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Welcome!

― Ronan, Monday, 5 March 2007 23:11 (nineteen years ago)

hi dere!

umma take a nap but I'll be back later.

― jessie monster, Monday, 5 March 2007 23:12 (nineteen years ago)

that's ok...this thread has no rules.

― Ronan, Monday, 5 March 2007 23:14 (nineteen years ago)

Location: Universal.

― g®▲Ðұ, Monday, 5 March 2007 23:14 (nineteen years ago)

electricity is something we all can enjoy.

― Ronan, Monday, 5 March 2007 23:15 (nineteen years ago)

A thread once again!

― kv_nol, Monday, 5 March 2007 23:16 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.bized.co.uk/images/eu_flag.jpg

― Ronan, Monday, 5 March 2007 23:19 (nineteen years ago)

BONERS Needs Food: Jan Mayen 24

http://www.appliedlanguage.com/maps_of_the_world/map_of_jan_mayen.gif

― Curt1s Stephens, Monday, 5 March 2007 23:21 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.hopupmag.com/pictures/hopup14-b.jpg

― Ronan, Monday, 5 March 2007 23:26 (nineteen years ago)

There may or may not be a food called pie and it may or not be good and it may consist of several ingredients but not always

― JW, Monday, 5 March 2007 23:28 (nineteen years ago)

I know it's just 10 posts in, but I would fight and die to defend this thread.

― Ronan, Monday, 5 March 2007 23:32 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.toothpastefordinner.com/061802/molecules-are-everywhere.gif

so clearly this thread doesn't have to be, I am feeeling maybe slightly protective of it. It needs nurturing.

― Matt, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 00:43 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.padretrailscc.org/dnature0406-1.jpg

― g®▲Ðұ, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 00:49 (nineteen years ago)

my text input keeps switching to japanese. :/

should I eat another hot dog before I go listen to an MTV lady tell us things to make the radio station better that we can't actually afford to do?

― jessie monster, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 01:24 (nineteen years ago)

maybe. hot dogs are poison tho

― Curt1s Stephens, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 01:27 (nineteen years ago)

oh, I am eating this hotdog after wolfing down three friday night made me violently ill.

improvement #1: get tower that broadcasts beyond 10-foot radius.

― jessie monster, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 01:30 (nineteen years ago)

man, fuck those fat cats trying to boss you around!

― Curt1s Stephens, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 01:34 (nineteen years ago)

maybe they will buy us a new tower.

― jessie monster, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 01:35 (nineteen years ago)

I hurt. Someone post a picture of a kitten, already.

― Zora, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 03:10 (nineteen years ago)

i have a bag of twisties.

― haitch, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 03:12 (nineteen years ago)

What are twisties?

― Zora, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 03:13 (nineteen years ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twisties

― haitch, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 03:14 (nineteen years ago)

omg i never realised that they're only sold in four countries!!

― haitch, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 03:15 (nineteen years ago)

they look perfect.

― Zora, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 03:17 (nineteen years ago)

I hope I'm not too late...

http://i17.tinypic.com/2lue8gx.jpg

― StanM, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 07:14 (nineteen years ago)

Haitch, I didn't know that either! Twisties rock.

― Roz, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 08:53 (nineteen years ago)

I love a non-balkanised balkan thread! Very trippy! So there are no rules at all on this thread? *Takes off trousers* FREEDOM!!! *punches boss*

― kv_nol, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 09:21 (nineteen years ago)

What was your boss doing in your trousers?

― StanM, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 09:34 (nineteen years ago)

creating bad authority feelings

― Ronan, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 09:41 (nineteen years ago)

So very true ;_;

― kv_nol, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 09:48 (nineteen years ago)

Haitch, I didn't know that either! Twisties rock.

Indeed, who doesn't want a bag of australia's number one extruded snack food? That's such an accolade to have, it's a wonder it's not on their posters.

I have Reeses Pieces that Mister M. brought back from California. They're not as good as I remember.

― accentmonkey, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 09:55 (nineteen years ago)

this is the most beautiful place i've ever been

give me a hug

― jabba hands, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 11:11 (nineteen years ago)

It's never too late for a picture of a kitten.

/hugs

― Zora, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 11:14 (nineteen years ago)

i'm sitting at home recording some old 12"s on the off chance i might wanna listen to them again some day. currently up: Portishead's 'Revenge Of The Number'. next: Les Negresses Vertes 'Mambo Show'

― blueski, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 11:17 (nineteen years ago)

What the hell do we need this thread for? Aren't there a hundred other rolling threads about nothing already? Why can't you take it to the Excelsior thread or whatever!

{/stevem}

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 11:18 (nineteen years ago)

Are Twisties the same as Niknaks?

― Mark C, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 11:28 (nineteen years ago)

never get the latter in the former

― blueski, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 11:36 (nineteen years ago)

<i>this is the most beautiful place i've ever been

give me a hug</I>

That's the spirit.

On this thread I do tags whatever way I like, ignoring the tyranny of the red HATE CRIME message.

― Ronan, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 11:40 (nineteen years ago)

also...here <hug> tags always remain opened

― Ronan, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 11:41 (nineteen years ago)

unfortunately, brothers and sisters of this wonderful thread,.the day is coming when the "places" will unite against us. that's right....Chicago...Tittwis...and the others.

They WILL try to take this thread away, to tell you you are insane. It is time to begin stockpiling arms.

― Ronan, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 11:43 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.childhoodfantasies.com/images/arm2.jpg

― Mark C, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 11:44 (nineteen years ago)

you're lucky this thread is a place of love.

― Ronan, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 11:45 (nineteen years ago)

Those are arms of love!

― Mark C, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 11:53 (nineteen years ago)

baggsy rear gunner

― Ste, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 11:55 (nineteen years ago)

The only way to keep this thread a place of love is to brutally destroy any who get in our way

― tissp, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 11:57 (nineteen years ago)

This is, like, Ronan's Waterheater thread of Peace and Stuff, innit?

― StanM, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 12:07 (nineteen years ago)

Waterheater = kettle

― braveclub, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 12:08 (nineteen years ago)

Those are arms of love!

They look like creepy arms of love coming to get you while you sleep.

But you know, in a loving way.

― accentmonkey, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 12:10 (nineteen years ago)

who will volunteer to smother the children when the state comes to force race mixing

― Ronan, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 12:33 (nineteen years ago)

i can't i have to hang out the laundry

― blueski, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 12:42 (nineteen years ago)

the day is coming when the "places" will unite against us. that's right....Chicago...Tittwis...and the others

we have worldwide guerrilla street tactics against their lumpen archaic city-based might, we will win

― lex pretend, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 12:50 (nineteen years ago)

Is something fabulous happening?

― DavidM, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 12:55 (nineteen years ago)

.. and where *is* tittwis?

― Mark G, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 12:56 (nineteen years ago)

don't go round picking young girls hearts
momma always told me be careful who you love

― nathalie, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 12:57 (nineteen years ago)

Anyone up for a FAP?

― .stet., Tuesday, 6 March 2007 13:16 (nineteen years ago)

why did this become a britisher thread? ;_;

I would make a Massachusetts regional thread, but it would be subject to sneak attacks from New Yorkers and mooninites.

― jessie monster, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 13:17 (nineteen years ago)

What you have to realise is that there comes a time when we heed a certain call.

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 13:22 (nineteen years ago)

this thread is not a britishes thread!

aside from the fact that I am Irish, it is...not a location specific thread...that feels good doesn't it? nowhere!

― Ronan, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 13:30 (nineteen years ago)

Have you hung out the laundry yet Steve.

I hope you have!

What is everyone up to tonight. I am going to watch HOUSE and drink PLONK.

― Sarah, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 13:32 (nineteen years ago)

We're entering afternoon = peak fuck-about-on-ILX time for Britishes, is why

― .stet., Tuesday, 6 March 2007 13:35 (nineteen years ago)

I can't actually hang OUT the laundry.

Tonight = Liverpool v Barcelona, Life On Mars and some other TV.

― blueski, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 13:37 (nineteen years ago)

I am going to watch FOOTBALL and drink BEER.

</brit stereotype>

― onimo, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 13:37 (nineteen years ago)

blueski I got my last few L O S T t0rr3nts from x t v i dot com

― onimo, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 13:38 (nineteen years ago)

oops wrong thread :/

― onimo, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 13:39 (nineteen years ago)

I am going to continue my slow but decisive recovery from the 'flu which has buggered up my last seven days like nothing else. Five other people off work with the same thing so clearly something's going round (so much for the alleged 'flu jab I had in October, but did I stay off work? Nope). The slowest thing to come back is the appetite but at least I'm able to get some sleep again at night, which for most of last week I wasn't able to do at all.

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 13:39 (nineteen years ago)

yeh i get mine there too, but it's let me down twice now

don't worry onimo no-one is gonna tell us off for talking about this here instead of there

― blueski, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 13:40 (nineteen years ago)

yay, no rules!

― onimo, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 13:41 (nineteen years ago)

What is everyone up to tonight. I am going to watch HOUSE and drink PLONK.

That's tomorrow night's plan for me. Tonight is watch Life on Mars and drink, well, probably tea. I'm trying not to drink during the week. When you work from home you have to have some boundaries between the weekends and the rest of the week.

― accentmonkey, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 13:43 (nineteen years ago)

Hang out with yr laundry more, Steve.

Bums - Tonight = Life on Mars? I am probably going to miss it unless I make my hosts stick it on (and then outstay my welcome by clamouring for the BBC4 ep). Is LoM repeated later in the week? I arsk bcz I know it's not going up on y00kn0v4 (0ther t0rr3nt sites may indeed be available but you know).

― Sarah, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 13:44 (nineteen years ago)

I might go and watch the AVENGERS at the CAMDEN UNDERWORLD and drink BEER. Or I might just stay in.

― Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 13:44 (nineteen years ago)

Ronan, this thread is the ultimate.

Tonight, watching football and then continuing on with my lego stop-motion animation production

― Ste, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 13:44 (nineteen years ago)

Is this like a Noize version of TITTWIS?

― Ms Misery, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 13:45 (nineteen years ago)

I am watching Liverpool Barca and drinking NO BEER. Beer might be required on Thursday though.

― Matt DC, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 13:45 (nineteen years ago)

Don't be silly Colonel P00. The Avengers is on TELLY, not this "Camden Underworld".

I have recently watched "What The Butler Saw" which features John Le Mesurier as 1x evil butler (admittedly amongst a swarm of other evil butlers). Steed's take on the 60s stereotypes of the RAF/navy/army officer is SO brilliantly on the money it hurts btw.

― Sarah, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 13:46 (nineteen years ago)

― Ronan, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 13:47 (nineteen years ago)

Ro - Media Guardian often does nothing BUT, surely!

― Sarah, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 13:47 (nineteen years ago)

I'm actually planning three straight evenings of FOOTBALL + BEER then three straight days of making it up to the missus before OLD FIRM + BEER Sunday.

― onimo, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 13:48 (nineteen years ago)

NOT THOSE AVENGERS. DIFFERENT ONES.

― Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 13:48 (nineteen years ago)

(the actual reason for this thread....all the new answers last night at one point were rolling location threads and I felt like posting something)

― Ronan, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 13:48 (nineteen years ago)

now it is whatever people want it to be....like threads used to be....

x-post with Sarah...yeah I guess so, this is for the Irish papers though.

― Ronan, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 13:49 (nineteen years ago)

(the actual reason for this thread....all the new answers last night at one point were rolling location threads and I felt like posting something)

but now it's all about football so your non-location specific mission has failed! ;)

― Ms Misery, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 13:52 (nineteen years ago)

three straight days of making it up to the missus

You say that like its a bad thing!

― Matt DC, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 13:54 (nineteen years ago)

football is not location specific. you can play it anywhere!

― blueski, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 13:54 (nineteen years ago)

"All about foopball" != the Avengers/Life On Mars/telling Sieve to hang UP his laundry... you TITTIWISTERS.... honestly.

― Sarah, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 13:54 (nineteen years ago)

I skim this early in the morning.

your kind of football is pretty nonexsistant in the US. Although David Beckham may change that, who knows.

― Ms Misery, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

Which ones Ronan? Is the freelancing working out?

Tonight: Curry made by S.O. after swim and a half hour of my new copy of ICO. I am EXCITED people!

― kv_nol, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

it's ok...I'd like a job better, if it was in writing/journalism. pitching this one to the Sunday papers...broadsheet ones.

― Ronan, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 14:00 (nineteen years ago)

Nice one. Is it nervewracking submitting work or do you just fire off emails hopefully?

Well you quit the job that was bringing you down so that's some progress at least!

― kv_nol, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 14:03 (nineteen years ago)

I have no hope for football getting big in the US - if a movie as great as SHE'S THE MAN doesn't get a nation football mad than what will?

Oooh Ico - I only played it a few times, but wooosh. So atmospheric!

― Sarah, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 14:05 (nineteen years ago)

hmm, I don't even remember that movie. Was it the one where a girl dresses like her brother to play "soccer" for him?

I don't even like our football so I don't know why I'm talking about it.

― Ms Misery, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

It's not really nervewracking, but it is a bit of a smack in the mouth if there's no reply, you start re-reading your work and thinking it's not very good! I am trying to get better at this side of things though.

― Ronan, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

Sarah, sounds good. I've been avoiding the thread on ILG for fear of spoilers. I let them know I was buying it though. The next one is I need to get a copy of Shadow of the Collossus.

Ronan, that's a bit shit! Great attitude though, I'd probably take it a good bit more personally. I've a friend who can't seem to get the courage up to actually submit, not sure what to do/say because I think they're very good but terrified.

― kv_nol, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 14:17 (nineteen years ago)

I love you Ronan.

― Anna, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 14:23 (nineteen years ago)

Well...I was like that and still am sometimes, then the Guardian randomly took on one of my pieces in September. It is hard to build confidence, I'd suggest blogging aswell, it helps you feel like you can write when not doing anything.

It's very strange, a lot of people I know who are not confident about their writing seem really good at pitching. Whereas I've generally felt ok with my writing but pitching can be hard, you're always afraid you've the wrong angle or whatever. Though I suspect most of the times you hear nothing back they don't even bother reading the piece!

― Ronan, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

my little experience with freelance writing has stayed little b/c I hate pitching. However anytime I have, I usually suceed. I just have a large fear of rejection. I plan to start blogging about specific things soon just to get back in the habit of writing. One of my goals for this year is to seriously tackle a book but it seems so daunting.

― Ms Misery, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 14:27 (nineteen years ago)

pitching is pretty bad...have tried to avoid it wherever possible. more than anything getting accepted to write regularly for a few places will help, you've got your proven track record to wave around in the pitch and you feel like it's something you *should* be doing. and it's easier to shrug off the times you hear nothing back!

worse than that = trying to freelance + hold down full-time job. a lot of this is my own superlative disorganisational abilities but seriously the stress this week has rocketed, yagh.

― lex pretend, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 14:30 (nineteen years ago)

[i]Whereas I've generally felt ok with my writing but pitching can be hard, you're always afraid you've the wrong angle or whatever.[i]

Yes. Me too. Or that it will just piss them off. Or that the idea is a load of old hat. I get quite paralysed by it some times.

― Anna, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

I will suggest the blogging, that can only help. It's funny, I'd be fine with the pitching (can I talk!) I suppose but actually doing the work? Therein lies the problem :)

― kv_nol, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

Yes...that the idea is a load of old hat is a hard one. Nothing worse than working with that looming over you through a project, so different to when you've just heard "yes do this article, 1200 words by monday, thanks" and their confidence in it ensures you know you'll get it finished!

― Ronan, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 14:48 (nineteen years ago)

I don't have the patience for writing--the idea is always much more fun than the execution

― tissp, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

I hear what Lex says and can fully sympathise with the freelance/full-time job conflict - I wrestled enjoyably with that for about 18 months and then for the next six months it just became too much. Trouble is that in the world of freelance music writing it literally is a matter of 10% writing and 90% pitching, and I decided that I was spending quite enough time in my day job doing that sort of thing and didn't particularly want to extend it to something which I was supposedly doing for pleasure.

I would expect it's easier somewhere like Plan B where you can write relatively unfettered, but also have to come to terms with the fact that you're not going to be remunerated much (or at all?) for doing so.

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

I am writing an article about advertising, it's going ok but I can't help but feel it is "how do I understood advertising" in article form...maybe that will work though, I have great quotes and interesting ideas...and nobody ever seems to talk about the ad world in the papers.

I wonder sometimes about Irish ads. They're so all round awful compared to British ones (although I know a lot of those are awful too), or else they just are the British ad redubbed with Irish accents. Does Irish advertising suffer from the same problem as Irish telly, namely that it's too easy for anyone who's any good to go and get work in Britain? My particular favourite type of ad or continuity announcement is one where Irish people put on American accents. Jesus christ, do they think they're fooling us? Stupid small country next to stupid bigger, richer one. It sucks.

― accentmonkey, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:12 (nineteen years ago)

This isn't a comment on any one magazine but the sheer OTT-ness of so many of them really put me off. There are some articles where I've given up in the first paragraph because a) I've no idea where the hell it's going b) what the hell it's saying or c) what the hell it's about! It seems that gonzo/freakazoid writing is given more rein in music writing. I suppose that's to do with it being a more emotional and florid subject where opinion is u+k but it can all get a bit much! One magazine here (foggy notions, great CDs but woejus layout) is nigh on unreadable and the reviews just self-indulgent tripe.

― kv_nol, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:12 (nineteen years ago)

Trish, very funnily, otm.

I would like to just add one more thing regarding Irish music journalism: it's great flicking through Hot Press seeing Killian's name because each time I think of the drunken "k-dawg" incident.

― kv_nol, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

I think the key is that the ads just reflect the culture...so they probably don't want to create really crazy interesting arty Irish ads.

― Ronan, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:21 (nineteen years ago)

can we rename this thread DHARMA BUS BRO DOWN?

― g-kit, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

No one wants to talk about ads, particularly print and broadcast as no one wants to open the box and find out that the cat is dead (or severely overvalued).

― Drinkin Island is inside each of us my son, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

we can rename this thread anything...but maybe it's best if we all rename it something...and call it that name, without telling anyone else, lest we enforce that name on them.

also don't feel the need to be linear on this thread.

― Ronan, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:27 (nineteen years ago)

Clowns are stereotypically characterized by their colored afro wigs, stylistic makeup, outlandish costumes, and unusually large footwear. These features, however, are not what make a clown. Clowning, in its most basic form, can be described as drama without a fourth wall. In other words, a clown acknowledges his audience. The clown's humor today is often visual and includes many elements of physical comedy or slapstick humor but not exclusively.

― Ronan, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:28 (nineteen years ago)

i'm gonna call it what i like, none of you pplz will hear me anyways.

― g-kit, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:28 (nineteen years ago)

i haven't really looked down the thread to see if this is a kitsafe thread, either.
linear is for teh birds.

― g-kit, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:29 (nineteen years ago)

WTF is kitsafe??

― kv_nol, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:45 (nineteen years ago)

Ronan OTM re clowns.

― blueski, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:46 (nineteen years ago)

doesn't cover poor anna nicole though

― lex pretend, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:46 (nineteen years ago)

are killfiles working then?

― Ms Misery, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:48 (nineteen years ago)

that was a multiple xpost to kit.

― Ms Misery, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

The only way I could hate clowns more would be if my brother's ex-girlfriend became one and got to be world famous and beloved because of it, and people everywhere would have her sad clown poster on their walls and I would be considered some sort of national traitor because I hate her so much. And her clowning.

― accentmonkey, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 17:27 (nineteen years ago)

Are clowns ever actually, like, funny?

― Matt DC, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 17:30 (nineteen years ago)

No. They are pricks.

― accentmonkey, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

clowns are funny when they're on fire.

― blueski, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 17:50 (nineteen years ago)

I borrowed "The Host". I hope it's good.

She's the Man is one of the best films ever made!

I can't defend clowns.

― jel --, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 18:37 (nineteen years ago)

I have a question:

In the Avengers, are Steed and Mrs Peel an item?

― jel --, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 18:42 (nineteen years ago)

― blueski, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 18:44 (nineteen years ago)

Explain?

I think there is definitely something going on. Where is Mr Peel?

― jel --, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 18:45 (nineteen years ago)

Cüütiüs, Äältiüs & Föörtiüs repräzent-äh!

― t**t, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 18:46 (nineteen years ago)

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e391/marthasminions/one-tit-robot.jpg

here is a one-tit robot.

― Beth Parker, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 18:56 (nineteen years ago)

I'm waiting for my car to warm up.

― Beth Parker, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 18:57 (nineteen years ago)

Oo.
Mm.

I do suspect tho' that it's other tit's on its back.

― t**t, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 18:59 (nineteen years ago)

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e391/marthasminions/tall-robot.jpg

or this guy made off with it.

― Beth Parker, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 19:00 (nineteen years ago)

car should be warm now. bye!

― Beth Parker, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 19:01 (nineteen years ago)

i'm making cupcakes tonite for andrew m.'s birthday!

― Ai Lien, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 21:17 (nineteen years ago)

I've just finished watching Life on Mars and am going to bed!

― accentmonkey, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 22:12 (nineteen years ago)

i will probably do a little tennis before baking tho.

― Ai Lien, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 22:15 (nineteen years ago)

hello i am back but i do not have twisties this time.

― haitch, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 23:37 (nineteen years ago)

hello, I am back. I had cake tonight.

― Beth Parker, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 02:07 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.idiottoys.com/pics/sagem_holdsmall.jpg

― abanana, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 03:22 (nineteen years ago)

good for her!

― haitch, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 04:42 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know. That seems an unnecessarily complicated way to watch television.

― accentmonkey, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 07:34 (nineteen years ago)

it looks like a second lady is slide-tackling away her cosy levitating-tv set-up :-(

― unfished business, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 07:42 (nineteen years ago)

Why is she looking up? There's one on the floor right in front of her!

― StanM, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 07:46 (nineteen years ago)

yo guys - glad to see this is still going strong.

just to fill you in, i'm working at home, it's dull, but i'm drinking and smoking while i do it, ha!

remember, nowhere is NOW HERE!!!!!

― jabba hands, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 08:53 (nineteen years ago)

Hello I am back I am much less miserable.

― Zora, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 08:53 (nineteen years ago)

it's because you are here, where misery cannot exist

― jabba hands, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 08:56 (nineteen years ago)

About Steed and Peel - it's a William Powell/Myrna Loy kind of deal with a smattering of Tracy and Hepburn.

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 08:58 (nineteen years ago)

Sagem are the worst phones ever. Waiting for my new Sony Ericsson 750i (aiii') to be delivered. So excited. Lost my other phone after wet lunch in Rome. Stupid taxi driver and discussions about football.

― kv_nol, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 09:10 (nineteen years ago)

Why don't they make Big Wheels for grown-ups? I soooooo want one! With those fat plastic tires and the low-slung seat and those peddals that my feet'll slip-off of and then I'll get scrapes on my Achille's tendon and grumble about it for the rest of the day.

― MsLaura, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 09:20 (nineteen years ago)

Big Wheels = Heelies?

― Sarah, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 09:59 (nineteen years ago)

Nah, it sounds like those plastic trikes. Kind of like this:

http://us.st11.yimg.com/us.st.yimg.com/I/california-scootersandtrikes_1939_2445927

I really want this:

http://us.st11.yimg.com/us.st.yimg.com/I/streamlinedistribution_1934_12092041

Shit people, you have to go here and check out the other pedal toys. Kids have it so much better nowadays!

― kv_nol, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 10:35 (nineteen years ago)

just did an interview without the dictaphone recording...well done Ronan! oh well I scrabbled down his final summary from memory and he also gave me email answers yesterday prior to deciding he had time to do a phone interview. still annoying though.

― Ronan, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 11:09 (nineteen years ago)

When he was on the Panel, Danny Baker told a big long story about interviewing Paul Weller in a bar, but they were sitting under an air conditioner or something, so when he went to transcribe the notes from the interview, they were inaudible. He made up the gist of it and went on to become a journo hero, or something.

You too could be annoying but wealthy with an interview technique like that, is what I'm saying.

― accentmonkey, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 11:18 (nineteen years ago)

Do a NY Times on it: make it up, put it in a more interesting location, hide in Cavan until the heat's off.

I like the panel the odd time I see it. Last time though there was no O'Briain. Trish: what is the story oh you of the inside comedy track...

― kv_nol, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 11:49 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't spell his name correctly did I? For shame...

― kv_nol, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 11:50 (nineteen years ago)

You did. The inside scoop (as far as I know) is that RTE wants to do 20 in the next series, and Dara's not sure he can commit to that many, so they are experimenting with rotating the presenters.

― accentmonkey, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 13:38 (nineteen years ago)

I wish I had seen Beth's one tit robot yesterday.

― Ms Misery, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 13:42 (nineteen years ago)

Ah, something tells me that that won't be the total success they expect. He was very good at the hosting!

― kv_nol, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

This is kind of a try Ireland more thread as it's turned out - or was there already an Irish-balkanised thread that I missed?

― Mark C, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

A thread once again!

― kv_nol, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

Buggered up the joke (not that it was very funny):

A ~~nation~~ thread once again!

― kv_nol, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

Ah, something tells me that that won't be the total success they expect. He was very good at the hosting!

It's true, but at this stage it is getting a bit ridiculous that the programme is run by a bunch of Irish comedians who come over from London (or down from Belfast) to talk about Irish current events. Not the best use of the licence fee, I don't think.

Sorry Mark. We've stopped now.

― accentmonkey, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

Fair enough. I've always like the guy who does the blizzard if odd so anything that keeps him on tv is alright by me.

I've not stopped. There are no rules on this thread and we are easily drowned out by other ILX nationalities so let us enjoy our moment in the sun!

― kv_nol, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 16:19 (nineteen years ago)

I have no truck with Ireland.

― Ms Misery, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 16:19 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry Mark. We've stopped now.

Dude it wasn't a criticism! It's a great thread!

― Mark C, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 16:21 (nineteen years ago)

I welcome people of all creeds to this thread.

― Ronan, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 16:24 (nineteen years ago)

(not that my opinion is worth anymore than anyone elses, here, on this thread of eternal freedom)

― Ronan, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 16:25 (nineteen years ago)

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e391/marthasminions/dog-bug-robot.jpg

keeping it non-linear

― Beth Parker, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

Ms Misery you then have to pay the toll for our port tunnel but you are allowed into our city centre. Yay to no trucks!

― kv_nol, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 16:27 (nineteen years ago)

We watched a great movie last night—"Mutual Appreciation," dir. dy Andrew Bujalski, the "Funny Ha Ha" guy.

― Beth Parker, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 16:29 (nineteen years ago)

Kevin, you should see Colin Murphy's standup some time. He is great.

Beth, I now have this image of you trundling that robot out in the middle of family arguments, just to keep it non-linear.

Oh god, the banana phone song has been going around my head all afternoon. I knew I shouldn't have turned on the telly at lunchtime.

― accentmonkey, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 16:29 (nineteen years ago)

i baked nearly 100 cupcakes last nite!!

― Ai Lien, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 16:30 (nineteen years ago)

I tried and failed to watch that movie about the white guy who's a crack-addicted schoolteacher in a black neighborhood. It pissed me off. I could smell the pitch, speaking of pitching. "I know! We'll make him A CRACK-HEAD!!!!"
I'm blocking on the name.

― Beth Parker, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 16:32 (nineteen years ago)

Bananaphone?

― accentmonkey, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry, it's all that comes into my head.

― accentmonkey, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

Shit, refering back to the "pitching" discussed upthread stinks of LINEARITY. If that's a word. Line-ness.

― Beth Parker, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 16:34 (nineteen years ago)

I had the Chicken Noodle Soup song stuck in my head for the longest time. While I was walking on the beach I'd be mumbling it under my breath, salty snot fauceting out of my nose because of the cold wind. The Chicken Noodle Soup song was my talisman against hypothermia.

― Beth Parker, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 16:36 (nineteen years ago)

i love the chicken noodle soup song.. . .and a coke on the side.

― Ms Misery, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 16:37 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know it and you can't make me.

Back to work!

― accentmonkey, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 16:38 (nineteen years ago)

there's a dance that goes with it. you should know it.

― Ms Misery, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 16:41 (nineteen years ago)

WTF is bananphone song?

