Rants from an Oldie..

Sugar, you're a twat..

2009-08-06T15:25:43Z

http://www.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/5247008/why-sugar-is-wrong.thtml

Now sue me too..

An update, an update, a Principality for an update..

2007-11-16T02:17:14Z

So.. things have been fun.. roof collapsing, deep joy.. insurance covers not all but at least some of the repair, deeper joy.. temporary repair not all that effective, deep heavenly joy.. clambering around on a flat roof covered in very slippery plastic sheet in the wet stuff with no sort of anything sensible to grab hold of, deeper heavenly joy..

In other words:

And the roofy-felt did collapsimold inward all over the flake and stuffit in the room, causing wifely brave to exclaim mightily to all that have sufferage of a hearage that "Lo!, life itself causes much in the way of heartachey feel in the stressiness of the sufferage, and wouldn't it be nice if it would all sodly off and life and live-it could be less complicately".. to which I could only add the deep thorkus "Goodly much if only we could make it be so bold".. luckinessly it seems that the nice manlyfold that came trickly-trickly-how in his van and all rattly who follollops up and down the laddery climb up to high places and fixy roofen-felty-rubbery things like as but different from the roofy-felt that was the sort that collapsimold inwards and caused the smackeroblurdy which struck like few have ever thorkus before, can soonly-most smooth and layit the rubbery-felty-flobbit over the boardy put down so nicely by the manlyfold from the take-it cashly-most and grabbit money and run insurifold company.. this to stop the drippit, drippit and splashlymuch waterfalleth all over the carpet-fell and stuffit and filly buckets of dribblies that splosh-splish in the darkly night when rain and ribbit fally through the gaply-most..

If your life and live-it turns out three quarters half as lovely you wouldn't half enjoy it would you bold?..

Hmmm.. a question for those that readeth..

2007-11-02T01:50:32Z

OK, so all you that know me also know that I'm a bit on the weird side of things.. that's fine, I know it too..

That being said, how many of you are looking at the current situation and working out just how self-sufficient you could be if push came to shove?.. I know I am doing so..

What a wonderful woman..

2007-10-18T22:07:07Z

artela left me a message this morning.. the message she left just shows her wonderful stoicism and why I love her so much.. I quote:

"BigPockets delivery due today - note on front door to go and knock *loudly* on patio door - once you're up let $lodger know so that he can have his walk.
PS.
Bedroom ceiling fell in this morning. Am ringing insurance to see if covered."

what a wonderful girl..

Meme, it's a meme.. yes, it's a meme..

2007-09-12T01:22:43Z

You scored as Visual&PerformingArts, You should strongly consider majoring (or minoring) in the Visual or Performing Arts (e.g., Art, Art Education, Art History, Ceramics, Culinary Arts, Dance, Drawing, Fashion Design, Film, Graphic Design, Interior Design, Marketing (advertising), Music, Music Education, Music Theory, Painting, Photography, Theatre).

It is possible that the best major for you is your 2nd, 3rd, or even 5th listed category, so be sure to consider ALL majors in your OTHER high scoring categories (below). You may score high in a category you didnt think you would--it is possible that a great major for you is something you once dismissed as not for you. The right major for you will be something 1) you love and enjoy and 2) are really great at it.

Consider adding a minor or double majoring to make yourself standout and to combine your interests. Please post your results in your myspace/blog/journal.

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Biology/Chemistry/Geology

100%

Mathematics/Statistics

100%

Visual&PerformingArts

100%

History/Anthropology/LiberalArts

94%

Physics/Engineering/Computer

94%

English/Journalism/Comm

94%

Psychology/Sociology

88%

PoliticalScience/Philosophy

88%

HR/BusinessManagement

81%

Education/Counseling

81%

Accounting/Finance/Marketing

69%

Nursing/AthleticTraining/Health

63%

Religion/Theology

50%

French/Spanish/OtherLanguage

44%

WHAT MAJOR IS RIGHT FOR YOU?
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Post a Picture of a Flower meme..

2007-07-20T11:41:10Z

Sheep like behaviour.. must be a meme..

2006-07-13T19:54:06Z

(Click here to post your own answers for this meme.)

