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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Rafael Behr

Look busy

The Observer loves a good cause. We've got hearts so big we have to get our shirts in special out-of-town shops with euphemistic names like 'Fully Fledged' or 'Big Bones'. But at the same time we are cynical hacks who despise anything that smacks of enthusiasm and are inoculated against keenness.

So Comic Relief poses us with a bit of a dilemma. Love the cause, hate the earnest exuberance. So we welcome this toy from speedyrelief.com. It is tangentially connected to a good cause while in fact being an ingenious way to waste time and inflict a repetitive strain injury on yourself.

The time to beat is 10 seconds.

There will be a newspaper on Sunday, we promise.

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