Category: Trivia
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Another few words of wisdom from my desk calendar, this time for the Rooster: A pioneer in spirit, you are devoted to work and quest after knowledge. You are selfish and eccentric. Rabbits are trouble, Snakes and Oxen are fine. Career: Gossips lead to possible lawsuits. Therefore, think twice before you act. Fortune: It’s an…
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A recent Dilbert strip that made me laugh. Scott Adams also has a blog
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Fumier has already mentioned this, but never mind (from The Guardian): When a middle-aged man swore at airline staff after he was refused a drink on a flight from Manchester to Tenerife, he got a sunshine break he had not bargained for. The pilot diverted the charter plane and dumped the troublesome holidaymaker 300 miles…
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What is that possesses people to spend an entire bus or MTR journey talking loudly into their phones? The Inquirer offers an explanation (old but good): MANY SAD FOLK who use mobile phones in public, are faking their conversations to make themselves seem important. According a Rutgers University Center for Mobile Communications Studies report, a…
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I liked this story from The Guardian. Someone took revenge on cable company NTL by changing the message on their automated phone system to something a little rude. The gentleman was charged with "making a grossly offensive message". Fortunately the magistrates decided that what he done was merely "offensive" and acquitted him. Telephone "help lines"…
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"others who don’t blog often like Fumier, Ordinary Gweilo.." [a comment from HKMacs on Simon World] Well, maybe. I seem to have contracted the dreaded lurgy that the aforesaid Fumier and Dr Shaky have also been suffering from. The first day I felt a bit under the weather, but the second, third and fourth days…
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The BBC reports that passengers will be able to use their mobile phones on stations on the London Underground by 2008, finally being able to do something that has been possible on the MTR in Hong Kong for several years. However, there is some opposition to this apparently unremarkable idea: But both the Lib Dems…
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I have to admit that I am fascinated by maps – well, some maps. So from Metafilter via Shaky, some interesting London public transport maps. Firstly, a geographically accurate London Underground map (rather than the classic Harry Beck diagram with straight lines), and secondly, (Mayor of London) Ken Livingstone’s ambitious plans for a much bigger network of underground, overground, light rail and trams by 2016, though unfortunately most of…
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How come stuff like this never happens to me? Retired doctor Mr Leigh-Brown, 67, said he picked up the DVD of The Pajama Game, which was sealed in plastic wrapping, for £2.99 from the bargain bin of a Safeway supermarket in Taunton. “Some topless young women appeared and started talking in Italian… it’s not what…
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This piece from Harry made me laugh: The British Council is better than most language schools. It’s run by the UK Foreign Office: all the other language schools I worked at were run by drunks. They could use this in pamphlets as their "unique selling point." It would be an improvement on “Creating Opportunity for…
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