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You know how it goes.

Sock and tea and rock'n'roll...

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Thursday, 26 October 2006 10:10 (nineteen years ago)

Joe is the banjo player

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 26 October 2006 10:14 (nineteen years ago)

i am teh_kit

― teh_kit (g-kit), Thursday, 26 October 2006 10:16 (nineteen years ago)

Joe is teh cuet.

I never thought I would say that about a banjo player.

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Thursday, 26 October 2006 10:18 (nineteen years ago)

There are some photos of him here.

Barn dance is next weekend not this.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 26 October 2006 10:21 (nineteen years ago)

I can't go to one of those barn dances. None of my hick clothes fit! Hah! I think Marianna and AMP should go in their pretty gingham dresses, though.

Oh, how my dad would laugh at me fancying the banjo player.

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Thursday, 26 October 2006 10:28 (nineteen years ago)

I have got to get an electric autoharp.

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Thursday, 26 October 2006 10:28 (nineteen years ago)

to phase, phlange and overdrive

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 26 October 2006 10:32 (nineteen years ago)

Invite them and lets make a night of it.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 26 October 2006 10:33 (nineteen years ago)

Electronic autoharp: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Vintage-SUZUKI-OMNICHORD-OM27-autoharp-with-hardcase_W0QQitemZ270043294346QQihZ017QQcategoryZ308QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 26 October 2006 10:37 (nineteen years ago)

That's an Omnichord, not an autoharp. Different beast.

I suppose I just want an ordinary autoharp, but with a pickup.

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Thursday, 26 October 2006 10:39 (nineteen years ago)

All the ones listed in the UK seem to be elderly german zithers.

Look at the pretty blue ones

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 26 October 2006 10:44 (nineteen years ago)

Oh yes! You're the one for me:

http://www.harpdoctor.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/21chromaharp.jpg

I wonder if I could persuade my dad to buy it for me... or else get my mum to bring it when she visits in December! That's an idea!

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Thursday, 26 October 2006 10:47 (nineteen years ago)

Having looked at those band pics, I can see what you're saying Ed. xxxxxpost.

Omnichords . . . what the hell?!? They look like they'll make you sound like Depeche Mode. Not that I dislike Depeche Mode, but it's hardly a trad sound.

http://www.stoffelshome.de/alt_controller/suzuki_omnichord_om150.jpg

Look at the state of it! It's like those guitars for baby that play 3 blind mice when you press the button with a mouse on it.

Oh, and Kate . . . I still have this autoharp for you! Although I think it IS the sound box that's fuxored, so I don't know how much use it'll be to you.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Thursday, 26 October 2006 10:49 (nineteen years ago)

Bah, it's lunchtime and I've got the last of my curry, but I'm not actually hungry. Maybe I'll wait another half hour or so. I woke up late and could not get out of bed again today.

I'm so tired all of the time, it's rubbish.

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Thursday, 26 October 2006 11:27 (nineteen years ago)

I keep thinking I should try making music on the PC. But I'm too lazy to start.

(anyone know any good music-making programs for Linux?)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 26 October 2006 11:34 (nineteen years ago)

Csound.

And FP, I'm sorry you got burned. People are more often selfish and ignorant when they hurt you, rather than evil. At least, that's what I try to think.

― angle of d... (tingo), Thursday, 26 October 2006 11:42 (nineteen years ago)

Ack! Who burned FP? What a drag.

The question is, though, is there a difference between "selfish and ignorant" and "evil"?

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Thursday, 26 October 2006 11:52 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, but some people *are* evil. And by evil, I mean manipulative and so in love with their own personal drama that they don't give a damn about how their actions affect anyone else.

Fortunately, they are very much in the minority - I've only really met about two people in my entire life that I would actually classify as genuinely "evil".

The majority of people who hurt one seem to be just kind of oblivious. Which is why I would warn against building unrealistic expectations before you know whether they are trustworthy - or even have the same agenda as you.

I mean, that "Ooh, ooh, I've met someone, this is LOOOVELY..." sensation is great, but it's *not* the same as falling in love.

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Thursday, 26 October 2006 11:55 (nineteen years ago)

...I suppose my line between "ignorant and selfish" and "actually evil" hinges around the idea of intent.

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Thursday, 26 October 2006 11:56 (nineteen years ago)

Hm, yes, I guess I see your point. Because I am selfish and ignorant, I am evil. I don't think I would qualify as evil for an evil list.

I have been in an nasty mood all week (despite something vaguely datelike on Sunday night). I am so looking forward to the weekend in the hope that a new cycle will start.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Thursday, 26 October 2006 11:59 (nineteen years ago)

We had a great row today - her position was "when I dumped you a few days ago, I didn't realise you would feel hurt. Nor did I realise you would feel hurt when you worked out that in a few days time I'll be getting together with the online friend who had been nagging me to dump you in favour of him. And that wasn't why I dumped you, nothing to do with it, honest."

My position was: "Bitch"

The bitter twist I am taking pleasure in: I've met him, and she hasn't. He really is an arrogant and intimidating cunt. Her view: "he's not like that at all, nice and not intimidating". Other friends of mine who know him better than me: "I'm not getting involved - he is *nasty*"

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 26 October 2006 12:02 (nineteen years ago)

That sucks, FP, and I'm sorry. It really, really hurts when someone that you wanted prefers another to you. It's the oldest and hurtiest hurt in the book of love. I've been dealing with this the past month or so - it's not just the rejection, but the obvious unfavourable comparison that occurs, which rips your self esteem to shreds.

Though, really, what adds insult to injury is that the person at the apex of the triangle should be perceptive enough to understand this - that any kind of choice like that *is* going to cause pain to the person being crushed by the acute end.

That said, I have kind of a viewpoint on love and romance - "anything that happens that fast, can *unhappen* just as fast".

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Thursday, 26 October 2006 12:09 (nineteen years ago)

But AMP said something the other day that really kind of hit home for me - it's the insufferable arrogance of people who are "in love" and don't understand why "everyone can't understand our big, big love" - it's not that they're necessarily evil, it's just that they really have been rendered blind, stupid and utterly insensitive by that big, big love.

Thing is, I would never want to be with anyone who could be rendered so, by an emotion.

I mean, this might be sour grapes from someone who is frequently overhwhelmed by big, big emotions which threaten to swamp me and make me act like an arse to everyone I know. But I have to take medication and counselling to try and control them.

So fuck off with any love that makes you act like a cnut.

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Thursday, 26 October 2006 12:12 (nineteen years ago)

Beware Danish kings.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 26 October 2006 12:14 (nineteen years ago)

That said, maybe I take my cautiousness too far. I'm now conversing with an online bloke who works for the British Library, views Bernard Black as a personal hero, knows exactly which lost river runs under his flat and knows every canal from here to Liverpool.

And the only thing I can think is "what's the catch? What's *wrong* with him that he's single (and/or actually interested in me)?"

Which is pragmatic and realistic, perhaps, but not very fun.

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Thursday, 26 October 2006 12:18 (nineteen years ago)

He sounds great! If he likes men, can I have his number? ;-)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 26 October 2006 12:21 (nineteen years ago)

Grrrrrrrrrr...

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Thursday, 26 October 2006 12:21 (nineteen years ago)

*hides*

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 26 October 2006 12:22 (nineteen years ago)

Take it to the basement, you two!

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Thursday, 26 October 2006 12:24 (nineteen years ago)

FCUK BUGBEAR.

― g00blar (gooblar), Thursday, 26 October 2006 13:07 (nineteen years ago)

Take it to the basement, you two!

I'd worry about what he has down there!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 26 October 2006 14:03 (nineteen years ago)

Hah! I don't have that much kit, you know.

Or a basement, in fact.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 26 October 2006 14:05 (nineteen years ago)

I keep meaning to tell you, FP, there's a fet!sh shop just across the street from the place I'm living at the moment. I keep thinking it's different because the usual nomenclature around here is "Intim". I keep thinking I should go in, but seeing as I have never seen anyone ELSE go in, I'm shy. But I've had a couple of dreams about it... (the shop that is! :)

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Thursday, 26 October 2006 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

I've walked in on an odd conversation.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 26 October 2006 14:29 (nineteen years ago)

So how is it different, Mitya? I'm confused.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 26 October 2006 14:30 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I've no idea what this lot get up to during the afternoon.

Gosh, I'm sleepy.

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Thursday, 26 October 2006 14:30 (nineteen years ago)

My cold isn't any better :(

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 26 October 2006 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

Kate, all systems go for later! See you at cinema...

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 26 October 2006 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

Cool. I can't wait to get the heck out of here. I'm so bored. Came in at 11, and have had ONE THING to do all day.

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Thursday, 26 October 2006 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

I'm stuck here until 6. Grr.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 26 October 2006 14:43 (nineteen years ago)

xpost

I haven't gone in, FP - that's the point, I guess. Just the fact that it's not called "s3x shop" like everywhere else makes me imagine that there are rows and rows of 1eather and 1atex and lord knows what else. Although keeping with the usual Russian half-assed-ness, it is probably just a bunch of DVDs and a display case with some padded cuffs or something.

Man, how did it get to be so late - I've been waiting for this report to go out for almost three hours now!

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Thursday, 26 October 2006 14:45 (nineteen years ago)

Home in 10 mins, yay me!

I'm soooo sleepy. I'm supposed to go out 4 drinks with work people later (ho hum, I guess) but I might sack them off.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Thursday, 26 October 2006 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

Can't you just google the address and see what comes up?

That's what most sex shops in London are like, to be honest. The good fetish ones are few and far between.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 26 October 2006 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

LOL at the idea of googling fetish shops in the Moscow suburbs.

(The funny thing is, there actually was something, albeit on a different search engine, not on Google)

Good morning all. IT'S FRIIIIIIIDAAAAYYYYYYYYY!

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Friday, 27 October 2006 06:54 (nineteen years ago)

So how is it different, Mitya? I'm confused.

In Soviet Russia, girls bukkake you (etc)

― StanM (StanM), Friday, 27 October 2006 07:47 (nineteen years ago)

In Soviet Russia, police dresses like YOU

(ok sorry, I'll leave :-) )

― StanM (StanM), Friday, 27 October 2006 07:49 (nineteen years ago)

Good morning!

I need a slap. No, really. I completely ignore advice.

Is there anything good going on in London tomorrow night?

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 27 October 2006 07:49 (nineteen years ago)

You telling us gossip.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 27 October 2006 07:52 (nineteen years ago)

Actually I don't know, my social whirl has slowed quite a bit, which is nice because I should probably spend the weekend looking for a flat and/or packing.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 27 October 2006 07:53 (nineteen years ago)

But none of you know any of the people I would be gossiping about!

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 27 October 2006 08:01 (nineteen years ago)

So HR tells me I'll have to leave the country to get a new visa in December. Anything fun in London going on the weekend of December 8?

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Friday, 27 October 2006 08:04 (nineteen years ago)

I thought HR was back in Bad Brains.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 27 October 2006 08:16 (nineteen years ago)

Poptimism!

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 27 October 2006 08:16 (nineteen years ago)

GAARGRRHHGHG

Our IT provider went into the server and disconnected all of my RDC sessions and autosave is not working on the Server copy of Excel so I lost two days of tedious work on the stock list. I am really incredibly pissed off about this.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 27 October 2006 08:19 (nineteen years ago)

And my colleagues are talking about football in silly voices.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 27 October 2006 08:20 (nineteen years ago)

Spent several hours yesterday in a tiny crawlspace above our bathroom, istalling an electric extractor fan. Not a lot of fun. Also had to go to B&Q. Some "day off" :(

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 27 October 2006 08:21 (nineteen years ago)

Morning. I'm at work at my proper time, for a change.

The weather is lovely, I love when it gets like this, crisp and cold. Even though I've been getting off at City Thameslink and taking the bus the last bit.

Saw Marie Antoinette last night. It was lovely fluff. I suppose I should go and read the thread now.

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Friday, 27 October 2006 08:22 (nineteen years ago)

I feel your pain, Ed.

I love this sort of weather too. Dry, crisp, sunny, cold.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 27 October 2006 08:25 (nineteen years ago)

I want to go on a long bike ride tomorrow, this is my favourite weather for riding but I think I have too much other crap to get done.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 27 October 2006 08:27 (nineteen years ago)

Hm, yes, poptimism indeed. That's several votes for London then.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Friday, 27 October 2006 08:31 (nineteen years ago)

Wait, Ed, how did you not save a document for two days? two hours, I can see. But two days?

Are you coming to London, then, Mitya? excellent!

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Friday, 27 October 2006 08:34 (nineteen years ago)

Too reliant on autosave and sleep/hibernate

― Ed (dali), Friday, 27 October 2006 08:38 (nineteen years ago)

Ed, you should really know better. Sorry, I don't have much sympathy.

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Friday, 27 October 2006 08:39 (nineteen years ago)

Chances look good, I'd say. Need to discuss with my manager on Monday and see who's paying. Usual corporate practice is for people to go to Estonia, but as we have an office in London, they may want to go that route.

If I foot the bill, I get to pick. I really should go to the U.S., BUT I DON'T WANT TO [insert Bill the Cat noise here]

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Friday, 27 October 2006 08:49 (nineteen years ago)

I know I should know better. It's amazing how you become reliant on certain things like autosave working properly when you know that you shouldn't. However people should wonder around the systems at night disconnecting people and then telling people that it is best practice after the fact rather than before.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 27 October 2006 08:53 (nineteen years ago)

I get realy fucked off by IT people who don't warn users before interupting their services. I am very anal about warning people before I disconnect or reboot something. It seems only polite to do so.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 27 October 2006 08:54 (nineteen years ago)

It is. I do often forget to, though.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 27 October 2006 08:55 (nineteen years ago)

It seems only polite, but it's not always possible, if you're experiencing an immediate critical error - or, for instance, if it's the middle of the night!

You should *never* rely on Autosave. We don't even have it any more, since we've been citrixed.

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Friday, 27 October 2006 08:56 (nineteen years ago)

It maybe the Terminal services thing that is causing autosave not to work.

The reason given for killing everyone's sessions was not because any work was going on on the servers it was simply because it is not best practice to leave sessions running but disconnected. Which may well be true. But that's no reason to log in without warning and kill everyone's sessions.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 27 October 2006 09:00 (nineteen years ago)

Well, you've learned your lesson this time, I hope!

I don't even get up and go to the loo without saving, let alone get up and go home!

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Friday, 27 October 2006 09:03 (nineteen years ago)

Oh my lord, Prince Charles is on MSF!

http://images.mysinglefriend.com/85000/68215-80294.jpg

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Friday, 27 October 2006 09:05 (nineteen years ago)

yay friday and it feels like saturday! i am babysitting, it is awesome fun. i just spent twenty minutes smearing banana all over his face and now i am covered in snot. yippee!

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 27 October 2006 09:15 (nineteen years ago)

... and that's just the father, you haven't been introduced tho his child yet BOOM! BOOM!

― The sun sets on twelve tons of pickled onions. A dynasty is dying... (Dada), Friday, 27 October 2006 09:17 (nineteen years ago)

I just got through three tutorials; feel like I was sleep-walking through them. There is something nice about having figured out how to structure a tutorial so that you can do them with only 1/5 of your brain actually functioning. (That said, I HATE "The Rape of the Lock").

― g00blar (gooblar), Friday, 27 October 2006 09:46 (nineteen years ago)

pope is pretty good whilst reading and then pretty goddamn forgettable when the book's closed.

his rhyming couplets are pretty elegant, though, it has to be said.

― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Friday, 27 October 2006 09:48 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I guess. I just hate the tone, the

― g00blar (gooblar), Friday, 27 October 2006 09:51 (nineteen years ago)

[It's official, I'm officially asleep]

...the the the queen in Pope, the bitchiness and the detached amusement.

― g00blar (gooblar), Friday, 27 October 2006 09:52 (nineteen years ago)

[That's right, I said 'official' twice in one sentence. Need Nap Now. Stop posting G00blar.]

― g00blar (gooblar), Friday, 27 October 2006 09:53 (nineteen years ago)

I need tea. I ran out yesterday and forgot to buy more on the way home. Coffee is too harsh for me now. :-(

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Friday, 27 October 2006 09:58 (nineteen years ago)

Halumi or egg mayo? Anyone? I might not actually be in the mood for squeaky cheese.

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Friday, 27 October 2006 10:25 (nineteen years ago)

God, I'm even boring myself today.

At least I've got a new project now. ...from the woman who *never* approves my old projects. So it's going to hang around for years. Bah. Argh, in fact, one third of it is dependent on the thing she hasn't approved yet.

::beats head against desk::

Actually, that's it. I wont' do the new one until the old one is approved. End of story.

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Friday, 27 October 2006 10:39 (nineteen years ago)

I have to read the new Stephen King for work. What do we think of Stephen King? I've never read any of his stuff.

― === temporary username === (Mark C), Friday, 27 October 2006 11:22 (nineteen years ago)

Amusing trash, airport reading. I went through a bit of a phase for him, but it was a long time ago.

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Friday, 27 October 2006 11:24 (nineteen years ago)

Some of his biographical stuff is quite interesting (On Writing). He went through a stage of extreme drug use but continued to write, and now claims he can't remember anything about Christine, Cujo, etc.

Which is interesting because neither can I. Cujo was a big haunted car I think and Christine was a demented bitch.

― angle of d... (tingo), Friday, 27 October 2006 11:48 (nineteen years ago)

He's one of the few writers where movie adaptations actuall make his books seem better. Carrie being a prime example - it was a great horror film - but then I went back and read the book and got even more creeped out.

I wish I could remember more about them, but I was reading them in, like, middle school.

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Friday, 27 October 2006 11:51 (nineteen years ago)

I had the same experience ((tv)movie, then book) with The Stand, I think. That was the one that got made into a big u.s. tv movie in the early nineties, right?

And wasn't cujo a dog, and Christine a car?

― g00blar (gooblar), Friday, 27 October 2006 11:53 (nineteen years ago)

Wasn't Cujo a dog?

(me never having read any)

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 27 October 2006 11:53 (nineteen years ago)

Wasn't Cujo a dog? *ducks*

― The sun sets on twelve tons of pickled onions. A dynasty is dying... (Dada), Friday, 27 October 2006 11:54 (nineteen years ago)

Cujo was the dog, Christine the car I think. I read a bunch of them in the Cyprus College of Art when Jill was a student there. One of the lecturers pointed out that the students would fall upon all the "arty" type books in the college library, but everyone wound up reading all the Stephen King books in the end. I remember "Christine" being actually pretty scary, "Pet Semetary" being the best of them, but really depressing. I've never felt any desire to read anymore of his books since then though.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 27 October 2006 12:00 (nineteen years ago)

I've read a fair amount of King's books over the years. Some of his stuff is just enjoyable airport reading, but occasionally he produces something a bit more interesting than that.
My personal favourite of his books is IT, which is largely nonsense in terms of plot, but also manages to have the best depiction of pre-teen childhood in 50's New England that I've ever read. Not that I've ever been to New England or was alive in the 1950s.

― treefell (treefell), Friday, 27 October 2006 12:11 (nineteen years ago)

Having considered this carefully, I think I'm right in saying that Cujo was a dog.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 27 October 2006 12:13 (nineteen years ago)

Actually great Stephen King stuff:

1) Short story collections, EG Skeleton Crew.
2) The four Richard Bachman stories, particularly The Long Walk.
3) The Dark Tower series, which starts out like a slightly strange post-apocalyptic western and goes completely off the rails in the second book and onwards. It's great at conveying the sense of the tower of the title as something that draws the characters onwards for reasons they know not of. Also conveying that this tower weighs heavily in the mind of the author - a few years ago he sat down to finish the series as a priority, because it had started leaking into every other book he tried to write - it's actually a similar obsession as you'd see in Lovecraft, though obviously better-written.

He is (or was) filming more and more of his books as tv miniseries, including remaking The Shining because the movie didn't quite capture what he was going for.

"If you wrote something for which someone sent you a check, if you cashed the check and it didn't bounce, and if you then paid the light bill with the money, I consider you talented"

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 27 October 2006 12:37 (nineteen years ago)

ARGH ARGH ARGH, CNUT CNUT, ARGH ARGH, I HATE HIM, WHAT A FUCKING EVIL HORRIBLE ARSEHOLE OF A CNUT, WHY DON'T YOU JUST FUCKING DIE ALREADY, JUST FUCKING KILL YOURSELF AND PUT ALL OF US OUT OF YOUR MISERY, EVEN WHEN YOU'RE "HAPPY" YOU'RE A SNARLING VICIOUS MYSOGYNIST HYPOCRITE OF A TROGLODYTE, JUST FUCKING DIE DIE DIE.

Sorry, not directed to anyone in here, I'm just blowing off some steam. Never mind me.

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Friday, 27 October 2006 12:53 (nineteen years ago)

Follow the light, Fluffy, follow the light...

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b132/mel_face/lightonben.jpg

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Friday, 27 October 2006 12:54 (nineteen years ago)

My word, I didn't think you disliked King THAT much ;)

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Friday, 27 October 2006 12:55 (nineteen years ago)

I had the carrot cake again. :-/

It makes me a bit irrational. No, it doesn't. It just removes the "think before speaking and/or typing" filters about the things I think all the time.

Anyway, as we were saying... Stephen King? I forgot he wrote The Shining.

God, is he, like, the most adapted modern novelist, seconded only by Crichton?

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Friday, 27 October 2006 13:03 (nineteen years ago)

Grisham must be up there somewhere.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 27 October 2006 13:04 (nineteen years ago)

Oh I imagine he's way in the lead. Shining twice, the Stand, The Green Mile, The Shawshank Redemption, Carrie, The Dead Zone, The Running Man, The Lawnmower Man, Stand By Me, It, plus a billlllion short stories because he only changes a dollar for them.

http://uk.imdb.com/name/nm0000175/

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 27 October 2006 13:08 (nineteen years ago)

Actually great Stephen King stuff:

1) Short story collections, EG Skeleton Crew.
2) The four Richard Bachman stories, particularly The Long Walk.
3) The Dark Tower series

OTM, I'd maybe add 4) The Stand

I stopped reading the Dark Tower series after book 4 for some reason but spotted 5 and 6 in a bargain bin the other week so I've just picked up where I left off. There's a great otherness about it - a strange mixture of horror, fantasy, cyberpunk and boy's own adventure that shouldn't work but does. It's a shame he feels the need to be so self referential in them.

What I've read of the rest is mostly fairly okay as far as bestseller horror trash goes.

Cujo was definitely a dog. Hundreds of pages of people in a car with a mad dog outside it and FUCK ALL HAPPENING - and they made a movie of it!

― ONIMO's pet donkey jacket potato (GerryNemo), Friday, 27 October 2006 13:10 (nineteen years ago)

The Long Walk is by far his best work.

― ONIMO's pet donkey jacket potato (GerryNemo), Friday, 27 October 2006 13:11 (nineteen years ago)

Grisham only has 14 adaptations listed. Crichton 28. While King has OVER ONE HUNDRED MOVIES!!!

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Friday, 27 October 2006 13:12 (nineteen years ago)

Cujo was definitely a dog. Hundreds of pages of people in a car with a mad dog outside it and FUCK ALL HAPPENING - and they made a movie of it!

If the Cujo was a dog, then was the car the people were inside, Christine?

― The sun sets on twelve tons of pickled onions. A dynasty is dying... (Dada), Friday, 27 October 2006 13:13 (nineteen years ago)

Just out of interest, as interesting as this is, why aren't we discussing Stephen King on a stephen king thread?

― Ed (dali), Friday, 27 October 2006 13:13 (nineteen years ago)

Errr... because I'm too bored and ILX-tired to go and revive one?

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Friday, 27 October 2006 13:14 (nineteen years ago)

I blame Mark C. He is a bad mang.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 27 October 2006 13:14 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry... Dronerock! Pointy noses! Boots! Sea Captains! And Shanties! Back on topic?

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Friday, 27 October 2006 13:15 (nineteen years ago)

Didn't Cujo have a pointy nose?

― The sun sets on twelve tons of pickled onions. A dynasty is dying... (Dada), Friday, 27 October 2006 13:16 (nineteen years ago)

No, Cujo was a St.Bernard - they don't have pointed noses at all, they have kind of blunt noses.

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Friday, 27 October 2006 13:18 (nineteen years ago)

Did he have RUM?

― ONIMO's pet donkey jacket potato (GerryNemo), Friday, 27 October 2006 13:22 (nineteen years ago)

He was a bad St. Bernard, not a good one

― The sun sets on twelve tons of pickled onions. A dynasty is dying... (Dada), Friday, 27 October 2006 13:23 (nineteen years ago)

St Bernards carry BRANDY not RUM. Fool.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 27 October 2006 13:24 (nineteen years ago)

What would be a St.Bernard of the sea? A dolphin with a barrel of rum around its neck?

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Friday, 27 October 2006 13:24 (nineteen years ago)

Wow I thought Cujo was an evil dog? I can't imagine a St Bernard being evil somehow. Did he drink his brandy stock and become a mean drunk?

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 27 October 2006 13:25 (nineteen years ago)

So he caught the bad rabies?

― ONIMO's pet donkey jacket potato (GerryNemo), Friday, 27 October 2006 13:26 (nineteen years ago)

Not even seagoing St. Bernards? To get back on Kate's track.

― The sun sets on twelve tons of pickled onions. A dynasty is dying... (Dada), Friday, 27 October 2006 13:26 (nineteen years ago)

Oops multi xpost!

― The sun sets on twelve tons of pickled onions. A dynasty is dying... (Dada), Friday, 27 October 2006 13:26 (nineteen years ago)

Bad Bernard:

http://www.fantasfilm.com/image/x-cujo-jj.jpg

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Friday, 27 October 2006 13:27 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe a mountain rescue went bad and it left him bitter, twisted and full of self-loathing

― The sun sets on twelve tons of pickled onions. A dynasty is dying... (Dada), Friday, 27 October 2006 13:28 (nineteen years ago)

The wee Cujo pic in the middle of his name doesn't look scary at all. He looks quite sweet really (I realise this is where the horror comes from).

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 27 October 2006 13:31 (nineteen years ago)

I blame the ~~rum brandy~~ gin.

― ONIMO's pet donkey jacket potato (GerryNemo), Friday, 27 October 2006 13:31 (nineteen years ago)

BAN THE GIN BAN THE GIN BAN THE GIN!!!

