Posts by Stephen Judd
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I assumed the popularity of the truck-driver mo was because it was clearly comedic, enabling the owner to signal that they're not really a moustache wearer and will be attractively clean-shaven and snoggable if you'd just wait until December.
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Oh Craig, surely Ohiro lasts longer that anyone.
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New York is actually Townsville from the Powerpuff Girls.
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In an effort to bring some levity to this thread and if possible derail it entirely, How to be a homeopathic bioterrorist.
1. Buy a carton of orange juice and 30 1-gallon jugs of water.
2. Place one drop of orange juice into one of the jugs of water. Shake.
3. Take one drop of that dilution and place it into the next jug of water. Shake.
4. Take one drop of that dilution and place it into the next jug of water. Shake.
5. Repeat the process until you reach the last jug of water.
6. Take a drop of that final dilution and place it into your municipality’s water supply.
7. Everyone gets scurvy! -
Last year's Movember caused enough conjugal strife to dissuade me from repeating it.
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I got a call from the police today - from a very helpful constable in Johnsonville, ringing to tell me the outcome of the case of the guy who assaulted me a few months ago (made a voluntary donation to charity, wrote me a letter of apology, discharged without conviction, which is pretty much just what I felt was right). The constable had been to see the guy twice and was ringing up to pass on his assessment that the apology was genuine.
Perhaps I have been lucky, or perhaps the attitude is different once violence enters the picture, but I personally am pleased and impressed with the dealings I've had with the police over this incident.
Also, what Heather said, minus the crush part ;)
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Bit of a tangent, but I was really struck by a stupid Yahoo/Xtra poster touting Yahoo Answers.
The question on the billboard was something like "Am I at fault if I sneeze and have a car accident". And the illustration was an American cop restraining someone on the ground.
No indication that they knew what country we all live in, or that we don't expect heavy joint-locking restraining holds to be a cop's first reaction.
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If there's one thing I've learned about backups, it's that you have to regularly verify that they're working. Everyone who's worked in the industry has horror stories about backup tapes that were unreadable, backup processes that silently failed every night and so on. And they all contain the phrase "and when we went to restore from backup... [insert cockup of choice here]"
But commiserations. There is no feeling like the peculiar clench in the gut when you realise that something you thought was safe and secure is actually on the cusp of disaster if not already there.
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In the Tui ads, the men are oblivious to the women, and totally focussed on beer - talk about your truth in advertising. Whereas in the BK ads, it's just "TITS!"
This does bring up something I've been wondering about for a while though, which is: did we just fall into a timewarp back to the 70s? These are the kinds of sexist ads that my mother was hounding advertisers for when I was a boy, and I seem to remember them gradually disappearing under feminist pressure throughout the 80s. It seems as though there's been an absolute blossoming of crude sexist ads in the last couple of years, sometimes wrapped in protective "irony" but these days not even.