Island of Lesbos *titter*

Is it the 1st of April again? Is my calendar wrong?

Are the locals on the island of Lesbos really upset?

Breaking News: Residents of Phuket also unhappy…

Bag o’ Crap

The other week, Paul ordered a Bag of Crap from Big Pockets. It’s a genius marketing idea, and I just had to get my own piece of this crapola action.

So what was in my Bag o’ Crap?

Blogalism TV was there to catch all the grand opening action…

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“This is a free national awareness message…”

So has anyone else been getting weird creepy calls from an anonymous telephone number lately? I’ve now had it to both my home phone and mobile. Grrr!

An automated voice starts off with something along the lines of:
“This is a free national awareness message…”, then goes on to say something about debts.

I registered both numbers with the TPS ages ago, so there must be something dodgy going on..?

Only at weekends…

It’s been an ultra busy week at work.

This morning, a letter lands on my desk from Yellow Pages offering a free business listing.

To avoid adding yet more to the mountain of untouched papers already sitting on my desk, I give them a call straight away.

Firstly, I ask what the catch is. The fella on the other end of the phone tells me there isn’t one. So we talk shop for a while and I tell him about what we do. He asks me a few questions, I answer them. Simple.

Finally, he asks my name. “Chris”, I said, “…and I’ll spell my surname for you…” proceeding then to spell out my last name using the phonetic alphabet.

“Ok, thank you very much, now, is that Miss or Mrs?” he asks.

Not happy.

Vantage Point

Bang. Bang. Kaaabooom!!

Oh my. It seems like the president of the United States has only gone and got himself bloomin’ shot. How on earth did that happen? I think we need to find out, err 8 times…

Vantage Point starts off quite well. We’re quickly treated to the smell of tension, a lick of action and the taste of the dramatic aftermath.

Unfortunately, that’s as good as it gets because the films main selling point - telling the story from multiple perspectives, is also its downfall.  After going through (basically) the same thing over and over in an unfunny Groundhog Day style,  it just gets annoying. The final 30 minutes pick up the pace again, but by then it’s too late and you’re frankly just relieved you don’t have to sit through another ‘rewind’.

<rewind…>

Bang. Bang. Kaaabooom!!

Oh my. It seems like the president of the United States has only gone and got himself bloomin’ shot. How on earth did that happen?

I think we need to find out, but this time, from another perspective…

4/10.

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