Mutterings for the Minority

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It’s a well known fact that seagulls are cheeky (and noisy) little buggars and the quick snap I took of one outside my office window today just proves it!

I’d just arrived in the office – after yet another ‘commute-to-work-by-bike’ – and could here this ‘tap tap’ noise every so often. It was then I noticed this cheeky little buggar waltzing his way along the window edge looking for a way in – he must have seen the size of my lunchbox ….. full of ham sandwiches I hasten to add. Seemingly undeterred by me taking pictures this little ‘show’ went on for a good 10 minutes.

On the subject of me commuting to work and the issue of the nails the other day, I wasn’t impressed to see that they were STILL on the bloody cycle path. If that wasn’t bad enough, the council workmen were even there today cutting the bloody grass verges!

But as is the norm for council (outsourced?) grass cutting teams across the land, they leave the stray grass (that doesn’t make it into the collector) to scatter all over the place – cycle path included. Now you’d have thought they’d have taken the opportunity to clear up the path at this point wouldn’t you?

I like Facebook. In fact I like it a heck of a lot, the only thing it does that I don’t like is eat into your life. In my case, I’m referring to the amount of time that easily gets drawn out of my life whilst I’m beavering away on the darn thing. Although I have heard that in some people’s cases, it has pretty much taken over their life and in extreme cases been a source of identity fraud (probably down to their own stupidity in being so “open”).

There I was last night, simply responding to a facebook message sent by a friend of mine and before I knew it I’d meandered my way into searching for this person and that group, etc, etc. At this point I suddenly realised that over 2 hours had just passed me by and everyone else had long gone to bed (where I should have been). The result of all this is that I’m knackered, grumpy and extremely short-fused.

Bloody facebook, it’s all your fault.

After a mid-morning commotion, DDWT Junior finally succumbed to the inevitable pre-school visit to the shoe shop. He’s NEVER enjoyed going to get shoes and par for the course created merry hell during this visit as well.

The little fella is just like his dad though (not that I play up in a shoe shop though), he’s got one foot bigger than the other and they’re both require a wide fitting. At the moment he’s a size 10F – which makes it difficult to get shoes to fit (or should I say pratical and fashionable shoes to fit). Thankfully, Start-rite shoes have been a saviour to date and long may that continue.

It was nice to see the Swans progress in the Carling Cup tonight at the expense of Walsall – the 1st time they’ve progressed past round one since 1999! I wasn’t at the game – as I make a habit of not attending the Carling Cup games, but I’ll be there for sure on Saturday when they take on FEC Nottingham Forest.

With the weather returning to its normal state, i.e. wet and bloody windy, I thought I’d try and cheer everyone up with a joke I was sent earlier today. I was actually sent two, but the former was waaaaay too rude to put on here! Any here is the “Police Monkey” joke

A tourist visiting a far away country in the heart of god knows where (possibly Cardiff), walked into a pet shop and was looking at the animals on display.

While he was there, a Police Sergeant walked in and said to the shopkeeper, I’ll take a Traffic Patrol monkey please.”

The shopkeeper nodded, went over to the cage at the side of the shop and took out a monkey. He fit it with a collar and leash, handed it to the officer saying, “That’ll be £5,000 please Sergeant”

The Sergeant paid and walked out with his monkey.

Startled, the tourist went over to the shopkeeper and said “That was a very expensive monkey. Most of them are only a few hundred pounds. Why
did it cost so much?”

The shopkeeper answered, “Ah, that monkey is a qualified breath test operator, can write twenty tickets a week, can deploy Stinger at a moments notice, knows all there is to know on traffic legislation and is authorised by the Chief of Police in pursuit driving – well worth the money.”

The tourist looked at the monkey in another cage. “That ones even more expensive! £10,000! What does it do?”

“Oh, that ones a firearms training monkey , it can instruct other monkeys in Basic Firearms Skills, Counter Terrorism Training, Physical Training, Small Unit Tactics and investigative techniques, and even type. All the really useful stuff,” said the shopkeeper.

The tourist turned and saw another monkey, with the price tag of £15,000. “That one must be even better? What does it do?”

That one is a general duties monkey, he is required to know everything about anything, be there yesterday, and then duplicate the information 12 times before tomorrow, relay the same information to 20 different departments, write reports about everything that the old monkeys can’t see anymore, be in 5 different places at once, get yelled at by everyone who passes by, and takes the blame for everything all the other monkeys do wrong.”

The tourist looked around for a little longer and saw a fourth monkey in a cage of it’s own. The price tag around its neck read £50,000. He gasped to the shopkeeper, “That one costs more than all the others put together! What on earth does it do?”

The shopkeeper replied, “Well, I haven’t actually seen it do f*** all yet, but it says it’s a Detective!”

Thanks to Lance for sharing that with me.