It's fun being a boy

The good thing about having a Y chromosome is that you never have to grow up. This is displayed in a fascination with poo and actions involving poo.

I have always been intrigued by the disposable toilet seat covers that you see in public toilets. We don’t have them at work but apparently we should since a couple of times I have gone into a cubicle and found a neat little patchwork quilt of toilet paper covering the seat. Anyway, back to the covers. Last Thursday I decided to try one out at the airport, whilst waiting for my flight to LA. This particular toilet had one of those sensors that automatically flush the toilet when it thinks you are done. Whilst bending to take out one of the covers the toilet flushed. Whilst trying to work out which way around the thing was supposed to go on the toilet it flushed again, almost flushing the cover down the pan. It wasn’t very comfortable and I think I put it down the wrong way around (since the gap for my john thomas was at the back!). I always thought they were a bit silly and now I know that they are not. They are completely ridiculous.

Why would you want paper stuck to your behind whilst on a call of nature? It moved with me and I had to peel myself away from it when I stood up. Of course, the toilet flushed when I did this and then again when I bent over to pick up my bag. You should always try things at least once but I wouldn’t recommend wasting time with a toilet seat cover.

Over the weekend I did come to realise that I love the way the English language has so many words or phrases for the same thing. I wonder how many ways you can say that you are going for a poo. I like the one I first heard from Bert – ‘dropping the kids off at the pool’. Post your favourite to the comments.

Personal Radio Station

I found this website t'other day that a few people in my lab have been using. You tell it a song that you like and it searches the music genome project for music that is similar. You can tell it whether or not you like a particular song that it picks out for you and using all this information it tailors the songs to your tastes. I love it. Apparently it will have commercials soon but right now it is pretty much commercial free and if you pay then it will always be commercial free.

www.pandora.com

Valentine's Quote

My friend JD said something funny to me today on the way to the bar after rugby training.

"You know, I'd quite like to have a girlfriend. But f**k Valentine's day"

It made me chuckle as we made our way to the bar to meet a bunch of married or otherwise attached blokes for a couple of beers. I don't have too much against the idea of Valentine's day but the commercialisation has got out of control here and, as far as I remember, the UK is not far behind either.