My new T-shirt causes a stir.

Everyone in the office thinks my new t-shirt makes me look gay.
But it's got "not a gay' written on it!

I think I need to rethink my "love cock" coat.

Btb radio rocks!

What with radio being shit the office has started using Playlist dot com.
With Playlist you can bang together your own mix tape (remember tape?) Everyone in the office is logged in to the same account so we can all add to (or take from) the playlists. It started with the btboffice playlist, then half an hour later Kirsty had created her own playlist rather than add to the office one. (she doesn't play well with others).

The fact that we're all logged into the same account gives rise to lots of fun and games.
Some of the old ladies in the office (mark and Michelle) took issue with some of the heavier shit so Kirsty created an easy listening collection called "nice and quiet songs" you'll not find a playlist called that now because someone changed the name of it to "Shit and bland stuff".
I created a playlist of 60's/70's vibes called Nigels old stuff. Paul then dobbed in there and cameos "word up" in there. It's not there now, I deleted it.

My favorite track at the moment is in the btboffice's playlist. it's playing now as I write this. it's called "Oh no you didn"t" by Mercenaries 2. Chris found it. Thanks Chris.

Paul's created his own playlist of Queens of the stone age type style stuff that never gets played because of the high rock content I'm thinking I might slip John Denver's "Rocky mountain high" in there when he's not looking.

Hold on, What the fuck's this? Some one's put "Birdhouse in your soul" by they might be giants in there?

Kitty animation

Happy Birthday Michael !

Happy 50th birthday Jacko!

The Smooth Criminal who did not say "lets Come together" to a long line of under age boys is one year nearer the grave, and to celebrate, the Bad one is to be captured in far eastern poly resin.
Wheather he be black or white you've got to hand it to pixie voiced grey faced Thriller. He told his critics to beat it, thought to himself "Don't stop till you get enough" and kept on going in the face, not of children, but of legal proceedings.
The king of pop may be past his best, but there's no denying that his body of music is on the whole better than the pedo of pop's Gary Glitter, who once sang "Come on, Come on." 11 year old Vietnamese girls.

Jacko is to be the new event bear! 'Cos he's a zombie! Yeah Zombie's! I'm interested to see what colour he's gonna end up being. Anything but black really. He's got to be recognizable hasn't he.

I want it made clear that Michael Jackson did not get jiggy with any underage boys. He was proved innocent in a court of law, and is every bit as innocent as, erm OJ Simpson?

Dawn Of the dead

Hello.

It's been a while since my last post.
This is because...
A. I am a lazy twat.
B. I've been on holiday for a week in the lake district.
C. I've been too busy watching Redtube.com
D. all of the above.

Well my zombie Captain lucky went down well didn't it.
So well that we're going to do a zombie event on the first of November.
Well alright maybe it wasn't just me. Maybe we've thinking about a zombie event for a couple of years.

Are you coming?
Are you going as a zombie or a famous zombie? If you go as zombie Elvis you might not be the only one. In which case we'll probably get them all to fight to the death in a paddling pool full of KY jelly.

let's all go as Zombie Elvis!... No lets not.

We're still mulling over what to do on the night.
Maybe a pimp your bear, into a zombie, competition? You could bring along your zombified bear, and win. Erm... my Zombie Captain lucky... or... maybe something that's actually worth something.

If you do come as a zombie you could go all out with loads of latex rubber, or if you're anything like me you could just get up early.

This is what I look like if I get up before 8.

You all have a choice. Come as a zombie or just come. Unless your name is Dawn. Then you've got to dress up. 'Cos then you'd be Dawn of the dead!

HA HA HA HA HA ! er sorry.

Design a bear comp winner, wins.

If you don't already know the winner of the Design a bear competition, has,.. er... won.

Well done and congrats to Madden for coming up with this beauty.
There's usually a few different opinions floating around the office when we do one of these things, but everyone here loves Madden for pulling this out of his head (sicko)

They were all winners in my book (though it's important to remember the others don't get swat!)
Kirsty's close second was this treasure. (uh oh, someone has spotted that we like to rip people off)

There was this interesting one from Suzie...
What's going on here exactly Suzie? Is he sucking or blowing?
If he's sucking then that really is bad taste isn't it!

Click on any picture to be transported over to our Flickr site and judge for yourself.

Oh and Suzie. Call me.

The nature of the beast

If you're anything like me it's no big deal if your bear breaks, you can just turn it into a Zombie. Zombies are meant to have bits missing, but why did it break in the first place?

Well it's the nature of the beast I'm afraid.

I know your bear isn't a toy, it's a collectible figurine for proper grown ups, but toys are a good place to start.
Your average toy figurine for kids is made from injection moulded plastic. An aluminium or steel two part hard mould is produced and hot melted plastic is injected into it. The mould it's self will cost about £1000. But that's just for a simple mould, to make one part. more parts means more complexity, that means more money.
The big toy companies make this pay by selling a million. (when you sell a million the percentage of cost attached to tooling is small) and they're all painted by machines.

The bears are made a completely different way.

We use rubber moulds.
The nice thing about rubber moulds is you can bend and peel the mould away from the figurine (some thing you can't do when the mould is made from metal) This means that we can add much more detail to the figure. The material used isn't plastic, it's a poly-resin. This process lends it's self well to short runs in production. because after a while the rubber starts to absorb the resin and eventually there's so much resin in the rubber the rubber and the resin stick together then the mould rips, and you've got to make another mould from your original. (The most I've managed to get out of a mould myself is 50)

So the resin is good for extra detail and short runs. Making your bears rare and highly detailed, but poly-resin is brittle, and will break like plastic won't.
Sometimes we fuck things up in the packaging and bears get broken before they even get to you. This happens because we are always trying to push the boundaries of what you can do with the medium, and sometimes we go too far (sorry) having said that we have noticed that some collectors are plagued with receiving broken bear after broken bear, whilst others don't get any. It's probably not your postman himself, kicking his sack up the street, but the sorting office must resemble a wild west bar fight.

On a separate note, we're bad taste, what with all the drugs and sex with sheep, but how bad taste are you? Leave an anonymous comment and tell us your secret. How weird are you lot?