How do you make politics even more unpopular with the youth of today, at the same time as making sure hundreds of pubs close week on week? Simple, you ‘clamp down’ on on drinks offers. Now I say ‘clamp down’ in inverted commas because it’s not exactly a clamp down. In reality what you’re doing [...]
Archive > January 2010
Policemen caught sledging down hill
Now if my blog was made for anything, it’s for reporting small awesome instances like this one. My weekly Five Other Things post traditionally puts a little bit of funny news at the end ala News at Ten. But this one was too awesome to simply leave at a one-liner: Rick Latham – an everyday [...]
5 Other Things I Didn’t Know Last Week
1. Poole Park at about 2:30am when it’s foggy is the scariest place ever. 2. Sainsbury’s Bag For Life aren’t actually for life. 3. Entering five random numbers on the in-flat phone system rings another random flat. 4. Steve has a too good-a car for his own good. 5. Some dogs only understand Polish.
The tyranny of morning TV
I don’t know if I’ve mentioned it before, but while I’m at university I don’t have a TV license and thus no TV. It’s fine because everything’s online now, but one thing I do miss (no, honestly) is those morning TV shows you get from about 6 till half 9. I’m talking your GMTV and [...]
What colour is Monday?
I was browsing the intertubes when this video popped up from our Great British TV show QI. It talks about Synaesthesia, which if my rather rushed ‘research’ on Wikipedia tells me, is when people imagine a secondary image when presented with something else. What’s talked about in that video is colour synaesthesia, which is where [...]