First live stand up I went to was O'Briain. He told me to stop clapping. I couldn't help it, voice was gone from the laughing. This was years ago in UCD. He wasn't thinner at all. I'd love to go to more. Has anyone tried The International for variety?

To keep things non-linear:

http://www.dhm.de/ausstellungen/endeanf/gifs/fotos/mill165.jpg

One of my fave photos ever!

― kv_nol, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 16:43 (nineteen years ago)

banana phone

― Beth Parker, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 16:49 (nineteen years ago)

i love that photo!

― Ai Lien, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 16:55 (nineteen years ago)

why won't word and sound post up sound samples for the new diynamic single...

IDIOTS.

― Ronan, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 16:57 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks Beth. No sound on work PC. Will look at it later (and become infected with the resultant ear worm!)

― kv_nol, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 16:57 (nineteen years ago)

Crackhead teacher with a heart of gold flick is "Half Nelson", I believe. Hello all.

― John Justen, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 17:08 (nineteen years ago)

That was it. Lots of people whose opinions I respect loved it. Maybe I'm a sour old nanny-goat.

― Beth Parker, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 18:07 (nineteen years ago)

I just had the feeling that this movie wanted to TEACH ME SOMETHING ABOUT THE HUMAN HEART, so I wanted to beat it up.

― Beth Parker, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

work is boring you guys. :(

― jessie monster, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 18:10 (nineteen years ago)

That was it. Lots of people whose opinions I respect loved it. Maybe I'm a sour old nanny-goat.

I don't know. People recommend all kinds of mentalness. It certainly sounds like shite.

― accentmonkey, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 18:13 (nineteen years ago)

not as boring as listening to demos on myspace

― Ronan, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 18:14 (nineteen years ago)

not as [s]boring[/s] painful as listening to demos on myspace

― jessie monster, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 18:19 (nineteen years ago)

GODDAMMIT.

― jessie monster, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 18:19 (nineteen years ago)

that too...plus you get paid for work

― Ronan, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 18:29 (nineteen years ago)

http://img409.imageshack.us/img409/8646/cagehd3.jpg

― ghost rider, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 18:31 (nineteen years ago)

what is this "work" of which you speak?

― Beth Parker, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 18:31 (nineteen years ago)

Nicolas Cage Feminine Hygiene Spray.

― Beth Parker, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 18:34 (nineteen years ago)

It is hard for words to describe how much I dislike Nicolas Cage. He's like an ex-boyfriend who turns up years later, all his annoying habits still intact.

I like that artwork, though.

― accentmonkey, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 19:50 (nineteen years ago)

'mutual appreciation' is great, s1ocki gave me the tip on that one. saw it at the film festival here last year.

― haitch, Thursday, 8 March 2007 01:14 (nineteen years ago)

ronan how many myspace demos have you listened to, that sounds like hell on earth. i'll stick to the phonica and juno mailouts i think.

― haitch, Thursday, 8 March 2007 01:16 (nineteen years ago)

Cold! Hurry up spring, get here faster.

― accentmonkey, Thursday, 8 March 2007 08:08 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.cagefactor.com/photos/art/art_cageclipart_13_large.jpg

― braveclub, Thursday, 8 March 2007 09:46 (nineteen years ago)

haitch...lots....but the worst thing is actually finding the demos...ie finding people who make tracks from the pages of big famous producers....or small not so famous ones...takes so long!

― Ronan, Thursday, 8 March 2007 10:26 (nineteen years ago)

urgh

hangover :(

― onimo, Thursday, 8 March 2007 10:27 (nineteen years ago)

bump

― jergincito, Thursday, 8 March 2007 10:49 (nineteen years ago)

― onimo, Thursday, 8 March 2007 10:50 (nineteen years ago)

/rubs head

― Zora, Thursday, 8 March 2007 11:53 (nineteen years ago)

I just got a letter from Waterford City Council reminding me that I still owe them €40 on a parking violation. Even though I know this did not happen, I am now suspicious that I cannot account for my own whereabouts on that day, except that Gmail confirms I paid for some eBay purchases. Maybe that's why I parked illegally. To pay for my purchases.

― accentmonkey, Thursday, 8 March 2007 12:25 (nineteen years ago)

This thread must not die!

― kv_nol, Thursday, 8 March 2007 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

a mist was driving down
and how could you dream of meeting
calm as that second summer
doubtless i remember still
i said, i have shut my heart

― braveclub, Thursday, 8 March 2007 15:57 (nineteen years ago)

Random poetry generator

― braveclub, Thursday, 8 March 2007 15:59 (nineteen years ago)

...Nicolas Cage. He's like an ex-boyfriend who turns up years later, all his annoying ...bits still intact.

uhOH.

― t**t, Thursday, 8 March 2007 16:03 (nineteen years ago)

Accentmonkey =/= Lorena Bobbit. I hope.

― kv_nol, Thursday, 8 March 2007 16:04 (nineteen years ago)

For Mr. Monkey's sake at least!

― kv_nol, Thursday, 8 March 2007 16:05 (nineteen years ago)

Do not cross me!

I tell you, that Return to Cookie Mountain is a bit good. What should I listen to now?

― accentmonkey, Thursday, 8 March 2007 16:27 (nineteen years ago)

M. Ward!

― kv_nol, Thursday, 8 March 2007 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

I was looking for monkeys with scissors but found this:

http://prizepics.com/Animals/monkey%20baby.jpg

― kv_nol, Thursday, 8 March 2007 16:36 (nineteen years ago)

Monchichi!

I've already listened to M.Ward today. I'm leaning towards Blonde Redhead, although I've just downloaded some free Smashing Pumpkins thing that I might give a shot at the title.

― accentmonkey, Thursday, 8 March 2007 16:39 (nineteen years ago)

cutest baby monkey ever

― onimo, Thursday, 8 March 2007 16:41 (nineteen years ago)

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e391/marthasminions/wrath.jpg

― Beth Parker, Thursday, 8 March 2007 16:42 (nineteen years ago)

wow beth, you find some freaky stuff.

― Ms Misery, Thursday, 8 March 2007 16:43 (nineteen years ago)

I think Beth actually draws them!

I have never hear Blonde Redhead. Yesterday I listened to the radio for the first time in months. It made me sad at how Ph4ntom FM really fecked up their chance to be alternative and good :(

― kv_nol, Thursday, 8 March 2007 16:47 (nineteen years ago)

I am listening to Blonde Redhead. It's been on my iTunes forever but I haven't listened to it. People are always putting stuff on my iTunes, I don't ever get to half of it. Pretty Euro-Swish. I might have to slap that girl. Slap her or marry her.

― Beth Parker, Thursday, 8 March 2007 16:55 (nineteen years ago)

Okay, now there's some Thom Yorke-sounding guy singing. It's okay. I could warm to this.

― Beth Parker, Thursday, 8 March 2007 16:59 (nineteen years ago)

Why not do both and move to the deep south (SORRY TO ALL SOUTHERNERS)?

― kv_nol, Thursday, 8 March 2007 17:00 (nineteen years ago)

Bugger. Xpost.

― kv_nol, Thursday, 8 March 2007 17:00 (nineteen years ago)

Gotcha.

― Beth Parker, Thursday, 8 March 2007 17:25 (nineteen years ago)

xxpost, yeah the is *the* place for gay marriages.

― Ms Misery, Thursday, 8 March 2007 17:27 (nineteen years ago)

"A thread once again!"
Conas tánn tú?

― Windy G Moisture, Thursday, 8 March 2007 17:29 (nineteen years ago)

nu-ILX has helped us achieve near-perfect non-linearity.

― Beth Parker, Thursday, 8 March 2007 17:37 (nineteen years ago)

we just mounted a nerf basketball hoop in the livingroom. too much fun!

― Ai Lien, Thursday, 8 March 2007 21:47 (nineteen years ago)

Watch the Meissen statuettes!

― Beth Parker, Thursday, 8 March 2007 22:29 (nineteen years ago)

we've already considered moving everything out so we can just go wild. who needs a lr anyways?!

― Ai Lien, Thursday, 8 March 2007 22:40 (nineteen years ago)

i had a basketball hoop (no nerfo) in my room as a yoof. slammin' times had by all.

― haitch, Thursday, 8 March 2007 22:45 (nineteen years ago)

I always wanted an indoor ping-pong table. Whenever I'm in some huge-ass trophy house and they have more than one couch-groupings—what do you call them—conversation areas? in the living room, like, for two separate groups of guests who don't like each other, I always think GET A PING-PONG TABLE!!!! YOU HAVE ALL THIS MONEY—THE LEAST YOU COULD DO IS SHOW A LITTLE JOIE DE VIVRE.

― Beth Parker, Thursday, 8 March 2007 22:46 (nineteen years ago)

i get what yr sayin'. if i had extra money to blow on whatever, i'd have this tacky but really fun house.

― Ai Lien, Thursday, 8 March 2007 23:15 (nineteen years ago)

I've never had a philosophical objection to home theaters.

― Beth Parker, Thursday, 8 March 2007 23:24 (nineteen years ago)

this bro i used to know when i was younger lived in a house with a cavernous "entertaining area" with a bar, snooker table, indoor pool and an old-style poker machine. so awes.

― haitch, Thursday, 8 March 2007 23:31 (nineteen years ago)

That is my dream.

― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 8 March 2007 23:33 (nineteen years ago)

I want a sauna.

― Beth Parker, Thursday, 8 March 2007 23:39 (nineteen years ago)

My shortest poem ever.

― Beth Parker, Thursday, 8 March 2007 23:51 (nineteen years ago)

What Blonde Redhead albums are people listening to? My favorites are La Mia Vita Violenta, Fake Can Be Just as Good, and Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons. I haven't heard the new one yet.

― jaymc, Thursday, 8 March 2007 23:52 (nineteen years ago)

I think you could stand to edit that a little, Beth.

― Matt, Thursday, 8 March 2007 23:55 (nineteen years ago)

i would love to have a labyrinth for my house - scary fun!

― Ai Lien, Friday, 9 March 2007 00:07 (nineteen years ago)

Worth it to fuck with estate agent's heads, leave them to show around potential buyers and sell them a bag of breadcrumbs or ball of yarn.

― Matt, Friday, 9 March 2007 00:18 (nineteen years ago)

"Misery is a Butterfly" is the Blonde Redhead album I was listening to. Maybe those ones you listed are better—I'm not sold on this one.

― Beth Parker, Friday, 9 March 2007 00:50 (nineteen years ago)

but maybe I just need to listen a few more times.

― Beth Parker, Friday, 9 March 2007 00:50 (nineteen years ago)

the single off that is good, 'elephant woman'.

― haitch, Friday, 9 March 2007 01:12 (nineteen years ago)

It is my birthday next week hurray! I am going to have a party this weekend but haitch and S- are not coming because they have OTHER PLANS, the jammy sods ;)

― Trayce, Friday, 9 March 2007 01:32 (nineteen years ago)

What the fuck! If you weren't on the other side of the freaking planet, I'd come!

― Beth Parker, Friday, 9 March 2007 01:51 (nineteen years ago)

I am so hungover. I'm at that dangerous hangover where I am still a bit tiddly so I am telling people I am hungover ha ha ha. This is [bold]not good[/bold]. At least the boss is away so I don't need to worry too much about the strong smell of booze coming from my every pore. Also I was out with half of these people last night. Fuck it, I'm not going to worry about it. It is quite alarming that everyone knows that I crave McD0n4lds when hungover! 1) I didn't think I ate it that often and 2) How often do I come in like this?*

I'd love to come to Trayce's birthday but Aus is a bit far to come for a pint, sorry.

*more than I'd like to think!

― kv_nol, Friday, 9 March 2007 09:53 (nineteen years ago)

HTML has shown that I am in not in the best state. Plz to tell co. policy on using toilet as dorm? :)

― kv_nol, Friday, 9 March 2007 09:58 (nineteen years ago)

Ew, I can remember when I used to have that kind of day at work, Kv. Nasty. And the sunshine's probably streaming into the office somewhere, which only makes it worse.

Isn't it funny how you can own a film on DVD, available to you to watch whenever you want, and yet you can't tear yourself away from it when it's on telly? Master and Commander, possibly one of my favourite films ever, was on Film4 last night and it was a huge effort to haul myself off the sofa and to bed in the middle of it. I've seen it about 10 times!

― accentmonkey, Friday, 9 March 2007 09:58 (nineteen years ago)

It's a semi-regular occurrance to find people in my office napping under their desks if the boss is in meetings.

― Matt DC, Friday, 9 March 2007 10:13 (nineteen years ago)

I haven't seen that film, would like to I must say. Except when there's lots of water in a film I just get the urge to pee all the time! It made the second Lord of the Rings film even longer (if such a thing was possible) with all the slurping wet noises. It was as I was leaving that I noticed the toilets at the back. Savoy you need to make those more obvious next time thx.

― kv_nol, Friday, 9 March 2007 10:19 (nineteen years ago)

It's a semi-regular occurrance to find people in my office napping under their desks if the boss is in meetings.

What's it like? Heaven I mean...

― kv_nol, Friday, 9 March 2007 10:20 (nineteen years ago)

AA meetings amirite

― blueski, Friday, 9 March 2007 10:20 (nineteen years ago)

Kv, I'll loan you the DVD. Let's meet up.

― accentmonkey, Friday, 9 March 2007 10:24 (nineteen years ago)

For realz, I've replied on the udder tred.

Thought: why don't McDs deliver and would it be very bad form to get a pizza delivered to office? Also, does my bum look big in this? Why do bad things happen to good people?

― kv_nol, Friday, 9 March 2007 10:52 (nineteen years ago)

(and thanks v much accentmonkey btw!)

― kv_nol, Friday, 9 March 2007 10:52 (nineteen years ago)

would it be very bad form to get a pizza delivered to office?

Not in my office, although you would have the rest of the staff hovering like vultures and clutching for a slice.

― braveclub, Friday, 9 March 2007 11:31 (nineteen years ago)

I heard an old man in the paper shop this morning saying he hadn't set foot in a pub in 45 years. 45 years! I haven't spent more than two weeks outside a pub since I was 16!

What do people who don't go to pubs do for 45 years?

― onimo, Friday, 9 March 2007 11:34 (nineteen years ago)

buy papers

― Ste, Friday, 9 March 2007 11:35 (nineteen years ago)

Edit The Wire.

― Matt DC, Friday, 9 March 2007 11:37 (nineteen years ago)

Right. Getting a burger in the 0ld sch00lh0use! Group heading down ahead to order so I don't have to wait too long on this insanely busy day! YAY for people being decent! Boo for work making me work!

― kv_nol, Friday, 9 March 2007 11:45 (nineteen years ago)

yay for dinner time already. my graphics tablet arrives today, it's a fairly decent one but i'm only getting to use it with Paintshop Pro XI which might seem a bit of a waste. but I cant' afford £400 for photoshop.

― Ste, Friday, 9 March 2007 11:52 (nineteen years ago)

Why not T0rr3nt it?

― kv_nol, Friday, 9 March 2007 11:57 (nineteen years ago)

don't i need to activate it on the internet or something, i know you do with CS versions at least

― Ste, Friday, 9 March 2007 12:02 (nineteen years ago)

I do like an dublin lunch, you are so much better set for lunch in ireland than over here.

― Ed, Friday, 9 March 2007 12:03 (nineteen years ago)

You think? It always seemed to me when I worked in town that there was never anywhere to have lunch that wasn't packed. Although I always looked forward to summer, when there could be picnics in Merrion Square at lunchtime. Nice.

― accentmonkey, Friday, 9 March 2007 12:25 (nineteen years ago)

Packed it may be, and I've never eated right in the centre, but the easy availability of roast meat two veg and three kinds of potatoes brings me joy.

― Ed, Friday, 9 March 2007 12:26 (nineteen years ago)

Packed it may be, and I've never eated right in the centre, but the easy availability of roast meat two veg and three kinds of potatoes brings me joy.

Next time you're over let me know. I'll bring you to the best carvery in existence: The 51 on H4ddint0n Row.

Also, lunch in Iveagh Gardens FTW!! Sneaky cans on a sunday also nice there.

― kv_nol, Friday, 9 March 2007 12:28 (nineteen years ago)

Our club moved venue last night, and this young man wanted "one more tune". Let nobody say we don't look after our crowd.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/169/415480597_f4a95f5a56.jpg

― Ronan, Friday, 9 March 2007 12:29 (nineteen years ago)

[/i]don't i need to activate it on the internet or something, i know you do with CS versions at least[i]

Fair point. If I were to suggest anything illegal I might have suggested that you go for a cracked version on t0rr3ntspy and the comments should guide you through. Not that I am advising anything like that at all.

How was new venue Ronan?

― kv_nol, Friday, 9 March 2007 12:38 (nineteen years ago)

Hopefully I will get over again soon, and this time, I swear I will meet people.

― Ed, Friday, 9 March 2007 12:39 (nineteen years ago)

Surely people who make applications for illegal purposes can't be miffed when their applications are in turn stolen?

― Mark C, Friday, 9 March 2007 12:41 (nineteen years ago)

very good...we are Thursdays in the Pod now. the old place was kinda crap so the atmosphere is much like when we were in Wax...

― Ronan, Friday, 9 March 2007 12:44 (nineteen years ago)

I like the complex that the Pod is in I must say. Crawdaddy is a pretty good bar and it's great having the choice. Was at Tripod last Friday and wow have they cleaned that place up (see other thread for thoughts and apologies for insulting your fellow dj!).

I have to go to this but mid-week drink + dancing = Friday from hell!

Ed, we are good people. Start a thread next time and we will all come to meet you in your hi vis finery. Actually we could then head over to Ronan's thing and old skool rave at him Feel da voibe etc

― kv_nol, Friday, 9 March 2007 13:00 (nineteen years ago)

well i've started the torrent, it says it has a key gen as well. we could be in luck.

― Ste, Friday, 9 March 2007 13:19 (nineteen years ago)

Oh Ste, first a walkthrough and now this? How the mighty have fallen...

― kv_nol, Friday, 9 March 2007 13:22 (nineteen years ago)

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e391/marthasminions/robot-primitive.jpg

a primitive robot

― Beth Parker, Friday, 9 March 2007 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, we saw another great movie last night—Puffy Chair.

― Beth Parker, Friday, 9 March 2007 15:40 (nineteen years ago)

Peth N'Barker be draaaaaAAAAWING!

― t**t, Friday, 9 March 2007 15:41 (nineteen years ago)

That is correct.
Drawing in my puffy chair.

― Beth Parker, Friday, 9 March 2007 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

so wait, beth, these are your drawings? that makes sense. . .

I couldn't finish puffy chair.

― Ms Misery, Friday, 9 March 2007 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

when I SHOULD be going through my "learning to create websites" book, which should really be titled "already knowing how to create websites."

― Beth Parker, Friday, 9 March 2007 15:46 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, those are my drawings. This xposting is like a hopscotch game!

― Beth Parker, Friday, 9 March 2007 15:47 (nineteen years ago)

It's more me than anything else, the last couple of times I have been in dublin I have been in and out in 36 hours.

― Ed, Friday, 9 March 2007 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

yeah no joke my post about you drawing came right after your statement of such. grr

if you already know how to build web sites, why are you reading a book?

― Ms Misery, Friday, 9 March 2007 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

I meant the book's title seems to be a lie—it seems geared toward people who have more of a foundation than me.

― Beth Parker, Friday, 9 March 2007 15:49 (nineteen years ago)

In other words THIS BOOK MADE ME CRY BIG FAT SALTY TEARS OF FRUSTRATION AND STUPIDITY.

― Beth Parker, Friday, 9 March 2007 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

ah, is there a specific project you're trying to work on?

― Ms Misery, Friday, 9 March 2007 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

I JUST WANT TO LEARN THE BASICS SO THAT I CAn (oops, capslock) rescue my husband's website from its amazing clunky ugliness. The woman who does it has been working on changes since November.

― Beth Parker, Friday, 9 March 2007 15:54 (nineteen years ago)

It's more me than anything else, the last couple of times I have been in dublin I have been in and out in 36 hours.

Work prob takes up about 16, sleep another 8, come drinking and carvery-ing for the other 12 why doncha?

People, should I take a cookery course or a DIY course?! ANSWERS ON A POSTCARD PLZ

― kv_nol, Friday, 9 March 2007 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

Postcards all around!

― Beth Parker, Friday, 9 March 2007 15:59 (nineteen years ago)

YAY!

― kv_nol, Friday, 9 March 2007 15:59 (nineteen years ago)

Should I take a web design course and forget about learning from a book?
I learned InDesign and a bit of Photoshop from a book, but for some reason I'm stumped now. Trouble is, I LIVE ON AN ISLAND.

― Beth Parker, Friday, 9 March 2007 16:09 (nineteen years ago)

I LIVE ON AN ISLAND.

Get the to a LOST thread. If there's a course I'd do it. Always better to have someone that you can ask questions.

― kv_nol, Friday, 9 March 2007 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

hmm I don't know Beth. I've never been formally educated in web stuff so of course favor self-teaching perhaps you need better resources? If you want to mail me off site and give me more specifics about what you want to do I might be able to direct you to some places.

― Ms Misery, Friday, 9 March 2007 16:12 (nineteen years ago)

The Adobe Classroom in a Book series is good. Maybe I should just get the GoLive one, say I, having merely scratched the surface of the photoshop book. But so much of the thickness of the book has to do with them telling you all the alternative ways to do the same thing. I get it! Palettes! Keyboard Commands! Pull-down Menus! Telepathy!

― Beth Parker, Friday, 9 March 2007 16:14 (nineteen years ago)

I'll do that, Sam. I have to go out now, though.

― Beth Parker, Friday, 9 March 2007 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

yeah well that's really more graphics and not neccessarily site development. Are you trying to change the look or the functionality? (also look, obv, includes using CSS which I think is a bigger learning curve than PS)

― Ms Misery, Friday, 9 March 2007 16:16 (nineteen years ago)

Kevin, you should do a DIY course. If you can do DIY, you will always have people willing to cook for you.

― accentmonkey, Friday, 9 March 2007 17:38 (nineteen years ago)

The look, which mean more tears. This book, so it sez, covers CSS. I'm a bit sleep-deprived, maybe not the best time to try to learn Martian.

― Beth Parker, Friday, 9 March 2007 18:05 (nineteen years ago)

Oh Ste, first a walkthrough and now this? How the mighty have fallen..

ha, i know. 2007 hasn't started too well.

but it worked and i now have a working copy of CS2, yay!

― Ste, Friday, 9 March 2007 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

Excellent! But very bad of course :)

I will look into DIY. Who is having a quiet Saturday? Don't tell me I'm alone!

― kv_nol, Saturday, 10 March 2007 16:28 (nineteen years ago)

You are not alone. I am supposed to be doing some desk-work, but somehow I find myself here.

― Beth Parker, Saturday, 10 March 2007 18:40 (nineteen years ago)

I think before I do any more work I'd like to eat something.

― Beth Parker, Saturday, 10 March 2007 18:40 (nineteen years ago)

Ended up watching "Brick" after making tempura for the first time. Film shit, tempura great!

― kv_nol, Saturday, 10 March 2007 23:20 (nineteen years ago)

Good job!
I need to find the ultimate borscht recipe—my husband wants to do a Russian dinner tomorrow. I guess I'll start an I Love Cooking thread. A first for me.

― Beth Parker, Sunday, 11 March 2007 00:11 (eighteen years ago)

We got this fantastic book in Oxfam once, it's called Perestroika, the Dinner Party and has everything you need to throw a Perestroika themed dinner party, including invitations, a Five day Plan with your shopping lists on it, and a stencil for shaping your cabbage pie into a hammer and sickle shape.

Sadly the recipes are all very complicated and involve live yeast or soaking brains for days on end, but it's a nice book to have. Er, no borscht recipe though.

― accentmonkey, Sunday, 11 March 2007 08:42 (eighteen years ago)

Great Book! I thought all yeast was live? I knew someone who was working with an entire lab for his phd about yeast. It was something to do with genetics, I forget.

― kv_nol, Monday, 12 March 2007 09:27 (eighteen years ago)

I know, it just sounds more complicated and terrifying when you say it like that. LIVE yeast! Two things I do not cook with: live yeast and gelatine. If a recipe calls for either, forget it, I'm paying a professional.

― accentmonkey, Monday, 12 March 2007 09:34 (eighteen years ago)

hello all. i've been at a music festival all weekend and had a good time apart from the mild sunburn picked up while packing up my tent. avalanches DJ set! comets on fire! ...others!

― haitch, Monday, 12 March 2007 09:58 (eighteen years ago)

Sunburn! Sounds good!
I'm about to have breakfast. Late, I know. TEN IS THE NEW NINE.

― Beth Parker, Monday, 12 March 2007 14:34 (eighteen years ago)

by ten, I'm feeling ready for lunch

― Ms Misery, Monday, 12 March 2007 14:35 (eighteen years ago)

oh, ugh, i hate daylight savings time. i can barely function over here! who knew, one hour!

― Ai Lien, Monday, 12 March 2007 14:40 (eighteen years ago)

ditto, Hopefully I'll be adjusted in the next few days.

― Ms Misery, Monday, 12 March 2007 14:41 (eighteen years ago)

I have to iron some shirts tonight. Anyone have any timesaving tips?

Next exciting thing I want to cook: veggie burgers. I have a point to prove that it can be done with Qorn! Has anyone succeeded in the past?

― kv_nol, Monday, 12 March 2007 14:52 (eighteen years ago)

Hang your shirts in the bathroom while you take a long hot shower.

― Beth Parker, Monday, 12 March 2007 15:08 (eighteen years ago)

I have tried that in the past but sadly the bathroom is too cold for steam to actually happen! Unfortunately the little sister who normally swings by for food in exchange for ironing is on half term. Damn them all, it looks like I'll have to do it. Still, at least it's only two. Yay for casual wear!

― kv_nol, Monday, 12 March 2007 15:10 (eighteen years ago)

i'm pretty sick yall. but ron jeremy pulled me out of that state. i just started reading his biography. it's TOPS.

― nathalie, Monday, 12 March 2007 15:14 (eighteen years ago)

Get well soon Nath!

― kv_nol, Monday, 12 March 2007 15:16 (eighteen years ago)

Tomorrow is my birthday. I'm going to see Julius Caesar in the theatre.

― accentmonkey, Monday, 12 March 2007 17:53 (eighteen years ago)

Yay! Trish-Birthday Eve!
I want to read that Ron Jeremy bio.

― Beth Parker, Monday, 12 March 2007 18:08 (eighteen years ago)

happy happy birthday, Trish!

― Ai Lien, Monday, 12 March 2007 18:47 (eighteen years ago)

Oooo happy birthday in advance!

I did that for my O Level! Would you let me know how it is?

― kv_nol, Monday, 12 March 2007 18:53 (eighteen years ago)

feliz cumpleanos trish!

― Ms Misery, Monday, 12 March 2007 18:57 (eighteen years ago)

Cumpleanos? Dude! Thanks all.

I am so looking forward to JC. I've never seen it.

― accentmonkey, Monday, 12 March 2007 18:59 (eighteen years ago)

Beware the ides of march!

― kv_nol, Monday, 12 March 2007 19:00 (eighteen years ago)

did nothing today....except have article rejected by one paper. grrr! then spent day scouring papers and stuff to try and think of a writing idea.

freelancing is shit. roll on subediting work....

― Ronan, Monday, 12 March 2007 19:20 (eighteen years ago)

Beware the ides of march!

That's why I'm traveling on that day. :o

― Michael White, Monday, 12 March 2007 19:22 (eighteen years ago)

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e391/marthasminions/three-robots.jpg

― Beth Parker, Monday, 12 March 2007 20:34 (eighteen years ago)

Hang in there Ronan!

Little sister is great, there are still some shirts ironed. Truly she is the best of all little sisters!

― kv_nol, Monday, 12 March 2007 20:43 (eighteen years ago)

i have no plans this week, i'm really excited aboutit! i can work on the herb / flower beds! i can go back to reading books!

― Ai Lien, Monday, 12 March 2007 21:05 (eighteen years ago)

first iced coffee of the year! always a seasonal milestone.

i have a bunch of seeds coming from burpee, but i got really discouraged this weekend looking at the garden. it's in a state after six months of near-neglect.

― lauren, Monday, 12 March 2007 21:47 (eighteen years ago)

I actually did a gardening micro-chore yesterday. I cut back the dead stalks on the sedum flanking the front door. That was enough. Have to ease into it.

