Y'know things that are all the rage? Blogs. Everyone has one; or at least had one before Facebook, Twitter et al diluted the realtime pool.
Since I'm nu-old skool — and watching endless streams of people waste their lives telling each other about their shockingly tedious days bores me — I figured why not make a blog? The main difference here compared with other people's blogs is that instead of being limited to one topic, you get a little slice of everything all mashed up. I can now omit vowels and apostrophes with impunity.
Football violence is built into the game
· 1243 words (sucks up about 6 mins)Ask anyone for ten things they associate with football, and pretty high up on everyone’s list is the word ‘hooligan’. Turns out there’s a very good reason for this, and it’s not what you might think.
QoS
· 136 words (sucks up less than a minute)What’s over 40 years old and should be put to pasture? The BBC’s longest running quiz show, that’s what.
Come on England
· 155 words (kills less than a minute)The world-wide waste of time is under way. Football: 0, Stef: lots.
Cambridge kick Oxford in the boat race
· 167 words (laps up less than a minute)Row row row your boat gently down the Thames.