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	<description>Acute accent by a perplexed blogger Á á É é Í í Ó ó Ú ú</description>
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		<title>fed up with eBay</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I reported an unpaid item on eBay. The buyer got a strike and he complaint so he had it removed and left a defamatory feedback. I sent this email to eBay:
I sold the item no. [removed for this post]. The winner of the auction was [removed for this post].
The third line of the description of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spanish stereotypes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Spaniards are either matadors or flamenco dancers that can be heard talking very loud when not sleeping their siestas. Britons in Spain are unsophisticated tourists who drink inordenately and have little money.
Stereotypes actually tell you more about the fears of the ones who use them than about the subject of the stereotypes.
These are the most [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://acuteaccent.com/spanish-stereotypes/</link>
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		<title>BBC online: now iPlayer with BBC One and BBC Two</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The BBC announced earlier this week that BBC One and BBC Two are available online today, in addition to  the channels Three and BBC Four.
The iPlayer service left frustrated more often than not, mostly when I tried to watch sports events on the same day or days after. The programs simply were not there. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://acuteaccent.com/bbc-online-now-iplayer-with-bbc-one-and-bbc-two/</link>
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		<title>Spanish icons</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently voted at a poll on Expansion.com, a Spanish economy newspaper, to pick the most significant Spanish icon. The web site proposed a few dozens of icons to represent the Spanish and Spain. The sample contained too many commercial brands but the public seems to have set the record straight. The most voted Spanish [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://acuteaccent.com/spanish-icons/</link>
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		<title>eBay - report an unpaid item</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a post about my recent experience with eBay. A few weeks ago the gloom of the crisis caught me up. I wanted a pcmia wireless card for my laptop. I decided that instead of forking out my hard earned cash, I would earn that money first. I looked around and I found a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://acuteaccent.com/ebay-report-an-unpaid-item/</link>
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		<title>British icons</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Icons are not what they used to be. Nowadays Johnny Rotten advertises a very British brand of butter.

Watching Mr. Lyndon promote butter is not that surprising. The guy is a living ad on two legs himself. He started his career as the perfect fit to a pret-a-porter band, Sex Pistols. That a marketing operation like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Life in the UK in numbers I</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This may be the first series of randomly picked figures about the UK. Disclaimer: the quality and veracity of the numbers below is as good as the quality of the source.



16% of the population in London in 2001 declare to have no religion. The highest rates in England and Wales were Norwich (28%), Brighton and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://acuteaccent.com/life-in-the-uk-in-numbers-i/</link>
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		<title>Sheerness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Is there a nice spot in the coast near London worth visiting?
I made a little of research with Google Maps and Panoramio. The isle of Sheppey, an island 62 km from London, seemed pleasant enough to try to drive there.
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it looked like a pleasant estuary and island in the east coast and then [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://acuteaccent.com/sheerness/</link>
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		<title>Accents and other orthographic extravangaza</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Accents are, in the eyes of native English speakers, an incomprehensible orthographic extravaganza. English orthography is like English food: simple and dull yet fit for its purpose, period.

In contrast to the easy English, the orthographic punctuation of European languages, full of funny characters like ü for German or ñ in Spanish seems too elaborate and, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://acuteaccent.com/accents-and-other-orthographic-extravangaza/</link>
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		<title>Three Mile Island in 3D: feel the heat of a nuclear reactor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Spanish media has recently published details of accidents at three nuclear power stations in Spain, the most serious in Ascó Unit I Nuclear Power Plant in Catalonia, Spain. Nuclear disasters all tend to develop the same pattern: authorities inform late and little to the public. Inevitably, the panic is followed by denial while the consequences [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://acuteaccent.com/three-mile-island-in-3d-feel-the-heat-of-a-nuclear-reactor/</link>
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