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| Written 20th May 2010 |
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Again...
Well once again my playlist in the car, work and at home has been playing a lot of Flight of the Conchords music. The top 5 are Business Time, Think About It, Bowie, Leggy Blonde and The Most Beautiful Girl in the Room.
Mix in the odd Tim Minchin track and it gives me a smile all day long - along with a unhealthy and warped out look on well everything. Still ace tunes though.
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| Written 14th December 2009 |
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Radio 4 & I
Well it has been quite some time since my last post. There are many reasons for this, but none that really excuse it so apologies for that. That said, I now have something worth saying. Driving to work today I was listening to Radio 4 (something I am finding myself doing more and more as it is not as lame as we young people seem to think it is). Anyway I find some of their interviews very good, and feel Radio 4 at least is wholly justifiable in the eyes of the licence fee payer (of which I am one).
Anyway there was a wealth of controversy beamed across the airwaves this morning. From the British Army Chaplin who said you have to admire the Taliban for the dedication to their faith. Now this has largely been taken out of context, and was said immediately after a statement claiming no one could find any part of the Taliban’s regime that could be supported. Now I actually tend to agree with his comments. It is true that they have taken a rather warped view of their religious texts, and an obvious tendency towards violence along with them. However, it is also true that they have done this because they believe it is what their God wants. Now I realise any act of violence portrayed under the pretence of religion is somewhat far of the intended mark of whichever parable or passage they are quoting, but history reflects times in all cultures when they have taken the Lord’s name and used it as justification for an act of war, the Crusades being a particularly large and prevalent example in British history. Now let me reiterate I despise the methods and actions of the Taliban, but I do respect the British army for trying to understand their motivations. It has even been uttered quietly that talks with the Taliban may be the only way to resolve the war we are currently in. Indeed, during the IRA conflict many thought a peaceful resolution could not be met, but here, decades on we see a peace, uneasy at times but certainly preferred to the activities that marred an otherwise beautiful land for so long.
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| Written 17th December 2008 |
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Well... not yet.
Hello everybody...
No its not doctor Nick its me. I realise its been a stupidly long time since i wrote an article, mainly because I have been adjusting to a new job and all I am going to say on that is I am loving it.
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| Written 8th August 2008 |
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It gets the best of all us.
Apparently we only use about 10% of the capacity of our brain. Thats not a lot if you think what we have achieved as a race. Imagine the results and advances in science if we managed to up it to just 20%. Scary.
Sadly, there are times when we appear to not even use the 10% we do know how to use. Take for example all of thirty minutes ago in my bathroom.
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| Written 7th August 2008 |
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A article for anyone who is a geek
I have always dabbled in things most people can't be bothered to find out exist, let alone how to do it. I was the person who at 18 was buying Ex Army CCTV equipment, Ex GPO Telephone equipment on Ebay instead of platform shoes, wigs and going out drinking all night.
One of my treasured buys was a dusty old Linesman Handset. It is a big old box containing a old telephone and crocodile clips for clamping onto the telephone lines.
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| Written 2nd August 2008 |
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The better side of taxi'ing
Well last night was fun. My second from last job was the main reason for it being a half decent shift. The reason being that for the half an hour trip home from Newcastle to Consett my bus descended into the realms of a Girls Gone Wild Photo Shoot. Taking it in turns to photograph each other both my superbly attractive passengers spent the trip taking, and then reviewing each photo in great detail, and with quite fun commentary.
Besides an issue of a cheap camera, overly bright flash and lack of tan it seemed to produce some good results, and I even managed to do a reasonable job of keeping my eye on the road. This spurred a conversation about the rights to the photos possibly belonging to the taxi drive A.K.A me as I provided the venue. This sadly wasn’t the case, but it was indicated they would end up on Facebook.
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| Written 31st July 2008 |
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Important News the Media Don't Want Released (or I made up)
I don't want to alarm anyone, thats why i never published the photos of the lost johnnies christmas party naked conga line, but Britian has been invaded.
Don't get me wrong, its nothing as brutal as the Viking Rape & Pilage, or the Roman come in and gay up the place method but never the less we should all group together and form pockets of resistance.
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| Written 27th July 2008 |
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A rant about our country, our allies and anything else i spew up onto the keyboard.
I sit in my sitting room right now, topless as all those cows dropping one have made the world a hot place to live, and I wonder where it all went wrong.
Richard's stirring article about a BMW laced with German hatred (he drive's an audi???) got me thinking. I love learning about the war. Mainly the technology side of it but some of the human stories rub off into my cauldron of a skull.
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| Written 11th April 2008 |
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Well I had to write an article sooner or later.
The Day I wanted a Whiteboard:
Recently I walked out of my secure employment with a local taxi firm and started my own taxi company with Mark, my housemate and fellow taxi driver. Figuring having drivers, office and every other business requirement stacked somewhere in our home that it would make sense to be making ourselves money for a change.