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Friday, 27 October 2006 13:33 (nineteen years ago)

Good bernard

http://www.channel4.com/entertainment/tv/microsites/B/blackbooks/images/dylanmoran.gif

― Ed (dali), Friday, 27 October 2006 13:33 (nineteen years ago)

Hari posted a YSI of his mp3 in this thread Robotville feat. Cadence Weapon - Kick Out The Snow

So you can let him know what you think.

My cold isn't any better today. I should go back to bed really.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 27 October 2006 13:35 (nineteen years ago)

Bernard & Bernard
http://www.stuart.cann.freeuk.com/images/bernie_winters.jpg

― ONIMO's pet donkey jacket potato (GerryNemo), Friday, 27 October 2006 13:35 (nineteen years ago)

Awww, Bernard Black! The British Librarian views him as his personal hero.

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Friday, 27 October 2006 13:38 (nineteen years ago)

The one with the talent is on the right (xpost)

― The sun sets on twelve tons of pickled onions. A dynasty is dying... (Dada), Friday, 27 October 2006 13:40 (nineteen years ago)

Morning. I love me Roxy Music I do. I also love parties and wine tasting, which seems appropriate (both activities to be occuring over the weekend).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 27 October 2006 13:42 (nineteen years ago)

So was Cujo a dog or not, what do you think Ned?

― The sun sets on twelve tons of pickled onions. A dynasty is dying... (Dada), Friday, 27 October 2006 13:42 (nineteen years ago)

x-post, hi, Kerr. Too bad you're still feeling rub. Eat loads of garlic. And drink some lemsips or something.

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Friday, 27 October 2006 13:43 (nineteen years ago)

So was Cujo a dog or not, what do you think Ned?

He was a Hello Kitty-style dog crossed with Cthulhu. The bastard.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 27 October 2006 13:45 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.hello-cthulhu.com/images/comics/en/001.gif

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Friday, 27 October 2006 13:51 (nineteen years ago)

I bet you Cujo wasn't as good as that

― The sun sets on twelve tons of pickled onions. A dynasty is dying... (Dada), Friday, 27 October 2006 13:53 (nineteen years ago)

Hooray!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 27 October 2006 13:53 (nineteen years ago)

The devil's interval album was waiting for me at home. It's rather good.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 27 October 2006 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

That was quick!

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Friday, 27 October 2006 15:53 (nineteen years ago)

Their label, wild goose, seems to be pretty good at turning orders around.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 27 October 2006 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

check your mail in three minutes.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 27 October 2006 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

OK... I will wait to go home, then.

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Friday, 27 October 2006 16:00 (nineteen years ago)

Argh, Ed, M4A files! I cannot read those. :-(

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Friday, 27 October 2006 16:12 (nineteen years ago)

Ah well, I'll take 'em home and see what iTunes makes of them.

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Friday, 27 October 2006 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

iTunes will make good of them

― Ed (dali), Friday, 27 October 2006 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

Good morning, kids. First snow here in Moscow today. Perhaps I will post pictures when I get home this evening, if I spot anything particularly magical-looking (so far, looking like a heavily frosted... mmm, donut).

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Monday, 30 October 2006 08:23 (nineteen years ago)

Good Morning Watercooler!

Well, that was an interesting weekend. I'm still not sure who I am and what I'm doing, but I'm always learning.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 30 October 2006 08:58 (nineteen years ago)

Good morning. King Lear and fielding student complaints about the essays I've just handed back are on the ledger today.

― g00blar (gooblar), Monday, 30 October 2006 09:21 (nineteen years ago)

SNOOOOOOOOOOW! you jammy bugger mitya :( i wants snow, and i'm not gonna get any. it is a GORGEOUS day though, bright blue and crispy. like yesterday. yesterday afternoon we were lounging around in t-shirts, sort of cool but sort of not. also there is a GIANT PIG in battersea park that i can't find any pictures of.

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 30 October 2006 09:21 (nineteen years ago)

Saturday seemed strangely warm, I thought. Although it was grey and overcast, it was still t-shirt weather in central London.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 30 October 2006 09:27 (nineteen years ago)

Although I love autumn sunshine, it is scarily warm for the end of October today.

I discovered a local miniature railway that I never knew existed yesterday (unfortunately it's not running in the winter but we did see a man doing some important looking welding by the tracks, which was exciting.)

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 30 October 2006 09:29 (nineteen years ago)

Ooh, what gauge is it? </geek>

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 30 October 2006 09:31 (nineteen years ago)

Errr...

http://www.hoveparkrailway.co.uk/

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 30 October 2006 09:38 (nineteen years ago)

Ooh thanks.

Although the website is a bit rubbish - it doesn't even answer the question, other than mentioning some 5" gauge engines.

I remember going to the Engineerium when I was very small, but don't remember anything about it.

We have a minature railway in our village. Its track could do with some welding - I've seen things come off on plain track, which really isn't good.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 30 October 2006 09:47 (nineteen years ago)

What I did on Saturday night:

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b379/Vietgrove/Leeds%20UK%20Oct%2028%2006/yorkshireoct06013.jpg

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 30 October 2006 10:07 (nineteen years ago)

What I did on Saturday night: went home and slept.

Saturday daytime was interesting, though. If, seven days before, you'd told me that I would end up kneeling at someone else's feet, whilst waiting for a bus in Trafalgar Square, I'd definitely have been sceptical.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 30 October 2006 10:11 (nineteen years ago)

You're wanting someone to ask, aren't you?

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 30 October 2006 10:12 (nineteen years ago)

DNFTFP

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 30 October 2006 10:13 (nineteen years ago)

Nah, not really Ailsa.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 30 October 2006 10:20 (nineteen years ago)

Morning all. Good weekend, making progress with the mandolin, greater fluency with my scale playing. I may be able to play a tune any day now. I have bruises on the ends of my fingers.

I found thisw great online tutorial site all kinds of folk instruments, different style of playing to the mandolin book, all good.

I am a fool for being too hung over to remember my camera for Battersea power station yesterday. I think I'm going to have to go back on saturday.

oh and , Kate, Russki microphones

― Ed (dali), Monday, 30 October 2006 10:24 (nineteen years ago)

Do you have to develop calluses for the best mandolin-playing, or would they be a hindrance?

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 30 October 2006 10:25 (nineteen years ago)

I'm hoping for help rather than hindrance.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 30 October 2006 10:26 (nineteen years ago)

Morning all. I had a lovely weekend which involved a trip to Bognor, a pub lunch, losing at poker, winning at poker, carving a pumpkin, cooking and snuggling. Once again I'm gutted it's over, but this week I am TURNING OVER A NEW LEAF with regards to my diet, my work productivity and, uh, just being a grown up in general.

FP, I want to know what you were doing on Saturday. For some reason I thought you leaned towards being the dominant one but maybe my pervdar isn't working properly ;)

― === temporary username === (Mark C), Monday, 30 October 2006 10:53 (nineteen years ago)

I remember months ago when FP was woe-ing his lack of a social life. Now he's kneeling at people's feet.

Is a "jammy bugger" a good thing?

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Monday, 30 October 2006 10:53 (nineteen years ago)

It's a curse.

I am a switch Mark - in other words, it depends who I'm with.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 30 October 2006 10:56 (nineteen years ago)

has kate sworn off the internet, or is she just away today/this week?

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Monday, 30 October 2006 11:03 (nineteen years ago)

Heh, "pervdar".

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 30 October 2006 11:07 (nineteen years ago)

Kate is often not in the office, and thus on the internet, before 11.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 30 October 2006 11:10 (nineteen years ago)

FFS, why will the internet not just tell me what firework displays I can take my friends to in Brighton this weekend? I don't normally need to know because I go to Lewes, but I'm not risking getting my increasingly massive bump crushed by the (also increasingly massive) mob this year.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 30 October 2006 11:17 (nineteen years ago)

What are they burning in Lewes this year? Didn't they change it from the Pope a while back?

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 30 October 2006 11:29 (nineteen years ago)

a jammy bugger is a good thing if you are it, yes.

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 30 October 2006 11:33 (nineteen years ago)

Seriously, it's weird. All of a sudden, people are interested in me. And I don't understand why. Have I been getting out more? Or have I just gained the ability to realise when people are interested?

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 30 October 2006 11:38 (nineteen years ago)

Each bonfire society has a different effigy, so although there are a few popes thrown in you usually get various topical figures as well. Don't know what's getting the goat of the good people of Lewes this year yet though.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 30 October 2006 11:46 (nineteen years ago)

for londoners - the vivky park one looks good again this year: http://www.viewlondon.co.uk/victoria-park-fireworks-display_index.html

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 30 October 2006 11:48 (nineteen years ago)

i expect to be kneeling at someones feet again tonight, like last monday

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 30 October 2006 12:02 (nineteen years ago)

new career in chiropody, ken?

― Ed (dali), Monday, 30 October 2006 12:04 (nineteen years ago)

good try but not what we're looking for!

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 30 October 2006 12:07 (nineteen years ago)

(a superstar goalkeeper, yo! :))

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 30 October 2006 12:09 (nineteen years ago)

Ah, it's the older gigolo career then.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 30 October 2006 12:09 (nineteen years ago)

FP, maybe it's just how random distribution works - it's the "three buses at once thing". Also, you really do cover all the bases with your preferences, don't you :)

― === temporary username === (Mark C), Monday, 30 October 2006 12:10 (nineteen years ago)

Sigh.

Sorry, I've been waiting for the doctor all morning, and then waiting for the pharmacist all afternoon. Bloody inconsiderate bugger, depression, appearing right in the midst of flu season.

I've got my meds upped, and been referred to a psychiatrist for meds review. The same place I was sent for CBT. Have to be more forceful this time, with the "I do NOT want more bloody talk therapy!" insistence.

Anyway, yeah. I had a nice weekend. Friday I watched Letter to Brezhnev (and thought of Mitya), Saturday I took the 57 all the way out to Kingston to see what I could see, and ended up having a nice walk all around Hampton Court Palace (with STAGS and all) and then yesterday I went to Battersea Power Station. Which was, understandably GRATE.

I feel a bit weird and groggy now, with the extra meds, but I'm sure it will wear off soon.

Pash, are you summoning the Mothership there? Looks excellent, whatever it is.

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Monday, 30 October 2006 12:28 (nineteen years ago)

A couple more:

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b379/Vietgrove/Leeds%20UK%20Oct%2028%2006/yorkshireoct06023.jpg
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b379/Vietgrove/Leeds%20UK%20Oct%2028%2006/yorkshireoct06021.jpg

It was a completely improv electronic music set, 45m. We ran out of ideas I guess about 35m in. It was great fun.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 30 October 2006 12:35 (nineteen years ago)

That's a polite way to put it, Mark!

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 30 October 2006 12:52 (nineteen years ago)

oo-er

― ONIMO's pet donkey jacket potato (GerryNemo), Monday, 30 October 2006 13:08 (nineteen years ago)

NP Stereolab. This week is "Stereolab week" God, I (heart) Stereolab.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 30 October 2006 13:27 (nineteen years ago)

Bah. I feel quite bleurgh.

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Monday, 30 October 2006 13:50 (nineteen years ago)

Why am I always so sleepy after lunch? It never used to be this bad.

So Kaet (or Pash or g00b or whoever), I wanted to ask if you have ever done one of those Todd Rundgen-like "I will recreate every note in a song by one of my influences" things? I was being uplifted this morning while listening to "Just One Victory" off of whichever album that is and thought, "Ooh must add this to my mental set list for imaginary Shimuras cover set." There's a nice wall of sound-y outro that you could deploy effects all over.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Monday, 30 October 2006 14:02 (nineteen years ago)

Our only cover is on our MySpace right now.

It's not note for note, though, it's quite Shimurafied. If I love a song enough to cover it, I'm not really interested in taking it to pieces and reassembling it perfectly. I'd rather take it to pieces note by note and put it back together slightly differently.

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Monday, 30 October 2006 14:04 (nineteen years ago)

Kate, what was the song that you knew all the words to at the folk club last week, I keep meaning to ask you and forgetting I feel I need to learn it.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 30 October 2006 14:06 (nineteen years ago)

"Traits" (or is it "Personality Traits"?) by Robyn Hitchcock.

Uncorrected personality traits
That seem whimsical in a child
May prove to be ugly in
A fully grown adult

Lack of involvement with the father
Or over-involvement with the mother
Can result in lack of ability
To relate to sexual peers

And in homosexual leanings
Narcissism, transsexuality --
Girls from the waist up
Men from the waist down --
Attempts to be your own love object
Reconcile your parents to you
By becoming both at once

Even Marilyn Monroe was a man
But this tends to get over looked
By our mother-fixated
Overweight, sexist media

So, uncorrected personality traits
That seem whimsical in a child
May prove to be ugly in
A fully grown adult

If you give in to them
Every time they cry
They will become little tyrants
But they won't remember why
Then when they are thwarted
By people in later life
They will become psychotic
And they won't make an ideal husband or wife

The spoiled baby grows into
The escapist teenager who's
The adult alchoholic who's
The middle-aged suicide

Oi!
So

Uncorrected personality traits
That seem whimsical in a child
May prove to be ugly in
A fully grown adult

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Monday, 30 October 2006 14:10 (nineteen years ago)

thank you

― Ed (dali), Monday, 30 October 2006 14:22 (nineteen years ago)

ARgh, I just lost connection to the server. Fortunately, I may have only lost half an hour's work... bah. After all my lecturing on not relying on autosaving... :-(

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Monday, 30 October 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

haha, msf is hilarious, i love how in the little comments box meant for you to respond after your mate has done your write-up, people all come over really self-conscious - i can't help picturing them in front of a velvet curtain in an ill-fitting suit, taking the mic from their friend, brushing the crumbs off their front and going "er, thanks pete, thanks for that. and now er... i suppose i should add something to that. what more can i say though, eh? enough about me well, i'm looking for a nice girl, with er... all her own er... teeth, and um, well, just a nice girl, someone to curl up on the sofa with really" which is ALL THEY ALL SEEM TO WANT. do you never leave your sofas, 27 to 38-year-old-men of london?

i didn't do that response to an imagined "...and now over to you!" thing. i wonder if i should have. k8, you didn't either, right?

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 30 October 2006 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

do you never leave your sofas, 27 to 38-year-old-men of london?

It's cold and they are sleepy. Silly sods. (Hullo all!)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 30 October 2006 16:11 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know as I am now a girl (apparently).

― Ed (dali), Monday, 30 October 2006 16:12 (nineteen years ago)

No, I didn't do it as a response, more like an addendum of things I wanted to clarify.

Have you put yours online yet? Maybe that means that mine will finally start turning up in searches or whatevs.

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Monday, 30 October 2006 16:19 (nineteen years ago)

hi ned!

how are you a GURL, ed?

yeh kate, i think that's the more natural-seeming way to do it.

i've put mine in but it's not up as the photo's not been approved yet. maybe they thought it was shit?

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 30 October 2006 16:21 (nineteen years ago)

No, it takes a day for them to look at your photo and make sure you're not nekkid or anything in it.

There, I finally come up in a search - page 14.

God, it's so depressing to look through page after page of these perfect, perfectly pretty girls before you come to my mug. I think I'm going to change my photo. :-(

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Monday, 30 October 2006 16:22 (nineteen years ago)

I was accused of be a girl yesterday for drink wine whilst you lot were tucking into pints.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 30 October 2006 16:23 (nineteen years ago)

hi ned!

Hullo hullo! Am listening to early live Mekons. They are wonderfully crabby.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 30 October 2006 16:25 (nineteen years ago)

haha kate dude, don't be depressed by them - they are all IDENTICAL and all sound HELLISH - "lorraine is the life and soul of the party!!, a great gal, even if she does sometimes have one or to two many g' and T's!!! If u c what i mean Fellas. !!"

honestly. i think they should grade them by, i dunno, spelling or something.

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 30 October 2006 16:30 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, I was distinctly unimpressed by the ranks of clones on msf. I only foun one interesting person in a cursory search and I already know her.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 30 October 2006 16:31 (nineteen years ago)

she does sometimes have one or to two many g' and T's!!! If u c what i mean Fellas. !

Good god.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 30 October 2006 16:31 (nineteen years ago)

I really need to replace this keyboard at work. It has clearly been designed for pixies or some such. I can't help but mistype on it.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 30 October 2006 16:32 (nineteen years ago)

I was thinking I should change my photo to look less like a clone.

Because I must confess, I don't read someone's profile unless their photo looks interesting. And I'm sure the meng are even shallower.

Ha ha, I had forgotten Ed being a big girly girl. Well, served him right with the price of that wine. (I was expecting the honeydew to be more expensive, but it was only (only!) 2.95 - but you know what I mean at that place.)

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Monday, 30 October 2006 16:34 (nineteen years ago)

seriously, spend ten minutes reading through it! first it's amusing, then it's just THE AWFUL BLANK REPETITIVE IDENTICAL BRAINLESS POINTLESSNESS OF MOST PEOPLE'S LIVES. argh. having said that, i just found two very eligible meng on there, but i think they both eat meat. perhaps it's good that most of them are so appalling - it really makes the good ones stand out.

xxpost

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 30 October 2006 16:38 (nineteen years ago)

I was listening to Early Mekons, Where were you?

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 30 October 2006 16:38 (nineteen years ago)

Look, I *KNOW* - I've read the mens'. "Blah blah, John has been my best mate since I was 10, he's into X Football team, and is eligible, ladies..."

Problem is, the women would depress me even more, I think. Make me realise what a freak I really am. But it's like the pingpong balls and the monkeys - most men are looking for a pingpong ball, and it doesn't matter what they are like, so long as they like the picture.

Blargh.

OK, I have to go on a date this weekend. He beat the bounds of Hackney for fun. I take busses just to find out where they go. He might be a monkey. But there's got to be something wrong with him for wanting to go on a date with me.

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Monday, 30 October 2006 16:42 (nineteen years ago)

Look, I *KNOW*

i was talking to ned! and you don't want most men anyway!

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 30 October 2006 16:50 (nineteen years ago)

I wanted to ask if you have ever done one of those Todd Rundgen-like "I will recreate every note in a song by one of my influences" things?

Usually no, but we're actually sort of doing that right now. We're working up a cover of Sloan's "Money City Maniacs", 'cause it's totally roXor, and I get to shout and holler like a real frontman. Our drummer suggested that, because the song's so absurdly well-constructed on the record, we should first try to play it exactly like Sloan do...and then maybe fuck with it and make it 'ours'. I'm actually liking the process--I think it'll allow us to make it our own naturally, or obliquely I guess (mostly because we're not the best musicians), instead of being all like "What would a g00blar version of "MCM" sound like?" which would probably just involve adding a Motown bassline.

He beat the bounds of Hackney for fun

― g00blar (gooblar), Monday, 30 October 2006 16:51 (nineteen years ago)

Which one is that, "But the joke is, when he awoke his, body was covered in goatsfizz..." ?

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Monday, 30 October 2006 16:54 (nineteen years ago)

i was talking to ned! and you don't want most men anyway!

That's true, I don't!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 30 October 2006 16:54 (nineteen years ago)

yes, but "coke fizz" xpost

― g00blar (gooblar), Monday, 30 October 2006 16:56 (nineteen years ago)

Goats are always funnier than coke.

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Monday, 30 October 2006 16:58 (nineteen years ago)

Regardless, I'm singing the high harmony on the chorus, so the audience is going to be more concerned with shielding their ears from imminent peril than parsing the lyrics.

― g00blar (gooblar), Monday, 30 October 2006 17:00 (nineteen years ago)

Popjustice tells me today that 1 in 3 people have slept with someone they've met on the internet. Hm... Maybe I should investigate this internet dating thing.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Monday, 30 October 2006 17:13 (nineteen years ago)

I've slept with people I met throught the interweb. (I think? Yes, I have.) But never slept with anyone I met through interweb dating.

Weird that.

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Monday, 30 October 2006 17:16 (nineteen years ago)

...so I've really no idea why I'm doing it again. :-(

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Monday, 30 October 2006 17:17 (nineteen years ago)

I've kissed someone I met on the internet, a long long time ago before I met my husband, but I've never slept with anyone I met on the internet.

A lot of people I know have slept with people they met on the internet. Probably because most of my friends are people off the internet and this is how we do stuff.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 30 October 2006 17:20 (nineteen years ago)

Thing is, thinking of those people, they were blokes I met through mailing lists or message boards of bands I loved.

1) I don't think there's any bands any more that I love enough to spend that much time on their fan community

2) The interweb (at least the musical side of it) is all kids these days anyway, innit?

Ten years ago, the interweb was my age, i.e. mid 20s. Now the interweb seems to be 15, 20 years younger than me. How did that happen?

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Monday, 30 October 2006 17:27 (nineteen years ago)

I've slept with (counts on fingers) 3 people I met on the internet. Some of you have met one of them.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 30 October 2006 19:28 (nineteen years ago)

Why am I hung over from three guiness?

― g00blar (gooblar), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 09:07 (nineteen years ago)

guinness, I suppose.

― g00blar (gooblar), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 09:07 (nineteen years ago)

guinnii

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 09:10 (nineteen years ago)

guennui?

― g00blar (gooblar), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 09:13 (nineteen years ago)

"guinnii" sounds like some sort of plant.

Someone told me recently that if you put a few spoonfuls of the right sort of instant coffee into a pint of guinness, it will foam up more - but the foam will be so stiff that when it reaches the lip of the glass, it doesn't spill, just keeps going upwards in a column.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 09:18 (nineteen years ago)

What a waste of a good pint :-/

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 09:19 (nineteen years ago)

GOd, I'm so shaken. Some woman just HIT ME upside the head on the bus.

She was quite well dressed, too, it wasn't like she was a crazy lady. I suppose it's mine own fault for getting involved, but she was shouting in my ear.

She was sitting on the aisle seat, and another girl was trying to get into the window - she wouldn't move, so the girl had to climb over her to get into it, and the bus lurched, so the girl kind of hit her. Girl apologised, but this lady would not give it a rest, she just kept shouting at her (directly in my ear, as I was in front of them).

I turned around to kind of give her that disapproving STFU glance, and she starts in on me, so I told her "She apologised, give it a rest" and as the girl has put her headphones on, she starts SCREAMING at me, telling me OHMIGOD, YOU ARE A RACIST, YOU WOULD NEVER BE COMPLAINING IF I WASN'T BLACK. To which I told her "that's lazy and absurd, I'm complaining because you're shouting in my ear". I tried to zone out and just ignore her, as she's railing away. THe bus driver is making "calm down back there" announcements so I be quiet. But I get off the bus at the next stop, and she's glaring at me and clucking her tongue and starts making comments, so I just told her as I passed "you wanna do something about that anger problem of yours, have a nice day" - so she got up and she HIT ME, quite hard, enough to make my ear ring, upside the head and starts screaming again.

I threatened to call the police but that just starts her up again, and the whole bus is staring now, and she's screaming about racism again, so I started to get off the bus, quite shaken.

Don't know what came over, I was so shocked and in pain, so I spat back at her, big gobby spit all over the place, just before the doors closed.

Jesus Christ. :-(

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 10:08 (nineteen years ago)

I should have called the police.

But then everybody else on the bus would have been inconvenienced and hate me. :-(

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 10:12 (nineteen years ago)

eek, that's awful

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 10:18 (nineteen years ago)

Oh geez; I bet you're shaken. wtf?

― g00blar (gooblar), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 10:26 (nineteen years ago)

Oh my god, horrible! :(

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 10:27 (nineteen years ago)

I know with people like that (hey, I've been the crazy shouting lady on the bus before, though I've never actually *hit* anyone) that it's not about you, it's totally about what's going on in their head.

I shouldn't have got involved, and hey, I know this is what happens if you get involved, but I just don't want to be the English bystander on the bus that does nothing. :-(

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 10:34 (nineteen years ago)

i don't have that problem because i'd be the chinese bystander who does nothing lol.

it's terrible that she hit you though, you should have shouted at her and called her racist and said if you weren't white she wouldn't have hit you etc.

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 10:59 (nineteen years ago)

I admire that you did get involved kate. Hope the trauma doesn't stay with you too long though.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 11:02 (nineteen years ago)

"Involved" = participating in a shouting match. I don't think I did any good. In fact, I probably made things worse for the girl who was still sitting next to the Crazy Lady when I got off. :-(

Crazy Lady was just looking for a fight. I'm sorry that I ended up being the person who gratified her anger. Doesn't help anyone.

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 11:05 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, sorry, Kate you should have called the police or at least the bus driver. And "getting involved" is a laudable, although this probably wasn't the best opportunity to take up.

In your honor I will hit someone here upside the head when I take the metro home tonight ;)

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 11:24 (nineteen years ago)

Bus drivers in London won't stop or call the police for *anything*.

I've intercepted an attempted mugging (yeah, that was another "you're just saying that coz you're RACIST!!!" moment - no, I'm saying that becuase your HAND is in my POCKET) and the bus driver wouldn't stop or call the police.

People get freaking stabbed and murdered on the bus, and the drivers refuse to stop or call the police - as just happened on the 43 last year. :-(

This is when I hate living in London.

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 11:29 (nineteen years ago)

So here is Ben, in a cardigan, in the Texan heat, to cheer me up:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v327/breeweasley/TSM/dallas001.jpg

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 11:33 (nineteen years ago)

That's awful Kate. Bus drivers seem to live in fear of getting involved or being late or driving properly. I hate the lazy recourse to I'm black your white so any criticism of me is automatically racist schtick.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 11:36 (nineteen years ago)

Bullshit like this is why I don't use the bus anymore. I just want to go home/to work w/o getting my day ruined by hateful shitheads. If I didn't have a car, I'd use a bike.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 11:37 (nineteen years ago)

Bus drivers are not much different anywhere else.

Back in the day, when my wife was going to school, she ran for the bus but slipped and broke her leg. The bus driver jumped out, helped her to her feet, stood her next to a rail next to the bus stop, jumped back in the bus and carried on.

Eventually, someone took pity and contacted her parents/ambulance.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 11:38 (nineteen years ago)

Problem is, is this really within the remit of bus drivers' duties? It's hard enough, driving in Central London, keeping an eye on the traffic, without having to act as hall monitor/police for any crazies that get on your bus, as well.

I'm not excusing this inaction, in the case of broken legs and stabbings... but where is the line?

Why the hell did they get rid of conductors? Yeah, it always comes back to this. How on earth is a bus driver supposed to deal with 50 to 100 people *and* drive a bus? It's absurd to think they can. Especially with these ridiculously long bendybusses where the driver doesn't even check tickets, and is half a mile (exaggerated for comedy purposes) from some of the things going on on their own bus.

