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August 12, 2002

The truckz nutz

So you got yourself a car with alloy wheels, a phaaat (count the ‘a’s) stereo, a full on bodykit - the whole shebang. You’ve run out of things to do to your car, it looks awesome. Yet you still crave for more modifications. Well, the answer is at hand - bollocks for your car. Made from genuine plastic, these bollocks are guaranteed to swing low from your motor.

Crude? Cheesy? Are these the new furry dice?

(via MeFi)

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August 11, 2002

This Charming Man

Tuesday, September 17th 2002. Morrissey live at the Royal Albert Hall.

The tickets are booked. Oh yes.

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August 4, 2002

Now you can buy a full PC that sits inside the case of a retro console - how cool? Choose from an Atari 2600, an Amiga 1000, or a Nintendo NES. All systems come with either Windows XP or Linux and a licensed emulator of the original computer.

Mine’s the Atari. Ta.

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August 2, 2002

This ain’t no party - this is a shindig!

Birthday parties all tend to follow the same forumula:

1. Hire a church hall
2. Hire a crap mobile dj
3 Get all your relatives and friends into said hall
4. Ply said relatives and friends with copious amounts of intoxicating spirits until
5. They start dancing in a comedy fashion
6. Eat lots of cake
7. Wake up with a minging hangover in the morning

This is all well and good, but do birthdays have to follow this exact plan? My research says no.

Last Saturday, I blagged an invite to Mat’s friend Rob’s 21st birthday shindig. I went along to the party expecting the usual mix of cheap alcopops and crap music played by an even crapper dj, but I was in for a surprise. You see, gentle reader, this party was not a party, but a swing-yer-partner, do-ci-do shindig. Rob had planned it carefully - numbers of blokes and birds were almost equal, a country dancing band was hired, and most importantly there were barrels of Ringwood Brewery ale.

I was a little dubious about dancing to begin with, possibly related to the fact I hadn’t drunk quite enough real ale by that point. However, the inevitable did happen and I did dance. But it must be made clear that, at least to begin with, I wasn’t dancing by choice - I got volunteered. But once I got going I enjoyed it. (Possibly this was to do with the amusing way everyone seemed to be trying to make each other fall over or the fact I got to dance with lots of random girls? Hmm.) And I wasn’t even too bad at it either - I can do-ci-do and all this other stuff with the best of them.

Would I have normally gone to something like this? No. Would I do it again? YES!

If someone has another barn dance stylee party I’ll be there like a shot.

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