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Friday, December 05, 2025

Tag: humour

Blog

Worst Catfish Ever

ward 07/03/2017

In case you didn’t know, to catfish is when someone pretends to be someone else online and then strings some poor sod along. Sometimes it’s for money, other times because… I don’t know, people are weird.

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Books

Alan Partridge: Nomad

ward 07/01/2017

Nomad is one of the funniest books I have ever read. I guess it helps if you know Alan Partridge as his voice read the book in my head and was all the funnier for it. This is now literally the case as I have also downloaded the audiobook (read by Coogan/ Partridge).

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Films

The Hangover 2

ward 08/06/2011

This film has had a lot of bad press. Mostly because the plot is almost exactly the same as the original. Which is true, but what the fuck were people … Read More

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Blog

Amazon can see into my brain

ward 15/04/2011

This morning I logged into Amazon and checked out my recommendations. At first I was a bit shocked at what kind of twisted artistic deviant they must think I am. … Read More

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Blog

Cyborg controlled by rat brain

ward 08/10/2010

Continuing with my ‘robots will take over the world’ theme, here is something even cooler and scarier than the Aggressive Quadrotor I wrote about recently. It is a robot controlled … Read More

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The Pope is in the UK and is worried about our holidays

ward 18/09/2010

The pope is finally here! God bless us every one! As you may have guessed from reading this site, I’m not particularly religious. I have nothing against those who are … Read More

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Films

Kick-Ass review

ward 22/08/2010

Yes, this is a review of the film Kick-ass. Although it is, what with this being my writing, an actual ass kicker of a review. I’d been meaning to watch … Read More

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Books

Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett

ward 24/02/2010

I’m a huge Terry Pratchett fan and have been since I saw The Colour of Magic for sale when I was about 11 and bought it because of the cover. … Read More

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Books

And Another Thing… by Eoin Colfer

ward 31/10/2009

Let me state this first: I am a massive Hitchhiker fan. Not to the point where it becomes sad-loner going to a convention level, but damn close – I’ll probably … Read More

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