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	<title>That&#039;s fucking stupid &#187; Armchair Economist</title>
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	<description>Common sense just isn&#039;t very common any more.</description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s not theft, it&#8217;s piracy.</title>
		<link>http://www.thatsfuckingstupid.com/index.php/2010/03/10/its-not-theft-its-piracy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:28:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Commonly Sensible</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[James Murdoch has been blathering on about piracy like he knows something about it.
He&#8217;s made that classic mistake of saying that piracy is like
going into a store and stealing Pringles or a handbag.
Of course that&#8217;s largely because he&#8217;s an idiot. Let&#8217;s clear things up shall we?

Piracy is nothing like walking into a store and stealing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NBS don&#8217;t hate the gays</title>
		<link>http://www.thatsfuckingstupid.com/index.php/2009/08/20/nbs-dont-hate-the-gays/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 09:11:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Commonly Sensible</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From time to time while prowling around the gay community looking for my next kill I will meet some young buck who is enraged and indignant after being declined their god-given right to donate blood to the needy.
It seems that not a week goes by without some poor vulnerable gay realising that they are being [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I don&#8217;t want you to do something so I am going to make it more desirable.</title>
		<link>http://www.thatsfuckingstupid.com/index.php/2009/07/10/i-dont-want-you-to-do-something-so-i-am-going-to-make-it-more-desirable/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:36:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Commonly Sensible</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The recent UN World Drug Report 2009 (pdf) shows the UK to be a major consumer of cocaine and although it is hardly surprising that a drug popular with bankers would be popular in a country full of bankers, the response that Herr Gordo will opt for is likely to be exactly the opposite of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ticketmaster you are fucktards!</title>
		<link>http://www.thatsfuckingstupid.com/index.php/2009/06/10/ticketmaster-you-are-fucktards/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thatsfuckingstupid.com/index.php/2009/06/10/ticketmaster-you-are-fucktards/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 09:54:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Commonly Sensible</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just finished buying some tickets on Ticketmaster and at the end they offered me a choice of how I would like my tickets delivered. There were two options:

Get a link sent to me by email, click the link and then visit a page where I can print out the tickets myself. Cost: £2 processing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Letters from America 1</title>
		<link>http://www.thatsfuckingstupid.com/index.php/2009/05/20/letters-from-america/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thatsfuckingstupid.com/index.php/2009/05/20/letters-from-america/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 21:54:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Commonly Sensible</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am currently holidaying in Florida and while there is a tropical storm brewing off the coast I have not been on the beach or kayacking in the Everglades and have instead been channel surfing during the rainstorms. I made the mistake yesterday of switching over on to CNN and thought I should share this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lose weight, save the world</title>
		<link>http://www.thatsfuckingstupid.com/index.php/2009/04/21/lose-weight-save-the-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 18:35:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sensibly Common</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of recent news items to celebrate. First off: fatties cause greater greenhouse gas* emissions.
Turns out that larger people not only cause a feckload more fuel to be burned per passenger-kilometre, but they are of course also more likely to drive short distances than walk or cycle&#8211; because most lard-arses are lazy.
And if a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>But why would anyone *want* to?</title>
		<link>http://www.thatsfuckingstupid.com/index.php/2009/03/18/but-why-would-anyone-want-to/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 16:16:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Commonly Sensible</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Prostitution is likely to be criminalised because there is a victim right? After all, the mandate of the government when criminalising stuff is to halt behaviour that impacts on others in a negative way, right? Some stuff like murder is obvious, the victim is the person who is murdered. Some stuff like drunk driving is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quote of the day</title>
		<link>http://www.thatsfuckingstupid.com/index.php/2009/03/12/quote-of-the-day-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:46:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Commonly Sensible</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Treasury spokeman&#8221; quoted in the Daily Mail
The UK goes into this recession with low debt by international standards.
Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
Haha haha ha ha
Ha
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		<title>Think of the children</title>
		<link>http://www.thatsfuckingstupid.com/index.php/2009/03/05/think-of-the-children-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 14:15:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Commonly Sensible</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The BBC is currently running articles about the stillbirth rate in the UK and how as many as 6500 children die each year before they are 4 weeks old. I understand that losing a child in this way must be truely horrific but with child mortality rates dropping, life expectancy increasing and a global population of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quote of the day</title>
		<link>http://www.thatsfuckingstupid.com/index.php/2009/03/05/quote-ernst-young/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thatsfuckingstupid.com/index.php/2009/03/05/quote-ernst-young/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 10:17:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sensibly Common</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Analyst from Ernst &#38; Young:
Increasing the supply of central bank money via purchases of government securities should help to loosen these restrictions and boost the supply of money and credit.
This is what we call &#8220;printing money&#8221;. Essentially you either get hyperinflation because nobody buys the debt (cf. Yugoslavia, Ukraine, Turkey, Zimbabwe); or you get a long, drawn-out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Robert H Frank, I salute you</title>
		<link>http://www.thatsfuckingstupid.com/index.php/2009/02/15/robert-h-frank-i-salute-you/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thatsfuckingstupid.com/index.php/2009/02/15/robert-h-frank-i-salute-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2009 20:49:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Commonly Sensible</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently read the brilliant book &#8220;The Economic Naturalist&#8221; by Robert H Frank. The book uses real world examples to illustrate some basic economic principals in a way that makes them clear to apply to other situations. I shall no doubt be adding cost/benefit analysis to many of my subsequent posts and if you haven&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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