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Super Mini-Thin Screen TV
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Couple of notable things about last nights Everton / Villareal game. First, ITV2 screening this big tie seemed to have a bit of an aspect ration problem. At 4:3 the screen was taller than it was wide. At Widescreen it did not fill the screen. Therefo[…]

Tunnock’s Dark Wafers
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A Nice Cup Of Tea And A Sit Down report that Tesco’s dahn sarf are going to start stocking Tunnock’s Dark Chocolate Wafers. Now as we know about four million Tunnock’s wafers are eaten every day, but it shocked me when I went north[…]

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Rob Schneider Movie Character Sort Of Emulated In Real Life
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And its not The Hot Chick or The Animal.
Instead its the woman with a penis for a nose in Deuce Bigalow: European Gigalo (hilarious review of film here).

Except of course this is
a) A man
b) a tumour not a penis
c) he is luckily not in a Rob Schnei[…]

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Whose Baby Are You, Dear?
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Applesauce
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In which our heroine is running around a dystopian (aren’t they always?) war torn future, only to be rescued and taken to a futuristic Utopian city (or is it – aren’t they always?). Therein follows a mind-bogglingly complicated plot[…]

How I Write A Freakytrigger Post
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Here is your exclusive, behind the scenes look at how these posts are written (by me):
Step One: Someone (Nick Dastoor) e-mails a link to an amusing news story. In this case, the President of Turkmenistan banning lip-synching.
Step Two: Think of an a[…]

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I Can See Inside You (cheap version)
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People laughed when I made a DIY endoscope*. They are laughing on the insides of their faces now, and this Vietnamese Doctor can see them. After all, what is an endoscope but a really bendy telescope? So a lot of decent lenses, a good light and somet[…]

Gallery Told To Take Down Batman’s Pants
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DC Comics have asked the Katherine Cullen Fine Arts Gallery to remove art by Mark Chamberlain that depicts Batman and Robin in homo-erotic situations. Like living together in a big mansion, dressing up in tights and – hold on – that&#8217[…]

Primer Is Just A See-Through Undercoat (tenuous cliche link ahoy)
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I am loathe to say it, because it is the hoariest old cliché in the reviewers book. But there is a touch of “that posh bloke what bought new duds” about Primer. The reviews all state how fascinating this tricksy little science fiction time trave[…]

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The Music And Football Player Exchange, Notting Hill
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One of the happy upshots of the Bosman Ruling which we have been living with for almost ten years, is the effect it has on players prices near the end of their contract. Take Clinton Morrison (Birmingham wish someone would) the Republic of Ireland st[…]

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