I find the different onomatopoeias used for the same sound in different languages entertaining, not least for the ensuing hilarity when you mispronounce them as English words. When I was in Paris with two of my housemates in December, we found a postcard which serves as a perfect illustration of why I enjoy mispronunciation. According to the back of the card, it depicts “Le coming-out du cochon”.

In the same shop, we found another card featuring a painting of a startled-looking boy playing his accordion, with a monkey dancing on his shoulder. I can’t decide how best to interpret the monkey’s expression.

It's kind of a long story, but I have a massive pile of stamps of various denominations. Returning a keyboard to Amazon cost £6.50, so... I used a few of them.

The funniest anagram of "Spider-Man" that I could find was "I Sperm Dan", a title which I am not prepared to give to a blag post.

I enjoyed this film. It contained long stretches of not taking itself seriously, and a ridiculous shot of Spider-Man pausing in front of a fluttering Stars and Stripes before saving New York, as he does. It also features an emo Peter Parker, who looks something like a cross between Fall Out Boy and Peter Petrelli from Heroes. (I only realised why he looked familiar and why I kept expecting him to have more superpowers than "being a spider" after the film. Also, you should all go watch Heroes.) Anyway. It's pretty obviously not some kind of revolutionary art cinema, but as far as massive-budget, special-effects-ridden comic book adaptations go, it's not bad.

I was pleased to find that my somewhat clichéd criminal photographic exploits provoked laughter from a fairly large proportion of the cinema. I'm such a sucker for attention. The folks on the row just behind me saw me getting my camera out and were making excited anticipatory noises, which also made me happy.

My parent apparently sent me an email with the subject line "fat chick". It got past my spam filter, which is good, because it actually isn't spam.

I saw this in the cornershop:

Also, next muffin!

"Farmers create the cube-shaped watermelons by placing the fruit in a transparent box as they grow."

via toresbe

So I agreed with people not to get me Christmas presents unless they something cheap, awesome and spontaneous that would be really appropriate, and that I'd do the same. (This was inspired by diffrentcolours, IIRC.) Little did I expect that designergall would actually find something fitting those criteria:

So yeah, great awesomeness. It fits like four normal sized mugs-worth of tea. Yay caffeine! Thanks Claire :-)

Do you know what goatse is? If not: it's a shock site. I won't tell you more, because I want to get more first impressions. If you really, really, really want to see it for yourself, goatse dot ragingfist dot net has it, but do not blame me for you being overly curious. That's deliberately not a link so that you have to go out of your way to go to it, hence you can't claim to have clicked accidentally. :-)

Dave2 showed me a project to collect photos of people's initial reactions to goatse. I realised that designergall had not seen goatse, and so decided to subject her to it and join the campaign. The results: 1, 2. \o/