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TE Lawrence vs DH Lawrence

I’ll say it: every DJ in the Hackney/Hoxton quarter of London looks like either TE Lawrence or DH Lawrence. And since everybody in this area is either a part-time or full-time DJ, that makes for a lot of coiffed facial hair. Yet no-one will confront this prickly truth… who knows what these people really look like. [...]

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Bad inventions: the plastic snap buckle

A tragic personal cost: the price you pay for messing with this devilish fastening device.

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Bad inventions: the low-flush toilet

OK, so how is this good for the environment? You flush and no significant cleanliness change occurs.

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Oh, Simon Pegg, what hearve you daan?

The trouble with Ice Age 3 and a character called Buck, played by none other than our very own Simon Pegg…

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Bad inventions: pavement bobbles

Are they meant to be some kind of safety feature or a method of culling the walking population, sighted and non-sighted alike?

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I would like to. Have words with the person who…

Put together the pre-recorded announcements. For. The Northern Line? And the Victoria Line? Did they ever listen back to THEIR announcements to, see, if, they, actually, worked, in, a, sentence.

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