Wednesday, 28 September 2016

Best of the Crests: Highs and Lows in Football Badges

No wait, come back!

In this author's humble opinion, football badges are an underappreciated art. Much in the same sense that flags are a unique opportunity to symbolically represent a country, so too are club badges. To see how much these little bits of colourful fabric matter, just look at how worked up some fans get when clubs propose changing their badges (admittedly, those two examples are both from Liverpudlian clubs, so perhaps it's just the usual Scouse histrionics).

Bastions of enlightened, well-reasoned thought

Thursday, 8 September 2016

8 Reasons Why 30,000 Baht a Month Isn't So Bad After All

Let's begin with a confession: for my first full-time teaching job in Thailand, I accepted 22,000 a month. Yes, that's right: a 22 Grand Job.



Sunday, 21 August 2016

The Double-Digit Tinny: A Review

Now as I'm sure you're aware, I'm no stranger to culinary adventure. If there's something new around that seizes my attention, I'll probably have a crack: Carpe Diem and all that bollocks.

It was in this spirit of intrepid gastronomy that I made my latest regrettable endeavour. Perusing the supermarket aisles in search of a Saturday night beverage to see in the new EPL season, I came across a new item which stopped me in my tracks.

What the deuce?

Tuesday, 16 August 2016

How to improve the Olympics

Every four years, the Olympics sees the world's best athletes coming together to compete at the very pinnacle of their sport.
Not to mention interminable opening ceremonies on the concept of peace. No, wait- environmentalism? Who evens knows.
It's all very warm and fuzzy, seeing athletes from around the world converging for a unique festival of sport. It's all very worthy. But let's be honest; because they're all so good, it can be bloody boring at times.


Saturday, 6 August 2016

49 Observations Whilst Watching Green Lantern

Welcome again! Let me be your guide to the very worst in modern cinema, as I endure watch the 2011 movie "experience" Green Lantern.