The Sunderland International Air Show, And Why You Would Be An Idiot To Go

If the Air Show that takes place in Sunderland every year was compared to a national disaster it would be the sordid lovechild of Hurricane Katrina and a really big avalanche. In terms of annoyance, it ranks up there as a wicklow on the index finger of your strongest hand, that you can’t quite get at because your other fingers are essentially five raw sausages flopping around like drunk women on the last bus home.

For those who have the privilege to not know, Sunderland hosts an International Air Show once a year, and bases it right on our “award winning” beach and prom area. Award winning for the amount of chip cartons and gangs of seagulls hanging around on corners, glaring at the elderly and infirm. It apparently brings millions of pounds of tourism into the area for two days and brings the city to an almost stand-still.Continue reading “The Sunderland International Air Show, And Why You Would Be An Idiot To Go”

Jean Grey Is Back, From Outer Space, She Just Walked In To Find You here With That Sad Look Upon Your Face

In the never ending cycle of rejigged ideas, it seems that one of Marvel’s most famous characters (who just happens to be dead), Jean Grey, is going to be back in the land of living sooner than we might think. Not before Eastenders though.

Rumour has it that during the finale of Avengers vs X-Men, Grey will be resurrected and brought back into mainstream continuity after being dead for loads of years.

Whether it’ll be a clone, or Life Model Decoy, or frankly Naomi Watts dressed as Rula Lenska, no one knows, but if the teased bit of art drawn by Marvel supremo, Joe Quesada, is anything to go by, it looks like its definitely a “Marvel Girl.”

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Big Brother, And Why Big Brother Is Back To It’s Heyday

It’s been a hard slog for Big Brother. After being cancelled and sailing into the Eldorado-esque sunset, giving everyone a break for a few years and allowing Davina McCall to do Million Pound Drop, it was resurrected from the dead on the newly revamped, more pornier, Channel 5. Obviously everyone got on their high horse about how it wouldn’t be the same, and that it would retroactively ruin the chequered Big Brother history. But, two series on, these people are not only wrong, but also total bell ends, because Big Brother has never been so good.

This year Big Brother hasn’t pretended to be a high brow and intellectual look at human behaviour, like how Big Brother initially set out to do. It focuses on what people actually want to watch in grand Summer Reality TV events; salacious gossip and reprehensible characters.

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