What Length Satisfies You?

What are you on about?

Get your mind out of the gutter, its not what you think. I just thought that it was time for some feedback about my length… of posts. It’s not that I am having a crisis of confidence, as I’m happy that the longer posts are full of enough content to keep your attention. But I was just wondering what the general consensus was so that I know what to aim for if at all possible.

The poll starts at 400 words. If you struggle with that amount, I suggest that you go back to watching Glee and post a new Facebook status update declaring yourself to be a reincarnated goldfish.

So please vote. And to make you feel like you’re doing the right thing, each vote will help bring a child out of poverty.* Continue reading

My First Stalker

You don't have to look quite
so surprised to see me

So, with a successful blog which is growing in popularity, was it inevitable that one fan would take things too far? ‘Man of the people’, ‘Studmuffin’ and ‘Leader of men’… these are just some of the descriptions that have never been used to describe me. So it was just a tad surprising to find myself the subject of one misguided bunny boiler’s attentions.

She wasn’t aware of this site; we had ‘met’ when I was new to London and had joined City Socialising, a social network for social misfits who no-one likes people who are looking to widen their circle of friends. She sent me a couple of messages which, although jangling my internal alarm bells, I replied to out of courtesy. I say courtesy, but her name was Ho, and I wasn’t sure if that was really her name or if it was actually a nickname based on her sexual promiscuity. So in reality, Little Stewie was doing the thinking, thereby overruling the more cautious thoughts that I should have paid more attention to. Continue reading

Grab a Granny Night

Recently I took a trip back to see family and friends in my home town of Bournemouth and had arranged to go out with an old friend for drinks in the evening. He has been down on his luck for a while, so I felt obligated to ensure that we rolled back the years and painted the town red, ideally not with vomit, for old time’s sake. I would have been happy just to down a couple of pints in a local pub, reminiscing about our youth, but my friend was determined to let his hair down, so when he asked where I would like to go, I just said “Anywhere mate.” Now, considering that this was the same friend who, on a recent visit to see me in London, had persuaded me to go to a dodgy hard house club, in which we were mistaken for undercover drugs squad officers by paranoid wide-eyed pillheads, in hindsight I realise that I possibly should have given some guidelines as to what was acceptable.

Bournemouth has a good nightlife, with many bars and clubs full of glamourous girls for us to stare at from the bar, drooling into our pints chat to and impress with our wit and intelligence. Continue reading

Hired as a Freelance Writer For Grazia… Almost

A friend of mine took it upon herself to act as my ‘agent’ to try to get me some freelance work for women’s magazines. Despite my low expectations of success, she went ahead and emailed several editorial contacts with the following message:

Just getting in touch because my friend (Stewart) has been writing a blog that has been causing a bit of a stir amongst my friends. He started off by writing an article called “Online Hating” (about Internet Dating), that was so honest and funny that anyone who ever had the misfortune of a bad date, could immediately identify with it – especially the girls!! He is a good-looking, funny guy with a dry sense of humour and I can imagine him writing “A guy’s point of view” style article in a magazine like Grazia. From the reactions of my friends, I know it would go down a storm! Here is the link. Looking forward to hearing your thoughts. Continue reading

Malawians Vent Anger Against Farting Bill

This week sees the implementation of a truly bizarre anti-farting law in the south-eastern African country of Malawi. The Local Courts Bill states that:

Any person who vitiates the atmosphere in any place so as to make it noxious to the public to the health of persons in general dwelling or carrying on business in the neighbourhood or passing along a public way, shall be guilty of a misdemeanour.

So it seems that if you break wind in public, you could have the action taken against you by the police. Or, in other words, you could feel the full force of the law if those around you feel your full force. This ill-advised law flies in the face of medical advice because, as everybody knows, if you hold in farts then your heart will explode. And that’s a medically proven fact. Probably. Continue reading

The World’s Hairiest Girl

No, this isn’t another tale of my dating disasters. I’m not that bad. I just felt compelled to comment after seeing the news stories this week featuring 11 year old Supatra Sasuphan from Thailand, who was reported as being ‘delighted’ at winning the dubious accolade of the World’s Hairiest Girl by the Guinness Book of World Records. Presumably this title has been left unclaimed since the sad passing of cousin Itt from the Addams Family some time ago, and accompanies the boy’s title held by Scott Howard who starred in the 1985 film Teen Wolf.

Little Supatra has thick hair growing all over her body. And I really mean all over – even her face. She is one of only 50 cases of Ambras Syndrome documented since the middle ages, when it was more common for those with such an affliction to end up in circus freak shows alongside Hunchbacks or as contestants on the medieval Britain’s Got Talent. Continue reading

A Man and His Moobs

An ample 'C' cup I would say

There I was, working out in the gym, trying not to let all of my previously documented pet hates of the gym bother me, and trying not to gurn too much with the effort, when out of the corner of my eye I saw her. Sure, she was lightly plump maybe, but probably at least a ‘D’ cup, with just enough of a seductive wobble to be pleasing on the eye. But then she turned towards me and it hit me. In the words of legendary 1980s rapper Tone Loc in his song Funky Cold Medina, it transpired that… ‘Sheila was a man’. As if it wasn’t bad enough that there is far too much ‘cockage’ on show in the gym changing room, I had now just been staring at a man’s jubblies. Oh the horror! Continue reading