Right. My birthday is a crappy day in history.

You know those little books that you get that say "On this day in history..." and they tell you what famous people share your birthday, historical events, inventions patented... all that kind of stuff? Well, apart from the Queen Mother's birthday - which is slightly cool, but she's rather dead, these ( Read more... )

... in return for helping out with a charity that gives quilts to premature babies and kids in women's shelters, your mother lets you have a mini rotary cutter and make-shift cutting board that someone has donated.

A mini rotary cutter! I feel like a wizard's apprentice. One day, I'll earn my stripes and get a proper, big, grown-up lady one... *sigh ( Read more... )

I had a message from someone today which included the sentence:

"wow using capital letters for proper nouns - that's what i call making an effort!"

My left eye starts twitching and the rage builds. No, it's not an effort. It's the proper use of language.

Hello, my name is Lynn Truss...

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... because I need the distraction.

Slight reminiscent of the icon of someone else on my friends list, I have just realised, this pic was suggested by debsworld and seems apt enough.

But why does it look kinda... fuzzy? You can tell I'm not that great at this game.

I've just tried to email this round but my address book is wildly out of date (so some of you may get an email three times, others not at all). Please have a look. Originally sent by Ana Lopes (of the International Union of Sex Workers ( Read more... )

My friends know me so well. Here is the latest offering from my favourite cool geek friend. He decribed it as "the best site on the internet... for you".

It's not explicit, but not really safe for work if boobs offend. Clearly a joke, but you know someone is jerking off to it... it's very cleverly done. I love it.

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Leo (23 JUL-22 AUG)

A co-worker is way out of line, but your best response is stay quiet in the office and let them do or say what they think they need to. Then you can beat them to death with a cricket bat on their way home and no one will suspect you. Give them one from me! Bastards. Leave a comment  2