The Seven Stages of Guardian attitudes to Eastern European immigration

[Bacchus]

Contains a link to this, which really made me chuckle, a lot!

New Home Office advice: drink 60 units of alcohol a day if you want to paint really well – Telegraph Blogs

I thought that a much funnier article - perhaps a link to it from the "dry January" thread (c:

The author of psychothrillers like The Talented Mr Ripley, Patricia Highsmith ... chain-smoked Gauloises, and kept a bottle of vodka by her bedside, so she could have a snifter first thing ... As for friends, she had none, apart from 300 beloved pet snails, which she would take to literary parties in her handbag ... When she went abroad she would smuggle the live snails out of England by hiding them under her breasts.

Much stiffer than the old pencil test...?

[scooterscot]

Seems to me rather reliant on hyperbole. Must be a slow news day.

[Platypus]

Contains a link to this, which really made me chuckle, a lot!

New Home Office advice: drink 60 units of alcohol a day if you want to paint really well – Telegraph Blogs

The author of psychothrillers like The Talented Mr Ripley, Patricia Highsmith ... chain-smoked Gauloises, and kept a bottle of vodka by her bedside, so she could have a snifter first thing ... As for friends, she had none, apart from 300 beloved pet snails, which she would take to literary parties in her handbag ... When she went abroad she would smuggle the live snails out of England by hiding them under her breasts.

[vetran]

cheers, made me laugh.

[Flashman]

The Seven Stages of Guardian attitudes to Eastern European immigration – Telegraph Blogs