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archive for Nov 2004

why do i buy appliances that don’t exist?
10 November 2004

OK – so today mazza [the girlfriend] decides she wants to do a bit of hoovering round the flat. now i’m not one to stand in the way of a girl’s ambitions, so i dig out the vacuum cleaner and, ‘lo and behold’ there’s no feckin’ bag in it, nor any in the house. and [...]

look out! it’s middle-class multi-ethnic model gang!
10 November 2004

the world of advertising, infested as it is with novelty tie and glasses wearing cocklappers of the first order who think the world thousand is pronounced “kay”, has always been a particular bugbear of mine. so it gives me great pleasure to throw a bucket of cold sick in the face of whichever dickie beasley* [...]

MT emptied [geddit?!!!]
10 November 2004

well, today i added a tiny class definition in movable type‘s stylesheet and it completely and utterly fucked up the whole layout of the site – even tho’ there was absolutely nothing wrong with the CSS. i spent [or should that be 'wasted'] practically the whole of the day downloading and re-installing movable type to [...]