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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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Coming of age just got more expensive

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 [...]

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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 normal [...]

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