I was on the Bus yesterday on my way home from my Ma's house, she had put me to work shovelling Horse Manure on her allotment, when a drunk Irishman sat down next to me.

A young woman came onto the bus carrying a baby. He offered her his seat but she recoiled and scurried to the back cradling her baby from the crazed looking Irishman.

A Caribbean guy was watching and started going off in a really thick accent, 'you try to show them respect man, she just throw it in your face, you relax brother', or something like that. The Irish guy looked confused for a moment and then screamed at the man.

'I don't understand a word your fucking saying, Fuck Off'.

The bus conveniently stopped and the man got off.

The man looked at me and I realised we were going to have a conversation. We got off to a good start, he congratulated me for being Irish; a misconception I was happy to let go. He then told me he had been drunk for a week as his 23 year old daughter had been murdered Limerick.

He guessed I was twenty seven, I told him he was wrong but I wouldn't hold it against him. He kept muttering about the numbers of em, and them being everywhere, and gesturing round the bus, I geussed he meant black people though he could have meant fried chicken joints (there are allot of those in South East London aswell, I think the black people like them) Then he told me that he had stabbed a man in Donegal 23 years ago.

Luckily I was able to move the subject round to football, he likes Liverpool. I said that they had improved allot since the start to the season. I wished him luck and he made me promise never to do what he did, I said I wouldn't, though to be honest I found it hard to understand what exactly he'd done; I don't think he realised that, he said I was a good guy because I listened, I am just as long as listening doesn't infer understanding.

I've tried looking up the murder on the internet, there are allot of murders in Limerick but I can't find one for a 23 year old girl, I don't have any reason to dought him except that he's a crazy drunk guy.

It could be the begining of a messed up famous five book but I have to get back to work.

This is probably on MTV already but in case it isn't and maybe you haven't seen it before.

It's a really nice song about a five year old kid and his dad driving in his JCB, the animated video is great, watch it.

JCB Song Video

Oh look it went to number 1. I personally take all the credit.

I have been sent an amazing link, I thought I woud share it.

A Christian Guide to Small Arms.

Thanks Gareth.

You gotta love American Christian nut jobs, God bless America. My favourite quote from the website.

the bullet will leave the bore of a weapon that is in complete control.... may Christ have mercy on the enemy's soul for his body is forfeit.

My Boss loves Mike Hunt, he has a new client or contact or whatever called Mike Hunt. The man calls himself Michael but my boss always refers to him as Mike Hunt. He left a message on someone's voicemail saying, 'I'm just calling to talk about Mike Hunt' then he burst into uncontrollable laughter. This guy has really effected him, given him a new vitality, perhaps he's a scientologist or something.

I wish I new Mike Hunt better, perhaps later when I'm the only one left in the office I will do a bit of exploring around Mike Hunt, see if I can find anything like Mike Hunt on the internet. Perhaps everyone should get to know the enigma that is Mike Hunt.

Went down the pub last night, first full day of the new twenty four hour licensing laws in the U.K. the place was half empty most of the night. As the night wore on people drifted home until, at around 11.30, the place was virtually deserted but still serving!

Very strange, I ended up going to bed about 1am, when I had meant to go to bed about midnight. I'm now tired. I'm suffering from a version of jet lag, its like someone just put the clocks back again.

There was no violence or vomiting, for some reason an ambulance was parked outside most of the night; better safe than sorry I suppose. I read in the paper that several men threw a table through a window in Leeds, it didn't mention if it was closed or open.

A nice touch was everyone thought George Best was dead last night, it seemed poetic that he died the day the licensing laws changed; like the whole country was trying to moderate themselves for George and now we can let our hair down.

He's not dead though, reminds me of the plague scene in Monty Python's the Holy Grail; the body collector agrees to take a corpse even after he insists, 'I'm not dead yet'. Soon will be though, I'm sorry if I have failed to be at all emotionally involved in this George Best business, so much so I find it quite amusing.

