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That Mitchell and Webb Look: Explorers

Another one of those jokes whose intense appeal to my sense of humour may not be shared by others :)

Turning Left Again My new personal canon for the end of Season 4 Dr Who. Spoilers, obviously.

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Oxymoron though it may seem to be, an amusing blond joke (via maharetr)

Am currently preparing to take my learners again. Shut up.

Anyway, some of the questions on the practice test are downright amusing. About a third are along the lines of "In the following somewhat dangerous situation should you (a) Speed up (b) drive more carefully or (c) honk your horn?" Hmm let me think...
I must admit I got some of the questions wrong having forgotten who gets right of way, but there's some answers so dumb that I think anyone who chooses them should be permanently banned from driving, and possibly from being a pedestrian (see the post title, for example)

I got put on a lower dosage of antacid and spent yesterday feeling Very Ill, but on the plus side have found somewhere that sells lemon gaviscon (I seem to have developed a reaction to peppermint, which is unfortuntate since it's in 90% of over the counter stomach medication) Also cheered myself up by eating a banana and half a carton of no fat custard. Mmm...alkaline. (Pity I'm also somewhat allergic to dairy. Stupid stomach)

Finally, a big thankyou to everyone who wished me a happy birthday, I'm too lazy to reply to everyone saying "Thanks", but thanks :)

Oh god so utterly buggered. Seven shifts more to go. Somebody kill me now. Wasn't actually unpleasant (children all happy, activities fairly seamless) but soooo tired.

Anyway, given it's going to be quite a while until I'm 100% awake you get a somewhat incoherent post. Sorry.

Just watched the video I taped of stuff on ABC on Saturday Night. First, "the last detective": terrible. Good natured but meandering and dull. Second Jonathan Creek: ok, but I figured out the twist early (pretty much) Amusing seeing Adrian Edmonsen, Julia Swahala and Tamsin Grieg all at once in the same show (in a semi love square with the title character, no less. Afaict)

Last was Rage. Now as it happens on Saturday I watched my Smashing Pumpkins dvd¹ for the first time in years only to discover it was broken, so I ended up watching the few working ones twice, including "Today" (the one with an icecream truck)
Lo and behold, the first video is..."Today". "Oh God", I thought, "Its a smashing pumpkins rertrospective"

But it wasn't. The next video was "Sex and Candy", followed by a bunch of other mid-to-late 90s music I kind of like but don't consider that exciting². I started to wonder who had programmed it, since then there was a few songs I don't know and then a bunch of stuff I really like, such as "milk" by Garbage and "Cookies" by Jackknife Lee.

"What could the connection be?" I asked myself.

Then some bizzare rap about pies. And "Sandwiches". And finally, after an hour of videos, my brain clicked.

Still, at least I geussed the Jonathon Creek twist :)

EDIT: noticed next week is programmed by "Youth Group", sounds interesting.

1. Bought largely because it actually has a decent amount of decent videos on it, unlike most music dvds
2. It was actually amusing to realise (from my memories of the time) that the mixed feelings I had towards pop/rock³ in my early teens as I started listening to it after a lifetime of classic FM was rather similar to how I felt in my early twenties as the infatuation of my late teens wore off.
3. The stuff played on triple J, not Brittany Spears etc