UK Watercooler "Is it because I lied when I was Seventeen?"

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Since 16 seems to have died a premature death.

Queen Kate's Rules apply, as usual.

Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 11:07 (nineteen years ago)

Let's start it off with G00blar's castle, since this did not attract enough comment:

http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i134/dgoobl/castleresize1.jpg

http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i134/dgoobl/castleresize2.jpg

Man I wish the view from my office looked like this:

http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i134/dgoobl/castlegardenresize.jpg

Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 11:10 (nineteen years ago)

G00blar needs to start smoking a pipe.

Ed (dali), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 11:16 (nineteen years ago)

so what happened to the old thread?

teh_kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 11:17 (nineteen years ago)

No idea. It just stopped working. Kinda like our MySpace, but I can blame the BBC for that. Maybe the BBC broke our thread, too.

Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 11:19 (nineteen years ago)

everyone's myspace is broke. i think myspace is broke.

teh_kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 11:20 (nineteen years ago)

Mine remains fine. I am special, clearly!

Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 11:21 (nineteen years ago)

Onimo broke it with his frivolity. THE INTERNETS IS SERIOUS BUSINESS, D00D.

teh_kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 11:22 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry man.

I just checked and I can open LOADS of myspace pages but not the SC one. It's a conspiracy!

Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 11:24 (nineteen years ago)

Let go.

aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 11:25 (nineteen years ago)

yeh, i can get to mine and all the others i tried.

emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 11:25 (nineteen years ago)

It's come back now, all of them have.

Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 11:26 (nineteen years ago)

oh yeah, mine works too now.

i don't know whether to LOL@aldo or destroy him.

teh_kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 11:27 (nineteen years ago)

Destroy!!!

Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 11:27 (nineteen years ago)

judging by his cider stash, he's destroying himself anyway. let's just watch him do that. and video it. and watch it again.

teh_kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 11:29 (nineteen years ago)

No, I've got a better idea. Let's nick his cider stash, and then he will REALLY be destroyed.

Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 11:30 (nineteen years ago)

Is that http://static.flickr.com/46/115757881_6d16dd30e4.jpg?

StanM (StanM), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 11:30 (nineteen years ago)

When you went to visit Gooblar?

StanM (StanM), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 11:31 (nineteen years ago)

No, that's Penshurst. Different castle entirely! In fact, totally different architectural style and all!

Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 11:31 (nineteen years ago)

...I suppose except for the brick Tudor wing to the left, but you can barely see it in that photo.

Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 11:32 (nineteen years ago)

Castle helps defence against all pre-gunpowder units.

teh_kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 11:33 (nineteen years ago)

OK, the spazz is just being weird fullstop. I'm trying to view my sisX0r's profile, and it says that you cannot view this person's profile unless you are their friend. And she is my friend! Or else I would not have had her turn up in my top eight to click through onto!

Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 11:42 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.contentinternational.com/images/new_films/Capture_the_castle.jpg

C J (C J), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 11:45 (nineteen years ago)

I'd link to the song, but whoops, it's down!

Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 11:46 (nineteen years ago)

Tuesday: I sign up to Myspace

Wednesday: Myspace completely broken

Aaargh! Paranoia!!!!!!!!111!!

Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 11:57 (nineteen years ago)

it's because you put that picture of your ass on your profile.

teh_kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 11:58 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't!

Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 11:59 (nineteen years ago)

And, anyway, it's not an ass, it's an arse. I am British, you know ;-)

* pours another cup of tea before going to colonise a few native territories *

Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 12:00 (nineteen years ago)

sure sure. no way to prove it now.

teh_kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 12:00 (nineteen years ago)

OK, this is frankly bizarre. Posts I made an hour ago are turning up to the other Watercooler only just now. Even though it totally timed out when I tried to post the first time.

And I've gone from spooky T.C. Lethbridge (how is the book, Ed?) to sunn0)))/BORIS again.

Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 12:12 (nineteen years ago)

Ugh ugh, why do I bother looking at ILM? It just makes me feel unclean these days.

Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 12:17 (nineteen years ago)

WHERE ARE ALL THOSE GHOST POSTS COMING FROM ON THE OTHER THEAD?!?!?

Mummy, I'm scared.

Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 12:19 (nineteen years ago)

Two threads in parallel - I think we should have a rule that we have to post alternately to each one, just to confuse people.

Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 12:19 (nineteen years ago)

haven't any time for more than a glance at the booklet. But there are some biographical essays/memoirs and a bibliography with a short précis of all of Lethbridge's books.

Ed (dali), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 12:20 (nineteen years ago)

no more rules, please.

teh_kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 12:20 (nineteen years ago)

More rules! more rules! Let's make more and more rules until it's so arcane and confusing not even cricket fans can understand what's going on! and then I can shout "OFF WITH HIS HEAD!!!" all I like.

Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 12:22 (nineteen years ago)

I'm squeezing your head

Ed (dali), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 12:23 (nineteen years ago)

things always come around.
big lolz: back when i first got on the interwebs, in like 1996, gee, i really took a lot of shit from a couple of sorry individuals at college who thought it was hilariously sad of me to meet and talk to people online. i just found their myspace pages. lololololololadinfinitum

teh_kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 12:24 (nineteen years ago)

And I've gone from spooky T.C. Lethbridge (how is the book, Ed?) to sunn 0)))/BORIS again.

Kate, check out Souvenir's Young America.

SOUVENIR'S YOUNG AMERICA - "s/t" LP - sounds like MOGWAI, RED SPAROWES,VANGELIS.
release date : 09.2006
http://www.syarva.com, http://www.myspace.com/souvenirsyoungamerica CD version available now on underardar records,http://www.underadar.com

If anyone wants the album ask Kate.

Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 12:26 (nineteen years ago)

tissp would love it. Where is he?

Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 12:30 (nineteen years ago)

Dunno. He's answering text messages but not web stuffs.

Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 12:30 (nineteen years ago)

my phone keeps forgetting the word 'frisbee'.
fucking thing.

teh_kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 12:35 (nineteen years ago)

New watercooler, oh my! Thanks for reviving my castle-bragging, K8. Suddenly living in Paddington seems even shittier--i didn't think that was possible. THANKS CASTLE.

xpost "keeps on forgetting"? Are you texting the word frisbee often? If so, awesome!

g00blar (gooblar), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 12:39 (nineteen years ago)

That sounds like a harsh commute.

Ed (dali), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 12:43 (nineteen years ago)

Your phone is being serious, kitster

Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 12:43 (nineteen years ago)

xpost Yeah, though it's more the expense than the time that bothers (£50, there and back, counting cabs). Tube to victoria, hour and twenty train to polegate, fifteen minute cab to castle. I am only going down once a week.

g00blar (gooblar), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 12:45 (nineteen years ago)

going down once a week can easily earn you back the cab fare

ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 12:47 (nineteen years ago)

Beware the dangerous ken; it lurks for days, seemingly invisible, before striking--without warning--with its deadly poison.

g00blar (gooblar), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 12:49 (nineteen years ago)

The main things I can remember about T C Lethbridge:

a) He had a theory that a certain type of archaeological site (possibly either brochs or semi-brochs - my memory is hazy) probably had tent-style fabric roofs, because the size and shape of their floorplan was very close to that of the standard British Army infantry tent of the time

b) Wasn't it him who used ground-probing techniques to discover lost chalk figures in the Gogmagog Hills? I've used ground-probing myself on a dig, and my experience is that it's not very reliable - it ends up being a join-the-dots game where most of the dots are missing.

Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 12:50 (nineteen years ago)

i know you knew i was gonna say this, but get a bike and ride it from home to victoria and polegate to the castle?

emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 12:59 (nineteen years ago)

You don't! In theory it can only happen if they click yes to you too.

(but some people put their usernames in their description to help you get around that)

Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 29 September 2006 08:51 (nineteen years ago)

xpost

You can't look at their profile from quickmatch, quite often people put their username in their description so you can get to the profile. Its up to them though.

Ed (dali), Friday, 29 September 2006 08:51 (nineteen years ago)

No, wait... Texas. NO! Too far away. And I hate Texas. Never mind, he's in OK actually. No, that's still too far away.

We Are The Village Green Psychiatric Society (kate), Friday, 29 September 2006 08:51 (nineteen years ago)

And I can't get it to show me only people who are in this country and of a reasonable age. :-(

We Are The Village Green Psychiatric Society (kate), Friday, 29 September 2006 08:54 (nineteen years ago)

I was SuperMatched (or whatever it's called) witha girl from germany. She was quite cute, and we exchanged a few emails - but GERMANY? If I can't be bothered to get to Germany, then Texas is deffo a stretch.

What's a reasonable age?

Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Friday, 29 September 2006 08:55 (nineteen years ago)

You can select area on Quickmatch - there's a box at the bottom of the page that you can put a location in.

Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 29 September 2006 08:55 (nineteen years ago)

Reasonably close to my age. I'm thinking 30 to 45.

x-post, that's what I did! And it still didn't show me people any closer.

We Are The Village Green Psychiatric Society (kate), Friday, 29 September 2006 08:56 (nineteen years ago)

I watched the Line of Beauty last night. Oh dear.

we watched SPICEWORLD! it is just as ace as i always remember it as being. this is how to do popfilms, people. i don't even like the spice girls (except 'stop' which rules) but i love this film.

happy birthday johnny b! what's your okc name? i want to see the serial killer pic.

ed, come to the artmusicpolitic shindig tonight in dalston: circus performers! gypsy beats! (whatever they are.) drum'n'bass! er, live acoustic ska! comfy sofas in an old converted print works and (probably) lots and lots of girls!

emsk ( emsk), Friday, 29 September 2006 08:58 (nineteen years ago)

Sounds really good but I am cooking for my mum and have to get up for an 8am train to bristol tomorrow.

Ed (dali), Friday, 29 September 2006 09:00 (nineteen years ago)

It doesn't show them immediately, because it queues up a few in advance. Once you've clicked through a few more, though, it should start showing UK ones at least.

Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 29 September 2006 09:01 (nineteen years ago)

OKC got me more action than anywhere else on the internet.

ken c (ken c), Friday, 29 September 2006 09:02 (nineteen years ago)

I am officially old - I fell out of the shower this morning. And landed on my hip (which gave me some hope as it didn't splinter or anything). Ow.

=== temporary username === (Mark C), Friday, 29 September 2006 09:03 (nineteen years ago)

OKC got me more action than anywhere else on the internet.

With a bloke named fraggle?

Ed (dali), Friday, 29 September 2006 09:04 (nineteen years ago)

But I want the cornfed Oklahoman DDB.

Oh, never mind.

Problem is, men "my age" never seem to want women "their age" - they want 25 year olds. :-( Age is stupid.

x-post ouch, Barry!

We Are The Village Green Psychiatric Society (kate), Friday, 29 September 2006 09:04 (nineteen years ago)

haha i forgot you met fraggle!

ken c (ken c), Friday, 29 September 2006 09:06 (nineteen years ago)

I think Kate and Emsk did too.

Ed (dali), Friday, 29 September 2006 09:07 (nineteen years ago)

Plus emsk totally talked to another okc buddy once at a Forget About The Sugar.

ken c (ken c), Friday, 29 September 2006 09:08 (nineteen years ago)

Fraggle?

teh_kit (g-kit), Friday, 29 September 2006 09:09 (nineteen years ago)

Emsk, shall we try and canoe a week on tuesday?

Ed (dali), Friday, 29 September 2006 09:09 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, was that that dude? I remember him. He chained his bike to Emsk's bike.

Am I invited to this Dalston shindog (ha ha, typo but it can stay), Emsk? Or is it only for Norf Londoners. Will there be hott boys?

We Are The Village Green Psychiatric Society (kate), Friday, 29 September 2006 09:10 (nineteen years ago)

haha kate yeah it was that dude.

ken c (ken c), Friday, 29 September 2006 09:12 (nineteen years ago)

Sigh. Men mine own age always have such terrible hair. :-(

Yes, I'm shallow, but I've become convinced that shallow is the only way to be. Perhaps that's hypocritcal, as I'm not prepared to look A Certain Way but I want my meng to look A Certain Way.

But I'm trying to do something about the weight and the resultant hideousness. So they can do something about their terrible haircuts.

We Are The Village Green Psychiatric Society (kate), Friday, 29 September 2006 09:12 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks to aldo I read every occurrence of "cheese" in this thread as "knobcheese" - it works so much better.

e.g.

"The more I think about knobcheese," wrote James, "the more I like it and the more I want some, which is why I'm taking matters into my own hands and venturing into the world of independent knobcheese making."

"My heart always beats a little bit faster in the knobcheese aisle of a French supermarket," added the star. "The Italians, too, eat more knobcheese than us, as do the Danes. Danish knobcheese is not as well known, but well worth exploring."

-- Johnny B Was Quizzical (john.barlo...), September 28th, 2006 2:53 PM. (Johnney B) (later)

Aw, what a hero.

