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Mat Bowles ([personal profile] matgb) wrote2007-10-01 09:30 pm

Even Amazon thinks it...

Via the ever amusing Register odds feed, James Blunt is definitely a wanker, try it for yourself on the Amazon.co.uk search page and look at 'related searches' (ETA: The search for James Blunt appears to have been fixed, I now link to the search for wanker—if they've fixed that, try tedious). No, I don't know how their algorithm works, but I might look into it at some point—I think it's something to do with what people search for while buying things.

In other news, via Gareth, how about a Scotsman with a 4-week hangover? Gareth thinks he's a lightweight, Jennie knows people that drink more than that regularly. I'm scared.

[identity profile] miss-s-b.livejournal.com 2007-10-01 08:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Amazon agrees with Mitch Benn... who'd have thunk it?

He's the only man alive who is his
Own rhyming slang...

[identity profile] ginasketch.livejournal.com 2007-10-01 08:38 pm (UTC)(link)
My friend just got dumped by her bf in a really nasty way. I went to university with both of them, and I am considering removing the bloke from my f list and msn messenger, because I have the final proof he's a tool:





[identity profile] miss-s-b.livejournal.com 2007-10-01 08:43 pm (UTC)(link)
LMAO!!! That is the most damning proof EVAR!!

[identity profile] ginasketch.livejournal.com 2007-10-01 08:48 pm (UTC)(link)
It's so beautiful. It had to be screencapped. It's like a car crash in slow motion.

[identity profile] karohemd.livejournal.com 2007-10-01 09:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Sadly, the search page doesn't have the wanker anymore. :o(

[identity profile] karohemd.livejournal.com 2007-10-01 10:12 pm (UTC)(link)
hehehe

[identity profile] davegodfrey.livejournal.com 2007-10-02 06:37 am (UTC)(link)
"James blunt" and "tedious" don't work now either. But if you search for "tedious" on its own, he is the first result.

[identity profile] davidnm.livejournal.com 2007-10-02 08:50 am (UTC)(link)
I looked at the numbers and I thought, at first, 'No way! That'd kill you!' Then I dug out the calculator; assuming he slept as normal, during that time, on average, it was slightly less then one beer an hour. Thinking about it, I've worked with people who drank at a higher rate (although admittedly not for as long). So presumably it is within anatomical tolerances!

That said, I don't think a four-day bender is a good idea! I imagine his liver no longer wants to be his friend...

[identity profile] pmoodie.livejournal.com 2007-10-02 10:36 am (UTC)(link)
60 pints over four days, and he has a hang-over for four weeks? What a whoopsie!

My friends and I calculated that we drank solidly for 18 hours on our last trip to Prague, and we also calculated that I drink, on average, a pint every fifteen minutes. So that works out at 72 pints. And I was only hung-over for two days!

I think we should banish this guy from Scotland, he's giving us a bad name!

[identity profile] rhythmaning.livejournal.com 2007-10-02 09:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Brilliant!