Films are great. Films are so great, in fact, that I’ve made a few myself because I enjoy film so much. But you know what’s not always great? The Internet – and that got me thinking: what if some of the major films of history were re-made to be about the Internet. What would a…Read more
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Five Places We Might Discover New Life In The Solar System
Aliens! Where are they all? The Fermi Paradox, originated in 1950, can basically be summarized as “if alien life in the universe is so likely, where the hell is it?” (the original paradox was elucidated in more scientist-like language but we got the general gist of it here). Well, to answer this question, here are…Read more
Five Ridiculous Claims Made By British Politicians
“Children say the darndest things,” as the twee old saying goes but do you know who says more of those “darndest” things than children? Politicians. They come out with some right old claptrap that is easily disproven, yet they get away with it all the time; usually because the people who hear them say it…Read more
Top Five Scariest Saints
There’s no-one more pious and nice to be around than a saint, right? These guys (although they aren’t always guys) are great people, paragons of virtue who lived selfless lives in the service of their God. Well, except for the ones that didn’t, of course. Let’s take a look at five of those who broke…Read more
How To Start Your Own Country
Following my recent article on micro nations, I have had a number of people (two is a number, so it counts) contact me to ask how they can start their own countries. Well I’m happy to announce that the Empire of Jennytopia has recently been created and therefore I am now a 100 percent genuine…Read more
Five ways Technology Will Ruin Law Enforcement
“The law is an ass” cry those who have ever had to deal with law enforcement or the courts; because our justice system is far from perfect. Guilty people walk away scot free all the time, and innocent people spend years in jail for crimes they didn’t commit. Sometimes we even manage to lock up…Read more
Top Five Reasons We Live In A Simulated Reality
Have you ever looked at the news and wondered if anything around you could possibly be real after what you just saw? Maybe it feels like the world just keeps repeating the same mistakes over and over again; or perhaps you’ve realised that there’s no way things could get stranger but whoops! They just did?…Read more
Top Five Reasons My Cat Is Amazing
My cat is amazing, she’s utterly adorable and I’ve decided to talk about five reasons why my cat is amazing for today’s article. I could have written more than five reasons but we’ll stick to just five for today. But before we start, I’d like to make it very clear that I am not being…Read more
Why Is Dark Rey’s Lightsaber Unstable?
Here at the All Over the House Institute for Thinking Too Hard About Pop Culture, we have been pouring over the scant few frames of new information presented in the latest trailer for Star Wars Episode IX: Rise of Skywalker and, well, we have Theories. Specifically, we have theories on what the Dark Side version…Read more
Four Times Parliament Has Been Prorogued
Turning something off and then on again is a common trick for dealing with faulty electrical components in a device but you don’t often associate this troubleshooting process with national governments. We probably should start thinking about it however because the world seems to be going through a bit of upheaval at the moment, so…Read more