In addition to using mine as a tool of last resort for picking my nose, I have also used my thumb to save me money, to meet some weird and wonderful people, and to travel from A to B. The latter uses are all wrapped up in my distant past when I used to hitchhike and these memories have encouraged me, many years later, to question whether our distinct lack of appetite for contemporary risk has robbed us of a forgotten piece of our cultural heritage? I am a great advocate of personal safety but then not everyone out there wants to cause us harm, yet I acknowledge that it only takes one psychopath to extinguish our most vital possession. An internet search will undoubtedly cause a chill to shoot up your spine with the Santa Rosa (California) hitchhiker murders between February 4th 1972 and December 22nd 1973 providing a grisly example. In an attempt to provide a sobering counterbalance, there are numerous other ways to die that are significantly more likely. As a retired connoisseur of this mode of social transport, I did it regularly and thankfully never met a crazed ax murderer, or at least if I did, they must have had a day off.
For your entertainment, I will regale you with my antics with the primary intention of making you chuckle. However, I contend that the more we have been exposed to information when arguably assessing risk should be that much easier to do, the further it has perversely robbed us of a spirit of adventure that has made many dismissive of anything that carries any degree of anxiety. I will leave that decision for you to make at the end of this rose-colored spectacles journey that began in 1979 on the outskirts of Brackley, due east of Banbury and north of Bicester.
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CAMBODIA: GENERATION HOPE.
American writer and Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck concluded,“People don’t take trips… trips take people.
A TIME TO DIE...
The venerable Aston Martin DBS makes a shock exit
CHEESE-BURGER & SALAD
The latest Vette has split personalities with a performance overlap
TARGET. DESTROYED.
AUDI’S R8 HITS ITS HEADY RED-LINE FOR THE LAST TIME
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“It’s absolutely f***ing wild… you train all year for it… you need to totally dedicate yourself to it; and that’s if you just want to finish.
THE ART OF BEING UNCOMFORTABLE WITH MATT BROMLEY
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ACTRESS BRINDA DIXIT'S SECRETS
ON HOW TO LAND YOURSELF A LEADING LADY!
BRO'MANCE! THE BEST CO-OP GAMES TO PLAY
Put away your single-player RPGs cause these eight co-op video games are perfect for jamming with your man!
THE SIX WORST GAMES-TO-MOVIE ADAPTATIONS EVER!
With the recent release of The Last of Us, the shackles of bad video game to live action adaptations has been firmly shattered, proving that in the right hands a great video game can become a great series or movie. However, this is a very rare case indeed, as numerous attempts to bring a video game to the screen have been attempted and most of them have failed spectacularly. Here are six of the worst offenders when it comes to bad video game adaptations.
SCREEN TIME WHAT TO WATCH THIS MONTH
Take a break, sit back, put your feet up and enjoy some of our latest entertainment choices to help you escape the everyday things! Come on, you know you want to!
