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The Bath
Posted Apr 25, 2003
For some reason my sister seems to be incapable of taking a bath without getting water all over the floor. I am not quite sure how she does it. I have never once heard the sounds of the amount of hippopotamus-wallowing that it would take to move that volume of water that far onto the floor emanating from the bathroom.
I can only suppose then, that she bathes like people in fictional tv programmes and not like a normal person at all. For further evidence I have the fact that she always emerges from the bathroom swathed in fluffy towels; not a tatty bathrobe like the rest of us.
I assume then that she gets out of the bath, then drains the water, then dries herself once she has dripped most of the water onto the floor. Whereas normal people drain the water, dry themselves as far as possible whilst standing in the bath (so that all the water drains away), then get out, leaving only two damp footprints 
on the floor. The reasons I am making a fuss are manifold.
1) the reason that nowadays is trotted out about anything - it's a health and safety hazard.
2) it's damn annoying if you go into the bathroom all dressed just to get a tissue or something and your socks and/or the bottoms of your jeans (both highly absorbent materials) get soaking wet because then you have to go through the palaver of taking them off, drying your feet, finding a radiator to put the socks over and then finding some socks that are dry now.
3) Finally, our floor is covered with cork tiles. I have a sneaking suspicion that they either absorb the water, or that it drains down between them. This means that some form of new life is evolving under our bathroom floor and will one day erupt 
, probably, knowing my luck, whilst I am in the bath. So, if I am never seen or heard of again, you'll know why.
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Envelopes.
Posted Apr 19, 2003
A hell of a lot of medicinal products these days are marked with ‘For external use only'. Well all right, the pills aren't obviously, but all the other things like foot powders and skin lotions and insect creams and all the other things you would usually find in a first aid bag or similar, are all marked ‘For external use only'; as if you're really likely to get a mosquito bite or athlete's foot in your small intestine.
On what appears at the moment to be a completely unrelated note; lecturers at our university are a furtive breed. You can observe them from afar once a week during lectures when they will tell you at great length what exactly it is they have been doing whilst locked away in their little offices but direct communication with them is nigh on impossible. Important notices, reading lists, marked essays and anything else they might wish to communicate to you are distributed via a pigeon hole system. The envelopes used to contain the information and ensure that the right person picks it up are marked in large official looking letters ‘For internal use only.' I presume this means you can't post them but someone somewhere is going to get some very nasty paper-cuts.
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The Bath
Posted Apr 19, 2003
For some reason my sister seems to be incapable of taking a bath without getting water all over the floor. I am not quite sure how she does it. I have never once heard the sounds of the amount of hippopotamus-wallowing that it would take to move that volume of water that far onto the floor emanating from the bathroom. I can only suppose then, that she bathes like people in fictional tv programmes and not like a normal person at all. For further evidence I have the fact that she always emerges from the bathroom swathed in fluffy towels; not a tatty bathrobe like the rest of us. I assume then that she gets out of the bath, then drains the water, then dries herself once she has dripped most of the water onto the floor. Whereas normal people drain the water, dry themselves as far as possible whilst standing in the bath (so that all the water drains away), then get out, leaving only two damp footprints on the floor. The reasons I am making a fuss are manifold. 1) the reason that nowadays is trotted out about anything - it's a health and safety hazard. 2) it's damn annoying if you go into the bathroom all dressed just to get a tissue or something and your socks and/or the bottoms of your jeans (both highly absorbent materials) get soaking wet because then you have to go through the palaver of taking them off, drying your feet, finding a radiator to put the socks over and then finding some socks that are dry now. 3) Finally, our floor is covered with cork tiles. I have a sneaking suspicion that they either absorb the water, or that it drains down between them. This means that some form of new life is evolving under our bathroom floor and will one day erupt, probably, knowing my luck, whilst I am in the bath. So, if I am never seen or heard of again, you'll know why.
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Randomosity
Posted Apr 19, 2003
I'm sorry if stuff on this page seems a bit random. I haven't figured out how it all works yet, or what I'm supposed to do with them hence I might get them wrong resulting in Randomosity. Please read some of my other stuff that I wrote when feeling less pressured. Hopefully you'll find it amusing. 
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