» Stupid Colleagues

Mispronounced.
This annoys me anyway, but I once had a boss who was in her 50s and without any irony or sense of error uttered these words about her grandson: "Our Leo has to go to HOSPICKAL cos he won't take his BOKKLE".

My face imploded.
(Thu 3rd Mar 2011, 15:42, More)

» The Best / Worst thing I've ever eaten

The Munchy Box
My band used to head up to Scotland a lot, now the Scottish amongst you will be familiar with all this, but for the average brit, its a whole new greasy world to take part in.

Among the highlights are the famous battered mars bars which you can get all over now (tastes like a chocolate crepe), the battered haggis (incredible actually) and a friend of ours was once visibly beaten by half a deep-fried pizza (no batter, just dipped in and infused with grease).

The one thing we've never tackled, although obviously I've had the components separately, is The Munchy Box, apparently becoming more commonplace, it weighs the same as a rather hefty baby and comes in a pizza box. It seems to include every fast food item bar a full curry under the sun in one, sopping, greasy square.

This blog post sums it up the best, I'd vouch this counts for both the best and the worst food you can eat: blog.23x.net/5/what-is-a-munchy-box.html
(Sat 28th May 2011, 17:37, More)

» Winning

Won several things over the years.
My first was a 'name the gnome' competition in a music shop in Lincoln, there was a gnome in the window and I named him 'Herbert' which won, the shop rang us up one Saturday morning and explained the prize was a case of wine, they gave that to my Dad and I got to pick a prize from the shop, unfortunately they didn't want to give me a proper instrument, so I ended up with a triangle and a kazoo, still got the triangle somewhere.

I won 2 tickets to the newly-opened Sega World at the Trocedero in about 1995/6 and spent the day beating my Dad at various games, was pretty good but pretty empty, all the arcade machines were on free play so it was amazing, got to play some beat-em-ups like Rival Schools before they'd been released here.

I used to win stuff on a regular basis from a Saturday night show on Radio Lincolnshire, I don't think they had many listeners so I used to just call up for any competition they had and ended up with all sorts of stuff, best prizes were tickets to see Therapy? in Leicester, tickets to see Coldplay/Les Rhythm Digitals and Shack, and what they called the 'singles pack' which was all the promos they'd been sent that week, which was about 30-40 CDs/posters/flyers etc, some crap in there but still got some rare Bush single from that in a 3CD case. Best one ever though was a band I'd never heard of but I ended up a fan of as a result of the prize of their latest album, a shirt and a signed poster, Man Or Astroman? for anyone who knows them, computer-themed surf rock, insane. Once my mates got wind of me winning so much, they joined in and we got free stuff for years until we started going out at the weekend like normal teenagers.
(Sun 1st May 2011, 23:30, More)

» Worst Band Ever

Metallica.
I'm a fan of alot of heavier stuff, got into metal through Black Sabbath and the like, but never, ever got why these chumps were so revered. Terrible lyrics, horrible vocals, just cheese.

Oh and Lars Ulrich.

People may now kill me.
(Wed 5th Jan 2011, 13:33, More)