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      • London on a Monday
        04/30/2007
      • This site now goes up to 11
        04/26/2007
        I am very pleased and excited to report that this site can now carry YouTube videos without having to link to other sites. No time to dig out anything novel at this point, but I thought I would kick things off by posting my favourite movie moment, taken from the peerless 'This is Spinal Tap

      • Original gang culture
        04/24/2007
        As newspapers rail against gang culture, police try to take knives off the street, and shopping precinct managers try vainly to ban kids in 'gang' look from their premises, it seems that hoodie culture is here to stay.
        What is quite interesting is that these gangs have actually borro

      • Martyrs without a cause
        04/23/2007
        I have to get something off my chest here.
        The Virignia Tech killings are a week old now, but then this site has never made the claim 'the latest news as it happens'.
        What seems to have slipped by most commentary I have seen is that people have lost sight of what this young man C

      • When a leopard changes its spots
        04/18/2007


        We humans have an inbuilt instinct to find babies of virtually any species cute. We could probably even find it within ourselves to find baby sharks and pythons cute. In a piece of visual psychological coding that is beyond our understanding, baby animals just look... well... sweet.
      • Hot fuss
        04/15/2007


        This is a perfectly normal, bog-standard cup of tea (English Breakfast if you must know).
        To most people this is a truly unremarkable image, and it will serve to prompt no other reaction than possibly making you feel like putting the kettle on.
        To the parent of a six month-old

      • Terms of agreement
        04/14/2007
        Isn't it funny how most vigorous discussions feature the following expression at some point:

        "I couldn't agree with you more, but..."

        This is normally a formulation used when someone is looking to acknowledge that they've listened to someone else'

      • It's the Pitts
        04/10/2007
        The Reverend William Spooner was best known not for his ministries within the Church, but for his exploits with the English language. When talking to people, without warning, he would mix up the first consonants of two words, and create constructions that managed to be both baffling, and very, very

      • Fishface
        04/04/2007


        If you had been brought up in a crowded Norwegian fishfarm, were unceremoniously bumped-off as you reached adulthood, had your innards removed, were freighted to North London, encased in a naff-looking polythene bodybag, it would count as a bad day.
        But to add insult to injury, if

      • Committing verbicide
        04/02/2007
        If there were a body/institute set up for the prevention of the abuse of words, then one of the first admissions to its wards would have to be the word: solutions.
        This word, which in the vocabulary of decent people has been used to describe such innocent things as the answer to crossword puzzl

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