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Culture shock
I'm in the departure lounge at washington's Dulles airport and I can't wait to leave.
I've been here two weeks and until yesterday morning worked solidly without a day off, so it took a while for the culture shock to set in.
No doubt there are nice, courteous Americans about, but many many are just as fake as their food. Don't wish me a nice day ( Read more... ) -
Top 10 one liners from the Edinburgh festival
Top 10 one liners from the Edinburgh festival
As quoted from the article in BBC news today: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-14646532
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1) Nick Helm: "I needed a password eight characters long so I picked Snow White and the Seven Dwarves."
2) Tim Vine: "Crime in multi-storey car parks. That is wrong on so many different levels."
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Intellectual Builder
Guy goes to work at a building site and the foreman says, "I'm not hiring you. You're so thick I bet you don't know the difference between a Joist and a Girder."
"Sure I do," he says, "Joyce wrote Ulysses and Goethe wrote Faust." -
Kate Middleton
Kate Middleton asked the queen what the secret to a long and happy marriage was.
She replied, "Don't piss me off and always wear a seatbelt -
Livejournal being broken because of DDOS attacks.
It turns out that apparently the Russian government are the ones who've been breaking Livejournal.
This was apparently due to people being nasty about Mr Putin and Mr Medvedev's government on the internet, or something. As we know the internet is serious business.
I mean, what are they expecting? That every blog post about Putin reads like this ( Read more... )
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