18/05/2008 by orientfan.

Yeah, I’ve been lazy… so you get it all in one go.

I was asked today if I was disappointed by Orient’s performance this season. In a nutshell - no. We started off really well but were in no threat of relegation so that’s better than last season. I’ll take that. I would like to see us pushing for a play-off place next season but, then again, there are lots of things I’d like to see.

New web site - Angry of Havering - I care very much about where I was brought up and this sums up the ridiculous stuff that goes on there. Some would call it corruption and pocket lining.

I have my photo collections from 2006 online here.

I’m off to France on 6th June for 10 days. Orders for Gaperon and proper French mustard are being taken now. Don’t miss out.

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02/05/2008 by orientfan.

Big congrats from OrientFan Towers to Steve and Jess on the birth of Emma at 12:09 today.

Methinks the beers are going to be on him tomorrow night. Depending on the venue mine’s either a Guinness, Tyskie, Okocim or Lech.

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16/03/2008 by orientfan.

It’s now 01:50, and I promised myself I wouldn’t stay up for the “stupid o’clock” ones this season but I can’t help myself. It’s particularly stupid knowing that I have a three hour drive at 6pm tonight but I love F1. Hamilton on pole but the changes in fuelling credits for the last stage in qualifying will be interesting to say the least. I expect a strong showing from the BMW’s, It’s very hard to call this race as it’s the first one of the season.

So it will be back to bed at 6am-ish. Methinks some complaining in Essex will ensue. I also now know my family now read this blog. Hello family!!

I am currently watching the “100 Greatest Stand-up Comedians” on E4+1. Truly shocking classifications. Bill Hicks must be in the top five but apparently not. I suggest you read “American Scream”, his biography. I have it in the boot of my car if you want to borrow it. Billy Connoly is number one. FFS.

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29/02/2008 by orientfan.

I have been discussing something with lil’ Miss OrientFan [tm. pat. pend.] this evening. We both came across it [so to speak] at different times. And, dear readers, take some time out to look it up yourself. Wikpedia is an accurate source of info on this ‘last section - Nationalisation’

Basically, all the ‘good’ mortgage book has been passed on to a mysterious organisation called “Granite” that is supposedly a charitable trust but has never donated any money to the charity it is supposed to help. Unless the decent mortgage book continues to be passed on to Granite they can call in their £45 billion pound loan to Northern Rock.

For once, I’m going to make you do the work. I’ve read enough tonight on this, it is outrageous and apart from Channel 4 news mentioning it about a week ago, has not been mentioned once on mainstream news.

So WE are funding the offshore company. FFS, I was bad at handling finances [and on Tuesday discovered I had transferred more than I thought to Egg so have no food money, one pack of fags and had my last three cans of Stella tonight], but this is an absolute disgrace. What is the Government doing, anyone would think that there are members of the government with some sort of interest in Granite. I, obviously, do not think that. I don’t exactly have teams of lawyers I can pay for

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21/02/2008 by orientfan.

Huge congrats from OrientFan Towers to Dee and Paul who have announced their engagement. I shall raise a glass to you both.

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09/02/2008 by orientfan.

I have removed this post. Phoning people and any form of real-time communication is better than posting that sort of stuff. It was cathartic, I’ll give it that and taught me a thing or two. I’m going to take a break from posting for a while.

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02/02/2008 by orientfan.

The following was posted in a forum I frequent. Permission was asked for and given to reproduce it here. Enjoy:

<<< One New Year's Eve (I think I was 14), I was at home watching the crap end of year shows on the telly. My dad had gone to the pub and my mum had fallen asleep on the sofa, so I decided to avail myself of the remaining Christmas booze. Eight cans of Special Brew and half a bottle of sherry later, I pass out. At 5am, I wake up and find myself on the sofa, in a pair of pyjamas I didn't know existed and covered in the dog's blanket. My mum was sitting on the other side of the room, having stayed up to watch over me and make sure I was still breathing.

She'd found me naked and comatose on the downstairs toilet, with every bodily fluid known to man in the bowl beneath me (as for some reason, I'd decided to block the U-bend with an unopened can of lager before being sick and going to the toilet). I'd also emptied four packets of Wotsits into the sink.

She reached for the loo roll to try and clean me up, but realised it was missing. This was because I had decided to unravel it on the kitchen floor and pour ketchup and brown sauce all over it. The spring for this loo roll holder was hanging from a light fitting in my bedroom upstairs.

However, by far the worst part of the story was that I had set up the video camera on my parent's bedside table, pointing at the bed and set to record. Which must have been lovely for them to find. I have no idea what was on the tape (I hope they burnt it immediately) and don't think I want to find out. >>>

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01/02/2008 by orientfan.

Needs sound

BBC Radio prank dedication

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31/01/2008 by orientfan.

This is from the same Creationism web site. I realise they do not reflect the Creationist non-theory and these are most certainly not the views of most Christians.

You could not make this up!

<<< Masturbation can sometimes be wrong and it can sometimes not. If you masturbate thinking about how pretty the flowers are and how you want a puppy, essentially that's not wrong. But most times, that is not the case. I believe that when one masturbates a high percentage of the time they are fantasizing about a sexual partner therefore making masturbation lust. Lust, as the Bible states, is a sin. But masturbation is something that people in general should stay away from because it's hard not to lust whilst doing it. >>>

and

<<< [on why God had to have written the Bible]

But think about it, who is smart enough to write the Holy Bible? The answer, no one.

[...]

How could people back then have written words with such intellegence? We were not very educated back then, we all know. So tell me, how could people back ages ago could have written the bible? >>>

and

<<< I am 100% pro-life, unless we're talking about capital punishment, in which case I am 100% pro-death. >>>

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31/01/2008 by orientfan.

This is from a Christian website showing their hilarious arguments for Creationism:

>>>Everyone knows scientists insist on using complex terminology to make it harder for True Christians to refute their claims.

Deoxyribonucleic Acid, for example… sounds impressive, right? But have you ever seen what happens if you put something in acid? It dissolves! If we had all this acid in our cells, we’d all dissolve! So much for the Theory of Evolution, Check MATE!<<<

Orientfan - happy to be an atheist.

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