http://www.snurfer.org/jibba/ en-us 2010-06-03T12:09:48+00:00 http://www.snurfer.org/jibba/archives/2010/06/plus_ca_change.html UPDATE... YouTubery Jonah 2010-06-03T12:09:48+00:00 http://www.snurfer.org/jibba/archives/2010/06/theyre_flooding.html YouTubery Jonah 2010-06-01T14:02:27+00:00 http://www.snurfer.org/jibba/archives/2010/02/clear.html Since I appear to be applying increasingly infrequent YouTube paddle shocks to this moribund blog ....... YouTubery Jonah 2010-02-23T13:05:24+00:00 http://www.snurfer.org/jibba/archives/2009/10/kossack_krump.html YouTubery Jonah 2009-10-22T21:02:56+00:00 http://www.snurfer.org/jibba/archives/2009/09/diction_is_impo.html OK, so it's funny because it's Jamie Oliver singing an incredibly cheesy cooking song. It's funnier yet because he seems to be doing Scooby Doo impressions intermittently throughout for no apparent reason. But it's truly hilarious when the chorus kicks in and Jamie Oliver's poor diction leaves the lyrics open for a very different interpretation ...... YouTubery Jonah 2009-09-16T13:00:08+00:00 http://www.snurfer.org/jibba/archives/2009/08/head_music.html YouTubery Jonah 2009-08-27T15:31:42+00:00 http://www.snurfer.org/jibba/archives/2009/08/its_all_fun_and.html YouTubery Jonah 2009-08-14T12:23:23+00:00 http://www.snurfer.org/jibba/archives/2009/08/shatner_of_the.html YouTubery Jonah 2009-08-06T12:36:12+00:00 http://www.snurfer.org/jibba/archives/2009/07/west_africa_nee.html "Eeeee" said the man behind the counter as I handed over the 10000 CFA note. Not the low, flat sound as in ee by gum, more the high pitched squeal one would more commonly expect to hear were a short, sharp squeeze administered to one of the more sensitive parts of a gentleman's anatomy. By now you may rightly suspect that I am not trying to make a grandiloquent, bleeding heart liberal appeal for economic, social or political upheaval, but am merely commenting on the fact that, more often than not, when attempting to pay for something with a note... JB's Trip jamesb 2009-07-15T20:00:39+00:00 http://www.snurfer.org/jibba/archives/2009/07/ladies_and_gent.html If my various journeys to and from and in and around Mali were no picnic, one can certainly say that the trip between Gabu in Guinea Bissau and Labe in Guinea was one. A picnic, that is, that took place in a thoroughly and freshly manured field, except for the spot where the rug has been spread, which is where the farmer's faithful yet unimaginably incontinent hound was sat for the duration of the muckspreading; and some fool at Fortnum and Masons has misread the order for the hamper and packed freshly laid dog eggs instead of the required hard... JB's Trip jamesb 2009-07-05T16:15:04+00:00 http://www.snurfer.org/jibba/archives/2009/07/guinea_bissau.html It took me a good two weeks to pluck up the courage to head south into Guinea Bissau, for I had heard all manner of alarming things about the place, probably pitched all the way along the specrum from wild rumour to solid fact. The military coup that took place earlier this year was quite a large worry, along with tales of road blocks and random stoppings in the street by men in uniform keen to supplement their pocket money. Someone told me that even Bissau, the capital, has no electricity or running water. Someone else said that cholera is... JB's Trip jamesb 2009-07-04T11:54:36+00:00 http://www.snurfer.org/jibba/archives/2009/07/one_man_and_his.html To cite the Barra ferry, which connects Banjul to the north bank of the Gambia river, as an example of organised chaos would imply some sort of organisation. Having given my cousin a very pessimistic briefing as to how much of a pain in the arse the experience was going to be, I was very disapointed when, for my fourth and hopefully final crossing, we bought our tickets and were rapidly shooed onto the boat, and departed five minutes later. Previously I had been faced with waits of up to 2 hours, with no clues about impending departure other than... JB's Trip jamesb 2009-07-04T11:34:41+00:00 http://www.snurfer.org/jibba/archives/2009/06/lama_drama.html The best part of this story about a bot chosen as a Lama renouncing buddhism is: Yesterday he bemoaned the misery of a youth deprived of television, football and girls. Movies were also forbidden – except for a sanctioned screening of The Golden Child starring Eddie Murphy, about a kidnapped child lama with magical powers. "I never felt like that boy," he said. Poor lad. It could at least have been Trading Places ...... Linkage Jonah 2009-06-03T09:43:28+00:00 http://www.snurfer.org/jibba/archives/2009/05/b_is_for_bigot.html Ladies and Gentlemen, the Daily Mail Dictionary! (Mostly posted for Twitter refuseniks like my good chum The Doomlord)... Linkage Jonah 2009-05-14T14:54:18+00:00 http://www.snurfer.org/jibba/archives/2009/05/cranky.html So, I went to see Crank: High Voltage recently. It's gloriously dumb and over the top, like they got a bunch of male tenage ADD sufferers off their ritalin and asked them to brainstorm scenes they'd like to see in an action film, and then filmed the suggestions in the order they were made. Ideal post-pub viewing but Jan would hate it. Of course, they leave it open for another sequel at the end but I wasn't sure how you'd go about topping that or what the premise would be. So I had a little think to see if I... Jibba-jabba Jonah 2009-05-09T07:47:55+00:00