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Tuesday, 02 March 2010 |
This month I have mainly been looking into some of the things that make us who we are.
I'm not talking about each of us as individuals; more about how we developed as a species, evolving from a charming Captain Caveman chap to the nasty, rapacious little chimps we are today. The more you look into this subject, the more surprising seem the origins of some of our physical and characteristic traits of today.
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Thursday, 04 February 2010 |
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This month I have mainly been thinking about getting older. A lot of people I know have a big problem with getting older, obsessing about wrinkles and grey hairs and the like, and many people seem to do everything in their power to stave off the inevitable, much to the delight of the snake oil salesmen in the beauty clinics. Whereas I'm the complete opposite. The older I get, the more I like it, possibly due to being cursed with a chubby little baby-face.
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Friday, 18 December 2009 |
This month I have mainly been learning about the history of crime in our great capital city by taking a visit to ‘The Black Museum’.
For those of you who don't know, ‘The Black Museum’ is a more colourful name for the Metropolitan Police Crime Museum, based at New Scotland Yard. It's been open since 1875, after the Prisoner's Property Act in 1869 gave the police the authority to keep certain items of property that directly related to various crimes.
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Wednesday, 25 November 2009 |
This month I have mainly been slowly retreating from modern life and the globalinformationsuperhighwayvillageinterweb thingy, and loving every minute of it, writes The Kingmeister. Last month, I wrote about stress and the myriad ways in which our modern lives in general contribute to us all being a bit stressed out all of the time.
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Wednesday, 25 November 2009 |
This month I have mainly been slowly retreating from modern life and the globalinformationsuperhighwayvillageinterweb thingy, and loving every minute of it, writes The Kingmeister. Last month, I wrote about stress and the myriad ways in which our modern lives in general contribute to us all being a bit stressed out all of the time.
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Tuesday, 27 October 2009 |
This month I have mainly been learning all about the stresses and strains of modern life and coming up with the sort of ‘lifestyle plan’ that, if anyone else had suggested it to me, I would probably have given them a well deserved expletive-filled-mouthful, writes The Kingmeister.
Stress can be a really sneaky little bastard, particularly nowadays when we're all pretty much under its spell. I bet many of you were just like me in figuring that you got stressed every now and then, but a good few pints followed by a decent nights kip pretty much sorted it?
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Wednesday, 07 October 2009 |
This month I have mainly been....learning all about the dangerous follies of utopian endeavours. I recently returned from a brilliant two week break in Egypt, where I utilised my ‘pool time’ to learn about how deluded a large part of the human race is, and that our constant attempts to make the world ‘better’ are actually making it much, much worse.
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Thursday, 20 August 2009 |
This month I’ve been a very lucky boy by getting whisked off to Paris for a long weekend, writes Ian King. Fortunately for me, my girlfriend isn't completely useless, like I am, and surprised me with a weekend break to celebrate our second anniversary.
I'd never been to Paris before, and while I might not buy into the whole ‘most romantic city in the world’ thing, it was definitely somewhere I’d always really wanted to go, and I'm glad to say I wasn't disappointed.
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Thursday, 30 July 2009 |
After being touted in the news for so long that it’s frankly becoming boring, and seeming almost mythical (like the female orgasm or that clitoris thing), the dreaded SWINE FLU has finally made an appearance in Chelmsford, although luckily the (ahem) lethal virus decided to plant its scabrous trotters at my house of ill repute after my girlfriend was diagnosed with it just last week. So far, I haven't met anyone else who's had it, or even knows of anyone who's got it, so The Edge Ed. thought a little Q&A with a medical professional, such as my good self, might come in handy for you devoted readers.
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Thursday, 30 July 2009 |
This month I have mainly been wondering why we ended up living the way we do. Last weekend, we had some friends over for dinner (and my home made chutney and chilli jam was a positive triumph, thank you very much) and, as you do after a few drinks, we arrived at that conversational stage known as ‘putting the world to rights’.
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Wednesday, 08 July 2009 |
This month I have mainly been….mourning the creeping death of real democracy, writes Kingpin. It will probably come as no surprise to most of you that I'm a committed sceptic when it comes to politics, particularly the disgraceful, self-serving, horse-trading debacle that is the EU.
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