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Request For Help

( Misc. )

Someone who appears to be even more calamitous than I was booked to fly from Heathrow to Germany yesterday with British Airways and had his flight cancelled because of fog. What is the correct procedure for getting money, recompense etc. from BA?
More specifically, what are his rights? What can one request after x hours of […]

Teaching Irregular Verbs…

( Misc. )

I: gripe about work.
You: moan about pay and conditions.
He/She: won’t be teaching today, after being blown up by a suicide bomber.
Can you think of more examples? Then TEFL Smiler has just the job for you…..

You Know What They Say About Men With Big Feet?

( Misc. )

They shouldn’t try and buy shoes at the Clark’s Factory Outlet Shop in Elephant & Castle Shopping Centre….
“It’s a bit nasty, but they are Clarks and they’re really, really cheap,” I was told, “and you do need a pair for tonight.”
And it’s true, I do need a pair of shoes for tonight and they are […]

Memetics

( Misc. and Blog Stuff )

I must not pass on memes. Memes are the mind-killer. Memes are the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face the meme… And when I have answered Sasha’s questions about music, I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the meme is gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
Sorry, […]

Friday Five

( Misc. and Blog Stuff and Day 2 Day )

General laziness rules today, so just random crap incredibly interesting links….
1. The Friday Thing, who are wonderful people and send out a highly amusing e-mail every, er, Friday disappointed me somewhat today by referring to this as a “Mind Fuck”. No it isn’t. Adding the individual digits of any two digit number together and then […]

This Can’t Be Criminally Worthwhile, Can It?

( Misc. and Day 2 Day )

Almost every year the Royal Mint produces a different design for the reverse of the pound coin. One of the first things I noticed when I returned this time was that one of the newer designs was for the Forth Rail Bridge, at least I think it was the Forth bridge – it was difficult […]

49 or 42?

( Misc. and Blog Stuff )

Memes. Evil, nasty things, we hates them, but as my brain is in recover from three hours at the dentist mode again, and more importantly shock from seeing the “this is the bill for the work we’ve done so far”, a meme is about as good as it can get today. It’s all her fault […]

Public Service Announcement

( Misc. )

J, over at German Doesn’t Suck (he really needs to work on that name) is already planning this year’s German Expat Blog Meet. If you’re an Expat in Germany, possibly Austria, or maybe even the “German-speaking” (yeah, right) parts of Switzerland. Go over there and tell him why this year we should all try to […]

Got It!

( Misc. )

Bloody photographers and their competitions - and putting it in a set called “London Eye.”

Sunday Six

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1. Yesterday I had the pleasure of speaking to a young American lady of the Democratic persuasion. “It’s a good job you’ve got Tony Blair to look after you,” she said. “Shrub is destroying all our hard-fought for civil liberties. I could only give her the same advice as that of the Edinburgh Devil and […]