The mongrels are in the pocketbook, the sheepfuxors are by the bar...

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... and all the world is at their door!

(a continuation of: Mongrels of the world, join hands - Start a fuxor train, a fuxor train...)

― Surreal Addiction (Dee the Lurker), Sunday, 20 March 2005 04:59 (twenty years ago)

*sniff* it's beeyoodiful, just beeyoodiful

― gem (trisk), Sunday, 20 March 2005 05:01 (twenty years ago)

Man, I'll be ~~first~~ second post on their thread!

― Remy [(X+Y)(X+Y)= X^2 + 2XY + Y^2] (x Jeremy), Sunday, 20 March 2005 05:01 (twenty years ago)

(From "I Believe/All I Need To Know":

The taxman's in the pocketbook, the pressmen are by the bar
And all the world is at your door)

Thank you for this golden opportunity, you lovelies!

Yay! *kisses gem and hugs Remy*

― Surreal Addiction (Dee the Lurker), Sunday, 20 March 2005 05:02 (twenty years ago)

*engages in lively round of applause*

― gem (trisk), Sunday, 20 March 2005 05:03 (twenty years ago)

*tries to take a bow but falls over*

Oof.

― Surreal Addiction (Dee the Lurker), Sunday, 20 March 2005 05:06 (twenty years ago)

*still the ordinary guy you used to know, not after your money*

― Remy (x Jeremy), Sunday, 20 March 2005 05:07 (twenty years ago)

Remy, I'm building you a shrine.

― Surreal Addiction (Dee the Lurker), Sunday, 20 March 2005 05:10 (twenty years ago)

― Remy (x Jeremy), Sunday, 20 March 2005 05:14 (twenty years ago)

i predict that by the end of 2005 migration to the mongrel thread will make us a thread of immmigrants.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Sunday, 20 March 2005 05:52 (twenty years ago)

HEY MONGRELS. Anyone here got an AIM? I feel like GABBIN!!

― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Sunday, 20 March 2005 05:54 (twenty years ago)

i'm posting from my new library job. they have blocked fun stuff like aim. typical.

― gem (trisk), Sunday, 20 March 2005 05:55 (twenty years ago)

that is just RUDE of them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Sunday, 20 March 2005 05:56 (twenty years ago)

fine job Dee.

― moley, Sunday, 20 March 2005 08:01 (twenty years ago)

hello sheep-shaggers!!!!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 20 March 2005 08:03 (twenty years ago)

gidday mates

― moley, Sunday, 20 March 2005 08:10 (twenty years ago)

I've got more piss in me than a Cunnamulla dunny

― moley, Sunday, 20 March 2005 08:14 (twenty years ago)

OK I'm playing to the crowd

― moley, Sunday, 20 March 2005 08:14 (twenty years ago)

Cunnamulla dunny, yes?

― Remy (x Jeremy), Sunday, 20 March 2005 08:17 (twenty years ago)

From another page of Australian slang: "Brown-eyed mullet : a turd in the sea (where you're swimming!)"

Why is this deserving of its own slang? How common is the occurance?

― Remy (x Jeremy), Sunday, 20 March 2005 08:22 (twenty years ago)

The beauty of Australian slang is that the occurences are always commonplace; yet they are portrayed with such pungent laconicism that one sees them through new eyes.

― moley, Sunday, 20 March 2005 09:39 (twenty years ago)

The eyes of a sunburnt drunk

― moley, Sunday, 20 March 2005 10:20 (twenty years ago)

I like it when meat pies get called 'rat coffins'.

― estela (estela), Sunday, 20 March 2005 11:58 (twenty years ago)

There are strange and wonderful things being said here.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 20 March 2005 14:19 (twenty years ago)

where IS cunnamulla anyway?

― gem (trisk), Sunday, 20 March 2005 15:17 (twenty years ago)

Out the back of Woop Woop

― moley, Sunday, 20 March 2005 20:50 (twenty years ago)

'sup playas, playa-haters.

― 'haitch' (haitch), Sunday, 20 March 2005 22:55 (twenty years ago)

i r unwell.

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Sunday, 20 March 2005 22:56 (twenty years ago)

and yet oddly still at work

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Sunday, 20 March 2005 22:56 (twenty years ago)

i am tired of managing conflicting impulses

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Sunday, 20 March 2005 23:01 (twenty years ago)

i know what you mean. it's always like.. murder or suicide?

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Sunday, 20 March 2005 23:29 (twenty years ago)

obviously i'm kidding about the suicide

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Sunday, 20 March 2005 23:29 (twenty years ago)

and then its like knife or crowbar

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Sunday, 20 March 2005 23:32 (twenty years ago)

I R un well too urgh. Had a wee bit much to drink last night but it was fun! Lovely to meet Rob and Kit. Pity that pub sucked so hard from being crowded with dickheads.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 21 March 2005 00:10 (twenty years ago)

kit was drunk again?

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Monday, 21 March 2005 00:21 (twenty years ago)

i think so

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Monday, 21 March 2005 00:54 (twenty years ago)

I sold my iPod. I feel... bereft!

― 'haitch' (haitch), Monday, 21 March 2005 02:01 (twenty years ago)

was it loaded?

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Monday, 21 March 2005 02:16 (twenty years ago)

It was. I believe that it may only contain a Kylie greatest hits compilation now, though.

― 'haitch' (haitch), Monday, 21 March 2005 02:26 (twenty years ago)

I suppose Mainliner and Wolf Eyes may not have been to my sister's taste!

― 'haitch' (haitch), Monday, 21 March 2005 02:27 (twenty years ago)

you sold it to your sister? i thought you liked it.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Monday, 21 March 2005 02:34 (twenty years ago)

I did! I think I'm going to get a bigger one now though.

― 'haitch' (haitch), Monday, 21 March 2005 02:38 (twenty years ago)

Hey jim, found another thing you might like / be inspired by for your own music:

http://www.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewProfile&friendID=4397859&Mytoken=20050320185117

― moley (moley), Monday, 21 March 2005 02:57 (twenty years ago)

I had a fight on the internet. It was fun.

― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Monday, 21 March 2005 02:59 (twenty years ago)

is it good moley? i shall have to check it out when i get home..

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Monday, 21 March 2005 03:11 (twenty years ago)

mikey, what on earth are "yeastie girls"???

― 'haitch' (haitch), Monday, 21 March 2005 03:21 (twenty years ago)

haitch you ain't heard you suck?

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Monday, 21 March 2005 03:24 (twenty years ago)

I know you think it's a real drag
To suck my cunt when I'm on the rag
Quit making up stories, ah, give me a break
'Cause I really don't believe that you've got a headache
You tell me it's gross to suck my yeast infection
How do you think I feel when I gag on your erection? ugh!
You're wasting your tongue with lame excuses and lies
Get your face between my thighs

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Monday, 21 March 2005 03:28 (twenty years ago)

why on earth was I was thinking it might've been some bread-baking subculture, similar to all those girls who go to clubs and knit nowadays?!

― 'haitch' (haitch), Monday, 21 March 2005 03:37 (twenty years ago)

They're those big girls you see wearing capes, formless velvet dresses etc, who are into roleplaying, writing fan fiction about Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy banging and have very questionable hygiene.

Haitch, you're not too far off.

― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Monday, 21 March 2005 03:41 (twenty years ago)

hahaha

― 'haitch' (haitch), Monday, 21 March 2005 03:41 (twenty years ago)

I mean, what the fuck, knitting in clubs, fuck off!

― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Monday, 21 March 2005 04:10 (twenty years ago)

Quite a few of my friends knit at the pub, man. Its actually kind of nice, people come up and ask what theyre making, they can chat while they knit, means less smoknig etc... its refreshing! God people are so boring.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 21 March 2005 04:11 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, my sister knits at bars all the time. And she can outdrink Michael I bet. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 21 March 2005 04:12 (twenty years ago)

I'm not saying it's right, I'm just saying it happens at Revolver! it's HIPSTER KNITTING!!

xp: a-ha! pwned!!

― 'haitch' (haitch), Monday, 21 March 2005 04:13 (twenty years ago)

You should see some of the cool dolls and mokeys and shit my friend A has been crocheting. They rock! I should get her to crotchet me a Lenore.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 21 March 2005 04:14 (twenty years ago)

I might also point out hipsters are yet again ripping us off, the girls I know have had "stich n bitch" and knitting sesh's for years.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 21 March 2005 04:15 (twenty years ago)

or a crotchety mokey!

xpost

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Monday, 21 March 2005 04:15 (twenty years ago)

man, maybe clubs have changed. maybe its time for me to venture out again.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Monday, 21 March 2005 04:16 (twenty years ago)

don't risk it gaz.

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Monday, 21 March 2005 04:17 (twenty years ago)

CAN YOU KNIT BY STROBELIGHT?

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Monday, 21 March 2005 04:19 (twenty years ago)

Trayce, yeah, I can see that knitting might work over a couple of pots down at the Duke of Fuckington or whatever, but at a club? An honest to goodness house of ill repute, drinkn'boozn'sex? Hells no!

― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Monday, 21 March 2005 04:21 (twenty years ago)

I dont think ive ever heard of anyone knitting at a club.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 21 March 2005 04:31 (twenty years ago)

is it good moley? i shall have to check it out when i get home..
-- shine headlights on me

Well I think so.

― moley (moley), Monday, 21 March 2005 04:32 (twenty years ago)

It would appear there have been sightings.

― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Monday, 21 March 2005 04:34 (twenty years ago)

Mikey is besmirching the good name of the Yeastie Girls, though the EP title Ovary Action, one suspects, may well apply to both

INDEED I WAS drunk again! and also it was lovely to meet Jim and Trayce and Rob, thanks again for hospitality Trayce (and sorry for kinda disappearing hastily, it has been several years since I have a) imbibed from a b0ng and b) sat in an enclosed room with cigarettes (it's all j0ints in backyards these days) and parts of my bonce were going "um better get some air!").

at least Moley's moustache made it to that first pub

― kit, Monday, 21 March 2005 05:04 (twenty years ago)

Hehe yeah sorry it was so smokey, I should have opened the balcony door or something! How rude of me! =)

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 21 March 2005 05:06 (twenty years ago)

I admit, I had no knowledge that the Yeastie Girls were a band.

― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Monday, 21 March 2005 05:12 (twenty years ago)

That track is a Club Kooky classic in Sydney. It gets played a fair bit even now!

― moley (moley), Monday, 21 March 2005 05:22 (twenty years ago)

Yeah Abyss used to play "You Suck" alll the time. Isnt it a collab with Consolidated or someone?

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 21 March 2005 05:26 (twenty years ago)

yes indeed

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Monday, 21 March 2005 05:29 (twenty years ago)

I never thought they sold their case well. They didn't make it sound like a pleasure. I think they mentioned they were on their rags at one point.

― moley (moley), Monday, 21 March 2005 05:57 (twenty years ago)

Mr. Fake: hello
Mr. Fake: alone in an infinite universe
Cherry2000: hey!
Mr. Fake: every word falls from the page
Mr. Fake: and into oblivion
Mr. Fake: how are you?
Cherry2000: I am pretty damn good. Yourself?
********** at 6:46 PM Mr. Fake left the room
Cherry2000: Alone in an infinite universe.

― moley, Monday, 21 March 2005 07:48 (twenty years ago)

That was surreal, Moley. Wow. (And thanks, hon.)

I should get her to crotchet me a Lenore.

THE "cute little dead girl" Lenore?!?!?! You're also a fan of those comics?!?! *squeal!*

Anyway, you guys are so awesome, and thanks to this thread I now know some slang words from south of the Equator (that aren't in Spanish). Um, I would add more but my mind's suddenly become blank. I attribute this to general exhaustion as well as the fact that any rational-minded person living here would've had their butts in bed an hour and a half ago. But I'm still up. So -- yeah.

― Surreal Addiction (Dee the Lurker), Monday, 21 March 2005 08:16 (twenty years ago)

Well we think you're quite delightful. Don't we, you arseholes?

― moley, Monday, 21 March 2005 08:35 (twenty years ago)

nice to see you even bother reading my posts shithead.

(we do dee )

(kit do you work in arcH1tecture too? have you got a pony tail?)

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Monday, 21 March 2005 08:41 (twenty years ago)

aww you know mully, I never have the time at work to read this thread any more. But I still like to make the occasional post, just to take my mind off the job. I do little hit and run raids when no-ones looking.

― moley, Monday, 21 March 2005 08:46 (twenty years ago)

aussies are TE KEWLEST cause they're so HARDCORE that they knit at bars ... and can STILL drink yer poofy ass under the table!!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 21 March 2005 08:46 (twenty years ago)

fucking hell a cockroach just crawled onto the screen and i knew it would escape if i went to get something to squish it with so i jabbed it with my thumb and all this cockroach juice squirted all over the screen.

(just territorial pissing by me mole - i mentioned the yeastie lyrics about being on the rag upthread :P)

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Monday, 21 March 2005 08:48 (twenty years ago)

yeah, I scrolled up after you called me on it and was very embarassed.

― moley, Monday, 21 March 2005 08:50 (twenty years ago)

you know what you should do now? You should suck yer thumb. SUCK YOUR THUMB MULLY.

― moley, Monday, 21 March 2005 08:51 (twenty years ago)

i did. but i dipped it in me beer first to clean it.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Monday, 21 March 2005 08:52 (twenty years ago)

Are you single, Dee? Because around here we regard Mully as quite a catch.

― moley, Monday, 21 March 2005 08:57 (twenty years ago)

thenkyou moley.

i'm on the train tonight and mines bin cancelled so i had to get on another and it was packed as and we all have to stand in the aisle...and theres these central coast westies with their baby and 7 sprogs (you know them...he's in a tracksuit, is several inches shorter than her and has a catweazle beard. she's in a tracksuit too and has maybe blonde hair) and someone i think nudges the baby cot and she's UP : "Ya fuckin deadshits! thats a fucking baby in there! Get the fuck away from tha fuckin pram. You want a bit? Eh? EH? EH??? Thats right, look away, ya fucking prick...keep away from my fucking baby!"
(and continues to fume very loudly about how this prick who touched the pram was probably impotent and couldn't make a baby.

Then she apologised to the carriage but not to THAT FUCKING PRICK!

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Monday, 21 March 2005 09:04 (twenty years ago)

These things always happen to you.

― moley, Monday, 21 March 2005 09:14 (twenty years ago)

Heh. This BBC Pompeii thing is pretty bad! Random accents, theyre not even bothering with cgi but using old volcano footages! Gah! Its weird.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 21 March 2005 09:53 (twenty years ago)

the original You Suck was on the Yeastie's own EP, which was all acapella rap songs (except for one where one of them demonstrated to a live audience how to use a tampon applicator as a slide whistle), Consolidated redid it with them a few years later. when I get my MP3 blog up and running I'll put up OOP examples of each

"I know you think it's a real drag/to suck my cunt when I'm on the rag"

not to mention "I know you think it's gross to suck my yeast infection / how d'you think I feel when I gag on your erection?" whereas surely occurrences of the latter are the result of your own mishandling, and the gentleman in question possibly has a valid point regarding the former?

the EP also features the pro-masturbation ode Fuck Yerself and the condom PSA Put A Lid On It ("...boy, and let's screw!"). And one side of the label has a feminist textbook illustration of labia minora that they have turned sideways to make the querulous beak of a cartoon duck.

Mully yr googleproofing may have over-confused me but the answer is possibly yes. and I don't have a ponytail now but it was definitely a common utilitarian function of my hair length for the last nine years! (I am still going to email better when sober :( )

― kit, Monday, 21 March 2005 13:35 (twenty years ago)

mmmm starburst babies

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Monday, 21 March 2005 23:12 (twenty years ago)

OMG found another cool job, this one's as a trainer at Netspace. Brilliant! I'm in a mad panic now trying to get some referees together, as they want them with the application which is unusual. So I need to ask/warn a few ex workmates hehe.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 21 March 2005 23:37 (twenty years ago)

I can't even begin to keep up with all this. My head is throbbing like a bastard.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 21 March 2005 23:41 (twenty years ago)

That's the little man inside trying to get out. Cut him a hole. I promise it'll help! I'm listening to Stone Roses' 'Ten Storey Love Song' for the fifth time in as many hours. It's probably my favorite song of all time.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 01:04 (twenty years ago)

I gotta go fr a walk, my head hurts. Effing references. Why I gotta do this shit so close to easter everyone's on leave? Gah.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 01:23 (twenty years ago)

i don't think anyone is on leave yet, are they?

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 01:49 (twenty years ago)

gaz, check your gmail.

― moley (moley), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 02:28 (twenty years ago)

heheheheh

― moley (moley), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 02:33 (twenty years ago)

cripes

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 02:34 (twenty years ago)

you should be worried.

― moley (moley), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 02:36 (twenty years ago)

o man.

that is fucking classic.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 02:40 (twenty years ago)

send it me

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 02:44 (twenty years ago)

i just showed it to someone here who you know slightly and who knows yv*nne and she said "a malnourished merv hughes"

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 02:47 (twenty years ago)

ah it's the mo

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 02:50 (twenty years ago)

and WHAT a mo' by the sound of it!

― 'haitch' (haitch), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 02:53 (twenty years ago)

i've been in MEETINGS all morning argh kill me

― 'haitch' (haitch), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 02:53 (twenty years ago)

no kill ME FIRST my equity lecture melted my head. also the air con in our lecture theatre is brrrrrrrr frigid compared to 36 degrees outside. not happy.

― gem (trisk), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 03:20 (twenty years ago)

gale force winds predicted here!

PUT IT ONLINE MULLY. YOU KNOW THEY WANT TO SEE IT.

― moley (moley), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 03:34 (twenty years ago)

i'd love to. but how? shall i put it on the essbeeess website?

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 03:40 (twenty years ago)

yes!!!

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 03:45 (twenty years ago)

email it to me, i could put it online!

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 03:45 (twenty years ago)

ok if col doesn't i will later.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 03:46 (twenty years ago)

d34nj5@4nz.c0m (convert all numbers to letters except the 5)

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 03:46 (twenty years ago)

'tis done.

― moley (moley), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 03:53 (twenty years ago)

BAM!

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 03:54 (twenty years ago)

OMGWTF!

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 04:01 (twenty years ago)

Was he channeling the dudes at the pub we went to on Sunday or wot? heheh.

In other news Dom just phoned me and said he's gonna go over my CV with his workmate and then pass it to their guys who are hiring. Oh god, I'm gonna end up working with DOm. Again. Heh.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 04:02 (twenty years ago)

good luck Trayce!

― moley (moley), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 04:04 (twenty years ago)

Thanks! I feel like I'm going round in circles vis a vis jobs this week, and I'm hesitating at applying for the netspace job now... also I still havent applied for that writer/researcher one argh. I hate this crap. I just wanna be somewhere I already know how to do the work.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 04:06 (twenty years ago)

Hey it's a top week for us both! I just got a call from someone who wants to see me in person regarding a development/admin position, but because I'm so sick I can hardly see I came off sounding mentalist.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 05:02 (twenty years ago)

Aw no! You got the flu or sommat? Maybe in a day or 2 you can see him?

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 05:05 (twenty years ago)

Just a cold but yeah. He said he didn't want to see me this week anyway [phew] but he wants me to send him an email outlining any community service I do. WTF?? Who's got time to do community service with uni on part time? I was in Rotary when I was a kid.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 05:11 (twenty years ago)

Plus I find it really cynical to tell people what charity things I do in order to get a job. I'm going back to bed.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 05:12 (twenty years ago)

ihttp://www.armyradio.com/arsc/skin1/images/Lord_Kitchener.jpg

― not really here. (papa november), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 05:39 (twenty years ago)

God and now someone else is asking me to relocate to the ACT! It never rains it snows I wonder why, and now I know that when it rains it snows.

there's a nut with a shotgun bang-bang-bang

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 05:51 (twenty years ago)

Why in hells name would community service be relevant? I mean god it makes one sound like they escaped doing time ffs. I have never done volunteer work and the like unless you count endless hours of helping rellos with technical questions and doing nick's mums website fix up for nowt.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 05:55 (twenty years ago)

i do heaps of volunteer work and i always always always without fail get asked heaps about it in interviews (not that i've had all that many interviews).

i just got an email from one of the places i applied to for vacation clerkships saying "thanks for your application but if you want to be considered for an interview you now have to supply us with at least one written reference by next wednesday". is this a normal practice? no one has ever asked me to do that before. talk about a bloody hassle. not to mention why didn't they ask for it in the application? is it just a way of culling the hundreds of applicants? FUCKERS

― gem (trisk), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 10:08 (twenty years ago)

Charity work? Wow. That's a new one, I didn't know that was normal.

