Confusion Reigns Supreme

Quiz Night

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:03:47 +0100

Yup, It's ready and waiting to hit your screens at 9PM GMT over on the Official Quick Quiz channel!

I warn you, though, that you may need to put on your flares and stick some flowers in your hair...

No Way Back

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:04:35 +0100

That's it. This is the point of no return. The job application has been completed and is winging its way to the relevant personnel right now.

Now I can relax a bit before panicking about the cosy little chat. *wibble*

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I Return Bearing Great News

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:21:38 +0100

First news story is that sometime this afternoon Lappy died. Well, it was getting a little old and cranky, so at ten to five I left work and headed for Curry's and picked up a smart new lappy for less than £400. I'm not sure if it will be worth trying to get the old lappy fixed but in the mean time I'm going to start downloading software that I had on the old one onto this nice shiny new one. Most of the stuff I had was free, so there's no problem there.

I've already got AVG and Live Messenger, so that's the basics sorted!

Next, the really good news. This afternoon a job offer dropped onto my desk. A job at the Academy Media Centre doing exactly the same job as I'm doing at the moment, yet at a higher pay grade. I have previously stated that I would like to get out of Graphics/Repro, but this is just too good to be true. Good words have been put forward for me by my boss and, provided I put in my application before Thursday, I should expect to have a nice cosy chat with my prospective employers.

Fingers crossed, folks!

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Emotional Constipation

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 03:33:59 +0100

Back,briefly, from my break. Check this!

Thanks for your definition of emotional constipation!

Editors reviewed your entry and have decided to publish it on urbandictionary.com.

It should appear on this page in the next few days:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=emotional%20constipation

Urban Dictionary

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emotional constipation

That feeling when you just really couldn't give a shit.

"I was going to vote for Jedward on the X Factor, but just couldn't be bloody bothered"

"Man, I've been feeling like that for weeks. We both have emotional constipation."

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Definitely This Time

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 03:09:16 +0100

I'm shutting down, unless something major happens in my life.

I will, of course, try to keep up with everyone else, so that I'm not too far out of the loop on my return so don't be surprised if I pass a comment occasionally.

The Wednesday quizzes will still be there, but possibly little else.

I need to concentrate on finding my ideal job, so regular blogging is going to have to take its place on the back burner for now.

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Lest We Forget

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:58:30 +0100

LEST WE FORGET

In mind of all servicemen and women past and present, and their families and friends.
Bless you all for your efforts for this country and this society. You will not be forgotten

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Closing Down

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 03:48:18 +0100

I'm going to shut up shop for a while for personal and technical reasons.

The technical reason is to repair the damage that occurred even before the tagging debacle.
The personal reason is just that. Personal.

I'll be back. Hopefully sometime soon.

This applies to all my blogs, except for the Official Quick Quiz, which will be there every Wednesday at 9pm GMT.

Catch you all later, unless you're on Facebook. In which case, I'll see you next time you gift me a bloody pizza.

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Urban Word Of The Day

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:16:10 +0100

Courtesy of www.urbandictionary.com

November 5: Piglet Flu

During times of pandemic, the common flu is known as Piglet Flu. While less deadly than Swine Flu it still makes you feel like shit. However, because it is not infamous like swine flu you get no respect from having it. So you feel like crap and no one gives a damn because you don't have h1n1.

Doctor: How do you feel.
Patient: Like shit.
Doctor: Well the tests came back, you don't have swine flu. So get the hell out you lazy good for nothing bastard. Come back with a real illness.

Patient (as he is thrown out) But i really do have the flu. Even if it is only piglet flu.

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Diggy-diggy!

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:17:09 +0100

Date: Saturday 28th November 2009
Time: 10:00 am
Location: Horsell Common

I'll be there! My first archaeological dig, organised by HCPS, of the two tumuli on the common just about a mile from where I live.

What's this? I hear you, me beloved readers, ask. Has NotBob gone mad? We all know his main interests are science, rock music, drinking and moaning about work! Why the sudden interest in archaeology?

I think it's down to watching hours and hours of Time Team.

