The Somewhat Ambitious

I gotta admit, I feel a little out of my depth with this blog post. My involvement with WoW could charitably be described as “casual”, although semi-catatonic would perhaps be more apt. And while I enjoy film as much as the next man, and can write the shit out of an undergraduate essay on cinema, [...]

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I’ve always contended that robots were pretty much the single most disappointing thing about growing up. When you were a kid robots were Transformers, giant mechanised beings capable of both changing into a variety of vehicles and beating the living piss out of one another. And then you grew up and you realised that robotic [...]

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Trope was one of those words you discovered in your first year of Uni and then abused to within an inch of its life in every piece of assessable writing you had to churn out over the next two years. Why use technique when you can use trope? Why use method when you can use [...]

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Before you go any further with this blog post, play this video game and say to yourself “what the fuck just happened?”
Meet Leroy Smith. He’s the man who beat out Michael Jordan for the last spot in their tenth grade basketball team, thereby inspiring him to become the greatest basketball player in history. Spotting in [...]

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With season one of No Fuck Friday coming to an abrupt end three weeks ago, with myself well and truly in the lead (let’s be frank: it was a shitmixing, Paul), The Somewhat Ambitious have been using the off-season to rest, refocus and ready ourselves for the revolting return of the repugnant retinue of [...]

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I’ve only done this once before, so bear with me.
I just woke up from a dream. It began (I think) with a guy on Twitter (ash something, if I recall) writing a hugely inflammatory blog post about my top ten films of all time list. You see, it turns out Michael Gambon was running a [...]

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Ever heard of a ‘smile check policy‘? Yeah, me neither. I once had to get my retina scanned to get into a public restroom, but the employees at Keihin Electric Express Railway in Japan actually have to smile. And no, I don’t mean they’re encouraged to, they fucking HAVE to. Facial recognition software is used [...]

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Michael Jackson’s memorial has barely finished, and already the awesomely batshit mental cavalcade of news has begun rolling in. I’m sure you’re all rather sick of hearing about Jackson, and I’m even more certain that your minds are made up already about him. Off The Wall and Thriller are awesome albums, his work with the [...]

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The one thing that truly creeped me out as a child (and now), is sex education. The very notion of having people talk with me about sex, especially when said people are adults wearing either a) gingham or b) tweed repulses me to the very core of my being. In fact, the idea of adults [...]

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eCards today!

Enjoy.

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