Stu's Rusty Bucket

Tuesday, September 30, 2003

Dinner

Dinner tonight consisted of;

3 jaffa cakes (small tiny biscuits with a dollop of marmalade on top)
about 10 pringles chips (cheese & onion flavour)
3 bits caramel filled organic chocolate

Monday, September 29, 2003

Twisted

Sunday, September 28, 2003

aaargh

i hate my flatmates. its 6:30pm, and suddenly they decide to clean the entire place. so the kitchen is now upside dow and inside out, shit is everywhere. stuff in the passage. all over the floor, pots everywhere, the rubbish bin has been knocked over. for fucks sake.

instead of sleeping in till 2pm, maybe they should have got up earlier like everyone else!! aaargh.

i want to cook dinner dammit.

pair of inconsiderate bastards.

aaargh. cant even take a leak coz he is picking enough of his girlfriends hair out of the plughole to make a wig…

hungry.angry.need2pee.

Saturday, September 27, 2003

London Cycle Show 2003

Went to the LCS today. Didnt take any pics, didnt want to post bike pr0n in my journal hehe

seems everyone is going carbon fibre… I dont like carbon fibre… and especially on downhill bikes.. hellooooo rear CF stays?? youve got to be joking!!

saw the brand new Yeti frame, assembled right there that morning. only one in the country!! sweet. very light full susser from yeti…

only saw 2 singlespeeds!!!!

Hung around the hope stand, saw the new _SIX POT_ downhill brake… ouch! 6 pots! thats some sheer stopping power… The hope guy said they are working on a brake that is compat with the new shimano brak/shifter pod all-in-one units… hmmm

Hopes are all balck with gold pots.. dont like em.. gimme back the old silver CNCd units...!

saw some awesome new bikes.. mmmmm chromed, titaniumed, new specialized ones, new gary fichers…

just missed Josie Dew giving her talk! ouch! it would have been really cool to make her presentation…

one down side they had ‘dancers’ with hoe like hair extensions bouncing around on stage in bike lycra showing off the ‘new season’ gear.. eeeeeeee… it was awfull stuff. models in goretex rain gear dancing… its just not right… shame to treat high price goretex in such a manner…

the london cycle police and cycle paramedics were there with a stand, boy have they upgraded! top of the line fox vanilla forks, disc brakes, cannondale frames.. heh.

the singletrack stand was crap tho.. pretty staid affair…

damn… it was a good cycle show…

Steve Irwin gets his own train!!

http://www.paulturtle.com/NR75/

not much to say.. Go Steve!! hahahha
the ghan no less even! too cool..

Thursday, September 25, 2003

Peter Kay Truisms

1)Triangular sandwiches taste better than square ones.

2)At the end of every party there is always a girl crying.

3)One of the most awkward things that can happen in a pub is when your pint-to-toilet cycle gets synchronised with a complete stranger.

4)You’ve never quite sure whether it’s ok to eat green crisps.

5)Everyone who grew up in the 80’s has entered the digit 55378008 into a calculator.

6)Reading when you’re drunk is horrible.

7)Sharpening a pencil with a knife makes you feel really manly.

8)You’re never quite sure whether it’s against the law or not to have a fire in your back garden.

10)Nobody ever dares make cup-a-soup in a bowl.

11)You never know where to look when eating a banana.

12)Its impossible to describe the smell of a wet cat.

13)Prodding a fire with a stick makes you feel manly.

14)Rummaging in an overgrown garden will always turn up a bouncy ball.

15)You always feel a bit scared when stroking horses.

16)Everyone always remembers the day a dog ran into your school.

17)The most embarrassing thing you can do as schoolchild is to call your teacher mum or dad.

18)The smaller the monkey the more it looks like it would kill you at the first given opportunity.

19)Some days you see lots of people on crutches.

20)Every bloke has at some stage while taking a pee flushed half way through and then raced against the flush.

21)Old women with mobile phones look wrong !

22)Its impossible to look cool whilst picking up a Frisbee.

23)Driving through a tunnel makes you feel excited.

24)You never ever run out of salt.

25)Old ladies can eat more than you think.

26)You can’t respect a man who carries a dog.

27)There’s no panic like the panic you momentarily feel when you’ve got your hand or head stuck in something.

28)No one knows the origins of their metal coat hangers.

29)Despite constant warning, you have never met anybody who has had their arm broken by a swan.

30)The most painful household incident is wearing socks and stepping on an upturned plug.

31)People who don’t drive slam car doors too hard

32)You’ve turned into your dad the day you put aside a thin piece of wood specifically to stir paint with.

33)Everyone had an uncle who tried to steal their nose.

34)Bricks are horrible to carry.

