Apr
25
2005

its the simple things in life…..

You know you’re living in 2005 when…

1. You accidentally enter your password on the microwave.

2. You haven’t played solitaire with real cards in years.

3. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of 3.

4. You e-mail the person who works at the desk next to you.

5. Your reason for not staying in touch with friends and family is that they don’t have e-mail addresses.

6. You go home after a long day at work; you still answer the phone in a business manner.

7. You make phone calls from home, you accidentally dial “9” to get an outside line.

8. You’ve sat at the same desk for four years and worked for three different companies.

10. Your boss doesn’t have the ability to do your job.

11 You pull up in your own driveway and use your cell phone to see if anyone is home to help you carry in
the groceries.

12. Every commercial on television has a web site at the bottom of the screen.

13. Leaving the house without your cell phone, which you didn’t have the first 20 or 30 (or 60) years of your life, is now a cause for panic and you turn around to go and get it.

14. You get up in the morning and go on line before getting your coffee.

15You start tilting your head sideways to smile.

16 You’re reading this and nodding and laughing.

17 Even worse, you know exactly to whom you are going to forward this message.

18 You are too busy to notice there was no #9 on this list.

19. You actually scrolled back up to check that there wasn’t a #9 on this list

Apr
20
2005

nerd!


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thanks to Thomas for this one.

Apr
20
2005

when will they learn

the following is a post by someone on a fourm i use:

Let’s just keep on track, because you’re so determined to spout lies. I want to see how you defend your position.

Let’s see, you’re trying to find a connection between Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein? Not only have you offered not one shred of evidence, it’s been a widely accepted view that Bin Laden couldn’t stand the sight of Hussein. They have absolutely no reason why they would like each other, they are completely different spirtually and politically.

Furthermore, stop trying to condemn Hussein and feel self-rightous about America in the same damn sentence. It’s a disgustingly hypocritical opinion. Hussein invaded Kuwait on the same principles as why America invaded the Congo, etc., etc.

And please, I beg you, don’t say “It’s my opinion, I’m allowed to have one.” because it pisses me off. This is a debate. You DO NOT say that in a debate. Either defend your position without resorting to rhetoric and lies, or shut up. Danke

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i agreed with this post and was given the following by a dippy american girl:

omg! the two ass above me r fucking tyranny supporters! wtf defending sadaam!!!!!!!!???????????? u guys ar asses, lets put u in a dictator country! IM ALLOWED TO HAVE A FUCKING OPINION YOU ASS FUCKING ARCHAIC PRICKS!!!! GO HANG WITH OSAMA IN HIS CAVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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so my reply was:

WHERE THE FUCK HAVE I SAID I SUPPORT “TYRANNY”? what the hell is so wrong with you, you haven’t a clue have you. i will put it very simply for you, i am against the going into Iraq without justification, as far as i am concerned, you should seek a reason BEFORE, not after you invade. secondly, i do not agree with a few powerful countries bulling others and so think that everything should have been done with the UN’s support. I am of the opinion that 9/11 was self inflicted, as the US has been fucking around in many of the countries in the middle easy for years now and they have just pissed too many people off. are you not aware that many people in the middle east were happy to see 9/11 as they saw it as justice. I also do not agree with you talking as though Sadam had anything to do with 9/11….this is known to be bolocks. I am fed up with stupid Americans (to all those who are not, im sorry to generalise) thinking that they can run the world they way they want to “spreading freedom”. Just because we think democracy is so great does not mean that others think it is. I think that finding a system that works for a country is a very long and slow process which no one should attempt to by-pass or speed up, as this just leads to instability. Iraq was not ready for democracy, hence all the problems they are having. a country like Britain has spend centuries getting to where we are now, and even now it is far from perfect. I agree that Sadam was not a nice guy, but are we better for trying to mess with a country that is not ours…no. I know you have an opinion, and i accept that, i just don’t agree with it, i think you have a very simplistic view of the world, and i think you are very selfish and only look at things from one point of view. As for calling me “ARCHAIC” im not quite sure what you mean. Im not quite sure what you are getting at, my best guess is that you are calling my view archaic, but this is far from true, you are the one who thinks they are correct, i am the one trying to look from several sides of the argument….i will leave you to go figure who is “ARCHAIC”. And finally, i would love to “GO HANG WITH OSAMA IN HIS CAVE”, i think it would be quite interesting to find out what makes him tick and what has him so motivated against America.

please consider you answer carefully, as i get rather fed up of reiterating a previous point several time over

