my new local

Oh you sexy swiss design students, you've done it again. This is gorgeous and I want one.

pride

My bag arrived yesterday and I picked it up from the post office this morning.

I was a little apprehensive about it before I opened it - what if it had turned out badly because of my silly design decisions? I was really impressed. 100% unadulterated WYSIWYG shopping. I'm actually quite proud of my achievement.

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pride?

I was flicking through the channels a minute ago and stopped on Eurosport where they're showing an "explosive, dynamic and creative" fighting competition called pride.

It's way too brutal for me really, but one thing I did notice is a rather unlikely sponsor. At the end of the round, while I was recovering from my 2 minute grimace, I noticed that the skimpy ring ladies were sporting capcom tops. Well, perhaps bras is more accurate, but regardless - a video game developer / publisher sponsoring a violent fighting championship. Stranger things have happened I suppose.

ironic

I listened to Alanis Morissette the other day and moaned about the ironic lack of irony in ironic. With the gripe came a finding which I shall pass on.

"I love that bit of musical parody. I'd love to see them do like a musical parody of ironic by Alanis Morrisette, they could do a really wacky version with some irony in it.That would be an odd notion wouldn't it?

Cause that song really gets to me for that very reason cause she wrote a song about irony and filled them with things that were supposed to be ironic and none of them were. they were all just unfortunate. I always think that song should of been called 'Unfortunate'. The only ironic thing about that song is that it's called ironic and it's written by someone who doesn't know what irony is. Fairly ironic when you think about it.

I'm going to coin a new word which is 'alanic', that's things that aren't ironic but you might think they were if you were a dozy canadian bint

I'm not being harsh, if you actually listen to the lyrics to the song. "Like a traffic jam when your already late"- that's not ironic it's just a pain in the hole that's what that is. When was the last time you were late for something, got stuck in a traffic jam and said "Look on the irony on this , there's irony for ya. I'll tell ya I was in a fierce ironic traffic jam the other day iIll tell ya. The irony was ninety."

No, there's nothing ironic about being stuck in a traffic jam when your late for something. Unless your a town planner. If you were a town planner and you were on your way to a seminar of town planners at which you were giving a talk on how you solved the problem of traffic congestion in your area, couldn't get to it because you were stuck in a traffic jam, that'd be well ironic, I'm sorry I'm late you'll never guess.

"It's like rain on your wedding day", only if marrying a weatherman and he set the date. I could go on and I will.

A no-smoking sign on your ciggerette break, that's inconsiderate office management. A no-smoking sign in a cigerette factory- irony. It's not a difficult concept Alanis. It's very rare you see a ironic no-smoking sign although if you ever see one of those that say thank-you for not smoking and you are. Fairly ironic

The best line in that song has got to be the line "It's like 10 000 spoons when all you need is a knife." That's not ironic that's just bloody stupid. How big is your sink alanis? We haven't got 10 000 spoons beween us have we? What do you need this knife for? To stab the bloke who keeps leaving spoons all over your house. But we'll give her the benefit of the doubt. Imagine you needed a knife for something, couldn't find one cause all you find was 10 000 spoons, could happen. And therefore you couldn't do whatever it was you needed the knife for then the next day it turned out that a spoon would have done.

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axe vs chainsaw

The other week I was having a debate about who would win in a fight between a fireman's axe wielding maniac and a lumberjack's chainsaw wielding lunatic.

I still think the axeman would do surprisingly well, but the other party was firm in the (pretty believable) belief that the chainsaw would only take one hit to rip apart a limb.

While this V8 monster is perhaps a little cumbersome to win, it would certainly tear you apart pretty quickly if it hit...

that's killer dawg

It's a golden oldie, but too many people haven't seen this rather amazing clip of dog vs criminal. Pretty mean stuff.

racist schmacist

Sony recently created some controversial billboard ads in Holland. As anyone would expect, it didn't take long before people were screaming racist.




To quote kotaku:

[I] find it absurd that Americans seem to have lost any point of reference in what racism actually is. I simply can not believe that to some people a photograph of two absolutely beautiful women posing as avatars for different PSP models is now equivalent to flaming upside down crosses.

Aside from the fact that I believe it's unfair to just point to the Yanks, I fully agree.

To put it simply - me too.

homemade

I just designed my own over-priced bag.




I had actually previsouly decided that I didn't have the required artistic tatent to design my own, but I gave it a go anyway. Regardless of my lack of hippy flair, I think it turned out fairly well.

The thing about the preview that I do like is the idea that I can come back to this url in a few years time and see the tarp that my bag was made of. Well I think it's cool at least.