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Che Guevara merchandise

Let's not be negative about this: Che Guevara did help put in power a Stalinoid dictatorship which locks up gays and trade unionists — but, you know, fair's fair, he did also have a cool beard. And Cuba can't be proper Stalinism, like in Eastern Europe, because it's really sunny there, whereas Eastern Europe is cold. Brr.

Che is everyone's favourite facial-hair-motorbike-stood-for-some-stuff-but-I-don't-know-what-it-was-and-don't-really-give-one-check-out-the-beard-man revolutionary. Ace. The sort of revolutionary you can safely put on T-shirts, clocks and candles. Che's real name was Ernest which is perhaps not so cool, but who cares when you factor in the whole motorbike thing?

Or maybe The Kids really are into vague, trigger-happy-yet-hippyish-developing-world-guerilla-vanguard-revolutionism-tinged-with-Stalinism? Either way, a whole raft of new companies are trying to float similar products, including a chain of North Korean restaurants full of images of Kim Il-Sung (provisionally called Yo! Rice), and a range of sportswear called simply Gulag.
   
Some shit things:

Prince Andrew
Bratz
Charity, Trips of a lifetime for
Che Guevara merchandise
Citybreaks
‘Contemporary’, the word
Football pundits
'Having one of those days?' advertising
James Blunt
Lemsip
Richard Littlejohn, gays constantly sharking after

Some clips from the audiobook:

Delicatessen counters at supermarkets
Election planes
Global warming sceptics
Interactive media
Nu-snobbery