It's not fair that one disruptive person should affect the commute of the other 50-odd people that were on that bus. But how can you deal with situations like that? :-(

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 11:50 (nineteen years ago)

I've just booked tickets to go on holiday in january. I'm paying more than double the cost of flying to go by train. It wasn't easy either I had to book the two legs separately to get it down to that sort of price. We are going to hell by easyjet.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 11:52 (nineteen years ago)

Why are airplane flights so cheap? It's absurd! I am turning into a curmudgeon.

Anyway, here is some boilersuit pr0n:

http://www.misterfilms.com/benblue.JPG

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 11:56 (nineteen years ago)

I want to do the right thing, I want to use public transport and all that, but when they do nothing to stop it turning into an anarchic hellhole of apathy... :-(

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 11:59 (nineteen years ago)

Flights are cheap because the world is fucked up.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 12:05 (nineteen years ago)

Grr, everyday I look @ out myspace page and see that we've had another few myspace strumpet friend requests, and mark has just added them either w/o checking, or b/c he thinks they're hott. They always have like 318,027 friends or something, have no discernible connection to our music. WTF is the point. I just delete them. If I mention it to him, he just laughs about it.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 12:10 (nineteen years ago)

You are scaring me, Ed.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 12:11 (nineteen years ago)

That's why I have a personal MySpace and a band one. I'll add anyone to the band one, whoever they are. (unless it's obviously pr0nspam, or I see a nekkid or bikini clad girl in the icon - those get binned immediately.)

On the other one, if I don't know you - or if you spam my bulletins when I do add you - you are so out of there.

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 12:12 (nineteen years ago)

x-post - there's a reason Ed is upset. This shit is depressing:

The Stern Report

Like I said the other day my mum rang me, all in a flutter because she's only just discovered that the world is running out of oil. She's not that much in a flutter about climate change (even though she blood well should be) - but more that oil is running out and she won't be able to afford to heat her house.

And I'm kind of "DUH!" to her about it and a bit snide about the Kyoto protocol and talking about little things from windfarms to taking a train instead of a car and she's just going all Chicken Little going "It doesn't MATTER we're running out, oh noes!!!" - but it's like... lots of little things, and especailly the MORE PEOPLE we get doing the little things - will at least slow the process.

It's depressing, but the worst thing is that people get stuck in this kind of hole of "there's nothing we can doooooo!" and carry on driving their cars with only one person in, all over the place, and putting the heat up at night because the sodding DOG gets cold. :-(

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 12:17 (nineteen years ago)

OH GOD, THIS HAS RUINED MY WHOLE DAY, AND I HATE EVERYONE.

Bah, I am turning into the crazy lady on the bus. My friend left an interesting comment on my blog, about how I probably did her a favour, if she *was* looking for a fight, and a confrontation, that I did so in a way that didn't leave any bruises but still externalised her sense of persecution.

So now *I'm* feeling like the world is out to get me because some crazy lady hit me on the bus.

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 12:30 (nineteen years ago)

Kate you have your own little personality cult thread going here. The world doesn't hate you. There are disturbed people out there.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 13:18 (nineteen years ago)

... and most of em in London?

Hey all. My cold is finally starting to clear *fingers crossed*

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 14:01 (nineteen years ago)

OK, the girls from my office are booking a trip to THE BALLET!!! We are going to see the Nutcracker. Hurrah!

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 14:17 (nineteen years ago)

Did you get that ysi, kate?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, thanks. Need to upload it and listen to it.

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

It's even better than whats on the normal 1 cd version. They should just have brought it out as a double cd instead of a ltd 2 cd version.
People who buy the 1 cd version are missing out.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

I totally agree.

― Fascinatingly Blasphemous (gooblar), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

Grr, agreed to meet someone for dinner. I so rarely get out of here at a reasonable hour, and now I am sitting around the office waiting for them to call. Stupid friends.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

Happy day of dead things.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

Gargh, oh horrible thing in blog view, stop FUCKING WITH MINE BRANE!!!

http://myspace-334.vo.llnwd.net/01272/43/38/1272488334_m.gif

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

Argh

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 16:49 (nineteen years ago)

So that's what The Eraser videos would look like.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 16:50 (nineteen years ago)

Hello Ned. Hows sunny California?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

Looks like all the myspace users can't upload their fave music anymore
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6102276.stm

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 17:41 (nineteen years ago)

Morning all.

OK, I'm doing music for fireworks in a week's time. i need some good 80s rock monsters for fireworks, preferably with ridiculous hair.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 09:48 (nineteen years ago)

Morning. Happy new month (I bloody hope so).

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 09:50 (nineteen years ago)

It was cold this morning, at last. I could wear my fluffy slippers and wore a coat when I left the house. Maybe the leaves will start falling soon.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 09:51 (nineteen years ago)

The coldness has made me realise that the police STILL have my only winter coat, a mere TWO YEARS after I was mugged, and six months after the case was officially closed due to mugger being, er, dead. Ie. they can't possibly still need it as evidence. Think I will give them another call now...

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 10:23 (nineteen years ago)

Ed, This guy is kind of an ass (judging from past personal interactions), but he listens to all that stuff.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 10:27 (nineteen years ago)

I don't need to get in too deep into hair metal, i just need music for explosions.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 10:30 (nineteen years ago)

Although that link does remind me that some joan jett and billy idol wouldn't go a miss. Go down his top tracks and you start to get into some white power metal.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 10:34 (nineteen years ago)

KISS - both a recommendation and a useful acronym.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 10:47 (nineteen years ago)

Any particular tune?

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 10:49 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, I'm confused. I was just on the other board. Some poetry for this morning:

Good morning.
God, those Curtis Brothers are hottt. I had forgotten those photos. I think I shall listen to Now Here Is Nowhere first thing today, while I start the month end malarchy.

I am starting to feel much brighter. Though I lost the beautiful Edwardian chest of drawers at CB Antiques through acting too slow - someone bought it yesterday. :-(

I finished my Big Book Of Nothing today, which was very very good. And it ended with the most beautiful quote...

"We are the music makers
We are the dreamers of dreams
Wandering by lone sea-breakers
And sitting by desolate streams
World-losers and world-forsakers
On whom the pale moon gleams
Yet we are the movers and shakers
Of the world, forever, it seems"

That nearly made me cry on the train this morning, it is so beautiful.

-- masonic boom ([email protected]), November 1st, 2006. (kate) (later)

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I used that poem ('Ode' by Arthur O'Shaughnessy) for a eurythmy performance at school - here's the next two verses for you kate:
With wonderful deathless ditties
We build up the world's great cities,
And out of a fabulous story
We fashion an empire's glory:
One man with a dream, at pleasure,
Shall go forth and conquer a crown;
And three with a new song's measure
Can trample an empire down.

We, in the ages lying
In the buried past of the earth,
Built Nineveh with our sighing,
And Babel itself with our mirth;
And o'erthrew them with prophesying
To the old of the new world's worth;
For each age is a dream that is dying,
Or one that is coming to birth.

-- Pregarchel (arche...), November 1st, 2006. (later)

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 13:15 (nineteen years ago)

That just makes me shakey all over.

For each age is a dream that is dying,
Or one that is coming to birth.

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 13:16 (nineteen years ago)

half price guestlist for barn dancing on sunday, do you want to be on it?

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 14:06 (nineteen years ago)

Blimey, it's back.

Yes, please.

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 21:23 (nineteen years ago)

Monthend sure goes faster when ILX is down.

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 21:46 (nineteen years ago)

lol. morning kids!

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Thursday, 2 November 2006 08:46 (nineteen years ago)

yes please, and perhaps imelda and her bro?

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 2 November 2006 09:41 (nineteen years ago)

I'll see how many I can get

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 2 November 2006 09:42 (nineteen years ago)

OK, the girls from my office are booking a trip to THE BALLET!!! We are going to see the Nutcracker. Hurrah!

The Nutcracker is the one and only ballet I've ever seen. I'm feeling really old now as I reckon it was something like 17 years ago. I felt really young at the time as everyone else there was ANCIENT (probably about my age now :-( )

― ONIMO's losing the plot (GerryNemo), Thursday, 2 November 2006 10:19 (nineteen years ago)

Morning there, watercooler folk.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 2 November 2006 11:19 (nineteen years ago)

Good morning.

I am all dressed up today as I didn't have space for a change of clothes, so I'm wearing my gig clothes (and the Boots of Sex) at the office. So far two people have complimented me. Woo!

In other news, it turns out that the British Librarian likes Stereolab. What if he is a DIRTY DRONEROCK LIBRARIAN?!?!? I think that would be more than I could take. (no offence to Ned.)

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Thursday, 2 November 2006 11:26 (nineteen years ago)

Woo Kate! Boots Of Sex will have that effect on people.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 2 November 2006 11:28 (nineteen years ago)

British Librarian sounds fairly perfect. Are the BL having any more of their single mingle things soon? - you might meet dozens of him there!

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 2 November 2006 11:30 (nineteen years ago)

For serious. I wonder how different their clientele is from teh LRB singles night things.

(Good morning all. It's cooooold today.)

― g00blar (gooblar), Thursday, 2 November 2006 11:37 (nineteen years ago)

Today was the first time since last winter that I had to scrape ice off my car windscreen before setting off for work.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 2 November 2006 11:41 (nineteen years ago)

I have been cowed into believe that those singles nights are shite due to the nastiness of ILX about them.

Then again, hrmmmmm.

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Thursday, 2 November 2006 11:42 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, and here we were thinking "oh no, no de-icer"

But we found a can from before the war.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 2 November 2006 11:42 (nineteen years ago)

I think I'm gonna try to swing by a clothing retailer or two today to maybe pick up some new WARM jumpers and a soft grey scarf.

― g00blar (gooblar), Thursday, 2 November 2006 11:45 (nineteen years ago)

I am so glad I did my sweater shopping at the weekend.

("alright for you to say things'll get better, you haven't lost a BRAND NEW SWEATER!!!")

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Thursday, 2 November 2006 11:47 (nineteen years ago)

I don't bother with de-icer, i just scrape.

(must remember to put some more in the windscreen washer bottle, though)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 2 November 2006 11:48 (nineteen years ago)

A nice policeman is bringing my coat round next week. However it's unlikely I'll be able to do it up :(

And I only have summer maternity clothes! Argh, me and bump are going to both freeze if I don't get to the shops soon.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 2 November 2006 11:50 (nineteen years ago)

K8, look.

― g00blar (gooblar), Thursday, 2 November 2006 11:53 (nineteen years ago)

It's about time you got your coat back! Honestly!

Ooh, Curtises in masks...

http://cms.pitchforkmedia.com/images/image/23233.secretmachines1.jpg

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Thursday, 2 November 2006 12:01 (nineteen years ago)

He is the DEBBIL, the DEBBIL, I TELL YOU:

http://cms.pitchforkmedia.com/images/image/23232.secretmachines4.jpg

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Thursday, 2 November 2006 12:02 (nineteen years ago)

I cannot help but wonder why Kaet's Boots of Sex work for her, while my leather pants have proven completely useless.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Thursday, 2 November 2006 12:06 (nineteen years ago)

They have worked at getting me compliments only.

If you post pictures of yourself in leather trousers, I will most certainly compliment you, too, Mitya!

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Thursday, 2 November 2006 12:10 (nineteen years ago)

Hooray! I found a sugar packet; tea now drinkable!

― g00blar (gooblar), Thursday, 2 November 2006 12:23 (nineteen years ago)

Bah, I had my fantabulous smelling "Five Mushroom Stroganov!" for lunch and it did not taste anywhere near as nice as it smelled.

And all the mushrooms tasted alike. :-(

I want to get an oyster log. Where did I see that advertised?

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Thursday, 2 November 2006 13:22 (nineteen years ago)

I have leather trousers too, but they're a bit big. They were a free gift (from a friend who bought them on ebay and found them a bit too tight), so I can't really complain.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 2 November 2006 13:35 (nineteen years ago)

Archel, surely baby bump = massive increase in interior heat levels?

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 2 November 2006 13:52 (nineteen years ago)

Well, not massive! I am warmer than usual, but since I usually wear about five layers and preferably a duvet as well between October and March that's not saying much.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 2 November 2006 13:58 (nineteen years ago)

because maybe not everyone here read that other thread, and because everyone hear obviously needs to read this:

Dear Cafes of London:
When I ask for my sandwich toasted, please respect my wishes and actually give it a good toasting. Don't just stick it in the thing for a minute and call it done. I realize you want to have quick service, but please, think for a moment on the subject of why someone would want their sandwich toasted. I think you'll find that the only possible motivation is that said customer wants his sandwich 1)hot 2)crispy 3)MELTY. If those characteristics are not met, getting a sandwich in only one minute DOESN'T REALLY MATTER, DOES IT?!!

Signed,
Your sucker of a customer

― g00blar (gooblar), Thursday, 2 November 2006 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

Speaking of lunch, today I walked a good 20 minutes to get to Prime (which is a Russian copy of Pret) only to discover they had NO sandwiches today. WTF!?

Don't they realize that if people who aren't literally next door or across the street take the time to choose them, and then have to go somewhere else, for weeks afterward, they will think to themselves, "Oh wait, what if I walk there and they have no sandwiches again?"

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Thursday, 2 November 2006 14:04 (nineteen years ago)

I thought you lot had got rid of your bread shortages along with Communism and all that!

― Dear Cafes of London (kate), Thursday, 2 November 2006 14:07 (nineteen years ago)

I hate getting dry burnt overdone sandwiches way more than soggy underdone ones so I'll have to disagree with you, gooblar :)

Mitya, this lunchtime (4th from left):

http://www.legacy-project.org/uploads/images/art/s/sundukovqueue01_lg.jpg

― === temporary username === (Mark C), Thursday, 2 November 2006 14:09 (nineteen years ago)

dry burnt overdone sandwiches

but but but this is why you have CHEESE.

― g00blar (gooblar), Thursday, 2 November 2006 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

In England, this is why you have MAYO.

― Dear Cafes of London (kate), Thursday, 2 November 2006 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

Cor my last fm personal radio is playing me lots of krautrock today.

Hey All.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 2 November 2006 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, Kerr.

I'm listening to Kate Bush today because my colleagues reckon it makes me calmer during this time of the month. :-/

― Dear Cafes of London (kate), Thursday, 2 November 2006 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

My last fm radio just played me Pavlov's Dog and MC5.
I think Mitya, Ed and FP should give my radio a go sometime. (it actually played B&S last night)

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 2 November 2006 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

I have played your radio, Kerr, and will testify to it being quite good (most of the time :). Unfortunately I have no broadband at home right now, so last.fm is not getting much use from me.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Thursday, 2 November 2006 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

I like the idea of Kate's colleagues sort of gingerly suggesting to her that maybe she should listen to some Kate Bush today ("We got you a gift! It's a cd." etc)

― g00blar (gooblar), Thursday, 2 November 2006 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

I'm sure Kate would love her workmates to give her lots of new cd's to play.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 2 November 2006 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

No, I brought the CD with me last night, to help me through monthend.

So I just asked my colleague what I should listen to today, and he was all "You still doing monthend? Something soothing, definitely" and I was all "ah, that will be the Kate Bush then."

Except they keep TALKING loudly through the really spooky bits of Hello Earth.

― Dear Cafes of London (kate), Thursday, 2 November 2006 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

The last CD this colleague brought in was a My Chemical Romance album. Thank you, NO!

― Dear Cafes of London (kate), Thursday, 2 November 2006 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

You should make a list up and casually leave it about where they can all see it.
A cd for each mood. Then each time you need a cd by a certain type of band you say you can feel that mood coming on.
I bet you all would try that if it actually worked!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 2 November 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

Hooray I am back from Lux and it was fun! Interestiung things were the murdered Finn brought out of hotel I wasn't staying in as witnessed by colleagues having lunch there, and being asked directions by sketchy crackhead who got into the lift and was eating lemons to go with the tinny he had in his pocket.

Kate, the next time you get hit with that racist shit you should point out in your CALM voice that you are not the one calling attention to skin colour so are not the racist here. And yeah, call the police next time because you have to remember that the person inconveniencing the commute is the shouty woman committing the crime of assault, not you.

Ed or FP, what's the tech term for roundhouse type buildings for the turning of trains?

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 2 November 2006 15:09 (nineteen years ago)

"roundhouse" is the technical term!

(it means an engine shed centred on a turntable. the one in Camden was one of the first).

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 2 November 2006 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

Look at Rotondes in Luxembourg City - just gorgeous. I had to go there to look at a bunch of stuff for City of Culture 2007.

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 2 November 2006 15:13 (nineteen years ago)

Kate must still be listening to Kate Bush and enjoying it far too much to post on ILX.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 2 November 2006 17:02 (nineteen years ago)

No, Kate is just TOO EXCITED about the gig to think about anything.

― Dear Cafes of London (kate), Thursday, 2 November 2006 17:04 (nineteen years ago)

Enjoy the gig.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 2 November 2006 17:18 (nineteen years ago)

OMG, after a year and a half, I just got my contract!

Boo, I have to amend the working hours to my hard-won flexi-time.

However, I get a staggering EIGHT WEEKS sick pay a year! Right, I am checking myself into the nearest rest home for the mentally whacked out to be put to sleep and and looked after by nuns for the next two months, AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.

― Dear Cafes of London (kate), Thursday, 2 November 2006 17:48 (nineteen years ago)

4 and a half hours of meeting with a Christian TV exec.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 2 November 2006 19:06 (nineteen years ago)

Sounds like you had fun.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 2 November 2006 19:19 (nineteen years ago)

Eight weeks a year?! And I was happy about my four weeks of vacation...

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Friday, 3 November 2006 09:09 (nineteen years ago)

Argh I am supposed to be in a meeting today, I *think*. But noone's officially told me I am supposed to be there, or when it is. The secretary's just phoned up warning me that they will want a projector and screen setting up - but noone's officially told me about *that* either. Grrrrr.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 3 November 2006 09:40 (nineteen years ago)

I am always torn about how passive-agressive to be about those things. Feeling reasonable mature today so I guess I would call the person calling the meeting. But there are times when I would have sent a projector to the secretary.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Friday, 3 November 2006 09:45 (nineteen years ago)

I had to go see my manager anyway - he told me to put the projector in the room but not bother with setup.

And, also, I won't be in all of the meeting - in fact, it's going on now, and I am waiting for a call to tell me to go up there.

In other news, one of the managers is refusing to use his PC at all, because the antivirus program is refreshing horribly often, and he says that makes it impossible to do any work. I said "fine", and took it off him. I might try fixing it in a bit.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 3 November 2006 10:32 (nineteen years ago)

Hurrah, I'm in a great mood today. even walking in and being asked immediately to sort out Giant Johnny before I'd even eaten my breakfast could not soil my good mood.

― Dear Cafes of London (kate), Friday, 3 November 2006 11:53 (nineteen years ago)

Excellent.

I'm taking my students to see the 'Treasures of the British Library' tomorrow, and I just sent them the 'Milkshake Manuscript' image, telling them that it's one of the more intriguing documents in the collection.

I'm such a cool teacher.

― g00blar (gooblar), Friday, 3 November 2006 12:02 (nineteen years ago)

Bwah hah hah hah! That is excellent.

OK, weird, I got a MySpace request off some random band - who i'm not going to add because I've no idea who they are - but they turned out to have an ex boyfriend of mine in their Top 8. Wargh.

A bit weird to see that he's married now. (Even though I can't imagine him being faithful, as I know for a fact he's cheated on almost even fiance he's ever had. Yes, plural.)

But am I a bad person for looking at his wedding photos - and being really relieved because, for someone who was SO BLOODY VAIN, he's aged terribly?

― Dear Cafes of London (kate), Friday, 3 November 2006 12:22 (nineteen years ago)

No, not at all. That's why God created the internet (it was on the ninth day, if I recall correctly): to spy on people from our pasts.

― g00blar (gooblar), Friday, 3 November 2006 12:24 (nineteen years ago)

[Joe Strummer voice] Google-stalking is a crime!

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Friday, 3 November 2006 12:28 (nineteen years ago)

Without such research, I would never have found the 'We Love D@vid G00blar' group that my students created on facebook!

― g00blar (gooblar), Friday, 3 November 2006 12:31 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't googlestalk! Dude sent *me* a friend request! Of course I'm going to look at his profile.

― Dear Cafes of London (kate), Friday, 3 November 2006 12:33 (nineteen years ago)

Well, I'm out of my meeting...

Damn, this company does fucked-up things sometimes. That meeting was with a salesman, to discuss one of his products, tell us what it can do, show us how it works, see if it would be suitable for us. He told us what he could, and left with a list of five or six technical questions which he couldn't answer himself. Just your average sales-pitch meeting.

The punchline? That wasn't the sales pitch meeting. Or rather, there never was one of those. We already bought this several-thousand-pound product, several months ago. We haven't used it at all. We haven't even known if it will work properly, just vaguely what it was supposed to do.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 3 November 2006 12:43 (nineteen years ago)

Today the divine comedy are rocking my world.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 3 November 2006 13:00 (nineteen years ago)

God, hangover, go away please I've had quite enough of you already.

― Dear Cafes of London (kate), Friday, 3 November 2006 13:21 (nineteen years ago)

36 minutes until my boss leaves for the airport!!!

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Friday, 3 November 2006 13:24 (nineteen years ago)

Do you get to go home, then? Or just goof off on the clock?

― Dear Cafes of London (kate), Friday, 3 November 2006 13:31 (nineteen years ago)

I think I will leave [wiggles eyebrows suggestively]. He asked me to watch over two things after he left, but they're already done!!!!!

Maybe some cute girl will invite me out for drinks in the next 25 minutes...

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Friday, 3 November 2006 13:35 (nineteen years ago)

I'd invite you out for a sneaky Friday drink but:

a) I am not cuet
b) I'm too hungover to think about drinking
c) Moscow's a bit far to go for cocktails!

;-)

― Dear Cafes of London (kate), Friday, 3 November 2006 13:36 (nineteen years ago)

You could cover "Cocktails for two" at the next gig in honour of Mitya.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 3 November 2006 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

My entire department has gone down the pub. I still feel queasy if I even think of booze. :-(

― Dear Cafes of London (kate), Friday, 3 November 2006 17:16 (nineteen years ago)

Morning. I am Teh Happy for it is the week's end.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 3 November 2006 17:17 (nineteen years ago)

Week end = happy
Month end = unhappy.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 3 November 2006 17:19 (nineteen years ago)

I have £10,000 more pounds in my pipeline than I should have, and no idea how it got there. :-(

― Dear Cafes of London (kate), Friday, 3 November 2006 17:21 (nineteen years ago)

Shame it wasn't in your bank account.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 3 November 2006 17:22 (nineteen years ago)

That has only happened to me once.

― Dear Cafes of London (kate), Friday, 3 November 2006 17:22 (nineteen years ago)

Wh Smiths now say they're not getting in The Wire this month despite saying for 2 weeks they would. They said they might get the next issue in but not the current one.
Bastards.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 3 November 2006 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

I am now officially unemployed (well, since 3.15, but I've been in the pub). I got booze and vouchers and more booze (some booze to take home, some booze in a pub). Soon, I hope to get a new job, until then it's interweb mentalism and watching DVDs.

Kerr, can't you go into Glasgow where they have more shops to buy The Wire, it's like £3 on the train or something and you can buy some records and stuff too while you're there.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 3 November 2006 23:05 (nineteen years ago)

My mate is gonna pick it up for me in town next week sometime.
I think the train is over £4 now actually. I haven't been in Glasgow for aaaaages. It's easier (and cheaper) to shop online now when I have the cash.

I blame Forest Pines & Mitya for the state of the Watercooler Last FM chart this week.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Sunday, 5 November 2006 19:20 (nineteen years ago)

Ailsa, I am making about £500 a month playing poker, want lessons?

― === temporary username === (Mark C), Sunday, 5 November 2006 20:43 (nineteen years ago)

Wooh, yes please! I'll be around tomorrow and I'll be in touch.

PS please no-one tell Neil.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 5 November 2006 23:23 (nineteen years ago)

Ken C taught Mark all he knows. Including the poker face.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 6 November 2006 00:16 (nineteen years ago)

Mark, is this a mathematical method or dumb luck or some other strategy.?

― Ed (dali), Monday, 6 November 2006 00:41 (nineteen years ago)

More to the point, is £500 a good month, a bad month, net, gross?

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 6 November 2006 01:07 (nineteen years ago)

Morning all! I managed to log myself out of ILX a week ago, and have JUST been sent the email to reset my password. The ILX guys have been busy making u-ilx, so fair play, but even still, I've been left as a super-lurker for that last week.

£500 a week playing poker?!? That's hardcore.

― Hi There! Dear Johnney B (stigoftdump), Monday, 6 November 2006 09:01 (nineteen years ago)

Morning!

Yes, I am to blame for a good few of the bands on the watercooler chart. Radiohead and Elbow are definitely nothing to do with me, though.

So, I had a nice weekend, driving about South London in search of the Clapham Grand. Didn't get *too* lost.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 6 November 2006 09:24 (nineteen years ago)

The high presence of Coldplay on the charts makes me sad. Saying that, they prompted me to re-listen to Saintt Etienne, so that was good.

― Hi There! Dear Johnney B (stigoftdump), Monday, 6 November 2006 09:29 (nineteen years ago)

Coldplay = also nothing to do with my own playlist, I'd better point out.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 6 November 2006 09:32 (nineteen years ago)

Hungover on a monday is becoming a habit. Yesterday was huge amounts of fun. Huge tiger, fireworks, parkin and folk dancing. Hoorah.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 6 November 2006 09:45 (nineteen years ago)

Tiger? Where? You didn't set it on fire did you? That's not quite what Blake meant!

― Hi There! Dear Johnney B (stigoftdump), Monday, 6 November 2006 09:49 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/spiderpops/122162088/

http://flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=289487237&size=o

― -- (688), Monday, 6 November 2006 09:51 (nineteen years ago)

Politically correct Son et Lumiere in Victoria Park gone mad. (The tiger and Owaiz Shah defeated the emperor and now we don't have to pay taxes, NB might only apply in tower hamlets)

― Ed (dali), Monday, 6 November 2006 09:51 (nineteen years ago)

Might only apply if you have a tiger.

