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things annoying me this week

Over descriptive food packaging. And people say I used too many nouns. Pah.
blame m&s

tumbling down backwards over the precipice of time

In hot summer have I great rejoicing
When the tempests kill the earth's foul peace,
And the lightnings from black heav'n flash crimson,
And the fierce thunders roar me their music
And the winds shriek through the clouds mad, opposing,
And through all the riven skies God's swords clash.
-dante via erza pound

Its well in progress...

People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think. What Orwell feared is those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book for there would be no one who wanted to read one... Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with the equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy." - Neil Postman - Amusing Ourselves to Death

BILK IS THE NECTAR OF THE GODS

As I type this, tears of joy stream down my face. How brilliant are these brewers, that they could take two of the best foodstuffs currently known to man and combine them into one fantastic sounding ale. Cant wait to gulp eet down

GLUG

Vista

Mail arrives tonight announcing that they've finally got around to releasing it.
The Arms flailing happy lady photo accross the masthead of the mail annoyed me beyond explanation.
Microsawfts gleeful use of generic-implications-of-freedom and happyness in their publicity photos
dont make me feel in anyways excited about their product or the doors I'm supposed to think it will open for me.
As a result the photo above is my clumsy edit in trying to explain what I see when I look at it.
Perhaps i could have done a better job if I'd been using VEEEESSSTTTAAAAH, eh?

Thickopedia!

I go and do an excellent job of editing the entry for my hometown of Ballaghaderreen, Co Roscommon on the internet factswamp that is Wikipedia.

Imagine my disappointment when it gets deleted and I recieve vague threats flung my way for posting "unconstructive comments" by one of it's content guardians.

The suggestion that my comments were unconstructive grates me - they're 'unconstructive' to your furry little ears because not all logic is lego brick shaped and can't be built into little deluded bunkers of purpose inside which you can hide like the censoring piggies you are while the cold cruel wolf of reality wheezes outside, oh yes! run!! run away from the crazy man and his silly sentences.

Kevin Meyers writes unconstructive comments, I write stupid meaningless shite. There is a difference.

I managed to grab a screenshot after I uploaded so enjoy and lament the loss of what could have been something special.
click d'image.

"When Mephistopheles is just beneath And he's reaching up to grab me.."

If you dont find this tune a thing of beauty, you have no soul.