Mindless gibberish of a tired mind

Friday, November 23, 2007

Washing Machine strangeness

Why is it that whenever you add a duvet cover to a wash it eats all the other washing in the machine?

It's true! you put your washing in the machine including a duvet cover and at the end you go to take it out and your entire wash is in the cover. You are pulling on the cover to get it out and the whole load is trying to fit through the door.
I have tried everything, scrunching the cover so that the opening is in the center of a ball of duvet cover, No joy the only survivor of the duvet creature was one sock. I also tried doing the poppers up but that was just a pointless exercise.

The only time that this strange phenomena hasn't been entirely effective is when i put a cover in that had buttons, It only managed to consume 3 socks, one pair of pants and half a jumper.

I am convinced that this is where all the odd socks have ended up, my bloody duvet ate them. ;)

- posted by J @ 19:41

Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Misuse or creative use of language.

For some reason this really pisses me off.

Basicly it is the use of language to sell crap by discribing it unjustly. Now i know that in general advertising is there to big up a product but there are limits to what i will put up with.

An example:

1) Mcdonalds: The New chicken legend.

For starters this is a complete misnomer, how can somthing be New and a Legend? By its very definition a legend is somthing old.

leg·end (lĕj'ənd) n.
An unverified story handed down from earlier times, especially one popularly believed to be historical.
A body or collection of such stories.
A romanticized or popularized myth of modern times.

2) Sign seen on the back of a car: Have you ever considerd that god is a fact.

Huh!!

fact (făkt) n.
Knowledge or information based on real occurrences
Something demonstrated to exist or known to have existed: Genetic engineering is now a fact. That Chaucer was a real person is an undisputed fact.
A real occurrence; an event: had to prove the facts of the case.

Did i miss somthing, Has someone proved god exists?

3) The use of the word guaranteed in any advertising:

guaranteed adj
Definition: made certain

One thing i have learnt in life is that nothing is guaranteed.

- posted by J @ 18:14

Monday, November 19, 2007

Random

Something that should never happen:

A Spice girls come back.

Some one you should find attractive but don't:

Victoria Beckham.

Something you want but will never have:

Bugatti Veyron.

Something you would like to fire out of a cannon:

The inventor of Marmite.

Something you have bought recently that rocks:

Artemis Fowl: The graphic novel.

Something that made you cry with laughter:

Top gears Cars into amphibious vehicles part 2.

Something that should never been invented:

Automated phone systems.

- posted by J @ 18:14

Saturday, November 17, 2007

you know your life is past the halfway mark when...

. Your 3.5 yr old says
"daddy you be the princess trapped in the castle and I'll be the handsome prince"

. Your local chip shop man asks you if you want your usual when you walk in.

. Your stubble looks more trampy than trendy.

. You actually sit and watch all of Children in need.

- posted by J @ 18:08

Sunday, November 11, 2007

First sign of madness.

I do now feel that i have started talking to myself.

Apart from the lack of comments on this site (AHHH HEMM), I feel it in my day to day life. I wonder if it is an aspect age.

I caught myself doing it today in the car, I was muttering about other drivers on the road and how they were pissing me off by not using there indicators when trying to switch lanes in heavy traffic when i suddenly realised what i was doing.
I then had to have a conversation with myself about how stupid it was to talk to yourself and at this point i decided it was probably better to shut up and drive.

Now i have always had my own little internal monologue, as i think we all do, but mine seems to be making a bid for freedom and presenting itself at random times. Am i the only one who feels this or as we are all getting older is this a common occurrence?

Or is it just an aspect of life where you realise that no one else is listening to you and a part of your brain just decides to say sod it some ones gonna hear this so it may as well be me. Maybe of course i am just incredibly narcissistic and like the sound of my own voice.

Just thought i would share.

- posted by J @ 19:30

Friday, November 09, 2007

I Feel like a kid again.

It has arrived.

My copy of Jungle book.

Poppy is not that impressed though, But who cares i bought it for me ;)

- posted by J @ 18:26

Thursday, November 08, 2007

Captions please.

- posted by J @ 13:57

Powers of justice prevail.

Nice to see that FACT are combating the forces of evil and organised crime, By taking down the hardcore crime syndicate in Cheltenham.

- posted by J @ 10:29