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Once again it's that time of year again, where I get all excited and sit down to a experience a joyous event....what Christmas no not that. It's almost time for me to watch "Bernard and the Genie" my favourite Christmas film. And this year I get to introduce some more people to the joy that is Richard Curtis' masterpiece.

There is a large debate going on, on Twitter at the moment about O2's stance on iPhone 3G - 3G[S] upgrades, which is basically: if you want to upgrade you have to buy yourself out of the contract.

Now this has come as a shock to a lot of iPhone 3G owners, following last years easy upgrade path from the 2G - 3G, iPhone owners were just spoilt, but when push comes to shove, everyone was sold a contract with a fixed length, and you have to honour that or pay the price to remove yourself from it, it's that simple.

OK so the big news is Swine Flu aka H1N1 aka Mexican Influenza(for the sake of the Israeli Health Minister). Apparently it is going to ravish the population of the world and all nations need to be prepared for this pandemic, so much like it's forbearers SARS and Bird Flu the newspapers have jumped all over this.

I have always been a big guy, not huge but a big guy, the sort of bloke who throughout school is constantly asked to give rugby a try, or the guy that short people ask to get something off the top shelf in shops for them. I am 6' 4", heavy set and wear UK size 12 shoes, not abnormal proportions I hear you say, but just bigger than most.

Every evening when I get back from work I like to sit down to watch one of the few remaining shows on pre-primetime television for which you need more than one brain cell to follow: Eggheads.Yet instead of Kevin, Daphne and the gang I see some non-entity and that Hallowe'en accessory Claudia bloody Winkleman. Am I going mad? Is my watch slow?And then it begins to dawn on me.

The Daily Mail have given us a possible reason behind the recent missing luggage at the new terminal 5. It appears that T5's security team are moonlighting as fashion police!

USA - News from the USA, Dunkin' Donuts have pulled an online advert because of a scarf incident. A new online advert which featured a celebrity chef sporting a scarf that has certain similarities to a Palestinian Keffiyeh has been removed from the site. Apparently they have received numerous complaints that the advert offers symbolic support for terrorism.Just a few points about this:

OK the Metro reports today that graduate hat throwing has been ruled 'dangerous'. For those of you that don't know, when graduating from University in the UK you wear ceremonial robes, these include a Mortar Board, a hat that has a hard flat top .