Damn some bus drivers can be rude. Some are nice, but the rude ones really stand out. For instance, at one of my bus stops, the bus stop is at the lights. Sometimes some of the rude bus drivers, close their doors, and move up and wait at the red light, some poor geezer would see the bus, run up to it and tap on the door to get in. Which is reasonable because the bus stop is at the lights, and the light is red. Its not even an main street interjuction, just some back alley light. Some of the rude bus drivers would just look at the poor people tapping and just shake their head. Heck, I’ve even had it done to me. It so frustrating looking at the bus you want to get on and they won’t let you. You gotta run to the next bus stop and hope he gets stuck at the lights. They must laugh when they pick you up at the next stop and your huffing and puffing. You could of just let me on back at the first bus stop, you didn’t have to be a cunt.
Well I’ve always thought, how could you get back at someone like that who holds the power? Then I thought, what if when he didn’t let you on, you just stood infront of the bus till he did? Surely he can’t just drive over you. I wanted to try it on the next bus driver that did it to me.
Little did I know I would get my chance, but at a different bus stop for different reasons. I had to go somewhere after work which was 25mins walk away for a little errand into the city. It was bloody freezing, so I thought I’d use public transport to get their quicker. To get there by tube needed a changing of line, and there was a bus just out front that took me there so I thought I’d wait for that instead. Buses come every 5-10 mins right?
Wrong
I waited what felt like 20mins for the bus. Several other busses passed, multiple times, but they weren’t the one I needed. Did I mention it was COLD. So finally I see my bus, and I try to wave it down. Imagine my frustration as he blindy doesn’t stop and continues on. I was furious. Lucky (or unlucky for him) he was stuck at the lights just 20meters down. So I ran down there and tapped on his window to let me on? He shook his head and said no? What the hell? Ok he wants to play games, so I go stand in front of the bus. He trys tapping the accelrator to move forward and scare me, but I hold me ground. We wait for a while, the lights change full cycle. I go up to his window, trying to stay infront so he can’t drive forward, and ask him again to let me on as I was waiting at the bus stop and he didn’t stop. He tries to tell me I wasn’t at the bus stop. Bit more arguing ensues, so I go back, Arthur Dent style, in front of the bus. I attempt another negotiation, but he starts flicking switches on the top of his panel and on the roof. It looked like he was signalling for the police or something, maybe they got a quick switch for trouble against a bus driver. So I figure, stuff it, he won’t let me on. I start walking away, he flashes his lights at me. I turn around and walk back and he opens the door and lets me on.
He tells me to stand there next to the window as he drives off. We have a discussion, I assure him I was waiting at the bus stop for 20mins, in the cold, waving at him when he passed. He said I wasn’t there and that, am I telling him he isn’t doing his job because his job is to see people at the bus stop and stop for them. He also told me that my life wasn’t worth risking for a bus ride, there is always another one 5 mins behind. So I counter with that I’ve been waiting for 20mins, that its bloody freezing, and I reiterated that I was at the bus stop, waving at him. Eventually he apoligised and said I could go sit down, I apoligised also as it was the right thing to do. Funny, noone on the bus said anything or even cared, or moved a muscle during this whole thing. Typical stone face Londoners on public transport.
Woo, yesterday was my birthday. Another year and I feel so old, even tho others would consider me young. Age is in the eye of the beholder I say. My dad is over 80 and my mum is just over 5o. I even got a little brother who is 15. Not bad for the old man
How did I celebrate my birthday? Well for starters I came into work nice and late (like thats unusual, but bday is a good excuse). I had to dress up for the day because we were going to an expensive restaurant near work. I caught a bit of flak at work, people were asking me when the job interview was.
After work, went to this nice, expensive restauarant called Gordon Ramsey’s at Claridge’s. It’s one of Gordon Ramsey’s signature restaurants. He has apparently won 3 Michelin stars. The only chef in London to do so. Michelin stars are probably the most famous and influential gastronomic ratings in the world.
The food was exquisite, even though it was small. They had some nice free bread, and a free apertif dessert that had some red jelly in the middle of this shot glass. It was delicous. We ordered 2 courses, a main and a desert each. For my main, I ordered the cornish lamb. It was soft and tender and juicy, with some nice crunchy bits. Of course I just ate the meat and left the spinach and olive and who knows what other things on the plate. Nat had some sort of potatoe risotto. I’m not to knowledgable on what it is, but she reckons it was delicous. For desert I ordered the creme brulee and Nat got a chocolate fondant. My desert came out with some anise icecream, which I reckons tastes like anisead and I abhorred. Nat’s desert came with milk icecream, and because she likes anise, we swapped. Perfect.
I was full by the end and couldn’t finish the last bit of my creme brulee. Weak I know, but I filled on bread and drink and I was merry. The total of the bill came to £187, so we rounded up to £200. Kind of expensive for just a two person, two course meal, but I don’t plan on eating there everynight. Once was enough for me. We didn’t get to see or hear the infamous Gordon Ramsey, or the guy who won Hell’s Kitchen in the US and came to work for him over here. The head chef that nite was Mark something. We couldn’t even see the kitchen. Though I read on their website you can get a table thats in the actual kitchen itself. That would be cool.
For my birthday present I got a new Remington electric razor. It’s something I wanted for a long time. No more buying razor blades. I gave it a whirl this morning. Though I missed a bit so I still need a bit of practice. We reckon it looks and is the male version of a vibrator.
