Category: Piffle

  • The Horrifying Truth About Pie
    The Horrifying Truth About Pie

    Caveat: The idea for this came to me when I was half asleep, and bounced around my head in a dozed state for several hours at dawn this morning. We’re at a pie eating contest. Two men who shovel food into their mouths at a high rate of knots consider themselves to be athletes. A…

  • 7 Ways To Feel Amazing
    7 Ways To Feel Amazing

    There’s a little known Nordic practice called Bawlchit. By applying simple stroking motions to various parts of your own body, you can create an amazing sensation that will put a smile on your face. Here are my seven favourite ways to feel amazing. The Tunnock The first discipline I ever learned in Bawlchit is called…

  • A Rottle Of Bum
    A Rottle Of Bum

    I never liked Spiras. The chocolate itself wasn’t that nice. I expect had I seen this advert when I was very young, I would have laughed like a window at the phrase ‘A Rottle Of Bum’. That’s Neil Mullarkey right?

  • Topical Jokes
    Topical Jokes

    There’s too much happening this week to focus on any one thing without it being to the detriment of something else. In the meantime, here’s some bang up to the second topical comedy from 1979. https://youtu.be/0pRdE1ApqOA If you’re ever in doubt about something, it’s usually Richard Nixon’s fault.  

  • Why Don’t Snookerists Get More Angry?
    Why Don’t Snookerists Get More Angry?

    I watch the snooker at this time of the year. Or more precisely, I nap in front of the snooker a lot at this time of the year. Which may explain why my understanding of the game is limited. As far as I can tell, it is the job of the snookerballers to make all…

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  • Proctology: A Bottom Examination
    Proctology: A Bottom Examination

    For a long time now I’ve been wanting to write an old-fashioned programme guide. One you can hold in your hand and thumb through, make notes on, spill coffee on. So I did. Proctology: A Bottom Examination is my deep dive into Bottom, the hit BBC Two sitcom starring Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson. That’s…

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  • Re-Casting Keanu
    Re-Casting Keanu

    Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him eight years older than Clive Dunn was when he was first cast in Dad’s Army. But don’t panic, Clive Dunn was always playing much older characters than his own age. Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him seven years older than Stephanie Cole was when she was first…

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