35)In every plate of chips there is a bad chip

laptop

I rang fujitsu-siemens today about my laptop. apparently i toasted the motherboard and they have ordered a replacement part.. dunno how much longer i will be without it, and stuck with this little work laptop…

Chill Winston

Wore my beanie to work this morning. Its winter. Its Official. A very cold chill this morning and the evening now carries that cold dampness that settles on your coats at night. Even with the sun out. Frost each morning out in the paddock.

Monday, September 22, 2003

Going round the twist…

my views on things are very well defined. hmm ok i mean they are very set in stone and even when I’m wrong I’m never wrong and I never change my opinion on something. What is, is. And if the Stu things something, is, then it is.

My mother used to say I’m an argumentative bastard, since I argue for the sake of arguing, and as I said above, I’m _NEVER_ wrong. EVER.. oh, and if I am, you will NEVER get an admission out of me (pertaining to the argument). Coz i’m NEVER wrong.

Its all about WINNING the argument. If their faith in the argument waivers, youve won. if they pause, youve won, if they back down, youve won, if you convince them, you get bonus points!

So I have very definite opinions on most things, political, theological (is there a difference?), scientific, pointless, whatever. I got em. I got loads, and on any given topic.

I’ve since come to learn *cough* that these are at odds with most peoples way of thinking and been told my way of thinking is not a good way of thinking and is quite.. dangerous.. hmmm…

in this day and age, you gotta be politically correct and cant even have an opinion without being in some nightmare 1984-esque vision…

i’m going to bed.

Quiz Night

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coz I look for a man with
- handsome good looks
- excellent taste
- confidence

hmmm

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Hold me back!! That chrome hairdryer does it for me! ooooooooooohhh

Ive never seen the show (hey, I dont own a TV)…

Sunday, September 21, 2003

Deathpixies guide to Vegetarian Ratatouille

The secret to a good vegetarian ratatouille is this:

Salt the eggplant for about fifteen minutes each side to soften it, and remember to wash the salt off.

Chop everything roughly - onion, garlic, fresh chilli, zucchini, capsicum, mushroom (if you like it and you have some), eggplant.

Brown the onion, garlic and chilli in olive oil, add basil (fresh preferably, dried if out of season) and black pepper.

Toss in the everything else, a splash of red wine and a can of tomatoes.

Simmer until vegetables soften and everything gets stew-y. Add tomato paste to thicken if required.

Serve on white rice, with a dollop of plain yoghurt on top. Watch in front of bad Sunday-night TV.

Proportions - one small eggplant, one large zucchini, one medium onion, half a capsicum will make enough for several one-person serves.

Saturday, September 20, 2003

David Blaine

I went down to Tower Bridge this morning to see David Blaine in his perspex box… I was hoping for a little resentment, a little anarchism, you know, someone throwing eggs. I wanted to see the security guys wrestling a middle aged fat german tourist to the ground, etc…

Well it was pretty staid. Some barricades up so you couldnt get directly under him, and a crowd of people going “Hey David!”. About every 10 minutes youd get a psuedo wave from the guy…

I took a couple of pics, and then wandered down to listen to a carribean steel drum band playing some Bob Marley, which was cool.

Just tried to upload my pics and my card-reader smoked my memory stick! aaaaaargh!!! Oh well… :(

Thursday, September 18, 2003

Nair!

OK I got LOADS of comments at work. All very odd I rekon. But anyway, going in beardless got quite a few remarks. Kinda funny..

But I really dont like it. This is what, i could count on 1 hand the number of times Ive been clean shaven in the last 10+ years… I dont like it… its strange and feels funny and I dont like it! eeeeee cant wait till it grows back.....

Lost

“We think you have kidney stones, but hey, we lost your ultrasound scans...”
(That was back in what Feb?)

Today I ring up the docs, (coz here in England it takes 3 weeks to get blood test results back).. So I waited 4 weeks. “Four weeks ago? thats a long time.. um… they are not here, can you ring back tomorow, sometimes we get a late mail delivery. Try calling this time tomorow”

Stupid bastards. This time they couldnt admint they were lost, no, they just have not ‘arrived’ yet…

Wednesday, September 17, 2003

Shaved

Stu shaved…

I cant stop touching my face. hahahah.. i keep touching my lips and chin… its been SOOO long since I was totally clean shaven.. hahah it feels funny dammit. I’m sooo not used to it… goatee will grow back inside of a few days and it will STAY!! eugh.

Even drinking tea is a task now. I keep trying to get the dregs of tea of the tips of my goatee which isnt there.. What an automatic response! I keep lipsmaking my top lip for tea splash… hahahahahha..

stu is quite amused by the whole thing…

Will try and get a better pic tomorow… -->>

The Fonz.. Eeehhhhh	Son of Henry Rollins