Things I have learned today

Gay people cannot commit adultery.

What people in 1904 London did to amuse themselves - via a recently dicovered film reel.

is a campaign ad - but it's a funny one if you were amused by adverts in 2000.

All in the best possible taste

Well, more in the interests of equal-opportunities bad taste.

Julie and I went to Clare's birthday last night at Jongleurs - a hyper-efficient comedy club that basically revolves around birthdays and hen/stag nights. They get you to your tables, you order drinks/food - the orders are beamed directly to the bar from their PDAs and usually start turning up before the last person at the table has finished ordering. You then get two comedians, a ten minute break in which more alcohol arrives, and then the headlining comedian. And in the three times I've been there I've only seen one comedian who was mediocre.

It was the first guy last night who grabbed my attention - his entire act was one-liners, something I've not seen before - and he really made it work. Clearly a geek (down to the Dr-Who cufflinks), with a streak of bad-taste humour a mile wide. My favourite two were "I've taken to winding up my Israeli flatmate by giving him all the post addressed to 'The Occupier'" and "I've been so desparate recently that I resorted to one of those blow-up women. You know, Palestinians." spaj's favourite was "Friend of mine had a penis extension recently. Now his house looks really fucking stupid." and a close runner-up was "I bought a christmas tree. The salesman asked if I was going to put it up myself. I said 'Naah, it'll look better in the living room.'"

I'm not even going to mention the Brittle Bone joke :->

The strange wonders of technology

I totally failed to realise the clocks went back last night, because every clock I own automatically sets itself to the right time. It wasn't until I chatted to Erin that I found out that they had.

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