― Hi There! Dear Johnney B (stigoftdump), Monday, 6 November 2006 09:54 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/slaminsky/289871758/in/photostream/

― Ed (dali), Monday, 6 November 2006 09:54 (nineteen years ago)

oh you went to victoria park as well? rachel went there. i considered when i thought cutegirlfromparty might be there, but then i realised she wouldnt be there, and she doesnt really know who i am, and i had a bad cold, and i hate stupid fireworks anyway

― -- (688), Monday, 6 November 2006 09:56 (nineteen years ago)

but dude there was a TIGER! i turned into a ten-year-old again.

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 6 November 2006 10:21 (nineteen years ago)

Anything involving tigers gets my thumbs up.

I found a pretty girl on msf who had her interests listed as "tea making, bad jokes and baking cakes", which makes me think I should get in touch. However, my so called "friend" who told to say nice things about me has been inconsiderately ill this week, so I can't email anyone on the site. By the time I get there, she'll have already been swept off her feet by a lovely guy who's rich, charming, handsome, responsible, and has a massive cock.

― Hi There! Dear Johnney B (stigoftdump), Monday, 6 November 2006 10:25 (nineteen years ago)

I must email Friend Who Lives By Victoria Park and ask him if he went.

My firework watching was limited to sitting in a restaurant saying things like: "ooh, if you lean *this* way you can see the ones from behind Tesco reflected in the door"

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 6 November 2006 11:22 (nineteen years ago)

We went to the ones on Glasgow Green. They were completely underwhelming. We also went to see fireworks in Paisley on Saturday, and they were just as good, i.e. we'd have expected the Glasgow ones to have been better, and they weren't, really.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 6 November 2006 11:24 (nineteen years ago)

btw a car ran over my phone. it works fine but the screen is fucked, so if anyone was going to text me, don't, and if you already have, this is why i haven't replied.

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 6 November 2006 11:26 (nineteen years ago)

Is that the pink phone that's been squished, emsk?

― Hi There! Dear Johnney B (stigoftdump), Monday, 6 November 2006 11:27 (nineteen years ago)

Mark, is this a mathematical method or dumb luck or some other strategy.?
-- Ed (dal...), November 6th, 2006 12:41 AM. (dali) (later)
More to the point, is £500 a good month, a bad month, net, gross?

-- Andrew Farrell (afarrel...), November 6th, 2006 1:07 AM. (afarrell) (later)

£500 (net profit) is a good month, but if I play as well as I have been playing recently (we'll ignore last night for the sake of this particular argument :)) and as much as I usually play, £500 should be eminently achievable per month. I'm not suggesting Ailsa or anyone could jump in and make that much - for the first few weeks a newbie would probably be a net loser, albeit at microstakes where the amount they'd lose would be minimal (two figures or less), and it would then take them a while, gainign experience, reading and discussing the game, before they could call themselves a consistent winner.

Ed, it's not dumb luck - maths is a big part of it but mostly it's a (small) level of skill combined with a substantial level of experience - it's taken me 18 months to get to this stage - combined with the fact that I play at pretty low stakes where most of my opponents are less competent than I am. The house gets its 5% regardless, but I have developed an edge that means I can overcome the vigorish and still consistently make money.

― === temporary username === (Mark C), Monday, 6 November 2006 11:31 (nineteen years ago)

Driving into work this morning, I pull up at a roundabout, and I check the rear view mirror. This black BMW pulls up behind me, there's a child driving it! He can barely see over the steering wheel, there's no-one else in the car. I figure on taking the reg. no. & reporting this to the cops, but the roundabout clears and he turns off to the left, and I'm going str8 on. I called the cops when I got to work anyway, but the woman who took the details didn't exactly sound like she gave a fuck. Weird shit.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 6 November 2006 11:34 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I've toyed with this before as you know, but never got round to doing it. I *should* be OK with this, it seems fine in principle and I lose plenty of money in fruit machines and quiz machines to be not bothered about losing a wee bit of money if it all goes tits up, but there's something giving me reservations about doing this, even though part of me says yay, free money, stick it to the online casinos, hurrah, etc.

xpost WOW! That's weird.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 6 November 2006 11:35 (nineteen years ago)

combined with the fact that I play at pretty low stakes where most of my opponents are less competent than I am.

That probably is the trick to consistantly making money at it!

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 6 November 2006 11:38 (nineteen years ago)

Ailsa, for basically risk-free money,. check out this thread - Casino Bonus-Bagging, etc - you need to make sure you are always aware of rules and small print but it's a decent moneyspinner - I made $270 in about 6 hours though I think I was lucky and could have expected (on average) to get $140. Worst case scenario, you blow the free money they give you and quit at breakeven.

As for poker, if you are genuinely interested (and I repeat, in the short term you won't make money, but in the longer term you can if you enjoy it and give it the consideration it needs) email me or something :)

― === temporary username === (Mark C), Monday, 6 November 2006 11:44 (nineteen years ago)

"You wanna make some money? I'll make you a fortune, kid. Now, what card is the queen under?"

― Hi There! Dear Johnney B (stigoftdump), Monday, 6 November 2006 11:54 (nineteen years ago)

Yes! The Tiger!!!!! That was AWESOME. I loved the Tiger.

Not so crazy about fireworks, but tigers are almost always good. Until they eat you.

Plus, Barn Dancing (what I grew up calling Square Dancing, to distinguish it from Line Dancing, which is barn dancing to Merkins) was GRATE FUN!!! Even if I never knew which way I was supposed to be going. And got shouted at by the Caller. (Hey, I told him, I learned it all the other way around coz Merkins drive on the other side of the road.) So the Russian and I PWNED at square dancing like the Russian PWNED at dodgems.

― Dear Cafes of London (kate), Monday, 6 November 2006 12:01 (nineteen years ago)

nup, not the pink phone, that one went insane and started losing its charge, getting really hot and smelling like burning a few weeks ago so i was using an old one. however i have now found ANOTHER old one so hurrah! text-communication again. and sorry andrew, just seen uyour text from last night for this reason.

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 6 November 2006 12:06 (nineteen years ago)

That probably is the trick to consistantly making money at it!

I suspect the trick is more related to not counting last night:)

xpost it's alright, I went to see Joe play Pure Noise, which involved him spending 45 minutes hunched over behind a monitor speaker while occasionally boys would glance over on their way to/from the toilets and boggle that he was making the ruckus from one machine with about 4 knobs.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 6 November 2006 12:12 (nineteen years ago)

kate i posted the secret machines pic upthread, for the live ep

― -- (688), Monday, 6 November 2006 12:12 (nineteen years ago)

Ha ha, I have seen that photo before - we call that the "it's a bad wind that don't blow someone no good" photo!

It is a lovely photo, though.

― Dear Cafes of London (kate), Monday, 6 November 2006 12:15 (nineteen years ago)

Whee. I was in London this weekend. Meant to contact people but my phone was DEAD. 'pologies. Spent yesterday morning hungover in Green Park shouting at the pigeons for being TOO FUCKING LOUD

― you win again, gravity! (tissp), Monday, 6 November 2006 12:19 (nineteen years ago)

Was wondering where you'd been TISSP! You've been pretty quiet lately.

― Dear Cafes of London (kate), Monday, 6 November 2006 12:21 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, been loitering about; not too much to say really! Spent much of the last few weeks being a bit ill–seeming to get sick as soon as I got better. I swear those antibiotics have ruined me, I've not been right since I was taking them.

― you win again, gravity! (tissp), Monday, 6 November 2006 12:31 (nineteen years ago)

Andrew - have a look at this, which is the last few weeks play (before last night, where I only lost what I'd won on Friday and Saturday so hardly a disaster). Each "big bet" on the y axis is roughly equivalent to 55p.

― === temporary username === (Mark C), Monday, 6 November 2006 12:36 (nineteen years ago)

Ugh! Ugh! Ugh!

Horrible ex-boyfriend who I found last week on the Top 8 of someone who tried to friend me last week has found me (presumably the same way) and emailed me, ugh, ugh.

I really *don't* want to resume conversation with him. I'm just going to ignore the email and the friend request, I think. :-(

― Dear Cafes of London (kate), Monday, 6 November 2006 12:42 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.courthouseawarenessnews.com/Archives%20of%20campaign%20for%20county%20judge/Ostrich%20head%20in%20sand.jpg

― you win again, gravity! (tissp), Monday, 6 November 2006 12:51 (nineteen years ago)

(That said, I am in full support of this policy)

― you win again, gravity! (tissp), Monday, 6 November 2006 12:51 (nineteen years ago)

Also, I'm in a bit of a quandary about this date thing I went on, on Saturday. We get on really well, he's really smart and likes all the same stuff that I do - but there is ZERO chemistry on a romance/sex level. I just don't fancy him at all.

Which is a real shame, and I feel terribly shallow about it, because I should be able to get over that because he is so lovely, mentally. But I just can't.

So how do I politely say "look, I do want to hang out with you and go for pints and canal walks and talk about linguistics and stuff, but I'm really not interested in a romantic or sexual relationship" without coming off like a total cnut?

― Dear Cafes of London (kate), Monday, 6 November 2006 12:58 (nineteen years ago)

To be honest, just say what you just said, just like that, and you won't come across as anything other than honest and lovely.

― Hi There! Dear Johnney B (stigoftdump), Monday, 6 November 2006 13:02 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, what you said but without the "look," bit because that's patronising

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 6 November 2006 13:09 (nineteen years ago)

OTM. People that you think you could be good friends with don't come along every day, so it's worth being straightforward just in case he's ok with that too.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 6 November 2006 13:13 (nineteen years ago)

And, also, you never know, other feelings may develop as your friendship progresses.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 6 November 2006 13:18 (nineteen years ago)

Did he try it on? If not, he might be thinking the same, assuming the zero chemistry thing was mutual. I think just be honest - if he was hoping for more he might not be up for it but even that would be better than stringing him along. And if he's cool with it, well, everyone's a winner!

― === temporary username === (Mark C), Monday, 6 November 2006 13:24 (nineteen years ago)

Quick! My pregnant brain has failed, help me. I need to work out what a 12.5% discount on £220 is before hordes of students arrive to buy a book. Why can I not remember simple things at the moment grr?

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 6 November 2006 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

£192.50

― Dear Cafes of London (kate), Monday, 6 November 2006 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

Thank you!

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 6 November 2006 14:45 (nineteen years ago)

A book? £220?

― you win again, gravity! (tissp), Monday, 6 November 2006 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not sure you should trust my maths. My £10,000 value variance has gone up to about £15,000. :-(

― Dear Cafes of London (kate), Monday, 6 November 2006 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

Ten books, ten students.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 6 November 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

Argh I never noticed coldplay or elbow in the watercooler charts.
Anyone gonna own up?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 6 November 2006 15:05 (nineteen years ago)

I own music by both those bands. It is entirely possible that a stray song or two has popped up on random play.
Last.fm tell me that I've played coldplay 3 times and elbow 12 times since I started scrobbling.

― treefell (treefell), Monday, 6 November 2006 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

Heh. I'm only joking. Mitya reckons I'm the anti-geir who never plays melodic music.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 6 November 2006 15:38 (nineteen years ago)

Hi all! I brought K to the castle today, and everywhere we go, all of the students go silent and whispery--"that's Mr. G00blar's girlfriend!" Lots of conspiratorial looks and giggles all around. Kids.

― g00blar (gooblar), Monday, 6 November 2006 15:59 (nineteen years ago)

Damn punk kids.

Ten books, ten students.

Ah!

― you win again, gravity! (tissp), Monday, 6 November 2006 16:03 (nineteen years ago)

GARGARGARGARGARGGGG.

WTF else could it be? I've recalculated the VV but that made it worse.

It's increasing every month, so it must be something which is continually happening, rather than a single mistake back in the past, which would be a constant amount carried over.

― Dear Cafes of London (kate), Monday, 6 November 2006 16:06 (nineteen years ago)

I bought back krispy kremes at lunchtime after my (unsuccessful) trip to buy the Police Squad DVD. Everyone's on a sine wave or sugar highs and lows. It leads to . . . interesting discussions.

― Hi There! Dear Johnney B (stigoftdump), Monday, 6 November 2006 16:13 (nineteen years ago)

xpost - Over how many months? If it's only two or three, then when you've eliminated the unlikely, you might want to reconsider that - the capacity of the universe to offer up random data that rational minds will happily impose an order on shouldn't be underestimated.

PS obviously I don't actually know what I'm talking about :)

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 6 November 2006 16:17 (nineteen years ago)

Why don't people freaking reply to emails?

Oh, I'm sick of trying to organise other people. :-(

― Dear Cafes of London (kate), Monday, 6 November 2006 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

Some day, someone's going to write a great song, on a par with "Please, Mister Postman" and "Hanging on the Telephone" about waiting for someone to respond to an email.

― g00blar (gooblar), Monday, 6 November 2006 16:31 (nineteen years ago)

But but but Britney's "E-Mail My Heart."

Hello all. Headachey.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 6 November 2006 16:32 (nineteen years ago)

Morning, Ned.

Yet another frustrating MySpace thing - you can see when people are online, have read your email (with direct question in it) and ignoring it.

I'm sick of people who want me to entertain them all day long with email, but can't find time to actually *hang out* when not at work. It's a horrible Smug Married tendency, usually.

― Dear Cafes of London (kate), Monday, 6 November 2006 16:34 (nineteen years ago)

solution : don't email smug marrieds

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 6 November 2006 16:41 (nineteen years ago)

I'm getting the feeling that I should just never, ever, actually email people and ask them to do stuff, and only ever either do stuff by myself, or else wait for other people to invite me.

Some people be sucking. :-(

― Dear Cafes of London (kate), Monday, 6 November 2006 16:43 (nineteen years ago)

OK, I now hate people. It's official.

― Dear Cafes of London (kate), Monday, 6 November 2006 17:34 (nineteen years ago)

Just fuck you. FUCK. YOU. Fuck you, you fucking hypocrite.

― Dear Cafes of London (kate), Monday, 6 November 2006 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

I think I should get off ILX before I actually explode. Goodnight, folks.

― Dear Cafes of London (kate), Monday, 6 November 2006 17:46 (nineteen years ago)

:-/ Rest up.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 6 November 2006 17:49 (nineteen years ago)

OMG. I just cracked it.

Got a £15,000 value variance down to £3.03

All because bloody Access handles Null Values a different way than I'm used to.

― Dear Cafes of London (kate), Monday, 6 November 2006 19:33 (nineteen years ago)

Hurrah!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 6 November 2006 19:38 (nineteen years ago)

I now have below a .00001% error rate, which I can live with.

God, I am such a maths geek. But that's why I get paid the big buX0rs.

― Dear Cafes of London (kate), Monday, 6 November 2006 19:41 (nineteen years ago)

How do you THINK Access handles null values, and what does it ACTUALLY do? I'm intrigued! (I am but a budding maths geek, kneeling at the feet of Hax0r Katex0r.)

― Hi There! Dear Johnney B (stigoftdump), Monday, 6 November 2006 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

I'm a maths geek, but I'm not programmer, as I've discovered today.

Well, what I was trying to do was calculate value variance - so I wrote a query pulling out records from two tables, joined by the case_ref where the lender_fee did not match.

Now, I assumed that it would realise that a lender_fee with a null value was obviously not the same as a lender_fee with an amount of value, and pull that out as a change. However, it was just ignoring the null values, so I was building up a huge amount of value variance that wasn't being picked up.

I just have to make sure when I import the datadumps not to allow any null values in certain fields, and zero them out as part of the uploading process.

― Dear Cafes of London (kate), Monday, 6 November 2006 20:20 (nineteen years ago)

where (lender_fee!=that_other_field or lender_fee is null), amirite?

I started reading a book on prime numbers yesterday (Music of the primes), you'd be very proud of me!

― Hi There! Dear Johnney B (stigoftdump), Monday, 6 November 2006 20:23 (nineteen years ago)

I was expecting 200609.lender_fee != 200610.lender_fee to pull out both cases where, say, 200609 = 100 and 200610 = 0, and cases where 200609 is null and 200610 = 0.

But it doesn't. I don't know why I thought that - probably because Excel will recognise a null field as being different from a populated field. Crystal always wants nullcatchers or it won't function.

― Dear Cafes of London (kate), Monday, 6 November 2006 20:28 (nineteen years ago)

I Crystal easy? I keep meaning to take a course on it cos apparently the pay is top dollar, but if it's hard then I may rethink.

― Hi There! Dear Johnney B (stigoftdump), Monday, 6 November 2006 20:33 (nineteen years ago)

Easy peasy.

― Dear Cafes of London (kate), Monday, 6 November 2006 20:53 (nineteen years ago)

Morning there.

I am supposed to be going to north Leeds today, and doing another couple of site visits on the way. At least it gets me out of the office for a good part of the day - I reckon at least 3 of my 8 hours will be spent travelling around Yorkshire.

I need a new job myself.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 08:27 (nineteen years ago)

Grrrr, today's horrible. I'm really ratty and anxious, and I hate it. Every Monday I'm full of beans and happiness, and then for the rest of the week I'm full of misanthropic hatred for the world. It doesn't suit me at all. And the pretty office girls aren't helping.

― Hi There! Dear Johnney B (stigoftdump), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 09:31 (nineteen years ago)

"The reactable is a multi-user electronic music instrument with a tabletop tangible user interface. Several simultaneous performers share complete control over the instrument by moving physical objects on a luminous table surface."

Wow:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0h-RhyopUmc

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 09:33 (nineteen years ago)

OMG I want one of those!

― Hi There! Dear Johnney B (stigoftdump), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 09:43 (nineteen years ago)

WOW!!!!

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 09:48 (nineteen years ago)

That's made my day.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 10:09 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think I understand that. (Obv the video would explain all, but I can't watch videos.)

I'm feeling rather cranky today, for no apparent reason. :-(

― Dear Cafes of London (kate), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 10:15 (nineteen years ago)

Someone? Please? Anyone?

Post something nice, please?

I'm feeling really rub today and even Thackeray and his endless bad Captains is not cheering me up.

― Dear Cafes of London (kate), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 10:45 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.cafe-burger.de/spezialitaten/popup/stollen.jpg
Tis the season for Stollen, shortly.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 10:48 (nineteen years ago)

Great, I'll get even fatter.

A Bad Captain:

http://static.flickr.com/43/114491327_acba683bf7_o.jpg

― Dear Cafes of London (kate), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 10:48 (nineteen years ago)

Stollen is FOUL! Ugh, God, ptui.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 10:53 (nineteen years ago)

Well, let's eat Parkin instead.

― Dear Cafes of London (kate), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 10:54 (nineteen years ago)

http://images.calorieking.com/branding/ck/runtime/updates/119.jpg
Gingerbread Latte, then.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 10:56 (nineteen years ago)

Parkin, yum.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 10:57 (nineteen years ago)

I had gingerbread latte the other day, remembering it to be the nicest thing ever - and since I've given up sugar, it was way too sweet! I could barely drink it!

Mulled wine with Earl Grey Tea in it, is the business, though.

― Dear Cafes of London (kate), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 10:59 (nineteen years ago)

That was a really good wheeze.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 11:00 (nineteen years ago)

parkin num! i am starting to feel coldy (for the first time in what feels like about a year, or since last winter anyway) and am off out to stock up on lemons, honey etc.

also we have just started doing this organic bag thing but we don't get to pick what's in it and they're gonna keep giving us cabbage and cauliflower, i just know it. and neither of us likes either of them. can anyone suggest anything i can do with half a red cabbage to make it not taste like cabbage? i can't find the inexpensive nutritious thread or i'd ask there.

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 11:05 (nineteen years ago)

Hmm, I gave up the sug in coffee too.

It was great in that I rediscovered all the coffees I liked, in a new way.

I guess I'll have to tread wisely re :GingLat.

What's ruddy Parkin whenitsathome?

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 11:06 (nineteen years ago)

I wish I had sound on my 'puter or this would be going a long way to cheer me up:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=0m9aVP9gyO0

(Benjamin going insane dancing with a way pedal)

Mmmm, I like cabbage. You can make a lovely Thing out of it.

And cauliflower! Cauliflower cheese! Num!

― Dear Cafes of London (kate), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 11:07 (nineteen years ago)

What d'you think of this one then, ms s-c:

http://www.theposies.net/gallery/data/media/14/ja_candid28.jpg

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 11:08 (nineteen years ago)

yes, but *i* don't like cabbage or cauliflower, and it is in my house uninvited. i can put either in a heavily spiced curry so you can barely taste it. red cabbage maybe i can pickle, that tastes quite good. i can put some of the cabbage in soup, but not too much, it should be the vegetable there's least of, and not cauliflower because BLECH.

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 11:11 (nineteen years ago)

GIve me cabbage, I love it.

You could do stuffed cabbage leaves, stuffing them with some kind of nut roast type mix or maybe with mushrooms braised with red wine, garlic and onions. Roast the stuffed cabbage leaves in the oven, maybe so a cheese sauce over the top.

Cauliflower- Cauliflower cheese made with sharp cheddar or Gruyere/Emental/Comté

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 11:12 (nineteen years ago)

Also:

Cabbage hating = insanity

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 11:15 (nineteen years ago)

I must be insane then! Cabbage is one of the three "c"s (cabbage/custard/coffee) which make me want to vomit if I so much as smell them.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 11:19 (nineteen years ago)

Cauliflower in curry = SERIOUS NUMMAGE!!!

Give me your cauliflower next time and I will curry it. Or dip it in hummus. Yummus!

(this is why I am so fat - when depressed, food always cheers me up - even just talking about it.)

Who is that, Pash? I like his hair and his shirt, but his shorts are a bit silly.

― Dear Cafes of London (kate), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 11:19 (nineteen years ago)

Cabbage is foul, but then maybe I'm thinking of school dinners cabbage

― Dadaismus (Takin' Funk to Heaven in '77) (Dada), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 11:21 (nineteen years ago)

cauliflower also makes a good pakora.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 11:22 (nineteen years ago)

Not sure about the cabbage, but you should make cauliflower tempaura and dip it in aioli sauce! OMG YUM!

― marianna lcl (marianna lcl), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 11:25 (nineteen years ago)

They were giving out free gingerbread latte outside Starfucks on Saturday - I never go there but oh no! it was delicious! I think I've been sucked in.

Ooh and stollen. Lucky I'm eating for two really.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 11:33 (nineteen years ago)

Oh god, now I'm sinking back into depression again. I should just learn, there are some things I just shouldn't talk about, because they will only make me unhappy.

I'm trying to remember if I like Stollen or not. I'm not a big fan of fruit, but it's OK if it's soaked in brandy. But mainly I'm all about the ginger. I love that stuff so much I'll just gnaw at ginger roots.

― Dear Cafes of London (kate), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 11:35 (nineteen years ago)

i have a feeling this may be the kind of weekend where i end up still drinking at noon on sunday

― -- (688), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 11:42 (nineteen years ago)

that is to say,

i hope its that kind of weekend

― -- (688), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 11:42 (nineteen years ago)

That's Jon Auer from the Posies, back in 199-something-or-other. I was listening to "Frosting on the Beater" LP & the "Dream all Day " & "Definite Door" singles last night, noticed his Mark Gardner-ish looks & thought "aha". I don't know if "pretty powerpop boy" has the same pull as "dirty dronerock boy", though. Great album nevertheless, totally rocking, and super tunes.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 11:42 (nineteen years ago)

I had forgotten about The Posies!

I hope to spend most of the weekend sitting by the sea in a cottage and drinking rum and celebrating Nobody's Prawn's magical birthing day.

― Dear Cafes of London (kate), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 11:44 (nineteen years ago)

Hi all. Back after a (not particularly exciting) three-day weekend.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 11:51 (nineteen years ago)

i can't find the inexpensive nutritious thread or i'd ask there.

Isn't that thread just photos of Ned's dinner every night? The usefulness to others deteriorated somewhat after that.

Cabbage stir-fried with tons of garlic = gorgeous. Also caraway seeds. Though I like cabbage in all shapes and forms, boiled/steamed and covered in butter, yum yum. Add cream to any of above if feeling decadent.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 11:51 (nineteen years ago)

Tony Banks, Phil Collins and Mike Rutherford will be joined on stage by long time Genesis sidemen, Chester Thompson on drums and Daryl Steurmer on guitar. Two of the world's greatest show technicians, award-winning lighting designer Patrick Woodroffe and acclaimed set designer Mark Fisher are working on plans for the 2007 Genesis tour.

Gah. Dickheads.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 12:39 (nineteen years ago)

No Peter Gabriel dressed as a flower, no credibility.

― Dear Cafes of London (kate), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 12:43 (nineteen years ago)

I wouldn't have been so bad if Phil Collins hadn't dragged out the "We're going to reform, but not with me singing" rumour mill for the last 18 months - 2 years. Gabriel is an asshole w/r/t his Genesis back catalog as well.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 12:45 (nineteen years ago)

Gah. Dickheads.

Which one? Spoiled for choice really!!

― Dadaismus (Takin' Funk to Heaven in '77) (Dada), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 12:58 (nineteen years ago)

That posies album is a classic. Never got into their other stuff though.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 13:04 (nineteen years ago)

thanks for suggestions! i like the idea of ed's pakoras and ailsa's cabbage & garlic and marianna's tempura (how do i shot tempura batter?), and remember i have had ailsa's garlic one before and actually LIKED it (basically bc i could not taste any cabbage, just a headrush of garlic, num. maybe i will stick a leek in too. oh hello, this is starting to sound good.

Cabbage hating = insanity

no, it is BAD SHIT. i realise it is hella good for you and i am not one of the irritating vegetarians who don't like vegetables, i really only dislike cabbage, cauliflower and sprouts. i do think it's because i grew up with cabbage boiled-to-fuck and draped limply on the side of sunday dinner (and i always REALLY HATED sunday dinners, eugh) rather than stir-fried or wrapped around something or having had anything done to it that involved tasty herbs or spices or sesame oil (ooh! THAT is what i'm gonna do with it), same with cauliflower and sprouts. cauliflower has been rehabilitated to my grown-up palate somewhat (and i've done a 180 on mushrooms, which i used to despise because i thought eating them felt the same as stepping on slugs), but cabbage and sprouts remain in purgatory.

Cauliflower- Cauliflower cheese made with sharp cheddar or Gruyere/Emental/Comté

cauliflower cheese = edible, but frankly waste of good cheese.

kate, this is one of the reasons i think that curry-house on your road is rub: every time i've had anything from there it's been almost entirely made of cabbage with like maybe 2 bits of onion and a chilli in, and no spices whatsoever.

