Seriously, I need to get a life...
01. Bought everyone in the bar a drink
02. Swam with wild dolphins
03. Climbed a mountain04. Taken a Ferrari for a test drive {NFS won't count, would it?}
05. Been inside the Great Pyramid
06. Held a tarantula
07. Taken a candlelit bath with someone08. Said “I love you” and meant it09. Hugged a tree10. Bungee jumped11. Visited Paris12. Watched a lightning storm at sea
13. Stayed up all night long and saw the sun rise14. Seen the Northern Lights
15. Gone to a huge sports game16. Walked the stairs to the top of the leaning Tower of Pisa
17. Grown and eaten your own vegetables18. Touched an iceberg
19. Slept under the stars20. Changed a baby’s diaper21. Taken a trip in a hot air balloon
22. Watched a meteor shower
23. Gotten drunk on champagne24. Given more than you can afford to charity25. Looked up at the night sky through a telescope26. Had an uncontrollable giggling fit at the worst possible moment27. Had a food fight28. Bet on a winning horse
29. Asked out a stranger
30. Had a snowball fight {and also learn't the hard way that hailstone balls ain't snowballs}
31. Screamed as loudly as you possibly can32. Held a lamb33. Seen a total eclipse of the moon.34. Ridden a roller coaster35. Hit a home run (Bethias don't run...)36. Danced like a fool and not cared who was looking37. Adopted an accent for an entire day 38. Actually felt happy about your life, even for just a moment39. Had two hard drives for your computer40. Visited all 50 states
41. Taken care of someone who was drunk42. Had amazing friends43. Danced with a stranger in a foreign country
44. Watched wild whales
45. Stolen a sign46. Backpacked in Europe
47. Taken a road-trip48. Gone rock climbing49. Midnight walk on the beach50. Gone sky diving
51. Visited Ireland52. Been heartbroken longer than you were actually in love53. In a restaurant, sat at a stranger’s table and had a meal with them54. Visited Japan
55. Milked a cow
56. Alphabetized your CDs57. Pretended to be a superhero58. Sung karaoke59. Lounged around in bed all day60. Played touch football
61. Gone scuba diving
62. Kissed in the rain63. Played in the mud64. Played in the rain65. Gone to a drive-in theater66. Visited the Great Wall of China
67. Started a business68. Fallen in love and not had your heart broken
69. Toured ancient sites70. Taken a martial arts class71. Played D&D for more than 6 hours straight
72. Gotten married
73. Been in a movie
74. Crashed a party75. Gotten divorced
76. Gone without food for 5 days
77. Made cookies from scratch 78. Won first prize in a costume contest
79. Ridden a gondola in Venice
80. Gotten a tattoo
81. Rafted the Snake River
82. Been on television news programs as an “expert”83. Got flowers for no reason84. Performed on stage85. Been to Las Vegas
86. Recorded music87. Eaten shark88. Kissed on the first date
89. Gone to Thailand
90. Bought a house
91. Been in a combat zone92. Buried one/both of your parents93. Been on a cruise ship
94. Spoken more than one language fluently95. Performed in Rocky Horror
96. Raised children
97. Followed your favorite band/singer on tour
99. Taken an exotic bicycle tour in a foreign country
100. Picked up and moved to another city to just start over
101. Walked the Golden Gate Bridge
102. Sang loudly in the car, and didn’t stop when you knew someone was looking103. Had plastic surgery
104. Survived an accident that you shouldn’t have survived
105. Wrote articles for a large publication106. Lost over 100 pounds
107. Held someone while they were having a flashback
108. Piloted an airplane109. Touched a stingray110. Broken someone’s heart111. Helped an animal give birth
112. Won money on a T.V. game show
113. Broken a bone114. Gone on an African photo safari115. Had a facial part pierced other than your ears
116. Fired a rifle, shotgun, or pistol117. Eaten mushrooms that were gathered in the wild
118. Ridden a horse119. Had major surgery
120. Had a snake as a pet
121. Hiked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon
122. Slept for more than 30 hours over the course of 48 hours123. Visited more foreign countries than U.S. states124. Visited all 7 continents
125. Taken a canoe trip that lasted more than 2 days
126. Eaten kangaroo meat
127. Eaten sushi128. Had your picture in the newspaper129. Changed someone’s mind about something you care deeply about130. Gone back to school
131. Parasailed
132. Touched a cockroach
133. Eaten fried green tomatoes134. Read The Iliad 135. Selected one “important” author who you missed in school, and read136. Killed and prepared an animal for eating137. Skipped all your school reunions
138. Communicated with someone without sharing a common spoken language139. Been elected to public office
140. Written your own computer language
141. Thought to yourself that you’re living your dream
142. Had to put someone you love into hospice care
143. Built your own PC from parts144. Sold your own artwork to someone who didn’t know you
145. Had a booth at a street fair146. Dyed your hair147. Been a DJ148. Shaved your head
149. Caused a car accident
150. Saved someone’s lifeOkay, now if you read all that you need to get out more... and I need to get out more because I've done hardly any of those things.
