Robert Hampton

Posts from March 2003

30th March 2003

Operation Piss Off the Planet

The Onion has some seriously funny stuff on the War. If you haven’t read it yet, you should.

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27th March 2003

This happened today

As I pushed a button in a lift today, a woman — whom I had never seen before and probably will never see again — remarked that I had bendy fingers.

Is there an emoticon for “bemused and caught off-guard”?

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25th March 2003

Ha

This is funny — one of those punchlines where you suddenly realise: “hey, that’s true!”

I hope my weblog isn’t too punch-worthy :-)

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23rd March 2003

Entry number 2

Just for the hell of it, some thoughts on Iraq.

Last Wednesday and Thursday, Liverpool city centre was brought to a standstill by antiwar protestors. As they staged a sit-in, one of my coworkers who was watching from our office window with me asked what they thought they’d achieve. After all, the war has already started; anti-war arguments have been ignored. Actually, I think there’s a lot to be achieved. At the very least, history will record that not everyone immediately rallied behind our leaders when the bombs started dropping.

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22nd March 2003

There’s something here now

Oh, hello. Well, I’ve finally got round to it. It’s over 2 years since I last had any sort of serious online presence. Mind you, FABland wasn’t really about me anyway. Actually I’m not sure what it was about: not that the three people who read it cared that much.

I registered roberthampton.me.uk in a fit of insanity last year, but didn’t really have any idea what to do with it. Recently, though, things have started happening to me; things which have had me thinking, “I wish I could write that down.” So, like every other disaffected twentysomething with a ‘Net connection, I’ve started a blog.

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