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Graffiti Creative Expression or Vandalism

There is always a debate over Graffiti: Is it a way of Creative Expression or Vandalism. With the arrival of great artist like Ban Sky graffiti is gaining popularity as an art rather than a form of vandalism. A new art is always criticized in its development stage. Same is the case with graffiti also.

Graffiti is a new member to the family of fine Arts. It is a creative art in which involves More

An Awkward Event

I have just done the unthinkable: deleted a friend on Facebook. But before you get out your daggers, allow me to elaborate on why I have gone to this extreme, rather than just blocking them or refusing to answer their emails.

I was fed up. Fed up with emailing and getting nothing back. Fed up with emailing and getting a one sentence email back after I had sent a whole page one (and then checking me email and getting yet More

Freaking Out With Fasteners

As you’re probably well aware by now, I’m one of those people who likes to meet new people and make new friends whenever possible, which doesn’t make me too different from everyone else who cares what people think (after all, that’s the only reason you add people on Facebook, is it not?). Only thing is, recently, while purchasing some fasteners for our HR department I was forced to listen to an existential debate about why us humans are so desperate More

Friendly Advice

As you might already be aware, I work in HR. But that doesn’t stop me from being a dreamer, no! When I enter the competition that comes with it I dream of winning a speed boat and holiday in Barbados…and when I speak to friends of mine I realize that I could actually make it if I put the time and effort in. It doesn’t matter what I make it as, as long as More

Why Lorraine, Why?

Here’s a good call I think you’ll find: what is wrong with Lorraine Kelly of presenting morning television and always open cleavage fame? Why does her skin refuse to age like everyone elses? Why are her boobs so stubborn that not even gravity can make them sag like the boobs of lesser mortal women? Is it something in the water in Scotland? Is she drinking a potent mixture of Kryptonite and Irn Bru, perhaps? And if so is that same More

I need to get fit

From all this wondering around, drinking beer and eating bad food I woke up one day with a floppy belly. Unfortunately it appears that my metabolism is not what it used to be. I remember the days when I could eat whatever I wanted without gaining a single pound. Not any more I guess. So either I keep my current lifestyle and start exercising or I have to stop drinking. Well the choice is obvious. I need to exercise. I More

Best Pub Signs

How you know FOR SURE when you’ve found a decent pub or bar. There are tell-tale signs, and here are just a few which should mean you don’t make any terrible mistakes that get you emotionally attached to a pub / bar that is not worthy of you and your friends'fine company (and it can happen after a hard day of developing hr payroll software, believe me, I have a friend who is living proof of that…)

1) It will have people in it. You know – or should – that if a pub or bar is empty then there is a reason. Either a gigantic comet has landed behind the pub and all the locals are staring into it marvelling at the alien life form embedded in the rock, or it’s a rubbish pub. So unless said pub is in the desert and suspiciously near to Area 51 you need to think very carefully before buying a drink.

2) It will have decent seats and décor. If the doors are falling off and the only thing who has teeth is the dog then you should run, fast, preferably taking the poor mutt with you if you have any kind of a heart.

3) It will have a working roof. Obvious, but you never can be too careful.

4) It will have a cool name and a good sign. If it is called The Hair and Octopus then I suggest buying ten pints immediately. If it is called The Dying Fox or Hilary’s Gran’s Pub then please, you should already know what I’m about to say next…

5) And finally, if lasagne is spelt lANsnagnea on the menu – which is also made of the human skin of past punters because the landlord is that unsuccessful at pulling pints – then you had either better really like lANsnagnea or get the hell out RIGHT NOW.

Looking Bigtime Foolish

Marvelling at the incredible array of odd looking stainless steel bolts in my local hardware store, I was given insight into something that I am normally miles away from. I said Insight, not Good Insight. It was, in fact, a Horrendous Insight that I would prefer to never think about again after writing this text here. Horrendous because after asking for some highly specialist ¼ Inch “piledriver” stainless bolts (that I had been told over the phone I could not live without if I was to fix my expensive lawnmower) I was the victim of hardware store mockery, plain and simple, and vicious in its intent. After five minutes of waiting for the bloke to return to the desk with my bolts (after watching him mock me, and hearing the words “wally"and “typical townie!”) he asked me where I had got the name “piledriver” from? I said “you, when I called you,” and wanted to say “idiot” but didn’t. I was not going to mess this up and end up in a rival hardware store leaving myself open to this ridiculous situation a second time. Oh dear…

He said, “well they’re called ’plierdriver bolts’, mate, not ’piledriver’.”

I said, “awesome, thanks then,” so have you got any idea where I can get some.

He said, “Google it, mate” and then walked off and started discussing me – I could tell because they were all doing impressions of the wrestling manoeuvre the “piledriver” – behind the little plastic window at the rear of the desk room bit.

I hate bolts, I honestly do. From now on (until they develop intelligent stainless steel bolt software capable of mocking customers digitally) I am doing it all online, rather than look so foolish again!

Ideas For You

When your used laptop finally gives up and stops working, here are a few things you can do with it which might surprise you. I should say that I take no responsibility for any of these suggestions…so think very carefully before you go and do any of them.
1) There’s no need to get rid of it just yet. Many pawn shops will take old hammered laptop computers (and sell them on for ridiculous prices, but still, hopefully you won’t More

Best summer in how long – Comment

A blog on the World Cup and Enigin is actually rather suited as the South African World Cup had a carbon footprint six times larger than that of the German World Cup four years ago.

With Enigin’s energy saving schemes, the South African World Cup could have benefited from a few carbon cutting measures here and then.

Due to the amount of stadiums that the country had to build, a lot of construction was carbon-intensive, with a ton of carbon More