German Daleks!!!

from Doctor Who, Series 4, Episode 13: “Journey’s End”
Even though the actual German word for “exterminate” is “ausrotten“. So, despite being geniuses, language doesn’t appear to be the dalek’s forte…
Of course, hearing daleks saying AUSROTTEN! just wouldn’t have been understood by the vast majority of viewers (including me) and would have removed the hilarity.
UPDATE: [...]

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Even if we ignore/excuse the massive amounts of lost data already by this government as institutional failings of the system and processes of the Civil Service rather than government ministers, these last two cannot be explained away like that.
Cabinet ministers are certainly directly responsible for these last two lapses - luckily it’s not our [...]

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Which of these is more suitable for children?
This:
Or this:
Yet Venezuelan TV has decided that Baywatch is more suitable, saying that The Simpsons have flouted a regulation that prohibits “messages that go against the whole education of boys, girls and adolescents”.
So what exactly is Baywatch teaching young boys and girls? Apart from how to run in [...]

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Series 4 of the new Doctor Who is starting very very soon! Saturday 5 April at 6.20pm. Just over a week away.
I can’t wait! It looks so so so good! All of the new series companions are back Donna [from the Christmas Special before last], Martha, and even Rose! It’s so close, and I just [...]

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Enid Blyton’s Famous Five series of books has been “updated” in a new Disney cartoon.
Jo, Max, Allie and Dylan are the children of Enid Blyton’s original characters and together with their pet dog Timmy embark on a new series of adventures.But instead of crawling through secret tunnels with nothing more than a penknife and a [...]

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BBC Sport. They broadcast far too much of it.
I mean, 17 hours of sport over one weekend on BBC 1 and 2 - with a few hours on Sunday when they overlap! Just way too much, especially when it is repeated every single weekend.
What about the rest of us who don’t want to watch sport? [...]

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Ruth Kelly has a deeper voice than Alan Duncan.
There’s no real point to this post, it’s just an observation.
But it is actually extremely disturbing to listen to and watch.
Especially since Ruth Kelly has grown her hair and actually looks slightly feminine. Well, until you hear her talk anyway.

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Yeah, like this is going to work.
You can hardly “ban” people from the internet. That is absurd in so many ways. And it won’t work, no matter what they do, in this way. By banning - or, rather, trying to ban - “pirates” from the internet they are trying to force the ISPs to police [...]

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Chris Dillow makes an argument that Konnie Huq in her decade as a Blue Peter presenter has cost the economy around £3.9bn:
Mr Brown shouldn’t be thanking Konnie. He should be decrying the adverse effect she’s had upon the British economy.The reason for this is simple. Anything that makes being out of work more pleasant encourages [...]

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Who really cares that the big red button that various minor celebrities are asked to press to start the Lotto is fake? After all, the Lotto is pretty much just a tax on the stupid - those who think that the 14,000,000 to 1 chance they have of winning the jackpot is worth it.

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