Category: Humour
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A few times on this blog I have mentioned the fact that I do martial arts. I have mentioned it because it is true. Hence…
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We’re now three weeks into my blogging renaissance, which I think is far enough in that I really should stop drawing attention to how many…
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These shoes were made for walkingWhich for most shoes is largely trueThough some were made for runningBut you can walk in those ones tooSome shoes…
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Another Thursday, another deep dive into the archives. This is the 5th ever post on James Proclaims and clearly I was on something of a…
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Mini Proclaims is sitting next to her sister, consuming frozen empty calories on a lolly stick and watching the same empty content her sister so…
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My blog resurgence appears to be going well. I’m back with my second Sunday Summary, which suggests I have something to summarise. Which is excellent…
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Friday is here once again Which is the day I ordain To write a poem or rhyme For tis a fine paradigm Of course any…
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It wasn’t my intention, when I started doing this Throwback Thursday malarkey, to just sequentially repost all of my old posts in order, but it…
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Barber waiting roomSelf esteem is advertisedBut not guaranteed.
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I appear to have started blogging regularly again. Which is possibly good news if you like the kind of things I write. It possibly isn’t…
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I used to write poems a lotThen for a while I did notBut I thought I might try againAnd I have decided when Each Friday…
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The reproachful look on the face of the Tesco delivery driver made me die a little inside. There he was, punctual, friendly and efficiently providing…
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Mini Proclaims’ singing might be better described as ‘enthusiastic’ rather than tuneful, but one can surely not fault her effort. Indeed, so compelling is her…
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Oh, here he comes, the ‘podcaster’. Too high and mighty for the blogging community now, is he? You’d be forgiven for making that assumption. I…
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I’ve not been here for a while. I haven’t forgotten my little blog, although I have been inconsistent at updating it for a few years…
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As I write this it is the 3rd day of 2026, and a Saturday morning, but as I’m using my phone for the initial draft,…
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Hello 2026! I have high hopes for you. Then again I had high hopes for 2025. And 2024. And all the other years that have…
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Ever since this blog has existed, I have managed to produce some sort of review of the year on the 31st December. I almost didn’t…
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As I write this, it is still very much Christmas Eve, but as with all of my ‘Christmas Day Messages’ this will hit the blogosphere…
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‘Tis the day before Christmas, a day which also goes by the epithet of Christmas Eve. While one does occasionally happen upon advent calendars bestowed…
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The original incarnation of Black Christmas may not have fully stood the test of time but when you consider that it was made in 1974,…
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If at all possible, I do like to try and get at least one film into my advent calendar that was released in the year…
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Spider-Man movies are, as a general rule, fairly popular with audiences and critics alike. But as good as many of the live-action movies have been,…
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2023’s ‘straight-to-Netflix’ comedy Family Switch is objectively quite a bad film. Taking the parent-child body swapping trope and extending it to a whole family is…
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1995’s Money Train is not a movie I caught at the time of its release, although it very much ticks all the boxes in terms…
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As much as I enjoy watching a movie, one aspect of cinema I often lament is just how long some films are. I often think…
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Given that it was the seventh adaptation of the original novel, it could have been argued in advance that the world didn’t really need Greta…
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Whatever the merit’s of 2000’s The Family Man, and there are some, I am always troubled by a film which engages in the concept of…
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Appreciation of 2012’s Ted is quite possibly dependent on whether or not you can tolerate the relentless nature of writer/director Seth MacFarlane’s approach to comedy.…
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2016’s The Accountant is not really a film about accountancy but accountancy (of an admittedly implausible variety) does feature in the plot. Fortunately, so too…
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Regular readers of my annual festive countdown (if indeed such people exist) may be aware that I generally enjoy the kind of movies, which don’t…
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