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How hard can it be?

A quick word on the nature of procrastination:   Its very easy isn't it? I managed to tidy my whole room last night (normally the kind of task that demands at least 4 pairs of strong gloves, an emergency radio and a whole sackful of C-rations) and track down and stack up about 50 of the errant guns boxes all very neatly and securely, even tidy the room next door (the Theology dept-cum-library, don'tcherknow ) and make a good inroad into The Last Continent for about the 5th time, and I've sti

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Coming soon...

After trying to make a sandwich, I am apparently unable to make a basic gun display either I carved off the end of my left thumb on Friday night while under the illusion it was a piece of pepper. Tequila can do that to a man.   So my promise of a basic display for a pistol or two didn’t happen yet because one of my thumbs doesn't work properly – but I discovered its not bloody easy to do with nowt but a cardboard box to your name!   Other people might have assumed that much anyway, but of

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the Evils of Insurance

My brother perfectly illustrated the stupidity and wastefulness of the insurance industry to me last night - I had hitherto not really thought about it as I don't have anything insured to speak of. Not yet, anyway.   Car insurance policies are based on the value of the car and, in the event of an accident, come in to play in relation to the cost of repair. If the cost of repair after an accident exceeds only 2 thirds of the car's re-sale value, then the car will be basically destroyed - from

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Stream of Nothingness

Aware of where this blog has been going lately (i.e. nowhere very interesting) and remembering Snowmans insightful comment in the only thread here on Arnies that seems to concern these blogs, I'm gonna be trying to keep it to only the more interesting stuff I think of, rather than the cr@p I've been espousing recently   Also Sledge's excellent blog, which I can only hope continues as it has started, has reminded me that no-one wants to read any old bullsh*t (why the Daily Mail still has a re

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Smug Dealer

Tied up that little deal yesterday, got knocked down on price as I was expecting and had to change what we actually sold them (its snazzy exciting Crash Barriers we flogged 'em, not those scintillating Railway Sleepers everyone loves) which I was not expecting, but had to be done because of their apparent budget, but I did it all yesterday and thats 8.8K that no-one but me believed we could ever possibly get   Not bad for an office monkey Shame the boss is in a suicidally depressed mood to

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Just call me Santa

Yeah I'm gonna put pictures into this one, like it or lump it, suckas!   Look I just happened to take the camera with me & I thought you might like to see some pictures of some nice, relaxing *cough-dull-cough* boats & stuff, awight?   I'm just a sl*t for posting pictures now I know how to go about it, thats all   I'm most chuffed with the end result of the Giveaway Bonanza, largely because I've managed to send off 23 parcels - including 2 to Europe, 3 to the USA and 1 to good

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Training Day

Bloody hell it was cold out yesterday wasn’t it? Glad you agree. If you were an English woodland airsofter then not 36 hours ago would you have been rubbing your hands, avoiding lurking in the high terrain, making more than a few (dozen) trips to the car and sporadically taking nips of brandy to keep out the chilliest chill we’ve yet seen this year, or so I believe.   I only believe it was the chilliest because I personally felt colder than I have done before in this winter; it may actually h

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Nice Day for it.

Maybe its just me, or maybe its the bourbon still talking from last night, but so far today I've thoroughly enjoyed working - to the point that its now an hour after closing time and I'm still here just waiting for last few straggling `Saturday people` (customers who have no real idea of their requirements or materials, unlike the tradesmen and professionals, but are at least refreshingly middle class ) to turn up and get what they want.   Its all been rather relaxing.   Had a good poker

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Mission.

This is my online diary, so it may as well be a timeline into the bargain. Tonight is the night that I wrap up all the goodies that I'm giving away in the EvilHippy Spring Bargain Bonanza. Snappier titles have been known, but this isn't about any more marketing than it absolutely needs to be   It is now 8:02 PM precisely. I have not started yet. I'm gonna post this up as & when but as it is, I ain't done sh*t, captain. Perhaps another tin of carbonated alcohol will help things along ..

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a-Drinkin' & a-Smokin'

I wonder how many people drink just so they can enjoy a smoke, I know I used to actually do that. Its weird; telling yourself that your drinking all that booze just so you can really feel that elusive satisfaction that you once got from a cigarette.   Of course its simply a delusion: you're a budding alcoholic and your drinking to get drunk, and forget things, but the thought process is there and it is very convincing.   I've been loosely giving up smoking ciggies (well, rollups actually,

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Ahem. Yes, well..

I would just like to apologise for the rantyness of the last entry I was a bit ###### off at the time, largely because the whole thing happened just when I was going to take a late lunch break (these are things that I have heard of, but apparently happen only to other people around here) and make a potentially very important phone call to my bank.   I'm gonna take advantage of Natwest's purported free business advice, I have my suspicions as to how they actually go about it of course ("st

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Hard Labour

Well I'm only a bit less p*ssed off now that I've had a coupla beers, but altogether the sheer silliness of the situation still makes me not very *fruitcage* ing happy with the way things are done around here.   I speak of work, and I speak ill of work as well, which is something that doesn't happen too often, or at least isn't meant very seriously when it does happen. Disgruntlement at this point is not severe (gods bless you, beer ) but its probably going to resurface at about midnight ton

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Not a total Geek

I'm wondering if I'm anywhere as big a geek as I always assumed I was, and maybe I'm really only a geek in the way I knew I was years ago.   Confused? Well I think I used to be too. Now I'm pretty sure that I'm not a gun geek at all, really No honestly, I don't think I can be. Thanks to the mildly antisocial behaviour of another user here I've come to the realisation that I don't care about airsoft in a geeky enough way, nor do I give a fig for the minutiae of real-steel operation.   I t

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Free stuff. For free!