― Beth Parker, Monday, 12 March 2007 23:45 (eighteen years ago)

I am going to be 36 tomorrow (the 14th that is, we're in the FUTAR here dont forget). Holy shit people! I really feel old now.

― Trayce, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 00:40 (eighteen years ago)

You don't look it dude

― Hard like armour, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 01:19 (eighteen years ago)

Trayce, you are a babe, in both senses of the word.

― Beth Parker, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 01:36 (eighteen years ago)

Dirty 30's are grebt!

― Hard like armour, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 03:48 (eighteen years ago)

So what's this thread about?

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 03:48 (eighteen years ago)

Not sure, but it was the creepy arms of love coming to get you while you sleep that sucked me in.

― Hard like armour, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 04:02 (eighteen years ago)

There are no koala tacos here Ned.

― Trayce, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 04:05 (eighteen years ago)

No koala tacos = I weep.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 04:05 (eighteen years ago)

Ronan, very important q. Are you doing B4ckl4sh on the 20th? I've visitors and they like dancing so I was thinking of there. Is it too early for requests? I'd like "Lithium" by Nirvana plz.

― kv_nol, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 09:59 (eighteen years ago)

Okay, have my Friday off confirmed. Ronan, this had better be good man, I don't get many of these to waste!

― kv_nol, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 12:32 (eighteen years ago)

No pressure like :) Sorry, that read a little bit less happily than it was meant to. I don't think I've been midweek dancing since college!

― kv_nol, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 12:36 (eighteen years ago)

How was JC Trish? Well done? Was it modern or classical dress?

― kv_nol, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 09:11 (eighteen years ago)

I am playing on the 22nd, that's the Thursday of that week yeah. Is that when you're off?

― Ronan, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 09:22 (eighteen years ago)

JC was not, for me, a good experience. I found the seating in the theatre to be dreadfully uncomfortable, the audience annoying because they talked along with the famous lines, and the acting mediocre. We left halfway through, because you don't have to sit through something you're not enjoying on your birthday. FACT.

― accentmonkey, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 09:24 (eighteen years ago)

I'm off on the Friday the 23rd so that's fantastic! Really looking forwards to it now I must say, I haven't seen these people for years. I've warned them they need to be in dancy form then had to assure them that I wasn't taking them to a drug-fuelled dive. Ach, age, it's a cruel mistress! What time do you guys get on?

...walked out halfway through Julius Caesar today. - From another thread!

Uh oh... Tell all!

― kv_nol, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 09:25 (eighteen years ago)

the night starts at 11...I'm not sure who's playing then. it's my birthday Backlash, as my birthday is on the 25th, so maybe I'll be on for quite a long set. I'd say maybe 1-3

The Pod is really nice tho I have to say I feel old playing at Backlash so I cannot guarantee that feeling won't be one you guys feel too! It's not bad, just funny.

― Ronan, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 09:27 (eighteen years ago)

Xpost obviously.

So true. That's just rubbish though, I think it's one of the few plays of his I like (Philistine I know). The only time I saw it the crowd were expected to participate (chant along and mingle and shit), the stage was in a circle in the middle and the dress was modern. Dire. Sorry to hear it though, no one needs a bad time on their bday! I hope drinks were had to erase it from your mind!

― kv_nol, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 09:51 (eighteen years ago)

Feel old? Oh dear. Well we'll be there with the glo-stix laced through our zimmer frames. I'd say once you settle in to the pod it'll be less of a shock probably. Rogue was nice but the dancefloor was tiny! How many people could you fit? I definitely felt like that (old I mean) at Booka. I looked around and everyone seemed to be 18 to 21. I'm 26 and I felt I should have been home tucked up with a good book! Also there seemed to be a lot more evidence of drugs of the not so happy type. Could be paranoia but there does seem to be way more c0ke around in Dublin and I really don't like it!

― kv_nol, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 09:56 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah I'm 24 and I feel like that pretty much every time I go out now. Probably not drinking or doing drugs makes it worse! I DJ with an orange juice or sparkling water.

― Ronan, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 10:03 (eighteen years ago)

Does it get up your nose?

― moley, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 10:06 (eighteen years ago)

My really lame pun rendered obscure by a x-post.

― moley, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 10:10 (eighteen years ago)

It was appreciated!

I did Booka sober. Never again! Also I object to being given plastic glasses yet charged full price! Vodka is going to be my friend whether it likes it or not! Actually, I could go back to halcyon days of youth (ie when I was very broke) and sneak in the half liter bottle of coke topped up with vodka! I won't though because I am a coward :(

― kv_nol, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 10:17 (eighteen years ago)

Sorry to hear it though, no one needs a bad time on their bday! I hope drinks were had to erase it from your mind!

Oh, I didn't have a bad time at all. We had lovely dinner in 101 Talbot, followed by the joy of both deciding the play was shit and both deciding that we would leave. Then we got to compare the poorness of that production with the mightiness of the RSC production of Antony and Cleopatra we saw recently and feel good, and then we listened to Air in the car on the way home.

My birthday thread made me happy too.

― accentmonkey, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 10:38 (eighteen years ago)

Good on yer both. All's well that ends well. I know not of this 101 Talbot but the amount of times I've eaten out in the past while can be counted on one hand and it's always the same two places!

A birthday thread is always a thing to enjoy!

― kv_nol, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 11:14 (eighteen years ago)

LOST tonite

― Ai Lien, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 13:33 (eighteen years ago)

Arsenal vs Manchester United tonight! Youth Cup semi-final, but still.

― Mark C, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 13:41 (eighteen years ago)

I have to say I feel old

arrgh - i felt like i was ready for the glue factory at the j. lucont thing way back when. how old was your friend sophie, ronan? 20?

― lauren, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 14:20 (eighteen years ago)

Feeling old's in the mind. But sometimes in the creakiness.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 14:29 (eighteen years ago)

Spurs v Braga at White Hart Lane for me tonight. Just been offered a free ticket, yay.

― Matt DC, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 17:07 (eighteen years ago)

Master and commander on More 4! Might watch it but have a lot of catch up to do on the music making front so might wait for aforementioned DVD! Argh decisions! There will definitely be beer no matter what!

― kv_nol, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 19:47 (eighteen years ago)

Matt, I don't think you're talking about the San Antoino Spurs are you?

― Ms Misery, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 19:53 (eighteen years ago)

So, guys... I've been listening to Kate Bush a lot! (Trying not to post in argument thread.)

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 20:54 (eighteen years ago)

You seek asylum?

― kv_nol, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 21:04 (eighteen years ago)

A top thread that isn't a fight please!

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 21:06 (eighteen years ago)

You do seem to bring them with you. Why is that exactly? No wait. Let me guess: They're wrong but you're always right and yet they resent you for your genius?

― kv_nol, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 21:07 (eighteen years ago)

There's an argument thread?
I am running up that hill!

― aimurchie, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 21:17 (eighteen years ago)

i like kate bush.

― lauren, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 21:21 (eighteen years ago)

That's fightin' talk.

― Ed, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 21:22 (eighteen years ago)

They're wrong but you're always right and yet they resent you for your genius?

They resent me for my GZEus! You see I was at a bar and someone accused me of being an a.. ok nevermind

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 21:28 (eighteen years ago)

kate bush fans don't strike me as the brawling type. i'm a kate dilettante, really. the kick inside and hounds of love are all i've got.

― lauren, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 21:28 (eighteen years ago)

She rocks the Wuthering Heights.
What is wuthering, anyway, and can I do it?
be the first ILXor to wuther?

― aimurchie, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 21:40 (eighteen years ago)

Ha ha Jon, saw that thread. Peace be on this thread.

Master and Commander okay so far. Poor kid losing arm :(

― kv_nol, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 21:42 (eighteen years ago)

I was given her album (the one with wuthering heights). I'm not really convinced. I love teh Futureheads version of Hounds of Love!

― kv_nol, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 21:44 (eighteen years ago)

I want to eat burgers with Lauren

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 21:45 (eighteen years ago)

Just ask her dude. Don't be shy.

― kv_nol, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 21:47 (eighteen years ago)

I asked her.

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 21:48 (eighteen years ago)

he took your advice!

― lauren, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 21:48 (eighteen years ago)

we will eat burgers soon.

― lauren, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 21:49 (eighteen years ago)

We're gonna eat burgers

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 21:52 (eighteen years ago)

Sweet. Remember me in your wedding speeches!

― kv_nol, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 21:59 (eighteen years ago)

Master and Commander okay so far. Poor kid losing arm :(

Yes, poor Lord Blakeney. It's alright though, Stephen can fix anything. He wouldn't look at you for less than ten guineas on land.

Why is it, seriously, that I will always watch films I like when they turn up on telly, even when I own the DVD?

― accentmonkey, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 22:05 (eighteen years ago)

I am in a non-burger -eating -with -Lauren wuthering snit.
Fortunately, I have bacon and kielbasa in the fridge.

― aimurchie, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 22:07 (eighteen years ago)

damnnn

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 22:07 (eighteen years ago)

accentmonkey, what the hell is happening? I kept getting called away. There something about god and spiders??

― kv_nol, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 22:13 (eighteen years ago)

Jack has promised Stephen that they can land on the Galapagos, but now the Acheron has been seen and they have to leave.

― accentmonkey, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 22:17 (eighteen years ago)

But don't worry, this is the second time it's been on in a week, it'll be on again.

― accentmonkey, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 22:17 (eighteen years ago)

No Master and Commanders either! But I have tapes of the BBC show with the cute guy who is starring in "Amazing Grace".
(Sorry, Lauren. I didn't mean to compare you to meat.)

― aimurchie, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 22:18 (eighteen years ago)

Got ya. They like each other as more than friends I think! Great film. Have tipsy +1 coming over now, will prob still need the DVD! She's seen it before though so maybe I'll be allowed keep watching.

― kv_nol, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 22:18 (eighteen years ago)

Don't worry, I haven't forgotten the DVD, it's marked on my calendar.

― accentmonkey, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 22:20 (eighteen years ago)

Ha ha, thanks Trish. Right I'd better sign off and hide anything breakable! 'Night ILX!

― kv_nol, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 22:21 (eighteen years ago)

LOST tonite

Ai Lien on Wednesday, 14 March 2007 13:33 (9 hours ago)

I'll admit this here in the safety of peacethread—last week we totally spaced and missed Lost! I was on ILX until 11:30! I had to watch the whole thing on my computer the next day. I'm having a hard time adjusting to the 10:00 show. Yell at me if I'm still here at 10:00 Eastern U.S. time.

― Beth Parker, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 22:54 (eighteen years ago)

I don't know how many that is in real hours.

Bed time now. Beth, you should set an egg timer or something.

― accentmonkey, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 23:26 (eighteen years ago)

Hi dere. I went to see !!! on Monday night - one of the best live acts I have ever seen, by the way, and I just don't say that anymore - and I appear to have savagely fucked up my neck now :( It hurts to turn my head sideways and it makes horrible crunching noises. Sigh.

― Trayce, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 23:27 (eighteen years ago)

Hi dere. I went to see !!! on Monday night - one of the best live acts I have ever seen, by the way, and I just don't say that anymore - and I appear to have savagely fucked up my neck now :( It hurts to turn my head sideways and it makes horrible crunching noises. Sigh.

My NZ roomie says that one benefit of being AU/NZ is that by the time bands tour your countries they're totally fucking polished.

― JW, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 23:40 (eighteen years ago)

arrgh - i felt like i was ready for the glue factory at the j. lucont thing way back when. how old was your friend sophie, ronan? 20?

yeah she is quite young...I'd say 21 now maybe so even younger then!

I didn't feel old that night cos I was on drugs. I've pretty much got used to feeling ok with feeling whatever I feel in isolation these days, what with being sick.

Oh and 101 Talbot is a seriously good restaurant, never thought I'd enjoy a meal on Talbot Street but a friend recommended it and it is great, I reckon in summer it'd be even better, great atmosphere.

― Ronan, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 23:40 (eighteen years ago)

So, what do you call that band? Three Exclamamion Marks?
G'night Trish. I lost my kitchen timer, by using it for precisely this sort of thing. Sigh.

― Beth Parker, Thursday, 15 March 2007 00:11 (eighteen years ago)

exclamation, duh.

― Beth Parker, Thursday, 15 March 2007 00:17 (eighteen years ago)

My NZ roomie says that one benefit of being AU/NZ is that by the time bands tour your countries they're totally fucking polished.

Makes sense yeah. Mind you, I think this is near to the start of a hueg tour they're about to ebark on (theyre doing UK/Ireland now, and then the US, and then somewhere else)

Or did you mean it more like "we get bands a bajillion years after everyone else does"? (cause thats true too, heh)

― Trayce, Thursday, 15 March 2007 00:25 (eighteen years ago)

Trayce, Yo La Tengo were just through AUS, did you go?

― Rock Hardy, Thursday, 15 March 2007 01:04 (eighteen years ago)

YLT were at the aforementioned festival last weekend (along with !!! and others) and they were pretty good! finished up with an organ freakout cover of 'nuclear war' by sun ra.

― haitch, Thursday, 15 March 2007 01:26 (eighteen years ago)

I have to be honest, YLT have never been of much interest to me. But yeah I knew they were in town as Haitch sez.

― Trayce, Thursday, 15 March 2007 02:05 (eighteen years ago)

never thought I'd enjoy a meal on Talbot Streer

Raises hand guiltily! Actually speaking of isolation and eating (sorry to make light Ronan), does anyone have any failsafes for eating dinner on their tobler in town?

Beth I think it's chook chook chook or something.

Sounds like fun Trayce, did you get a knock or something? A bath might help (in general and for your neck!).

― kv_nol, Thursday, 15 March 2007 09:46 (eighteen years ago)

I've pretty much got used to feeling ok with feeling whatever I feel in isolation these days, what with being sick.

Actually you've posted similar before so I really do apologise for making light of your illness because I know that you've not been having the easiest time of it.

― kv_nol, Thursday, 15 March 2007 10:04 (eighteen years ago)

wuther
v.i. (of the wind) blow strongly, bluster.

Maybe after a big dish of beans and lentils you could be said to 'wuther'.

― braveclub, Thursday, 15 March 2007 10:39 (eighteen years ago)

I like the idea of "oh, excuse my wuthering, I had beans and lentils for dinner".

Actually speaking of isolation and eating (sorry to make light Ronan), does anyone have any failsafes for eating dinner on their tobler in town?

101 Talbot would be good for that. Lots of small two-person/one-person tables, plenty of activity to look at, v. busy and casual. It's not cheap though, as in it's €17-€20 for a main course. They have a good prix fixe at €21 also. For cheap and okay on your own, I'd recommend a window seat at Zaytoon on Parliament St. You get to look out at everything that's going on around you, and the kebabs are good.

― accentmonkey, Thursday, 15 March 2007 10:45 (eighteen years ago)

I had some baked beans last night. I'll ask my colleagues how I'm wuthering later...

Actually made what could have been the best thing ever but it turned out to be crap: Baked potatoes, grilled cheese on top with baked beans poured over. Loads of tabasco. Sounds great except that even after an hour and a half the potatoes hadn't cooked all the way through. Bloody Roosters! Why does God hate my potatoes! Also I don't think wrapping them in tinfoil was a good idea.

― kv_nol, Thursday, 15 March 2007 10:46 (eighteen years ago)

in that scenario you definitely don't want to put the toppings on first...is that what you did?

baked potatoes take a long time!

― Ronan, Thursday, 15 March 2007 10:48 (eighteen years ago)

They take too long. I would not dream of baking potatoes in the oven unless I was using it for other things as well. Usually I use the microwave. Four minutes per potato. Baked beans on top, spinach on top of that, grate some cheese on top of that. Teh yum six-minute dinner.

― accentmonkey, Thursday, 15 March 2007 10:52 (eighteen years ago)

No, I cooked spuds first, cut in half and grilled. Then put cheese on. I was dying of the hunger. Veggie kebab @ zaytoon are teh best. You will taste them for two days after though :(

That's fierce pricy for a fast meal. Does anyone else remember when the epicurean was a nice place to go? I was there with +1 a week ago and there's a real smell of oil in the air. Also junkie lights in unwashed toilets that I pay 20c to get into are teh suck!

Master and Commander was good last night, I say good because I was watching but couldn't figure out what was going on. Lots of significant eye contact though! Also whenever I saw Russell Crowe using the violin I kept thinking of the playing on the ice in Kong. Not very useful. Also one armed kid v v irritating.

― kv_nol, Thursday, 15 March 2007 11:00 (eighteen years ago)

Six minute dinner: Instant noodles x 2, frozen peas x many, lots of stock, chilli flakes! YAY!

― kv_nol, Thursday, 15 March 2007 11:01 (eighteen years ago)

I still like the Epicurean food hall. It's always busy but the Mexican and even the Asian fusion place are quite good. I also like the look of the waffle house place...but I haven't tried it yet.

― Ronan, Thursday, 15 March 2007 11:04 (eighteen years ago)

Where is the asian food place? Not the one on the right hand side? That is ick! I hope you mean the one at the back, that is nice. Haven't tried the mexican. I like the french place next to 1t54b4gel.

― kv_nol, Thursday, 15 March 2007 11:26 (eighteen years ago)

The one at the very back yeah. The French place is good too yeah.

I actually want to buy some of the grocery type stuff in the Mexican place...have never bothered to do this yet.

― Ronan, Thursday, 15 March 2007 11:33 (eighteen years ago)

Aw man, I am such a sucker for those kind of things (grocery stores that don't look like it if that's clear?!)! There's this place around the corner from where I live (T4st3 of Italy I think it's called on B33chwood Avenue) that I potter in to not really looking for anything. I leave with two bags filled to bursting with stuff. Stuff I know isn't all that and that I know isn't worth it but I just can't help myself!

― kv_nol, Thursday, 15 March 2007 11:43 (eighteen years ago)

Baked potatoes in the oven are a lot quicker if you parboil them on the stove first.

I don't know why anyone prefers chips to baked potatoes, there's no contest for me.

― braveclub, Thursday, 15 March 2007 13:39 (eighteen years ago)

the first time i experienced junkie lights i had no idea what was going on. it was like the toilet had suddenly turned into a disco.

― lauren, Thursday, 15 March 2007 14:25 (eighteen years ago)

Someone was talking about the blue lights under the cars of boy racers being useful for warding off people trying to shoot up in your wheel arch, but I can't remember who was saying it.

Also one armed kid v v irritating.

No way! Great, because a) like, 12 or something and still capable of commanding troops and running around shooting French people and never whingeing about his arm and b) utterly convincing at being really pissed at the dinner table. Also c) grows up to be Octavian Caesar in Rome.

― accentmonkey, Thursday, 15 March 2007 14:38 (eighteen years ago)

the first time i experienced junkie lights i had no idea what was going on. it was like the toilet had suddenly turned into a disco.

Also WTF at all over body dandruff?!! Found out later that it was detergent in the clothes but still, not nice moment!

12 Y.o. was pain in the face, sorry Trish. Didn't recognise Bettany at all. He does a pained-too-tight smile v well. Also I now recognise that pic on your birthday thread. Has anyone read the book? Any good?

― kv_nol, Thursday, 15 March 2007 14:48 (eighteen years ago)

Srsly, the books are the greatest thing in the world ever. What you don't get from the film is that Stephen is this amazing secret agent, who has secret missions all over the place and Jack takes him there in his ship and it's all battles and swordplay and... well, I could go on, but I don't want to bore people.

― accentmonkey, Thursday, 15 March 2007 14:52 (eighteen years ago)

Now that sounds like craic! I wonder have the aged wrinklies got any lying around that I can ~~steal~~borrow on my next trip over...

Hang on, is it like Biggles but on sailboats?

― kv_nol, Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:02 (eighteen years ago)

It's a bit like that, if Biggles had been written by some super combination of Jane Austen and Andre Dumas.

― accentmonkey, Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:08 (eighteen years ago)

My husband was addicted to the Aubrey-Maturin books. It was a major tragedy in our house when Patrick O'Brian died. Speaking of series, I just launched into Bernard Cornwell's The Winter King, book 1 of his Arthurian series. Donald's on the Viking ones. That guy cranks 'em out, so I figure there's some security in getting addicted. Plus he lives on Cape Cod now, so if he slows down output I can always go to his house and threaten him.
I hate that dying shit. I could use another 20 Travis McGee novels. WTF, John D. MacDonald?

― Beth Parker, Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:20 (eighteen years ago)

God, this just reminds me, I only got two or three books into the series and things had just started to pick up when I got distracted by something else. Need to get back on the Aubrey-Maturin tip!

(Sorry, any Napoleonic sailing novels will drag me into discussion.)

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:22 (eighteen years ago)

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e391/marthasminions/pg-16-wrath-robot.jpg

for the discontinuity continuity.

― Beth Parker, Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:30 (eighteen years ago)

Continue.

― Beth Parker, Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:30 (eighteen years ago)

It seems like there's a new nautical adventure series every time you turn around. Everyone trying to ride the Forester/O'Brian coattails. All with the frigate-in-high-seas on the cover.

― Beth Parker, Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:33 (eighteen years ago)

All that blue makes the bookstores very calming.

― Beth Parker, Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:34 (eighteen years ago)

I love those covers. They remind me of The Voyage of the Dawntreader.

Jesus, I am freezing! Has the ice age started already?

― accentmonkey, Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:40 (eighteen years ago)

Beth, do you do anything with your drawings? They'd make cool notecards.

― Ms Misery, Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:45 (eighteen years ago)

It's a bit like that, if Biggles had been written by some super combination of Jane Austen and Andre Dumas.

That sounds... long winded.

― kv_nol, Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:55 (eighteen years ago)

I wonder have the aged wrinklies got any lying around that I can stealborrow on my next trip over...

Do you not have a library card? Or do you have so many overdue books that you can't show your face.

― Beth Parker, Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:06 (eighteen years ago)

Sam, does anyone even use note cards any more?

― Beth Parker, Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:07 (eighteen years ago)

I do when writing to my grandparents or far flung friends. they are shorter than a paper letter but cuter too!

― Ms Misery, Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:09 (eighteen years ago)

Do you not have a library card? Or do you have so many overdue books that you can't show your face.

My local library is not the best resource in the world. Could be worth a try.

I'd like those robots as stationery!

― kv_nol, Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:47 (eighteen years ago)

Dublin libraries are not great, it has to be said. I partly blame the fact that in order to apply to become a librarian, you have to know what your exam number was when you did your Leaving Cert exam when you were 17 or 18. Who the hell knows this? I think this puts a lot of non-mental people off applying for jobs in the library. I base this purely on my own experience of applying for jobs and am not suggesting that people currently working in the library services in Dublin are mad. Just to be clear.

I too love Beth's robots and think they would make excellent birthday cards. I use note cards too. I have some kind of sick addiction to buying them. If anyone would like me to send them a random card, you can mail me your address and I will do it.

― accentmonkey, Thursday, 15 March 2007 17:41 (eighteen years ago)

I'll do that! Weren't we going to send postcards?
I could make note cards or stationery, I guess.
I have some of those "cats in the sun" note cards that are so nice I've never been able to send one. I should regift it. I love those photos. We have the "Dogs in the Sun" book (forget photographer's name, too lazy to go look), and it's like all the dogs have died and gone to heaven. I'm really more of a dog person—Donald is allergic to cats. i don't know how I ended up with the cat cards. So nice, though. Cats are the most photogenic animals on the planet, as this board is well aware.

― Beth Parker, Thursday, 15 March 2007 18:16 (eighteen years ago)

I sent postcards a while ago. I think I sent one to Tuomas and one to Ai Lien, and one to Mikey G, who isn't here anymore.

Secretly I hate it when people give me things with pictures of cats on them, unless they are ILX style cats. Okay, not so secretly anymore, I suppose.

― accentmonkey, Thursday, 15 March 2007 18:47 (eighteen years ago)

i have a fine collection of postcards from ilx-people - just got one from grady! i will send one if requested.

amdraheim@gmail.com

― Ai Lien, Thursday, 15 March 2007 18:54 (eighteen years ago)

Okay, I'm sending you guys my address!

― Beth Parker, Thursday, 15 March 2007 19:51 (eighteen years ago)

Got it! Wow, ILX mail actually works.

― accentmonkey, Thursday, 15 March 2007 20:26 (eighteen years ago)

received! i have a good card in mind - it'll be homemade!

― Ai Lien, Thursday, 15 March 2007 20:32 (eighteen years ago)

Great! I'll send you one too if you send me your address. marthasminions@yahoo.com
Sometimes ilx mail is funny for me because I mistakenly put a comma after "com," so now I have to remember to type in the comma every time I log in. Constant reminders of my ineptitude. But I got your address, Trish.

― Beth Parker, Friday, 16 March 2007 00:25 (eighteen years ago)

I still have all my ILX postcards up on my wall at work! I have one fromTokyo Rosemary, Forest Pines, Rock H, and Jaq (and have I missed anyone)? It looks like I've been all over :D Washington, New York, .... Cleethorpes...

― Trayce, Friday, 16 March 2007 00:48 (eighteen years ago)

Rock's was a crazy one he made himself, it has breakdancin' KenC all over it.

― Trayce, Friday, 16 March 2007 00:49 (eighteen years ago)

i'll try to make mine w/ an arkansas flavor. or flava.

― Ai Lien, Friday, 16 March 2007 04:28 (eighteen years ago)

May I please get in on the postcard action? All I ever get in the mail is f*cking bills and junk mail.

― Hard like armour, Friday, 16 March 2007 05:13 (eighteen years ago)

ARE bills and junk mail

― Hard like armour, Friday, 16 March 2007 05:16 (eighteen years ago)

Mail me your address. I am trish at perfectlycromulent dot com. I will send you a belated St. Patricks Day card, from Scotland.

― accentmonkey, Friday, 16 March 2007 07:25 (eighteen years ago)

Ha ha I'd love in on this except I never remember to post things so probably better that I don't. That has made me rather sad for some reason. Must be the hangover!

― kv_nol, Friday, 16 March 2007 09:23 (eighteen years ago)

You don't have to post anything. You send me your address and I post you things.

― accentmonkey, Friday, 16 March 2007 09:42 (eighteen years ago)

Could you send me a haircut as I need one but can't decide what to get done!

― kv_nol, Friday, 16 March 2007 10:19 (eighteen years ago)

Some fucking dog attacked my dog this morning and the woman who owned it stood there like a fucking lemon shouting for her dog which merrily ignored her and continued savaging poor Cody. So I screamed obscenities at her fucking dog and it ran away and then she just walked off in the opposite direction without a word.

I very, very nearly keyed her car. My hand had closed around the keys in my pocket and I almost, almost keyed "my dog is a CUNT" in the door of her car, but I didn't do it because I am good.

There, I feel better now. Off for a shower!

― accentmonkey, Friday, 16 March 2007 10:51 (eighteen years ago)

Bloody hell, that's horrible. Sorry Trish. Shit start to the day. I really want a dog but lifestyle does not allow for it. I do like pubs in the UK where dogs are allowed. I far prefer dogs than kids in a pub, I feel terrible having a few drinks and unwinding only to turn around and realise that young ears are absorbing every bad word I've used. It doesn't help that I swear a lot, why that is I don't know!

― kv_nol, Friday, 16 March 2007 11:03 (eighteen years ago)

If her dog is that savage, she was probably scared of getting involved. Still, cow.

Dogs in pubs is the best. Every pub should have one. Dogs inside, smokers out back with a bowl of water - that's the way forward.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 16 March 2007 11:06 (eighteen years ago)

Last Thursday I started a new job. Yesterday that job ended. Is this a record?

― DavidM, Friday, 16 March 2007 11:08 (eighteen years ago)

smokers out back with a bowl of water

Weirdest thing: Going to UK or other countries and coming out of pub smelling of smoke. Very unpleasant! Odd to think how I didn't notice for years!

― kv_nol, Friday, 16 March 2007 11:08 (eighteen years ago)

DavidM that is a record! What happened if I might so nosy?

― kv_nol, Friday, 16 March 2007 11:09 (eighteen years ago)

David, tell all.

― accentmonkey, Friday, 16 March 2007 11:50 (eighteen years ago)

Also, aren't English pubs going smoke free soon?

― accentmonkey, Friday, 16 March 2007 11:55 (eighteen years ago)

This is good nose indeed!