― moley, Tuesday, 22 March 2005 10:43 (twenty years ago)

well, new to me anyway.

― moley, Tuesday, 22 March 2005 10:43 (twenty years ago)

well my undergrad degree was psych and i always did lots of volunteering in drug rehab and with people with disabilities, so that was relevant experience when i was job hunting as a grad. then once i got a few interviews i realised how much they interviewers seem to love it so now i always put it down. at the moment i'm volunteering at the environmental defender's office, which is also relevant to the vacation jobs i'm applying for.

― gem (trisk), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 13:29 (twenty years ago)

Ah.

In other news:

The Dissociatives C or D?

― moley, Tuesday, 22 March 2005 21:10 (twenty years ago)

I have waiting for a star to fall by boy meets girl stuck in my head. My head must've woken up in the late 80's today.

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 22:08 (twenty years ago)

Nah Kate, some dropkick has remixed it into a massive club hit. It's all over the place atm.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 22:15 (twenty years ago)

Ahhhh....so i'm not completely mental.

It is sappy pap of the highest order.

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 22:16 (twenty years ago)

BOOYAH! Dom (my friend) has just called me and said "check yr email". They want me to come into N3wSat next week for an interview! Excellent, I may not have to go thru the apply-n-wait bullshit at all! Once again, friends come thru :D

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 22:17 (twenty years ago)

i have pile up on the highway by lisa bade in my head. so i too am in the 80's. lisa has feathered blonnde hair and wears a white shirt knotted above her navel and very short cutoff jeans. she is in a state of sexual delerium having just been involved in a massive car collision (the details, told in slo mo close up a'la peckinpah, note - in a rawk chick voice that could strip pain - "now i'm moving in slow motion, through a piercing steering wheel") what the hell though, Lisa crawls out, sticks out her thumb. "Pile up on the highway! Anyone going mah way?" shouts the chorus.

I'd gi her a ride, eh?

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 22:17 (twenty years ago)

Fuck yeah, it's 'orrible. I HATE HATE HATE megahit singles which are just some '70s/'80s song with a beat under it and/or some woman singing something else over the top [e.g. that Stevie Wonder 'Superstition' rip-off].

My old work doesn't do written refences, and won't allow its employees to issue them. I believe this is common practice now.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 22:18 (twenty years ago)

She might get guts on your upholstery though.

xpost

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 22:19 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, usually you can get a statement of employment and thats about it.

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 22:21 (twenty years ago)

it's generally not encouraged to issue them on company letterhead, but it's still pretty commonplace for written references to be issued.

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 22:21 (twenty years ago)

Awesome Trayce! You must be on the biggest high right now.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 22:21 (twenty years ago)

xpost

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 22:22 (twenty years ago)

Speaking of guts on upholstery, at 4am I woke up and coughed/sneezed approx. two litres of infected bile. Yay me. Now I have to formulate this letter I have to send to an employer about my charity work etc. and everything's spinning.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 22:22 (twenty years ago)

Yeah Adam's right, most places now have rules against written refs (in some cases, against giving a ref full stop) due to issues where they might be sued if the hiree ends up being arse. I think its fucking ridiculous. Stupid litigious society.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 22:23 (twenty years ago)

Adam: a high? Nah! haha.. I'm relieved, but now Im also needing to concentrate: I need to now bone up on a few things I dont know anything about, like SalesForce, and my knowledge of subnet masks which is a bit flaky, and I think this job means back to some tech support so argh I need to do a bit of weekend tech warrior studying... or something.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 22:24 (twenty years ago)

I lost my reference from my last job and it was shit anyway. It carried on more about the staff art exhibition I organised (a once only event) than the two years I worked there....probably just as well really.

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― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 22:27 (twenty years ago)

I need to now bone up on a few things I dont know anything about

Ah yes. Terrifying isn't it?

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 22:31 (twenty years ago)

Salesforce... I mean wtf. EVeryone used it at my previous job: everyone in bloody sales and marketing that is! Somehow I missed ever seeing it in use, in over 5 years. Ive gone to their website and it has some amazingly comprehensive intro vids, but you have to fill in a bloody form to get to them. I might just make shit up.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 22:34 (twenty years ago)

Fill in the form. Gaarn.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 22:43 (twenty years ago)

Yeah I did, I just filled it in with shite... watched the demo vids... and thought "why the hell didnt we use salesforce for our fault tracking!? We already had it for sales!"

44PT, in their infinite wisdom, chose not to use a ready-built, fantastic web interface for fault tracking and support that we already used for sales and marketing and instead, commissioned a seperate one to be bult by CA. Which cost millions. And is shit and does not work, so everyone hates it. Ah, corporate wisdom =)

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 23:22 (twenty years ago)

Wow sorry, that was really boring.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 23:22 (twenty years ago)

Not boring at all. Sounds like my old work, except they built all the software internally and never actually bothered to finish any of it.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 23:28 (twenty years ago)

Sorry Trayce, yeah, I have been a total nazi! Still, they started it. Well, no, actually, I did, but I didn't think it would be picked up - I don't have that many of that type on my friends list.

― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 00:55 (twenty years ago)

BUT REALLY, THERE'S A REASON THAT THE FISH ARE IN THE BARREL AND NOT SWIMMING FREE IN THE OCEAN WITH ALL THE OTHER FISH.

― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 00:59 (twenty years ago)

Hahah I knew you'd bite Mikey ;P But hey it wasnt aimed at you alone, or meant to be unkind. And at least you guys admitted it was a troll for fun, but fo serious, you're one of like half a dozen varying ppl on my Fl who are dissing goths, various writers who should be laughed at, and erm,... Ned. WHich I really didnt get *baffled look*.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 01:16 (twenty years ago)

(sorry everyone, me and mike referreth to an LJ post I made. Its locked so you'll only see it if you read my LJ...)

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 01:17 (twenty years ago)

probably not good politics to discuss people's friends-only posts

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 01:18 (twenty years ago)

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― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 01:18 (twenty years ago)

Eh its ok. The post is locked, so no one can read it anyway, and hell its not like a major bitchfest. Its simply a "why pick on the easily picked on?" rant.

And yeah, I dont think it is fair to pick on easy targets like roleplayers and LARPers and goths, especially when the assumptions made about them - even if exaggerated for effect - are usually really wrong. I know loads of roleplayer/geek/goth types and they're all intelligent, clean, employed, funny people. They arent furries or mouthbreathers or pansexuals (tho a v v small number are poly). Fuck some gamers I know arent even goths or into Trek or anything. Some of them are car worshipping western 'burbs normal dudes.

Some of them are lawyers. Some of them are GIRLS.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 01:23 (twenty years ago)

And conversely, I know a ton of gothly types who have never roleplayed in their life, hate sci fi and are married with kids or whatever.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 01:24 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I was just ranting about the stinky ones.

― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 01:55 (twenty years ago)

See now, I havent met many of those either. Maybe I move in the wrong (right? heh) circles...

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 02:01 (twenty years ago)

There is many a gothly stripe - but they all like their music dark and sexy.

― moley (moley), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 02:05 (twenty years ago)

Now THAT I can agree on :D

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 02:05 (twenty years ago)

Trayce, every circle has one or two of those types referred to as the Cat Piss Man.

― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 02:11 (twenty years ago)

Oh for sure. I'm just saying they're rare, not indicative of a subculture ;)

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 02:12 (twenty years ago)

Hell if anything, *I'm* the stinky hippy type one in my circle.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 02:13 (twenty years ago)

No Trayce, you wash and your wear too nice clothes.

XPOST: Jim, don't worry, there won't be any internet shitfights here.

― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 02:17 (twenty years ago)

I wash maybe every 2nd day, dude. And I dont usuall shave.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 02:20 (twenty years ago)

(on purpose mind, not cuz I'm lazy. I just think we westerners wash far too damn much)

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 02:20 (twenty years ago)

i shave every second day!

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 02:27 (twenty years ago)

how often is acceptable for cleaning behind ears?

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 02:34 (twenty years ago)

i'm obsessed with washing, i have multiple daily showers (including cleaning behind my ears). i have quite a lot of trouble reconciling this with one of my other obsessions about sustainability and dwindling water resources. but i can't give it up!

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 02:39 (twenty years ago)

use grey water!

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 02:41 (twenty years ago)

I found out last weekend at the home show that reusing grey water is illegal in Queensland. Interesting....and stupid.

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 02:43 (twenty years ago)

i understand it's illegal because of all the chemicals in omo and whatnot. so they don't really want that stuff leaching into water catchments after you water your garden with it. there are lots of ways of avoiding that though, they should provide means for people to reuse grey water.

i do stuff like pop a bucket under the hose for the rinse cycle and water my pot plants with it

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 02:55 (twenty years ago)

my parents reuse the shower and washing up water on the garden, they have a huge block and the garden would dry up and die if they didn't.

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 03:13 (twenty years ago)

i have pump water.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 03:16 (twenty years ago)

i have pimp water.

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 03:21 (twenty years ago)

what's that like?

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 03:29 (twenty years ago)

http://dirtysouthrap.com/getsomecrunkinyosystem/crunk.jpg

― 'haitch' (haitch), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 03:42 (twenty years ago)

good on your parents kate!! i wish my olds would do something like that. they fritter away copious amounts on their lawn and washing their cars every week, it makes me so angry. that's one of the 'subjects that must not be mentioned at the dinner table' for our family.

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 03:44 (twenty years ago)

like calpis water but more icky

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 03:52 (twenty years ago)

I'm in a flat, so I dont use that much water anyway. But I try and run the dishwasher only twice a week, wash clothes once a week, and only have a shower/bath every second day. I reckon I'm doing my bit ;)

(She says, trying not to sound simply like a lazyass stinko)

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 03:53 (twenty years ago)

Ha! My mum and dad are subdividing their block and making a new house. The new one is going to have solar power, solar water and rammed earth walls. My mum is a bit of a greenie. My dad does what he's told.

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― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 03:54 (twenty years ago)

or a stinkyass lazo

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― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 03:55 (twenty years ago)

according to my water bill i use a fair bit less than the average single person so that's good

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 03:56 (twenty years ago)

or lazy arsestink

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 03:58 (twenty years ago)

yeah i use less than the average single person as well. but seeing as i am adding to the massive trend of single-person households (which obviously use more water and energy per person than multiple person households) i feel a little guilty about that too.

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 04:07 (twenty years ago)

I dont get a water bill! HAR!

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 04:11 (twenty years ago)

I am like Palpatine, my words influence threads.

― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 04:15 (twenty years ago)

When the Thompson dam was built, we were promised never to have another drought in Melbourne.

There's not too little water, there're too many people. Culling should be introduced.

― Sasha (sgh), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 05:46 (twenty years ago)

quite right sasha. i propose that we cull people with fancy gardens first. or possibly the gardeners can go second, after ray martin.

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 06:04 (twenty years ago)

Farmers waste WAY more water than anyone in the city does (tho suburban giant garden people in Greensborough do as well).

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 06:10 (twenty years ago)

yep the vast majority of water is used in irrigating farms here too. i guess in my perception they have more functional aspects than pretty gardens though. that is arguable since it's only my opinion. but i do also think it's a bit mad the way we prop up/subsidise what are clearly dying agricultural concerns.

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 06:21 (twenty years ago)

also i can't remember what program i saw on abc last week where they talked about incentives offered to industry to reduce their water use? four corners? it was pretty interesting, they talked about how many thousands of litres are involved in making a car. and beer too. volumes that were completely beyond my comprehension! it was mostly places on the east coast though.

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 06:24 (twenty years ago)

Yes, Ive read a few articles of late that suggest our european style argribusiness is a big mistake and has ruined our land, and we have to stop growing stuff like wheat, and raising sheep and cattle.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 06:29 (twenty years ago)

well the grazing is probably not as big a problem as the wheat here in WA. salinity is a pretty big concern here, maybe the biggest concern at the moment, but that has more to do with land clearing than grazing (which doesn't absolutely require land clearing). all the clearing is also leading to huge amounts of climate change.

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 06:34 (twenty years ago)

I cut the top off a carrot and grew more carrots!

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 06:58 (twenty years ago)

Well done! *sticks a gold star on yr forehead* ;P

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 07:02 (twenty years ago)

Can I have a gold star? I am making ginger beer at home.

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 07:05 (twenty years ago)

How? My grandpa used to do that! I want to make root beer, but I think my closet is too hot!

― Remy (x Jeremy), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 07:13 (twenty years ago)

I will post the recipe tomorrow.

But so far you put 10 tablespoons of ground ginger and 10 tablespoons of sugar in a jar and every day for 8 days you add two more teaspoons of each. It ferments, yeast grows and it makes a "plant". After that it's x amount of gallons of boiling water to x amount of gallons of cold water and you bottle it all up for 8 days and it's ready to drink. Yum!

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 07:19 (twenty years ago)

yum indeed, i LOVE home made ginger beer.

i can't make anything, i'll never get a gold star at this rate

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 07:20 (twenty years ago)

I give you a gold star for honesty :)

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 07:22 (twenty years ago)

yay!

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 07:24 (twenty years ago)

*gold star for kate!*

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 07:27 (twenty years ago)

I dunno I just thought Ad's carrot thing was cute and primary school experiment ;D

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 07:28 (twenty years ago)

Did anyone ever grow sprouts in cotton wool in egg cartons at primary school? I remember doing that.

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 07:28 (twenty years ago)

yep we did. and i also remember making celery leaves go a different colour with food colouring

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 07:34 (twenty years ago)

Oh yeah, i remember that now you mention it. Must be standard primary school science lessons.

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 07:35 (twenty years ago)

I really want to make Ginger Bear! I will now!

― Remy (x Jeremy), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 07:35 (twenty years ago)

and growing a spud tuber from a spud suspended above a glass of water with toothpicks

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 07:36 (twenty years ago)

http://www.musselinn.co.nz/images/label%20thumbs/gingerbeer.JPG

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 07:36 (twenty years ago)

hurrah last day before nz holiday

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 23:31 (twenty years ago)

Where are you going?

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 23:41 (twenty years ago)

north island. auckland -> waitomo -> turangi -> wellington and then back via the east side of the island. fun!

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 23:42 (twenty years ago)

Oooh nice.

I've been to most parts of NZ but I haven't been to the east or west coasts of the north island.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 23:49 (twenty years ago)

Well, I've been to paradise, but I've never been to me. So there.

― 'haitch' (haitch), Thursday, 24 March 2005 00:20 (twenty years ago)

have you been undressed by kings? have you seen some things that a woman ain't supposed to see?

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Thursday, 24 March 2005 00:22 (twenty years ago)

Yes! But I'm not a woman, so it was OK.

― 'haitch' (haitch), Thursday, 24 March 2005 00:26 (twenty years ago)

wait...you're NOT a woman?

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 24 March 2005 00:31 (twenty years ago)

maybe I CAN be... for the right price!

― haitch wore a dress to a party once (haitch), Thursday, 24 March 2005 00:46 (twenty years ago)

His skin is as soft as a woman's.

― moley (moley), Thursday, 24 March 2005 01:13 (twenty years ago)

AH! You have a WOMAN'S skin!!

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 24 March 2005 01:32 (twenty years ago)

hanging up in the walk-in fridge

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Thursday, 24 March 2005 01:32 (twenty years ago)

/ed gein

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Thursday, 24 March 2005 01:33 (twenty years ago)

threadkilla

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Thursday, 24 March 2005 03:02 (twenty years ago)

...you know your mama is grieving.

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Thursday, 24 March 2005 03:03 (twenty years ago)

Anyone else have Q. Lazarus's 'Goodbye Horses' playing in their heads?

― Sasha (sgh), Thursday, 24 March 2005 03:08 (twenty years ago)

funnily enough, no.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 24 March 2005 03:16 (twenty years ago)

I don't even know who that is.

― haitchaetur!st (haitch), Thursday, 24 March 2005 03:37 (twenty years ago)

...and if Haitch doesn't know who it is, it can't exist.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 24 March 2005 03:38 (twenty years ago)

the 12" goes for mad dollars on ebay. other than that i have no freakin idea

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Thursday, 24 March 2005 03:39 (twenty years ago)

it's just occurred to me i've probably lost years' worth of useful knowledge in place of remembering ebay values of shite records

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Thursday, 24 March 2005 03:40 (twenty years ago)

But that is useful knowledge isn't it?

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Thursday, 24 March 2005 03:43 (twenty years ago)

that info could come in handy one day if you go on some obscure music quiz show

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 24 March 2005 03:44 (twenty years ago)

Like Spicks & Specks?

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 24 March 2005 03:45 (twenty years ago)

nah even i know the answers to the questions on spicks and specks. and i wouldn't know my arse from my elbow.

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 24 March 2005 03:47 (twenty years ago)

I can't do that thing where they sing a song with different lyrics from a book.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 24 March 2005 03:48 (twenty years ago)

i can but i have to sing/hum along out loud till the proper words come into my head, i.e. i couldn't just do it in my head the way they do on the show

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 24 March 2005 03:50 (twenty years ago)

o fuck what have they replaced lil britain with?

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 24 March 2005 03:58 (twenty years ago)

wraht ver feem toon, sing ver feem toon.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 24 March 2005 03:59 (twenty years ago)

Nighty Night. It's okay.
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― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 24 March 2005 03:59 (twenty years ago)

i hope it gets better.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 24 March 2005 04:00 (twenty years ago)

someone was talking about it on another thread.. can't remember which one

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Thursday, 24 March 2005 04:01 (twenty years ago)

Little Britain got really stupid towards the end. The last two episodes were totally pointless. If they do a third I don't think I'll bother.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 24 March 2005 04:11 (twenty years ago)

I. AM. SO. BORED.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 24 March 2005 04:23 (twenty years ago)

yeah well reading election commitments and trying to tease out which ones are actually new and which ones are sneaky rehashes of old ones isn't the most exciting activity f

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 24 March 2005 04:26 (twenty years ago)

YES! WOO! Interview next thursday for that job. Am up against 2 other of my ex-workmates tho, but I think I've a good chance, esp against one.

Good lord last night was odd. Ever had one of those conversations with a close friend where they get really TMI about their sex life? Yeah well it goes double on the weird when said close friend is of ze opposite sex. I guess he needed to vent or something...

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 24 March 2005 04:28 (twenty years ago)

Ew.

Anyway top news about the job. Break yer leg.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 24 March 2005 04:29 (twenty years ago)

you should've said BREAK ONE LEG

― 'haitch' (haitch), Thursday, 24 March 2005 04:30 (twenty years ago)

YEAH WELL I DIDN'T

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 24 March 2005 04:31 (twenty years ago)

COULDAWOULDASHOULDA

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 24 March 2005 04:31 (twenty years ago)

and make sure you bathe on the day Trayce

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 24 March 2005 04:41 (twenty years ago)

Hur ;P

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 24 March 2005 04:46 (twenty years ago)

before or after the interview?

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Thursday, 24 March 2005 04:47 (twenty years ago)

'Goodbye Horses' = That new wave song in Silence of the Lambs when Buffalo Bill is dancing around with makeup on pretending to be a women.

― Sasha (sgh), Thursday, 24 March 2005 05:08 (twenty years ago)

doornail, deader than. this.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Thursday, 24 March 2005 07:32 (twenty years ago)

Dude, Neighbours is on I'm busy! ;P

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 24 March 2005 07:57 (twenty years ago)

I'm getting bad vibes from everyone. That's my excuse.

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Thursday, 24 March 2005 07:58 (twenty years ago)

not from me. i don't think. not intentionally. i'm sorry. if you are. but it has no basis in actuality. i don't think.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 24 March 2005 09:11 (twenty years ago)

I was 1/2 asleep so I went to bed, but when I was in bed I was 1/4 asleep so I got back up and turned on the computer. I turned the contrast / brigthness down on the monitor and now I'm 1/2 asleep again, but because i'm tping i might be kepeing myself up. THs could technically count as sleep-posting, but itmigtht not be, because i'm more bulic than sonambulic.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Thursday, 24 March 2005 09:14 (twenty years ago)

Okay everyone, I'm comin' back around these parts just to post this: I have finally reached the point where I can consider myself a "The Secret Life Of Us" fan. The cable channel that's currently airing this program better not drop it at the end of the month or else I will be really, really, really disappointed and angry. I've found myself caring a lot for a lot of the characters. I think I especially care for Kelly and Evan right about now; Kelly because the poor girl's still mourning over the end of her relationship with Nathan (this is where we're at right now) and Evan because the fact that he's done these asshole-y things to the people he's supposed to have cared about, but done it in a subconscious and almost unwilling sort of manner, reminds me a bit of what I can tend to do sometimes with friends. And now I want to see what will happen with Gabrielle and Jason, too. PLEASE, though, NO SPOILERS! I know you guys are already toward the end, but -- I want to find out stuff on my own, thanks.

