I get A LOT of junk emails, from spam in its truest sense “Cheapest V1agra here” and “Cialis online” (what the hell is Cialis anyway???) through newsletters on all sorts of subjects (which mainly I did sign up for but often don’t read – hmm) and then the final category of junk… the dreaded “FWD: fwd: FW: fwd: Message attached: FWD….”

Dreaded? you ask… allow me to explain…

Yes, some of them are fine… and I know you mean well… but with me, you gotta be really careful… see its a pet hate of mine, when people blindly send on emails “so n so’s sisters dogs walkers next door neighbours uncle is a lawyer and he said it’s true so…”

If I sent you an email, saying the world was going to end, would you believe me? Would you send it on to everyone you knew… so that they could send it on ad nauseum?? No (although with some of the people I know, I do wonder!).

I know I’ve talked about this before, but there is a slight tangent today, I promise…

“random facts”

Someone sent me some random facts… of the 15, I knew that 5 were not true… now, what’s wrong with me? I wanted to email them back and say “actually, this ones not true because…”etc etc…

wwwwwwwaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

why can’t I just let it lie… so for the sake of my sanity… some random facts, that I know are urban myths, and if I wanted to I could check the others but I’m busy…

4. A ducks quack doesn’t echo, No one knows why!
- yes it does, go to your local duck pond, put you and a duck inside an upturned boat and then try n tell me the frickin thing doesn’t a) quack a lot and b) that those quacks don’t echo!

8. The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan. There was never a recorded Wendy before.
- oh please… Wendy is blatantly derived from the celtic for white “gwen” also derived into: Gwendolin, Guinovere etc Look it up if you really want.

10. The original name for a Butterfly was Flutterby
- nope, I remember seeing it in an olde english poem as: “buttorfleoge” – don’t ask why I remember that… I don’t know!

12. Chewing gum whilst peeling onions will keep you from crying.
- tried this once, didn’t work

14. Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages it.
- oh please

Baa hum-myth-bug!

Its times like now, I wish I worked normal hours. Just finished all I need to do today… and its 230am. great.

So my weekend pans out like this: Sleep, get up, try n finish my paperwork before the weekend… fit in a haircut, register at the dentists, tidy the flat (it is sooo messy, i hate it), get my E111 + Euros… maybe even think about what I need for spain… then DJ for 5hrs at Fruit, sleep, get up, drive to somerset, work there… drive back, sleep, get up, pack, DJ at Karma, dance at Hed Kandi… Sleep, get up… go to spain…. and relax

what the hell does it mean “the world is your oyster”

I don’t like shellfish…. so I looked it up…

THE WORLD IS AN (ONE’S) OYSTER – “If you have a lot of money, you can have anything you want. The proverb first appears in Shakespeare’s play ‘The Merry Wives of Windsor’ (1600).

‘Falstaff: I will not lend thee a penny. Pistol: Why, then, the world’s mine oyster, Which I with sword will open.’ Act II, Scene II.”
From “Random House Dictionary of Popular Proverbs and Sayings” (1996) by Gregory Y. Titelman (Random House, New York, 1996).

: A second reference says the phrase means: “All the pleasures and opportunities of life are open to someone because he is young, rich, handsome, successful, etc. Shakespeare invented or popularized this expression.” From “Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins” by Robert Hendrickson (Facts on File, New York, 1997).

: it is interesting that the Shakespearean use requires that the speaker does something about it – often the phrase is used is a glib way – that all opportunities are available, without the note that opening an oyster requires strength,skill and the tools for the job.
: As an oyster is usually opened by inserting a tough blade into the crack between the two parts of the shell, the mention of using the sword in martial skill to ensure success was particularly apposite.

: Usually a bit of depth with Shakespeare…

so there you go, more mysterys of the world solved

Following on from the “being english…” thread the other day, I spotted this: Citizenship Test

I only got 12 out of 15, although i got the important ones right!

I’ve not been feeling great this week, run down and full of cold, sore throat… bleurgh.

I was talking on MSN to a mate earlier who said I should just go and rate some random people on hotornot.com to cheer me up

For those of you not familiar with this long running website, its goes like this…

1. you put your pic online
2. Anyone who visits the site gets a random picture (based on preferences you choose – men/women&age group)
3. They can then vote that person from 1 (NOT) to 10 (HOT)
4. once they vote, they get to see the persons average score so far and another random picture is shown

It’s quite brutal and shallow, I know… but jeeebus, I laughed hard at some of them..

Here are my tips for getting a good score on hot or not: (don’t judge me!)

• Not looking at camera = -1 pt
• Studio shot you score a 1.. if you needed a studio makeover you get an instant NOT from me!
• Nose Pierced = -2pt… pet dislike, never worked out why
• Scary hair you score a 3 – choose a picture from a good hair day!
• Bad attempt at porn/model type pose = 1 point, you just look silly love
• Showing a bit of flesh = +1pt for bravery… but be warned…
• Showing too much flesh = obviously a hussy, -2pts
• Having WAY too much flesh = score a 4, couple for bravery but.. ew, no
• Having WAY too much flesh AND showing it = 1 no no no NO!

Hmmm, I’ve noticed I’m not scoring many people over a 5… maybe I’m not a nice person… nah, I’ll put it down to illness induced negativity!

EDIT: I?ve taken the Hot or Not pic off this site now, if you really still want to see it click here