» Best Graffiti Ever

Only in Bath...
Would you find written on some blue wooden construction boards:

"Please make this really pretty"

In yellow, flowery, curly script. I can picture the local chavs grouping together to drink tea instead of cider. Other than that though Bath is devoid of any interesting graffiti.
(Fri 4th May 2007, 11:11, More)

» Foot in Mouth Syndrome

It happens a lot to me...
But the event I remember most recently took place in my mate's room in uni halls. I wandered over there as I usually do when I'm bored or just want a chat, anyhow, on this day there was a bloke in there with her just talking. Now I don't know most of her mates, so I just assumed this was a normal student, so joined the conversation and everything seemed fine.

Then it progressed onto music, now our Uni had recently blocked Kazza, so many people were floundering around for new downloading programs. But not me having moved off Kazaa before even moving to uni. So when this guy asks me how/where I get my music I smugly tell him the programs I use and how it's be very difficult for the uni to block them, and the theory as to why it's difficult.

He then says: "It doesn't sound too hard, I could probably do it given a couple of hours"

Me: "Why on earth would you want to do that?"

My other friend (whose room it was, and who had been sitting there quietly looking more uncomfortable the longer I talked) piped up saying that this mate of hers worked at the uni computer help desk and was part of the crew running the university internet. One of the same crew who had blocked Kazaa.

Luckily he didn't say or do anything about it. (sorry about the length)
(Thu 22nd Apr 2004, 13:54, More)

» Pure Ignorance

One of my housemates
does the same course as me, does better in exams than me. Yet he manages to come up with the most terrifying questions about everyday life.

One of the most recent and scary ones was when I announced that I was going to put my wages (cash in hand jobs are brilliant) into the bank. He asked

"Do banks actually accept money?"

He had no idea that you could put cash into the bank. I didn't know whether to laugh or cry. It wouldn't be so bad if only these questions didn't happen so often.
(Fri 7th Jan 2005, 16:15, More)

» Premonitions

Either premonition or I know my mates too well
Sitting and drinking at the late night pub on campus, with some mates I turned and said to my mate sitting next to me, "That girl is going to get up and go to the toliet, my mate there is going to steal her seat. When she comes back, he won't move so my Richard there will offer his chair, which she'll refuse, and she'll sit on her boyfriend instead" This was completely unplanned and just a thought that had popped into my head.

The look on my friend's face as the events unfolded exactly as I predicted - Priceless.

His response; the generic "Dude, how did you know?"
"I didn't"
(Thu 25th Nov 2004, 0:01, More)

» You're a moviestar baby

Not a huge amount
I live right by one of the tunnel entrance/exits on the Bluebell Railway ( a touristy steam train line for those who don't know). We've had a few things happen, when ITV did their remaking of the Railway children they shot a few scenes on that tunnel entrance less than 50 meters from our house.

The BBC have been there before, can't remeber what for, but I remeber they were using our toliets as their portable one was broken. And when there was that Worst Jobs in Britain program with Tony Robinson, they did a shoot a couple of hundred meters down the track from us for the victorian railway builders job. You can see the top of our house over the ridge there.

At the quarry I worked in over the summer there was once a Benny Hill sketch filmed. It was a James Bond spoof using one of our large circular stone-cutting saw and moving table thingies. It hasn't been used in years, but it still sits there.

That's all my claims to stardom. Bit shit really.
(Fri 12th Nov 2004, 11:52, More)