The Watchful Eyes of the Duke

[tall_ed]

On utilising people's inherent fears to your advantage ~ a good thing.This is the story of a happy, if scary, old man. Other notable roles include his hectic beard and his rabid dog, while there is a short cameo appearance by the Duke of Wellington. Finally, there is a cast of over a thousand extras; mostly hapless students whose minds are

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[ozzy_ferry]

I object slightly to commenting... but I'm going to anyway. briefly:

*I've not entered into the Live-8 Text Lottery. sorry.
*It's not my fault, she's *amazing*.
*cats = pink, pink = doorknobs.
*ye gods is that the time? must dash!

[tenorkev]

Furthermore:

*I'm not doing anything Live8 related either.
*The muesli I had this morning tasted horrid.
*bread = tasty, tasty = transubstantiation*I'm not at all happy with the sound quality of web radio - is it dependent upon the station being listened to, the net connection, or what

[tall_ed]

Hehe, there's a man here who sleeps under the cash machines, it's... well I think it's a bit off.

Now I think about it, some Big Issue sellers are also quite cunning. Mum told me of one that laid out all his magazines across the street so you had to step over them to walk on and you couldn't just ignore him, so he got more money. While there are others, like George's friend :D, who talks angrily about random thigns until George says "look, do you want me to give you some money". I loved that, George probably won't appreciate me telling the story again.

Finally, you should do that Live 8 thing. If you win, for example, you could make a fair amount on Ebay. While more texts mean more money to Bob Geldofs thing*

*excuse blatant ignorance

[ozzy_ferry]

*I have applied for tickets.

[emeraldsword]

I too am right-handed and turn my head more easily to the left, but I assumed that it was because of 14 years of playing the violin (held on the left shoulder) rather than any connection to my right-handedness. Wwhen swimming front crawl, I always breathe to the left, and am actually totally unable to turn to the right to breathe. Crazy.

[tall_ed]

Aw, I've not been swimming for such a long time, tho I suspect that I would also breathe with my head to the left. I've not played violin tho. Maybe it's the way I sleep, but I'm sure in the end it all comes down to being right handed.

In fact, now I think about it, when cross legged I always put my right leg over my left! Another link, I think.

Woo. I think I should write a thesis or somat.

[emeraldsword]

make a career of it!

[ozzy_ferry]

Hello! me again. I just thought (mainly because you always write so much on my livejournals, and I realised that my piffling four lines wasn't even that) that I'd say some more stuff. mostly- or at least, all I wanted to say when I had started- this: I particularly liked "To compound matters it’s full of creepy buildings.." I'm not entirely sure why, but it pleased me, a little

[tenorkev]

I hereby represent the left-handed minority.

Uhm. With my clicky neck (I just gave it a quite satisfying snap) (in both directions)... I find it a little easier to turn to the right at the moment, but I think that's more because I just jarred it rather nastily whilst attempting a cartwheel.

Good swimming thoughts, there. I did loads of swimming and seem to remember finding it slightly easier to breathe to the left, but could breathe very adequately to either side. But then I was forced to do so by my coach type persons.

[tall_ed]

How did you jar your neck doing a cartwheel? :S Infact how does one do cartwheels? Each time I seem someone else fo it, it doesn't look natural.

Maybe if you were right handed you'd have jarred your head in a way that meant it was easier to look left. I'm not sure what my point is there.

[tron_meister]

I opened this comment box with the intention of telling you how to do a cartwheel. What a bad idea.

Well, you basically put one hand down, jump (just your feet) to the side while changing hands (before your feet come down). And you move your feet when they jump so that they start on the side of the first hand, and finish on the side of the second, if you understand?
Anyway, point is, you do that and then you try and do it getting your legs as high as possible.

I've never been able to do cartwheels ;)

[insane_robs]

hello. guess what! there's a mini hyde park in johannesburg. it's true. well, actually its a whole suburb in johannesburg. i drive past it every day in the way to uni. oh, and - i also begged for money once, i wasnt cunning, or provoked fear or anything like that. i got loads of money though.
byebye

[tall_ed]

wow, I forgot about that.
What am I doing wasting my time with temporary work.
/me rips up timesheets, buys dog, loses shoe and begs on cemetary junction. (which probably used to be a hyde park as well before too many people started dying)