tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-01:162179almostwittyalmostwittyalmostwitty2025-10-04T11:35:19Ztag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-01:162179:597847Let's see if adding an image works this time!2025-10-04T11:35:19Z2025-10-04T11:35:19Zpublic0I'm not saying that the forces of destiny are conspiring against my innovative microwave cheese floppies but look at what I've just been given...<br /><br /><br /><img src="https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:duxtcawksfnslurlo5qo2xw5/bafkreiffsoqlqls3g2mdqzauwxrmznapnalyvzrl5lask6kgw7g7mrygqy@jpeg" alt="A raclette-making thingy" /><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=almostwitty&ditemid=597847" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-01:162179:297925Random London conversations2010-03-01T12:34:58Z2010-03-01T12:34:58Zpublic0<p>On the last Sunday night tube home, HyperHam manages to do the impossible and persuade a random stranger to talk to us by the simple expedient of pointing at a film poster on the tube platform opposite. </p>
<p>Through the conversation – which principally centres around the difference between horror films from the East versus torture porn from Hollywood, and how Eastern films have absolutely zero problem jumping from genre to genre in the blink of an eye – we also discover that:<br />
- he and his girlfriend got so coked-up last night that she stormed out when he berated her for being unable to open a fridge door<br />
- she’s attempted to make amends the day after by serving him ribs<br />
- wearing a scruffy striped shirt and long coat is enough to make me look like a “City boy”. Which I wouldn’t mind so much if I hadn’t spent the last 20 minutes mildly discussing film, and I patently do not have the style or money to carry off the City boy look.</p>
<p>Honestly, if you want to provoke conversations with a stranger, carry an American around.</p>
<p style="text-align: right"><small>Mirrored from <a href="http://www.almostwitty.com/adayinthelife/random-london-conversations" title="Read Original Post">almost witty</a>.</small></p><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=almostwitty&ditemid=297925" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-01:162179:287657The trouble with being everywhere on the Internet…2009-12-14T12:31:00Z2009-12-14T12:31:00Zpublic0<p>Miss H recently did a <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=Oliva+Dolce&sourceid=ie7&rls=com.microsoft:en-US&ie=utf8&oe=utf8">Google search</a> for a local pizzeria near where I live and she works. My picture pops up – because I once <a href="http://www.qype.co.uk/review/894705">wrote a favourable review</a> of it.</p>
<p>Better yet, if you then do the <a href="http://images.google.com/images?q=Oliva%20Dolce&sourceid=ie7&rls=com.microsoft:en-US&oe=utf8&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi">same search but concentrating on images</a>, there’s a Google Ad inviting you to travel with 1200 lesbians. Sounds like my average dating night out to me.</p>
<p style="text-align: right"><small>Mirrored from <a href="http://www.almostwitty.com/funny/the-trouble-with-being-everywhere-on-the-internet" title="Read Original Post">almost witty</a>.</small></p><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=almostwitty&ditemid=287657" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments