Donkeys: Ninjas of the Animal Kingdom

I reckon I’m going to get me a pet donkey. 
For one thing it’d be a really useful thing to have when you’ve just arrived back from the supermarket and have more carrier bags in the trunk of your car than you’re able to take inside with you in one go.
But mainly it’s because they are the [...]

Formula One ‘Interesting’ Shocker

I hadn’t watched any of the Grand Prix races this year at all before, for two main reasons:
1.  My bay-bee tends to hog the TV and it would bore the pants off her.
2.  It bores the pants off me as well watching the cars go round and round without hardly anyone overtaking anyone else.
But I [...]

ForEx is the New Porn?

While wilfing away a day or two ago, I saw a link to a feature called ‘Football - the New Porn?’  I didn’t click on it as my wilfing took me elsewhere, and I’m not a big fan of football (soccer to you Americans), but the headline stuck in my head for some reason. 
It was from some [...]

On Being Bald and Hirsute

Hair only made a very brief appearance on the top of my head between the years of around 1967 to 1983.  It was late in arriving and early in departing.
By the tender age of 19, it was already well on the wane.  A tragedy – at the time of life when most guys are experimenting with [...]

Why I’m Monolingual

Having lived in non-English speaking countries for the past 15 years, one would assume that I would be fluent in at least one foreign language by now.
One would be wrong.
Because, to the annoyance of girlfriends and other friends alike, I remain stubbornly monolingual.
This, they assume, is because I am lazy and stupid.  This is not [...]

Fucking With A Scam Artist – Attempt 2.1

Well it’s been over 24 hours now since I responded to the scam artist saying that I was interested in receiving more information and I still haven’t received a response yet.
What kind of customer service is this?  I demand that someone tries to separate me and my money immediately.
Someone should tell these people that, on [...]

Fucking With A Scam Artist – Attempt 2

Checking my stats, (which is something I do several times per day), I see that my most popular (OK, let’s put this into persepective – least unpopular) posting was My New Friend – The Nigerian Scam Artist, in which I started chatting with a scammer over Skype after I told him that I knew what [...]

Politics And Me

Anyone glancing at the WordPress Tagcloud will see immediately that, by far the most popular subject for blogging about is politics. 
As I have managed to chalk up 42 postings without getting anywhere near to the subject, it’s probably about time to tell you why.
In a nutshell, it’s because I have practically no interest in politics [...]

My Stupidest Mistake Ever

In yesterday’s posting, I described how I am addicted to Diet Coke/Coke Light/Coke Zero and I am maybe a borderline alcoholic according to some bullshit online quizzes.  But all of this pales into insignificance compared to my main addiction.
Which is nicotine.
I have done a lot of really stupid things in my life, but the most stupid [...]

Am I An Alcoholic?

I have a drink problem, I admit.  It’s not with alcohol though, it’s with Diet Coke/Coke Light (although now I am more into Coke Zero because Diet Coke/Coke Light was always marketed as a girl’s drink whereas Coke Zero is positioned as a cool, manly kinda drink).
Compare and contrast:

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