In the 99p store, situated where the 2-pound shop was:

Highlander Crisps you say?

In packs of 8 you say?

But…but surely…

There can be only one?

Right, that's that off my chest finally. Why I didn't buy any I guess I'll never know.

Oh yes, maybe it was because I'd spent so long trying to get a clear photo of the bloody things with people barging past all the time I figured a hasty retreat was the best option once done.

And it's amazing how self-conscious you feel getting your mobile out to take a photo in the 99p store…although in my case I wasn't likely to be mugged for it, more likely just pointed and laughed at for having such an old phone…

Actually, Whilst I'm thinking of wrongness I've noticed in shops (and I still have my mobile connected) I might as well upload this product too…

No. Just no. Taste the Goodness indeed.

Maybe I've got a filthy mind (ok, yes I know, there shouldn't be a maybe back there) but please, someone tell me I'm not the only one to think that that's not right…

So, it seems it's been over a year since I posted on here.

Am I too grumpy to even use a blog I helped to create?

Possibly. However, It's probably more likely I've got grumpy-block….

Yeah. This one's been doing the rounds recently, but what the hell.

I thought it was amusing.

Seems to be a thing with Gigerpunk & I posting things to wear, and this entry is no exception.

Ladies & gentlemen, I give you

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The IDE belt

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Available for £12 at Kustom

Sure, could probably be made yourself from an old cable or two - but it does have an allure of sorts. 

This is actually pretty neat.

The ability to actually 'draw' on a building. I bet Jarre really wishes he came up with this…

Well. Probably not.

Still, seems someone has gone and managed to get XP running on an 7MHz Pentium.

Why?

Fecked if I know. There's pushing the boundaries of what's possible, and then there's utterly wasting your time with crap like this.

Still, it's good to know that if I ever manage to travel back in time to 1995, I can take my copy of XP with me…

More can be read about this lunacy here. 

Why does this make me think of the League of Gentlemen?

Tubbs: "Will Command and Conquer 3 be like Swansea?"

Edward: " Yes Tubbs. Only Bigger!" 

(Honestly, if you've seen Swansea of late, or Cardiff for that matter, you'd know that picture's not far off the mark. Minus the mechanised violence, of course, it's generally more hand-to-hand. And the buildings in the picture are in better nick too. No clown posters evident here tho, thank god)

And then, of course, the fact that most of the released pics look like this;

means I have Tubbs in my head shouting "Lines and Lines and Lines!!"

Command and Conquer meets Royston Vasey…now THAT'd be a mod and a half… 

Still, all looks very spangly and shiny and no doubt by graphics card is weeping at the prospect.

Also no doubt I'll still rather wish I was playing the original on my old 486 than playing this version but there we go. That's prolly got more to do with the high likelihood of being repeatedly and savagely beaten at it by a certain 15 yr old son who has far more time to practise it than I do, than it has to do with whether the game's poop or not. It just hasn't been as fun since you couldn't sandbag in your opponents harvesters…ahhh, halcyon days

Yup, for those aspirational-types who are bored with the delights of Poundland, want something new and are willing to spend that little bit more (well, ok 100% more), there's now 2-pound-land.

Sorry, it's "Only2 - The Original £2 Store™" isn't it? Silly me.

And where's it located? Directly across the street from Poundland of course…

And don't worry, if you have to go to Poundland because you can't afford the sky-high prices at Poundstretcher, Hyper-value or (heaven forbid!) Wilkinsons, they've got a sale on - a 1/2 price sale at that! Bargain!

So, that's the new 2-pound store "Only2", located opposite Poundland, with a half price sale on.

Word fail me. 

Should these be worn too?

Transformer shoes?

Oh my.

The blurb from the site is thus:

Takara continues to release more innovative and imaginative products with the new Transformers Sports Label series! This new series features 1/2 scale transforming Nike shoes! These licensed items should be somewhere around 6" in length in shoe mode and it looks like they even have real laces connected to the top of the shoe. Convoy and Megatron are also each sporting a miniature pair of Nike Free 7.0 as a finishing touch.

More info here 

Right, so I was a bit bored this afternoon.

What did I do to combat the boredom? Well, I made a video.

Also, that's not me dancing away there. That honour belongs to Ben, the Windows Dancer.