By Nick J. Thorpe

When was once the final time you attempted anything actually new?
the fashionable international is filled with percentages, adventures and pleasure but additionally workouts. The day-by-day grind could make us ignore the previous as we embody the monotony of the latter. it may be demanding to extract ourselves from the comforting embody of our favorite television programme, nutrition or jumper.
For one guy, the boredom of this very sleek existence turned an excessive amount of to endure. And so he challenged himself to take care of it. beginning small, his venture quickly grew into one life-changing yr. fifty two New issues is the tale of 1 guy who determined to place down the Monster Munch, swap off the television and do anything assorted. He travelled, he danced, he flew, he drove throughout continents, yet most importantly, he begun announcing definite to the hilarious and bewildering stories that existence has to provide. And he has the Christmas unmarried, the tattoo and absence of physique hair to end up it.
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Feel almost giddy with anticipation. Then a bit sick from hunger. 58pm – I have divided the takeaway menus into a structured system of ‘Yes’, ‘No’ and ‘Maybe’. I have then subdivided each category into its relative cuisines and applied a propriety ranking system to each. 01pm – I have decided it’s going to be Chinese. 02pm – No, Indian. 03pm – No … definitely Chinese. 05pm – Chinese. Definitely. 06pm – Decide to pre-order from the Italian place. When I ring them and they ask what I want, I panic and realise I haven’t decided.

I asked. ‘If you mean ready for th—’ I didn’t get any further. American novelist William Faulkner once said that given the choice between pain and nothing, he would choose pain. Sadly old Bill Faulkner lived in the early 1900s when wax was just used for candles and making moustaches look tremendous. Had he been around long enough to experience solidified wax being ripped off one of his gonads he probably would have chosen the painless experience of nothing every time. It is hard to describe what it’s like to have the hairs ripped out of your balls by their very follicles.

I have a splitting headache and cannot concentrate on anything for any length of time. So I decide to watch a movie. 30pm – 25 minutes into Brandon Lee’s The Crow and two characters are eating a hotdog. On my knees in front of the TV, I am eating along with them. This is food porn. 32pm – Ah, there’s been an explosion. Thank god. Look, they are running away from the hotdog van now. 35pm – NOW THEY ARE MAKING FRIED EGGS! I turn the film off. 40pm – A run. That’ll take my mind off feeling this hungry.

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