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I'm sorry, could you repeat that?

by Emsbabee @ 2007-11-30 - 12:36:51

With all this recent malarkey concerning the Sudanese government and their somewhat over-zealous reaction to an innocent mistake (40 lashes? You'd get less for drinking the captain's rum?) you could be forgiven for thinking that the Western justice system can't be all that bad. That is, until you read this.

Then, you might wonder if a country that is still deciding whether or not to charge a man who shot two others in the street, is really so different from one that demands a woman be punished for naming a stuffed bear 'Muhammed'. I wonder what would happen if a teacher in Texas decided to call a fluffy bunny 'Jesus Christ Our Lord'? She'd better hope the neighbours don't have a fire-arms licence.

Whine-house

by Emsbabee @ 2007-11-29 - 10:24:30

Police are today appealing for any information on a man who is charged with inciting public unrest at a Amy Winehouse concert on Monday night.

Although the audience were far too polite to obey the commands of the infidel to 'storm the stage', his incessant chanting of 'come the fuck on' ruined many fans enjoyment of the 2 hour wait for Ms Winehouse to get her arse on stage. 'A violent and abusive threat to the public' was how one witness described him. 'I'm pretty sure he raped that chimp as well.'

Panic at the disco

by Emsbabee @ 2007-11-26 - 13:23:35

When I got home on Saturday night (as drunk as drunk can be), there were people taking ketamine in my front room. Although, to be strictly accurate, one of them was yacking it all back up into a saucepan. I couldn't have cared less at the time, being preoccupied with pressing my face into the mattress and howling like a small, feral child. Tequila tends to do that to me, especially when the pre-requisite to drinking it, is so snort the salt and squeeze the lemon into your eye.

When we surfaced the next morning to a scene that would have given the Wombles palpitations, it was discovered that our little dog had decided to express her distaste at the situation by crapping directly outside my bedroom door.

Thank God it's Monday.

Banged up abroad

by Emsbabee @ 2007-11-21 - 13:27:04

I'm concerned readers. Today my little sister is off on her very first holiday abroad without the careful supervision of parents, teachers, or indeed anybody wearing sensible shoes. She and her best friend are going to Milan, the latter to celebrate her 18th birthday, the former to get off with some pubescent Italian she met earlier this year and has been mooning over ever since.

This is the girl who finds making toast a challenge. Who got culture shock when we took her to a cinema with more than one screen. Who frankly, would happily stash a gram of cocaine in her knickers and then pause to say hello to the sniffer dogs.

"Mammy? Can you come and get me? I'm in It-alee an' they think I've been smuggling rubies. They won't let me have any hot water for my Pot Noodle, an' these handcuffs are giving me terrible chafing, and they all speak funny an' I can't understand them, so can you come and get me? Oh, an' I'm runnin' out of credit, so can you ring me back?"

Duw duw

by Emsbabee @ 2007-11-19 - 13:36:09

A member of staff went up to Gatwick for an asylum interview last week, and had his keys, deodorant, mobile phone, dentures etc. confiscated. He didn't get the deodorant back. We think he should claim for that on expenses. In fact, we think he should add a few more items to the list:

* his solid gold watch
* his Elizabeth Arden Night Cream
* his diamond nose stud
* his tickets for a fortnight in the Caribbean

Hmm, so Winehouse isn't well. God damn it woman! Get it together. I know that my worship for you has previously been based upon your disastrous life choices, but if you so much as cough during one of your songs next week, I shall be demanding a full refund.

And in other news, who wants to be a Pastafarian? It might provide Amy with some much needed guidance. She's got the hair, the drinking problem and the missing teeth, in fact, it's as if this religion was created especially for her.

Oh deer

by Emsbabee @ 2007-11-12 - 17:58:58

I am attending an AIDS awareness training day at the end of the month. They give you AIDS and see how you cope with it. Last one to get pneumonia is the winner.

That's rather sick isn't it?

Well here's something else unpleasant for your Monday afternoon.

On Saturday night, a friend of ours ran into a deer, which exploded in the force of the collision. All over him. This gave me the opportunity to come up with a pun that I'm so proud of, that if it were possible, it would be rubbed down daily with Brasso and given an entire mantelpiece to itself:

'It's raining ven(ison).'

I am of course, slightly less pleased with the title of this blog, but there was a rush on, and all the good ones were taken.

Bloggers beware - this could happen to you

by Emsbabee @ 2007-11-07 - 13:18:20

The Reverend Robert Shields was a man with a mission, with a purpose in life beyond keeping up with the neighbours. Or indeed, keeping up with Neighbours, which is a task I am failing miserably at.

He was an uber-diarist, recording everything that happened to him at five minute intervals. Although I don't know how much would really have time happen to a person who had to keep stopping to make notes. Not exactly a recipe for opportunity knocking is it? There must have been exceptions. Sex being one of them. The main one actually. I'm hard-pushed to think of another activity which could cause genuine offence if you stopped half-way through to record your musings.

