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So, I went to the classic rock bar
duh-dee-dah-de-dah
and I had a good time
duh-dee-dah-de-dah
Excuse me while I take a moment to kill the guitarist...
duh-dee-dah-de-dah
*smack*
dweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeehh
*stab*
dwwaaaaaaaaaaarr-cggrhrhrhrh
*thunk*
and breathe...
*washes hands*

aaanyway... the classic rock bar does exactly what it says on the tin. It's a bar, where they play classic rock. When you go in, if there was no-one there and no music playing you'd probably think "I bet this is a themed rock bar at nights", assuming you hadn't read the signs*.
They had tolerably good beer for £1.50, and the only real downside was the scary foot sniffing man. Weird bloke.

I have also been round to Catherines, and watched many films, which was nice.

Sometimes I think I serve a twisted trickster god... take the other day. I was miserable, then on the way home I found a tenner and a potential housemate. Then a few days later an unexpected problem crops up and costs me a tenner, and after that I got the news that we're probably moving out anyway.
Then last night, I was amazed by my good luck when my bus journey back (hinging on two buses that have been very unreliable recently) was quicker than it would normally have been in hte day. I only waited ten minutes or less total. This was completely overwhelmed by the fact that when I got home I noticed an unfortunate positioning problem... my keys were positioned six feet on the wrong side of the front door. Then I had an embarrassing time phoning, ambling, buying chips to get change so that I could actually get in my house. Brilliant.

*sighs*
I should really learn not to ask supernatural powers for any assistance.

*not the Jolly Buffer sign, the other sign.


I should cancel my subscription to the new internationalist. They've got an article about how bad it is living in eastern europe, which is fair enough, however the picture above it is obviously faked.
The picture is an old apartment building, which at first glance appears to have an extremely large piece of graffiti - a gun pointing to a circle with "welcome to hell" written inside and flames around the top - on the side. The caption reads "graffiti protest against a soulless highrise existence".
There are a number of problems here. The graffiti is drawn around bends on the building, over windows and possibly open gaps, over peoples washing, and over a tree in the foreground.

So, the only way this could be graffiti is if it were drawn on an advertising poster or brochure, rather than on the building itself. The problem there is that it doesn't look like an advertising picture - the sun is not shining, and it's of the back of the building rather than the front. Most advertisers aren't keen to show you vents and laundry.

The only conclusion then is that it's a fake, and not even a very good one. I could do better than this with photoshop! blue_jez or astatine210 certainly could. NI are guilty of incompetance at best, deliberate lying at worst.