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		<title>Reject Rednesday IV: Saturday Morning Fever</title>
		<link>http://www.wetheundereducated.com/2009/11/28/reject-rednesday-iv-saturday-morning-fever/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 09:34:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Duplicate Petitions]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week&#8217;s Reject Rednesday takes place on a Saturday, because I want it to. So let us once again trawl through the ePetition site&#8217;s Reject Bin and pay heed to the braying and neighing of farmyard animals. Linda Homan. by Linda Homan (rejected) Please stop all migrants entering the UK. This includes our European partners. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This week&#8217;s Reject Rednesday takes place on a Saturday, because I want it to. So let us once again trawl through the ePetition site&#8217;s Reject Bin and pay heed to the braying and neighing of farmyard animals.</p>
<blockquote class="petition">
<div class="petition-title"><a href="http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/Faction/">Linda Homan.</a></div>
<div class="moron">by Linda Homan (rejected)</div>
<div class="petition-body">
<p>Please stop all migrants entering the UK. This includes our European partners. Residents from Europe should be allowed in at the rate of one UK person leaving &#8211; let in someone from Europe. This is a small island that is already overcrowded and we are facing huge unemployment without additional people. The argument that migrants help with work can no longer be used. We the British people are not prejudiced. However, if we are to remain the great nation that we have always been, we need to stop the madness that migration is bringing all over this wonderful country of ours!</p></div>
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<p>Yes, because the &#8220;madness&#8221; going on in the UK these days is <em>solely</em> because of people clawing their way onto our shores like mindless zombies, hungry for the brains of employment, nourished only by the knowledge that the job they&#8217;re doing now has been stolen from a hard-working Brit.</p>
<p>The problem with people like this is that they&#8217;re complaining about immigrants taking our jobs in one breath, and then decrying &#8220;Benefit Britain&#8221; in the next. The irony of this is just sickening.</p>
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<div class="petition-title"><a href="http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/Bodies/"> Ban Robbie Williams new song Bodies from being sold as it is against Christianity.</a></div>
<div class="moron">by Miss Heidi Thomas (rejected)</div>
<div class="petition-body">
<p>At first i loved the song as it seemed to be believing in Christianity, but after listening to the song till the end i became disgusted, outraged and hurt after Robbie sang the words &#8216;Jesus didnt die for you&#8217;!!!!! I can not express how hurtful this is as it is untrue and completely against Christianity. I do not get how this song has been allowed to play because if this song was against Muslin then there would be no way it would be allowed to play. I have sadly had to listen to people singing only this &#8216;catchy&#8217; bit which &#8216;happens&#8217; to be at the end of the song. As a Christian it is my life mission to make everyone believe that Jesus did die for you i am deeply saddened by this song and hates how Robbie, a respected artist has chosen to sing this song and how the British public could begin to believe what he says!</p></div>
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<div class="petition-title"><a href="http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/ourselves/">colin west.</a></div>
<div class="moron">by colin west (rejected)</div>
<div class="petition-body">
<p>get the goverment to work for british people not british people to work for the rest of the world</p></div>
</blockquote>
<p>Alright then.</p>
<blockquote class="petition">
<div class="petition-title"><a href="http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/Goggles4rain/">Pass a law whereby pedestrians must wear swimming goggles outdoors when it is raining.</a></div>
<div class="moron">by Mr Glen Robson (rejected)</div>
<div class="petition-body">
<p>Due to the effects of global warming the rain falling from ours skies is becoming more and more polluted. The wearing of swimming goggles would prevent rain to eye penetration; which could cause temporary blindness, thus making it very dangerous for the pedestrian who intends to cross. This would invariably reduce the number of people being knocked down by motor vehicles whilst crossing roads/streets. The reduction of accidents would have a money saving affect on the emergency services and alleviate some of the pressure on our, already over stretched National Health Service.</p></div>
</blockquote>
<p>This was rejected because the ePetition admin team believed &#8220;It was intended to be humorous, or have no point about government policy&#8221;. I&#8217;m not so sure, myself.</p>
<blockquote class="petition">
<div class="petition-title"><a href="http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/Makeitbetter/">reform the petition system.</a></div>
<div class="moron">by Jan Kozminski (rejected)</div>
<div class="petition-body">
<p>The whole thing is being brought into disrepute when nearly a third of petitions have only 10 signatures and but a hundred or so ever reach a thousand. It doesn&#8217;t serve to strenghten the democratic process, it weakens it. Please formulate some rules so that petitions really do become genuine petitions not just a &#8220;letter&#8221; signed by a few people.</p></div>
