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Listed below are comments made by Woolfbane between Friday, 2nd October 2009 and Friday, 27th November 2009.

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Caption Competition 10:03am on 27 Nov 2009 Bubble rap?
Caption Competition 09:50am on 27 Nov 2009 She was in her own little world.
Caption Competition 09:47am on 27 Nov 2009 Audiences at the Auto Immune Benefit Concert were strictly limited, but at least smoking was allowed.
Caption Competition 09:45am on 27 Nov 2009 President Gadaffi's Christmas baubles just had to be bigger and better than anyone else's.
Weekly Bonus Question 4:44pm on 20 Nov 2009 If George Osbourne were an inanimate object, what would he be?
Map of the Week: Forgotten white working classes 12:22pm on 16 Oct 2009 The white working class seems to have developed an overinflated sense of entitlement, but I would rather have an educated, polite, law-abiding, employed and tax-paying European, Asian or African living next door to me than a dirty, unemployed, offensive "British" waster any day. The days of white supremacy are over: we are evolving, and what you do, how you behave and think and conduct yourself, what you can offer to society, are more important in this new world than skin colour or nationality ever was in the old. The white working class is obsolete.
Understanding neglect 11:55am on 16 Oct 2009 I'm sorry but I really have to disagree with the first sentence of this report "We like to imagine we care about children in this country". Actually, no, we don't. Most of us are fairly indifferent towards children, even our own, but especially those of other people. At the extreme ends of this scale are "neglect", as described in the report, and "boarding schools", although one is, obviously, rather more socially acceptable than the other.

What I believe needs to be addressed is how to make potential parents realise that they are taking on a huge burden and to be realistic about their ability to carry it. Unfortunately, we in Britain still subscribe to the idea of motherhood as something desirable, rewarding and inevitable when in fact it is seldom, if ever, any of these. Perhaps the NSPCC should take a leaf out of the RSPCA's book and start a campaign: "A baby is for life, not just until it stops being cute."
The politics of 'proper behaviour' 3:56pm on 13 Oct 2009 As Mrs Thatcher might have put it: there is no such thing as anti-social behaviour, only individual thugs and criminals and their families.
What do women really want? 3:45pm on 13 Oct 2009 As I believe Chaucer established some time ago in The Wife of Bath, what women want is "mastery over men".
Caption Competition 09:55am on 02 Oct 2009 So I said to her, look, it's not a dressing gown, OK, it's a Smoking Jacket.

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