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Floundering in a Sea of Dunces and Incompetency

Mar 13, 2010 4:16am

Check this out: On Wednesday I went down to Rotherham Job Centre to sign on as usual on every other Wednesday. This time it was slightly different however. This time I had something to say when they asked 'have your circumstances changed at all?' Yes, I replied, yes they have....

Vorwärts!!

Mar 8, 2010 8:25am

I don't want to bore you more to tears than you already are by these posts. I don't really have much to tell you about this past weekend, unless you want a blow by blow description of the Square Bashing game Ninjasaurus Rex and I had on Sunday, which I...

Kimberworth Chainsaw Massacre

Mar 4, 2010 2:41am

Over on his Dreamland Chronicles blog, Logan Josh was writing about nutters he has met through work, now far from making this a mutual cock sucking session I suggest you read it. As it happens I have also been working for the past week in the company of nutters....

Fore!

Feb 28, 2010 3:09am

I forgot to mention in my last post about Stainforth that we took luncheon at the local cafe. Well, we actually took morning break in the cafe; McCoy and Jackson were too scared by the old battle-axe serving us to go back for Tiffin. They said she was speaking in...

Don't fence me in...

Feb 24, 2010 4:52am

I had a day's work yesterday, it was through His Royal Highness Viscount McCoy. Together with his lordship I was working alongside Rear Admiral 'Action' Jackson. We were working in Stainforth, the arsehole of Doncaster which in itself is the arsehole of South Yorkshire. It's like the shit has...

The Man Who Came In From The Cold

Feb 20, 2010 9:40am

Now I'm back on track, I can tell you what I've been up to this week. The second biggest thing occurred on Wednesday, when I took Sheffield University Archaeology Society up onto a bleak moorland. I arrived ahead of the students and watched as Colin disgorged them from...

Planes, Tanks, Ships and Automobiles pt2

Feb 18, 2010 6:39am

This is the second part of my weekend adventures 'darn sarf', get up to speed here in Part One.After sleeping for half of the night on one arm to keep it warm, then waking to discover that the cold had temporarily frozen solid the other arm and having to turn...

Planes, Tanks, Ships and Automobiles pt1

Feb 16, 2010 2:26pm

As it was Valentine's weekend I thought I would ruin someone else's, so I chose Justin and Lucy*. The lucky pair got me for the weekend as I wanted to go to Bovington Tank museum and their house was kind of on the way, near Brighton. Frida was also selected...

The Aquariums of Pyongyang

Feb 11, 2010 5:46am

I will return to Rotherham at another point, the previous five posts began, in my mind at least, as a illustrated trip to the job centre. It quickly spiralled out of control as theses things do and ended up being five post long. There is more to cover in Rotherham,...

And who would live in a place like this? Pt5

Feb 9, 2010 6:58am

Gosh, here we are at Part Five of this tour around Rotherham, you can catch up with everyone else here: Part One, Part Two, Part Three and Part Four. What began, in my mind, as a description of a journey to the Job Centre has spiralled out of control into...

And who would live in a place like this? Pt4

Feb 6, 2010 5:17am

We have explored thoroughly the shopping opportunities with this great town of Rotherham, see Part One HERE, Part Two HERE and Part Three HERE for more details. But we are still left wanting, waiting for the locale to offer up her diamonds. Therefore we must turn elsewhere for our pleasure....

And who would live in a place like this? Pt3

Feb 3, 2010 2:56am

Welcome traveller! Welcome to the third part of the virtual tour around Rotherham and its environs. You can still hop aboard the open top omnibus for the tour that has gone on before in Part One HERE and Part Two HERE. On our trip around town we have already seen...

And who would live in a place like this? Pt2

Jan 31, 2010 5:20am

Before I begin this part there is a few plugs that I would like to throw out there for your entertainment: Logan Josh has begun a blog HERE which makes this one pale into insignificance. Hilde Maus finally updated HERE. And the Evil Herr Docktor Clay has produced his own...

And who would live in a place like this? Pt1

Jan 28, 2010 5:01am

Rotherham, the jewel of the North, the Xanadu of South Yorkshire. Did Kubla Khan ever rest his eyes on a beauty so rich as this great industrial town? I think not, for his were not the riches of Canklow, Herringthorpe or the sprawling beast of Eastwood. But this town, my...

I Don't Want To Set The World On Fire

Jan 26, 2010 9:44am

With nothing better to do on Sunday night I went to see the film The Road. I asked Ninjasaurus Rex if he and his wife would like to accompany me, but their response was something along the lines of 'fuck off you loser, we've got REAL friends coming over for...

The Phantom Shitpipe

Jan 24, 2010 7:31am

Danny was accusing me the other day of writing boring Blogs. In his description they were all about 'trenches' and not much else. Well since I've been out of work since November, I haven't mentioned trenches since at least then, have I? Anyway Danny claimed that he scans the entries...

Abattoir

Jan 20, 2010 3:49am

I have been a bit late with new blogs of late as I stupidly kicked water over my computer and it now refuses to work. The little cunt. As I decide what to do with it I have limited assess to computers so I will try my best to keep...

Double Your Money!

Jan 13, 2010 3:55am

I went to sign on again on Wednesday. The Job Centre hasn't changed much since before Christ's Mess it's still full of the stinking scum of human effluence. This time, however, like me, they were all demanding to know where 'their fucking giro was'. I haven't been paid since before...

We. We. We. We. We. We Are Floating In Space

Jan 11, 2010 7:32am

I was asked by Ninjasaurus Rex for dinner on Friday night and for a game of his Starship Combat game Captain Ferk III (it was under the guise of 'playtesting' but I know full well he's only doing it to make me play SciFi games...). As he knows a thing...

Into the Lungs of Hell

Jan 8, 2010 3:37am

This is how the country would look if Nick Griffin's BNP gets in power:What with the country still in the ICY GRIP OF WINTERY DEATH, I haven't been able to go very far from the house, the news has been telling people to make journeys only if they are essential....

It's Snow Joke

Jan 6, 2010 4:08am

A little bit of snow has fallen in the North of England and as usual when this kind of inclement weather patterning occurs chaos has broken out. There has been rioting on the streets with cars being over turned and set on fire. Anti-snow protests in Wetherby have resulted in...

Shit bag

Jan 4, 2010 1:35pm

Simon Jenkins is a SHIT BAG...

It's Not All Walking

Jan 2, 2010 5:37am

New Year's Day is now well and truly over, as is 2009, we'll never see it's like again. Thank fuck. I spent my New Year's Eve in the company of Dave, Linzi, Jon, Joolia, Richard and Wendy and we proceeded to get as drunk as ants, whilst shouting about various...

Ante Christ

Dec 28, 2009 4:31am

So, Christ's Mess 2009 is well and truly over for another year. Actually it's the last time Christ's Mess 2009 will ever happen so that statement is bullshit really. Anyhoo, it has been a pretty quiet one this year, I got me some good stuff, some books about some olden...

Fuck you I won't listen to what you tell me

Dec 21, 2009 5:46am

Last night I was going to write about my reactions to Rage Against the Machine's Christ's Mess win in the number one UK charts slot, but in the cold light of morning I can't be bothered as it has been covered so much elsewhere, it's just enough to say: IN...