FT Top 100 Films
39: THE BREAKFAST CLUB
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The thing about The Breakfast Club is that it’s the only one of the bratpack movies that’s really about school. In (most of) the others, school is there (apart from the couple t[…]

Listen again, my teenage goblins
OK, I haven’t heard this yet (goes straight to audio feed, sorry no more details on the radio 4 website), but half an hour of “Dicing with Dragons” with Kim Newman delving into the roots of the role-[…]

Casual Free Zone
Pubs in Leicester ban burberry and other (with apologies) chav brands. i had forgotten until a couple of weeks ago on a stag weekend that some bars/pubs still have “no trainers” policies (the lads i was with were otherwi[…]

Olympic Question?
If there are “202 National Delegations”, how come there are only 193 (plus Palestine and Taiwan) Nation States in the world? And the Vatican haven’t even sent a team…
(NB i am trying to work out the answer t[…]

Easy Food: number x in a series
This is what I did for tea last night, it is peasy, and also nummy.
Ingredients:
Two Tuna Steaks, one a bit thicker than the other (mrs carsmile likes hers a bit pink, whereas I like mine cooked through, you see)
3 tab[…]

BLIMEY! The olympics haven’t even started yet and already we’ve had world records, a footballing upset and a ferdinand-esque missed drug test. Stay tuned over the next three weeks for me waxing lyrical over keirin, synchronised diving a[…]

That list of discontinued olympic events in full.
My favourite, cruelly missed out of the OSM list, is still the swimming obstacle race. Apparently Frederick Lane, the Australian winner, had grown up around Sydney harbour and was thus used to clambe[…]

Ned’s post below reminded me of a running pub conversation we’ve had over the past few weeks regarding the etymology of the word “wonk.” Fortunately I have my good friend google who offers some clues:
From here (big scroll dow[…]

I could spend hours and hours looking at this, although obviously it should be called “Putting Transport on the SCHEMATIC.” If (and it’s a huge if) this does all come to fruition, will this new map (whatever) change the way we thin[…]

BLUDY Observer Sports Monthly!!! I’ve been talking about doing this (or similar) for weeks and they beat me to it. They have missed out a couple of classics though, which i shall tell the tales of here, once i’ve worked out which of the […]