(Yay! I finally found a drama to get addicted to!)

So, what's happening in your lives? Mine is pretty stressful and tiresome at the moment, but I'm hoping Easter celebrations will prove to be somewhat relaxing. I'm only half awake right now, so I might either end up making a completely nonsensical post or a post I'll end up regretting or even both. (I just typed out "bother" instead of "both" -- that's how deep this thing is.) I don't want to fall asleep right now because if I do that, I won't wake up until tomorrow morning, and I've got so much to do still. Oh, and it's beginning to get warmer here. I'm going to have to throw open all the windows in my bedroom and turn on the ceiling fan right now or else I'm going to feel like I'm burning up even more.

*ahem* Enough rambling. Me exit thread now. :)

― Surreal Addiction (Dee the Lurker), Friday, 25 March 2005 05:38 (twenty years ago)

cold here. wind. my 3 1/2 yr old taken to yelling "now we're rocking, baaaby" for some reason. we asked him where he heard it he said "i just learned it" we said where did you learn it he said "no where i just made it up. now we rocking, baaaby!"

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Friday, 25 March 2005 07:39 (twenty years ago)

We had a bit of wind Dee! Gale force winds, about two nights ago. People woke up in the morning and went 'meh, so much for those alleged gale force winds that were predicted'. But THEY WERE ASLEEP so how would they know? I was awake. I woke up at 3am in the morning and went into the back yard (naked of course) and hailed the great wind god which was roaring through the trees and knocking over our pot plants.

― moley, Friday, 25 March 2005 10:49 (twenty years ago)

"Now we rocking, baaaby"? Either your little one's turning out to become a future reggae performer/fan, or he'll grow up to become a sports announcer. *laughs*

So the winds are that strong?! Wow! I know what kind of winds you're talking about. Gosh. Those winds CAN be terrible to plants, both potted and planted-in-the-ground. Still, it must've felt nice.

― Surreal Addiction (Dee the Lurker), Friday, 25 March 2005 12:13 (twenty years ago)

On the Secret Life thing, the episode we got this Thursday is easily the best I've ever seen. Unbelievably well constructed. I won't give anything away, but fuck. It's got Logie-award-winning written all over it. Shame nobody watches it anymore.

And IT'S NOT ON NEXT WEEK!!! Gaaah.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 25 March 2005 23:28 (twenty years ago)

Awww. How far along are they in airing the already-completed episodes? Is that the reason why it's not on next week? I wish this drama was "bigger" here in the States. No wait, I don't; if it was, some network over here would attempt to do an American version of it, and unless something like this were attempted organically, with no intention of being an "American version of...", that would really, really suck.

I like how you like it, BTW. Means it has staying power.

― Surreal Addiction (Dee the Lurker), Saturday, 26 March 2005 00:07 (twenty years ago)

BILL BAILEY RULED. He played a theremin, and did a Kraftwerk style version of the HOKEY POKEY, I thought I would bust my gut larfing.

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 26 March 2005 09:14 (twenty years ago)

his hair is funny

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Saturday, 26 March 2005 12:06 (twenty years ago)

I played golf yesterday for the first time in about... ten years? Long time, anyway. I was awful until another guy who could play suggested a fix for my swing, then I PWNED for the rest of the game!

(my arms are fuckin' killing me today.)

― 'haitch' (haitch), Sunday, 27 March 2005 05:35 (twenty years ago)

Paul Hester is dead guys. It's really hard when someone you think is impossibly cool commits suicide. It kind of confirms all my thoughts that the world really is a shitty place that isn't too much fun to live in.

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Sunday, 27 March 2005 12:57 (twenty years ago)

― 'haitch' (haitch), Sunday, 27 March 2005 13:16 (twenty years ago)

Sorry. This has really got me down.

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Sunday, 27 March 2005 13:27 (twenty years ago)

headache.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Sunday, 27 March 2005 23:57 (twenty years ago)

I challenge and mongrel or fuxor to listen to distant sun right now and not get teary.

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Monday, 28 March 2005 00:14 (twenty years ago)

i don't have it! or i would.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Monday, 28 March 2005 00:17 (twenty years ago)

As luck [!!] would have it Distant Sun is on one of the albums I bought on Saturday. Playing it now. I see what you mean. God how sad. I went to the park this morning, it was very quiet and serene and just beautiful.

'Er indoors just told me it happened on Friday night, and he was found on Saturday afternoon. Hanged. They got him down and attempted resuscitation because they didn't know how long he'd been there.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 28 March 2005 04:50 (twenty years ago)

Are people, like leaving flowers or anything?

― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Monday, 28 March 2005 06:57 (twenty years ago)

Dunno.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 28 March 2005 07:42 (twenty years ago)

I saw some flowers on the news tonight, but they appeared to be against a residential type fence, not in the park. I assume the fence was the fence outside his house.

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Monday, 28 March 2005 09:01 (twenty years ago)

Awww. How far along are they in airing the already-completed episodes?

Dunno. The network's not interested in the show anymore, so it doesn't say anything. All I know is it's not on this week, and there's no 'special event' scheduled in its place.

This website stopped following the show because:

> I took one glance at episode 4.1 and thought, "This show
> is dead." I haven't watched an episode since.

Fucking wanker.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 28 March 2005 22:20 (twenty years ago)

Wonder how James is doing in NZ?

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Monday, 28 March 2005 23:16 (twenty years ago)

I can't follow australian tv shows for more than three episodes before I tune out. Same with british tv - I used to be a sucker for League of Gentlemen and mini-series like Ultraviolet and The Lakes. Now I just can't follow it, my interest drops dramatically after about half an episode.

I try to tune in for Cold Case (awesome use of music) and CSI. I can't miss Medium and Battlestar Galactica. I also download Carnivale and Deadwood from the US.

What is it? The production values?

― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 01:45 (twenty years ago)

Fucking wanker.

-- Autumn Almanac (ada...), March 28th, 2005 9:20 AM. (later)

Shouldn't this comment be reserved for the characters in the show?

― Sasha (sgh), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 02:16 (twenty years ago)

I exclusively watch televised sport, and Bargain Hunt on the Lifestyle Channel. "a crrrrracking deal there!!"

― 'haitch' (haitch), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 02:27 (twenty years ago)

i like lateline. i harbour a secret passionate crush on tony jones.

― gem (trisk), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 04:12 (twenty years ago)

i like stateline. i harbour a none too secret passion for quentin dempster.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 04:20 (twenty years ago)

Wish Tony Jones would sit still. STOP LEANING FORWARD. STOP ROCKING ABOUT IN YOUR CHAIR. STOP LOVING YOURSELF.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 04:28 (twenty years ago)

Haha you bastid, now thats all I will notice! Like the time my dad pointed out one of the (long gone) coppers on the Bill had a HUGE nose, I couldnt not see it after that.

Also cripes I'd forgot Jim was in NZ.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 04:35 (twenty years ago)

Oh the toucan bloke in The Bill? How did you not notice? He looks like he has a catamaran welded to his face.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 04:39 (twenty years ago)

I bought a stuffed and mounted bantam cock on ebay. I think it's the coolest thing ever.

http://www.eyecandyforthebrokenhearted.com/bantam.JPG

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 04:51 (twenty years ago)

He looks like he has a catamaran welded to his face.

*hysterics*

Woah Kate that is cool! It doesnt have to come from OS though does it? Customs impound, yadda...

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 04:53 (twenty years ago)

a catamaran????

jesus

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 04:55 (twenty years ago)

No, it's within australia. Can't wait to get it, have people over and ask them if they want to stroke my cock.

...no, it's really for the intermedia assignment, not for crude jokes.....but it can be for crude jokes too!

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 04:56 (twenty years ago)

no point in having material possessions if they don't have a dual purpose in cruel jokes. that's my opinion anyway.

― gem (trisk), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 05:12 (twenty years ago)

CRUDE i meant CRUDE damned fingers

― gem (trisk), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 05:13 (twenty years ago)

i don't like cruel jokes they make me feel a bit queasy. crude jokes now they're tops

― gem (trisk), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 05:14 (twenty years ago)

This is the joy I obtain from Dick Smith.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 05:14 (twenty years ago)

I just want more and more dead stuffed birds now.

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 05:23 (twenty years ago)

Wow, it went off the front page!

― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 03:24 (twenty years ago)

I killed it with talk of dead birds.

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 03:26 (twenty years ago)

I'm inhaling steam!

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 03:27 (twenty years ago)

i gotta give a tour to 14 teens. if i give em all a pastic bag with a pen, a ruler and a promo single from the last year do you think they'll forgive me for being useless?

thought not.

are you snotty adam?

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 03:30 (twenty years ago)

are you serious? if someone gave me a free single when i was 14 i would have thought they were god!

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 03:31 (twenty years ago)

should i go for stuff that is vaguely of another country or just the shit?

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 03:33 (twenty years ago)

if i give em all a pastic bag with a pen, a ruler and a promo single from the last year do you think they'll forgive me for being useless?

No but one of them will probably put the bag on their head to impress their mates, suffocate and then their parents will sue you for negligence.

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 03:33 (twenty years ago)

ok scrap the bag.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 03:33 (twenty years ago)

Oh, I was just thinking worst possible scenario. I'm good at that.

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 03:34 (twenty years ago)

are you snotty adam?

Yer, but it's mainly lung congestion

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 03:40 (twenty years ago)

There's a fucking plague about Melbourne.

Man, kids love any free shit. They'll be in awe.

― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 03:56 (twenty years ago)

Gaz, give them the rulers, then all the schoolgirls will start spanking each other with them and you can be entertained, and...

...what?

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 03:58 (twenty years ago)

There will be fites though, mark my words.

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 03:58 (twenty years ago)

TRAYCE WHERE DID YOU GO TO SCHOOL?!

― 'haitch' (haitch), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 04:10 (twenty years ago)

Nude School?

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 04:12 (twenty years ago)

pillow fights were an important component of their sports day

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 04:12 (twenty years ago)

The Sapphic Institute of Canberra

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 04:15 (twenty years ago)

we woz tuff. we used to play catch wiv a brick.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 04:21 (twenty years ago)

I got an officially branded Hitchiker's Guide To The Galaxy towel (for free mind), I am the Nerd Emperrur.

― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 04:38 (twenty years ago)

*bows down*

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 04:38 (twenty years ago)

"One towel to rule them all"

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 04:40 (twenty years ago)

― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 04:40 (twenty years ago)

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 04:41 (twenty years ago)

I went to a preview presentation Q & A at the comedy festival with the executive producer of the film. I got a showbag for asking about whether they'd been approached with stupid marketing ideas.

I'm giving the BIGASS poster to my highschool library, the towel to my H2G2 NERD KING best mate and I'm keeping the t-shirt for myself.

― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 04:42 (twenty years ago)

There's a donkey on the poster?

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 04:43 (twenty years ago)

is there a new hhg movie?

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 04:44 (twenty years ago)

FUCK YOU.

BIGASS

BIG ASS

ASS ASS ASS ASS ASS ASS ASS ASS ASS ASS!

ASS!

― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 04:44 (twenty years ago)

I COUNTER YOU WITH THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 04:44 (twenty years ago)

i have now got three chaki bookmarks. why do i keep clicking on that stupid thread?

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 04:45 (twenty years ago)

is there a new hhg movie?

Yes. I think Disney's doing it.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 04:45 (twenty years ago)

PEOPLE WHO SAY ARSE SOUND LIKE THEY ARE TEADRINKING NINNYPOPES WITH CRUMBLY SKELETONS AND A PALLID COMPLEXION. IT IS A WORD FIT ONLY FOR BOWLCUTTED COLDSUFFERERS!

Breathe, Mike, BREATHE!

Yeah, Disney, through a whole bunch of poms.

― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 04:47 (twenty years ago)

PEOPLE WHO SAY ARSE SOUND LIKE THEY ARE TEADRINKING NINNYPOPES WITH CRUMBLY SKELETONS AND A PALLID COMPLEXION. IT IS A WORD FIT ONLY FOR BOWLCUTTED COLDSUFFERERS!

But it's the correct spelling.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 04:48 (twenty years ago)

Unless you actually SAY 'ass' when you're talking about arses.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 04:48 (twenty years ago)

ninnypopes! ahahaha

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 04:49 (twenty years ago)

"ass" really is a far more satisfying word than "arse". The latter is so lacking in sex appeal.

"I'd like to tap that arse." It just doesn't work!!

― 'haitch' (haitch), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 04:50 (twenty years ago)

You guys are arguing about trivial stuff while TERRI SHIAVO IS DYING! How could you?! :)

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 04:50 (twenty years ago)

Who?

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 04:50 (twenty years ago)

kiss my ass you mofo also sounds better i think. terri can kiss my ass

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 04:50 (twenty years ago)

Damn, i spelt it wrong.

xpost

ohh...and i was joking too

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 04:51 (twenty years ago)

yo! sayin' hey to all y'all b4 i take me early morning constitutional!!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 04:51 (twenty years ago)

"ass" really is a far more satisfying word than "arse". The latter is so lacking in sex appeal.

How's an arse got sex appeal anyway? It's where the shit comes from.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 04:51 (twenty years ago)

http://www.bradthegame.com/jones/big-ass-grapes.jpg

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 04:53 (twenty years ago)

I read that as 'Bi Gass'

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 04:53 (twenty years ago)

mmmm assgrapes my favourite

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 04:53 (twenty years ago)

despite his last point i side with adam

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 04:54 (twenty years ago)

An arse has poo in it, an ass is in a thong.

Man, if she hasn't dropped off by next week, I'm starting a Terri Schiavo Merciful Hitman Fund.

― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 04:54 (twenty years ago)

How does an ass have sex appeal? Now I know you're trolling, you bastard!

― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 04:54 (twenty years ago)

You could do what darren said:

"i reckon the husband should just give the masses what they want and reconnect the feeding tube. then turn that motherfucker up to full power and feed her to death. like the dude from that movie seven"

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 04:55 (twenty years ago)

"an ass is in a thong"

http://www.thorgard.com.au/images/photos/image2.jpg

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 04:56 (twenty years ago)

right on daz! surely it's not the masses that want it though, just a frighteningly noisy far right wing few?

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 04:57 (twenty years ago)

Oh my god, you are so my nemesis.

― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 04:59 (twenty years ago)

TS: arse vs ass vs azz

― 'haitch' (haitch), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 05:01 (twenty years ago)

"How does an ass have sex appeal?"

http://www.isdesigners.com/godiva.jpg

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 05:02 (twenty years ago)

btw you DON'T want to do a google image search for "babe horse"

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 05:02 (twenty years ago)

Or ass for that matter.

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 05:03 (twenty years ago)

but specifically horse

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 05:03 (twenty years ago)

because the 'babes' are DOING oral things to the horse

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 05:03 (twenty years ago)

Yeah. I figured.

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 05:04 (twenty years ago)

crikey. that would give a (w)hole new meaning to the phrase 'deep throat'

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 05:04 (twenty years ago)

and 'kiss my ass'

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 05:05 (twenty years ago)

An ass is not a horse, mr pedantic.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 05:12 (twenty years ago)

At least it's related to one

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 05:15 (twenty years ago)

It must take so much energy to be pedantic.

― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 05:16 (twenty years ago)

What's pedantic about it? They're different words.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 05:17 (twenty years ago)

OH NOES THE WORD 'FUSEBOX' IS BOURGEOIS THEREFORE I WILL INCLUDE A SILENT J

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 05:18 (twenty years ago)

oh, stfu!!

(ps: ASS ASS ASS ASS ASS)

― 'haitch' (haitch), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 05:28 (twenty years ago)

What's that achieve?

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 05:30 (twenty years ago)

it sure felt good.

― 'haitch' (haitch), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 05:34 (twenty years ago)

I've got a chocolate bunny and I can't eat it because it looks sooo cute.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 05:35 (twenty years ago)

And I can't show you a photo because the web server I use isn't working.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 05:36 (twenty years ago)

my new phone has a camera. I might post a pic in that other thread if I can find a suitably HOTT angle.

― 'haitch' (haitch), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 05:37 (twenty years ago)

Oh your T630?

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 05:40 (twenty years ago)

yes!

― 'haitch' (haitch), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 05:44 (twenty years ago)

TAKE A PIC OF YOUR T630 AND SHOW IT

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 05:45 (twenty years ago)

whoo!! 30 in Melbourne tomorrow AND Saturday

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 05:45 (twenty years ago)

oh fuck. i'm wearing a CLOAK on saturday.

― 'haitch' (haitch), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 05:46 (twenty years ago)

Never, piss off nerds on the net, guys.

(Nothing to do with ASSSSSSSSSSSSSSS)

― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 05:46 (twenty years ago)

It's not such a big deal mikey. Just ignore the fucker. Theres nothing he can do if you stop giving him fuel.

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 05:51 (twenty years ago)

Sorry Kate?

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 05:52 (twenty years ago)

Sorry Adam, I should continue conversations from LJ on this board. Nothing to do with you. I wouldn't ever call you a fucker!

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 05:53 (twenty years ago)

I shouldn't I mean. Guh!

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 05:54 (twenty years ago)

Geez, now i've put my foot in it.

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 05:54 (twenty years ago)

Ahahahaha sorry.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 05:55 (twenty years ago)

No my fault. I can see exactly why you were confused...and perhaps a little suprised.

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 05:56 (twenty years ago)

If people want to get pissed off they'll get pissed off. I think there's a point where pissed-off people have to acknowledge the fact that they're ultimately responsible for their own pissed-offedness. Sometimes I'll stir the pot, but these days I tend to ignore it and let it fizzle out.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 06:01 (twenty years ago)

Unless you start calling an MS sufferer 'limpy' or something, in which case it'd be a bit questionable if they weren't pissed off.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 06:05 (twenty years ago)

what about hopalong?

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 06:10 (twenty years ago)

especially if they didn't have a limp!

xp: that may be acceptable, like the cowboy.

― 'haitch' (haitch), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 06:10 (twenty years ago)

phew

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 06:16 (twenty years ago)

http://www.sheetmusiccenter.com/67/152.jpg

― 'haitch' (haitch), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 06:17 (twenty years ago)

(mind you if you start making "clippity clippity clop" noises when they walk past, THEN they might have a case)

― 'haitch' (haitch), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 06:18 (twenty years ago)

"walk"

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 06:19 (twenty years ago)

oh fuck this conversational gambit has become a parody of itself.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 06:20 (twenty years ago)

oh my, i just spat out my tea from laughing and it went everywhere

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 06:20 (twenty years ago)

30 tomorrow? I HAVE ONE JOB INTERVIEW I DO NOT NEED TO TURN UP WITH SWEAT PUDDLES UNDER MEIN ARMPITS ARGH.

Mikey: re LJ? Chill dude. They're batshit mad, half of em, and the ones who were genuinely offended seem to listen to cogent discussion (like thai saiko chick). Peeps like gerbilarseheadI'matoaistandyouarent are plainly wankers and should be laughed at, then ignored.

You're just giving him what he wants by being angry!

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 06:26 (twenty years ago)

thai? THAT, not thai. I cannot thiaapye./

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 06:27 (twenty years ago)

And now, time for me to wash and dye my hair. Peace out y'all.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 06:27 (twenty years ago)

wash AND dye?? you crazy girl

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 06:28 (twenty years ago)

good luck trayce!

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 06:28 (twenty years ago)

with the job, i'm sure you have your hair under control

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 06:29 (twenty years ago)

TELL THEM THIS JOKE TRAYCE

- MAN WALKS INTO LIBRARY
- SAYS 'OMG I WOULD LIKE SOME FISH AND TEH CHIPS PLEASE'
- LIBRARIAN SAYS 'OMG THIS IS A LIBRARY FFS'
- MAN SAYS 'OH SORRY. i would like some fish & chips please'

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 06:32 (twenty years ago)

HAHAHAHA! I love it =)

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 06:39 (twenty years ago)

Haha, shit, sorry guys.

