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Someone's Pinched My Winkle

# 2013-04-18 22:30:56, Foamier
Ooh-err! Rolf Harris, the greatest living Australian, has been arrested, sorry, questioned under caution,

English As She Is Wrote

# 2013-04-18 21:11:13, Foamier
The Daily Telegraph's "Social Affairs Editor",

Birds Of A Feather

# 2013-03-29 21:34:26, Foamier
How strange. My previous post about Andrew Greystoke

A Grey Area

# 2013-03-29 20:58:13, Foamier
Watch out, Hong Kong, Andrew Greystoke is about. The purveyor of financial services, unaffectionately known as Tarzan, and about as convincing face to face, is on a visit trying to drum up business. (For Greystoke's unintentionally hilarious blog, look here.)

A Little Bit On The Top

# 2013-03-06 15:03:27, Foamier
Ebeneezers, Wanchai purveyors of fine junk food to pissed gweilos, streetwalkers taking the weight off, and respectable persons such as your correspondent,

Seaman Stains

# 2013-03-01 00:49:09, Foamier
There are 419 scams, there are directory scams, and there is franchising.Dress yourself up in a manufactured qualification, such as CFE (Certified Franchise Executive - surely you knew that!) from the IFA (International Franchise Association), add a few more pay-as-you go "qualifications" such as fellowship of the Institute of Directors (...

All Roads Lead To Parish

# 2013-02-03 15:52:01, Foamier
What happened to turning the othe cheek, you cnuts?

Cut The Crap

# 2013-01-27 01:57:54, Foamier
Mixed doubles in tennis is a curious concept. Indeed, so are all the other doubles combos. They seem to exist solely to provide a way for tennis rabbits to stay in a tournament longer than the first round. Or maybe they are there to let the real players have a rest.Watching the mixed doubles final of the Australian Open (for as long as it...

It's Unofficial!

# 2012-12-21 03:36:23, Foamier
I am in receipt of the Hong Kong Bar Association circular number 113/12, sent by one Frederick Chan "to all members and associate members".Aside from the adoption of American spelling when referring to an award to the "Honorable" Justice Bokhary (my copy of the Oxford dictionary clearly refers to this as the American version of "honourabl...

Walk A Mail In My Shoes

# 2012-12-12 22:29:09, Foamier
Has the Daily Mail been reading this blog? Or did it just take them longer to cut through the crap?Britain's Prime Minister, David Cameron, has got in on the act, saying, "She clearly loved her job, loved her work, cared deeply about the health of her patients ...". Err ... how is all that so clear to you, Dave? Maybe she did (love her j...

A Bit Rich

# 2012-12-09 18:01:53, Foamier
There's nothing like a good old British bandwagon to jump onto, is there, especially when it involves the royals, and even better if there can be a bit of colonial-bashing thrown in for good measure.So ... a couple of Aussie radio chatshow hosts made a prank call to, shock, horror, the hospital where Catherine Middleclass, Britain's most ...

Hello, Cheeky

# 2012-11-26 00:48:16, Foamier
Susan Boyle is making headlines again, with a fantastic new Twitter hashtag.Well, you wouldn't want to look at the front, would you?

Old Bags

# 2012-11-20 19:52:58, Foamier
My avid reader has forwarded to me an electronic missive from the venerable Helena May hostel on Garden Road, otherwise known as the Virgins' Retreat.Apparently, there is something known as the "Season of Goodwill" (must be one of those government-prescribed things for locals, like loving your family even as they suck the blood out of you...

My Old Dutch

# 2012-11-03 20:59:48, Foamier
Jake van der Kamp, writing in the Sunday SCuM Post, has turned his sights on to the way the MPF system works here.He asks "Why is it that bureacracies set up to serve the general public so often take the side of special interest groups against the public?" Then he goes on to mention two examples, bank and food regulators, in a list he des...