At Neil’s sister’s wedding there was the obligatory wedding photographer, and he was charging £10 per print. A bit of a rip-off but perfectly understandable.
Neil’s sister (aka the bride who paid for the service) doesn’t have access to a set of her own wedding photos in digital format for her own use. I was curious about getting a few images for a seven-inch digital frame and I expected to be quoted a price to purchase said images, maybe a couple of pounds each.
What did he ask? £15 per image.
Frankly, if I’m smart enough to get photos onto an SD card for use in a digital frame, I’m also smart enough to know that those images will not be print quality. So to charge me 50% more for much, much less is really bad business practice.
Too funny:
A nightspot in Singapore has been condemned by health counsellors after it offered free entry to patrons who carried condoms with them.
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A counsellor said couples who had sex before marriage tended to easily break up.
Emphasis mine and WTF?
I’m not sure this is about sex education; it’s a clever gimmick, though. Health counsellors in Singapore are either completely unrealistic and misguided or biting their tongues off because they can’t talk about proper sex education. I’m guessing no clubs in Singapore will be hosting Confusion is Sex any time soon.
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I’d like to turn off commenting sometimes, but since Neil is a big-time troll, it’s hard to do that. Heh.
While there wasn’t too much snow late this morning:
The forecast is for more overnight, though. I don’t think I’ve ever seen this much of the white stuff. Whee!
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Happiness is… discovering a box of Almond Roca for sale at TK Maxx. I’m not too keen on sweets but I’ll make an exception for this nutty, chocolatey hit of nostalgia.
Even before I loved eating, I loved the Cookie Monster:
*nyum nyum nyum nyum*
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And to think some people want Sarah Palin should run for President in 2012… because they actually reckon she’s good for the country and not as a cruel practical joke.
I tend to avoid mentioning anything to do with work (more on that later), but I must say that I feel a lot of sympathy for Karl Pilkington:
He’s now a media personality who will be earning lots in royalties, something I’m sure he never expected going into producing for radio.
(And of course he knows the pot is metaphorical, that’s just Gervais being a dick. I wonder how deliberate that behaviour is.)
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I’m feeling kind of ripped off as Edinburgh must have had just enough cloud cover to prevent frost from forming, but not enough to snow. It’s bloody cold, I must say.
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Oh dear. Do students get that someone has to pay for it? Their education costs a lot of money, any international student can tell you that. If the students take on higher fees, they’ll start paying it back only after they reach a certain income threshold. If they don’t, they’ll start paying it back immediately with all the tax increases that will happen. And I bet they’ll complain about that, too.
Vests (or waistcoats, since vests are tank tops here) and me don’t get on very well. I don’t know why. I like ‘em, but I’m not too great at pulling them off. It doesn’t stop me from thinking this is an unusual and very attractive item of clothing — the Dramaturge vest.
Another confession I need to make is my love for plaid. Ever since the grunge era (the first one) and my ability to wear plaid flannel shirts in Singapore (Deity knows how I managed it, I would just about melt into a puddle if I tried that these days), I’ve had a real soft spot for the pattern. So it wasn’t Scotland or a Scot — it was Kurt Cobain and Eddie Vedder. Sorry, Neil.
I’d wear skinny jeans with this, and some clunky boots. You’ll notice that I always match these imaginary purchases with the same things. Heh.
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It’s my burden, to suggest marketing things that are rubbished as a waste of time and money and then, years later, are attributed to someone else as a brilliant idea that makes the company so forward-thinking. #violins#
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Goodness, I feel dirty for thinking Sam Claflin is scrumptious, he’s a full decade younger than me. Not so much for thinking the same about Matthew Macfadyen. Any Human Heart isn’t bad at all (I barely recognised Gillian Anderson and Tom Hollander is adorable). I enjoyed the first episode and am grateful for 4oD.
I feel like I’m turning into my mother by highlighting The Fashion File. But I have an excuse. I, like many others, am obsessed with the costuming on Mad Men. I’d like to read more about that.
I don’t think my, er, look (as much as I have one, if lazy is a look) suits anything from the fifties and sixties (I do love Roger Sterling’s suits with a passion, though — my mother would just shake her head if she knew that I still find men’s clothing more attractive), but I’m now more conscious of good quality tailoring and well-made clothes. So that’s what interests me particularly about the book, just about styling and materials and how it all comes together.
(Assuming that’s what’s in it!)
Via The Book Bench.
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If I reach back in time and talk to myself as a teenager, I’d have to grudgingly admit that struggling with studying Chinese was actually a good thing.
