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"...If we don't remember,
the dead will rise again,
to kick our fucking heads in,
for not remembering..."
(ladykiller)
a dying / dead pigeon at a bus stop
I got the bus home from the pub.
While I was waiting, I had to witness a portion of the death throes of a living creature. This creature happened to be a pigeon (as you may have worked out).
I looked at it for a while, watched it twitching. Watched it try to move. Pitiful thing.
What it needed was someone to smash the shit out of it... "goodbye, farewell, good night, you've been a great audience," ...POW.
I couldn't finish it off.... - [read more]
In March this year Microsoft announced that it would drop its entire Encarta encyclopaedia range. CD-ROMs and DVDs were pulled off shelves in June and all associated websites are to be shut down in October.
To be honest I had no idea Encarta still existed in any form. And it doesn't seem like any one else really did either; Wikipedia has a 97% share on online queries to encyclopaedias, with Encarta at just 1.27%. Poor old Encarta. When the Internet started throwing a big knowledge party of its own, Encarta tried to compete with flashing lights and trendy music; ultimately trying to push forward the multimedia advantages of the software. And why shouldn't they? I fucking loved Encarta. Everything about it felt like home. It was cool, sexy, and it had VIDEOS and SOUNDS! There was something comforting about seeing the title screen when you started it up. Like coming home from a long trip; you were welcomed with familiar colours, shapes and sounds that filled you with a warm and fuzzy feeling of comfort. You're safe now, Encarta's here for you.... - [read more]
Re: Boy fed zoo reptiles to crocodile
Right, before I start I want to make it clear this news story shocked me completely. It's terrible. If you haven't bothered to click the link and just want the gist of it, a 7-year-old boy in Australia climbed into the enclosures in a zoo and killed some animals (reptiles in particular... yeah, I don't think they count either). He killed some with a stone ("bludgeoned") and threw ("was seen hurling") some into the crocodile enclosure to be consumed by the 11 foot long crocodile.... - [read more]
Anybody who frequents London during the week will no doubt be familiar with The London Lite and The London Paper - indeed, anybody who has ever been to London on a weekday will no doubt have been inundated with them at one point, such is the vociferousness with which they're thrusted upon you from all angles. Like with any free newspaper in a major city, these papers' sole sustenance comes in the form of on-page advertising - inordinate quantities at that, splashed around the actual "content" (big images and mostly fabricated, slightly libellous stories about celebrities)... - [read more]
The dumbest name change ever.
'Captain Fantastic Faster than Superman Spiderman Batman Wolverine the Hulk and the Flash Combined.' AKA George.
"HAHAHAH OMG, George, you're so MENTAL, god, you're so FUNNY, fuck me right now, please?!! Yeah, put it where ever you want... - [read more]
Bono looking particularly hateful at a Product RED event.
So my little sister turns 17 tomorrow. Have I got her a present? No. Has she told me what she wanted? Yes.
I know it seems I'm already establishing myself as a bit of an arse having not got her anything - and I know the good in you might be thinking "well, maybe she's being unreasonable, and has asked for something ridiculously expensive and/or rare?"
Well, she hasn't. Not in theory, anyway. Not in monetary terms. She's asking for my pride - for me to swallow it, shit it out and then flush it away.... - [read more]
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