Easy money :O)

I read on the Politics bard that some aol members were offered broadband for £9.99 per month and as I currently pay £17.99 I thought I'd pursue this with Billing. 

I phoned on 0870 3202020, chose the option to talk about pricing/technical and just hung on for 10 minutes to speak to a human being (interestingly for the first time ever I heard Paul Brady being played as muzac - if you've never heard his band then make sure you do soon). 

I asked about the  £9.99 offer and was told it didn't apply to me, but only to some lucky people chosen by computer.  That's outrageous, sez I, I won't put up with this unfair treatment, put me through to cancellations. 

Cancellations - by name of gorgeous Laura O'Neill - said she quite understood my anger at the unfairness of it all and she could either cancel my account if that's what I wanted, or alternatively she would put me on the £9.99 per month immediately.  I got the official email within 5 minutes.  I thus easily saved myself almost £100 pa.  Try it yourself if you're paying more than £9.99, but do it quickly because this 'offer' is time limited.

I'm off shopping now  :O)

The right sort of terrorist

From Time magazine:

The Bush Administration prefers to paint the War on Terror in stark terms of good and evil, but the reality is that not all terror suspects are considered equal. That much was clear on the same day that the nation solemnly recalled the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, when a federal magistrate recommended freeing a man being held on immigration charges who is also awaiting retrial in Venezuela for the bombing of a Cuban airliner 30 years ago that resulted in the death of all aboard, including the Cuban national fencing team.

Why is the Bush administration so unconcerned about terrorists like Posada? The answer is simple and obvious. As Time points out, "Posada, a self-styled freedom fighter, has been involved in anti-Castro activities for decades."

If you are an anti-Castro terrorist, according to the US government, then you are a good terrorist. I am sure that the families of the victims of that bombing of an airliner will be happy to know that the US government sees things that way.

Trying to turn a leaf out of Oprah's book

When in the past I've been extremely unhappy with my life I've made lists of the good things in it and found that it helped me put things into perpective.  Now apparently Oprah Winfrey recommends keeping a "grateful journal" in which you "list five things that happened this day that you are grateful for. What it will begin to do is change your perspective of your day and your life. If you can learn to focus on what you have, you will always see that the universe is abundant; you will have more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never have enough."

I think that positive thinking is a useful psychological tool, and so I'm going to do this, every day, until I - and perhaps my Blog - turn from gloomy cynicism towards the cheerily optimistic.  Here then is my list for today:

 

1. The tomatoes still on the vines are reducing in number and soon my culinary labours in that direction will be over for the year.

2. My new washing machine may make scarey noises but I've now done 2 washes and it has neither walked across the floor nor ripped any clothes into shreds.

3, The Shield is on TV tonight.

4. I have a loving and very understanding husband who doesn't ask me to accompany him walking the dog when it's raining.

5. My granddaughter Connie managed to get hold of her reception teacher's 'Good Girl' stamp, and marked her school uniform shirt indelibly with that valediction, smart cookie Connie!

 

Just call me Pollyanna, and then have a go yourself  :O)

 

Sod it, it's 18.24 and I've just discovered that The Shield ended last Friday!  Grrrrr.

It's just like a Cosmo quiz, honest! :O)

Take this quiz and see how suited to marriage you are - and yes I'm guessing you're already married but even so, have a go : Click here: The Premarital Quiz!

 

The multiple choice questions include the following gems:

 

When the Bible says that the “husband is the head of the wife” it means:
The husband always has the final say on all matters.
The husband is in a position of honor above the wife.
The husband’s behavior is the model for the wife’s behavior. In other words, husbands are required to “go first” or do what is good, beneficial, and necessary first.

When the Bible says that the wife should submit to the husband,it means:
The wife should do everything the husband says.
The wife should repress her life’s goals if they are different from the husband’s goals.
The wife should stand by her husband even if he says or does something wrong.

 

40% is all I got so I failed   Fortunately this means only that I chose alternative responses to those that the quizmaster intended me to choose - luckily it's possible to take the test again after you've been emailed the 'correct' answers.  Next time, were I to bother, I'd be 100% top marriage material  <gg>

 

So on balance I think it's fair to say that this 'quiz' is all about indoctrination and bugger all to do with helping people who are intending to marry.  Pity the poor young people dum enough to fall for it and then think their marriages doomed before they begin.

Sick sick Cindy

Think of the last time you saw a photo of a 5 year old in her swimming coggie.  She probably had sand on her legs and was more interested in finding seashells than in posing for the camera, right?

Now imagine your 5 year old posing, looking coyly over her shoulder at the camera, arm in that 'guess what I'm hiding' position, and a tattoo right in the small of her little back, just above her bottom, a bit like a bull's eye.  Nice image huh?

Well Cindy Crawford thinks so.  Know what I think?  Prostituting your 5 year old daughter is the pits, and it's also pandering to paedophilia.  Poor child, to be the daughter of such a media slut.

Have a looksee and make your own mind up:   http://i9.tinypic.com/48p1anl.jpg           

HP kin Sauce.

From time to time I feel impelled to diet, either when my clothes get a bit on the tight side or when one of our ultra skinny-fit daughters comes to stay and spends hours running up and down the local hills and then talks about missing her cross-trainer when she's away from home.  The only other thing that makes me want to be thinner more than it makes me want to eat more chocolate is when I see an unflattering photo of myself - usually standing next to one of said daughters.

Imagine my joy then at seeing this:  Slimming photos with HP digital cameras - HP Digital Photography Center

On the other hand and having given it slightly more than 10 seconds thought of course, the actuality is that I think Hewlett Packard will have to go and lick a dead bear's bum before I buy any of their products again.  Sizist bastards.

Keep your legs closed darlin :O)

Click here: YouTube - Your Body and Your Government

And we think ID Cards are an intrusion!  :O)