Be Excellent To Each Other

FTFY

(Albeit, who said humorous, witty, albeit crude, often sexual graffiti was indicative of any decline? I've always thought the exact reverse; an amusing, well crafted albeit irreverent, dirty ditty or rhyme is much to be preferred than the usual oafish "MUFC", "Fuk Off", "[insert illiterate racist crap here]" or just the default (badly drawn) phallus and/or vadge scratched on the bog door or wherever. I was given a book dedicated to graffiti years ago by a now sadly departed old friend, and it remains one of my fave bog reads to this day).

The wife and I watched a programme about Pompeii the other night actually, and this came up. The presenter was laughing about some graffiti apparently left on a toilet wall by the doctor to the Emperor himself no less, along the lines of "I had a fantastically smelly shit here" or somesuch. Awesome.

I'd love to think that my own GP went around doing stuff like this, possibly for the similar delectation of future post-apocalypse human civilizations, but I seriously doubt it.

I'll be taking a CD pen with me next time I'm 'dropping the kids off' in the Exec bogs.

Today, I've made a christmas card and had a walk around the floor of a printing press. It was quite interesting, and everyone liked my card the best as it had a snowman on it wearing a red hat and a red scarf with purple eyes and a red ribbon down the side. The woman is going to show it to other people.

LULZ, this has got to be taking the piss:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/enter ... 989732.stm



So, "Born To Do It" is the second best post 1981 album, period, second only to Michael Jackson's Thriller (which is a great album of course, though hardly my cup of tea lol), it's official.

Yeah right; and people wonder why I weep for today's MTV Generation


Well, all I can say is, "CRAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIG DAVID! Come 'ere Kes yer little bastid!!" etc.

can that be real? It's float too mental, even for the Scientologists.

Float = almost in autocorrectland

this is just lovely.

Also, happy birthday, SST!

Happy birthday!

Hope you had a lovely birthday SST.

Happy birthday, man!

A man is supopsedly coming to pick the car up at 5pm and give me £100 for it. Which'll buy a bike rack for the Ka. So I can go cycling again, maybe. yesterday was really good. I feel drained after this week, though.

Silly Malia. You don't need a car to ride a bike.

I could catch the train to Skipton or Settle and set off from there, but the prospect of catching the train back when sweaty, tired and covered in mud and animal excrement probably isn't the best for my fellow passengers. in the alternative, I could ride over Baildon Moor,and head to Otley, then on to Stainburn, but that stops me from going straight after work.

Sobering account of the second atomic bomb dropped on japan.

Fucking eBay tit.

Guy wins an item, asks me if he can pay by Postal Order... OK no problem so he crosses it so it's uncashable and will take a week to clear at the bank.

Oh and he made it out for the winning bid price NOT INCLUDING THE FUCKING POSTAGE.

Crikey, people still use postal orders?

You seem to forget that as a cyclist, you are now no longer to show basic human decency nor obey the law. Ride through red lights, on the pavement, take your bike onto crowded rush hour trains and smack people in the face with your muddy rucksack when you go to turn around.

You're saving the PLANET, dammit!

I'm not. I'm trying to get calves like JBR, and a justification for drinking at the weekends.

Speaking of which:

STORY TIME!

When I was at college, it was about 2 miles away up a hill from my home. My friend and I, after a hard day of higher education, used to cycle home. The route was this.

The rules were:

Leave college.
First one to the old fire station won.

How to win:
Ignore the cycle path on the pavement to the south. Ride down the dual carriageway, over the roundabout by the hospital (use the right hand lane and straight line the roundabout, move over to left c200 yards after as it keeps the line straight). Climb the slight rise, you need to keep your momentum up here as in flattens out past the school, over a push button crossing, then down down down to the final roundabout. There are traffic islands on this final downhill bit, so if you can't squeeze between them and the cars, cross over and ride against the oncoming traffic. Hope the lights at the push button garage (great for underage booze purchasing) are clear, otherwise stand on the pedals to get a better look, and time your run, try and pass behind people crossing, be aware of right turning cars, use the oncoming lane to avoid them. Straight line the next roundabout from the middle lane and power along the flat to the line.

Other general tips were "don't brake, aim around the rear of the cars", "use the right hand lane as much as you can", "racing lines around roundabouts stop them being chicanes". He did have the advantage of running a 48-11 chainset (I was on a 42-11), and he had a bit more power, so i had to claw back the gaps through riding smoothly.

Quiet how the fuck we were never in any collisions or crashed is I just don't know. We used to call it "The Plummet". Did get quite a few beeps from car drivers and I'll never forget the sight of my friend flipping the bird to a Dyno Rod driver over his shoulder whilst squeezing between the right of an island and a bus.

oh, to be young again.

