Archive for the 'UK Life' Category


Better Gnomes And Gardens 3

After living in this great steaming bucket of sausage flavoured urine we call London for over 2 years the one thing I have found you can?t help but noticed is that the British are unnaturally obsessed with housing. In Put Another Shrimp On The Barbie Land, also known as Australia, when you want a new house you just build a new house. You can easily pick up a couple of thousand hectares or so of pristine rainforest for only 10 of your Great British Pounds Sterling these days and to build a ten storey Sultans Palace with built in swimming pool and helicopter pad would only cost around a couple of hundred quid at the current exchange rate of 10,000 doubloons to one can of Fosters. My house back home (its more of a complex really) is quite modest in comparison to most of the rest of my Aussie mates. I do use a golf buggy to get from my bedroom to the living room but I could probably walk the distance in ten minutes or so if I wasn?t so fat and lazy. My girlfriend Roxanne has quite an ostentatious house back in Australia by most standards. You may have heard of it. It?s called the state of Victoria.

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The photos from the Mehndi night and Part 2 of the wedding are now online…

The Wedding. Part 2

Mehndi Night

Enjoy!

Jerry Springer: The Opera 0

I would definitely recommend that anyone who likes to laugh and is in London at the moment goes to see this! :)

I mean, where else could you find and opera with lyrics like ‘what that fuck? what that fuck? what the fucky fucky fuck?!‘ being sung by a wife who just found out her husband wants to be her ‘baby’ and ‘he’s a cunt (referring to Satan), he’s a cunty cunty cunty cunty cunty cunty cunty cunt-cunt-cunt-cunt-cunt cunty cunt!‘ being sung by a choir of angels? Intersperse this with numerous references to ‘dirty hoes’ being addicted to crack and the threat of Jerry himself getting ‘FUCKED UP THE ASS WITH BARBER WIRE!’ and you have a show that can’t fail to entertain! (unless you are a c*… never mind :)

My favourite bits were the tap dancing Ku Klux Klan members (this was seriously funny) and the showdown between Jesus and Satan where they both sang ‘fuck you’ and ‘talk to the hand’ for about 15 minutes at each other. Oh how we laughed until we stopped!… Ok you had to be there but it is a seriously funny show. The old American couple sitting next to me thought it was so funny that they had to leave in the intermission, so that just proves it!

The show is currently starring David Soul, of Starsky and Hutch fame, as Jerry at the moment which is cool cos he’s Good™. It also has one of the guys (playing a girl again, as usual) from the Broadway production of Taboo (which Roxy and I saw over there) which is also Good™ because he has an amazing voice (although he doesn’t get to use it quite as much in this show).

Man, even the program for the show is funny!

Go see it! Or don’t! I don’t give a shit, I saw it last night! :D

Wimbledon 2004 (A.K.A. The Tim Henman Wankfest 2004) 2

Mark PhullaFaeces lost to Tim Henman! Aaaiieeee!!

I bet it was that damn Swiss ref again. Damn swiss with their damn neutrality and their damn cheese and their damn er, snow… And other damn stuff I can’t think of…

GUTTED!! 0

England is out of the Euro 2004 Championships!!

They lost to Portugal in the penalty shootout after a possibly the most stressful game I have seen in all my days of watching football! England were supposed to win! The ball went into the goal but was disallowed by the damn mofo of a ref! We (ok i’m half english) have been cheated!!!!!!!

Here are some links that can explain it a lot better than my incoherent yelling ever could.

» England is out of the Euro 2004
» Sky Sports

Ingerland! 0

It’s England v Portugal at 7:45 tonight!!

I am gonna drink 400 beers before the match to try to get into the swing of things. I really like Portugal as a country but as I have been living here for so long and England has treated me so well (well compared to Afghanistan at least :) I am going for Ingerland.

GO ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONEEY!!

Homelands 2K4 3

On Saturday Rox and I decided to go to Homelands :)
It’s on this weekend and it’s gonna be rocking man. We haven’t been to a festival since Gods Kitchen in 2002!

The drum and bass lineup itself is worth the ticket price I think, check it out!

Dj’s:
Roni Size
MC Tali
London Elektricity
DJ MARKY (Brazil)
Bryan Gee
Andy C
DJ Hype
Lemon D & Dillinja
DJ Zinc
Ray Keith
Fresh
Ruffstuff
DJ Krust
Ed Rush
DJ Die
DJ Addiction
JFB

MC’s:
Stamina MC
Dynamite MC
MC Skibadee
MC IC3
MC Foxy
MC Moose
MC Darrison
MC Fun

Check out that goddamn line up!!! I actually agreed to go before I saw it so I am mighty pleased now that I have. The breaks and other rooms are cool as well, including Dizzee Rascal in one of em.

Anyway, gotta get back to work. Rox is planning the day out entirely even down to her cow print wellies so hopefully this is gonna be the best one ever :)

RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINSE OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUT!

[ Listening to: Dirty Harry s Revenge (Swift Remix) - Kaos - Adam F ]

Portugal (Would you like boiled potatoes with that cod?) 1

We’re back!

