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Two stuntmen die jumping from a helicopter into a reservoir. Not because of the impact, but because neither of them could swim. That’s a special level of stupid.
Reading University is boycotting University Challenge because of "misogynistic and sexist comments".
Something that history shows us pretty consistently, is that democracy works. Some people ( Read more... ) -
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Cutting Corporation Tax to 10% wouldn't just be a good idea because it pisses off the French.
There are ten times more galaxies in our universe than we previously thought. That seems a pretty big error. Did some cosmologist put a decimal point in the wrong place?
What if the EU tried to stop us trading with them completely? Well, it's been tried ( Read more... ) -
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OK, we haven’t had a Phligm Phlagm post since mid-October, and the world was a different place back then.
I’ve been busy all right? Anyway, here’s the first load of links to catch up on. Feel free to take your time over them…
Christmas Reading List 2025
The Red Dwarf theme tune has secret lyrics, and they've only just been discovered. (But they’re ( Read more... ) -
I have been ill.
Since this doesn't happen very often, I thought I'd record it here. Now that I'm getting older (44), maybe I will get ill more often, but I think this is my first illness of 2016 which isn't bad ( Read more... ) -
Great Sporting Moments Number 2: Botham at Headingley and Number 3: Willis at Headingley
Let's be honest, cricket is not an exciting spectator sport most of the time. Apart from a tiny, tiny number of people, most people who say they "follow the cricket" mean that they vaguely keep an eye on the score and maybe have the Test Match on Sky Sports or Radio 4 on in the background while they do other things. Typical attendance at county ( Read more... ) -
Song 48: "Don't Stop Believin'", Journey
Some songs claim to be cheesy, but they're no more cheesy than those weird orange rubber things that Americans put on cheeseburgers. Pretty much all of Journey's output is proper cheese. And this is a particularly mature unpasteurised cheddar with quite a bit of blueing. It's easily their most famous song, and to be honest it's their only really ( Read more... ) -
Terrible Sporting Moments Number 1: Joe Theismann's Leg
There never was a TV series called 'Terrible Sporting Moments'. Shame really ( Read more... ) -
Great Sporting Moments Number 1: Ryan Giggs, Ryan Giggs, Running Down The Wing...
Once upon a time, there was a TV series called 'Great Sporting Moments'. Good idea I thought. We should have that on LiveJournal I thought ( Read more... ) -
Song 47: 'Mirror, Mirror' by Blind Guardian
I got into Blind Guardian because I spotted on Amazon once that there was this heavy metal concept album ('Nightfall in Middle-Earth') based on Tolkien's 'The Silmarillion', and seriously, who wouldn't want a German heavy metal Silmarillion concept album in their life? This is one of the songs from that album. It's Turgon thinking to himself ( Read more... )
