It feels oddly decadent to have a fridge that was made in the C21st (CE), rather than some gurgling relic of empire. It's as if I should be keeping the sort of brightly coloured putty-like grub they scoffed on Discovery One (when not jogging or arguing with HAL) in the thing.

Internet-based serendipity: This turned up (andrewducker again) while I had this ( Read more... )

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Homoeraticism - The variable beer-state between straight geezer and bi-curious. Usually seven pints, plus or minus two.

Round the corner from the house is a strange pound-shop run by a cheerful bearded fellow. I know that I'm supposed to find pound-shops a terrible sign of poverty and wossname and should probably be aspiring to shops selling coffee with complicated names and Mac accessories, but they're usually filled with mad objects. If you've got the right sort ( Read more... )

Brown pinstripe suit w/lionels and Dunlops == Cobol programmer.

Ugh. Bad mojo.

(Though for the full effect, you'd want a knitted tie, real-ale beard and a copies of Practicals Caravan, Computing and Electronics in a 70s Sainsbury's carrier.)