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I did this experiment  - sprayed a fly with Lynx while it was sitting on a bunch of bananas - and the conclusion I reached was that Lynx does not kill flies (I have never understood why some aerosols kill insects but others don't, because it always seems to me that the way insect sprays kill insects is by more by smashing their bodies with the ( Read more... )

I am helping my boyfriend finish his book, because the deadline for him to get it to the publisher is tomorrow (as in Tuesday). Well actually the deadline was today (as in Monday) but what's a day? He's in the final stages now, just going through the text to make sure that there aren't any glaring omissions, and then he'll be done. I had to rewrite ( Read more... )

Today on Inspector Linley Mysteries someone keyed Inspector Linley's car. He was all pissed off about it because it was going to cost a lot of money to repair.
He told his sidekick and she said, "It's a scratch!"  So Linley went, "It's an expensive scratch!" And then his sidekick said, "It's an expensive car!!!"
The act of vandalism occurred in a ( Read more... )

I was at my parents' place for a few days last week & on the way to the station to come back to Oxford I went through the subway.  I was in a serious hurry (unnecessarily as it turned out because - shock!  -  the train was late!) but I didn notice on my way through that someone had scrawled on the wall,
"if u want cat sex call 08796 985254"

I made ( Read more... )

I created a beautiful new colour scheme for my journal today. The old one (various shades of brown) was really pissing me off - I have no idea why I chose it in the first place. It was disgusting. This one is so much better. Now I just have to find some decent icons and I'll be sorted.
Yayyyy!

There is this phenomenal technology on Sugar magazine's website that allows you to see what certain items of clothing would look like on you, so you can decide whether you want to buy them or not. It's called "Try That Style!"
You pick the model whose body most resembles yours from the vast selection of, er, 2, and then you choose a category of ( Read more... )

Here is a list of the shittest flowers in the world:

• poinsettias: I fucking hate these flowers. I've never liked them. They're so ugly - their petals are basically just red leaves so they're not even proper flowers. If I was getting married and someone said "you can either have all poinsettias or you can have no flowers at all," I would have no ( Read more... )

I just had Alpen (no sugar added) for breakfast, and while I was eating it I kept smelling mud. It must have been the Alpen - I've eliminated all the other possibilities.
I like Alpen, and I like the smell of mud, but I wouldn't have associated them with each other. Maybe there's an enzyme in mud that's also present in Alpen. Or something.

I saw some new grafitti in the subway last time I went to see my parents.
It says: GET UR BUM OUT.

I think that's hilarious. It's so inoffensive, and most of the grafitti in the subway is just gratuitous swearing and lurid allegations ('Kim will drop her knickers for anyone, but has HIV' - gotta love the punctuation in that one), so I wonder if it ( Read more... )