I'm just a...exuberant young man.

― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 07:15 (twenty years ago)

SIGN ON TRAYCE.

(sorry)

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 09:07 (twenty years ago)

That Mr stencil is a meany.

― moley, Wednesday, 30 March 2005 09:09 (twenty years ago)

WOOT WOOT (she's probably watching futrama, it's cool)

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 09:34 (twenty years ago)

It's a fact of which you are probably not aware, hstencil, that we consider you a kind of god in Australia. Your posts are studied and debaf=ted by our finest scholars.Privately, we speak of you in awe and fear. And right now, your drunken yet still godlike behaviour is forging a new tantric path here in Australia that is causing considerable controversy among the local pandits. There is a whole issue of a local spiritual journal dedicated to the topic. Perhaps you'd like my copy? Some of the pages are stuck together.

― moley, Wednesday, 30 March 2005 09:55 (twenty years ago)

sarcasm is dumb but smart at the same time. like a london school of economics student playing blues.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 09:57 (twenty years ago)

...and some say we should move on, find a new god. They are the unbelievers. They love new fangledness, they have no time or patience for study. Beautiful, wild and free, they think they will live forever! Too late will they regret their lack of application!

― moley, Wednesday, 30 March 2005 10:03 (twenty years ago)

have fun in perth

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 10:04 (twenty years ago)

i know i would

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 10:05 (twenty years ago)

hey! have you ever been to perth? we have extremely nice beaches. and lots of pubs.

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 11:14 (twenty years ago)

*grabs thread before it sinks, smacks its bottom*

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 23:50 (twenty years ago)

I'm sorry Stence I wasnt here wah. Oh wait I emailed you, you already know this.

I'm not at all nervous abt this interview, in fact I'm a bit worried how laid back I'm being. I've been just casually printing up me CV and refs, checking all my refs know they might get phoned, planning me clothes out... is it good I'm this calm? At this rate I'll probably forget to turn up, haha!

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 23:58 (twenty years ago)

its good. prep actually works. the answers will roll off yer tongue.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 31 March 2005 00:00 (twenty years ago)

i think it's good because then you put the interviewers at ease as well as yourself and it becomes like a proper conversation instead of a stilted question and answer session.

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 31 March 2005 00:01 (twenty years ago)

Hi, y'all!

― Remy Ulysses Q. Fitzgerald (x Jeremy), Thursday, 31 March 2005 00:02 (twenty years ago)

Hi Remy!

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Thursday, 31 March 2005 00:03 (twenty years ago)

There's a lot of ILfriction lately, isn't there? I know of like five seperate arguments on the boards, and (for once) I'm not involved w. any of them!

― Remy Ulysses Q. Fitzgerald (x Jeremy), Thursday, 31 March 2005 00:04 (twenty years ago)

lately? i thought that was always going on

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 31 March 2005 00:05 (twenty years ago)

also hi!

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 31 March 2005 00:05 (twenty years ago)

it seems sorta pointed now, huh? Or maybe I've just been on here so much in the past few days that I'm noticing it more ... either way, whew.

― Remy Ulysses Q. Fitzgerald (x Jeremy), Thursday, 31 March 2005 00:08 (twenty years ago)

that markelby thread is funny

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 31 March 2005 00:12 (twenty years ago)

which one gaz? i love watching people picking on each other in a morbid sort of nasty way

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 31 March 2005 00:13 (twenty years ago)

that makes me sound like a horrible person. i'm not really!

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 31 March 2005 00:14 (twenty years ago)

the noize one is the best!

― Remy Ulysses Q. Fitzgerald (x Jeremy), Thursday, 31 March 2005 00:14 (twenty years ago)

the noize one, yes!

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 31 March 2005 00:18 (twenty years ago)

It's funny but Jon is a fuckhead of the highest degree.

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Thursday, 31 March 2005 00:19 (twenty years ago)

Um, Jon is my best friend from high school!

― Remy Ulysses Q. Fitzgerald (x Jeremy), Thursday, 31 March 2005 00:22 (twenty years ago)

wos 'e like then?

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 31 March 2005 00:25 (twenty years ago)

honest!

― Remy Ulysses Q. Fitzgerald (x Jeremy), Thursday, 31 March 2005 00:25 (twenty years ago)

i know, but spill some beans eh?

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 31 March 2005 00:26 (twenty years ago)

Well may that be Remy. He's still a dickhead.

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Thursday, 31 March 2005 00:29 (twenty years ago)

w. baby Ian I'm not supposed to link.

What was he like? I dunno... he's been one of my best friends for 8 years, now, and we've never really gotten into any real arguments. He's NOIZE extreme, excepting for the fact his father works for the government, he drives an SUV, has two welsh corgis, had to quit working at an ice cream parlor because the ice cream hurt his wrists, won a 'most esoteric code' award in high school, charms more girls than any other guy I know, and dances kinda like a robot.

― Remy Ulysses Q. Fitzgerald (x Jeremy), Thursday, 31 March 2005 00:30 (twenty years ago)

the 18th century english jon williams DEFINITELY would've been sent off by the king to australia.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 31 March 2005 00:32 (twenty years ago)

people do seem to get very upset by him, i find it a bit perplexing

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 31 March 2005 00:34 (twenty years ago)

Jons orright, eh. I like him - I just think sometimes he makes a point in a way he knows will shit people here, but hey thats his thang I guess ;)

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 31 March 2005 00:35 (twenty years ago)

I've only found him to be an annoyance since the pissing photos thing and the bookmarking fiasco.

I guess I'm a grumpy old cow.

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Thursday, 31 March 2005 00:36 (twenty years ago)

I dunno what everybody's deal is! He's just being silly, and people get so worked up about him! But if the British in-crowd gets equally silly or digressive, it seems.

(xpost)

He would've commandeered the GOOD SHIP NOIZYPOP and played Wolf Eyes covers on an accordian to help raise the rigging.

― Remy Ulysses Q. Fitzgerald (x Jeremy), Thursday, 31 March 2005 00:36 (twenty years ago)

he drives an SUV!!??

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 31 March 2005 00:36 (twenty years ago)

at least people are overt about their annoyance with jon though. i can never tell who is upset with who apart from that, the snarky comments come out of nowhere. i wonder sometimes if there is a massive undercurrent of illwill generated by email and AIM off the board that i don't know about. then i usually conclude it's because i'm a bit dopey and just can't understand what everyone is on about.

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 31 March 2005 00:36 (twenty years ago)

my whole fucking life is like that

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 31 March 2005 00:37 (twenty years ago)

i wonder sometimes if there is a massive undercurrent of illwill generated by email and AIM off the board that i don't know about ... I wonder about this too. I have a feeling that at a particular far-distant FAP I was a subject of discussion, because in the days following it I got a lot of that snarking, mean-spiritedness from a few I knew had been there and had previously been friendly.

― Remy Ulysses Q. Fitzgerald (x Jeremy), Thursday, 31 March 2005 00:38 (twenty years ago)

Aw man now that doesnt sound right! I cant think of anyone you'd get offside Jer.

Jon OTOH knows the things he sometimes does will rile certain people. Eh, it don't bother me.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 31 March 2005 00:41 (twenty years ago)

his puerile antics make me laugh more often than they annoy me. i can see how he would get up people's noses though.

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 31 March 2005 00:43 (twenty years ago)

I feel like a real jerk now.

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Thursday, 31 March 2005 00:45 (twenty years ago)

i have a confession ... i don't REALLY dislike jon that much (though he CAN annoy me). don't tell him that, though!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 31 March 2005 00:47 (twenty years ago)

Nah, it's okay. I mean, I am (and will always be) loyal to him, but I do think he's aware of what he's doing. What I do get irritated about, is how even when he talks seriously (and this is a lot of the time) a certain faction of people pounce on him.

― Remy Ulysses Q. Fitzgerald (x Jeremy), Thursday, 31 March 2005 00:47 (twenty years ago)

and none of you are in that category, so I've got no issue.

― Remy Ulysses Q. Fitzgerald (x Jeremy), Thursday, 31 March 2005 00:48 (twenty years ago)

No doubt he'll find what i said and i'll be next on the noise enemy list.

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Thursday, 31 March 2005 00:48 (twenty years ago)

I don't think so!

― Remy Ulysses Q. Fitzgerald (x Jeremy), Thursday, 31 March 2005 00:48 (twenty years ago)

I have a confession - I don't even know what the Noize board is. It's like this big thing everyone knows about but me.

― moley (moley), Thursday, 31 March 2005 00:50 (twenty years ago)

he'll just call you a faggo, kate!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 31 March 2005 00:50 (twenty years ago)

http://ilx.p3r.net/newquestions.php?board=86

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Thursday, 31 March 2005 00:50 (twenty years ago)

I can live with being called a Faggo.

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Thursday, 31 March 2005 00:52 (twenty years ago)

It's a classroom of highschool students insults that is scaring me right now.

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Thursday, 31 March 2005 00:53 (twenty years ago)

I'm a UNIX user, faggo.
-- Typhoon is Coming!!! :O (§______________...), August 3rd, 2004.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 31 March 2005 00:54 (twenty years ago)

what's it all aboput? It makes no sense to me. I can't understand a word.

― moley (moley), Thursday, 31 March 2005 00:57 (twenty years ago)

i think it's a bit like ilx kindy

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 31 March 2005 00:58 (twenty years ago)

I dunno, and I don't know whose cock he's smoking to get what is essentially his own board.

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Thursday, 31 March 2005 00:58 (twenty years ago)

but you like whitehouse, moley. you should be a natural in the noise rock boards.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 31 March 2005 00:58 (twenty years ago)

But whitehouse make sense. They have lyrics and sentiments we can all relate to.

I note that my Day in the Life of Whitehouse idea, where the two of them shared a small terrace in Wolverhampton and were extremely polite to each other until they got drunk, has not been pursued as a worthwhile idea.

― moley (moley), Thursday, 31 March 2005 01:00 (twenty years ago)

you used to be able to start up a board if you wanted to, kate. can't any more though.

― 'haitch' (haitch), Thursday, 31 March 2005 01:05 (twenty years ago)

I think ILE and ILM cover everything I care about in life.

If I seem irritable, it's cos both photocopiers are down and I can't find a file. Under all that i'm still reasonably chipper however.

― moley (moley), Thursday, 31 March 2005 01:06 (twenty years ago)

yeah i know.

I think my board would be a trainwreck anyway

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Thursday, 31 March 2005 01:07 (twenty years ago)

uh...xpost

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Thursday, 31 March 2005 01:07 (twenty years ago)

i think that the idea behind the noise-rock board was to let jon williams be jon williams to his heart's content, on the theory that by doing so he'd be LESS disruptive elsewhere on ILX.

(xpost)

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 31 March 2005 01:08 (twenty years ago)

i think your board would be full of breathtaking photos kate. maybe interspersed with a few avian taxidermy acquisitions?

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 31 March 2005 01:10 (twenty years ago)

It would be tasteful and artistic.

Is jon's board for honing one's html skills in a humorous setting? It makes sense to me from that angle.

― moley (moley), Thursday, 31 March 2005 01:10 (twenty years ago)

i don't try to make sense of the noize board

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 31 March 2005 01:11 (twenty years ago)

this is the zen approach.

― moley (moley), Thursday, 31 March 2005 01:13 (twenty years ago)

it's for important discussions, such as EUROPEAN DANCE MUSIC IN AMERICA: A TREATISE BY SIMON REYNOLDS

― 'haitch' (haitch), Thursday, 31 March 2005 01:14 (twenty years ago)

its not like they're any less rude to each other.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 31 March 2005 01:16 (twenty years ago)

they remind me of the private school boys at my law school. the ones who have all simultaneously and inexplicably taken to wearing polo shirts with the collars turned up.

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 31 March 2005 01:18 (twenty years ago)

There's something rather abrasive about the humour that definitely reminds me of private school lawyers. It can sometimes be simplified to this aesthetic: 'I am clever and hahaha you are dumb'. There may not be much more to it than that. It's not all like that of course.

― moley (moley), Thursday, 31 March 2005 01:20 (twenty years ago)

nah that's pretty much all they ever say. the other day i noticed a trophy in our common room called the 'joe blogs players' player award' (with joe blogs being the name of a private school former student). i queried what it it was to the student society stalwarts (all with their collars turned up). they said it was a trophy annually awarded to the one amongst them who doesn't play rugby or cricket but shows up to all the games to pick up girls.

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 31 March 2005 01:24 (twenty years ago)

hey, I wore one of those polo shirts last week! admittedly it was to stop my neck getting sunburned.

― 'haitch' (haitch), Thursday, 31 March 2005 01:25 (twenty years ago)

was it pale pink? and did you have some form of cuff thing around your wrist and carefully tousled hair? if so, you are in the wrong place, you are supposed to be in my con law tutorial

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 31 March 2005 01:26 (twenty years ago)

Sure sure, and the tiger with the lime in it was to quench your thirst.

xpost

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Thursday, 31 March 2005 01:28 (twenty years ago)

See, I've often started to come around to seeing how Jon could irritate somebody to the point that they feel the need to insult him back, but there are always posts like snippy posts like "I don't know whose cock he's smoking to get what is essentially his own board" which makes me feel he's entirely justified in calling people whatever he wants! A two-way street, deal. I don't think he needs any defense: he antagonizes and is antagonized. And that's fine, and doesn't bother me.

What does seem irritating is how people treat him condescendingly and consider him less of a poster - or less a part of ILX than many others who have been here for a shorter stint, post more infrequently, and engage less. Not just people who're irritated, but people who go out of their way to fuck w. him as, ostensibly, ILX totem whipping-boy.

― Remy Ulysses Q. Fitzgerald (x Jeremy), Thursday, 31 March 2005 01:32 (twenty years ago)

Anyway, I didn't mean to harp on about this. I'm cooking dinner, and tap-tap-tapping away as I cook. Apologize for my harpery.

― Remy Ulysses Q. Fitzgerald (x Jeremy), Thursday, 31 March 2005 01:34 (twenty years ago)

http://www.wagnerur.hu/itallap/pia21/thumb/t_harp_lager.jpg

― Remy Ulysses Q. Fitzgerald (x Jeremy), Thursday, 31 March 2005 01:35 (twenty years ago)

http://www.soundgenerator.com/pix/reviews/events/2004/08/JOannaNewsomBar12.jpg

― 'haitch' (haitch), Thursday, 31 March 2005 01:36 (twenty years ago)

Ah thats just me joking around. Unfortunately you couldn't hear the tone with which i would've said it.

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Thursday, 31 March 2005 01:36 (twenty years ago)

i get a bit cranky when i'm hungry myself

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 31 March 2005 01:39 (twenty years ago)

Ahh, okay. I didn't mean that meanly, was just using it as a convenient example. I like the mongrel / sheepfuxor threads where the apologies are three times as long as the slights!

― Remy Ulysses Q. Fitzgerald (x Jeremy), Thursday, 31 March 2005 01:39 (twenty years ago)

If only life were like that.

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Thursday, 31 March 2005 01:40 (twenty years ago)

was it pale pink? and did you have some form of cuff thing around your wrist and carefully tousled hair?

NO! it was pale blue and there was no cuff and my hair looks rubbish at the moment no matter what I do with it!!

― 'haitch' (haitch), Thursday, 31 March 2005 01:42 (twenty years ago)

congratulations haitch, you are not a private school fashion victim!!

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 31 March 2005 01:43 (twenty years ago)

what percentage of the mongrels are private school i wonder? what percentage of the noize board?

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 31 March 2005 01:58 (twenty years ago)

"I Never Went to a Private School Honest I Never"

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 31 March 2005 02:03 (twenty years ago)

ok hands up!

public for me

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 31 March 2005 02:04 (twenty years ago)

Both!

― Remy Ulysses Fitzgerald (x Jeremy), Thursday, 31 March 2005 02:04 (twenty years ago)

which was jon at?

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 31 March 2005 02:05 (twenty years ago)

http:// www.moses brown. org/ (take out the spaces)

― Remy Ulysses Fitzgerald (x Jeremy), Thursday, 31 March 2005 02:06 (twenty years ago)

we were the really weird unpredictable kids everybody suspected (rightfully) used lots of drugs and humped around quite a bit.

― Remy Ulysses Fitzgerald (x Jeremy), Thursday, 31 March 2005 02:07 (twenty years ago)

i went to a catholic boarding school. i don't think most people classify catholic as 'private' though. even though you have to pay for it.

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 31 March 2005 02:07 (twenty years ago)

PUBLIC all the way for me, dudes.

― 'haitch' (haitch), Thursday, 31 March 2005 02:08 (twenty years ago)

catholic is private gem.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 31 March 2005 02:10 (twenty years ago)

Guess! Was I public or private?

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Thursday, 31 March 2005 02:11 (twenty years ago)

public high school, public undergrad college, public AND private law school.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 31 March 2005 02:11 (twenty years ago)

you woz public kate

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 31 March 2005 02:12 (twenty years ago)

right you are.

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Thursday, 31 March 2005 02:13 (twenty years ago)

public grammar, private high school, private undergrad, crappy USC (but great program) grad now.

― Remy Ulysses Fitzgerald (x Jeremy), Thursday, 31 March 2005 02:16 (twenty years ago)

sorry, you have all becomes charicatures to me know. i await moleys confession.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 31 March 2005 02:21 (twenty years ago)

I think I would like Jon if I met him. He's my kind of message board terrorist of doom.

― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Thursday, 31 March 2005 02:39 (twenty years ago)

He needs to use his powers for good not evil.

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Thursday, 31 March 2005 02:41 (twenty years ago)

...but without his jackassery, this board risks turning into the sad dysfunctional pommy uptight pommy dickweed would-you-like-a-cup-of-tea board.

― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Thursday, 31 March 2005 02:43 (twenty years ago)

That's true.

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Thursday, 31 March 2005 02:45 (twenty years ago)

no it isn't.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 31 March 2005 02:48 (twenty years ago)

i wonder where the term 'dickweed' originated from?

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 31 March 2005 02:50 (twenty years ago)

I was private

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 31 March 2005 02:57 (twenty years ago)

private.

not at all Remy, harp away. And if you say Jon is fine then he is, end of story.

― moley (moley), Thursday, 31 March 2005 03:41 (twenty years ago)

yeah it's kind of interesting to find out what he's like from someone who knows him well in real life.

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Thursday, 31 March 2005 03:43 (twenty years ago)

ok, now here's my theory. how many of yous have receding hair?

i believe it is tied to private school education.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 31 March 2005 03:44 (twenty years ago)

AIM me jeremy7211 anytime, btw. This is a general comment.

― Remy Ulysses Fitzgerald (x Jeremy), Thursday, 31 March 2005 03:44 (twenty years ago)

I have a new painting on the go guys:

http://photos5.flickr.com/7948401_0ac6e81d04.jpg

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Thursday, 31 March 2005 03:46 (twenty years ago)

nice!

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 31 March 2005 03:47 (twenty years ago)

XPOST: Oh come on, this board has an emo-pom cry explosion after six months.

― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Thursday, 31 March 2005 03:47 (twenty years ago)

beautiful warm reds kate. looks quite ecclesiastic!

my hair is not receding BUT i am going grey which i think is a bit rude seeing as i'm only 28.

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 31 March 2005 03:48 (twenty years ago)

I'm 25 next week. I am going to have drinks at the Supper Club. You Melbourne cats ever frequented there?

― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Thursday, 31 March 2005 03:51 (twenty years ago)

after? every!

I bet a frigging magickal birthing day thread on the 7th

― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Thursday, 31 March 2005 03:52 (twenty years ago)

no it doesn't

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 31 March 2005 03:54 (twenty years ago)

bet?

BETTER GET

GODDAMIT!

― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Thursday, 31 March 2005 03:56 (twenty years ago)

Hahah, does anybody remember that Jon VS PSYCHOMASONICIJUSTBROKEUPWITHMYBOFRIENDKIATE thread just before they shut the board down?

― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Thursday, 31 March 2005 03:57 (twenty years ago)

I will make you one mikey.

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Thursday, 31 March 2005 03:58 (twenty years ago)

yeah! that wasn't that long after i started reading this board, it used to have me in fits of laughter. that's probably why i came back after it started up again.

