Initial Conditions

These are a new style of posts because I’m struggling to find time these days to say anything here. The format is thus: the blog will have a title such as “fiver” “sevener” or “tenner” and will be [appropriate number] of brief statements or anecdotes that I’ve learnt/ thought about recently (if anyone reads the “The Game” supplement in The Times on a Monday, which I thoroughly recommend, it’s pretty similar to Tony Cascarino’s Fiver in which he does similar things), in no particular order. I’ll try to avoid using “The Fiver” if possible as that’s already the title of a (very funny) satirical daily e-mail about football provided by the Guardian (which is where I get the phrase England’s Brave John Terry from) which I also recommend signing up to if you like that sort of thing.

Anyway, to business:

1) Food hygiene courses at church are a good idea, until you go home and realise that your fridge might as well be a bacterial red light district

2) I don’t like it when “podcasts” in my iTunes has a large number beside it

3) I wouldn’t mind so much if meerkats went extinct. Car insurance commercials are inherently terrible, verging on evil

4) God doesn’t call everybody to be extroverted, and being extroverted is no better than being introverted. It can be quite hurtful when people try to change the way you are

5)I’d recommend the PS3 to way more people if I didn’t have to update the software on the bloody thing every time I turned it on

6) England winning the World Cup might not be such a bad thing, as at least then some of the media will have things other than 1966 to talk about

7) You know there’s too much pr0n on the internet when googling the names of simple weights and measures brings up things you probably don’t want to see as search results. My guess: if you can google it, there’s probably pr0n of it

8] It’s really funny to annoy Star Wars fans by telling them George Lucas made a mistake when he had Han Solo say he did the Kessel Run in 12 parsecs, as they will defend it to the hilt, coming up with nonsense theories instead. Strangely, they don’t feel the same about Jar Jar Binks

9) It’s really sad when people [myself included] knowingly put themselves in a situation where they know they can comprimise their beliefs, but won’t accept any criticism of it, because no matter what you say it’ll come across [to them] as judgemental

10) The business model of our stair cleaning company is laughable

11) It annoys my flatmates when I watch TV with my laptop on at the same time, so I’ll probably not be doing that any more

12) FIFA is (finally) better than PES for the first time probably ever

13) I’ve never met anyone called Strothers, and I don’t understand why my name is consistently mis-spelled this way

14) Finding the intended meaning of a passage in the Bible is a tough task, but well worth it once it’s found

15)  The only thing about X Factor that’s real is the public vote. The sob stories might be true, but they are being exploited

16) People in a relationship bring up that I’m single and they then reel off a list of names of single girls that I know, preceded by “what about…” [does anybody like it though?]  Being on an arbitrary list is not something I look for in the opposite sex. Being single isn’t a disease

17) There’s a storm coming. But storms are good because they relieve the heat

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