Category: Piffle

  • The Movie Studio That’s Secretly Trying To Kill Us All
    The Movie Studio That’s Secretly Trying To Kill Us All

    Universal Studios have always had my favourite movie studio logo, and their current one is the best of the lot. https://youtu.be/eXRsNYKc-Xk But it does suggest that Universal have long harboured a desire to wipe out everyone on the planet. Whether it’s malevolence, or just exuberance, I don’t know. I do know that Universal are always…

  • Chris Hemsworth’s Shocking Secret
    Chris Hemsworth’s Shocking Secret

    I’m constantly being mistaken in the street for Chris Hemsworth. It’s the bane of my life, and the phrase I utter the most and with the most vitriol is “No, I am NOT Chris Hemsworth.” I don’t want to be mistaken for Chris Hemsworth, because Chris Hemsworth has a shocking secret that he’s hiding in…

  • Google Is Made Of Lego
    Google Is Made Of Lego

    Everyone likes Lego. Americans like it so much they add an extra S to the name. In fact, we like Lego so much that the whole internet these days is powered by the little plastic bricks. Kinda. Look at this. That’s the first ever Google server. Built in the basement lab at Stanford … out…

  • Two Types Of Men
    Two Types Of Men

    I’ve long held the (tongue in cheek and highly reductive) suspicion that there are only two types on men on the planet. The ones who are content with the size of their willy, and the ones who aren’t content with the size of their willy. Once you decide this is true (it isn’t, it’s a…

  • 7 Disturbing Facts About Bread
    7 Disturbing Facts About Bread

    Since I gave up bread, I feel better for it, and because I didn’t replace it with other food stuffs, I’ve lost more weight than I care to admit. But the reason I gave up bread wasn’t because of these seven spurious, possibly false facts. Bread Is Made Of Old Books It’s frightening just what…

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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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