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<p>Hang on, your argument is that the petitions on the petition site aren&#8217;t actually petitions because some petitions have more signatures than others?</p>
<p>And finally, this is a petition I&#8217;m sure plenty of people would gladly sign, although not quite for the reason outlined by the petitioner:</p>
<blockquote class="petition">
<div class="petition-title"><a href="http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/Ban-Twilight/">Make all forms of &#8220;Twilight&#8221; by Stephenie Meyer.</a></div>
<div class="moron">by r gillespie (rejected)</div>
<div class="petition-body">
<p>After reading about Twilight fan attacks and Twilight related suicides, I am starting this petition online to garner attention to said attacks and suicides, and wish to ban these books because of these events.</p>
<p>I, the starter of this petition am not a witness to any of these events and have no proof of them, however, I have links to those who are, and will share those here: http://tinyurl.com/c83yxs .</p>
<p>The link provided is to an account of a fangirl attack in the UK (presumably in high school), this event happened on February 2nd, 2009.</p>
<p>This petition is to get these books banned anywhere possible.</p></div>
</blockquote>
<p>I tried the TinyURL, and it takes you to a nonexistent thread on a forum called <a href="http://www.twilightsucks.com/forum/phpBB3/">Twilight Sucks</a>.</p>
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		<title>Image-Based Commentary Trifecta Complete</title>
		<link>http://www.wetheundereducated.com/2009/10/16/image-based-commentary-trifecta-complete/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 02:27:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[I'm Religious So You Have To Do Everything I Say]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[We Have To Save Christmas!]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dis-allow christmas lights to be erected and lit by councils before 1st Dec and to be taken down before the 12th Night. by Vanessa Motion Christmas should be kept for Christmas. We feel that Christmas ( as well as our local councils&#8217; finances ) are being destroyed by the over zealous erecting and lighting of [...]]]></description>
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<div class="petition-title"><a href="http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/Christmaslights/">Dis-allow christmas lights to be erected and lit by councils before 1st Dec and to be taken down before the 12th Night.</a></div>
<div class="moron">by Vanessa Motion</div>
<div class="petition-body">
<p>Christmas should be kept for Christmas.</p>
<p>We feel that Christmas ( as well as our local councils&#8217; finances ) are being destroyed by the over zealous erecting and lighting of Christmas Lights. We feel they should go up no earlier than the 1st Dec. So keeping Christmas for Christmas. More than that, we request that outdoor town and city Christmas lights (council Christmas Lights ) should be taken down by the 12th night so avoiding bad luck and instead spreading Joy.</p></div>
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		<title>The Wrong Plates at the Wrong Time</title>
		<link>http://www.wetheundereducated.com/2009/09/21/the-wrong-plates-at-the-wrong-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 22:12:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Everyone Stop What You're Doing Because You're Mildly Inconveniencing Me]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stop putting the EU flag on new car regestration plates. by Paul Woodburn of n/a All modern cars are having the European flag put on the left side of registration plates which looks completely and utterly looks ridicules! Please stop doing it.]]></description>
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<div class="petition-title"><a href="http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/euflags/">Stop putting the EU flag on new car regestration plates.</a></div>
<div class="moron">by  Paul Woodburn of n/a</div>
<div class="petition-body">
<p>All modern cars are having the European flag put on the left side of registration plates which looks completely and utterly looks ridicules!</p>
<p>Please stop doing it.</p></div>
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		<title>The Curious Case of Ben W. Boagey</title>
		<link>http://www.wetheundereducated.com/2009/08/06/the-curious-case-of-ben-w-boagey/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 21:50:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Uh-oh, we&#8217;re in trouble! This morning (which is actually this afternoon for those of you living in the UK) I received an email from someone who is clearly very unhappy about our commentary on their petition&#8230; A slight complaint From: Ben W Boagey Dear Ben Paddon, My name is Ben W Boagey, I posted a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Uh-oh, we&#8217;re in trouble! This morning (which is actually this afternoon for those of you living in the UK) I received an email from someone who is clearly very unhappy about our commentary on their petition&#8230;</p>
<div class="petition">
<div class="petition-title">A slight complaint</div>
<div class="moron">From: Ben W Boagey</div>
<div class="petition-body">
<div>
<p>Dear Ben Paddon,</p>
<p>My name is Ben W Boagey, I posted a petition on 10 downing street website some time ago (clearly not a real wish for old currency).<br />
I have recently found your post about me upon your website, posted on the 3rd March:
<div class="petition">
