Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Have a pub crawl right now.


This is a lovely piece of work from Russell over in Australishire.

A dead dead simple experience really nicely voiced over by the chaps who make the nice booze.

Awesome idea! Engaging, informative and of course brilliant because it involves beer.

Props dog.

Sing it loud loud loud.

I have joined a choir.

I had seen Ben twittering on about 'choir practice' this, and 'I've been singing' that, so i got in touch with Ben and he said that indeed he had joined a singing group, so, i got an invite, not an email or evite, but a verbal invite and decided to go along and have a sing with real people with voices and that.

It is marvellous!

I am a tenor, personally i thought i was worth more, but that's fine, then we have 3 or 4 altos, a couple of bass and a handful of sopranos.

And then there is the lovely Laura, she is our musical arranger.

She like tells us what noises and stuff we have to make and when. And then when it all goes right and we all sing together she smiles and claps.

It is lovely.

Anyway, we practice in Mother's offices - they are a big posh ad agency, and i saw this, their business cards...

...and it made me realise how the littlest thing can make the biggest difference.

Like i mentioned, get the detail wrong and i don't like you, get it correct and you are brilliant.

Well done Mother, thanks choir, heaps good.

Cat'll fix it.


Printer jam! Very good indeed.

Thank you Peter.

The Sun isn't as bright.

Monday morning's main back page story on The Sun was all about Jenson Button winning the Australian Grand Prix, well done Jenson, well done.

Anyway, the headline was 'The Brawn Supremacy', of course playing on the fact that Jenson drives for BrawnGP and his fellow driver, Rubens Barichello finished second giving them a supreme performance.

Then, this morning, we see this;

Now, forgive me The Sun, but i think this is very very lazy, simply using a film franchise to help write your headlines.

I think they now need to force a scenario where they can then use 'The Bourne Identity' as their main headline.

Perhaps they can uncover the name of a massive crustation living a fictitious life off the coast of Kent? Surely that would require a 'The Prawn Identity' headline.

Anyway, i think i'll leave it there.

Virgin on the ridiculous.

Have you seen this new ad from Virgin?

Whoever put it together obviously doesn't understand how a mouse works, a mouse, the thing you use everyday to operate your work station.

The cable goes in at the top, not at the bottom, or, if you have an optical mouse you don't have a cable at all, isn't that just clever.

Come on people, devil is in the detail, step up will you.

Official apology.

Dear reader,

I just want to officially apologise for the unsatisfactory quality of the content on this blog over the last 3 to 4 weeks.

I'm really sorry for any embarrassment I have caused.

I can fully understand why people might be angry and offended by this.

Quite obviously a claim should never have been made for these films, and as you know that money is being paid back.

Sorry, i went all Timney there.

Please be aware, the quality and writing of this blog will get much better from here on in.

Yours faithfully,


Richard Charles Hale.

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

I was flagon.


I went to the pub last night with some lovely people and we drank cider.

Nothing new there hey.

But, this cider was in a flagon, and what was great there was 14.6 units in one flagon.

That is the amount of units a lady should take in a week!

I love flagons.

Girls should have one on their bedside table, so on Sunday night, if they haven't had any booze, they can down it and be happy knowing they have had their weekly quoter.