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thanks for reading

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Apr
02
2005

All things aside

Well, there I was having a nice drink with a few friends down the pub…and mid conversation…well, to be honest, it just turned to sex…the subject that is. I still profess that this had little to do with me…I blame Andy. Anyway, so Andy’s friend (who’s name chooses to escape me at this particular moment) was talking about a girl who was, as he put it “quite fit”, and he was saying…(and this is another quote)…”all things aside I wouldn’t say no”. Now I think as the subject was sex, we can assume this was what he meant….for the slow, this would translate what he said to “all things aside I wouldn’t say no to sex with her”. At which point, I (in a particularly pedantic mood) piped up…”well, ‘all things aside’ seems to cover most things, its sort of like saying, ‘yes, id love to have sex with her, despite she is a he, and he is a elephant’…” I was greeted with a moments silence, and then…”hang on a min, your right”. As such, I have decided that it is a really silly saying and should not be allowed….so everyone I know should consider themselves banned from using it…

*end of public announcement*

Mar
24
2005

think about it

If all red, boiled lobsters are dead, and all dead, boiled lobsters are red, does it follow that all red, dead lobsters are boiled?

Mar
19
2005

take the next left…

today…well, yesterday now, i did another pointless thing. On my way back from badminton i decided to take a different route home, in fact, the route i took, took more than twice as long, but i really enjoyed it. This had me thinking…as most things do, a car is all about freedom. now i know this has been said before the world over, but i guess i found this interesting because it want until that moment that i truly understood.

this taking an odd route home has been going on a while now, and all seems to have come from myself and Naomi (who is first mentioned here). we have been lift sharing as we now both drive and discovered we live quite close. she is rather random, and i think most people agree i am, either odd, random, or both, so we make a rather odd pair in the car. so when we were behind someone from badminton in the car who was going the same way, we decided (she suggested, i was driving) to go a different way at the traffic lights just to confuse them. then, going down the road we were now on, we were talking about all the different ways to get home from where we now were, and she just mentioned the left turn i could take…and suddenly…i turned left (scared her a bit)…then the mp3 player stopped (random crash (of it, not the car)), so i pulled over to fix it…then off we went. Then we came a round-a-bout…after a slightly strange route, and decided to go to the village next door to our town, and so we went there, and went to the house of the person who we had followed in the first place…they weren’t there, so we went off round the bypass and home….it was a mini adventure. it is nice just to do something random once in a while…just to keep things interesting

Mar
16
2005

crisps – the great conundrum

While eating my evening cereals (from a bowel) I pondered the following:

When it comes to packets…lets say crisp packets, manufactures always advertise the fact that there crisps come in a foil lined bag which helps keep the crisps fresh. How the hell does this work! From what I understand, crisps stay fresh when they are in an air tight container, and plastic crisp packets are air tight (even the foil lined ones are made of plastic mainly), due to the fact that plastic is oil is based. This is very odd

Mar
16
2005

cornflakes and cars…

it bothers me what i do when im tiered. In the evening i normally have a bowl of corn flakes (this is something my mum started when i came home one evening and asked for a suggestion for something to at, as a joke, my mum said cereals…..and so from that day forward…anyway, back to non brackets land), so i got out the box of corn flakes, un did the clip and picked the box up and started to pour…when, suddenly, i realised that i was trying to pour them into a very tall, thin cup! What the hell was i thinking!

on another note, i have yet again, oh so kindly been reminded by the car that it has a very big engine, so when i pulled out from a standing start from a T junction turning right, i noticed a car coming rather faster than i thought it was, so i put my foot down and dropped the clutch further and faster….result: the rear wheels spun, and the back end of the car came round, and it took ALOT of correction to put the over-steer and the back end in its place…..VERY cool, but methinks more the thing for the track! one of these days i will get a race sorted between myself and a friend naomi. i would love to race her..i’d win 😀 but it would be very fun as she has little fear in a car. i think i will leave to to explain my driving to most….lol

Mar
15
2005

everything hates me – i think it does it cos its evil and thinks its fun

oh sod it, im in a bad mood and i feel like a rant…so off i go to a forum which i seem to be taking over, its called golivewire. i seem to be spending rather alot of time there, and the one time i want to have a good rant and there is NOTHING to rant about! ARGH! i am not impressed. it is late and im tiered and im trying to find a blog script that i can use for my site…i intend to update it and LJ at the same time with the same content…so i find a really nice blog script…and after a bloody long time and via another rant (at ) i find out where to get it…so then i start looking around the site some more and discover that i have to pay for that…my heart sinks….and then…a small amount of good luck..they make a free version (“yay” goes my mind) so off i go to download the thing…as i go to do so, they want my email address so they can feed me spam (as is always the case…so they get one of my addresses for just spam) and away goes the download…10 seconds later, i un-zip the file and put it in my IIS root, only to discover that i havnt got my server set up to run cgi files…and its so late now, and i cant think…im really not in the mood for fixing it now…and i can fix it tomorrow morning as i have to do a report for college, and i cant do it in the afternoon as i have to go to college and i cant do it in the evening as i have a meeting to go to…AAAAAAAARGH! i am not in the mood for this!

