Thoughs of a Sagacious Fool

Silly me

2008-11-04T23:33:50Z

There are times when I almost envy people who wear glasses all the time. I am long sighted so only need to wear the damn things when I need to read, use the computer, or chopping vegetables (I'll tell that story soon). The reason for my ire is that I spent quite some time this morning trying to find my reading glasses and eventually stormed out of the house without them. When I got to the bus stop, however, I ran my fingers through my hair (mostly through despair) and found that I had put my glasses on my head. As I said... "silly me".

I'm back!..... (maybe)

2008-11-03T00:48:36Z

Now that I once again have a reasonable internet connection I have decided that I am going to try to type something on this every day. (Will those of you who are syntactically challenged please note the lack of the word 'and' in the previous sentence.)

I do not promise to be interesting, and as this is MY smegging journal, I very much doubt that I shall be as 'Politically Correct' as some of the dweebs out there might want me to be. Thrrrrrrrp!

Am I goung to explode?

2007-12-23T22:24:50Z

I am going to my sister's for lunch tomorrow which should be fun (she is a trained caterer - with immagination!). And then, as I will probably only want a snack before bed, I have a crab and prawn roulade for supper.

For Chrismas I have smoked salmon and avocado for breakfast, and for the rest of the day I have aromatic duck and a selection of din sum and other tid bits (e.g. Thai fish cakes). The only problem is that the bag of king prawns will not fit (with every thing else) into the rather small freezer compartment of my fridge. I suppose I will just have to eat them... 'Unfortunately' the fresh mackrel needs eating first.

Don't mix your Vampires...

2007-11-05T11:18:09Z

I have been re-reading Carpe Jugulum but the other day I felt like somthing a little different. I therefore read 'Blood and Whiskey' a side story from the wonderful Preacher series featuring Cassidy the vampire. I thought that the difference in style (satire versus blood-and-guts) would stop the story lines from clashing.

Unfortunately my dreams did not agree and I awoke the next morning with a disturbing and confused memory of a 'conversation' (more like a no-holds-barred verbal fencing match) between Cassidy, the arrogant, self-serving, hundred year old adolescent vampire, and Granny Weatherwax, the very powerful, very Moral witch who, rather than putting the fear of god into people, puts the fear of Granny Weatherwax into people, including the gods themselves.

Thought for the day...

2007-08-18T22:54:53Z

After discussing "sling and arrows" with a nice young lady today she gave me this quote from her mother, which I think is apposite:

Keep your friends many
but only trust few
and always paddle your own canoe.

And always remember that just because you are paranoid does not mean to say that 'they' are not out to get you.

Child of the Sixties?

2007-07-26T09:16:50Z

Your Score: Hippie

You are 42% Rational, 57% Extroverted, 42% Brutal, and 14% Arrogant.

You are the Hippie! Characterized by a strong sense of extroversion, irrationality, gentleness, humility, and a faint scent of marijuana, you no doubt frolic through fields preaching peace and free love! Immediately following that, you then frolic to the hospital with herpes! You are probably either very spiritual or needlessly paranoid about "the man", like most hippies, as a result of your focus on intuition and feelings over cold, brutal logic. You probably enjoy poetry, especially beatnik ultra-liberal crap about how horrible fascism is, even though your suburbanized, sheltered idea of "fascism" is having to pay two dollars per gallon at the gas pump. You are also very, very social. And like any hippie who would have no qualms about hitchiking across the country just to meet some interesting people, you also love to interact with others, even complete strangers. Though I highly doubt they love to interact with you! Because we know most any hippie is peace-loving and humble, it stands to reason that you, as well, are terribly gentle and humble, almost to the point of revulsion. Your carefree attitude of peace and harmony is probably very, very sickening to realists or cynics or anyone who isn't a hippie, to tell the truth. In short, your personality is defective because you are overly emotional, extroverted, gentle, and humble--thus making you an annoying hippie. Now go do your drugs and have sex with filthy bearded men in tye dye shirts.

To put it less negatively:

1. You are more INTUITIVE than rational.

2. You are more EXTROVERTED than introverted.

3. You are more GENTLE than brutal.

4. You are more HUMBLE than arrogant.

Compatibility:

Your exact opposite is the Sociopath.

Other personalities you would probably get along with are the Hand-Raiser, the Televangelist, and the Robot.

If you scored near fifty percent for a certain trait (42%-58%), you could very well go either way. For example, someone with 42% Extroversion is slightly leaning towards being an introvert, but is close enough to being an extrovert to be classified that way as well. Below is a list of the other personality types so that you can determine which other possible categories you may fill if you scored near fifty percent for certain traits.

The other personality types:

The Emo Kid: Intuitive, Introverted, Gentle, Humble.

The Starving Artist: Intuitive, Introverted, Gentle, Arrogant.

The Bitch-Slap: Intuitive, Introverted, Brutal, Humble.

The Brute: Intuitive, Introverted, Brutal, Arrogant.

The Hippie: Intuitive, Extroverted, Gentle, Humble.

The Televangelist: Intuitive, Extroverted, Gentle, Arrogant.

