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[Dr Joseph Roche, of the Science Gallery, Dublin]

A boffin from County Kildare,
Says that he wants to boldly go where,
No one’s been before,
A whole world to explore,
But it’s one-way, which seems quite unfair.

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Pic: Joseph Roche

Over to you Andy…

For much of my career, reading The Guardian was used as one of the most powerful symbols of how I was supposed to be weirdly different. Pathetic, really. It gave substance to the gossip that I was homosexual: Guardian reader equals gay boy. Some people really thought that added up.
Andy Townsend got on the bus to a game and saw me reading the paper, picked it up and said he wanted to look at the sport. He threw it back down a couple of seconds later. “There’s no f***ing sport in here,” he said. The rest of the lads laughed.

Graeme Le Saux: How Gay Slurs Almost Wrecked My Career (The Times, 2007)

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Screenjunkies‘ series of medically accurate Honest Action Movies continues with the trauma inflicted on the Wet Bandits by that malicious little bastard Kevin McCallister.

Previously: How Hard He Died

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Artist Seung Yul Oh creates sculptures of traditional Korean noodle dishes, using synthetic resin to extend the ‘noodle stream’ three and a half meters high.

Otherwise, those chopsticks would just be hovering there.

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