Over the years, I have to say that I’ve been particularly blessed to have met several real life weirdos on the internet, and I love them all dearly. So much so that I even married one of them.
Tag: random shit
Bad joke of the day
Q: What’s the difference between a pickpocket and a Peeping Tom?
A: The pickpocket snatches your watch
You sure we can’t keep your custom? Pleeeeease?
I just cancelled a credit card. We’re consolidating our card debt into one card with a very low lifetime balance transfer interest rate and one card that will be used regularly, so we had one that was now surplus to requirement and we decided to cancel it (as a side note, it can be a negative factor on your credit report to have lots of unused available credit, esp cards)
I phoned up the bank to have the card transferred and was immediately transferred to their “we will do anything to keep you” department. They offered schpiel after schpiel to try and keep us as customers, but the fact is that their offers aren’t all that good and we have better incentives with the other cards we have. When I told the lady on the phone this, her tone of voice went from bubbly to completely resigned while she read the goodbye statement. That level of resignation in her voice made me wonder if they’re somehow punished for every customer that they can’t keep hooked.
Boss: He left?
Underling: yes *whimper”
Boss: TO THE RACK WITH YOU!!!!!!!!!!
Happy clocks
One thing I learned from Dave Gorman’s PowerPoint adventure was that, at some point in the past, a marketing executive decided that clocks set to a “happy” time (i.e. the hands were in a semblance of a smile) were more likely to sell so now every time I see a clock display like this, I giggle.
It’s also why all of HTC’s phone adverts have 10:08 as a time display on the digital clocks :)
All women are nuts
Katy finally convinced me to watch “She’s just not that into you”. I admit that it was a fun movie, but it just reaffirms my deep conviction that all women are nuts.
Case and point: I hadn’t bought Katy flowers in a long time, so I decided to do so when we went shopping at Tesco. We’d been thinking of doing the Toffee Popcorn Bark for a while and I finally got organised and did it. Katy had mentioned earlier in the day that she wanted a big glass of wine (because it’s been a trying week with Bean), so we opened a bottle of Bordeau.
After all of this, she comes out with this gem:
Flowers, chocolate and wine, all in one day. Are you having an affair?
I love my wife, but she’s a woman, and therefore nuts.
The cake is a lie
Took this pic in the office loos today. Still trying to figure it out.
The tao of Beeker
True… how true…
That just made my day
[15:50:07] Joe Foster: Gillian has washed my passport again, I won’t be in on monday I need to go to Peterborough to get a new one in time to travel with Juanan to Utrecht.
[15:50:10] Joe Foster: huzzah
[15:50:24] Richard Cote: ROFL
[15:51:12] Richard Cote: Why do you insist in keeping your passport in your pants?
[15:51:24] Richard Cote: you’d think you’d know better by now :)
[15:51:28] Joe Foster: because I dont carry a hand bag like a woman
[15:51:53] Richard Cote: at the price of emergency passport replacement, you might want to invest in a man-purse :)
[15:52:24] Joe Foster: and destroy my million pound street cred?!!?
[15:52:35] Richard Cote: what street cred?
[15:52:44] Richard Cote: you’re as white bread as they come
[15:53:19] Richard Cote: hell, I’m old and fat and have more street cred than you do :)
[15:53:27] Joe Foster: sure…sure…
[15:53:38] Richard Cote: tattoos count for something :)
[15:54:30] Joe Foster: So does being in a band, and being a champion drinker.
[15:55:49] Richard Cote: I will grant you the band thing is cool
[15:56:01] Richard Cote: but is unfortunately cancelled out by your magic geekery
[15:56:33] Richard Cote: Comic-book-guy has no street cred.
[15:56:44] Joe Foster: I agree the magic counts against me, but it’s more than outweighed by my partying skills and general banter.
[15:57:31] Richard Cote: true, you’re not completely white bread. You can call yourself Hovis 50/50
[15:57:46] Joe Foster: I can accept that, granary is for noobs.
[15:57:56] Richard Cote: I shall henceforth refer to you as BOB
[15:58:23] Joe Foster: gah you sound like my parents
[15:58:31] Joe Foster: they never call me joe, always bob.
[15:58:45] Richard Cote: BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
[15:58:58] Richard Cote: your parents rule :)
[15:59:08] Joe Foster: they kinda do.
Revisiting the list, from a looooong time ago.
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Happy… Belated…… Birthday…. Captain Kirk!
William Shatner has cemented himself into geek science fiction lore forever. Yesterday, he began his ninth decade on this planet – yes, Captain Kirk is now 80 years old.