Fush 'n Chups Country.

The kiwi accent has been rated the most attractive and prestigious form of English outside the UK in a BBC survey.

Respondents from throughout the UK completed an online survey rating the prestige and social attractiveness of 34 different English accents.

The kiwi "fush and chups" came seven places ahead of Australia's "sex and Seedney" - and nine ahead of the American accent in terms of attractiveness.

Scottish and Irish accents topped the list of preferred British accents.

Scottish and Irish accents topped the list of preferred British accents.

Did you know that on British Tv, many advertisers would choose an actor with a Scottish accent, because from research the Scottish accent is perceived to be 'honest' sounding. A lot of insurance adverts, car finance, etc, adverts have someone with a Scottish accent. Funny.

I made it up to page 175

Incredible, absolutely incredible!

But where is Babylon 5?

That is really cool, and what makes it extra special is, I just spent the past two nights helping my daughter build a Hubble model for her science class. She claimed that some other girl in her class always copies her, so she needed to do something to kick her a**. Wherever did she learn to talk like that?

http://hubblesite.org/the_telescope/hand-held_hubble/

Nice one lannarebirth! Hope it suitably kicked a**

That's the outward view. Does anyone think that if we were to look inwards, past the smallest of atomic particles which we can now detect, we might find a similar scale of magnitude. Isn't it unlikely that at our very limited level of current technology we have been able to detect the smallest units of matter that exist ? And couldn't we look similar in scale to those far away galaxies to anything viewing us at such a distance ?

Yep, it's a slow day at the office.

Took a day trip into Bangkok.

Caught my early morning flight and arrived at Don Muang ready for a fun day.

My advertures included:

The taxi driver thinking i was Luuk Krung.

Getting some pampering at my once-every-six-months beauty place in Emporium. Bliss!

Buying a stupidly expensive lunch there (well for what it was anyway. But still yummy!).

Went to the Whittards tea shop inside there to buy an ice coffee, and finding it was closed, sat down anyway. Started chatting to a couple of lovely Filipina ladies who were taking a break from a shop-till-you drop experience. But then, suddenly we were surrounded all about us by decked out military...

Lots of lovely ladies all dressed in the same tidy uniforms lined the view in front of us. Lots of buzzing and talking on the radios etc (this is an open plan coffee shop on the shop floor).

Turns out the crown Prince and family were coming.

First recognisable face to walk by was the PM. Handsome as ever but shorter than i expected. The Filipinas and I were standing up and we did a sort of little bob nod thing, and i put on my brightest wattage of a smile (as was genuinely nice to see the man in the flesh). Would you believe it, i got a smile back! Made me all goosebumpy im ashamed to say..but sheesh hes cute! (Actually, I would actually say it was a smile that turned quite sheepish. Could it be that our PM Abhisit is on the shy side?! Even cuter! )

Half an hour later the Prince and his family enter. Proceeded and backed by a LOT of various adorned officials. Again standing, but this time us doing a low bob bow thingy, lol. The only one who looked my way that time was one adorned official with eyes like slits who didnt take them off me till i was out of his line of vision. Geez..was almost like he was saying "Just try it Farang, i have my eye on you". I hardly look the criminal type (whatever that is!). But maybe he has experienced some women in a flouncy blouse and a handbag being a hidden terrorist, who knows. I just blinked and gave him a little smile anyway.

Im not into the whole celeb, royal family, thing, but was interesting to see all the preparation and feel the buzz. Plus it really was very interesting to see them in the flesh.

After that i had some fun looking at all the lovely clothes knowing full well i wouldnt buy any. Bought a couple of books from the great selection of books in the English Lang bookshops instead. (Well great selection in comparison to Chiang Mai anyway).

Lastly, had a bumped up priced foot massage by a wonderful massuese then, after all that I hopped (or should that be hobbled) into a taxi to get my flight back home.

Now home relaxing after a lovely refreshing shower.

