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1: Being shot by a firework
AIM: To discover what happens when someone is shot by a cherry bomb style firework at a distance of five metres.
APPARATUS: A “Five Stars” Firework, some slighly softer ground than expected[…]

Bonfire night food: I went to a bonfire night party Saturday (frankly mentioning Guy Fawkes seems pointless). All the usual food suspects rocked up from our extremely generous hosts including the baked potato and sausages. There was however a grand a[…]

I’ve just realised the point of the theme song from Alfie*. It is not just a question: “What’s it all about Alfie?” Rather it is a question which contains its own answer: “What’s it all about? (Its all about) Alfie.&#8[…]

What if? There are not enough “what if’s” in modern cinema. Sure there are plenty of “what if we put Kate Hudson in a rom com” questions being asked but the answers are so obvious they do not need to be tested*. Rather I[…]

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3: David Dimbleby Has The Attention Span Of A Gnat
This is all very BBC-centric I know, but after spending quite some time watching ITV calling it for Kerry against mounting evidence[…]

WE KILLED THE QUIZ
So a couple of weeks ago I remarked on our success finally at a pub quiz, at The Old Dairy. It had been a little bit unsatisfactory though (as Ben outlines here) so we wanted to go back and win again to make it official. So we turn[…]

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2: “Apparently they’re still voting in Ohio”
Anothe BBC favourite this, when things got a bit quiet they flashed over the the journo with the lime green jacket on i[…]

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1: In Lieu Of Anything Happening The BBC Became Convinced It Would Be A Draw
About three am GMT, when no new results had come in for about an hour and the various TV panels were clut[…]

Not a pub post. Barely a food post. But certainly a Pumpkin post.
Flatmate returned from a trip to France at the weekend with a pumpkin carved into a Jack’O’Lantern. It was after all Halloween (and therefore along with fifty percent of th[…]

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13: THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING
“It doesn’t feel like three hours”, my companion said as I left the cinema. Perhaps they were not as nuanced at reading their bodies signals. My arse felt the th[…]