Posts by Rebecca Williams
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is it wrong to actually want The Politically Incorrect Dalai Lama calendar
if it's wrong, then i am so wrong. i want it.
as for "face massagers" - i noticed those in the 80s as a teenager, and in the 90s too ... not sure if i've seen them in the naughties?
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Gosh the living room is a mess and that bathroom won't clean itself and if the weather's nice I'll get into the garden and I'm so unfit I should go for a walk and mmm croissants and coffee for breakfast and maybe the kids would like to go to the pool and I should try to watch some of that stuff stacking up on the PVR and are there any good movies on and the car needs a wash and I've got to got to write a blog.
aah i love it when i read about someone else's life and think "thank christ i'm not the only one"!!!!
sorry i don't have any other comment because i don't watch any of these shows. i'm too disorganised to actually ensure that i'm sitting in front of the telly at the right time on the right day. don't get me wrong, i do watch telly but it never seems to be something i'm actually interested in. i should try harder.
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now that i'm the (adoring) mother of one small person who may or may not survive the type of extensive back-packerish activities i have previously enjoyed, i relish living vicariously through other's travel blogs ..... cheers and keep it up!
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LMAO @ "mind-bending Guantanamo-style random nap treatment". i know it so well! and nipples of brass - snort, guffaw! me too.
as for selling children to circuses, we would say to each other on particularly frazzled mornings, lucky this child is so cute or we'd have to put him out with the recycling.
his cuteness remains, and we have yet to actually stuff him into the wheelie bin, despite six weeks of cold after cough after chest infection after ear infection after teething after conjunctivitis after .... omg, the list goes on.
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i would have been one on the side of allowing us all to buy fireworks each year ... i've always enjoyed them and have never seen any accidents or other untoward events ...
... until last saturday night. i went to a bbq where no less than four of the men (aged 14, 14, 40 and 45 years) acted like total arseholes with the enormous pile of fireworks they had. they taped them together in order to make the biggest noise they could, they set them off in their hands while standing on the garage roof, they fired them directly into surrounding houses' porches, against their walls, and onto their rooves, and they also fired them into trees and such tinder as bamboo hedges. what a bunch of fucking wankers.
it was so gratuitous that several guests (mostly with younger children who i guess they didn't want to witness such dangerous behaviour) left in disgust.
the actual teenagers of the group i can forgive. adolescents take risks, and sometimes get a thrill from anti-social behaviour. the thing i can't stick is these complete tossers, with wives and children, who sincerely did not give a shit for their own or anyone else's safety, never mind the relationship with the neighbours (the 40 year old was the man of the house!)
truly amazing. if people of my acquaintance act like that, who am i to say that people who want a ban are being a bunch of spoil sports?
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lol @ "curiously ambiguous" ...
speaking of sanitarium ... my hubby used to work right next door to their manufacturing site in pah road, in auckland. the paint on the bonnet and roof of his car became damaged by the fine fallout of (weetbix?) dust from the factory, despite his trying to clean it off every day. he complained and the company paid up a couple of grand for his car to be repainted. without a peep. what do they know about weetbix and its effects on car paint that we don't?
think about THAT next time you line up some weetbix for brekkie.
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don't apologise too much ben, we all know joanna's a bee-atch (jeez, i am brave or just stoopid?)
re amy winehouse, tell me all about it, she's great. we saw her in concert at the hammersmith apollo. she rather overdid the big-ups to the band (who weren't that great) but she was awesome - when you've got a voice like that, you can afford to be as sassy and up yourself as you like, i think.
i admire her talent as a singer / songwriter to the extent that i am genuinely concerned about her obvious alcohol / other drug addiction and her very scary skinniness. her father seems to totally collude with her too, i've heard him publicly commenting more than once that she's fine and this is just what kids do in the rock'n'roll business.
well, eat my shorts daddy, that girl is going d-o-w-n if she doesn't sort her substance dependence out fairly quickly. IMHO.
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michael - i guess i was just trying to capture the two extremes that i or anyone else might be afraid of in the total absence of any useful info about what is actually going on. lack of knowledge does have a way of magnifying our worst / most unrealistic fears, innit?
by the way, i totally agree with you about the gun control thing.
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i feel *compelled* to feed jude dobson a good square meal ...
all of this is very concerning, but i'm not sure yet why ... should i be worried about loss of civil liberties? or loss of my front windows when someone biffs a homemade incendiary device into my front yard?
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droooooooooool ... the height of my criminal career was smuggling french sausages, cheeses and heart-breakingly cheap bottles of red back to london on the eurostar ...
i second robyn - more stories please.