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The science of small talk

You’ve all been there. There’s that awkward period of silence when there’s just you and someone you vaguely know in a room. Nothing else is happening, so you know you should say something. But what? What would make you not sound like a complete arse? Welcome, enter the science of small talk.

Small talk is, [...]

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What makes a bellend?

(I apologise in advance to the search engines. This post isn’t about bellends or Bell End, this is about the classification of people you could probably – quite harshly – describe as a bellend. As a result, all pictures illustrating this post are from a Google Image search for ‘douchebags’)
Today comes a post which is [...]

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The iPad – Apple’s answer to women’s problems?

[From the time I saw it on a Mr Stone’s status, and the time I came to put it here, it had 50,000 more views. ]
Of course not! Silly billy. This is the latest offering to the Mr Jobs’ Wonder Emporium to apparently bridge the gap between using your phones and your laptops. There [...]

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Happy 50th Birthday, Bubble Wrap

Sometimes, you just need a day like today as a break from it all. What better way to do it than annoying everyone around you by popping some bubble wrap?

50 years ago today, a couple of easily excitable engineers going by the name of Marc Chavannes and Al Fielding were busy inventing themselves a [...]

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Marvin & Tracy recording

Bournemouth University is awesome. One of your assignments as an IMP is to design an Internet video channel. You get to design a webpage and shove some original content on there. What content can you make? Anything. Brilliant. We’ll make something stupid, funny and awesome, then…
Group C1 (innit banging though…) ie my group actually [...]

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