OK OK, enough of the threats of Simon and his canine companion.

Back in HK and sweaty as always. Last night spent in the pub attempting to drink through the jet lag. Some bastard was farting repeatedly on the plane, always while I was asleep. Woke up at one point to see the stewardess standing over the guy next to me with a can of Glade.

Watched Day After Tomorrow and Punisher on the plane. Both shit although the Puinisher was especially so.

The site Jules mentions; http://www.preparingforemergencies.co.uk/ is a spoof of the actual http://www.preparingforemergencies.co.gov/ and is very funny indeed. Here is what B3ta had to say about it;

: PREPARINGFOREMERGENCIES.CO.UK Parody site goes ballistic

The problem with running a weekly newsletter based upon the stuff people do on a daily basis is that sometimes the items are so hot, that they go around the world twice before we even have the chance to tell you about them

Thomas Scott writes -

The UK government registered www.preparingforemergencies.gov.uk to go with their anti-terror advice leaflet. "Pity they forgot to register co.uk , really.

It would only have been mildly funny, had some bod at the Cabinet Office not objected, sent me a firm email, and turned the whole thing into a news story

"This has gone beyond Tonbridge Monkey Man proportions - I've had about two pages in the Guardian supplement today, as well as being on three local TV news shows last night.

See what all the fuss was about:http://www.preparingforemergencies.co.uk/

Read the newspapers:http://news.google.com/news?q=preparingforemergencies.co.uk

Bloody marvelous.

Nuff for now, except to say that I heard a news story about the japanese equivalent of frat rape. The story itself was one thing, but then they started talking about some cartoon superhero called "RapeMan" who takes revenge on women who have lied to, stolen from or dumped hapless japanese men by ... wait for it ... raping them. Well, so long as that part's clear I'm sure we can all understand why the heroine (not "victim", apparantly) often falls in love with our "hero"

errr

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