Month: February 2002

Bollocks, my email @dirk.demon.co.uk is down. Seems they don’t like my credit card. I will update my livejournal email to go to another account until I can sort this out tomorrow morning.

This was sent to me today Link The question is, why would anyone need to be able to do this?

I don’t know if this is true, but it makes you wonder

If you are a regular traveller on the London
Underground, here are some
facts which you’ll wish you hadn’t read.

During Autumn of 2000, a team of scientists at the
Department of Forensics
at University College London removed a row of
passenger seats from a
Central
Line tube carriage for analysis into cleanliness.
Despite London
Underground’s claim that the interior of their
trains are cleaned on a
regular basis, the scientists made some alarming
discoveries.

The analysis was broken down. This is what was
found on the surface of the
seats:

4 types of hair sample (human, mouse, rat, dog)

7 types of insect (mostly fleas, mostly alive)

vomit originating from at least 9 separate people

human urine originating from at least 4 separate
people

human excrement

rodent excrement

human semen

When the seats were taken apart, they found:

the remains of 6 mice

the remains of 2 large rats

1 previously unheard of fungus

It is estimated that by holding one of the
armrests,you are transferring,
to your body, the natural oils and sweat from as many
as 400 different people.

It is estimated that it is generally healthier to
smoke five cigarettes a
day than to travel for one hour a day on the London
Underground.

It is far more hygienic to wipe your hand on the
inside of a recently
flushed toilet bowl before eating, than to wipe
your hand on a London
Underground seat before eating.

It is estimated that, within London, more work
sick-days are taken because
of bugs picked up whilst travelling on the London
Underground than for any
other reason (including alcohol).

The skies darkened and down came the snow.

Woopy

Cable is back

Well it didn’t happen on Tuesday, but it happened today. I am dialed up through a modem and it sucks. At some point this morning my cable was cut. The whole block is out so I am guesses that the people laying the new power lines for the new street lighting have cut the cable that feeds our block. I have seen 2 COX employee’s today and even got them to talk to eat other. I am waiting for COX to come out for the my appointment, not they they really need to come out becuase I know what is going on.