Mostly lemon based

Day: October 8, 2008

  • I’ve found a new toy to desire

    So, let’s list the automobilia I like:

    Classic cars
    Small cars
    Quirky vehicles
    Two stroke engines
    East german stuff
    Simplicity
    Insanity.

    Oddly, the Minor fulfills very few of these, but is my favourite. Perhaps because minor’s are my first automotive love. MZs fulfill a lot of these, and trabants (which I don’t own any of) also meet the criteria pretty well. Our little DAF (44) meets the criteria being small and strange, but something else has caught my eye:

    DKW Car

    Apparently this is a DKW Junior dating from 1967. It also meets another criteria which I didn’t mention – it looks all sad. Look at it sat there on flat tyres, it *wants* to come be with me. It sports (and this is awesome) a three cylinder (this starts well) 750cc (awesome, a ridiculously small capacity!) two stroke (score!) engine. Woot.

    A car which is almost certainly without any merit at all. It’s German, not East German, sadly. Which detracts slightly from it’s incredible Kate-attracting powers. Fortuately I have neither money nor space for a vehicle which almost certainly requires a raft of skills I don’t posess. If anyone wants to buy it, shipt it and gift it to me in Canada then you’re very welcome to :)

    I note they’ve got a couple of sad little enfields and also sad little DAFs, and frankly a whole great bundle of sad little cars going at their auction (the Linconshire Bubble and Micro car museum are having a clearout) – sometimes it’s fortunate we have neither money nor space :)

    In other news, the Kitchen should start being fitted today. Time of arrival depends on time of delivery to the company doing the fitting.

    And I actually took last night off sick. I’d been feeling a bit off, and on a whim (and because I felt like I was going to either faint or hurl on the floor of Lloyds while I was out getting money to pay for the kitchen) I stuck a thermometer in my gob. Scoring a not-bad 37.7 degrees C (99.9F) I thought ‘hrm, perhaps I am unwell’ and unilaterally opted for a day of being at home. As it happened apart from a faint nausea and general vague unwellness (frustratingly non-specific) I probably could have gone to work, but I might have made myself iller.

    In good news, I spent this morning ploughing through ATNC and am now at a stage where I can safely say ‘Hah’. I don’t know any of it, but I’ve read it all, and that’s surely got to be worth something ;-/

  • I’m sorry, WTF?!

    So, one of the church’s fine clergy has stepped up and declared that gay men* should have identifying tattoos on their faces, informing the world that they’re gay. He also wants a return to anti-glbt teaching. But why stop there; why not ensure that gay people are easily identifyable with pink triangles, perhaps green triangles for criminals and anti-social types, and hell, the unemployed could have a black triangle. Y’know, we could have yellow triangles for Jewish people. Perhaps for him though, the most important people to identify would be those who we should maybe give a red triangle to – the damn liberals.

    Oh, for a return to the delightful days of the Nazis, when we could easily identify those we hate and segregate, punish and imprison them.

    Thank you Reverend Mullen (rector of St Michael’s Cornhill and St Sepulchre) for making it all so clear.

    * I’m presuming it’s targeted at gay men, if we delve into his homophobic little head we’ll probably find he wants something else done to lesbians, the text of his post does say ‘homosexuals’ though, and given that Sodomy’s not so common between lesbian couples I’m presuming that tattoo is inappropriate…