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11th September 2013: The world's gone mad and I'm the only one who knows
13th August 2013: Black is white. Fact. End of.
11th August 2013: Electric cars, not as green as they're painted?
18th June 2013: Wrinklies unite, you have nothing to lose but your walking frames!
17th May 2013: Some actual FACTS about climate change (for a change) from actual scientists ...
10th May 2013: An article about that poison gas, carbon dioxide, and other scientific facts (not) ...
10th May 2013: We need to see past the sex and look at the crimes: is justice being served?
8th May 2013: So, who would you trust to treat your haemorrhoids, Theresa May?
8th May 2013: Why should citizens in the 21st Century fear the law so much?
30th April 2013: What the GOS says today, the rest of the world realises tomorrow ...
30th April 2013: You couldn't make it up, could you? Luckily you don't need to ...
29th April 2013: a vote for NONE OF THE ABOVE, because THE ABOVE are crap ...
28th April 2013: what goes around, comes around?
19th April 2013: everyone's a victim these days ...
10th April 2013: Thatcher is dead; long live Thatcher!
8th April 2013: Poor people are such a nuisance. Just give them loads of money and they'll go away ...
26th March 2013: Censorship is alive and well and coming for you ...
25th March 2013: Just do your job properly, is that too much to ask?
25th March 2013: So, what do you think caused your heterosexuality?
20th March 2013: Feminists - puritans, hypocrites or just plain stupid?
18th March 2013: How Nazi Germany paved the way for modern governance?
13th March 2013: Time we all grew up and lived in the real world ...
12th March 2013: Hindenburg crash mystery solved? - don't you believe it!
6th March 2013: Is this the real GOS?
5th March 2013: All that's wrong with taxes
25th February 2013: The self-seeking MP who is trying to bring Britain down ...
24th February 2013: Why can't newspapers just tell the truth?
22nd February 2013: Trial by jury - a radical proposal
13th February 2013: A little verse for two very old people ...
6th February 2013: It's not us after all, it's worms
6th February 2013: Now here's a powerful argument FOR gay marriage ...
4th February 2013: There's no such thing as equality because we're not all the same ...
28th January 2013: Global Warming isn't over - IT'S HIDING!
25th January 2013: Global Warmers: mad, bad and dangerous to know ...
25th January 2013: Bullying ego-trippers, not animal lovers ...
19th January 2013: We STILL haven't got our heads straight about gays ...
16th January 2013: Bullying ego-trippers, not animal lovers ...
11th January 2013: What it's like being English ...
7th January 2013: Bleat, bleat, if it saves the life of just one child ...
7th January 2013: How best to put it? 'Up yours, Argentina'?
7th January 2013: Chucking even more of other people's money around ...
6th January 2013: Chucking other people's money around ...
30th December 2012: The BBC is just crap, basically ...
30th December 2012: We mourn the passing of a genuine Grumpy Old Sod ...
30th December 2012: How an official body sets out to ruin Christmas ...
16th December 2012: Why should we pardon Alan Turing when he did nothing wrong?
15th December 2012: When will social workers face up to their REAL responsibility?
15th December 2012: Unfair trading by a firm in Bognor Regis ...
14th December 2012: Now the company that sells your data is pretending to act as watchdog ...
7th December 2012: There's a war between cars and bikes, apparently, and  most of us never noticed!
26th November 2012: The bottom line - social workers are just plain stupid ...
20th November 2012: So, David Eyke was right all along, then?
15th November 2012: MPs don't mind dishing it out, but when it's them in the firing line ...
14th November 2012: The BBC has a policy, it seems, about which truths it wants to tell ...
12th November 2012: Big Brother, coming to a school near you ...
9th November 2012: Yet another celebrity who thinks, like Jimmy Saville, that he can behave just as he likes because he's famous ...
5th November 2012: Whose roads are they, anyway? After all, we paid for them ...
7th May 2012: How politicians could end droughts at a stroke if they chose ...
6th May 2012: The BBC, still determined to keep us in a fog of ignorance ...
2nd May 2012: A sense of proportion lacking?
24th April 2012: Told you so, told you so, told you so ...
15th April 2012: Aah, sweet ickle polar bears in danger, aah ...
15th April 2012: An open letter to Anglian Water ...
30th March 2012: Now they want to cure us if we don't believe their lies ...
28th February 2012: Just how useful is a degree? Not very.
27th February 2012: ... so many ways to die ...
15th February 2012: DO go to Jamaica because you definitely WON'T get murdered with a machete. Ms Fox says so ...
31st January 2012: We don't make anything any more
27th January 2012: There's always a word for it, they say, and if there isn't we'll invent one
26th January 2012: Literary criticism on GOS? How posh!
12th December 2011: Plain speaking by a scientist about the global warming fraud
9th December 2011: Who trusts scientists? Apart from the BBC, of course?
7th December 2011: All in all, not a good week for British justice ...
9th November 2011: Well what d'you know, the law really IS a bit of an ass ...

