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| Thursday, February 28th, 2008 | | 10:33 am |
Please support your local whizzer You'd have to have been ignoring my LJ, or spectacularly drunk for the last seven weeks, not to have noticed that I've been training for a Half Marathon. Well, the training's been done, I've been steadily imbibing large quantities of Mackeson Stout to fortify my body, I have lycra shorts which are too tight in all the wrong areas, and so the time has come. This Sunday at half past ten I will set off to run The Milton Keynes Half. 13.2 miles. I do have a time in mind, but I'm keeping that to myself. To give you some idea last Sunday I ran 8 miles in one hour, so do the math. Whilst you're doing the math, perhaps you would be good enough to donate to one of the four charities below. Every little helps, and I'd rather not get to the end of the run a dripping quivering gibbering wreck for nothing. The fact that I'll be starting the run a dripping quivering gibbering wreck is neither here nor there. Anyway. Please support one of the causes below, even if it's just a couple of quid, to help put some zip in whizzer's legs... 1. If you would like to donate to Help the Hospices, the Hospice movement's national charity, I have set up an easy donate site here... http://www.justgiving.com/whizzerandchips 2. If you would like to donate to Macmillan Cancer Care, one of the leading cancer charities, I have set up an easy donate site here... http://www.justgiving.com/whizzerandchips13. If you would like to donate to Progeria Reasearch, the leading charity for this accelerated ageing condition, you can pay them directly here... http://www.progeriaresearch.org/ways_to_donate.html4. If you would like to donate to Brent Lodge Bird and Wildlife Trust, my local animal welfare charity, you can donate directly here... http://www.brentlodge.org/?link=18If you do donate to either 3 or 4, please do let me know so I can see how much I've raised in total. Alternatively, if you're a silly enough to want to send me money or cheques directly which will probably be forwarded to the charity of your choice so long as the pubs are shut, then e-mail me on tonyselkom at aol dot com and I'll give you my address. This means a lot to me. Thankyou in advance. | | Wednesday, February 20th, 2008 | | 6:55 pm |
Today mrs whizzer and I went ( here... ) | | Thursday, January 31st, 2008 | | 7:56 pm |
There will be a minutes silence for Jeremy Beadle at midday tomorrow, when the big hand reaches the little hand. | | Monday, January 28th, 2008 | | 12:37 pm |
Golden Arches
I think that the introduction by McDonalds of a recognised qualification in Fast Food Chain management is a really good idea.
Discuss. | | Thursday, January 17th, 2008 | | 11:08 am |
| | Monday, January 14th, 2008 | | 8:41 pm |
Please sponsor me Right then. If I'm going to work my balls, not to mention my legs, off, then I'd better do it for a good reason. So. Here's the rub. I'm going to run the Milton Keynes Half Marathon. That's running, not walking, 13.2 miles. I aim to do it in less than two hours. Which charity I run it for is your pitch. Tell me the charity you wish me to represent. Whatever sponsor money I collect will be shared equally between nominated charities. Mrs whizzer has already named Brent Lodge, which is a local animal sanctuary. http://www.brentlodge.orgPlease sponsor me. I'm in training, and my legs, not to mention my balls are aching like hell. | | Tuesday, January 8th, 2008 | | 8:39 pm |
This is pretty much my LJ friends list. It's yours too.
I got friends.
I got friends who are happy, and share their happiness.
I got friends who are sad.
I got friends who have mountains to climb.
I got friends who are scared.
I got friends who the world doesn't understand.
I got friends who need to be heard.
I got friends who need to be seen.
I got friends who are scared of being seen or heard, but that's ok.
I got friends who have body issues.
I got friends who have eating issues.
I got friends who have issues I can't really understand, but they're still friends.
I got friends, who have mostly bad luck, but keep smiling in public.
I got friends, who mostly have good luck, but don't realise.
I got friends that I can talk to about all of the above, and understand that I'm only human.
I got friends. I'm lucky.
