1. Your reaction to a quiz on the internet is to mansplain away why it can't possibly apply to you.

Since I pay as little attention to the polis as possible, I've not noticed them getting younger.

What is a sign of increasing age is that electronic components are getting smaller ( Read more... )

Interesting time at the model engineering exhibition ( Read more... )

There must be some magic switch inside computers that makes them utterly incapable of doing whatever it is that your parent(s) require ( Read more... )

Dear nice people in bands.

You were probably keeping the existence of 'road worn' guitars from me because you knew I'd go off on one and/or jabber randomly about (post)modernist theory. I'm sure your intention was good, but the Koons-style cat is out of the Fendi (probably. It would be a bad idea to try to make me care.) knockoff bag.

For Fuck's ( Read more... )

Car rental in the US: quoted cost - $175. Actual cost - $400.

Van rental in the UK: quoted cost- £400. Actual cost - £400.

(I haven't rented a car in this country for about a decade, but I am tolerably sure that the cost doesn't more than double.)

Dear media, when you call Cannabis 'pot', it makes you sound exactly as relevant to the 21st century as Hugh Hefner.

Still, if the public perception of those in positions of alleged informational authority is that they're a hopeless shower of bastards, then that's probably a good thing.

(Probably also s of the t that I have written before)

When you can no longer read screens without peering at the things like a wanking tortoise, go and get your head and neck thoroughly massaged. Then you will be able to focus, both mentally and physically.

I'll bet it's done my eyeball pressure some good, too.

Dear Facebook types ( Read more... )

Dear feckwit alleged religious alleged nutter. Air travel is tiresome enough. Now it'll be entirely impossible to fly to the US without getting yr arse inspected. Unless you're white and American of course. Mind, it sounds like some Dutch geezer went all Smeato and jumped up and down on your head in order to 'put the fire out'. Quality work there ( Read more... )