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 31 March 2005 03:58 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, it totally does, there's a big cluster of meta-threads, someone flips out and everyone comments that the place is going to hell and a couple of people disappear from proceedings forever.

― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Thursday, 31 March 2005 03:59 (twenty years ago)

if by 'forever' you mean for a while until they periodically start popping up in relevant threads thus demonstrating that they still read the board all the time

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 31 March 2005 04:00 (twenty years ago)

hey, remember aja/dante?

― Remy Ulysses Fitzgerald (x Jeremy), Thursday, 31 March 2005 04:00 (twenty years ago)

Haha, yes, true.

Who has managed to actually disappeared forever?

― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Thursday, 31 March 2005 04:04 (twenty years ago)

I disappeared one of my personas :)

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Thursday, 31 March 2005 04:10 (twenty years ago)

hey, remember aja/dante?

what?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 31 March 2005 04:11 (twenty years ago)

The really, really crazy ones stick around. ;p

C'mon, I want Suzy, Jon, Momus and Masonic Kate and Marcello to have a fight that turns into another apocalyptathread.

― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Thursday, 31 March 2005 04:11 (twenty years ago)

You'll have to put them in some kind of virtual cage and poke them with cyber sticks till they attack.

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Thursday, 31 March 2005 04:12 (twenty years ago)

maybe markelby could throw his cap in the ring too! that would keep us all entertained for days no doubt. yeah they would need some kind of cone of silence/playpen type thing so that jon didn't bust the entire board with his wacky code armery.

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 31 March 2005 04:13 (twenty years ago)

haha remember when mono invaded to aja/dante boards?

where is andrew btw?

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 31 March 2005 04:15 (twenty years ago)

hanle y should referee this apocalyptathread ... if only he'd stick around!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 31 March 2005 04:16 (twenty years ago)

xpost yeah when mono crashed. that was very amusing. haven't seen andrew for quite a while actually.

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 31 March 2005 04:16 (twenty years ago)

he made this little guy walk across the bottom of every post and have a piss

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 31 March 2005 04:18 (twenty years ago)

ahahaha and the board was blindingly fuchsia pink. and all the poor monoers were so confused.

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 31 March 2005 04:19 (twenty years ago)

It was rad when Jon started posting those HUGE NASA images.

Oh man, we need a drama llama llama board.

― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Thursday, 31 March 2005 04:20 (twenty years ago)

save the drama fo yo llama

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 31 March 2005 04:21 (twenty years ago)

Mono sucks. I'm so glad I don't post there anymore/it doesn't exist anymore.

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Thursday, 31 March 2005 04:28 (twenty years ago)

the noize board is my mono substitute

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 31 March 2005 04:30 (twenty years ago)

Mess and Noise is just as bad.

― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Thursday, 31 March 2005 04:32 (twenty years ago)

you frequent it Mikey? They rejected Sami's application to join!

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 31 March 2005 04:34 (twenty years ago)

i never joined mess + noise after mono died. never liked mono very much.

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 31 March 2005 04:35 (twenty years ago)

I turn to it when looking for Aussie music news.

I'm usually just an ILXOR and Something Awful kinda guy.

Man, I'm stuffed. I hate Year 8's.

― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Thursday, 31 March 2005 04:37 (twenty years ago)

I thought year 9's were the rotten ones?

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Thursday, 31 March 2005 04:38 (twenty years ago)

I looked at Mono once, hated it.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 31 March 2005 04:50 (twenty years ago)

i am sorry. i did not realize i was so controversial. i just wanted to talk with trayce, she's nice.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 31 March 2005 04:58 (twenty years ago)

i hope her interview goes well.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 31 March 2005 05:03 (twenty years ago)

As Alan Partridge would say, KISS MY FACE. *does a victory dance with tshirt over head, runs around the room*

My interview ROCKED. The fucking office I'd be working at is floor 27 of the IBM tower. It has an unimpeded view of all of St Kilda, Pt Melb and THE BAY OMG.

Also, I'd be playing with sattelite tech. I'm wetting my pants, I really hope I get this job. I'd be working with my best friend!!!!

Hi stence *mwah*

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 31 March 2005 05:16 (twenty years ago)

Omigosh, I hope you get it, and can sit online and chat all day!

― Remy Ulysses Fitzgerald (x Jeremy), Thursday, 31 March 2005 05:21 (twenty years ago)

ROFFLES you know, I didnt even think about internet. Fark. I know dom (who works there now) is never on chat etc at work. ARGH! Ah well.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 31 March 2005 05:26 (twenty years ago)

Its a feckin internet company though so, you know.

They do sattelite internet for like, yachts and shit. It looks cool.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 31 March 2005 05:27 (twenty years ago)

Yay!!!

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 31 March 2005 05:28 (twenty years ago)

I rang mum and told her.. bad move, hehe.. now shes all "I wont sleep til I know if you got it or not!!!" yeah thanks mum.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 31 March 2005 05:36 (twenty years ago)

yay trayce!!!! i hope you got the job!!!!!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 31 March 2005 05:39 (twenty years ago)

I'll keep y'all updated!

Adam, hows your job shit going, dare I ask? :)

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 31 March 2005 05:40 (twenty years ago)

You'll get it Trayce. I can just tell! Congratulations in advance!

In other news, I finished my painting:

http://photos6.flickr.com/7960847_cca14eaf0b.jpg

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Thursday, 31 March 2005 07:32 (twenty years ago)

Wow Kate that's fantastic.

Adam, hows your job shit going, dare I ask? :)

No.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 31 March 2005 07:41 (twenty years ago)

Aw poo :(

Kate - wow that got finished fast :) Looks great!

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 31 March 2005 07:43 (twenty years ago)

onya Trayce. a good feeling about the interview usually means satisfaction on both sides.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 31 March 2005 07:43 (twenty years ago)

I've been working on it for a few days, but I went hard at it today so I could put it up on Ebay. $10 starting price! It's Kate's Krazy Bargains!!

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Thursday, 31 March 2005 07:46 (twenty years ago)

Sorry to intrude, I have never been on one of these threads before in my life, but that image just popped up in the new answers blog and was so arresting that I just wanted to say...

OH MY GOD, KATE, THAT PAINTING IS GORGEOUS!!! I utterly love it, you are a master colourist, the richness, somewhere between Pre-Raphaelites and Russian icon painters. You are amazingly talented.

Anyway, sorry for the interruption. I won't trouble you again.

― Masonic Cathedral (kate), Thursday, 31 March 2005 07:47 (twenty years ago)

Thanks Kate. It's kind of flawed but good enough to jam up on ebay for a few dollars.

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Thursday, 31 March 2005 07:48 (twenty years ago)

Kate, rad!

― Remy Ulysses Fitzgerald (x Jeremy), Thursday, 31 March 2005 08:16 (twenty years ago)

hey masonic kate i'm reading the da vinci code its fucking awful but

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 31 March 2005 08:20 (twenty years ago)

(Ha ha, I am being sucked into the sheepfuXing oh no)

Da Vinci Code? Yes, it's utter rubbish. Apallingly researched and badly written. But I just couldn't put it down! Angels & Demons is even worse! ("There is the organisation... called the Illuminati..." "Oh, no, the Illuminati!")

― Masonic Cathedral (kate), Thursday, 31 March 2005 08:26 (twenty years ago)

Know much about the bohemian grove Kate?

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Thursday, 31 March 2005 08:27 (twenty years ago)

Bohemian Grove? We know nothing of this in the Icen Forests of Hammersmith. Of what do you speak?

― Masonic Cathedral (kate), Thursday, 31 March 2005 08:28 (twenty years ago)

Some wacky secret society. Apparently most American presidents have been involved in it.

Hey do you collect masonic stuff? I'm thinking of getting me an apron.

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Thursday, 31 March 2005 08:35 (twenty years ago)

Oh! I think that was featured in Jon Ronson's "Them" - it's a boarding school summer camp for grown ups or something where the Elite of the Americans get together and burn a wooden effigy of the working classes or something? Yes! Most US presidents of the past 100 years, and also Maggie Thatcher, all attended.

I mainly collect Masonic texts and books. I used to live very near to the Masonic Hall in Soho, they've got tons of Masonic Theme shops around there. You can get anything Masonic! I very nearly bought a tie. Even though I am not a Mason (there are only two female lodges in the whole UK) I wanted to say "it's a present for Grandfather who is (was) a really big Mason" but wimped out. Though another friend bought a Masonic lapel-badge and wasn't even challenged! I always expect them to say "let me see some kind of Masonic ID! Or secret handshake! Why isn't your trouser leg rolled up?"

― Masonic Cathedral (kate), Thursday, 31 March 2005 08:42 (twenty years ago)

Apparently the mormons are pretty protective of their stuff. I would've thought the masons would be too.

I have no background in the masons or freemasonry, but it's always interested me since a friend of the family was so secretive about the goings on. He took it to the grave and it's rare to find that kind of loyalty these days.

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Thursday, 31 March 2005 08:47 (twenty years ago)

Well, aparently the Masons are having trouble keeping up their numbers - the membership are mostly aging, and modern young people are turned off by the secrecy and the ritual, seeing it as fuddy-duddy, even suspicious. There were several big Freemason-related scandals in the UK in the 80s, so they're trying to be a lot more open about things.

But, I think at the heart of it, they are really up for encouraging *any* kind of interest.

My grandfather was secretive, but dropped intriguing hints, enough to spark my curiosity.

― Masonic Cathedral (kate), Thursday, 31 March 2005 08:53 (twenty years ago)

next you will be on a whirlwind chase with a handsome academic!

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 31 March 2005 08:54 (twenty years ago)

So in summary what would you say they're all about? I haven't done much research besides skimming the surface.

xpost

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Thursday, 31 March 2005 08:55 (twenty years ago)

and what do you think of robt anton wilson?

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 31 March 2005 08:57 (twenty years ago)

actually you turning up here now is too much of a coincidence.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 31 March 2005 08:57 (twenty years ago)

if only moley knew.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 31 March 2005 09:00 (twenty years ago)

Well... depends on which interpretation you want to go with. There are many explanations as to its origins - fanciful Biblical ones, associations with discredited ex-Templars in medieval Scotland and somewhat more plausible origins in the late Medieval guild system.

In the 18th Century, when it emerged, it was a fiercly political organisation, intent on promoting the exchange of intellectual and political ideas between classes and religions, especially in the army. Various lodges were linked to things as diverse as the American Revolution, the French Revolution, the Jacobite movement in Scotland, etc.

By my grandfather's day, (late 19th early 20th century) it was a benevolent charitable organisation whereby Scottish ex-pats took care of their own community, widows, orphans, the poor, etc.

I'm still waiting for the whirlwind chase with the handsome academic, but if it came down to it, I'd really rather it was written by Katherine Neville and not Dan Brown. ;-)

x-post

robt anton wilson

Illuminati triology is GODLIKE GENIUS!

fnord.

― Masonic Cathedral (kate), Thursday, 31 March 2005 09:02 (twenty years ago)

I know about the origins. I guess there really is no dark underbelly after all, although I really find some of the symbolism a little odd given its similarities to some symbols used in the occult.

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Thursday, 31 March 2005 09:08 (twenty years ago)

A great painting kate.

We're listening to Bongwater - Too Much Sleep. WOW what a grate record.

― moley, Thursday, 31 March 2005 09:13 (twenty years ago)

Thanks Moley. I listened to some Cherry2000 yesterday. I could hear the metal influence and it was pretty damn cool.

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Thursday, 31 March 2005 09:14 (twenty years ago)

There was a lot of interest in that sort of thing in the 18th Century when it first originated.

One of its aims was religious tolerence, to heal the rifts between Catholic and Protestant - they tried to accomplish this by bringing in the similarities between many religions. Old Testament Judaism - many of the symbols of the Kaballah (sp?) and Solomon's Temple etc. were thrown into the mix. There were associations of Kabalah symbolism with alchemy, and therefore with witchcraft/satanism.

I think if anything, Freemason's founders were trying to be *too* inclusive, including Christianity, Judaeism, typical cod-Enlightenment misunderstandings of Egyptian and pre-Christian pagan symbolism. Also much Templar-derived "momento mori" skull and crossbones motifs.

I think if there are dark and sinister overtones to Freemasonry, it is the nepotistic aspects, the funny-handshake old-boy network provoking darker aspects of human group dynamics. Not an actual occult influence.

Though obviously, thinking of such possible links is part of the fun and appeal. ;-)

― Masonic Cathedral (kate), Thursday, 31 March 2005 09:18 (twenty years ago)

Definitely. My major work for my fine art degree is partially based on freemasonry.

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Thursday, 31 March 2005 09:20 (twenty years ago)

Really? ::boggle:: That is very very cool. I love Masonic symbolism and imagery. (Well, obviously.)

What did you do? (If such things can be described verbally.) What imagery did you use?

― Masonic Cathedral (kate), Thursday, 31 March 2005 09:23 (twenty years ago)

i was rather under the impression that catholics in australia wanted nothing to do with the freemasons. am i wrong?

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 31 March 2005 09:29 (twenty years ago)

Well it's kind of an amalgamation of a number of influences. I'm working with photography, and if everything goes to plan, it'll be equal parts melies, pierre et gilles and david la chapelle. I'm not super-clear on what it is I'm tring to say, but I want to dig into human belief, and organised groups be it religion or odd fraternities or whatever. What makes people feel the need to belong to a group? I grew up as a Jehovah's Witness and was strongly discouraged from socialising with people outside of church. I find it interesting that as humans for some of us there is a desire to belong to special groups, be it as extreme as freemasons or JW's or just your local soccer club or whatever.

So anyhow, visually i'd like to create a series of decadent looking tableaus full of symbolism and narrative, it's not important that it makes sense, in fact it would be kind of cool if it didn't because it's sort of about the unknown. The secret part of the human experience.

I don't know, everytime I talk about this is sounds like I'm talking shit. I guess thats why I usually work visually and don't write stories :)

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Thursday, 31 March 2005 09:31 (twenty years ago)

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― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Thursday, 31 March 2005 09:31 (twenty years ago)

Kate, it doesn't sound like you're talking shit to me, it sounds like a very interesting and thought-provoking and challenging exploration. (Though, then again, I always had trouble coming up with Artists' Statements when I was at art school, so I understand how hard it is to put a visual artistic statement into words.)

The dynamics of human group interaction has always fascinated me. I was never particularly a religious outsider as I was growing, but I was very much a cultural outsider.

Perhaps Freemasons, to me, are a symbol of ultimate insiderhood. Or a symbol of the human desire to belong, to form societies, secret or otherwise, the cultivation of Us vs. Them mentalities from something which was originally supposed to *combat* sectarianism.

It's a fascinating subject, and I'm sure that you will approach it with sensitivity and talent - I would love to see this work when it is finished!

― Masonic Cathedral (kate), Thursday, 31 March 2005 09:36 (twenty years ago)

If it works out as planned you can bet i'll be posting it everywhere I can. I really feel like this will be the pinnacle of what I've been trying to bring to fruition for several years now.

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Thursday, 31 March 2005 09:38 (twenty years ago)

that sounds pretty exciting kate. i think that might be one cool thing about being an artist or an author or musician, that there is something tangible at the end of all your hard work and struggles.

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 31 March 2005 09:39 (twenty years ago)

It is, although it's also kind of weird when theres nothing at the end of it except the satisfaction of having finished what you were trying to say. Realistically, despite the fact that I feel I'm really onto something, it's unlikely I'm going to be able to sell this to anyone or gain any kind of notoriety and so far the gathering of materials and equipment has cost me about $500 and I don't forsee myself getting out of it for under $1000, so thats a lot of moolah to satisfy an urge or compulsion, which is really what it's turning into. I feel like I'm mentally ill. Some nights I can't sleep for thinking about it, and trying to plan it all in my head.

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Thursday, 31 March 2005 09:46 (twenty years ago)

Kristin Hersch used to talk about her songwriting in much the same way - as being a compulsion or madness that would actually drive her to mental illness.

But then again, it's a cliche because it's true, isn't it? One makes art not necessarily because one *wants* to, but because one *has* to.

― Masonic Cathedral (kate), Thursday, 31 March 2005 09:48 (twenty years ago)

Well a few years back I would've said that was a pile of wank, but here I am caught right in the middle of it. Denying it now would just be stupid!

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Thursday, 31 March 2005 09:50 (twenty years ago)

i have great admiration for people who are compelled to satisfy their need to create things of beauty or things that make people think. even if it is torturous or hard, i am still quite envious.

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 31 March 2005 09:58 (twenty years ago)

There was a time when I found the whole "I make art because I muuuusssst" attitude really annoying and pretentious especially back when I was in art school and it seemed the most common fashion or pose to have towards one's art. (Almost like people said it because they thought it was The Thing To Say, rather than actually feeling it.)

I kind of went through a reaction to it, being all "I'm just a jobbing musician, there's nothing mysterious about it, blah blah, etc."

But, having been through that particular mill, and having lived with a Professional Artist whose *only* criteria of judging art seemed to be jobbing success (and who also frequently put me down for *not* shopping my music and art in the same way that he did) - I've come to find that attitude equally distasteful for similar reasons.

― Masonic Cathedral (kate), Thursday, 31 March 2005 10:03 (twenty years ago)

Judging *his* art, rather.

Anyone else who had any kind of commercial success was, of course, a sell-out.

― Masonic Cathedral (kate), Thursday, 31 March 2005 10:04 (twenty years ago)

i'd love to have one single creative bone in my entire body

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 31 March 2005 10:07 (twenty years ago)

I'm sure you do somewhere, Gem!

(Possibly your radial ulnar?) ;-)

― Masonic Cathedral (kate), Thursday, 31 March 2005 10:09 (twenty years ago)

hehe nope none of them. NONE! i'm creativeboneless

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 31 March 2005 10:10 (twenty years ago)

This thread has taken a term for the AWESOME.

Rock on, Kates!

― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Thursday, 31 March 2005 10:13 (twenty years ago)

There are more kinds of creativity than painting and playing guitar, Gem.

Cooking can be a form of creativity. Planning parties and gatherings. Creating reports in your office. Any activity that requires organisation and spontanaity can be an expression of creativity.

Anyway, I think that creativity may actually be overrated. I've spent most of my life worshipping at its altar and am maybe a bit disillusioned.

― Masonic Cathedral (kate), Thursday, 31 March 2005 10:13 (twenty years ago)

Took the words right out of my mouth Kate.

There is a famous avant garde work called "Lever" which is essentially about 30 bricks laids next to each other on the gallery floor. Anyone could've put them there, but it's the idea behind it that makes the work interesting.

Art is about ideas. Don't let the Michaelangelos and DaVincis of the world confuse you.

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Thursday, 31 March 2005 10:18 (twenty years ago)

mikey is OTM!

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 31 March 2005 10:18 (twenty years ago)

yay kates!

― moley, Thursday, 31 March 2005 20:57 (twenty years ago)

This line of conversation has me wanting to get out my digital pen and Painter and try some art today. Its morning, peaceful, Ive a cup of tea and the sun is gorgeous and autumy out.

The Age have some sneaky fooles articles today, heh ;)

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 31 March 2005 21:25 (twenty years ago)

Man, it's a really weird day - so nice and sunny and peaceful. Then you got this weird undercurrent coming through the media with the Pope about to cark it and the Schiavo thing over.

Heheh, END OF DAAAYS.

― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Friday, 1 April 2005 00:47 (twenty years ago)

also it's freezing and there is rain and thunder and a risk of hail here! i was swimming at the beach the other day, it feels all wrong.

― gem (trisk), Friday, 1 April 2005 01:32 (twenty years ago)

i kinda like it.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Friday, 1 April 2005 01:34 (twenty years ago)

too cold. also i forgot how much getting rain spots all over my glasses SHITS me.

― gem (trisk), Friday, 1 April 2005 01:36 (twenty years ago)

Its gettin' hot in herrree... etc etc etc etc.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 1 April 2005 01:38 (twenty years ago)

It's very still here, too cool to put the a/c on, too hot to feel completely comfortable. Ick

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Friday, 1 April 2005 01:39 (twenty years ago)

Still havent heard anything yet... not that I neccesarily will today but who knows.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 1 April 2005 02:17 (twenty years ago)

I'm STILL waiting to hear about mine. So fucking fed up with the job market.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 1 April 2005 02:22 (twenty years ago)

stiff upper lip, mongrels! All will be well.

