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, [...]
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 [...]
To today was the last day of my first term at university. We had a half hour lecture about ten people turned up to. This may have been the reason:
The day before was the last big event in Bournemouth before Christmas, so naturally we did what IMPs do best and consume large amounts of [...]
Every year I generally write a blog post on who’s going to win that year’s X Factor. So far I think I’ve been wrong every time, so that (and the fact I haven’t actually seen it this year) would be the reason why I haven’t put it up here. Either way, I think everyone and [...]
Okay, people. There’s such a thing called ‘common sense’. If you don’t know what that is, you lack it, so go Wiki it. They’re things people are generally expected to know about in conversations of any type, be it professional or personal.
Some things I just don’t know. Some things I know I know but [...]
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