I’m a lazy sod
March 12th, 2009Honestly, I wish I had the time/energy to maintain this properly.
Until I do, my randomest thoughts are on Twitter
The musings of a twenty something Technician from Dublin, Ireland. Covering everything from Apple Macs to Music to Politics
Honestly, I wish I had the time/energy to maintain this properly.
Until I do, my randomest thoughts are on Twitter
With all the talk of the US Presidential Elections, coupled with the whole Lisbon Farce, never mind the Locals & Europeans next year, it’s going to be pretty hard to avoid politics in the next 12 months. But fear not, if you have a distaste for politics (I don’t, for the record, it’s like cocaine to me) then The Onion have this helpful guide for bluffing the US Election / Politics in General -
Today Now!: How To Pretend You Give A Shit About The Election
Gizmodo, a fine blog of note, recently sent a team to the Lego HQ. They opened up questions to the web and here’s the answers they got!
Seriously, I used to be quite good at blogging regularly. Admittedly, it may have just been a two-liner, but at least it was a post!
Anyway, I’ve been moved to post by the sheer stupidity and ignorance of Heinz. They recently started a new campaign in the UK (never saw it here, but what with Sky, i’d imagine it would have hit my screen), this campaign was for a new type of deli sauce or something, the product itself is largely irrelevant.
Now call me crazy, but I see it as a pretty standard ad, with an unexpected twist which is pretty amusing.
It would appear that Heinz & some members of the public disagree here and here.
That’s so bloody stupid it’s unreal.
The BBC is honestly the best use of taxpayer’s money I’ve ever seen in any country. Who else would catalog all the classic opening titles of their cheesiest stuff?
Seriously, what a great idea. Not entirely sure what countries this will work in, but the UK & Ireland can get it anyway.
Whoa, really, it’s been so long since my last post, that I had to start the day with a series of system upgrades. Plus I had to try and remember how to access my admin page. But here I am and it’s all good.
So, I’m going to make a concerted effort to start posting again. A couple of topics I’ll get around to before the end of the week -
Ok, they should ease me back in over the next few days..
See ya on the interwebs..
Via Politico.com - A recent study at NYU has shown that a majority of students there would be willing to sell their vote at the next US Presidential election.
Prices for a vote included
Some polled even offered to give their right to vote entirely in exchange for $1M (fools, should have asked for €1M).
Oddly enough, whilst happy to sell their votes, most of the students asked were quite clear on the importance of voting.
In a country where a few thousand votes can swing the course of world history (literally, I mean look at the last 7 years) I have to admit, it’s a disturbing study.
I wonder how transferable these results would be? Would your average UCD or TCD head be willing to change their vote for an iPod? Or a full grant?
This is truly the most ludicrous thing I have ever seen.
via El Reg
Published Thursday 8th November 2007 15:32 GMT
A Nottinghamshire lad had a “birthday to remember” after a stripper turned up at his school, burst into his drama class and proceeded to flaunt herself like a two-buck hussy as shocked teacher and students looked on.
According to the Telegraph, the clothes-shedding strumpet was dispatched to Nottingham’s Arnold Hill School and Technology College at the behest of the boy’s mum, who also asked his teacher to film the event.
The stripper entered the classroom halfway through the lesson, and then, as a fellow pupil recounted to the Daily Mail: “She asked the lad to stand up, which he did, and told him he had been a very naughty boy because he hadn’t been doing his homework. Then she put on some Britney Spears music and got out a collar and lead from her bag and told him to put them on.
“No one could believe it. Next she ordered him to get on all fours, led him around the classroom and hit him 16 times - once for each year - on the bottom with her whip. Then she took off some clothes until she was down to her bra and pants, pulled out some cream, put it on her buttocks and told him to rub it in.
“To be fair to the teacher, you could tell she was just stunned - and when the cream came out she told the stripper ‘That’s it. That’s enough’.”
It apparently was enough for the honoured guest of this show, since he “ran out of the classroom while the stripper calmly packed her bag and left”.
A spokeswoman for Nottinghamshire County Council said no one had been suspended and the police were not involved. She added: “We and the school are investigating into the situation.”
And in case you’re wondering what kind of parent would subject their offspring to this kind of humiliation, the mother in question told the school she’d actually ordered a gorilla “through an agency”, but got the cream-loving dog-handler instead. ®
iPhone finger condoms!
Engadget is plugging this as an actual product, but it doesn’t really explain the bizarre video.
As TUAW are saying “it goes from Love Actually to CSI”