Tongue-in-cheek humour - lost on non-native English speakers?

So anyway, apart from the serious stuff, you all know that I only blog on the utterly ridiculous. So here's an excerpt of my latest offense (names have been changed to protect you all).

You see...what annoys me isn't the fact that we've been accused of judging others...but that this person has judged US before grasping the concept of tongue-in-cheek.

Ridiculous.

FOR ALL OF U THAT THINK IS NICE TO WALK WITH UR PANTS BELOW UR BUTT, READ THE FOLLOWING EXPLANATION: THIS TREND WAS BORN IN THE UNITED STATES’ JAILS, WHERE PRISONERS WHO WERE WILLING TO HAVE SEX WITH OTHER PRISONERS NEEDED TO INVENT A SIGNAL THAT WOULD GO UNNOTICED BY THE GUARDS SO THEY WOULDN’T SUFFER CONSEQUENCES, SO BY PARTIALLY SHOWING THEIR BUTTS, THEY SHOWED THAT THEY WERE AVAILABLE TO BE PENETRATED BY OTHER INMATES. CLICK ON "SHARE" IF YOU WANNA JOIN THE CAUSE FOR A BETTER DRESSED AND A MORE EDUCATED WORLD!

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• • Person1 Thanks for educating us, now we know. Pull your pants up copy cats.

    Sunday at 22:22 ·  ·  2
  • Person2 Well done, Poster!!! This will knock some sense into the lads. Have a good week. Captain Haddock

    Monday at 08:08 ·  ·  1
  • Zezi The thing is, the lads who rock this look are generally aiming for jail anyhow so they're probably just warming up.

    Monday at 20:47 · 
  • Person3 So easy to judge. So easy to complain and be superior... What if everybody looked at themselves in The mirror. Than they also could see "Im The only problem I ll ever have... But Im also the only solution." what a beautiful world! Just an interesting point of wiew. Let everybody do and be and look The way they want.

    8 hours ago ·  ·  1
  • Person2 Ok, Pernilla!!! Can we have an opinion too that will not be called judging ? Are we allowed ?

    4 hours ago · 
  • Person3 Everybody is allowed :-) if We are aware that We judge than We know its just an interesting point of wiew. I dont have any answers .. I think awareness includes everything but judgement... But if We judge and are aware of it, its also included . But everybody doesnt know they are judging, therefor I think We Shall use more openminded words ... Interesting... Have a wonderful evening!

    3 hours ago · 
  • Person2 Thanks, you have a good one too, Pernilla.

    3 hours ago · 
  • Zezi Tongues. Cheeks. Etc.

    32 minutes ago · 

And the Fob-Off of the Year Award goes to....

[drumroll]

For initially telling me that my new SIM would be active in "two to twenty-four hours", and then when, 26 hours later it wasn't working I was told "...then it will work at 6pm this evening".

Yes, and your shop closes at 6pm.

And guess what...it's now 7:10pm and STILL no signal.

Below is some light reading to entertain you while I wait patiently for my SIM to be active. Names have been changed to protect the innocent (and also the guilty).

Welcome to O2. Someone will be with you soon.

You're through to Dwayne.

Dwayne: Hi I'm Dwayne. How can I help?

Zezi: Hi Dwayne...my sim was replaced yesterday and it is still not active.

Dwayne: No worries I'll check this for you.

Zezi: thanks

Dwayne: Can I have full answer to your security question?

Zezi: you can have a part answer

Dwayne: Yes please?

Zezi: B and S are the first and last digits

Dwayne: Can I have the full answer for security reasons?

Zezi: The other bloke I spoke to only asked me for some of the digits, not all.

Zezi: We all know the internet isn't very secure.

Zezi: Who cares anyway "Bollocks".

Dwayne: Thanks.

Dwayne: I'm sorry but it just to confirm for the security reasons.

Zezi: Yeah well everyone in my family could hazard a guess since everyone always asks people for the same security question.

Zezi: But I don't care, I just want my sim to work.

Dwayne: No worries I'll help you to get your sim active.

Dwayne: Can I have your new sim number?\

Zezi: hold on

Dwayne: *?

