Author: Mosh

65 Questions You’ve Probably Never Been Asked

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Random questions, random picture

Happily plagiarised from Muddy’s LJ.

1. First thing you wash in the shower?
Head and what’s left of my hair.
2. What color is your favorite hoodie?
I don’t own any hoodies.
3. Would you kiss the last person you kissed again?
I hope to, though the last kiss was just a peck on the cheek.
4. Do you plan outfits?
Pff, no.
5. How are you feeling RIGHT now?
Kind of “meh”. Hungry. Bored. Buried. A little freaked. Tired, but perky. Just… weird.
6. Whats the closest thing to you that is red?
A big plastic M&M dispenser.
7. Tell me about the last dream you remember having?
Can’t recall any. I seem to forget about them really soon afterwards.
8. Did you meet anybody new today?
Got talking to a couple of the staff in GameStation. Nice guys.

9. What are you craving right now?
Food, basically. Think dinner’s on.
10. Do you floss?
Yup.
11. What comes to mind when I say cabbage?
The food I had in Tokyo the other week. It was awesome.
12. Are you emotional?
I can be. Rarely, but I can be.
13. Have you ever counted to 1,000?
Not that I can recall. I remember counting to 200 once when I was little.
14. Do you bite into your ice cream or just lick it?
Depends on the type of ice cream. If it’s a cone, I usually lick.
15. Do you like your hair?
What hair? It’s OK as far as it goes.
16. Do you like yourself?
Sometimes. Not 100% right now.
17. Would you go out to eat with George W. Bush?
Hell no. Not unless I was allowed to beat the **** out of him and steal his dessert.
18. What are you listening to right now?
Spoony on 606 (Radio 5 Live)

19. Are your parents strict?
Not as strict as they were when I was little.

20. Would you go sky diving?
Been there, done that.
21. Do you like cottage cheese?
Nope.
22. Have you ever met a celebrity?
Loads. I used to DJ for student and community radio so I interviewed a load of bands.
23. Do you rent movies often?
Nope.
24. Is there anything sparkly in the room you’re in?
Actually, yes. A gold ribbon on a basket sat at the foot on my bed. My mum’s not cleared her stuff out of here yet since I moved in.
25. How many countries have you visited?
I think the total’s around 54 or so at the moment.
26. Have you made a prank phone call?
Years ago, aye.
27. Ever been on a train?
Lots of them.
28. Brown or white eggs?
What’s the difference? They’re all the same inside. Are the brown ones wholemeal?
29.Do you have a cell-phone?
No, but I do have three mobiles.
30. Do you use chap stick?
Depends on the weather.
31. Do you own a gun?
Only for my PS2
32. Can you use chop sticks?
Yes.
33. Who are you going to be with tonight?
The folks and the dogs.
34. Are you too forgiving?
I used to be. Not any more.
35. Ever been in love?
Yes. In fact I am right now.
36. What is your best friend(s) doing tomorrow?
I don’t really have a best friend any more. Just quite a few good mates.
37. Ever have cream puffs?
Probably. And no dirty jokes about gay guys, please.
38. Last time you cried?
About a week or so ago.
39. What was the last question you asked?
“What was the last question you were asked?”
40. Favorite time of the year?
None. All of them have their ups and downs.
41. Do you have any tattoos?
Yup, four.
42. Are you sarcastic?
Hell, yes.
43. Have you ever seen The Butterfly Effect?
Yup. And I’ve downloaded the sequel as I hear it’s ****.
44. Ever walked into a wall?
Not that I can recall.
45. Favorite color?
Black and white.
46. Have you ever slapped someone?
Yup, many years ago when I was in primary school.
47. Is your hair curly?
When it grows (which it doesn’t any more), yes.
48. What was the last CD you bought?
Machine Head’s The Blackening, I think. Been a while since I bought one. Not very convenient media when you’re living out of a rucksack.