― moley (moley), Friday, 1 April 2005 02:28 (twenty years ago)

Its gettin' hot in herrree... etc etc etc etc.

nelly trayce!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 1 April 2005 02:30 (twenty years ago)

hi dere. this day off is RUBBISH.

― 'haitch' (haitch), Friday, 1 April 2005 02:44 (twenty years ago)

Well, do something to unrubbish it then, H!

Go up chapel street and point and laugh at people. Gwan. It'd be fun.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 1 April 2005 02:46 (twenty years ago)

well i just got 'unofficially' offered one of the vacation clerkships i applied for. yay! it's a good omen for your proper jobs trayce and adam.

― gem (trisk), Friday, 1 April 2005 02:51 (twenty years ago)

jobs for all will soon be raining down.

― moley (moley), Friday, 1 April 2005 02:58 (twenty years ago)

Fucking better be. I'm completely humourless about the whole thing now.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 1 April 2005 03:02 (twenty years ago)

and i got two more invitations to interview! i'm telling you, it's an excellent omen.

― gem (trisk), Friday, 1 April 2005 05:34 (twenty years ago)

Woot! Go Gem!

I just watched a very odd kids tv show called "street smartz" which seems to come out of perth. It was like Neighbours meets Degrassi, with handheld dv cams.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 1 April 2005 05:35 (twenty years ago)

Oh yeah, that show is weird.

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Friday, 1 April 2005 05:39 (twenty years ago)

street smartz eh, never heard of it. there are some quite good kids shows produced here though.

― gem (trisk), Friday, 1 April 2005 05:40 (twenty years ago)

Happy Monday!

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Sunday, 3 April 2005 21:33 (twenty years ago)

http://www.obule.com.br/fotos/shaun_ryder.jpg

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Sunday, 3 April 2005 21:33 (twenty years ago)

Everyone still in bed or something?

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Sunday, 3 April 2005 21:42 (twenty years ago)

i'm sort of here but not pleased about it (work that is, not ilx)

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Sunday, 3 April 2005 21:43 (twenty years ago)

bleugh hello everyone.

― moley, Sunday, 3 April 2005 21:49 (twenty years ago)

How was your NZ holiday james?

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Sunday, 3 April 2005 21:51 (twenty years ago)

it was lovely. i've never seen so many cows (and of course sheep) in my life. and many NZ beers are better than any australian beer i've ever had, excepting possibly coopers

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Sunday, 3 April 2005 22:02 (twenty years ago)

bridget riley exhibition was teh awesome, and the shocking pinks weren't very good at all. and i got harassled by customs for the amount of cds i'd brought back

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Sunday, 3 April 2005 22:02 (twenty years ago)

Nothing could beat coopers!

Briget Riley? Whats her stuff like, I don't know anything about her.

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Sunday, 3 April 2005 22:04 (twenty years ago)

Duh. Op-art. How could I have forgotten her and I'm meant to be a freaking art teacher?!

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Sunday, 3 April 2005 22:10 (twenty years ago)

op art. i really like it, some find it a little on the repetitive and sterile side but for me seeing the actual canvasses was amazing. there's a real life to them. however i think her later stuff (80s onwards) is impressive more in how she came up with her ideas rather than the actual execution of them.

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Sunday, 3 April 2005 22:10 (twenty years ago)

xpost!

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Sunday, 3 April 2005 22:10 (twenty years ago)

Yeah it's amazing how once you learn how some artworks are created, your appreciation for them often changes completely.

I'm going to see the fiona hall exhibition this week. Apparently she's made some awesome sculptures out of sardines cans and other everyday items. Sounds cool.

She came into my class the other day to speak to my lecturer and I didn't know who she was. I think I might've been a little starstuck if I realised. Instead I took the piss out of my teacher and told he if she was looking for him, he's usually up at the cafe and certainly not teaching us anything. Oops.

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Sunday, 3 April 2005 22:15 (twenty years ago)

http://www.pica.org.au/2000img/FionaHall.jpg

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Sunday, 3 April 2005 22:18 (twenty years ago)

hi dere. I have acquired a SWORD over the weekend!

― 'haitch' (haitch), Sunday, 3 April 2005 23:06 (twenty years ago)

Wow, awesome. What's it like?

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Sunday, 3 April 2005 23:11 (twenty years ago)

big and heavy! It's not very sharp, but if you hit someone over the head with it they'd know about it. I'll post some pics if I can get this bluetooth nonsense worked out.

― 'haitch' (haitch), Sunday, 3 April 2005 23:15 (twenty years ago)

Cool. Is it like a broadsword type thing, or a cutlass or katana or what?

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Sunday, 3 April 2005 23:17 (twenty years ago)

like a... broadsword, I think? I don't know much about swords, it was a gift!

(actually it got bought online, might be able to find a pic. gimme a sec.)

― 'haitch' (haitch), Sunday, 3 April 2005 23:24 (twenty years ago)

Cool.

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Sunday, 3 April 2005 23:43 (twenty years ago)

It's my birthday on Thursday!

I've decided to be cheerful, it's a lot easier on the brain.

― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Sunday, 3 April 2005 23:48 (twenty years ago)

Good mikey! Cognitive Behaviour Therapy is tha shit!

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Sunday, 3 April 2005 23:53 (twenty years ago)

Heh, no, it's just that I'm lazy and I'd actually be expending less energy being an upright fella than brooding and skulking and wailing.

― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Sunday, 3 April 2005 23:55 (twenty years ago)

hmm, there are a LOT of swords at Swords Online. shit.

― 'haitch' (haitch), Sunday, 3 April 2005 23:56 (twenty years ago)

My best friend is a sword and fencing nut, he does sword class every week and when he's restless at my place, he does his sword moves all over the loungeroom (sans actual sowrd obv).

My other friend K is trying to talk me into doing shaolin kungfu with her but eh, I dunno.

Still no job news...

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 4 April 2005 00:03 (twenty years ago)

http://www.pica.org.au/2000img/FionaHall.jpg

Fiona Hall! We had a picture of that together with some of her other sardine cans in our living room once.

― moley (moley), Monday, 4 April 2005 00:13 (twenty years ago)

'Er indoors has a sword!

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 4 April 2005 00:16 (twenty years ago)

oh, das hoki koki
oh, das hoki koki
oh, das hoki koki

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 4 April 2005 00:54 (twenty years ago)

should I challenge her to a DUEL?

― 'haitch' (haitch), Monday, 4 April 2005 01:18 (twenty years ago)

what like "mine's bigger than yours" etc?

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 4 April 2005 01:24 (twenty years ago)

I... I have no comeback for that, really.

― 'haitch' (haitch), Monday, 4 April 2005 01:34 (twenty years ago)

I miss the Doug Anthony All Stars.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 4 April 2005 06:15 (twenty years ago)

I used to watch them busking in canberra, before what were they were being big and all that.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 4 April 2005 06:18 (twenty years ago)

Wa-hey, nice 'un.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 4 April 2005 06:22 (twenty years ago)

Wait, where do you busk in Canberra? On a roundabout, what?

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 4 April 2005 06:22 (twenty years ago)

Erm no, theres a whole city centre/mall with no streets in it! Garema PLace etc? The bit where the merry go round is? They used to hang around there. They stole my hat :(

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 4 April 2005 06:24 (twenty years ago)

Yeah I know, the Northbridge Avenue or whatever it's called bit. The bit where if you keep going straight you end up in Dickson bit.

They stole your hat? Did they give it back?

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 4 April 2005 06:25 (twenty years ago)

Northbourne ave - no no, that goes by the city centre, but the whole actual centre of civic is a giant pedestrian mall - didnt you used to live in canberra? i thought you knew this shit ;P

No, they took my beret as a buskers change hat! and no i didnt get it back! sods. heh.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 4 April 2005 06:31 (twenty years ago)

Live in Caberra? Nah, been there a few times but never lived outside Melbourne. Wow, I've got to see this civic thing.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 4 April 2005 06:36 (twenty years ago)

Its boring ;P Well no, it is nice, trees and benches and loads of outdoor cafes, but well - it IS canberra ;)

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 4 April 2005 06:37 (twenty years ago)

the doug anthony allstars were really mean to a friend of mine once, she was wearing a wide sixties styles scarf as a headband at one of their gigs, and they went on and on about how she must have lots of pimples and was trying to cover them up. apart from that i always thought they were hysterical though.

― gem (trisk), Monday, 4 April 2005 08:08 (twenty years ago)

Tim Ferguson screamed insults in my face once. By 'in my face' I mean one inch away from my face.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 4 April 2005 21:30 (twenty years ago)

He's a fuckhead anyway.

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Monday, 4 April 2005 21:34 (twenty years ago)

Yeah?

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 4 April 2005 21:43 (twenty years ago)

Yeah.

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Monday, 4 April 2005 21:44 (twenty years ago)

Why?

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 4 April 2005 21:45 (twenty years ago)

I've met him and he is (in my opinion). That's all I'm saying.

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Monday, 4 April 2005 21:52 (twenty years ago)

Ah.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 4 April 2005 22:41 (twenty years ago)

Have I said something wrong Adam?

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Monday, 4 April 2005 23:11 (twenty years ago)

Adam is, in fact, secretly married to Tim Ferguson.

― 'haitch' (haitch), Monday, 4 April 2005 23:13 (twenty years ago)

I'm starting to wonder.

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Monday, 4 April 2005 23:13 (twenty years ago)

well well

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Monday, 4 April 2005 23:35 (twenty years ago)

I just seem to rub everyone up the wrong way on this thread. I guess it's a good to cue to leave.

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Monday, 4 April 2005 23:38 (twenty years ago)

don't do that! it'd be a dull thread otherwise!

― 'haitch' (haitch), Monday, 4 April 2005 23:42 (twenty years ago)

ooh! you've yet to rub me any way at all!

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Monday, 4 April 2005 23:43 (twenty years ago)

I don't think Von would approve Gaz.

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Monday, 4 April 2005 23:44 (twenty years ago)

o dear thats what comes from having the pet shop boys on repeat.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Monday, 4 April 2005 23:45 (twenty years ago)

STROKIN'

― 'haitch' (haitch), Monday, 4 April 2005 23:48 (twenty years ago)

I just seem to rub everyone up the wrong way on this thread. I guess it's a good to cue to leave.

Why do you keep saying that, Kate? It kinda weirds me out, cos it always seems to come out of nowhere :/

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 4 April 2005 23:49 (twenty years ago)

If you wanna be with me, baby
There's a price you pay
I'm a genie in a bottle
You gotta rub me the right way

― 'haitch' (haitch), Monday, 4 April 2005 23:53 (twenty years ago)

I'll email you. I don't want to make this thread any more uncomfortable than it is already.

xpost

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Monday, 4 April 2005 23:53 (twenty years ago)

Have I said something wrong Adam?

No!! No no no, not at all. I was curious because he always seemed a bit up himself.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 4 April 2005 23:54 (twenty years ago)

Argh the tension. Seriously it's misplaced, I don't know Ferguson and I'm not even a fan of his [Don't Forget Your Toothbrush? pfft whatever]

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 4 April 2005 23:55 (twenty years ago)

He is a wanker. Also, his mother is a senile old bat who used to sub-teach at my school. She was very strange.

At least we were told she was his mum. Maybe it was a big rumour.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 4 April 2005 23:57 (twenty years ago)

I'm sorry guys. I've had a hideous weekend. Fucking awful. I'm really starting to believe in Karma and it's not going in my favour.

So yeah. I'm probably behaving a little erratically.

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Monday, 4 April 2005 23:57 (twenty years ago)

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 4 April 2005 23:58 (twenty years ago)

Anyway, he's the only DAAS ex-member who isn't successful in television. I used to think he was The Talented One.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 00:04 (twenty years ago)

you were blinded by his many colourful suits, possibly.

― 'haitch' (haitch), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 00:07 (twenty years ago)

That hair. The '80s new wave fringe that he clinged to right into the 21st century.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 00:10 (twenty years ago)

It was probably to disguise his massively receeding hairline.

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 00:11 (twenty years ago)

His stint on DFYT and on... didnt he do a blooper reel show at some stage - is painful TV. Hes a terrible, wooden actor/host.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 00:12 (twenty years ago)

there was that story about Alex Chilton touring out here a few years back, when "Toothbrush" was on, and apparently he did a cover of that "volare, woahoahoahoah" song and was shocked to find the crowd singing along. GEE THANKS TIM FERGUSON FOR RUINING ALEX CHILTON'S CHOICE OF MATERIAL FOR EVERYONE.

new wave fringes are back aren't they? if only he'd held out longer!

― 'haitch' (haitch), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 00:12 (twenty years ago)

He did Big Brother Insider [?] too. That was the Friday night panel show they did to cash in on the concept. Ferguson 'hosted' that.

By 'hosted' I mean 'read autocues every few minutes'

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 00:15 (twenty years ago)

Gotta admit, I don't miss DAAS, thanks to an ex.

― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 01:27 (twenty years ago)

You done it with Tim Ferguson?? omg

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 01:54 (twenty years ago)

tim ferguson was a total fuckhead to me once too. i met him in a pub once when i was quite young and really naive, thinking all people you are introduced to at the pub are likely to be quite friendly. and he was unforgivably rude and patronising, and made me the butt of unfunny jokes. i laughed and laughed when that stupid toothbrush show was on. at him though, not with him.

― gem (trisk), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 02:07 (twenty years ago)

Then his career trajectory since falls within the realm of comeuppance.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 02:10 (twenty years ago)

i don't know that it was a trajectory so much as a crashing thud

― gem (trisk), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 02:12 (twenty years ago)

can straight down still be a trajectory?

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 02:51 (twenty years ago)

As long as it started going up and it's curved, yes.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 02:54 (twenty years ago)

So like Denise Drysdale then.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 03:11 (twenty years ago)

MOLEY MORE INFO ON upcoming PONEE gig plz

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 04:51 (twenty years ago)

i was thinking that there was no curve in ole tim's career path because after DAAS it just went directly down, as if it just fell of the cliff of funny xpost

― gem (trisk), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 05:08 (twenty years ago)

MOLEY MORE INFO ON upcoming PONEE gig plz
-- shine headlights on me

July 22 9pm Ponee with Old D*s Peres and someone else...

― moley (moley), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 05:25 (twenty years ago)

july?!?! that's years away :( but i'm putting it in my diary now.

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 05:27 (twenty years ago)

That is so weird. I meant to say April 22. July 22 is my birthday. April 22 is the gig.

Signs of latent narcissism there, Dr Freud would say.

― moley (moley), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 05:32 (twenty years ago)

that's better! and trayce will be there even if we have to gag and bind her.

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 05:36 (twenty years ago)

This was one of her stipulations?

― moley (moley), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 05:39 (twenty years ago)

contractually bound

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 05:40 (twenty years ago)

that was a crap gag

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 21:56 (twenty years ago)

and now it's wednesday

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 22:22 (twenty years ago)

sorry

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 22:24 (twenty years ago)

only wednesday

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 22:24 (twenty years ago)

i said i'm sorry! *sobs*

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 22:26 (twenty years ago)

you can apologise all you like bbut it doesn't alter the fact

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 22:29 (twenty years ago)

it will if i apologise for 15 more hours

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 22:29 (twenty years ago)

the great mongrel apology day is about to begin. the person who manages to apologise in the most threads wins.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 22:32 (twenty years ago)

You're on.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 22:33 (twenty years ago)

ok - go.

no, wait, sorry - does it have to be contextual?

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 22:47 (twenty years ago)

so is there a sorry scoreboard for this apologetic contest?

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 00:53 (twenty years ago)

oh, we didn't decide who would be keeping score. sorry!

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 00:54 (twenty years ago)

Whats erveryone apologising for now? Ya wussbags.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 00:55 (twenty years ago)

sorry

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 00:58 (twenty years ago)

Sorry I didn't restump the house.

― WE ARE THE KATE!!!! (papa november), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 01:07 (twenty years ago)

I haven't been keeping up my end of the bargain, sorry...

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 01:07 (twenty years ago)

i am winning then! sorry...

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 01:10 (twenty years ago)

Jesus you're fucking pissing me off Gaz. Just shut the fuck up. I'm sorry if that sounded harsh.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 01:11 (twenty years ago)

Sorry Gaz, I thought you were US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. I'm sorry if I hurt you in any way.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 01:11 (twenty years ago)

er sorry to derail the thread for a sec but FUCK I LOVE SPLIT ENZ

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 01:13 (twenty years ago)

i'm still really sorry about the wednesday thing

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 01:19 (twenty years ago)

are there points for it being in this thread? i thought the game was all about mongrels spreading the sorry all over other people's threads

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 01:26 (twenty years ago)

Clearly I missed a meeting somewhere.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 01:29 (twenty years ago)

you can apologise all you like bbut it doesn't alter the fact
-- mullygrubbr (fan...) (webmail), April 5th, 2005 9:29 AM. (bulbs) (later) (link)
it will if i apologise for 15 more hours
-- shine headlights on me (electricsoun...) (webmail), April 5th, 2005 9:29 AM. (electricsound) (later) (link)
the great mongrel apology day is about to begin. the person who manages to apologise in the most threads wins.
-- mullygrubbr (fan...) (webmail), April 5th, 2005 9:32 AM. (bulbs) (later) (link)
You're on.

-- Autumn Almanac (ada...) (webmail), April 5th, 2005 9:33 AM. (Autumn Almanac) (later) (link)

― WE ARE THE KATE!!!! (papa november), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 01:31 (twenty years ago)

er sorry to derail the thread for a sec but THE ABC WILL SCREEN DOCTOR WHO IN MAY AND YU0SE HAVE TO FUCKING WATCH IT sorry for saying the f word

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 01:33 (twenty years ago)

No fucking problem.

― WE ARE THE KATE!!!! (papa november), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 01:35 (twenty years ago)

I SAID SORRY GOD WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 01:38 (twenty years ago)

ew I left caps lock on, sorry

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 01:38 (twenty years ago)

"sorry"? What un-Australian behaviour is this?

― prime minister haitch (haitch), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 02:20 (twenty years ago)

sorry pmh. this thread is clearly overrun with bleeding heart small-l liberals and dogooders.

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 03:36 (twenty years ago)

Dogooders suck.

― WE ARE THE KATE!!!! (papa november), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 04:11 (twenty years ago)

the sanctimonious ones that boast about it definitely suck

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 04:12 (twenty years ago)

Oh yeah.

Although, now I think about it, since I quit church in 1996 I haven't come across many people like that.

― Kate / We'll always be together in electric dreams (papa november), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 04:34 (twenty years ago)

don't join the public service, there are lots of them. they're always trying to sell me raffle tickets or giant freddo frogs and banging on about their fantabulous dogoodness.

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 04:46 (twenty years ago)

I'm sure i'll come across a few in the teaching profession!

― Kate / We'll always be together in electric dreams (papa november), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 04:49 (twenty years ago)

I must admit I tend to find it hard to turn down those giant freddos.

― haitch (haitch), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 05:04 (twenty years ago)

charity chocolate will be my downfall. i have had four blocks this week (two on monday)

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 05:06 (twenty years ago)

Fucking hell!

― Kate / We'll always be together in electric dreams (papa november), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 05:15 (twenty years ago)

i don't like chocolate. if it was charity savoury snacks i'd be happy to throw money at their various dogood causes.

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 05:21 (twenty years ago)

i should consider myself lucky they don't have charity bacon & egg sandwiches

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 05:24 (twenty years ago)

!! imagine. i would be a sucker for charity vegemite on toast at morning tea time. there could be a niche fundraising market opportunity here.

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 05:25 (twenty years ago)

PLEASE STOP TALKING ABOUT CHOCOLATE

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 05:26 (twenty years ago)

we did

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 05:26 (twenty years ago)

Oh! Sorry

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 05:27 (twenty years ago)

i could certainly be easily persuaded to buy charity le snaks or savoury shapes too

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 05:28 (twenty years ago)

charity organisations need to move with these carb conscious times

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 05:28 (twenty years ago)

yeah and someone should take them to task over their discrimination against people who lack a sweet tooth. pffft call themselves dogooders.

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 05:31 (twenty years ago)

MAGICKAL BIRTHDAY THREAD FOR MY MAGICKAL BIRTHING DAY, 7/4/80 NEVER FORGET

Cait got me The Incredibles already which is making love to my eyes.

― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 08:27 (twenty years ago)

I can't believe you were born in 1980. I feel old. Like I should be working a job already.

Cait seems like a lovely girl. You're so lucky to have her.

