Adam Fletchers – The Zig

Urban Shitty Dictionary

// August 8th, 2007 // Comments // Not Serious

I have a new game, its called “USD” standing for “Urban Shitty Dictionary”. Urban Dictionary is this site where you can look up the definition of words existing outside of traditional dictionaries, urban brother. It will return a completely made up insult like “a fishes asshole, left in the sun, for 7 hours, on Tuesdays. If its another day of the week its know as “slanktrunk”".

Annett uses it look up every word I ever call her (that hasn’t made it into the German/English translators dictionary), and it returns some horrible insult which gets me “pah’d” (the Annett form of you just insulted me by calling me a “prostitutes toenail”). To highlight the stupidity of the site I asked her to give me a letter, she picked x, I randomly made up a word beginning with x, “xling” which apparently is:

“a scene kid who uses x’s for most of their words when they type.”

Not a bad start, hardly derogatory. So we played again “q”, which when added to my imagination produced “quank”

or “A simple definition- quick wank.”

If you want to play ask a person near you to give you a letter, think of a word you’ve never heard of and look it up on urban dictionary. If theres no-one sitting next to you, you smell. If you have success leave the word and description in the comments.

Yes, I’m in a strange mood.

Observations & Oddities

// October 9th, 2006 // Comments // Not Serious

german observations - warning, sweeping generalisation alert

I call this place neverland, nobody here seems to age, everyone you meet is 30 and still studying. Whats even stranger is everyone looks so young like 19, I’ve decided it must be their vegetable diets. I think Neils suggested that its because everyone studies until they are 30 so noone has experienced any stress which is why everyone appears so youthful. Absolutely everybody is a student, the goal appears not to have letters after your name but paragraphs. I’ve met few people who dont have a masters and studying here seems to be far less expensive than in the UK. No wonder the tax rate is so high in Germany, no-one here is paying tax. I’ll probably lose 88% of my wages because im one of only five people in country paying tax, I’ve alot of people to support.

german oddities

Girl comes to our house party with carrier bag, inside our spoon, knife, fork and ladel. Apparently she doesnt like to use other peoples things. I thought this was pretty awesome so tried to talk to her about it she said “I dont like other peoples things” then “Actually I dont really like other people” then she walked off. Fantastic, welcome to the party I’m so glad you came. I nearly died laughing. She didnt seem to have a problem drinking other peoples beer though, which was strange

Buying a tram ticket, little boy walks up to me and chats away in german, I look blankly and give my foreigner face (hunched shoulders, wide grin, village idiot stylee) and he starts pointing at a leaflet which is on top of the machine out of his reach. I pick it up and hand it to him, he rips it up in front of me then walks off.

I love this place, its non-stop entertainment.