(sorry, inspired by Allo Allo thread)

― kv_nol, Friday, 16 March 2007 11:56 (eighteen years ago)

for a postcard, email yr address to: amdraheim@gmail.com

― Ai Lien, Friday, 16 March 2007 13:26 (eighteen years ago)

I shall email all these ilx0rs my address soon for card action.

trish, you totally should've keyed that bitch's car. people with aggressive dogs need to keep them on short leashes or away from other people/dogs. Better yet, call Cesar Millan!

― Ms Misery, Friday, 16 March 2007 13:34 (eighteen years ago)

trish, i'm sorry! our family dog was almost killed a year and a half ago by another dog while my parents were out walking her. the owner was right there the whole time and apparently made no attempt to even call the animal away, and my 57 year old father wrestled him (an 80lb rottweiler mix) off of trixie and held him down by the throat until the woman finally came over with his lead. by some miracle neither of my parents were bitten, and trixie was okay in the end but needed extensive stitching up. the aggressive dog's owners paid for the various bills (emergency vet, follow up, tetanus shots for my parents etc) under threat of legal action, but they still never admitted that they were in the wrong.

― lauren, Friday, 16 March 2007 13:37 (eighteen years ago)

shit. i'm getting really angry thinking about it now. irresponsible pet owners give me the red mist.

― lauren, Friday, 16 March 2007 13:39 (eighteen years ago)

Done! Very exciting altogether. I can't remember the last time I got an actual postcard.

― kv_nol, Friday, 16 March 2007 13:41 (eighteen years ago)

Also people like that Lauren should be shot.

― kv_nol, Friday, 16 March 2007 13:42 (eighteen years ago)

don't shoot Lauren!

― Ms Misery, Friday, 16 March 2007 13:47 (eighteen years ago)

eh?

― lauren, Friday, 16 March 2007 13:48 (eighteen years ago)

lack of commas in kv's sentence. joking.

― Ms Misery, Friday, 16 March 2007 13:48 (eighteen years ago)

that sentence could be a textbook example in a section on how comma usage can change meaning.

― lauren, Friday, 16 March 2007 13:55 (eighteen years ago)

Thanks all for good wishes, but Cody's not that badly off. I'm quite terrifying when I'm flailing my arms at you and screaming GET THE FUCK AWAY FROM MY DOG!!!! so the savaging didn't last long and the other dog legged it pretty quick. Poor Cody got more of a fright than anything else, and has been following me around the house all day, looking plaintive. I think he thinks he did something wrong. Bless.

― accentmonkey, Friday, 16 March 2007 14:00 (eighteen years ago)

weekend plans everyone?

ms misery, how's sxsw treating you?

i think i'm going to play a little tennis (i'm new), work on my van to sell, and work on the garden. maybe go to the races?

― Ai Lien, Friday, 16 March 2007 14:06 (eighteen years ago)

weekend plans everyone?

ms misery, how's sxsw treating you?

It's reminding me how old I am and how gleefully I've let myself go.

We cut out of work early yesterday to catch some day shows. My guy tapes bands so he always wants to catch some kiddie emo bands since they are more popular. nothing like drinking in a room full of hands with Xs. I've learned I can no longer start drinking at 3 and continue on into the night.

Today I'm leaving after lunch to do some more day shows with a friend then the free public enemy show. I might done after that. I'm not so hardy for all night. tomorrow my brother and his wife will be here which will be fun. after that, I die from exhaustion.

AiLien, are you here in atx?

― Ms Misery, Friday, 16 March 2007 14:18 (eighteen years ago)

no, i'm in little rock, AR. it's the annual rush to atx, billions of bands stopping thru here to get there. it made me think of you and wonder how you were holding up having that many bands loitering in yr town!

― Ai Lien, Friday, 16 March 2007 14:21 (eighteen years ago)

yeah when I lived in Dallas the pre-SXSW week was always great for shows.

I don't know, I've lived in Austin for a collective ten years and sxsw is just something you have to learn to accept. The crowds and rude yankees can be v. annoying if you let them. you have to either barrack yourself up at home for a couple of weeks or try to get out there and enjoy some of it yourself. that said, it's pretty awesome having so many great free shows there for the taking. just a bit overwhelming.

― Ms Misery, Friday, 16 March 2007 14:29 (eighteen years ago)

maybe one day we can meet up for a show/ eat, stressing the eating part. i don't go to texas often.

― Ai Lien, Friday, 16 March 2007 14:33 (eighteen years ago)

lack of commas in kv's sentence. joking.

that sentence could be a textbook example in a section on how comma usage can change meaning.

;_;

I never actually learned how to use an apostrophe either! Not through teachers' lack of tryin but just that I couldn't concentrate.

So are we shooting Lauren? I get confused.

― kv_nol, Friday, 16 March 2007 14:35 (eighteen years ago)

Oh yeah, weekend: Tonight = binge drinking. Tomorrow = rugby closely followed by binge drinking. Sunday = not binge drinking but art shopping with +1. Bank Holiday Monday = Coming in to work unfortunately but it means that I get Friday off to recover from Ronan's DJing (in a good way!)

― kv_nol, Friday, 16 March 2007 14:38 (eighteen years ago)

Tonight = binge drinking.

I admire your honesty.

― Ms Misery, Friday, 16 March 2007 14:39 (eighteen years ago)

i'm going to be a spectator at karaoke tonight, at least until i have enough jamesons to make me forget the fact that i'm terrible.
otherwise, quiet stuff - running, yoga, haircut, housework, finishing season 4 of the wire.

― lauren, Friday, 16 March 2007 14:40 (eighteen years ago)

oh, and trying to avoid st. pat's day mayhem. underage drinkers flooding the city with vomit, aggro "irish"-americans rampaging through the subway system - bah, humbug!

― lauren, Friday, 16 March 2007 14:43 (eighteen years ago)

oh saint patrick's day. :/

― jessie monster, Friday, 16 March 2007 14:46 (eighteen years ago)

ha! you're in boston, aren't you? sweet jesus.

― lauren, Friday, 16 March 2007 14:47 (eighteen years ago)

PS. Binge drinking for tonight appears to have been cancelled. Binge drinking tomorrow will be a couple of cans on my couch watching the rugby then trying to meet everyone all at once tomorrow. I will more than likely be sober by the end of the evening!

― kv_nol, Friday, 16 March 2007 15:02 (eighteen years ago)

ha! you're in boston, aren't you? sweet jesus.

lauren on Friday, March 16, 2007 10:47 AM (17 minutes ago)

I'm building a barricade out of abandoned furniture and shopping carts. :(

― jessie monster, Friday, 16 March 2007 15:05 (eighteen years ago)

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e391/marthasminions/pain-and-suffering.jpg http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e391/marthasminions/pain-and-suffering2.jpg

I hope these 2 jpgs come out side-by-side.
I did this a couple of years ago, right after the incident. I was so pissed. I did a whole Bad Dogs issue of my magazine (that's where a lot of my drawings end up).

― Beth Parker, Friday, 16 March 2007 15:12 (eighteen years ago)

Okay, one over the other. At least the first page is first!

― Beth Parker, Friday, 16 March 2007 15:13 (eighteen years ago)

haha, I was reading this and wondering if you'd seen it before. and you drew it! what's your magazine beth?

― Ms Misery, Friday, 16 March 2007 15:14 (eighteen years ago)

My monitor is big enough to have them side by side.

― Ed, Friday, 16 March 2007 15:14 (eighteen years ago)

i love it!

― lauren, Friday, 16 March 2007 15:19 (eighteen years ago)

Martha's Minions, started by Maria. A magazine by and for the miserable service-sector underbelly of our fine island. Maria did the first three issues, very zine-punkish, held together with safety pins, literally. I took over editorship late last century, and am finishing up issue #20 now. I'm working at a glacial pace, and I blame ILX. No problem, though. It's not like I have shareholders.
No website. I am the queen of not getting things done.

― Beth Parker, Friday, 16 March 2007 15:19 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, Ed, you're right. I just had to make the window bigger. Duh.

― Beth Parker, Friday, 16 March 2007 15:20 (eighteen years ago)

The funny thing about that story is that my landscaping partner, who wasn't there at the time, showed this cartoon to the homeowner, who then assessed the renters an extra fee. I wasn't the only person the dog had terrorized. He'd also prevented neighbors from using a path that cut through the corner of the yard.

― Beth Parker, Friday, 16 March 2007 15:28 (eighteen years ago)

St Patricks Day eh...humbug for me also.

I just bought lots of groceries and nice food to ensure I don't have to leave the house for the rest of the weekend. Irish radio today was insufferable, two stations were doing "let's celebrate our great Irish phrases" aka "LET'S ALL PRETEND TO BE FARMERS OR WORKING CLASS DUBLINERS AND SAY "HORSE THAT IN TO YOU BOSS" OR "SEEYA AFTER BUD"

Everyday is St Patricks Day in Ireland!

― Ronan, Friday, 16 March 2007 15:32 (eighteen years ago)

It's all about scourging yourself with snakes or something?

― Ed, Friday, 16 March 2007 15:33 (eighteen years ago)

I never understood why St. Patrick was lauded for doing that massive snake-deportation. It's time they were reintroduced. Very beneficial animals.

― Beth Parker, Friday, 16 March 2007 15:37 (eighteen years ago)

it's even worse when the people spouting phrases like that are americans who had a half-irish great great grandfather back in the mists of time, but the family has hung on to the surname and act as if they are direct descendents of brian boru.

― lauren, Friday, 16 March 2007 15:37 (eighteen years ago)

beth, that zine sounds great! my sister and i often dream of making a zine (we have copier access!) called, "I OBJECT", a zine for the lowlies of the legal field.

― Ai Lien, Friday, 16 March 2007 15:38 (eighteen years ago)

or even better, people who are ITALIAN (hi exboyfriend) but since they live in Boston they are straight out of The Quiet Man or some shit.

― jessie monster, Friday, 16 March 2007 15:39 (eighteen years ago)

Catholic schmatholic.

― Laurel, Friday, 16 March 2007 15:39 (eighteen years ago)

hahaha, people can use the Catholic excuse as soon as they start spending St. Patrick's Day (or, like, any Saint day) at Mass.

― jessie monster, Friday, 16 March 2007 15:42 (eighteen years ago)

Oh Jessie, you're going to be right in the eye of that particular shitstorm, you poor thing. Spend the weekend hiding in the stacks of the New England Mobile Book Fair.
I have to drive to West Hartford tomorrow. Somehow, I don't think of that town as a hive of faux-Hibernian poseurs, but I'll find out.

― Beth Parker, Friday, 16 March 2007 15:43 (eighteen years ago)

I hate Irishness. There should be a day when we denigrate it as a nation.

― Ronan, Friday, 16 March 2007 15:43 (eighteen years ago)

"Same Size as Luxembourg day"

― Ronan, Friday, 16 March 2007 15:43 (eighteen years ago)

well apparently there is a HORRIBLE WINTRY MIX a-comin' so I can hope and dream it will rain on many parades. and enjoy my champagne of beers in peace.

― jessie monster, Friday, 16 March 2007 15:45 (eighteen years ago)

maybe tomorrow i'll wear the lapel pin that my friend got for me at the ra shop in her mother's town and see what reactions i'll get.

we've got the wintry mix right now - it sucks. snow/freezing rain/wind, ew!

― lauren, Friday, 16 March 2007 15:47 (eighteen years ago)

I wish people in other countries used July 4th as an excuse to walk around celebrating bizarre stereotypes of Americans. Seriously, that would be awesome.

― jessie monster, Friday, 16 March 2007 15:47 (eighteen years ago)

I can't tell if it's just snow or snow/sleet right now, and I don't really want to go outside to check.

― jessie monster, Friday, 16 March 2007 15:48 (eighteen years ago)

I shall not share Austin's weather for you. St. Pat's day kind of gets lost in SXSW for us.

beth, how can we get your magazine?

― Ms Misery, Friday, 16 March 2007 15:48 (eighteen years ago)

IT WINDY, I KNOW THAT.

― jessie monster, Friday, 16 March 2007 15:49 (eighteen years ago)

WUTHERING

― braveclub, Friday, 16 March 2007 15:53 (eighteen years ago)

I wish people in other countries used July 4th as an excuse to walk around celebrating bizarre stereotypes of Americans. Seriously, that would be awesome.

We could all eat pancakes and sausage on a stick.

I never minded St. Patrick's Day until it turned into this huge production. It used to be just a crappy parade sponsored by alarm companies and then you could all go home and watch Darby O'Gill and the Little People on telly and forget about it. Now it's all fireworks and Brazilian people speaking Irish to you and I don't know where I am.

Of course, whenever I meet up with the Irish comedy diaspora in Britain, particularly Dara, we turn into the biggest Paddys imaginable. But if anyone else said that, it would be racist. Ha ha, double standard.

It's always funny how festivals seem like a great idea until you talk to people who live in the cities where they're held. I go to Edinburgh every year, but not till I joined ILX did I really feel I was causing a problem to anyone by doing so.

― accentmonkey, Friday, 16 March 2007 16:06 (eighteen years ago)

We could all eat pancakes and sausage on a stick.

And fire guns high into the air!

― jessie monster, Friday, 16 March 2007 16:15 (eighteen years ago)

Only drug dealers and gang bosses are allowed have guns here anymore. :(

― accentmonkey, Friday, 16 March 2007 16:18 (eighteen years ago)

St. Patrick's day parades here, at least in Boston and New York, are reknown for their steadfast and true homophobia.

― Beth Parker, Friday, 16 March 2007 16:35 (eighteen years ago)

St Patrick's gay

― braveclub, Friday, 16 March 2007 16:36 (eighteen years ago)

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this is how my work day started.

― Ai Lien, Friday, 16 March 2007 16:46 (eighteen years ago)

dang it

― Ai Lien, Friday, 16 March 2007 16:46 (eighteen years ago)

First sighting of drunken knobends in huge Guinness twat-hats at 2.30 this afternoon.

― Matt DC, Friday, 16 March 2007 16:52 (eighteen years ago)

yeah, i'm going to go ask someone how to do it, etc etc. jumping off a bridge whatnot.

― Ai Lien, Friday, 16 March 2007 16:52 (eighteen years ago)

Anyone whe wants back copies of my mag can email me with their address, and I will email them with MY address. I'm not taking subscriptions any more because my output is so erratic, but I sell back copies. They go for $4, including postage. In addition to the Bad Dog issue, there are the following:
Worst of the Vineyard
Fashion
Sleep
I Quit
Fired
Addictions and Phobias
The no-theme issue
Tales of the Tavern
Seasonal Affection Disorder (a Valentine's day issue)
Sex and Homelessness
Superheroes
and earlier issues when I didn't know what the hell I was doing with the publishing software but that still have some great stuff, including Maria's hysterical piece about being hauled off to jail for playing too-loud Frank Sinatra records, which was in the first issue I did.
The Crime issue sold out—I have to reprint it, but it's in ReadySet Go, argh.

― Beth Parker, Friday, 16 March 2007 16:57 (eighteen years ago)

Warning: some of the humor is very Vineyard-centric, but people from other places hve enjoyed it. You catch on pretty fast that Edgartown=old money republicans—yacht club types, Chilmark=new money dems, yoga-latte types, Oak Bluffs=local drunkards. Borders are porous. One issue has a handy demographic map.

― Beth Parker, Friday, 16 March 2007 17:04 (eighteen years ago)

If anyone is really phobic about putting actual paper checks in the mail in an envelope with a stamp and all, I understand. We keep a reserve of back-stock issues for pro-bono distribution. Just send me your address.

― Beth Parker, Friday, 16 March 2007 17:10 (eighteen years ago)

And that will conclude this episode of shameless self-promotion.

― Beth Parker, Friday, 16 March 2007 17:10 (eighteen years ago)

fuck this wintry mix. thank god for my bubble umbrella.

― lauren, Friday, 16 March 2007 17:30 (eighteen years ago)

I hate Irishness. There should be a day when we denigrate it as a nation.

Booo! It's not so bad. Right, leaving work now. Have a good one all, even the begrudgers!

HAPPY ST PATS!

― kv_nol, Friday, 16 March 2007 17:59 (eighteen years ago)

i'm about to get drunk at work. st pat's day is good for something, i guess.

― lauren, Friday, 16 March 2007 20:20 (eighteen years ago)

Cocktail hour is starting early for us, as we've got to eat and drink before a 7:00 Movie. 300!!!! BATTLE-AX IN THE HEAD!!!! RAHHHH!!!!

― Beth Parker, Friday, 16 March 2007 20:32 (eighteen years ago)

anyone care to wager how long I'll be able to stay here at work given that it's 4 on a Friday and I'm eager to join in the SXSW madness?

― patita, Friday, 16 March 2007 20:56 (eighteen years ago)

oh, and I'm in the office alone?
(still here)

― patita, Friday, 16 March 2007 21:24 (eighteen years ago)

I'm off to bed, having watched some of Comic Relief. Man, those little films about child trafficking really do the job (as in, they make me want to donate money to stop it).

Also, David Tennant, yum yum.

Okay, bed. Have a good weekend, all.

― accentmonkey, Friday, 16 March 2007 22:08 (eighteen years ago)

Oh today will be interesting here. Not only is it St Pats, but it is also the first main raceday of the fscking Grand Prix, which is just down the road from my place. So cue 2 days of loud cars, fighter jets, fireworks, and drunken tourists and yobs everywhere :/

― Trayce, Friday, 16 March 2007 23:38 (eighteen years ago)

Beth, as someone who grew up down the street from a yacht club we didn't belong to, I think your zine sounds veddy iiiinteresting. I'll see what I can get together.

Lauren, I did not bring my bubble umbrella out today, actually I'd forgotten all about it since my move! Poor vinyl-icious baby. What color is the trim of yours?

― Laurel, Friday, 16 March 2007 23:49 (eighteen years ago)

just went out for breakfast (hahaha at 12.30 pm!). french toast with the bacon and the maple syrup, omg. had never had such a combo before!

no sign of fake irishes yet.

― haitch, Saturday, 17 March 2007 03:39 (eighteen years ago)

Ha ha, I missed my flight. No Glasgow for me. I R ANNOYED.

― accentmonkey, Saturday, 17 March 2007 07:26 (eighteen years ago)

eat a dick!

― remy bean, Saturday, 17 March 2007 07:32 (eighteen years ago)

no, just fucking kidding. trish, i actually think you're cool. just felt a little random hostility'd shake something up, from this benign easter-egg existence, ya know.

― remy bean, Saturday, 17 March 2007 07:33 (eighteen years ago)

Goodness. That was an odd little Tourettism, Remy. Are you okay?
Haitch, I can't believe you never had the maple-bacon experience. That's up there with losing your virginity, only better, because the first time doesn't suck.

― Beth Parker, Saturday, 17 March 2007 13:30 (eighteen years ago)

laurel, duh. i got the one with black trim.

― lauren, Saturday, 17 March 2007 16:03 (eighteen years ago)

Oh excellent, mine is white. We should be chess pieces.

― Laurel, Saturday, 17 March 2007 16:16 (eighteen years ago)

I've had a weird headache for 2 weeks now. Should I see a doctor?

― Maria :D, Saturday, 17 March 2007 20:39 (eighteen years ago)

I hate going to the doctor. Whenever I go, I end up feeling like it was silly for me to go.

― Maria :D, Saturday, 17 March 2007 20:40 (eighteen years ago)

Ha ha, Remy posted drunk.

Maria, you should go. Maybe your glasses need to be changed, though? When my brothers were teenagers my Mam always blamed their headaches on their hair being in their eyes. Is your hair in your eyes? You should get it cut.

― accentmonkey, Saturday, 17 March 2007 20:45 (eighteen years ago)

I am broken. No fireworks tonight either :( Tonight will mainly be spent doing nothing!

― kv_nol, Sunday, 18 March 2007 13:29 (eighteen years ago)

The longest St. Patrick's Day parade in the world(!!!) is starting right now.
Holyoke, Massachusetts. AKA Ireland Parish until about 1890.
Unfortunately, a big blizzard hit on Friday , and yesterday kinda sucked with the shovelling out...so I'm not sure if I will go to see the longest St. Patrick's Day parade in the world.
It is very fun - and I might change my mind.

― aimurchie, Sunday, 18 March 2007 15:18 (eighteen years ago)

you live in MA??? I had no idea.

I almost went to school in Holyoke.

― jessie monster, Sunday, 18 March 2007 15:20 (eighteen years ago)

We have just had a huge afternoon of hail and snow, and I have spent it on the sofa watching Casino Royale. Nice view, but I was annoyed by the bloke agent constantly explaining to the woman ACCOUNTANT how much was in the pot at any one time during the big poker game. HI DERE I CAN COUNT.

― accentmonkey, Sunday, 18 March 2007 15:22 (eighteen years ago)

I am glad you didn't.
You would not be as bright as you are...well, whatever, yup, I'm a Masshole.

― aimurchie, Sunday, 18 March 2007 15:24 (eighteen years ago)

i just bought some snapdragons (yellow), tulips (yellow) and hyacinth (white) but can't put them in the ground because it is supposed to rain for the next three days. instead, we are walking down to the river (3 blocks over) to look for rocks to make borders in the garden.

sundays

― Ai Lien, Sunday, 18 March 2007 19:03 (eighteen years ago)

does anyone have advice on hosting a baby shower? i spoke to the mother-to-be yesterday, she has some grand ideas of what she think is going to happen, all without consulting me at all. do you think i should be frank with her with my list of things i'm gonna do/provide? she can add to it, but with her own funds, time, etc. yeah? i don't know.

― Ai Lien, Sunday, 18 March 2007 19:09 (eighteen years ago)

I hosted Maria's baby shower! But we are a bunch of casual slobs. I emailed a map and directions to my house to people, and everyone brought food.
Somewhere on this computer is the invitation. I'll find it.

― Beth Parker, Monday, 19 March 2007 02:20 (eighteen years ago)

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e391/marthasminions/baby-w-nose-fixed-hor.jpg

― Beth Parker, Monday, 19 March 2007 02:34 (eighteen years ago)

I am sad that I have to work on a bank holiday but it is very cool taking the rush hour luas and getting a seat or knowing that come lunch there'll be no queues or similar.

Still though, it's a bit boring just catching up on filing!

― kv_nol, Monday, 19 March 2007 10:36 (eighteen years ago)

beth, that invite is great! i keep thinking the babe is hanging on to it's umbilical cord!

i figured since we were offering a venue for the event, some drinks, and maybe some melon balls and other fruits, and horseshoes, hurrah! but she has dreams of bands playing (!), bbq (this is doable, as long as people bring stuff), a cake, decorations, and so on. byoo.

― Ai Lien, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:35 (eighteen years ago)

my seeds came and i have some plants picked out, but any garden work is going to have to wait until the frozen crust of ice melts and i find out what the landscaper guy is going to do. there's a month until the average last frost date, so i guess there's no rush.

― lauren, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:18 (eighteen years ago)

Bright sunshine AND heavy snow here, what's that all about?

― braveclub, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:39 (eighteen years ago)

Ai, tell her if she wants all that she'll have to organize it herself. You're a busy person. Or, you could just say "wait and see!" whenever she asks you about the plans for the party. Then do whatever you were going to do anyway. Fuck her.

This is why nobody ever asks me to throw parties.

― accentmonkey, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:48 (eighteen years ago)

i would avoid making people wear ribbons salvaged from the wrapping paper. or is that a wedding shower thing?

― lauren, Monday, 19 March 2007 15:01 (eighteen years ago)

trish, that's how i feel! what started out as a simple little thing is now snowballing to a freaking soiree. i just feel like i'm being taken advantage of! i talked to my sister and we decided to tell her what we're going to do. because anything else will be such a hassle and a pain. too, we're thinking of the post-party...the clean up. no way am i picking up after a bbq/band/etc. !

i don't want it to come to us backing out of doing this for her, but she seriously needs to settle down!

― Ai Lien, Monday, 19 March 2007 15:26 (eighteen years ago)

I worked on entire day last week. this week, I pay.

― Ms Misery, Monday, 19 March 2007 15:29 (eighteen years ago)

She does need to calm, there's no joy for anyone and she'll only be disappointed if it's a massive thing.

― kv_nol, Monday, 19 March 2007 15:30 (eighteen years ago)

The biggest problem is that if the event gets more complicated the hostess gets to enjoy it less and less! Does she expect that doing all this work for the party is your "sacrifice" on her behalf, or would she like you to be able to participate and celebrate and wish her and her baby well? Because that's pretty much what it comes down to.

― Laurel, Monday, 19 March 2007 15:33 (eighteen years ago)

see? you guys get it! i'm so glad i can vent here. we'll just lay down the law. too, i don't want people trampling all over my flower beds and stuff.

― Ai Lien, Monday, 19 March 2007 15:34 (eighteen years ago)

Anyway, who needs a band? Get some cheap kazoos at the joke shop, or some combs and paper, and make everyone learn You Must Have Been A Beautiful Baby at the party. Apply liberal amounts of alcohol to accomplish this. It will be much better. No band.

Kv, I pity you having to go to work on a day like today. When we took the dogs out earlier, wee Milo tried to hide under my coat. It is cold and windy and blizzardy. Definitely wuthering.

― accentmonkey, Monday, 19 March 2007 15:55 (eighteen years ago)

Trish, we got pizza delivered on the company so things feel a bit better. Also it's only a 4 day week and no one bothered me today so it really feels like a 3 day week.

I'd love a dog, I don't get to walk at all anymore except to commute!

For the party: take guests, add booze. Success.

― kv_nol, Monday, 19 March 2007 16:22 (eighteen years ago)

Deviled eggs!
That's all you need.
I'm back to work, potting up in the greenhouse. Bloody hell. On my feet for nine hours. Cutest co-workers in the world, though. A 70-year old sweetheart Jamaican man, and a pair of honest-to-goodness sweethearts, young'uns, Brazilian. She prefaces every request to him with "amor."
So after work, in a burst of wonderwomanesque running-on-fumes energy, I walked the dog and got yet more yellow beach stones. Phew.
Now about to launch into movie version of Robert Harris's "Archangel." OH JOY!!!!

― Beth Parker, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 01:34 (eighteen years ago)

I was just reading random articles on wikipedia. Isn't this chlamydia the cutest thing you ever saw?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1a/Chlamydophila_pneumoniae.jpg

― Maria :D, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 01:47 (eighteen years ago)

Actually it's the lung cell that makes me go awww.

― Maria :D, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 01:47 (eighteen years ago)

oh, wacky, my eyes just replicated and left my head, oh my!

― Maria :D, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 01:48 (eighteen years ago)

that would be a GREAT party trick.

i am at the office and there is an alarm in the server room that has been going for the past day. and is STILL going. the system guy says he's "looking at it". meanwhile we are all going batshit insane with this constant noise!!

― haitch, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 03:19 (eighteen years ago)

Glass of water poured over suspect device = problem solved.

― kv_nol, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 13:26 (eighteen years ago)

my allergies are killing me this morning. i acutally woke up bags under my eyes. :(

― Ms Misery, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 13:48 (eighteen years ago)

I always assumed a baby shower was a group of close female friends in a sitting room drinking wine and giving baby clothes to the mother-to-be. Perhaps I saw it on Kate & Allie or something.

― Mark C, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 13:57 (eighteen years ago)

I think drinking wine would be rude since the mother couldn't join in.

those I've attended usually have that sherbet-y punch, sandwiches, yes deviled eggs, and cake. never heard of a band before.

― Ms Misery, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 14:06 (eighteen years ago)

I am completely sure that there will be at least one kid 'round where I live called Chlamydia. Also (even more off topic) the alarming trend for calling children after where they were concieved dictates a few with the name of "Billericayhighstreet".

― peteR, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 14:07 (eighteen years ago)

There'll be plenty of kids with the semi-acceptable name of "Alley" I'd imagine.

― Mark C, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 14:09 (eighteen years ago)

the mother-to-be stopped by yesterday and i figured there'd be no better time to be completely frank with her, so i just told her what was gonna happen at her shower -- she was totally o.k. with it. now i feel like a jerk for expecting the worst, but i guess i was basing my anxieties on her wild mood swings of late. so sorry!

i had plans of deviled eggs and homemade avocado-pistacho ice cream w/ chocolate sauce. and fruit. and homemade pickles and jams and stuff.

she came up with a cute idea to put on the invite: hand-me-downs and homemades encouraged!

― Ai Lien, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 14:29 (eighteen years ago)

I am making a tour of the balkans to promote this

― Ed, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 14:45 (eighteen years ago)

I think your food ideas sound great!