― WE ARE THE KATE!!!! (papa november), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 08:29 (twenty years ago)

i just sent off a job app. fuck this is backbreaking.

happy birthday mikey for tamorrow mikey. case i die.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 08:50 (twenty years ago)

happy birthday Mikey ya slip of a fella

― moley, Wednesday, 6 April 2005 10:19 (twenty years ago)

Happy birthday Mikey!

― ....and says it's cool for Kates...It's cool for Kates (papa november), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 10:34 (twenty years ago)

cooooooooooooool for kaaaaaaaaaaaaaaates...

― moley, Wednesday, 6 April 2005 10:41 (twenty years ago)

happy birthday mikey!

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 10:42 (twenty years ago)

Thanks moley. I needed a backup singer for that bit :)

― ....and says it's cool for Kates...It's cool for Kates (papa november), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 10:44 (twenty years ago)

i love that song! i'm doing a little mod dance around the library now

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 10:45 (twenty years ago)

thanks, kids. it's tomorrow though.

i'm going to be slack as hell at work/school tomorrow.

― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 11:31 (twenty years ago)

But the students! You're putting their education at great risk! :)

― Kate, plain and tall. (papa november), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 11:33 (twenty years ago)

Your birthday is tomorrow? Sorry.

― moley, Wednesday, 6 April 2005 21:17 (twenty years ago)

i dn't die. happy birthday mikey.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 21:20 (twenty years ago)

Thanks guys, I appreciate it.

― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 22:41 (twenty years ago)

happy birthday. and hi you crazy cats.

― di, Wednesday, 6 April 2005 23:04 (twenty years ago)

Hi Di!

― Kate's evil twin (papa november), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 23:06 (twenty years ago)

hello di hello kate hello mikey hello world

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 23:09 (twenty years ago)

Oooh happy birthday Thrushbery

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 7 April 2005 00:05 (twenty years ago)

Sorry, no, Mikey's birthday is tomorrow.

― moley (moley), Thursday, 7 April 2005 00:40 (twenty years ago)

don't put it off mikey!

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 7 April 2005 00:46 (twenty years ago)

Adam, what is your obsession with thrush??!

― haitch (haitch), Thursday, 7 April 2005 00:57 (twenty years ago)

TODAY IS MY BIRTHDAY

I had a cake from my staffroom and a birthday card from the scary but fair principal and a very cute card from my girlfriend and she gave me the Incredibles on DVD which was RAD AS HELL.

― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Thursday, 7 April 2005 01:02 (twenty years ago)

Hahah, no Adam, my birthday was YEAST-erday. The excitement was INFECTIOUS. As for the impeding weekend celebrations, the PUS-sibilities are endless.

Birthday drinks at Polly on the 15th. No RSVP Ne-PESSARY.

― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Thursday, 7 April 2005 01:05 (twenty years ago)

will any septics be there?

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Thursday, 7 April 2005 01:12 (twenty years ago)

Adam, what is your obsession with thrush??!

I have an obsession with thrush?

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 7 April 2005 01:15 (twenty years ago)

Sorry, I thought your birthday was tomorrow. I'm so vague, sometimes I CANESTAN it. It's no FUNG at AL.

― moley (moley), Thursday, 7 April 2005 01:16 (twenty years ago)

I can't go on the 15th. That's my BEEF. CURTAINS to being broke.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 7 April 2005 01:20 (twenty years ago)

Hahah, I was just throwing the invitation out there for comedic purposes. We'll drink to good fortune for all you.

Yes, my pet septic will be there.

― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Thursday, 7 April 2005 01:44 (twenty years ago)

SEPTIC

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 7 April 2005 01:48 (twenty years ago)

You guys are all cunts ;D

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 7 April 2005 01:50 (twenty years ago)

but dicks can get thrush too!

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 7 April 2005 01:51 (twenty years ago)

mmmm dickthrush

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Thursday, 7 April 2005 01:52 (twenty years ago)

Anyone seen Nikki Webster's shoot in [Aus] FHM yet?

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 7 April 2005 01:53 (twenty years ago)

it involves thrush?

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 7 April 2005 01:54 (twenty years ago)

Is dickthrush a sore point with some of you?

― moley (moley), Thursday, 7 April 2005 02:10 (twenty years ago)

is it as bad as i fear? xpost

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Thursday, 7 April 2005 02:12 (twenty years ago)

do you mean dickthrush? i hope it is equally as unbearably itchy as the feminine version. or do you mean nikki webster... isn't she lacking the boobs necessary for fhm?

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 7 April 2005 02:14 (twenty years ago)

is she even legal? my sons must not hear of this. her rendition of i wanna be like you on jungle book 2 is an obsession of theirs.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 7 April 2005 02:15 (twenty years ago)

is kelly osbourne legal yet? whatever happened to her anyway?

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Thursday, 7 April 2005 02:17 (twenty years ago)

yeah i think she would definitely be legal by now. also she's much much sexier than nikki webster.

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 7 April 2005 02:18 (twenty years ago)

Um, if Nikki Webster were in the buff I wouldn't be able to see in order to type this.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 7 April 2005 02:18 (twenty years ago)

she is? its like the difference between dogs wee and cats wee - which is tastier?

xpost

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 7 April 2005 02:19 (twenty years ago)

at least the smell of dog's wee doesn't hang around forever like cat wee does

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Thursday, 7 April 2005 02:21 (twenty years ago)

well in my opinion. which is actually completely worthless seeing as i don't fancy chicks.

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 7 April 2005 02:22 (twenty years ago)

This thread has gone all shades of Weird.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 7 April 2005 02:22 (twenty years ago)

But cats wee appropriately by instinct, dogs just piss anywhere unless you train them.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 7 April 2005 02:23 (twenty years ago)

Last week I went to a fogey hostel and it STANK of urine. If they chuck me in one of them places I want two of my senses removed in advance.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 7 April 2005 02:24 (twenty years ago)

isn't it to do with marking territory?

why'd you go adam?

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 7 April 2005 02:31 (twenty years ago)

sight and hearing? xpost

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Thursday, 7 April 2005 02:31 (twenty years ago)

Had to mask the smell somehow.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 7 April 2005 02:31 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, sight and hearing.

I bought chocolate to cheer myself up!! YUM

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 7 April 2005 02:32 (twenty years ago)

I sure do miss Troughman.

― moley (moley), Thursday, 7 April 2005 02:34 (twenty years ago)

Troughman?

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 7 April 2005 02:35 (twenty years ago)

aim lower! (xp)

― haitch (haitch), Thursday, 7 April 2005 02:39 (twenty years ago)

WEAKLINGS!

― TROUGHMAN, Thursday, 7 April 2005 02:42 (twenty years ago)

yay!!!!

― moley (moley), Thursday, 7 April 2005 02:55 (twenty years ago)

SHIT. The one time I've EVER had to download a file from my old work and I don't have access anymore.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 7 April 2005 02:56 (twenty years ago)

when did you last check?

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Thursday, 7 April 2005 02:58 (twenty years ago)

tell us a troughman story unca mol

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 7 April 2005 02:58 (twenty years ago)

Once upon a time troughman went into a bar. He said, "One Fosters please". THE END.

― moley (moley), Thursday, 7 April 2005 03:03 (twenty years ago)

but tell us about the time you met him in the stalls at a RAT party.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 7 April 2005 03:06 (twenty years ago)

don't forget to add a footnote explaining what a rat party is

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 7 April 2005 03:07 (twenty years ago)

stop me if you've heard this one. i met him at a strip joint. he was at the trough with a big black guy. the black guy stepped back and ushered me up to stand next to troughman. he had a semi and was yelling "phwaor! what about that last blonde eh? i fuckin well would!" and trying to make eye contact with me. by some fucking incredible fluke i managed to actually piss and get out of there. the black guy stepped back up beside troughman.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 7 April 2005 03:10 (twenty years ago)

later i went in to piss again and he was STILL there. waving his fucking dick around.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 7 April 2005 03:12 (twenty years ago)

an incredible fluke:

ihttp://neptune.atlantis-intl.com/dolphins/img/fluke.jpg

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Thursday, 7 April 2005 03:12 (twenty years ago)

dang

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Thursday, 7 April 2005 03:12 (twenty years ago)

sorry

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 7 April 2005 03:14 (twenty years ago)

Hindu, muslim and catholic travelling through mucky countryside. Need a bed for the night, can't find one. Knock on nearest farm door and ask for bedding. Farmer says "orright, you hindi, you go in that stable there, you muslim can go in that one, and you catholic can go in that one."

Two minutes later farmer gets knock on door. "It's me, hindi. I can't sleep in there! There's a cow in there and I can't sleep with a cow, they're sacred!" Farner moves cow and hindi goes back to bed.

Two minutes later another knock on the door. Muslim's standing there going "I can't sleep in there! There's a pig!" Farmer gets rid of pig and muslim sleeps peacefully.

Two minutes later, knock knock knock. Farmer opens door to cow and pig screaming: "WTF? We're not sleeping in there with a catholic!"

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 7 April 2005 03:24 (twenty years ago)

i don't get it

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Thursday, 7 April 2005 03:25 (twenty years ago)

I can get away with it because I'm married to one.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 7 April 2005 03:29 (twenty years ago)

What, a pig?

/reallyobviousjokePleaseDoNotHitMe

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 7 April 2005 03:40 (twenty years ago)

In other news, I feel like shit. I dont wanna leave the house. But I want goon. And smokes. So I suppose I'll have to. But I don't want to for that reason, cos I keep saying I'll drink less. ARGH ARGH stupid brane.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 7 April 2005 03:41 (twenty years ago)

my advice is to just go and get them and save yourself from the internal conflict trayce.

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 7 April 2005 03:47 (twenty years ago)

Indeed.

Well, I'm off for a walk then!

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 7 April 2005 03:49 (twenty years ago)

have fun!

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 7 April 2005 03:49 (twenty years ago)

I keep saying I'll drink less.

As a rule I won't drink whilst on the job hunt. I didn't drink when I was in the clinical depression either, and fucking glad I am at that.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 7 April 2005 03:56 (twenty years ago)

Remember how we were going to have coffee? We really should follow up on that one day.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 7 April 2005 03:57 (twenty years ago)

Drinking is one of the few things that made me happy when I was depressed. But I knew that if I did, there'd be trouble for all and sundry.

TRAYCE, I'VE TOLD YOU, GET OUT OF THE HOUSE, THE PAIN WILL SUBSIDE QUICKLY.

― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Thursday, 7 April 2005 04:15 (twenty years ago)

OI, WHAT THE FUCK, SMOKES AND GOON? WHAT THE HAPPY SHIT? ENOUGH OF THIS MADNESS!

Damn, I could co a smoke right now though...

...BUT YOU CAN'T!

― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Thursday, 7 April 2005 04:17 (twenty years ago)

Fingers crossed Trayce feels better having walked. I don't know what's caused her feeling-badness but it's sooo easy to feel weak and/or headachy when you're out of work and locked in a flat all day.

Get this. We're supposed to do a design document for an assignment, explicitly stating which parts of Oracle Intermedia we'll use in the assignment. But nobody's used Intermedia and we haven't been taught it in any other subject. We're five weeks in and he hasn't even raised it in this subject! So tomorrow we're supposed to submit a highly detailed explanation of what we're going to do with an application we've never touched or been taught.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 7 April 2005 04:19 (twenty years ago)

locked in? come again?

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Thursday, 7 April 2005 04:20 (twenty years ago)

going for a stroll around outside always cheers me up when i'm feeling blue. even if it is just down to the shops and back. the hardest part is forcing yourself to leave the house when you feel like that i reckon.

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 7 April 2005 04:21 (twenty years ago)

I'm only such a psycho about Trayce getting out and not getting plastered, because I know what happens to you if you're cooped up all day inside for months on end.

The damage is still being repaired!

― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Thursday, 7 April 2005 04:24 (twenty years ago)

locked in? come again?

Trapped in front of a computer screen looking for work etc.

Mikey: Please explain

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 7 April 2005 04:25 (twenty years ago)

when feeling blue, I find remembering to breathe helps bring normal colour back to the face.

― haitch (haitch), Thursday, 7 April 2005 04:29 (twenty years ago)

Quite simply, put on a chunk of weight, went from a normally sunny kind of guy to someone who shunned social contact, lost touch with a lot of friends and lost a lot of self-confidence.

― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Thursday, 7 April 2005 04:33 (twenty years ago)

Fuck! That's exactly what's happened to me, minus the weight gain.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 7 April 2005 04:42 (twenty years ago)

and me!

...in other news, i think my marriage offically ended today. I'm torn belief relief and utter misery.

― Kate's evil twin (papa november), Thursday, 7 April 2005 04:47 (twenty years ago)

Fuck really? Um... I don't know what to say, but is there anything we can do? Anything at all?

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 7 April 2005 04:48 (twenty years ago)

Nah, I'll be okay. It's for the best really.

― Kate's evil twin (papa november), Thursday, 7 April 2005 04:50 (twenty years ago)

Was it your call, his, or a mutual decision?

― Remy (x Jeremy), Thursday, 7 April 2005 04:52 (twenty years ago)

Pretty much mutual. We've never made a good couple. Better friends. We fight all the time and don't want to go all rolling stones with it.

― Kate's evil twin (papa november), Thursday, 7 April 2005 04:58 (twenty years ago)

― Remy (x Jeremy), Thursday, 7 April 2005 05:00 (twenty years ago)

Superficially I fell like reacting with :( faces, but really it's probably a top decision in the long run. In 5-10 years you'll probably look back and be thankful it didn't continue. Break-ups are usually viewed as sad occasions for some reason, when frequently it results in a better life for everyone concerned.

Not, uh, that I'm presuming anything about your situation, Kate.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 7 April 2005 05:01 (twenty years ago)

oh no it really is fucked. the marriage was a mistake in the first place. We still like each other just not enough to be married.

It's sad cause it didn't work out, but we're both young still. We'll get through it.

― Kate's evil twin (papa november), Thursday, 7 April 2005 05:03 (twenty years ago)

I've known people who have broken up to an audience of people crying OHHH NOOO OMG HOW SAD, yet with the benefit of hindsight it was clearly the right thing to do. It can be far less a death than a new beginning. I hope this is helping.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 7 April 2005 05:04 (twenty years ago)

Yeah it is, I really appreciate the concern. I just we really can still be friends. It's not like we have much in the way of possessions to fight over!

― Kate's evil twin (papa november), Thursday, 7 April 2005 05:05 (twenty years ago)

You're fortunate, too, in that you both feel similarly. So many break-ups are one-sided and cause immeasurable amounts of anguish.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 7 April 2005 05:05 (twenty years ago)

I've been trying to end the marriage for a fair while but he wouldn't listen, and I felt sorry for him. I think he realises now that if things go on this way we're just going to end up hating each other. If we kill it now, theres a possibility we can get through it and still be civil.

― Kate's evil twin (papa november), Thursday, 7 April 2005 05:07 (twenty years ago)

Yes, but I'm a superficial person Adam! And Kate - having age on your side (and not, presumably, any terribly-lengthy financial or familial entanglements) is a great benefit to doing this now, no?

― Remy (x Jeremy), Thursday, 7 April 2005 05:07 (twenty years ago)

I suppose what's important in the coming weeks is to try your hardest to view your own behavioural patterns objectively. Try to recognise how you're feeling and deal with it as a symptom of the situation. Can be bloody hard to do this though.

wtf am I saying? I've never come off a relationship longer than 12 months, and that was fucked up anyway...

xpost -- Remy, I wasn't referring to you, but I'm genuinely sorry if it looked that way.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 7 April 2005 05:08 (twenty years ago)

Yeah for sure. No kids. A fairly small mortgage. No big deal.

I'll just go live with my parents till I start teaching again. Dunno how i'll deal with that considering my father is a prize-winning arsehole, but i'll sort it out.

xpost

― Kate's evil twin (papa november), Thursday, 7 April 2005 05:09 (twenty years ago)

I kind of feel like a big black cloud has been lifted off me anyhow. I really haven't been myself *since* I got married.

― Kate's evil twin (papa november), Thursday, 7 April 2005 05:10 (twenty years ago)

good luck kate.

― moley (moley), Thursday, 7 April 2005 05:11 (twenty years ago)

That's good then, isn't it? Hopefully the other half [what do we call him now??] feels similarly and can move on.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 7 April 2005 05:11 (twenty years ago)

You should set up a paypal account and let friends who tell you 'how sorry' they are by wiring money into it for beer!

― Remy (x Jeremy), Thursday, 7 April 2005 05:12 (twenty years ago)

Not the time nor the place, but initially I read

I kind of feel like a big black cloud has been lifted off me anyhow.

I kind of feel like a big black cock has been lifted off me anyhow.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 7 April 2005 05:12 (twenty years ago)

Yup, hopefully.

Thanks Moley.

xpost

Put the big black cock back on me, I'm begging you!!! :)

Paypal hates me and bidpay hates me even more. They owe me money and I don't know how to get it!!

― Kate's evil twin (papa november), Thursday, 7 April 2005 05:14 (twenty years ago)

the unbearable lightness of being without a big black cock

xpost

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Thursday, 7 April 2005 05:14 (twenty years ago)

i wish you well, kate.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 7 April 2005 05:14 (twenty years ago)

Thanks guys!

"My situation is dire, please send more big black cock urgently" :)

― Kate's evil twin (papa november), Thursday, 7 April 2005 05:16 (twenty years ago)

I wish you a big black cock, Kate.

(guaranteed this is the one post out of thousands that google'll attach to my email address)

― R3my (x Jeremy), Thursday, 7 April 2005 05:17 (twenty years ago)

off to the out of context thread!!

only kidding.

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Thursday, 7 April 2005 05:19 (twenty years ago)

Hey time to get creative Kate!

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 7 April 2005 05:20 (twenty years ago)

True Adam. Very very true.

Everyone know misery makes great songs/paintings/poetry yada yada yada.

― Kate's evil twin (papa november), Thursday, 7 April 2005 05:21 (twenty years ago)

i wish you well also kate. i wondered if something like this was in the offing during your conversations with your evil twin over the last couple of days.

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 7 April 2005 05:21 (twenty years ago)

I will exploit this difficult time for all it's worth!

xpost

Yeah it was Gem. Things have been pretty horrid here for some time now. I just didn't really have anyone to talk to about it.

― Kate's evil twin (papa november), Thursday, 7 April 2005 05:22 (twenty years ago)

Everyone know misery makes great songs/paintings/poetry yada yada yada.

All change stimulates good art. It's a catharsis during bad times, and in good times you have a muse! It's when things are stagnant that it all falls down.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 7 April 2005 05:22 (twenty years ago)

well not really knowing you or your husband i may be talking out of my arse, but it didn't sound likely that either of you would find too much happiness if you stayed together.

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 7 April 2005 05:28 (twenty years ago)

Spot on. You don't have to know me too well to figure things out. I wear my heart prominently on my sleeve at all times.

― Kate's evil twin (papa november), Thursday, 7 April 2005 05:30 (twenty years ago)

mwah! be well kate! I to proofread a horror script before bed. If it's bad I'll sleep well, content of my own ability. If it's good I'll be up in an hour, scared.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Thursday, 7 April 2005 05:30 (twenty years ago)

hmm.. are you absolutely sure you should be proofreading right now?

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Thursday, 7 April 2005 05:32 (twenty years ago)

Hahaha!

― Kate's evil twin (papa november), Thursday, 7 April 2005 05:32 (twenty years ago)

I wear my heart prominently on my sleeve at all times.

Far better than being a two-faced backstabber. I dislike two-faced backstabbers.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 7 April 2005 05:33 (twenty years ago)

Oh I can do that too. I just try not to.

― Kate's evil twin (papa november), Thursday, 7 April 2005 05:33 (twenty years ago)

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 7 April 2005 05:34 (twenty years ago)

Aww jeeze Kate, I'm sorry!

― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Thursday, 7 April 2005 05:44 (twenty years ago)

It's ok Mikey, your relationship with Caitlin reminded me what a real relationship should be like.

― Kate's evil twin (papa november), Thursday, 7 April 2005 05:57 (twenty years ago)

If it helps, 'er indoors and I have just passed 6.5 years, and the worst it's gotten is an argument over fish & chips in 2000 that lasted about three minutes. Perhaps we're weird but I think this is how relationships should and can be.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 7 April 2005 06:00 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I actually think I'm done with relationship for a fair while after this one. It's left me pretty scarred to say the least, but I would hope that one day when I feel better about myself I might be able to be happy with someone.