If you're wondering about the bulk posting, I don't come online everyday so these are all the things I've thought of since Monday...
Lacking in Common Sense, perhaps?
My friends are so VERY intelligent, but sometimes they seem to lack basic common sense ("Can rivers flow North?", "Spermicide? Isn't that what you put on crops?" etc...) but I think today topped it...
Me: I don't have my phone on me, so I can't call you to see where you are... I'll meet you in Peacocks [the coffee place] at 1?
Han & Ash: Yeah, okay.
*a while later*
Ash: We're going to be late, but we can't call Beth...
Han: Text her instead!
Ash: Okay!
*sends text 'We're Primarking just up the road'*
Me (also turning up 15 minutes late): Heya
Han: We sent a text to tell you that we were going to be late, but then remembered that not having your phone means you can't recieve texts, either.....
<3<3<3<3 My friends! :D
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... Subsequently followed by 'Philosophy at its best'...
I was talking to my careers advisor yesterday about my
interview, and she showed me a past exam paper from Philosophy & Modern Languages courses, which was as close to my course (
Philosophy, Politics and Economics) as she could get.
One of the questions was asking about counterexamples and formulating arguments etc, and a statement given was:
A square has more sides than a triangle.So a square triangle has more sides than itself.
Hmm.
Labels: Philosophy
Fashion at its best?
Unashamedly stolen from the wonderful blog of
ThoughtNuggets. (
Here for direct link to that post...)
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Isn't it ironic that in an emergency on a bus you have to break some glass to get a hammer to break the glass?
It just struck me on the way home on Tuesday :).
<3<3<3
<3<3 My Captain
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Why build the top before the bottom?
As you can see, the top half is finished, yet the bottom half is still breezeblocks...
In the background there is another one of Derbyshire's exceptional buildings... the Crooked Spire. So called because they tried to build a church, but the spire got bent somewhere along the process...
No one knows why, either :).
A classic example of how things are done differently Up Norff. :P
(Coincidentally, this is post 100. Go me!)
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How sticky is your sticky toffee pudding?
"... But a former BBC colleague of mine was offered a truly tough poser the other day. She has quit the Beeb and with her twin sister fulfilled their ambition of opening a tea room in the Norfolk village of Wells-next-the-Sea. It is called Bean2theCoast. and I'm told it's very good. On their first day a woman came in and demanded, "just how sticky is your sticky-toffee pudding?"
What possible answer could there be? I suppose you could try cod science, claiming "it has been rated at 8.9 on the Hohenburg-Lipfzer scale of stickiness". Or you could just hold up a twig and shout: "Look! this is a stick! Well, I'd have you know that our pudding is much stickier than this!""Scooped from
Simon Hoggart's column.
Justice?
[Scooped from
here]
How does one get jailed for
"nearly 700 years" and then get out after three,
then have the cheek to try and blow up the Northern Ireland Assembly?
I just love how our Courts system will actually sentence someone for 700 years. Where the fuck did that come from?
How does James Bond survive?
I've never met someone that doesn't like James Bond films, although I have met someone that has never seen one...
But how come it can still go on even though the main actor changes periodically? Think about it. Are there any other sequels that are good, even though the actors have changed?
Would you have liked the second & third Lord of the Rings films if Frodo wasn't played by Elajah Wood, or if Pierce Brosnan suddenly played Aragorn?
No.
So how come JB is that good? What is it about that film that can make it stay *so* good even when he is played by so many different people?
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By the way, the new JB is AMAZING. Other than the fact he fell in love, that was perhaps the down point, but at least he got (kind of) betrayed...
Two things that annoyed me: The fact that I thought it was going to end about 4 times before it actually did.
The stupid Americanisms in the script. I'm glad they got British actors, but making them say "bloody" in an English accent doesn't make for a good English script. English people don't pick up their "cell phones." We pick up our mobiles. That's one example, I can't think of the other things now, but it was really irritating.
Argh. In future, Mr American Film Company, if you want an English script, get an English script writer, or at least get it proof read by one.
Why do chavs congregate around McDondalds and bus stops?
