Slagg Brothers invade Poland

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Well, not quite but their Charles Kennedy parody song features on Purple Comedy - Episode 14, the second most popular podcast channel on podomatic.com. The Slagg Brothers can't say enough about comedian, John Burns and his lovely assistant, Austin. The Scottish team have produced a huge fan base from scratch in a few months.

Relative mediocrity beckons for the struggling duo, SlagA and SlagB, as the following opportunities have appeared on the horizon, like zulus the fateful morning that Michael Caine uttered his most famous saying: "Sod this. Phone me a taxi, there's going to be a rumble."
1) A production company is now plugging their scripts to UK broadcasters
2) A promising contact with The Puppini Sisters, an as-seen-on-TV 50s retro style trio. They've made several appearances on the Sharon Osbourne Show.
3) Our first scary venture into performance beckons at the Glasgow Comedy Festival in 2007.

Coming soon - Max Boyce: why we should lynch the leek-waving lunatic.

Slagg Brothers are on Podcast

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The Slagg Brothers emailed me. They've joined forces with a fantastic online broadcaster called Purple Comedy. Episode 12 contains a Slagg Brother sketch featuring the trials of being Dan Brown's publisher. Aww, bless. Can't be an easy job. Episode 13 involves a lawyer, a dockland gangster, and a baseball bat. What pleasing juxtoposition that sentence brings to mind.

Run by comedian, John Burns, the Purple Comedy podcast regularly broadcasts to audiences of 1500+. Why not give them a listen, any time, day or night, but be prepared for adult humour.

http://standupcomedy.podomatic.com/

Fight for the right...

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... to wear a Welsh football shirt.

I paid £22 to watch Wales beaten by a team that were very average but weren't afraid to shoot. Our team had a great performance from Simon Davies (Two years I've waited to say that). Another good display from Bellamy. And Gabbidon was the best of a bad bunch at the back (but even he had a terrible start and stuttered throughout the game).

Even at 1-3 I thought the Slovaks were mediocre and capable of being turned over by the Wales we know. But:
1) The sight of some of the best long-distance shoots in the UK (Bellamy, Koumas, Davies and Gabbidon) scared to have a pop from range, even when they were 5-1 down and had NOTHING to lose
2) The sight of Koumas, several times, running parallel to the goal area looking to pass rather than looking to shoot
3) Simon Davies repeated passing the ball behind the Slovak Left Back (sometimes to good effect but never without variation in the first half)
4) Duffy at Right Back looking incapable of turning out for my local Grangetown. His performance was woeful and he was so slow that a zimmer frame may be toshack's only solution. Duffy's obvious exposure wasn't shored up.
5) Playing two midgets (Bellamy and Earnshaw) up front amongst a tall back four and then booting cross after hopeful cross into them
6) Crosses from the wing into an empty box. No one ran in, no one looked up before choosing the cross option.
7) Our amazing invisible left wing back Bale stood in great attacking positions throughout the first half only to be ignored time and again with a pass from left midfield over to the inevitable right

We need battlers, teammates willing to run for their team, and a less cautious approach to shooting. We can only 'ope 'n' pray now that Tosh can get them 'firing' once more.

Drugs

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Someone on the Google group uk.local.south-wales recently came out with the same tired old argument for legalising 'soft' drugs.

I quote:
"Any drug with medical benefits should be taken seriously, and not condemned because they have street abuse. Marijuana is a powerful drug for the treatment of glaucoma; a friend of mine uses it yet he is breaking the law here in the US. He has to get the drug on the street, and risks arrest. Yet, alcohol, one of the most addictive drugs in the world, and one of the deadliest, is freely available to anyone who is of legal age. Go figure."

Several others echoed the sentiments that as banned drugs caused less deaths than alcohol, we should legalise drugs.

Someone replied:

"I totally agree with the reasoning that as alcohol is more dangerous than our favourite tipple of mind-altering chemicals, let's legalise them all. But i don't want to stop there. Knives have killed more people than guns throughout history but knives are freely available in SHOPS!!??!! In fact you can go to any canteen and see children as young as three wielding these murderous things. So please let's legalise guns. After all guns don't kill, it's misuse of guns that kill."

Someone replied:

"Yeah right. Are you an American by any chance?"

Hmm! Seems they missed the point.

The reply:

"If i was American, would I need to ask for legalising guns? :-) I include all history in my reasoning that guns are less dangerous than knives - so let's legalise guns NOW - it's the commonsense logical view."

I agree with the lone voice in a world of feeble logic. Just because one thing is less dangerous than another, it doesn't reduce the element of danger to society. Tigers kill less people than alcohol but I'd prefer to see a pub on the street corner than a tiger.

YouTube and the phenomena of Big Brother

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The Slagg Brothers sent me the URL to their new YouTube site - SlaggBros.

YouTube is a marketplace for video / feature makers to get work in front of audiences that would otherwise never see them. But it's hard to spot the creators beneath the heaving mass of videos made by people with a DV camera but nothing to say.

There are thousands of video diaries telling us what was eaten for supper in a desperate Big Brother-style chat. In '48, Orwell wrote of a frightening future where Big Brother watched us all. In a weird reversal, we fear not that Big Brother is watching us, but that he isn't watching. Does this change in social attitude scare you as much as I?

Then there are copyright infringers posting stolen TV clips. YouTube claim to discourage this type of leech but don't give you opportunity to report the abusers. Hmm! Mouth says one thing, while hand does another, eh?

Next come the We-filmed-this-while-drunk brigade. They proudly inform you that the 6 minutes of giggling twitter was ad-libbed. Hmm, as if I couldn't work that out for myself.

Finally, the saddest group are the jerks that put themselves or other people in danger to bring us 'wacky stunts'. Their videos should used as evidence for a court to commit the makers to asylums for the criminally-insane.

If anyone has a YouTube channel and would like to swap subscriptions, please contact the Slagg Brothers at: slaga@hotmail.co.uk

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