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On those rare occasions where I'm able to pull myself away from my keyboard for a night out, I usually know in advance what I'm looking for and make every effort to find it. I'm talking, specifically, about music, since (cinema trips aside) that's invariably what my nights out involve. For example, if I'm loo… Read more »
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I've taken to calling it a series of names (usually the "maybe-toast"-er) and it's taken to keeping me guessing as to whether it's actually doing what it was intended to do. It started not long after we got it. From day one, it was somewhat disappointing to me (I didn't choose it). To begin with, it can only… Read more »
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I've recently taken to experimenting on my journeys to and from work to see if I can walk in a straight line from any given point A to any given point B in a public place. It's harder than it sounds. As previously written, the path of a pedestrian is far more complex to traverse than even the busiest of roads… Read more »
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According to the advert, "Lambrini girls just wanna have fun". Of course they do. They're drunk. That's what drunk people do. They have fun. They have so much fun, in fact, that the next morning, they quite often wake up swearing they never intended to have that much fun after all and will never touch a singl… Read more »
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As usual this morning, I got the bus to work. Unfortunately, also as usual, so did somebody with very little respect for those around them. Anybody who has been on public transport in recent years will no doubt be familiar with the sort. They come in all shapes and sizes, but they all have two things in commo… Read more »
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But then I wouldn't know. The problem is that while I studied geography at school for several years, I don't seem to recall ever really learning where places were. There are several definitions of the word geography, but they mostly boil down to a couple of things: the physical features of a place, and the l… Read more »
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When I was a very young boy, I received a red, rubber ball as a present. The ball was, presumably, partly full of liquid, and when it rolled, it would stutter along the ground, occasionally changing direction, seemingly at random. As a child, it never occurred to me that such a thing might have water in it. I… Read more »
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It's ironic. I'm hardly ever ill and haven't had a single sick day from work (or school/college before that) in about ten years or more. And yet whenever I book time of work I seem to come down with something. It would appear that while other people's immune systems are sometimes adversely affected by being e… Read more »
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This quote is attributed to Mahatma Gandhi; a man who in his lifetime achieved so much through his simple philosophy of Satyagraha—that of nonviolent resistance. Gandhi faced down incalculable odds to obtain such things as civil rights for Indians in South Africa and Swaraj for India. It does not take a "Gre… Read more »
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How often do you walk along a fairly busy street, particularly in a largely pedestrian area? If you’re anything like me, you'll walk the same routes a lot. Working in the middle of Coventry means that I have to walk through the city centre on a daily basis. Before I started frequenting this journey, however,… Read more »