 

 
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500 things you can't do any more

 

 
201. You can't eat charred foods because they give you cancer.
 
202. You can't chew gum because it gives you cancer.
 
203. You can't eat Chinese food because it gives you cancer.
 
204. You can't take Chinese herbal supplements because they give you cancer.
 
205. You can't eat chips because they give you cancer.
 
206. You can't be exposed to chloramphenicol because it gives you cancer.
 
207. You can't be exposed to chlordane because it gives you cancer.
 
208. You can't be exposed to chlorinated camphene because it gives you cancer.
 
209. You can't swim in chlorinated water because it gives you cancer.
 
210. You can't be exposed to chlorodiphenyl because it gives you cancer.
 
211. You can't knock yourself out with chloroform because it gives you cancer.
 
212. You can't have high cholesterol because it gives you cancer.
 
213. You can't have low cholesterol because it gives you cancer.
 
214. You can't be exposed to chromium because it gives you cancer.
 
215. You can't be exposed to coal tar because it gives you cancer.
 
216. You can't drink coffee because it gives you cancer.
 
217. You can't visit a coke oven because they give you cancer.
 
218. You can't eat crackers because they give you cancer.
 
219. You can't paint your fence with creosote because it gives you cancer.
 
220. You can't be exposed to cyclamates because they give you cancer.
 
221. You can't eat dairy products because they give you cancer.
 
222. You can't use deodorants because they give you cancer.
 
223. You can't bathe in depleted uranium because it gives you cancer.
 
224. You can't beat depression because it gives you cancer.
 
225. You can't be exposed to dichloryacetylene because it gives you cancer.
 
226. You can't be exposed to DDT because it gives you cancer.
 
227. You can't be exposed to dieldrin because it gives you cancer.
 
228. You can't drive a diesel car because the exhaust gives you cancer.
 
229. You can't drink diet soda because it gives you cancer.
 
230. You can't be exposed to dimethyl sulphate because it gives you cancer.
 
231. You can't be exposed to dinitrotouluene because it gives you cancer.
 
232. You can't be exposed to dioxin because it gives you cancer.
 
233. You can't be exposed to dioxane because it gives you cancer.
 
234. You can't be exposed to epichlorhydrin because it gives you cancer.
 
235. You can't be exposed to ethyle acrilate because it gives you cancer.
 
236. You can't be exposed to ethylene because it gives you cancer.
 
237. You can't be exposed to ethilene dibromide because it gives you cancer.
 
238. You can't have any ethnic beliefs because they give you cancer (no, this is not a joke, some scientist really said this).
 
239. You can't be exposed to ethylene dichloride because it gives you cancer.
 
240. You can't take Ex-Lax because it gives you cancer.
 
241. You can't eat fat because it gives you cancer.
 
242. You shouldn't be fat because it gives you cancer. Probably. I'm guessing here.
 
243. You can't use fluoride toothpaste or drink fluoridised water because it gives you cancer.
 
244. You can't fly because it gives you cancer. Well, it's the planes really. Flapping your wings and jumping off a building isn't too healthy, either, but at least it doesn't give you cancer.
 
