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7 Reasons to go to The Cinema

7 Reasons to go to The Cinema

1.  You are a basketball scout. Where better to find abnormally tall people to play in your team?  They’re always at the cinema, usually in the seat immediately in front of you. 2.  Gauge your normality. When, during the scalping scenes in Inglourious Basterds, the rest of the audience are gasping, groaning, covering their eyes and looking away while you’re grinning and thinking, “Cool!” you learn that there is probably something...

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7 Reasons Andrew Strauss Should Win Sports Personality of the Year

7 Reasons Andrew Strauss Should Win Sports Personality of the Year

  1.  Mess.  At the start of the summer the England cricket team was in a mess. They were a team still reeling on the back of coach-captain issues and defeat to the West Indies. Not a productive environment to be in. But somehow Strauss led them out of the darkness and into the light. From zeros to heroes. From ashes to, erm, Ashes. 2.  Form.  The general rule with captains, and certainly English captains, is that when you take over,...

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7 Reasons You Shouldn’t Shave (for men).

7 Reasons You Shouldn’t Shave (for men).

Thinking of shaving?  Don’t bother, it’s a pointless waste of time and your life will be improved by not doing it.  Here’s why: 1.  You are on the run. No one that goes on the run shaves.  Saddam Hussein – Beard.  Radovan Karadzic – Beard.  Harrison Ford in The Fugitive – Beard.  I don’t know why the authorities don’t draw beards on wanted posters.  Fugitives always stop shaving.  Why not...

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7 Reasons For 7Reasons.org

7 Reasons For 7Reasons.org

1.  Enjoyment. We’ve been running our 7 Reasons blog for a while now.  We really enjoy it, and other people have been enjoying it too.  We want to keep on enjoying. 2.  The name. The blog was called 7reasons-sevenreasons.blogspot.com as this was the best name we could get on Blogger.  That’s a seriously rubbish name, it’s totally unmemorable and we want to make a 7Reasons.org mug.  If we’d made a...

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7 Reasons Why Songwriting Is Easy

7 Reasons Why Songwriting Is Easy

1.  Tackle Dangerous Ground. You can take two areas that should just not work together, i.e.: sex and fire, and merge them. You couldn’t show two people having a fondle on a bonfire in a TV show, but you can write a song called Sex On Fire and it’s fine. 2.  Huge Creative License. You can call something something when it’s not actually that something. Alanis Morissette’s Ironic for example. “It’s like rain...

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7 Reasons You Will Win The Pub Quiz

7 Reasons You Will Win The Pub Quiz

1.  You know that in 1975 there was a number one single whose title wasn’t in the lyrics. Bohemian Rhapsody. And you know this was replaced at number one by the song whose title was a lyric in Bohemian Rhapsody. Mamma Mia. 2.  You know which area of London has six consecutive consonants in its name? Knightsbridge. 3.  You know which member of your family is an anagram of ‘Woman Hitler’. Mother-in-law. 4.  You know which...

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