Successful candidates must have a good education background and be fluent in punjabi.

Hmm. Looking for a job is, on the most part, tedious...

but occasionally you run into things that you dont expect. Hehe.

(anyone know how hard it would be to learn Punjab?)

Goodbye Sober Day

So yes, as indicated by Mr Squirk, we intended on making an obligitory trip to the church (read: feral drinking establishment for Kiwis/Aussies/SAffers).

...and this we did. Sundays only, of course.

Began drinking whilst in the queue (approx 11:30am) and crawled out again after the lock-in is finished at 4pm-ish.

Having not had anything to eat beforehand, I was a little worried by the fact that I couldn't buy anything to eat in there. For the record, however, it was not me that was falling over and requiring carrying by the time the whole thing was over.

I believe that honour goes distinctly to Rob. Congratulations, my friend. Hahaha.

Hmm; I have a catalogue of memories (some of which are hazier than others):

-The concierge in the toilet having a collection of bizarre rhymes that he pretty much belted out constantly. For example: "No Armani, no Poonani!", or; "If you're happy and you know it: wash your hands", etc.

-The stripper making guys eat marshmellows out of various uuh, 'nooks and crannies'...

-Cozzie being dissapointed after the 'male stripping' that was promised being left in the hands of a bunch of dudes from the audience. Seriously guys, dont just whip all your kit off and walk around on stage with your wobbly bits out. However, I understand that the availability of Woodstock bourborn may have made up for this.

-A fairly spirited rendition of 'slice of heaven'

Other than that, mostly just Strongbow-related jumping around and stuff.

Hehe. I wonder how Rob is feeling right now...

As requested by Mr Jungle Rhino, esq.

So, our local Rhino pointed out that the Vid. for Ratamahatta was worth a look, so I have dutifully dug it up on Youtube to share within this little Microcosm:

Linky

Having not seen it before, I can't say if its the ACTUAL video for Ratamahatta (such is the nature of youtube and the internet at large), but an educated guess might gesture in that direction.

Bit creepy on the vid, actually, but worth a watch; for its eeire tool-esque claymation and also because its a cool song.

Weird voices in my... oh, wait. Just my iPod.

So, I was just thinking about what I've been listening to on my iPod recently. I'm pretty sure the top spot, in terms of playtime, is split between Sepultura:'Roots' and Beck:'Seachange'.

What a weird person I am.

Just thought you might like to know.

In other news, I may need to one day purchase adult diapers - purely for reading Dr McNinja. Either that or read it on the john, but that's surely just inconsiderate.

[haha. another 'Superbly Pointless Post Award' nominee, surely]

"Hi. I'm a D6. Nice to meet you"

Well, I copied Swifty and took the "Which Polyhedral are you" test.

Behold, the terrifying results:




I also had a stab at Jon's 'Girl's Name' song extravaganza, but I think Joel is better at it than me. But, he couldn't have saved the world (well, people's families) without my help.

I truly am a valuable sidekick.

...and now for something completely different

So, after that serious post, I felt I should return to the general silliness that pervades this place. I have a fun story to get us back on track.

I was walking through the underground and I saw a sign saying:

'No heavy loads to be placed on this structure'. (some of you might guess where I'm going with this)

Perhaps the number one best sign that you could ever put above a toilet, I thought.

Ok; Purile I might be, but I bet I'm not the first to think it.

ZOMG! a serious post

No, really (and a wee touch of quasi-leetspeak too).

So, its the last night for me in this fork-less hostel (another night of the pasta challenge) and I'm reading a psychology textbook. For some reason they have a whole bookcase of them and this one was lying around. (God, I was even brushing up on some Economics the other day).

Anyway; I have come across this experiment by a dude called Milgram, in 1974.

For those who are too lazy to read it I'll summarise: it showed an experiment where one person (an actor) is asked a series of questions, while another (the actual subject) is required to administer increasingly large electric shocks to the actor for incorrect answers. This is all staged so that the actor gives a number of incorrect answers, and pretends to receive the shock but actually doesn't.

The key issue is that about 65% of participants were prepared to give the actors shocks that they themselves believed were harmful and possibly fatal, simply because they were instructed to continue with the experiment by the people running it.

According to the textbook I read; a number of the participants (people giving out the shocks) were particularly shaken and 3 actually went into varying forms of shock.

I often get angry at the inabilty of people to think for themselves (and at myself when it applies to me - what a hypocrite) but this sort of shit is just ridiculous. Gah, maybe I would have done the same. Who knows.

Man, psychology has the best emperical examples, by the way. Especially the old school ones that are super-unethical.