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Occasionally clueful.
RISC OS/Acorn quiet fanboi.
Reading/Wokingham, Berkshire, England.
Blackbird Leys, Oxford
Newton Abbot, Devon
Recent front page messages:
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» Dumb things you've done
Burds r stoopid!
I think I shall go down to the postbox and collect our post (we had an American style postbox at the bottom of the garden, to save the postie from having to walk uphill to the door).
There appears to be a dead bird on the patio. Must have flown into the window. Muppet.
(goes down, collects post, goes back inside again)
I wonder if that stupid bird is still there. How stupid can you be for hitting your head on a window?
(tries to look outside)
(clonks head on window)
Probably should have opened it first.
(Tue 1st Jan 2008, 10:12, More)
Burds r stoopid!
I think I shall go down to the postbox and collect our post (we had an American style postbox at the bottom of the garden, to save the postie from having to walk uphill to the door).
There appears to be a dead bird on the patio. Must have flown into the window. Muppet.
(goes down, collects post, goes back inside again)
I wonder if that stupid bird is still there. How stupid can you be for hitting your head on a window?
(tries to look outside)
(clonks head on window)
Probably should have opened it first.
(Tue 1st Jan 2008, 10:12, More)
» Pointless Experiments
I plucked out every hair on my face
It started with my upper lip - I got tired of shaving that bit, so I took a pair of tweezers and, while watching some movie or whatever, plucked out every little hair. It was quite painful - the worst ones are right near the nostrils.
Then I started doing the rest of my face. It takes a long time, and can be painful (near the nostrils and around the jaw line are the worst). It seemed to get less painful after my second go.
It's neat having a smooth face, and one that remains smooth for days without having to do anything. But it's easy to start idly touching your face, thinking, "Ooh, that's a lovely hair to pluck", and giving yourself a spotty complexion from all the face-pawing and tweezer-gouging. It would probably be quicker if someone else was doing the plucking.
It only lasts a couple of weeks before hairs start coming back, and if you stop doing it it becomes painful again.
I'd happily do it again if the hairs would stop growing for a year... but twice a month isn't worth it.
(Fri 25th Jul 2008, 21:36, More)
I plucked out every hair on my face
It started with my upper lip - I got tired of shaving that bit, so I took a pair of tweezers and, while watching some movie or whatever, plucked out every little hair. It was quite painful - the worst ones are right near the nostrils.
Then I started doing the rest of my face. It takes a long time, and can be painful (near the nostrils and around the jaw line are the worst). It seemed to get less painful after my second go.
It's neat having a smooth face, and one that remains smooth for days without having to do anything. But it's easy to start idly touching your face, thinking, "Ooh, that's a lovely hair to pluck", and giving yourself a spotty complexion from all the face-pawing and tweezer-gouging. It would probably be quicker if someone else was doing the plucking.
It only lasts a couple of weeks before hairs start coming back, and if you stop doing it it becomes painful again.
I'd happily do it again if the hairs would stop growing for a year... but twice a month isn't worth it.
(Fri 25th Jul 2008, 21:36, More)
» World's Sickest Joke
Black Ice
What's the difference between black ice and black women?
I don't like driving over black ice.
(Thu 23rd Mar 2006, 20:18, More)
Black Ice
What's the difference between black ice and black women?
I don't like driving over black ice.
(Thu 23rd Mar 2006, 20:18, More)
» Dumb things you've done
Touching an electric fence to see if it was on
That, by itself, isn't too bad. If the ground is dry or if the fence is short-circuiting due to overgrown grass, you only feel a slight tingle.
(If you want to be really cautious, you can touch it with a long piece of spit-moistened grass.)
The problem? I couldn't reach the fence because it was in another field. So I leant over, my chest pressed firmly against a metal gate, and gave it an experimental touch...
(Wed 26th Dec 2007, 12:26, More)
Touching an electric fence to see if it was on
That, by itself, isn't too bad. If the ground is dry or if the fence is short-circuiting due to overgrown grass, you only feel a slight tingle.
(If you want to be really cautious, you can touch it with a long piece of spit-moistened grass.)
The problem? I couldn't reach the fence because it was in another field. So I leant over, my chest pressed firmly against a metal gate, and gave it an experimental touch...
(Wed 26th Dec 2007, 12:26, More)