On the way to and from work each day, I keep being overtaken by these kids gliding past me. The first time I did a double take, but then I realised that they were wearing shoes with wheels in the bottoms of them – a kind of trainer-cum-rollerskate. Judging by the number I’ve seen, these [...]
Just got back from the bookshop I work at where we opened at midnight to sell the new Harry Potter book. I even wore a cape. It was pretty crazy, we had people queuing out the door – and we’re just a small independent bookshop. All the kids were pretty excitable, having been allowed to [...]
The Guardian has published a new special report on the ‘happy slapping’ craze, which I covered a while back in my blog post, which has since become the most popular page on this blog, attracting a staggering 45,000 hits. The guardian article quotes some of the comments people have posted to my blog post (though [...]
This picture is apparently of Tony Blair’s arm sporting a ‘make poverty history’ wristband: Someone shoot me. The point of wearing the band is, surely, as a campaigning device to try and send a message [to the governments of the world] that you want poverty to be stopped. So maybe Blair could commit with actions, [...]
BBC London News reported this afternoon on a new craze amongst London youths: slapping random commuters in the face and filming the result on mobile phones with video cameras. The resulting ‘Happy Slap TV’ clips are then shared amongst friends (via MMS?), causing much hilarity. A psychologist on the programme put some of the blame [...]