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	<title>The Shitopedia</title>
	<link>http://www.shitopedia.org</link>
	<description>Because even the best things in life can be shit</description>
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		<title>The Celebrity Ascent of Kilimanjaro</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was sooooo hard and they were almost sick. The poor little celebs had to climb a big mountain. They even raised £1.6 million in the process. Well done. But what they didn&#8217;t tell you was that it took 33 climbers, 2 doctors, 100 porters, two runners and half a tonne of broadcasting equipment to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.shitopedia.org/the-celebrity-ascent-of-kilimanjaro-117/</link>
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		<title>Twitter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Useless and faddy. Jamie Oliver has tainted it and you know it&#8217;s not cool when politicians blame it for terrorism. If I was really cynical I might say that the Mumbai bombers were actually the PR staff.

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		<link>http://www.shitopedia.org/twitter-116/</link>
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		<title>Moving House</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not actually putting house moves into the Shitopedia. In fact, seeing new places and having a change of scenery can be an inspiring thing to do and enrich the soul. What I do have a problem with, is the several months of being &#8220;on hold&#8221; that goes with it. A certain British telecommunications company [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.shitopedia.org/moving-house-115/</link>
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		<title>Vibrating &#8220;Food Ready!&#8221; Gadgets</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was in the cafe in Marks and Spencers today, when a little old lady nearly had a heart attack. The shock was palpable and everyone on the surrounding tables jumped. There was a sound like the end of the world which turned out not to be a mobile phone, but something much noisier and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.shitopedia.org/vibrating-food-ready-gadgets-112/</link>
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		<title>People who are anti-swearing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Swearing is a legitimate form of communication, and one of my favourites, alongside talking, arguing and shouting.
People who are against swearing are therefore royally dumped into the Shit category by me.
I read an interesting quote one day which said:
If you don&#8217;t like obscenity, you don&#8217;t like the truth. If you don&#8217;t like the truth, watch [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.shitopedia.org/people-who-are-anti-swearing-111/</link>
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		<title>Christmas songs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I was at home today I happened to speak with a relative in Australia. OK, it was early evening his time and early morning my time, but he happened to mention that - apart from having had a couple of G&#38;Ts - he was listening to some cheesy Christmas tracks.
This, spookily, got me thinking. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.shitopedia.org/christmas-songs-110/</link>
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		<title>List of People Who Have Said &#8220;I&#8217;m So Blessed&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s the blacklist of people who claim to be among God&#8217;s chosen ones:

Jenny McCarthy
Nicole Kidman
Katherine McPhee
Michael J Fox
Jessica Simpson
Madonna
Big Gun
Yolanda Adams
Movado

Let us know if you come across any more.
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		<link>http://www.shitopedia.org/list-of-people-who-have-said-im-so-blessed-109/</link>
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		<title>Rats</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Does anyone actually like rats?
There&#8217;s little to be said for rats, in my opinion, and, without wasps, would be the worst animal of all.
As it is, they certainly claim the prize of worst mammal.
I once had the misfortune of discovering a rat which had got itself trapped in a dustbin and was trying to jump [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.shitopedia.org/rats-108/</link>
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		<title>Chipmunks Singing Hip-Hop</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Speed up a good song and then rap over it. A timeless money-spinner. However, it sounds stupid and really gets on my nerves. Listen to this selection.

