Shouting at tramps from the safety of a different continent.

[hirez]

Random band-name that fell into my head yesterday: Twa Toots. Lord knows why. Although they were in the list of names that appeared on the front of the Peel Session EPs.

Some Google later, I had an MP3 of 'Please don't play...' and it was more or less as I remembered it. Go and find out for yourselves.

Over on Making Light, people are citing reddragdiva as the only reason they keep the faith with Wikipedia. And rightly so.

Car-related expense this AM. $Howmuch for some replacement noise-pipe? Still, it goes better now.

Toy frenzy: Orange-badged HTC S710. Shiny! Contact-transfer s/w significantly less shite than either the Nokia or S-E examples! Whiffy! Bizzare bloody UI!

Dawkins: Good chap. Boggle-eyed acolytes who take his writings as scripture and go for a harangue: Not so much. Parallels entertainingly obvious to even this observer. Which reminds me, anyone want to play at double-blind dowser testing?

Comments

[reddragdiva]

They wuh whuh? Link please!

(I predict Wikipedia will continue doing what it does in any case, as usual.)

[hirez.livejournal.com]

http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/009274.html

[redcountess]

mirrorshard pointed that out to me earlier, but I forgot to mention it to the OOH :)

[reddragdiva]

That's cos he added to the thread ;-)

[redcountess]

S's just shown me your addition - cat amongst the pigeons!

[reddragdiva]

Oh, good! Off to ruin my reputation ...

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Uh-huh.

Well, good luck with that.

[reddragdiva]

I'm going to see if sweet reason can get me past that "I'm an author, I don't have to make sense" response.

[reddragdiva]

Hah. One is from BOFHnet, the other is the wife's boyfriend ;-)

[reddragdiva]

Aaaaand he obscures that he was calling people psychopaths. Well done to PNH.

[sushidog.livejournal.com]

Which reminds me, anyone want to play at double-blind dowser testing?

I'm always up for a bit of Playing Science. I shall even wear tweed, if that helps.

Ho Yus

[sarah-mum.livejournal.com]

I think we might have to make it a MumFest side-show.


Of course, they didn't leave it long enough to leave an imprint.

Re: Ho Yus

[sushidog.livejournal.com]

Imprint?

Re: Ho Yus

[hirez.livejournal.com]

I guess it's like homeopathy. Special Water leaves behind an imprint when you dilute it. Or something. I dunno - I really don't want to entertain such jibber-jabber.

Re: Ho Yus

[dedbutdrmng.livejournal.com]

Jibber-jabber?

Why, at this moment a spirit is whispering stuff in my ear about you. It's telling me name...a relative of yours...they have some letters of the alphabet in their name - but not all of them. Does that sound familiar?

Whoever this person is, they had legs...

Re: Ho Yus

[hirez.livejournal.com]

I fear I'm one of the Gloucestershire 47231s. You must be thinking of the Worcestershire branch of the family, the 47231-Smythes.

Re: Ho Yus

[moral-vacuum.livejournal.com]

Sorry, no, all my relatives were gastropods.

Re: Ho Yus

[dedbutdrmng.livejournal.com]

My intended reply was banished by my love of that Icon. That icon scared away Trevor, my Native American spirit guide.

Re: Ho Yus

[sarah-mum.livejournal.com]

It was one of the excuses. They can find water because it leaves a trace, apparently, whereas a bottle placed in a box hasn't been there long enough.

Funny that they did't mention that at the start of the trial though.

Re: Ho Yus

[hirez.livejournal.com]

The tweed-wearing or pointy sticks? Will there be freak pointing and a cat merry-go-round?

Re: Ho Yus

[sarah-mum.livejournal.com]

Given the location (Stanway house Tithe Barn) both tweed and silliness are to be encouraged. Freak pointing will mostly be at the guests, by the guests.
Ferret poi? :0)

Re: Ho Yus

[girfan.livejournal.com]

Ferret poi?

Not with my ferrets!!!!

Re: Ho Yus

[moral-vacuum.livejournal.com]

I presume that the pointy sticks are used for blinding the dowsers?

[moral-vacuum.livejournal.com]

Darling, you in tweed ALWAYS helps.

[sushidog.livejournal.com]

My lovely officemate has new and rather sternly librarian-ish glasses, which she reckons suits me, and she thinks I should get some. I expect they'd go with the tweed quite nicely. And probably the merino stockings too...

[sheepthief.livejournal.com]

Merino? Isn't that a breed of sheep? Are the stockings for sheep or made from them?

[sushidog.livejournal.com]

*heh* From them; it's a type of wool, from which old-fashioned good quality stockings were made. I got a couple of pairs of proper old-fashioned merino-wool stockings a while back, and they just entirely work with tweed.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

So long as it's the right tweed.

Many years ago, a non-riding housemate took it upon herself to turn up at a barbie in a hacking jacket and boots. (I'm not mentioning the legwear because quite frankly she'd not got the bum for it) I was dragged aside by chums who did ride and asked who the devil this woman was and what on earth she thought she was wearing.

[/Full Monty 'That weld'll never hold' moment]

[moral-vacuum.livejournal.com]

As I said on Joza's journal, good tweed well cut is a gorgeous thing. Cheap tweed badly cut looks like an old dishrag. There are times and places for tweed.

Nothing annoys the equestrian fraternity more than "equestrian chic". Most people I knew at the stables wore jodhpurs, rubber riding boots, and either a puffa jacket or a knock-off barbour. Tweed was never worn - at shows it was always a black riding jacket. Tweed is fine for hunting, I suppose, given the thorn-resistant qualities.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Sir is in full possession of correctness in regards to the facts of the matter.

[eljaydaly.livejournal.com]

See? All that piss-drinking stuff pays off!

[sheepthief.livejournal.com]

Bloody exhausts. Coupled with all the minions being replaced by Polish fitters in the space of a year but it's no bloody cheaper. And the bloody thing's blowing (and not just out of the hole at the back).

I tracked down Roaming On Five Dollars a Day by Xex, played by Peel many years ago, and I wish I hadn't - it's utterly dire. Puts me off bothering again.

[jarkman.livejournal.com]

We did a bit of blind dowsing in the garden at Tackley once, with charles@cix. Dowsing for pound coins hidden in the grass, as I recall.

It was interesting. Results seemed a bit better than chance, but only a bit.