Today the two footballing titans of Spain and Germany play each other in the second semi-final of the 2010 World Cup. Germany must win this game. Germany must win this game FOR ALL SCIENCE AND RATIONAL THOUGHT! GERMANY MUST PROVE THE OCTOPUS WRONG!Wait, I should probably explain what I'm talking about for the benefit of anyone who isn't following ( Read more... )

My new laptop doesn't recognise my mobile phone as a thing (What do you mean "DEVICE NOT FOUND"? It's fucking RIGHT THERE connected to you via a fucking USB Cable. I even installed Nokia's shitty fucking software onto you. FUCKING RECOGNISE! No, I don't want to fucking troubleshoot. The only fucking troubleshooting I want to do right now is with a ( Read more... )

Well It's been about a month since Dave Cameron was made Prime Minister and about a month since I last updated. It looks like my neglect of LJ isn't causing enough pressure to force him to resign so I guess that my plan failed. Not that I had high expectations of it working, but you never know ( Read more... )

So today I went and voted. I put a big X in the box I wanted and the rest is in the hands of history ( Read more... )

It's always a good day in politics when someone throws an egg, which is exactly what happened Yesterday when Conservative leader David Cameron was egged. Cue, of course, for a thousand egg-cellent gags - Cameron has egg on his face, left shell shocked, admits it was just a yoke, he cracked a smile, a fitting missile given that Tories are all-blue- ( Read more... )

Yes, it's that wonderful time once again: IT'S ELECTION TIME ( Read more... )

Apologies for the radio silence recently dear, erm, well whatever the hell you lot are. Readers or listeners or subscribers. Who knows? I was recently asked to justify what a LiveJournal is to people I know IRL and I found I couldn't without using the words 'community' or, indeed, 'trolling'. I'm not sure what I'm doing but it might be shouting at ( Read more... )

Remember last year when I mentioned seeing the Google Streetview car on a bus and making a rude gesture at it? Google have uploaded the footage.

AND OMG HERE I AM!*


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Large Hadron Collider to shut down for a yearYes, once again everyone's favourite malfunctioning instant-death machine has thrown another hissy-fit and demands to go off-line for a year. Controllers at CERN's headquarters in Geneva are reported to have tried ctrl+alt+del, opening task-manager, disabling Norton Anti-Matter and then frustratedly ( Read more... )

I went on a pub crawl last night, but with a difference. Generally there is a massive divide between pubs-for-locals and pubs-for-others and despite the quite high number of boozers in this city there are many I pass regularly but never been in. If pubs are the yardstick by which modern British culture can be measured, be they expensive chrome-and- ( Read more... )