Mar
10
2005

i like the first thing in this – tis quite true

The No-Hassle Day Planner for the Clinically Insane by MilesToGo13
Username
This morning, you should… check to see how the guests you keep in the basement are doing, and perhaps refill their water bowl.
Then, after lunch… leap on random pedestrians and demand that your need for piggy back rides be sated, lest you kill again.
Dinner will consist of… a random tourist you happened to run down with your car.
Afterwards, you set off into the evening to… have a drink at your local coffee shop, where you take great joy in unplugging people’s laptops at random and giggling at their misery.
At the height of your madness, you will call boggyb
And the two of you will proceed to… have an intense shouting match that the police will be called to over which chipmunk was Chip, and which one was Dale.
Quiz created with MemeGen!

Mar
08
2005

hmm, well, i cant think of a subject for this….

well today has been a fairly pointless day….

woke up…way too early
went in to work (im a primary schools IT tech on one of my college days off)
discovered there was no point to me being at work as the guy i work with was off sick
went home
sat in front of the computer
noticed i felt crap (head ache and sore throat)
still sitting in front of the computer
ate food
did some boring, pointless stuff
went out to beavers (where im one of the helpers/leaders (this is much harder than it sounds))
got home
ate food
waited till dad got back with the car
drove off to fix a friends computer
came back
landed in front of the computer
…..and now im here.

wasn’t that fun.

On another note, the product referred to here has found its way back into our fridge, and as far as im concerned…it can bloodywell stay there.

Sainsbury’s scamorza cheese and sun dried tomato tortelloni

if you see this product…smite it.

Mar
07
2005

Irreplaceable

On Thursday night a very good friend of mine died. She was a woman at my church who was at one time one of my Sunday school teachers, she was a huge part of the church drama group (which I do techie things for like lights and sound) and a life long friend of my grandparents. She, although she seemed (and acted) very young, was reasonable old (although not the sort of age that she should have died). Last year, or maybe the year before…in fact, thinking about it, maybe even the year before that, she had cancer. She fought this off rather well, and was in hospital recently to have some kind of operation (not quite sure what it was for, but it wasn’t life threatening). She was expected out very soon. While in hospital (I assume) she caught a chest infection and this caused her death on Thursday evening. My question is, why do people have to jump all the big hurdles to fall at the final little ones? I don’t understand this. This seems to happen all the time…just when you think someone is through the worst, just when you think they are getting better, they seem to fall at the last fence. This is so unfair…people put in all this time and effort in their lives and always seem to come stuck up against what seem the smallest of things. She had lived a very interesting life, she had a huge number of friends and did so many people so much good. She was single with little family, but there are so many people to contact that her funeral isn’t going to be for another week, and I don’t know how on earth they are going to fit everyone in to the church (and this is not a small church by any stretch of the imagination). I wish that I would have such a full life to celebrate, I very much doubt I can every come close to this. I look forward to her funeral, I think it will be nice to hear all about her life. I think she should be glad, she has managed to touch so many people and has done so much she will be sorely missed.

Mar
04
2005

food

Today, for my dinner, I had the most disgusting tasting bits of pasta. It was some kind of quite nice pasta, with this disgusting sun dried tomato paste inside….plus some crappy herbs….anyway, it was horrible….one day I will find out what it was. All I know is it is a Sainsbury’s product, and it was not worth buying

Feb
21
2005

Belbin Test

I recently did something called the Belbin test. This was devised by a bloke called Meredith Belbin and was first suggested in a book which he published called “Management Teams“. He decided upon 8 types of people that were needed to make up a good team, and a good team must contain all these types to function properly. These types are quite separate, so most people find themselves being a mix of several, although, not normally more than three. I came out to be very strong in the direction of a “plant”. This apparently means im an ideas man. I’m also a bit of an “Implementer”, which means I get things going, but am not quite so good at the finishing……I would like to point out that im writing this from memory, so im not fully sure……except i defiantly was a strong plant. If you would like to test yourself then you can find the test on Belbins wedbsite, although unfortunatly you will have to pay.

