Story Time: Unusual Stories from the Interweb

It's almost FRIDAY! But first, it's time for Thursday's story time. Today, I'm updating you with the weird and the wonderful of the cavernous hyper-world that is the internet.

Ridiculous- Nordstrom's muddy jeans

The internet like society now is full of ways for us to look at ourselves and make sure everyone else is doing the same; you have to be in it to win it and if you're not there for the big action then you are certainly square. It seems to be the same with fashion; the more outlandish and ridiculous the better. A US clothing line Nordstrom have designed a pair of 'muddy' men's jeans. Yes, that's right, you can now buy your jeans with mud already on them! I suppose that cuts out the guilt of getting them dirty in the first place....and eliminates the need to wash them as often "Oh crap, my jeans are filthy! Oh yeah" The jeans will come with a "cracked, caked on muddy coating" and will cost an eye watering £330!! Now I know people like to be up to date and have their fashion fingers on the pulse, but seriously?! I really do wonder the world is coming to sometimes. When you find yourself looking at these things and thinking "oh yeah sure, I'll buy those", then I think it is the perfect time to have a sit down and a bloody good talk to yourself. I hate to sound old, but I remember a time when having
mud on your clothes was not a desirable thing. Maybe I'm losing touch much quicker than I think I am. They seem like the type of garment self indulgent people wear to make themselves look like they've worked hard.....or that they love dressing like a flaming idiot. What's next, horse shit jeans? If you fancy paying hundred's of pounds for something you can find for free in your garden, then quite frankly, you have more money than sense.

The swarm literally stopped traffic 

A plague of bee's caused a buzz in a South West London street causing utter chaos. Sounds almost biblical like the plague of locusts- seems like the big man G-O-D wanted a word or two! The bees swarmed in scaring many commuters in the area flying around in people's hair and on their clothes then taking a rest on a set of traffic lights. The swarm soon subsided however as a local beekeeper came to the rescue using a mobile hive to gather them all in. A mobile bee hive?! How handy! The
beekeeper, Phil Clarkson said he thought the swarm could've come from Greenwich park. Amazingly nobody was stung in the half hour swarm. Clarkson said that the likelihood to be stung while bee's are swarming is very low and that it is common to get a swarm like this at the time of year. Quick everyone, hide your honey! Put away you plants! The swarm is coming!

Many of us have had an embarrassing drunken story or two....or three. Imagine trying to enter another persons home you believed to be your mate's whilst shit-faced? I know I've gone to the wrong student flat at University- and that was whilst sober!! There was a East and West block, I was in my own world and didn't realise until no-one answered the door and my key wouldn't enter the lock. I then looked around and ran away with my realisation wishing the ground could swallow me whole. Luckily no-one did answer the door and I got away with no-one witnessing my humiliating inability to tell East from West. Anyway back to the Canadian man who tried to enter the place he insisted his friend lived in after a night of getting bladdered. The rightful tenants discovered the man's cock up after finding a 6 pack of beers and an apology note saying "I'm the guy who was relentlessly (and drunkenly) trying to get into your house last night" then adding "I sincerely apologise for waking you up and being so disorderly in the middle of the night". Luckily for the man, known as Cliff from his signoff, the tenants didn't call the police but said they were prepared to had he come back. It also turned out that Cliff's friend in fact lived upstairs according to his note. From experience, I do have a little sympathy for the guy, he made a mistake and felt embarrassed and bad for the people whose house he nearly broke into. He tried to make it up to them and lessen the humiliation with leaving an apology 6 pack for them but one thing's for sure if he's anything like me, he definitely won't forget it and he might think twice about where he wanders while drunk.

That's all for this evening folks, I hope you enjoyed it. I won't be blogging tomorrow unfortunately as I have Matthew over for the weekend. I haven't seen him for two weeks so I'm looking forward to spending time with him. We haven't planned to do anything elaborate. Depending on the weather, we may go to Waddesdon Manor but we shall see. Anyway, I hope you all have lovely weekends and I will update you all on Monday.

Ciao for now!