More reasons to avoid Rochdale

ODintomadness research monkeys are trained in finding information that really, is that important, no-one else cares about.

Meet Nat Friedman. He does lots of geeky things, likes linux, and gives away cameras to kids in Rio.

He also tried, using a team of people, to complete the King William's college general knowledge quiz in 2001.

They produced this. And there's lots of funny stuff about Rochdale.

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Rochdale appears to have been afflicted, at one time or another, with every single infectious disease known to man.

Polio

Two cases of Polio in 1976

Black Plague

A pestilence called the 'Black Plague' raged in the parish of Rochdale 'The whole district being filled with dismay, none dared from the country to approach the town for fear of catching the contagious disease.

Typhus

James Kay was born in Rochdale on 20th July, 1824. At the age of twenty-one he entered Edinburgh University to study medicine. While he student he worked with local doctors during a typhus epidemic.

Cholera

Rochdale was also hit by the 1849 Cholera outbreak, but the outbreak started in Westfield.

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Furthermore, Rochdale is occasionally associated with asbestosis due to the cloth industry.

Additionally, it appears that there was a parliamentary report on an outbreak of "lunacy" in Rochdale.

Finally, Rochdale appears to be the name of a particular type of bacterium.

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Some of our readers may be wondering why we'd devote an entire post to list diseases related to an obscure town near Manchester. Here are some reasons:

1. We just hate Rochdale.
2. No really, we do just hate the place.

Even Animals Can Sing Death Metal

SWEET CHRIST, HOW I LOVE HATEBEAK, THE DEATH METAL BAND WITH A PARROT ON LEAD VOCALS.

Fuck Minimalism

Say The Flaming Lips. Proof that the White Stripes need more than one competent band member.

Damn you hotmail staff!

The Girls Aloud mailing list is not junkmail.

Just visit it

A Site

Christmas is over and you are fat. You make me sick.

Ric has decided to sign up to something which we think might be a dating thing. Not too sure. So we're all slowly going over there until we take it over. Lovely.
What did you get for xmas No of course you didn't No-one loves you that much.
The Onion has a book out. One quicker journey to the capitalist whore house for them.

Hello there

I've been watching this loop for about 37 minutes now. It's having a similar affect to taking a large dose of moprhine.

Wandering Around Scummy Towns until gone One

I've grown tired of these type of sites now, yes HA, he's stupid, but HA he's your President, do something about it.
This I like because it means its not my fault, which is always good.
Do you like the latest offering I found just for you or how about this other one
I got a new job and I'm already planning on joining this MSN Group, I start later but I doubt you care, so ta ta.

NME a lifestyle magazine? Nah...

This is NME's Cool List.

Just be careful, because really, liking this music is the only way to be cool. At all. If you're bored of GLC you're not cool. If you really don't know what the fuck the Futurehaeds are doing(and who does?), you're not cool. And most of all, if you can't write an article without mentioning Pete, Babyshambles, and the Libertines, at least 6 times, you're not cool.

Sorry about that.

Things to do when bored.

1. Make up a load of bands that don't exist and put them on a forum

Here's the full list:

Dead Stylists
Funkatronic
Steve Machine and the Eternal Combustion of Electronics
The Chancers
LSD Sidewinder
Paper Machine In The System
Murder to a Music Soundtrack
Parisian Death Merchants
Keyboard Klicks

Finally, Drunken Stories with the EP called I Lost My Shoe On 42nd Street.

And here is Joe's first post on the subject.

However, after googling, Funkatronic are a dance group, and The Chancers are a two tone ska band from Prague:

Funkatronic
The Chancers

Exciting new travel game

On the train we were playing this gane:

Nominate people who are most likely to be:

-Running away from a divorce
-Running away from prison
-Running away from home
-Running away from a murder investigation

However, after a while (5, maybe 10 seconds) we had to rename it "Other than Joe" to give everyone else on the train a fair chance.

Going completely off topic I found this in my inbox this morning:

We are very proud and happy to announce that the Swedish Grammy Nominations came in yesterday and

Stina Nordenstam "The World Is Saved" was nominated in the following categories
Female artist of the year
Composer of the year
Album of the year

She should win all of them.

Her website is here but it's rather out of date.

The joke everyone's been saying...

...but never thought it would be amde into a t-shirt. I'm getting me one of them.

Just a coincidence?

David Blunkett quits and Pete is seen on Newsnight. New government minister anyone? I doubt he even remembers who HE is let alone wants other people's IDs

When Penguins Attack: The Post-Modern Version

Not sure wgat to make of this....

Claims Direct Suck

Small conversation with the silly people in the street:

"Have you had an accidents or injurys in the past 3 years?"

"I accidentally lost my shoe at a club last night, can I sue them?"