49. Do looks matter?
Not as much as what’s inside. And I know that sounds cheesy but I wholeheartedly believe it.

50. Could you ever forgive a cheater?
Yes. I did once. Not that it made any difference.

51. Is your phone bill sky high?
Nope. I have a flat rate contract and very rarely spend more than that.

52. Do you like your life right now?
It could be better.

53. Do you sleep with the TV on ?
No, as I only use it for my PS2

54. Can you handle the truth?
Yes

55. Do you have good vision?
Ish. My right eye needs another operation, but it’s going to be a pain to get it organised now.

56. Do you hate or dislike more than 3 people?
Probably. I try not to think about it.

57. How often do you talk on the phone?
Maybe once a day or so.

58. The last person you held hands with?
My little cousin last week.

59. What are you wearing?
Jeans and Slayer t-shirt from the Australian tour I saw them on.
60.What is your favorite animal?
Don’t have one. I like pretty much all animals.

61. Where was your default picture taken at?
What default picture?

62. Can you hula hoop?
I think so.

63. Do you have a job?
Ish. Technically I think I’m still being paid for the overseas job for support.

64. What was the most recent thing you bought?
Six more games for the PS2. Well, they were cheap.

65. Have you ever crawled through a window?
You know, I probably have but I can’t remember when.

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Seriously, what is this country coming to?

The flag of the United Kingdom (3:5 Army version).

Or, perhaps, what has it already gone to? I’ve only been back her a week or so and I’m sick of the place already. Don’t get me wrong, life up in Perth with the folks is laid back and relaxed. But there are things which just don’t feel right and news stories that are driving me nuts.

A daft one to start with. All of the bins along the main road into Perth have been removed. If there’s somewhere you expect to see a bin, it’s by a bus stop. They’ve all gone. So rather than pay someone to empty them, someone’s decided that they’ll just take them away. Maybe they’ll be replaced, but I doubt that very much. I might look into this and see if the council have an answer.

[Update: the bins are back – new ones. So only bad planning, not a removal of a public service]

Then there’s a budget and the general economic mess. Gordon Brown refusing to apologise and people making more fuss over some potential letters to “smear” some other sleazeballs. As if we don’t have enough problems without parlimentarians calling each other names. Pathetic. I wouldn’t trust these overgrown schoolchildren to cook their own dinner, let alone run a country.

The decision to only allow about 100 Gurkhas to apply for residence is a complete disgrace as well. We hand out millions each year to lazy, good-for-nothing, workshy filth who can’t even be bothered to look for a job… and turn our backs on people who fought for our country every bit as bravely as any British soldier. Disgusting. I don’t think there are words strong enough for me to describe how repugnant we must seem to push them away as we are.

If we’re bothered about “thousands” of people trying to move here then the solution is simple. Check their military record and if they were a Gurkha, let them in. And stop giving money to the chavs who just spend it all on drugs, booze, fags, crappy gold jewellery and Sky TV. Let those ******** starve until they find a job. That’s not what these brave men fought for, nor my grandad, nor anyone else.

And a final one. Just one incident, but similar things have happened before, and recently. A young girl, 11 years old, shot while queuing for an ice cream on Merseyside. The shooter described as being about 16 or 17 years old. Shot her then cycled away.

What. The. ****.

I am so thankful she seems to be OK as far as shooting victims go, but it just staggers me that something like that can happen in this country. An isolated incident, a one-off by a loony.. OK. But this kid was part of a gang, and it’s happened in the past. How can this keep happening?

In a week that’s seen St George‘s go by with barely a blip outside of some mentions on Twitter and the like, I should have been proud – for a day – to be English. Instead, I’m ashamed. Not to be English as such. But of the state my country has fallen into.

Yes, I know England‘s just one part of Britain but I see myself as both English (born) and British (bred). They are, to a large extent, one and the same to me. And I’m saddened at the state I find both of them in now.

Is it too late to dig ourselves out of this hole? I genuinely think it is, short of some kind of major upheaval in the social and political systems of this country. We need someone in charge who’s not afraid to strip away the last 40 years and get back to some serious basics. Strip people of a lot of their “rights” (criminals, chavs, filth who run our streets, politicians…) and make people realise that they can’t get away with this any more.

