Reason – Lots of really important stuff to do.
Real reason – Free time being taken up by playing Zelda and building this that I got for my birthday.
Sorry, will get back to the serious stuff when I have a moment.
Light blogging
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A big thank you!
This one goes out to prove that the combined organisational power of both Amazon and HMV can’t match that of a single blogger.
While both these companies were unable over the period of many months to acquire a copy of Zelda – The Twilight Princess for the Gamecube and with all outlets in my locality completely sold out with no prospect of new stock. The lovely Mr Tyger came up with a copy for me.
So a big thank you to Tyger for making both Mr and Mrs Penguin very happy.
Away
Working on a massive project at the moment which is probably going to take me until Sunday so expect light postage if indeed any until then.
Thought of the day – should we be spending more on teaching geography?
Yesterday I was in an undisclosed town in the Black Country. While walking through the bus station I was asked by a youth aged about 14-16 “which town is this mate?”
Now to ask directions is no problem, “what street is this?” is a valid question but if someone doesn’t know what town they’re in when their standing in the bloody bus station surrounded by signs with the towns name then there’s something wrong.
On a side issue, 100 yards down the road I was stopped by someone who I’m assuming was under the influence of some substance or another and asked:
“Have you ever come here to f*ck somebody?” Fearing I may have been mistaken for a male prostitute I hurried on and ignored the guy calling after me.
There truly are some weird people out there.
I’ve been tagged
Thanks to Bob for tagging me about what I was doing on or around the 20th March from a meme started by Tim Ireland.
It’s not an original or exciting answer but I’d hazard a guess I was doing one of the following three things. Drinking in a pub in West Bromwich, drinking in a pub in Bilston or drinking in a pub in Willenhall.
As Bob’s already picked the obvious local targets to tag I’ll pass it on to:
Black Country Boy
Mike Ion
Tygerland
Little Penguin
although he hadn’t been born then so I guess he won’t have much to say.
Get your name in lights…
Hat tip to Tom Watson for this one. A nice little idea for anyone to get their name up in lights in Brum or indeed anyone else you think deserves it.
The British have absolutely no taste in music
I have a confession. I love Eurovision. I know many love it and many hate it, it’s the musical equivalent of Marmite.
However, with absolute despair I watched the contest to pick our entry this year. In fairness I hardly ever watch it because our propensity for picking absolute shite is renown.
Enter this years lambs, sorry cutting edge pop group who are going to bring back the glory to Britain with a collection of dodgy air steward/hostess costumes and implied references to oral sex and taking it up the arse.
Perhaps it’s a British thing that we don’t take European matters seriously but others do and while we continue to troop out halfwitted banal crap like this then quite frankly we deserve the pitiful amount of votes that we receive year after year.
Anyway, if you want to know what we’re up against go here. The Penguin household’s votes will be going to Finland again this year. Perhaps a few sad sods in Ireland might give us a couple, who knows, but we don’t deserve them.
House to ourselves
Mrs Penguin has gone out for the night. Leaving myself and Little Penguin all alone in the house.
Little Penguin’s cousin who’s 3 years older still listens to fairy tales and lullaby music. We tried this initially but he didn’t seem to take to it. No, the Little Penguin is definitely a rocker, first up Paradise City then on to Paranoid and a back collection of heavy Finnish rock.
The kid has taste.
Anyone up for the Wok world championship 2008?
We watched the annual Wok World Championships on Pro7 what is now last night. It’s now one of those annual events in the house and here’s a bit of the history of it.
It started about 6 years ago, sadly I missed the first few championships but it comes from a bet made by a German TV presenter called Stefan Raab. No one will probably have heard of him on these shores but if you think combine Parkinson with Ant & Dec that’s a good approximation. He’s massive in terms of German TV with a mix of comedy, light interviewing, heavier interviewing and some completely madcap stuff at times.
Anyway, story goes he made a bet with another presenter and if he lost he agreed to go down one of those bobsleigh runs in a wok. He lost and had to do it. Then came the idea that it should be turned into a championship and every year since he’s organised a World Championship event.
However, almost always the teams/individuals are from Germany so I was thinking what it really needs is a Team GB to enter. I’m completely up for it if anyones interested in getting together to check how we might take part. There’s the individual event and the 4 man bob event which I think we’d fare better at. So there you go, if there’s three others out there with enough bottle to throw themselves down a bobsleigh run in a wok then I’m up for it. Those carrying a few extra pounds would be especially welcome as the more weight equals more speed.