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| Saturday, October 17th, 2009 | | 7:29 pm |
I miss Berlin already.
We are home. London was vile, even more so than usual. There will be a proper write up, but not now. I cannot be doing with going through a week's worth of entries. Did I miss anything interesting? | | Monday, September 28th, 2009 | | 5:27 pm |
Swiss rolled.
The whole Polanski issue has me a little foxed. As far as I can gather, a man had sex with a thirteen year old girl, and got caught. He was then charged with about six counts. He pleaded guilty to one count as part of a plea bargain, and then skipped the country, staying "fugitive" in France for thirty years. What happens after that, with the victim asking for the charges to be dropped and accepting a civil payment from him, seems rather moot. He had sex with a thirteen year old, admitted it, and ran away. I have little sympathy. Am I being naive here? | | Friday, September 18th, 2009 | | 2:25 pm |
Out of interest......
Does anyone else think that the video for the new Rammstein song, "Pussy", is just crass? The song itself isn't doing anyone any favours either. I really like Rammstein, and I don't have any real objection to porn, but I just think it lacks any class whatsoever. I'm not screaming "take it down" or anything, I'm just disappointed. Or am I just past it? | | Wednesday, September 16th, 2009 | | 8:11 pm |
This video is pretty much a summation of what I think about race and computer games. I wish I could say this was me, but it's not. Go watch, even if you're not into gaming. | | 5:40 pm |
| | Wednesday, August 26th, 2009 | | 9:27 pm |
Prompted by an entry ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) miss_soap made, I have been searching for something half-remembered. I saw, quite some time ago, a letter of complaint that I found very interesting. It's a complaint about immigration, about how these people were coming over here, taking all our jobs etc. It went on about British culture, about how something must be done, and that sort of thing. The catch, and I'm sure you knew there was one, is that the letter is talking about the Jewish immigration, and is from around a thousand AD.* Now, can you imagine a search term for Google that would find the right thing? Can you imagine the sort of thing I have had returned to me at the top of the Google results? I'm going to take a wild guess that what I'm looking for is not on stormfront.org for a start. So have I imagined this? Can anyone else remember this? Can you point me to it? If so, please help! Otherwise my search history is going to look like I've shaved my head and moved to a basement in Nebraska with my trusty rifle and a thousand cans of food. *I should add, I am in no way certain of the date. | | Tuesday, August 25th, 2009 | | 11:27 pm |
I'm not fighting.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/8221451.stmIt is this kind of shit that explains why I am fast falling out of love with Premiership football, and most high level football in Britain. I love the game, but the kind of baiting moron it can attract bothers me. I'm far more interested in St Pauli (mad German football team for lefty liberals and old punks) and cricket. Football hooliganism is far less of an issue than it was, but it does raise its head occasionally. I do feel another objection to modern football though. My team are Arsenal. The cheapest tickets to a league game are £45, if you can get hold of them. For me and someone else to go, the whole day is likely to cost about £150. And when you do get there, you're up in the gods, and feel like a ticket number. When I go to the Millerntor (St Pauli's ground), I feel much more like part of the whole thing. I feel welcomed. Last time I went, I got chatting to some guy who couldn't believe I'd come over from the UK for this second division team, and was really excited by the idea. Pauli fans only get angry at the Neo Nazis, but they do manage to jump up and down, sing, shout and have a great time, without feeling the need to hit anyone. I guess I can't help but feel a bit of a mug in relation to Premiership football. It feels like for every vaguely intelligent and likeable fan such as funnynamehere, there are a thousand baying morons. I'm tired of defending the game and those who follow it, really. My stock response to questions about football crowds seems to have become "Ah, but St Pauli are a bit different!" But then, how could you not feel that way about a club that protested when Maxim put up an advert at their ground, who run on the pitch to AC/DC, and have a drag queen for a chairman? As for the cricket, a gruff harumph is about as much as you'd get out of a regular at the county games. Some Pauli references for you all, because I know you're gagging to find out more about my obsessions: http://www.fcstpauli.com/index.php?lang=enhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FC_St._Paulihttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHLWclMs_Pw <- A video of Pauli fans making a load of noise and having a whale of a time. All fairly normal, if an impressive amount of noise for a small stadium. Until you realise it's not a league match, and it's not their small stadium. It's a five a side indoor tournament that Pauli entered a team into, and their fans came along to. | | Sunday, August 9th, 2009 | | 7:10 pm |
So, my friend finds out in three hours what his fate will be for the next year. He's Turkish, and will be doing his spell of national service. He will either be a private or a 2nd liutenant, and will be in for 5 months or a year. He will be in a city, or a backwater where they could actually be fighting. Essentially, he finds out tonight if people will be shooting at him for a while or not. Makes me realise I'm having quite a good evening, even if I did start work at 7 am today. | | Friday, August 7th, 2009 | | 10:43 pm |
Stories are circulating (in places like this: http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Twitter-Facebook-DDoS-attack-Georgia,news-4397.html and this: http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-10305200-245.html) that the DDoS attacks on various social networking sites were part of a concerted effort to attack one particular blogger. His name is apparently Cyxymu, and he is Georgian. The first thing that springs to mind is "that'll be Russia then" and the second is "surely this one blogger will now receive more hits than previously dreamed of." The BBC story appears to refute this ideas however, with the following: Graham Cluley, of security firm Sophos, told BBC News there was no suggestion the attack against the blogger was state-endorsed.