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This Is Annoying

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:25:52 +0100

The following are your tags were deleted:

Post Tag: love's-not-a-competition-(but-i'm-winning) | scared-the-hell-out-of-her | "h" | i-know-it's-a-bad-pun | get-your-filthy-hands-off-my-desert | by-tor-and-the-snow-dog | black-horse-and-the-cherry-tree | the-only-man-to-get-all-his-work-done-by-friday-was-robinson-crusoe | who-says-i-lead-a-sheltered-life? | naked-girl-falling-down-the-stairs | dont-you-love-me-no-more | something-to-cheer-the-miserable-f***er-up | anything-to-stop-me-thinking-about-things-i-shouldn't-think-about | i-usually-get-up-later-on-a-work-day | my-dreams-just-get-weirder-and-weirder | love-reas-up-its-ugly-head | time-for-me-to-shift-the-goalposts | i-don't-care-if-she-whinges-to-the-boss | i'm-more-than-pissed-off-enough-already | got-u-pbefore-the-alarm-again | hope-i-haven't-spoken-too-soon | my-my-that's-a-big-one! | hah!-and-i-thought-i-was-being-shafted | stupid-cow-calling-herself-a-management-consultant | thats-the-last-time-i-let-anyone-shut-the-office-down-but-me | happy-work-post-for-a-change! | all-i-seem-to-get-is-spam! | how-old-do-they-think-i-am? | and-i-was-on-such-a-high-today | what-do-you-want-from-life | no-tomatoes-were-harmed-in-the-making-of-this-post | guess-you-could-call-this-a-trailer... | catching-up-is-hard-to-do | infamy!-infamy!-they've-all-got-it-in-for-me! | dont-play-your-rock-n-roll-to-me | i'm-so-excited-and-i-just-can't-hide-it! | phishing-trip-without-a-boat-or-a-hope | you-want-me-to-do-what?! | i'm-too-damn-lazy-at-times | i-need-a-few-more-inches | two-nations-separated-by-a-common-language | where-did-i-go-wrong-eggbod? | birds-eye-peri-peri-chicken-chargrills | pros-and-cons-of-hitch-hiking | no-one-does-it-better-than-me | finding-out-true-love-is-blind | may-as-well-have-given-that-cash-to-the-guy-selling-the-big-issue-outside-what-used-to-be-woolworths | age-shall-not-weary-them-but-the-survey-might-do-them-in

Note how many of those are song titles from The Ferret. Now I can't add a song title index widget on that blog. This is most annoying.

And the same goes for a list of artists, should I ever feel the need to post anything by Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band.

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Seems I'm Not The Only One Who's Confused

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:46:19 +0100

I've just tried to access an app in Facebook and got this result:

Actually, I'm using Google Chrome.

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Messenger News

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:07:22 +0100

Amazing new detailed images of Mercury have just been released by NASA.

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First Hand And Out!

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:27:08 +0100

Now, I don't pretend to know much about poker, but this has to be the worst way to lose a tournament...

Blimey! He's got about as much luck as me!

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Scammed In A Foreign Language

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:52:42 +0100

Here's an interesting approach...

Hallo liebe,
Ich sehe Sie Ihren Ansprechpartner
How are you today Ich hoffe, dass alles mit dir ist alles ok, es ist mir eine große Freude, Sie zu kontaktieren und mit der Kommunikation mit Ihnen ab heute, bitte, ich möchte Ihnen die Lust mit mir zu haben, so dass wir uns kennen lernen können einander besser und sehen, was passiert in der Zukunft.

Ich werde mich sehr freuen, wenn Sie mich durch meine E-Mail (maryjammeh[at][well known ISP].com) für eine reibungslose Kommunikation schreiben kann und alle über einander wissen. Ist es von Ihnen in Ordnung, kann ich Ihnen meine Bilder und Einzelheiten über mich in meinem nächsten E-Mail an Sie.

Ich werde warten, von Ihnen zu hören, wie ich Ihnen alles Gute wünschen. (Maryjammeh[at][well known ISP].com)

Remain Blessed

mary JAMMEH

My response -

Well, with my very limited grasp of German I can tell that the greeting starts with a friendly "Hello, love" but anything past that is beyond me although by some of the content I can tell it's a bog-standard "I would like loving relations with you" style scam.

Nice try, but I shall remain blessed by my confusion and complete lack of comprehension...

*delete*

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It's That Time Of Year Again!

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:52:09 +0100

Yes! It's British Sausage Week!

In order to celebrate the Great British Banger tonight I decided to dine on three Lincolnshire sausages with chips, peas, sweetcorn and a fried tomato with a dash of sweet chilli sauce to dip me sausage in.

It was lovely!

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Keith

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 02:15:10 +0100

I just had to take a piccie of one of my bestest canine friends. I'm know that I've shown a picture of him before lying down, so here he is standing up showing his other side:

Isn't he gorgeous?!

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Me. Just Me

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:10:12 +0100

I've been a right misery-guts recently. I have come to notice this myself without any of you pointing it out to me, thankfully.

For the first time in a long time I am actually sitting at home thinking "it's actually not too bad being me. No, scratch that. It's good to be me!"

I'm happy for once, and I have absolutely no idea why this sudden wave of euphoria has hit me, but I'm going to ride it for all it's worth.

SURF'S UP!

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A Warning To All Martian Cats

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:10:31 +0100

Well, they do say that curiosity may have a hand in their demise...

