The other day one of the Liberal spruikers was out near my work with a fistful of propaganda about his Lord and Master, one of the candidates for the upcoming ACT election.

Even though I am a Labor member, I am always curious to see what the opposition has to say, so I took the pamphlet offered and read it on the way to the door.

In said pamphlet, there was a section on ... Read more »

Today, concerned I'd got a little too defensive when it came to a report that I had written that had been heavily edited, I was chomping at the bit for my boss to get back so I could give her some good news about some data I'd found.

I thought I'd let my co-worker know I was off to the bosses' office.

'I'm off to ... bother X,' I said. Read more »

An interesting analysis of Palin's first cribbed for interview with MSM (aka Mainstream Media which Republicans are convinced are evil leftists because they ask questions and don't fawn over them like Fox).

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Today I was about to use the lift from the ground to first floor (I had a hurty leg, okay) and just as I stepped in I nearly bowled over someone.

It was the subdued lit-by-LEDs lift. The woman in question was dressed in black and had coffee coloured skin.

'Oh sorry,' I said. And was about to say 'I didn't see you in there' when area man's warningwillrobinson alarm of possible misconstruement went off. So I trailed off to a halt instead.
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Today I was about to use the lift from the ground to first floor (I had a hurty leg, okay) and just as I stepped in I nearly bowled over someone.

It was the subdued lit-by-LEDs lift. The woman in question was dressed in black and had coffee coloured skin.

'Oh sorry,' I said. And was about to say 'I didn't see you in there' when area man's warningwillrobinson alarm of possible misconstruement went off. So I trailed off to a halt instead.
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Climbing out of a depression spiral is not like climbing up stairs. Yeah, I know, it distorts the analogy - unless - spiral staircase! Anyway, it's not like climbing stairs because you don't feel better every day. Some days you feel complete and utter shit.

Depression is more like snakes and ladders. Except the snakes are very long and the ladders not so much. Read more »

Reminds me of this number by They Might Be Giants

I watched a lot of Daily Show and Colbert Report (good news - the Oz feed now works!), and read a lot about the Republican convention.

Mike Huckabee, who was a guest on one of the shows, said the cons were more about 'red meat for the faithful'. And that both parties would then move from gloating to the base to the centre in an effort to convince the rest of the US that they were kosher. Read more »

Played some Buzz(tm) today.

Me.

'Hey, we could have a best of three. Wait ... I already won twice.'

Area man's head almost too large for his neck.

Just caught some of that Prime 'Make me a Supermodel' magic.

First up, Model Mansion. Pulease. What a wank.

Second, the clothes they wore for their 'Judgment'. One dude looked like the shower curtain had dropped around his neck. The other that his pubes had exploded up his back, presumably taking tendrils of arse fat with it since he has no arse to speak of. Read more »

Just caught some of that Prime 'Make me a Supermodel' magic.

First up, Model Mansion. Pulease. What a wank.

Second, the clothes they were for their 'Judgment'. One dude looked like the shower curtain had dropped around his neck. The other that his pubes had exploded up his back, presumably taking tendrils of arse fat with it since he has no arse to speak of. Read more »

Really? I point to the line 'I can't get no girlie action.'

The man has fathered like seven kids with five women - the last a Brazilian super model.

I've recently had my semi-regular shave. Normally I just clipper back my beard to a zero then let it grow out. But on the weekend I actually shaved to naked face - all except for an excessively large soul patch which one unkind person suggested looked like I was concealing face balls or something. Read more »

Tonight we had another round of Cthulhu esq pen and paper gaming - with me running it. Read more »

Tonight we had another round of Cthulhu esq pen and paper gaming - with me running it. Read more »

I wasn't on deck for this, thank fuck, but today theNoo unleashed the brown bomber on the bath. TheWife was bathing him, and then noticed amidst his bobbing bath toys was a little brown number that clearly wasn't a bath toy.

I'm impressed he made it past a year before he unleashed that anal fury. Read more »

Lately I've been walking in an effort to try and not resemble an actual cross between a couch and a potato. My body shape is not my friend. I remember seeing an 'endomorph', for that is what I am, in a book when I was a kid and the book telling me that shape was me and would be forever. So yeah trying to gradually take care of the bits of that badness I can take care of.
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If it's one thing I can't fucking stand it's fucking bad language in fucking DVDs that I hire.

Fuck.

So I like the fact the DVD cover has on the front a warning to let me know that feelthy language abounds in this here movie I is abouts to hire.

However I am not sure what "M+ Course Language" means exactly...

I found this on the comments section in the Wash Post. Laugh out loud funny. Yeah, I know, a lot of it is personal attack stuff. But I find the beliefs espoused and actions to date of said GILF repellent.

Are you Alaskan Trailer Trash? We don't wish to judge you, but these 20 Question will help you answer that for yourself::

1. Do you have a ridiculous bee hive hairdo?. Read more »

Occasionally when I walk I get angry, bad boy bubby angry. I vent to myself about various crap that makes me furious. I like to think I get it out of my system. Trouble is I am muttering in the dark, so other pedestrians must likely think that's a little nuts. Apologies to them.

I often get red faced when I get angry. I'm still red faced now. Still filled with rage and hurt and feel incredibly pissed off and saddened. Read more »

I am a convert to the German way of doing things RE supermarket shopping. Aldi fucking rawk - even if their products look like they come from some sort of weird parallel universe.

TheWife today bought into our lives the GIANT SANDWICH - which according to the wrapper is a wedge of vanilla ice cream sandwiched between two biscuits.

Oh. My. Gawd. Read more »

I am a convert to the German way of doing things RE supermarket shopping. Aldi fucking rawk - even if their products look like they come from some sort of weird parallel universe.

