July 2011
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A guide to thinking with 'selective optimism'
You know what’s bollocks? Pessimism. Outright negativity, a downcast view of the world and the innate ability to take one’s hopes and dreams and dissect them with the verbal equivalent of your own piss. But you know what else is equally quantified by the male extremities? Optimism. Outright positivity, an upbeat view of the world and the irritating ability to take one’s hopes...
Look, Spotlight, your dictionary is wonderful, but...
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Y'know, watching a film in 2D was better all along
The other day, my girlfriend and I went to see Cars 2. The film, while lacking in everything I’d expect in terms of storytelling from Pixar (but that’s for another article on another website), was a veritable smorgasbord of colours, lens flare and neon. It was the prettiest movie I’ve seen this year and the one that provoked the greatest reaction of wonder, that one abstractly quantifiable...
Gosh. Summer is properly here in Glasgow. For...
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We found the Lego.
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Moral superiority over deaths is about as...
Just a quick one tonight, but I’m properly riled up over this. As we all very well know, Amy Winehouse has passed on and we’ve seen some awful atrocities in Norway. As half of the internet - and my Facebook wall - turned on the troubled singer, you might remember I defended her often-difficult life as one that, while tragic, was one full of talent and was tragically cut short in...
Idea for a game: peeved avian retrieve unborn...
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Oh man, remember cheat books?
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Amy Winehouse's death is no case of sympathy for...
0 false 18 pt 18 pt 0 0 false false false If you want to get to know how human nature can operate, you need only look to Twitter’s trending topics at a time of great significance. Take Amy Winehouse’s death as a case in point. You’ll find people being sympathetic – as one always should be at times of mourning, regardless of who it is – and you’ll find...
Dear 'lolsummer69'
Is there anybody out there who hasn’t seen you naked by now
Seriously
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Giving up on university is sometimes for the best
0 false 18 pt 18 pt 0 0 false false false As you might have read when I indulged you with my initial thoughts on when I picked up a Mac, I’ve been contemplating leaving university. Having pondered it and trying to hack it one last time, the decision is now essentially final. I imagine that the more traditional among you have already mentally consigned me to...
A new kitchen is, surprisingly, reawakening that...
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Everything about your Facebook photo is wrong
You’re probably reasonably chuffed with your Facebook photo. You’ll think that it sums up everything that you feel the world should know about you, condensed into a 180 pixel wide array of carefully-arranged personal goodness. Sometimes, it probably does, and that’s commendable should you pull off the feat. That said, most of the time, your display picture is absolute...
Had a look at Wonga.com to borrow £1. Their rates...
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The Apprentice: Unused New Show Formats
This year’s edition of The Apprentice saw the show take on a new format. Rather than give contestants a job within Alan Sugar’s empire of whatevertheheckhedoesthesedays, the candidates would, after facing the usual tasks designed purely to bring out their inner bellend, receive a £250,000 investment from Lord Sugar towards a business proposition. This is probably because...
You know, Jim wasn't lying. #bbcapprentice
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Surprised to still see Portal ads on buses.
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Hi to new Friday followers! Earlier on, I declared...
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Things I have learnt in buying a Mac
I’m not usually a humble person. More often than not I’m about as quiet, understated and timorous as a bin lorry during rush hour, but I’ve been finding myself chewing on humble pie lately after picking up a Macbook to replace an Acer Ferrari that had innards as fiery as the passions of any hearty Italian. And I’m not talking about Subway bread. Back in the days of...
#bbcapprentice update: there's a spider swinging...
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Bargain of the century!
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Christ, Rebekah Brooks has been comfort eating...
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Getting the kitchen done. Found a window behind...
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This David Power guy has his fingers in many pies....
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This, I will be honest, smells amazing.
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Home to soggy Glasgow and a tub of...
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Went to Hamleys.
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Do get the feeling this sign could be...
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See, @HunterF? Vodafone has the right idea.
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BUMBLEBEE FACEPALM
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Next download must not be shit. Therefore, waiting...
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A year and a half later and I can still make the...
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Best summer ever already. @BenParfitt want to join...
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Present arrived from @CapnAverage this morning....
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