― Ms Misery, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 14:47 (eighteen years ago)

i love deviled eggs. i've been trying to persuade my mother to give me her platter, but she won't part with it. it has little depressions to hold the eggs and a center well for sauce or other garnish.

― lauren, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 14:49 (eighteen years ago)

planning this shower is fun again

― Ai Lien, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 14:51 (eighteen years ago)

my grandmother had one of those deviled egg trays. it was a tupperware.

― Ms Misery, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 18:23 (eighteen years ago)

I got tickets for Alice Cooper today, hooray!

― jel --, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 18:51 (eighteen years ago)

i didn't know he still performed. every once in awhile, in the car, when we just can't stand the ipod or cds, we listen to the radio -- HIS show, specifically. i've caught myself laughing at his rants, etc. he's well-spoken!

― Ai Lien, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 19:18 (eighteen years ago)

planning this shower is fun again

Good to hear! Gad, I could go for some eggs right now.

So far today have had the urge to kill two people. Not a good start one feels.

When is a good time to buy a basil plant and how the hell does one keep it going? I have tried this before (rather sadly in italy where my bail started to taste like fennel, the word for fennel in Italian is finocchio, conveniently enough the same for homosexual male [in a very bad sense], so when people asked what was wrong with my basil I would sigh dramatically and claim that I'd done my best but it had ended up finocchio. Oh the hilarity.) with no success. Also a decent indoor plant. Not for the office, beauty doesn't belong here :(*

*Cue: MELODRAMA!

― kv_nol, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 09:34 (eighteen years ago)

Beth - there is a poem in this weeks New Yorker called "The Museum Of Stones", by Carolyn Forche, that should be dedicated to you!
I'll try to cut and paste it later - I just read it, over morning tea, but must hop in the bath and get ready for substitute teaching at the middle school. Last week was all kindergarten. Very cute - very sly.
Middle school is more fun because they move around from class to class. Also - more breaks and a good faculty "lounge". (With nightclub singers and cocktails).
I Love This Thread.

― aimurchie, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 10:57 (eighteen years ago)

i like this thread, too.

i started basil from seeds this year, the sprouts are still pretty small. i'm getting a bit anxious about it, grow little fellas! i started from a healthy 6" plant last year. it loved sun, i kept it on the front porch in a pot. just watered it everyday. it was really huge by autumn. i gave it away to a sad friend.

― Ai Lien, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 14:56 (eighteen years ago)

i have a black thumb when it comes to basil. the thing i'm most excited about growing is rainbow chard.

does anyone watch the wire? season 4's last episode was traumatizing.

― lauren, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 15:14 (eighteen years ago)

I used to go to college with Dominic West off the Wire! Mad. I don't watch it, and only found this out the other week in my brother's house. He was pleased to hear, as he'd always thought the guy's accent was a bit annoying, and was relieved to learn he wasn't actually American.

I can't grow basil either, which is truly annoying, because I love the stuff. I love tarragon too, can't grow that either. Similarly rosemary. Oh, and anything else. I grow a great dandelion, though.

― accentmonkey, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 15:37 (eighteen years ago)

his accent is pretty variable, and you can really hear it once you know that he's not american. very good otherwise, though.

i think the only herb i've had roaring success with is sage. it seems to be immortal.

― lauren, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 15:46 (eighteen years ago)

i've no luck with thyme. i think it's because i don't properly drain it.

― Ai Lien, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 15:47 (eighteen years ago)

I have a huge rosemary bush in my front garden (well, patch)! Only problem is taht I don't really like rosemary!

― kv_nol, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 15:50 (eighteen years ago)

You can cut some for me next week, Kv.

― accentmonkey, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 15:52 (eighteen years ago)

i think the only herb i've had roaring success with is sage. it seems to be immortal.

ok? my sage plant, which is now 6 years old, is pretty much a tree.

― Ai Lien, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 15:56 (eighteen years ago)

I'll sort you out some darlin' (I do mean the actual herb, not 'erb if you know what I mean).

Reading property thread, being reminded that a) there are worse cities to buy in b) some people are dicks sometimes and c) I might be too young to go into debt so badly.

Should I invest in shares or buy? I always believed that when property is doing well, buy shares and vice versa!

― kv_nol, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 16:52 (eighteen years ago)

That poem I mentioned:

The Museum of Stones
by Carolyn Forché

This is your museum of stones, assembled in matchbox and tin,

collected from roadside, culvert, and viaduct,

battlefield, threshing floor, basilica, abattoir,

stones loosened by tanks in the streets

of a city whose earliest map was drawn in ink on linen,

schoolyard stones in the hand of a corpse,

pebble from Apollinaire’s oui,

stone of the mind within us

carried from one silence to another,

stone of cromlech and cairn, schist and shale, hornblende,

agate, marble, millstones, and ruins of choirs and shipyards,

chalk, marl, and mudstone from temples and tombs,

stone from the silvery grass near the scaffold,

stone from the tunnel lined with bones,

lava of the city’s entombment,

chipped from lighthouse, cell wall, scriptorium,

paving stones from the hands of those who rose against the army,

stones where the bells had fallen, where the bridges were blown,

those that had flown through windows and weighted petitions,

feldspar, rose quartz, slate, blueschist, gneiss, and chert,

fragments of an abbey at dusk, sandstone toe

of a Buddha mortared at Bamiyan,

stone from the hill of three crosses and a crypt,

from a chimney where storks cried like human children,

stones newly fallen from stars, a stillness of stones, a heart,

altar and boundary stone, marker and vessel, first cast, lode, and hail,

bridge stones and others to pave and shut up with,

stone apple, stone basil, beech, berry, stone brake,

stone bramble, stone fern, lichen, liverwort, pippin, and root,

concretion of the body, as blind as cold as deaf,

all earth a quarry, all life a labor, stone-faced, stone-drunk

with hope that this assemblage, taken together, would become

a shrine or holy place, an ossuary, immovable and sacred,

like the stone that marked the path of the sun as it entered the human dawn.

― aimurchie, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 19:09 (eighteen years ago)

Invest in something you can touch.

― Hard like armour, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 21:27 (eighteen years ago)

Fluffly jumpers for the +1? Dunno, that doesn't really seem to help me fiscally (but he it helps physi... ah forget it).

How does one go about investing. I'd be worried I'd walk in to some broker's office and get fleeced!

― kv_nol, Thursday, 22 March 2007 10:02 (eighteen years ago)

Stuff currency under your mattress, that's what I say.

― Beth Parker, Thursday, 22 March 2007 13:52 (eighteen years ago)

and deviled eggs, for a rainy day.

― Beth Parker, Thursday, 22 March 2007 13:52 (eighteen years ago)

my friend's father "didn't believe in banks". he kept nothing but cash. his wallet was so fat and there were coffee tins full of bills all over the house. my friend told me, too, that he dug holes in the backyard to keep cash in!

― Ai Lien, Thursday, 22 March 2007 13:59 (eighteen years ago)

I guess you'd have to use tupperware so people wouldn't find it with metal detectors.

― Beth Parker, Thursday, 22 March 2007 14:14 (eighteen years ago)

my grandmother kept money stashed all over her house. apparently she would give most of her salary to my grandfather to deposit but keep some back, and since she was paid in cash on a varying hourly rate he didn't realize that she was hoarding. after he died and my grandmother moved out, my parents and i really got a surprise when cleaning. she was a pathological packrat, practically as bad as the people who occasionally get trapped in their homes by avalanches of newspapers dating back to the early 1900s, and we started finding dollar bills in alternating pages of old magazines, stuffed into envelopes full of used string she had saved, etc. it amounted to thousands of dollars, all in singles.

― lauren, Thursday, 22 March 2007 14:35 (eighteen years ago)

That's mad Lauren!

While I approve of investing in Devilled eggs I don't believe that they are good: a) for long term and b) my cholesterol.

Burying in back yard sounds good! It's all coins so maybe if I threw them hard at the earth they'd bury themselves. Problem solved!

― kv_nol, Thursday, 22 March 2007 14:45 (eighteen years ago)

Basil plants aren't immortal! They only really taste good until they start trying full-out to flower -- you can pop the blooms off for a few weeks to keep them from going to seed, but the leaves will lose a lot of sweetness after that. Either dump out and replace with new shoots at that point, or if they're planted outside, let them go to re-seed for the next batch.

Rosemary & thyme need to be really well-drained, I've found, and I also cut my potting soil with Perlite to make it dryer and poorer because I read that they like sand. Alas, my sage has started drooping strangely in the last few days and I'm beginning to worry about it. This planting thing is hard!

― Laurel, Thursday, 22 March 2007 14:51 (eighteen years ago)

yeah, my maternal grandmother was a piece of work.

attn people with lots of sage: i had a really great drink last night with dinner - sage iced tea. i never thought of this, since sage is so savory and robust, but it was perfect. really refreshing.

― lauren, Thursday, 22 March 2007 14:51 (eighteen years ago)

People of ATNATTIALSO I have learned all there is to know about Basil from wikipedia. Ask me a question, any question and I will amaze you with the correct answer!

― kv_nol, Thursday, 22 March 2007 15:07 (eighteen years ago)

Does it have to be about basil?

Dear Miss Manners,

If you are working from home and the people two doors up from you spend FOUR HOURS trying to start one or other of their ancient, noisy BMWs, is it alright to go and ask them to stop because they are driving you around the twist?

― accentmonkey, Thursday, 22 March 2007 16:01 (eighteen years ago)

Honest answer? No.

― Rock Hardy, Thursday, 22 March 2007 16:09 (eighteen years ago)

FOUR HOURS!!!!

I am starting to hate them.

― accentmonkey, Thursday, 22 March 2007 16:10 (eighteen years ago)

Dear AM,

When discussing this with Mr Manners over our morning cup of basil tea (ed - did you know that basil is a symbol of love in Italy?) he finds, as do I, that in all likelihood they have solved the problem by now. If not, walk the dogs by them, ask how long they will be (in as nice a manner as possible) while pointing out that your just on a break from work.

Then kill them.

Yours,

Ms. Manners.

― kv_nol, Thursday, 22 March 2007 16:11 (eighteen years ago)

Alas, it's probably only temporary though so soldier on through cos as Rock Hardy sez, you really don't have a leg to stand on unfortunately. Or so I believe. I am a coward though!

― kv_nol, Thursday, 22 March 2007 16:12 (eighteen years ago)

accentmonkey: Covert op needed - steal the starter motor under cover of night. Or alternatively just take a FUCKING AXE TO THEM, THE CUNTS. Ahem.

― peteR, Thursday, 22 March 2007 16:14 (eighteen years ago)

peteR scares me. Interestingly enough basil can come in useful here and I quote:

"In Boccaccio's Decameron a memorably morbid tale (novella V) tells of Lisabetta, whose brothers slay her lover. He appears to her in a dream and shows her where he is buried. She secretly disinters the head, and sets it in a pot of basil, which she waters with her daily tears. The pot being taken from her by her brothers, she dies of her grief not long after. Boccaccio's tale is the source of John Keats' poem Isabella or The Pot of Basil. A similar story is told of the Longobard queen Rosalind."

So if you are going to take an axe to them at least you'll know what to do next.

― kv_nol, Thursday, 22 March 2007 16:18 (eighteen years ago)

Sorry. I panicked.

― peteR, Thursday, 22 March 2007 16:19 (eighteen years ago)

Karma Police to thread...

― kv_nol, Thursday, 22 March 2007 16:37 (eighteen years ago)

Yo RONAN! I'm finishing up here man, you'd better be on fire tonight bro else I come down on you like a tonne of bricks next saturday.

The rest of you, have a good weekend one and all!

― kv_nol, Thursday, 22 March 2007 16:38 (eighteen years ago)

I am on from 12.30 to the end.

I'm feeling terrible today but I will hopefully still be good...

― Ronan, Thursday, 22 March 2007 16:40 (eighteen years ago)

Deadly buzz! Looking forwards to it immensely (both the dancing and the meeting my visitors).

― kv_nol, Thursday, 22 March 2007 16:42 (eighteen years ago)

I have this vision of Ronan drooping behind the decks and Kevin propping him up and desperately rummaging through his DJ box going "Ronan, keep it together, man! What about this one? Will I play this one?"

The boys have stopped playing with their cars now.

― accentmonkey, Thursday, 22 March 2007 17:31 (eighteen years ago)

I planted a lime basil plant! Hopefully it will thrive--it smells wonderful. Rosemary is nigh unstoppable in Texas. I've also had great luck with lemongrass and Mexican sage. Lemongrass tea is a delight.

ooh, and you can make blackberry sage tea too :)

― patita, Thursday, 22 March 2007 17:49 (eighteen years ago)

did you make it in Kevin? I thought I saw you at one point but can't be sure....it was quite fun. I am chilling out now after. My ears are ringing.

― Ronan, Friday, 23 March 2007 03:32 (eighteen years ago)

Man I'm really sorry, visitors were incapable of going. I'd love to have gone but one of them was travelling from four in the morning. I was disgusted as was ready for a mad night! Still though, I am determined to make it one of these days. Also is Happy Birthday in order? Trish, if it had been like that I'd have expected half his fee, no argument!

― kv_nol, Friday, 23 March 2007 20:37 (eighteen years ago)

My birthday is Sunday...so not just yet :)

― Ronan, Saturday, 24 March 2007 04:00 (eighteen years ago)

Ronan, Sunday birthdays are the best! You can insist on a champagne brunch, dine and quaff and then...voila! it's still your birthday!
You can take a walk, sit at the edge of a body of water and ponder things.
Voila! it's still your birthday.

I'm more excited about your birthday than you are. How old, again?

― aimurchie, Saturday, 24 March 2007 06:09 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.bedagi.com/spotlight/19/watson_01.jpg

― the table is the table, Saturday, 24 March 2007 06:33 (eighteen years ago)

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e391/marthasminions/robot-with-pedestallg.jpg

― Beth Parker, Sunday, 25 March 2007 01:27 (eighteen years ago)

Ronan, other thread, happy birthday! Watching Black books with visitors, Third evening of anticlimactic fun. Plz 2 kill me :(

― kv_nol, Sunday, 25 March 2007 01:49 (eighteen years ago)

I was 24 btw aimchurchie...

― Ronan, Monday, 26 March 2007 11:58 (eighteen years ago)

no internets all weekend, feh. i played lawn bowls yesterday!

― haitch, Monday, 26 March 2007 13:50 (eighteen years ago)

Man what a weekend. I don't know what it was but it never seemed to really get going :(

― kv_nol, Monday, 26 March 2007 14:02 (eighteen years ago)

i am so sunburnt

― Ai Lien, Monday, 26 March 2007 14:05 (eighteen years ago)

We had sun here as well! Not warm enough for sunbathing but it looked lovely out the window.

― kv_nol, Monday, 26 March 2007 14:17 (eighteen years ago)

lots of sun but still pretty cold. i saw the barcelona and modernity exhibit at the met, which was fantastic, and i drank too much.

― lauren, Monday, 26 March 2007 14:21 (eighteen years ago)

I gardened. A lot. It helped with the depression, yay sun!

― Zora, Monday, 26 March 2007 14:28 (eighteen years ago)

nice and sunny here today too, which was nice since i had the day off. much better than horrible rainy friday night/saturday. i probably should've done more than one load of washing.

― haitch, Monday, 26 March 2007 14:32 (eighteen years ago)

I worked a 10-hr day today, in a greenhouse. For the last couple of hours a thunderstorm was raging. Nothing like just having a thin layer of poly between you and DEATH.

― Beth Parker, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 01:18 (eighteen years ago)

This is my week for being organized. Self, I said to myself, this week we are going to get our shit together. So it was dogs to the vet for boosters this morning (three weeks late), dinner out with friends I haven't seen for ages tomorrow, NCT the car on Friday (three months late), blood tests at the clinic tomorrow (one month late) and start Weight Watchers diet today (about twenty years overdue).
I feel better just for getting stuff out of the way, but now I know where all this extra money we've had lately has come from. From not doing the things I'm supposed to do that cost money.

― accentmonkey, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 10:59 (eighteen years ago)

Hur hur hur sounds like an ad fro Durex. Sorry all.

― kv_nol, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 11:15 (eighteen years ago)

Argh, upon awakening I realize that my left hamstring is fuckt. Should I apply a poultice of basil leaves?

― Beth Parker, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 12:26 (eighteen years ago)

oops, that durex thing was an xpost!

weightwatchers is meant to be pretty good! I saw they had a wine now. Maybe I could just switch to that so I'd lose weight and feed habit. Lent has been good to me though, lack of choc means that I'm feeling thinner. I'm sorry for going on about it like this but it completely depressed me for a couple of months how little I was doing and how chubby I was getting. I couldn't take up smoking again so I'm v proud of my self control!

Extra money = payday, reality = day after payday :(

― kv_nol, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 13:26 (eighteen years ago)

Just bought tix to Berlin in June, Geneva and London in April. My credit card is weeping in the corner!

― kv_nol, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 15:37 (eighteen years ago)

there is something in the air today and my asthma is killing me. And I don't have an inhaler with me. :(

― Ms Misery, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 15:38 (eighteen years ago)

sad - every cent of my next paycheck is accounted for, pretty much. there's maybe $50 that doesn't have somewhere to go. this is going to make my trip to montreal potentially much less fun.

― lauren, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 15:44 (eighteen years ago)

That sucks Lauren, at least you have some money left over!

What's the best way of avoiding an asthma attack Ms Misery? I've very little knowledge on the matter.

Also Beth, basil is carcinogenic so I would avoid it...

― kv_nol, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 15:48 (eighteen years ago)

Guys, I hate chasing former roomies down for money :(

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 15:48 (eighteen years ago)

chasing anyone down for money is horrible. i HATE confrontations about $$$$.

― lauren, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 15:51 (eighteen years ago)

The worst is chasing people down for money that just gets given to some landlord.

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 15:58 (eighteen years ago)

Money and friends is a really bad mix. Sympathies Jon.

― kv_nol, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 15:59 (eighteen years ago)

I'm sorry for going on about it like this but it completely depressed me for a couple of months how little I was doing and how chubby I was getting. I couldn't take up smoking again so I'm v proud of my self control!

Yeah, there's nothing worse than being virtuous and giving up smoking, only to have to suffer through nicotine withdrawals AND fat arsery at the the same time. It sucks. However, if you do decide to do a weightwatchers programme, for god's sake don't go to one of the actual classes or you'll want to skull someone. Just scrounge the books off someone you know and do it yourself at home. This is my method.

Jon, I feel your pain. I am the worst at money confrontations. I usually just eat the debt when I can afford to.

― accentmonkey, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 16:06 (eighteen years ago)

sorry about the brokness Lauren. I can sympathize with excitement of pay being quashed by disappointment of debt.

asthma attacks are best avoided by avoiding what causes them allergies, anxiety whatever. I take prescription pills and a steriod inhaler daily which usually does well. but seasonal allergies, like Cedar pollen and I guess Mold today, appear too powerful for those puny prophylactics. I really need to start doing allergy shots.

― Ms Misery, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 16:09 (eighteen years ago)

Yea, I had to do eat some of that roommate debt recently. If its under like $40, who cares, you can always use it to guilt smokes and drinks out of them

Anyway, they're not really that close friends. They signed over their deposit to us and we paid that to them super quickly without them bugging us at all. Now the landlords are trying to collect from us for hauling huge amounts of crappy shit they left behind that we had to haul out of apartment (I literally moved 2 or 3 times as much shit out as I did in) and they're being all "A: you need to talk to B. B: You need to talk to A". GRGRGRG, I'm going to charge them the late fees too.

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 16:10 (eighteen years ago)

No wait, I quit years ago! Fat arsery is only recent, I haven't the dedication for WW, I will swim and try to behave.

I hate asking people for money, nothing worse!

― kv_nol, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 16:10 (eighteen years ago)

I can mock you about your fat arse when I see you on Saturday, and you will not be able to say anything to me, because I actually have one, and people will see you and tut about your disgraceful manners. HA HA HA.

I am concerned about Beth's leg. Gardeners need to be able to get about.

― accentmonkey, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 16:32 (eighteen years ago)

No, wait, that's mean. I wouldn't do that.

― accentmonkey, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 16:33 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.candlelightfashions.com/images/Ballets/new%20thumb/Ballet_12_BlkClrPat.jpg

Ladies (and guys), what say you?

― Stevie D, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 17:02 (eighteen years ago)

However, if you do decide to do a weightwatchers programme, for god's sake don't go to one of the actual classes or you'll want to skull someone. Just scrounge the books off someone you know and do it yourself at home. This is my method.

This is true however, I lost nearly 40 pounds on WW about three years ago and had the most success while suffering through the horrible meetings. I actually, I rarely stayed for the meetings but would go just to weigh in. I think that having to acutually show my face each week helped keep me on track. AM is right though - some of the people in the classes were unbearbale.

I saw the shoes are very scary.

― ENBB, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 17:12 (eighteen years ago)

oops - also, I "say" not "saw".

― ENBB, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 17:13 (eighteen years ago)

i know those shoes are supposed to be badass S&M, but they actually remind me of a dame darcy cartoon.

― lauren, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 17:21 (eighteen years ago)

Those shoes look uncomfortable, they may cause long-term damage.

― jel --, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 17:26 (eighteen years ago)

I would not wear those shoes.

― kv_nol, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 20:49 (eighteen years ago)

They remind me of the devil guy from the Power Puff cartoons!

― aimurchie, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 21:00 (eighteen years ago)

My leg will be fine, I'm sure. One of my co-workers has a sore leg too! Maybe we have a hamstring VIRUS!
My rusty kindergarten-level present-tense Portuguese is coming back to me, a little more each day. And weirdly, my Brazilian ex-husband, who I hadn't talked to in about 12 years, called me the day I started working with these Brazilians and dusting off the Portugues. The Brazilian gov't won't let his current Chenese-American wife buy land until she proves that her marriage to him is legal. They want a copy of OUR divorce papers. From 1982! WTF. So I poke around and find out that if you want divorce records from San Francisco Superior Court (I was living in SF at the time) you must submit your request by mail, with loose stamps and "moneys" enclosed. They will not take requests by email or phone. What the FUCK???? Get with the new millenium, dudes!

― Beth Parker, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 00:05 (eighteen years ago)

CHINESE-American. Sheesh.

― Beth Parker, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 00:16 (eighteen years ago)

Which is neither here nor there, but I'm wondering if there might be a little racism at work here. Brazil, the great miscegenated paradise.

― Beth Parker, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 00:18 (eighteen years ago)

I hate immigration officials of all nations. The bottom of the gov't barrel.

― Beth Parker, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 00:19 (eighteen years ago)

A friend of mine regularly comes to visit from the States and each time he comes through immigration it always takes him a week to get over how horrible immigration were to him! He'll say things like "OMG we used to be able to do that to you! Back when the dollar was strong no one would treat me that way! Etc." It makes me sad to think that for a country which is supposedly one of the most welcoming is fast becoming one of the most unfriendly.

People of ATNATTIALSO, I bring you peppermint tablets! Try them someday, when you burp it is pepperminty, perfect for the hungover! Gross announcement ends.

― kv_nol, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 09:34 (eighteen years ago)

cannot do any work...feeling dead inside

other than that good week...

― Ronan, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 12:16 (eighteen years ago)

dead inside?

Work overrated. Just had another informal meeting explaining why I am working two positions at the moment. Always good to vent but if something could be done would be much appreciated...

― kv_nol, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 12:26 (eighteen years ago)

beth, do you blog? I think you should write regularly about your life. And I'm interested in subscribing to your newsletter.

― Ms Misery, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 13:16 (eighteen years ago)

Argh Amazon, get away from me and my credit card! Going to London in April. Might start FAP thread but fear lack of answers :(

― kv_nol, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 13:40 (eighteen years ago)

i was nearly refused entry by irish immigration a few years ago. they're really hardcore. the folks at heathrow are no picnic, either.

― lauren, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 14:14 (eighteen years ago)

were you wearing those shoes Lauren?

― Ms Misery, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 14:14 (eighteen years ago)

no, not comfortable for traveling.

― lauren, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 14:19 (eighteen years ago)

Well we don't let bare-foot hippies in obviously! Though those shoes would have had you rejected as well for their sheer depravity and lack of sensible-ness.

― kv_nol, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 14:20 (eighteen years ago)

This thread must not die! How was everyone's weekend? I had a chilled out friday watching Planet Earth on couch watching preparation for party the next day. Saturday flitted between sister's engagement party (YAY!) and birthday party (not mine so BOO but YAY as well). Sunday started well (so much sunshine) but descended into pinty nonsense. This morning was tough I tells ya!

― kv_nol, Monday, 2 April 2007 10:50 (eighteen years ago)

Cleaned out my mother's garden (my garden at her house, actually) and also continued with mine at MY house. Husband helped, woke up crying like a baby girl over the stiffness. I am fine, having megadosed with Vitamin I (Ibuprofen) before bed.
My boss called me and said it was fine if I didn't want to come in, it's a nasty day, but I'm pumped. After a long winter off, it's a thrill to get a paycheck! OVERTIME! Whoo-hoo!

― Beth Parker, Monday, 2 April 2007 12:03 (eighteen years ago)

Sam, just email me your mailing address and I'll pop some back-copies in the mail. God knows when I'm going to finish the upcoming issue (the ROBOT issue, of course) now that I'm working.
Trish, I GOT YOUR CARD!!!! I LAUGHED!!!
Mine is in the works!

― Beth Parker, Monday, 2 April 2007 12:06 (eighteen years ago)

How was everyone's weekend?

Had to clean and wash OPehlia three times because she *pooped herself under*. This at four in the morning (EVERY TIME!). This morning was the worst. But the poor thing seems to be coping alright. She has the chickenpox. Mommy however is cracking up.

― nathalie, Monday, 2 April 2007 12:08 (eighteen years ago)

i slept through the new housemate burning a toasted sandwich, and the subsequent setting off of the smoke detector THREE times. if there's ever a real fire, i'm going up in flames!!

― haitch, Monday, 2 April 2007 12:11 (eighteen years ago)

blimey how can you sleep through those things, they're so loud.

drank too much this weekend, not loads but more than my usual share.

Went on a forty mile bike ride yesterday, to the Jodrell Bank radio telescope. Was tiring, my knee seems to be having trouble recovering today.

― Ste, Monday, 2 April 2007 12:14 (eighteen years ago)

My fire alarm had low batteries once and it started making this horrible loud noise. I just rolled over to the other side of the bed and went back to sleep.

― nathalie, Monday, 2 April 2007 12:17 (eighteen years ago)

I suspect that our smoke alarms are dead, because the oven smokes terribly and they never make a peep. We're always having to open all the doors to clear out the smoke.
Nath, one of my kids got the chicken pox and I never did—I must have been previously exposed. The same thing happened to my mother, and the pediatrician told her that since she had grown up in a city she had probably been exposed to it simply because of the poulation density. I don't know if I buy that, but really young babies can be exposed and not develop symptoms, right?
Talkin' out my ass, here, but I seem to remember something to that effect.

― Beth Parker, Monday, 2 April 2007 12:18 (eighteen years ago)

The same thing happened to my mother

when my older brother got it, obv. not me.

― Beth Parker, Monday, 2 April 2007 12:27 (eighteen years ago)

Chicken pox is the worst! My poor mother moved to Egypt while both myself and elder sister were positively diseased with the stuff. When I think of the stress she must have been under combined with myself and sister moaning it's amazing that a) we're still alive b) she's still married to my father and c) she didn't hate Eqypt!

Nath that's really frustrating though, sending calming thoughts.

I never hear smoke alarms, also I keep forgetting that my house has alarms on all the doors and windows so I walk out in the morning leaving flatmate to sleep only to get a phonecall from alarm people warning me that it's going off. I'm like the most irritating alarm clock in existence.

Ste, out cycling? What about GTA man! Priorities!

― kv_nol, Monday, 2 April 2007 12:33 (eighteen years ago)

I should note that we were 4 and 6 at the time so beyond all ability to take care of ourselves or even stop scratching!

Also before I forget, Sat had a lovely FAP with the good lady accentmonkey (with M&C DVD in tow) and Rener. Wonderful fallafels and rosehip turkish delight!

― kv_nol, Monday, 2 April 2007 12:35 (eighteen years ago)

mornign all, Beth, I will mail you.

we planted some veggies last weekend and then there was flash flooding so I'm not sure if my 'maters made it. :(

this weekend was full of birthdays and company and I want another now to relax.