✓ I miss somebody right now. (She's in Scotland)	✓ I don't watch much TV these days. (Nothing on)	✓ I own lots of books.
× I wear glasses or contact lenses.	✓ I love to play video games. (I'm a MAME addict)	✓ I've tried marijuana.
✓ I've watched porn movies.	× I have been the psycho-ex in a past relationship.	✓ I believe honesty is usually the best policy.
✓ I curse sometimes. (FSVO sometimes)	✓ I have changed a lot mentally over the last year.	× I carry my knife/razor everywhere with me.

* * * * *

✓ I have broken someone's bones. (I used to play rugby.. I've broken a few peoples bones)	× I have a secret that I am ashamed to reveal.	× I hate the rain.
× I'm paranoid at times.	× I would get plastic surgery if it were 100% safe, free of cost, and scar-free.	✓ I need/want money right now. (who doesn't?)
× I love sushi.	× I talk really, really fast.	× I have fresh breath in the morning.
✓ I have long hair. (well.. getting there again)	× I have lost money in Las Vegas.	✓ I have at least one sibling.
✓ I was born in a country outside of the U.S.	✓ I have worn fake hair/fingernails/eyelashes in the past.	× I couldn't survive without Caller I.D.
✓ I like the way that I look.	× I have lied to a good friend in the last 6 months.	× I am usually pessimistic.
× I have a lot of mood swings.	✓ I think prostitution should be legalized.	× I slept with a roommate.
× I have a hidden talent.	× I'm always hyper no matter how much sugar I have.	× I have a lot of friends.
✓ I have pecked someone of the same sex. (pecked?.. hell.. snogged)	× I enjoy talking on the phone.	× I practically live in sweatpants or PJ pants.
✓ I love to shop and/or window shop.	× I'm obsessed with my Xanga or Livejournal.	× I'm completely embarrassed to be seen with my mother.
✓ I have a mobile phone.	× I have passed out drunk in the past 6 months.	✓ I've rejected someone before.
✓ I currently like/love someone. (of course I love someone.. it's my silver wedding next year)	✓ I have no idea what I want to do for the rest of my life.	× I want to have children in the future.
✓ I have changed a diaper before.	× I've called the cops on a friend before.	× I'm not allergic to anything.
✓ I have a lot to learn.	× I am shy around the opposite sex.	✓ I'm online 24/7, even as an away message. (more or less anyway)
× I have at least 5 away messages saved.	✓ I have tried alcohol or drugs before. (alcohol and* drugs is better)*	✓ I have made a move on a friend's significant other or crush in the past. (and that's how I met my wife)
✓ I own the "South Park" movie.	× I have avoided assignments at work/school to be on Xanga or Livejournal.	✓ I enjoy some country music. (quite a bit really)
× I would die for my best friends.	✓ I'm obsessive, and often a perfectionist.	× I have used my sexuality to advance my career.
× I think Halloween is awesome because you get free candy.	✓ I have dated a close friend's ex.	✓ I am happy at this moment.
× I'm obsessed with guys.	× Democrat.	× Republican.
× I don't even know what I am.	✓ I am punk rockish. (me and eric are about the only two original punks left I think)	× I go for older guys/girls, not younger.
× I study for tests most of the time.	✓ I tie my shoelaces differently from anyone I've ever met. (first make a loop, then make another, one loop goes over and under the other)	✓ I can work on a car.
× I love my job(s).	✓ I am comfortable with who I am right now.	× I have more than just my ears pierced.
× I walk barefoot wherever I can.	✓ I have jumped off a bridge. (and cycled off one and motorcycled off one)	× I love sea turtles.
× I spend ridiculous amounts of money on makeup.	✓ I plan on achieving a major goal/dream. (just the one?)	✓ I am proficient on a musical instrument.
✓ I hate office jobs.	× I went to college out of state.	× I am adopted.
✓ I am a pyro.	× I have thrown up from crying too much.	× I have been intentionally hurt by people that I loved.
× I fall for the worst people.	× I adore bright colours.	× I usually like covers better than originals.
✓ I hate chain theme restaurants like Applebees and TGIFridays.	✓ I can pick up things with my toes.	× I can't whistle.
✓ I have ridden/owned a horse.	× I still have every journal I've ever written in.	✓ I talk in my sleep. (often in Welsh apparently)
✓ I've often thought that I was born in the wrong century.	× I try to forget things by drowning them out with loads of distractions.	× I wear a toe ring.
× I have a tattoo.	× I can't stand at LEAST one person that I work with.	× I am a caffeine junkie.
× I am completely tree-huggy spiritual, and I'm not ashamed at all.	× If I knew I would get away with it, I would commit at least one murder.	× I will collect anything, and the more nonsensical, the better.
✓ I enjoy a nice glass of wine with dinner.	✓ I'm an artist.	✓ I am ambidextrous. (mostly)
× I sleep with so many stuffed animals, I can hardly fit on my bed.	× If it weren't for having to see other people naked, I'd live in a nudist colony.	✓ I have terrible teeth. (oh dear are they bad)
× I hate my toes.	✓ I did this meme even though I wasn't tagged by the person who took it before me.	× I have more friends on the internet than in real life.
✓ I have lived in either three different states or countries. (well counties anyway)	✓ I am extremely flexible. (for someone my age)	× I love hugs more than kisses.
× I want to own my own business. (never again)	✓ I smoke. (like a chimney)	× I spend way too much time on the computer than on anything else.
