tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-129374312008-11-06T22:02:56.576ZOn again off again blog of Tiffany Craig.Criminally Vulgarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04625810555254405271noreply@blogger.comBlogger358125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12937431.post-74440921623508269742008-11-06T21:52:00.003Z2008-11-06T22:02:56.586Z

It's been a bad commuting week for Tiffanys. The Steel bridge hasn't been closing and their are fare inspectors at King's Hill that keep making me late. And if this was England, I'd still be filled with righteous commuter rage. But I'm not. See, no matter how crappy public transport can get, there are a few people who can make all the difference. One is Kerry, the Max driver that hits Goose

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6 months ago I got into an argument with one of our operations managers. We were going to start using DHL as our UK domestic courier. I stomped my feet and detailed the issues we'd had with people using them to deliver to us. 1. Trying to deliver packages at 5:50am 2. Not trying to deliver packages, but dropping cards 3. Packages showing up falling apart and nearly shredded 4. Drivers turning

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I didn't really have the time or energy to update while we were moving. I also didn't want to alert our neighbors. Call it paranoia, but the insurance company gave us a really nice rental... eventually. I didn't want the cretins to torch it. I don't miss them. I'm back in Portland now. We arrived in late August and I had an interview the next day. I got the job and now work for a place that

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Friday we went off to watch some rugby with the inlaws. Starting the match with fireworks might have been a bad plan. And Max and Paddy were there.... Unlike the three failed attempts by Wigan, this was a try for St. Helens. Wigan didn't play very well, but this little dude was flying the flag of hope all the way through. This ref isn't welcome anywhere near Wigan. There wasn't

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Last Thursday started out as a good night. My husband, a coworker, a friend and I went to see the Body Worlds exhibition at the Manchester Museum of Science and Industry. It was fantastic seeing the bodies, though we giggled at the reproductive organs and marvelled at the size of the obese. We were surprised at how little lung damage there was on a smoker without cancer and the room of fetuses

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Oh god. Oh god. Really?! It wasn't bad enough we had to endure the semi coherent mutterings of June Sarpong on T4, but now she's communicating on the Internet as well? And on a site, gag, designed for women who like politics. Or at least what some dumbass at a media organization thought would be a site for women who like politics. Suit: 'Hey, I got an idea! You know how blogging is a popular

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Back in December I started guest DJing at a Manchester club called ArA. It's great fun, especially for a music junkie like me. But I've reaffirmed my long held belief that most modern proclaimed 'goth' or 'industrial' music is appalling. If it isn't highly derivative, it's just dreadful banging around. The posturing and dark attitudes that go into fringe genres don't make it sound intimidating,

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Oh Farrah! I first came across Farrah Ashline about 6 years ago on a writing group. She was publishing articles she hadn't purchased on her site called Girlsgoingout.com. A lot of writers were pissed and I was bored. So I checked a whole bunch of things out. Over the years Farrah turned out to have fleeced her contractors and contributors (WP.com article) and had a number of judgements against

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McDonald's gets all sorts of flak for all kinds of things. They are as a corporation reviled by liberals for a myriad of crimes from cutting down trees to being a purveyor of fat filled meals. If anything, you'd think of them as being representative of the conservative US. Driven, focused on profits and a little old fashioned. But, not so say the AFA! McDonald's chooses to support

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I'm one of the ones going to seed. Like many worker bees my behind grows with every year behind the desk. I might have some impressive upper arms from lifting machines, but almost everything else that was pert and toned 7 years ago is now covered in comfortable cushion. My darling husband bought me an iPod classic for Christmas last year. Before then I'd touched iTunes once and swore

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There are a few aggregating sites out there on these Internets. It's mindboggling that we actually need them. I do know I can barely get through my day without Facebook, Gmail, Yahoo! mail, Livejournal and Bloglines. Some need more aggregation than others, like Facebook, Livejournal, this blog and my others. So, here's where Swurl comes in. It allows you to add feeds from a variety of different

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Sometimes the UK government says or does something that surprises me. It is, however, rarely good. Every worker in Britain, from the head of a blue chip company to an office or domestic cleaner, must accept pay awards in line with the government's 2% inflation target if Britain is to avoid a return to the 1970s, Alistair Darling declared yesterday. In one of the government's toughest warnings

