2008

Righty, I’m off to meet a couple of ex-coworkers in the pub we used to work at, which should...

This is my first listen of The Knife and I am still taking it in, but like it a lot so far ...

Facebook | **LONDON UNDERGROUND'S LAST EVER...

Emma included the following line in a recent post: let me pour the redbull (one can between five...

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Expedia - An Update It seems that persistence and politeness pays off. I posted about my refund...

If this were English football fans...

Why no child is safe from the sinister cult...

AutoHotkey - This program is about to change...

I call the girlfriend by a couple of pet names whenever we’re together, just the two of us. I...

Thunderbird’s spellchecker just tried to replace “gooneruk” with...

I do enjoy getting home from work and catching up on all of the videos people have been posting over...

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Christ, I really do post some minutiae sometimes. My life in boring / interesting detail. *delete...

Minor Irritations About My New House: Number 94 I bought an electric toothbrush the other day...

I skipped the gym at lunchtime, in favour of Chinese food and buying a plug. It’s an exciting...

I think I need to walk in a more upright fashion. I look down, a lot, as I walk, and I think...

The opposite. I usually always seem to think a guy is “decent” after just meeting him or from...

Where are all the decent mans at? I can count the number of decent men i know on one hand...

I emptied about 6 months’ worth of receipts and junk out of my wallet the other day, as well...

Despite getting a load of housey things done last night, like cleaning, tidying and getting...

After the first gym session in 3...

My Thighs: Woah! Seriously, what the fuck just happened? What was that?!?!
My Brain: Er, that was exercise, guys. You must remember it.
My Thighs: Exercise? It was never that hard before! We used to do miles and miles every week without any problems. 'Thankyou sir, can I have another?' - that was our mindset.
My Brain: Yeah, well, it's been a couple of weeks. You guys have gone soft.
My Thighs: How dare you! We'll show you! Tomorrow! Maybe not tomorrow. Definitely not tomorrow in fact. Thursday? Hmm, Thursday still seems a bit soon. Friday! We'll show you on Friday. Then who'll be laughing?
My Brain: Well, seeing as you guys have spent all of this afternoon screaming and whingeing...
My Thighs: It was just to check that you were still connected to us. It's been a while since we heard from you.
My Brain: I've been distracted. Had a holiday to plan, an illness to fight off, and beers to befuddle myself with.
My Thighs: Hold on a sec. You mean the whole lying on the beach and getting a tan thing was only temporary?! We were in it for the long haul.
My Brain: So I can tell today...
My Thighs: Why, if we weren't hurting so much, we'd come up there and hit you on the, erm, cortex.
My Brain: Just you try it. In fact, as punishment for even thinking about it, there will be further gym tomorrow. How'd you like them apples?!

I love how Amazon really does undercut the competition massively. I’ve had a quick comparison...

Priorities, ay?

Burma: a deluge of moral posturing

Well, thanks to the House Meeting last night, we now have a Cleaning Rota. We are truly special. It...

“dungarees? chocolate medals? You’ve given me an idea....”
— Me, in an email to my newly...

Just spent a little bit of time putting together a video of the bullfight I went to a few weeks ago...

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“All of Nabokov’s books are about tyranny, even Lolita....”
— Martin Amis

We’re having a HOUSE MEETING tonight, so I’ve been told, to go over the House Rules and...

Can You Become a Creature of New Habits?

Pinky: Gee Brain, what do you want to do tonight?
The Brain: The same thing we do every night, Pinky - try to take over the world.

This is how Saturdays should be spent in the summer: sitting...

You can see so much more of London from the river than by...

Every time non-London friends come to the city, they always...

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-5-11)

“And kangaroo testicles are like…”
— I swear this is the only...

I’m feeling particularly monochrome today. Black shirt, grey trousers, black shoes. Even my...

Jeralyndwile’s quote from A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare’s closing to the...

A question for the Tumblr gents out...

Reblog or View Source to see the question.

I have decided/discovered that Chinese takeaway is definitely the way forward for lunches from now...

As an example of the sheer scale of wealth in that area of...

Despite it only being a 4-day working week, I’m knackered and am very much in need of the...

Time to go buy a BBQ

How I Spent My Stimulus

Singin' in the rain...

A topical joke, courtesy of Popbitch Q: Why do Austrians go raving? A: They love a little...

With nary a cloud in the sky for the third day in a row here, it seems the female population has...

Note to self: more shorter posts; less lengthy diatribes.

Don’t you just hate copy and paste responses from customer services when you contact...

Ugh. There is nothing worse than missing a train by 30 seconds and then having to wait for 20...

And finally, back here in Blighty, I saw/held my first...

She doesn’t/didn’t like me taking photos of...

And we managed to squeeze in a bullfight, which was awesome....

I like to call this game Spot The Cloud.

Sipping on a Caiprinha on holiday. Yep, I tan like a bitch....

“You’ve got so much potential, but you’re not...”
— My boss, at lunchtime...

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Now I want one of these in real-life.

Will the real Boris please stand up?

“one of those big eff off houses”
— From emmas Hurrah! Someone...

BBC News | Third of staff 'hungover at desk'

Despite feeling as sick as a dog all day at work yesterday, I had a dentist appointment to keep...

So I actually got back from my holiday on Sunday, but was so ill on Monday and yesterday that I...

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-4-27)

Righty, I’m off on holiday for a week, hurrah! 8 days of sun and sea in the south of...

Balding Penguin Gets Wetsuit for Warmth....

I have just exercised my democratic powers by voting in the London Mayor and local assembly...

Earth is the only planet that isn’t named after a god. My most random...

