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To explain my earlier tweet I realised I had made a bit of an error in clothing choice this morning, as I walked down the road and got a couple of funny looks. I was off to Adam's today to help him with painting his house, and had dug out an old t-shirt for the event. This was a t-shirt I won for the dubious achievement of drinking 8 pints of beer at the Cask & Bottle. It was 96, and the T-Shirt bore a picture of Saddam Hussein with the words "First the Challenge, then the world" (the challenge being the drinking that had earnt me the shirt.

Clearly parading around with the face of a dictator on your front is not exactly polite, but at 19 it just made me laugh. Twelve years later, and given the shift in the political climate, it's instead quite inappropriate. Forgetting what I was wearing at lunch, I wandered around Adam's neighbourhood, and got quite a significant number of looks - at one point I thought I was actually going to be berated in the street ...

I think in future I will pay slightly closer attention to my wardrobe.