Nick Lang
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Is American news the reason why everybody thinks the Yanks are stupid?
By Nick Lang Watching American TV is a fascinating, and immensely infuriating experience, but it does explain a lot. Yanks get a pretty hard time from almost everyone around the world at the moment, mostly for simply being bloody stupid – I feel that this is unfair (except for ...read more
- Feb 22, 2016
The absurdity of the English language
By Nick Lang The sheer insanity of 'ough' in the English language has on many an occasion baffled every inch of my fragile brain. I just wanted to very briefly demonstrate this with five very different sounding words which comprise of the same fucking letters! Grrrr. I submit ...read more
- Nov 9, 2018
"We went to Iraq coz they bombed us, innit sir?"
One of the greatest things about teaching is that you get to witness first-hand the workings of young minds. As any idealistic teaching recruitment advert will tell you, there is nothing better than seeing a young person grapple to make sense of something, only to grab the fucker ...read more
- Feb 22, 2016
The great Facebook advertising conundrum
By Nick Lang It was only fairly recently that I started to pay any attention to the adverts at the side of my Facebook homepage. I was beginning to wonder why I kept seeing pictures of flowers and dresses out of the corner of my eye each time I changed my Status to something ...read more
- Feb 22, 2016
Reality TV warping reality
By Nick Lang The whole reality TV genre should stop encouraging people not to go out and get lives for themselves. There are people who watch Big Brother all day, send constant messages to Channel 4 in the hope of being momentarily important, and who talk about the ‘characters’ ...read more
- Feb 22, 2016
Film Censorship: This article contains some strong langauage, mild criticism and at least one instance of sarcasm
By Nick Lang It wasn’t so long ago that all a movie trailer had to warn its audience of was any 'Adult Content', yet in today's happy-go-lucky climate this apparently is no longer enough. We are now offered a running commentary in the small print of every ...read more
- Feb 22, 2016
Why does TV hate Bolton?
By Nick Lang I am starting to get the feeling that ITV hates Bolton. I reckon that Channel 5 hates Bolton too. In fact, I genuinely think that the entire world of TV actually hates Bolton. What did we ever do to offend you? I'm starting to take it personally that when English TV ...read more
- Dec 20, 2018