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| Friday, July 3rd, 2009 | |
| 3:14 pm | Woo! Cycling competition today at work; pay a donation to charity and see how far you can go on a stationary bike in 5 minutes. I took third place in the women's section, and have won a nice bottle of Veuve Clicquot for my efforts! :o) Current Mood:  chipper |
| Monday, June 29th, 2009 | |
| 4:49 pm | indoor Wimbledon Hey! They've closed the roof! |
| Sunday, June 28th, 2009 | |
| 2:10 am | more Katerine More of my fave French tranny. Oh my word, he's so bloody pretty. Excuse my lust. Oh, and here's Borderline: More music.(I'm thinking this might be a good one for ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} duranorak), (particularly the shit-hot boyish blond). Good man. |
| Thursday, June 11th, 2009 | |
| 10:59 pm | Further to previous post... It will surprise no-one, I think, that this is how I discovered the chap... |
| 10:24 pm | one for the niche market I have found a singer/actor, who has been around for ages it seems, whom I newly like. I've made a couple of comments on Facebook about him. It's a Frenchman, though, so it's all in French. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Monsieur Philippe Katerine, whom I am currently describing as a mixture of David Walliams and Plastic Bertrand. For those of you into French stuff and haven't heard him, I offer up as an example 'Louxor j'adore', a bouncy number with enjoyably questionable lyrics; he says how much he likes watching everyone dancing, and then he teases them by switching the music on and off, until they all get pissed off with the wanker who keeps turning off the sound and at this point the lyrics go: "les gens arrêtent de danser se demandent qui a coupé et commencent à m'encercler et la je me sens en danger alors je leur dis prenez moi faites de moi n'importe quoi pendez moi la tete en bas comme la dernière fois" (The people stop dancing, wondering who keeps cutting the sound out and start to encircle me and I feel that I'm in danger so I say to them - take me and do anything you like - Hang me upside down, like the last time...) Splendid stuff. :o) Of course, in the video, the angry mob is merely represented by him crowd-surfing merrily. Current Mood: chipper |
| Wednesday, June 10th, 2009 | |
| 1:14 am | not going underground... Explicit lyrics: parental/NSFW (if you get there) advisory etc. Current Mood:  amused |
| Friday, June 5th, 2009 | |
| 9:23 pm | the Guantanimo issue Quick question - I can do my own research on this, but I wondered if anyone here knows off-hand - have we (i.e. the UK) agreed to take any of the 'difficult case' Gitmo prisoners yet? |
| Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009 | |
| 12:59 am | Prince of Wales, Highgate The above pub is well known for doing one of the toughest pub quizzes in the country, to the extent that they've even published their own quiz book. So having been there a couple of times before a couple of years ago, my pub quiz team of me, Stef and our pal Nick went there again tonight for a challenge (I'm just back now; it's a bit of a long journey back home), managing a creditable sixth out of fifteen. They have a 'beer round', which is not part of the main quiz but comes in the middle. We were one of only three teams to get all six questions right, but unfortunately we didn't ace the tie-break, which was: "How many different five-card hands are there in a game of poker played with a 52-card deck?" My heart sank. Because I'm the maths specialist on the team and I knew exactly what I had to do, but couldn't remember exactly what the 'X choose Y' formula was. 'Something factorial over something else factorial' was as far as I could remember after several pints*. So I took a (not bad) guess, thinking close might be good enough. It says something about the quality of the competition, I think, that both other teams got it exactly right (2,598,960). Never mind: we'll be back. :o) * Tbh, though, I'm not sure I would have been able to work out 52!/5!47! or even the (n-(k-1)) etc. version with pen and paper in time from scratch anyway. I suspect the other teams may have known it as a fact. I shall certainly be burning the number into my memory for future reference... Current Mood: chipper |
| Friday, May 22nd, 2009 | |
| 10:16 pm | Advice sought OK. Asking your advice here. I may be being silly, or I may have a point - your call. Last Saturday night, I headed off to one of our local offies to grab a few beers after Eurovision. When there, the guys who owned it explained to me (I can't remember how the conversation started) that they had originally lived in Turkey, but that they couldn't return there, because they'd be killed if they did. I expressed shock at this and asked why. They said it was because they were 'something called' (not apparently expecting me to have any knowledge of this) Kurds. I immediately exploded with a friendly 'Oh Kurds! Oh that's completely different from Turks - even I know that!' They seemed happy with that. Anyway, tonight I just went down there to buy a few beers for the evening, and as I handed over the money I said 'And how are my favourite Kurds this evening?' The guy beamed when I said it, and all seemed fine. But then I was walking back down the road and I suddenly thought that what I'd said actually probably sounded a bit patronising - bordering racist, actually - but maybe the guy felt he had to express happiness at the local's recognition of his national identity. Damn. It's not something I can really find a way to apologise for or correct, but maybe I should have more recognition of the impact of those kind of words. Anyway, thoughts? Bluntness welcome... |
| Tuesday, May 19th, 2009 | |
| 9:47 am | sweet dreams I had one of those lovely nights last night - which occur only two or three times a year, I find - where I had a number of (I should specify for clarity: non-erotic) dreams that I found so enjoyably funny that I actually woke up a few times laughing. I cannot remember much about them now, but it has left me wandering round this morning as if surrounded by a velvety cloud of good cheer, and smiling has been my default expression. Anyone else ever get this? Current Mood:  cheerful |
| Sunday, May 17th, 2009 | |
| 12:43 am | Deutschland uber alles Eurovision. My fave was Germany. I predicted it would come 23rd. In fact, it came 20th, so not bad for my whole prediction thing. I was on the YouTube version of the song, where plenty of Germans were being upset, saying "oh, well, we've been the shittest as usual" or such like, trying to big them up, pointing out that I really liked it. The UK did give them 7 points, after all, possibly their best score. |
| Thursday, May 14th, 2009 | |
| 1:37 am | Bond baddies Can't be arsed with a poll, so simply a question with free response available: Name your top three favourite James Bond baddies. Number one requires an explanation. Mine are: 1) Max Zorin. Explanation: Christopher Walken makes an incredibly shit-hot sexy bad'un IMV. 2) Kamal Khan 3) Drax I've asked Stef, and his are 1) Goldfinger 2) Kamal Khan 3) Stromberg And yours? |
| Tuesday, May 5th, 2009 | |
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| Sunday, May 3rd, 2009 | |
| 2:30 am | Sounds of the Universe Gave the new DM album a listen tonight. Pretty good: Corrupt is the best of a pretty good lot. Good, classic pervy Mode. Here we go. Current Mood: cheerful |
| Saturday, April 18th, 2009 | |
| 12:06 am | Susan Boyle again I loved Susan's rendition of 'I Dreamed a Dream' on BGT, now famous on YouTube. However, as a singer, my first instinct afterwards was to wonder if she could also do subtlety (hoping yes, of course). Subtlety takes more skill, in my experience, than many songs that just require well-performed strength of voice, and it wasn't clear, from the BGT performance, if she had that too. But now this recording of hers from 1999 surfaces, a wonderful interpretation of 'Cry Me A River', which IMO shows a wonderful mastery of subtlety, much to my delight. Her voice here reminds me of some of the best 20th century singers like Barbra Streisand and Ella Fitzgerald. And I can only guess that the more opportunity she has to do it, the better she'll get. I for one will be buying her abum. Current Mood:  enthralled |
| Thursday, April 9th, 2009 | |
| 9:08 pm | YouTube rocks I didn't know this had happened. Perhaps you didn't either. Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you: Kenneth Williams interviews a 28-year-old Stephen Fry. Current Mood: cheerful |
| Wednesday, April 1st, 2009 | |
| 1:56 pm | |
| Saturday, March 28th, 2009 | |
| 10:02 pm | |
| Thursday, March 26th, 2009 | |
| 4:40 pm | |
| Saturday, February 28th, 2009 | |
| 9:02 pm | step I went again this morning; it was slightly easier, partly because I had a better idea of the steps, and partly 'cos I wore two bras, therefore holding my chest a bit tighter. I then went for an afternoon in the pub, gently drinking for the first time in a couple of weeks. I think my alcohol tolerance went down a bit, so I'm quite merry now. But I'm also enjoying a nice evening with NME radio. Enjoy your respective Saturdays. :o) |