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Best comment yet regarding St. Steven of Gerrards alledged punch up and it’s impending court case;

I don’t believe for a second Stevie G was involved in a fight.

Surely, at the first sign of contact, he would have thrown himself to the turf and writhed around looking for a pen?

Observer: It’s a little early to sanctify Steven Gerrard

I’ve been really blog shy this year, marking either a slow decline of this blog or my increased interest in other things – I’ll let you know what it is.  So here, without further ado are some lists. enjoy (or not).

10 Things Merk DIDN’T do in 2008

1. Go Abroad
2. Go to a Museum
3. Buy enough Clothes
4. Lose weight
5. Save Money
6. Get a new Job
7. Woo a lady
8. Join a choir
9. Go to the theatre
10. Go to London

10 Things Merk DID do in 2008

1. Dented the car
2. Went to Aberystwyth (twice)
3. Put a picture up
4. Nearly quit this blog (for reasons I wont go into)
5. Got Sky installed
6. Learned more geeky shit
7. Became a god-father
8. Avoided any real hard work
9. Write some angry letters
10. Avoided ‘new’ music – leave that to my brother Zane Lowe Stavros.

10 8 TV Programmes Merk enjoyed in 2008

1. Dexter
2. Heroes
3. Lost
4. The Devils Whore
5. The Tudors
6. Fringe
7. Spooks
8. Top Gear

10 TV Programmes Merk HATED in 2008

1. Celeb Air
2. Celeb Scissor hands
3. Strictly Come Dancing
4. X Factor
5. Big Brother
6. I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here
7. Dancing on Ice
8. Bone Kickers
9. Last of the Summer Wine (why is the absolute fucking shite still on my telly?)
10. Tonight with Trevor McDonald

10 Films Merk watched in 2008

1. El Orphanto (Brilliant)
2. Casino Royale (ok, same old)
3. WALL-E (good)
4. The X Files: I Want to Believe (yawn)
5. Cloverfield (shite)
6. The Strangers (shite)
7. 21 (ok)
8. The Dark Knight (good)
9. Hunting Party (very good)
10. The Condemned (shockingly bad)

10 People Merk Disliked in 2008

1. Tony Blair (goes without saying)
2. Robert Mugabe (massive C-unit)
3. David Cameron (No policies, no clue)
4. Iain Dale (ill-informed Conservative darling and self proclaimed blogging ‘expert’)
5. David & Victoria Beckham (I don’t care where you’re living, just get off my telly)
6. George W Bush (you’ve helped move humans one step closer to destruction)
7. Sarah Palin (pro life, pro hunting – no logic)
8. Alistair Darling (it’s the eyebrows)
9. Lewis Hamilton (won some races, fucked off to Switzerland to avoid tax)
10. Lewis Hamilton’s dad (we don’t need to see you all the fucking time)

10 People Merk Loved in 2008

1. Stephen Fry (comedy genius, genius, all round nice chap)
2. Jonathan Ross (for pissing off the Daily Mail)
3. Obama (I think you have to love Obama or they’ll get you)
4. Jon Stewart (wished with had equivalent in the UK)
5. Stephen Colbert (wished with had equivalent in the UK)
6. Guy Garvey of Elbow (cracking album, seems like a nice person)
7. Dizzie Rascal (for appearing on Newsnight here)
8. Riahnna (for annoying the shit out of my brother!)
9. Frankie Boyle (for being hilariously funny)
10. David Dimbleby (just why hasn’t David been Knighted yet, it’s a discrace)

oh dear, I’ve been really bad at blogging this year – my web time has been mostly spent twittering and deleting requests for silly applications on Facebook.  I do intend to do a ‘year in review’ but it’s likely to just to mention how I backed the car into a lampost and how many times I’ve been drunk over the last year.

But if that still interests you…..stay tuned!

Before this horrible event is even over Fox News spaffs their special kind of ‘terror-porn’ all over their website with scant regard for the facts.

1) While one group has already claimed responsibility for the attack, no one can be sure if they’re Muslim terrorists, but so what if they are, a terrorist is a terrorist no?  Are ETA terrorists known as ‘Roman Catholic’ Terrorists?

2) These terrorists may/maybe not holding westerners hostage, they are also holding non-westerners hostage too – only one eyewitness account so far has suggested that they pin pointed British & US people. Terrorists are opening fire indiscriminately at anyone, a stolen police van fled the scene while shooting at anyone who happened to be in the street.   A hospital has been attacked an hostages taken, indiscriminate.  2 of the top police officers have been killed, one a high profile ranking officer has been repeatedly threatened in emails from an existing terrorist group.

I’ve just watched hours of news channels from Sky, Fox, BBC and most of all India’s NDTV and the eagerness of the US & UK media to instantly judge that this attack is a proxy attack on the west is plain to see. India has it’s own enemies too y’know.