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The Top 100 Tracks Of All Time: 39. Awesome Toys – Do The Fury Boogie
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From the files of futurologist Al Ewing:

Originally released in March of 2014, ‘Do The Fury Boogie’ was the standout track on the Awesome Toys’ ‘difficult’ second album, How Dare You Say You Love Me When You’ve Ta[…]

There Ain’t No Cure For My Somers Town Blues
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A Daily Mail reading of Somers Town:
-London is full of yobs and foreigners: The only characters in Somers Town from London are the three (white) kids who mug Tommo, the café owner and Graham the spiv. And you can see this clearly in the way that Gr[…]

Olympic Avoidance Log 2008: The End
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So the UK won more medals than ever before. Well ever if you don’t include 1908 which forevermore will be known as the British Cheating Olympics where we made up most of the sports and the competitors at the Olympics. But the question on everyo[…]

Olympic Avoidance Blog: Day 12 / 13 / Whatever: To Get To The Other Side
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You know what bugs me about the massive proliferation of Olympic sports. its how many of them are just about doing exactly the same thing in a slightly different way. Watching a minute of another Team Great Britain and Northern Ireland gold in canoei[…]

Olympic Avoidance Log 2008: Day 11 – Don’t Drink The Water
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(Apparently according to the BBC, its actually Day 14 of the Olympics – which means I have successfully avoided three whole days). I’m back from my holiday now, so work luckily has massively helped me avoid the Olympics. Because it is mos[…]

Olympic Avoidance Log 2008: Day 10: Runnin’, Jumpin’, Throwin’, Interviewin’
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When I was a kid, I thought the Olympics was just an athletics competition. This was before the red button and us being good at anything that involves sitting down. (Note how many of our medals have been in sports where you get to sit down). No it wa[…]

Olympic Avoidance Log 2008: Day 9 – Jolly Hockey Sticks
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Less medals = less news coverage. That is a good thing to the determined avoider. What else has been good is the monotony of the sports involved in the British medla haul. It is quite easy to tell if its the Olympics when the staggering diversity of […]

Olympic Avoidance Log 2008: Day 8 – Of Tables
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STOP WINNING MEDALS so called Team GB (so British to invent a teamname which tries not to actually say the contentious British word). Its relatively easy to avoid the Olympics when your radar is set for the BBC with extra Clare Balding alerts. But wi[…]

Olympic Avoidance Log 2008: Day 6 and 7 – The Team, Lightweight, Coxless, Synchronised, Freestyle Yngling
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As I move into the second week of Olympic avoidance, the game is getting considerably harder. The reason? I am no longer in charge of the television as I am visiting my parents. And they want to celebrate Great Britain’s successes and it would […]

Olympic Avoidance Log 2008: Day 5: Go China
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So it may be premature, but I reckon that I may be getting into a groove with avoiding this Olympics. The key point is to AVOID THE TELEVISION. And luckily the TV has helped me out by scheduling TV programmes I really don’t want to see near the[…]

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