I miss all the knobcheese I'm not allowed at the moment :(
Stupidly, I'm reading a book about knobcheese as well.

-- Archel (slightlyfoxe...), September 28th, 2006 2:58 PM. (Archel) (later)

etc.

Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 29 September 2006 09:15 (nineteen years ago)

maybe you should put the hair you want people to have on your profile.

ken c (ken c), Friday, 29 September 2006 09:17 (nineteen years ago)

My profile is stigoftdump. Which is a rubbish profile name. I use that as my login to EVERYTHING, and I didn't know that I'd be stuck with that as my profile name. The photo isn't as bad as I remember, but the rest of the profile is horrid. It sounds like an 18yr old.

Just cos your a hypocrit doesn't mean you're wrong. Any anyway, would older posh totty still look hot with DDB hair?

Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Friday, 29 September 2006 09:20 (nineteen years ago)

I did! I put it in the "message me if..." section - "you have a floppy fringe and pointed nose". For real!

It's just strange. I suppose *most* "normo" women don't like men with longer hair. I thought this was absurd, but I was looking through a magazine full of nekkid meng with my colleagues and the other Katies were all "nah, don't like his hair" for anyone that I thought was starting to look quite decent.

We Are The Village Green Psychiatric Society (kate), Friday, 29 September 2006 09:21 (nineteen years ago)

x-post, AW-G still has fairly reasonable hair, even for an older man. I'd be perfectly happy with someone with a regency/mod fop cut like that. It's this buzzcut thing (sorry) that I just can't find myself attracted to.

I mean, that was one of the best thing about the Line of Beauty - the hotttt boys. Men wore their hair longer and floppy in the 80s, and it just looked so much better.

We Are The Village Green Psychiatric Society (kate), Friday, 29 September 2006 09:22 (nineteen years ago)

yes! i was just about to say, anyone else want to come the the ampmusicpolitic thing? it is a fiver in and organised by some friends of mine. there will definitely be hott girls bc my flatmate is going and the russian. i hope there will be hott boys too. i've been to a few of their things before and there's always cool people to talk to... plus, CIRCUS STUFF!

emsk ( emsk), Friday, 29 September 2006 09:28 (nineteen years ago)

CIRCUS STUFF??!?!?!?!?

ken c (ken c), Friday, 29 September 2006 09:31 (nineteen years ago)

i wanna come.. when will this be?

ken c (ken c), Friday, 29 September 2006 09:33 (nineteen years ago)

I think I must be part of a demographic, I'd like a little diesel volvo c30, in red.

Ed (dali), Friday, 29 September 2006 09:34 (nineteen years ago)

Right now I am full off coffee and energetic and thinking "yes!" but we shall see how I am feeling later tonight.

I've been thinking about these things, appearance and shallowness, etc. But I suppose it depends - do you dress to express yourself, or to attract a mate, or both? One would hope that dressing to express oneself would attract a similar-minded mate. But dressing in the "I don't give a sh*t what I look like" manner gives more of a "keep out" message.

I always see, like, cute DDBs and then find myself hating the trendy fashiony Hoxtony girls they always seem to be with. But maybe that says something, really. But by equal measure, I could NEVER dress like a Sloaney girl to attract a AW-G type. :-(

We Are The Village Green Psychiatric Society (kate), Friday, 29 September 2006 09:36 (nineteen years ago)

Roxy Music or Bowie today?

We Are The Village Green Psychiatric Society (kate), Friday, 29 September 2006 09:39 (nineteen years ago)

Kate, you just came up in my Quickmatch too

I am full of thoughts about what I should be doing to end up in a relationship myself right now.

Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 29 September 2006 09:45 (nineteen years ago)

xpost Bowie.

Hi all; starting other new teaching job today, meeting students for "flash-round" style 15-minute whirlwind intros.

g00blar (gooblar), Friday, 29 September 2006 09:45 (nineteen years ago)

...see I think half my problem is I always end up identifying with the male half of the equation too much. I listen to Roxy Music and have the urge to wear louche suits and slick my hair back. When I should be looking at the gender appropriate image, which would be to lounge about in posh knickers like those models on the cover of Country Life or whatever.

