Is everyone gay?

Well some would like to think so. Nathan Conroy claims to have had sex with Robbie Williams.
I’m kind of thinking if he was then surely someone would have seen him out and about in clubs by now. Plus all the rumours about his flatmate – surely in this day and age he would simply have admitted it if it was true. It’s not like it did anyone elses career any harm.
I always preferred Gary Barlow anyway!

overheard snippets

On my way into work this morning walking from Kensington Olympia to the office I was walking in front of a man and woman having a conversation about holidays and the like. Transpired he was going on a beach holiday. The reason it caught my attention was the phrase ‘wearing tight pants makes you look bigger, I’m going to Hammersmith at lunch to get some small speedo’s to wear under my other ones’
Weird eh. Mind you no more weird than last year one of the guys onthe beach telling me to trim my ahem bush to enhance my ahem package.
How rude!

one born every minute

In amongst my spam mails today I got another of the Lagos Bank Scams. I always wonder how people fall for such gambits.

Standard Trust Bank of Nigeria,
Lagos-Nigeria.

STRICTLY A PRIVATE BUSINESS PROPOSAL

I am Alhaji Ahmed Dasuki, The manager, Bills and Exchange at
the Foreign Remittance Department of the Standard
Trust Bank of Nigeria Plc. I am writing this letter to
ask for your support and cooperation to carry out this
business opportunity in my department. We discovered
an abandoned sum of $15,000,000.00 (Fifteen million
United States Dollars only) in an account that belongs
to one of our foreign customers who died along with
his entire family of a wife and two children in
November 1997 in a Plane crash.

Since we heard of his death, we have been expecting
his next-of-kin to come over and put claims for his
money as the heir, because we cannot release the fund
from his account unless someone applies for claim as
the next-of-kin to the deceased as indicated in our
banking guidelines. Unfortunately, neither their
family member nor distant relative has ever appeared
to claim the said fund. Upon this discovery, I and
other officials in my department have agreed to make
business with you and release the total amount into
your account as the heir of the fund since no one came
for it or discovered he maintained account with our
bank, otherwise the fund will be returned to the banks
treasury as unclaimed fund.

We have agreed that our ratio of sharing will be as
stated thus; 20 % for you as foreign partner, 75 % for
us the officials in my department and 5 % for the
settlement of all local and foreign expenses incurred
by us and you during the course of this business.

Upon the successful completion of this transfer, I and
one of my colleagues will come to your country and
mind our share. It is from our 75% we intend to import
Agricultural Machineries into my country as a way of
recycling the fund. To commence this transaction, we
require you to immediately indicate your interest by a
return e-mail and enclose your private contact
telephone number, fax number full name and address and
your designated bank coordinates to enable us file
letter of claim to the appropriate departments for
necessary approvals before the transfer can be made.

Note also, this transaction must be kept STRICTLY
CONFIDENTIAL because of its nature.

I look forward to receiving your prompt response at my
private email: [email protected]

If you do not intend to help me, i will respect your
privacy and not contact you again.

Thank you

Ahmed Dasuki

I can’t sleep

It wouldn’t be so annoying if I hadn’t decided to try working earlies next week. (Work have decided we can start an hour or half an hour earlier or later in a first attempt at flexible working).
So knowing I have to be up at 7 instead of 8 and yet lying in bed from 10:30 until 01:30 restlessly awaiting sleep is annoying.
As anyone who has slept withme will attest (get your minds out of the gutter) I fall asleep at the drop of a hat and sometimes mid conversation. As soon as my head hits pillow I am practically snoozing.
Tonights bout of insomnia then is doubly annoying.
I’ve decided since I can’t sleep to do some mundane routine tasks like check bank balances and pay bills. I’ve even caught up with reading some other sites which used to be regular reads but with work becoming hectic and social life taking on a new level have sadly become less frequent and more sporadic.
So I’ve caught up with Ian online if not in person for the first time in weeks. Weirdly I was at the White Swan on Friday and thinking of him (but left early due to illness and I hasten to add not brought on by alcohol).

