Smartarse's blog on Informed Consent http://www.informedconsent.co.uk/weblogs/Smartarse/ The IC RSS Gadget webmaster@informedconsent.co.uk 360 Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:24:24 GMT Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:24:24 GMT Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:24:24 GMT http://www.informedconsent.co.uk/posts/323940/ Politics stinks. This business of 'nobody should be getting more in benefits than the average wage' really makes me angry. Mon, 22 Feb 2010 18:10:20 GMT http://www.informedconsent.co.uk/posts/264687/ Spent Sunday wandering round the local railway museum. It was shut for the winter so we came home. However it did put me in mind of a railway club I was once thinking of joining. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:04:22 GMT http://www.informedconsent.co.uk/posts/216153/ 1. Spot a thread on the boards that looks dodgey. Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:37:02 GMT http://www.informedconsent.co.uk/posts/215977/ First the Laura White scandal and now this. Sat, 15 Nov 2008 18:53:53 GMT http://www.informedconsent.co.uk/posts/215511/ The toll for crossing into Kent from Essex via the M25 has been raised from one pound to £1.50. Wed, 07 May 2008 23:37:12 GMT http://www.informedconsent.co.uk/posts/191201/ I've followed the debates on the new extreme pornography laws since they were first proposed. I started off thinking it was politically motivated legislation that would never come to pass. Then, as time went on and the legislation became clearer, I thought it would never apply to me. Now I see it as something more sinister. I see the legislation as a vague and blunt law that is so wide and open to interpretation that whoever is accused of breaking it will have a dozen ways to argue a defence in court. But this isn't a law for getting people into court. Not in great numbers, anyway. Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:48:07 GMT http://www.informedconsent.co.uk/posts/185655/ Yesterday I intended to buy a lottery ticket. I very rarely do, but I was in the shop and I thought I had a couple of quid in change so I'd do yesterdays and Saturdays with the same numbers. Mon, 28 Jan 2008 17:32:41 GMT http://www.informedconsent.co.uk/posts/177716/ Just thought I'd mention that I've just passed the three years on IC milestone and this is my 1000th (counted) post. Fri, 24 Aug 2007 22:42:58 GMT http://www.informedconsent.co.uk/posts/157760/ Why? Sat, 04 Aug 2007 12:57:15 GMT http://www.informedconsent.co.uk/posts/155148/ I just dropped my magnetic screwdriver on a pile of loose change. When I went to pick it up, half the coins came with it. This surprised me, somewhat. Sat, 21 Jul 2007 00:17:06 GMT http://www.informedconsent.co.uk/posts/153125/ Not the best of days today, so as a kind of compensation I stopped at Tesco on the way home and bought myself some little treats. Sun, 11 Mar 2007 12:11:04 GMT http://www.informedconsent.co.uk/posts/133915/ There must be a few people waking up today thinking they have made new enemies in the scene. And you'd think that recent events would make people less inclined to make enemies. Fri, 09 Mar 2007 16:14:30 GMT http://www.informedconsent.co.uk/posts/133632/ The Scottish Daily Record has published personal details and pictures of a member of IC forcing her to lose her employment and status in her home community. Why? Apparently because she committed the heinous crime of working as a shop assistant for a charity while being a member of IC and posting here. Mon, 05 Mar 2007 18:00:42 GMT http://www.informedconsent.co.uk/posts/132959/ What a weekend. I've not laughed so hard in years. We packed so much in, it felt like a crash course in how to have fun, taught by a mistress of fun. I had no idea life could be this good. And we shed tears when the unforgettable weekend had to end. Mon, 08 Jan 2007 11:21:09 GMT http://www.informedconsent.co.uk/posts/124166/ If you want to know me better, you could read my blogs. But you'll find they say things like: 'Yesterday I bought a pie and it had a dead earwig in it.' Mon, 20 Nov 2006 01:07:51 GMT http://www.informedconsent.co.uk/posts/115655/ In theory I ought to really like the LOTR films. I saw them all at the cinema when they first came out. And I read the novel when I was a teenager. It's full of elves and dwarves and magic and monsters and heroic deeds, so on paper at least, I ought to really enjoy watching them. I remember the book as being a bit of a slog. Kind of a marathon read with long sections which felt like hauling yourself up a mountain by your finger nails. Peter Jackson seems to have perfectly translated that into film. And by the time you've watched it all the way through, you feel as if you've dropped the ring down the Cracks of Doom yourself. Ooops, didn't spoil the plot for anyone did ? You didn't know that Frodo manages to complete his quest and save Middle Earth? What did you think happened? Sauron, sees the error of his ways and says don't worry about the massive Orc army I've assembled, lets all be mates. Nah. Fri, 17 Nov 2006 17:02:29 GMT http://www.informedconsent.co.uk/posts/115276/ Got my first Christmas card today. Personally I don't send mine out till mid January. That way I know who to send them to, I can get cheap cards in the sales and I can write them during the holidays. Wed, 01 Nov 2006 19:13:49 GMT http://www.informedconsent.co.uk/posts/112928/ What do you think of when you think of BDSM? And what would your boss, your mum, your next door neighbour think of? Would they think of the same things or different? Sat, 28 Oct 2006 10:30:22 GMT http://www.informedconsent.co.uk/posts/112267/ I've triggered another outbreak of Marmite. :-( Wed, 25 Oct 2006 21:46:10 GMT http://www.informedconsent.co.uk/posts/111914/ This was the title of an e-mail I had from Amazon. For a second there I thought I'd maybe outed myself somehow. I haven't bought any pervy books from them, so how could they know? But when I looked at the complete message it was 'How to be a Domestic Goddess' by Nigella Lawson.