To be a youth worker is to live a life where constant surprise is unsurprising
- anon (where anon == me)
To illustrate a point (bonus points if you can guess what the point was!) I and my co-workers decided it would be a good idea if we got a bunch of young people to try and put a bunch of small toys together without any instructions. Seeing as Lego is expensive and the small ones can not only be put together blindfolded but also without using your arms or brain (Example instructions: (1) insert lightsaber in Darth Vader legoman's hand (2) purchase Vader Jedi Tie-Fighter for £69.99') we decided Kinder Egg toys would make a better substitute. The obvious problem with this is that you can't guess whether the toy is a kick ass self-assembly one or a stupid hand painted (All the worst kinder egg toys are hand painted) solid toy. On top of this you can't remove the instructions from inside the yellow plastic casing without first breaking open the chocolate egg. And that is why the other day I sat and ate through 12 Kinder Eggs to get to the yellow innards. Actually that's not quite true, yesterday I sat and ate through three and a half Kinder Eggs before I felt very very ill. Kids; There is a reason Kinder have never released special edition 'Solid Chocolate' Kinder Egg.
Stomach upsets aside, one of the things that this experience did allow me to test was my Kinder Egg Innards Detecting Theory. I've always reckoned you can tell what the type of toy is in a Kinder Egg if you shake it. If you hear one sort of rattle then that's just the yellow bit rattling around inside the shell. Two types of rattle and you're hearing the shell move and the toy inside it move. The two types of rattle is bad! If it rattles twice then the toy isn't crammed in tightly, which means it only has a few pieces or worse, just one therefore it's a rubbish toy. The one type of rattle indicates the toy is crammed in as tight as possible, therefore probably made up of lots of little pieces therefore a good toy. Unfortunately for proving my theory after the first few eggs my hearing was sufficiently impaired and my vision sufficiently blurred that I couldn't say one way or another whether there was a rattle or not. If anyone else wants to try they are more than welcome too.
Was it an itelligence test?
I finished 2nd in the casio poker tournament the other night. £465. Sweet.
Drinks on Seb!
i dont give a bloody dam about what i skribld but no computer nerd calls me a fool and gets away with it
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I've often admired your grammar and spelling on this site, so much writing yet so few mistakes.
In this post though there are grammatical errors and spelling mistakes abound. Sort it out!!