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I sat on the windowsill on Friday and had a listen to the visitors to downstairs. It wasn't hard, or particularly taxing. The girl that lives diagonal to us has a voice that could penetrate the standing Berlin Wall. But even with a sound that seemed like it came from next to me, I could only make out certain phrases and sentences. The Wigan accent, whilst not lilting or particularly irritating,

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Man with Cystic Fibrosis, degenerating quickly, wants to move over to Ashton to be closer to his mother. Not just for the lovely family aspect, his mother is his primary caretaker. He was put in band 4 (or the same band that Mr. Me and I would be,) then band 2 and now the highest priority, band 1. The latter only happened after the local paper intervened. Mrs Ackers said Wigan and Leigh Housing

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For the love of... Some background for those blissfully unaware. Some group of jackasses decided that women should feel 'comfortable enough with their bodies' to have their tits touched. Sexually liberated and all! I mean, I've been obviously brainwashed by The Man to value my personal space and body to the point of NOT wanting creepy con guys to touch me. So, they created the Open Source Boob

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I arrived home last night around 7:00pm, after a rather hellish day on the trains. Yes, more thieves ran off with signalling cable outside of Atherton. Damn the price of scrap copper! Damn people who don't commute! As a result of this 'vandalism' we were re-routed to Wigan via Bolton, the day I'd left my phone at home. Good all around then. Finally arrived home to find Stairsailor singing

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In the mornings, weather and train timeliness permitting, I walk from Salford Central to St. Peter's Square. I like it, it gives me a chance to move my legs (something that doesn't happen nearly enough) and I breathe some non-germified train air (traded in for some delicious Manchester pollution.) And I enjoy my walks very much, except for the slow walkers. And slow walkers are inevitably women

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We arrived home from the pub and dropping our Gav off around 3:00am on Sunday. I was in a pretty good mood, despite being sick and stressed last week I think I loosened up enough to blow off some steam. As we opened the door Mr. Me noticed something was missing. Our little table. We had this little picnic table outside our door that we used for BBQs and outdoor Scrabble. It's gone now. We

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Oh wow. Just when you think articles about women can't get any more ridiculous comes along Tad and his insight into the differences between British and American women. am a massive fan of British women. UK girls, in my opinion, are the greatest natural beauties in the world . . . when they’re 17 or 18 years old. The girls I was surrounded by when I was a teenager were sublime roses with

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When I found out about this I went through a fair spectrum of negative emotion. The most dominating one was fear. What had Steve done to get 16 years? The rumor on the estate is it had something to do with disfigurement. What did the girl look like now? Suddenly he changed from being the inconsiderate DIY fanatic to being a sinister figure of violence. But mostly the fear wasn't from him

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Tuesday evening Andy-Across-The-Road delivered some strange news. News you could verify. My neighbor is a convicted rapist. Specifically, this neighbor. I'm very, very conflicted about this. On one hand, he served a 16 year sentence. His time is done, finished, debt to society served. On the other hand, the part of me that fantasizes about kicking him in the nuts for cutting down the trees in

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Oh dear. So, you know, proving that people can miss the point completely and there's a certain element of men that shouldn't even be seen, we have Ken! Funny, but the women's movement of the 1960's was full of young, college aged idealistic women. Unless your living in a cave, there are images replete with these young women marching against patriarchy and male oppression. Secondly, it's

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I'm working on some things for the Manchester Requiem Game today. I like to try and keep things as true to life as possible. So, Jewish neighborhoods in real life Manchester are Jewish neighborhoods in World of Darkness Manchester. I did a Google search to try and identify places where there might me temples, rabbis, or known communities. My query was Jewish Neighborhoods in Manchester. (Oddly

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Wait, so, the thing Barak Obama has harped on about for the last month... he can't do, at all himself? I love election season! RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- Barack Obama, who's been scolding Hillary Rodham Clinton for not hastening the release of records from her time as first lady, says he can't step up and produce his own records from his days in the Illinois state Senate. He says he hasn't got any.

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God damn it. FTP publishing problems again. Why am I using this as a back end? Seriously. If I didn't hate the Wordpress editor so much I would use them. Grrrr.

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