Well who knows! We’re game anyway… So rehearsals are hotter than they have been for quite some time. And now we’re committed and as any of you people who know us will remember BAD MATHEMATICS ARE NOTHING IF NOT COMMITTED!!! Right?

i think i pretty much deserve to get a bloody medal for having survived a year and a half as a regular commuter. and since i discovered that the monthly travel card for the bus and trolley was only 20 euros as opposed  to 45 euros (!!!!!!) for everything, i should also get a commendation for having battled through the sweatiest,  dodgy bits of town, every weekday, on the worst forms of public transport. i could have called this post “i hate people” but that would be unfair to the vast majority, who are very nice, normal people, that i encounter on my journeys. but. there are ten “types” who make travelling quite unbearable (actually, not just travelling. they make life unbearable):

people who feel the need to share their intimate mobile phone calls about their mother-in-laws embarrassing gas problems with their fellow passengers

people who cannot seem to work out that those people who are on the bus, need to get off before they can get on

people who ask you where the bus is going and then, after you’ve told them, proceed to ask every other person on the bus, as if everyone is either stupid, lying or has got nothing better to do than pass twenty-five minutes taking about bus routes.

people who sit next to you and read your book

people who see you reading a book in english and give you filthy looks

people who sit on you, stand on your foot or smack you in the eye and don’t even realise they’ve done it

people who complain loudly about foreigners destroying the country

people who mutter in agreement with the assholes above

drivers who seem to think they are doing you a favour by even stopping at the bus stop, let alone waiting for you to get on or off

driver who talk on their mobiles (loudly), drink coffee and feel it necessary to share their horrible pop skiladiko with everyone. these are often the same ones as the ones above

now i’ve got to ten, i could probably go on but i’ll throw open the floor to you, dear reader… any quibbles, quarrels or quims (sorry, private joke with vishy) you’d like to share.

go on.

share it in the comments.

you’ll feel better.

you know you want to…

last post for today i promise (i might be lying though). i’m always fascinated by the way people randomly arrive at our blog. in third place for the most popular search terms is “haig” (with 189 hits). undoubtedly, whiskey has helped put bad mathematics where we are now i.e absolutely nowhere, which just goes to prove that drinking is bad for you.

in second place “spam” (with 827 hits) which just goes to prove that people still eat a lot of crap. in fact, here’s a few of the different spam searches that brought people here.

spam pics (you need a picture?)

spam less sodium (hmmm, perhaps you should think about giving up spam?)

spam hot and spicy (is this someone looking for a spam porn site? probably very disappointed then)

but the most popular? surprisingly, it’s “cargo pants” (with 936 hits to date) and a couple of “kargo pantolonlar” and “kargo pantolon” thrown in to prove that we are charmingly multicultural here. just goes to show that we are at the cutting edge of the fashion industry too.

honourable mentions go to the following searches:

“nerves” (as in “get on mine”?)

“beware of the dog” (must get one to growl at silly searchers)

“pink paparazzi” (great name for a cocktail)

“photoshop see through clothes” (way too much time on their hands)

“girl with no makeup on” (obviously a stalker) and “old people with no makeup on” (lots of stalkers)
however, the big prizes must go to the bizarre searches for “academically challenged people” and “small brain” and a big fat fail to google for directing them here.”brain the size of a planet” (that’s more like it). “famous people who were not good at math” (yes!). “dodgy testicles” (that one made me wet myself a bit) and “famous people doing stupid things picture” (come to our next gig!)

[all these searches are real. and i had a lot of fun looking through them all]

they’re obviously putting something in the water up there in leeds…

to get the ball rolling, here’s a new genre that my bands better than your band calls “fuzz folk”. soulmates never die writes

…. songs about things. Things like Colonel Sanders, Meteorology and Gravy. Anyone who writes songs about gravy wins

 

deliciously geeky and intriguing.

i like.

enjoy!

1. you haven’t been listening
2. you can’t be arsed
3. you’re over 12
4. there hasn’t been anything good since radiohead

then this blog is definitely for you. but….

i do think it’s time we tried to be a little bit “cool” again (stop sniggering) and started writing about music (as well as the assorted nonsense that you know and love, dear reader)

so here it is… an attempt at being a real music blog…

thanks to our dear reader, we have been warned about what awaits us in lamia…

lamia…. we know you have a castle and probably a bunch of lookout towers too but we bad mathematics are a crafty lot. we’ll be sneaking into your fair city at the end of march sometime. the exact date is top secret so as not to give you any advantage over our tiny band of renegades. yes, a gig in lamia is on the cards. final details to be arranged and poster to be cobbled together by our loud lovely web master and resident designer, vishy. we will let you know as soon as possible so you can make travel arrangements ;D

we will be doing a comeback/all is forgiven/reunion/party/gig fest in athens as soon as possible after lamia. venue suggestions are very welcome.

more soon