I‘m sorry to have to be the party pooper here. This list so far has been all fun and games. Gnoming, Sleeping Around, Spending Your Money; what more could you want? But unfortunately, that’s not why you’re at university. At some point in your Uni career / 3-year-long...

  Games are meant to be fun, hence the age-old expression ‘it’s all fun and games!’ But sometimes, game designers lose track of their roots and create such abominations that send grown men (/ me) crying to their mums. There are a lot of famously impossible arcade style...

  University is a social haven for first years; no-one knows anything about you, you can start afresh and make new first impressions (But bear in mind this may turn you into that guy). University is also a place where people hook up. Multiple times. So why not push the boundaries of...

  Hello there. You don’t know me, and I hardly know you. But I’m going to follow you, and read what you say, and message you as well. There’s nothing you can do about it. Hope that’s okay.   Welcome to Twitter.   The idea of it all sounds like someone with severe...

  Gnoming is an art. Few possess the guts, nerve, persistence, stamina or stupidity to emerge victorious from a round of gnoming. I however, would not hesitate to label myself as one of the all time greats. As a pioneer of the naked gnome, I frequently push the boundaries of what is...

  Firstly, I feel it necessary to say that this article isn’t intended as some sort of racist rambling with patriotic western undertones. Nope, it turns out that Iraq has been acknowledged by a company called Mercer to be the worst place to live in the whole world, and for good...

  The Pursuit of Happyness is a wonderfully uplifting story about a down-on-his-luck man working his ass off in order to give the best life possible to his son. Chris Gardner (played by Will Smith) undergoes many terrible hardships such as being homeless, being poor, and being hit by a...

  I think that deep down, most people would jump at the opportunity to live in a jungle / rainforest. You probably think it would be a wonderfully synesthetic experience, much like that scene from Avatar, only a bit less deathy. However, you are very much mistaken. The horror and chaos...

  More like ‘The Anti-Social Network’   Facebook. Most of us use it and rely on it, and the rest have probably switched to Twitter. The Internet phenomenon in question is the subject of a film brought out in 2010, ‘The Social Network’, which claims to be the...

  Following on from the previous entry in the series, one could quite viably claim North Korea to be a somewhat dreamy place to reside in comparison. An abundance of brilliant commodities such as breathable air, local shops and water supply makes North Korea worthy to only the most noble...

  Films these days are usually pretty good, but do you know what makes them even better? Slapping the phrase ‘Based On A True Story’ somewhere on the movie poster. They may as well write ‘Filled With More Awesome’ as the phrase seems to be enough to send most...

  In life, there are mysteries. Some more mysterious than others. The rest, less so. Out of all of them, the infamous (not famous at all) Valentich Disappearance makes me gnash my teeth so hard in confused nervousness that I’m surprised my lower jaw hasn’t yet escaped...

  There aren’t many jobs that suck on every level imaginable but unfortunately, chimney sweeping is one of them. Now I’m not talking about modern day sweeping, because that there’s some pussy shit. As Dizzee Rascal once infamously proclaimed: “Don’t make me...

  I have put these two diaries together as I wish to make the same point about both of them; they are written by fictional characters. Whilst I could praise the fact that these imaginary people are able to both write AND publish their works, I would rather pity the two authors whose own...

  Think of a time when you won an award at school. Maybe it was a long time ago, maybe it was just last week, but either way you were very happy indeed. Unless of course you have never won an award, in which case you are probably very upset. Nonetheless, for the purposes of this...

  In early 1959, a group of experienced mountain climbers and hikers decided to go for a mountain climb, and hike. Not the most exciting of news, but don’t worry, it gets better. The hike took place in the “Ural Mountains”, which are henceforth to be known as the...

  I would love to meet the inventor of the self service machine. I would congratulate him for creating a machine that can turn adults into quivering wrecks and has guaranteed me a ticket straight to hell. Read on to found out more!   Come on now, who actually uses those things?...

  Ashley Cole is a footballer who played for Arsenal then Chelsea, and has even been named one of the best players in the world. However, anyone who frequents Stamford Bridge will inevitably be aware of the chants aimed in his general direction. So how could this Stepney born...

  Although at this early stage, we have barely made our way past the title, I am sure many of you are feverish with anticipation, since this is a story about a lady, and she was, indeed, toxic.   On February 19th, 1994, Gloria Ramirez was admitted to hospital with respiratory and...

  This is probably the most extensive diary on the list in that an entry was penned daily for ten whole years, but it just so happened to capture perhaps the most exciting decade of Early Modern Era. Pepys was a witness to events including, but not limited to, the Second Dutch War, The...

  When making scientific discoveries, it is normal practise to apply Occam’s Razor; this says that one should always select the simplest hypothesis or the one that relies on the fewest new assumptions. If Occam’s Razor was applied to interpreting the WOW! Signal, it would prove the...

  The world is filled with inhospitable places that no man, woman or creature should ever have to live in. However, thanks to our natural human arrogance, we constantly strive to prove Mother Nature wrong. “Damn you and your incessant burning, Volcano, I just want to live in you” is...

  It would be naive to suggest that we humans could ever have a full understanding of our universe as there is always something new and unpredictable just around the corner. For example, Bill Gates suggested that no one would ever need more than 64kB of data. Oh, how we laughed when we...

  Diaries are a medium of communication used by all sorts of people across the globe, from young girls to… well, no, that’s pretty much it. I’m not saying that guys can’t write diaries, but if you do, it’s probably time you sat your parents down and told...