I got friends. | | Wednesday, December 12th, 2007 | | 2:07 pm |
Help please
Is there anyone on my friends list working in an advertising agency or within the ad industry that I could have a chat with about something? | | Monday, November 19th, 2007 | | 5:13 pm |
Techie question
I have a DVD which is region 1, which I want to watch on my Macbook. Macbook is running OSX. Is there software I can get that will let me watch the R1 DVD without using one of my 5 allowed Mac switches?
In other words, is there read any region DVD software available to download for the Mac?
Oh. It's 'This Island Earth', so yeah, it is important I watch it... | | Friday, October 12th, 2007 | | 12:01 am |
i did this from my phone. I win at being james bond. Oh, humour me. It took AGES! now if i can find send... | | Thursday, September 27th, 2007 | | 10:42 am |
Following on from my last post Full marks to ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) eastlondongirl. Please look at her latest post for ways to start kicking off against the Burmese authorities. | | Wednesday, September 26th, 2007 | | 6:07 pm |
Look at this post please
Bhuddist monks. Being shot. Being beaten. That's Bhuddist monks. Imagine the Dalai Lama being shot. Or beaten. Same thing.
Human beings saying that a dictatorship regime is wrong, a dictatorship regime which has commited the most terrible human rights crimes.
A country asking for help from the international community.
An international community saying that it will do 'its best', but not really wanting to upset the applecart.
Come on then. Let's upset the applecart. Lets help them out. I don't mean giving to charity, or going on a march. I mean attacking the countries that turn a blind eye, and the companies that invest in such a regime.
Obv not attacking with nuclear missiles. I haven't got any. But can we have a go in writing, in deed and in word. Can we have a go at the people who support this vile corruption by not only boycotting their products, but by TELLING them that we're we boycotting their products, and why.
Find me the countries and companies that benefit from this hell on Earth, and let everyone on my friends list take note and ACT. Now. Do it. Please. x | | Wednesday, August 15th, 2007 | | 2:46 pm |
Secret recipe
Why is it that whenever I hear mention of Elvis' manager, Col. Tom Parker, I get a mental image of the bloke that invented Kentuky Fried Chicken? | | Thursday, August 9th, 2007 | | 1:42 pm |
Tech help
Look. I know I'm a dullard and it's probably really easy, but how on earth do I put a picture behind a cut? I've tried doing what LJ help says and It Doesn't Work. | | Wednesday, August 8th, 2007 | | 1:01 pm |
Randoms
1. If you think about it, Cotton Wool really is a contradiction in terms.
2. Madness' first album is their best by far.
3. How easy is it to make Pappadums?
4. Ever got to the end of a recently discovered authors run of books and been too scared to read the last one?
5. If you shave your head, ride a Bianchi, and wear a replica cycling top based on the one worn by Marco Pantani in 1998, you really shouldn't be surprised when a car comes out of nowhere and attacks your leg.
6. I start every day with a washboard stomach, and end it with a bloaty tum. How do I find out what I'm allergic to? (I'm allergic to the doctor).
7. I bought the first series of Life on Mars, which I hadn't seen. It's very good but there's no way the Austin Allegro was around in 1973. Is there?
8. I won two tickets to see, amongst others, The Chemical Brothers in Trafalgar Square in September by texting a number on the back of a bottle of Becks beer. Who says alcohol is bad.
9. When assessing injuries after an accident, always wait a few days for the hidden ones to surface. I reckon half my body area is purple. And hurting.
10. I must be getting on. I bought Caravan and Motorhome Trader magazine. I was so embarrassed when I went up to the counter to pay I wrapped it up in a p0rn mag. | | Tuesday, August 7th, 2007 | | 3:53 pm |
Someone has just played me this on their phone...
"Hello, and welcome to the mental health hotline...
If you are obsessive-compulsive, press 1 repeatedly.
If you are co-dependent, please ask someone to press 2 for you.
If you have multiple personalities, press 3, 4, 5, and 6.
If you are paranoid, we know who you are and what you want. Stay on the line so we can trace your call.
If you are delusional, press 7 and your call will be transferred to the mother ship.