Dwayne: Okay.

Zezi: 89441100***********

Dwayne: Thanks for the information. Please give me a few minutes while I check this for you.

Dwayne: Thanks for waiting.

Dwayne: I've activated your sim and you can use your services within 1-2 hours.

Zezi: Well I hope so, it really should have been activated yesterday when they gave it to me. Thank you kindly.

Dwayne: You're most welcome.

Dwayne: Please take care.

The Girl Effect

Ok, so this is my first serious blog post. For some people it may still be a bit random, so at least I wont disappoint any of my (three) followers.

This post is about The Girl Effect. And The Girl Effect is about girls. And boys. And moms and dads and villages and towns and countries. But mostly The Girl Effect is about YOU. Because, you see, YOU can spread the word about TGE. When the time is right, YOU can campaign against child marriages and advocate for the education of girls in developing countries.

And the thing is, the message here is not a new one... 100 odd years ago the situation was not so different right here in the UK, and look where we are now. So it can be done. But she needs your help.

If you want to support The Girl Effect, please take a look at the facebook page, 'like' it and share the link with others.

Blog The Girl Effect 4 - 11 October http://www.taramohr.com/girleffectposts/
For more information and ways to help visit: http://www.girleffect.org/question

Thanks.

Z

Chale long teeee

So I have put off blogging for a while...I went to Ghana for 3 months and the insanity there just threw me. I became overwhelmed with the sheer blogging potential of daily events...more like hourly events.

So to my 3 followers...I'm sorry for being so quiet. Back I'm back now. And with a dissertation handed in and no job to go back to, I've got aaaaaaallll the time I need!

:)

You See the Strangest Things in Londin Pt 3

Now this isn't a fashion blog (far from it), but I need to comment on fashion (lack thereof) right now. Today at SheBu on the Central Line waiting for a tube home and a rather handsome guys walks past. So far so good, right? So anyway, me being shy I drop my gaze...that's when I saw his (f)Uggs. So I look up again...a short of stunned double-take and OMG why oh why was he ALSO wearing a pair of RED LEGGINGS? I mean WHY?

So as I'm trying to get that through my poor head, another guy (not so handsome this one) walks past wearing a WOMAN'S blue, fitted, military style winter coat. 2 sizes too small.

Only in London I tell you. Only in London.

You See The Strangest Things in London Pts 1 & 2

Ok, so I've been slacking a bit ... spending all my time working on assignments and the like, so this is a double-post.

Part 1: About 3 weeks ago I saw a man wearing jeggings in Bond Street tube. In case you think thing that maybe I saw an androgenous woman wearing jeggings in Bond Street tube, I'd like to point out that unless women now have a lumpy package down the front, I'm pretty sure it was a man. For those of you who aren't sure what jeggings are, here's a photo (courtesy of fashionchronicles.com and totally without their permission):

They're a jeans/leggings cross designed for the slender lady. Emphasis on lady. I feel shy to take photos of fashion freaks but London is full of them so I really should start.

Part 2: Two days ago I saw a hefty lad (approx. 8 years old) wearing a pair of (f)ugg boots. Now, I'm not one to knock kids for anything but boys in Uggs? Girls in Uggs are bad enough, but little boys too? On the same topic, in July I saw an old man (70+) in uggs on the bus (forgivable as he's old and obviously needs warm comfy shoes), two youngs boys in matching shorts, check shirts and dark brown uggs (aged appx 4 yrs and 6 yrs) and a questionably 'trendy' adult male in Uggs last year.

You know what, I'm all for men in uggs...it might stop women from wearing them.

Oh and an Aussie friend told me that in Oz Uggs were actually bedroom slippers, but have evolved into something else in the UK. Which explains why I saw an Aussie guy on the Central Line in the summer wearing grandad slippers:

I need to start taking photos.

fiX-Factor!

Wagner is out, huh? I don't believe for one minute that Cher got more votes than Wagner.

Please, please can we get rid of Cher and her hideous facial expressions. Girl can't sing, can't rap, can't speak English very well. Please just spare us.