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.

:(

Last night whilst out walking Jack it was slightly damp – you now after a rainy day. After about ten minutes I hear a crunch and a tiny little squelch. I do not look down. I know I have just stepped on a snail. I do not need to see it. Yet I can’t help thinking about it for the rest of the walk. I wonder if the snail felt anything as I crushed it to death. I wonder if it died instantly. I wonder if it had feelings. I wonder if it had family or friends. I wonder if any other snails saw or heard this untimely death.
I’m not sure if I was being morbid or overly sensitive.

Cold showers

No I am not talking about the weather here. Although it has been showery here in London and also quite cold considering last week I was wandering around in a tee shirt.
I am actually talking about at home. No not because I am horny. Although after the tube encounter I could hardly be blamed.
No this is the sad and sorry tale of my broken boiler and the inept plumber. Wednesday he came to look at it and then was supposed to come back on thursday – so a couple of days without hot water – I could have coped.
Unfortunately It is now Monday and I still have cold water. He didn’t arrive on Thursday and called to say he would be with me on Sunday but unfortunately he had an emergency job to go to [my cold water is obviously not an emergency] So now he would like me to reschedule for Wednesday – a week later. Grrrr
I need to take a day off work too – which is impossible with my current schedule. Bah.
Anyone know a good reliable plumber in South London? Please?

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love it

You know sometime you see a site and think ‘Wow, I wish my site looked like that’ well here is Daniel Regan, stylish and making me want a redesign…
Oh and it’s not just stylish either – there’s content too! I so sympathise with the magazine buying dilema. I think we all had one of those moments.
Oh and his brother has the same birthday as my brother apparently 😉

I am so crap

Okay so here is the deal. I’m on my way home from lunch in Soho and get the tube from Leicester Square to Balham and we have to stop at Kennington. So everyone gets off and we wait for the next southbound train.
I glance up at the other people waiting and there is a really cute guy looking at me. Well at least I think he is looking at me.
So thinking I really should make some sort of effort to look away he starts smiling and I immediately think I have a bogey hanging from my nose r something. No, he is genuinely smiling at me. Nice. The tube arrives and we get on the same carriage but different doors. He is still looking at me and I am stil looking at him. I’m thinking he is really very cute.
Eventually I muster the courage and decide I should go over and say hi, offer him my number when we pull into Stockwell and he gets off looking back at me.
I am by nature indecisive so debate internally whether I should get off and then say hi. By the time I have had this internal debate however the tube has moved off and the chance has gone. The only thing left would be to put one of those ads in the back of boyz. You know the ones.

‘Saturday 27th April around 6pm. Southbound Northern Line, saw you at Kennington station and we got on the same carriage. Me Camo bottoms, green jacket and baseball cap. You cute with gorgeous brown eyes. You smiled and I was too shy to come and say hi. Contact me on 0780 150 XXXX.’

pick of the searches

So when my brother isn’t playing with my cock he is getting drunk and sleeping nude?
Other than that it was a day for New Order World in Motion searches fueled no doubt by the FA announcing Ant & Dec doing this years Official England Anthem.

ANF catches up

Abercrombie & Fitch have caught up with the blogging phenomenon. Their most recent A&F Quaterly has an article with some links to blogger.com and a few others.
So can we expect a whole raft of new sites? Let’s hope they are photo logs and have as much naked flash as the quaterly does 🙂 They aren’t targeting the gay market though honest!