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• Top 3 Evil Pranks

  Sunday, March 7th, 2010 With the sheer amount of free time, drinking and people in any given university situation (whether it be halls or rented accommodation), pranks and jokes are a common occurrence. Sometimes they can get out of hand, but in most cases the most devious and hilarious can be evil whilst still just being... More »

• 3 Romantic Disasters

  Thursday, March 4th, 2010 My First Kiss... More »

• 5 Fun Things You Can Do With Fruit

  Monday, March 1st, 2010 OK, granted - at first glance, maybe we don’t need to think up other stuff to do with fruit. I imagine the whole ‘eating it’ thing would pretty much monopolize the ‘Stuff You Do With Fruit’ round on Family Fortunes. But if using it as food just seems too ‘mainstr... More »

• 5 Things You Can Do With Beer Bottles

  Sunday, February 21st, 2010 I knew all those years training as a wine adviser would pay off in my articles some day. So, maybe sometimes recycling just seems too easy.  Or maybe you need an avenue through which to express your creative genius. Or maybe you’re just really REALLY bored. Here are five interesting things y... More »

• The Indian dishes you should try

  Sunday, February 14th, 2010 Traditional Indian cuisine is delicious, though very different to what you’ll find in your local takeaway - tikka masala is more Glasgow than Gujarat. I hail from Leicestershire, and its thriving South Asian community means I was lucky enough to grow up experiencing authentic Indian cooking.... More »

• Pat Sharp Fights With Giant Mullet!

  Thursday, February 4th, 2010 It’s hard to imagine now, but the mullet was first made popular by Tom Jones in the 60’s! An unusual haircut where your hair is cut short at the side and the front, and left long at the back, not many could pull this one off! But if David Bowie and Paul McCartney both proudly wore one... More »

• Top 5 Italian Dishes to Try

  Saturday, January 23rd, 2010 Ah, thick mozzarella slices, juicy sundried tomatoes drizzled with garlic oil atop a warm crunchy ciabatta. A typical lunch in the Vickers household. Yes, ‘Vickers’ might not sound like a name you’d hear called down the street in Napoli (thanks to my Mama marrying into an English ... More »

• 3 Most Exciting Upcoming Movies

  Wednesday, January 20th, 2010 1. Alice in Wonderland Tim Burton’s hotly anticipated Alice in Wonderland is set to hit cinemas on 5th March. With Johnny Depp playing the mad hatter, Burton is giving the classic story his signature gothic twist. Do not expect any of the Disney magic, which you’ll have seen in the animated ve... More »

• 10 worst films of the Noughties

  Tuesday, January 19th, 2010 In no particular order:... More »

• Toy Story is Back!

  Friday, January 15th, 2010 Toy Story 2 came out in 1999, when I was only 12, and I remember feeling a mixture of excitement and doubt - excitement, for Toy Story really is a classic; doubt, since sequels were rarely any good. ... More »

• Top 10 Movies of the Noughties

  Tuesday, January 12th, 2010 For most students, it was the decade when we first moved away from the creature comforts of the family home and the decade in which we first got so drunk we couldn’t remember what happened the next day. For the rest of the world it was an eventful decade too, bringing us the first black [...]... More »

• Man Sleeps in Homemade Igloo

  Saturday, January 9th, 2010 Now that’s a fresh idea! Don’t make a snowman - make an igloo! And why not? An igloo in the UK - and to think, you don’t need to go away to the Arctic to have the experience of living like you’re from there! (And truth be told, our “Arctic” temperatures are nothi... More »

• Mr Bean is Spain’s Socialist Prime Minister

  Friday, January 8th, 2010 And if you look at their photos, you can see why.  A hacker with a sense of humour had briefly replaced the photo of Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, Spain’s real Socialist prime minister, with that of our beloved Mr Bean, Rowan Atkinson. The fact that they’re lookalikes have been well-k... More »

• Avatar Promises Alien Sex Scene

  Thursday, January 7th, 2010 Well, Avatar has left the best til last. Yes, it’s a sneaky ploy to up their DVD sales, no doubt, but an ingenious one. They’re selling what is probably the best selling topic of mankind: Sex. And it’s sex with a twist. It’s an alien sex scene. Now sex scenes in themselves a... More »

• Man Opts For Jail Over Family

  Wednesday, January 6th, 2010 This must be a new low for the state of family ties.  Most of us students can confess that going home for Christmas probably wasn’t quite the thing we wanted, besides the home-cooked meals and meeting up with old school friends - by the time  you’ve sat at home for a week you’re ... More »

• Top 10 Ways the Student World Differs From the Real World

  Friday, December 25th, 2009 The student lifestyle is like no other – who else do you know that gets to sleep during the day, highlights their life on Facebook and has an everlasting fear of the ‘real world’?... More »

• Top 5 Christmas Romance Stories

  Friday, December 25th, 2009 Christmas is one of few times during the year when you can legitimately get a bit slushy. So here are my top five Christmas romance stories from song, literature and film:... More »

• Worst Christmas costumes

  Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009 Once you’re past childhood, fancy dress parties follow the same formula: women go as a ‘sexy’ variation of something (schoolgirl, police officer, cat, etc. They always seem to involve fishnets and short skirts, anyway). Men tend to go for some form of comedy t-shirt or wig. Then there’s usua... More »

• Top 5 Most Christmassy Adverts

  Saturday, December 19th, 2009 Love or loath the commercialisation of Christmas, when you see that first Coca Cola advert of the year, it’s impossible not to feel the need to heat up a mince pie, crack open the sherry and fall asleep on the couch at an entirely unsociable time of the day. Here’s a compilation of those... More »

• 5 Top Christmas Tracks

  Wednesday, December 16th, 2009 You know Christmas is on its way when you hear those classic songs being played on the radio. Hate them or love them, they’re a key ingredient to festive season and it just wouldn’t be Christmas without someone drunkenly attempting to give Mariah a run for her money and belt out All I Want for [... More »

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