Urban Journal

Proceed With Caution

I had an interesting debate with my Grandmother today, and it wasn’t about her pigmented lesions for once, which made a change. The debate was about free-running. It had come about because free-running was on the TV and so there we’d sat, for a full ten minutes, staring at the impossible feats of these high-achieving young men.

Then Gran said, “They must be on drugs!”

After stifling the urge to laugh I said, calmly, “No nan, they aren’t on drugs. More

Bad Toast

Just off the top of my head I can list these great feats of human beings: 1) Cars are not bad as are planes. 2) Lorries—without them you’d have nobody to cut you up when you drove down the motor-way. 3) Butterfly collecting: you have to admit that even if you don’t like butterflies then you have to appreciate that someone actually caught them, which is impressive in itself considering that butterlfies are probably the hardest to catch thing ever More

Lengthy

I should say from the off-set that this article is directed at men, sorry girls, and now for a Warning: if you are the kind of man who diligently gets his hair cut, winces at the thought of skin care treatments and can’t bear to feel the crushing blow of ones hair against ones face then this may grate a little; I have long hair and I also have a penis. Yes, I am a man with long hair and More

Throw, Throw, NOW

Throwing a ball, or anything for that matter, should be the easiest and most natural thing a human-being could ever do aside from breathing, eating, and anything else ending in ing, right? Wrong. Sadly, throwing stuff doesn’t get the respect it deserves (it’s a lot like Botox Cheshire, in that way)! Many unthinking and deeply embarrasing people persistently choose to make a mockery of this age old and sacred act. And by doing so they set an example More

E Word

The whole Emo thing is pretty confusing. Back when the word Emotional was invented, it meant being a gentleman, being a decent human-being, and conveying your thoughts, ideals and ruminations in such a way as to not sound like a robot. But then, one day which I couldn’t possibly guess with any precision, everything changed. Suddenly the word Emo came in to being and you had to watch everything you said. You couldn’t just say “you look beautiful day” because, More

Just Being

Being a carbon-based life-form is quite hard. Of all the things to end up as it’s probably the trickiest to manage. How hard is it? Well, it’s more than hard, and it’s not our fault. The reason is this: asking one (or one-million) to go through its existence without expelling any carbon at all is a bit like asking a fish to be a bit less wet, please, or a prostitute from a long line of prostitutes who really loves More

Facebook Issues

Facebook: the world’s most popular social-networking site that pretty much everyone uses on a daily-basis, and for free. Not only does it easily enable us to send messages to one another and keep track of what our friends are up to—including viewing their photographs and contact information—it also enables predators to find and research potential victims. How can you know who has really added you as a friend? How can you be certain of the identity of this person?

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