Blogs

[Kylie eats dugong for tea]

Who has a blog or has blogs that they enjoy reading? (not the livejournalesque -personal -type, although I have one of them too and im sure I will frighten myself if go back and read it)

I got bored so I decided to write this one/ (http://rollwiththegangstas.blogspot.com/)

I also like to read Andrew Bartlett's blog

http://andrewbartlett.com/blog/

[Grumma]

Mind me a nice tradie chic n i'd do em ;)

and if my friends are anything to go by - the chic's seem to like the clothing n the fact that theyre "labourers" to some extent which they believe means the guy is muscly

[Sarah]

oh, good...i thought that was a test to see if we could find it :)

i've found peoples attitude towards the jobs (working in a servo, working for woolies, working as a mechanic, etc) i've done in the past to be quite offensive, and i am very wary of how i answer people when they ask what i do/did.

'I used to run a multimillion dollar business'
'wow, thats exciting, tell me about it'

OR

'i used to work at big w'
'thats nice'

same job dummies.

[Kylie eats dugong for tea]

Did people react with interest when you were a mechanic? I can imagine people going "OMG a grrrrl mechanic! You go girl! "

by the way, the cleaner/ faux fitness instructor is my mum.

[Sarah]

thats cool, my mum used to work for rentokil...i imagine people would react the same way to your mum!

and being a mechanic, yeah, they did think it was interesitng. but on the flip side, trying to get a job after that was especially hard as the stereotype chick mechanic is a real butch, blokey, swearing type...and as soon as i mentioned that's what i used to do people got turned off straight away if they didn't meet me in person first.

i remember ringing up about a realestate job that advertised the only qualifications you needed were to own your own car and house, have no realestate experience and be willing to work weekends. Even though i had these things the snooty lady didn't want to even know me.

[Grumma]

Don't they watch Neighbours!

[Neo]

I wanted to be a mechanic. Only so I didnt have to pay to fix my car :p

[worry_rock]

There's a blog I like reading by a flamboyant, outrageously gay (in the literal sense), eloquent, actor and trashy 80s band frontman called Ash Flanders. I used to listen to his radio show Gay As A Whistle over a year ago now when it was still on the air.

Anyway, his blogs are really quite funny (in my opinion).

www.myspace.com/one_step_out and click on blogs.

Although, I wouldn't suggest reading the latest ones, they're mainly reviews for his latest stageshow. But here's a little snippet of the kind of things he writes:

I like to laugh through my grief. It's something deep in the Flanders DNA along with the fact all the men use handkerchiefs and all the women chain-smoke. It's just who we are. Take for example my grandmothers funeral. As my mother watched her own mother's coffin be lowered into the ground - resting peacefully above my grandfather's casket - she couldn't help but let her grief out in the form of a gag. "Gawd, Dad'll be spewing, Mum's on top forever now!"

AND! His top 10 reasons why he should be gay-bashed. Hahaha:

1. I woke up and immediately had sex with my boyfriend.

2. I showered then straightened my boyfriend's hair.

3. My boyfriend and I strolled down Chapel St holding hands.

4. We then got got matching takeaway lattes - same size + same sugar = same sex BLISS!

5. I called up my housemate because I just HAD to show her my boyfriend's "fabulous new-and-exciting hair".

6. We then met up with my best friend - a male makeup artist at MAC cosmetics.

7. I then went shopping with my boyfriend, finding him "a cute outfit" for Jen's birthday party tonight (PS. He looks fucking HOT! I am once again the ugly one in my relationship!)

8. We then came home and made low-fat salad rolls because at 70 kilos I'm feeling a tad doughy nowadays, and my boyfriend is manorexic.

9. We then groomed my eyebrows, his eyebrows and our fingernails. Together.

10. He then helped me put a silver toner in my hair because it's a little brassy for my liking.

[Neo]

and if my friends are anything to go by - the chic's seem to like the clothing n the fact that theyre "labourers" to some extent which they believe means the guy is muscly

Yeah the ones i imagine in my head a real manly men, or 'blokes' :p however the majority of the ones i know in person are real poofy lookin :rolleyes:

[Sarah]

Don't they watch Neighbours!


this was back in the ye olde days, before stef and the stupid one were mechanics on the show :)

[Grumma]

Ah yeah.

They would be ye olde days!
lol

[Kylie eats dugong for tea]

this was back in the ye olde days, before stef and the stupid one were mechanics on the show :)

Maybe Toadie swung by when you were a mechanic and pitched the idea to the writers!

(i remember a story you told about toadie coming into your non-mechanic work... at least i hope it was you)

Man, I'd love to be a neighbours storyliner writer.

[Grumma]

Well you couldn't do a worse job than what they are now lol

[Kylie eats dugong for tea]

My neighbours storylines would involve people being disabled permanently, instead of always getting better.

[Johnny_Wah]

Grumma, neighbours is like your favourite show.

[Grumma]

My neighbours storylines would involve people being disabled permanently, instead of always getting better.

Or having an evil twin that takes their place

:p