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 13:15 (nineteen years ago)

Ha ha, I have just realised the added extra joy of property pwnership!

Even though I will never be smug and married, and will never get to say smug and married things, I can still be smug pwner and say annoying things like "I bought a house, I'm sure you will, too, darling, every pot finds its cover" etc. etc. to people complaining about property prices.

Small joys. Small joys.

― Dear Cafes of London (kate), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 13:17 (nineteen years ago)

I am a horrible person, I know. :-)

― Dear Cafes of London (kate), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 13:25 (nineteen years ago)

Sprouts are food of the gods, especially with chesnuts.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 13:27 (nineteen years ago)

What's with the frigging italics?!

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

begone!

This is all your fault, emsk!

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, sprouts are marvellous. Mmmmm.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

Which one? Spoiled for choice really!!

-- Dadaismus (Takin' Funk to Heaven in '77) (dadaismus@

Gabriel, I think is nr1 KNOB, urgh.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 14:01 (nineteen years ago)

Sprouts are marvellous if you want to rocket-propel self to work following day, or failing that just fart gaseous clouds of sulfur-tinged METHANE everywhere. Yes Ed, that's YOU I'm looking at ;-).

However the stuffed cabbage thing upthread works ESPECIALLY well if you fry it in butter and use red/Savoy cabbage, but cabbage and cheese together is also flautustastic so avoidance is the key. The meaty version of this is called GOLABKI for those of you who don't know your bigos from your kielbasa.

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

If you don't like Brussels Sprouts, you are wrong. They are godlike veg.

― Dear Cafes of London (kate), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

Ever since Emsk mentioned going down with a cold, I have been going down with a cold.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 14:44 (nineteen years ago)

I believe in neither God nor sprouts. D'oh. Although sprouts used to make FANTASTIC sister-hitting missiles the very few times my family served them at Thanksgiving or Xmas.

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

God, I hate people right now. I just feel like hitting people.

― Dear Cafes of London (kate), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 16:04 (nineteen years ago)

oops, sorry about the italics.

sprouts fans be crazy. uff. i don't really care about the windiness, but ew.

ok, i have lemons, ginger, garlic, honey and cloves simmering away in hot water (and the flat smells awesome as a result) for my cold.

i have half a red cabbage, 3 shallots, 1 carrot, some more ginger, some fennel seeds and aniseeds (couldn't find caraway seeds on chatsworth road! sky = falling in any time now) and an entire head of garlic ready to fry up in sesame oil. any last-minute tips?

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 16:16 (nineteen years ago)

mitya, the russian (our russian, the one who's really from moldova) swears blind that in russia and australia, doctors and scientists believe antibiotics are for viruses, not bacteria. she is talking out of her arse in a bid to start a fite, yes?

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 16:17 (nineteen years ago)

in other news, my msf profile is finally up. hurrah. i think.

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 16:19 (nineteen years ago)

red cabbage is good braised in red wine.

I feel like arse, I shall be buying restorative ginger an chillies on the way home and possibly medicinal buttery parathas.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 16:24 (nineteen years ago)

I wonder if my crankiness is due to approaching illness. That would be rub indeed. I was sharing drinks with all you lot who are sick.
:-(

― Dear Cafes of London (kate), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 16:25 (nineteen years ago)

brandy is sterilising, I blame charlie for not putting enough whiskey in the hot toddy for it to be sterile, in fact it was like a petri dish, warm, and full of nourishing sugar.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 16:27 (nineteen years ago)

I am getting a cold too. And I haven't even been drinking with any of you :(

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 16:28 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think I had hot toddy. Only brandy and mulled wine and whatever the heck that Russian of ours was drinking.

― Dear Cafes of London (kate), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 16:28 (nineteen years ago)

I bought a packet of cola bottle-shaped sweets from the corner shop. They are pink at the bottom, and turquoise at the top. I just ate two of them - they taste like Domestos. I'm chucking the rest in the bin, I must have gone temporarily mad when I bought them. (I couldn't resist the colour)

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 16:29 (nineteen years ago)

aha, mulled wine is the culprit.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 16:30 (nineteen years ago)

What drink are they supposed to represent Pash?

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 16:32 (nineteen years ago)

Deadly Nightshade, I suspect. Or domestos, maybe.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 16:32 (nineteen years ago)

Deadly nightshade? Give me some. Please. :-(

― Dear Cafes of London (kate), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

I like the sound of them, but maybe not the taste

― Dadaismus (Takin' Funk to Heaven in '77) (Dada), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 16:35 (nineteen years ago)

who had the mulled wine? the russian had coffee and rum.

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 16:38 (nineteen years ago)

The House of P@yn3.

― Dear Cafes of London (kate), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 16:38 (nineteen years ago)

Hey guys how are we lovely people? :D

― Darramouss (Darramouss ftw), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 16:40 (nineteen years ago)

Some of charlie's mates. There were so many drinks and snack going around we might as well all have just snogged each other and had done with it.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 16:40 (nineteen years ago)

Of course we did all do the kissing dance afterwards, we could have got it from the stubbly men.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 16:41 (nineteen years ago)

Charlie's mates had mulled wine? I didn't have any of that! I just had Lisa's mulled wine. (With Earl Grey in it.)

I've probably already snogged Lisa and AMP at some point or another, so it's OK.

HA HA, I had forgotten about the kissing dance. That was great.

― Dear Cafes of London (kate), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 16:43 (nineteen years ago)

xpost 1:

Dear Sprout Eaters:
Tonight my dinner consisted of spicy ramen with gummi bear chasers. (No, I am not actually a starving 18-year-old uni student. I am munching on bran cereral now.)

xpost 2:
Emsk, that particular piece of medical wisdom sounds very possible, although I can't honestly say I'd remember that if I heard it. This is a country, however, that avoids ice in drinks because they believe cold liquids will make you sick, and which reguarly includes mental of costmic rays (or sunspots or something) in the weather forecast so that people with doctors' notes can stay home. So anything is possible. A relative of a friend of mine is a pharmacist, so I'll get back to you.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 17:12 (nineteen years ago)

avoids ice in drinks because they believe cold liquids will make you sick

she does this too! excellent. i didn't know about the cosmic rays though, that is fabulous.

also, i have delicious stir-fry. it looks wicked too as it is ORANGE and GREEN and PURPLE. hm, i once designed and built a stage-set in those colours. hm.

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 17:30 (nineteen years ago)

I feel like bashing my head against the desk.

I've had to change and rechange this SAME SODDING REPORT about ten times - they finally called in the developer to rewrite it - she rewrites it WRONG. And now I can't seem to change it back, because she's done something to the system.

ARRRRGGGGHHH!!!

All while I'm trying to concentrate on this fiendishly difficult other report, which I've totally lost track of now.

― Dear Cafes of London (kate), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 17:57 (nineteen years ago)

Hahahahaha
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAf3b9B0MgU

Norman will especially love that.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 22:59 (nineteen years ago)

I feel like bashing my head against the desk.

Go for it! And don't stop if people try and stop you they're just jealous.

― Darramouss (Darramouss ftw), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 01:27 (nineteen years ago)

xpost

Hilarious, Kerr!

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 05:11 (nineteen years ago)

I think it will make a good start to the day if everyone watches that!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 07:05 (nineteen years ago)

I have no sound at work - I'm not sure if that makes it better or not.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 07:14 (nineteen years ago)

Happy day to all. I will be sleeping well here shortly.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 07:15 (nineteen years ago)

Gagh, home in bed, ill.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 08:30 (nineteen years ago)

Morning. Just as the weather turns cold, our office air conditioning is switched on!

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 08:43 (nineteen years ago)

what?! that makes no sense! surely someone has hit the wrong button.

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 09:33 (nineteen years ago)

Nope! It's just been newly-fitted.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 09:55 (nineteen years ago)

Morning all. Just had a scary tele-conference - and I aced it! I am so good at telly! Yay me!

And emsk, snap . . . my mate FINALLY finished doing the write-up for my msf, so I'm gonan check it tonight and put it up, then email the cute vet.

― Hi There! Dear Johnney B (stigoftdump), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 10:26 (nineteen years ago)

the other thing about msf is they all "doesn't take him/herself too seriously" and want someone who "doesn't take life too seriously" - what? why not? it IS serious! you only get one go!

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 10:37 (nineteen years ago)

OTM, I have a liking people who take life too seriously

― Dadaismus (Takin' Funk to Heaven in '77) (Dada), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 10:40 (nineteen years ago)

Hey Ed, may need to come to town and drop stuff off while attending interview of self by Riot Grrrl scholar, but this will be noonish. Need anything from outside?

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 10:42 (nineteen years ago)

Ha ha, that came out all wrong

― Dadaismus (Takin' Funk to Heaven in '77) (Dada), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 10:42 (nineteen years ago)

I'm good, I stocked up yesterday. Might be asleep though.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 10:44 (nineteen years ago)

I have also been talking to The Hand and he might pop in for a little post election libation. I take it yours will come in toddy form.

I'm so fucking happy right now I think my jaw's about to crack off.

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 10:50 (nineteen years ago)

No VA and the world's squarest haircut has not won MT yet.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 10:53 (nineteen years ago)

i like: people who don't take themselves too seriously

― -- (688), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 10:53 (nineteen years ago)

music: i like pretty much everything, except country and rap

― -- (688), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 10:53 (nineteen years ago)

about me: can't really think what to say lol!

― -- (688), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 10:54 (nineteen years ago)

heroes: nelson mandela. ryan giggs. my dad

― -- (688), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 10:55 (nineteen years ago)

People shouldn't take themselves too seriously but life should be taken as seriously as possible.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 10:56 (nineteen years ago)

my friends say i'm just a little bit crazy!

― -- (688), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 10:57 (nineteen years ago)

johnny can you do a search and see if my profile turns up pls? tried doing one but there are pages and pages, and to do it by name you have to be logged in and if i'm logged in it searches for men not women.

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 11:02 (nineteen years ago)

GSOH!

I for years thought that meant: Good head of hair. Or some such.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 11:03 (nineteen years ago)

Good selection of hair?

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 11:05 (nineteen years ago)

There is only one acceptable form of hair on a man. Hair that stands to attention.

http://www.pathguy.com/john_tester_montana.jpg

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 11:08 (nineteen years ago)

got shit on head

― ONIMO ph34rz teh NOIZE (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 11:10 (nineteen years ago)

Great set of hooters?

― Dadaismus (Takin' Funk to Heaven in '77) (Dada), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 11:10 (nineteen years ago)

who i want to meet: robots and dinosaurs

― -- (688), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 11:12 (nineteen years ago)

interests: saving the world from the forces of evil

― -- (688), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 11:12 (nineteen years ago)

^^^^ these two belong to an ilxor

― -- (688), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 11:13 (nineteen years ago)

johnny can you do a search and see if my profile turns up pls?

Here we go!

http://www.mysinglefriend.com/detail.php?|=zghghstmnop

― Hi There! Dear Johnney B (stigoftdump), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 11:34 (nineteen years ago)

The site has turned her brunette :(

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 11:40 (nineteen years ago)

You, I mean. Emsk, I mean.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 11:41 (nineteen years ago)

I would try and sign up for that, if a) I was more single b) I was confident I could find someone to give me a good description!

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 11:50 (nineteen years ago)

no it hasn't! thanks johnny...

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 12:30 (nineteen years ago)

"more single"?

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 12:31 (nineteen years ago)

Singler

― Dadaismus (Takin' Funk to Heaven in '77) (Dada), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 12:33 (nineteen years ago)

It's complicated - I've just started seeing someone, though, so I'd say I'm not single and not looking.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 12:36 (nineteen years ago)

are you on okcupid? you can be "seeing someone" there! it's awesome.

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 12:51 (nineteen years ago)

anyone know a way apart from editing the hosts file to block a certain website from working on your computer?

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 12:53 (nineteen years ago)

Ask your sysadmin? Or drink a lot of bromide.

FP - you could ask your new partner to write one!

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 13:05 (nineteen years ago)

Get the sysadmin to block it at the router?

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 13:21 (nineteen years ago)

Cockblocking the rooter? What's all this, we'll have none of that here...

― Dadaismus (Takin' Funk to Heaven in '77) (Dada), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 13:24 (nineteen years ago)

I just got the best leaving present from my friend at work and her daughter: a home-made chocolate Venus of Willendorf! (Whom I now resemble of course.)

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 13:39 (nineteen years ago)

Chocolate archaeology, yum.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 13:40 (nineteen years ago)

Wow!

(I have just applied for a job! Go me! I'm unlikely to get it, but you never know)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 14:32 (nineteen years ago)

I have applied for lots of jobs. It's terribly disheartening (I'm sure that's not what you wanted to hear, but, y'know, tell it like it is)

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

Just looking is disheartening.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

i've found some software that doesn't quite do what i said, but does the trick, so yay!

goodbye

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

What is it? I could definitely do with it.

Oh. Bollocks.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 15:38 (nineteen years ago)

For some reason I was thinking emsk was a small chinese woman. Hm...

Apropos of nothing:

Come to flickr and tell me how much you like my photos, please.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 15:49 (nineteen years ago)

From the previous thread, list of Plan B stockists:

LONDON
ICA
Phonica, Poland St
Rough Trade, Covent Garden
Rough Trade, Ladbroke Grove
Sister Ray, Berwick St

And, bizarrely, M2 newsagents, a non-descript little place on Drury Lane that seems to stock every magazine ever.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 16:36 (nineteen years ago)

I'll post this again incase some missed it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAf3b9B0MgU

and yes its better with the sound on. But if you know the tune it shouldn't matter I suppose.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 9 November 2006 01:54 (nineteen years ago)

Morning there! I feel ill today - was up being sick in the middle of the night - but I've come into work anyway. More fool me.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 9 November 2006 08:52 (nineteen years ago)

I'm having a second day illing in bed.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 9 November 2006 08:53 (nineteen years ago)

I stubbed my toe really baldy while I was putting the rubbish out, and now I've got an enormous gash where the end of my toe should be. It's really painful. Goodness knows what the plaster looks like now - I might replace it soon.

― Hi There! Dear Johnney B (stigoftdump), Thursday, 9 November 2006 09:20 (nineteen years ago)

Head full of mucus, slow day at work anyway, thank heavens.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 9 November 2006 09:46 (nineteen years ago)

I read Andrew's post as a Nine Inch Nails lyric.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 9 November 2006 10:12 (nineteen years ago)

i RIPPED AN ENTIRE TOENAIL OFF once when climbing up a slippery wall. the nail was painted silver so i kept it took pictures of it. wicked.

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 9 November 2006 10:43 (nineteen years ago)

(shudder)

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 9 November 2006 10:46 (nineteen years ago)

It's that kind of comment that will have the boys flocking :)

― === temporary username === (Mark C), Thursday, 9 November 2006 11:21 (nineteen years ago)

Ewwwwww

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 9 November 2006 11:22 (nineteen years ago)

I'm your Venus...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v208/slightlyfoxed/venus2.jpg

― art vandelay (what?), Thursday, 9 November 2006 11:25 (nineteen years ago)

Oops. At home ill so logged in as Matt.

― Archill (what?), Thursday, 9 November 2006 11:26 (nineteen years ago)

Mmmmmmmm!

(I was a bit puzzled there for a minute)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 9 November 2006 11:27 (nineteen years ago)

emsk = hardcore legend

― Hi There! Dear Johnney B (stigoftdump), Thursday, 9 November 2006 11:43 (nineteen years ago)

Ed, web cafe is not letting me email mobile number to The Hand, can you text him it if you're just lying there in a vat of Lemsip? Have no time to pursue it.

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 9 November 2006 12:13 (nineteen years ago)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wear/6132140.stm

What an arse..

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 9 November 2006 14:01 (nineteen years ago)

Bemoaning the stupidity of the Itchy and Scratchy generation.

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 9 November 2006 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

Only in Sunderland could a man stick a firework up his ass for lolz and expect to get away with it.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 9 November 2006 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

I knew you would love that especially Norman.
(you on AIM today?)

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 9 November 2006 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

Only in Sunderland could a man stick a firework up his ass for lolz and expect to get away with it.

erm Turbonegro gigs? Not rockets, though...

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Thursday, 9 November 2006 14:31 (nineteen years ago)

emsk = hardcore legend

nah not rilly. it was really cool how the raw bit under the nail turned back into toenaily stuff while waiting for the actual toenail to grow up and cover it though, it grew a thick sticky protective bit on top that gradually hardened and became like a thinner toenail. weird and gloopy and cool.

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 9 November 2006 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

Hello! I went home and lunchtime and slept.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 9 November 2006 17:28 (nineteen years ago)

Walking to waitrose and back wore me out. I think I shall see the doctor tomorrow.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 9 November 2006 17:29 (nineteen years ago)

bloody hell ed! i think what you have got isn't what i've got, it sounds like what kate had though.

one good thing - flat smells awesome again, potatoes roasted with shitloads of rosemary and salt and garlic.

one bad thing - i just downloaded some lily allen and i sort of like it.

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 9 November 2006 17:32 (nineteen years ago)

I failed to by any cake at the store, I got healthy things. Cake is very medicinal.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 9 November 2006 17:35 (nineteen years ago)

I have some weirdy snotty-nosed sort of a cold today. My nose has been running all day with the net result I feel dehydrated and shivery and I look like Peter Schmeichel (sorry for mentioning a f**tb*ller on your thread Kate).

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 9 November 2006 17:55 (nineteen years ago)

there's nothing wrong with liking lily allen! one of the nice things of being out of the media mainstream is that you are much less influenced by those kinds of preconceptions and just hear the music (ok ok and see the cute girls/boys).

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Thursday, 9 November 2006 18:05 (nineteen years ago)

Yeesh it's Friday - are you guys all sick today?

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Friday, 10 November 2006 09:50 (nineteen years ago)

I'm back at work myself.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 10 November 2006 09:52 (nineteen years ago)

(insert standard "not ill now, just sick as usual" joke)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 10 November 2006 09:52 (nineteen years ago)

I'm sick, but I'm back at work. Only two days left! So I thought I'd better drag myself in and tie up loose ends really.

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 10 November 2006 10:01 (nineteen years ago)

Tired & totally, totally fed up. Still here though.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 10 November 2006 10:01 (nineteen years ago)

When are you actually due, Archel?

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Friday, 10 November 2006 10:06 (nineteen years ago)

Not until 26th December.

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 10 November 2006 10:08 (nineteen years ago)

Off work today, again so I went to the doctor, nothing other than bad flu but a prescription for antibiotics if I feel bad tomorrow and it's pneumonia again. Also I have learnt that in the last two years my surgery has acquired a cute young doctor.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 10 November 2006 10:52 (nineteen years ago)

Hi all! Sorry you're still poorly Ed.

After putting my msf profile up last night (still no photo since I haven't got a good one - http://www.mysinglefriend.com/detail.php?|=zefqrefghcd - I purloined some of emsk's better lines for mine own) and got sent a message straight away - yay me! But then I get told I have to pay £20 for the privilege of sending and receiving messages - no-one told me about this! I've been tricked! Once I sort my photo out, I'm gonna cough up and get emailing, there are two or three ridiculously hott interesting women around Oxford on msf that I'd quite like to get to know better.

― Hi There! Dear Johnney B (stigoftdump), Friday, 10 November 2006 11:06 (nineteen years ago)

Not until 26th December.

One of my colleagues went on maternity leave - she worked until a week before she delivered, I think (maybe two). Now three months of maternity leave.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Friday, 10 November 2006 13:07 (nineteen years ago)

It's only just over six weeks away! How long maternity leave are you taking, Archel?

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 10 November 2006 13:10 (nineteen years ago)

Officially my mat leave doesn't start until 11th Dec, but I'm taking this year's and next year's holiday first. Then six months leave. Can barely imagine six whole months without going to work...

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 10 November 2006 13:11 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, babies are a skoosh, it'll be just like a big long holiday and you'll be dying to get back to your photocopier and annoying students and people stealing your stapler and whatever :-D

(do you have interweb access at home or are we losing you from here)

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 10 November 2006 13:13 (nineteen years ago)

A colleague in Hull is due to give birth on December 24th, but today's her last day at work before her maternity leave.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 10 November 2006 13:17 (nineteen years ago)

One of the girls in our office gave birth yesterday. She'd only been off for 2 weeks as well. I guess if the small person sleeps through the night and is well behaved, then the time off will be awfully easier.

― Hi There! Dear Johnney B (stigoftdump), Friday, 10 November 2006 13:22 (nineteen years ago)

Wow, I'm surprised that maternity leave is longer in the UK than in Russia. Must be the deleterious effect of EU socialism...

(Is that a correct use of "deleterious"? Is that actually a word?)

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Friday, 10 November 2006 13:31 (nineteen years ago)

I certainly don't imagine that my six months not here won't be work, just that it will be weird not going TO work!

We can take up to 12 months, mitya. But the second six months are unpaid, while the first earn you statutory maternity pay (not much but many employers top it up a bit at least for the first few weeks).

And yes I have broadband at home so you're not losing me :)

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 10 November 2006 13:34 (nineteen years ago)

You could always go back to work for a couple of days then go off long-term sick with some difficult-to-diagnose/prove condition, and get indefinite sick pay, whilst having fulfilled your maternity pay criteria by returning to work after your maternity leave.

― someone who doesn't know someone at all who did this, oh no (ailsa), Friday, 10 November 2006 13:37 (nineteen years ago)

Shocking!

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 10 November 2006 13:40 (nineteen years ago)

Imagine if you then had another child while on sick leave. Wouldn't *that* be shocking?

― not that i'm suggesting she wasn't ill (ailsa), Friday, 10 November 2006 13:41 (nineteen years ago)

Wow, I'm surprised that maternity leave is longer in the UK than in Russia.

In Russia, babies have you.

― === temporary username === (Mark C), Friday, 10 November 2006 13:51 (nineteen years ago)

Wheres Kate?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 10 November 2006 14:02 (nineteen years ago)

Diana Coupland from Bless This House has died :(

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6136408.stm

My mum and I were just talking about her the other day. I think she was in an episode of a program my mum watches (Doctors). And I was saying she was in Eastenders a few years back.

I love Bless This House.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 10 November 2006 14:07 (nineteen years ago)

This watercooler needs refilling.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 10 November 2006 16:31 (nineteen years ago)

I saw Borat at the cinema last night and it was good.

― g00blar (gooblar), Monday, 13 November 2006 07:29 (nineteen years ago)

Morning. Tiring weekend for me.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 13 November 2006 08:36 (nineteen years ago)

still ill but going to work, this is the worst pulmonary illness I've had since pneumonia.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 13 November 2006 08:38 (nineteen years ago)

Oh dear Ed. Sounds like you shouldn't be at work :(

Meanwhile... today's the last day I'll be typing on this keyboard, sitting at this desk, looking at this monitor etc etc UNTIL MAY NEXT YEAR. omg.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 13 November 2006 10:22 (nineteen years ago)

Whoa, that's awesome! Enjoy it? Or something.

― g00blar (gooblar), Monday, 13 November 2006 10:45 (nineteen years ago)

You're going to be hard pressed to top Teeny's birth announcment thread title, Archie.

I'm going to see "The Sound of Music" this week.

― === temporary username === (Mark C), Monday, 13 November 2006 10:55 (nineteen years ago)

With that terrible woman out of "How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria?" Lucky you :-/

I love The Sound of Music, unashamedly and unironically.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 13 November 2006 10:57 (nineteen years ago)

I remember starting a My Fair Lady vs Sound of Music thread a while back. If memory serves SOM started well, but MFL came back near the end. Neither are as good as Mary Poppins.

― Hi There! Dear Johnney B (stigoftdump), Monday, 13 November 2006 11:01 (nineteen years ago)

I love SOM too. Much more than MFL. Would be better than Mary Poppins too except (the film is) overlong.

I'm going to see Mother Courage with my mum in a couple of weeks. What a jolly pre-birth treat that will be...

Maybe I'll try to get tickets for Dirty Dancing for my first post-baby outing. (Although it's crap apparently.)

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 13 November 2006 11:04 (nineteen years ago)

I don't quite understand how it could be crap. I mean, of course it's crap, but isn't it essentially going to be the same kind of crap as the movie? (and thus, for some people, as I understand it, quite likeable)

― g00blar (gooblar), Monday, 13 November 2006 11:06 (nineteen years ago)

With its unexpected animated interlude, Mary Poppins was truly the Kill Bill of its time.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 13 November 2006 11:11 (nineteen years ago)

*Crickets*

― g00blar (gooblar), Monday, 13 November 2006 16:13 (nineteen years ago)

*Tumbleweed*

― g00blar (gooblar), Monday, 13 November 2006 16:13 (nineteen years ago)

I have never seen Kill Bill. Or Dirty Dancing, come to think of it. The animated bit in the middle of Mary Poppins is great.

I LOVE all musicals. Well, all that I have seen, anyway. People randomly bursting into song = top entertainment.

Neil and I are planning a trip to London shortly to see a show of some description at some point. Perhaps i should start a thread, unless you nice people want to tell me what would be good. And how far in advance the big shows sell out? Are those ticket booths in and around Leicester Square worth gambling on to get to see something?

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 13 November 2006 16:18 (nineteen years ago)

Are those ticket booths in and around Leicester Square worth gambling on to get to see something?

TKTS, in Leicester Square, is good for half-price tickets of most shows, except the very new and totally in-demand ones (right now, Dirty Dancing and Spamalot, I think). Dunno about the 'non-official' booths.

I want to see the new Porgy and Bess, even though the reviews have been pretty poor.

― g00blar (gooblar), Monday, 13 November 2006 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

I will start a thread nearer the time, as I want a better FAP than the last time I was in London (attendance = 3 people).

Neil wants to see The Sound of Music. Mark, can you Report Back and tell us if it's any good or not?

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 13 November 2006 16:27 (nineteen years ago)

Don't do it too near the time or I may be booked up, like last time.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 13 November 2006 16:32 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, it'll be well in advance, don't worry. It was supposed to be 27-29 December but I sort of packed my job in and we can't afford it any more. However I have just had an interesting phone call, and we may be back on again.

(not saying any more in case I jinx it)

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 13 November 2006 16:41 (nineteen years ago)

Avenue Q = laughing from start to finish.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 13 November 2006 16:57 (nineteen years ago)

Morning. I had fun last night - I walked out of the crappy little mini-orchestra I've been playing in for the past couple of years, over an argument that started off about the washing up!

