Archive for April, 2011
Tuesday, April 26th, 2011
A Right Royal Affair
I’m a sucker for a good wedding and I guess as far as pomp and pageantry go, you can’t beat a royal one. I have to admit to being a little bit excited with Will and Kate’s upcoming nuptuals. Firstly, they are getting married on my birthday and secondly, I am old enough to remember [...]
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Tuesday, April 26th, 2011
PhotoShop Disasters
Good ‘PhotoShopping’ should be like good make-up, noone should really notice it – and just like no amount of make-up is going to help you if you look like Grendel to begin with, PhotoShop can’t save a really bad photo. You can’t polish a turd, the best you can do is sprinkle a little glitter [...]
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Thursday, April 14th, 2011
the space race
So…Yuri Gagarin of the USSR was the first man is space, and Neil Armstrong of the USA was the first man on the Moon. It was believed that “winning the space race” would break the tie between the two great superpowers at the time, the USA and the USSR. Unfortunately, no one really won, because [...]
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Tuesday, April 12th, 2011
I’d buy that for 6 million dollars!
Lee Majors, a.k.a Steve Austin, a.k.a The Six Million Dollar Man (also the Fall Guy, but no one remembers that)… where do I begin when thinking about discussing this giant in the pantheon of 70′s and 80′s TV stars? Well first off my research led me to http://www.leemajors.co.uk/ where I got sidetracked finding out about [...]
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Thursday, April 7th, 2011
Tracksuited
The tracksuit. Loved, hated. Worn by the incredibly fit and the incredibly lazy. Most people have slipped into one at some time or another be it for school sports, fashion purposes or just because you’re hung-over and they’re comfortable. Rappers, athletes, Somali pirates; they’ve all had a go. So what have we got here? This [...]
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Sunday, April 3rd, 2011
field hockey
Some stats on field hockey are thus: – Started in Egypt 4000 years ago – The modern game began in England in the mid-18th century – In the web-age if you count website visits it is the 3rd most popular sport in the world with 2.2 billion fans I played a lot of field hockey. [...]