The Schoolyard Bully: Intuitive, Extroverted, Brutal, Humble.

The Class Clown: Intuitive, Extroverted, Brutal, Arrogant.

The Robot: Rational, Introverted, Gentle, Humble.

The Haughty Intellectual: Rational, Introverted, Gentle, Arrogant.

The Spiteful Loner: Rational, Introverted, Brutal, Humble.

The Sociopath: Rational, Introverted, Brutal, Arrogant.

The Hand-Raiser: Rational, Extroverted, Gentle, Humble.

The Braggart: Rational, Extroverted, Gentle, Arrogant.

The Capitalist Pig: Rational, Extroverted, Brutal, Humble.

The Smartass: Rational, Extroverted, Brutal, Arrogant.

Be sure to take my Sublime Philosophical Crap Test if you are interested in taking a slightly more intellectual test that has just as many insane ramblings as this one does!

About Saint_Gasoline

I am a self-proclaimed pseudo-intellectual who loves dashes. I enjoy science, philosophy, and fart jokes and water balloons, not necessarily in that order. I spend 95% of my time online, and the other 5% of my time in the bathroom, longing to get back on the computer. If, God forbid, you somehow find me amusing instead of crass and annoying, be sure to check out my blog and my webcomic at SaintGasoline.com.

Link: The Personality Defect Test written by saint_gasoline on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the The Dating Persona Test

I'm a Runester!

2007-07-23T16:04:55Z

Your Score: Older Futhark

You scored

Language of the Norse, Older Futhark! Twenty four symbols, all told. And no hardier, more warrior-like tongue has ever graced the longships of the Viki or left the Celts and Saxons in such quivering fear. There's only one drawback, that being you died 800 years ago.

Link: The Which Ancient Language Are You Test written by imipak on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the The Dating Persona Test

The World at my Fingertips...

2006-12-04T00:31:38Z

... at last. I have, at last, got home internet access again! While I do have access at work I don't have much time during the day and by the end of it I just want to go home, so I do little more than check my emails. Besides, there is a manager who has a habit of peering over one's shoulder, even when he know you are there out of hours working on something personal. Grrr...

Mind you, not everything is quite perfect (is it ever). The ISP are still doing commissioning tests which means that every so often the link goes away. Only a few more days of that to go though (we've been told).

Gender Quiz

2006-09-02T13:27:07Z

I just took this gender quiz...

You scored as Male. Being mostly male, within your structures of thinking simply means that your reasoning powers are (the way they are perceived in Western Culture`) higher than the one of the opposite sex. Psychoanalsis claims this to come at the price of creative expression - a rational thinker can not think out of the box, it is claimed. Yet this 'discovery' contradicts the fact that many great minds that created something out of the ordinary were men.

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Male

61%

Female

61%

Either

54%

Neither

39%

Should you be MALE or FEMALE?*
created with QuizFarm.com

Now what does it say about a person when they are considered to be more that 50% male and more than 50% female. Apart from "Odd" that is!

Thought of the Day...

2006-07-14T21:25:02Z

There is no such this as 'bad weather' only the wrong clothes. [Billy Connolly]

What is beer?

2006-07-02T20:47:36Z

Sugar from barley
The flowers of hemps cousin
And a little mould.

If you don't ask you don't get...

2006-07-02T20:37:24Z

Well...

There I was in Cash Converters ("we'll give you cash for anything we reckon we can sell" type pawnbrokers) buying of all things a VCR. Well it had Freeview (terrestrial digital TV & radio) and was about the same price as a set-top-box. As it turns out Film Four are moving to Freeview in a couple of weeks – Tasty!!

Now, being a cheeky sod, I have a tendency, as I usually pay cash, to say “any discount for cash” (or words to that effect). Well knock me down with a wet bar towel… the chap said “I’ll see what I can do”. And lo and behold, a few button presses later, he gave me a fiver off! Now this is not a market stall, it’s part of a big chain, but it would appear that there is more truth than I thought in the saying
“If you don’t ask, you don’t get”

Whose Quote...

2006-06-11T12:24:20Z

For those you you who wondered like me...

"Then out spake brave Horatius,
The Captain of the Gate:
"To every man upon this earth
Death cometh soon or late.
And how can man die better
Than facing fearful odds,
For the ashes of his fathers,
And the temples of his gods,"

From Horatius
by Thomas Babbington Macaulay

Funny Slip

2006-06-06T20:56:23Z

I was watching daytime telly (oh the joys of shiftwork!) when they were discussing the superstitions surrounding the date ie 6/6/06. The 'expert' mentioned that a number of Christians believe that 'deserving people' would be transported bodily to heaven.

"So, we are going to see the sudden disappearence of large numbers of Evangelists then?" said the presenter.

"We can but hope!" replied the expert immediately, before looking slightly sheepish at being so blunt. I had me whooping with laughter.

I need a holiday...

2006-06-04T15:42:59Z

I had hoped to take a couple of days off from work but just because a bunch over rated, over paid pseudo ballet dancers playing a glorified version of 'Piggy-in-the-Middle' at various locations in Germany in the next few weeks it's all hands to the pump.