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 08:40 (nineteen years ago)

Wow! That does sound fun. What instrument do you play?

― g00blar (gooblar), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 09:03 (nineteen years ago)

Clarinet.

I will explain later.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 09:11 (nineteen years ago)

resisting temptation to bring out peter cook oboe joke.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 09:13 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, go on, you know you want to.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 09:37 (nineteen years ago)

I'd have thought you were more of a skilled player of the pink oboe

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 09:46 (nineteen years ago)

*badoom-tish*

I have spent much more time playing the clarinet, though.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 10:22 (nineteen years ago)

Where's K8 anyway?

― g00blar (gooblar), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 10:40 (nineteen years ago)

Hi.

Here's a funny picture of Bill Gates fronting Secret Machines.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v717/dubsnack/tsm%20zune/IMG_4938Medium.jpg

I don't really have anything else to say.

― Dear Cafes of London (kate), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 11:15 (nineteen years ago)

HELLO!

― g00blar (gooblar), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 11:18 (nineteen years ago)

TSM have sold out to The Man!

― Hi There! Dear Johnney B (stigoftdump), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 12:08 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, but if you're going to, you might as well sell out directly to The Man, none of this sublieutenant nonsense.

A company a friend worked for used to be famous for their parties held at the end of a particular conference, one year they hired Spinal Tap, and their CEO got up and played with them.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 12:25 (nineteen years ago)

next stop: j.k. rowling fronting the puppini sisters

― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 12:46 (nineteen years ago)

I just had to break the news to half my students that I'm not returning to teach the second half of their course in the new year. They were sad. One of them asked if they could come visit me in London! :-(

― g00blar (gooblar), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 13:45 (nineteen years ago)

Aw! my husband still gets emails from students that he had to leave halfway through a course over a year ago to take a new job telling him they miss him and want him to come back.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 13:52 (nineteen years ago)

It was actually sadder to tell them than I thought it would be.. especially because I really don't want to leave. They're sweet kids, and (some) feel like I'm abandoning them halfway through. Of course they'll forget about me in a month...

― g00blar (gooblar), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 13:55 (nineteen years ago)

Did I miss the why of this g00bs? Didn't you just start this job?

Hi everyone. Work has been very stressful, lately. Let's discuss funny things today. Ha-ha-ha ho-ho-ho.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 09:29 (nineteen years ago)

Hello there.

Good news for today: my cat - missing since July - has been found! Hurrah!

On the other hand, I have a cold and can't stop sneezing.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 10:18 (nineteen years ago)

Oh hurrah for the prodigal kitty! That's a long time to be gone.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 10:20 (nineteen years ago)

He didn't come back by himself, either - someone about a quarter-mile from where he went missing has been feeding him for the past couple of weeks. They happened to go in a shop that still had his missing poster up, and recognised him.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 10:22 (nineteen years ago)

July?

Blimey, does he still recognise you?

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 10:24 (nineteen years ago)

That's rad FP, you must be so happy.

I read a script on the way to work that could have been, or indeed, maybe was, the tweeest thing ever. It was about a china rabbit 100 years ago who is sentient - or at least is the narrator of the story - even though he doesn't move etc. in the flesh, and how he is lost by his loving owner and finds his way from person to person over years and years, eventually being smashed by an angry barman and going to china rabbit heaven where he's a real, live creature and can be with all his beloved owners. Sounds sick-making, right? But it was BEE-UTIFUL. I am such a sap.

What else is good/funny? I am going to The Sound of Music tonight, which will I assume be amusing in some way (actually, I'll probably love it - full report tomorrow).

― === temporary username === (Mark C), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 10:25 (nineteen years ago)

At least your cat wasn't locked in a shed all that time, surviving on drips of condensation and the occasional mouse, FP.

Glad you've got him back!

― C J (C J), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 10:28 (nineteen years ago)

Sounds like a Hans Christian Anderson fairy story. I think there's one about a teapot?

(a quick google later . . . )

http://www.andersen.sdu.dk/vaerk/hersholt/TheTeapot_e.html

Actually, that's nothing like the china rabbit.

Oh, and yay to FP's wayward cat!

― Hi There! Dear Johnney B (stigoftdump), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 10:30 (nineteen years ago)

Glad your cat came back, FP.

That happened to my brother, too. His cat went missing. He ended up moving to a different neighbourhood. One day he went back to his old neighbourhood, and stopped off at a deli - sure enough, there was his cat hanging out in the window. The people at the deli had been feeding her scraps.

They were nice about it, and let him take his cat back. And then he ended up leaving her at our mum's house because she had become an outdoor cat and couldn't handle living in a flat any more.

― Little Star of Bedlam (kate), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 10:31 (nineteen years ago)

Blimey, does he still recognise you?

As soon as he heard me get home yesterday, he was all over me.

Mark, have you read The Collector Collector by Tibor Fischer? It has a similar premise, but is much, much better than that sounds. And not twee either.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 10:33 (nineteen years ago)

So have I missed anything, except the usual?

― Little Star of Bedlam (kate), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 10:52 (nineteen years ago)

Pretty quiet around here, gotta say (Hi everyone!).

Mitya, I'm not returning next term (although it breaks my heart) because I have to finish this dreaded PhD by September, and have had no time to work on it with two teaching jobs.

― g00blar (gooblar), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 10:56 (nineteen years ago)

I've been sick as a dog and it looks like I am going to miss a second weekend of camping as a result

I reorganised my kitchen though. I have more counter space now. I just need to find some stainless steel splashbacks and I can finish it after, what, four years of living there.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 10:57 (nineteen years ago)

Oh no! If you finish your kitchen, that means I am lazy if I haven't finished mine. No, wait, you have been there four years and I have not been here one yet. Phew. Rubbish that you have been so sick, though! Take Zinc tablets.

I am going on a business trip tomorrow. Pretty exciting. Not. OK, I'm going down to Brighton, which should be nice. Certainly better than Milton Keynes, which is the only other business trip this place has ever sent me on.

― Little Star of Bedlam (kate), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 11:02 (nineteen years ago)

Definitely better! Any free time, or is it just solid work wizardry stuff all day?

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 11:24 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know. Our meeting starts at 12:30, will go on for god knows how long (MI meetings usually drag on for hours). I don't think I have to be back at work afterwards - so I might be up for dinner and a little FAP after, depending on when my boss goes back to London. I still have your number, I think, so I'll text you when I know what's happening. Would be lovely to see you!

― Little Star of Bedlam (kate), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 11:29 (nineteen years ago)

yay for kitties, counter space, and brighton, that's all i can say.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 11:33 (nineteen years ago)

Cool, maybe hear from you tomorrow then :)

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 11:46 (nineteen years ago)

Sometimes I get the feeling I'm just a completely different species from the other people I know. :-(

― Little Star of Bedlam (kate), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 12:32 (nineteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/116/298021335_4a3f2185e1.jpg?v=0

I really like this photo of anthony's.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 13:13 (nineteen years ago)

There is nothing better on this earth than Egg Mayonaise. I say, sir, this egg sandwich isn't eggy enough! I know, I'll put some eggy paste on it!

God, I love eggs. Truly, they are the food of the gods.

― Little Star of Bedlam (kate), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 13:39 (nineteen years ago)

Mmmmm, eggs.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 13:40 (nineteen years ago)

Any room on the egg train for me?

So, kids, it looks like I will definitely be in London at least Dec 7 (probably arriving quite late, though) through 10. My last experience meeting internet people was quite positive, so if you are all crazy freaks, please warn me now.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

I am a crazy freak. Just to warn you.

― Little Star of Bedlam (kate), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

You should be able to barrel in for the hstencil beard stroking FAP and then Poptimisim on the friday.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

Good timing, Mitya.

1. Today I have a GIANT SCREAMING HANGOVER caused by ahhhrt pahhrty around the corner from Bond premiere last night. Friend's film had its own premiere so we were VERY amused by penguin-suited freaks dashing any way they could get there to take their seats for The Queen.

2. If this wasn't bad enough friend offered to put me on list for ESG tonight and I am far, far too knackered to go. Probably going home to apply lashings of carbo comfort.

3. Playing hurry-up-and-wait with interview subject in NYC for the THIRD day running and this is INCREDIBLY annoying.

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 16:13 (nineteen years ago)

No eggs for me! (Eggy sandwiches, anyway)

Things happen!

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

Agreed that egg sandwiches are disgraceful. A truly noble sandwich requires two layers of marged-up white bread, some tuna pate, two strips of Parma ham, one slice of succulent turkey breast, and four slices of dry-cured French/German/Belgian salami, in each corner but overlapping one another. When I'm at home, that's basically breakfast and lunch rolled into one delicious, economical package... :-)

― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 16:18 (nineteen years ago)

I read that, and now I want to throw up. It is not clear whether the TUNA PATE or the MARGARINE is the trigger for the viscerality of this response. HURL.

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 16:22 (nineteen years ago)

my posts often have this effect :-(

― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 16:23 (nineteen years ago)

I'll be at ATP while mitya's here :(

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

Never mind, you can FAP with me instead (less exciting, I realise).

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 16:51 (nineteen years ago)

Yay!

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 16:58 (nineteen years ago)

(I take it you got tickets then. I am stupid mad excited about this here ATP malarkey. Man, Iggy Pop at Butlins! Best! Thing! Ever!)

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 16:59 (nineteen years ago)

Excellent!

If I go to Croydon, I don't have to get a train until 11.30! Yay, sleep in tomorrow. Oh wait, but I have to get a bus to Croydon and lord knows what could go wrong with that. Unless... I suppose I could get a Southwestern Train to Croydon. Though I'd have to walk or tram from West to East.

― Little Star of Bedlam (kate), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 17:53 (nineteen years ago)

You should be able to barrel in for the hstencil beard stroking FAP and then Poptimisim on the friday.

..and a Gooblar show on the Saturday!

― g00blar (gooblar), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 17:53 (nineteen years ago)

(Totally jealous about ATP, btw. Couldn't pull the trigger on the tickets.)

― g00blar (gooblar), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 17:55 (nineteen years ago)

I am hoping to visit Croydon before too long myself.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 18:23 (nineteen years ago)

My work Christmas nights out were in Croydon :-/

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 18:25 (nineteen years ago)

Hello there! Work is fun today.

A while back, we bought a new software package, and bought the minimal number of licenses that my manager thought we needed. It was, of course, too few. This has resulted in rival offices fighting a licensing race - the first person in immediately tries to start up and log in all the PCs of anyone who might need to use that package at all, "otherwise we can't get any work done".

This was fine, until they took it a bit too far - and we discovered that the server for the package can't cope with, say, 10 simultaneous login attempts. It crashes. Oh, joy.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 16 November 2006 10:03 (nineteen years ago)

Doh indeed. I get to MAKE some new software today about Volume Correction and reclaiming settlement charges from our Data Collectors - I'm well excited! 60Gb databases, here I come!

― Hi There! Dear Johnney B (stigoftdump), Thursday, 16 November 2006 10:25 (nineteen years ago)

Doh! I will be in London on the evening of the 7th, but I will be getting a train at 9pm :(

― you win again, gravity! (tissp), Thursday, 16 November 2006 11:47 (nineteen years ago)

to where?

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 16 November 2006 11:55 (nineteen years ago)

Durham.

― you win again, gravity! (tissp), Thursday, 16 November 2006 12:02 (nineteen years ago)

"The Sound of Music" was totally rad! The girl off the telly is fantastic and totally convincing and winsome and perfect for the role. The leading man is a weak link but he's passable, not terrible. The kids are just cuteness personified - the only real beef is the fact that the first half is twice as long as the second and has almost all the good tunes - after the interval it's good but you feel it's shot its bolt rather. But yeah, if you like that kind of thing, go and see it - it's made me desperate to see the film again, which is lucky because it's apparently obligatory in the Sgs homestead :)

― === temporary username === (Mark C), Thursday, 16 November 2006 12:06 (nineteen years ago)

The film, the second half is as long as the first and is hella dull to the kids.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 16 November 2006 13:25 (nineteen years ago)

Leading man = last minute replacement for proper leading man who walked off due to girl-off-telly's diva-ish behaviour, supposedly.

I have a job interview in a couple of hours. Wah!

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 16 November 2006 13:33 (nineteen years ago)

GO TO THE PUB NOW.

(This may not be the best advice)

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 16 November 2006 13:37 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah...er, no. I may go later though.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 16 November 2006 13:41 (nineteen years ago)

I necked a double vodka in the pub before an interview once and got the job!

(ok, it was a shite job, but still...)

― ONIMO feels teh NOIZE (GerryNemo), Thursday, 16 November 2006 13:45 (nineteen years ago)

DO NOT ENCOURAGE ME (also I'm taking the car because it is MILES away)

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 16 November 2006 13:46 (nineteen years ago)

Leading man = last minute replacement for proper leading man who walked off due to girl-off-telly's diva-ish behaviour, supposedly.

Not according to any of the half dozen news items I've read so far, fwiw. But maybe I just don't want to think badly of her. She was pretty good.

― === temporary username === (Mark C), Thursday, 16 November 2006 13:50 (nineteen years ago)

My info comes from Digital Spy, so probably not entirely reliable.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 16 November 2006 13:53 (nineteen years ago)

OK, I have googled some other stuff now and it appears he went because he wasn't very good. Oh well.

(I didn't like Connie on the programme particularly, but she was indoubtedly the most Maria-like of the ones in the final and I imagine she will be very good)

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 16 November 2006 13:58 (nineteen years ago)

TISSSSSSP! (Perhaps we can FAP in a convenient train station :)

Is it Friday night yet? Am I done with this miserable report? Argh.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Thursday, 16 November 2006 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

People on the train were talking about how rubbish the leading man was.

I'm in Brighton now! Hurrah! I'm also stuck in a basement, boo. However, it's terrible weather, anyway.

I've decided to just "work" for the rest of the day from down here and go to the pub rather than take the train back.

― Little Star of Bedlam (kate), Thursday, 16 November 2006 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

TISSSSSSP! (Perhaps we can FAP in a convenient train station :)

Well, I will be around Kings X from about 7ish, I imagine. It'd be great to see you if you are around (as would it be great to see everyone else).

― you win again, gravity! (tissp), Thursday, 16 November 2006 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

hurrah hurrah i am working somewhere LOVELY

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 16 November 2006 14:43 (nineteen years ago)

hurrah!

(lovely enough to consider working there full time?)

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 16 November 2006 14:44 (nineteen years ago)

Is this the booking place?

(Emsk is a bookie, hah!)

― Little Star of Bedlam (kate), Thursday, 16 November 2006 14:44 (nineteen years ago)

Blimey, it's hot in this office. I can barely keep mine eyes open. Where's good to get coffee on Queen Street? I have to get some air!

― Little Star of Bedlam (kate), Thursday, 16 November 2006 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

I know a cafe on Endell St that does *very* good coffee. I've mentioned it before.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 16 November 2006 15:35 (nineteen years ago)

Greetings all. Last night I got to host a good friend I've known online for some years, UK music crit Angus Batey, who Kate will remember from A Sekrit List One Time. Grand fellow and it was a marvellous evening, from raiding the dying Tower Records to chatting about the future of the music industry over coffee and tea.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 16 November 2006 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

Oh! I know AB from waaaaay back in the day, before there was internets.

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 16 November 2006 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

Very cool, I'm not surprised there's a crossover there! :-) And of course he knows the good Mr. Stevie Chick and others, etc. Yeah, he was on a road trip through Nevada and California for a few days -- Vegas up to Reno and Tahoe, down through the Central Valley to Monterey, down through Big Sur to San Simeon, Santa Barbara and through LA to San Diego. Stopped by here last night, and he's now off to spend a little time in LA itself before flying out tonight. Good road trip all around, I'd say!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 16 November 2006 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

Jeez, I'm jealous.

― g00blar (gooblar), Thursday, 16 November 2006 15:41 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, having been through almost all that area myself one time or another, it's a pretty good way to get to know this part of the country.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 16 November 2006 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

yeh i would LOVE to work here full-time. and it is the booking place. i am an receptionist but it's fine - really nice people (also they are amenable to me dropping off cds by unsigned pop groups, hmm), internet whenever the phone's not ringing, mtv2 on a big screen (so i have just heard the my chemical romance smash hit for the first time). and it's in central london which i still ain't used to and love.

xposts

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 16 November 2006 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

Sounds AWESOME Emsk.

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 16 November 2006 15:47 (nineteen years ago)

srsly, congrats!

― g00blar (gooblar), Thursday, 16 November 2006 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

Mmm, lovely Mocha. Lovely brighton hipster boys what work in this office, wow, I might move to this office!

Ah, Angus, I think I remember him, yes.

― Little Star of Bedlam (kate), Thursday, 16 November 2006 15:49 (nineteen years ago)

Yay Emsk and a good working situation! Hopefully longterm!

I should drop other names from the past, Kate, let's see if that stirs them up to post if they google themselves. Greg Scarth, David Naylor...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 16 November 2006 15:51 (nineteen years ago)

Benjamin Curtis

― g00blar (gooblar), Thursday, 16 November 2006 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

Hush you!

I am going to eat nummy veggie food with Archel in a bit, hurrah! Oh, too long until dinner.

― Little Star of Bedlam (kate), Thursday, 16 November 2006 15:59 (nineteen years ago)

(Oh my lord, the missing Curtis Brother works in this office. Can I work down here on a regular basis, please?)

― Little Star of Bedlam (kate), Thursday, 16 November 2006 17:00 (nineteen years ago)

don't make fun of veterans!

― M@tt He1geson: Sassy and I Don't Care Who Knows It (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 16 November 2006 17:02 (nineteen years ago)

Eh? Who's making fun of veterans? There's hott boys in this there office. We don't have hott boys at the office in London.

― Little Star of Bedlam (kate), Thursday, 16 November 2006 17:04 (nineteen years ago)

He could always go down to London instead.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 16 November 2006 17:09 (nineteen years ago)

use your power to have him transferred.

We need to go walking as I have found brennevin schnapps flavoured with seville orange and ginger and I feel that this would be fortifying.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 16 November 2006 19:48 (nineteen years ago)

Mornin'.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Friday, 17 November 2006 08:00 (nineteen years ago)

Morning there Mr Mitya

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 17 November 2006 08:10 (nineteen years ago)

Good morning to you both.

― g00blar (gooblar), Friday, 17 November 2006 08:27 (nineteen years ago)

Good morning to you all.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 17 November 2006 08:27 (nineteen years ago)

Mornin all :)

The sky was a really weird shade of pink here this morning, and now it's chucking it down with Really Big Rain. Storms be a-brewin'.

― C J (C J), Friday, 17 November 2006 08:30 (nineteen years ago)

Ooh, I love skies that are slightly weird colours.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 17 November 2006 08:55 (nineteen years ago)

God, I love the sea. I love it even more when the waves get stroppy when a storm is coming.

Had a lovely supper with Archel (best veggie sausages I've had in ages) and then I walked down to the pier and sat and watched the waves for an hour. I think that's the most effective cure for melancholy I've yet found.

Maybe I should make like all the aging hipsters and move down to Brighton.

― Little Star of Bedlam (kate), Friday, 17 November 2006 10:08 (nineteen years ago)

I have a job interview in a couple of hours. Wah!

Well thanks to me being sensible and not listening to the advice of my so-called friends (GO TO THE PUB! GET DRUNK! - cheers lads), I now have a job again. Hurrah!!! Go me!!!

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 17 November 2006 10:09 (nineteen years ago)

WOOHOO! LET'S GO TO THE PUB!

― ONIMO feels teh NOIZE (GerryNemo), Friday, 17 November 2006 10:11 (nineteen years ago)

OK! (tomorrow, I take it?)

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 17 November 2006 10:13 (nineteen years ago)

Yes. You've got m@il.

― ONIMO feels teh NOIZE (GerryNemo), Friday, 17 November 2006 10:14 (nineteen years ago)

Yay Ailsa! Well done!

My colleague Big Dave - who is leaving in a week - has started clearing his desk. It will probably take him a week to do it, there's so much aging paperwork piled up there.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 17 November 2006 10:14 (nineteen years ago)

K8, there's a Jason S. interview link on the "Pete Doh/Jarvis" thread over on ILM.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 17 November 2006 10:15 (nineteen years ago)

Congratulations on the new job, ailsa!!

― C J (C J), Friday, 17 November 2006 10:16 (nineteen years ago)

Ugh, I'm so bored of Pete D. I don't want to have to wade through a thread about him.

― Little Star of Bedlam (kate), Friday, 17 November 2006 10:16 (nineteen years ago)

the orange and ginger booze also is made from rosehips

― Ed (dali), Friday, 17 November 2006 10:20 (nineteen years ago)

Kate, the interview's in today's Guardian.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 17 November 2006 10:21 (nineteen years ago)

Orange, ginger, rosehips... oh yes! The British Librarian suggested a walk - Leamouth Lighthouse and surrounds. He would very much like to join us.

― Little Star of Bedlam (kate), Friday, 17 November 2006 10:22 (nineteen years ago)

You don't have to, it's slap right down at the bottom.

Why it's there, I dunno.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 17 November 2006 10:24 (nineteen years ago)

Presumably because he is a better, more hardcore ROCK STAR that either Pete or Jarv by virtue of having been clinically dead.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 17 November 2006 10:25 (nineteen years ago)

He's still just trying to keep up with Sonic Boom and his collapsed lung a decade ago...

Wow. Pretty:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v89/Celitae/CA2.jpg

Right, better go do some Oracle shite.

― Little Star of Bedlam (kate), Friday, 17 November 2006 10:32 (nineteen years ago)

1hr traffic jam b/c someone had rolled their transit. Pretty heavy, 2 ambulances, 2 fire engines, loads of cop cars, the other carriageway shut off. by the time I got to where the van was, they were pulling it upright to get it on the back of a flatbed lorry. The fire brigade had cut the roof off the passenger cabin by the look of it. Bad, bad headache.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 17 November 2006 10:35 (nineteen years ago)

Morning! Apparently my girlfriend and I are lucky to be alive. Hooray!

― you win again, gravity! (tissp), Friday, 17 November 2006 10:48 (nineteen years ago)

how so?

I'm not going camping today, boo, anyone going to G00blar tonight?

― Ed (dali), Friday, 17 November 2006 11:15 (nineteen years ago)

Hooray Tissp!

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 17 November 2006 11:17 (nineteen years ago)

Congrats Ailsa! Congrats Tissp!

― g00blar (gooblar), Friday, 17 November 2006 11:27 (nineteen years ago)

GGGAAAAARRRGH PUBLIC TRANSPORT!! or more accurately, THE FUCKING TUBE. so i had to be here for 9 this morning, which would normally be fine, it's a 30 minute journey by bike. but i have all my camping gear and bike is not practical, so i planned to come by train and tube. even if everything had gone smoothly it would have taken TWICE AS LONG, but GGGRRRAAARGH. the s-lo was fine and on time and not packed, but as soon as i get down to the tube at highbury & islington and have decided not to get on the packed train standing there but wait for the next, they start announcing that there are no more trains as one is stalled at warren street. ok, i'll get a bus. as i swipe my oyster out i see i have been charged a quid for going NOWHERE. waited while like FIVE buses went past full of people. ARGH. why does anyone travel by anything other than bike?

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 17 November 2006 11:33 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, serious. By tube it took me near an hour to get from paddington to euston square this morning. WTF.

― g00blar (gooblar), Friday, 17 November 2006 11:35 (nineteen years ago)

You could have walked it in that time!

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 17 November 2006 11:36 (nineteen years ago)

I know! Except for the fact that it was totally gross outside, and I didn't know the tube would be so fuXored this morning.

― g00blar (gooblar), Friday, 17 November 2006 11:38 (nineteen years ago)

Why are you lucky to be alive, TISSP!

The moral of the story is - do not use Oyster Cards.

Oh, is Gooblar tonight? I will probably come, then. Is this the one in Islington? ANyone fancy a pizza or Indian Mission before the show, then? (probably more amenable to pizza)

― Little Star of Bedlam (kate), Friday, 17 November 2006 11:44 (nineteen years ago)

The Wilmington, 69 Rosebery Avenue, on at 10!

― g00blar (gooblar), Friday, 17 November 2006 11:47 (nineteen years ago)

That is, if I recover from the Malaysian noodles I had last night which seem to be fcking me up something fierce today.

― g00blar (gooblar), Friday, 17 November 2006 11:48 (nineteen years ago)

It does sound like a pizza event.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 17 November 2006 11:49 (nineteen years ago)

Why are you lucky to be alive, TISSP!

We took the car into the garage because it was making a strange noise from one of the front wheels (sounded like the axle scraping on something) -- turns out that it was the wheel hub; the bearings had gone which had destroyed the hub and proceeded to buckle the driveshaft.

The guy said he'd never seen anything so far gone that was still attached to the car!

Basically the wheel was ready to fall off. Could have been exciting at 70mph!

― you win again, gravity! (tissp), Friday, 17 November 2006 11:53 (nineteen years ago)

kate if i hadn't used oyster i would have been using cash (no point buying a paper travelcard as i'm not doing enough journeys today to make the cash up, i don't have a weekly/monthly travelcard as i have a LOVELY BIKE), so i would have lost more than a pound, i would have lost THREE pounds.

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 17 November 2006 11:53 (nineteen years ago)

This is the fault of the stupid Oyster system, not of cash.

TISSP, blimey, that sounds scary.

Ed, Pizza at the Rosebury Avenue La Porc, then?

I am now very very cranky and cross. :-(

― Little Star of Bedlam (kate), Friday, 17 November 2006 11:56 (nineteen years ago)

I will decide later on, see if I feel up to it but the signs point to yes.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 17 November 2006 11:58 (nineteen years ago)

what??

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 17 November 2006 12:00 (nineteen years ago)

My mom just joined myspace to send me a myspace message that said: "Gooblar rocks".

― g00blar (gooblar), Friday, 17 November 2006 12:20 (nineteen years ago)

AW!!

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 17 November 2006 12:27 (nineteen years ago)

I've just made her my 'friend'!

― g00blar (gooblar), Friday, 17 November 2006 12:31 (nineteen years ago)

Is Garu G's gran on Myspace yet?

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 17 November 2006 12:46 (nineteen years ago)

Hey all. Check out the grimm and troo kvlt tshirt this black metal guys wearing
http://www.darkdemons.com/002.jpg

Norman, if you ever form a black metal band, here's a warning for you. Don't get that guy in your band!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

Is a sheepskin bomber jacket a good idea?