There are far better places to stand...
My friend Gemmypoops was saying how you don't want to stand at the bus stop near them, lest passers-by think that you're actually associated with them.
I got an interview at Oxford University!!
How do you get in touch with a woman who is complacent to a man vomiting on her?
Jason: and now just when i thought i'd seen everything, there is now a show on where the dude has a fantasy of throwing up on women and is cheating on his girlf with a girl that doesn't mind him doing that and he has just thrown up on her live on the stage.
Jason: and they're sitting in a puddle of vomit.
Bethia: LOL
Bethia: how did he get in touch with such a woman?
Bethia: a personal ad in a newspaper?
Bethia: "Male, 24, WLTM woman who wouldn't mind me vomiting on her, GSOH, likes long walks on the beach"
MicroSoft > The Word of God?
I'm writing an essay (Assess the view that religion is used to oppress women) but everytime I try to quote the Bible my computer restarts. Conspiracy, anyone? ;)
OMFUX0RSEXHOWGOODAREMUSE?!?!
I went to
Muse's (sell-out) tour at
Nottingham Arena and it was by far the best gig IN THE WORLD.
Come to think of it, I can't be bothered to type it all out, but it was AMAZING. They put so much money into graphics and stuff. Wow. It was so cool. If anyone manages to get tickets, you should go. If not, BUY ALL THEIR ALBUMS AND GO NEXT TIME.
Teenagers having intelligent conversations?
I was walking up to town from college today and overheard a group of people conversing over 'elections'. I was very impressed.
(Note: they may have said erections)
Is the Bible copyrighted?
So, Tom, have you ever met the President of France?
I went on a politics trip to De Montfort University yesterday, and it was actually surprisingly interesting (aside from watching the sun rise whilst on the bus to the train station...) as the two ex-Congressmen that were there, Tom Downey and Lou Frey were pretty funny.
One of the stories that Tom told was about when he met the President. He was pretty high up in the Democrat Party rankings and a 'personal friend' of Al Gore, and was Gore's debating partner leading up to the presidential candidate debates. Apparently they take those things pretty seriously over there, and being a debate partner means you have to dress, talk and act like the person that Gore would be debating and have mock-debates whilst being filmed in that character. So Tom has to be Bush for a while, and he prepares by watching *every* interview, reading *every* speech and has to mimic everything he'd say (a pretty easy task when you're pretending to be Bush...).
One day he was preparing when his secretary walks in saying that they've got post (or 'mail') and when he opened it it was all the notes from the Republican party debates, including two tapes. He put one tape into the video player and played it for a few seconds, when he looked at all the people in his office, stopped it and told everyone that they couldn't rewind it. He called the FBI, who took 5 hours to get there, and they took the tapes away and eventually found out that it was some bitter woman that had sent them over. After this, he had to stay away from Gore for the rest of the election campaign because obviously people wouldn't believe that he hadn't read the material.
However, in one of the debates someone asked Bush what he thought of Tom Downey and, surprisingly, he answered "Oh, sure! He's a great guy! If I ever met him I'd shake his hand!". 'Hah! I'll shake your hand when Gore is President and I'm Secretary of State,' thought Tom. Oops.
So it was about 5 years later at the Prague castle for a UN meeting that he eventually got to meet him. He wasn't in Congress anymore and was supporting another Democrat person there, and was standing with a big camera around his neck, looking like a 'smartly dressed American tourist'. The only people that were there were those two, the President and however many world leaders, as everyone else had been pushed away by Secret Service. He thought that this would be a good time to get that handshake, and so when he got eye contact, he introduced himself, expecting Bush to just go "... you're /who/??".
Tom: Mr President, I'm Tom Downey, I'd like to get that handshake you promised me.
Bush: Wow!! Tom Downey! *pulls him into a bear hug* Look everyone, this is Tom Downey, he's a really great guy!
... And continued introducing him to his wife etc, and briefly told the story about what had happened with the papers. Secret Service started moving the group into the Castle, and Tom thought he'd make the most of this meeting, and went to talk to the president. He said he was impressed with the time that he did running (only something that someone who had spent hours watching every interview with him would have known) and Bush started talking about how much he can benchpress and they were having a good chat etc, when Jacques Chirac tries to stick his head in the middle of them to get in on the conversation, completely ignored by Bush. Bush's advisors were like "I think you should talk to Chirac..." so he stopped, turned around and said
Bush: So, Tom, have you ever met the President of France?
Tom: No, Sir, I don't believe I have.
