Shark vs. Octopus

Posted: Wed 13 May, 2009 | Author: | Filed under: Advertising, Thoughts, Weirdness | 1 Comment »

(via Chris)

An early contender for “Shittest Film of 2009” (No, not Wolverine) – “MegaShark vs. Giant Octopus”

The trailer, mind you, does have to be seen to be (dis)believed…

Meerkat / Dog

Posted: Thu 7 May, 2009 | Author: | Filed under: Animals, News, Thoughts, Weirdness | Leave a comment »

Is it just me, or does the image of the world’s oldest dog on the BBC look very like Alexander, the meerkat from CompareTheMeerkat.com ?

Spooky…

Geeky Tattoos

Posted: Wed 6 May, 2009 | Author: | Filed under: 1BEM, Cynicism, Geeky, Weirdness | 3 Comments »

Really, you’ve just got to worry about some of the people shown on the Geeky Tattoos site.

I mean OK, I can understand (kind of) getting a tattoo of your favourite game characters or whatever – but the text of a 90s geeky meme that wasn’t funny at the time?  Not the smartest of moves for later life, I’d suggest.

And as for a tattoo of Wolverine riding My Little Pony – let’s just leave it at “Oh. My. God.”, shall we?

Debatable

Posted: Thu 9 April, 2009 | Author: | Filed under: Driving, Thoughts, Weirdness | Leave a comment »

I’m still unsure whether the driver I followed to work this morning was

  • Stupid
  • Drunk
  • Confused
    Or
  • Insane

Throughout the journey, he would slow down to 30-40mph on the bits of road that were National Speed Limit, then speed up to 50-60mph through villages/towns where a speed limit was actually set.

But what can you do in that situation? The answer (so far as I can see) is “Not a lot”.

Yes, you could (assuming you’ve a hands-free phone) call the police and report the pillock. But (again, as I understand it) they need to see it themselves, rather than relying on witness reports. So they’d have to come along and somehow pull in behind the driver and watch him being a pillock. And there’s no guarantee he’d still be driving by the time they’d got their finger out and sent someone along the road to check anyway.

I don’t know, just a weird start to the day, really.

What’s That Book?

Posted: Mon 6 April, 2009 | Author: | Filed under: D4D™, Geeky, Memory, Weirdness | Leave a comment »

Recently, my brain has been slightly locked with a question – one even the mighty AQA couldn’t come up with an answer to.

So I’m hoping that posting it on D4D™ might just find someone who knows what the hell it is I’m whittling on about.

Anyway – I read a book a while back, and I’m now trying to remember what the hell the book was. The scene I clearly recall involved one protagonist meeting the other for the first time in a school playground, where they were playing marbles. (At least, I think it was marbles – could’ve been tiddlywinks, or something)

Anyway, Person One knocks one of Person Two’s marbles out of play, and out of school grounds. As a result, Person Two throws one of Person One’s marbles out of the school grounds, and it degenerates into each one throwing the marbles out of the playground.

It’s a stupid scene, but I can’t remember where the hell it came from.

So help me, Interwebs, please…

Outages

Posted: Fri 3 April, 2009 | Author: | Filed under: Customer Services, Cynicism, Weirdness, Work-related | Leave a comment »

You know, in the six months I’ve been in the current workplace, there hasn’t been one day where the internet connection and/or network have stayed up all day without needing to be re-started by the IT department.

Every bloody sodding day, at some random point, the connections die. Most of the time it’s the proxy server they’re using, so it “just” needs a service restarting.  But not once has anybody said “You know, this is effing ridiculous – let’s look at the logs and see what’s breaking, so we can fix it or upgrade it”

In fact, no-one seems to care at all. It’s just another of those things that always happens, always has happened, and always will happen.

Misguided Motivations

Posted: Tue 31 March, 2009 | Author: | Filed under: 1BEM, Charm School, Thoughts, Weirdness | 2 Comments »

As I may have mentioned before, sometimes a phrase or quote from someone just leaves me bemused, and wondering what the hell they were thinking at the time.

This happened to me again yesterday, reading the story about how a communications officer for British Transport Police lied about a significant fact,  which then caused a delay in finding the body of a missing woman.

He wrongly claimed to Essex Police that trains were fitted with sensors that would detect any collision on the line. This affected the police’s “perception of the likelihood of Natasha being on the railway lines”, the report said.

“The communications officer admitted he lied to an Essex police officer, initially telling IPCC officers that he did so to end the call which would allow him to get on with his job, and that he actually had no knowledge of train sensors,” the report said.

Now really, you’ve just got to wonder about the motivation there, haven’t you?

I guess it could be paraphrased as “I told a lie so I could get rid of the call, and go back to doing something else. Sure, the call was about a missing 17-year-old girl, but that wasn’t my problem or my job.”

I just think the entire thing’s weird, let alone the motivation for using that as an explanation of why he made that mistake…

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