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back to mundanities....the blue/black 'neutral' line in terms of plugs....and brown/red 'live' wires......

there some of us that might have noted that the film JUNO contained shots of those who have 'blue/black eyes'....go figure.....

and what happened this morning? well - two 'oddities' today, in ARGOS...maybe more, come to think of it....anyway, i was to take that 'fan heater' back - see previous notes...and just before the original guarantee was to expire upon the 6th of december 2015...i was to take it back because the 'heater element' had stopped working....as i had done, previously with 'the last one' that had had 'something wrong with it'...luckily the store's policy is to replace 'within the time limit of the guarantee' and so it didn't matter that i had already had one of those fan heaters and had it returned/exchanged/replaced....a store advisor was to tell me that it might be a good idea to exchange it for another type...but i couldn't be bothered to leaf through the catalogue and find a new and more expensive 'fan heater'...you see i had bought 'bottom of the range' at £11.99....

....what is the world coming to?... i thought....in relaiton to manufacturers, who used to calculatedly produce 'crap' that would expire just after the year's guarantee......but with this fan heater model - well they have cut corners to the extent that two of those heaters have 'expired' before the year's guarantee is up....go figure. "that isn't going to make profits go up" replies BI ONLINE...well, no...ARGOS is not onto a 'winner' there, are they? this is my third 'in a year' - of the same model....

oddities...i was to note a youngish man with blue eyes/light brown hair - standing by the 'staff door' with a keypad upon it (o the left of the store as you walk in)...he turned his mobile phone to point to it...."galaxy phone" replies BI ONLINE...i have no idea....later on, one of the store managerial members of staff, was to ask him if he was on the "FAST TRACK" with a laugh...the man was to reply that he wasn't....fast track? what does that mean, in ARGOS terms?

i already knew that the store managerial member of staff had been...let us say 'recruited' by US intelligence...."asked for his opinions"...after having been so..."pissed around"....by BI... "particularly by gill"....and he was to catch US interest because he had handled the whole situation 'well' and managed to come through it, relatively unscathed....something to do with the 'sephardim'? he appeared to see himself and gill as 'sephardic'...on the same 'side' in a way...but not, in others - i suppose....

anyway, after having noted that 'youngish man'...i then left ARGOS....to donate a few films-on-dvd to the CRUK shop next door...having been told that i would have to wait 8 minutes by the till assistant - until that is, my 'exchange fan heater' was ready....

my item's number 994 was 'still on the board'....i then met a couple who had been-behind-me-in-the-original-queue...they had also been after 'returns'...they were to tell me that there used to be a 'returns' desk and why wasn't there one now? it simply held things up, didn't it?

anyway, having seen the 'blue box' that my 'to be exchanged' fan heater was in...the woman was to tell me..."look two kettles on the shelf - you can take one!"...i wasn't quite sure what she meant....until i realised that she was talking about the two 'blue boxes' stacked up on top of each other....a bit like the fan-heater box but smaller....i then realised what was going on....and replied that i was actually after a heater but the boxes for both heater and kettle, looked similar...she apologised for her mistake...i replied that it had been very kind of her to look out for me and that the boxes had been 'the same' - easy to mistake....to then thank her, with a smile - she smiled in return.

...next up....upon having had a look at ARGOS' board...my item's number 994 wasn't there, anymore....and there was no 'heater' on the stand....where had my order disappeared to? the couple beside me - then picked up their 'return'....and made off quickly....with smiles on their faces....i then asked an assistant about what had happened...in relation to my item's 'number' - which had just disappeared off of the screen...he then had a quick look at a 'computer pad' on his desk...to then say that the 'boys upstairs would find one and bring it down'....i didn't have to wait long. What else can i say but that having got that heater home...it appears to be 'brand new'...the smell of 'plastic' when you turn it on....according to manufacturers' instructions - you have to do this to get rid of the smell - ventilation/open windows....before using it with the windows closed and at night, i suppose....i used to keep my windows open at night....gill and i both 'swore' upon night-air being good for you....'open windows' during the day and night, in point of fact....but when i look at the horror of 'insect infestation' nowadays...well as soon as the sun begins to set...i close all of my flat windows....and in the main, i am no longer bothered by flies, spiders, moths, 'japanese wasps' (that was the worst - see previous notes and photos) etc etc...during the autumnal season of 'insects'.....in this flat.

'fast track' was to remind me of tomlinson, marr/webb and daldry at powergen 1980.....'fast track graduates'... i was then to spot a few 'possibles' around west avenue...in relation to 'that number'.....go figure.

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i was to watch that 'unfunny' hollywood comedy, on dvd....and also that 'extremely sinister' indie movie on dvd.....see previous notes.

what can i make of either? the indie movie was all about an undercover operation to 'get' the executive producer.....and the 'unfunny' movie? i hate watching 'unfunny stuff'...it is really quite depressing....what can i say?.....but that......"ryder needed the money" replies BI ONLINE....and that when adam sandler doesn't have good script-writers....well, it comes off as one of those 'it's a 50's studio audience experience'....i.e. those who are paid to 'bark/scream/laugh/wolf-whistle/snigger/gasp/howl' according to CUE CARDS in the TV auditorium etc etc - except that i hadn't been paid to be a studio audience member....i had been watching that 'waste-of-time-not-to-mention-your-whole-life' movie....time, which is valuable....on dvd....and so dear reader, i 'got angry'....i had been told to watch that 'popcorn pop' on dvd by the timer system....i like popcorn but not vast quantities of it....and not thrown at me, unceasingly - for an hour and a half.

.....and more to the point - i would honestly prefer 'canned laughter' on dvd...rather than 'cue card' triggers/responses....put into a movie.....to make you want to respond 'like the pack/herd' upon cued triggers...even though you really don't want to...and so you figure, like a programmed studio audience....that you should laugh/cry etc 'on cue'...even though the movie is so depressingly 'unfunny'....that you begin think "maybe i should cry, here and then commit suicide?"

i would guess that i had seen so many better films during my childhood - courtesy of my father....that being fed 'crap' wasn't on the agenda, for me....as an adult....don't get me wrong...i love hollywood movies that are really funny....with new ideas and new 'takes' on everything....my brother RH was to say that he "didn't like 'the nutty professor' but it's probably up your street" and so it was....go figure. i do not care what the 'holliday academics' thought about it....nor what the post-colonialists thought about that movie...the lines were brilliant, the timing and the acting...and that to me, is what comedy is all about....i do not like to be told 'when to laugh' and 'when to cry' etc etc...."a bit of a stalinist state when that happens" replies BI ONLINE.