is full of relics of a golden era of engineering, before those Health and Safety at Work spoil-sports decided that human life was more important than astounding feats of ironmongery. Now days, engineering is done in … Continue reading

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Voting in the 2005 British General Election

Surprisingly for 8:10am, the polling station was doing a brisk business. I asked the official in charge if I could take a photo of his team, but he said no. I asked if I could take a picture of a … Continue reading

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