Category Archives: Odds & Ends
Just fucking accept it, son. Sifu is the closest you’ll ever get to feeling like Bruce Lee.
Now and again, I listen to Sam Harris’s podcasts. There are some observations to be made here. He has a relaxing voice made for advertising kitchens, garden furniture and your standard four door family hatchbacks. Often it strays into a … Continue reading
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Tagged Bruce Lee, Enter The Dragon, FromSoftware, Gandalf length beard, Helen Joyce, Irish gypsy fights, John Wick, Kung-Fu, Obese fascist potential spree killing teenager in an Alabama trailer-park, Sam Harris, Sekiro, Sifu, Sigmond Freud, Steven Seagal, Streets Of Rage, Tracey Emin, Wu-Tang, Yakuza 0
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Signalis – a gorgeous dystopian creepshow
Not to disparage Uncharted – Legacy of Thieves Collection on the PC (it did get me through the misery of the Christmas and early January period) but I found it far too cheesy and a bit too easy to offer … Continue reading
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Tagged 2D platformer, Alien, Dark Souls 3, Elden Ring, German, Heart Of Darkness, Japanese, Manga aesthetic, Nietzsche, Retro gaming, Sekiro, Signalis, Silent Hill, Steam, Survival horror, The Madeleine McCann question, Tomb Raider knockoff, Uncharted - Legacy of Thieves Collection
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Marvel’s Spider-Man on the PC isn’t perfect, but being the king of swing is an absolute blast
Instead of worrying about the cowardly ghoulish Tory cipher likely to be the next PM and how she’ll mug us off even more because pondlife such as this have the right to vote, the rising cost of energy (some help … Continue reading
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Tagged Bloodborne, Dark Souls 3, From Software, Ghost of Tsushima, Last Of Us, Manhattan, Marvel, New York, Nier Automata, Peter Parker, Pondlife, PS5, Robin Hood, Sekiro, Sony, Spider-Man, Spiderman 2, Swinging around town, Uncharted, Will Self
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My wee Black Friday hypocrisy
So I received Black Friday emails titled ‘check out our great Black Friday discounts’ in early November this year. What’s more grating, the slow creep of Black Friday becoming a month long event, or the Christmas fanatics who start counting … Continue reading
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Tagged Anti-consumerism, Black Friday, Bonkers Italian man, Christmas tat in early autumn, Covid, Diversity, Egalitarianism, Electric pepper grinder - USB rechargeable botches!, Email circulars can get tae fuck, Hypocrite, Idealism, Inclusion, Junk mail, Mellowed, Narcissism, Obese cat versus the cat flap, Protect the NHS - shop online, Small print semantics, Socialism, Stay at home - avoid crush injuries, The Art Of Easing, Trotskyist conviction, Veganism, Yearly Sony OLED ballers
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So, in almost eight years of blogging, what’s the most embarrassing thing I’ve written?
The older I get the more I hurry when doing mundane tasks. Often I attempt to do three things at once and in a fragmented mess fail to conclude any of them, that or I carry a general anxiety that … Continue reading
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Tagged Alex Salmond, Blogging, Cancel culture wankers, Ched Evans, Dog Turd, Doing a Peter Sutcliffe in GTA V, Glasgow windaes, GlenGarry GlenRoss, Jürgen Klopp, Kevin Spacey, Madelaine McCann syndrome, Michael Jackson, Off The Wall, SNP inertia, The Usual Suspects, Thriller, WLWASIOH
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Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard 
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