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Get Out of My House

I came home to discover a veritable mountain of UKIP propaganda on the doormat. The occasional "I'm great, vote for me" leaflet from your local candidate I can understand (you'd have to actually be living under a rock to not know anything about the party leaders), but I swear to god I think this guy stuck his university dissertation in there as well (or at least someone's dissertation; we are talking about UKIP after all). After I'd crawled around this mesa of dead tree, I had time to be suitably annoyed at all this paper on my floor that I wasn't even going to read. Thus:

PROBLEM: A number of people irritated by the influx of large amounts of propaganda from a party they don't even like.

SOLUTION: Said people find the address of the local candidate and collect as much of their own preferred party's material as they can. They then shove it all through his letter box. Propaganda'd!

(NB: Please do not actually expect me to partake of any of this. I'm far too lazy).

posted by Thaddeus "B." Glands @ 7:44 pm   1 comments /*clutches head*/


In lighter news,

Dear UKIP,
I am writing to request a new candidate for my area, as I seem to have broken the previous one. Given the choice, I think the local constituents would prefer one that can actually argue this time.
W. Black, esquire.

posted by Withiel @ 4:03 pm   1 comments Saturday, April 23, 2005

Update Update.

Rhexis.tk is no more. I'm leaving the address up at the moment, and the logo needs updating on the top bar, but I've now registered www.rhexis.co.uk, which is mine for at least two years and bannerless. (Harmless gratitude plug for company I got it off). Therefore, please feel free to disseminate the new URL to all and sundry.

In other news, we're going to town on the misuse of Dingle's (Headmaster of Buckinghamshire's prestigious Ryal Grammar School) position in promoting the local Conservascum candidate. Poster campaign ahoy!

Also, if anyone would be interested in a Rhexis newsletter of some description, then send a brief email to rhexis.steathsuit at gmail.

posted by Withiel @ 1:31 pm   4 comments 
Oh Batman, You Card!

Seduction of the Innocent.

posted by Thaddeus "B." Glands @ 5:10 pm   1 comments 
Hail to the new Pope, same as the old Pope...

...apart from this one was in the Hitler youth.

Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger of Germany is Pope Benedict XVI He says things like "at the base of this New World Order" is the ideology of "women's empowerment," which erroneously sees "the principal obstacles to [a woman's] fulfillment [as] the family and maternity." (quoted from lifesite.net)

Gah. A reactionary misogynist. Just what we all needed.

The world is fucked.

EDIT: Furthermore, rock and roll is evil, and Buddhists are wankers. What a nice man

posted by Withiel @ 7:42 pm   10 comments Sunday, April 17, 2005

Interesting Odds and Ends

Researchers Find That Chocolate Compound Stops Cancer Cell Cycle in Lab Experiments

As if you needed an excuse to eat chocolate, you fatties.

Distant planets could be made of diamond

No doubt the work of Magrathea.

Seattle man catches fire during surgery

I guess the surgeons got a little cold.

This is CG.

Deeply impressive. Must have taken an incredible amount of time to render though. Of course, realtime photorealism on this scale is still a very long way of, unless we somehow find a way of simulating millions of photons flying around and bouncing of highly complex surfaces in realtime without actually modelling it.

posted by Thaddeus "B." Glands @ 6:16 pm   5 comments I have the hair of an angel

and the face of a clown. I will not wank on the Rhexis while drunk.




[Found this delight by Thaddeus saved as a draft. Couldn't resist. Now go and discuss the ID card bill. - SXV]

posted by Thaddeus "B." Glands @ 12:17 am   0 comments Who should I vote for?

Your expected outcome:

Liberal Democrat

Your actual outcome:

You should vote: Liberal Democrat

posted by Withiel @ 10:29 am   2 comments 
It's not rape!