× Nobody has ever said I'm normal.	✓ Sad movies, games, and the like can cause a trickle of tears every now and then. (the dog died in The Archers yesterday.. sniff)	✓ I am proficient in the use of many types of firearms and combat weapons. (reasonably so anyway)
✓ I like the way women look in stylized men's suits.	✓ I don't like it when people are unpleased or seem unpleased with me. (unless I want them to be of course)	✓ I have been described as a dreamer or likely to have my head up in the clouds.
✓ I have played strip poker with someone else before.	× I have had emotional problems for which I have sought professional help.	× I believe in ghosts and the paranormal. (not believe as such.. there may be more in heaven and earth than is dreamed of in your philosophy though)
× I can't stand being alone.	× I have at least one obsession at any given time.	× I weigh myself, pee/poo, and then weigh myself again.
× I consistently spend way too much money on obsessions-of-the-moment.	× I'm a judgmental asshole.	× I'm a HUGE drama-queen.
✓ I have travelled on more than one continent.	× I sometimes wish my father would just disappear.	× I need people to tell me I'm good at something in order to feel that I am.
✓ I am a Libertarian.	✓ I can speak more than one language. (bad German and worse French, with a bit of Welsh)	✓ I can fall asleep even if the whole room is as noisy as it can be.
✓ I would rather read than watch TV.	× I like reading fact more than fiction.	✓ I have pulled an all-nighter on an assignment I was given a month to do.
✓ I have no piercings.	✓ I have spent the night in a train station or other public place.	× I have been so upset over my physical gender that I cried.
× I once spent Christmas completely alone because there was a miscommunication on which parent was supposed to have me that night.	✓ There have been times when I have wondered "Why was I born?" and may/may not have cried over it.	× I like most animals better than most people.
✓ I own a collection of retro games consoles. (I own a full size arcade machine too)	× The thought of physical exercise makes me shiver.	✓ I have hit someone with a dead fish.
× I am compulsively honest.	× I was born with a congenital birth defect that has never been repaired.	✓ I have danced topless in front of dozens of complete strangers.
× I have gone from wishing I was a girl to revelling in being a boy to feeling like a girl again in the span of five minutes, and not cared a whit for my actual sex.	× I am unashamedly bisexual, and have different motivations for my desires for different genders.	✓ I sometimes won't sleep a whole night or eat a whole day because I forget to.
× I find it impossible to get to sleep without some kind of music on.	× I dislike milk.	× I obsessively wash my hands.
× I always carry something significant around with me.	× Sometimes I'd rather wear a wig in day-to-day life than use my own hair.	× I've pushed myself to become more self-aware and thereby more aware of others.
× Even though I live on my own I still cry sometimes because I miss my mother.	× I hand wrote all the HTML tags in this document.	✓ I've liked something which a majority of people claimed was either bad or weird.
× I have been clinically dead for a brief period of time.	× Instead of feeling sympathy/empathy with people and their problems, I simply become annoyed.	✓ I participate/have participated in auto drag races and won.
× I do not 'get' most comedy acts.	✓ I don't think strippers are money-greedy or slutty for dancing.	✓ I don't like to chew gum. (horrible stuff.. all the pavements around here look like they have albino measles)
× I am obsessed with history/historical things and can't wait for someone to build a time machine so I can be the first to use it.	× I can never remember for the life of me where I parked the car.	× I had the TEEN ANGST thing going for at least 2-3 years.
× I wish people would be more empathic and honest with each other.	× I play Dungeons and Dragons weekly.	✓ I love to sing.
× I want to live in my mother's basement when I grow up.	✓ I have a custom-built computer. (a few to be honest)	× I want to create a certain someone's babies, even though there's a 0% possiblity of ever achieving it.
× I would be in a relationship with one of my pets if they were human.	✓ I've gone skinny-dipping.	✓ I've performed in three plays. (and done tech for a whole lot more)
× I enjoy burritos.	× I'm Irish and loving it.	✓ I have a thing for redheads.
× I am a twin!	× Most of the times, I'd rather do something intellectual instead of doing something generically 'fun'.	× Once I set out to finish something, I always stay at it until it is completed before I move on to something else.
× I wish there were a way to erase past mistakes.	× I sleep more than 12 hours a day.	× I wish I could be prouder of what I've accomplished, but it's never enough.
× I need more time to myself.	× I wish I was more open-minded.	× I hope that I go really prematurely grey.
✓ I download songs from the internet.	× I've just reenacted chapter 58 of Death Note with my best friend.	× I say random things to freak people out.
× I'm still a little mad about the ending of Death Note.	× I love playing Truth or Dare.	× I love listening to slow music, but I hate singing to it.
× Music helps me remember that I am not alone.	× Playing my favorite sport makes me temporarily forget my problems.	✓ I think this survey is particularly long.
× I prefer my LJ friends to my real-life ones.	× I can only hate someone that I love.	× I've ordered an extra two shots of espresso to an Americano at Starbucks.

