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Breezy with the truth…
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CAMRA beer fest is upon us, which prompted me to look up the history of alcopops. And what did I find on the Bacardi Breezer website? A history of said drink in the FAQ’s which bore no time or content relation to my memory of it:
1. When was Ba[…]

Crap At Games
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I was officially crap at Games at school. It was always the low point in my school report. Small in stature, a year younger than everyone else in my class and no depth perception all added up to a poor team player: it was assumed. And it was true. Od[…]

The Consequences Of Love
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In many ways the anti-Fantastic Four. Tremendous cinema, well thought out characters, bit of a chore to watch. And whilst I will not reveal exactly what the Consequences Of Love are I shall give you a few ideas:
a) Being in a car accident
b) Being ki[…]

Black Is Black
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I want my baby back.
But what if Black isn’t Black? You probably don’t get your baby.
Ladies and gentlemen, I introduce to you the blackest black there is. SUPERBLACK. How black is this black? Very. It is 2% blacker than Black Paint, and […]

Tim Story by name, Not by nature
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As promised here: what is the Fantastic Four like as a film? Judged on its cinematic merits, it is pretty rubbish. It is a real flash back to the hey-day of lousy action movies (1990’s) where special effects ruled the roost and films were judge[…]

The Fantastic 3-Iron
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There are two films out there which feature invisible characters. One is the Fantastic Four which I have not seen yet:the other is 3-Iron, a Korean oddity from Kim Ki-Duk. An oddity because it starts of as a deadpan silent movie, then turns into a bi[…]

Rap Poetry Chaucer Yawn
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This should not be a BBC News story. Does this Canadian bloke, Baba Brinkman, really think that he is the first person to think of turning Chaucer into a rap?
HAS HE NEVER MET AN A-LEVEL ENGLISH TEACHER.
This is COURSEWORK, not ART.[…]

On The (Open) Sauce
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The Worlds First Open Source Beer Recipe
Except for all those ones in beermaking books. And the ones on the back of the tubs from Boots, they were pretty open source, in as much as they were not secret, or copyrighted or anything.
Indeed this article[…]

Vanishing Pubs
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CAMRA have pub preservation officers in their local groups. Just a note that the one in North London has been doing a pretty bad job of it lately. Three pubs of my acquaintance have closed down, or even knocked down in the last couple of months. But […]

…A Mythical Land Called Gibraltar
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Blue Sky is a Korean anime film. It is set in a dystopian future where climate changes has wrecked the Earth and everyone lives in an intelligent domed city called Ecobahn. This is quite possibly the technological solution to global warming that Geor[…]

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