TheWife today bought into our lives the GIANT SANDWICH - which according to the wrapper is a wedge of vanilla ice cream sandwiched between two biscuits.

Oh. My. Gawd. Read more »

I've been suffering an outbreak of itchy lumps all over my torso of late. It's been driving me nuts. I thought it was from recently changing my meds .

I go walking most nights, often alongside the storm drain channels that ring the suburb. Read more »

Social clubs are a life blood of the office environment. Typically a mini fridge filled with tasty low cost soft drinks with chocs and chips on top.

Running them is a pain in the ahnus. So I can see why the ladies that ran mine, including Qubie (or QB - Quiz Bitch), decided to give it the heave ho - since buying 24 packs of coke cans in your home time then trekking them into work would have sucked. Read more »

TheNoo's been cruising a while now - the baby rearing term for when a baby can stand and move along while holding on to furniture but can't as yet stand or walk without doing so - and he cruised along to say howdy to me.

As punters know I recently removed an ingrown toenail (righty big toe). It's starting to heal - but is still very much in transition with pucked rough new nail scabbed over the gaping toe chasm where once the proud nation of big sunken dead sea esq right nail once dwelt. Read more »

First up let me say I have never knowingly done this. But just then I was tempted. Read more »

Foreigner's Hot Blooded

I'm Hot Blooded, can't you see
Daddy's groinal flap is scaring me.

Y'day theWife, theBoy, and theWife's folks went to the zoo. They went to the monkey cage.

As theBoy was being shown the monkeys, one of the little rascals apparently pulled itself off.

Quick work by thePop to walk theBoy over to less disturbing sights of animals at play.

Yet theWife and theNan remained behind to watch ...

Well, we went out for a theBoy free dinner & movie thanks to theWife's parents who baby sat (which is a rare event since they live 1,000 kays away).

We had pizza.

And it was successfully noshed. Well almost successfully. I threw up a couple of mouthfuls in the bin about 10 mins later but otherwise kept down - with a red fanta and a choc top on top. Read more »

On my evening walks I see the same regular batch of fellow walkers striding along. They're far more hard core than me. They have proper walking clothes, their strides are more purposeful, and indeed some of them "run". They remind me of the hard core bike riders who wear all the sprayed on clobber, which I think is more an attention seeking device - for the men at least - so the chicks will dig their Spinal Tap esq man packages snuggly protruding into the world in the manner of a rangy male ballet dancer. Read more »

When revolutions, Marxist, nationalist, religious or what have you burned across the post World War II world some dodgy renaming occurred for their militaries. Yes, I fully understand the need to rip away a Royal appellation when you're done gone and republicized but the Democratic People's blah of blah de blah blah doesn't really roll off the tongue.

Check out this effort for Iran Read more »

I had a nerd night out with da lads. We had pizza. I had some. Three pieces, and two bits of garlic bread.

And yea, for I didst not chuck it up.

Take that food that I have trouble digesting.

Still not game to clamber back up on the sausage horse however...

Hungry Jacks, unlike other FF chains, has decided to go the other direction on the war on obesity. There's no Fox Salads like McD. There's no disguising the word "Fried" by acronymising (or hiding the word "Kentucky"). It's business as usual over at HJ's. Read more »

Most nerds are pedants. I know I am. When I play nerd games, and I know the rules backward, I will tend to rules lawyer a bit too. That's just how I roll. Read more »

Fucking awesome movie.

UPDATE: Fuck I hate fuckwits that cut in line. Fucking arseholes. In the words of Lev Grossman, take a step back and fuck yourselves in the ass.

Giant toilet flown in to dispose of remains

Minties are not nice to me. No, I don't mean a gang of animated Mintie-toughs are hassling me on occasion. I mean I don't find them pleasant to eat. A) they're mint. B) they stick to your teeth.

I was on course today. All they had were fucking minties. I suspect because not many people eat them. Read more »

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Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg: Life, which you so nobly serve, comes from destruction, disorder and chaos. Take this empty glass. Here it is, peaceful, serene and boring. But if it is...
[pushes glass off table]
Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg: destroyed... Read more »

Today it was reported to me that a colleague had reminded a group of co-workers that Sept 19 was 'Pork like a pirate day'. She was then richly laughed at for her hilarious mispeak of Pork for Talk.

But as one person pointed out this opens the door for some assuming excellent pork pirate personas for the day. Read more »

I am a hirsute man. Except where it counts - I look like friar tuck on top. But I do have a Sean Connery / Austin Powers esq thatch of chest & gut hair that wraps around like a hairy sari to the back - upper, middle, lower - and the crack of my arse.

Yeah the chicks don't dig that in the naughties. Read more »

Building sites tend to have a lot of OH&S signs up. You know, DANGER, Hard Hat Area only etc. Some of them are beyond functional and have a message of constant awareness in general. Such as this tasty number.

'ESCAPE A LIFE SENTENCE'. Then, on the sign next to it, it says something about workplace safety.

All very well. A good message and one we should all observe. Read more »

Canberra, ACT; Self promoting Senators Nick Xenophon and Steve Fielding today got into a fight when they turned up at the same event dressed in the same attire. Read more »

Y'day I went for an arvo walk with my dad and theNoo along the sheltered park strips between houses in my suburb. I told dad how at the moment when I walk at night I have no worries for my safety since drunk yobs don't tend to congregate in these thoroughfares in Winter due to the bitter cold.

For dinner we had Chinese food. It was delish but my IBS flared up and I was druggless. Walking helps so about 9 pm off I went. As I headed for the door my dad yelled out 'watch out for drunken yobs!'. Read more »