Editorial
I’ve recently taken up running. I hate exercise, I don’t enjoy it, it hurts and every body part I have jiggles and turns purple. At home I ran round a…
Flipside
My First Time
It’s the first snow day, It’s the first issue of term and it’s my first editorial at Flipside. This means I’m got another notebook from paperchase, I’ve got another gmail…
Hey baby, come back to my place and I’ll show you _______ Answer: Cards Against Humanity
Imagine yourself in a circle, surrounded by your friends, or at times strangers, eating a sandwich* Well there you have it the beginning of a beautiful friendship. The box is…
Get Out Of My Chair
I am a third year. I have survived freshers’ alcoholism and carefree nature. I have survived the increasing turmoil of living out and actually being in charge of societies. I…
Lola Gets a Cold
Lola wasn’t feeling very well. One day, Lola got all sniffly and started sneezing! ‘I bet I have a cold like Auntie has, I’d better tell her’ thought Lola. Lola’s…
Some Notes on Acting
Looking Why do we like watching people act? Goethe says we like looking. ‘Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less than looking.’ If the actor is good, you see…
Editorial
A Valediction: No one will mourn This will be my last editorial. Having consistently failed to make anyone laugh, I thought it was only right that I should leave you…
The Subconscious of Comedy
Having been a cult hit on student radio this week, albeit with my Nan and the drunk guy on table 11 at Lloyd’s, I felt empowered to trawl through unaccustomed…
Curlew Man Vs Phantom Rah, Part 3 of 3
A Durham Comic A mysterious thieving rah is targeting Durham’s wealthy. Can a Yorkshire superhero with the powers of a curlew, a large wading bird of the sandpiper family, with…
The Brain in the Train
East Coast Philosophy You know how it goes – you’re standing in some dark student garden with your friends, or if you’re a fresher, round the back of one of…