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Tom Daley

25/07/2014

The Six O’Clock News: the Queen Does Smile!

To be totally honest, I wanted to do the News about the Commonwealth Games so I could include this: I heard that the Queen isn’t ‘allowed’ to smile in official photos or at big occasions, which is definitely a tradition that needs to go because elderly ladies smiling is always brilliant, especially when they posses… Continue reading

DISCUSS., Funny, Government and Politics, Internet, July 2014, LGBT, The Six O’Clock News, THE WORLD *head in hands*

‘John Barrowman Delivers Rebuke To Anti-LGBT Countries With Commonwealth Games Kiss’, @TheTweetOfGod, British Empire, colonial shit, Commonwealth Games, Huffington Post, Indifferent Ignorance, John Barrowman, LGBT, photobombing Queen, Scottie Dogs, Scottish referendum, The Six O’Clock News, Tom Daley, Tunnock’s Teacakes
06/12/2013

The Ten O’Clock News: an Article About Some Articles About a Certain YouTube Video About… oh you get the picture my eyes have gone fuzzy.

I would have talked about Nelson Mandela if I hadn’t been planning this post all week – I might do one next week when the dust has settled a bit and I no longer want to cry when I watch the news. Anyway. You guys didn’t just think I’d let a prominent sportsperson come out on… Continue reading

December 2013, DISCUSS., Internet, Magazines, Newspapers, The Ten O’Clock News, THE WORLD *head in hands*

‘The Guardian’, BBC Sport, Daily Telegraph, discussion, Gareth Thomas, Indifferent Ignorance, ITV (TV network), John Amaechi, media, sexuality definitions, The Daily Mail, The Ten O’Clock News, Tom Daley, Vicar of Dibley
18/08/2012

Isobel and I Found Tom Daley in the High Street.

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August 2012, Funny, Paywall, Photogenius

‘Fifty Shades…’, Indifferent Ignorance, Tom Daley, Tom Daley’s signed autobiography
13/08/2012

Olympics III: the Blues, Boris Dancing and, Basically, a Review

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August 2012, DISCUSS., Paywall, THE WORLD *head in hands*

2012 Summer Olympics, BBC, Boris Dancing, Indifferent Ignorance, Mo Bot, Olympic Review, Saudi Arabian athlete, Spice Girls, Tom Daley, Usain Bolt, Zoe Smith

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Tom Daley

The Six O’Clock News: the Queen Does Smile!

The Ten O’Clock News: an Article About Some Articles About a Certain YouTube Video About… oh you get the picture my eyes have gone fuzzy.

Isobel and I Found Tom Daley in the High Street.

Olympics III: the Blues, Boris Dancing and, Basically, a Review