245. You can't pickle yourself in formaldehyde because it gives you cancer.
 
246. You can't tolerate free radicals - they give you cancer.
 
247. You can't eat fruit - it gives you cancer.
 
248. You can't drive a car - petrol gives you cancer.
 
249. You can't trust your own genes - they give you cancer.
 
250. You can't eat gingerbread - it gives you cancer.
 
251. You can't stand the thought of global warming - it gives you cancer.
 
252. You can't tolerate gluteraldehyde - it gives you cancer.
 
253. You can't be a stonemason - granite gives you cancer.
 
254. You can't eat grilled meat - it gives you cancer.
 
255. You can't be a soldier - the Gulf War gives you cancer.
 
256. You can't dye your hair - hair dyes give you cancer.
 
257. You can't eat hamburgers - they give you cancer.
 
258. You can't have an upset stomach - it might be caused by heliobacter pylori which give you cancer.
 
259. You can't risk being exposed to the hepatitis B virus - it gives you cancer.
 
260. You can't tolerate hexachlorbutadiene - it gives you cancer.
 
261. You can't be exposed to hexachlorethane - it gives you cancer.
 
262. You can't have high bone mass - it gives you cancer.
 
263. You can't take the HRT treatment because it increases your chances of cancer.
 
264. You can't abide hydrazine - it gives you cancer.
 
265. You can't bleach your hair - hydrogen peroxide gives you cancer.
 
266. You can't be a Catholic - incense gives you cancer.
 
267. You can't afford to be infertile - it increases your chances of cancer.
 
268. You can't wear jewellery - it gives you cancer.
 
269. You can't use Kepone to get rid of cockroaches - it gives you cancer.
 
270. You can't kiss anyone - it gives you cancer.
 
271. You can't be a couch potato - lack of exercise gives you cancer.
 
272. You can't take laxatives - they give you cancer.
 
273. You can't work with lead - it gives you cancer.
 
274. You can't be left handed because it increases your chance of cancer.
 
275. You can't use Lindane - it gives you cancer.
 
276. You can't gargle with Listerine - it gives you cancer.
 
277. You can't eat a low fibre diet - it gives you cancer.
 
278. You can't tolerate magnetic fields - they give you cancer.
 
279. You can't expose yourself to malonaldehyde - it gives you cancer.
 
280. You can't have a mammogram - mammograms give you cancer.
 
281. You can't expose yourself to manganese - it gives you cancer.
 
282. You can't smoke pot - marijuana gives you cancer.
 
283. You can't be exposed to methyl bromide - it gives you cancer.
 
284. You can't expose yourself to methylene chloride - it gives you cancer.
 
285. You can't afford to be menopausal because it increases your chances of cancer.
 
286. You can't cook in a microwave oven - they give you cancer.
 
287. You can't breast-feed - milk hormones give you cancer.
 
288. On the other hand you can't not breast-feed, because not breast-feeding gives you cancer. If you're a woman, presumably.
 
289. You can't put mixed spices in your cooking - they give you cancer.
 
290. You can't use a mobile phone - they give you cancer.
 
291. You can't tolerate MTBE (methyl tertiary-butyl ether, a common petrol additive) - it gives you cancer.
 
292. You can't be exposed to nickel - it gives you cancer.
 
293. You can't go out at night - night lighting gives you cancer.
 
294. You can't work the night shift - it gives you cancer.
 
295. You can't work with nitrates - they give you cancer.
 
296. You can't not be a twin - having a twin decreases your chances of getting cancer.
 
297. You can't live near a nuclear power plant - they give you cancer.
 
298. You can't put Nutrasweet in your coffee - it gives you cancer (so does coffee).
 
299. You can't be a woman - oestrogen gives you cancer.
 
300. You can't tolerate olestra - it gives you cancer.
 

 

 

 
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