― Ed (dali), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:45 (nineteen years ago)

I dunno; it looked good on Nigel Spivey!

― Little Star of Bedlam (kate), Friday, 17 November 2006 15:05 (nineteen years ago)

That guy is a lightweight (x-post)

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 17 November 2006 15:06 (nineteen years ago)

Did j00 see the pic of Abbath w/o corpsepaint in "terrorizer"? I was hoping he wd be really hott under all that, but sadly no. the track by his new band "I" wasn't that gr8 either (it was OK, but too sub-motorhead)

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 17 November 2006 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

Not read it yet , Norman.
You should form a black metal duo with Kate. Or perhaps some other watercooler members would join to make it a full band.
Can anyone think of a good name?

Did anyone notice the old person in that photo above? You think it's his granny?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 17 November 2006 15:20 (nineteen years ago)

God motherfucking damn, I'm now so pissed off again that I might have to take another week's break from ILX.

I'm not allowed to say anything, anywhere, without fear of offending someone.

― Little Star of Bedlam (kate), Friday, 17 November 2006 15:20 (nineteen years ago)

God motherfucking damn, I'm now so pissed off again that I might have to take another week's break from ILX.

This would be a great name for a band.

― you win again, gravity! (tissp), Friday, 17 November 2006 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

Take out your frustration and aggression by forming a BLACK METAL BAND!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 17 November 2006 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

Ed, sheepskin jackets are evil and not even JOHNNY MARR looked good in one (have been reading bad rawk tome picked up from work with relevant depiction).

Hooray otherwise.

I have finished a tranche of work and it's basically Miller time or would be if I drank beer. Howevs I just got finished and the banking will have to wait.

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 17 November 2006 15:41 (nineteen years ago)

I am off to birmingham and dublin next week and belgium the week after.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 17 November 2006 16:14 (nineteen years ago)

I guess that means we're not rolling walking until next year. :-(

― Little Star of Bedlam (kate), Friday, 17 November 2006 16:54 (nineteen years ago)

I can walk on the sunday.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 17 November 2006 16:55 (nineteen years ago)

It means Ed will be making with the beer transport, however. Silver linings?

GAH it is raining HARD in NW6. Watch out zone one!

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 17 November 2006 16:56 (nineteen years ago)

Which Sunday? Maybe we should revive the rolling london walking thread. But not tonight, I guess.

Bah. I'm now feeling so shit and so cross and so beat up from every angle that I'm not even sure I'm coming out.

So there goes the little social life I'm allowed to have any more.

Fuck the load of this. I hate people.

― Little Star of Bedlam (kate), Friday, 17 November 2006 17:10 (nineteen years ago)

let me know what you decide

― Ed (dali), Friday, 17 November 2006 17:20 (nineteen years ago)

Since you don't appear to be checking yr email... what time do you plan on going out, if you go out?

Maybe I'll just stop by yr house on the way to the train. And shout at random bikers/dealers if yr not in.

― Little Star of Bedlam (kate), Friday, 17 November 2006 17:33 (nineteen years ago)

I was jigsawing

― Ed (dali), Friday, 17 November 2006 17:33 (nineteen years ago)

Hope you feel better Kate and have a good time with Ed.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 17 November 2006 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

You have a SAW?!?!? Can I CUT STUFF UP?!??! I'm sure that would make me feel better.

― Little Star of Bedlam (kate), Friday, 17 November 2006 17:38 (nineteen years ago)

Good(?) Morning all. Man, it's horrid outside today (at least down here in East Sussex). November's finally having her revenge.

― g00blar (gooblar), Monday, 20 November 2006 09:18 (nineteen years ago)

Horrid here too.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 20 November 2006 09:20 (nineteen years ago)

BOO i have an head full of snot :( i thought the lurgy had gone away but on saturday i woke up with what felt like a lump of something in my sinus above my eye and it is still there and it hurts. i have tried decongestant pills, paracetamol, bouze, not eating dairy, inhaling salt water, lemon, honey, ginger, garlic, chilli, echinacea. the lemon-ginger-garlic-honey-chilli combo makes it feel better for a while and so does paracetamol, but nothing seems able to actually shift it. any suggestions? the internet says antibiotics :(

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 20 November 2006 10:10 (nineteen years ago)

other than that, brilliant weekend - i would never have thought it possible to be so warm sleeping in a tent in the uk in november! (no, i don't think it's connected to the above.) on sunday morning i woke up and my tent was frozen stiff but inside i was toasty warm cocooned in blankys.

also we made the biggest pile of grass in the world and jumped on it and rolled down. and we ate fried custard.

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 20 November 2006 10:12 (nineteen years ago)

xpost Oy. Yeah, I'd probably try antibiotics if all of that failed. I've been finding that taking one of these 1000mg bombs of vitamin c whenever I feel the least bit sniffly has worked wonders...but I'm pretty sure you're way beyond that by now.

(fried custard?)

― g00blar (gooblar), Monday, 20 November 2006 10:13 (nineteen years ago)

I avoided the antibiotics which my GP prescribed for me and said only get them if it feels like I'm still not 100% and it's been two weeks.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 20 November 2006 10:15 (nineteen years ago)

Good morning! I'm in a surprisingly good mood today!

Good weekend - happy fun gig on Friday, good rehearsal on Saturday, good recording session yesterday.

I have a new crush and all is well with the world.

Funny, I got that same Lurgy and mine was gone in a few days. I think it's because I take a Zinc supplement. I mean, I still have a bit of tickly throat every now and then, but I'm not less than 100%. Today I have supercrushpowers and I feel like 110%. Maybe. (Or it could be because my boss is on holiday.)

― Breaking Under The Crush (kate), Monday, 20 November 2006 10:19 (nineteen years ago)

Gig on friday was ace, please tell me there is a photo of you with the bandana G00blar.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 20 November 2006 10:21 (nineteen years ago)

Also

http://static.flickr.com/105/300237176_4d7358a512.jpg?v=0

― Ed (dali), Monday, 20 November 2006 10:24 (nineteen years ago)

Excellent, K8 (crush, mood, etc.). There may be a suitable bandana (is that spelled right?) photo, but it'll have to wait until later today when I'm out of the office and back to my mac.

― g00blar (gooblar), Monday, 20 November 2006 10:27 (nineteen years ago)

I had an interesting weekend. It did involve pushing a broken-down car down one of the busier streets in Hull (Spring Bank just as the football crowd was leaving) for several hundred yards; and it also involved bumping into my ex in a club. But overall, it was a good weekend I think.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 20 November 2006 10:32 (nineteen years ago)

DENIED!!! Oh well, stalking is better. Ne'er mind.

This is pretty:

http://static.flickr.com/104/300236938_1583dabbfd.jpg

― Breaking Under The Crush (kate), Monday, 20 November 2006 10:32 (nineteen years ago)

(ha ha, that was an x-post, don't want it to seem like I was talking to FP there.)

― Breaking Under The Crush (kate), Monday, 20 November 2006 10:32 (nineteen years ago)

I want to shin up and get the apples, but my shinning skills are not good.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 20 November 2006 10:33 (nineteen years ago)

ooh beautiful pictures! ZINC thanks kate, i knew there was something i was going to try to get on the way in to work today. it's frustrating because apart from that i feel totally fine - energy levels high, no fluffy brane (not fluffier than usual anyway), just a MASSIVE LUMP OF SOLID SNOT in my face. i have eaten three lemons in the past 12 hours already.

fried custard, yeh. a small girl (also the biggest hero of the jump-on-the-pile-of-grass game) rescued the remains of someone else's failed custard attempt, turned some of it into a ball and the rest into fritatas. yum.

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 20 November 2006 10:41 (nineteen years ago)

sounds like fun, I am gutted I missed out; but also I am glad not to have had a lurgy relapse as I am going to Birmingham, Dublin and Brussels over the next week or so.

I have scrubbed my flat till it sparkles though, I'm quite pleased with that.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 20 November 2006 10:45 (nineteen years ago)

ed it is BEAUTIFUL. roll on february.

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 20 November 2006 10:47 (nineteen years ago)

Are you coming to xmas stores?

― Ed (dali), Monday, 20 November 2006 10:48 (nineteen years ago)

I have revived the walking thread for the walk on Sunday?

The next question is *when* to try and plan ILX0pollooza. I'm thinking next year.

Also, I think I want to have a Winter Solstice Party. The 21st or 22nd of December (when I figure out which exactly is the Solstice).

― Breaking Under The Crush (kate), Monday, 20 November 2006 10:53 (nineteen years ago)

Damn you, Ed, I have had The Well Below The Valley stuck in my head all weekend. It gets spookier every time I hear it.

― Breaking Under The Crush (kate), Monday, 20 November 2006 11:04 (nineteen years ago)

Solstice is the 22nd of December this year.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 20 November 2006 11:07 (nineteen years ago)

Oooh, the 22nd. It's a sign, that's when my thing shall be.

― Breaking Under The Crush (kate), Monday, 20 November 2006 11:09 (nineteen years ago)

It is also a Friday I believe. An occasion for more mulling, black Morris dancing and the wearing of antlers.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 20 November 2006 11:11 (nineteen years ago)

So long as people aren't going away for that weekend!

I have suggested it to the band, as we were talking at the weekend about doing a sort of open rehearsal and party thing so my mum could hear my band and meet my friends.

― Breaking Under The Crush (kate), Monday, 20 November 2006 11:12 (nineteen years ago)

nope i can't do christmas stores, i have a wedding party that w/e. ceilidh on the 15th though?

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 20 November 2006 11:15 (nineteen years ago)

i shall be going along to that but not leaving turning up as late as I did last year.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 20 November 2006 11:18 (nineteen years ago)

When is the next Magpie's Nest? That should be soon, shouldn't it?

Damn, maybe I should put my head down and do some work. Internet be boring today.

― Breaking Under The Crush (kate), Monday, 20 November 2006 11:43 (nineteen years ago)

Same day as your gig, no?

― Ed (dali), Monday, 20 November 2006 11:46 (nineteen years ago)

OH NOES!!!! Argh, that is the third thing going on as the same day as our gig. Damn. I'm going to sulk.

...but really I'd rather look at pictures of the Prettiest Boy in ihe World. La la la la la.

― Breaking Under The Crush (kate), Monday, 20 November 2006 11:47 (nineteen years ago)

Next one is on the 11th December.

i really need to send out an invite to the 3rd.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 20 November 2006 11:49 (nineteen years ago)

It is in my diary!

I am teh stupid. Why do I continue to eat loads of sugary treats when I know it makes me go all ADHD? Now I can't focus on my reports and just want to bounce around like a ferret. OK, might as well add COFFEE to the mix.

― Breaking Under The Crush (kate), Monday, 20 November 2006 11:54 (nineteen years ago)

mm i am eating almond cookies.

i listened to spiritualized all weekend. i just want to lay in bed and listen to 'medication' over and over and over again.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Monday, 20 November 2006 12:09 (nineteen years ago)

YAY i feel a bit better. apparently what i needed was a bikeride.

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 20 November 2006 12:32 (nineteen years ago)

My lunch is so little!

I apportioned out my curry unequally last night, and I've picked up the tiniest little curry portion ever. Bah.

La la la la, cah-loo, cah-lay, finally The Mill On The Floss is picking up, now the BAILIFFS have been sent in. If I had to read one more idyllic scene of childhood, I was going to hurl.

― Breaking Under The Crush (kate), Monday, 20 November 2006 13:13 (nineteen years ago)

Also, I got so bored I added a SEXY NEW PHOTO (or rather a sexy old photo) to my MySpace profile. Probably in a fit of pique that PBW would not be my friend.

― Breaking Under The Crush (kate), Monday, 20 November 2006 13:16 (nineteen years ago)

OHIMGOD, I nearly forgot until I was filling out a MySpace Survey.

Did anyone else read the Observer this weekend?!??!

An article about ALEX JAMES' CHEESE FARM!!!!!!!!!

They showed a picture of his farmhouse and everything. God, I remember when it was on sale in Country Life. (I think - then again, all Cotswolds farms look approximately the same.)

The bad news is, though, that his cheese will only be sold in annoying stupid posh shops where I could never hope to get some. Bah.

― Breaking Under The Crush (kate), Monday, 20 November 2006 13:45 (nineteen years ago)

Not allowed to shop in posh shops, are you?

― g00blar (gooblar), Monday, 20 November 2006 13:51 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, but how on earth am I going to get to the Cotswolds until they start selling it at Harrods?

Unfortunately, there are no pictures so here is a generic Cotswolds farmhouse for comparison:

http://imagebank.ipcmedia.com/imageBank/0/06_40_53_m2.jpg

And here is Alex opening his mouth wide to eat some cheese:

http://www.megastarworldcup.co.uk/images/story/general/alex_james.jpg

― Breaking Under The Crush (kate), Monday, 20 November 2006 13:52 (nineteen years ago)

Is that a lot of hair over his left shoulder?

― g00blar (gooblar), Monday, 20 November 2006 13:54 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know what that is, actually. Maybe it's a monster.

Then again, he might be carrying his (equally floppy-haired) son on his back, which he was doing a lot in this article.

― Breaking Under The Crush (kate), Monday, 20 November 2006 13:56 (nineteen years ago)

Ha ha, I love this. I am nicking it:

http://myspace-702.vo.llnwd.net/00912/20/79/912239702_l.jpg

I need to learn how to mic drums.

― Breaking Under The Crush (kate), Monday, 20 November 2006 13:58 (nineteen years ago)

Using a cat in place of pillows is a new one on me.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 20 November 2006 14:32 (nineteen years ago)

It looks like it would be highly effective! OK, you might have to filter out the occasional Meow and Flutter, but still.

― Breaking Under The Crush (kate), Monday, 20 November 2006 14:33 (nineteen years ago)

ow ow ow

(this is also cat torture, people)

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Monday, 20 November 2006 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

That doesn't look much like a Cotswold farmhouse, Kate ... it looks more like a Cotswold Manor House. At least, people I know who live in Cotswold houses which look like that all call them "Manor" something.

― C J (C J), Monday, 20 November 2006 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

It's nice though. The Cotswolds are vair pretty.

― C J (C J), Monday, 20 November 2006 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

Well, it's a working farm that Alex has. (He makes cheese.) And the farmhouse does look a bit like that. (actually, his is a bit bigger and tweeer, if such a thing is possible.) Vair pretty indeed.

That cat doesn't look tortured to me, it looks very pleased with itself.

Also... argh, three gigs in a week? Can we do this (third is for a very worthy cause) or will it KEEEEEEEL me to do another gig - especially in the middle of the dreaded MONTH END??!?!

― Breaking Under The Crush (kate), Monday, 20 November 2006 15:05 (nineteen years ago)

(Despite all those bulletin things that go round, people can't *actually* tell when you're looking at their MySpace, right?)

― Breaking Under The Crush (kate), Monday, 20 November 2006 15:20 (nineteen years ago)

Nope.

― g00blar (gooblar), Monday, 20 November 2006 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

Yay! Despite the fact that my whole class suddenly found out about my band this past week (google, so much to answer for..), I have been reassured that I still have some authority as a teacher. Not one cheeky comment was made about teh band, or the fact that they're all secretly planning on coming up to ldn for our show on the ninth.

― g00blar (gooblar), Monday, 20 November 2006 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

Dude, I used to be in a band with a bloke who was a teacher. All his students thought he was the COOLEST TEACHER ON EARTH for being in a band. (OK, I think his students were a bit younger than yours - but they were in that awkward teenage stage where nothing is cool, especially your teacher.)

I thought we had rehearsal the day of your next gig, but it turns out we don't, so I shall endeavour to be there.

― Breaking Under The Crush (kate), Monday, 20 November 2006 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

(Also, it serves you right for a) having such a googlable name and b) using your real name in your band!)

― Breaking Under The Crush (kate), Monday, 20 November 2006 15:38 (nineteen years ago)

See, that's not the problem...they do think I'm the coolest. I just always worry that my, how you say, casual, teaching style, added to newfound band coolness factor will make them think I'm their friend, when actually I should be the dictator who gets cross when they use the semicolon wrong.

xpost yeah I know!

― g00blar (gooblar), Monday, 20 November 2006 15:40 (nineteen years ago)

It's not necessarily mutually exclusive.

Thinking back to school, if I thought a teacher was actually *cool* I'd try twice as hard not to mortify myself by looking like a nidiot who didn't know how to use a semicolon in front of them.

― Breaking Under The Crush (kate), Monday, 20 November 2006 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

Jaysus Kryste, I should know better than to google.

Mine eyes actually hurt from looking.

Sorry, I'm just having a My So-Called Life moment. Sigh.

― Breaking Under The Crush (kate), Monday, 20 November 2006 16:03 (nineteen years ago)

If I don't stop googling pictures of PBW I'm going to go blind, surely. :-P

― Breaking Under The Crush (kate), Monday, 20 November 2006 17:35 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, poor Benjamin Curtis, I am neglecting him.

http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g152/Lnachts/schoolofben.jpg

― Breaking Under The Crush (kate), Monday, 20 November 2006 17:46 (nineteen years ago)

Bandanna-rama:

http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i134/dgoobl/bandanna.jpg

― g00blar (gooblar), Monday, 20 November 2006 22:06 (nineteen years ago)

So, g00bs, who is "tramp in the closet" (one of your students?) and how can I meet her? ;)

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 08:07 (nineteen years ago)

lol nah she's a good friend (who's dating my drummer).

― g00blar (gooblar), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 08:13 (nineteen years ago)

So yeah, you can meet her!

― g00blar (gooblar), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 08:14 (nineteen years ago)

Ha ha ha, Bandanarama is great. That's a really good picture. Sigh.

ARgh, I think I've lost my Green Card. I'm not sure if I put it away somewhere for safekeeping, but it's not in my wallet any more. And that puts me in a bit of a panic.

OK, I haven't actually *used* my Green Card in ... oh, about 5 years, and the last time I did use it, I was told I shouldn't really have it as I didn't appear to be resident in the US any more. (Resident Alien kinda means *resident* after all.) I can't go through the hassle of getting it replaced again. Should I report it lost or stolen (in case some Terrist has made off with it) or just give up?

I suppose I should check my document box first.

― Breaking Under The Crush (kate), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 10:31 (nineteen years ago)

I am so fucking busy today.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 10:33 (nineteen years ago)

That's a really good picture. Sigh.

Hol'up. Do I know PBW?

― g00blar (gooblar), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 10:37 (nineteen years ago)

Yes.

― Breaking Under The Crush (kate), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 10:38 (nineteen years ago)

I mean I HAVE NO CLUE WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT, I'M SURE.

Never mind. I didn't say anything.

― Breaking Under The Crush (kate), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 10:39 (nineteen years ago)

Of course you're busy, Ed, you've been off sick for ages, haven't you?

I'm busy, too, but my boss isn't here to schooppa me.

― Breaking Under The Crush (kate), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 10:39 (nineteen years ago)

It probably shouldn't have taken me that long to figure it out. I'm slooooow.

― g00blar (gooblar), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 10:45 (nineteen years ago)

It's your fault. You brought him to one of our gigs last summer at the Windmill. He stood right under the light and so distracted me with his pointy nose that I kept forgetting how to play guitar.

Please don't say anything. I'd be mortified if he, like, found out.

― Breaking Under The Crush (kate), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 10:47 (nineteen years ago)

Ah, chill..I won't say anything (but jeez, no reason to be mortified, dude).

― g00blar (gooblar), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 10:49 (nineteen years ago)

No, it doesn't matter. I've exchanged, like 2 words with the dude in my life. I just don't want to make things awkward or anything.

Because my having a crush on someone is, like, the worst thing I could possibly inflict on a person.

― Breaking Under The Crush (kate), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 10:52 (nineteen years ago)

pffffff.

― g00blar (gooblar), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 10:53 (nineteen years ago)

Welcome to bizarro Kate world.

It's one thing to have a crush on a celebrity or something, but an IRL person? Honestly, I feel like I'm somehow insulting or demeaning him to presume.

Really, I just want to look at him. It's the same kind of aesethetic appreciation as listening to a piece of music. I'd like to draw him. I wish I could get him to pose for me as an artist's model, but it's such an odd thing to ask.

― Breaking Under The Crush (kate), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 11:00 (nineteen years ago)

Honestly, I feel like I'm somehow insulting or demeaning him to presume.

My (uninvited) advice? Wipe this out of your life. People be having crushes. You're smart, funny, cool, and grown-up. [/myownpresumption]

― g00blar (gooblar), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 11:06 (nineteen years ago)

It's pretty deeply engrained. The fucking schoolbus ritual. I was the Cootie Girl - if I even sat next to a boy on the schoolbus, there would be a chorus of "Eeeuuwww! Eeeuuuwww!!! The Cootie Girl LIIIIIKES you!" and sing the kissing song.

I know that shit is all 20 years ago, but that kind of deep-seated thing is quite a hard thing to shake off. Especially when you're not feeling too great about yourself in the first place.

If I crush on a man, I still think that people will find out, and mock him for it.

Who knows, maybe I'll get another song out of it. Back in The L011ie$, every time I got a mad crush, we had another radio hit in Canada. ;-)

― Breaking Under The Crush (kate), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 11:13 (nineteen years ago)

It's less the being off sick and more the deluge of work and travelling I suddenly have to do. It's good that suddenly we are busy, but a little more structure would be good.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 11:33 (nineteen years ago)

Busy is good, though! My boss left me a stack of stuff to do while she was away... problem is that once I finish something, i want to be able to cross it of and say DONE!!! but people keep coming back going "I know I asked for X, but actually, that's not right, really I want Y..." and start bugging you again.

I just want to turn around and say "you got what you asked for. Now back in the queue."

― Breaking Under The Crush (kate), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 11:39 (nineteen years ago)

WHY ARE PEOPLE IN MY OFFICE SO NOISY TODAY?!??!

This is starting to drive me nuts. We've got one person being trained, and the auditors in, so everyone is TALKING TALKING TALKING and I'm trying to do quite complex logical statements.

― Breaking Under The Crush (kate), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 12:02 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, Kate, I actually had bitchy folk writing Suzy *minus* people on the condensation on the bus windows when I was 10 or 11 - and people said the boy in question would catch cancer and not cooties. I'd just tell them they were as bad at science as they were at maths, although it still stung. If that didn't work, I'd find some way to draw blood.

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 12:50 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, Suzy, I'll go back in time and sort out my self esteem issues, that'll be really easy.

― Breaking Under The Crush (kate), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 12:51 (nineteen years ago)

AAARGH STUDENTS PLZ TO HAVE READ GULLIVER'S TRAVELS BEFORE COMING TO CLASS KTHXBYE.

― g00blar (gooblar), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 12:53 (nineteen years ago)

Also, Suzy, do you wanna go see The Prestige with me? Come on - David Bowie as Nicholas Tesla, surrounded by giant electric coils? I don't care how bad the film is, you know that will make it all worthwhile.

:-)

― Breaking Under The Crush (kate), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 12:54 (nineteen years ago)

sadly, tissp, i cannot for the life of me identify your location... ;-)

-- You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (papiermachealamphibia...), November 21st, 2006.

I can! It's right by the Cambridge Museum of Obsolete Technology.

(i.e. his back garden.)

-- Breaking Under The Crush (masonicboo...), November 21st, 2006.

do you guys ever fap cambridge?

― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 12:55 (nineteen years ago)

We have twice now.

Argh, MySpace won't let me download songs any more. I'm trying to get the new Bronsteins track. Has anyone downloaded it yet? And if so, can you mail it to me?

― Breaking Under The Crush (kate), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 12:58 (nineteen years ago)

Tesla Girls inna house innit? This is the film where *Bowie* looks like Ricky Gervais, korrekt?

I am busy tomorrow and Friday daytime and on a 1200w deadline for the latter day/ Sunday is a birthday. Mail me?

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 13:01 (nineteen years ago)

I just want to turn around and say "you got what you asked for. Now back in the queue."

-- Breaking Under The Crush (masonicboo...) (webmail), Today 11:39 AM. (later) (link)

You should have this at the foot of any document they write their req on, (of course they'd never sign it)

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 13:07 (nineteen years ago)

From http://roberthampson.com/news/index.html

"31.10.06. Loop reissues
I'd like to announce, after much pleading, badgering, coercement etc. from many (THANK YOU!), that I am finally putting the wheels into motion on a LOOP Reissue programme. No formal plans have been made as yet, it is very, very, very early days and it may take some time, but the intent is there after all this time. Seeing that 2007 will mark the 20th Anniversary of the release of HEAVEN'S END, I feel I have no excuses left to leave the material out of print. Hopefully, a full and extensive remastering process will be involved, but that's all I can say right at this moment. I will certainly keep you all up to date with further postings... "

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 13:40 (nineteen years ago)

Ooh, blimey! Excellent!

And yeah, Mark, I'm getting to that point. Not only has this guy asked for these changes he never specified in the first place, now he's not replying to the email I sent asking him what he *did* want.

OK, you have officially lost your place in the queue.

I'm going to do something else this afternoon.

It's very hard not to post pictures. But I think that would be too weird.

― Breaking Under The Crush (kate), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 13:41 (nineteen years ago)

Me: So how did we like Gulliver's Travels?
Students: YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!! WE LOVED IT!!!

[...five minutes later...]
Me: OK, so Gulliver falls asleep on the beach. What does he wake up to?
Students: http://www.atf.gov/kids/graphics/art_contest/dsc_554820%25.jpg

― g00blar (gooblar), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 13:53 (nineteen years ago)

OK, maybe you are being the Cool Teacher too much and you need to install some PH34R into them. Are you still allowed to CANE your students if they misbehave?

(And if you are, can I watch?)

― Breaking Under The Crush (kate), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 13:55 (nineteen years ago)

Nah, no caning. These are Canadian students; I can't even raise my voice without fear of a formal complaint being filed. (This explains why they all call me Mr. or even Professor G00blar...this also explains why all of their heads pop up when I swear)

― g00blar (gooblar), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

Ah, Canadians are so cute. Bless their little cotton socks and flip-top heads.

― Breaking Under The Crush (kate), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 13:58 (nineteen years ago)

TS: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/ef/Terrance_phillip.png/180px-Terrance_phillip.png vs. http://www.cmp-members.com/presents/pages02/img/sloan/sloan_photo.jpg

― g00blar (gooblar), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 14:04 (nineteen years ago)

Do you know, a few years ago someone (who was it? Mr. Noodles?) forwarded me a "How Canadian Are You?" test, and I passed for Canadian, because I could name all four members of Sloan.