Aaaaargh!..

2006-07-05T13:37:21Z

A whole day of 'net access lost and all down to a Zone Alarm update which wasn't even supposed to be happening.. oh well.. at least this time I didn't lose everything..

Top Trumps meme thing..

2006-07-02T07:50:36Z

LIVE TRUMPS 1.1

watch caerleon fight

CREATE YOUR CARD

Weaponry meme..

2006-05-02T11:53:08Z

Desert Eagle
You preferred a weapon with 29% power over speed and 72% range over melee.

You use a Desert Eagle.

One of the most powerful handguns in production, the Desert Eagle is a heavy punch in a small package. Its reliability and speed are remarkable for a gun with such high caliber. Your enemies won't stand a chance as you fell them bullet by bullet.

My test tracked 2 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:

You scored higher than 6% on power
You scored higher than 76% on range

Link: The What's Your Signature Weapon Test written by inurashii on Ok Cupid, home of the 32-Type Dating Test

Music image meme thingy..

2006-04-13T02:39:06Z

Create your own Music List @ HotFreeLayouts!

Meme.. it's a meme..

2006-04-06T14:38:05Z

Go to Wikipedia and look up your birth day (excluding the year). List three neat facts, two births and one death in your journal, including the year.

fact 1: 1606 - Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes is executed for his plotting against Parliament and James I of England.

fact 2: 1747 - The first venereal diseases clinic opens at London Lock Hospital.

fact 3: 1929 - The Soviet Union exiles Leon Trotsky.

birth 1: 1956 - Johnny Rotten, British singer (Sex Pistols)

birth 2: 1961 - Lloyd Cole, British singer and songwriter

death: 1956 - A. A. Milne, English author (b. 1882)

Music quiz answers and results..

