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Valentine’s eve

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

..and i read this last night, hilarious! 'UnValentine's day' : What we really need is a festival to celebrate love's many torments.. "This week, millions of people across the country will celebrate the crippling delusion known as "love" by sending flowers, booking restaurants and placing stomach-churning small ads in newspapers. Valentine's ...

oddball : bots

Monday, October 17th, 2005

funny quirky things these bots. you may have seen some rather odd comments on this blog and wondered why i've been letting a few of these autogenerated comments through. ah well i don't let most of the diamond and casino type nonsense through - but occasionally, there are some ...

people can be happy doing whatever they want

Tuesday, October 4th, 2005

that's right children - you all heard me. do what you like, i know you all are anyway. i'm not sitting here to tell you how things ought to be . see thats the funny thing - no matter how much you say that - people insist on imagining that ...

god no! more on working and idling

Tuesday, October 4th, 2005

horror of horrors - check out this entry in the guardian business insight blog: "working time to thrive" discussion on how working days will lengthen, bosses' assumptions re: contacting us during our 'down time' will spiral out of control even more than currently etc. why should people expect us ...

thinking outside the box

Tuesday, October 4th, 2005

yeah thats pretty fucking difficult. and given the fact that society is so damn eager to brainwash us all its no bloody wonder. first of all lets take a look at this situation we find ourselves in. boxed in by the nation-state. and to a lot of people that is ...

sidenote

Monday, October 3rd, 2005

as a sidenote to the comment below - why is everyone so obsessed with competition and competitiveness? I mean really - we are so weighed down with the framework of go-go-go, get-it! and competition appears to be inherent in that. so many people seem to think that if we don't ...

pah

Thursday, September 22nd, 2005

insolent: audacious, unrestrained by convention or propriety. now im interested in writings/thought that display this quality. i must say i myself have been referred to in the past as insolent ; why i've been kicked off sites for allegedly 'demonstrating insolence' -now i considered this a compliment; and it ...

nursery rhymes for the millenium

Tuesday, September 20th, 2005

so there appears to have been a nursery rhyme competition - run by the kids channel Nickelodeon Junior- and guess who's the star ( or villain!) of the winning entry - don't hold your breath: this is how the rhyme goes: Baker Tony's Pizza Baker Tony baked a pizza very round and ...

from broadsheet to berliner

Thursday, September 15th, 2005

the Guardian is out in the berliner format now, like Le Monde. for those in the world who arent up in newspaper sizes ( my gawd..) take a look at this wonderful wikipedia article. * yes perhaps i should rename this blog to something like Useless Trivia *

england and the ashes 2005

Tuesday, September 13th, 2005

amusing extract from an article in the Guardian about how gloomy they are down under.. The bouncer, Andrew Martin, was similarly gloomy, saying he hated Poms. "What is Australia?" he asked. "We haven't got much history. What have we got to hate except the people who sent us here in the ...