― Kate's evil twin (papa november), Thursday, 7 April 2005 06:02 (twenty years ago)

how does one argue about fish & chips? was it about the amount of salt?

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Thursday, 7 April 2005 06:03 (twenty years ago)

Backfrom walk. Would have felt better, if not for getting Nick's application for Visa card reply in the post, which rejected him having a credit card :( I know that is a good thing in some ways but he had his heart set on buying a PDA and now he cant... blah.

Yeah Mikey I know the goon route is bad bad bad. I feel kinda "wtf ever I dont care anymore" today. It'll pass.

Kate: I'm sorry to hear you've come to the point you have, but in a way I can sympathise, as Darren reminds me so much of my ex Max - I cared about him so much and didn't wanna leave him cos I felt terrible that he'd be ruined/lost without me. I couldn't keep it going tho. He was a best friend, but not a lover anymore, it had to be done. I still feel poo about it now and then but it was for the best. In the end you have to look after #1 if thats what's being destroyed, ya?

*hugs* to everyone!

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 7 April 2005 06:04 (twenty years ago)

Perhaps we're weird but I think this is how relationships should and can be.

Yeah me and Nick never fight either. It weirds me out when EVERYONE tells us we're fucked up for it wtf. But we're just compatible in a simple way I cant explain that requires little work. I guess thats how its meant to go? I dunno.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 7 April 2005 06:05 (twenty years ago)

Yeha, I think some people are jealous, or come from a background where everyone argues and thinks it's supposed to be like that.

Credit cards are shit. I've only got one [low limit] and I hate it.

You seem in higher spirits anyway, which is good.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 7 April 2005 06:06 (twenty years ago)

you will kate! i remember that feeling of relief mixed up with despair from one of my break ups. the break up took about 8-9 months of a 5.5 year relationship. neither of us wanted to let go but when we finally did it was so much better! that was about 3 years ago, we don't talk all the time or anything but when we do we are really good mates now, and i know we will both always have a special place for each other in our hearts. hopefully it will be like that for you.

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 7 April 2005 06:06 (twenty years ago)

i would LOVE to have a relationship where there were no fights ever, i hate conflict more than pretty much anything. except maybe frogs.

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 7 April 2005 06:07 (twenty years ago)

there's a big difference though between a relationship where there are no fights because you get along, and one where conflict is being actively avoided. the latter is an awful situation and still far too close to my memory.

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Thursday, 7 April 2005 06:09 (twenty years ago)

I hope so Gem. I really do.

This is a gift for you:

http://www.mypkhome.com/frog/frog-9.jpg

Hahaha :)

xpost

― Kate's evil twin (papa november), Thursday, 7 April 2005 06:10 (twenty years ago)

Oh, yeah, we don't actively avoid conflict, we just don't seem to have conflict. I think we respect each other too much.

We both firmly believe respect is a HUGE part of what makes relationships work. If you respect each other strongly and equally, you've got a rock solid foundation.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 7 April 2005 06:11 (twenty years ago)

xpost yeah well that's what i end up doing, avoiding conflict, because i'm such a wimp about it, and that eventually makes everyone unhappy. so i guess what i meant was, i would love a relationship where we get along so well there are no fights.

ok that is going to be like the jon butler photo now so we all have to post madly till the frogs are gone *SHUDDER*

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 7 April 2005 06:11 (twenty years ago)

The worst thing with my relationship with Darren is when we get on well we get on SOOOO well which makes it difficult to come to this kind of decision.

It's a manic kind of thing where the highs are really high and the lows are incredibly low.

― Kate's evil twin (papa november), Thursday, 7 April 2005 06:12 (twenty years ago)

Need a new thread soon anyway. I think the title should carry a theme we associate with Paul Hester.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 7 April 2005 06:13 (twenty years ago)

xpost i understand that. i think the point where such a relationship ends is like a cost-benefit ratio thing where the number/magnitude of lows outweigh the highs.

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 7 April 2005 06:13 (twenty years ago)

The worst thing with my relationship with Darren is when we get on well we get on SOOOO well which makes it difficult to come to this kind of decision.

It can be easy to be blinded by the good times. 'Er indoors and I are incompatible on a few ways, but the lows are never low, just kind of flat. And surmountable

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 7 April 2005 06:14 (twenty years ago)

Yeah you're right...and he lies all the time lately and I think he's having an affair, so that doesn't help with the respect issues.

― Kate's evil twin (papa november), Thursday, 7 April 2005 06:14 (twenty years ago)

Eeek really??

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 7 April 2005 06:15 (twenty years ago)

I guess that'll come out over time. Gah I'm sorry to hear that.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 7 April 2005 06:15 (twenty years ago)

Yeah I think. Not sure though. Wouldn't care if he'd admitted it rather than lying. I didn't lie to him, I told him to truth so he could make a decision about his life and his relationship with me. But he's been lying, it seems for months about it all.

xpost

― Kate's evil twin (papa november), Thursday, 7 April 2005 06:16 (twenty years ago)

oh kate. you poor thing. what a crappy time for you.

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 7 April 2005 06:17 (twenty years ago)

My life is a soap opera. I've accepted that.

― Kate's evil twin (papa november), Thursday, 7 April 2005 06:18 (twenty years ago)

I was almost cheated on once, but I can't really empathise at all. It'd feel pretty dirty to be cheated on.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 7 April 2005 06:19 (twenty years ago)

Yeah. I can't really comment.

― Kate's evil twin (papa november), Thursday, 7 April 2005 06:22 (twenty years ago)

What's important is that it's behind you now. You've time to do whatever the fuck you want without worrying about things like that.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 7 April 2005 06:25 (twenty years ago)

We all do this stuff, really. I've become horribly philisophical about it all.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 7 April 2005 06:50 (twenty years ago)

What stuff?

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 7 April 2005 07:11 (twenty years ago)

Cheat, muck stuff up... I dunno.

Sorry.. not very cheery heh.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 7 April 2005 07:12 (twenty years ago)

true dat, i guess we all do muck stuff up at one stage or another.

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 7 April 2005 07:13 (twenty years ago)

Ah. Yes.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 7 April 2005 07:13 (twenty years ago)

the frogs are gone already! phew.

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 7 April 2005 07:15 (twenty years ago)

TELL US ABOUT THE ARGUMENT OVER FISH AND CHIPS ADAM.

Oh yeah, gem, this is for you:

http://photos3.flickr.com/3329579_984faf2ff2.jpg

― moley, Thursday, 7 April 2005 09:20 (twenty years ago)

And this is for Trayce:

http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~ajcd/images/pike.jpg

― moley, Thursday, 7 April 2005 09:23 (twenty years ago)

*cries*

at least the little red and green ones had cool colours

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 7 April 2005 09:28 (twenty years ago)

o o o! sorry kate :(

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 7 April 2005 21:29 (twenty years ago)

onto heartier news - its friiiiday!

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 7 April 2005 21:49 (twenty years ago)

I got fucking three hours' sleep.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 7 April 2005 21:52 (twenty years ago)

but you don't have to go to work!

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 7 April 2005 21:55 (twenty years ago)

But I do have an impossible fucking assignment due at 6pm

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 7 April 2005 21:59 (twenty years ago)

o no. worse! at least i don't have to think. what is it about?

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 7 April 2005 22:01 (twenty years ago)

Intermedia. We have to submit a highly detailed proposal for a system design based on software we've (a) never touched and (b) never been taught. Yes the lecturer's a mentalist, and yes I fully expect to see a rowdy mob replete with burning effigies and pitchforks.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 7 April 2005 22:03 (twenty years ago)

gem, I didn't just google 'frog' - I googled 'ugly frog'.

― moley (moley), Thursday, 7 April 2005 22:06 (twenty years ago)

is there any rationale adam? that sounds insane. he doesn't claim "this'll be what its like int real world"?

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 7 April 2005 22:14 (twenty years ago)

No rationale. It used to be a dead easy subject, in which you could slack off, do five minutes of work and get a pass. He's restructured it and made it worthwhile, which is fair enough. What isn't fair enough is expecting us all to know things we haven't been taught or exposed to.

In week 1 we tried explaining to him that the subject is completely unfair but it fell on deaf ears. Most people transferred out immediately, and now I wish I'd done the same.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 7 April 2005 22:35 (twenty years ago)

"you lousy kids think I'm a soft touch; well I'm not gonna take it anymore!"

― haitch (haitch), Thursday, 7 April 2005 22:37 (twenty years ago)

So we tell him our complaints about the subject, and he hears them as "we want the slack one back" and ignores us.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 7 April 2005 22:39 (twenty years ago)

xpost: This bloke took over the subject from someone else.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 7 April 2005 22:39 (twenty years ago)

"you failed that???? that was the easiest subject ever!"

"no, no - you don't understand - it was hard for a year!"

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 7 April 2005 22:42 (twenty years ago)

fuck xpost

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 7 April 2005 22:42 (twenty years ago)

new music haul!! which do I play first?

mu, out of breach (manchester's revenge)
the kills, no wow
v/a, ragga ragga ragga! 2004
that new yo la tengo best-of comp

― haitch (haitch), Thursday, 7 April 2005 22:44 (twenty years ago)

anything but the ragga

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Thursday, 7 April 2005 22:45 (twenty years ago)

someone described the new kills as sounding like it wasn't made by junkies. now i'm not so excited about it because the last one was so completely awesome.

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Thursday, 7 April 2005 22:45 (twenty years ago)

μ μ μ

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 7 April 2005 22:45 (twenty years ago)

shockah: i have heard all of these.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 7 April 2005 22:49 (twenty years ago)

the songs I've heard already off the kills are awesome tho! ok time to investigate further, i'm going with that first.

― haitch (haitch), Thursday, 7 April 2005 22:50 (twenty years ago)

no no no - ads right. but it all goes pear shaped at throwing up and never recovers.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 7 April 2005 22:51 (twenty years ago)

i've only heard 'paris hilton'

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Thursday, 7 April 2005 22:56 (twenty years ago)

ugh

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 7 April 2005 23:03 (twenty years ago)

squelch squelch

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 7 April 2005 23:05 (twenty years ago)

[keen ilx-watchers may be interested to know I copied the first 'squelch' and pasted it to save typing]

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 7 April 2005 23:05 (twenty years ago)

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 7 April 2005 23:06 (twenty years ago)

everybody!

ugh
squelch squelch
ugh ho!

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 7 April 2005 23:13 (twenty years ago)

i've now been ripped off on ebay twice for the same item!!! gah. the world doesn't want me to own isan's "clockwork menagerie" for some reason.

xpost squelch ho

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Thursday, 7 April 2005 23:14 (twenty years ago)

have you made any beats yet jim?

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 7 April 2005 23:18 (twenty years ago)

no :( i have put that idea on the back burner for the time being. i suspect i'm not really using the right software for the job considering my skill level (low)

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Thursday, 7 April 2005 23:21 (twenty years ago)

you'd better get col to show you. o wait...he's strictly analog isn't he?

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 7 April 2005 23:24 (twenty years ago)

it could be like the techno version of strictly ballroom

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Thursday, 7 April 2005 23:25 (twenty years ago)

colin barrow as dashing young man who sweeps the girl off her feet with his mad 808 skills

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Thursday, 7 April 2005 23:26 (twenty years ago)

really? with col? its the mo thats done it isn't it?

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 7 April 2005 23:27 (twenty years ago)

you betcha. eric bana as col. who will play r?

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Thursday, 7 April 2005 23:29 (twenty years ago)

i though you were the girl? who will play you?

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 7 April 2005 23:35 (twenty years ago)

skye from neighbours

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Thursday, 7 April 2005 23:45 (twenty years ago)

yeah thats who i immediately thought of. or olivia newton john.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 7 April 2005 23:54 (twenty years ago)

who will play trayce?

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 7 April 2005 23:56 (twenty years ago)

one could play me as an impressionable teen and the other as the cynical hack

xpost

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Thursday, 7 April 2005 23:57 (twenty years ago)

*thinks*

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Thursday, 7 April 2005 23:57 (twenty years ago)

thora birch?

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Friday, 8 April 2005 00:01 (twenty years ago)

hmm anyway i think i've made this who train of thought not so amusing. for shame.

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Friday, 8 April 2005 00:03 (twenty years ago)

whole train

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Friday, 8 April 2005 00:03 (twenty years ago)

nah.

whats up?

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Friday, 8 April 2005 00:05 (twenty years ago)

tired. bored. no programming talent. much the usual. you?

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Friday, 8 April 2005 00:08 (twenty years ago)

ditto. doing a*pr*a reports. hassling people. this is so not me.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Friday, 8 April 2005 00:11 (twenty years ago)

plus people think i'm a moody harrassing jerk and i have to dissemble all the time and act like i'm not. TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR SHIT PEOPLE - its not me, its you.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Friday, 8 April 2005 00:17 (twenty years ago)

You're not a moody harrassing jerk, gaz.

Oh, and hi.

― edward o (edwardo), Friday, 8 April 2005 00:25 (twenty years ago)

i'm having to be a team player at the moment. it may or may not be me, but it's certainly not what i'm used to.

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Friday, 8 April 2005 00:27 (twenty years ago)

hi edward hows the gong?

what position you playing jim?

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Friday, 8 April 2005 00:29 (twenty years ago)

The gong is fine. So close to Sydney, yet so far from God, as they might say, if they said such things. Who are "they"?

Sitting in my "office", marking papers, stealing sugar sachets from the staff kitchenette, pondering recent socially awkward situations, blaring crap pop singles on iTunes and trying to re-record the voice-mail message on the phone extension but HATING the way my voice sounds each time.

― edward o (edwardo), Friday, 8 April 2005 00:30 (twenty years ago)

everyone hates the sound of their own voice don't they. apart from bono.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Friday, 8 April 2005 00:32 (twenty years ago)

Indeed. One of my students asked me in a tute yesterday: "So, when are you going to be giving a lecture in this subject?". My answer: "According to the schedule, um, never. Thankfully.". Unfortunately, when my supervisor heard about this, she grinned and said "Always next session!". Eek.

I do NOT record or amplify well.

― edward o (edwardo), Friday, 8 April 2005 00:33 (twenty years ago)

what position you playing jim?

i'm not sure. silly mid off?

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Friday, 8 April 2005 00:34 (twenty years ago)

is there a country music blog yet?

xpost.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Friday, 8 April 2005 00:35 (twenty years ago)

Yes. I've made tentative steps. http://countryglamour.blogspot.com
I have two posts in "draft" stage, too.

― edward o (edwardo), Friday, 8 April 2005 00:36 (twenty years ago)

we did this training which i've completely forgotten about teams and personalities and what you do in the team if yr a or b or z or whatever. like facilitator or gopher or leader or whatever.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Friday, 8 April 2005 00:38 (twenty years ago)

edward: cool! my tamworth brotherinlaw was down for the weekend and bought big & rich.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Friday, 8 April 2005 00:41 (twenty years ago)

where do anti-social cranks fit into that spectrum? xpost

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Friday, 8 April 2005 00:41 (twenty years ago)

yes i know. where do people who are COMPLETELY DISINTERESTED IN BULLSHIT fit in?

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Friday, 8 April 2005 00:43 (twenty years ago)

edward you should record your message through a VOCODER.

― haitch (haitch), Friday, 8 April 2005 00:44 (twenty years ago)

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― Kate's evil twin (papa november), Friday, 8 April 2005 00:44 (twenty years ago)

damn.

― Kate's evil twin (papa november), Friday, 8 April 2005 00:45 (twenty years ago)

edward you should record your message through a VOCODER.

My brother bought a vocoder thingy. Except you had to assemble it. He never assembled it. Would talking through a wad of paperwork do the job? The one that's there is so bad, I must do something soon!

― edward o (edwardo), Friday, 8 April 2005 00:46 (twenty years ago)

can you get a cute undergrad to do it for you?

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Friday, 8 April 2005 00:47 (twenty years ago)

Now's the time for them! It's my consultation hour!

― edward o (edwardo), Friday, 8 April 2005 00:48 (twenty years ago)

talk through a kazoo

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Friday, 8 April 2005 00:48 (twenty years ago)

reprocess the message through digital plugins

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Friday, 8 April 2005 00:49 (twenty years ago)

I should probably NOT mention cute undergrads. I got accused of giving a high mark to one because she was "blonde, pretty and 18". I mark blind, though, honest, guv.

― edward o (edwardo), Friday, 8 April 2005 00:50 (twenty years ago)

Obviously this isn't standard practice.

― Kate's evil twin (papa november), Friday, 8 April 2005 00:51 (twenty years ago)

it must be hard to see the papers.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Friday, 8 April 2005 00:52 (twenty years ago)

Indeed. Actually, I just don't look at the student name when I mark. Which is complicated because SOME PEOPLE PUT IT IN HEADERS/FOOTERS AARGGHH.

As it turns out, the student in question IS blonde, pretty and.. 19. Such keen insight from my colleague, who was actually just joking.

― edward o (edwardo), Friday, 8 April 2005 00:55 (twenty years ago)

hey dere sheepfuXors what is it made?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 8 April 2005 00:59 (twenty years ago)

just been told that my gf is going to the UK for two weeks for a family funeral. two weeks is ages and ages. i guess though it might give me a substantial downtime in which to practice making beats

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Friday, 8 April 2005 01:06 (twenty years ago)

Anecdote time!

When I was at TAFE 239872934 years ago one of my mates did this essay on something-or-other, and gave it to someone else to copy. The guy who copied it was so stupid he copied everything, including the guy's initials at the top of each page. He was sprung obv.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 8 April 2005 01:07 (twenty years ago)

HI DERE TEH AMAZING TAD

― haitch (haitch), Friday, 8 April 2005 01:12 (twenty years ago)

Tad, are people constantly asking you how you feel about the pope having died?

― edward o (edwardo), Friday, 8 April 2005 01:12 (twenty years ago)

no, not really. i also don't live in a predominantly polish-american neighborhood. (NYC's polish neighborhood is greenpoint, over in brooklyn).

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 8 April 2005 01:14 (twenty years ago)

i'm of a mixed mind of it, myself. i'm grateful for all that he did for poland before 1989, not to mention some of his stances on social justice. on the other hand, i didn't like his positions on abortion, birth control, dissent w/n the church, the pedophile priest thing, etc. add that to the fact that i'm not AT ALL religious (interesting fact -- the unitarians started in poland!).

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 8 April 2005 01:16 (twenty years ago)

I just thought perhaps people at work were asking you constantly. I've been asked AT LEAST TWENTY TIMES. "Yes! I have a Polish name! Yes! I _was_ Catholic. But they basically kicked me out for being a Child of Satan, so they can all rot." would be my dream response, but I am mild mannered.

― edward o (edwardo), Friday, 8 April 2005 01:20 (twenty years ago)

i was at work on saturday, when he died. and i did get into some interesting conversations w/ some co-workers -- one of whom is jewish, another eastern orthodox -- wr2 JPII, polish people and jewish people, the church, etc. all friendly and respectful, of course. anyway, one thing that i DID admire in JPII was his ecumenicalism and how he tried to improve relations between the church and the jews.

i was mostly sad in that with JPII dying, another link to my grandparents is gone. i still remember how ecstatic my grandmother -- who was born in poland -- was when JPII was appointed, and how her home had all sorts of JPII-oriented stuff (including a big painting of the pope). she died in 1994, and now the pope is gone. :-(

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 8 April 2005 01:27 (twenty years ago)

My uni has a makeshift JPII shrine set up next to the Queer Lounge.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 8 April 2005 01:29 (twenty years ago)

Can we make a new thread? And can we make the title out of Paul Hester lyrics?

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 8 April 2005 01:30 (twenty years ago)

Because by the time we settle on a title we'll have hit 1,000 posts in here.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 8 April 2005 01:30 (twenty years ago)

go for it!!!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 8 April 2005 01:30 (twenty years ago)

Oh we already have hit 1,000 I chut up now.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 8 April 2005 01:30 (twenty years ago)

...well hurry up then!

― haitch (haitch), Friday, 8 April 2005 01:39 (twenty years ago)

Taken by mongrels, taken by sheepfuxors / Thought I knew them all way back then

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 8 April 2005 01:43 (twenty years ago)

WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT JAMSTER THING ON THE ADVERT?

― Sasha (sgh), Friday, 8 April 2005 01:44 (twenty years ago)

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