North of the Stupid Line

Archive for November, 2004

22 Nov, 2004

Christmas

Posted by: Rob

What the hell is happening to the world? We had Christmas decorations, people have put their Christmas trees up already, at the end of October, beginning of November. I have one question for them all:
WHY?!
To be honest – and I don’t care if you think I’m Scrooge – I think Christmas is over-rated. [...]

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10 Nov, 2004

Musicality

Posted by: Rob

I’ve just been watching Musicality on Channel 4, and I feel so uplifted and happy!
What is it about musicals that make people feel this way? Musicals, as we all know, were very popular up to the 1950s and 1960s, but then the movie distributors like MGM and Paramount stopped making them. Only recently, [...]

07 Nov, 2004

London Transport

Posted by: Rob

Rachel starts a Level 1 BSL Course with Deafworks in a few weeks, and today she made me take her to Old Street on the 43 bus so that she can see for herself where she needs to go, as I won’t be able to take her.
This got me thinking – why do some people [...]

07 Nov, 2004

Spirited Away

Posted by: Rob

Rachel and I watched a very nice film last night called Spirited Away. This is the Amazon.co.uk review:
The highest grossing film in Japanese box-office history, Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away (Sen To Chihiro Kamikakushi) is a dazzling film that reasserts the power of drawn animation to create fantasy worlds. Like Dorothy in The Wizard of [...]

06 Nov, 2004

Week

Posted by: Rob

Its been a busy week for me, work-wise. I’m not complaining, but sometimes it’s nice to just chill out of an evening. I was on the go Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday night, and didn’t actually sit down and chill until Monday night.
On Monday I attended the YSG Pro Bono Awards at the Law [...]

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  • JGJones: Hear hear - I never understand those "fathers" myself either. My wife once said this quote to me which is very true: "Any man can be a father, but
  • Dafydd: JG: Point taken. Rob: you should have waited :-D
  • JGjones: Dafydd, Android phones are good - but the current hardware that's in UK sucks for them (they're nowhere near as powerful as the iPhone 3GS so you r

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Why North of the Stupid Line? It's quite simple: to signify an individual of subnormal intelligence and general social ignorance. This blog belongs to Rob Wilks (never!) who can be summed up thus: Deaf, married, daddy, happy chappy, smiley, solicitor, Welshman, Cymru.