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I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes or should I?

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First their was a pint.

then their was a second pint,
which led to a pint, which led to a discussion of a round.
the forum produced a strategy and a pint.
that pint, led to a pint, which led to a football match.
the football match led to more pints and half time,
which then led to a pint.

the pint led to a goal which led to another pint
which was super-seeded by a game of pool and a pint.
That pint, that exact pint chose to lead us to another pub.
which where there was pints, football, cheering and a pint.

the round which produced that last pint, then sparked a talk on
pints games and pints. To which a glass was raised and a pint was had.

the talk over the pint ended in a pint which brought on another game which then
ended in a pint which was discussed over a pint.

BGM : From the Album "In Time: The Best of R.E.M. 1988-2003"," Imitation Of Life " by R.E.M. (composed by M Stipe, M Mills, P Buck)

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I fail to understand how a nation that has in its constitution that religion and power should remain separate that something like the Patrick Henry College (PHC) can be tolerated even celebrated. Why is all fundamentalistic movements are not quashed with the same hammer I do not know. I guess given enough power you can gain access to smart kids and with tried and tested methods you can brain wash them into a state of a puppet.

Channel 4 was this evening carrying a program on the topic and PHC in particular in a program called God's Next Army. It was one of the most repulsive things I have watched in a while. Creationism is mandatory teaching material in biology and everything is toughte from a biblical point of view. The whole thing is like a bad sci=fi movie gone wrong. Or maybe its just a witch hunter training school... see I would be far more comfortable with that than a school designed to arm fundamentalistic neo-born christians with all the skill to _actually_ take over a nation. I'm rather left in my opinions but I'd like to think that I don't openly condemn political movements at random. However, colour/rase bound or blind beliefs that can not extended beyond faith alone is just too creepy for me to handle.

What scares me the most is that these young, intelligent and demented youngsters will succeed if not leave a stench on America that it will never be able to wash its hands from. People armed with nothing but a twisted belief, law degree and a debate championship trophy. You think fundamentalist muslims are scary, be warned the next generation of fundamentalist will come in clean shaven in a suit with an innocent smile, a sweet voice and venom in their intent.

BGM : From the Album "Fires (Remastered)"," Everybody's Gone to War (Chris Lord-Alge Mix) " by Nerina Pallot

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"The Platinum Collection" (Mike Oldfield)

On the topic of Mike Oldfield there are only two kind of people. Those who openly like Mike Oldfield and those who like him in the privacy of their own homes. And although some of his work is burnt into my brain riddled with fond and not so fond memories, I still do like his work. And thus, there was about the same chance as finding the square root of pie on the back of an envelope using a crayon in the rain whilst having a gun pointed at your face as there was me walking past the new CD.

Yes this is blunt exercise at marketing but as I mentioned above I hold an religious belief that there is no one that dislikes all of Mike Oldfield's work and there for I can not offend anyone by spreading good news.

BGM : From the Album "The Platinum Collection (Disc 2)"," Moonlight Shadow (Extended Version) " by Mike Oldfield (composed by Mike Oldfield)

I'm now on my 9th week at my new job, it is time to figure out what I like and don't like about it.... and well its mundane :-/

I think the biggest and most obvious problem is that I'm a stress junkie, I enjoy a healthy level of stress, its what keeps me happy in many way. My world view is composed of far more 'things I should and have to do' than things that 'I want to do', and its not that I'm bitter about it, its more how I see the world, me thinks.

On the topics of things that must be done...."The Zombie Survival Guide : Complete Protection from the Living Dead" (Max Brooks) is an excellent book and I'm a prude owner of a hard copy. Beware, Zombies are real! and a full blown attack is imminent, remain vidulant, never let your guard down as no one expects a zombie inquisition.

The book contains details studies(?) on zombies and their physiology and its flat survival guide text makes its an excellent read. Buy one now! buy one for you mum! Ensure your survival with your copy!

BGM : From the Album "I Wish I Was a Punk Rocker (With Flowers In My Hair)"," I Wish I Was a Punk Rocker (With Flowers In My Hair) " by Sandi Thom (composed by Gilbert)

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I'm not a fan of gambling, I firmly believe that as statistics go, gambling is a tax on the mathematically impaired. Poker and other interactive gambling isn't about statistics to I don't count them tho...

Anyway, as the TV has been saturated with http://www.playmonday.com, I decided that the 'close enough is good enough' philosophy on lotto sounded amusing and decided to sink a fiver into it. The site kept on timing out which made using the site a challenge but hey, nothing stops you when your determined. Using my l33t M0uze Xl1ck1ng sk1llz, I managed to register and purchase lottery tickets and then the wait.... I hate waiting with a passion, so why on earth I though that this would be any different is beyond me.