"No."

Bastards. I want my shoe back.

It's been three days...

Since either of us posted, missing us?

'Tis the Season to be Jolly

Which is why you'll find me in the pub.

The Best Researchers In The Field

Once more here at odintomadness, we expose the disgusting way sex is used to sell(it's acceptable for work etc. don't worry), well actually holymoly do but you know what I mean.
and don't even think I'm going to explain what happens here - they're German by the way, just an observation, not any comment on it.
I don't know much about dancing
That's why I got this song
One of my legs is shorter than the other
And both of my feets too long
There we go

Blogspot Highlights

The Monkey Cage

What a lovely blog!

Those "horoscope people" - they ask you your "sign" (I usually tell them "Feces") and it's fun to reply: "Aquarius" and they'll slap their forehead and go on and on: "I KNEW it! You are SO Aquarius! You do this like an Aquarius, and you do that like an Aquarius, (blah blah blah) - you're SO Aquarius Monkey I just KNEW it!" - and then you say "Sike - I'm really a Scorpio!" That tends to piss off the Horoscope people.

Cherokee's People

Everyday. One Person. One Sentence. People I Know. No Particular Order.

Doesn't need any more explaination.

DraMa Queen

This is probably fits in the "human zoo" section of blogwatching, I love the way the author manages to mix day to day things like trying to put a band togeather, in alongside a passion for drugs and almost getting raped.

i've always wanted to be in a band and music is my passion...right next to drugs. whoa buddy, that slipped. anyways. my back really hurts.

Surveyors can do anything

Searching through my room, in amongst the inflatable surf board, 100 party poppers and road signs, I found a very annoying little infestation of cartoon mice. "I'll just phone up ACME!" said I, though I really shouldn't have, as talking to yourself isn't good for your sanity. They sent me a lovely pest control unit anyway.

You may be intrerested in their full online catalog, which is all the way over here.

Now even we have started swearing

When playing about with typing swear-words into google images, i typed c---, (safe search on, otherwise i'm guessing you just get porn) and hidden amongst george bush and the odd piece of flesh, you cam to this lovely lady not read her blog, but ig even the google images hates her, we doubt we'll like her. Google is our corporate friend.

Steal This Link

See the title, stolen from an album, it's all going round in a circle. Anyway, got this link off a forum, i'm getting good at that, and thought you scum would enjoy it, so here you go. It's nice and I think know is the time where I go, 'and so true, it like totally says what we're thinking.'
One person who won't be choosing the internet is this guy or maybe he will because his life his empty without it. E-mail and tell him as much.
Oooh, MetaFilter do what we do, just a lot, lot better. Stop reading us forever by visitng them. Dam them, I hate them and their betterness. Actually, they could suck and got lucky with the few days I read. Hmmm.

Indie is back, ha

Ha House of Love return but they're shit and overrated i hear you cry? Yes, let's hope they lose lots of money on this album as they always seem to do. And The Wedding Present are back as well, but they are good, oooh and Gang Of Four, My Bloody Valentine were on Lost In Translation, anyone putting money on HMHB playin on a big tour with these lot soon?

help crackheads

Regular star of this and many other websites, Pete Doherty, has promised to stop smoking crack if he gets Top 10 He actually said that, dear Lord.

Summon the metal

Just saw this linked on the QC Forums, it's lovely. My favourite has to be Dark Funeral at #6, the lack of self-respect is what intrigues me.
And on other music realted topics we have Stupid Lyrics which contains exactly that, courtesy of Blogger Chick.(I've just read this site, it seems quicte crap actually, but I'll let you decide)
On an unrelated point, did you know that if you type just's' into google you get the McDonald's website thus the most popular 's' on the planet, hmmm...
and I just tried p and was interested to find issues on mental health ahead of Pink (not the colour, the annoying pop singer who wants to be rock, is she still alive?)
I don't know if this is what I'm thinking of because it's not loading for me, but hopefully it is. basically it should be a transcript or stream of Mark E Smith on Newsnight talking about Peel, is truly class. (For those who don't know, I'm guessing American ppl which is just Mare, Smith was lead singer of The 'mighty' Fall who were John Peel's favourite ever band)
Rightios, bye bye

Stuffed fish can be sexy.

I've been spending too much time in The temple of Graham Coxon. It's beautiful, especially the list of lovely quotes by the immortal cunt himself:

"We're quite strict about being musically correct, using the right chords."

"Damon? Sexy? He's about as sexy as a stuffed fish, pal."

"Most of America don't even listen to music probably. They just go raccoon hunting or something."

Pete made a desperate attempt to kill Graham, planning to trash the stage and attempting to set fire to the audience, for their own good, at a gig. Sadly he just ended up going through a cover of Time for Heroes.