― Ms Misery, Monday, 2 April 2007 12:57 (eighteen years ago)

Had lovely lunch and few pints with Kv and Rener on Saturday, which was great, but may have contained too much bitching on my part about ex-husband. Not cool.

Beth, I'm so happy that you got my card and laughed at it.

Took the dogs to the groomers this morning. Add 'get the dogs groomed all the time' to the list of things I would do if I had skajillions of money. They look great and shiny and happy and they're not slightly tacky to the touch and they smell amazing. You know, for dogs, like.

― accentmonkey, Monday, 2 April 2007 13:17 (eighteen years ago)

No it didn't! Don't worry about it.

― kv_nol, Monday, 2 April 2007 13:48 (eighteen years ago)

Ste, out cycling? What about GTA man! Priorities!

It was strangely a weekend without any gta play, although chatted about it a *lot* in the boozer with a mate. Much to the annoyance of his girlfriend and my other friend who's birthday night out it was.

― Ste, Monday, 2 April 2007 13:51 (eighteen years ago)

people, the postcards will be sent, i'm just having difficulties. i have the perfect idea, it has just been a logistical nightmare trying to fit everything in a 4.75" x 6.75" area!

weekend

friday: dinner w/ friend
saturday: funeral, dinner with friends, dance party in the late nite
sunday: grocery shopping, gardening, made soba noodle - ginger pork dish, watched kickball game.

i'm really tired - and there are three empty kegs in the back of my car. we couldn't return them yesterday because this particular bar where we got the kegs is closed on sunday. i'm afraid having three empties in the back of the car will give people the wrong impression...

― Ai Lien, Monday, 2 April 2007 14:09 (eighteen years ago)

during commencement week in college, we used to drive around and look for empty kegs on porches to return for the deposit.

saturday a.m. was dim sum at a new place in sunset park, which was pretty great. sadly, the place i really, really love has basically become too crowded, but this seems like a good subsitute. that evening we went to a friend's bbq, so it was kind of a meaty day. yesterday was a morning run then major house cleaning. i relaxed last night with a dog the bounty hunter marathon, the repeat of america's next top model, the dog whisperer, and an episode of sons of hollywood (probably the worst thing ever). i love trashy tv.

― lauren, Monday, 2 April 2007 14:23 (eighteen years ago)

i just ordered these shoes. we're going to the races this weekend, i wanted new things to wear.

http://www.zappos.com/n/p/dp/17578693/c/84060.html

― Ai Lien, Monday, 2 April 2007 15:35 (eighteen years ago)

oooh, I had dim sum on sunday too. yum.

― Ms Misery, Monday, 2 April 2007 15:36 (eighteen years ago)

i wanted to get ANOTHER pair of slip-on b & w checkered vans, but i needs something a little more fancy this time around.

― Ai Lien, Monday, 2 April 2007 15:36 (eighteen years ago)

Trish, thanks for the postcard! I think you have telepathic abilities. One coming right back at you shortly.

Ai Lien, you've got my address - send me yours & I'll mail you one too. : )

― Hard like armour, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 00:00 (eighteen years ago)

I amso tired. It's bedtime, but I'm going to attempt to watch a movie, just because I don't want my life to shrink down to working, eating, sleeping, and a couple of ILZ posts. ILX!!!! What a Freudian slip! That was sleep calling...

― Beth Parker, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 01:40 (eighteen years ago)

Now I', awake and it's morning! All bright-eyed and bushy-tailed! Did my exercises! Took dog for walk! Ablutions! Emailing! RAHHHH!
Weather is shite, I must say. And urgent outdoor work to be done. Wintered-over perennials (thousands of them) have to be cleaned up, fed, dead ones culled, consolidated, to make room for new perennials that need to come out of the greenhouse in order to make room for yet more which are bare-root divisions or plugs still waiting to be potted up. Yesterday I worked the whole day outdoors, dressed in many layers of warm clothing under my raingear, going swish swish when I walked, unable to wipe my runny nose on anything.

― Beth Parker, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 11:42 (eighteen years ago)

I love the way shite is catching on across the atlantic!

Rain? I know nothing of rain. Sun splitting rocks here. It is v v nice!

Have bought superexpensive ticket for the Electric Picnic(it's like I'm spamming for them I've mentioned it so much). I thought that the line up looked v sparse until I moved the mouse and more bands magically appeared. FU Flash for making me look dumm.

― kv_nol, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 11:45 (eighteen years ago)

face yoga break!

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2007/04/01/style/29yoga650.2.jpg

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2007/03/29/fashion/29yoga600.1.jpg

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2007/04/01/style/29yoga650.3.jpg

― scott seward, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 12:34 (eighteen years ago)

stooges = so fuckin' rad live. MUST SEE.

(xp) skot where DO you find this stuff??

― haitch, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 12:38 (eighteen years ago)

those pictures are from the newspaper! i just can't seem to get over face yoga.

― scott seward, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 12:46 (eighteen years ago)

WTF @ Face yoga?!

I'm hoping that electro tent will be better this year. Or at least that the bpm changes every now and then!

― kv_nol, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 13:41 (eighteen years ago)

Those people look kind of...touched.

― Hard like armour, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 22:30 (eighteen years ago)

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e391/marthasminions/pg-02-bug-in-garden.jpg

― Beth Parker, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 00:27 (eighteen years ago)

That ant looks terrified!

― kv_nol, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 08:18 (eighteen years ago)

He's terrified of all the crap high-30s weather with sleet and rain in the forecast today. Ech. Why is this happening to me?
That bug is an older drawing than all the robots, etc. It's my landscaping letterhead.
OMG! HOT BREAKFAST BROUGHT TO TABLE BY MOST EXCELLENT HUSBAND. MUST GO.

― Beth Parker, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 12:14 (eighteen years ago)

Today is demob day, I have purposefully cleared my work so I don't have to do anything today and TEXT TWIST is not working on my PC, on any of the sites I can find. I really, really want to play Text Twist.

― Sarah, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 12:17 (eighteen years ago)

What, Bookworm TOO???

― Sarah, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 12:26 (eighteen years ago)

PANIC OVER: java wotsit installed, lovely games back, good good.

― Sarah, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 12:48 (eighteen years ago)

Just spent 20 mins sleeping here:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~fianna/travel/d03.jpg
after reading this:
http://members.shaw.ca/vcofell5/myweb8/y_the_last_man_trade.jpg
while listening to this:
http://betterpropaganda.com/images/artwork/Garden_Ruin-Calexico_480.jpg

So don't want to be back at my desk!

― kv_nol, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 13:46 (eighteen years ago)

You engineered your own multi-media extravaganza! I hope you were eating something as well.

― Beth Parker, Thursday, 5 April 2007 03:37 (eighteen years ago)

I had a turkey, brie and ham sandwich from Cafe Sol. It was very pleasant. Next time I'm going to try and organise a laser show!

― kv_nol, Thursday, 5 April 2007 08:26 (eighteen years ago)

So I'm convinced that George Michael has a Good Friday message for everyone...because I listened to "Freedom '90" three times this morning, and it really is about rising up and being a Father Figure, oh, oops, it's about....
well, my loud neighbors are now STUNNED by the speaker and stereo ability I have.
My SO and I are quiet - we don't blast music, although we could.
Hahaha -
I am testing the mighty power of the speakers today.
I'm so sick of these neighbors that I might just give them a huge blast of my K-Tel "Greatest Hits- Greatest Stars!" albums.
Or maybe "Jesus Christ Superstar" - original cast album at volume eight (which makes the floor shake) would bring them to their knees. Also, with me singing every part, and arguing with myself as I try to be Jesus and Judas.
And Mary Magdalene.
Good Friday indeed, you stupid asshole neighbors!
I never really tested the power of our speakers - we are fucking LOUD!
I'm happy.

― aimurchie, Friday, 6 April 2007 17:12 (eighteen years ago)

WTF @ Face yoga?!

we did this when I took a plain ol' yoga class in the past. the tongue stuff is supposed to help with sore throats and stuff. there are eye exercises that are really good for your eyes and supposedly can improve your vision with regular use.

― Ms Misery, Friday, 6 April 2007 17:17 (eighteen years ago)

Uh Oh - I'm blasting Daniel Powter.
I hate these neighbors so much that I am going to press play again!
"I don't need no carrying ONNNNNN..."

I won't dignify their existence with music I like - not that I don't love me some Daniel Powter, but Richard Thompson doesn't have the same effect.

"Jesus Christ Superstar" is on the back burner...

Oh, now they are pissing me off, so they are going to feel the wrath of my mighty JCSS library.

The guitar (bass?) at the beginning is the best....

"JESUS!!!!"
And I am singing along...
"I am frightened by the crowd, for they are getting much too loud, and they will crush us if we go too far."

― aimurchie, Friday, 6 April 2007 18:25 (eighteen years ago)

Please save me from reviving this thread.

― aimurchie, Friday, 6 April 2007 19:27 (eighteen years ago)

Also - whoa I'm logged in forever again!
I got so used to typing in username/password...I forgot how fun this is!
Which means I will get myself into trouble.

Um...hello? I will babble away for days if that's what it takes.
Also, I want to join the postcard club.

― aimurchie, Friday, 6 April 2007 19:33 (eighteen years ago)

Blasting Jesus Christ Superstar? That's harsh. Even I might br tempted to call the cops.

― Beth Parker, Saturday, 7 April 2007 01:26 (eighteen years ago)

I said "br" because the thought of calling the cops gave me a chill.

― Beth Parker, Saturday, 7 April 2007 01:27 (eighteen years ago)

I sent off postcards! I will send you one, Alison, and Kevin can take it to your prison cell.
Anyone else want a postcard? I'm into this, now.

― Beth Parker, Saturday, 7 April 2007 01:29 (eighteen years ago)

Thanks beth!
It was really only an hour or so of Very Loud Music, to combat the weeping, screeching teenager, the barking dog and the yucky stepfather who plays x-Box on their giant tv at volume 1000.
I'll send postcards too!

― aimurchie, Sunday, 8 April 2007 09:00 (eighteen years ago)

Ok - this is the thread where i say...i had an awesome easter dinner. And since this thread has no rules, i am going to tell you about it.
Sauteed sea scallops and asparagus in an olive oil/white wine/buteer reduction.
Roast beef.
Roasted new potatos.
Roast beets with sour cream and horseradish (which i slathered on everything and ate spoonfulfs of)
cauliflower in parmesan cheese sauce.

My "rich" brother was the chef. So, also, amazing chardonnay and zinfadel.
My niece, who is six, is on a specialized diet to determine why she has severe gastro-intestinal distress. They have been wheat, dairy and gluten free for two months. The doctors just put eggs back into her diet, as they try to isolate what is making her allergic. it's serious - there was talk of doing biospies on her organs to help figure out her ill health.
So...no candy, but we had amazing gluten free CUPCAKES!
And a simple kalamata olive tapenade with rice crackers for an appetizer (I made the tapenade).
(The only things served that she couldn't eat were things she wouldn't want anyway - cheese sauce, etc.)
it was a wonderful dinner, and i got pulled over by a state trooper on the way home, but I had my mom with me (and was sober, and not speeding - my tail light is out,) so i handed over my license and registration and said "Oh, and this is my mom!", and he smiled and asked her if she had raised me well, and if he needed to question me further!
Easter was good this year - yay Jesus!

― aimurchie, Monday, 9 April 2007 13:21 (eighteen years ago)

Wait, what's this about prison? I'm a bit confused. Good to hear you had a good time aimurchie. I'm currently hungover and watching Jurassic Park, the T Rex is about to appear. Such a fun weekend all round, just the right amount of family and roast beef!

― kv_nol, Monday, 9 April 2007 18:39 (eighteen years ago)

Prison was a joke, because of Alison's terrible neighborhood-wide broadcasting of Jesus Christ Superstar.
I roasted three chickens, served them w/ egg noodles 'n pesto and a green salad. Period. The kind of meal I make all the time. That's my new way of cutting down on holiday stress. Just cook regular food.

― Beth Parker, Monday, 9 April 2007 23:10 (eighteen years ago)

I have to take a hot hot shower now. Worked outdoors on this brrrrisk day. My Portuguese coming along, many phrases of complaint under my belt, like "my fingers are frozen and don't work any more," and "I am insane with hunger."

― Beth Parker, Monday, 9 April 2007 23:13 (eighteen years ago)

Also, my boyfriend Kevin was following us to the highway, but stopped to get gas. When I got home he said:"So, did you have fun with the cops?"
He passed me when I was pulled over!
Wacky!
Yup, no kv-nol - I flirt with imprisonment, but no thread can hold me!

― aimurchie, Monday, 9 April 2007 23:25 (eighteen years ago)

I like Jesus Christ Superstar, but I don't think it was on anywhere over Easter. For shame. I'm still enough of an ethnic Catholic to enjoy a good Passion.

I did watch the Passion of the Christ though, to see what all the fuss is about. It wasn't exactly enjoyable, but it was competently made, I thought.

― accentmonkey, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 07:21 (eighteen years ago)

Oh accentmonkeypaws!

― kv_nol, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 08:37 (eighteen years ago)

What? Why? It was on telly, it's not like I paid money for it.

Jim Caveziel is no Robert Powell, I'll tell you that for nothing.

― accentmonkey, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 08:57 (eighteen years ago)

is it just me or is ilx boring lately?

maybe it's me work is boring me and i feel stressed otherwise in life.

― Ms Misery, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 13:28 (eighteen years ago)

a little boring...the parents thread was good though. I have been bored in general lately.

― Ronan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 13:31 (eighteen years ago)

parents thread was good although in the end it just depressed me and led to an imaginary argument with my mother in my head. then I went home and drank.

― Ms Misery, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 13:45 (eighteen years ago)

ILX has been boring recently, not sure of exact reason why. It just doesn't seem to move anywhere near as quickly. Discussions a couple of weeks ago IRL seemed to pinpoint that a) quite a few people haven't bothered crossing over (see the milk carton thread) and b) Livejournal and other sites have taken their toll. I can see why certain people would like to quit, it's a sap on productivity, can cause great aggrivation and things happen on it that I for one have been incredibly uncomfortable with. The good things do outweigh the bad without any shadow of a doubt but I can see why people are so hesitant about the whole thing.

― kv_nol, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 13:47 (eighteen years ago)

I've stuck it out for more than five years now through a lot of rough patches, don't plan on leaving. However I have come to expect more from my ILX though. . .as in worthy mental breaks from tedious work. It's failing me as of late.

Of course instead of bitching I should start some interesting discussion myself. But truly the easter treats thread was about the best I can offer right now.

― Ms Misery, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 13:52 (eighteen years ago)

It'll pick up.

I think there's too much of people just posting one anecdote after another, and not enough of people having a conversation. Or too little intellectual discussion. Or something. I can't decide. But it'll pick up.

― accentmonkey, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 14:19 (eighteen years ago)

i've thrown a ball into the air and it might shatter on the ground or bounce up and split in two and a lark fly out and soar above the clouds

― 600, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 14:21 (eighteen years ago)

I hope that's not a metaphor.

― Ms Misery, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 14:30 (eighteen years ago)

Or a new Mike Oldfield album cover.

― accentmonkey, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 14:48 (eighteen years ago)

I get bored with ILX once in a while, and worry that the fun is over, but then it picks up again. I think it's me rather than ILX. It's not like I check every thread. My eye doesn't even land on 9/10ths of them, hence I miss a lot of stuff that I would enjoy. Now I'm so busy that threads have to really grab me by the jugular, or feel like home.
My Brazilian coworkers gave me a pair of very party-time dangly earrings today, a thank-you gift because I dealt with the phone company for them when they moved into their new apartment. Cuties.

― Beth Parker, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 00:31 (eighteen years ago)

Okay, over dinner I just now got to last Tuesday's Science section from the NY Times. I read this about Etruscans:
"Sharing wives is an established Etruscan custom," wrote the Greek historian Theopompos of Chios in the fourth century B.C. "Etruscan women take particular care of their bodies and exercise often. It is not a disgrace for them to be seen naked. Further, they dine not with their own husbands, but with any men who happen to be present."
He added that Etruscan women "are also expert drinkers and are very good looking."

― Beth Parker, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 01:00 (eighteen years ago)

I've never gotten deeply enough into ILX to be part of the community, but it's always a nice distraction and sometimes there are great threads, like the parent one.

Also that guy was so NOT objective. He must've had a great time in Italy.

― Maria, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 03:21 (eighteen years ago)

Mister Monkey asks: Is that guy sure those were "wives" he met? Just because he wasn't paying for their company doesn't mean his host wasn't.

It does sound a bit like a fourth century B.C. junket.

― accentmonkey, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 07:59 (eighteen years ago)

about ILX: I should start watching my habits re: posting.
my moniker is a bit crazy on the Google these days, and the adorable parent thread...
I don't CARE - I'm not trying to work for an organization that would care, and I'm old enough to laugh at the personal details that were revealed. But it does suck, and it's not a secret world anymore.

I go to the random boards when I'm bored, and someone posted, on a "Things you will miss..." ..."the compulsory airmuchie post." it was not meant to be complimentary, and I had never even noticed this guy.
it's weird that he has some vitriol against my posting.
So...
I actually cried when i found myself villified by someone on another board. And long posts (I think I date back to 2003) were the norm for so many years.
it was weird to be...hated in absentia? Well, nobody else honed in, so that was good.
I like writing long posts about things. Sometimes I overstep my bounds. (and I'm terrible at keeping everyone straight - who are you is a mystery until you start reading every post from revived threads.)
But I can smell the ocean when Trish is walking her dogs, and the officces of many others, so...I'll stick around.
I also read the NYTimes articles and felt like....let's lump everything together with a pithy piece or two about modern love!
Combin ing the articles would have been fine - with the marriage/dating as a side-bar.
I do like the article in the New Yorker about the Amazonian tribe that has no sense of time or colour.
it's kind of like ILX! Just kidding.
L O S T in 32 minutes.
See you in 100 minutes!

― aimurchie, Thursday, 12 April 2007 01:30 (eighteen years ago)

Oh duder, that's terrible. What a miserable fucker. Why can't people stick to the old adage of if you can't say someting nice, don't say anything at all?

― Hard like armour, Thursday, 12 April 2007 03:35 (eighteen years ago)

HLA - I wish I knew. Thank you.
(Also - I like your long posts)
Also. I'm not a dude!
DON'T TELL ANYONE.

― aimurchie, Thursday, 12 April 2007 04:49 (eighteen years ago)

Term of endearment my friend - my sisters & I call each other duder. I felt for you. How awful that someone could be mean enough to you to make you cry. Thanks re. long posts. Been busy lately & won't be on again until next week, but will endeavour to lengthen posts more so than of late.

Something brilliant will happen for you this weekend after your crappy ilx karma.

― Hard like armour, Thursday, 12 April 2007 06:44 (eighteen years ago)

Everyone's a dude, Aimurchie (whose real name I know but won't post because, you know, anonymity).

It's lousy that someone said something stupid to you, but be aware that the views of this person are not the views of most of us, who look forward to reading your posts and like having your thoughts on threads. It's easy to say 'don't be upset' when you've obviously been upset, but don't let your upset at this person make you not post. Fuck them.

― accentmonkey, Thursday, 12 April 2007 06:55 (eighteen years ago)

Don't worry aimurchie, it's all just noise (on this messageboard that can be taken quite literally). It was a glib comment probably fired off after a thread that you were on pissed them off. You have a fairly unique style so you probably stuck longest in their head, it in all likelihood had absolutely nothing at all to do with you as a person or as a messageboard user. Don't sweat it if you can avoid it.

― kv_nol, Thursday, 12 April 2007 10:54 (eighteen years ago)

I believe that I have also made the mistake about your gender in the past, sorry.

― kv_nol, Thursday, 12 April 2007 10:54 (eighteen years ago)

Thank you, duders.
it was silly to get that upset, but it just seemed....unwarranted.
I'm more upset about the NZ ILX scandal and Kurt Vonneguts death, especially the latter, today.
I actually LIKE that my gender is a bit unknown, because I FEEL like it must be obvious that I'm, well, not a dude, but...
it makes me wonder what kind of a dude someone would think I am?
A noisy, feminist, kitty lovin' dude?
(Also, i think this comment was around the same time that I commented on the LJ internet scandal and ended up arguing on the mod request forum about the fact that I am an idiot about the internet, which basically can be summed up as: "Sorry, I'm an idiot." "But you're an idiot." "Yes, I didn't know, sorry, I'm an idiot." "You're an idiot" "Gotcha - learned something, sorry for being an idiot.")
Kv-nol came around and saved the day for that one!

Anyway. it's nice that we have our little thread, which is representing three separate continents!
I would like to make/send you postcards. My glitter pen and scissors and glue and magazines await you.
Thanks, duders.

― aimurchie, Thursday, 12 April 2007 14:50 (eighteen years ago)

Wow the weather is sucking right now. Hail. Heavy hail. Dent your head hail.
It reflects my mood.

― aimurchie, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:25 (eighteen years ago)

A noisy, feminist, kitty lovin' dude is what we all need!

I don't usually post long things, just little bits. I guess it reflects my comfort value as a semi-lurker. The lure of postcards is promising, but I want to wait until I am at my new address!

To continue the randomness of the thread, I am totally obsessed with getting mail. I'll hop up right after I hear it dropped in the box (I've even startled the mailman)! My husband says, "ooh, did you get your letter from the queen?" to tease me. Someday I will get a letter from a queen, damn it! (drag queen would work too).

I like to send packages, too. If anyone emails me their address, I will assemble a package of random things sure to delight and confuse.

― patita, Thursday, 12 April 2007 17:03 (eighteen years ago)

Well, i am looking forward to at least two things in my mailbox.
Like patita, my BFF is the mailman...except he brings me only BILLS! Soon enough, that will change.
My tiny Jesus Christ Superstar rebellion didn't work at all = the teen is shrieking and their tv is so loud that I can hear the bass notes. Should i blast them?
They are so loud that...when a carpenter came over to fix the porches, I was able to sleep through most of it! But I can't exist with their noise!
Plus they're yucky and adopted a dog...uh oh, accentmonkey,be prepared to be pissed off - and they leave the dog tied up in the yard, and they do not scoop the poop.
The dog is gorgeous - a small collie - and really sweet. But she barks a lot, because she is either tied up or left alone.
AND THEY ARE GETTING ANOTHER DOG!
Also, my outdoor kitty is afraid to come up the stairs because of the dog. So i spend time carrying him upstairs. it's ridiculous - this cat has faced down much more worthy enemies, but...oooohhh the collie puppy is too scary for him!

These are my gripes for the day.
otherwise...(I live on the third floor of a three story apartment building on a residential street in a small town.)
the neighbor diagonnaly across the street removed his above ground pool, but left the ladder in the middle of the empty space. it's a ladder to nowhere. A vividly bright, white pool ladder to nowhere. And it is perfectly framed by my window. It's almost comforting.
You should come over and check it out, duders.
Or email me and I will send you postcards.

― aimurchie, Thursday, 12 April 2007 23:15 (eighteen years ago)

Skot told me that there was an explosion of anti-Beth Parker sentiment on the noise board a while back, and he defended me! My hero!
I was totally unaware.
Harrumph.
I have been designing postcards in my eeny weeny bit 'o free time—who wants one?
I know you do, Alison. I'm moving slowly. Gastropodally. Or, as I told my cowrkers, "estou movendo com um velho, velho, velho tortuga." (I am moving like an old, old, old turtle)
Tomorrow I have part of the morning free, so will send some out!

― Beth Parker, Friday, 13 April 2007 00:08 (eighteen years ago)

Tortuga, você é novo a mim.

― aimurchie, Friday, 13 April 2007 01:04 (eighteen years ago)

Beth, I thought you were sending me a "Get Out of Jail Free" card.

― aimurchie, Friday, 13 April 2007 01:28 (eighteen years ago)

This is a random gif a friend of mine made of him and another friend. I find it very pleasing. I'm posting it for everyone's enjoyment.

http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j171/mdanielwalter/Carl_and_dave.gif

― Drooone, Friday, 13 April 2007 02:01 (eighteen years ago)

Very good!

― Beth Parker, Friday, 13 April 2007 02:10 (eighteen years ago)

But you'd think they'd get tired of all that jumping after a while. I guess they can rest when we're offline.

― Beth Parker, Friday, 13 April 2007 02:11 (eighteen years ago)

Now that I've scrolled down I sort of miss them.

― aimurchie, Friday, 13 April 2007 02:32 (eighteen years ago)

I want to take a nap in kv-nol's park.
But with some blankets. Which would make me look homeless, but I would explain that I was just napping and go back to sleep.

I actually DID sleep in the chairs in Hyde Park. I can't say it was the worst bed/sleep place -but it is one of my top ten of discomfort.
It did not rule.

― aimurchie, Friday, 13 April 2007 03:59 (eighteen years ago)

I'd rather sleep on the floor than in a chair.

I keep trying to send you a webmail, Amurchie, but the thing keeps telling me I'm not typing in the letters correctly, even though I think I am. It's most frustrating.

― accentmonkey, Friday, 13 April 2007 11:08 (eighteen years ago)

Will be in that park eating me a sammich later. Sun still here so yay world!

― kv_nol, Friday, 13 April 2007 11:17 (eighteen years ago)

It told me I was typing in the characters wrong, too!
Sun is here today as well, after a hellacious day of rain yesterday. The greenhouse I was working in flooded, and I got sick of the stand-on-a-crate routine, especially since my feet were soaked anyway, so I just stood in three inches of water and popped snaps into sixpacks.

― Beth Parker, Friday, 13 April 2007 13:46 (eighteen years ago)

I now want to go over to Aimurchie's neighbours' place and steal their poor tied-up dog away. Of course they would just replace it with another one, because that's what people do.

Sigh.

Hey, my brother sent me the new LCD Soundsystem album for my birthday (a month late, but still and all). It kicks ass! I recommend it for gardening work, Beth. Very dancey.

― accentmonkey, Friday, 13 April 2007 16:26 (eighteen years ago)

a late frost killed one strawberry plant, the cucumbers, the pumpkins, and most annual flowers. am having to start over! byoo.

but thankfully, i was given the day off to do so. and get some cleaning done. it's not so bad when no one is here to a) get in way b) make things worse.

i will be working on those postcards this afternoon. hate to say it, but they may not be postcards, i can't fit everything that i want on such a small space!

― Ai Lien, Friday, 13 April 2007 16:49 (eighteen years ago)

I have planted a bunch of seeds in old yoghurt pots on the windowsill in the kitchen. They grow and grow! Little teeny tarragon, baby tiny chives, and man, cress just doesn't fuck about. Ftoom! (That was the sound of cress growing quickly. I recorded it. With my... I'll stop now.)

― accentmonkey, Friday, 13 April 2007 16:54 (eighteen years ago)

progress!

am going to go to the japanese shop and buy burfday goodies for little sister and food items for my visiting stepmum.

the house stanks of cleaning chemicals or dead germs everywhere.

― Ai Lien, Friday, 13 April 2007 19:31 (eighteen years ago)

Because of intractable dermatitis on one of my hands I now clean my whole house and do dishes as well with cheapo citrus shampoo from Trader Joe's. Works perfectly well—nice sparkly wine glasses, and no cracked red hand. Yay! No need to use the harsh bad-smelling cleaning products. Better for da planet, too.

― Beth Parker, Saturday, 14 April 2007 12:45 (eighteen years ago)

I tried to use environmentally friendly detergent. It didn't clean things without lots of hot water seeming to cancel the environmental benefit. Or something. I think I'm just too lazy to scrub.

― kv_nol, Monday, 16 April 2007 16:14 (eighteen years ago)

I'm in love with Simple Green now. I used it to clean & degrease my bike but it also worked awesomely on my kitchen cabinets with 4 months worth of bacon spatter on 'em, and that was greatly diluted, maybe only a couple of tablespoons of SG to half a bucket of hot water.

― Laurel, Monday, 16 April 2007 16:20 (eighteen years ago)

my sis & i have this lot of cleansers my mom gave us when we moved into our house. they are a few years old, but i can't just toss them. so, i use them. they've been diluted at least ten times, but the smell is still unpleasant.

on another note, we are going camping this weekend! my sister & her bf are joining us. i'm a little anxious about it because she has no gear and i'm beginning to think that she'll be relying on us for most of it. boo. i don't mind sharing, but i think this is beyond sharing.

