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Books I Very Strongly Recommend

15th May 2014

This is a list of some books which I have read over the last year or two which I strongly recommend, to the point where I think everybody SHOULD read them. If I were a teacher or lecturer I would put these books on the reading list ranked among the actual topic I was teaching, […]

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A Tension in Modern Life

6th February 2014

Humans as a species have been around for quite some time. Now sure, in the grand scheme of the universe it’s barely noticeable, but compared to how long our individual lives are, it’s a pretty long time. A quick glance at wikipedia suggests between fifty and a hundred thousand years ago (and former humanoid things […]

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Ich bin Sitzpinkler

7th November 2013

Part of the inspiration for this post came from seeing an advert for a German house-share which said that men are welcome so long as they are tidy and are Sitzpinkler. As I’ve mentioned before (link to Intl Diff post), German has compound nouns. One such word is Sitzpinkler – meaning “someone who pees sitting […]

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Our way is the old way

14th October 2013

I just executed a cockroach. The kitchen we’ve got has a cockroach infestation, but we can’t do much about it because the cupboard they’re in is locked shut and inaccessible. As I came home today, I saw one on the floor. I knew I had to kill it, but I’m not a fan of bugs […]

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First Post

9th September 2013

This is the first post to the blog (see more on the ‘About’ page if you want an introduction) and I wasn’t sure what to put in it. I realised I was going to have to share it on facebook and thought about putting an apology in it that I was going to spam people, […]