The Ramblings of Guise Dugal

I always loved the Dreadnoks, perhaps more than any other group in GI Joe. I loved their rebellious nature, their lack of restraint towards violence and their improvisation for weaponry and tactics. The Dreadnoks were fighters to the core and were a fearsome rag-tag bunch of bikers who could be depended on to raise havoc. This [...]

There’s an old email forward that tells the story of confectionary love, it reads: Mr Cadbury and Ms Rowntree went off for the weekend. It was After Eight. She was from Quality Street. He was a Fishermans Friend. On the way they stopped at a Yorkie Bar. He had a Rum and Butter. She had [...]

A little slice of real life now, to make a change from my usual ramblings. I like free stuff. I’m part of online market research panels for money, I collect loyalty points when I shop and I enter competitions like a mad man. Free stuff, to me, is the most awesome concept in the history [...]

I was going to post this before, but I forgot about it until yesterday. Earlier on in the month, Matt over at X-Entertainment.com, commented on a PSA advert about drink driving which had given himself and some of his readers a case of the spooks as children. During the course of discussion, DJ D made [...]

Before I get started, I wanted to state a minor gripe about the inadequacies of some people when spelling scorpions. I can understand one or two people having the misspelling occur, based on only ever hearing it pronounced by someone with an impediment or alcohol problem, but why must there be those who insist on [...]

After my last entry complained of the Emil Effect of the replacement CRT monitor, and following a period of adjusting settings and layouts to accommodate the less defined screen, I had a pleasant surprise arrive this morning. Although I had been told that my new monitor would be delivered in three weeks when I ordered [...]

At the start of the week my wonderful little TFT monitor, which I’ve had for two years, started to have a few problems coming back to picture after a shutdown. This was getting frankly annoying as the only way to bring the monitor back to life was a hard reboot of the entire system. I [...]

Ah, it’s that time of the year again when the young and old get to display their unique, heartfelt feelings by purchasing mass-produced greetngs cards, seasonally advertised flowers, theme packaged chocolates and adorable teddy bears that will get placed in the back of a wardrobe by the end of March. Valentines Day, such a special day of [...]

Today is the day before Valentines Day and all around the world there are some single people desperately wanting a partner to share in the tradition of only declaring their love, and comparing financial value of that love, on a single annual basis. A lot of sources on the web and in books will tell [...]

Designed to assist people like Mr Littlejohn (Fellow Blogger, Facebooker and X-E Advent-urer) the Tac-B-Boom has been designed by DugalCorp engineers as a miniature arsenal to be used in the battle for garden domination. Each Tac-B-Boom device is no bigger than a single Triple A battery. And remember DugalCorps motto: We know what you like. [...]

Before I start, I’d just like to make a confession: Guise Dugal has never watched an episode of Lost. Well, I put it off but I’m going to do it. I’m going to talk about Cloverfield. Now, it’s very hard to talk about Cloverfield and not spoil it, I know this first hand as Americans [...]

So, what did I do today? Yeah!

The young female superheroine and Jensen Button ‘squee’r, DistractoGirl from LiveJournal, and I were discussing how annoying it is to have to attend a service – for example, a wedding – when you haven’t been provided a dress code. Now, the likelihood of me asking people to attend a wedding or a christening in the [...]

Being born in 1981, I grew up in what I’d consider one of the Golden Ages for children’s toys. As a child there was always a new fad to get in to and a new idea just emerging to take over from that one. Regrettably, there were two things standing in my way from fully [...]

I’ve commented before on consumerism, young children, sexuality and parental/business stupidity (here and here for example). I’m not a prude, if kids want to be little Lolitas and…whatever the heck a lolita-boy would be…well, then fine. I like liberalisation and free choice, so that is really up to them to choose and, of course, for [...]

One of the great technologies that was slotted in to the background of Star Wars in the movies and Expanded Universe was the galaxy-wide communications system, the HoloNet. The HoloNet was a merging of internet communication and television, with the added function of being able to transfer holographic images. This is mainly seen for things [...]

There is always some controversy whenever a council takes action about complaints on how households decorate their property. Stories in the past have included a complaint of harrassment from a muslim family by a neighbour displaying ceramic pigs in the only window facing their property, a exterior christmas tree banned from having lights because it [...]