Ha! Excellent.

We considered the road to be safer than the cycle path, as there wasn't great visibilty around the bends and undulated a bit more.

The cycle track near our school was plagued by a trench coat wearing flasher type.

Unfortunately visibility wasn't a problem.

Hardly, when I took it into the bank the cashier said, "Blimey I've not seen one of these in years!"

Now I have to wait for the tit to send me another to cover the postage cost.

I hate it when people get eBay wrong. It usually happens to me when I'm selling something expensive. Like when that Yank won my PlayStation 2 and then refused to pay for it because it was a PAL system. Seven days of auction wasted.

Things don't go wrong that much when you're forced to pay the fuck attention. Any mishaps I've ever had have been when I've switched off a little and become complacent.

Jesus.

Jesus Christ.

The last problem eBay sale was for a Gamecube controller extension lead 99p & £1.50 postage.

He lived local so said he'd pay cash and pick it up. 3 weeks of questioning him when he was coming ended up with him paying through PayPal in the end. WHY NOT DO THAT IN THE FIRST PLACE.

Indeed. To think that so many people lives were decided by the decisions of so few.

Terrifying, isn't it. Looking at the individual people involved gets even more personal when you look at people like this guy who survived the Hiroshima bombing only to return home to Nagasaki and get bombed again.

Every single accident involving another vehicle I've been involved with (on a bike) has been the driver not looking in his left mirror and not seeing me. A bus did it, a car waiting at lights did it (and didn't stop) and a car overtaking me did it (did stop, had diplomatic plates)

Malc

It is amazing, who well mankind can kill each other..

It is horrible to think how many 'nukes' are under the sea in subs at this moment!

Be warned that this clip from the anime Barefoot Gen is extremely graphic and upsetting. Based on the author's own childhood in Hiroshima during the war.

Bloody hell, read the account and then watched the anime, its stagering.

I can see why you moved on to filtering on the motorway at 80mph.

Hometime at 4pm, car being removed at 5pm, then food shopping, then cooking, then guests coming at half seven. I'm going to be knackered all weekend.

... That image of that giant bomb, "Fat Man", haunts me. I used to have nightmares of it as a child, after having caught a glimpse of it on some 70s documentary or other. So oft-stated, but Man's inhumanity to Man etc.

Of course, these were mere A-bombs; H-Bombs are at least two orders of magnitude more powerful (and use an A-Bomb as a mere initiator for the main deuterium fusion reaction, which results in much greater conversion of mass-to-energy than mere fission, and consequently much the greater explosive power).

It's a sobering thought to think that the Hiroshima A-Bomb, which killed people in the many hundreds of thousands, was a "mere" 0.012 megaton yield, whereas H-Bombs of up to 40, 60 or even 100 megatons have been constructed, tested and/or conceived.

I have always been anti-nuclear. Nothing justifies their use. Nothing. I would live every day of my remaining life as a penniless member of a broken Communist society, than be in any way party to a grotesque slaughter such as this.

Someone come and collect this fucking car, already. Nothing ever gets done in the county when people say it will be. Jesus.

Every time I watch Private Ryan I want to play a WWII game, but nobody makes them anymore!

Play an old one.

Yeah I might! I've got CoD and I'm part-way through a Veteran play through. Might fire it up tomorrow night.

I'd quite like to see a next-gen WWII CoD, though. Love multiplayer without the gadgets and daft weapons the current games have. BLOPS 2 looks like another Modern Warfare game.

episode 3 of season 7 of futurama is funny. funny futuram.a

Ah yeah, forgot about the new series!

Thanks for the birthday wishes, everyone! Stayed in Harrogate. Went to the Turkish baths, then a curry house, then watched Scott Pilgrim, then slept, then watched a ton of Olympics, then had some grub at Weetons, then went out for drinks, and now am home. I'm 32!

Belated happy birthday chum!

Yeah Happy Birthday fella. What did you get?

Just on a train up to Harrogate to retrieve a car that I had to leave up there when I picked up the M5 last week.

I'm amazed at how many people were on the train when it pulled into Shrewsbury. It's about to pull into Manchester and the number of folks wearing Team GB clothing and London 2012 banners is huge.

To be expected I guess, although I figured most people would head to London and that other venues would be mostly locals.

Shrewsbury to Manchester is an ATW service, maybe they had come up from watching the stuff in Cardiff?

Cheers dude!


Old.

But seriously, just some cash off my folks. So I got a couple of CDs at HMV (like it's 1996), some nice footwear from Harvey Nicks. Treated myself to a nice haul of clothing when I was in Manchester last week, so that'll do.

Realised too that I'm over my overdraft limit, so the rest of my birthday money will go on lunch and bus fare How much did I need that Broken Social Scene album..?