If you are schizophrenic, listen carefully and a small voice will tell you which number to press.
If you are a manic-depressive, it doesn't matter which number you press, no one will answer.
If you are dyslexic, press 9696969696969696.
If you have a nervous disorder, please fidget with the pound key until a representative comes on the line.
If you have amnesia, press 8 and state your name, address, telephone number, date of birth, social security number, and your mother's maiden name.
If you have post-traumatic stress disorder, s-l-o-w-l-y & c-a-r-e-f-u-l-l-y press 0 0 0.
If you have bi-polar disorder, please leave a message after the beep or before the beep or after the beep. Please wait for the beep.
If you have short-term memory loss, press 9. If you have short-term memory loss, press 9. If you have short-term memory loss, press 9. If you have short-term memory loss, press 9.
If you have low self-esteem, please hang up. All operators are too busy to talk to you." | | 12:13 pm |
Modern Post
What do you think the phrase 'Post Modern' means? | | Friday, July 6th, 2007 | | 10:49 am |
Tour
I'm not going to watch the prologue of the Tour de France in London tomorrow, because there'll be so many people lining the route I probably wouldn't see anything. However, If you live in London and have never stood by the road for a Tour stage before, I thoroughly recommend you give it a go.
I am, nowever, going to stand in the middle of nowhere in Kent on Sunday accompanied by Mrs whizzer, a picnic, and hopefully some sunshine to get free cheap French gifts thrown at me by the Caravan, and then see the Peloton whizz by in 20 seconds.
Tips for Yellow this year? It's pretty open. Is Sastre riding? If not then Vinokourov's my tip for the top. | | Thursday, June 14th, 2007 | | 1:16 pm |
Possibly the greatest comment generating post ever
What's the time? | | Tuesday, June 12th, 2007 | | 12:12 pm |
Randoms in a different styleeeeeee
There was a fair amount of noise being made in the news over the last few days regarding the advice of the General Teaching Council to scrap tests for school kids. I'm not sure about you lot, but I had my fair share of tests as a kid, and in general I enjoyed them. Thing is, how else do you measure progress?
Can you imagine a 400 metre runner training for the Olympics, and not testing his times during the months and years leading up to the main event? How is selection made if you can't segregate the gifted from the average or downright backward?
Obviously having two kids in secondary education I take this sort of thing very seriously, so over the weekend I bought all the newspapers to take in as much comment and information on the subject as possible. I'd just sat down on Sunday morning to read through it all, when whizzer jnr, who's studying for his A levels at the moment, called me into the TV room because he'd found a Simpsons episode we hadn't seen before. It was brilliant, but I was a bit put out by one advert I saw after the show had finished.
It was about a guy in debt to the tune of £25000, and it advertised a company that uses government legislation to wipe out the debt that he 'can't afford'. Well I'm sorry, but if you can't afford it then don't take out the loan in the first place. Why should I have to work my tits off to pay our debts if others can just decide that they want to walk away from it all? No, if he can't pay his debt and he wants the government to help him out, then he should do some sort of community service in return. Or National Service. Yes, anyone who defaults on their loans should be sent to war.
I once worked for a bloke who firmly belived in National Service. He also firmly belived in the power of Pyramids, and claimed to have a razor blade which he kept in a little paper pyramid and he used it every day and it never went blunt, because the pyramid captured some mysterious power that the Egyptians understood but we don't know about. Perhaps that's why they have tea in pyramid shaped bags.
He also maintained that if you kept fruit in a pyramid it never went off. This was back in 1982. I saw him the other day riding around on one of those shoprider electric cars, but I don't think he recognised me. I'd quite like one of those shoprider cars. I could have great fun in Tescos shouting "Is Blue?" at people before bashing into their trolleys in the Toiletries aisle. I was in there the other day looking at the razor blades. My there's a choice. Some now have FIVE blades and are electric. Where's it all going to end? A 100 bladed nuclear powered razor? But really, which is the best razor, and why?
2. That Robert Harris is a good writer eh. |
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