While stammering schoolkids across the nation may perform a halting nativity without fear of being punched in the face, dress up a few wax dummies and suddenly it's “disrespectful” and violence is apparently called for.
Those zany christians, eh?
I'm sure they find this time of year particularly stressful, though - all those kids asking awkward questions [...]
As an exercise in horizon expansion, why not go into Books Etc. and get three books you might not normally have picked up for the price of two books you might not normally have picked up?
Today, that's what I did. I was in the shop, and browsed, and checked out the books by reading the [...]
There I am in Tesco, wandering the aisles as you do, when I spy a sign saying “Apple Doughnut - NEW”. “Yum”, thinks I, and collects one from the shelf post haste.
On the walk back to the office, I sink my teeth into my yummy apple doughnut.
It's custard.
The bastards did it to me again.
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Another digit on the binary odometer. Another millmilestone on the great road of existence. One more rung on the ladder. Another step across the rickety bridge. Another pointless and overly dramatic metaphor.
Followed by a light lunch, then possibly dinner and dancing.
A handy cooking hint for the holiday season.
When removing from the microwave something which has been heating in there for five and a half minutes, try to avoid dropping it and splashing scalding food up your arm. It's quite remarkably painful, and three days later you get some rather unpleasant-looking blisters.
Rather morbid, I know, but this is the second time in as many weeks that my commute has been delayed by a “fatality” or, as it was described this morning, a “body on the line”.
Which leads us to the conclusion that it's kind of a depressing time of year for a lot of people. I [...]
For the love of all that is good and true, could everyone in the world please learn the difference between “hoards” and “hordes”?
It's really not that hard, unless you're relying on Word to tell you how to spell things, in which case, stop it. Buy a proper dictionary.
When it gets onto DVD covers in shops, [...]
New “reality” TV show: Lots of sexy gorgeous people doing sexy gorgeous things. Every week the one who has been the least sexy and gorgeous is voted out.
Title: “Survival of the Fittest”
I think it's a winner.