A couple of weeks ago I asked a bookies in Bath if they would take a bet on the date of Georgies death, the man looked at me like I had just been sick on his Nan and said, 'Are you from some kind of morbid fucking cult', charming, saved me money though, I thought he would have snuffed it weeks ago.

Recently the Scots have announced they would have no part in a combined Great British football team competing in the 2012 Olympics.

Perhaps the gingers are just getting their own back for always being the last ones picked in school, I'm telling you that hurts. I thought this article added an interesting slant.

North and South Korea agree to compete as a single team for the first time at the 2006 Asian Games and the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. Officials from the two sides will meet in the North Korean border town of Kaesong in December to work out the details of fielding a joint team. North and South Korea have been bitter ideological -- and sporting -- rivals for more than 50 years but are gradually building closer relations across the Demilitarised Zone.
. . . .
Officials from Pyongyang and Seoul still have to work out the details but both sides seem keen to demolish any remaining barriers to sporting unity between the two countries. North and South Korea are still officially at war - no peace deal has been signed - but many hope a consolidated team will kick off a new consensus on the Korean peninsular and a nation divided by politics could be united on the playing field. Martyn Bignold, Reuters

Perhaps we should turn Hadrian's wall into a demilitarised zone, just as long as England isn't the starving impoverished oppressed side; I think we all know which side that would be. Ooooh fight, fight, fight.

Come on lets have another war, it will bring us closer in the long run. Get your blue face paint out, you kick off by ransacking Newcastle then we shut off your supply of deep fried Mars bars and Iron Bru, starve you into submission.

I haven't died, I broke up with my girlfriend and moved into a house with no Internet; not even a phone. Anyway I have been communicating with the BBC over a question that I am sure many people will find relevant to their everyday lives so I have decided, as the BBC have been of no help, to put my question to the web. See below for our communications so far:

You wrote:

Topic/title: Rome
Transmission date: 6/11/05
Network: BBC1

Wrote the following Question

I was watching your new drama, Rome, last night with my housemate and it sparked some lively debate.

During a scene featuring full frontal nudity we noticed that the female character had a style of pubic hair colloquially known as a 'Brazilian'
i.e. the hair was neatly trimmed into a strip.

Now the question we could not answer even with some web based research was; is there any evidence that this fashion was practised in ancient Rome?

As an aside I felt there was no reason that they wouldn't as they shaved there heads and faces, Kate thought it made woman look like twelve year old girls and found it offensive; I guess you can't please all of the people all of the time.

-----Original Message-----
From: info@bbc.co.uk [mailto:info@bbc.co.uk]
Sent: 08 November 2005 11:51
To: **
Subject: Question - from the About the BBC website [T2005110700H7S060]

Thank you for letting us know your views. We appreciate what you have to say and have made sure it has been fed back into the BBC.

All comments are read and reported back into the organisation so that
programme makers and senior management can be fully informed of the
opinions of our audience when reviewing our programmes, services and policies.

Thank you again for contacting us.

BBC Complaints Unit

-----Reply------
From *
To: info@bbc.co.uk [mailto:info@bbc.co.uk]
Sent: 08 November 2005 12.00
Subject: Question - from the About the BBC website [T2005110700H7S060]

Dear BBC

Please see previous e-mails for reference.

My previous comment wasn't a complaint, I wasn't complaining. It was a
question, A QUESTION. You know the things followed by question marks.

I clearly followed the instructions on your website on how to ask a
question about props or costumes. I feel my query fell into this category.

Let me re-iterate and hopefully simplify my QUESTION. In your recent drama program, Rome, were the featured pubic hairstyles, i.e. Brazilians, meant to be historically accurate?

Your previous reply was quite clearly useless in addressing this query.

Please try harder.

Kind regards

Update 17.11.05

I was travelling on a train with some friends telling them all about the above, eager to know their position on this subject when my question was surprisingly answered. A girl, a young scholar or perhaps a student, overhearing our conversation couldn't help but tell us about a play she knew of from ancient Rome, in the play the women deicide to deny sex to the men to make their lives more difficult they deicide to beautify themselves, part of their beautification is plucking their pubic hair.