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I have just learnt that UK government is going to remove Britannia from the 50 pence coin.

What complete and utter bollocks! I can’t believe that yet *another* British icon is being savaged by the political correctness brigade!!

Over 30,000 people have protested against the change, I wonder how many people have complained about Britannia in the past?!

With every passing day England is turning into a PG-rated country, what the bloody hell is next on the list? Perhaps we should change the Union Jack to a beige non-descript flag, so as to make sure that it doesn’t offend anyone?!

Update:
Here they are… http://www.royalmint.com/newdesigns/designsRevealed.aspx

Not sure I like them, I like the fact that each of the old coins was unique and had it’s own story…

When I started micro-blogging, I started with Jaiku. For reasons that I still can’t quite grasp, I’ve switched to twitter and seem to be keeping it up as well. More than that, I seem to be actually enjoying it too!

I think that it’s down to the fact that twitter has more of a chatty feel to it; you get people just saying what’s on their mind. Be that a rant, or the fact that they are making a chocolate pudding! With other micro-blogging solutions, there seems to be pressure to post something that actually means something, be that a link, video, url or whatever. Turns out that I don’t like that kinda pressure.

So, when people predict the demise of twitter, especially with the out-of-beta launch of pownce, I think they are missing the point. It’s not about features, it’s about the ‘feel’ of it.

Twitter is light and airy.