2006-03-25T14:36:43Z

1) Can you tell me where my country lies? - Genesis - Dancing with the moonlit knight
2) Trying to describe circles round the heads of all the heroes - The Nice - Diamond hard blue apples of the moon
3) Beyond the horizon of the place we lived when we were young - Pink Floyd - High hopes
4) In the fountains of the universe : set time in accord - Yes - Future times
5) Really don't mind if you sit this one out - Jethro Tull - Thick as a brick
6) I've tried to mend the love that ended long ago - ELP - Trilogy
7) Well take a look at that I made a castle in the sand - Dire Straits - Solid rock
8) I have a picture, pinned to my wall - Thompson Twins - Hold me now
9) You ask what is the quality of life? - Dave Gilmour - Short and sweet
10) The higher you fly, the harder you fall - Barclay James Harvest - Rock'n'roll star

Scores (1 point for artist, 1 point for song)

the_hatstand 5 points
the_hunter 4 points
bopeepsheep 2 points
ahruman 2 points
nannyjan 0 points

A big hurrah for the_hatstand and nannyjan for 1st place and last place respectively..

At last.. the Gid style lyrics quiz..

2006-03-24T14:14:48Z

All lyrics are first lines from songs:

1) Can you tell me where my country lies?
2) Trying to describe circles round the heads of all the heroes
3) Beyond the horizon of the place we lived when we were young
4) In the fountains of the universe : set time in accord
5) Really don't mind if you sit this one out
6) I've tried to mend the love that ended long ago
7) Well take a look at that I made a castle in the sand
8) I have a picture, pinned to my wall
9) You ask what is the quality of life?
10) The higher you fly, the harder you fall

A nice idea..

2004-12-19T13:02:59Z

Win a years paid Lj.Click the banner and then ‘Link To Us’ to find out how...

Guide to a better person..

2004-06-30T11:54:42Z

Your score as a human being is 78.65.

Middle of the road, eh? Does that mean you're yellow? Yellow as a salamander frying on blacktop? Yellow as a urinal cake? Yellow as a delicious marshmallow Peep? Mmmm. Peep. Sometimes I think if it weren't for Just Born candy, I would just expel my life force and expire. Hot Tamales. Mike and Ikes.

But I digress.

Nicely done. You are robustly average, and I approve of it.

http://hokev.brinkster.net/quiz/default.asp?quiz=Better+Person&page=1

Oh Wow!

2004-06-30T10:18:56Z

You are an SEDF--Sober Emotional Destructive Follower. This makes you an evil genius. You are extremely focused and difficult to distract from your tasks. With luck, you have learned to channel your energies into improving your intellect, rather than destroying the weak and unsuspecting.

Your friends may find you remote and a hard nut to crack. Few of your peers know you very well--even those you have known a long time--because you have expert control of the face you put forth to the world. You prefer to observe, calculate, discern and decide. Your decisions are final, and your desire to be right is impenetrable.

You are not to be messed with. You may explode.

http://hokev.brinkster.net/quiz/default.asp?quiz=Better%20Personality&page=1

And the sorting hat says...

2004-06-15T19:35:24Z

be sorted @ nimbo.net

Coo.. I match the flag!..

2004-06-13T16:10:45Z

A RED Dragon Lies Beneath!

My inner dragon is the most vile and crafty of all dragons. Remember Smaug? He was a red dragon, just like me! And just in case that's not cool enough for you, reds are Fire Elemental dragons, too. Click the image to try the Inner Dragon Online Quiz for yourself.

Zombie?.. what zombie?..

2004-06-11T11:54:40Z

You're the tough guy who gets the most zombie
kills. You make it most of the way, but die
heroically by sacrificing yourself and taking
out hundreds of zombies at the climax.

How fast would you die in a cheesy zombie flick?
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Hmm.. miaow?

2004-06-09T15:36:21Z

Take the What
animal best portrays your sexual appetite?? Quiz

Pinched from k425

2004-06-06T10:51:55Z

You are <table>

Now you're a strange one. You can be utterly fantastic, but you keep finding yourself in places that you really shouldn't be. Just keep to the straight and narrow, and everyone will love you!

Which HTML tag am I? at workingwith.me.uk

And I've never even seen it..

2004-06-01T11:24:31Z

Fight Club!

What movie Do you Belong in?(many different outcomes!)
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What Flavour?..

2004-05-19T14:39:50Z

Tomato is what I taste like.

I taste like nothing, except a tomato. I'm sometimes sweet and sometimes tart; sometimes juicy, sometimes crisp. The roles of a tomato are many and varied. I am an exception to all the rules. What Flavour Are You?

Wow!.. it got it right..

2004-05-14T12:52:42Z

Discover your Zodiac Personality @ Quiz Me