Because right now they can. And will. And do.

And that’s just not good enough for my country.

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Gordon Brown – kindly **** off

U.K.
Useless ****

Thanks to the government for getting all techie and allowing us to set up petitions on their own website. Thankfully, someone’s made good use of this and added a petition which covers a lot of bases. I urge any registered UK voter to “sign” it:

We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to resign.

I don’t expect the stupid, one-eyed, Scots bastard (I’m going to cop it from the RNIB for that one) to pay the slightest bit of attention. Politicians never do, unless public opinion goes the direction they’re already looking anyway, but it would be nice to let him know how much he’s reviled. I don’t think they’re hiding our PM from the real world in much the way that George W.‘s rose-tinted glasses portrayed him as not universally despised. How that guy didn’t top himself I’ll never know.

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Mounting an ISO image in Ubuntu and Windows

Video CD
A CD. Yesterday.

An ISO image is a single file that images an entire (usually optical) disc – a CD or a DVD. They’re often used for software distributions or archives. Most CD authoring programs will happily accept them and burn them to disc – Ubuntu can even do this by simply right-clicking the file.

However, what happens if you just want a couple of files off the disc? Or haven’t got a spare blank?

It’s possible to mount the discs as virtual images, and navigate them as if they were sat in your CD drive – only far faster as you’re puttering about on your hard drive. You can also mount several of these at one time, rather like having many CD drives with discs in all attached to your PC at once. As long as you have the hard drive space to store these images (and that’s not a problem these days) it’s a great way to access data.

Now, in Windows there’s a great little tool for mounting an unmounting virtual drives which Microsoft dishes out for free. Why it’s not built into Windows (XP at least) I don’t know, but it’s only a tiny download and install. Don’t even think about trying to search for it on Microsoft’s download site – I couldn’t find it using the search box, though I think you may have some luck via the knowledge base. Just click here for version 2.1 for XP. If you’re using Vista, remove it and replace it with XP or Ubuntu. Trust me, your computer will thank you.

Under Ubuntu there are a few options. There’s the fancy-dan graphics version which involves manually creating mount points for future use… and the dead-simple right-click and mount ad-hoc version.

The former can be achieved with GMount ISO. Just use the apps manager or “sudo apt-get install gmountiso” at the command prompt. I did have a tinker with this the other day and it’s a nice front-end, but does involve some setup before you can get it to work.

I found the Nautilus Script from MundoGeek a lot simpler and effective. Install it, log out and back into Ubuntu and you’ll find a nice right-click context-sensitive option available to “Mount image”. To unmount you have to ensure you right click the original ISO image you mounted, and not the virtual mounted device itself. Other than that, no configuration.

Oh, and don’t forget in Ubuntu you can also mount ZIP and other archive files as virtual drives with a simple right-click. This makes manipulating files within them so much easier.

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Oh dear, Ipswich

Ipswich Town F.C.
Ipswich Town F.C.

I used to have a lot of time for Ipswich Town. Their connection with Bobby Robson and the fact that my psycho ex is a Colchester United fan made me a little soft towards them and I liked to see them do well.

All that’s changed now, though. Hiring Roy “I’m tough when I can kick people but run away from a hard job when it’s not going my way” Keane as manager isn’t the most sensible of moves. Given that the last manager was sacked for, basically, not being good enough then why hire someone who’s admitted himself that he wasn’t any good in his last job?

Oh, he’s also a violent bastard who needs a good ******* hiding. But that’s beside the point. Just an opinion.

As an aside… If you have Google Toolbar installed and set to give you suggestions when you type stuff into it then try “roy keane” (no quotes) and see what the top one is. I get “roy keane ***** his dog”, so it must be a popular search!

Sorry, Ipswich. I feel for you, but I sincerely hope you get relegated next season now. Please don’t take it personally.

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