These must be Miss Bimbo ‘graduates’.
Seriously one of the vilest things I’ve ever seen.
(and no, it’s not a late April Fools)
02 Wednesday Apr 2008
Posted in culture, life stuff, video, wtf?
These must be Miss Bimbo ‘graduates’.
Seriously one of the vilest things I’ve ever seen.
(and no, it’s not a late April Fools)
28 Thursday Feb 2008
Posted in culture, humour, television

From this BBC News article, here is a list of the top 25 put-downs in TV history, as chosen by the Radio Times magazine.
I think there must be lots of much better ones, though I did especially like Carla’s and Patsy’s . . .
25 Monday Feb 2008
Posted in culture, films, health & happiness, life stuff, rants

. . . that I first saw this film.
A very charming ‘coming of age’ film about three teenaged girls (played by Julia Roberts, Annabeth Gish & Lili Taylor) in the small town of Mystic, Connecticut. And I had vague memories of really loving this film a lot.
Got to watch it again yesterday as it was being shown on tv on Sunday afternoon . . . and I loved it all over again.
But something really niggled. which I know is one of my pet niggles . . . and that is about how women portrayed in films twenty years ago actually got away with having real women’s bodies. I mean, okay, Mystic Pizza was a small indie low-budget film and not a big-time Hollywood film, otherwise this may not have been the case. But man, there was ole Julia (I think it was her first film role) showing a lot of big sexy butt and voluptuous curves, and Annabeth and Lily also looked like … well, like normal women do when wearing trousers. Like, no three inch gap between their thighs. And all scenes showing any of them in a sleeveless top or dress also showed quite attractive and normal looking upper arms, not pencil-thin sticks protruding out of bony shoulders… it was really refreshing to see this for a change.
Well, refreshing and also sad to think of how things are now. Ah well…
An excellent film – does anyone else remember it?
20 Wednesday Feb 2008
Posted in culture, humour, miscellany, silly

Apparently you are grown and responsible gentlemen/women when :

05 Tuesday Feb 2008
Posted in culture, fun stuff, language, miscellany, quizzes

Flickr creator Cal Henderson has come up with the Ikea Game, in which people try to identify what type of furnishings those bizarre sounding Ikea names refer to. According to this Grauniad article there’s a way to win the Ikea game every time, but it involves learning Swedish and a lot of Scandanavian place names.
Ikea product names follow a system: because the company’s founder, Ingvar Kamprad, is dyslexic, he found that naming products with proper names and words made them easier to identify.
Sofas, coffee tables, bookshelves, media storage and doorknobs are named after places in Sweden (Klippan, Malmö); beds, wardrobes and hall furniture after places in Norway; carpets after places in Denmark and dining tables and chairs after places in Finland. Bookcases are mainly occupations (Bonde, peasant farmer; Styrman, helmsman). Bathroom stuff is named after lakes and rivers.
Kitchens are generally grammatical terms, and kitchen utensils are spices, herbs, fish, fruits, berries, or functional words such as Skarpt (it means sharp, and it’s a knife). Chairs and desks are Swedish men’s names (Roger, Joel); materials and curtains are women’s names. Children’s items are mammals, birds and adjectives (Ekorre is a set of children’s toy balls; it means squirrel).
Hmmm… I got 4/10.
Looks like I’m going to have to do some serious catalogue cramming.