Turned out more interesting than i expected

Well..looks like ill be taking over Random Posts. This time with a random rant.

At the market, im looking at some shorts. Guy behind the clothes sees me and says right away "No problem, i find you size XL". For Gods sake, im usually size M in Thailand, not even size L. So i looked at him and smiled and told him size M. He looked at me and smiled smugly and said "Farang ben size XL". I held up the shorts to myself (the M size) and got doubtful, so bought a pair of L size cuz they were a bargain. Anyway, he looks at me like im crazy insisting that i should really take the XL size. Whaddaya know, i get them home, and they are too big. Well surprise bloody surprise. Is it that some of the stall holders associate tall with big?? Or is it just that being farang = big. No exeptions? If <deleted> Posh Spice walked in, would he still say "Farang size XL"?!! Bah!

Why are CD cases made from the most brittle plastic known to man ?

It's the Vegetarian Festival here in Phuket, but not sure how this guy is going to manage eating his apples !

Just back from 4 lovely days in Pisa. Boy that tower really leans!

I have heard that Confucious said, "Never eat yellow snow".

The wise man in his younger years is also reported to have said, "Never pooey on your friends".

In the Antipodes, this has been translated to, "Don't shit on your mates", and is generally accepted as good advice to not do wrong by your friends.

While the Antipodean interpretation is worthy, it nonetheless is a misinterpretation.

What the young sage was quoted saying was actually him pronouncing the acronym PUI after having recieved an incromprehensible letter from one of his teachers who had obviously been drunk when writing the letter.

The advice, if related figuratively in the spirit of the quote, is actually, "Never write a letter while under the influence".

There's an irony in that coming to me tonight.

Why do gays and lesbians look down on 'straights'?

Without 'straights', there would be no gays and lesbians.

It's the Vegetarian Festival here in Phuket, but not sure how this guy is going to manage eating his apples !

My lady, currently visiting here in Perth, from Phuket, decided she had to abide by the rules of this festival for 3 days this week.

I pointed out she was from Loei and it wasn't really her festival anyway and we certainly don't do that rubbish here, but she insisted.

I don't care if she wanted a break from the endless rounds of pork and chicken, but I wasn't at all happy after we looked the festival up on the net and she spotted the no sex clause.

... and she spotted the no sex clause.

That's only no sex for her, right ?

He's only wingeing for the sake of it, privately he's glad of the break.

Have any of you ever thought of it, I mean when you think of it, right? It just doesn't make sense or does it? I mean we suppose to be a bunch of open minded peeps here but in the end does it really matter? You know, sometimes when you know you know it, but it just doesn't come out, it is on the tip of your tongue but you cannot say it.

I mean how do I know if what I know (at a certain point in time) is all I know I know I know more than what I think I know.

Doesn't make sense right, or does it? If so or not so, why is that?

I did it!

Crumpets....

redrus

Yo Red, my man, how the he11 are you? Haven't seen you for ages...

Yo Red, my man, how the he11 are you? Haven't seen you for ages...

Haha, well my good man, I am well. I trust you're keeping out of mischief.....?

redrus

RED IS IN 'DA HOUSE!!!!!!

Yo Red, my man, how the he11 are you? Haven't seen you for ages...

Haha, well my good man, I am well. I trust you're keeping out of mischief.....?

redrus

As ever mate, as ever...

Born on This Day

James Cook - 1728

Theodore Roosevelt - 1858

Dylan Thomas - 1914

Roy Lichtenstein - 1923

and a special Happy Birthday to a Bedlam Icon, John Cleese, born on this day in 1939.

My 'puter is broken.

Born on This Day

James Cook - 1728

Theodore Roosevelt - 1858

Dylan Thomas - 1914

Roy Lichtenstein - 1923

and a special Happy Birthday to a Bedlam Icon, John Cleese, born on this day in 1939.

Probably the greatest scene ever filmed in the world of TV comedy.