I was returning from a daytime tryst in Tokyo this evening. It's something over an hour on the train, so to pass the time I whipped out my smartphone to browse the latest blog posts. I'm normally a laptop guy and hate the cramped smartphone platform, but hey-ho, there was nothing else to do, so I opened the home page. A screen window with the heading "Matches" duly popped up. However, instead of a photo of a coquettish cougar or "soccer Mom" (which you'd expect the site to come up with for a man of a certain age like myself), I found myself staring into the Eye of Sauron. This I found surreal, disturbing, and totally out of context: a young girl on the opposite side of the aisle was polishing her nails, the train conductor in his immaculate uniform was bowing politely and checking tickets, and in front of me two ladies in their 50s were chatting happily and comparing items they'd acquired during a day's shopping in Ginza. All seemed otherwise normal. It was almost as if this malevolent Lovecraftian entity had crawled out of some labyrinthine hell-hole and come slouching through a cosmological wormhole to thrust itself into my sight.
It wasn't pretty. The photo was dark and seemed to have been taken in an environment with faint greenish illumination. Parts of the entity glistened with moisture, and there were palp-like flaps of flesh on the upper and lower halves, which I took for two eyelids. But the strangest and most disturbing feature was the third eyelid, which seemed to cover most of the left half. I tried to get a grip on myself in case I was on the verge of schizophrenia. What exactly was I looking at, and why on earth was it considered a "match" for me ???
I do have some biological qualifications, so I thought back to some of those specimens of pale, subterranean creatures pickled in jars that used to decorate the shelves of the research lab. No....no "matches" there......Then I tried to assess the surrounding anatomical structures. This sinister, almost extra-terrestrial-looking eye appeared to be sunk into a depression surrounded by mounds of fatty tissue covered in greyish clammy skin, and dotted with occasional wart-like structures. I wondered whether it was the eye of a rhino or an elephant, but no hair suggestive of eyelashes was evident. But still the eye held me in its gaze.....demanding answers that weren't coming readily................
At that point, I dropped my phone onto the seat beside me, partly through absent-minded distraction and partly through a sense of creeping horror, as if I'd touched something unpleasant in the dark. This proved to be serendipitous because it caused me to look at the photo from a different angle.....and the penny dropped. The total absence of any pubic hair had taken away my frame of reference, and whoever had taken the photo had uploaded it sideways. It still wasn't pretty, but at least my sense of reality had been restored, and I found myself chuckling - not only at the bizarre thought that someone had considered this biological specimen to represent her in the public domain, but also that I was considered to be a good "match" for some unwholesome-looking entity that looked as though it had just detached itself from John Hurt's face :-) We live in strange days indeed....................
12:53 pm Wednesday, 16th September, 2015
Yes Mr G, it might have turned out to be something from The Matrix :-) |
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1:20 pm Wednesday, 16th September, 2015
Skebbie, I laughed so hard reading your blog that my eyes watered....You r amazing with words!
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5:43 pm Wednesday, 16th September, 2015
I have noticed this phenomena on other sites too, why though?
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7:08 pm Wednesday, 16th September, 2015
DD?
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1:53 am Thursday, 17th September, 2015
One positive thing to have emerged from this experience is that it has added weight to my thesis that pubic hair should not be zapped, and serves a very useful purpose: i.e. so that you can tell which way up a fanny photo has been uploaded :-) |
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3:21 am Thursday, 17th September, 2015
Some of my media will testify to that :-) |
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8:31 am Thursday, 17th September, 2015
It made me laugh! Love reading your blogs! |
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2:14 pm Thursday, 17th September, 2015
People keep telling me, but I've never been conscious or aware of this blog ratings lark. I think in comparison with most of you I have very limited usage of the site: basically just blogging and letching after women who don't fancy me :-) |
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6:12 pm Thursday, 17th September, 2015
Is it my imagination or have a load of posts been given curtains?
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1:53 am Friday, 18th September, 2015
Lil: Cheque's in the post. And would you like to be my publicity secretary? :-)
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5:11 am Friday, 18th September, 2015
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5:48 am Friday, 18th September, 2015
Er.......quite. |
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6:54 am Friday, 18th September, 2015
Indepths comment about which way up got me thinking....
