UK Watercooler N-N-N-N-Nineteen: Purple heart Saigon

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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)

Skipping 917 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

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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