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The protest has been a decidedly dirty one, with underhand tactics used by both sides. Flickr finally caved under the pressure and announced that they would give us donuts!

The enormity of this has not escaped the world’s press who have realised that our demand for doughnuts was much more important than other nonsensical crap (eg. threat of lawsuits) over the introduction of Flickr Video.

Digg it!

The reason it was created, though, was something of a secret. Until today… What the world needs is thousands, nay, MILLIONS of videos of things at ludicrous speed with the Benny Hill music in the background.

I have created a group for this very purpose, called Benny Hill Videos, it is already the most popular group on Flickr! Join today… invite all your friends!

The showcase piece for the Benny Hill Videos group, is the second in the Easter Photowalk series, a follow-up to 2007’s masterpiece. Ladies and gentlemen, I give the Easter Videowalk, 2008:

Should you wish to listen to the Benny Hill theme tune, you can do so here:
Benny Hill, Yakety Sax

Microsoft has made a $44.6bn bid for Yahoo! and, with it, Flickr. What horrid bullies.

Thank fuck lomokev and I were on the ball, I have immediately set-up an action group to fight the evil threat to the Paradise on Earth that is Flickr.

Called MICROSOFT: KEEP YOUR EVlL GRUBBY HANDS OFF OF OUR FLICKR, the group is taking POSITIVE ACTION with a petition, protest art and a mass suicide pact.

Plus, we’ve already made the New York Time blog! YAY! FAME!

Microsoft = Microcock

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And then he has the gall to write a fucking album ALL ABOUT his plans to murder the QUEEN of OUR HEARTS? That’s just cruel.

I am outraged by this. I’m definitely writing to my gay MP to demand a full and thorough investigation. I will also boycott the purchase of gladioli until this matter is resolved. I hope you will join me.

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Maybe that’ll shut the whiny cunt up.

Now, get voting!

With my blog, you can forget everything else and nestle in the warm bosom of my words.

So, this post is for Beebo Wallace. He’s a lovely ickle snuffle-bunny.

Sorry, this is probably my first ever serious post and probably my only one. I would know nothing about this were it not for knowing someone involved and I think it’s fucking disgusting. Please just take the time to read it and be informed… and if you happen to see Liam Byrne, please wank in his eye.

Thanks.

Last November the UK government changed the rules for the Highly Skilled Migrant Programme. The shitty thing they have done is to apply these rules retrospectively, suddenly putting many people who had made their homes here at risk of deportation.

This is akin to the government, after the written part of the driving test was introduced, saying that everyone who got their licence beforehand were now no longer licenced and would face prosecution for driving without one. Makes perfect sense, right?

One such a person is my close personal friend and favourite Uncle, Bill Tonghoek. He pretty much scored maximum points in the test, except for the fact that he doesn’t have a university degree, leaving him 5 short of the requisite 75. If you were to spend more than 5 minutes with the man you’d realise that there’s a very good reason for this. He’s clearly the most educated person on the planet and able run intellectual circles around most cardigan-wearing professors…. no university would have him. To say our country will be a poorer place without this high-earning, tax-paying, big-spending individual is a massive understatement, and not for the reasons stated above.

I’ll leave the rest to him, because it just gets worse.

"I’m getting kicked out.

I was waiting for Home Office to send me a form, which would have been a Refusal with Right of Appeal. Which means I was legally in this country while they took their 6 months working on it. It would have been a refusal since they changed the rules after I qualified and applied the rules retrospectively to people who are here already - you need a degree to qualify now. However, the right of appeal would have meant that I could take my case to a judge, while being legal in this country without prejudice to myself. Or even leave the country, without prejudice to myself.

Now, Home Office was whipped in the Tribunal Courts on the first people like myself - judges have all pretty much condemned what they’re doing to us. So now Home Office is trying to save face by not letting us get to a judge in the first place. So now they are denying us the right to appeal on all sorts of spurious grounds.

So out of the blue four weeks ago, this letter arrives telling me I am refused with no right of appeal and I must report to the detention centre immediately. No warning, no "ok we don’t want you here just leave in 2 months and everything will be fine". As of the date on that letter I am liable for detention. I had to report to the centre where they fingerprint you, metal-detect you, line you up like convicts. As is I am "lucky" not to be in "detention centre" - they don’t call it prison to make themselves look better. I have to report there every Saturday, like I am on parole. I understand suicide rates are quite high in these places. No one really knows what goes on inside there, but like Guantanemo Bay, they operate outside of the normal sphere of correctional facilities. The very few reports available on these detention centres suggest that they have a very poor human rights records, over-crowding and the normal abuse.

Even if I want to leave right now I can’t. They are holding my passport. They are processing me. They are throwing every legal trick at me to make me out to be a criminal detrimental to British society. So now I can only wait until they are finished with me and drive me to the airport - in the meantime I am technically not allowed to work or be here. They don’t let you work, they don’t give you money either, they don’t let you leave immediately either. So the longer they take, the more they make me look like an illegal overstaying immigrant. Which is exactly what they want. Everything they are doing to me now will affect any future I have of entering any country, anywhere.

So, if they had wanted to be decent, they could have said "right we want you to leave the country, if you do so in two months we won’t hold anything against you". Instead, they out of the blue turned me into a criminal.

I have a very very slim hope on EU Human Rights legislation - on the argument that the state is interfering disproportionately with my private and family life. This is the same EU Rights legislation that David Cameron and even a few "liberals" wanted to take away in favour for a new "British" Human Rights, which I can only assume would mean only the British have any rights in this country. (I would assume this would mean they can shoot Brazilians with even more impunity.)

Even so, this hope is slim to non-existent, as they are doing everything they can do prevent me from seeing a judge. There won’t be any public outcry over this, since the voting british public view immigrants like myself as sub-human."

The change in law condemned by Human Rights committee
Summary on timeline
Mayor of London, Red Ken bitching about it

PS. If you happen to be a cardigan-wearing type with the power to magically bestow lovely people with university degrees, then mail me!

I haven’t blogged for ages because, well, I’m a lazy fucken cunt. There are extenuating circumstances, which mainly revolve around moving house . As you can imagine this took considerable mental energy, but I am now one of the landed gentry.

YAY.

This also means I spend less time at home, wanking in front of the computer. I have a housemate now, so I need to keep both hands busy whilst having a wank. I might get up to speed on the internets side of thing soon… as soon as my head dobber gets back from the repair-shop.

They’ve just launched a major new release, meebo rooms which is pretty fucking cool, to be honest. It allows you to create chatrooms in your meebo window, private or public, on any topic.

You can link to other sites, Flickr, youtube, etc, and it all sort of loads in your little room window. You can invite your IM contacts to join in the meebo chats - so someone on you AIM list can chat with someone on your MSN list… This is really cool!

You can embed them in your site. This presumably means that anyone visiting them can chat on them, like the meebome widget that I currently have in the sidebar of my site.

*points right*

How about if Flickr and meebo got super-friendly and allowed groups to have a “meebo” section where they could embed their own chatroom? That would make some old skoolers really happy!

It does seem a little flaky right now, but I’m sure it’ll settle down.

Anyway, being a complete Flickr whore, I created a meebo room for Flickr, login to meebo to see it in action properly, or you can engage in real-live chitty-chatty via the same room being embedded my site!

This is, officially, SUPANIFTEH.

I have my own meebo room too… Join me there for HOT action!