Well I finally joined the world of ipods and mp3 players. But instead of following the masses and purchasing an ipod (or any of its brethren), I decided to purchase a hardly known mp3 player. Well not really for me, but for the missus. I hope she’ll let me play with it.
Now you might be asking why I just didn’t get an ipod. Well ipod’s are expensive for what they are, and there are better alternatives if you look for it. These are the features that the PMP 1000 has:
20-30 gig Harddrive
USB Host support - No synching software needed, just plug in the USB and it shows up as a new drive, with easy drag and drop.
3.5 inch LCD Touchscreen
MP3/WMA/OGG/AC3/AAC Audio codec support
DivX/Xvid/MPEG Video codec support
FM Radio
Talking dictionary
Record from mic or other device
Photo album display
Calculator
That’s right, not only does it support the best and most popular audio formats, it also plays the best and most popular VIDEO formats too. The touchscreen is a good size to watch tv shows or movies on, but it also comes with tv out cables so you can watch them on your friends tv when you go to his house. On the rare occasion you’ve run out of music to listen to, it also has a FM radio built in.
The size is just a bit bigger then an p910 mobile phone, and it’s also nice and light. It’s not too small that the screen is useless, but it’s not too big that it won’t fit in a pocket/jacket/purse. It came with a nice leather case, and also a remote control for the lazy.
As you can see this beats the pants off the ipod. The ipod might have iTunes, but there is a better alternative to that, that has no DRM. Its called All Of MP3. Songs by the MB, and apparently totally legal.
You can get the PMP-1000 or any other fine mp3 player from the good folks at mp3players.co.uk. When I ordered mine on a Monday lunch time, it was waiting for me when I got into work Tuesday morning. Pretty quick if you ask me.
For all who don’t know what what a tinyurl service is, let me quickly explain it. The problem is that some websites have ultralong mega urls. For example here is multimap link to the city of London, UK:
I didn’t write the code for this (I could, but why reinvent the wheel) . No it’s nanourl, and it written by msblabs.org and released under the BSD license.
Now I give permission for my tinyurl service to be used by anyone for personal, or development use only. Only I am allowed to use it for commerical gain. *EvilGrin*. I also reserve to remove or change the service in anyway at anytime.
Thats the legal bit out of the way, basically, if your nice with the service, and don’t abuse it, it stays up for all. Otherwise it closes up for my access only.
Its a no lose bet. If you pick a winner you get £10 x the odds you chose, if you don’t win you get your £10 back! You can’t complain about that.
So what score to choose? The odds I see at the moment:
Correct Score
Man Utd 1-0
8.00
Chelsea 3-0
23.00
Man Utd 2-0
15.00
Chelsea 3-1
19.00
Man Utd 2-1
12.00
Chelsea 3-2
26.00
Man Utd 3-0
41.00
Chelsea 4-0
67.00
Man Utd 3-1
26.00
Chelsea 4-1
41.00
Man Utd 3-2
29.00
Chelsea 4-2
51.00
Man Utd 4-0
101.00
Chelsea 5-0
151.00
Man Utd 4-1
67.00
Chelsea 5-1
126.00
Man Utd 4-2
81.00
Chelsea 6-0
151.00
Man Utd 5-0
151.00
Draw 0-0
8.50
Chelsea 1-0
6.50
Draw 1-1
6.50
Chelsea 2-0
11.00
Draw 2-2
15.00
Chelsea 2-1
9.50
Draw 3-3
51.00
Ok, me being Australian, I don’t much about Soccer. Yes, Yes I keep getting told its called football cause its the only one where you play the ball with your foot most of the time. But I like to use the term Soccer because its unambiguous. I know I’ll get hell from my European mates but oh well.
Well I asked around the office and my secret tipster as given me this slice of info:
Tough one. Well, ManU are playing like a bunch of cabbages lately, but it’s at Old Trafford and Mourinho is concerned with Chelsea’s defence conceding goals lately, which probably means he’ll play defensively with Drogba as a single striker so I’m not sure Chelsea will be adventurous enough to score 3 goals unless ManU totally roll over and play dead!
If both teams approach it cautiously I reckon a 0-0 draw. If they attack each other, and especially if ManU go 1-0 up, forcing Mourinho to change formation then yes, all hell will break loose and 3-1 Chelsea is tempting at those odds!
Someone else suggested 3-1 Chelsea also, so I have now placed a correct score bet on Chelsea 3-1.
I make no qualms. I will advertise using this site, and I will dribble. Hopefully me talking about advertising is content in itself. Neet huh? I coin the term meta-advertising, the act of talking about advertising while advertising. I’m sure I’m not the first. Infact selling books on how to advertise is in itself meta-advertising and it seems to best way to make money is to try and tell others how to make money.
For instance, I created a page on this blog to pimp sony psp’s from Amazon. Bound to be a hit for xmas, already sold out at most places. People will need to preorder it if they want one for xmas. They sold like hotcakes back in October, lets hope they do as well this time.
I also have ads for Nintendo:
Nintendo DS - £89.99
Dual Screen Nintendo Game System
Get one for Xmas before too late www.woolworths.co.uk
and of course, the XBox 360:
XBox 360 - UK
XBox 360 + Perfect Dark Zero Game
Preorder for 2nd Dec - £277.97 www.woolworths.co.uk
Feel free to click my links and buy something
Now I got a few ad’s out, time to get back into this gambling project I’m working on.