<div class="petition-title"><a href="http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/oldmoney/">return Britain to the nostalgic and historic pre-decimal currency.</a></div>
<div class="moron">by Ben W Boagey</div>
<div class="petition-body">Britain’s history and culture is fantastic and unique. Much like the majority of people detest the Euro as a possible currency for Britain, the British pound is a fantastic part of our sovereignty and of our history and culture. We used to have such a fascinating and historic currency that was ditched for a decimal system (which is, in all fairness, much more practical). I suggest that we return Britain to the wonderfully nostalgic and unique system of half-pennies, farthings, sixpence and shillings. It would be more difficult to grasp, but oh so much more fun and interesting. Plus, oh so very cool.</div>
</div>
<blockquote><p>You are an honest-to-goodness moron.</div>
</blockquote>
<p>The main thing that I would like to say to you is: HOW DARE YOU!!!!! You don&#8217;t even know me, and clearly have not even read the petition text yourself. What gives you the right to comment on my intelligence from an obviously silly and unrealistic petition. I demand that you remove or retract your statement with haste.<br />
I have never before been referred to as a moron, nor as undereducated. I am a university student, I have always been at the top of my class and I am certainly in no way a moron or undereducated (looking at your bio on your website, it would seem that I am in fact more educated than yourself). It is true that you have the right to free speech. HOWEVER, that does not give you the right to slander!<br />
How dare you tar my name with your petty, childish mockery (of things I bet you know very little of in anycase).<br />
I demand that you apologise and remove that post immediately.</p>
<p>If you would like to discuss this further, feel free to contact me.</p>
<p>I eagerly await your reply,</p>
<p>Yours,</p>
<p>Ben W Boagey</p></div>
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		<title>Misery Guts</title>
		<link>http://www.wetheundereducated.com/2009/05/27/misery-guts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 19:58:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dear Gordon - I was born without a sense of humour...]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[remove the signs saying &#8220;Smile! You&#8217;re on CCTV&#8221; from police CCTV vans. by Mr Toby Dore I find it offensive that Police CCTV vans have a sign saying &#8220;Smile! You&#8217;re on CCTV&#8221; on the side of them. The implication is that the public are predisposed to committing crime and are only stopped from doing so [...]]]></description>
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<div class="petition-title"><a href="http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/notcriminals/">remove the signs saying &#8220;Smile! You&#8217;re on CCTV&#8221; from police CCTV vans.</a></div>
<div class="moron">by Mr Toby Dore</div>
<div class="petition-body">
<p>I find it offensive that Police CCTV vans have a sign saying &#8220;Smile! You&#8217;re on CCTV&#8221; on the side of them. The implication is that the public are predisposed to committing crime and are only stopped from doing so because of the fear that they might be caught.</p>
<p>The vast majority of the population are not only law abiding, but go far beyond what is expected of them in order to make this country a pleasant place to live. The Police exist to serve us, not to treat us all as potential criminals.</p>
<p>I believe that these signs should be removed from all Police CCTV vans.</p></div>
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		<title>Some Rational Thoughts on VAT</title>
		<link>http://www.wetheundereducated.com/2009/05/11/some-rational-thoughts-on-vat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 01:09:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anything I Want Should Be Free]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Can't someone else pay the VAT?]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Miss Georgina Groocock]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Remove VAT on sanitary towels and tampons. by Miss Georgina Groocock Menstruation is a natural part of female biology and yet whenever women buy the essential products needed to hygienically deal with this process we are paying extra. This should not be the case. Bandages have no VAT and neither does contraception, so why do [...]]]></description>
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<div class="petition-title"><a href="http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/VATfreetampons/">Remove VAT on sanitary towels and tampons.</a></div>
<div class="moron">by Miss Georgina Groocock</div>
<div class="petition-body">
<p>Menstruation is a natural part of female biology and yet whenever women buy the essential products needed to hygienically deal with this process we are paying extra. This should not be the case. Bandages have no VAT and neither does contraception, so why do tampons or towels have to?</p>
<p>Petitions of this nature have already been made but without enough publicity they have been unheard and now are closed. Spread the word and get this message out there.</p></div>
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<p>This is at least the third petition I&#8217;ve seen asking for exactly this. And every time I provide a list of other things that everybody needs to do, and a list of other items that we could take VAT off, and in so doing potentially cripple the Government&#8217;s financial income. I&#8217;m not going to do that again. Instead, I&#8217;m just going to post a picture of a sad clown.</p>
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