Manchester Earthquake Appeal

An Earthquake measuring 5.2 on the Richter scale hit Greater Manchester on Wednesday morning.

Casualties were seen wandering aimlessly saying “bang out of order” “mental” and “sorted”. Some are still confused that something interesting actually happened in Beswick! Some residents of Middleton were woken before their ‘giros’ arrived and it caused quite a panic!

The earthquake decimated half of the Salford area causing in excess of £17.55 worth of damage. Several priceless collections of mementos from Ibiza, Corfu, Rhyl and Blackpool were damaged beyond repair including a cute little donkey that ‘broke wind’ when you clapped your hands.

Preserved areas of historic importance were destroyed and many piles of scientifically significant litter were disturbed.

One resident of Moston, Miss Kylie Davies a 15 year old mother of four said “It was such a shock, little Chardonnay-Destiny came running into my bedroom crying; my hands were shaking that much I could hardly concentrate on Jeremy Kyle”.

The British Red Cross has so far managed to send 4000 crates of Red Bull to the area to help with the crisis. Rescue workers are still searching through the rubble and have found numerous “Elizabeth Duke” sovereign rings, benefit books and Poundstretcher ornaments.

How can you help?

This appeal hopes to raise money for food and clothing parcels for those unfortunate enough to be caught up in the disaster. Clothing is most sought after. Urgently needed are Lacoste tracksuits, white socks, Burberry caps, Beanie hats and Rockports. Food parcels are also needed. They include McCain oven chips, Aldi Beans, Monster Munch, Hollands pies and Iceland pizza. Alcohol is also in short supply, especially White Lightening Cider and Special Brew.

Cash donations are also needed. 22p buys a ‘signing-on’ biro, £2.50 buys a pie and chips, £20.00 buys a fake MOT and £16.00 buys 200 Regal ciggies from the back of Tomo’s lorry. Your help is appreciated.

Cole Brooker the illegal driving instructor

The One Show just did an expose’ on a driving instructor who is apparently working illegally. They said the guy’s name, Cole Brooker, and then Googled his name to find contact details… thus:

Cole Brooker

A click on the first result gives us this page, with Cole’s phone number and his details still listed as a practicing driving instructor.  Now I’m all for exposing people, but as someone who has received random anonymous phone calls in the past (and podcasted many of them) I’m not too sure that the One Show were entirely professional here. Their little film made it very easy for anyone with a computer to get this guy’s phone number and call him.

I no doubt imagine he has received a few prank calls tonight, which isn’t fun unless you enjoy confrontation… which for the record I do.

Think before you do this next time One Show guys, you may as well have published the man’s number yourselves and touted for people to phone him.

Cyclists complain about poor cycle lanes

It seems that cyclists in the UK are complaining about poor quality cycle lanes, so much so that MPs are to be given a book showing how poor some cycle lanes are in Greater Manchester.

Cyclists complain that lanes end without warning, are full of obstacles and sometimes just send the unwitting cyclist straight out into the oncoming traffic. Well, surely that’s the idea? We want to get rid of the annoying tossers. I’m sick and bloody tired of getting stuck behind some wavering cyclist swaying from side to side in the road, with a string of cars piled up behind him. They’re  a sodding nuisance.

Then, when the traffic stops because of lights the bastard cyclist mounts the curb and cycles merrily off on his way. Why didn’t he do that to begin with? Then I wouldn’t be stuck at the frickin’ lights anyway!

As you can tell I hate cyclists. If cycle lanes in the UK are dangerous for them then good, that’s the way they should be.

I’m quite comfortable with my spider phobia thank you

Ever since I can remember I’ve been afraid of spiders, just like millions of other people in the World. However unlike most of those people I’m quite comfortable with my fear as I don’t believe it’s an irrational one.

Spiders are after all the perfect predators and had they evolved at the same rate as humans we’d all be prey to them right now. The spider has a scale speed faster that the cheetah, it’s armoured, it can see in every direction at once with its eight eyes, it has fangs which many of them use to paralyse their victims with poison, it can walk on all surfaces upside down and its home (the web) is nothing but a trap for capturing its prey.

They are the perfect killers, the perfect predators. Therefore I’m quite comfortable with my phobia. Reading this article on how people can be cured of their spider phobias through hypnotherapy I did stop and think for a moment maybe I should give it a try, but then I thought; what do I need to be cured of this phobia for?

Am I going to pick up spiders? No chance. Do I need to be around spiders on a daily basis? Hell no. So why would I want to be cured of my fear of spiders?

I’m genuinely interested in the idea of being hypnotised, but I think I’ll keep my spider phobia if it’s all the same with you.

Vic Reeves was pissed

If you didn’t catch any of the Brit Awards last night you missed an absolute corker where Vic Reeves was supposed to present an award, yet didn’t seem to know where he was, who he was or what he was doing. It was the best moment of the night as Vic announced he’d seen some ‘turns’ on the stage but didn’t know who they were only for co-host Sharon Osborn to call him a ‘Bastard’ and tell him to get lost.

Then Vic had his microphone switched off!

You can read a full rundown of the night here at celebrities uncovered.

Someone thinks I’m cute

I love these emails, they always crack me up. The funny thing about this one is the email address it has been sent from.

—–Original Message—–
From: Lynette Castle [mailto:CristinaWaddell@rescue.com]
Sent: 18 February 2008 07:59
To: ***@**********
Subject: [SPAM?]: Re Zoe

Hi
This is Zoe
Our mutual friend named Emily said your cute
Can we chat and maybe exchange pictures?
Email me at Zoe@DoorwayPagePro.info
I will respond with a picture and info right away
Cant wait to hear from you
Zoe

No virus found in this outgoing message
Checked by PC Tools AntiVirus (4.0.0.20 – 10.055.016).
http://www.pctools.com/free-antivirus/

“Zoe@DoorwayPagePro.info”??? Surely when they create these spam emails they should put a little thought into the email address?

Anyone who falls for that deserves to be taken for a ride.

Alas poor Zombie

Bah, my excitement was short lived. I just received the news I was dreading; my Zombie is dead, well, undead… dead dead. You know what I mean.

They didn’t even break it to me gently. This was the email I received:

Your Resident Evil Extinction character has been killed!

The heartless bastards! All that training and he didn’t stand a chance.

So much anger, so little time