I used to go out with* a boy who was obsessed with Canada, (to the point of writing a concept album about Canada) and he thought I was Canadian for the longest time. I mean, it was a reasonable assumption, as I was in a Canadian band (counted as CanCon and everything) touring with a grant from the Canadian Government at the time... I never had the heart to tell him I wasn't.

*actually, we weren't "going out" - we lived at totally different ends of the country, but our bands kept touring together and we kinda had a "tour thing" and you know what I mean.

― Breaking Under The Crush (kate), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 14:07 (nineteen years ago)

(We are totally going to have to have the "who is your favourite songwriter in Sloan?" conversation, but I fear the only people contributing would be me, you, and Noodles.)

― Breaking Under The Crush (kate), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

Also, for me, at least, that's not an easy question to answer, as it changes from album to album, with many different subtlet---ah fuck it, it's andrew, innit.

― g00blar (gooblar), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

Aaah, see in the early days of Sloan, it was Jay - certainly on Twice Removed and on One Chord To Another. I mean... Snowsuit Sound? The Lines You Amend?

But then I had a flip, and now it's definitely Andrew (though I haven't actually heard a Sloan album since Pretty Together).

(Though I've got a soft song for Patrick's ballads, obviously, as you can tell from my screen name.)

― Breaking Under The Crush (kate), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

Come on - David Bowie as Nicholas Tesla, surrounded by giant electric coils?

I'd just like to point out that I actually squealed with excitement when Bowie appeared onscreen (I had no idea he was in it).

This is the film where *Bowie* looks like Ricky Gervais, korrekt?

That's exactly what I thought!

― you win again, gravity! (tissp), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 14:22 (nineteen years ago)

do you guys ever fap cambridge?

I'm drunk right now

― you win again, gravity! (tissp), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

xpost obvs. Here's my brief synopses:

Andrew: Most consistent over time, cannot be pinned down--there's not really a definitive andrew type of song, except the sort that maybe rocks, but not in a way that's obvious at first?

Jay: Agreed about the early stuff, but mostly (and more and more as time goes on) he just annoys me. Worst voice of all four. And sure "The Lines You Amend" is great, but a LOT of that is Chris's bridge!

Patrick: I actually love a lot of Patrick's songs. He's a fantastic verse writer, but too often has horrible choruses. ("Stand By Me, Yeah", "Don't hide yourself away / Let it shine", etc.)

Chris: Obviously the most pop sense, with all the good and bad that implies. At his best, he's direct, funny, always melodic. At his worst he sounds smug, trite, and self-indulgent.

or something

― g00blar (gooblar), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 14:28 (nineteen years ago)

Awww, I love Jay's voice. It probably works best in their 4-part blends, but he's got such a pretty psuedo-falsetto that floats over the top of his pretty melodies. He's also got a great way with a hook, he's a good writer of choruses. (Maybe we could get him and Patrick to collaborate more.)

Andrew has the most... well, prog style of all of them. You know there will always be a key change or a meter change or something.

Chris just annoys me. Most of the time I find myself wanting to punch him. (Lead Singer Disease.) he sounds smug, trite, and self-indulgent sums it up for me.

― Breaking Under The Crush (kate), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

Also, Jay has the best sweaters. (And trainers, but that's despite the point. He once drew a picture of his trainers for me. I still have it in my sketchbook.)

http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/07.10.97/gifs/sloan-9728.jpg

Though don't make me drag out the photo of topless Andrew in the vinyl trousers. Oh my.

― Breaking Under The Crush (kate), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

Oof. Windows crash.

anyway: Agreed on Jay's hooks. His voice just always annoys the hell out of me for some reason. As for Chris: "Deeper Than Beauty", "Autobiography", "She Says What She Means", and (gulp) "Bells On".

fwiw, the new album's pretty good, at least compared to PT and Action Pact (ugh). It's a double cd, thirty songs, and therefore a bunch of filler. But it's loose, fun, with teh old spirit back again. Some good stuff on there.

― g00blar (gooblar), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

That's my kind of sweater.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

Hrmmm, maybe I should try and obtain it (the new one). I didn't like what I heard of Action Pact so I didn't bother with it, even though I actually really liked Pretty Together.

OK, Chris does have a clever way with words, I'll give you that. I just want to punch him most of the time. "Not another song in this key, yeah, but this one's about me" - best song ever written about the tension and jealousy of the two-band relationship, except he doesn't come out of it very well.

(I'm so confused, I'm carrying on two discussions on two message boards at once - TSM board is having an argument about which of Los Bros C has the best pout. Jeez... Like it's not obvious from the guitar-playing faces?)

― Breaking Under The Crush (kate), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

I suppose on this side, you'd have to say Jay has the best pout.

― g00blar (gooblar), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

Chris would like to think that he has the best pout, the way he works it:

http://www.ultrasonica.info/Entrevistas2006/sloan.jpg

But Jay's is best.

Sweaters like this make me wish I could knit:

http://www.helloyarn.com/highlandnorskfinished.jpg

― Breaking Under The Crush (kate), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 15:06 (nineteen years ago)

that canadian guy is looking very wanna-be-jarvis in that photo

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 15:20 (nineteen years ago)

he's looking a bit peter sellars in that photo.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

Sweaters like that makes me wish their makers couldn't knit. Possibly through use of force.

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

Make fun of Chris Murphy all you like. He is not the one I fancy. I will probably just agree with you, the more you mock him.

Dammit, PBW has fallen off the top of the thread. :-(

― Breaking Under The Crush (kate), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

Gooblar, look away now. I am going to terribly objectify your bandmate. Please avert your eyes.

http://www.fadingwaysmusic.com/images/bandImages/jimClements/profile.jpg

Sigh.

― Breaking Under The Crush (kate), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 15:40 (nineteen years ago)

Bernard Butler c. 1992?

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 15:47 (nineteen years ago)

Emsk and I predicted this would happen.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

This makes you guys clairvoyant HOW exactly?

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 15:51 (nineteen years ago)

No, Ed, you thought I would fancy his drummer!

There is no reason for him to be shot in profile like that, except "LOOK AT MY NOSE, KATE!!! LOOK HOW POINTY IT IS!!!!!"

That's just pr0nography for Kates.

Pointy nose, floppy blond hair, sideburns, pouty lips like an insouciant Rennaisance angel, eyelashes as long as a girl's - and then to make it just even more unfair stick him onstage with a telecaster, playing Richard Lloyd-esque riffs.

WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO?!?>!>? HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO REACT?!?!?

― Breaking Under The Crush (kate), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

Would it be terrible to say that in that photo, Tissp looks just the very tiniest bit like Brian from Westlife?

-- accentmonkey (tris...) (webmail), November 21st, 2006 3:18 PM. (accentmonkey) (later) (link)

This reminds me, I saw G4 on Sunday. Alongside a Britney Spears tribute act, and various soul destroying shenanigans from local radio "personalities".

― you win again, gravity! (tissp), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 15:53 (nineteen years ago)

And a great shirt, too.

("and you say you like my shirt (I like your shirt) and you say you've got a lot just like it (I've got a lot just like it) and I heeaaar you wrote a song about me (laaa la la la)...")

x-post

― Breaking Under The Crush (kate), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 15:54 (nineteen years ago)

Is that not the drummer?

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

If you don't fancy the drummer, why not? Even I fancy the drummer.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

What you actually saw G4, play, like live in person? Why, TISSP!?

Though I have better guitar pedals than him. Clearly.

He is a pretty good guitarist. Well... for a boy, that is.

― Breaking Under The Crush (kate), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

x-post, no, Ed, that is the *guitarist*. The thing with the strings on it, that you stand up to play? That's a guitar. Drums are the big round things that you sit down and hit.

― Breaking Under The Crush (kate), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 15:57 (nineteen years ago)

(Poor Gooblar, he is going to come back and find us discussing the hottness of his band. I do apologise. But now you know how I feel when people go on Shimuras threads and perve out about the other girls.)

― Breaking Under The Crush (kate), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

It was the Christmas lights switch on in Cambridge and I seem to remember something about being drugged and put in a van by my housemates

― you win again, gravity! (tissp), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 15:59 (nineteen years ago)

I believe they are brothers hence the confusion.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 15:59 (nineteen years ago)

This is the one that you and Emsk (and apparently the other half of my band) fancy:

http://myspace-746.vo.llnwd.net/01219/64/73/1219823746_l.jpg

― Breaking Under The Crush (kate), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

x-post BEING BROTHERS DOESN'T MEAN YOU CAN'T TELL THEM APART!!!

Next you'll be saying that Benjamin and Brandon are identical twins! Or being unable to tell AMP and Lisa apart. (I do have trouble when I'm recording them sometimes, if I don't tag the files, but that's their voices.)

― Breaking Under The Crush (kate), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

I seem to remember something about being drugged and put in a van by my housemates

And they took you to A G4 CONCERT?!?!? Dammit, I paid them to bring you round mine.

― Breaking Under The Crush (kate), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 16:03 (nineteen years ago)

Ha, if only

― you win again, gravity! (tissp), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 16:04 (nineteen years ago)

(God, I hope Gooblar's bandmates never read ILX like mine do...)

― Breaking Under The Crush (kate), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 16:13 (nineteen years ago)

Quiet day. The Loop reissue news is nice. I am listening to an early Psych Furs bootleg. All is calm.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 16:14 (nineteen years ago)

Who's your favourite member of Sloan, Ned?

― Breaking Under The Crush (kate), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think I ever followed them enough to have one! I like SIANspheric more in the end anyway (picked up their DVD cheap the other week).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 16:16 (nineteen years ago)

I do not want to be here. I do not want to be bugged by auditors or read about the sub-prime mortgage market. I want to go home! Because we have another recording session tonight!

― Breaking Under The Crush (kate), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 16:50 (nineteen years ago)

I want to go home and have a shower. I feel too scruffy to even be in the same room as anyone else.

― you win again, gravity! (tissp), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 16:54 (nineteen years ago)

Haven't I told you before to stop flirting with me? ;-)

― Breaking Under The Crush (kate), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 16:54 (nineteen years ago)

I'm D4vid G00blar and I approve of this thread.

― g00blar (gooblar), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 16:58 (nineteen years ago)

Not that I can remember (xpost)

― you win again, gravity! (tissp), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 16:58 (nineteen years ago)

Should we maybe de-google this filth before your students (and/or bandmates) find it?

― Breaking Under The Crush (kate), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 17:00 (nineteen years ago)

Up to you. I don't mind...

Off to get the train back to London. Night all.

― g00blar (gooblar), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 17:01 (nineteen years ago)

Hang on, aren't you supposed to be moving tonight?

(Suddenly I am getting teh ph34r. Like, remember when AMPy got on ILX with my screen name and started posting all about how much "I" loved football and crap like that?)

― Breaking Under The Crush (kate), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 17:43 (nineteen years ago)

Gah?

― g00blar (gooblar), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 19:49 (nineteen years ago)

That wasn't you?!

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 07:52 (nineteen years ago)

I am confusled now.

Still, I've already managed to piss one annoying truck driver off this morning. Hurrah! My work here is done (etc)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 08:33 (nineteen years ago)

It's a mystery. Is Gooblar moving, or isn't he?

Am I me today, or am I Amp? It's all too confusing!

I'm happy today, even though I have a horrid headache. (Teach me to go out of the house with wet hair, even though I wore a hat.) Recording went well last night, tra la la.

I think I like producing/engineering for the same reason I like crossword puzzles and maths. It's all about getting things to match up and in their right places. I can't believe we're running out of space, even though I've got 24 TRACKS. That'll teach me to double and triple track four-part harmonies.

But it sounds so lush....

― Breaking Under The Crush (kate), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 10:13 (nineteen years ago)

Also: Amp and I have made the most amazing gastronomic discovery. Green and Blacks Ginger Chocolate. OH GOD YES. Sticky and brown indeed.

― Breaking Under The Crush (kate), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 10:13 (nineteen years ago)

I am in a good mood today too although I have to drive to Dublin this evening, overnight ferry and Warnings of Gales in Sole Lundy, Fastnet and Irish Sea.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 10:17 (nineteen years ago)

that sounds like fun though! storms at sea!

yesterday nhs direct told me i should go see my doctor today, but then lovely girl at work dosed me up with l-lysine and citricide and this morning the problem is all but gone, yowsa! so i am gonna get some more of the magic potions on my way in today. citricide tastes RANK though. apparently they use it for cleaning hospital floors.

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 10:21 (nineteen years ago)

hi kate.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 10:21 (nineteen years ago)

Gales! Oh NO! Still, the trip sounds more exciting than anything I've got planned.

Headache here too, probably because I just woke up, and by this time on Mon or Tues I've usually had 3 coffees.

xposts

― g00blar (gooblar), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 10:22 (nineteen years ago)

citircide? is this for killing lemons grapefruit and uglifruits?

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 10:22 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, Stence!

Ooh, I think gales on teh Irish sea sound terribly exciting. But that might be because I've never been seasick. I like the boats when they toss about.

Citricide? DEATH TO LEMONS AND LIMES!!! WE WANT SCURVY!!!

Gooblar, did you move? And did Jim help you? Enquiring minds want to know.

― Breaking Under The Crush (kate), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 10:29 (nineteen years ago)

I am fairly hardy on the seas. I remember going to the isle of man as a teenager and eating a fry-up in the restaurant which is high up on the Front of the King Orry and the ship would crash down and send water streaming down the windows. The bummer is I have to grab some sleep and do a days work tomorrow.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 10:32 (nineteen years ago)

citircide? is this for killing lemons grapefruit and uglifruits?

Citricide? DEATH TO LEMONS AND LIMES!!! WE WANT SCURVY!!!

hah, this is pretty much exactly what i thought. it's extract of grapefruit seed, and i do not understand how something so foul-tasting can come from something so good-tasting. but whatever, it seems to work. i'm gonna go get me some more from planet organic.

also TODAY I GOT PAID hurrah hurrah i can pay december's rent *does a little dance*

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 10:32 (nineteen years ago)

kate can we hang out when i'm in ur town?

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 10:33 (nineteen years ago)

you're not here on the 3rd are you, I forget?

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 10:38 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, Stence! That'd be great. Especially if you're in South London. Though you get here the day after our gig, don't you?

Seeds of nice tasting things often taste nasty - see also apples. Because the tree wants you taking and eating the fruit, but it wants you leaving the seeds to germinate!

In the office, we are now talking about "is there anything that doesn't taste nice with chocolate?" The answer we found was "cheese".

But ginger chocolate and a nice red wine is a luurrrvely combination.

― Breaking Under The Crush (kate), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 10:39 (nineteen years ago)

Gooblar, did you move? And did Jim help you? Enquiring minds want to know.

Ahh, I just figured out why you were asking this. Um, pretty much everything I say on stage is an outright lie. No moving.

― g00blar (gooblar), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 10:40 (nineteen years ago)

ween.jpg

― g00blar (gooblar), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 10:41 (nineteen years ago)

cabbage. i have half a cabbage in the fridge. does anyone want it?

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 10:41 (nineteen years ago)

what day is your gig? i get in on the morning of the 6th. that's a wednesday. i'm going down to atp that friday, but i should be a blur of boooze and whatnot till then.

chocolate and cheese together can be quite nice.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 10:41 (nineteen years ago)

The illusion is shattered, I thought you lived a sit-com lifestyle.

(does your email work if I follow the instructions before the atmark?)

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 10:42 (nineteen years ago)

yessir.

― g00blar (gooblar), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 10:43 (nineteen years ago)

Green and Blacks Ginger Chocolate.

I am going to have to hunt this down, I feel.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 10:47 (nineteen years ago)

yeh, what about chocolate cheesecake? NUM. you just have to choose the right cheese. mascarpone, for example.

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 10:47 (nineteen years ago)

HI! i am on the left coast, and it's almost 3 am pacific time. that means you brits are about to go to bed, or something. i'd im wtih kate but she doesn't im, so whatever. anyways, i should revive my thread. i'll be in your country, hell, your city soon. be prepared.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 10:48 (nineteen years ago)

ps emsk = woman after my own heart

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 10:48 (nineteen years ago)

Marscapone is not really cheese though (it uses lemon h=juice rather than rennet to curdle it) chocolate marscapone cake is lovely though. As is chocolate cheesecake made with a really buttery cream cheese.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 10:49 (nineteen years ago)

I am devastated, Gooblar. I was entertaining images of a sweaty PWB lifting boxes and displaying his skinny-arse plumbers crack in a most appealing way.

I can't believe I wrote that. I should be flogged.

Anyway! Our gig is on the 6th, Stence, so you might make it! I don't know if you'll be up to a gig the first night in town, but it's us and the Pamphlet girls at the Social, and it'll be *very*. Are you FAPing on the 7th? I fear you'll miss Poptimism if you go down to Camber Sands on the Friday. (I am still waiting to hear if my sisX0r is going to be in town, but she hasn't logged into MySpace in ages. Maybe I should try another email address...)

― Breaking Under The Crush (kate), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 10:51 (nineteen years ago)

x-post, yes, mascarpone does not count as real cheese.

What else doesn't go with chocolate, then?

― Breaking Under The Crush (kate), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 10:51 (nineteen years ago)

feel free to make us all some, emsk!

that was an xpost, but maybe ed should be making it. either way - i'm not fussy.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 10:52 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, Dr Goobs, I've been wondering:

1) did you used to post as robogal?
2) where does your surname come from, anyway? It's rad but I can't place its origins at all.

― === temporary username === (Mark C), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 10:52 (nineteen years ago)

1) I think robogal was at one point in my fake email address, but it may have been a screen name too, i forget.

2. Yeah, we're not sure. Family's eastern european jews (obv), from russia mostly. Closest we could ever discover in terms of name origins was some similar sounding town name in Poland.

― g00blar (gooblar), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 10:55 (nineteen years ago)

Good question, I was sure it was some Sesame Street reference I couldn't figure out.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 10:56 (nineteen years ago)

What about cabbage cheesecake?

Garg, The Mill on the Floss is hard going. It takes Elliott about ten pages of dialogue to accomplish what a more precise writer (sayAusten) could accomplish in a paragraph. I keep getting impatient and wanting to shout at the book HURRY UP AND GET ON WITH IT.

I may not even persevere that much longer unless I become convinced that something might... you know, *happen*. I mean, I like my lugubrious Victorian prose, but this is just ridiculous. It should feel like I'm being drowned in treacle, but this just feels like I'm being burried in potatoes.

Someone else please to reccomend some more entertaining Victorian tomes, more in the spirit of Hardy or Thackeray.

― Breaking Under The Crush (kate), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 11:12 (nineteen years ago)

Jude, the Obscure Sub-Prime Lender?

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 11:17 (nineteen years ago)

I had a delicious piece of ginger cheesecake in Wagamama the last time I was in Leeds.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 11:19 (nineteen years ago)

That is a good book, indeed, but I've already read it at least twice.

Maybe I should actually give Dickens another go. But I'm actually quite scared of Dickens thanks to my education. If I was going to give Dickens a go, what should I start with?

I like melodrama and dark bits of Victorian London and biting sarcastic wit. Please to advise.

― Breaking Under The Crush (kate), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 11:20 (nineteen years ago)

x-post, ginger cheesecake is lush!

Also, I'm pretty sure I've had ginger cheese, as well. Possibly from Cheddar?

― Breaking Under The Crush (kate), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 11:20 (nineteen years ago)

Mystery DDB for your delight:

http://www.schwegweb.com/Images/photos/2006-10-31_secret_machines/secret-08.jpg

― Breaking Under The Crush (kate), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 11:23 (nineteen years ago)

I've definitely had ginger cheese - ginger Wensleydale, I think.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 11:24 (nineteen years ago)

Dickens, yuck. Sorry I will be no help - reading this stuff was the first time in my life that I ever found myself falling asleep from boredom (although it happens much more often now, such as this very moment).

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 11:24 (nineteen years ago)

(Mystery DDB may contain ginger, too.)

― Breaking Under The Crush (kate), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 11:24 (nineteen years ago)

I have my nice new old everyman edition of Pride and prejudice to read now. I blame all of you wimmins for this.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 11:30 (nineteen years ago)

plain cloth cover, 1966 edition, I can pretend that it has weapons specifications in it.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 11:31 (nineteen years ago)

Jane Austen is a delight.

Just remember not to take Darcy as your guide - he's supposed to be a prick! I just wish I could remember the name of the Bad Boy in P&P.

It's not Willoughby, he's in S&S. It's the other one.

― Breaking Under The Crush (kate), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 11:32 (nineteen years ago)

Bleak House, though long, is great.

― g00blar (gooblar), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 11:33 (nineteen years ago)

But is it *funny*? I don't mean ha ha ROFL mile a minute yucks, but I mean that kind of sharp wit and incisive commentary on human nature that makes Austen and Thackeray highly amusing.

― Breaking Under The Crush (kate), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 11:35 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know, sort of? There's lots of FOG and MYSTERY and a big chancery case, and mistaken identity, and lots of characters. It's pretty hardcore satiric at many points too.

― g00blar (gooblar), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 11:38 (nineteen years ago)

OOh, that sounds good. Whatever, it has *got* to be better than the Mill on the Sodding Floss.

― Breaking Under The Crush (kate), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 11:39 (nineteen years ago)

Mr. George Wickham!

My memory is going. Though maybe these are spoilers. But once you've read any Austen, you can spot the Regency Bad Boys a mile off.

(I still think you should have started with Sense and Sensibility first, though I know P&P is more canonical.)

― Breaking Under The Crush (kate), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 11:44 (nineteen years ago)

I have administered coffee and the headache still not going away.

:-(

― Breaking Under The Crush (kate), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 12:08 (nineteen years ago)

Not far off needing a thread 20.

I remember being on 18 and thinking "As long as they don't go all Hard Castle on us" but ah well...

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 12:09 (nineteen years ago)

I haven't thought of a name for 20 yet. Hrrmmmm.

― Breaking Under The Crush (kate), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 12:11 (nineteen years ago)

I was getting worried, the DCers are catching up.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 12:14 (nineteen years ago)

Hehe, one of my london students titled her file name for her Rape of the Lock essay RofL.doc

― g00blar (gooblar), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 12:15 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.northlan.gov.uk/living+here/roads+and+transport/road+safety/20s.jpg

― ONIMO feels teh NOIZE (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 12:17 (nineteen years ago)

It just means tabs to me, and I don't even smoke.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 12:18 (nineteen years ago)

Twenty Questions?

20/20 vision?

The Twenty Year Curse?

― Breaking Under The Crush (kate), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 12:26 (nineteen years ago)

20,000 leagues under the sea

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 12:28 (nineteen years ago)

A winner!

― Breaking Under The Crush (kate), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 12:29 (nineteen years ago)

Right, so only six messages to go until the 1,000 is reached. Five if you exclude this one.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 12:45 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe I'll decide to be perverse and let this one keep ticking over until 1001. Or 1005. Or 1100 for a change! Mwah hah ha ha hah!

Only another fifteen minutes to lunch. And nothing I can really accomplish in fifteen minutes. Maybe I should eat lunch early.

Oh, today is going to be one of those days. Where did the happy joyous rush of crush and happiness go? Now I'm fractious and bored. Bah.

― Breaking Under The Crush (kate), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 12:48 (nineteen years ago)

I cannot believe that I completely forgot about Between The Bridges.

I am a dummie.

Jay's songs are definitely the best on that one.

― Breaking Under The Crush (kate), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 13:25 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.sloanmusic.com/photos/small/photo336.jpg

― Breaking Under The Crush (kate), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 13:35 (nineteen years ago)

Shouldn't Watercooler 20/20 be called Mad Dog?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 13:40 (nineteen years ago)

Why? I don't understand that one.

― Breaking Under The Crush (kate), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 13:43 (nineteen years ago)

Oh god, I'm bored.

I suppose I have no option but to get back to work. Bah.

― Breaking Under The Crush (kate), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 13:54 (nineteen years ago)

Come to Lanarkshire, there's as many smashed bottles of MD 20/20 as there is of Buckfast.
http://www.bumwine.com/bumwine/md2020.jpg
http://www.bumwine.com/md2020.html

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 13:56 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.thedrinksgroup.co.uk/md2020.html

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 13:58 (nineteen years ago)

Huh. I did my underage drinking in Upstate NY. It was all about the Wild Irish Rose there.

― Breaking Under The Crush (kate), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

MD 20/20 is from NY according to that.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 14:00 (nineteen years ago)

Also popular is http://www.bumwine.com/tbird.html

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 14:00 (nineteen years ago)

Never heard of http://www.bumwine.com/wildirishrose.html before.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 14:01 (nineteen years ago)

Never drank Mad Dog in my life. I don't think I'd even seen it before moving to the UK.

Thunderbird, yes. Even Night Train. Colt 45 (distinct taste of old overshoe) and Pink Champale and other ghetto delights.

Boones Farm, too, but that's more for teenagers than winos.

― Breaking Under The Crush (kate), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 14:05 (nineteen years ago)

Ha ha, indeed, they even have a review of Boones Farm:

Boone's Farm just does not have enough alcohol per volume to be a bum wine. In a bum's mind, heavy-hitting competitors such as T-Bird, Rosie, and Wild-I leave Boones in the dust. If Boone's would make a 17% alcohol per volume version at the same price, perhaps bums would reach for it. This sugary swill is more of an underage drinker's economy wine than a bum wine. You won't find empty Boone's bottles in any rail yard or heating vent, but you will find it in the local bowling alley parking lot or make-out spot. There is just no bumvidence to substantiate the bumsworthiness of Boone's Farm.

― Breaking Under The Crush (kate), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 14:09 (nineteen years ago)

Argh, it's noisy in this office again, and I can't concentrate to start with. Music is making it worse, but without headphones, this place is unbearable.

Plus, my colleague's modem is making this weird, horrible techno noise and it won't stop. Argh.

Where did this sudden crankiness come from? It isn't far.

― Breaking Under The Crush (kate), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

FAIR.

― Breaking Under The Crush (kate), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

A new watercooler thread will herald a new dawn.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, alright...

UK Watercooler 20: Thousand Leagues Under The Sea

― Breaking Under The Crush (kate), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

Fare thee well, 19!

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

The average age of a watercooler poster was most definitely not N-N-N-N-Nineteen.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 15:08 (nineteen years ago)

Oi! Quit posting on this thread! Get on the other one!

― Breaking Under The Crush (kate), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 15:09 (nineteen years ago)

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