Teleshopping - don't you just love it?

I was sitting in front of the TV the other day and my mother had put QVC on. It's a shopping channel, in case you didn't know. Anyway, she went out the kitchen but she left it on, so for a minute or two, I paid attention to what the TV was saying to me. The remote was at the other side of the room, you see, and since my mother was watching QVC anyway, there was really no point in changing the channel since I'd only have to change it back anyway.

But that's besides the point— I was just trying to justify how it was that I came about watching a shopping channel. I can't remember sepcifically what they were selling, but it was definitely clothes.

But, as with many shopping channels, there was a strange American woman talking about the clothes, as well as the British presenter. She was rambling about the fabric of a particular blouse, and then said "... so we engineered this pantie."

Which, to me, is a bit odd. Bear in mind that 'pantie' is what a lot of American people call 'knickers'. So what I don't get, is this: why on Earth would you have to engineer underwear? Surely it can't be that hard to create, can it? I mean, it's clothes. Being engineered. Am I the only one who finds that odd?

Another thing: Thinking Putty may be used by the armed forces!

I bought Thinking Putty ages ago; you may know it as 'silly putty' or something. Firebox sells it here if you're interested. But anyway, I was just on the BBC website, and I came across an article that said that they're considering using a "shock absorbing goo". The video is here, on the page, if you want to see it.

Thinking Putty is amazing stuff, though.

I haven't really got much to say. Seems my blogging abilities are dwindling. Ah well. Until next time, I leave you with these...

Random over heard conversation snippet(s) of the (past few) days: "Jessica, I mean it. Don't disbehave." — Heard on the bus, coming home from Caerphilly. Seems these people are now making up their own words!
"I just text Sophie to see if she fancies a romp." — Also on the bus. Do these people not know the meaning of privacy and/or subtlety?

Movie quote of the day: "The only reasonable question left to ask is 'what the fuck is going on?!'" — It's from the film Shooter. I watched it the other day. It was quite good, actually.