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[Jul. 9th, 2009|02:13 pm] |
Here's some good old fashioned misogyny from Australia!
At lunchtime, I went and bought a copy of the new Viz, then bought a pork sandwich on Borough Market and went to sit in the grounds of Southwell Cathedral to eat it. After I'd finished eating I was sitting reading when some bloke came up and stated talking to me. He had a strong foreign accent and it was hard to tell what he was saying, but I worked out that he wanted change for a £2 coin. The only problem was that the coin he had in his hands was fairly obviously a €2 coin and not a £2 coin. If he was trying to con me, he was terrible at it. When I pointed out that it was euros, he moved on to trying to get me to give him two fivers for a tenner (which I didn't have, but wouldn't have done anyway) and then sat down next to me. The benches in the cathedral grounds are divided into two, so that two people can sit in each half but they'd want to know each other well. This bloke plonked himself into the small gap and started showing me a tube map, and saying something indistinguishable. Then he burned me with his cigarette and got ash all over my clothes. I still don't really know if he was a really bad conman of some kind, or just a confused tourist, but that kind of thing's beyond the pale and I told him so in short order. He cleared off apologetically, but really!
Other than this, the week has been quite good. On Monday night I went out for a curry at the excellent Indian Rasoi in Fortis Green, on Tuesday I went to see the Lucksmiths at the Luminaire and last night I went to Karaoke Circus, which was great as ever, if not better. Tonight I'm going out for a work meat at a Peruvian restaurant and tomorrow, if I have any energy left, I'm thinking of going to Quacks and Cures at the Wellcome Collection. Or I might just come home from work and collapse from exhaustion, as per for a Friday night these days. |
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[Jul. 9th, 2009|01:40 pm] |
Lest we forget, these are the kind of people who are probably going to be the government in less that a year.
The report says council estates "deliver a risible return on assets".
Right, because that's what they're there for.
Oh, and while we're on the topic, why does David Cameron not have to be concerned about the kind of people he surrounds himself with as Gordon Brown had to when that tw@t who worked for him had to resign? |
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[Jul. 6th, 2009|11:04 am] |
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Hello. I'd like to draw yr attention to this, what I posted last night when nobody was really watching. |
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[Jul. 5th, 2009|09:27 pm] |
Hi, people going to Latitude. Despite this being in two weeks, I've still not organised transport to it for myself because I'm k-lame. I'll just book a coach ticket if I need to, but does anyone know of a spare space in a car from London that might be available?
(Same question applies for Indietracks the weekend after. I think there's at least one person here going to that.)
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[Jul. 5th, 2009|06:10 pm] |
Poll #1425366 Tennis poll
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: AllSo, at this point |
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[Jul. 5th, 2009|06:05 pm] |
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I like they way that, after two weeks of the crowd on - oh god - Henman Hill not responding in any way to anything the commentators say, they still haven't twigged that they obviously don't get the commentary. |
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| Great text messages sent to the wrong number of our time |
[Jun. 30th, 2009|02:17 pm] |
You dude have you had a new phone? Because you didn't come up on my phone as Kev just a number.1 I will be going fishing on friday afternoon i think so if your not in work we could go some where? What do you say?
I do hope he gets in touch with Kev, who'll surely be a bit sad if he misses out on a fishing trip because he didn't know about it.
1I didn't come up on his phone at all, I've never texted him. |
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[Jun. 29th, 2009|04:59 pm] |
With the obvious caveat that he may not be guilty, this guy doesn't sound like a master criminal, does he?
"The Old Bailey heard he was carrying bomb parts when arrested at Lowestoft, Suffolk, for abusing a train conductor."
Yup. When carrying bomb parts, what you want to do is draw the attention of authority to yourself, definitely. |
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| Bits from today's paper |
[Jun. 27th, 2009|10:48 pm] |
I suspect the press date for this may have been before Thursday evening. They might still have edited the reference to Michael Jackson tickets out of the online version, not for reasons of taste but just because it's not that good an analogy any more.
