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Faced with a deadly situation, most people react like a 3 year old at Christmas: they run around screaming and pooping. However, some people were just born without fear or, to give its technical name, ‘enormous testicles syndrome’. This condition manifests itself in different ways. For some it means kicking back with a beer while [...]


Was Steve Jobs a true genius? 4 reasons for and against

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If Mel Gibson is serious about resurrecting his stalling career he has one pretty viable option available to him. Die. From being publically castigated as an anti-semitic boozehound he can expect to find himself being fondly remembered as a ‘dedicated Christian with a fondness for a drink’, just as the whole Michael Jackson ‘kids touching’ [...]


Is Simon Cowell destroying music? 4 reasons for and against

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It’s easy to hate Simon Cowell. He has earned fortunes despite being a talentless little man-bitch, who’s whole claim to fame is in copying someone else’s idea for a TV show (see Simon Fuller/Pop stars) and personality (see Nasty Nigel/camp, disparaging, confrontational style). However, thankfully being an absolute penis does not prohibit someone from having [...]


Is General Baratieri the worst military commander ever? 6 alternatives

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No-one likes having a crap boss. However, in the 21st century there is little our workplace superiors can do to us that can’t be more than adequately avenged by taking a dump in their desk drawer during the work Christmas party. In times gone by, though, and particularly times of conflict, it has been a [...]


Has democracy had its day? 6 reasons for and against

“It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.” So said Sir Winston Churchill, 2 years after the end of WWII. It’s not exactly the most vigorous argument for the system, from a man who is remembered as one of its most famous and [...]


Is “Eric the Eel” the worst top level sportsman ever? 5 alternatives

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Becoming a top level sportsman in your chosen field typically requires being blessed in the gene pool, a few lucky breaks and years of hard work. However, fate apparently likes a giggle as much of the rest of us and occasionally decides to just ignore all of these factors and throw someone in at the [...]


Do the British tabloids like David Beckham? 6 examples for and against

There is nothing the English like better than heaping masses of attention and expectation onto the shoulders of a young sportsman/singer/actor/future king, so that when they finally make some sort of error of judgment they can all get together and wail mournfully about why the wayward prodigy is shitting all over the dreams the country [...]


Should Hollywood keep making Superhero movies? 6 reasons for and against

Over the last decade or two Hollywood has given us more superhero films than it’s given Jennifer Anniston opportunities to make a film that isn’t panned by people with more than 7 brain cells. The quality of these superhero outings has varied from the really quite good (The Dark Knight), to the decent (Spiderman) to the [...]


4 Pros and Cons of Youtube

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The Internet is changing the way we interact and consume our media. Among this sea of change, Google owned video site Youtube has the bold goal of becoming to video sharing what Youporn is to porn. Obviously it will never be as good as Youporn, but here we look at the 4 main reasons for [...]


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Welcome to the articles section. In many ways life is like an old man’s pubic hair. It’s mostly fluffy, punctuated with things that are mind-blowingly horrible and full of grey areas.  And no-one is completely sure where it begins and ends Source: wikimedia commons Leaving this weird simile behind, it’s the grey areas in life [...]