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This Is It...

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:05:54 +0100

This may well be the last blog post I write via my mobile modem as I have just spent the afternoon trying to top up £20 worth of PAYG credit that I bought at lunchtime.

Vodaphone certainly haven't been making it easy this afternoon. And it all worked so easily last month - what's gone wrong?

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The Sign of a Good Pub

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:24:27 +0100

Here I am, sat in a corner where I can't see the clock (it's quiz night, there's a limited choice of available seats) and Ross, the barman, leans round the corner and says "You're cutting it fine tonight, Rob!" I look at the clock on my screen. 22:59. He's right, I am cutting it fine. Time for my second pint for this visit.

Other pubs wouldn't give that kind of service. They'd want you out of the door as soon as possible.

Yes, this is the pub that I'm inviting everyone to for the Woking Blogmeet at the end of March. You'll love it, I promise!

So far I think I've only got one or two definite attenders along with several possibles. Meh! It's still months away yet.

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Quote For The Management To Abide By

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:18:51 +0100

No matter who you work for:

I divide officers into four classes - the clever, the lazy, the stupid and the industrious. Each officer possesses at least two of these qualities.

Those who are clever and industrious are fitted to high staff appointments.

Use can be made of those who are stupid and lazy.

The man who is clever and lazy is fit for the very highest commands. He has the temperament and the requisite nerves to deal with all situations.

But whoever is stupid and industrious must be removed immediately.

Gen Baron Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord (German Chief of Army Command, 1930-1933)

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Getting Down To Quizness

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:42:46 +0100

Yup!
The Official Quick Quiz is going to be back on tonight over on the Official Quick Quiz channel at 9pm GMT precisely.

Thanks to a clear-out of my lappy bag I've found a copy of a music and movies quiz book, so there aren't going to be any cryptic clues to band names, just straight questions (I know that will please someone).

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Saddle Soap, Boot Polish, Buttons And Stuff

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:27:29 +0100

I think the title sums it all up, really. That's what I need to be using when I get a spare moment or two.

Yes, I'm going on about my coat again.

Saddle soap to give its leathery goodness back to it, boot polish to tidy up the hem where it has dragged occasionally on stairs and uneven ground, and buttons because I've lost two in the last week.

Then I need to send it back to Higgs Leathers for a minor repair. The seam on the left shoulder, which I use predominantly to carry my lappy bag on, has started to come apart.

Oh well, it's only been five months since I got it and I've been wearing it every day. These things happen.

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Solar Strangeness

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:13:31 +0100

I've just received an interesting article from NASA.

Who'd have thunk it, eh? Our own sun is a variable star!

Actually, I'd suspected it for some time what with the 11-or-so year cycle of sunspot activity. I just never thought it could vary so much in such a short space of time...

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Ahhh!!!

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:43:26 +0100

Let us give praise to Earl Grey, bringer of comfort to many an Englishman's heart. What a lovely cuppa!!!

And yes, that's the mug and saucer/lid that my parents brought back from their favourite holiday destination this year. Last year they gave me a couple of t-shirts.

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Non-Story of the Day

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:16:45 +0100

Prince Philip makes a joke with a man named Patel about how common his name is, and ends up being condemned by a man named Smith.

Mr Patel's spokesman said: "Absolutely no offence was taken at all by Atul. It was taken in a very light-hearted way."

When are people going to see that this fella has a sense of humour. OK, sometimes he steps way over the line, but this was just harmless, light-hearted banter and it was taken as such. Get a grip, people!

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Word Of The Day

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:50:31 +0100

October 27: cocktail weenie

A person obsessed with the minutiae of bartending practices and traditions, especially regarding the preparation of mixed drinks.

"Their cold gin flip was fairly authentic, but it really should be made with cubed ice, not crushed."

"You are such a cocktail weenie."

urbandictionary.com.

Oh dear...

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Next Weekend

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 19:08:47 +0100

I really must dig out my bike and go out to the common to takes some photos.

For some reason I just couldn't be bothered to get out of bed this morning, and this afternoon we had visitors.

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One of Those Days

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 21:12:33 +0200

I had so many plans...

OK, I had a plan.

I was going to dig my bike out and take a ride out over the common to take some piccies of what the Preservation Society are doing to return the place to its former glory, and believe me, they've been very busy. Unfortunately a touch of late-night insomnia led to me not getting out of bed until after 1pm. And then add to that, looking out of the window this afternoon to find that it was raining...

Ho-hum. Maybe tomorrow, eh?

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Strangely Quiet

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:20:25 +0200

Considering it's a Friday.

I only have five jobs on the go at the moment.

*looks at clock*

Ah! Now I know why. It's not 3pm yet.

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