Posts by Josh Addison
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An interesting read - thanks. I imagine everyone has a list of sexual practices that make them go "ew" or even just "I don't geddit", but it's a massive leap from that to "you are immoral/malfunctioning/just plain wrong, so stop it" or worse "stop it - or else."
Can I say, though, in relation to this thread and earlier ones about labelling, that I'm not a massive fan of the label "vanilla". Vanilla means boring - to refer to the metaphor it's based on, no-one's favourite flavour is vanilla; it's a base that needs something else on top to make it really good - it's inherently lacking. I don't think most people who like things "vanilla" would describe their sex lives that way.
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(But I will grant you that the misplaced plurals need attention.)
I dunno, I think you can make a good argument against treating "media" as a plural in many contexts these days. Ditto "data".
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2am closing and kiss goodbye to any decent gigs with decent internationals.
I dunno - I was interested to see that most gigs in London (decent or otherwise) finish by 11 so everyone can get the tubes home.
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Twitter and Facebook seem like apples and oranges to me - one's a community site, one's a blogging format. That said, when people used to ask me what Twitter was, I'd say "you know the little status bit on your Facebook page? Twitter is basically just that by itself."
For quite some time I saw no point in it, but eventually I had an epiphany...
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Dead Snow, like Jem and the Holograms, is truly, truly, truly outrageous. Even if it does suffer from Idiot Protagonist Syndrome a little too much (but hell, it's a comedy).
One of these days I must acquire the audiobook of WWZ - Alan Alda, Jürgen Prochnow, Mark Hamill, HENRY ROLLINS among others - that would have to be worth a listen.
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I learnt not to look at the needle fairly early on - I swear the thing gets bigger as it nears your skin. Looking away, I'm often surprised at how little there is to feel - in one or two cases where the person was a real pro I literally haven't felt a thing. I make it easy by having nice big veins clearly visible on my arms - the guy at the Medlab in Royal Oak used to use the same joke every time I went in: "I could go in with a javelin!" Not an image I needed, but I appreciated the humour.
By brother, on the other hand, was a fainter. The problem was basically that he was holding his breath from nervousness until he passed out. He now concentrates on taking deep, regular breaths and has no trouble.
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Don't let that stop you.
Actually, what was stopping me was that I was too lazy to write it all down. Then I remembered that I already had, in another place, a long time ago.
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Inital thoughts:
I was in Ophthalmology the other day having an armload...
Intersting start.
...of blood tests
Aw. But then:
She didn't once comment on my novelty cartoon pupils.
Ah...
I have a good coat story too, but it happened to someone else.
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No-one swears like Ray Winstone. I forget which movie it was in which he called someone a "f*cking sh*tc*nt", but it changed my life(asterisks for the benefits for those with work filters).
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And after the Muppets came Muppets Tonight. Some saw this as a bastardisation of the original brilliance - all I remember is me and a bunch of friends (all 20-somethings by that time) pissing ourselves laughing at it when it first came out. Best use of the Anvil Chorus ever.