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I TOOK this pic back in October while I was in Britain and I’m still, well, puzzled by it. Who is it aimed at? We all know that McDonalds exploits children but I never realised they were out to indoctrinate them, too. Why does this exist? I suppose it could be argued that it’s an educational toy, which is pretty plausible until you remember this is McDonalds we’re talking about.
Going by the usual consistency of an Egg McMuffin I think they used an actual McDonalds’ “egg” for this set. The same goes for the chicken nuggets and I’m sure eating the […]
NOW that Borders has winged its way to the great bankruptcy court in the sky, I’m left with Barnes and Noble as my primary source for buying books. It may come as a surprise that I don’t really like going to a big store that’s crammed with my favourite things, but B&N is really starting to get on my nerves for several reasons…
The rewards card: It costs $25 for a year and entitles you to 10% off the price of whatever you’re buying. Sounds good until you realise you have to spend $250 just to get your $25 back. Apart from […]
I KNOW this makes me sound like a teenage girl, but SQUEEEEAAAALLLL!!! I love the horrible warped snowmen Calvin comes up with and this video realises them in beautifully lit 3D. The scene is made from flour and sugar, and there’s a breakdown of how the makers did it here. It’s just awesome and perfectly recreates the brilliant strips Calvin and Hobbes creator Bill Watterson drew every winter. And the “we miss you, Bill” at the end just kills me.
Watterson didn’t just do the famous snowmen scenes for comedy. He used them to satirise pretentious art critics, with Calvin […]
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEe0qqPAC6E
ANOTHER era’s come to an end with the news that the Concise Oxford English Dictionary is dumping the word “cassette” from its pages because it’s “obsolete” to make way for amazingly exciting and incredibly important new words like “sexting”, “OMG”, “woot”, “LOLZ” and “retweet”. The writing’s been on the wall for years, though — British electronics store Currys announced back in 2007 that it was stopping selling cassettes after sales fell from 8.3 million in 1989 to 100,000 in 2006.
Yet another part of my life has been consigned to the dustbin of history. I have fond memories of cassettes — I […]
BEGONE, FOUL STRUMPET!
WITH Sponja up the spout* again, Ev decided that she needed somewhere safe to stay when she pops her sprogs (Sponja, not Ev). So while on a shopping trip to Costco she picked up a little dog/cat house and then left me to put it together this morning, citing “having to leave for work” as her ridiculous excuse for not helping.
*Ev hates this phrase, but probably not as much as I hate having my nipples slapped while I’m trying to read.
Camera gear: $2,000. Photo’s value: $0.
Here it is, boxed and ready to be assembled by the […]
The Liberty Belle, the B-17 bomber I took pics of in March last year, crash-landed and burned in a field in Illinois today. Luckily all seven people on board escaped safely. The fire seems to have been caused by a fuel leak in one of the engines. It’s a real shame as the Belle was one of the few remaining B-17s, the planes that did so much damage to Nazi Germany in World War II. After going aboard her and seeing for myself the horribly cramped conditions the crew had to fly their dangerous missions in, I […]
Ev: “You don’t need another toy car.”
Me: “But it’s the DeLorean from Back To The Future.”
Ev: “You’re nearly 40.”
Me: “It’s got the flux capacitor and everything.”
Ev: “We only came in here for milk and stamps.”
Me: “Look, it’s got the OUTTATIME number plate.”
Ev: “We’re buying a house, we need the money.”
Me: “Wow, it’s even got the cables up the side.”
Ev: “You’re not listening to me, are you?”
Me: “Sorry, what?”
Ev: “Oh, just buy […]
HERE’S the best prank ever pulled by a respectable news organization. Wait, no it isn’t — it’s the best prank ever pulled by anyone.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMNO2Kcvz2k&feature=related
You can read more about it […]
BUT I do, oh how I do. Right now, offered the choice between a Chilli Red Mini Cooper S with all the trimmings and a Samsung 4.3 cubic feet, 12-cycle Ultra Capacity Steam Washer with matching laundry pedestal including a storage drawer, I’d take the non-drivable option.
Now I know what you’re thinking; you’re thinking, “But Mut, you’re such a cool and sexy guy. Why the sudden desire for a mundane domestic appliance?” Well, firstly I’d tell you that you’re thinking of the wrong person, and secondly I’d tell you that I’m sick to the bleedin’ gills of sharing laundry facilities with […]
TODAY I’ve been in America for seven […]
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