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Giving It The Fingers
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I’ve never seen Fingers. I get the feeling not many people in the UK have, and therefore short of the press notes and the credit it gets in The Beat That My Heart Skipped, why should it be mentioned? Those who have seen Fingers, rate it highly:[…]

YES I AM AN TOTAL WHORE FOR IT
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by which i mean: pret’s “big xmas lunch” sandwich, which they wheel out every year half way through november: turkey slices, stuffing, cranberry, some leafy thing (poss.rocket)
and i buy it EVERY MORNING i come into work, like the […]

yes yes i realise robbing banks is WRONG
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but robbing four banks while talking on yr mobile = WAY cool (in an insane kinda way)[…]

Day 55: Manila
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 LOUSY TUNES
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Turned out Papua New Guinea was a bit boring, so I fell asleep in a large buff envelope. This turned out to be an error as it appears that during my sleep someone must have licked and sealed the envelope and popped it in the post. Luckily for me the […]

Kiss Kiss 80’s 80’s
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Pity poor Shane Black. He goes away and the movies change. He comes back and makes a solid piece of Shane Black entertainment: a buddy movie (sort of) and it feels wildly out of date. Very entertaining mind you. Just a bit like Overboard in the 80&#8[…]

ILX outage
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Sorry that ILX is offline today – this is pretty unavoidable as someone is intent on just pissing about with any thread they fancy. Something has happened on the Noise board and i don’t know what or why, but i sure know the end result. I&[…]

Choad my Nang etc.
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I notice that the BBC has tagged us as one of the sites which writes about pop music in simple language rather than using “bloglish”, which is a tool whereby The Kids confuse The Man and stop him buying their music with his so-called &#82[…]

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Faux Magners
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Imagine. In trying to find a picture of the new Strongbow brand Sirrus I came across this website onlyfinebeer.co.uk which, and I quote:

Onlyfinebeer encourages its users to express their fondness for beer, by allowing them to write nice words about[…]

Respect is due
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Happy Birthday Harriet[…]

Hey Mr Science The Clue Is In The Name
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Being cold might make you get cold, SCIENTISTS REVEAL. My irritation with THIS SORT OF THING is summed up in the final sentence – “Mothers can now be confident in their advice to children to wrap up well in winter” b/c of course the[…]

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