Archive for January, 2004

email of the day

Published on 30/1/2004 in personal. 2 Comments

Fellas,

Really want to go skiing in March, and as a single bloke with mates all birded
up, options are limited as to who and when to go with. So I write to this solid
band of brothers to say “does anyone fancy a week’s booze and skiing with a
pin headed bloke?” in March. 2nd or 3rd week.
Some good deals out there and even if you don’t ski, why not learn and get
hammered in the evening?

In terms of temptation I list the following heros and villains:

Gibbo - no cash, but loves skiing and ale. PS - you’re not a good skiier and I’m
better than you (will you take the challenge?)
Doc - you love enjoyment of the spending and booze kind and an opportunity to
catch up over 7 days!!!
Wrighty - enjoy yourself - you don’t need to ski. You can take lessons for a
good price. Use the credit card
Dunc - come on. Although the thought of potentially 2 holidays with you scares
me, it’s a challenge I’ll rise to.
Giles - another holiday. Come on. Posh totty on the slopes
Kaiser - Come back to Europe
Mike - Ale and Birds
Smithy - Ale and birds
Rob - Ale and birds

If you do fancy it let me know.
Sid also has booked in late March in Sauze D’Oulx which we could latch onto.

Kasier - by copy of this am not going to be able to make the 7s due to flight availability and cost being at the £600 mark (excluding the £2000 required for birds and booze) - although do you fancy some baaaarding action.

If none of you say yes, you are forcing me to spend £2500 with The Kaiser in Hong Kong, or to go on a Mark Warner singles holiday.

Yours pleadingly

So, he’s blowing the 7s out for a bit of skiing. I get ya!

flights, snay, uk

Published on 29/1/2004 in news. 0 Comments

Get this:


Two hundred flights from Heathrow were cancelled and Gatwick, Stansted, Luton and Birmingham airports were also hit.

How much did that cost the UK?

Bunch of fuckwits, every freaking year. So you can’t fly to New York or say Canada, Russia, Sweden, Lapland etc.? I’ve landed in NY in the middle of a snow storm, they just have loads of ploughs keeping the runways open.

Hmm, but I suppose the staff have to get to the airport too:


Many routes in the Midlands and the south of England were turned into ice rinks on Wednesday evening, causing lengthy delays for travellers.

Heard of salt?

For a country that is supposed to be obsessed with the weather, we don’t prepare for it. Unlike this guy:


The adventurer regularly carries a sleeping bag, a flask of hot, sweet tea and a spade in his car when winter conditions are forecast.

Ahh, I was reminded of a joke here. Er, but it’s racist, so not going to write it here.

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Update @ 5pm: Bollox, scooped by the new kid.

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Update @ 5.15pm: Just saw this email:


We are seeing delays today with reports - is our database affected
by the wrong kind of snow?

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Update @ 6pm: So far received 5 pictures from various family members depicting the ravages caused by 2 nanometres of snay.

wotd

Published on 29/1/2004 in geekery. 0 Comments

Comedy word of the day:

pantisocracy

Supposed to be some sort of Utopian community, rule equally etc.

Sounds more like Wan Chai.

rugby

Published on 29/1/2004 in sport. 3 Comments

England have got a new captain…. on a game by game basis. (Thanks) Also spotted by fellow rugby fan, Sweet Chariots.

I note the 6 Nations squad contains Henry Paul and James Simpson-Daniel, both of whom were in the HK Sevens teams in the last two years. So looks like they won’t be in it this year. Not sure though.

Ah, the new 7s squad is here.

Is U Monye Ugo Monye? The tall, lanky geezer that’s as fast as an egg? I think he played last year.

Not doing too bad this season. Winners in SA. Semis in Dubai. NZ and LA next month, England vs the Aussies on day one of the NZ 7s and England v USA in LA. Nice.

Then we all know what happens.

No Ireland or Wales I notice. Good old Kenya are back, so are Chlamydia.

bbc

Published on 29/1/2004 in news. 2 Comments

Dodgy behaviour by the BBC.


Despite being one of the main players in the drama, anyone searching for “Hutton inquiry” or “Hutton report” on the UK’s most popular search engine Google is automatically directed to a paid-for link to BBC Online’s own news coverage of the inquiry.

No other news broadcaster or any newspaper has paid Google for this facility, leaving the corporation’s move even more conspicuous.

As one of the chief “interested parties” in the Hutton inquiry into the apparent suicide of Dr Kelly, the move will strike many as worthy of comment, not least because the BBC’s online news pages will not be the most obvious place to go for the most comprehensive coverage, which is bound to include painful criticism of the corporation.

Oh, the chairman has just resigned.

payday

Published on 29/1/2004 in blogging. 0 Comments

My shameless plugging worked out. T-shirts on the way! One for me and one for Doris! Thanks gmtee.

tv

Published on 28/1/2004 in miscellaneous. 0 Comments

I’d like to remind everyone to check out Family Guy.

It isn’t a Simpsons clone and it really is genius. I hope the fourth series rumours are true.

Other rumours suggest there may be a movie.

Anyway, just freaking watch Family Guy, you won’t regret it!

Another show I watch is a bit more cheesy, 8 Simple Rules (for dating my teenage daughter). It’s just fun to watch. Or it was. The the main character, the dad, died. Well the guy that played him, John Ritter, died. He died in the middle of filming the third series, but they decided to go on, so now it’s all sad, well it was for a few episodes, now it’s getting funny again.

Here’s a review.

Oh yeah, one of the Dorae is fit, the mum has big carpets and ‘the boy’ is hilarious.

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Anyway, it makes me laugh, and now, er, cry, get emotional.


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