Woo, this time tomorrow I’ll be checking in at the airport. Can’t get here soon enough.

“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace...”
— Henry Louis Mencken, again via...

Beard-Watch: The Last Day It’s time to say goodbye to...

Sometimes I’m a half-decent boyfriend. This is for the...

“seriously. this problem is really effecting my performance...”
— This is a great post by one of...

Monday’s forecast for London: Max 16c, Min 7c. Light Showers Monday’s forecast for the...

Is it just a guy thing to think “SCORE!” when you throw something at a rubbish bin (US:...

Google owns googlesucks.com and...

I depressed myself writing that last post, so here’s a...

Lunch yesterday with some co-workers was a little odd. It was the first time the three of us had...

Ain’t nothing like a big glass of juice in the...

“I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her...”
— Anthony Trollope, via the...

That poem thing took me far too long. Though I was watching the football at the same time, in my...

To all my English mates Did you know that St. George is your patron saint? Well, he is!...

“Sherman tank” rhymes with “wank” I just learned that my last name,...

YUK. The guy sat next to me on the train has just taken his jacket off, and he has horrific B.O. I...

Drunk Darth Vader's Jedi assault

“NFR - New Fit Rob”
— This girl that I dated a...

facebook chat! it finally launched for the Arizona network this morning at 1am! Sooooo...

It strikes me as odd… … and possibly a little counterproductive, for Americans...

Guilty of Talking Bollocks In A Mosque?...

“Why do I find it hard to write the next line? Oh, I want the...”
— Me, replying by text to a...

There’s nothing worse than waking up suddenly from a dream, and thinking “Shit!...

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How to talk to a fellow Tumblr on the...

me: caragh? it's gooneruk from tumblr here. Just a random question, and no way of really framing it with a reference point: are you ihatetumblr?
caragh: oh my god, no!
caragh: haha
me: sorry, just thought i'd ask. you both swear a lot and have an aversion to tumblinas...
me: damn, now i've got to start investigating all over again
caragh: I sort of enjoy being a suspect, though
me: i'm not the first to ask?
caragh: Oh, no. You are. It just made me laugh
caragh: I don't really know if I hate tumblinas, though. It seems annoying, but I've never really visited the group.
me: yeah, i just ignore it and let it go away
me: have you got any clue as to who it is?
caragh: Not at all. I like to pretend it's the Peter W. Knox guy though.

I am sorry to report that the small bag (50g) of “Mixed berries and almonds” that I just...

Whenever I see the words “Ship List”, which happens quite often over the course of my...

40 pages of dashboard is enough for me to consider that I’ve caught up from the...

I want to start an audio podcast with gooneruk wherein we chat humorously about the cultural and...

Hmm, I’m looking at a little trip Stateside in November, and I reckon the flights are...

Only 5 days until I go on holiday, and I can’t wait. I think I’m already counting the...

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-4-20)

Whenever I eat pastrami, I can’t help but think of New...

And to top it off I have a stinking cold too. So much for getting anything done this weekend.

I think I may have a bit of an insomnia/sleepwalking problem. I keep waking up at about 3 in the...

“You can log in to dozens of spoof internet sites one at of...”
— I love that there’s such...

In the pub after the funeral today. I was trying to get a...

“If the 20th century was the era of the Carbon Economy, the...”
— From a fucking stupid, overly...

Ever since I read the book To Kill A Mockingbird, I’ve wanted to give my first son (should...

On a lighter note, my SnorgTees t-shirt arrived in the post...

So tomorrow I have a funeral to go to, for the colleague that died last week. This will be the...

“vertiginous”
— “def: dizzying; affected...

One of the downsides of bringing your own lunch with you is that you don’t leave the office. I...

Tumblr Catch-Up Round-Up Just a few little notes and paraphernalia from catching up on 24 hours of...

I think I've found my next phone

Currencies | UK Sterling v Euro

Do you ever look at people as you pass them on the street and think to yourself, “I wonder if...

I think my legs are going to hate me tomorrow morning. 4.5 miles yesterday on the treadmill, and...

It’s quite satisfying to note that the contents of my junk mail folder have moved on from...

Sign in children’s section of library. ...

(Via keepinganotebook) You do realise that this is mere...

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I have this weird feeling about work today, something I haven’t felt for a little...

Salmon fishcakes, mixed beans, coleslaw and a green salad...

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-4-13)

Gyminee is a great website for tracking your gym/exercise performance. I’ve been using it for...

A truly inspiring man

Just found this on my phone as I was looking for the last...

OK, so it wasn’t a complete washout. Me and the...

Things successfully achieved or completed this weekend: 0 Enjoyment factor (out of 100): 100

It has amused me greatly to see, in a list of ships currently at Antwerp (yes, this is connected...

Countdown to the weekend: 5…4…3…2…1… Get me the fuck out of here.

Politician in sensible statement about the...

I am actually quite excited about seeing the...

“You win again, giant burrito.”
— It’s posts like this...

The weird thing is, I woke up at 3.30 this morning for no discernible reason. I think my phone may...

It’s not every day that you walk into work to be told by your boss that a colleague died...

Well, it’s been a long day so far of Tumbling, emailing, and commenting. Thanks for all of the...

Baugher's giving up?! Oh noes!

“In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine,...”
— J. William Fulbright What can...

“We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do,...”
— J. William Fulbright

Oh Thesaurus … I looked up “weaker” in the actual real-life Webster’s Thesaurus on my...

Righty, I’m off to the gym. No doubt further repercussions and fallout from this...

WHAT. THE. FUCK.