Spam of the Week
Posted: Tue 4 July, 2006 Filed under: Cynicism, Weirdness 1 Comment »Sometimes (as I’ve mentioned before) my spam turns weapons-grade weird. Today’s effort is one of those times…
Hello my dear friend
I was looking tharough the web few weeks ago and found
your profile. Now I decidead to email you to get to know
you better. I am comiang to your country in few weaeks
and thought may be we can meet each obther. I am pretty
looking girl. bI am 25. Do anot repbly to this address
direcbtlay. Email me back at olcl@snail4mail.com
Yes, I’ve always wanted to meet up with a random foreigner who can’t spell/type. <sarcasm>It’s my ambition in life. </sarcasm> And yes, the email’s left there too – I figure spambots might as well catch up with a spammers email for once.
Flash
Posted: Mon 3 July, 2006 Filed under: Geeky, Weirdness Leave a comment »This really has to be seen to be believed…
Barmy
Posted: Mon 3 July, 2006 Filed under: Health, Weirdness 1 Comment »This evening, I’ve an appointment at the local gym, where one of the trainers is going to put me through my paces, and figure out what I should be doing in order to keep on losing weight.
Today’s temperature around here is supposed to be around 32°C. I’m going to be doing a shitload of work in the gym. In short, I must be fuckin’ barmy.
I expect to be a sweaty puddle in the recuperation area by 7.15pm.
Role Models
Posted: Wed 28 June, 2006 Filed under: Thoughts, Weirdness 1 Comment »While I don’t understand it personally, I know that a lot of people will use various famous people as their style icons – dressing like Victoria Beckham, Naomi Campbell, [latest R&B pop person], fashion guru x or designer y, high street stuff, or whatever. Fair enough. Not my thing, but who am I to dictate to others?
However, on the train today was a woman whose style “icon” appeared to be Jade Goody. Which, really, is just scary.
Drip, Drip, Drip
Posted: Thu 22 June, 2006 Filed under: Domestic, Green, Thoughts, Weirdness 17 Comments »How on earth can a water company justify losing 894 million litres per day of water? That’s something like 675,000 litres per second.
Taking the assumption that a person uses about 135 litres of water per day, that loss is equal to the water supply for 6.6million people. Considering that Thames Water only supplies 8 million people all told, that’s a pretty fucking big loss, I’d say. In fact, if you take into account the people they do supply, as well as the amount they’re losing, if they were an efficient company, they could supply 14.5 million people. That’d make the shareholders happy.
So how come it’s the users of Thames Water who are penalised by drought orders and hosepipe bans, when Thames Water themselves are the biggest water wasters of all?
Lug’oles
Posted: Wed 21 June, 2006 Filed under: Animals, General, Thoughts, Weirdness 2 Comments »When I was walking Hound this morning, something occurred to me. I know, it’s a bit of a rare occurrence, but what the hell, it was 7am, and my brain was still hovering somewhere between sleep and conscious. Like the man said, the lights were on, but no-one was home. Autopilot all the way, baby.
Anyway, watching Hound, I suddenly started thinking – How cool is it to have independently controllable ears?
As we’d walked round, Hounds ears had constantly been pointing in different directions – well, unless she heard something particularly interesting, in which case both focussed in the same direction. I wonder what it’s like to be able to focus on two completely different sounds, and hear each one properly with only one ear…
Of course, it can make you look really stupid too, when one ear is facing forwards, and the other’s facing backwards, but still, it must be pretty cool…