Rox and I have been in Lisbon for the past three days, hanging out with the locals and generally drinking a lot :) We had had Nandos for lunch the week before in London so we decided why not go to the source and get the real deal?

Anyway, the trip contained a couple of suprises including some crazy weather and an attack of the dreaded stomache bug but I will tell you all about that shortly. Overall it was really good!

Lisbon is a beautiful city and the people there are really friendly so I would recommend going there and chilling out if you ever have some spare time (and happen to be living over here so it doesn’t cost a bazillion pounds!).

The photos from the trip will hopefully be up by 2pm my time (+0 GMT) so check back then… failing that, tomorrow!

Camping Photos Up 0

The photos for our camping trip are now up on the gallery. Check em out!!


View the Camping photos here…

Camping in The New Forest 0

Or ‘Why single skin tents are bad’…

Well that was an experience!! As I mentioned before, Rox and I went camping with a group of friends in The New Forest. For those of you who couldn’t make it, it went a little something like this…
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Camping… The Aftermath 0

Well we went camping over the weekend and it was awesome! I have started writing it up but it won’t be available until then so you will have to wait!

Eat that pony! 0

I'm gonna eat this pony...

Gulp, tomorrow Rox and I are going camping in New Forest!!

Should be cool but I have a feeling I am gonna spend monday on the couch with a cold cos it has been raining buckets for the last week and shows no signs of stopping before the weekend. Damn you crappy English weather!!

The New Forest apparently has wild ponies running around in it!! At least this means I wont have to bring any food, although it is probably gonna be hard to catch the buggers in the rain…

FightClub: Clapham North 0

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Don’t mess with her!!

Blergh…

Whats that thing called where your mouth tastes like used cat litter and you can only see out of one eye due to the splitting headache caused by that little elf bastard on the back of my head with the damn axe!?

Oh yeah a hangover, thats it!

I have a hangover because I went to the Bierodrome last night and if you don’t have a hangover after you go there then you should be stuck in a box and sunk to the bottom of the ocean like Angel was in that Buffy episode (Hey my flatmate was watching it). It was for one of our friend’s birthday and it was pretty cool apart from it being totally packed to the gills for all of the night, but hey thats why you book tables isn’t it? :)

Afterwards was a bit surreal though, it seems as though I attract psychos wherever I go. OR maybe I just go to places in London where there seems to be a rather disproportionate amount of them.

We had left the Bierodrome dreaming of chicken so after being cruelly rejected by Nandos we made our way to the local KFC (I know, what was I thinking going to Nandos first? Well to tell the truth I wasn’t by that point) thinking we could get some ‘variety’ if you know what I mean. Or something.

Anyway we got there and ordered etc and got our meals without incident but, alas! There was no BBQ sauce!! loud intake of breath

Sinan decided to go get some and this is when the trouble started….

He went to counter and stood behind two ‘girls’. I don’t know exactly what happened but next thing I know they were telling him to get is stinky ass away from them (I should point out now that he isn’t actually stinky or trying to crack onto them… They were just mental). He said, in his best james bond accent, ‘I’m just trying to get some sauce’ and then they started saying he better get his ass the fuck back to Kiwi land. Wtf??! He has a scottish accent! Maybe if these chicks had spent less time smokin crack and more time watching the Beeb they would have known this but ah well… Anyway, I found this whole thing hilarious and (for some reason) said, ‘holy shit we are standing behind some crazy biznatches here’ which as you can probably guess didn’t go down too well :)

The girls turned around and started saying ‘What did you say? I will knock you down mofo’ and other stuff that they learnt after listening to Oxide and Neutrino contantly for the last 4 years in Belmarsh and I said ‘mumble, mumble, I said crazy people’ which did nothing to make them want to be our friends.

About this point I started wondering where Rox was. I was expecting to hear her Xena war cry any second so I was basically felt fearless. The only problem is that dickhead guys don’t like being hit by girls but also can’t hit them back (like Sinan couldn’t do anything to these girls who by now had started pushing him around!) but girls can do anything to other girls and as tough as Rox is she isn’t stupid and these girls looked like they had busted mad caps in people in the past so it was for the best that nothing happened.

Anyway… The girls went to leave and I defused the situation by agreeing with them that they could ‘fuck us all up’ or whatever they were saying… Luckily they were angry so my cheeky sarcasm went unnoticed :)

And that was that! An annoying and rather surreal end to an otherwise pleasant evening… Oh well, thats London for ya I guess. From next year they are going to be allowing 24 hour liquor licenses so hopefully that will stop the problem for 50,000 drunk knob bandits appearing on the street at 11 o’clock every night.

Heres hoping…

Update & Beer 0

Another day, another step closer to the finish line.

As you can see today’s Ashmodeus is a lot different from yesterday’s. A lot better as well. You can sort of see the panelling possibilities emerging in this current incarnation of the site (If you don’t know what i’m on about don’t worry.. You will see soon enough). Also it has a shiny new logo with clouds in it!!

Now all I need to do is integrate my sidebar with Movable Type as well so I can post links up there dynamically without having to edit any HTML and it will all be sorted…. Or will it?….

Unfortunately Comments are still a bit fux0red but oh well.

In other news, this is how you are supposed to drink beer… :)

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