Whale-Dolphin Hybrid Has Baby Wholphin

"Kekaimalu, whose name means "from the peaceful ocean," was born 19 years ago after a surprise coupling between a 14-foot, 2,000-pound false killer whale and a 6-foot, 400-pound dolphin."

posted by Thaddeus "B." Glands @ 6:43 pm   8 comments 
...Wuxtry! Wuxtry! Blogger Finds Area 51!

Unfortunately not me

The site redesign is being continued by Saney, so feel free to abuse him at email@example.com. There are unlikely to be any major updates from me at the moment, as I am dying of work, but ~x~ has promised to do UK election coverage soon.

I'm off to collapse now...

posted by Withiel @ 5:32 pm   2 comments 
The Art of Urban Scrumping

In his show, "Part Troll", Bill Bailey described stealing stereos as "urban scrumping" (scrumping of course being when "youths" nick apples from a convenient tree). This is, of course, amusing. I believe that I have found a superior and - dare I say it - more amusing use for this term.

If you're anything like me, you'll have occasionally over-indulged in an alcoholic respect. Furthermore, you may have once or twice taken a brief trip outside your place of drinking. If you're especially like me (or indeed a certain Mr. Veins), you may well have returned bearing a construction sign or a similarly easily obtainable relic of your inebriated sojourn.

This, friends, is Urban Scrumping.

Obviously, there are limits to what activities this term can encompass. You can't very well return with a stolen car and claim it as automotive urban scrumping. Similarly, if you have an entire room full of traffic cones, you may have over-indulged in this respect.

Naturally, you are very much entering into the spirit of things if you find a keepsake from someone or somewhere you don't like.

If you wake up and realise what you have done and feel those twinges of morning-hangover-regret (this is not unlikely), you may return your momentos and still remain in the spirit of the Art of Urban Scrumping.

And, of course, remember to use your imaginiation. That and don't get caught.

posted by Thaddeus "B." Glands @ 10:32 pm   1 comments 
Fuck You, Internet

I'm trying to make the website not be shit right now. If the design spontaneously changes, it's because the current one is SHIT. Hopefully there's another template that doesn't have a measly 300 pixel content area.

Edit: Okay, this one works and doesn't look too bad. Anyone posting images in the future should make sure that it is no larger than 460 pixels wide, or make a thumbnail that fits this requirement and link offsite. Withiel, get on MSN so we can talk!

posted by Thaddeus "B." Glands @ 3:08 pm   0 comments 
Current location of all SPECS speed cameras.

For your speededing pleasure

EDIT: furthermore: A minor edit by saney to try and de-break the website.

posted by Withiel @ 12:53 pm   0 comments 
I am very, very bored. But, breaking the age-old tradition, stone-cold fucking sober. This pleases me not.
In need of a reason to Hate the World And All That Is In It? --->here

posted by Withiel @ 10:19 pm   5 comments 
Associate People-Blog Plug.


Just started, but there's some fantastic stuff up there already... posted by Withiel @ 9:55 pm   0 comments New Painting.

Watercolour, ink and acrylic on cardboard. In other news, the Rhexis will shortly be undergoing a bit of a revamp, and the post-rate should increase proportionally. Which you should be pleased about. Also, we're looking for more writers, as several of the original team are a little...er...unreliable, and not at all lying in a ditch somewhere because they missed deadlines. Interested? Drop us a line at email@example.com, with some example of your work.

In additional other news: Written and drawn by Withiel, Coloured and Buffed Up by saney. Coming Soon to a radical online journal near YOU.

A further de-break attempt.

posted by Withiel @ 12:34 pm   0 comments Musicfest Extraordinaire!11!!one!!!1!

Music by me. All written and performed by me apart from Tainted Love (Soft Cell) and Winter Lady (Leonard Cohen. Copyright, etc. Share and enjoy.


"Peter the Drunk's Song"

"Tainted Love (Bi-Curious Biker Cover)"

"The Mind Gangster"


"Winter Lady"

"I Awaken" (Instrumental)

Right-click the links and select "Save Target As" to download.

posted by Withiel @ 12:16 pm   1 comments