The Best A Man Can Get?

So hats off to the R+D department at Gillette for another triumph.

After successively working up from one to four blades on their fine razors, those geniuses in the Gillette labs have pushed the envelope this time with the launch of Fusion - go on have a guess - yep five blades. However this time with a subtle extra. They now include an extra blade on the back to shave the moustache area, purely - and this is the best bit - because the head of the razor is now so damn big it can't manage the task. My prediction based on current advancement will be the 9 blade razor by 2010 which will spark the 2011 male grooming riots resulting in a return to straight razors the year after which will lead to wide spread..... think I'll grow a beard actually.

Couple of fantastic news stories this week thanks to the Times and Guardian.

Firstly from the Times

"50 Orangutans rescued from kickboxing theme park"

You almost need no more than the headline to know that this is probably the greatest news story ever printed. The story is that these apes have been rescued from a Thai theme park where they were forced to perform mock kickboxing bouts and returned to their home in Indonesia.

Now, I find cruelty to animals absolutely abhorrent but I know what you are thinking and I agree - would love to have seen the show.

Secondly from the Grauniad,

"Man rejects first Penis transplant"

Ok so surgeons in China have performed the worlds first Penis transplant - so well done there.
Now I was thinking when they said "man rejects" that, as unfortunately can happen with any transplant, that the guys immune system had rejected the new organ - but no...........

The guy returned to the hospital to have it removed, with only the following cryptic paragraph as means of explanation

"Psychological consequences of hand and face allografts show that it is not so easy to use and see permanently a dead person's hands, nor is it easy to look in a mirror to see a dead person's face, Clearly, in the Chinese case the failure at a very early stage was first psychological. It involved the recipient's wife and raised many questions"

You bet it raises many questions - I can't even begin to imagine the conversations that occurred between husband and wife when he came home with his new (or lets face it dead man's) knob. Added to which, the one they gave him was 10 cm long. I think I'd have been tempted to wait and see the next one or look through a catalogue because I can't help but feel he has been somewhat short changed.

Anyway I've wasted enough of your time.

Check out the new Dream Theatre live album "Score" and also check out Dan's blog from the link on the site which I guarantee will provide 100% more interest than the bobbins printed here.

Until next time......

A Slightly Disappointing Start

It had been my intention to break the blogging ice, as it were, with a rather splendid picture of a piece of toast with the word arse on it made out of alphabetti spaghetti that I made today. Sadly my phone seems incapable of sending the photo via email and so you will just have to wonder at the sheer mirth you could have been experiencing now.

Creating works of profanity via the medium of spaghetti (or swearghetti as i'm now calling it) is not as easy as you might think. The manufacturers seem to have removed letters such as K and U which makes some of the more exotic swear words difficult to create without a bit of DIY on some of the existing letters - and frankly when you've paid for the tin it seems a bit much to be expected to carve new letters to meet your own alphabetti needs. I could go on........