foolfillment: the blog

I’ve just got in from town. Town being in this case the centre of Glasgow, but you can use it for any city centre with the same rough meaning - a horrible, built-up, seething mass of people with no awareness of what’s going on around them and laden down with bags. Going to town is such a tiring, distressing thing to have to do but there comes a time at Christmas when it is just about unavoidable. If I had been more organised I could have got away with not going.

I went in search of: a lemming, a tiny table and chair, and things that symbolise cheerfulness and enthusiasm. How many of them did I manage to find? One, almost.

I’m tired now and am very glad that tonight is a pub night. I need to vent some anger about people who can’t walk.

Untill yesterday I was able to proudly say “I have never been to Ikea” but then, yesterday afternoon, it all went wrong. During the worst possible time (October break from schools - parents want to do nicen up their houses but can’t escape the house without taking the brats with them) I ventured inside looking for photo frames. And what a horrible experience it was. Nasty cheap stuff that’s mass produced to poor standards with lack of imagination/innovation and what a horrible store layout, what is wrong with having aisles? Even some prices on the products would have been nice, or some logical pattern to where stuff is on display, dreadful.

It was everything I expected and less.

Now, I do accept that they have come up with some reasonable items, some good ones too I’m sure, but on the whole the stuff they pump out is rotten. Everything I hear about the place just makes me amazed that it’s so popular. Anyway, we did get two photo frames, but not the ones we liked because there was no price on it and the only similar one was around ?20 and I refuse to pay that much for a piece of tat that won’t withstand being hung up on a wall with the extra weight of a ferw photos.

The only good thing I can see that has come from Ikea is a undiminishable supply of pencils to give out to pupils.

I got this email today from someone who is in a reasonably important role within the Glasgow Uni Sports Association, someone who you might think would be able to draft a decent email.

hey guys,
[name] past you’re e-mail addresses on to me to ask
if you could e-mail round you’re faculties and find
anyone who is interested in being a faculty rep for
recreational sport for gusa. It is basically just a
contact for me to e-mail all of teh recreational
leagues, competitions and events that are happening so
that more people can get involved, If you could get
back to me with these before friday wed 13th Oct this
would be great
Thankyou

There isn’t much excuse for not knowing which your/you’re to use, or not knowing what the difference between past and passed is, not for someone who is studying for a degree*. Or am I being a bit harsh? Also when does she want it back for? Wednesday, Friday or the 13th? None of those things match up, at least not until next year.

*For anyone what spots mistakes in this post, their deliberate, okay?

Let me decide! If you want me to read your website then don’t impose your browsing habits onto me. If you link to something then you’d better have a very good reaon for opening a new window. If I wanted a new window I’d have opened the link that way myself, I do have that option you know.

If, like me you want more control over your browsing use Firefox and the Open Link in… plugin

Also, why would anyone disable the right button on a website? Only a useless twunt would do that, it doesn’t gain anything because everything can still be accessed throught the toolbar (everything except the open link in… plugin). Tool.

And stop saying ‘like’! If you feel the need to punctuate your sentences with, like, extra words then use, you know, good ones an’ tha’. You linguistically impoverished fool.

BBC NEWS | Scotland | Row blows up over kilt ban move

They’re just jealous because they would look like this in National Dress:

‘March 13th’! What a stupid way of putting it, the default setting for the dates in Wordpress (now altered on foolfillment) is the stupid (American?) format that makes it look like you’re talking about the 13th March of 2005. Why are so many people so happy just to accept things that are incorrect because they often see them like that.

Maybe you don’t get what I’m saying, maybe I’m the stupid one, but look at my argument:

‘March the 13th’. Taken to mean the thirteenth day of March. Should really be ‘13th of March’
‘Henry the 8th’. Was the eighth King of England to have the name Henry. Henry the 8th wasn’t the eighth part of King Henry.

Now, go forth and and write what you mean, and anger me no more

• missing out on a free first aid course worth ?180 because you only find out about it on Friday morning before it starts, not leaving enough time to arrange missing lectures and hand-in dates
• having to replace your shoes because the heel falls off and your feet get wet and the laces snapped a while ago and there isn’t really enough left to tie them with and people are laughing at them
• the doctor not being open when you want to find out about the vaccinations you need for going to South America
• the battery running out on your electric shaver halfway through shaving in the morning and not being able to find the cable to charge it

Well today I recieved a letter from the debt collectors! Apparenly o2 are looking to take money from me for no apparant reason, thieves! The woman on the phone fom the debt collectors pretty much said so too. Following months of them taking money they said they wouldn’t and failing to give it back, as they had promised, I cut my losses and left. My last bill from them was a credit to me, which incidentally never turned up…

Even though I’m no longer a customer I’m forced to carry on fighting with them.

Last month they charged me for things they said they wouldn’t. I shouted at them and they said this month I’d be credited with the amount they took.

This month comes and they send me a bill, not only was the credit missing but they want to charge me again for things that they said they wouldn’t.

So I send an email asking what they’re playing at and get a very quick response saying that I have to pay. I send them a copy of an email from them last month that says I don’t and they’ve gone very quiet. Now I’ve also posted off an official complaint letter to them and arranged a new deal with Orange. I still have about a month to run on my contract with O₂ but seeing as they’ve broken their terms then am I able to break it off early?

Well, it’s all over adn not before time. I stopped watching it years ago, so when I saw tonight’s episode (which I watched out of curiosity) it was only about the 5th or 6th new episode I’ve seen in about 4 years and it was dross! It reminded me why I stopped watching it, I don’t really have aything insightful or revolutionary to say about it, just that I cannot understand how anyone can find it funny. I’ve seen old shows recently and even ones from the 3rd or so series seemed tired and limp. How on earth did it keep running? Oh well, at least it’s all over now and we can get on with watching Frasier. Or something