Shamelessly robbed from Metcountymounty’s post on Sheepdogs & Wolves (but also seen several times on other sites… yes, it’s an old one 
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I think Britain most definately fits under the Socialism description here.
COMMUNISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both and gives you some milk.
FASCISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both and sells you some milk.
SOCIALISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes one of them and gives it to your work-shy neighbour.
They laugh in your face.
Continue reading ‘Economic Models and Business Strategies explained with Cows’
Just found Facebook Chat for Pidgin - a plugin for the popular Pidgin (formerly Gaim) multi-network IM client.
It allows you to chat to your friends on Facebook using Pidgin rather than the little chat widget on the Facebook site, and supports showing the profile picture and current status etc too. Very nice stuff.
Just a quick post to mention Jamendo - a site I discovered a couple of days ago offering lots of free music from various independent artists.
So far I’ve downloaded several albums and a handful of EPs, and I’m impressed - some of the music is very nice, very professional, and not only free but also legally so!
Oh, and the download speed is ridiculously good - I’ve been pulling down albums at a solid 2.3MB/s (and yes, I do mean megabyte) - can’t argue with that!
It’s another good way to find new music (another way I particularly like is using last.fm’s recommendations stream, which will stream you a selection of songs that you’re likely to enjoy, based on what it already knows about your musical tastes.
It’s been quite a while since I’ve posted anything, so here’s a quick post blatantly robbing a post from a friend’s blog (original post on Sarah’s blog here)
Dear Walter:
I hope you can help me here. The other day I set off for work leaving my husband in the house watching the TV as usual. I hadn’t gone more than a mile down the road when my engine conked out and the car shuddered to a halt. I walked back home to get my husband’s help. When I got home I couldn’t believe my eyes. He was in the bedroom with a neighbour lady making mad passionate love to her. I am 32, my husband is 34 and we have been married for twelve years. When I confronted him, he broke down and admitted that he’d been having an affair for the past six months.
I told him to stop or I would leave him. He was let go from his job six months ago and he says he has been feeling increasingly depressed and worthless. I love him very much, but ever since I gave him the ultimatum he has become increasingly distant. I don’t feel I can get through to him anymore.
Can you please help?
Sincerely,
Mrs.. Sheila Usk
Dear Sheila:
A car stalling after being driven a short distance can be caused by a variety of faults with the engine. Start by checking that there is no debris in the fuel line. If it is clear, check the jubilee clips holding the vacuum pipes onto the inlet manifold. If none of these approaches solves the problem, it could be that the fuel pump itself is faulty, causing low delivery pressure to the carburettor float chamber.
I hope this helps.
Walter
Been a while since I blogged anything, so just a quick post to say I have a new bike
My poor old GPZ was getting a bit tired, so I’ve now got a nice black 1997 CBR600FV. It’s a lovely ride, and a lot more powerful than the GPZ. Most of the power from its inline 4 engine is further up the rev range though, whereas the GPZ’s 500cc twin seems to cope better at low revs.
At lower revs the CBR is nice and smooth and easy to ride around town, but get the revs up to about 6-7k and it pulls amazingly!
I haven’t got round to taking any decent pictures of it yet, but here’s a couple of it in the garage before I bought it:
As you can see, it has some fairly big chicken strips - I’ve done away with most of them, but there’s still a little to get rid of
It’s been a little while, but I finally got round to updating Wordpress again.
My copy of WP is checked out from Subversion so it’s nice and easy to update - I’m now running 2.5-RC3, and it’s quite slick (although it’s changed quite a bit…)
It all seems to be working well, but please let me know if you see any breakage!
An advert from a flooring company, looks quite innocuous at first glance:
But, look at it upside down, cover the lady’s head and glass, and it takes on a whole different meaning….
It looks like this must have been done on purpose - that or it’s a very happy coincidence.
Shamelessly stolen from Khushil’s post
(Oh, and ignore the typo on the text someone added - “what do do you see” - heh).
OK, finally doing another Friday fun post!
Husband says; “When I’m gone you’ll never find another man like me”.
Wife replied; “What makes you think I’d want another man like you!”
When I was young I used to pray for a bike, then I realized that God doesn’t work that way, so I stole a bike and prayed for forgiveness.
Innkeeper: The room is $15 a night - or it’s $5 if you make your own bed.
Guest: I’ll make my own bed.
Innkeeper: Good. I’ll get you some nails and wood.
“Waiter! This coffee tastes like mud.” “Yes sir, it’s fresh ground.”
Two drunks were walking home along the railway tracks.
The first drunk says, “There’s a hell of a lot of steps here.”
The second drunk says, “I’ll tell you what’s worse, this hand rail is bloody low down”
Continue reading ‘Friday fun post 2008/03/12′
Have to repost this from today’s DailyWTF.
This is suppose to be a real product packaging for some sausages for a supermarket in Ireland, before the supermarket relised the problem and withdrew the product.
Background: Ainsley Harriott is a TV chef in the UK (I think he came over to the US at one point), he’s an alright guy but can be a bit annoying at times, and does get overly excited and irritating on his shows.
(To start with I didn’t read the instructions at the bottom of the packaging - took me a few seconds to get it )
Surprised nobody picked up on it before they went on sale!
OK, these are old, but they still gave me a chuckle.
Contestants from the ITV (UK) Family Fortunes game-show are asked to guess the most popular answers to questions posed in a survey. These are some of the answers given.
I particularly liked:
A bird with a long neck (2): “Naomi Campbell..”
Continue reading ‘Family (mis)-fortunes’
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