Feb
15
2005

bloody idiots – should all be shot

Right…this is a reply to a person known as Doubble Dutch on this forum here.
It is a reference to this post….the one at the top of the page

By reading your post, it is quite easy to tell that you are an American. Not only do you talk crap, but you complain about something you use. Have you noticed that so far (14/02/2005) you have not a single person siding with you! I love seeing those who think they are so smart fall flat on there arses. And what an arse you have to behold…it is quite astonishing quite how much excrement protrudes from within it. The English language is the most widely spoken language in the world by quite a way, and is soon to become the language spoken by the most number of people (second only to Chinese and this is debatable as there are thousands of different dialects in Chinese, many of which are so different, they are virtually unrecognisable). If you were to take in to account people first and second languages then you would soon discover that it is more than just popular…it is considered the language of the world. Now I agree that some of this is down to the English empire of the Victorian age, but a language cant just become this universal without being quite good. Its is also considered the most widely descriptive language in the world. Now, to those who use the example of Eskimos to counter me…please bear in mind that they may well have 24 different words for snow, but, that is just one thing, the rest of the language is very bland (and before you ask, I have done my research, so I know). The wonderful thing about this language is that it allows such great description. For example…. Stairs are inside, steps are outside, except when there are several, when they are then called steps. A single step, is called a step, not a stair, even when it is inside. You can of course have steps inside as well, but these are again normally when there are a few, and normally between rooms, not between floors.

This is just an example of how great it can be, if used correctly. When used correctly, it leaves nothing to interpretation, so, if used properly, it is not possible to misunderstand someone, so it takes away ambiguity, which makes it the best language in the world, as the point of language is to communicate a point or idea.
Anyway, to the next point in hand….you said “Classical Russian poetry outsells its Americian (you typoed the name of your own county! What a prick) equivalent over 40 times”. Anyway, America doesn’t have a equivalent to Classical Russian poetry, America is far to young to be even close…..as has been pointed out so many times before, America has no history, let alone any good linguists.

Next….” Written Arabic has passed unchanged to the entire middle east since the writing of the Koran, even today it is a travesty to soil it with forgein words or the common tounge”. I love the way this person proves what a prick they are with there very own words. The reason it is considered a “travesty” is because it is the holly language, which is no longer spoken…as pointed out that there is a “common tongue”…some people.

Ah yes…what a point you made here…” Modern American rap is 5 minutes of undecipherable crud”….firstly, ALL rap is crap, and secondly, how has this point helped your point…as has been pointed out later in the page, it is dependant on what language the rap is in…if you have heard rap in French…which I have….i can asure you….you would never say another bad thing about English rap!

Now here you managed to sum up your intelligence….” Modern English academic works are incomprehensible passages of gibberish and complex jargon”. If this is the case, then you must just be stupid…simple as that…I understand them, and I’m hardly a genius!

Ah, and to the next point “President Bush got elected despite the fact that he’d probbably fail a second grade reading examination [‘but me are learning’]” Now this one is a real cracker….you spelt probably with two b’s….what a prick! And then you go on to say “but me are learning”…well by this evidence, you haven’t!. (and just in case these words were spelt incorrectly deliberately, well, then you also need to learn to be consistent, as later in you post you pointed out that the mistakes were deliberate!)

“Truly English is a language loathed by all its speakers” wrong again fool…everyone so far on you forum thinks your wrong…so again, its just you….go on loner….fuck off!

“Anyone who attempts to write or speak grammatically correctly is some kind of stuck up showoff” well, again, your just wrong, and you know it! As I pointed out earlier, language is to put across a point, and it has to be correct to do so. If these grammatical rules were not needed, then they wouldn’t be there, fool!

Oh and what a quote you found…(I would say you made it up, but the point it tries to get across is not one the likes of you could ever comprehend). Well, here it is…” According to a modern report ‘shcool should focus on provyding texts to studnts that ar consistntly mispelt, as this wil allow them to see the nonlinerity of langage and the diversty of other cultures.'”. well, this is bolocks…people need to see correct use of their language to allow them to get it right themselves….then I wouldn’t have to even post things like this to people who don’t understand the language they use…poorly! Then you followed it up with “Yes, those were the origional spelling mistaikes, and they were inserted in the entire repot to illustrate the point”. To be honest, I’m not sure if you meant to miss spell original, mistakes, and report!

And now we come to you signature…well, this was a pure stroke of genius! “98% of teens have tried smoking pot and drinking. If you’re normal, copy this and put it in your Signature” well, if your normal, then you would find a better one, something more original instead of copying some crap written by a poorly educated American

QED