Martin McDowell's Blog

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If at first you don’t succeed, skydiving is not for you

Got a bad hair day? Get a fucking hat!

I like to shag my girlfriend during a thunderstorm. This way we can pretend we are taking part in the conception of the Antichrist (Frankie Boyle on Mock the Week)

- Frankie Boyle on Mock the Week

There is nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot.

- Dilbert, pop culture icon

Compromising old Windows boxes is like stealing candy from a baby. Compromising Linux boxes is more like stealing candy from a baby that’s locked away in a subterranean vault with armed robot guards, packs of savage Rottweilers and lots of Indiana Jones-style traps. On the moon. (Gary Marshall in TechRadar UK)

Some of the stuff is influenced by personal mishaps in life. Nobody has lived a perfectly good life without tragedies and we’ve used them as part of our songwriting. I think that dwelling on the darker side of life seems much more interesting and evocative than the happier things…I’ve got somewhere to put my depression and it’s called My Dying Bride…I’m generally a happy guy!

- Aaron Stainthorpe from the metal band “My Dying Bride”

My girlfriend gave me a choice: her or skydiving.
I will miss her very much.

- Five rules to remember in life:

1. Money cannot buy happiness but its more comfortable to cry in a Mercedes than on a bicycle.
2. Forgive your enemy but remember the bastards name.
3. Help someone when they are in trouble and they will remember you when they’re in trouble again. (mostly)
4. Many people are alive only because its illegal to shoot them.
5. Alcohol does not solve any problems, but then again, neither does milk.

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