Posted on December 6, 2008 by steveshark
We’re having Oscar the kitten neutered next Monday and a chance Google brought this gem up from here.
‘Castration is the removal of the testicles. The operation is a one off procedure and is not reversible.’
ONE off?
TWO, surely?
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Posted on December 6, 2008 by steveshark
I’m very easily amused, so when I want a chuckle I read the Daily Mail online.
This morning I was confronted with not one, not two, but THREE frontpage headlines about the social networking site Facebook.
The first one concerned a party for a rather naive 15 year old girl. The event was gatecrashed by 400 people, [...]
Filed under: Annoyances, Current affairs, Media, Technology | Tagged: Daily Mail, Daily Mail readers with all the sense of a cat turd (which is 99.9999999999% of them), facebook, gatecrashers, koobface, party, righteous indignation, virus | Leave a Comment »
Posted on December 6, 2008 by steveshark
Only three weeks to go before we spend New Year here!
We thought we’d see what a week in France was like in winter – if we’re possibly going to relocate there then we need to experience winter!
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Posted on December 6, 2008 by steveshark
Since starting this blog I’ve become aware that I’ve changed a lot over the past few months and that things which would once have been mild annoyances now provoke a stronger reaction in me.
So, I guess that I need to examine this for my own benefit and possibly to explain to anyone reading this blog [...]
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Posted on December 6, 2008 by steveshark
I’ve never been a gambler; the reason being that I’m not prepared to risk losing my stake. Along with a free lunch there’s no such thing as a dead cert.
Gambling takes many forms – from a £5 punt on ‘Cat Meat Boy’ in the 3.30 at Kempston to your life savings buying shares in MFI. [...]
Filed under: Annoyances, Current affairs, Media | Tagged: Child Trust, greed, horse race, investments, risk, shares | Leave a Comment »