STRONGEST BEER EVA

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Makers of FRONT Brew and all round beer-loving legends BrewDog have caused a bit of a boozy stir this week by launching the UK’s strongest ever beer.
Tokyo* comes in a whopping 18.2% abv, which is well over four times as strong as your average bit of hooch, but chief brewing dudes James and Martin (pictured) insist it’s all about the deep flavours, and not just some excuse to get so drunk that you wag your genitals at a local priest, or anything silly like that.

This is no dodgy off-license affair, though, and is only available directly from BrewDog online. Check it out, why don’t ya?

SONISPHERE: NOW JUST THREE SLEEPS AWAY

We’re a mere not-that-long away from heading to Knebworth for Sonisphere, and we’re starting to get excited. We’re going to do another one of those liveblog things like we shambolically tried at Download, and most of us will probably end up joining Metallica and becoming millionaires.
When asked by Metal Hammer how they’d outdo all the other amazing acts to play at Knebworth over the years, Metallica front man and occasional facial hair pioneer James Hetfield said, “To top them will be difficult but we’re going to try by breaking up onstage before I announce that I’m gay.” Good times.

GOOD GRAVY, HOW VERY CLEVER

The internet’s very clever. A clever man on it has been very clever, cutting scenes together from old black-and-white films to create a 1950s version of Ghostbusters starring Bob Hope, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. If you watch it, it seems pretty well done, but watching the frame-by-frame comparison after the jump leaves you a little bit “Holy NARDS that’s been lovingly put together”. Yes, this comes a mere two days after the Back To The Future nerdy comparison thing. We know. Don’t judge us, yeah?
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LEARNING CAN BE FUN PIC OF THE DAY

Via the sexy geniuses at St Mackenzie’s. You probably shouldn’t click on that link in work, unless you really hate your job.

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Um. Isn’t that a bit, er, insensitive? Maybe?

MTB WTF

Look at this wacky champ. His name is Danny MacAskill, he’s from Edinburgh, he’s a team rider for Inspired Bicycles, and he can do things with a mountain bike that make our bums hurt just thinking about them.

Why don’t you go and try some of these stunts, outside, right now? Go on, we’ll stand over here and film you. That’s it, pedal dead fast at that fence. That’s the spirit. Now launch yourself into the air… Up you go… Weeee…

Oh. Ooof. Erm, see y’later, yeah?

IT’S THE WEEKEND, LET’S GET DRUNK, PART 28 OF LOTS

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It’s 24 July, 2009. It’s been a funny week in FRONT towers – we’ve frantically scribbled and cut’n'sticked our way to the new issue, which you’ll be hearing much more about next week, and then pretty much everyone’s sodded off for a long weekend. Honestly, there’s four of us – FOUR – in the office right now. Total words said to each other stands at about 57. We’re all so lonely…

What better way to cure said loneliness, though, than with glorious, sexy alcohol. Who needs friends when you’ve got a pint of chop-juice in your hands on a Friday night, eh? Let’s all get so steaming arse-knuckled, so painfully fuck-faced, so damagingly fart-brained that we start talking to crazy pub strangers, attempting to chat up beautiful ladies and, eventually, talking to our own elbow as if it was a mate we’ve not seen in years. We’ll see you on Monday, but we’ll leave you with a pumpkin being sick, Chucky from the Rugrats, and a woman farting underwater.

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