20th Century
A History of Pop Music – 1955
Featured song: Bill Haley & His Comets with “Rock Around the Clock”. This is a series of articles looking at pop music from 1955 when in my opinion proper pop music began up to 1999 [more…]
Articles by Philthetestmanager
Arts
The Darwin Awards
Named in honour of Charles Darwin, the father of evolution, the Darwin Awards commemorate those who improve our gene pool by removing themselves from it. Some of you will be familiar with the Darwin awards, [more…]
Philosophy
Way too many people
The prologue: At the dawn of agriculture, about 8000 B.C., the population of the world was approximately 5 million. Over the 8,000-year period up to 1 A.D. it grew to 200 million (some estimate 300 [more…]
Arts
KODI – Revised
First of all, apologies to those of you who find an article with loads of pics a pain. I have done this as most of us are reasonably computer literate, but not all, and when [more…]
Cooking
The Bacon Sarnie – By Chris P Bacon
Following on from my article on the Sausage Butty (The Sausage Butty), and the many requests for a follow up (well one, thanks Hogz), I have decided to put pen to paper and write about [more…]
Cooking
The Sausage Butty
What is the best sausage butty? It is a question I hear a lot. Most recently from Gotham must be destroyed of this parish who is often at the forefront of discourse on this esteemed site. So [more…]
History
Where did that phrase come from? Part Two
I thought it might be nice to jot down a few more of the history of some of the many phrases we use in everyday life. Some you may know, others could be new to [more…]
History
Etymology – The Origin of Words
There are many words and phrases we use every day, and I became fascinated with the history of where these came from, especially if it arose from a military background. The definition of etymology from [more…]
Health
Incontinence – Urination
This is not going be easy writing about this. However, as a challenge, I was asked about writing an article on this by Judas was paid. I have no idea why he requested it. Sorry, but [more…]