Have a look here if you want any bits and bobs.   http://www.arniesairsoft.co.uk/forums/inde...ndpost&p=682971   I just wrote an essay for the thread itself so this is gonna be a tiny one   Please feel free to ask me here for any bits IF THEY HAVEN'T ALREADY BEEN MARKED AS SOLD IN THE THREAD.   Ahem. Pardon me for shouting but sometimes you just gotta do it

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A Day of Reckoning...

I’m really hoping this deal I’ve been putting together comes through. Its not worryingly huge but it is a bit of a prover, as it were. I’ve been negotiating with a potential customer who wants about a thousand railway sleepers (yeah I know, glamorous ain’t it? ) and a load of - wait for it – motorway crash barriers. I bet that’s got your blood racing, eh?   Its not exactly thrilling but its no worse than any other product I guess, and at least our reason for doing what we do is because i

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Drunken Master

You'd almost think that I've not been drinking since the last post on alcoholism wouldn't you?   Not a chance. As I sit here sipping my G+T I realise how I have neglected this blog while I've been ill, and being drunk for virtually all of the same period hasn't helped me recover much. If only I could take time off work to get better, but then I realise the reason I can't do that is because I'll end up being p*ssed all day instead.   Ho-hum; oh the trials and tribulations of being an evil

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Peter Osgood.

`Man dies at Funeral` - some might say thats not too far from being unusual but thinking about it, some might say that it is actually rather odd. But I guess these things do have to happen from time to time.   Odder still is the person who sadly died yesterday, the Chelsea, Southampton and England footballer Peter Osgood, famous in the late 60's and 70's for being almost at the top of the game, but mostly for portraying the `King's Road` image of classic English football. A rather good obitua

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Happily unmarried man

So the theory goes that; we must find a partner to be happy, and have kids, and leave everything to them and they can carry on our `line`, or whatever.   I disagree with most of the ideas about being attached to someone in order to be happy, I find it untrue and honestly a basic weakness of people to let their evolved instincts guide them in such a strong way. Fair play to y’all that have other halves, but to think they happened to you because of anything other than a highly evolved way of ca

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Blind Faith

I’m wasn’t sure how sure I should be of this, but in the spirit of brotherly sharing, goodwill, trust and general niceness I’ve lent a few guns out to some newbie skirmishers. But I’m not going myself…..?   I guess this happens when you take people along and they get bitten by the Bug, now they wanna go practically every day and of course they don’t have their own guns yet. I could see it coming, really, and I guess this is just the bit where I undergo a little test of my faith in these guys;

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Apple software shenanigans

Hmmmm.....   Right. This is a convoluted way of getting around to my main point, but it neatly illustrates how silly and convoluted things can get, unnecessarily, too.   I'm going to the rather swanky and exclusive Roof Gardens nightclub/restaurant in Kensington in a few weeks (guest-list only darling, didn't you know? *looks down nose*) and although getting on the guest list might prove to be a bit of a mission, I didn't exactly expect viewing the freakin' website to be one as well.  

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Gunsmithing For Dummies

After a long, long time in limbo, I am more or less satisfied that I have a final plan for my battered old Marui MP5 SD5. My first homemade custom gun; Woo, and veritably yay!!   The stock went to someone else a while ago as I knew this had to be a short gun as soon as I realised it had to be modified, and my amazingly cunning, although horribly disfiguring, previous plan of keeping a giant battery hidden inside an upturned MC51 large battery handguard sitting on the top of the thing has bee

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Internetterly Greatness.

I cannot normally be bothered to stick links in here to every cool thing I see or get sent, I might start now ..... but then again I might not. I just thought that given the recent outcry over religion, a general lazy kind of interest in finding ways to argue both with and for my Father's choice in this area (he's going for the Deaconship in the local parish and is nearing the end of a Theology degree - busy little Buddha that he is ), and also knowing and deeply appreciating his well-establ

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King of the Jungle

Tarzan, King Kong, Jim Carrey and the Amazon river can all take second prize on this one, because the true king of the jungle is Mr. Raymond Mears, of North Devon.   Ray's shows are great, he may be a trifle out of tune with latest developments in popular culture and the normal stream of media-filtered horsesh*t we receive from every channel and every station at every opportunity, but that's a good thing, surely? The thing that makes him king is that he cares in a totally unassuming way.  

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Welcome to The Suck: Jarhead

Woooo! another Desert War movie!! Its only a matter of time before we get the hollywoodised version of Bravo Two Zero:   Instead of; "I don't know nuffin', I'm only a medic....." "Why are you doing this to us Andy, I'm trying to help you **THWACK!!** "     It could be safely assumed to become "I'll never tell you anything, you goddamned person of middle-eastern ethnicity!" "Ah, but yesss you willll, after we kill your best friend and threaten your famillllly!!" "Noooooooo!!!"

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Happy Hippy Birthday :D

Yup its the big four-oh for me - in 16 years time Yes I am now technically 24, my word, only 16 years until I'm 40? Sh*t, I really hadn't thought of it like that before   Oh well, according to the last entry it doesn't matter anyway, so lets just get on with things with a smile, a wave, and the occasional little boogie and a few healthy sups of `that ol' Janx spirit` to lubricate the passage ( )   In the latest thing from the world of airsoft - I am nearing the completion of my collec

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