"It was almost certainly an individual who took objection to his blogs," he said.
"They took internet vigilantism into their own hands to try to blast him off the web, but in the process blasted Twitter off instead." An astounding own goal if it does turn out to be Russia, I must say. One could look at whether Georgia executed themselves for that purpose, if one were so inclined. But I think that's only a few short steps from donning a tinfoil hat and hiding out in your own personal bunker with a shotgun and lots of canned goods. | | Monday, July 27th, 2009 | | 11:13 am |
The vengeance of bacon.
So, I got up for work as normal. Pottered about a bit. Realised I had a sore throat. Further realised I had a dodgy stomach and was pretty hot. I normally ignore things like that, but the dreaded swine flu pandemic of doom and death has been rampant at work*, so I called that stupid hotline, largely in the hope that they would say "you've got a headache and dodgy stomach. That's it." After spending half an hour telling the woman where I lived, I have been told to sit on my arse for a week and get someone to pick up Tamiflu for me. Fucking marvellous. This feels ridiculous. I don't feel that bad. A bit ropey perhaps, but hardly more than a middling hangover.** I know I'm doing the right thing, but I feel like a fraud, sitting on my hands when I'm not that bad. Bah. One other thing occurred though. They did tell me that I have "another health concern that should be treated separately." Essentially, one of my symptoms doesn't fit the pattern, and probably isn't the dreaded pig death. But they won't tell me which one. So they tell you one of these things is not like the other, and then leave you guessing. Lovely, well done. Doesn't particularly bother me, but I can see why it might bother most. Oh well. I am already bored. If I start sending you emails about how you can get this disease from tinned pork products, delete the email. It's only spam.*** * Insert joke here. ** No. I wasn't drunk. *** Sorry. | | Tuesday, July 21st, 2009 | | 10:07 pm |
A night like this.
I would like us all to take a moment, before today is out, to have a think about one of the finest moments of modern times. Buzz Aldrin, a highly trained and dedicated professional, took a step for us all to applaud. Here is a video of that moment for us all to savour: Buzz Aldrin finally loses it and punches Bart Sibrel, a man that repeats the stupid nonsense about the moon landings being a hoax. Clearly, the second best thing Buzz Aldrin ever did. And even then, it's a close run thing. | | Friday, July 17th, 2009 | | 10:34 am |
| | Thursday, July 16th, 2009 | | 1:37 pm |
I'm not in work until Tuesday (I think). Therefore, I'm sitting at home listening to Test Match Special. The first day of the Lord's test is going quite well, there's a cool breeze, and I'm toying with the idea of heading down to the pub to watch it. All in all, not bad. How is your day shaping up? | | Tuesday, July 7th, 2009 | | 2:24 pm |
Nature is my jukebox.
The thunder on the New Model Army track I'm listening to sounds amazing, even better than usual. Just as I'm wondering why, I realise it's outside. I probably ought to step away from the pc occasionally. | | Monday, July 6th, 2009 | | 11:59 pm |
Not normal.
We don't have normal conversations in our house. We just don't. Whilst other people might be asked at this hour "Can you take the bin out tomorrow, as you're not working, and will otherwise just playing games in your pants for hours on end again?", I am not. Nor am I asked to go and pick up something for dinner, or to make a cup of tea. Oh no, for these things are for the land of the sane. I do not live there, and so am asked different things. Suzy just asked me, with a straight face and no preamble, "would you say your wee was lighter than a Chardonnay?" I am going to start keeping a regular log of this sort of incident. It will give you a window into my world. And I'm sure it will make you buy me drinks, before giving my shoulder a reassuring squeeze. | | 5:17 pm |
| | Thursday, July 2nd, 2009 | | 10:17 pm |
So, you well travelled bohemian jet-setters you, what would you recommend doing in Berlin? Where would you go/visit/eat etc? Any replies along the lines of "leave" will be treated as deserved. In other words, I will come round and piss in your petrol tank/letterbox. | | Wednesday, July 1st, 2009 | | 7:04 pm |
Dear Halifax, Your fucking about and inaccurate information have just cost me and my group of friends THE BEST PART OF £600 FUCKING POUNDS. You utter, utter, bastards. | | 5:10 pm |
AAARGGH JESUS FUCKING CHRIST WHO DO I HAVE TO KILL TO GET SHIT SORTED? | | Tuesday, June 30th, 2009 | | 12:07 am |
Spotify has allowed me to listen to a load of Iron Maiden for the first time in years. Suzy does not look impressed. |
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