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Techno-Balls.

***WARNING*** Contains sanitised swearwords   It wont be as long as the last one, promise ....   Anywho: I pay attention to the WebProNews e-mails I get (daily, so it seems) and I try to keep at least one partially-deaf ear to the ground on such tech-related and internet post-modernisms as these newsletters (usually w**king on about how much google rule and how everyone wants to be their b*tch ) yet I find myself at odds with one thing they keep mentioning.   iPods, and more specif
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Ooooohh, New Shoes! (guns, actually)

Shoes? F**k that. I have consistently failed to buy any footwear for over 2 years now, as Jason will surely attest   What I care about most right now (apart from world peace, the sanctity of god and Burger King) is my new toybox - due to arrive either late on Thursday or midday Friday. I counted; as any good airsoft geek should.   It contain 4 new guns, and more importantly, the means to fully operate another 3 guns to boot.   Yay me. I will have at least 8 fully operational and skirmi
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More Double Dealings....

*gets on Soap Box*   Anyone who has ever used a bittorrent client for downloading all those licensed and legal songs that are so readily & cheerfully released by the record labels (yes, both of them) knows all about this idea of `leeching`.   I got my IP blocked from Azureus (note the lack of linky) a few days ago despite all my files having been allowed to run to a share ratio of at least 1:1, and in some cases as much as 5.5:1 or thereabouts - thats the fair measure to show you have
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*fruitcage* this. I am *fruitcage* furious.

I am so *fruitcage* ING *fruitcage* ING *fruitcage* ING ANNOYED RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!!   I have *just* spent well over 2 hours writing up an entry about today, full of carefully researched (for once) links and, although I say it myself, some rather good content and material I would have liked to have kept for the sake of improving my writing, if nothing else.   The server had too many connections. It lost all of it and the clipboard was not full of the latest copy of it because it contained on
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Thought of the Day.

Collective nouns. You get a gaggle of geese, a murder of crows, a lodge of beavers, a pack of dogs, a litter of puppies, a parliament of owls, a destruction of wildcats (apparently ).   The collective noun for English sportsmen will forever in my mind be a Failure.   A failure of English sportsmen. Beautiful.   I used it to describe a group of marshals to one of them (Combat) at GZ, nice to have good humoured people like Combat who can take a joke
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Flavourless Gravy Train.

Hmm. We have, usually, 4 people in our office to do admin, sales, delivery, damage limitation etc. Basically everything necessary to run the business except the accounts and the labouring.   I am one part of this 4-strong team and I do as much, if not more than my fair share.   I also do everything `IT`, I am the companies IT, all me on my own. Updating the website and creating all the content, answering all the emails and sending all pictures, quotes, trade info and recommendations across
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Travellers: Gypsy Myths.

I've put this in the media section because....well because its lonely in there right now And the only place most of you will have heard about them or have any information about them is from the media. Maybe the odd encounter, but most likely the media.   Travellers (as they like to be called) are a mixed bag. The reason I know so much is that I have daily contact with many of them, and am quite close to many more.   As far as I am concerned this is unfortunate, and you can leave a large
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Bad Job here. Not positive news.

Spare a thought for the 27 year-old woman and her daughters who have to listen today as my old man and th parish priest go to see them in a hospice, and tell them that the mother will almost certainly be dead this time tomorrow   Its a funny thing when you come downstairs in the morning and Dad drops somthing into the conversation along the lines of "I have to go and see that lady in XXXXX Hospice and tell he she has one day to live"   Its a little hard to manage your toast and muesli aft
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A wish, a prayer, & an MP5K.

The above mentioned MP5K arrived last Wednesday - the Marui AEG version (I wanted it to still work next week ) - and I am pretty much stunned by it even now. Its the 10th Marui AEG I've got and it is, simply, one of the best.   I wasn't expecting it to be at all, but the only immediate differences between any other AEG and this little puppy are the barrel lengths and the obvious aesthetics. An M14 may have the longestestest barrel ever, but in all but open woodland or a field this little bab
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Healed Heart: I've found my love!

Yup, its true. I have found a partner that can stay with me on the long journeys of life, can support me when I need it most, and can keep me going through the most difficult uphill struggles.   And, one that can really help me go places. Or should that be two....   Yup, I have fallen in love with 2, peop.... things, err. Ok my new true love is a pair of Nike Air Max 360s, and what a pair of trainers they are!! Oh, I never thought I'd see the day   Even I didn't expect those kind of gu
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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