Monday 19 February 2007

Shat Nav

With a trip to the People's Republic of Darn Sarf looming, I thought it best to find out how to get there. Obviously, I'll be needing a special visa and a smart tagging device so that the Darn Sarf special branch will be able to keep tabs on me and make sure that I don't abscond to join the millions of other illegal immigrants there, but I'll also need to get there and so I've just been on the RAC website to use their usually very good and very reliable routeplanner.

Bearing in mind that my journey will involve the M56, M6, M6 Toll (oh yes), M42, M40 and M25 motorways, I was a bit confused when it came out with this:

Routeplanner

Does this mean that recent roadworks on the A556 (near Manchester) have actually been the installation of some sort of worm hole that enables travel across the space/time continuum? How good is that? Hope using it doesn't mess my hair up.

I bet the services en route are just as rubbish as those on the normal motorways. With brown-coloured tiling in the toilets. And a 50% uplift on the cost of items in the shops.


Can you smell smoke?
Every now and again I experience a strange phenomenon whereby I can sense cigarette smoke as if somebody is smoking on the street outside my office window. It is very bizarre, but quite worrying? I wonder if it's the smoker in me, luring me out of my abstinence, trying to tempt me back into my old habits.

Fucking annoying, that's what it is.

Perhaps I'm just mental.


Enter the dragon
Yeah right.

I made both myself and Trump endure an hour's waiting in the freezing cold for the so-called Chinese New Year parade in Manchester's China Town yesterday. As we waited, we had to do battle against annoying children who insisted on bumping into us and squashing us against the road-side barriers. But barriers! It must've been some parade they'd organised!

One dragon. This was it:

Dragon

We got one fucking dragon and something that gave up and turned back before it even reached where we were standing. Where were the buff young men in hotpants and rollerskates? Where was the high-energy disco accompanying all the floats? What about those delish girls in uniform? I guess it's a cultural difference, but my idea of a parade involves a little more than a bunch local school kids waving the Chinese equivalent of a pantomime horse while a bunch of blokes bang drums. They weren't even Chinese!


Wii are most amused
I've been playing with a Wii. I ache like a bastard. Playing the baseball game in Wii Sports, you have the strange feeling that you're up against a number of celebs:

George Michael
Oprah Winfrey
Gillian Anderson
Jeremy Spake

I'm trying to find images of them on the internet, but there are none. I'll see if Trump can get some screenshots posted at hers.

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Define "freezing cold" please?

Anonymous said...

"Freezing cold" is so cold that even your nipples refuse to come out to play. Either that or they fly off and embed themselves in the back of a midget's skull.

You'll be coming past where I work and not too far from where I live too.

Oh, and I posted a little something for you ;o)

Anonymous said...

Freezing cold for Sniffer is when you go in the fridge to get the milk out.

Re trip down south, why don't we get a sat nav?

Anonymous said...

Freezing cold is whatever it takes for your toes and fingers to go numb and hurt. For me, it's about 8°C.

Don't talk to me about nipples and cold. When I had my breast lump removed, it was SO painful when my nipples went erect in the cold (they didn't get erect for any other reasons back then).

Shall we get a sat nav? No. We could get a bluetooth GPS and some Tom Tom software for my Palm, but nothing else. Or you could simply read the AA routeplanner and keep in contact with your sister to provide directions - you know, something akin to Treasure Hunt only in a Nissan.

Anonymous said...

It's a good thing your visit to Canada didn't take place during winter...you'd be a Sniffy Popsicle.

Anonymous said...

Frigid nipples are nothing to jest about.

It's been quite nippy round these parts recently - there's a layer of permafrost on the ground that's about 3 inches thick. I can walk over it and not break the crust. Pretty impressive, actually, but still fucking cold.

Can't wait for spring.

Anonymous said...

Not to mention the ONE Chinese guy in that photo. I bet he's only half Chinese too.

Anonymous said...

I'm dying for a Wii.

Sat nav is for losers. I keep a RAC man in the boot. Beats piped music any day.