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  • 7 Reasons To Experience A Simple Pleasure

    7 Reasons To Experience A Simple Pleasure

    7 Reasons is, by and large, a humour site. At least that’s what we like to think. You may have noticed that occasionally we divert from this, although it must be said that half the time it is probably not that intentional. Today, you’ll be pleased to hear though, it is. So there’s no need to laugh. I was walking back from Tesco the other day when my phone vibrated in my pocket. It got me thinking about simple pleasures. I know what you are thinking, but no, it wasn’t that kind of pleasure. Well it was, but that’s not what I am talking about. It was a text from someone and it made me smile. And I thought to myself, while stubbing my toe, that sometimes it’s the simplest things in life that are the best. So, if you want a simple pleasure today, try these.

    1.  Tea. There is nothing quite like a cup of tea. Nothing. Despite what 50% of the 7 Reasons creative force say. A good cup makes you go ‘Ahhh’. Ahhh-ing is the ultimate simple pleasure. Unless it’s…

    2.  Confectionary. There is nothing quite like the satisfaction you get from biting all the chocolate off a Kit-Kat finger without breaking the biscuit. Or letting a Rolo melt in your mouth without giving into the temptation to bite in to it. Or getting a Malteser stuck up your nose. Unless it’s…

    3.  Displaying Knowledge. There is nothing quite like answering a question no one else knows the answer to. Especially when you declare your answer with, ‘I know this! I’ve done it! It’s sodomy!’. Unless it’s…

    4.  Finding Treasure. There’s nothing quite like putting your hand in your pocket to find a forgotten pound coin. Or a five pound note. Or that you’ve got someone else’s trousers on. Unless it’s…

    5.  Child’s Play. There is nothing quite like walking past an empty playground, looking around to see if anyone is about and then quickly nipping over to the swing for one last ride. And then trying to jump off and forgetting to let go. Unless it’s…

    6.  Winning/Insulting The French. There is nothing quite like finding you can use the last couple of letters on your scrabble rack to spell the word ‘Francophobia’. Unless it’s…

    7.  Unexpected Research Results. There is nothing quite like researching for the most popular simple pleasures and being presented with the website SimplePleasure.org.uk. And then clicking on the link and discovering it’s a site for sex toys. Just as your housemate enters your room to ask you a question.

  • Russian Roulette Sunday: 7 Reasons You Found Us

    Russian Roulette Sunday: 7 Reasons You Found Us

    Visitors mean a lot to websites.  Visitors are their oxygen. We are no different. At 7 Reasons we like to breath. And we’re not doing too badly on that account, thanks for asking. In the past seven days thousands of people have popped by, either because they are regular visitors or because they have typed something into Google and 7 Reasons has appeared in the search results. All are welcome. Well, nearly all. We’d be lying if we said 7 Reasons hadn’t opened our eyes to the amount of weirdoes that own a computer. There aren’t many, but there are enough. 50% of whom really need to be recaptured very soon. So, in the last seven days, here are the most random, mind-boggling and disturbing phrases people have searched for. And if you want to know where they turned up, just click on the link. Oddly, I don’t think it was quite what they were looking for because no one left a comment or used the rating system.

    1.  “Meeting Arrive Sweat Enter Room Embarrassing Business” – 7 Reasons To Become An Artist

    2.  “James Martin Chef Nude Picture” – 7 Reasons To Cycle Naked

    3.  “Australian Open 2010 Spectator Excrement” – 7 Reasons To Hate Pigeons

    4.  “MP Moustache Deep Diving” – 7 Reasons You Shouldn’t Wear A Tie

    5.  “Break Wind Sideways Male Female” – 7 Reasons To Be A Bond Villain

    6.  “Penis White Peeling” – 7 Reasons You Shouldn’t Wear A Tie

    7.  “How Many Pasty Shops In Bolton?” – Guest Post: 7 Reasons To Love Bolton

    We don’t know why people searched for any of these things, but as we feel a duty of care towards all of our readers, here is some advice.

    1.  Seek medical help.

    2.  Seek psychiatric help.

    3.  Seek medical help.

    4.  Resign from your job at the brothel, madam.  There are some things that no one should have to do.

    5.  Seek medical help.

    6.  Seek medical help urgently.

    7.  Just go out and count them Brad.

    We take the problems of our readers seriously.  If anyone needs any advice, on anything, feel free to ask us using the comments section.

  • 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 7reasons-sevenreasons.blogspot.com mug it would be huge and useless for drinking coffee from. Its size would mean that it was only suitable for the sort of unsophisticated chap who thinks that drinking an enormous quantity of tea is a good idea.

    3.  Help. 7 Reasons is basically a self-help guide, so people deserve to find it.  The catchy new name should help them do this.  It’s help (non-self).

    4.  Blogger. We had quite a few issues when using Blogger as a host.  We would often discover that when we viewed our meticulously crafted posts on the blog, that they had been re-spaced and re-sized, that the font style had changed with bold type often randomly added.  We found that undoing this was rather tricky and time-consuming.  We also found that it was often difficult to log in.  On the day that we launched the blog, for example, neither of us could log in to post our debut list.  This sort of thing was unacceptable and we hope that with our own site we can eradicate this sort of issue.  In fairness to Blogger, I should point out that their services are free and that the co-authors of this website both continue to host their personal blogs there.

    5.  New Stuff. Now that we have our own site, we have a huge scope for new functions and features.  We’re going to be tinkering and adding new stuff as we go along.  We’re not sure what yet, but it will be new and it will be stuff.  We’d love to hear suggestions.

    6.  Email. Our old email address was, like the old site name, large and unmemorable.  Our new email address is [email protected], which is a vast improvement.  Consequently, we expect to receive more emails from readers, with their suggestions for topics, for website features and functions and (we really hope this happens) complete 7 Reasons lists.  We know that you’re erudite and funny, we read the comments.  Why not have a go yourself?

    7.  The World. Hitler wanted to take over the world, we do too.  We see this as the next stage in our quest for world domination.  7 reasons that Marc and Jon should run the world, there’s an idea…