Category: other stuffs [sic]

  • Dance

    To some people dancing comes naturally. To me it comes supernaturally. That’s right, fasten your seat belts because this post is about to take a nose dive directly to a more academic style of prose. “I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance.” – Friedrich Nietzsche1 Dancing is typically thought of […]

  • 2000, a great vintage

    Vague memories of literal and metaphorical squibs. But there are other relics of the millennium and today I will be talking, mostly, about websites. If websites were rated according to their proper metric, that is, by number of fonts used per page, then my first foray into the internet would surely be the winner1. www.raphman.20m.com […]

  • Embarrassing man makes ok point in argument

    A deeply embarrassing man yesterday punched above his weight and made a number of insightful remarks in a conversation with friends. His long suffering buddies all commented on the unfortunate absence of people to impress when the socially awkward city worker wittily responded to comments made in an article in the Metro newspaper. ‘The article […]

  • America

    America. Land of the free. But are they really free with their little lives, and is it a land at all? America was founded in 1471 by Columbus. Sorry, I mean ‘found’ don’t I. It is basically the best country in the world but sort of not that great given the generally poor build quality […]

  • How to get from where you don’t want to be to where you do want

    I can help you. And by you I mean me (to help you). Hello. Breathe. And breathe good. For you are on your way to a happier you. Go on say it! ‘ME!’. First off, the work place. You know when you just feel like your boss sucks? You just want to run outside and […]

  • Story time 3

    There is one thing that can be derived from first principles and that is that Squibble Bobble, the peculiar little alien, likes grub. He went in to the nearest grub shop which in this instance was a bakery. Gregg’s bakery. “Hello”. “What’s going on, who said that?”. Squibble Bobble is just two inches small and […]

  • Story time 2

    Squibble Bobble is a strange little alien. He struggles to make friends and is a little simple alien. He walked up to an old man and gave him a buttercup. “What is that strange little alien doing giving me a buttercup”. That was a pretty standard response to be fair and truthful, and very common […]

  • More man more dog

  • Story time

    “Mister” said a little alien. A simple little alien called squibble bobble. “who is it?”. “It’s squibble bobble mister”. “What want?”. “Grub”. He threw a mouldy old banana out the window for the simple little alien. Squibble bobble gobbled it and hiccuped. “Thanks mister” said squibble bobble who threw the banana skin back through the […]

  • Man with dog

  • Our closest relative

    In primitive cultures they believe the sun is a giant ball of ‘gas’ in ‘space’. We know that it is in fact a yellow circle ‘in’ the sky. The savages say that the earth goes around the sun when in actual fact the sun goes across the sky. Literally look out of your window you […]

  • Grand designs

    Dear Grand Designs team, I have designed what I believe to be the perfect house. As you are no doubt aware, this is a significant and historical turning point and I am sure you will be keen to check over the blueprints (above). Please call me ASAP RE getting this show on the road. Also, […]

  • Mister Professor A. C. Grayling

    Listen! Love from (and Anthony)

  • Fan mail

    I know what you’re thinkin’, “You’ve got it all Raph, a blog readership approaching double figures… a website… your health”. Well yeah I guess I do have it all but it’s my fans who really put the icing on the cock cake. Take this delightful little offering from the (slightly simple) little boy Jon Baba: […]

  • Disquirrelation

    Animals can be prejudiced too. We will remember them.

  • Jesus et. al.

    A rather risqué look at the current intellectual malaise. I’m basically having a go at offending as many people as I possibly can with this one. That’s right I am showing a wholesale lack of respect for Jesus Christ, Mohammed (first name?), and Richard Dawkins. Alternatively it might just be rather crass and banal. You […]

  • Is science good or shit?

    I can’t decide. Everyone knows the old hack debates about roses looking better to a poet than a scientist or some shit. I’d always written them off but am starting to agree. Who cares what the world is actually like? What has that got to do with me? Genuinely. Stumbled across Blake’s Newton on google […]

  • George

    George Osborne may be a nice guy under it all. Have a good weekend,

  • The old bastard who went to a sweet shop

    The old bastard really knew how to walk into a sweet shop like a bastard. The misery guts walked in and said ‘I want the lot’. The owner, despite this becoming the best day of business in his life, was upset by this. This misanthropic horror requested that all the sweets be put in a […]

  • Gravity

    I’m hoping this will be the first in a series of educational/inspirational videos. Thanks for watching,