I hope this is a good idea, I've moved to http://like-whatever.blogspot.com

See you there x

A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can you want?
- Picture of Dorian Gray (ch. IV) [Tobacco]

First duck hunting with Dick Cheney, then this- "I even take the position that sexual orgies eliminate social tensions and ought to be encouraged"? Justice Scalia outdoes himself.

Even I think she's thought a bit too much about this She's gotta have it. Though I take comfort in someone trying to convince me that buying a perfect winter coat is a decision that transcends consumerism and goes to the very root of my being....

Being a fan of Savage Love, seeing this article on the Guardian website, I had to click on it. Needless to say, Dan Savage has managed to make me laugh and at the same time take a somewhat lighthearted but inevitably not so lighthearted look at gay marriage. When gay Americans marry

Also as a disclaimer to including the Mike Moore 'Must Read' link, to be honest, I'm really there for the, 'Krispy Kreme are making liquid donuts!' stories.

This was just too funny to pass up Woman ordered to wear sign declaring her crime.

Were we this stupid as 16 year old girls? Overheard on the 3 o'clock bus...

Conversation 1
Oh my god, I always make such a dick in front of myself in front of hot guys
No you don't
Oh my god, hot guys always come into my work and I make such a dick of myself. Like the other day I walked straight into a door frame.
What?
Yeah, I thought I was going into the toilet but then I just walked, smack, into the door frame. Then I turned around, holding my nose. When I let go it was bleeding. It was so embarrassing.

Conversation 2
Oh my god, I just found out today that Africa is a continent- I always thought it was a country!
Is it?
Yeah, I was talking to this guy at work and he's from Sudan, and I said that's in Africa aye? And he was like yes. So I said, Africa's a big country isn't it. Then he was like, nah stupid, Africa is a continent. And I was like no way, South Africa is a continent. Then he told me that South Africa was a country. I had to look it up in an atlas because I didn't believe him. But he was right.
How could you not know that?
Hey, where's Bolivia? It sounds like it's in Europe aye?
Er....
Well it isn't! It's next to Brazil...
Isn't that part of Europe?
Nah! Brazil is in South America. Thank god I'm not the only one who's geographically challenged!

On 27 May, a friend and I had this conversation:

Him: here's something which would get bush re-elected
Him: ronald regan dying
Me: do you think?
Him: heck yeah!
Me: he was a bit shambolic
Me: he wont die
Me: he has alzheimers
Him: bush will exploit that so heavily
Him: the man who won the cold war etc
Him: people will get all patriotic
Me: hmmmm i dunno
Him: and those undecided voters may sway right
Me: i think reagan doesnt figure very stongly
Me: because of the fact he's basically senile
Me: outta the limelight
Me: not like clinton dying
Him: well he is now
Me: i think the clinton biography will hav some impact
Him: kerry needs to knock off clinton
Me: no way- that was gore's mistake
Him: no i mean...
Him: ummmm
Him: hmm can't say, maybe this convo is being monitored by cia
Him: :O
Me: as if!

How wrong was I. So in order to counter his prophesy, I recommend 'Reagan, fact and fantasy'.

Wow, a month. It is about time. Last day of semester came and went without much fanfare yesterday and the much anticipated exam period is before me. So, before I go back to... ok, start studying, my plans for the next couple of months is to sit 4 exams and then spend 3 weeks in Hong Kong. At last, a situation which might mean I have something to blog about.

In light of the recent EU enlargement, something for my European friends to consider: 'Go east, young man'.

I think even more alarming than the minimum wage in Lithuania, is that of those Britons who don't want to live in the UK anymore, 20% would want to take off to Australia....