The Somewhat Ambitious

While I was as partial to the works of Roald Dahl as any kid is, I must admit my more obsessive loyalties tended to lie with the venerable back-catalogue of Enid Blyton. Evidently I enjoyed my child-like whimsy with a healthy subtext of Aryan super-race (the phrase “black as a nigger with soot” really takes [...]

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So. I’m doing a little show for The Vine called Curiageous, and each week we field a different bizarre question. We go off, solve the problem (sort of), and this first one was about drinking urine, and whether it was safe to do so. Hope you enjoy it!
/Paul

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Ah. That takes the pain away.
/Luke

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Far be it from me to criticise Stephanie Meyer…
What am I saying. It’s right up my alley. If Dan Brown were a pulsing, sweltering carrion bird, infected with every manner of plague imaginable, Stephanie Meyer would be the deer-tick lodged in his bowels. If I were sent to see Twilight at the movies, I’d conclude [...]

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A movie for people who enjoy:
- Top knots
- Tea pouring
- Men doing manly things. Like killing.
- Killing
- Stern looks
- Winsome looks
- Eyes
- The gentle art of noble sacrifice
- Burning
- Chinese nationalism
- War drums
- Declarative sentences
- Pyrrhic victories
- The use of caprice as a pivotal narrative device
Not a movie for people who enjoy:
- Coffee
- Sophisticated character [...]

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Morning all! I trust you’re all well. If you missed Nerds of a Feather this morning, or if you heard it and want to know what the hell I was blathering about, here are the details of said blather, and what we discussed regarding the blather I’ve just said. …Good god, what an awful sentence.
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When I first discovered Steve, Don’t Eat It back in the hazy mists of 2007 (hard to know where all the mist was coming from. Perhaps we had a carbon monoxide leak. That would explain why I only have around three memories from the entire year and two of them involved me trying to glue [...]

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Ever wanted to live in a house? Yeah, me too. The idea of being a transient carries with it all manner of icky diseases and social stigma I’d rather avoid. Ever wanted to live… in a LEGO HOUSE? Well, it turns out this fantasy might not be too far off from happening.
“James May of the [...]

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We all saw how excited I was back in June when we first got wind of the imminent release of not just a new Monkey Island game, but also an updated, reimagined version of the original Monkey Island, replete with voice actors and new graphics. But this excitement was a little tempered by Lucasarts’ continued [...]

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I can quite honestly say I would take a far more pressing interest in Australian parliamentary happenings if they bore more of a resemblance to those of South Korea:

So, that happened yesterday. Democracy. The highlights are multiple, but I particularly enjoy the lady screeches at 0:10 and the awesome fighting moves at 0:26. Apparently they [...]

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