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| Written 8th March 2008 |
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Singing Dog
Rich will no doubt appreciate the irony of this post after our Monday night session, but have you all seen the Polo Confidence ad with the little singing dog?
It is brilliant, and I thought people would like to know that "I'm a man" was performed by the Spencer Davis group and was last in the UK top ten in 1967.
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| Written 17th January 2008 |
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Ignore at ye peril!
I have some important news for lovers of Coke or Diet Coke. Tesco are selling 6 share size bottles for £3.50. That is 9 litres of coke for less than you'd pay for two bottles of 2 litres.
Also, Helen's selected hunk of the week - does anyone else want to buy an O2 product? However Sean Bean does Rock - he has featured in some of my favourite TV things. Firstly that Harrison Ford film, Sharpe, Ronin, Lady Chatterly's lover (shut up its good and I'm straight). However, if the hunk of the week next week is the bloke who plays Hornblower then her selections have mirrorerd a Christmas Eve conversation we had so I suspect the Hunk of the week is not a democratic vote but just whoever got her going down below that week.
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| Written 19th December 2007 |
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Everything in the world is equally shit, or great.
So... this is where I moan about grave injustices and bad toilet design like the others - well no i say, this is where I will praise a few of the things that are right in the world.
Firstly, Shaun the Sheep. It's just funny man. Whilst I was sitting the otherday in the barbers (I needed to make a good impression on someone) the TV was on with no sound - and i swear down I was the only person there in stitches.
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| Written 17th October 2007 |
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We get like this from time to time.
We are alive, but long term fans know we always get lazy for a few months each year and stop doing anything on LJ.
Well we are in that phase for now.
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| Written 6th September 2007 |
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B-52s and Nukes - The American Dream
Well today I was flicking through Google News as I am to cheap to buy a newspaper and I stumbled across a nice little article about the Americans.
Basically it was saying "A B-52 commander has been sacked" it went on to say that he had accidentally loaded 6 (and I repeat for dramatic effect - thats SIX) nuculear warheads onto a B-52 which had then flown for 3 hours over several states.
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| Written 28th August 2007 |
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Really Really Really Stupid
OK, so I recently got my own taxi - and it is great. It is a very big and posh Tourneo. It is quick, tinted and is the only vehicle I know that gets lasses coming over and asking if you can take them and their 7 friends to their hotel.
However, after a slight hiccup in the first week of ownership - well ok it broke down, but as usual it broke down in typical G style just before window 1 of the Mc Donalds lunchtime rush queue. Now anyone familiar with a drive through knows that once under the height restriction you have curbs on either side of you. You have to first drive past the signs, then to window 1, 2 and 3 before you can get out of the queue if you change your mind.
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| Written 31st July 2007 |
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Highlighting how stupid the world gets!
I could not believe what I saw today. It was a Fiat Cornflake, or whatever their super mini is called - now the knowledge of such a small car had not escaped me - the thing that made me stop in my tracks was one of its 4 wheels had been replaced with a space saving spare.
How can you design a car with the worlds smallest wheels, and then have the audacity to provide the car with an even smaller back up tyre.
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| Written 5th July 2007 |
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The Story of Rich & G
Well I know my updates are rare, but hopefully that will make them more valuable when Google see sense and offer to buy us.
However, Rich's last article about the Simpsons and his picture of him as a Simpson's drawing reminded me of the first day I met Rich. Here it is...
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| Written 10th May 2007 |
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joke
I was at a meeting tonight where speeches-a-plenty were given out. One man, who followed a speech which had covered everything he was about to say decided to tell a joke or two instead. His first one was not great but his second did get quite a laugh from all present. Here it is:
A wife, standing in front of a mirror said "I am fat and ugly" to her husband "pay me a compliment".
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| Written 27th April 2007 |
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wifi
not a big article. Actually I'm stealing internet whilst Sitting on a taXi rank with an ipaq hence poor spelling - stupid thin Stylus, I'm used to something thicker.
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| Written 24th April 2007 |
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Nipples Survey
I know it is rare me putting words to screen on this thing, but thats because Rich has always been the narrator of the crazy shit that happens in my life, and I haven't seen him for a while. However, that said here is a little tid bit for you.
Saturday night I am at work, and had been given the minibus to drive (remember I am a taxi driver now) so up came a job to transport some people to Durham. Some were Irish which meant they were rat arsed before we left. Some were female, which meant I actually paid attention to my passengers.
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| Written 4th April 2007 |
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G
Well Richard has been moaning on at me for quite some time to add a blog to lost johnnies. So, at 2:20am I decide to check out the site and see if anyone has written anything that gets my creative juices flowing (no, the other creative juices - I use different sites for the other type!)
What do I find when I load lj in the address bar of a incredibly unstable version of Firefox with no less that three corrupt file warning messages everytime I start it. Rich has found a text editor, or Dreamweaver or God knows what editor and changed the bloody CSS file for LJ again.
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