― Ai Lien, Monday, 16 April 2007 16:22 (eighteen years ago)

I did not dilute my Simple Green, and used it in a pinch in lieu of Windex (which I had just run out of). This was a bad idea. This morning, I kept thinking my glasses were dirty, but then I realized it was just my smudgy and streaky mirror.

― molly mummenschanz, Monday, 16 April 2007 16:22 (eighteen years ago)

Plus hot water isn't CANCELLING OUT the benefit of a biodegradeable etc cleanser, the two footprints are completely different. Heating water is an energy savings, which does save you (or your landlord or whomever) a slight bit of money on the gas bill, but prob not enough to be concerned about, since you use FAR MORE in simply taking a shower. Which I'm going to guess most of us do on a daily basis.

Using non-detergent or phosphate-free or biodegradeable cleansers lessens the impact on the water supply and/or local bodies of water that it runs-off to and the water processing plants "downstream" from urban areas etc etc. Not specifically an energy savings.

― Laurel, Monday, 16 April 2007 16:26 (eighteen years ago)

Oh alright, I suppose I should just get better scrubbing utensils. Sigh. I once messed up my glasses by washing them in really hot water. I wish I could say I was young and dumb but it was only six or so months ago. The shame...

― kv_nol, Monday, 16 April 2007 16:28 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, quit whining and get a new sponge. ;)

― Laurel, Monday, 16 April 2007 16:35 (eighteen years ago)

it's sick, but i really like the way bleach smells, and i feel so satisfied at the end of a cleaning session when the house reeks of clorox.

― lauren, Monday, 16 April 2007 16:36 (eighteen years ago)

My dad always washed his glasses in really hot water, on the basis that all glassware washed hot dries faster and with fewer spots than cold. Why, are modern coatings harmed by hot water?

― Laurel, Monday, 16 April 2007 16:43 (eighteen years ago)

Lauren, ditto, but I like Murphy's Oil Soap.

― Laurel, Monday, 16 April 2007 16:43 (eighteen years ago)

that too. lemon pledge, on the other hand - feh!

― lauren, Monday, 16 April 2007 16:52 (eighteen years ago)

Soylent Green!
You can email me at yahoo.com -I am not afraid of the spambots! And I think that's where webmail would go as well. But I don't know, because...the internet continues to be a big mystery to me.
Good news - the landlord denied the new dog being adopted! So just one barking, tied up dog to deal with. She is so beautiful - I want to take her for a walkie!
I'm not sure everyone on this thread understands the insanity of "where I live" - the first floor neighbors with: albino python, two boa constrictors, four cats, one terrier, and three generations of humans.
And yet, it's the second floor neighbors that are being annoying!
Although I am getting bummed out because of the bunnies and rats (in cages) in the basement. Snake food.
They stun the bunnies - hit them on the head - before they get swallowed by the 11 foot albino python. The rats - well, they just throw them into the cage.
I just don't want to see the bunnies,when I go to the basement to do laundry, and it's cruel to keep them caged just for the pythons pleasure.
I am in a constant back and forth argument with myself about this!
I want to be reasonable, but...it really gets to the point where I have to put my foot down.

Thus blasting Jesus Christ Superstar on Good Friday was healthy for me.
it is crazy to explain this, and any resounding declarations against the neighbors are welcomed.

― aimurchie, Monday, 16 April 2007 17:42 (eighteen years ago)

If you don't get a sitcom or a novel out of it, there is something wrong with the situation.

Hey! I got my postcard from Beth today! Original Beth artwork! Fantastic.

Good news! Thanks to my asthma and my back pain, I now no longer feel guilty about the idea of paying someone to clean up after me, since I am no longer physically capable of doing it myself most of the time. So, Mister Monkey has agreed that we can get a cleaner to do bathrooms and stuff like that. I can manage the hoovering on my own.

― accentmonkey, Monday, 16 April 2007 20:51 (eighteen years ago)

Does anyone need cheering after today's events? I am going postcard shopping today, so gmail me if you would like one posted.

Hey aimurchie, are you on good enough terms with your neigbours to offer to take their dog for a walk? That might help reduce the barking if she has some attention from someone who is so obviously into dogs.

― Hard like armour, Monday, 16 April 2007 22:09 (eighteen years ago)

I'm glad you liked the postcard, Trish! It's a printout that's been slopped with acrylic gloss medium to waterproof it, which process causes a bit of ink-running in its own right, thus imparting a somewhat painterly effect. All half-assed accidental. Postcard design is about the only art project I have time for right now.
On another note, those poor parents, those poor kids. I just found out about the shooting when I got home from work about an hour ago. I cannot imagine.

― Beth Parker, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 01:18 (eighteen years ago)

Ha ha accentmonkey, I've just decided with flatmate to get someone in to help us out! We're both working so hard and generally so run down that the last thing we want is to clean up so being young and professional (read spendthrifty and dumb) we decided that enough living in squalor, we needed help (i.e. we are lazy). To counteract guilt we will probably tidy up before they arrive each time, everyone I know does this!

I don't know anything about these events as discussed but I suppose you mean that college shooting. I'm not looking forwards to reading up on that at all :(

― kv_nol, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 08:34 (eighteen years ago)

But Trish, isn't it the vacuuming that really aggravates asthma? You should go out for the day while your cleaner does THAT, and do the wet cleaning yourself, unless you have a central vacuum that vents exhaust outside the house, that is. I cleaned house for someone who had one of those systems. Amazing power. A drag when you had to change the gigantic bags (in a cannister in a closet) full of cat hair, though. But it wasn't too often. I don't think it's impossible to retrofit your home. If I was asthmatic I'd definitely look into it.

― Beth Parker, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 12:20 (eighteen years ago)

It's not really the asthma that makes me unable to do housework, it's my back. It's hard for me to clean the bathroom because I can't bend down and straighten up properly.

Mister Monkey had to put my socks on for me yesterday morning, because I couldn't manage it myself. Sadness.

― accentmonkey, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 12:44 (eighteen years ago)

Jesus, I sound like some ancient biddy.

― accentmonkey, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 12:44 (eighteen years ago)

Streches and crunches! I had a laminectomy in 1979, after a fall during a drunken New Year's Eve party ruptured a disc. Though I have some arthritis there—typical for veterans of the (pre-laparascopics) big-incision operation, it's manageable because of exercise. Every morning I do 200 crunches, stretch my hamstrings, and stretch like a cat on all fours. That keeps it from going into spasm, though the ibuprofen and sometimes ice are definitely necessary.
There are other exercises I have to do. Something for every creaky joint. It takes just under half an hour, not so bad.

― Beth Parker, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 13:03 (eighteen years ago)

THE NEW YEAR'S EVE FALL, DETAILED:

Crazy drunken circus-girl, I was swinging from a door-frame.
My friend Bobby was swinging from the other side of the door, so we were face-to-face, swinging together.
He wrapped his legs around my waist.
We continued swinging like that, awesome disco-honed athletes.
Then Bobby let go of the door-frame, as if I was a mighty chimpanzee mama and he was my baby.
I crashed to the polished hardwood floor, Bobby in my lap.
Got up, kept dancing.
Pain came on more and more over the next week.
None of the narcotics my friends gave me worked.
My legs crumpled while I was waitressing.
Finally, the myelogram, the sighting of the spine knocked out of whack.
Bobby came to see me in the hospital. The surgery carried a slight risk of loss of bowel and bladder function. He said "Then you can just throw shit at people who bother you!"

― Beth Parker, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 13:13 (eighteen years ago)

I WUV BOBBY. I lost track of him. He's somewhere in DC, probably owns a flower shop. He is a master florist.

― Beth Parker, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 13:15 (eighteen years ago)

I keep forgetting about this thread. ILX is boring me today, is this place more exciting?

― g-kit, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 14:30 (eighteen years ago)

it can be pretty good but like many convo threads it moves so fast (or perhpas more densely here) that I lose track. then I become afraid to click. :(

― Ms Misery, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 14:30 (eighteen years ago)

I'm not much of a conversationalisterizer, so I'm not gonna run wild or anything.

― g-kit, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 14:45 (eighteen years ago)

You don't even have to get involved in a conversation. Post whatever you like. There are no rules on this thread.

― accentmonkey, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 14:59 (eighteen years ago)

lol red rag 2 bull

― g-kit, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 15:03 (eighteen years ago)

srsly tho, there's something about bad english on the internet that makes me want to weep with joy. anything i read that makes me think it should be spoken in cat-english (I has a flavor! etc) nearly melts my hart every time.
i was just mooching about in a flickr forum and the phrase "i got a lens and want to put a first test of my new lens" nearly made me cry right here.

― g-kit, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 15:09 (eighteen years ago)

i got a lens ;_;

― g-kit, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 15:10 (eighteen years ago)

According to the sunset thread it has crap all over it...

― kv_nol, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 15:11 (eighteen years ago)

In other news, second session of bikram yoga tomorrow. Never have my joints known such pain or my body such sweatiness!

― kv_nol, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 15:12 (eighteen years ago)

There are ads for Coupling on Paramount Comedy all the time at the moment. I hate those smug fuckers.

― accentmonkey, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 15:13 (eighteen years ago)

i gop a crap ons lens :(

― g-kit, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 15:13 (eighteen years ago)

I don't get to watch tv anymore. Even ducked out of watching the first episode of entourage because I was so wrecked!

― kv_nol, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 15:14 (eighteen years ago)

cat-english

tell me more about this cat english.

― Ms Misery, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 15:23 (eighteen years ago)

i don't even know what i'm saying :(

― g-kit, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 15:25 (eighteen years ago)

i really liked bikram yoga. the sessions were expensive, though, and the staff were nice but really oriented towards getting you to sign up for the prepaid plans (which ran into the hundreds of $) so in the end i stopped going.

― lauren, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 15:27 (eighteen years ago)

It's fierce pricy I must admit. Still a bit of fun though.

Ms Misery I believe mr g-kit refers to gamer speak as used by him and the incorrect english used in photoshopped images of cats e.g. http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f359/dcthomp/lolcat1.jpg

― kv_nol, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 15:37 (eighteen years ago)

A quarter! He'll be dancin' for hours!

― accentmonkey, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 15:39 (eighteen years ago)

Yar!

Decision time: clean house in preparation for matriarch visiting or go for pints?

― kv_nol, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 15:41 (eighteen years ago)

xpost
I figured as much. I just wanted to hear him explain it. I want to know about cat conjugation. ;)

PINTS PINTS!

― Ms Misery, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 15:41 (eighteen years ago)

sorry, i got a bit shy when people started asking me questions. kv_nol otm re:photoshopped cats, but the shit it spout is just shit. i wish i was fluent in catglish tbh.

― g-kit, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 15:41 (eighteen years ago)

"How a-mew-sing?" That sort of thing?

Pints are definitely looking good. That said I have cans at home and I should do the house. ARGH! Family responsibilities do my head in!

― kv_nol, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 15:43 (eighteen years ago)

Look, if your mother is anything like mine, she'll just clean it again when she gets there.

― accentmonkey, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 16:05 (eighteen years ago)

Ha haaa so you'd think but she's staying with my younger sister. She'll just turn up and tut for half an hour!

― kv_nol, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 16:08 (eighteen years ago)

my sis and i are pretty tidy, but my mom tuts us for wearing shoes in the house. it's pretty much THE thing that drives her crazy.

― Ai Lien, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 16:15 (eighteen years ago)

I've just taped a picture of naked harry potter onto an Uno card. Thought you might want to know.

― Ms Misery, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 16:36 (eighteen years ago)

Are you making the Randy Potter deck?!

― patita, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 17:44 (eighteen years ago)

would that be considered the REAL wild card? like what properties would it have in the game of uno?

i love uno !

― Ai Lien, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:19 (eighteen years ago)

It was on one of the draw 4 cards. I play Uno every tuesday at lunch with a group of people and I brought a Harry Potter deck today. Had to throw that in for the laugh factor.

― Ms Misery, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 19:12 (eighteen years ago)

I've just taped a picture of naked harry potter onto an Uno card.

Now that's a hobby.

I don't know how to play Uno. Is it like Switch?

― accentmonkey, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 21:54 (eighteen years ago)

There's a great song by the Damnations (who had to change their name to "Damnations TX" because some other band already took the name Damnations, damn them) called "Quarter in the Couch."

LISTEN!!!!
http://www.amazon.com/Where-Lands-Damnations/dp/B0000634F6/ref=m_art_li_1/103-5529363-9579027

― Beth Parker, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 02:11 (eighteen years ago)

I don't know what happened to them. Musta had babies.

― Beth Parker, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 02:18 (eighteen years ago)

They used to play at Stubb's a lot. Haven't heard them in ages!

― patita, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 03:28 (eighteen years ago)

I cleaned the house and then had pints at a showcase on electronic music and VJ things in the George Bernard Shaw.

RONAN why didn't you tell me Carlsberg is on €3 at B4ckl4sh?! Truly it sounds like I'll have to go sooner or later, friends or no!

― kv_nol, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 08:25 (eighteen years ago)

Got my first postcard yesterday! Thanks, beth!
I got your webmail, HLA. Thanks for your lovely note. A card will be sent your way by the weekend. Also, walking the dog is a GREAT idea - would probably diffuse tension AND get my lazy ass out of the house.
Yesterday we drove to the coast - to Hampton Beach, the day after the Nor'easter, to view the surf. The waves had punded over the sea walls, leaving large swaths of stones all over the road. I channeled Beth, of course. The sea was really tremendous, as was the flooding :(
Today it's slightly sunny and brisk and smells like Scotland (in Massachusetts).
Thinking about the 10 a.m.bargain matinee of "the Host" - free coffee, soda and popcorn at the little art theatre. yes, my life is very stressful.
(It's school vacation - no work for me - and my boyfriend took the week off. My (college)schoolwork is rolling along towards finals, so I am living the life of the idle poor.)
Hope you all are having a lovely, non-specific day.

― aimurchie, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 10:54 (eighteen years ago)

I'm all excited by the promise of a sunny weekend! I'm going to get to the beach and see what washed up in the storm. Huge chunks of the pebblestone cliffs at our town beach have been tumbling, exposing things that have not seen the light of day since before the last ice age! Lots of bone fragments. Amazing how they last. You'd think the acid rain would have percolated down and dissolved them, just as the acidity of the peat bogs dissolved the bones of the—bronze age? bodies found there.

― Beth Parker, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 12:41 (eighteen years ago)

today we're having a long open house here at work for our clients. work has been stressful and i've been trying to catch up on personal projects at home. friday I'm leaving for a four-day weekend to see family in fort worth. Is it wrong to say I'm already looking forward to the weekend after this one? I just need time to breathe.

― Ms Misery, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 12:51 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, the catglish thread! I forgotteds about it.

― g-kit, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 12:52 (eighteen years ago)

So, let's change the subject to dogs. BAD dogs.
I'm about to dive into a chunk of gruyere in the break room at work. I sliced off a piece and re-wrapped the rest of the brand-new hunk. THEN the rose shipment arrives and we all have to unload it. I go back to the break room to discover that the MORON ENGLISH SETTER that my boss is babysitting ATE ALL MY CHEESE. The unwrapped cheese, the re-wrapped cheese. I never had one bite. Fucking fucker. I hate him. When I walked back outside, there he was, licking the plastic wrapping. I hope he is afflicted with painful intestinal cramps. I hope he can't shit for a week.

― Beth Parker, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 23:28 (eighteen years ago)

beth you should totally eat one of the dog's posessions in retaliation.

what a slow day. the sum total of my morning: writing two emails and reading the internets. this job used to be really interesting once!

― haitch, Thursday, 19 April 2007 03:46 (eighteen years ago)

It's so annoying when dogs do that, because it is nothing but your own fault for leaving lovely food where they can get it, but you still hate them and want them to know they did a wrong thing.

One evening I was eating my dinner when a neighbour called round to complain about my dogs barking in the back garden all day long when he was trying to sleep after his night shift, and to ask me if there was anything I could do about this. We talked for a while and he went away and when I came back into the living room the dogs had eaten my dinner off my plate and I cried because right at that moment I hated them sooooo much.

Also setters are particularly mental and thick. My neighbour's setter ate all the tiles off their kitchen floor once.

― accentmonkey, Thursday, 19 April 2007 07:12 (eighteen years ago)

i have to listen to my colleagues banging on about their fucking dogs every day. so annoying.

― g-kit, Thursday, 19 April 2007 08:23 (eighteen years ago)

i'm sick of top 3 threads

― g-kit, Thursday, 19 April 2007 09:11 (eighteen years ago)

Dogs are fine but I've never really spent much time with them. I'd like to change that but that means a whole lifestyle change and I'm not ready for that just yet!

― kv_nol, Thursday, 19 April 2007 10:04 (eighteen years ago)

I like dogs, don't get me wrong. But every day!

― g-kit, Thursday, 19 April 2007 10:05 (eighteen years ago)

G-kit, will my photo of a doggy eating a PORK PIE help? This was the best dog ever!!

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/175/464460641_ee877dc5b0.jpg

― Sarah, Thursday, 19 April 2007 10:12 (eighteen years ago)

hmm, the best dog ever would have to do more than eat pork pies, the best dog ever would have at the least been my bloody mary caddy.

― Ed, Thursday, 19 April 2007 10:13 (eighteen years ago)

Ed don't bring up bloody marys! I'm having a week from hell and they'd be awfully fun over lunch.

― kv_nol, Thursday, 19 April 2007 10:15 (eighteen years ago)

Also dog = cuet obv.

― kv_nol, Thursday, 19 April 2007 10:16 (eighteen years ago)

photos of dogs = grate, potential 2 warm hart.
same 2 ppl saying same shit about same dogs every day = grating, potential 2 brake brane.

― g-kit, Thursday, 19 April 2007 10:17 (eighteen years ago)

where teh_kit = x

― g-kit, Thursday, 19 April 2007 10:17 (eighteen years ago)

Mmm. Bloody mary. Focus on the bloody mary, teh kit.

I am going Northern Soul dancing on Saturday afternoon. Who's coming along?

― accentmonkey, Thursday, 19 April 2007 10:37 (eighteen years ago)

Ha ha DV and Rener once talked about Northern Soul to me. All the talk of talcum powder on the floor etc sounded seriously dodge :) Where's it on? I will be in London warming up for drunkening!!!*

*There might even be a bloody Mary. I will be on hols for goodness' sake.

Teh_kit, do you have a pet? If not buy a stuffed animal and talk about it as if it were alive, that'll stop ~~anyone~~your colleagues talking to you!

― kv_nol, Thursday, 19 April 2007 10:41 (eighteen years ago)

bloody mary? waht
i cannae dance.

kv_lol, no pets, but i have a 4.5ft stuffed polar bear.
can i call you kv_lol forever?

― g-kit, Thursday, 19 April 2007 10:42 (eighteen years ago)

Course you can. Will we be meeting 4 pintzlolol on Saturday?

― kv_nol, Thursday, 19 April 2007 10:59 (eighteen years ago)

Cleavage Cupcakes, anyone?

[img][Removed Illegal Link].

― braveclub, Thursday, 19 April 2007 11:05 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.weddingthings.com/Merchant2/graphics/novelty/cleavage_cupcakes.jpg

― braveclub, Thursday, 19 April 2007 11:06 (eighteen years ago)

kv_lol, I'd like to, but it turns out I can't stay in London after work since I am needed to unload all our shit when we get back here and basically put the shop back together.

― g-kit, Thursday, 19 April 2007 11:09 (eighteen years ago)

I just had to ring a shop to check the price of those. SO HARD not to laugh.

― braveclub, Thursday, 19 April 2007 11:12 (eighteen years ago)

Sorry to hear that the_kit. Hopefully next time, hell I might even make it to a wtf downsouth roffly thing. Were you telling the truth about the polar bear?!

― kv_nol, Thursday, 19 April 2007 11:35 (eighteen years ago)

Also how much were they braveclub. They are... interesting... In a really icky way...

― kv_nol, Thursday, 19 April 2007 11:35 (eighteen years ago)

£29.95. They're for padding your bra apparently.

― braveclub, Thursday, 19 April 2007 11:39 (eighteen years ago)

You could freeze them and put them in large bowls of punch! What a conversation starter that could be!

― kv_nol, Thursday, 19 April 2007 11:45 (eighteen years ago)

I thought you were going to say "you could freeze them and put them in your bra."
It's early still in the New World.

― Beth Parker, Thursday, 19 April 2007 12:37 (eighteen years ago)

It was nice to wake up to sympathy for the terrible dog crime inflicted upon me.
I shall most definitely eat his kibble.

― Beth Parker, Thursday, 19 April 2007 12:38 (eighteen years ago)

kv_lol, I'm afraid polar bear story is 100% true.
None of the wtfrofflers have made it to a downsouthrofflything yet! i think yr chances are slim, yet i remain quietly confident.

― g-kit, Thursday, 19 April 2007 12:41 (eighteen years ago)

i will make a point of giving Walt (for that is his name) a big huggle for next month's WDYLL pic kk?

― g-kit, Thursday, 19 April 2007 12:41 (eighteen years ago)

beth, you should read the entire 'who moved my cheese' book to the dog, use a stentorian voice.

― estela, Thursday, 19 April 2007 12:48 (eighteen years ago)

I shall most definitely eat his kibble.

See the Rice Krispies thread for advice on the best way to go about this.

― accentmonkey, Thursday, 19 April 2007 12:54 (eighteen years ago)

I forgot that kv_lol will be in London this weekend for TEH DRUNKENING.

― accentmonkey, Thursday, 19 April 2007 12:55 (eighteen years ago)

I shall bring frozen Cleavage Cupcakes to the Castle. Maybe.

― braveclub, Thursday, 19 April 2007 12:56 (eighteen years ago)

just failed my driving test, FOR THE FIFTH TIME.

― Ronan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 13:32 (eighteen years ago)

wow. . .what is tripping you up you think?

― Ms Misery, Thursday, 19 April 2007 13:41 (eighteen years ago)

I don't know, maybe nerves but this time I only failed on one major fault at a roundabout, I think it was towards the end. other than that just got a couple of marks for reacting to hazards.

I guess the test doesn't lie, I must be a bad driver! Even though I would never say I am a dangerous or reckless driver, I dunno, it's very frustrating, I come to dread the test date arriving in the post, plus it takes about 14 months to get a re-test cos the waiting lists are so long.

― Ronan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 13:47 (eighteen years ago)

Wow, they had you go on a roundabout? You should come here and get a license on Martha's Vineyard. All you have to do is obey stop signs and not drive on the wrong side of the road (failure to do the latter caused me to flunk the first time).

― Beth Parker, Thursday, 19 April 2007 13:49 (eighteen years ago)

Maybe you should take an anti-anxiety med for the test next time.

― Beth Parker, Thursday, 19 April 2007 13:51 (eighteen years ago)

Shit Ronan, sorry to hear that. Next time: wear a miniskirt!

Go on, teh_kit sounds like a myspace profile picture in the making...

― kv_nol, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:03 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah I think a roundabout would've thrown me when I was a new driver.

― Ms Misery, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:06 (eighteen years ago)

o ya, 100% myspaec! consider it done.

i passed driving test 3rd time. lots of roundabout action. i found them hella confusing at first, but it becomes 2nd nature after a while.

― g-kit, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:08 (eighteen years ago)

thing is I'm not a new driver, with Irish law you get a provisional licence which means you can drive around to your hearts content without anyone else in the car.

I've been driving for 7 years, I drive everywhere regularly and am completely relaxed. I failed for "failure to observe" on a roundabout.

― Ronan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:12 (eighteen years ago)

Just the thought of a British clockwise roundabout gives me the willies!
The good thing about them is that you have to yield to traffic already in the roundabout, so timidity results in correctness.

― Beth Parker, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:18 (eighteen years ago)

I would say have a pint before the next test to relax you but that probably isn't a good idea.

― Ms Misery, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:18 (eighteen years ago)

roundabouts scare the crap out of me even as a passenger. i don't think i know anyone in the uk who passed a driving test on the first attempt. one of my friends threw in the towel a while back after failing 6 times and has resigned himself to life as a pedestrian.

― lauren, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:19 (eighteen years ago)

Ronan, just think of all the idiots who DO have licenses. YOU CAN DO IT!!!!!
I'm tellin' ya, take a half-tab of Lorazepam.

― Beth Parker, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:23 (eighteen years ago)

Tests over there must be super strict! Any moran in the US can get a license. Poor us.

― Ms Misery, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:25 (eighteen years ago)

I took an anti anxiety med beforehand, as I'm prescribed them anyway for some of my other sickness. I failed and it gave me a headache!

Oh well, at least I drove home afterwards.

― Ronan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:27 (eighteen years ago)

my brother passed first time.

― g-kit, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:29 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.moviecitynews.com/arrays/images/2005/superman/BrandonRouthasSuperman.jpg

g-kit's brother

― Beth Parker, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:35 (eighteen years ago)

Just the thought of a British clockwise roundabout gives me the willies!

National Lampoon's European Vacation howya!

― kv_nol, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:37 (eighteen years ago)

Um, I passed first time too. I counted beats for looking in my mirrors. They love it when you look in the mirrors loads. Also my first driving instructor was ROUNDABOUT OBSESSED and we once spent an entire lesson going from one roundabout to another, like some huge join-the-dots session.

He was also clutch obsessed, and once made me spend ten minutes on a hill, balancing there using only the clutch and accelerator. Consequently my hill starts are flawless and I never roll backwards. He was the Mister Miyagi of Dublin driving instructors.

― accentmonkey, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:39 (eighteen years ago)

Why? He also got you to wash the car afterwards?

― kv_nol, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:40 (eighteen years ago)

All you need to know about roundabouts is always give way to the right (except where they drive on the right, then it is left, right)

― Ed, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:41 (eighteen years ago)

my hill starts are flawless too. I think I need to work on my "look as though you are looking into the mirror" look, even though I constantly look at the fucking things.

x-post yeah I know all this, I still don't know how I failed to be honest, I suspect the red fault was one of those tiny roundabouts and another car was approaching opposite me, I was taking the second exit to the right. and we both were hitting it at the same time, roughly, and I went instead of stopping, but only cos I saw he had stopped.

I think though maybe they thought I should have stopped and let him go, I mean it's a yield on either side of the roundabout obviously, so I dunno, I thought quickly and maybe made the wrong choice.

I can't be sure that was the red fault but I think it might have been.

― Ronan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:43 (eighteen years ago)

YOu should have let him go he had right of way i'm afraid because technically he is to your right. Mini-roundabouts suck like that.

― Ed, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:44 (eighteen years ago)

big lolz @ wash the car afterwards, wp
my bro does look a bit like that superd00d.

― g-kit, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:45 (eighteen years ago)

YOu should have let him go he had right of way i'm afraid because technically he is to your right. Mini-roundabouts suck like that.

They're buggers about anything that could result in a serious accident. So arsing up the parking is alright because you're unlikely to kill anyone, but even though I passed I got a stern talking-to from the tester about my whimsical attitude to right turns, because apparently I could kill someone or something, I don't know.

― accentmonkey, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:48 (eighteen years ago)

I still don't know how drive a stick. :/

― Ms Misery, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:49 (eighteen years ago)

I really don't like the way the system is so arbitrary in Ireland and that you have to wait so bloody long for a test! Ridiculous.

― kv_nol, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:52 (eighteen years ago)

I "learned" how to drive on the Vineyard - and promptly moved to Seattle and didn't drive/own a car for seven years. It was amusing that I was licensed, because I would ocassionally be designated driver, having ONLY driven on a small island off the coast of Massachusetts with no traffic, or traffic lights.
Roundabouts (rotaries, as we call them) are hideous. In the U.S., anyway, since driving seems to be an extension of a video game for most people here. Yield and Merge just don't register for anyone.
After seven years in Seattle, i returned to the Vineyard and purchased my first car - a 1970 Volvo sedan. Standard. I learned to drive standard by...stalling out, rolling backwards, gunning the car into first to get going....it was funny. For me, anyway.

