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Lateral with Tom Scott cover image

42: Giant concrete balls

Lateral with Tom Scott

CHAPTER

The Horrors of Stunts

I like the idea of a red ball stunt done in an office or it's like escape corporate life and turn everything into your skate park. I just had a flashback to something I haven't thought about in years, which is an advert that terrified me as a very young child. Go down to YouTube, grab a hold later of old 1980s adverts. That's all I'd say. Some archivist will have put that up on the internet somewhere with an obnoxious watermark over it. Sorry, it's tangent. You've seen the one where John Nokes, Blue Peter, climbs up Nelson's column in Trafalgar Square without any safety harness. And you're like,

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