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		<link>http://www.shitopedia.org/chipmunks-singing-hip-hop-107/</link>
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		<title>Leeds Underground Radio</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One day, driving through Leeds, we came across some sort of pirate radio showcasing the most home-spun hip-hop you&#8217;ve ever heard. The funniest thing about it is, the backing tracks are always quite good - the DJ&#8217;s use the same technology as the best hip hop artists on the scene. All you need is some [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.shitopedia.org/leeds-underground-radio-106/</link>
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		<title>Gnomes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Unnerving, unnecessary and easily broken. Why would anyone want to clutter up their garden with these talismen of evil? Gnomes are a tradition of sorts, but their man-made ugliness always detracts from what could be a nice garden. Not only that, but they&#8217;re way below eye-level and seem to smash upon impact, leading to awkwardness [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.shitopedia.org/gnomes-105/</link>
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		<title>Management Speak Invades Local Government</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Age has produced a fantastic report on the use of management speak in government. We&#8217;re quoting them here but click on this link to see the original report:
British bureaucrats have been warned: no more synergies, stakeholders or sustainable communities.
The body that represents the country&#8217;s local authorities has told its members to stop using management [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.shitopedia.org/management-speak-invades-local-government-104/</link>
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		<title>The Sydney Morning Herald</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A simple biology lesson here: babies are brought forth from the womb, not the stomach - so why avoid the fact in a newspaper headline? The Sun devotes an entire department to catchy headlines and puns, yet the New Zealand Herald seems unable to muster any sort of excitement or effort in its reporting of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.shitopedia.org/the-sydney-morning-herald-103/</link>
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		<title>Spam, Spam, Spam</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Want some male enhancement? New blouse bunnies? Extend that schlong. Spam can actually be fairly amusing at times - that is if it hasn&#8217;t just shut down your server, e-mail account or got you in trouble with your boss. I&#8217;m amazed at the number of names for intimate body parts they&#8217;ve thought up in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.shitopedia.org/spam-spam-spam-102/</link>
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		<title>Customers and Clients (&#8221;Stakeholders&#8221;)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The only way to truly ruin a day is to have to deal with an irate customer or hair-splitting client. In one weekend job I had an indignant customer who complained because the assistants didn&#8217;t know how to give a refund in pounds to a customer who bought an item in France - before the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.shitopedia.org/customers-and-clients-stakeholders-101/</link>
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		<title>Radio Jingles</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;1xtra, 1xtra, News, News, 1xtra News&#8221;. Anyone who listens to the radio all day will understand what I mean when I say radio jingles suck. They repeat the title, or parts of the title several thousand times in different voices as though we don&#8217;t get the point.
Anyone who has seen Family Guy season 5, episode [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.shitopedia.org/radio-jingles-100/</link>
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		<title>Kanye West</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m impressed that Kanye West wants us to think he drinks Ribena, and would have believed his non-written rouse, if it weren&#8217;t for one thing&#8230;
Please Kanye West, explain to me, how does one pronounce the word &#8220;rubbish&#8221;?
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		<link>http://www.shitopedia.org/kanye-west-99/</link>
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		<title>Usher</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The evergreen pushy momma&#8217;s boy Usher is a perennial irritant: coming back year after year with his absurd lyrics and insanely catchy base-lines.
Usher&#8217;s music is generally above average; the guy can sing; and he also, in his mother, has a built in maternal publicity/management machine. And this is where my questions begin to appear.
Let&#8217;s take [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.shitopedia.org/usher-98/</link>
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		<title>Will &#038; Grace</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Will &#38; Grace has two qualities that none of us look for in a comedy: it&#8217;s turgid and unfunny.
For some reason, team written American comedy is still huge, whether the producers are still churning it out or television schedulers around the world are still showing endless repeats in back-to-back episodes, we simply cannot get away [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.shitopedia.org/will-grace-97/</link>
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		<title>April Fools</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How very seasonal! How very wonderful! The day when we all get to lie to each other and call it a joke.
April fools gags can be funny - wearing a sling to work, saying you won £5,000 on a scratchcard, or something equally harmless and witty, but when  newspapers and tv stations feel the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.shitopedia.org/april-fools-96/</link>
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		<title>Faxing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Er, could you fax those signed documents over to me by the close of business?&#8221;
&#8220;FAX - HELL NO - ITS NOT 1985!&#8221;
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		<link>http://www.shitopedia.org/faxing-95/</link>
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		<title>The Latest in Misreporting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So-called Sudanese refugee gangs in Australia were consistently misreported as roaming and pillaging when closer inspection on an evening watchdog showed that, in fact, the videos shown on the news actually displayed white robbers watched by Sudanese shoppers.
That was 2007. This year has fared no better with the boyfriend of Sally Anne Bowman, the murdered [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.shitopedia.org/the-latest-in-misreporting-93/</link>
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		<title>Is It News, Or Are You Making It Up?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Its time for a new Shitopedia feature. The first ever Shitopedia feature to be precise, after a raft of wholly unsatisfactory &#8216;news&#8217; wends its way to us every day: on the television, in the newspapers and on the internet.
Each day, I hear at least one story where I think &#8220;Is that news? Is that the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.shitopedia.org/is-it-news-or-are-you-making-it-up-90/</link>
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		<title>Tom Cruise -what a nutter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tom Cruise has truly gone nuts. I&#8217;m not one to believe everything I read at the hairdresser&#8217;s, but South Park must have hit the nail on the head. I didn&#8217;t know how warped his mind was until I saw this performance on Oprah. It doesn&#8217;t end there, though. David Letterman also felt the full force [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.shitopedia.org/tom-cruise-what-a-nutter-87/</link>
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		<title>Andy McNabb</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t mind the old ex-sassers little reads but why, for the sake of all that is holy, can&#8217;t the man invent a character who DOESN&#8217;T &#8220;throw food down his neck&#8221;&#8230;
At the very least, come up with another sentence to describe the act of eating.
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		<link>http://www.shitopedia.org/andy-mcnabb-86/</link>
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