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…but I also like a lot of stuff. Like kittens and puppies and beer.

June 6th, 2010 · 7 Comments

Yeah I know what you are thinking.  You are thinking “Ohh…the simpleton has put up a post an entire month since the last one!  It is going to be special!”.  Well….

There are a lot of things I hate.  Disappointing people is one of them.

I also hate the fact that after many years of playing the lottery, and actually winning £10 last night I got excited.  Until I thought about how many kidneys I could have bought with the money I have spent to actually get that £10.  And sure, I already have 2 working kidneys, but I want more.  They look fun.  And they are interesting.  I once had dinner with a kidney.  Well OK, it was a person who had kidneys.  But about half way through the meal all I could think about was ripping her damn kidneys out.  She was fun.  You know, in that “I want to rip your kidneys out and eat them because it will be more interesting than hearing about your new epilator.”  And while on that subject.  An epilator?  A device used to literally grab big chunks of hair and rip them from the root up right out of your body.  And this is dinner talk?  Why didn’t she just say “I pulled chunks of pubic hair out with my bare hands.  And no lube.  I now have an awesome rash!  But at least I am not as hairy as a Sasquatch anymore.  Wanna look?” instead of giving me detailed information while I am trying to eat my steak?  But that was a long time ago.  And the therapy worked.  Kind of.  I still have a slight twitch.  And it sure as hell ain’t in the trouser department when I think about her.

But I fear you think I am moaning.  So I will move on.  And moan about something else.

I hate pilates adverts.  There is one on the TV at the moment while I am writing this.  A woman lost loads of weight just by doing pilates.  The ad shows clearly that she did by the fact that in her before pic, she is wearing a baggy T-Shirt and no makeup.  Oooh…you chunky munky!  A BAGGY T-SHIRT!  Wild.  Just….wild.

But most of all, I hate throwing up.  And this is where the post gets a little more graphic.  But you were expecting that.

A few weeks back I ate something I shouldn’t of.  No, I didn’t go all Dr Lecter and eat that girls kidneys.  I ate a sausage that had been in a fridge for a week…that had the door left slightly ajar.  So the fridge was a little less fridge and a little more bacteria fest.  So said sausage had been breeding like a spring time bunny on those little blue tablets that you may have received unsolicited mail about once or twice in life.  And speed.  And there are some reeeeally slutty girl bunnies about who are more interested in putting it out than cleaning up the little bunny droplets they produce.  And Mr Speed driven blue tablet boy is seeing all those fluffy tails and is really not thinking about his job as a construction worker, and is instead bounding about with an impressively hard…..hang on…why the hell am I talking about bunnies with erections?  Lets get back to the sausage.  Oh.  Yeah I see that now. 

So.  This sausage.  It was a little on the funky side.  But that is OK because I was a few beers in when I ate it, and so my taste buds had no idea what was passing over them in to the intestinal tract where all hell was about to break loose.

It didn’t right away.  It took a few hours.  But I knew.  I knew something was brewing by the “ohhh…I don’t feel right..” comments I was making to my wife who said “I am pregnant.  I have my own issues.  Suck it up you weak feeble idiot and go get me some milkshake”.  She had a point.

A few hours later I decided that going to bed was the order of the day.  So I planned ahead.  I cleared a path out of the room.  I left the toilet seat up.  The light on.  The door open.  The traffic lights were set to stay on green.  And then it happened.

I didn’t even get that warning you get where you think “OK, I have about 15 seconds…” and you can get moving.  It hit me like a surprise kick in the nuts.  It all happened in slow motion, while going at the speed of light.

Reaction 1 – Get out of bed.  Reaction 2 – Cover mouth with hand.  Reaction 3 – Run.  Like the bloody wind.

