11:40:46 p.m. tarkwyn: Well done, steak
11:41:49 p.m. luther: fool
11:43:59 p.m. tarkwyn: Least I’m not mouldy
11:46:47 p.m. luther: I’ll assume you’re safe
11:46:59 p.m. tarkwyn: Ahahahah
11:47:06 p.m. tarkwyn: they can hear you
11:47:08 p.m. tarkwyn: shhh
11:47:13 p.m. tarkwyn: wear this hat
11:47:15 p.m. tarkwyn: gooood
Unedited ICQ log… He is a strange boy.
I reckon I should add a section, or I guess even a category would do, where I poitned out some new thing I learnt, or learnt more about, or got sorted out. I’m thinking mostly of the mighty Wikipedia, but ask.metafilter would also get some loving.
Today’s lesson comes from the Book of Collins, speciffically, as Nic often points out the last ugly rock star, Mr Phil. Anyway, listening just now to In The Air Tonight, I wondered about that story where it was about some guy Phil saw drown, and some other guy didn’t help, so he wrote the song and got the guy tickets and pwned him in front of the audience.
And I thought, “hmm, I wonder if that really happened – WIKI will tell me.” and truely it be an urban legend. Never happened. Well at least according to the hive mind, which I’m happy to believe in this case. So yeah cool.
Hmm, nothing particularly useful strike me as coming from ask.mefi recently, but for a good time, go ahead and read this discussion on Why is the opening at the front of men’s briefs still there if it’s rarely used? Which I thought was great. I read it early on and missed some of the great comments, but Will let me know it had evolved. Brilliant retort points go to:
Furthermore, if you are a ‘pull-down’ type of guy you open yourself up to the fun that happens when your hand slips and the elastic springs back up mid-pee.
Now that I’ve talked about peeing on the internet I can never be President.No, you will never be President because you are a girly-man.
Men piss, women pee, and children tinkle. It’s onomatopoeia. Some guys, when discussing micturition with women think it creates more intimacy by adopting the term for a female act and applying it to males. Wrong. It just shows that the guy is a pussy (or wants to have one).
I’ll keep that in mind the next time my girly-man doctor asks me to ‘pee’ in a cup. I will whip out my gigantic schlong and shake it at him and yell “I will piss in that cup, thank you.” Then I will fill that little cup to overflowing right there and use the rest to mark the examination table so that no other man can use it.
If I feel the need, I will also piss on the tires of his BMW out in the parking lot to cow him into a beta-male role.
posted by unixrat at 10:27 AM PST on June 23
I think that retort ruled. Yes. (Maybe that’s just me). Recently after purchasing some new boxer shorts I discovered they din’t have said flap/whole arrangement and was baffled. Oh yes people, I’m talking about underwear on my blog. You wait till later in the week. Except Dave, he knows already.
My Boss also spotted that Craig’s list has arrvied in Christchurch. Auckland has been around for at least a couple of months. To celebrate(?) I will link (possibly relink?) this “best of” and generally excellent m4w “You – Gorgeous… Me – A Gamer…”
Anyway, I realized I was dangerously low on Mountain Dew, so I threw on my lucky green sweat pants and my trenchcoat to walk 3 blocks to the convenience store. I figured if I had enough change, I might even pick up some Slim Jims, but I digress…
You really must go read it.
These guys have played too much tekken. And have too much free time. Excellent wee video of some guys doing real life tekken. It was however missing CHICKEN, and so doesn’t get the TBALC mark of true excellence.
Random Superman Returns link, check out what they did to Brando. (probably a big arse video file)
I could make a geeky segway (Hi Si), involving the Fortress of Solitude, in the arctic and my next link but I’m not going to. I’m just going to let you know that I thought of it, and was rather pleased with myself. You can make the appropriate wording yourself, or if you don’t know / care about it, you can simply move onto the following awesomeness (as reported to me by unnamed .govt types):
Fenced in and guarded, with steel airlock doors, motion detectors and polar bears roaming outside – the concrete facility will, its backers say, be the most secure building of its type in the world. (emphasis mine freakos)
That’s right people. Guarded with polar bears. A secret TBALCian fortress in the making? Or merely an international seed vault… you be the judge. (But choose wisely, for those who choose poorly will suffer) Oh, I guess it could be both. I’ll get back to you on that possibility.
I have a new 404 page. Having my own custom 404 page is pretty geeky, deciding it was old and busted and needed a new look is geeky++ I have had the image I wanted to use in said page for many months, but I haven’t managed to make good my plan. I finally got annoyed enough to make up the new page, and I’m well pleased. It isn’t anywhere near as funny or cool as I had hoped, but I decided I’d rather have the new page up and not be as cool as possible (but at least use the image) than not have the new page. So there you go, Saturday night pre party plans? That’d be me making a nice new 404 page. Yup… good times.
Also, Wikipedia really is the greatest thing. I was thinking about the American National Debt (not really sure why) and NZ Debt and wondering how it compared in terms of GPD and Per Capita and I thought! “Wikipedia will know!” And lo, it does. List of countries by public debt ok, so it doesn’t have it per capital, but I could make that so I’m happy enough. (roughly it looks like US is (8.3 TRILLION / 298,000,000 = US$28,058 per person, while NZ is (I think, if I read the New Zealand Debt Management Office’s website correctly) about 4,857,000,000 / 4,139,655 = US$722)… So suck it USA/USA’s citizens.
Additionally there was drinking and general partying at M&C’s with Will in town. Thanks to Callum I got a ride to Lar’s place for soccer. Portugal 2, Iran 0, (but Portugal didn’t look very good sadly) and then walked home. It was, smegging cold. Got as far as the BP before taking up the cellphone and calling in taxi backup.
Games the nextday Ra and Catan. Got the beat down in all three games. Sad.
Picked up Serenity on (2)DVD from Trademe guy ($21) and watched bits of it while dinner was cooked. Broke the hot black currant drinking record for Tim. Ate cookie dough. Watched some of Serenity and then headed home. (Boss also gave me all of firefly on DVD which he picked up on his Vegas Adventure – score.)
Oh and travelling backwards in time, Friday was spent working till around 1am sorting out something for a client, which sucked, and involved me running out of room in a spreadsheet. Why does Excel / Open Office only go across to IV? Why didn’t they at least get to IZ or something? IV? Bah. But managed that and then killed Nef. Then, to Si’s and the soccer.
Argentina smack down Serbia 6-0. Netherlands beat Ivory Coast 2-1 (Netherlands didn’t look to good either, should probably have been a draw, well maybe not, but not particularly impressive)
In the TIF (now 2003 version) soccer that was on hand (like Warwick Flan) Dave had to pull out due to going home, and Si was benched after falling asleep at the controls. Thus it was TBALC v the world. Finished off the Czech Republics move on the Custom Cup and then took Denmark through to the Eurocup. Alas, none of this seemed to unlock the custom team we require to see the TBALC XI once more dominating the sporting world. (Now with bonus eyetoy our faces on the characters goodness)
The man from Wellington stops the presses with this tidbit… “New Zealand is now one of just seven countries in the OECD to be in a positive net financial asset position. As at 31 March net financial assets totalled $0.4 billion.”
Man, what a riveting blog this has been.
Things you need to do right now, are, well, actually I don’t know. But if you have a list, you need to add watch Patrick Stewart taunt himself a second time to the list. Oh yes, the comedy.
Oh yeah, right now, it is 6:6:6 on the 6/6/6. Nasty.
If I could find the link to the Winnie the Pooh Satan vid, I’d link it. But Mog has whored lost and there is no bandwidth for searching. Updated: Will helpfully sent me a YouTube link.