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Retro Yakking - Complaints of a Northerner

http://retroyakking.today.com

Northern/British humour, spoof news, old stuff and general fun.

Added on: Dec 19th, 2008
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English

Author: Dan Farrimond
Listed in: Observational Humor Social Commentary
Tags: Observations northern Nostalgia complaints moaning

Recent Posts

For Sale: Britain’s largest chocolate company

Posted on Monday November 23rd, 2009 at 05:09 in Chocolate, food, food and drink, nestle, cadbury

The following advertisement was Found on Craigslist yesterday morning. Is it me, or is this Credit Crunch thing becoming rather annoying? ~ ~ ~ ~ Posted by: Cadbury PLC, 22nd November 2009 Price: 3,000,000 chocolate buttons Detail: This is your op...
Sunday Shout Out: Rivington Barn Bikers, Whirlpool and Twitterers

Posted on Sunday November 22nd, 2009 at 05:32 in thanks, shout out, sunday special, chewing the web, rivington barn

In’t WordArt brilliant? I’m generally not a massive fan of Sundays. They’re like a strawberry milkshake - brilliant, but you know its gonna be over soon and you’ll have to wait seven more days for another to come around. S...
Conservatives’ latest promotion tool: ReCaptcha

Posted on Saturday November 21st, 2009 at 04:43 in politics, news, weird, comment, recaptcha, sunday special, irrelevance, internet and web design

The Conservative Party have been accused of offering bribes to the programmers of Internet verification system ReCaptcha. Though the Tories deny this, compelling evidence can be found in the fact the program is definitely attempting to subtly and sub...
Yak’s Top Tips: 101 uses for newspaper (Part 1)

Posted on Friday November 20th, 2009 at 05:54 in tips, Paper, newspaper, recessionista, yak's top tips, 101 uses for newspaper

As a renowned scrounger who’s actually won awards for his utter cheapskateness (yep, you’re in fact reading the blog of Harry Yack SkN Flnt TYT RS), I feel fully qualified to share with you the best one hundred things you can do with Th...
Football: Ireland denied by The Hand of Frog

Posted on Thursday November 19th, 2009 at 04:50 in news, soccer, football, Ireland, epl, republic of ireland

The Republic of Ireland were cruelly denied in their quest for World Cup qualification thanks to a not so helpful hand from France’s Thierry Henry. Fans must have been thinking this was a game of handball rather than football as the former Ars...
Thierry Henry’s ‘Hand of Frog’ [video]

Posted on Thursday November 19th, 2009 at 02:46 in football, video, henry, platini, controversy fifa, hand of frog

Make no mistake, it’s a certain handball, some say a deliberate one. What is for sure is that it certainly shouldn’t have been a goal, and there are even calls to replay the game. Not sure whether that will happen, but it’s hardly...