After the long wait which was mostly consumed by removing finger prints off my fingers by hanging off walls, I check back and behold, close enough is good enough and I have made more money than I put in! well about 8 quid more. What am I going to do with ? clearly what I'm going to do with it to re-invest it all back into lottery to see if I can make a small fortune out of it :)

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The age old battle of Man Vs. Pig has yet to end. And today I proclaim a victory in the name of Man-and women-kind.

No, its nothing special. we just went to bodean's in Fulham. There was some supporting singing from football hooligans but the wood was excellent and the service was beyond adequate.

I also found out by listing to chit-chat that one of the singing hooligans was in fact a MD of bodean's and thus the staff weren't really willing to break up the singing.... they did suggest that a wider repertoire of songs would be welcomed. so if your a football hooligan I suggest you get some pussy cat dolls or some justin timberlake under your belt so you can break into some excellently pop humming or some Michel Jackson moves... maybe even get your rapping skillz up to scratch and break into a little rap competition, you know? I assure you that if you could rap about that 1st goal at 3mins over time and the shoot out at the end to a 'bom-tich, bom-tich' sound your fellow pud audience will buy you a beer of you choice.

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The joint that I work for produces movies. VFX and SFX and the likes are what we're good at (or so I'm told, hey I just work here). And I had the fortune to take a look at some of the cool finished snippets of movies. Really cool stuff, but no sound. Obvious when you think about it, the sound is going to come from a sound house when they blow things up daily to get the right kind of exploding sounds and god knows what to get the perfect sound. We're a post production house, images and video are our domain, not sound. .... but it is a bit wired to watch very cool special effects with Beethoven in the background.

BGM : From the Album "Suzanne Vega: Retrospective - The Best of"," Rosemary " by Suzanne Vega

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Where do you keep your wallet at night?
I do have a bag permanently attached to my posturer but I don't keep my wallet in it, in a vein attempt to cling on to some non-geek male ego. (Its not a hang bag! and I can leave the house with out gizmos!) So where do I keep it? yesterdays trousers. You find them in the morning and wa-la! my wallet.

This works most of the time, apart from when you have to move your wallet for some reason (like your coat, when paying a cab) and your screwed the next day. wallets gone along wit your memory and you have to go on a deep one-on-one philosophy session with yourself to break into your own subconscious to find out which exact safe location you put it.

They say that in missing people cases, the first few hours are vital and usual determine the safety/surviability of the person. Wallets are the same, you miss place them and don't notice them... well bad things can happen to them. What on earth I'm I on about you ask. Simple, I went to go look for my wallet and couldn't find it. I'd just did the washing so I must of put out my wallet down in a safe place before washing it. I mean surely I'm not that stupid, right?
After 15mins of going though the flat that I just did I decided that I was indeed stupid and ..... wa-la. Wet Wallet in the pocket of yesterdays trousers. Good news is the wallet provided a nice mold for the funny paper money and so my notes survived.

Mental note: check those dam pockets before tossing it into the washing machine.

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My day wasn't going too well. In fact it was a rather dull day. As if a power above wanted to say "well dude, life ain't that bad you know' I had the honer to come across a training session for unicycle hockey.

Its fantastically funny to watch people on unicycles peddling like mad to get to a tennis ball with hockey sticks. We hypnotised on the nature of the sport and we came to an unproven speculation that it could be a traditional match to the death sport for circuses to settles scores with each other. I could just imagine one circus challenging another on a game of unicycle hockey over a turf war.

Its these small things in life that brings a smile to you face :)

well put together movie by a large chunk of the team that pull the matrix off. Only this time the story comes before the action and the ideology they deal with is far far more real that the Sci-Fi one of the matrix. Freedom, censorship, control.... very 1984 in many ways. The main character has no real inner torment that would be a prominent issues to deal with in vendetta movies, almost like an action movie character vengeance is sweet for 'V', but he knows what he is doing. Its not a spear of the moment "I'm going to take our your whole secret base single handedly 'cos you kidnaped my girl friend" thing, its premeditated, he is with intent.

Its also nice to see movies not showing off their starts in an overt manner. Huge Weaving who plays 'V' isn't shown off in a "look, look, look who we can afford!" manner. He is just part of the cast a character.

All and all, I'd gladly recommend it to anyone. But then I really like movies with heavy ideologies attached to them so I'm rather biased.

BGM : From the Album "Collected"," Live With Me " by Massive Attack

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