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What a peculiar game. The object was unclear. One team, made up one gender, would run around the playground trying to catch members the other team, made up of the opposite gender, to give them a little kiss and then run away again.

The strange thing is that the people being chased around genuinely didn’t want to be kissed. (This is the age where the opposite sex is annoying and repulsive and has ‘germs’.) Until the teams were swapped. Then suddenly the team who was being chased are doing the chasing and they are totally keen! Very strange. There would always be a couple of kids who were a little wiser and more mature than others, who realised that one day they were going to feel affection for this mysterious other gender. Those kids would tend to run a little slower, or deliberately back themselves into a corner shouting, “Oh no! Not a kiss from a girl! Gross!”

I love a good T-shirt. A good T-shirt, to me, goes beyond simply covering the parts of your body for which it was designed to. It goes beyond staying intact after multiple washes. It even goes beyond being able to be used as part of a makeshift rope that you might use to shimmy down the side of a jail wall, only to be spotted by the roving spotlight. And no matter how still you stand in that moment, the guards can still see you. Was Jurassic Park lying to us when Dr. Grant said ‘Don’t move. He can’t see us if we don’t move.” He was talking about a dinosaur though.

I’ve lost my train of thought. Dinosaurs. T-Rex. T-shirts!

People use social networking for all different purposes these days. Some use it simply for interacting with people; some use it for marketing, while others use it to raise awareness for a cause. (Think Stop Kony. No comment.) Some videos go ‘viral’, others don’t. It is sometimes hard to understand why a video of a kid waving a stick around can have over 25 million views on YouTube, while a clever blend of two classic films can have as little 1, 500. I’ve rounded up.

I’m tired of walking out of a film I really enjoyed only to have my satisfaction undermined by hearing someone mutter, “well… the book was better.” Yes, the book might have been better for you, but when you’ve finished giving yourself that pat on the back for being literate, perhaps you should consider the following…