30 Jul 2007
Anya
from Buffy hated rabbits. [sings]
“Bunnies aren’t as cute as everyone supposes.
With their floppy ears and twitching little noses…..”
So back to the rabbids. Click for more pics.
Have fun.
Mwow mwow
Visitors did come and visit. And it was good.
Rebecca and Matt showed up at my place. The first stop of their week long tour of England. Sadly they turned up very late on Saturday so I had the rest of Sat to get out of the way first.
Luckily P and C were up for a bike ride. One surprise was P on 2 wheels rather than his Coker but never mind. So off to D’s which is mainly uphill and a good 7 miles or so. Clurb has never been on such a ride so bless her she struggled a touch and was a little red at the end of the ride. All that way to find D sitting on a dining chair in the middle of his lounge playing Asteroids. All that money and finery and he was playing asteroids! What’s going on there then?
Coming back was great ‘cos we just freewheeled it most of the way. Lovely. Then for BBQ later which D had to supply literally everything for since P and C are pretty much all boxed up ready to move. Nyum.
Sunday me, Rebecca and Matt wandered for a decent walk along the canal to Watermead Park which took us a good 90 minutes and then to’t pub. Where P and C turned up (late again) and we did share an variety of good ales and C’s hideous manky one (which did have porn on the label so she wasn’t too disappointed).
From there to Thai place Clurb mentioned a while back for very nice food except for Rebecca’s soily prawns. We didn’t order desserts. Not never gonna order no desserts (from a thai place). Oh and Clurb got a bit racist by giggling at the funny words they call their food. Suk Dong Kok was the best one and had her in peals of giggling.
And wandered home to sleep. And I did sleep well indeed.
So back at work now and busy.
Have fun.
28 Jul 2007
Rabid
There was a cute game for the Wii called Rayman:Raving Rabbids and it wasn’t great BUT it did introduce the Rabbids which are the best characters in gaming for some time. Inevitably there’s to be a sequel and some promo clips are doing the rounds on various sites. Some are dull but this one here is wonderful. One of the funniest little clips I’ve seen for some time.
Have fun.
27 Jul 2007
Third World Country
Ooh this feels like this will be a rant coming.
I’ve just been listening to a debate about Britain’s response to this flooding malarky wots going on.
Cue the idiots phoning in droves. “We can give away huge amounts of money to Bangladesh and Pakistan when they have disasters. So why can’t we do the same for our own?”
This is precisely the sort of lazy imbecility that leads to crap like “You know who the most oppressed minority in Britain is? Working, white men!”
OK so where to start?
Firstly when Bangladesh last had a decent sized flood it covered 60% of the land, displaced millions of people and killed more than 600. All this in a country with very little money, poor infrastructure and wider problems of public health. Hmm? I wonder why they might have needed more help than some middle class folk in Gloucestershire who dealt with their flood by getting grumpy and then finding a hotel room in the next town along. I know I’m over egging this a tad but the point remains. We have the infrastructure, we don’t have the public health issues and we have the insurance back up for the majority of those affected.
How many of the current flood victims would swap their lives for that of a Bangladeshi farmer I wonder? “But they have clearly have it better ‘cos we obviously care more for them ‘cos we’ll send them food aid.” Idiots.
The other annoying thing was all this “We must help all these homeowners”. No we mustn’t. We live in a capitalist country and we’ve consistently voted for capitalism for decades. In other words “Look after yourself matey”. Get your own bloody insurance and don’t expect me to stump up to stop you suffering through your own negligence.
Actually we’re not even that extreme. Taxes will pay for reconstruction and help for the affected areas (which is at it should be as far as public infrastructure is concerned). Good.
Sigh. Still if we’re lucky we might still have time to get some sun in before Autumn.
Have fun.
PS I never thought I’d say it but I’m so pleased I’m not going to Athens for EJC. Not sure how much I’d enoy camping in 45degree heat.
26 Jul 2007
Baddies can be helpful
Can’t be the only Nintendo fan who’s been tickled by the water companies bringing out “bowsers” to alleviate the chronic water shortages in the flooded towns of Gloucestershire and beyond.
Made me titter it did.
Bi-sick-al race
Seems that for the second year running the Tour of France is screwed by drugs cheats (and that bloke who had a blood transfusion just before the stage he won the other day – oops). Who would have thunk it?
It is a shame that the sporting event that has the most live spectators attend has to put up with this rubbish. Even if it is mainly in France.
Will it survive? Sponsors are pulling out from supporting both the race and the competing teams. Punters who are interested are not bothering no more. And floaters like me are less likely to give a monkeys.
Now I like tradition so it’s a bleedin’ shame.
But the question now is “should sport be drug assisted”? Why not? Beyond the obvious infertility of steroid abuse, cycling for sport creates infertility anyway so there’s nowt new there. Ah yes those pesky long term effects of steroid abuse. Any worse than long term abuse of the body by elite level training. Well yes but they’re both quite bad – ask any footballer over the age of 50 how their knees are.
Drugs or no drugs? You decide [geordie accent needed there].
22 Jul 2007
Bunch o’pics
Nowt too flashy but some pics from Chester and this weekend at my parents’ place for my brother’s birthday.
20 Jul 2007
Nothing exciting
What a dull month this is then.
So little happening that Clurb’s not written ‘owt for a month, no juggling done, no conventions, no sun, no excitement. Ho hum.
Cheers t’Void and Az for Bungay vids. Was thinking about next year’s and decided that I’ll prolly go for the majority again.
Crawley? Wasn’t going to go but the show sounds good and there’s bog all else happening in the convention scene round here (that doesn’t entail me taking non-existant annual leave to get to) and the show does sound pretty good. Haven’t seen the Gandini’s perform for a few years now. Might sleep in the car this year if I do go tho’. The tent wasn’t worth the hassle of putting up. Did I mention that the show sounds quite good?
Is anything exciting happening?
PS apart from someone searching for “ouendaaaan” and getting to my site.
17 Jul 2007
Misrepresentation
When it happened to me on someone’s blog a while ago I was livid. How then must Tom Reynolds feel about his double page spread in the Mail yesterday (here).
Turns out he didn’t actually write the piece but a journalist did after a conversation a while back.
The Mail misrepresenting someone? Never.
16 Jul 2007
Winner
Finally I’ve won something. Odd though that it’s something I’ve never entered.
I’ve had a few Nigerian scam emails but today I’ve had my first “Spanish Lottery Win” letter through snail mail.
I’ve apparently won €615,810.00 in their random draw international draw thingy.
If anyone fancies taking my winnings for me then send this guy a few million faxes and keep phoning him up so he at least earns his ill-gotten gains.
Oscar Fernandez, Foreign Operations Manager Tel: 0034-657-674-495 or send him lots and lots of faxes on 0034-911-414-350.
He might be keen to know that these details and his letter and return form (which oh so incidentally would contain enough for them to steal my identity (although they got my middle name wrong) such as names, and occupation of both me and next of kin) have been passed onto the local police for their fraud team to investigate.
Wanker.