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It’s another round of quickfire tales from my life. Let’s not delay:

1) Driving in Edinburgh is a pain as you always seem to run into some jerk taxi driver who thinks that he’s above the highway code

2) I don’t believe I’ve ever met a Merseyside Red fan from Merseyside or a Moan U fan from Manchester. Maybe they’re all so vociferous to make up for their lack of geographical justification

3) With Rangers’ financial woes and Celtic under the cosh a bit too, is the time coming where the rest can challenge for the SPL this season?

4) Harry Hill’s TV Burp is the best thing on TV and if you disagree.. you are entitled to your opinion

5) Ferry trips to Belfast are expensive

6)  Long thesis to write + deadline ages away = difficult to get motivated

7) At what point during his wife’s pregnancy does a man realise he feels the need to tell terrible jokes and completely lose the ability to dance? Only dads seem capable of such things..

The Democratic Unionist Party seem to have a policy where every member needs to state a new wacky policy that would be utterly ridiculed if one of the big UK parties came up with it. [look up Iris Robinson and Sammy Wilson on wikipedia]. This week: Gregory Campbell endorses the [soon to be illegal under EU law] death penalty!

9) Saying “no offence” before you say something does not mean that the thing you say is not offensive.

10) Apparently, because I’m not in a long-term relationship, I can’t possibly understand the opening bits of  “Up” (I haven’t seen it, so I don’t know what it’s referring to, but clearly I’d be wasting my hard-earned cash). Darth Vader’s never been my father either, so maybe I’m missing a trick? I’m not easily offended, but this did rattle my cage a bit.