» Best Films Ever

Delicatessen
Just a great French black comedy, worth a look.

Also Pan's Labyrinth.
(Thu 17th Jul 2008, 20:32, More)

» Kids

Little Twoheads discovers Newton's Third Law
For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.

I have just learned to ride a bike unaided, while visiting a friends ( I am about 6) I show off my new found skills on their bike, which is bigger and has brakes that work.

I am cycling along towards a kerb, having picked up a fair bit of speed, pull on the brakes (which on my crappy bike would have brought me to a gentle stop) the bike stops, I don't, I sail gracefully over the handlebars, and land on the pavement on my chin.
(Fri 18th Apr 2008, 20:48, More)

» Hotel Splendido

Water shortage
Leading up to this episode, had been a massive bust up between my MIL and her other daughter (i.e not my wife), so we were already stressed.

Get to hotel,(booked through Laterooms), this is meant to be for my wife's birthday.

The room is at the top of the hotel, but is ok, not too small, bed is comfortable.
The bathroom, however, is another matter, the shower is over the bath, under a sloping ceiling. Therefore, it is impossible to stand upright underneath the shower,(unless you are 4ft tall).

Wife goes for shower, no hot water, inform the manager, who says he knows, but we can use the bridal suite, which, although booked, is unoccupied till after midnight. Go to room, wife bangs her shin on the massive wooden bed, goes into bathroom, I go back to our room, and make do with a cold shower, that is until Mrs twoheads comes back - no hot water, I'm wet so get dressed with out drying and go back to other room, get warm water out of shower, and go back to our room.

We eventually get out at 10:30.

Breakfast was nice, and we had £40 knocked of the bill, which was cheap to start with.
Met the newlyweds in the foyer, but resisted telling them how nice their room was, and thanks for the use of their bathroom.

Apologies for length etc
(Fri 18th Jan 2008, 19:47, More)

» Your Weirdest Teacher

my old teachers
My physics teacher, Mr Mcharry, pretended to be very strict, performed fantastic heath-robinsonesque experiments, that took up the entire classroom.
Attempted to demonstrate perpetual motion by using a cylinder vacuum cleaner with a 15 foot hose on each end, one had a funnel in.
The idea was to pour table tennis balls into the funnel, fire them out of the other hose and back into the funnel (some poor "volunteer" got to hold the firing end of the hose). Of course the balls went everywhere except into the funnel.
He also used dry ice for experiments, he got this by wrapping the nozzle of a Co2 fire extinguisher in a towel and letting it off.
He then picked the frozen Co2 up with his fingers. If it wasn't for him I would never have passed physics.

An alcoholic but extremely gifted art teacher.

After going co-ed, they needed a female PE teacher, who was young and very fit, used to walk very slowly past the boys and always wore very tight fitting tracksuits.

There are plenty more examples from that school but listing them all would take far too long.
(Fri 11th Nov 2005, 19:35, More)

» Drugs

I've got several
Someone had the bright idea of boiling up mushrooms with coffee - result - an almost irrestible urge to get up out of the seat I was in and start walking, if I had done - god knows where I would have ended up - I was holding on to the seat in a deathgrip so that I wouldn't get up until it started to wear off.

Speed - I used to work in a rave club - but spent the day getting pissed with my mate before work and needed the billy to get through the evening in an attempt to appear sober/competent - funnily enough most of the staff were on drugs - probably more than the punters.

LSD - never again!
(Thu 16th Sep 2010, 16:31, More)