Tuesday, November 17, 2009

I'm not joking, she actually said this:


"Franzy, I think we just need to get a bigger TV - one of those high-definition ones. I'm sick of not being able to see the Playstation properly and we should just complete our home entertainment system."


I know.
She is awesome.
Thank you very much and suffer in your jocks.




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  1. Kath LockettTuesday, November 17, 2009 at 7:47:00 PM PST

    Gorgeous wedding photo BTW.

    And listen, dearest Franzicle: the reason she said such an awesome thing is that she realises that you two are now parents. That means that you will never get to see a movie rated above G together ever again, so you might as well watch your TV and DVDs in comfort.

    ....that's why we were the first of anyone 'real' I know to get our DVD and cinema surround sound set up in 2000...

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  2. franzyTuesday, November 17, 2009 at 7:59:00 PM PST

    Aw shucks.

    Actually, it has nothing to do with parental planning and everything to do with the fact that PS3 games are all designed for HD teles and hence have a lot of small writing and intricate detail that's too hard to pick up on our current CRT.
    Like the lady said - she's sick of it!

    Plus, we have a devoted bunch of baby-sitters so the R-rated movies are still firmly on the menu ... if only there was anything decent on at a decent hour ...
    And if only we didn't just want to watch cartoon movies anyway ...

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  3. the other, other samThursday, November 19, 2009 at 12:20:00 AM PST

    Does this trump?...

    "Babe, your new car is awesome.
    It even has racing pedals.
    We are SO having sex in your car."


    (Not sure If I rate the risky sex offer higher than her awareness of the existence of racing pedals - Both are way hot.)

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  4. RiverSunday, November 22, 2009 at 8:15:00 PM PST

    "suffer in your jocks"?? I thought my hubby L was the only person who ever said that. I've never heard it from anyone else. (I hate the expression)
    So did you get the big TV?
    Nice photo too.

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An explanation of The Joy Division Litmus Test

Although it may now be lost in the mysts of thyme, the poll below is still relevant to this blog. In the winter of 2008, Mele and I went to live in Queensland. In order to survive, I bluffed my way into a job at a Coffee Club.
It was quite a reasonable place to work: the hours were regular, the staff were quite nice, it wasn't particularly taxing on my brain.
There were a few downsides: In the six weeks or so that I worked there, there was about a 90% staff turnover (contributed to by my leaving). This wasn't seen as a result of the low pay, the laughability of staff prices or the practice of not distributing tips to staff, rather it was blamed on the lack of work ethic among Bribie Island's youth.
However, one of the stranger aspects of the cultural isolation that touched our lives during our time "up there" was the fact that nobody at my work had heard of the band Joy Division.
The full explanation is available here.
But please, interact a little further and vote in my ongoing poll. The results are slowly mounting up, proving one thing: people read this blog are more well-informed about Joy Division than anyone who works at the Coffee Club on Bribie Island.

Have you heard of the band Joy Division?

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Champions of Guess The Header

  • What is Guess The Header about? Let’s ask regular “Writing” reader, Shippy: "Anyway, after Franzy's stunning September, and having a crack at 'Guess The Header' for the first time - without truly knowing what I was doing mind you - I think I finally understand what 'GTH' is all about. At first I thought you needed to actually know what it was. Don't get me wrong — if you know what it is, it may help you. I now realise that it's more Franzy's way of invoking thought around an image or, more often than not, part of an image. If you dissect slightly the GTH explanatory sentence at the bottom of his blog you come up with this: “The photo is always taken by me and always connects in some way to the topic of the blog entry it heads up.” When the header is put up, the blog below it will in some obscure way have something to do with it. “Interesting comments are judged and scored arbitrarily and the process is open to corruption and bribery with all correspondence being entered into after the fact and on into eternity, ad infinitum amen.” Franzy judges it, but it's not always the GTH that describes the place perfectly that gets it. “The frequent commenters, the wits, the wags and the outright smartarses who, each entry, engage to both guess the origin and relevance of the strip of photo at the top (or “head”) of each new blog and also who leave what I deem the most interesting comment.” It generally helps if you're a complete smartarse and can twist things to mean whatever you feel they should mean - exactly the way Franzy would like things to be twisted." - Shippy Blogger and GTH point scorer.
  • Nai - 1
  • Lion Kinsman - 2
  • Will - 2
  • Brocky - 2
  • Andy Pants - 2
  • The 327th Male - 3
  • Mad Cat Lady - 3
  • Miles McClagen - 4
  • Myninjacockle - 4
  • Asheligh - 5
  • Neil - 5
  • Third Cat - 5
  • Adam Y - 6
  • Squib - 6
  • Mele - 6
  • Moifey - 7
  • Jono - 8
  • The Other, other Sam - 14
  • Kath Lockett - 15
  • Shippy - 19
  • River - 32