I'm sure Australia's a lovely place, but this doesn't exactly make me want to join the exodus. Nothing to do with any Australians, it's just that "they secured the points needed to move to Australia because his hairdresser wife, Jane, has an in-demand skills set." reminds me a little of the Golgafrinchan Ark. The Brits emigrating there sound a bit whiny too - waah, my hard work isn't recognised, waah, it rains sometimes. In fact, sorry about that Australia. |
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[Jun. 27th, 2009|07:19 pm] |
That was a cracking thunderstorm wasn't it? I didn't see any hail, but reading about the big hailstones people were reporting reminded me of the time when I was about 14ish I think, and we genuinely had hailstones the size of golf balls. They were amazing - my mum was so excited by it she kept one in the freezer for ages.
I don't really want to take my iPhone to either of the festivals I'm going to next month, but obviously, being a child of the connected generation I don't want to be cut off from the Matrix. Is there anything different about an iPhone sim apart from the fact that it says 'iPhone SIM' on it, or can I just stick it in the old phone I've got from last time I was on O2, assuming I can find it?
Murray's playing well, isn't he? Although I don't think you can really argue that the challenge system is a bad thing, some of the players seem to be occasionally using it in a slightly naughty way, with hopeless challenges to create a slight delay when their opponent's got in a bit of a groove. Tsk, bad tennis players. |
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[Jun. 27th, 2009|01:07 pm] |
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For fvck's sake, the BBC. "Now, we're going to stop showing you tennis, and show you a behind the scenes feature about the royal box, then show you all the people who are sitting in it today. That's obviously better, isn't it you plebs." |
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[Jun. 27th, 2009|12:01 am] |
For the second time in less than a week, I've slept through a gig I was planning to go to. Gah. Rub.
Instead, I've spent the last couple of hours looking at embarrassing photos from my teenage years when I was even more socially awkward than I am now. Yike. I have a big bit of cardboard covering the fireplace to stop the cats going up the chimney, and to make it look less like a big bit of cardboard I've been sticking photos on it. I've found very little to add tonight, although I have found one of my mum and dad that I think was taken on holiday in Barcelona, but he seems to be wearing a buttonhole for some reason, and I can't imagine why.
I also found several of my mum that if I were to can and put on the internet, she would actually kill me. |
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[Jun. 26th, 2009|02:58 pm] |
So according to Wikipedia there are no fewer than three Princes of Pop. Who will now take the crown?. Bear in mind that I'm trying to get the poll recognised as official, but I'm not sure who to apply to. Possibly the Archbishop of Canterbury of Pop, but the page doesn't say who that is.
Poll #1421464
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: AllWho is the new King of Pop? Since you're here, who do you think the Archbishop of Canterbury of Pop is? |
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[Jun. 26th, 2009|12:20 pm] |
Must be recorded for posterity: The Sky News graphic illustrating how His death broke the internets:
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[Jun. 26th, 2009|10:34 am] |
Yes, it's sad, and a terrible tragedy for his children, family and friends, just as it is when anyone dies. Is anyone else shocked though at the extent of the coverage? BBC News this morning - yeah, them again - were solemny declaring that "The King Of Pop has died." as if he was a real king, which he wasn't any more than Dr Fox is a real doctor. I'm also feeling slightly - to cheapen the word a little - oppressed by the underlying assumption that everyone in the world was unquestionably a huge fan of his music when I have never owned any of it, and never wanted to, finding it mostly overblown and tedious. That's not just me either, is it?
I'm intrigued to know what happens next with regard to all the tickets that were touted on eBay. I'd guess that the people who bought them on eBay are unlucky losers. It's an interesting legal situation - what is the contract between eBay buyer and seller? Is the obligation on the seller to provide the buyer with a Michael Jackson show (as it was in the original deal between promoter and eBay seller, under which someone1 is now entitled to get the original price (leaving aside the issue of booking fees, which will have themselves have been vast and left the people who just bought tickets because they wanted to see the shows badly out of pocket)) or is the seller simply reasssigning his part of the original deal to the buyer. Speaking as not a lawyer, I would question if the seller is allowed to do that without the consent of the promoter, so possibly the first option is true, which suggests that my original guess would be wrong. What I predict is that some lawyers will get a bit richer out of this.
1God knows how this will work. Will ticket holders have to surrender the physical tickets to get a refund, or will TicketBastard just automatically refund everyone's money? If the latter, does that point extra to the eBay seller having to refund the buyer's money? |
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