Aha! convertissez, ou Yellow

Why put up with it all?

Why put up with you?

Because, well, you see...

I'm absolutely head over heels in love with you.

And every time I think I possibly couldn't love you any more than I already do, you prove me wrong.

Because you love me.


This is the post I should have used Aha! for, but I didn't, so it's Aha! convertissez, Aha! transmuted. Aha! changed (and at the same time, it's Yellow). The translation isn't exact, but it so very rarely is. It's something short, and in the style of Reilly De Wilde, except not. It's for you, the love of my life. The guy who can make my heart flutter with one single simple word.

"Hey"

The guy who I want to grow old with, and have children with, and eventually, find out what the other side of life looks like with.

The guy who finds the beauty in some of the most unusual things. Me, for one ;P.

My boyfriend. The man I intend to marry, when we are ready.

I + R + G, and now, also, + C

Aha!

This isn't the end of my break. But I saw something that I feel I need to write about. I know this probably won't appeal to a lot of people out there, but it's something I feel strongly about. So here it is.

The Savile Row bespoke suit is an institute in tailoring. Forget designer labels, the Savile Row bespoke suit is the absolute height of mens clothing. A suit from here will go for £3000 and up. It takes 50 man-hours of skilled craftwork to create one of these suits. As well as being the best possible looking suit available, it is also the best quality suit available. It is a case where you most definitely get what you pay for.

Savile Row is a shopping street in Central London's Mayfair. A Savile Row bespoke suit is traditionally made entirely in Savile Row and a some of the surrounding streets. But there are now firms entering Savile Row, and not only illegitimately calling their suits Savile Row bespoke suits, but also selling them for a great deal cheaper.

Now, you may be asking how they can illegitimately call their suit Savile Row bespoke, when they are located in Savile Row? (I would like to point out here I'm using the usage of illegitimate as 'not in accordance with accepted standards', rather than it being illegal.) The suits these firms are selling are being made mostly outside of Savile Row. They are not truly bespoke, but are rather made-to-measure.

Made-to-measure is where a store will take a customer's measurements. A base pattern which is closest to the customers measurements will be chosen, then altered to match them. A made-to-measure garment will be partially machine and partially hand sewn.

A true bespoke garment, however, will be sewn entirely by hand, and will be made from a pattern created from scratch based on a customers measurements. A bespoke garment will be entirely unique, and entirely customised to the customer. It also involves fittings during the construction of the garment, to ensure a correct fit.

The problem with these new firms calling their suits 'Savile Row bespoke', is that they draw upon the esteem of a true Savile Row bespoke suit, without being one. It is comparable to a white sparkling wine being called champagne when it does not come from the Champagne region of France. They also cause potential customers to question why they should buy the £3000 suit when they can get an also bespoke suit for a fraction of that price.

To me, this is unfair business practice and unfair competition by means of misrepresentation.

Okay, thanks for putting up with my little rant. Oh, and the song title is my favourite from Imogen Heap's latest album Ellipse.

Laters,
Joshua.

Trouble Sleeping

Okay, so first of, a huge happy blog birthday to our beloved Mirrorboy! In your honour, I post...

Emo boy! Mainly for his hair (but also because I like his sunglasses).




You've had so many ups and downs over the past year, and taken blows some couldn't of managed to continue on after. Here's to many more years, and many less downs.

Love you sweetie.

Okay, now for the second part of this. For whatever reason I'm just not writing much of anything these days. Like at all.

Just on a slight side note, Victor, I'm really sorry I haven;t sent you a proper email, I want to, I just haven't been able to manage.

So I'm kinda making official what was already kind of in place, as shown by my even more than usual sporadic blogging, and taking a little break. If I can manage it, hopefully I'll put a post or two up. I'll be back when I can write properly again.

I'll still be reading everyone and trying to do my best to comment.

Laters,
Joshua

The joke was tasteless, that's a given.

But when something is so horrifying it threatens to overwhelm you, sometimes all you can do is laugh.

I decided upon the path that has allowed me to enjoy my birthday for the past eight years, and will not apologize for it.

I like my guys how I like my towers.

As twins and quick to go down.

Different Names For The Same Thing

Sorry I haven't posted recently. My bandwidth ran out half way though last week, so I was cut back to dial-up speed, and all I could use the internet for was msn (well, I mean all I had the patience to use it for was msn, and that managed to piss me off at times too. My attention span is short, I no longer have the ability to browse the web on dial-up).

I have since read all the blog posts I missed, sorry I haven't commented at all, there was quite a few, it was overwhelming for me.

With the comments: I don't regret turning them off, it was something I needed to do. I was emotionally fragile at the time, they became an issue, and it was the only way I could see to resolve it.

Since then, I reconsidered, and realised I'm kind of an attention whore (okay, okay, I'm a huge attention whore), and I do really enjoy getting feedback from you guys.

So yeah, I felt I needed to say that stuff. Now for the rest of my post.

I watched a PBS program today, which, despite being PBS was interesting. It was about a court case in America where a school board made (well, tried to, but if you watch it you'll see) the science teachers bring intelligent design (read: Creationism) into the classroom. The link is here. Also, as a bonus for those of you who don't watch videos, there's a transcript, and, well, being a PBS show, it's not like you'll miss any action or anything.

Okay, that's all I have for today.

Laters,
Joshua.