To insult to injury the 'Cup' they are playing for looks less like a 'Cup' and more like a sex aid for a rhinoceros. And to think that I use to think that Cricket was boring (well, I still do, actually) :-p

Eletronic Agoraphobia

2006-06-02T09:05:52Z

There are times when I find that the internet gives me a kind of intellectual agoraphobia.

While listening to the World Service I heard that they have numerous podcasts available. So I was having a rummage around their website to see what was available and discovered another site which is a open access archive put together by the BBC, Channel 4, The Open University and several others. The mind boggles! If this stuff in available then what else? I have only recently been trying (not very successfully) to get my head around the number of E-Books out there [I recently had to back up my small library and it took up not a CD but a whole DVD - and even then it did not quite fit!].

I have passed many happy hours 'playing' with putting odd words like "feral" into the Google picture search, but Ye Gods!! this is taking things to a whole new level. It makes the Elephant's Child even more hungry and it difficult enough to feed as it is. Just to scratch the surface not only am I going to have to get a very substantial lottery win, but I am also going to have to work out how to live for several (if not many) hundreds of years.

I just hope it will still be here when I come back in the next life.......

Moral Thought of the Day...

2006-05-29T23:26:20Z

Sex is never wrong/immoral if you both (all) enjoy it.

Thought of the day

2006-05-27T20:33:27Z

A man who cannot change his mind is in danger of losing it altogether.

Naughty me...

2006-05-10T17:15:29Z

I have just signed up to spend the princely sum of £10 per month for the privilege of playing on the internet down the pub... well a lot of pubs - and coffee shops - and stations - in fact pretty much anywhere there is a WiFi hot spot.

Ok, so it is only a little four hours a month but the excess is only 10p a minute, and most of what I want to do can be done offline and uploaded once I log in.

It might mean that I post here more often... you never know!

Hapless Hoodies...

2006-05-07T23:39:09Z

Why are hoodies so scary?

Homo Spapiens [what does 'sapiens' mean again?] is a primate and as such needs to live in groups. More than that: each individual needs to know their place in the group. When the group get to big this primordial, hard-wired need cannot be satisfied so the need for ingrouping has to be satisfied in other ways.

Hoodies are a tool for in-grouping. It is a very effective tool: those wearing hoodies are only known to members of their own group, and to out-groupers they appear a cohesive ‘gang’ of ‘outsiders’ – and xenophobia is the deepest of all primate phobias. [Perhaps Jonathan Swift would suggest that no children should be allowed to be raised in any conurbation bigger than a large village.]

The problem is exacerbated by the fact that this method is used by those who feel ‘outcast’. They react to this by very strong, almost ritual, in-grouping which in turn ‘out-groups’ all others: and when a bunch of surly teenagers want to fend off others – it is felt.

Curiously these self exiled have not lost their humanity. My sister is frequently helped to get the baby-buggy off the bus, for example, by youths who, in other circumstances, she would feel intimidated by.

I personally would, I think be more intimidated by a train-spotter, or someone who can quote virtually every line of Star Trek Classic (let alone knowing the full cast list for each episode!).

Perhaps Jonathan Swift would suggest that no children should be allowed to be raised in any conurbation bigger than a large village.

Red Shirts...

2006-04-23T00:00:48Z

I know that "Red Shirt" is a pretty universal term, and that is very often possible to recognise them the first time they open their mouthes, but are there different types of Red Shirt?

This was brought to my attention while watching a rather good B-movie [often better than a mediocre 'A-movie'] and one of the characters denied the existence of any 'evil spirit' [classic!!] but the character himself was decidedly nasty. My reaction was "Evil Red Shirt" - and as it turned out I was right :-p

Now what about other categories of Red Shirt? How about a benign red shirt - Obi-Wan Kenobi? Or non-human Red Shirt - Hal in "2001 - Space Odyssey"?

Well, it was just a thought - and one I may well comment on later...

Thought about lies...

2005-07-22T22:45:39Z

Now the old Adversary, somtimes known as Shaitan or whatever, is supposed to be the father of lies. What if this is a mistranslation and he/she/it is actually the father/mother/source of deception? It makes more sense to me that deception is something to be reviled thater than mere fibs.

Hello Again...

2004-11-20T19:50:40Z

Having been trying to learn a bit about web site design I now have a website!!

Although my website has a banner it is mine and was designed/written by me. From time to time I will be adding more pages, such as a 'favorite graphics' page, but I need to learn a bit more first.

Maybe this will even encourage me to write more here...

Look what I found...

2004-07-11T22:06:41Z

find your element
at mutedfaith.com.

For once I like the result of this one.

Hot Iron-y...

2004-06-14T23:02:48Z

I was going into Whitechappel station today (up the east end of London for those who don't know) and there was a rather happy, not to mention inebriated, Scotsman sat on a market barrow opposite singing to the passers by, really quite tunefully.

Now it's been a beautiful day with temperatures which the south of France would be proud of, and tomorrow is going to be even hotter. So is there any call for the, admittedly very nice, chap to be singing "The sun'll come out tomorrow" (from Annie - I think)?