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December 20, 2025 at 10:38 PM

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My Cultural Life - To Rate or To Overrate

What's Up? A bit of education you won't be interested in. Venezuela isn't the enemy it has been portrayed in the media for many years. Venez...

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December 13, 2025 at 12:02 PM

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My Cultural Life - Stranger Danger

What's Up? The UK Far Right is one of the whingiest and most demanding minority demographics on social media just now. At the moment, they'r...

December 6, 2025 at 1:22 PM

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My Cultural Life - Even Strangerer Things

Game of Things It's finally arrived; the TV event of 2025 - the first part of the final season of Stranger Things ... Let me explain a few [...

The Intangible-"The Sunshine Reminds Me"

November 30, 2025 at 1:14 PM

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Today's repeated music...
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YouTube video by The Intangible

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November 26, 2025 at 12:49 PM

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My Cultural Life - Waving & Drowning

What's Up? You'd think, after 18 months of doing sweet FA (apart from upset people), the Labour government would just rip up its senseless p...

November 22, 2025 at 10:45 AM

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November 20, 2025 at 11:32 PM

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My Cultural Life - Scary Monsters?

What's Up? Does anyone else find it ironic that the BBC is coming in for criticism for all manner of dodgy things? The reason for this was t...

November 15, 2025 at 10:56 AM

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November 14, 2025 at 11:09 PM

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My Cultural Life - This Is All You Have Left...

What's Up? Have I mentioned that I've not been well? I have? Oh, well, I'm still not well. This is becoming slightly concerning, but apparen...

November 8, 2025 at 11:39 AM

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My Cultural Life - King of Halloween

What's Up? There's another reason why I hate the autumn so much. I've talked about Facebook Memories a lot in these blogs and one thing I ha...

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November 2, 2025 at 9:33 AM

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My Cultural Life - Diminishing Returns

What's Up? I expect the next General Election will be a straight referendum with one question being asked: Are you a racist? I know some Ref...

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November 2, 2025 at 9:33 AM

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My Cultural Life - Pottering About

What's Up? I'm surprised that atmospheric pressure can still have effects on television signals despite the switchover to digital. That was ...

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October 18, 2025 at 12:05 PM

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My Uncultured Life - Something Beginning With U

What's Up? Fucking search engines, that's what. Both Google and Bing have been 'improved' so that if you search for something now you get ...

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October 11, 2025 at 10:54 PM

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My Cultural Life - Nothing Really Matters

What's Up? The problem with fascism isn't obvious to most people who look at it as being the solution to their woes. Nationalism and fascism...

October 4, 2025 at 10:24 PM

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My Cultural Life - Take Two

What's Up? It's never nice to speak ill of the dead, but there was this guy in my past who really did me a disservice. It was around 1992, e...

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September 27, 2025 at 2:57 PM

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Crazy Diamonds - A Re-Appraisal of Pink Floyd

Re-appraising Pink Floyd You know that discussion/conversation; the one where you’re asked, ‘what is your favourite band of all time?’ Wel...

September 20, 2025 at 5:45 PM

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My Cultural Life: 10 (and Other Ratings)

What's Up? My monthly pub quiz at my local was last night. Yet again it was plagued by technology issues and that was after I'd got very str...

September 20, 2025 at 5:45 PM

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My Cultural Life - Killers and Lots of Filler

What's Up? I saw a conversation about the Dublin Agreement. For those of you who don't know what that is, it is an agreement between all EU ...

September 13, 2025 at 10:45 PM

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My Cultural Life - Multiple Personality Disorder

What's Up? So, the press have finally nailed Angela Raynor. They've been after her for five years and they've finally succeeded. Yeah, I kno...

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September 6, 2025 at 5:56 PM

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September 4, 2025 at 10:08 AM

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My Cultural Life - Massive Highs and Putrid Lows

What's Up? TL:DR... I first encountered this about 20 years ago in the comments of a national newspaper webpage. I had to Google it because ...

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August 30, 2025 at 9:09 AM

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My Cultural Life - ESP and the Fallen Arches

What's Up? Nothing much. At least not as far as watching the telly this week. I write this Wednesday evening and so far this week we have w...

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August 23, 2025 at 8:43 AM

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August 21, 2025 at 4:09 PM

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My Cultural Life - Some Big Ones

What's Up? In London last Saturday, over 500 people were arrested for showing solidarity with Palestine Action, a group of 'terrorist' pro...