Of course it’s a perfectly natural reaction to think that we aren’t influenced by advertising at all – “we’re all too clever to be suckered into that”, “a complete waste of money”.
But such thinking is, of course, complete bollocks.
Although there is little more irritating and mind-numbingly dull as a Procter & Gamble washing powder commercial [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘egypt’
November 3, 2008
Soap Opera
October 9, 2008
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 [...]
October 2, 2008
Nick 1: Kitchen Door 1
Yesterday I described how the kitchen door managed to lock itself and I ended up throwing a chair at it out of temper and frustration.
Today wasn’t such a bad day as yesterday and so I decided to take a more rational and technical approach to the problem.
The problem is though that we couldn’t have really [...]
October 1, 2008
The Wrath of Nick
Today wasn’t a terribly good day. Yesterday wasn’t very good either. And nor was the day before that.
The main cause of this is the fact that I live in Egypt, and things don’t work terribly well here. Things break down and the people here are either lazy or incompetent (or, most often, lazy and incompetent).
It [...]
September 14, 2008
Music and Me (For the Love of House)
Not everyone understands house music
It’s a spiritual thing
A body thing
A soul thing
A soul thing
Eddie Amador – House Music
At the start of 2007, I started ‘the search for the perfect girlfriend’ – an exercise which was undertaken with military precision. Step one was to lose some weight as I had porked up [...]
September 3, 2008
Islamic IT Irony
Well, literally 15 minutes after making that last post (and I do mean literally – there’s nothing that irritates me more than people who use the word literally when they don’t mean literally as in “that curry was literally hotter than the sun”. Of course it wasn’t, you pillock. [Actually there is one thing that [...]
September 3, 2008
A Bad Workman Blaming His Tools
You may have noticed that in my first posting, the formatting was all screwed up at the bottom. This is not my fault. It is my computer’s. Actually that’s not true. It’s Egypt’s fault.
My computer is Latvian by birth. And a difficult birth it had too, and it’s all my fault.
I had a bit of [...]
