Funny Shop Sign

It wasn't the name of the shop that enticed me to take this picture. After all, a lot of people have 'Butt' as a surname (I'm assuming here). I would've probably given the name a casual look, thought it was lightly amusing and went on my way. 

The thing that made me fish around in my pocket (while in the passenger seat of a moving car) was the tagline under the name. 'Quality fresh meat, home cooked meat, and home-made faggots. (Faggots are a British meat dish, somewhat like black-pudding).

With a name like Butt, perhaps I would've left out the 'faggots.'

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No Recalling The Human Design

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Toyota has now recalled more than 8 million cars because of several little faults in the design. Various defects have meant that the cars cannot possibly function the way they're meant to. We all know cars are made to do one thing. You can't ask them to do the washing up. You won't expect them to manage an office or raise kids. You certainly won't ask your car to volunteer at the youth centre on Wednesday nights. No. Cars enable us to do one thing - drive.


Several intelligent and talented men and women designed and planned, then manufactured cars. A defect in the design means they can no longer be driven safely. We expect that cars, even though they only do one thing, are a product of intelligent design. One oversight, and they're no good.


Yet,


I'm expected to believe that I, a person who's able to:
Cool myself down when I'm overheating by just producing water through millions of radiators all over my body.
Lessen the tension when my gears are being changed too fast, by leaking fluids through my headlights.
Start, stop and reverse automatically (without having to use gears) by just using my engine to think it.
See obstacles in my path and go around them in fine motor precision.
Observe barriers behind me and turn around without having to back up.
Track and acknowledge other 'machines' around me and communicate with them by just opening my bonnet.
Crouch down and stand tall in just one simple movement.
Go from 0 to full blast in split seconds.
Do cold starts every time without fail.
Use my snow tracks to get through high snow without going off course.
Honk my (versatile) horn as softly or loudly as I want to.
Transform into different machines whenever necessary, and as frequently as required.
Heal my own bumps and scrapes by growing a new body work in mere days. 
Release any rattling in my gear box merely by blowing off steam from either of two strategically placed exhaust pathways.
Carry hundreds of passengers inside my shell for as long as I want to.
Drive on no fuel if required.


A car with only one purpose doesn't just 'happen.' It can't be slapped together or banged into existence. Behind its creation (for it was created) was a precise, intentional and intelligent design. This is made clearer by the aftermath demonstrated by these recent, little oversights. 


It's natural to accept that an intelligent being created the car but not me?
A dumb organism 'decided' he was going to become me one day and just did? 
Please explain below how this is so. 

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I Discovered England!

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You heard me. I came to live in England some years ago, and as far as I'm concerned, I have discovered it and all the people living in it. All that's left for me to do now is to stick my flag somewhere in the ground and rename it with something like, Anneland. 


Surely, you don't think I'm mad. After all, European 'explorers' (or posh pirates - whatever you want to call them) went to different lands all over the earth and 'discovered' them. Sure, they were people already living there. I'll agree that they had their own culture and sustained living for hundreds of years prior to the 'discovery.' Okay, I suppose I also have to accept that many of them, like the talented South Americans had established empires and impressive building and engineering experience. 
How does that matter? If people in the past could've legally 'discovered' these countries, be paid for it and given titles for the discovery, then, so should I!


So, I'm officially going to discover England. I'll fashion a flag, stick it in the ground, and apply to be named as the person who found it. I suppose I won't bother with trying to make the people work for me and give me their gold. Times are hard and I heard many of them have already sold their spare gold online. The hardest thing now is coming up with a suitable name. The natives tend to call it 'England' but that name is so yesterday. I'm thinking something fresh and exciting. Something more... me!


What do you reckon, Anneland or Annieland? Which sounds better? Or maybe we could do a Columbus and go with something like Annebia (like Columbia). 
Don't tell me this is not a good idea. Thousands of people, including kings and queens thought it was great! Don't diss us.

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Gas 4 Free

This is a British blog, but I know 75% of my readership comes from the U.S, therefore I couldn't help blogging about this once I'd seen it. Have you heard of the water hybrid engine technology? Apparently, in the US companies are widely promoting what they call a 'simple technology' that allows your car to be powered by water. Yes, water.
A programme called Gas 4 Free allows your present car, diesel or petrol, to be fully converted to use water. This system claims many advantages including:

• being able to clean out your engine.
• doubling the performance of your vehicle.
• reducing emissions.
• the IRS will pay you a refund for using it.

What's more, they claim to give a 100% money back guarantee. Obviously, I cannot vouch for this system, as I've never used it. What I can say, is that it's so fascinating to me, I would use it were it available here (and once I'd researched all the facts). I know that Americans think petrol (gas) is really expensive in the U.S, but not having any of the petrol concessions you have there, we in the U.K pay twice as much for our petrol/diesel.

How it works

You will not be able to go totally gas free. Water will supplement the gas you already use. The electricity in the car battery is used to separate the water (H2O) into a gas known as HHO. This gas is one part oxygen, two part hydrogen. Theoretically, this is the gas which burns to power the car. After burning, the waste product is merely water. This obviously is a green way to use your vehicle.

This is what Wikepedia describes as the drawback of this system:

'The attraction of using hydrogen as an energy currency is that, if hydrogen is prepared without using fossil fuel inputs, vehicle propulsion would not contribute to carbon dioxide emissions. The drawbacks of hydrogen use are low energy content per unit volume, high tankage weights, the storage, transportation and filling of gaseous or liquid hydrogen in vehicles, the large investment in infrastructure that would be required to fuel vehicles, and the inefficiency of production processes.'

So, Gas 4 Free? Have you ever heard of this and would you convert your own car? Click Here! for details.

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It's Time For Frilly Socks Again

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A friend of mine has just announced that she and her husband are expecting their first baby! This is always great news, as it's an excuse to get the knitting needles out and go shopping for frilly socks, stuffed animals and cute, little baby clothes.


Somehow, the news of a new baby always takes me back to the good old days when my babies were actually babies. At that time there were hardly any Internet stores around, so we trolled the brick and mortar ones looking for baby clothes, toys and furniture. These days there are many shopping websites available to choose from. I was just informed about a site which stocks several of the brand names like barefoot dreams, jellycat and appaman collections for babies and kids. 


I'm off to look for some tiny treasures for an even tinier person. I don't know what he/she will look like yet, but I'm sure that a soft cuddly toy and some warm filly socks will a perfect present. 


What's your favourite present to give to a newborn?

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