Designer Flag

Has anyone else noticed the new EU flag has more than a passing resemblance to Paul Smith‘s signature collection stripes?

strange questions

Why do people ask search engines questions?
Like the person who turned up here asking the “number of times to have sex in a week“. Why would you need to be told how many times to have sex in a week? Surely you would just do it as many times as you wanted?
If you are asking though I’d say as many as possible. Well of course I would. I’m getting none at the moment.

random thoughts

Whilst at Spence‘s Birthday party Mark and I chatted about the process of dating.
It occurred to us that normally when you meet someone you are shy and nervous in a bar situation so you drink. By the time you are sure you can go back to yours [or theirs] you have drunk enough that you probably are not gonna be able to do much.
Hardly a good indicator of how you would normally perform, or a good advert for a second meet up.

I was also wondering why it is you never get a decent nights sleep when you share a bed with someone and you are trying to be on your best behaviour.
Last night though I couldn’t sleep as I am now used to sleeping anyway I like in the bed – I have gotten very used to having my bed all to myself recently and enjoy it too! Also possibly because I shared a bed with a friend who is like a human hot water bottle and produces more heat than is quite possibly healthy for one person.
Oh and also white bedding and muddy Jack Russells are not a good combination.

Hardworking?

Ever wonder about those people who say they are giving more than 100% ?

We have all been to those meetings where someone wants over 100%. How about
achieving 103%? Here’s a little math that might prove helpful. What makes life 100% ?

If A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z is represented as:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26.

Then:
H A R D W O R K
8 1 18 4 23 15 18 11 = 98%

K N O W L E D G E
11 14 15 23 12 5 4 7 5 = 96%

But,
A T T I T U D E
1 20 20 9 20 21 4 5 = 100%

And,
B U L L S H I T
2 21 12 12 19 8 9 20 = 103%

So, it stands to reason that hard work and knowledge will get you close.
Attitude will get you there, but Bullshit will put you over the top.

And look how far ass kissing will take you.
A S S K I S S I N G
1 19 19 11 9 19 19 9 14 7 = 118%

NEVER THOUGHT ABOUT IT LIKE THAT BEFORE, HUH?

strictly ballroom

I’m carryng on the Baz Luhrmann theme tonight because Strictly Ballroom is on BBC1 tonight. Camp as… well a camp thing.

petrol price wars?

(This is a heavily edited version of the original)

For all you drivers!

Want petrol prices to come down? We need to take some intelligent, united action.

This makes MUCH MORE SENSE than the “don’t buy petrol on a certain day” campaign that was going around last April or May! The oil companies just laughed at that because they knew we wouldn’t continue to “hurt” ourselves by refusing to buy petrol. It was more of an inconvenience to us than it was a problem for them.

How? Since we all rely on our cars, we can’t just stop buying petrol. But we CAN have an impact on petrol prices if we all act together to force a price war.

Here’s the idea:
For the rest of this year, DON’T purchase ANY petrol from the two biggest oil companies (which now are one), ESSO and BP. If they are not selling any petrol, they will be inclined to reduce their prices. If they reduce their prices, the other companies will have to follow suit. But to have an impact, we need to reach literally millions of Esso and BP petrol buyers

Comment:

Now don’t get me wrong, I think it’s a good idea – great in fact but I also see a few flaws and potential problems with this idea.
It may simply put BP and Esso out of business in the UK market – leaving us with less choice and the potential for more price increases.

We could however do the same for DVD’s and CD’s and bring those down in price in line with the rest of the EC. So I propose we also boycott Virgin and HMV, and while we are at it coffee is kinda pricey so let’s boycott Starbucks and Costa. Oh and how about Borders and Waterstones too? The list could of course go on and on.

I do agree though it is a much better plan than the don’t buy petrol days. I mean who that was a good idea?

random? rational? irritatingly complex?

I’m sure there is a completely rational explanation for this but I can;t for the life of me figure it out his late at night.

1. First of all, pick the number of times a week that you would like
to have [insert random thing here like chocolate or sex]. (try for more than once but less than 10)

2. Multiply this number by 2

3. Add 5.

4. Multiply it by 50

5. If you have already had your birthday this year add 1752….
If you haven’t, add 1751……….

6. Now subtract the four digit year that you were born. You should now
have a three digit number …

The first digit of this was your original number (I.e., how many times you want to have [that random thing – chocolate, sex etc] each week).

The next two numbers are ……….

YOUR AGE! (Oh YES, it IS!!!!!)

See now I know there must be a reason why this worked. I know I figured it out years ago when I was sent it the first time but I am buggered If I can remember.

Thanks to Rob for the heads up.