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7:53 am Friday, 18th September, 2015
Welcum: Perhaps that's what the geezer above was trying to say in his emoji.......er.......I think (?) |
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1:14 pm Friday, 18th September, 2015
MissV: I disagree actually. There really is such a thing as an aesthetic minge. And besides - you (and me) are biased :-) |
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7:37 pm Friday, 18th September, 2015
Whats this...going for a blog with as many words for clunge in it?
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1:02 am Saturday, 19th September, 2015
I take mine with a drop of water and an absinthe chaser.
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1:46 am Saturday, 19th September, 2015
Goodnes me, polluting 'whisky' with water is sacrilege.
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6:24 am Saturday, 19th September, 2015
Sanshain: "Chin-chin" is a diminutive for "penis" in Japan (usually used in the context of little boys). The opposite is "kyo-kon", or the rather appropriate "marra", which describe something rather more splendid. |
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9:50 am Saturday, 19th September, 2015
Mr Sissy, Are you suggesting i would wreck my Highland Park with H2O?
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10:31 am Saturday, 19th September, 2015
I agree - Highland Park is to be savoured neat. Had several when I was in Glasgow last month. I was also introduced to Buckfast :-) If in doubt, maybe Sanshain could explain :-) |
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10:32 am Saturday, 19th September, 2015
PS: I'm not a "ned" (well.....not really, but Dixon sometimes gets a bit boisterous :-) |
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10:52 am Saturday, 19th September, 2015
deborose: Well at least his fate wasn't as bad as that of Prometheus, and he'd have emerged as the fittest dead guy around :-) |
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3:11 pm Saturday, 19th September, 2015
Openislandcouple,
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3:36 pm Saturday, 19th September, 2015
I do apologize for not including the welsh, i am very fond of the welsh and find the welsh accent rather sexy.
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6:32 pm Saturday, 19th September, 2015
Think i can say without a doubt that 'Jessie' has become redundant and replaced with the words such as 'Tosser, Wanker, Twat, Dick and Arsehole', Scottish rant over :-) x |
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6:35 pm Saturday, 19th September, 2015
Skebbie i wouldn't know about 'Buckfast' not being a ned, though have heard that it tastes rather like all the worst most vile tasting cough medicine rolled into one, so i'll gladly stick to Malt Whisky thanks all the same. :-) x |
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10:42 pm Saturday, 19th September, 2015
Indepth, on the subject of "do i sound English?", no idea, i aint ever had the pleasure of hearing your dulset tones.
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11:40 pm Saturday, 19th September, 2015
Ahhh but you see welcumdisaster it is better in my opinion, as it's my place of birth and no matter where in the country i were to move. My heart will always belong to Scotland. :-) x |
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1:35 am Sunday, 20th September, 2015
I gather the "problem" with Buckfast is that it delivers a massive jolt of alcohol in an almost "downable in one" strength (unlike whiskey), while containing a potent cocktail of stimulant substances: if you imagine a cross between sherry and Red Bull, you'll get a rough idea. Definitely not a subtle connoisseur's tipple, but purpose-designed for mayhem (despite the fact that the monks of Buckfast Abbey probably had completely innocent intentions in marketing it as a "tonic" :-) |
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5:28 am Sunday, 20th September, 2015
Wow!! I take 2 days off the hub and I am completely and absolutely lost here...All started with a picture of Sauron's eye and now, where are you? Slangs, accents and everything in between? hahaha
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6:29 am Sunday, 20th September, 2015
FFP: Can give you a few lessons in Cumbrian if you like (for a suitable fee, of course ;-) There's quite a lot of Viking in there, as you can probably twig if you look at place names all over the county. The hill farmers still count their sheep in Norse (before shagging them).
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6:30 am Sunday, 20th September, 2015
.....and whenever I head north up the M6 and pass through that marvellous cutting between the Howgills at Tebay, I feel as though Mordor is calling me home.........which is, I suppose, where this blog started :-) |
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6:50 am Sunday, 20th September, 2015
Skebbie, Don't forget I lived on that part of the woods (lol) for a while when in the UK. I love Cumbria and West Yorkshire and the moors. I am a city girl for sure but I always admire the beauty of all...(except weather of course) but even that is part of its character...
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8:41 am Sunday, 20th September, 2015
In fact the train conductor turned to stone and had to be wheeled out on a trolley. |
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2:03 pm Sunday, 20th September, 2015
Sisyphus: Don't you mean Honiton ? |