It really is too bad I'm not gay. :-(

We Are The Village Green Psychiatric Society (kate), Friday, 29 September 2006 09:47 (nineteen years ago)

DDR Boys: Girls want to be with them and boys K8 wants to be like them (and be with them).

g00blar (gooblar), Friday, 29 September 2006 09:49 (nineteen years ago)

can anyone explain this DDR Boys thing? it comes up all the time, but i don't really get it.

teh_kit (g-kit), Friday, 29 September 2006 09:54 (nineteen years ago)

if you want to attract DDR boys just make sure you wear clothes with arrows on it

http://itg.ddrfreak.com/images/itg-screen.jpg

ken c (ken c), Friday, 29 September 2006 09:54 (nineteen years ago)

It's *NOT* DDR. It's DDB. Dirty Dronerock Boy.

I try to dress like the ladies in Country Life (the magazine, not the album) but I can't seem to quite get it right. I mean, today I've got on riding boots (fake, albeit), Liberty print shirt and tweed jacket. But it doesn't quite work on me.

We Are The Village Green Psychiatric Society (kate), Friday, 29 September 2006 09:57 (nineteen years ago)

yeah circus stuff! people doing cool things with their bodies, balancing on things and hanging from things and flying through the air. tonight! at passing clouds on richmond road. kingsland road end. i'll dig around for their site.

k8 maybe you need an eddie izzard type, not necessarily with all the makeup (though boys in eyeliner will always be rowr, right) and heels, but he always says he identifies as "male lesbian", whatever that means.

emsk ( emsk), Friday, 29 September 2006 09:57 (nineteen years ago)

Dirty Dronerock Boy

i know that much, but what does it meeeeeeeeeeaaaan?

teh_kit (g-kit), Friday, 29 September 2006 09:58 (nineteen years ago)

Dirty Dronerock Boys: Shag and Destroy

We Are The Village Green Psychiatric Society (kate), Friday, 29 September 2006 09:59 (nineteen years ago)

any chance of a summary?

teh_kit (g-kit), Friday, 29 September 2006 10:04 (nineteen years ago)

oh noes! tonight! i wish i knew before as I have just planned karaoke with folks :\\ you have to let me know of the next one though cos it sounds a lot of fun!

ken c (ken c), Friday, 29 September 2006 10:08 (nineteen years ago)

DDB = boy from a dronerock band. Usually skinny (drugs ematiated), long dirty hair, obsessed with the Velvet Underground, krautrock, etc. Usual uniform = tight jeans (often black), leather jacket, Chelsea boots, striped shirt or black turtleneck. Sideburns or "I'm too busy thinking about the future of conceptual art/where to score to shave" type facial accoutrements. Not too fond of bathing or washing/brushing their hair. Far too fond of mind altering substances. Guitar pedals and vintage synth gear a must.

We Are The Village Green Psychiatric Society (kate), Friday, 29 September 2006 10:09 (nineteen years ago)

...thing is, I don't even really want one of those any more. I want one who has grown out of conceptual art and drugs and rock'n'roll and now lives in a very big house in the Country and breeds sheep and makes cheese and builds elaborate sheds.

So, errrr, still Alex James, then.

We Are The Village Green Psychiatric Society (kate), Friday, 29 September 2006 10:16 (nineteen years ago)

do you dress to express yourself, or to attract a mate, or both? One would hope that dressing to express oneself would attract a similar-minded mate. But dressing in the "I don't give a sh*t what I look like" manner gives more of a "keep out" message.

but dressing to express yourself isn't dressing like you don't give a shit what you look like!

ken, www.artmusicpolitic.com

emsk ( emsk), Friday, 29 September 2006 10:27 (nineteen years ago)

It is, if what you're meaning to express is "I don't give a shit".

I've been dressing in the "this is the only clean thing that fits me" sense lately, which is terrible, and gives off a terrible impression.

And it's kind of the male version of that, just not being bothered, dressing like every other office drone in London, that I just find so unappealing. I'm sorry to put it that way, and I feel like such a hypocrite for saying it.

I mean, there's a difference between "I am too individual/cool/interesting (insert your own adjective here) to be bothered with fashion" and "I honestly didn't think about these clothes before I put them on me". I like the former. I don't like the latter. And I do feel I need to make more of an effort myself, in order not to be a hypocrite.

We Are The Village Green Psychiatric Society (kate), Friday, 29 September 2006 10:32 (nineteen years ago)

We've hit 1000. Time for a new one, methinks:

UK Watercooler 18 Certificate: Video Nasties

Virginia Plainsong (kate), Friday, 29 September 2006 10:42 (nineteen years ago)


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