Be Excellent To Each Other

MrsA is off to the states in February for 8 days, returning mid-April

I have a 4:30pm meeting at the Treasury, which I didn't know about until I got in.
I've turned up today in jeans, xmas jumper and vans. Awesome

Austerity measures. March and the start of April have been cancelled.

MrsA is off to the states in February for 8 days, returning mid-April

Would electrical devices bought in the US work in the UK?

Generally not as they run on 120v 60Hz as opposed to 230v 50Hz. Some devices that have a battery and charger that will run on multiple voltages will be OK though (EG a laptop). They will say something like 'Input 110-240VAC 50-60Hz' on the label. Many chargers are like this these days I think.

I assume you mean jumper you got for Xmas, and not Xmas themed jumper.

The past two work trips she has been on have resulted in extended stays.

Chinny's Storytime

Mrs Chinny had a friend (let's call her "Z") whose fiancee (who she lived with) did alot extended work stays abroad. Many per year, all over the world......

Turns out he was actually spending the time with his wife and family 10 miles away who he hadn't actually divorced at all. Indeed he was still playing the organ in the local church every Sunday. Presumably wifey either thought that he was off on trips when with the other woman, or tolerated his "affair". I actually suspect the latter because I had always thought he hadn't cut off his wife like he claimed had said. Very shifty man, could never engage him in conversation at all and would do everything to avoid talking to you.

When Z discovered all this (months after everyone else had evidence this was indeed the case) she refused to believe it and moved 500 miles away still planning to marry the potential bigamist. I suspect he helped her move to get her out of the way.

Generally not as they run on 120v 60Hz as opposed to 230v 50Hz. Some devices that have a battery and charger that will run on multiple voltages will be OK though (EG a laptop). They will say something like 'Input 110-240VAC 50-60Hz' on the label. Many chargers are like this these days I think.

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Crikey, that's brazen!

Is that the girl that came to the Savages meet, Chinny?

This is all rather worrying for me... like I have suppressed memories.

Yeah, he's proper shady. His own passport isn't even in his own name!

Doug Stanhope accidently interviewed as Johnny Rotten

http://www.dougstanhope.com/journal/2012/10/25/an-interview-with-john-lydon.html

Apols if old. Just nicked it from PB.

I have a meeting this afternoon to discuss goals and targets and things like that. SHould be a giggle.

Be a love and copy and paste it would you. I'm not blocked on nearly anything here but Doug Stanhope's site is apparently beyond the pale.

I get a call at 7:45 a.m. a few weeks ago that I only got up for to scream at whoever dare call at that hour.

Missing the call, I check the voice message and it says -

"Hey John it's Mike Ragogna from KRUU & HuffPost - we have a phone interview scheduled if you can please call the studio line - it'll be real easy, just a few questions about the new release and PiL."


I had an interview scheduled with this same guy at noon so he'd obviously put the wrong phone number to the wrong guest - and although I don't know shit about music I did catch the John and the PiL together and realized he was calling for John Lydon aka Johnny Rotten.

So I dialed the number he'd called me from, got voicemail and left a message saying who I was and that he'd called the wrong guest.



Ten minutes later I'm woken up again to the phone ringing and now I fucking furious.

"Hey John it's Mike Ragogna from KRUU & HuffPost - we have a phone interview scheduled if you can please call the studio line..."



This time I said fuck it, wrote down the studio number, put on the best British accent I could muster (which is absolutely fucking awful) and called in to do the interview as best as I could, being still half asleep and not knowing shit about who I am pretending to be.

We assumed that there was no way it would ever air... certainly someone would realize or fact check - I mean, I left him a voicemail message on his cell phone that he was calling the wrong number.

But they put it up today and at this moment still have no idea. I bet they pull it all down shortly after this goes up but we now have the recording and screen shots as back-up.

Find the KRUU.com audio version HERE (starts around 12:30) and the transcript of the interview on Huffington Post HERE.

UPDATE: Sometime this morning on 10/26/12 KRUU.com and the Huffington Post took down the interview. You can still find our backup below.

Sadly they edited out the fun parts where I would pause to fake-vomit mouthfuls of water into the toilet our loudly take a piss with the phone just over the bowl but they left in the "Howard Stern" and "Baba-Booey." How could they have ever guess they'd been duped?

Also, HERE is an interview I did as myself on same phone number later. Guy still clueless.

In case the original interview and audio disappear, evidence is embedded below.

A glowing report, by all accounts.

Anyway, i'm getting it sent back and i'll go do the ebay route.

I'll give you £100 for it.

A Chinese Dad has come up with a unique way of persuading his game-addicted son to turn engage with the real world: hiring gaming pros to destroy his morale by hunting him down online.

The frustrated father had apparently seen his 23-year-old offspring become obsessed with online games to the point that he had no interest in trying to find a job, according to Chinese media reports picked up by Livedoor and RocketNews24.

The pallid youth, who had become rather adept at his chosen profession of sitting at home playing war games, then discovered something strange was happening every time he logged on – he’d be taken out immediately by another player

Tempting, but I'm expecting £150ish from ebay.

Yeah, I'd imagine you'd get around that the third time you listed it due to people not giving you any money. Of course, the first person could just claim you never sent it and get their money back or [INSERT ASSORTED EBAY HORROR STORIES HERE]

You should sell used cars for a living

have you tried these lot:
http://www.money4machines.co.uk/

sounded dodgy to me but my wife insisted they were fine and she got 140 for her iphone4 where the home button was thrashed when she upgraded just before xmas...they even added on about another ten pounds as she included the original box.

Worked about 1 in 10 times with a really firm push. Otherwise, cosmetically the phone looked immaculate though.