About half way to the toilet, the size of my mouth to cubic capacity of stomach contents managed to become imbalanced.  The contents overtook my mouth size with a venom.  It was starting to seep out from between my fingers.  Game over.  As I reached the door to the bathroom, I started the process of moving my hand away.   What came next was projectile vomiting that reached such a distance that North Korea has approached me about about supplying the technology to transport their warheads.  From the edge of the bathroom, I actually managed to get it INTO the toilet.  Yeah.  I know.  Impressive huh!  What isn’t so impressive is that I also covered the floor.  Cabinet.  Bath.  Sink.  My clothes.  My hair.  The cat. 

Why was the cat in there!  Did he not get the memo I sent out warning of an imminent event happening in the toilet?

About 20 seconds after I had completely emptied my stomach, I stood back to see the carnage.  Eyes weeping and puke dribbling down my chin and out of my nose.  About that time my wife appeared and said “The floor cleaner and sponge is in the second draw down” and wandered back off to bed.  So on my hands and knees I got and started the clean up operation. 

The cat was last seen licking itself clean.  Looking a little confused that although it tastes and even looks like bits of sausage, something isn’t right.

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Stop meowing and say something original.

May 4th, 2010 · 4 Comments

I feel far too many posts have been about me and that goddamn marathon recently.  For that, I apologise.  So.  Back to the crazy we go.

It has always been said that the Germans are a little on the crazy side.  When I say “It has always been said”, I actually mean “I am making this part up”.  But what I am not making up is the story of a German man that married his cat.  As it laid there dying.  So I guess it CAN be said that they are a little on the crazy side then.

Marrying a dying cat?  What a guy!  Why not punch it in the gut just after it says “I do!” too?  You know…he is obviously marrying it for it’s money, but geez…what is it gonna have?  “Your cat…Cecilia…has left her worldly belongings to her husband Uwe.  The belongings consist of a bag of catnip and some pouches of food.”  Dufus.  What were you expecting?  Hidden treasure?  Gold coated fur-balls?  To sell it’s kidney as part of the Pussycat Shared-Organ Feline Foundation?  (Or PS-OFF for short)

Side note:  A man called Uwe?  What is he?  A ManSheep hybrid?  That would be a more fun news story though…German sheep marries cat.

Now, I can understand his loss.  I also love my cats.  Sure, I don’t want to have sexual relations with them, and they are ALWAYS the little spoon in the bed because I like to dominate.  But I just don’t get it.  He married it?  Was he just wanting to share her pain because generally, marriage will do that to a man.

But there is the one part I don’t understand (you know, apart from ALL of it).  Cats say 1 word and 1 word only.  Meow.  For instance:

Hey…Pussycat…do you want food?  MEOW!

Oi.  Tosspot…did you just throw up in my shoes?  MEOW!

MEOW! *cough* MEOW! *cough* – Fur-ball!  Result!  I shall leave that under his pillow!

MEOW! – I don’t care if you are sitting on the toilet…I want to come in!

MEOW! – I just left a dead mouse in your bed.

MEOW! – I don’t want to be the little spoon anymore.  Roll over.

MEOW! – I have just been hit by a car and lay here dying.

MEOW! – NO I DON’T WANT TO MARRY YOU YA SICK FREAK!

Meoooooowwwww – I am almost dead.

Silent and stiff as a board - I am dead.

See?  The only time they DON’T say MEOW! is when they have croaked it.  So when he married it, I find it highly unlikely that it was saying “I do! I do!”.

But then, as the NEWS STORY mentions:

“Cecilia is such a trusting creature. We cuddle all the time and she has always slept in my bed”

Yeah?  Well according to TV ads, I should buy a new mattress every 29 seconds because of bed bugs.  And if I don’t, I will be sharing the bed with millions of them.  You don’t see me marrying them though do you?  And we are close.  Very close.   They suck my blood.  You don’t get much closer than that without sharing a uterus.   

My cats also share my bed.  Even after hearing the words “Get the frig off of my pillow you furry annoying dumb stupid freakin little shit!  How many goddamn times do I have to tell you!”, I can generally be filled with an air of confidence that I will find said cat curled up on my bed.  Still not gonna marry it.

So.  In closing….if you marry your pet…I am gonna call you a freak.  Now.  Where is my cat.  I gotta get my spoon on.

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