Radio Trivia

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I listen to BBC iplayer all day long. I've listened to it until I had nothing else to listen to for the day. The channels i favour are: BBC 1, 4, and 7. And 1xtra, for the lulz. Somehow i fancy that the little scrapings of information i pick up from the radio may one day be useful so i am making small notes here:


  • "BBRRRING BRRRING!" "The humour you are attempting, is unattainable" (From 40 nights in the Wildebeest)
  • Ofsted - Ofsted is responsible for inspecting the standards of independent schools and state schools, local education authorities, child day care and childminding in England. It also monitors the work of the Independent Schools Inspectorate. HMI are empowered and required to provide independent advice to the United Kingdom government and parliament on matters of policy and to publish an annual report to parliament on the quality of educational provision in England. Safeguarding children review and reports for 2008 and 2005. (funny mark thomas show talkin about how ofsted officials should also be educators - sch bureacracy etc etc)
  • Old man who called up Tech Support about how he couldn't find the shutdown button on Windows says that the problem is that he could not understand why he had to press the Start button in order to see the shutdown button. Computer illiterate people are being left behind as certain social services and public utilities move their services online to save customer costs.
  • "Allah allah" - middle east comedy show
  • "Hoo Haa! Hezbollah!"
  • A series of Psychotic Episodes - "Jungle is dead. East London grime mcs are flocking to the countryside and becoming... Horse racing commentators"
  • The indifferent enemy, as described by Thomas Mann - in reference to young men killed in the prime of their iconoclastic selves. Like Zarathusha
  • Harry Harlow - American psychologist best known for his maternal-separation and social isolation experiments on rhesus monkeys, which demonstrated the importance of care-giving and companionship in social and cognitive development.
  • Merino wool comes from Merino Sheep, a special kind of sheep which is especially wrinkly and produces a lot more wool than normal sheep. however their folds trap moisture and they often are susceptible to flystrike which can be fatal. at the centre of the animal rights debate is the issue of mulesing these sheep to prevent flrstrikes
  • Sedlec Ossuary - made of skulls and bones
  • Animals which live underground are likelier to lose their limbs and senses
  • Cataracts or clouding of the lens is common enough that it may affect at least 50% of people when they get older, like an egg white slowly cooking...
  • Literacy is not a place, its a state of being.
  • story about a farmer who lost FIVE HUNDRED HENS - reporter: "how easy would it have been to steal them?" farmer: "like picking mushrooms!"
  • "...look, i know that passes for local colour in the bermuda triangle of ilford, dartford, and standford le hope, but this is....____snarky remark here" - funny bit from Chambers (A Case with a View)
  • a shilling is equivalent to 5p
  • sub focus's could this be real dnb remix (ram records) is #1 on the D&B charts for the last few weeks. (jan 2010)

fragments

  • crouton is a japanese sofa
  • cocker spaniel tartare
  • "is the dodo steak rare?" "increasingly so, sir"
  • "i only shoot what i can eat." "lets hope its your foot then."

notebooks scrawlings

and in a similar vein, ideas on pieces of paper in my room as i clear them and prepare to move again....

  • "american prisons are romanian hotels"
  • my body has become a singleminded force. desire, or longing? i do not own it, i can only describe it.
  • is there a term for the refusal to finish a roll of film
  • strict diet of cold pizza and flat diet coke, microwavable tupperware (you can tell this was from my uni days)
  • "God forgot who the fuck she is. And reason is God's mirror stage. 'Oh, that's me, I'm God.'"