But is it not quite tempting to do something similar when blogging? I had a really nice bowl of soup yesterday which I couldn't wait to tell you all about. Oh, and I trod in dog muck. Is this going to turn into a compulsion? Will this blog one day read something like this:

16.25pm Straightened duvet cover

16.30pm Had a wee

16.35pm Picked a stray peanut up off carpet

16.40pm Went frigging nuts

Love games

by Emsbabee @ 2007-11-06 - 11:57:45

Love is a very fickle thing. My squeaks of delight as the trailer for the new series of the Boosh shimmied onto the screen last night were quickly replaced with guttural sounds of horror and loathing.

What the effing Norah Jones has Noel done to himself?

It’s impossible to find actual footage of this hideous transformation, but he’s dyed his hair a shade of red last seen on Davina Mcall on those sodding Nutrisse adverts (nutrisse means nourished.) He is also so pale that it’s hard to believe he hasn’t been living deep underground for the last few months, only coming out at night to forage for mascara and nail varnish.

It’s going to be difficult to get past this. I struggled with his goth stage, but pushed on through, because he still had a lovely fringe and looked exceptionally sexy in tight jeans. So sexy, that I wanted to do things to him that would probably be rated PG-13 for sequences of fantasy violence and frightening images.

Noel, I could forgive you for poking Peaches Geldof and her sister in the same month. For that brief period where you appeared to be morphing into Courtney Love’s twin sister. But if you continue to ruin your little pointy face with cosmetics, divorce proceedings will almost certainly be where this will end. And if you turn up in court resembling an anaemic disco ball, I’ll almost certainly get the kids. Good day sir.

The ghost-ess with the most-est

by Emsbabee @ 2007-11-05 - 11:17:39

Ghost was on last night. I don’t know if this was deliberate Halloween scheduling on the part of Channel 5, or just accidental genius. They have improved a lot lately, so we’ll go with the latter.

Can you imagine your partner putting off the afterlife in order to sit around your garish uptown apartment and stare longingly as you sob onto your potters wheel? If you were Demi Moore’s partner then maybe that would be tempting. Otherwise, it’d just be a lot like watching the 5am live-feed on Big Brother. And you’d probably find out one or two things that might rot the roses round the door of love cottage. You know, the kind of stuff that you normally find out about too far down the line to do anything about. Relationships are rarely like those we see in the Pantene Pro-V adverts. Will you still feel like making love instead of dinner when your beloveds nasty habit of throwing underwear at the wall to see if it sticks is brought to the court’s attention?

It’d possibly be more fun if Whoopi Goldberg was your medium. Assuming she’s like that in real life. And why wouldn’t she be? Then you could take her along to family gatherings, dinner parties and the like, and make her jump and shriek in her comedy voice until she’s asked to leave the room/table/country. What else could you use her for? Solving crime? Getting teenagers thrown out of the cinema? Touching people you’ve always wanted to touch but never got their permission (or in some cases, even their attention)?

The bit where the four Ewoks of the apocalypse came to drag the bad guys off to hell always used to terrify me. It’s still a little unsettling now. Although not as bad as heaven it would seem, that just appears to be somebody shining a very large torch into your face, and highlighting your crow’s feet. Still, they don’t make films like that anymore. Probably because Patrick Swayze is far too old.

Running out of steam.

by Emsbabee @ 2007-11-04 - 17:22:57

Today, I bought some organic cotton pads. They are made from 100% organic cotton, gentle on the environment, gentle on the farmers, and gentle on you. However, you must still keep the bag away from small children, who may suffocate. So, gentle, but with a hidden evil streak.

Right, now I'm going home to take photos of my feet.

Live from a Friday night...

by Emsbabee @ 2007-11-03 - 00:26:21

Blogging live! Blogging about blogging! Am covering a sleepover shift at one of the houses, and there is internet access, so dammit, I'm going to take advantage. There is nothing to blog about, but even so, I'm blogging live! Normally I write my blogs the night before on my Jurassic laptop and post them when I get to work. But tonight folks, it's blogging live!

*taps fingers on keyboard*

Hmm. Is it worth risking a cigarette out the window? It is Friday night....

Oh dear, I don't think this post should see the light of day. It is disgustingly dull.

Fuckme, Girls Aloud have just tottered onto the Jonathon Ross show. They've been laminated!

Fuckmesideways, they're duller than this post.

OK, I'm turning over now ladies, you've driven me too it by wittering on about how inspirational the Spice Girls are.

If I fall out of the window mid-fag, could somebody please hack into my account and delete this?

Tell me if this is going too far...

by Emsbabee @ 2007-11-01 - 20:47:37

Celebrities across the western world were left devastated by the news that the pre-packed orphans they had ordered for Christmas would not be arriving.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7070882.stm