It brought me to thinking (again) about how transitional friendships are. Some people I used to see every week without fail I now see rarely if at all. Others whom until fairly recently I barely knew I see daily. I now am financially commited to some friendships with shared mortgage and bills which would have been unheard of a few years ago.

I think I’m rambling now too cos I’m tired so I think I might sign of now and seek out sleep.

cheap and easy

So it looks like orange have issues with easymobile using orange for it’s website. Can you own a colour?
I think it’s ironic since easy group used to complain about anyone who tried to register a domain with the word easy in it. case in point one and case in point two.
The shoe is now on the other foot about the colour orange. I wonder if I should set up easyblog.co.uk and use orange as the accent colour?

easy… tiger II

looks like it’s not just easyjet that isn’t any cheaper than it’s mainstream rivals. easycinema is having similar problems according to their comments.
Ruth says”Cheaper seats? I don’t think so!!! The only prices under ?4.50 is ?1 off for attending on a Tuesday or for a non English speaking film!”
Brian says “Can I just say? What started as a good idea has turned into a farce. If I go on a tues it is actually cheaper (?3.50) to go to the Xscape.”

In addition you can book by phone apparently according to the graphic ?9 a call seems more like west end prices to me.
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easy… tiger

Am I missing something here? So Stelios Haji-Ioannou (the man behind the expensive yet marketed as cheap) easyjet has bought a heap of easy related domains. Including easyhotel and easypizza. This makes him an entrepreneur allegedly. A number of easyXXX websites state”We are currently investigating business opportunities in the XXX market.”
I could do that too but it doesn’t make me an entrepreneur! In fact ‘easyvalue’ is simply a rebranded kelkoo (luckily it’s the same brand colour).
I’m still wondering how people think easyjet is cheap though.
A quick search for a weekend in Amsterdam (leave friday around 7 and return sunday around the same time) reveals the price for easyjet ?401.96 and for bmi ?398.80 and for BA ?449.40 – hardly a cheap airline then – in fact more average priced I would say.
And as for ‘easyhotel’ who would really want to sleep in a bright orange room. Sorry Stelios but that’s taking branding too far.

Brighton Pride [London on Sea]

It was brighton pride this weekend. So a group of us travelled down on Friday night to make the most of the weekend. Allan, Jacs, Helen and I stayed at the Old Ship Hotel down on the seafront (and very nice it was too). We travelled down with Northy and whilst he went to Richie and Tara’s to settle in we checked in and got changed before meeting at a restaurant for more wine than food.
We then moved onto Dr Brightons for more drinks and meeting up with yet more people. It seemed like half of London was down already.
Saturday morning and we were up early for breakfast and to catch the start of the parade. It turns out (having compared photo’s) that Jan from work and I were stood really close but didn’t see each other.
After being shocked to see some mates int he parade (in the police section) we headed to the bar for some beers. I made a detour to boots for some essential medicine and then we all headed to Preston Park for festivities. This was when we realised all of London was in Brighton.
It was one of the hottest days of the year so far and with no breeze to speak of it became unbearably hot. I was abstaining from beers as I was still under the weather from the previous week.

Circus Circus was our stop en route to the park and from it with lots of opportunity for people watching as the crowds thronged to and from the park.
Many people were looking slightly worse for wear by 7pm when we headed to the hotel for a quick change and to a party at Andy Roo’s newly refurbished flat in Kemp Town.

After drinks and food we headed back into town along the promenade – the pier was open late too and it was busier down on the beach than we expected.

Sunday was a day of relaxing on the beach and then for a lazy long lunch at Due South before heading to the St James Street Party.

Lots of discussions about clubbing together and buying a house/flat down there again this trip! I’m sure we’ll have the same ones when we head up to Manchester Pride though too.