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Random guff

1) I changed the typeface for this site yesterday for a couple of reasons: a) it makes more sense to have everything uniform, rather than a bit Georgia and a bit Arial. Whatever was I thinking? And b) you know something's got to give when you're not able to read your own website without squinting. So either the text was too small or I'm going blind.

2) I've had a blogroll purge. A bunch of blogs have either expired (if that's what blogs do) or become somewhat defunct, in a way not disimilar to the way this one appeared to be going until very recently. It's all very sad, but there's not much point linking to something that doesn't exist is there? I've also added a link to the Lardblog, cos it's good innit? And also this site. Tis genius.

3) I've updated the 'Thingys' section too, so that there are now links to Big Blogger 2005 and I Hate Keane. Seeing as these were fucking hilariously great fun to do, and make me laugh even now, it seems like the right thing to do. Plans are even afoot to reinstate I Hate Keane to it's former glory, with added hate! Watch this space.

And 4) While going through I Hate Keane, imagine my astonishment when I found a whopping 66 comments, all for me! Some people love Keane (the fools) and some hate them. Some are indifferent, but practically all the comments are highly amusing. Apart from the ones in Spanish. I haven't got a clue whether they're amusing or not.

My favourite comments include these gems:

"leave keane alone, they've done nothing wrong apart from make great music."
Are you sure?

"FUCK YOU YOU MOTHERFUCKING BASTARD!"
Subtle.

"When I heard " This Is The Last Time", I thought it was a refreshing new sound. I do hear where guitar could come in and really fill out a lot of their music. But they are just starting out on their big career. Give em a break man. I also didn't like his high voice at first...I wonder if he was in a boys choir before. The piano is simple but emotive. The video for "Somewhere only we know" is ok...but "Everybody's Changing" and the claymation one are actually pretty profound. The lyrics are enigmatical. I haven't heard all the hype that you have about Keane over in England...so maybe I'm sheltered. I am very ecclectic in my tastes and Keane just kind of reached out and grabbed me. Not too many artists can do that with me. The thing I don't understand is how young girls like Ashley and Dana can get so horny over someone like Tom. What's wrong with them anyway?"
Peace to you too Mr Enigmatical, which isn't a word.

"Fuck it for you!!!! You are a son of bich shet, your mother is a bi tch."
Fuck it for you too!

"why do u ate them so much?"
I didn't eat them. And sort out your Engrish prease.

"FUCK THIS BAND IN THE EAR."
Indeed.

Waynadoni?

I know there'll be loads of people who know who the guy on the left is (and frankly, if you don't know who he is then I must tell you that I hate you rather a lot), and there are definitely a countryful who know who the guy on the right is, but I'm pretty certain there aren't that many people out there who would be aware of who BOTH of these people are and what they do, both at the same time. But I am one of those people, and I happen to think that somebody here may be copying somebody else's style. Either that, or it just happens to be some amazingly freakish coincidence that they look TOTALLY IDENTICAL. And wear suits.

Is it just me? (Yes)

Other quality newsage:
One of my photos of naked people on bikes got used by a nice news lady in Canada. I gave her permission. Check it out and check the photos, and there you shall find the heavily bronzed old naked guy being spied on from above. Fame and fortune must surely await me!
On the same subject, I can 100% confirm that people like pictures of naked people, as all the pictures of the naked bike ride that I put on Flickr have, within a matter of hours, become my most viewed pictures ever. Every single one of them. Even the one with the old guy. This says quite alot about something or other I'm sure, but I won't go into it as I'm pretty certain it doesn't need spelling out. But I will anyway:

P-E-O-P-L-E  L-I-K-E  N-A-K-E-D.

Deary me

I am quite tired, as always. So now you know.
Also, the capital of North Korea is Pyongyang.
And we may have buried treasure right in our flat! Under the floor, yes, but technically that is still in the flat. Getting permission to dig it up; now that is going to be the hard part.
And before anyone kicks off, I may not be writing, you know, anything, but I am taking pictures, so I'm not entirely lazy in the strict sense of the word. If you want to use the loose sense then that's fine and hey, you've got me there. Bollocks.

I need to read some books (ie. more than none) and embark on a relentless pursuit of elongating my sentences, in the vain and hope that some poor fool might get totally the wrong end of the stick and consider me even slightly more intelligent than a bean.

That was a start.

And a big hello to all the fools out there!

Sweet goodbye

Are spam emails getting scarier, or is it just me? I mean, Nigerian scammers I can deal with, but Ukrainian women scouring the internet for gullible/hormonally-charged fuckwits, well, that's just plain worrying.

Hello, Tom
 
Sincere lady wants to meet a nice, responsible man to create a
loving and caring family. I will do my best to make my man happy
and proud of his family.
I am very kind and understanding. I listen to people and try to
help them. I love children. I want to have a good house where all
of us will live in happiness and prosperity.
I have decided to send you this message as maybe you are looking
for the same things in life...
If you want to reply to me, you can find me here.
I will be waiting for a note from you!

Sweet goodbye
 
Anastasya

Some Points:

1.) My name is not Tom. So that's a bad start. A bad bad start.
2.) I ain't got no house I'm afraid love, so in that respect you're barking up completely the wrong tree.
3.) "I listen to people and try to help them" - are you trying to say I need help? (actually, you're pretty spot on with this one)
4.) You want a mature, reliable and interesting man without bad habits? I'm no scientist, but I'm pretty sure they're all extinct.
5.) Fortunately, I've found the thing I want in life, namely my girlfriend, so, err, NO.

Extra Useful (totally unrelated to the previous thing) Thingy:

I found a very clever way, through a funky website called feedblendr, of linking all the RSS feeds of my three sites together as one big jumbly lump, in something of an Unreliable Witness stylee. It had nothing to do with me of course. No, the website did all the hard work, because frankly I wouldn't know where to put what, what went inside that, and all the other rubbish really complicated stuff I'm sure it involves. If none of this makes any sense, don't worry. In layman's terms it means that if you use Bloglines or some other RSS/XML feed reader thingy that you can now see when I've updated all of my individual sites rather than just the Blog. This way, hopefully, the other sites won't stay as neglected as they currently are.

Here is the feed address:   http://feedblendr.com/rss/12653

And Lastly:

In regards to all the comments on the previous post to this - you're all really rather lovely and sweet and oh dear I'm getting a bit emotional.

Aren't bloggers great?

Mark the melon