Bush: Tom, this is Jacques Chirac, President of France; Jacques, this is Tom Downey... a close friend of mine.
... Then put his arm around Tom, completely blocking Chirac out and continued talking about exercise machines with him.
It was excellent.
In Scotland, how do you know which public toilet to go into...
... because surely in the gender icons, they're both wearing skirts?
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Why do I feel like the PM shouldn't have been there...?
I watched about half an hour of the
Remembrance Sunday ceremony on television last night, and some of the speakers were saying prayers for the PM and rest of the government, which I found a bit offensive.
It's awkward to hold ceremonies like that when we are in active war at the time, with soldiers that are dying everyday, or whatever the current stat is. But to make things worse, the OhSoChristian Mr Blair was sat there with his poppy, (hehehehe, I just wrote 'poopy' by accident) seemingly not taking any responsibility for the war that the People didn't want.
I just don't think he should have been there.
Things I Like...
I realised recently that I hate a lot of things, including the fact that
celebrities get more recognition than they deserve, and the fact that
people actually care about these things. Grr. That makes me angry.
I mean... no it doesn't. I'm a
nice person. Anyway... my list of things I like:
- My friends' idiosyncracies
- The things in my Box of Sentiment
- The relationship between my mother and I...
- ... and the way that I'll never have that with anyone else :)
- My religion (sorry everyone, I do actually believe that shit :( )
- Photographs, the kind you can hold and touch and pass around, not the digital kind
- The Age of Information
- The people in my village, despite all their inbred faults
- Walking in snow
- Walking in rain
- Beaches when the sand is hot and burns your toes :)
- Beaches at dusk, with picnics
- Just being held.
- The fact that I can talk to my friends for hours, and never know what has actually been said
- Hot emo boys <3<3<3<3<3<3
- Reading hand written letters
- Seeing my brother at Christmas
- Seeing people happy at Christmas
- Remembering happy times with old friends and wondering whether they remember the same thing
- Things and people that are better left in the past
- Wearing new underwear for the first time
- Not having a busy schedule
- Sleeping in late
- Stars
- My house
- The ever-evolving English language
- The freedom of the countryside
- Going out and leaving my phone at home
- Receiving an unexpected text that makes me smile
- In-jokes
How did Edward Scissorhands put on his make up?
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10 Ways To Know You're Emo
1. You want to marry Tim Burton.
2. You try to hide as much of your face behind your hair.
3. It's not that you only like the colour black, it's just... all the best clothes come in that colour!
4. You hate songs where the lyrics don't "mean something".
5. You may be married to Tim Burton, but Johnny Depp is having your babies.
6. You're not gay, you just like kissing other boys, I mean -- who doesn't?!
7. All your friends have the same hair style as you.
8. You know the lyrics to all the songs in 'The Nightmare Before Christmas'.
9. Writing poems is the only way you have to truly 'express yourself'.
10. Beth follows you round and wants your babies, ogm.
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Why do people use hands-free kits when their hands are perfectly free already?
I saw this on the bus today, whilst having a trip-down-memory-lane with a guy I hadn't seen for over a year. A guy sat next to me on the back seat (because I'm a dirty rebel like that) kept using his hands-free kit... even though he was sat down on a bus just staring absent-mindly out of the window. ARGH!
YOUR STUPID TOYS DO NOT MAKE YOU LOOK 'COOL' WHEN YOU'RE USING THEM UNNECESSARILY!
They only look good when you're walking down the street multi-tasking. Like business people in films. They are the only people that can use hands free kits. Everyone else just sucks.
What do you do when the fire alarm goes off, but you're in the shower?
Thankfully, this has never happened to me, but it's troubled me for at least 3 years. With my fear of nakedness and exposure, I don't know what to do. Obviously, the sensible thing is to get out straight away, wrap a towel round you and, if you have time, grab some clothes to put on after you've escaped the building.
I could never leave the house without any clothes on already, I'd have to wait and put clothes on whilst still in the house. And quickly, too, because I wouldn't want a fireman/woman/person/PC Term, to come in whilst I was still half-dressed...
Damn you, hygiene! You're so inconvenient!
[Edit: Fires are perhaps the more inconvient thing of the two...]
What do you do when the phone rings, but you're on the toilet?
My favourite thing:
Using the word 'again' inappropriately.
Me: You will tell me when dinner is ready, won't you?
Mummy: Of course...
Me: And you won't put it outside in the rain again?
--
Me: I'll wee on your bed again!
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I especially like when it's said in public, and the other mothers look very confused and worried for me.
What is the purpose of a yawn?
... other than giving away that you're really bored in class...
