If there are people in your life that should keep happy and get the right kind of gifts for it’s the women in your life.  Whether it’s a birthday present for your new girlfriend, a Christmas gift for your wife or a truly thoughtful gift for your mom on mothers day, you need to get it right. Just like our [...]

Are you struggling to find that special Christmas or birthday gift idea for those men in your lives? Sure they have a seemingly endless range of gadgets in their house but believe us when we say; “they want more”.   And if you do it right then you will also get the gift giving love back in return. So what makes [...]

Yes we know Christmas and Birthdays are not just about the wonderful presents that people receive as part and parcel (excuse the pun) of the celebration. Oh yes, we are well aware of the love and sharing attitude that should come naturally to these situations.  But sometimes, we also have to be a tad realistic and try get our little loved [...]

Lady Gaga is more influential than Opera, has a massed millions upon millions of followers on Twitter and ‘likes’ on Facebook and keeps producing more hits than Madonna at her peak. But what makes this global sensation so appealling? Her music is obviously ground breaking in the pop culture industry but Lady Gaga’s fashion ‘ambushing’ of music videos and award ceremonies [...]

Sneakers have been part of pop culture for years, made famous by rappers, athletes and actors.  But it was not always famous feet making sneakers part of pop culture, oh no, they had very humble beginnings.  It is believed that sneakers were invented by a London Police officer who developed a rubber soled shoe to “sneak” quietly up on criminals. There are so [...]

The Kindle has become a phenomenon since launching back in November 19th 2007.  Initially written off as a fad that would never last it has grown from strength to strength every year.  In an attempt to fight off it’s competitors (Apple’s Ipad etc), Amazon has even starting signing up Authors for exclusive Kindle Deals via their attractive and every increasing royalty rates.

Have you been the victim of cheap, crappy and completely unwanted Christmas gifts or are you that tight ass little son of a gun who takes pleasure in dealing them out?  Well there has been a concerning trend over the past few years in crappy gifts and this post aims to expose those shitty presents that make your Christmas a [...]

A couple of the team at The Quick Ten have just recently gone through the process of buying a house.   During this process it seemed they had dealt with some interesting real estate agents whom they entered into a seemingly ongoing psychological battle with.  Therefore we have used their experience as inspiration for this Top Ten as on so many occasions they [...]

The most enjoyable responsibility of a groom’s best man is to ensure that the stag night or weekend, is one to be recounted for years to come; perhaps even made into folk songs. No stag ‘do’ is complete without capers and pranks. The sole purpose of these often juvenile stunts is to embarrass the groom for the amusement of the [...]

With all the 3D movies coming out these days it does make us think about some of the great movies that could have been done (and maybe still can be done) in 3D.   Whilst this list might be slightly bias to our own tastes it could be the start of something big….maybe the movie producers will listen to The Quick Ten [...]

You are starting to get itchy feet again but are a little strapped for cash right now. So you need a country to visit that is not going to cost you the world to visit but you can still scratch that itch and have a blast. Well this is the Top Ten List for the Cheapest Countries to visit from [...]

Coming into the new year and out of the holiday season, most people will no doubt begin to slowly slide back into their stress filled lives.  For those of you who don’t get stress then you are a lucky minority, however for others it’s an everyday occurrence.  So we thought we had better compile a helpful Top Ten list of way’s [...]

2009 has been a great year for comedy with some really unique series coming to the forefront. Some classics have managed to stay in the top ten purely based on their brilliance and down right willingness to abuse anyone and everyone. You can rest assure that the recommendations below caused a bit of a stir in the office and it [...]

Welcome to the very first post for this special little category of “The Quick Ten Recommends”. We aim to bring you the best of the best or worst of the worst depending on the type of recommendation. So to kick things off we thought we would start with the  Top Blockbuster Movies of 2009 as voted and recommended by the [...]