The arbitrary system in Ireland seems ok - I'm glad Ronan can still drive, albeit all by himself!
I think your tests must be very strict, whereas here, even in a city, I don't think it's very hard to get a license.
I think the drinking age should be lowered and the driving age should be raised.
Drink at 16 - beer only. (wasn't that the pub rule in Britain for awhile? Not sure about Ireland.)
Drive at 18 after compulsory school, including how to change a tire and how an engine works (state funded).
I consider myself a good driver, now, because i am cautious AND very polite. I am very aware - because i have been hit too many times to NOT be.
And my car disaster stories would require a thread...NONE OF WHICH WERE MY FAULT!
Like the time the gas tank fell off of the 1970 Volvo and i dragged it for a mile or so...
I curse more, now that I drive all the time. I didn't drive, really, until I was 27! Now that i'm getting old, i appreciate all that walking...I have decent looking gams. The pooch/tummy pudge will have to be solved soon.
My theory is drink first, legally, and then drive. And get tested every five years for the driving until you're 28. (i assume the drinking doesn't need to be licensed).
Ever6yone should know the basics about the machine they are propelling!
I'm a socialist, i guess, go figure...
I hate rotaries.

― aimurchie, Friday, 20 April 2007 11:10 (eighteen years ago)

This is why I don't drive in the UK, I'd be like Pater Johnson on the roundabouts.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 20 April 2007 11:14 (eighteen years ago)

Is driving in the US like driving on EASY mode or something?

― g-kit, Friday, 20 April 2007 11:19 (eighteen years ago)

customisable difficulty level

CRASH DAMAGE on/OFF

― g-kit, Friday, 20 April 2007 11:20 (eighteen years ago)

Four way stops confuse the hell out of me. Put some mini-roundabouts in, that's what I say.

― Ed, Friday, 20 April 2007 11:21 (eighteen years ago)

4-way stops are easy, you give way to the right.

Or is it the left.

I get confused by these things.

Like I said, this is why I don't drive.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 20 April 2007 11:24 (eighteen years ago)

OK, I just checked and it said that supposedly the first vehicle that gets there has right of way! I never heard that before in my life! I was taught that it was always the vehicle on the right that got right of way!

Or maybe that's roundabouts.

I am so confused.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 20 April 2007 11:28 (eighteen years ago)

Four way stops RULE! Because nobody knows what to do. So random hand gesturing ensues and everyone has paused for a second to think about their propulsion of large vehicles.
My humble opinion? The vehicle that gets there first has the right of way for crossing traffic. This is almost always acknowledged.
a sneaky right turn at a four way stop is very OK if there isn't another car trying to propel forward. (reverse right-left for the British, I guess).
I just talk to myself: "Big truck go now, I am going left, so minivan should go now and then I'll go and be on my way." (Minivan and truck going straight through the intersection).
It's more civilised than the rotaries.
Stop. Think. Act.

― aimurchie, Friday, 20 April 2007 11:52 (eighteen years ago)

And yes, g-kit, it can be very much like a bunch of people who learned to drive through a joy-stick and a screen.
The sun is out, the weather is fine, and I am going to ride my bike today!

― aimurchie, Friday, 20 April 2007 12:10 (eighteen years ago)

I wish I'd learned to drive when I was a teenager. Now I'm in my thirties with a full time job and little time for lessons.
And of course in the UK now there's a theory test as well as a harder driving test than when I was a teen.

― treefell, Friday, 20 April 2007 12:22 (eighteen years ago)

The only reason I wish I could drive is so I could ROAD TRIP USA.

― blueski, Friday, 20 April 2007 12:22 (eighteen years ago)

polar bears

― g-kit, Friday, 20 April 2007 12:33 (eighteen years ago)

Four way stops are tricky for me, because under the gun I don't know left from right. So I just let someone else go first, then I go. Unless I got there first. My driving history is a bit like Alison's—started to learn here, then left for twelve years. living in cities so I didn't drive. Had to re-learn when I came back here with babies. And learning highway driving was scary. Very. It was a huge coup for me to conquer my fear of it. It still scares me to merge when it's busy, and also fighting my way over to the exit lane can be hair-raising. I get over there miles in advance.

― Beth Parker, Friday, 20 April 2007 13:03 (eighteen years ago)

There are no polar bears in the USA - except zoos. Plus, weren't you supposed to post a picture of you hugging your plushie, G-kit?
Polar bears are the most dangerous of bears. I thank God everyday that they aren't trying to hug me.
Driving across the USA is the best thing ever. (Well, the best thing ever that I have done four times. Europe rocks as well, but you can't really drive through in the same way).
The vastness is...amazing.
There are regional threads on a board that is international!I wish someone was posting from China.
I still want to send postcards...Beth can email me the addresses she has, if the webmail continues to confound.
if anyone wants a postcard...including the g-kit.

― aimurchie, Friday, 20 April 2007 13:22 (eighteen years ago)

i promised pic of me and Walt for WDYLL May. if you're a super-real myspaec frend of mine, you'll see it sooner, i guess.

polar bears are even dangerous to eat - their livers are uber-toxic.

― g-kit, Friday, 20 April 2007 13:26 (eighteen years ago)

the polar bear in bronx zoo is good.

― blueski, Friday, 20 April 2007 13:28 (eighteen years ago)

seemed pretty depressed when i met him tho.

― blueski, Friday, 20 April 2007 13:29 (eighteen years ago)

i nearly said something mean here but i deleted it.

― g-kit, Friday, 20 April 2007 13:34 (eighteen years ago)

you could e-mail it to me maybe.

― blueski, Friday, 20 April 2007 13:36 (eighteen years ago)

you could've deleted that, and then we'd be making real diplomatic progress :(

― g-kit, Friday, 20 April 2007 13:37 (eighteen years ago)

it could've been a lot worse. as i said to the polar bear.

― blueski, Friday, 20 April 2007 13:38 (eighteen years ago)

their livers are uber-toxic.

I heard this recently too. Isn't it something to do with them being full of vitamin A or something?

― accentmonkey, Friday, 20 April 2007 13:42 (eighteen years ago)

I dunno, i was told it in geography class when i was 12.

― g-kit, Friday, 20 April 2007 13:43 (eighteen years ago)

i just bit my tongue.

― g-kit, Friday, 20 April 2007 13:48 (eighteen years ago)

speaking of driving in the us vs europe can anyone tell me which countries drive on the left as opposed to the right in europe? there's a small chance i'll be piloting a van across the netherlands, germany, france, and spain next february.

― chicago kevin, Friday, 20 April 2007 13:55 (eighteen years ago)

i just bit my tongue.

Do you say your posts out loud while you're typing them?

Because, heh heh, I certainly don't read out loud the things that I am typing. No, no, never.

― accentmonkey, Friday, 20 April 2007 13:59 (eighteen years ago)

Kevin, everyone in Europe drives on the same side of the road as you, except Britain and Ireland.

― accentmonkey, Friday, 20 April 2007 14:00 (eighteen years ago)

THEN I'M GOLD!!!

now i just have to stay sober :-(

― chicago kevin, Friday, 20 April 2007 14:01 (eighteen years ago)

speaking of driving in the us vs europe can anyone tell me which countries drive on the left as opposed to the right in europe? there's a small chance i'll be piloting a van across the netherlands, germany, france, and spain next february.

Only the UK and Ireland. It will almost certainly be a manual gearbox though.

xpost

― Ed, Friday, 20 April 2007 14:01 (eighteen years ago)

that's fine ed, i've driven a stick shift for 18 years. the only thing that might get me is if it's a right hand drive car will the throws be reversed as well?

― chicago kevin, Friday, 20 April 2007 14:02 (eighteen years ago)

read them aloud as i type?
dude, most of my posts are unpronouncable.

― g-kit, Friday, 20 April 2007 14:03 (eighteen years ago)

this thread is long and i am latecomer, so what's the deal with postcards?

― g-kit, Friday, 20 April 2007 14:06 (eighteen years ago)

Now the throws are the same. The only thing that gets me switching between LHD and RHD is going down for the gear stick with the wrong hand.

― Ed, Friday, 20 April 2007 14:07 (eighteen years ago)

watercoolerdecodering.gif

― g-kit, Friday, 20 April 2007 14:09 (eighteen years ago)

haha - are you going to be tour managing, kevin? have fun!

― lauren, Friday, 20 April 2007 14:09 (eighteen years ago)

lauren- yes. which reminds me i have to ask for some time off in june too.

― chicago kevin, Friday, 20 April 2007 14:10 (eighteen years ago)

― lauren, Friday, 20 April 2007 14:11 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.register123.com/event/accounts/register123/disney/waltdisneyworld/events/2006tbd/kj%20lyons%20au1.jpg

Pictured: polar bear, g-kit

― emil.y, Friday, 20 April 2007 14:13 (eighteen years ago)

o y 2 melt hart

― g-kit, Friday, 20 April 2007 14:15 (eighteen years ago)

"omg, i'm piloting a van around europe in the springtime!"

WISDOM IS HERE

also hee hee 'piloting'

― blueski, Friday, 20 April 2007 14:17 (eighteen years ago)

"omg, i'm piloting a van around europe in the springtime!"

This is an excuse for wall to wall krautrock.

― Ed, Friday, 20 April 2007 14:19 (eighteen years ago)

piloting = way more romantic than simply driving, totally suits Yerp in teh spring

― g-kit, Friday, 20 April 2007 14:19 (eighteen years ago)

No krautrock on this thread (PLEASE?!?)

― kv_nol, Friday, 20 April 2007 14:30 (eighteen years ago)

Ach there are no rules of course! Krautrock away.

Also Kevin, I am really jealous. Sounds like a great spring!

― kv_nol, Friday, 20 April 2007 14:30 (eighteen years ago)

I feel bad now about that. Bad afternoon. Still tomorrow I'll buy you a pint to make up for it (madness!)

― kv_nol, Friday, 20 April 2007 14:31 (eighteen years ago)

All you need to know about roundabouts is always give way to the right (except where they drive on the right, then it is left, right)

No, this isn't true - in Italy you give way to the right.

― Mark C, Friday, 20 April 2007 14:32 (eighteen years ago)

depends whether there is a crossed out yellow diamond or not, but you are correct. The same applies in india where you give way to the left so traffic on the roundabout has to give way to traffic entering which is mentalism.

― Ed, Friday, 20 April 2007 14:33 (eighteen years ago)

simulataneoulsy the best and worst job there is... perhaps tipping towards the latter, but no matter how crappy things are you can console yourself by thinking, "omg, i'm piloting a van around europe in the springtime!"

yeah that's pretty much it. i was going to leave chicago in october then this opportunity came up so i figure i can stomach one more mid-western winter if this is the carrot at the end of the stick. it will be fun, the two bands who are going are probably my two favorite bands in chicago and they are the best people i've ever met. one found me my current apartment, another is my upstairs neighbor, two others are my best friends in the world. we all get along really well and it ought to be a blast.

― chicago kevin, Friday, 20 April 2007 14:34 (eighteen years ago)

No krautrock on this thread (PLEASE?!?)

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HAAAA!!!

Everyone has a thread topic tyrant inside them, you just have to find the topic.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 20 April 2007 14:36 (eighteen years ago)

This is the apartment with no heating, right? Mixed blessing I think.

xpost

― Ed, Friday, 20 April 2007 14:36 (eighteen years ago)

Everyone has a thread topic tyrant inside them, you just have to find the topic.

So true u_u

― kv_nol, Friday, 20 April 2007 14:47 (eighteen years ago)

Also Kevin: No Irish dates? For shame sir!

― kv_nol, Friday, 20 April 2007 14:49 (eighteen years ago)

I had an Irish date! She lives with me now.

― g-kit, Friday, 20 April 2007 14:52 (eighteen years ago)

I can't find a polar bear t-shirt :(((((

― g-kit, Friday, 20 April 2007 14:54 (eighteen years ago)

No wai! Good to hear that some Irish be reprazentin at non-starter downsouth rofl faps!

― kv_nol, Friday, 20 April 2007 14:55 (eighteen years ago)

Well, half-irish, to be fair. Artistic license and stuff.

― g-kit, Friday, 20 April 2007 14:55 (eighteen years ago)

btw if you guys get bored and want to come find me tomorrow i will be @ excel takin pics of stormtroopers and arguing with bearded ppl.

― g-kit, Friday, 20 April 2007 14:57 (eighteen years ago)

ed, yes, that's the apartment with no heat that gave me pneumonia.

kv- i would love to go, i'm second generation irish and the only member of my immediate family who has never been. there are at least two other people (and there are only 4 all told, the two bands are both trios and two people are in both bands albeit playing different insturments) are also of irish descent. i really wanted to go to london, i have some friends there who stay with me whenever they're in chicago. i randomly ran into one of them in brooklyn 3 weeks ago, it's a really small world sometimes.

― chicago kevin, Friday, 20 April 2007 14:58 (eighteen years ago)

In tribute to the old country (arrrr begorrah) you must name her Teh_piscin!

Kevin, we're just a ryanair flight away and you think you boys in Chicago can drink? You ain't seen nothin'!

― kv_nol, Friday, 20 April 2007 14:58 (eighteen years ago)

i grew up in boston, i am not easily impressed by any regions drinking ability.

― chicago kevin, Friday, 20 April 2007 15:05 (eighteen years ago)

Spoilsport.

― kv_nol, Friday, 20 April 2007 15:10 (eighteen years ago)

that's me all over dude.

― chicago kevin, Friday, 20 April 2007 15:10 (eighteen years ago)

Okay I'm off for the day. Leaving early to see little sis get a prize from L4w S0c13ty of 1r3l4nd then going on the tear! I'm wearing a suit people! ON A FRIDAY! This had better be good. Have a good weekend all, looking forwards to London and pintzlol!

― kv_nol, Friday, 20 April 2007 15:21 (eighteen years ago)

this thread is long and i am latecomer, so what's the deal with postcards?

If you would like to receive a postcard (psst, Beth makes her own and they are top original artworks) or card, email your address to one of the people on the thread who've expressed postcard interest and they will send you one.

Woo hoo! Kv-lol's suit is down off its hook in the work shower room! Look out, teh laydeez!

― accentmonkey, Friday, 20 April 2007 15:22 (eighteen years ago)

I have a polar bear themed artwork/postcard just waiting to be sent to teh kit.
Are postcard participants ok with beth sending your addresses to me? (since we, like, know each other and email anyway)
HLA is the only one who has come through on webmail.

Today we let the kitties out. Not that they haven't tried to escape for months! It's pretty fun to see them emerge from under the porch, where they are hiding. We are monitoring their first foray into the outdoors. We are tossing objects from the third floor for them to catch. That's monitoring!

I'm not sure they know how to get back up the stairs - they were awesome at running down the stairs.

It's a very amusing way to spend the morning!

― aimurchie, Saturday, 21 April 2007 13:35 (eighteen years ago)

Are postcard participants ok with beth sending your addresses to me? (since we, like, know each other and email anyway)

I am absolutely okay with it. I have just come home from northern soul clubbing. Excellent evening/night out. I'm going to bed now.

― accentmonkey, Saturday, 21 April 2007 22:58 (eighteen years ago)

Northern soul clubbing...I hope no baby seals were involved!

― aimurchie, Sunday, 22 April 2007 06:29 (eighteen years ago)

Ok! More boring details about my life.
That's a threat!

― aimurchie, Sunday, 22 April 2007 15:20 (eighteen years ago)

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e391/marthasminions/screaming-wrath.jpg

― Beth Parker, Monday, 23 April 2007 02:09 (eighteen years ago)

otm.

― haitch, Monday, 23 April 2007 02:21 (eighteen years ago)

can i put that on the WDYLL thread?

― aimurchie, Monday, 23 April 2007 03:32 (eighteen years ago)

IAJYS

― aimurchie, Monday, 23 April 2007 05:38 (eighteen years ago)

Sorry for delay on postcards duders - I was smote down by some evil virus late last week and could not get out of bed. Blurgh.

― Hard like armour, Monday, 23 April 2007 06:26 (eighteen years ago)

IAJYS is: I Am Judging You Silently
Just thought you would like to be kept abreast of internet memes!
I am not judging anyone, of course, silently or otherwise.

HLA - hope you are feeling better!

― aimurchie, Monday, 23 April 2007 06:43 (eighteen years ago)

Woo hoo! Kv-lol's suit is down off its hook in the work shower room! Look out, teh laydeez!

HA HA HA sadly enough that's exactly what happened! You know my sad little life too well. Little sister looked great, prizegiving went well but the dinner was a bit of a let down (Brasserie Sixty 6 on George's Street is shit: the mains were cold, the staff weren't all that good [by which I mean: they just didn't make any effort, didn't know the menu and were very difficult to catch the eye of] and it was really expensive). Still though, I doubt we'll get her to be a solicitor now, the speechgivers were hardly inspirational. Exactly the opposite in fact. That and the lack of women on the main podium can't have helped!

London was fun. Will take a while to recover I think, travel always knocks the stuffing out of me!

― kv_nol, Monday, 23 April 2007 08:48 (eighteen years ago)

I also wish I could change my name to kv_lol now :(

― kv_nol, Monday, 23 April 2007 08:49 (eighteen years ago)

You will always be kev-lol on this thread. perhaps a nap in your park will help with the readjustment?
it's like, 80 degrees farenheit here.
Which is fine, except it was, like, snowing a few days ago.
The magnolia across the street blossomed overnight! Literally. Huge blossoms, white and pink and gorgeous.
it's still windy ( the end of the nor'easter, i suppose) and the stupid neighbors umbrella from their "porch set" flew off their porch and hit me in the face as I walked towards the stairs.
I might be having me a black eye!
it's not their fault, and i am slightly amused.
it was my fault for being so impressed by the umbrella flying off the porch that i forgot to...um, protect my face?
The kitties are not so much running outside - i think they figured out that outdoors is not going away. so they are power napping. I might join them.

― aimurchie, Monday, 23 April 2007 19:07 (eighteen years ago)

Feeling human again, thanks for asking. I felt particularly miserable when my stomach and its contents parted ways repeatedly all day on Friday.
Hope your eye is ok. If it does come up black, you must post to wdyll thread! So are the umbrella neighbours and the dog neighbours one and the same?
The magnolia sounds magical. Any pics would be lovely. Autumn has finally arrived here this week and it's all rainy grey today.

― Hard like armour, Monday, 23 April 2007 22:03 (eighteen years ago)

Aw, HLA, you poor baby!

― Beth Parker, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 00:12 (eighteen years ago)

Same neighbours. Huge umbrella - the kind that sticks into a table. I was so impressed by it flying off the porch. it was slightly unreal - but real enough to, y'know, cause pain to my face.
Maybe Beth could draw a picture!
I look kind of tough.
I should take pictures of the magnolia. I can smell the lilacs getting ready to bloom - pretty much my favorite springtime sensation.
i really love this time of year because things just happen overnight...I always am amazed by the blossoming, and want to wait up all night, like waiting for Santa Claus, to see the trees burst into bloom.
posting pictures would require me learning how to post pictures. I used to send them to maria:D, or sometimes Beth, and have them post them, but I should probably get over this learning curve.
I'm also a little bit afraid of the WDYLL thread.
For no good reason - it's pretty friendly there.
How do you post pictures? Explain it to me, and maybe I'll get it. After uploading them, how do you get them to ILX? I can send pictures to friends, via email, but I get stuck on getting them from the picture area to anything except email. Do you have to email them to yourself first, and then ....
am i am idiot? yes.
Did it used to be easier? I seem to remember figuring out how to post pictures without all this HTML bracket stuff.
i am going to read the handy dandy FAQ right now and see if it makes sense this time.
I am secretly hoping maria:D will read this and post a message of despair and anguish about me not knowing how to post pictures! it has been an ongoing theme in our friendship for, oh, four years?
perhaps you non specific duders can help me with the picture posting breakthrough!

― aimurchie, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 04:10 (eighteen years ago)

oh, they have to be on a website first?
I'm confused.

― aimurchie, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 04:32 (eighteen years ago)

Thanks Beth! A bit of sympathy when you are sick always goes a long way. Power of positive thinking and all that. :)

omg, I was imagining some average size umbrella flying about, not steroid-munching-size. That must have been some extreme wind. It's lucky it didn't take your head right off. Or puncture you.

Do you have a Flickr account or some such? If you upload them to there, then you can right click the photo, select Properties, copy the address and then paste it into ilx with the bracket stuff. I was afraid of most of ilx and lurked a lot until I finally posted to wdyll. It was liberating. People actually spoke to me. I think they like fresh meat on that thread.

― Hard like armour, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 04:37 (eighteen years ago)

Gigantic umbrella! Not a mary poppins umbrella! It shouldn't even be called an umbrella.
I think it's funny because I was just walking to the porch, to tromp upstairs to my apartment, and suddenly this thing came flying down, hit me in the face, and tumbled away. it came to rest in the yard, completely inverted. And I thought - I THOUGHT - about picking it up and dragging it back up to the porch. Then i realized I might be injured. Because I was bleeding.
So i have a cut on my face and a shiner.
I sort of respect myself for the fact that I wanted to be a good citizen and take care of the bad,large umbrella- before realizing I had blood pouring down my face. (Surface wound - they do bleed!)

No flickr account - I could probably link from MySpace? But i don't really post much there.
We download pictures to the regular computer thing - Windows Media -and upload (infrequently) to send via email.
I don't like the thought of using MySpace as a portal, because it's just a bit too public.
Is flickr the best way to do this?
Am I correct that you need a website place to host the pics before you send them to this website place?

I have an old, dear friend who is the QUEEN of MySpace. She gets very annoyed that I won't post to her blog with an image.i don't feel like having my face clicked on!
having it hit by a bumbershoot - well - that's ok.

― aimurchie, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 05:48 (eighteen years ago)

From the little that I know of you, I'm not surprised that your first thought was for the umbrella. Why is it that head wounds bleed so much I wonder? Is it because a brain needs lots of oxygen pumped around/through it? Has anyone seen the shiner yet? I bet when people ask you how it happened, they won't be expecting to hear it was the Attack of the Nine Foot Umbrella.

I'm a net dumbarse these days, so no good asking me anything technical. I only just checked out MySpace last week because a friend invited me, but I quickly lost interest.

― Hard like armour, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 06:12 (eighteen years ago)

Is flickr the best way to do this?

Any of the online photo albums are good for posting pictures from. If you're going to post pictures of yourself on the internet, you always run the risk of them being found and turned into perv material or the butt of jokes (see our very own So Not Gonna Happen thread), but the chances are good that they won't (because millions of photos are posted every day) or that if they are, you'll never hear about it.

I used to never post pictures of myself on the internet, and am still careful not to post pictures of my friends without their permission, but I am too old to care about things like that anymore, and considering I get actual kids really shouting abuse at me on the street sometimes, the Internet holds little terror for me anymore.

― accentmonkey, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 07:20 (eighteen years ago)

I use Photobucket, and it's very easy, too.
I hesitated to put photos of myself on here, too. There are so few of them that don't make me look like a complete grotesque. I feared ostracism! But then I did it and the earth did not stop. I'm even toying with posting scandalous college pix.

― Beth Parker, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 13:38 (eighteen years ago)

College was sooooo long ago! I graduated in 1981.

― Beth Parker, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 13:39 (eighteen years ago)

Before the birth of our esteemed unlicensed threadstarter.

― Beth Parker, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 13:40 (eighteen years ago)

at least you graduated, hm?

― g-kit, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 13:59 (eighteen years ago)

More than I can say for high school, for which I got a GED. Two days of testing vs two years in soul-killing institution. Hmmm. Which shall it be?
Now they're passing laws in many states that compell kids to stay in high school until they're 18. Gives me chills. They interviewed lots of people about why they dropped out of high school, and almost everyone said "because I could." Well, why is that not a good reason?

― Beth Parker, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 14:06 (eighteen years ago)

I Hait skool.

― Beth Parker, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 14:07 (eighteen years ago)

good morning. back from four day weekend which has magnified suckitude of work.

have many pics to post but they will have to wait as I left my laptop at my aunt's.

tell me why tuesday is good.

― Ms Misery, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 14:12 (eighteen years ago)

Tuesday is good because....
hm, I don't know. Didn't Cat Stevens write a song about it? Oh, but was that "Tueday's Dead"?
Well. the lilacs are preparing for their ever so brief lovely scent filled foray into Spring.
I like to sit in a chair IN the lilac bush. And read the New Yorker. I think I have become eccentric.
Thank you for the picture posting advice, duders.
I'm unhappy about little kids making fun of accentmonkey. (Also could not find the So Not Gonna Happen thread - I should probably be relieved?)
When I substitute teach I get tons of abuse from the kids - brings out the anger that I thought I didn't inherit from my angry parents.
Skool does suck - ms. misery knows more about it than i do, and i am failing at being cheery about Tuesday!
I tell the teens that i know that dropping out - and going to community college - is a perfectly valid way to live life/pursue dreams.
There are some great programs here that address this big school system failure - like, supporting kids through the GED process and helping them find interesting classes at community college.
I wrote an article about The Care Center, which provides support for pregnant and parenting teen women. (Also education - professors from the five colleges volunteer to teach classes. Five colleges being: UMASS, Amherst, Smith, Mt. Holyoke and Hampshire.) They have a (rowing)crew team, and race on the Connecticut river! The Care Center provides daycare, counseling, and pre and post natal support. It's really a terrific model for what needs to be happening - the director is one of those super human people who should be the fucking president of the United States.
And most of the young women go straight to community college, and matriculate to four year college/universities.
it seems to me that, well, the education system in the U.S. is failing, and these alternative programs are spewing out successful people!
Tuesday is good because ...
now you know about the Care Center.
Tomorrow I will tell you about the Teen Resource Center.
Where the boys are.

― aimurchie, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 16:20 (eighteen years ago)

are you at school now?

tuesday is closer to friday. also makes me think of the BEastie Boys line "smoking and drinking on a Tuesday night." Which I never do anymore b/c I'm too old and pracitcal.

What did you write that article for?

Today I'm trying to caption a QuickTime video and it sucks.

― Ms Misery, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 16:27 (eighteen years ago)

Tuesday's are shit. Wednesdays are worse. Don't talk to me about thursday. Friday's a farce and Monday needn't apply.

"Bad week" seems fairly reflective of things at the moment.

Fuck it though, off to France to visit the aged wrinklies for four days on Thursday. Will probably come back to even more disasters here. I need to get a new job or assistant asap!

― kv_nol, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 16:30 (eighteen years ago)

you just don't like any days?!

Yes I just returned from a four day weekend of driving all over and visiting relatives. One of the reasons I'm not feeling today.

oh well my boss will be out Thursday and Friday so then it will sort of feel like holiday in the office.

― Ms Misery, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 16:36 (eighteen years ago)

kv_nol is not being kv_lol today! i am trying to summon up some pity for someone who is 'off to France!" in two days. Although the aged wrinklies description made me spit out my tea.

I wrote the article for the "Community Journalism Project". i think there's a website.
Not at school today - not teaching or learning. I DO have to call the principal of the middle school and remind her that I am available. But the black eye...it's not a big deal, but I think it would draw some comments.
it would be fun to deal with the kids comments, since the umbrella story is so unbelievable, and they would probably assume i was in some sort of a smack-down. And lying.

ms. misery - you're at a big university office, right? Doing web design/support? I am applying to a bunch of places, including UMASS. For office support type work at UMASS - I'm also applying for para-professional teaching.
Give me your advice!
I might return to the reproductive health center; also, Planned Parenthood has asked me in for an interview.
The pay scale is going to be equal at any of these potential jobs.
Do I want to teach?
Is asking the question a gesture of defeat?
Planned Parenthood would be direct intake/counseling. it would also mean being escorted from my car by a volunteer who helps counselors and clients get by the anti-abortion picket lines.
I'm not sure if THAT would drive me crazy. i don't think i would be allowed to tell them to fuck off. Also, the internet, license plates, wackos knowing where i live...
but hey, it's an important job, and someone has to do it.
Two of the volunteer escorts are nuns!
They often show up in full habits. Kind of cool to have the nuns on your side, y'know?

― aimurchie, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 17:45 (eighteen years ago)

I think PP would be awesome. I would love to work in a clinic.

Not sure what to tell you about working at a big university. This was only choice for workplace when I moved back to Austin. I applied for anything and everything but could never even get an interview for office-type jobs. But that was true anywhere. all my web experience killed me for administrative work. What do you mean by para-professional teaching? I do love being at a university though.

― Ms Misery, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 17:48 (eighteen years ago)

Para -professionals aren't certified. Do you think having some expertise made you "too experienced'? I'm finding that, due to my age and vast amount of experience, I don't always get called for an interview.
I have to stalk potential employers.
PP is a good fit. it's also a great organization, and fulfills my need to do something that supports the social change I believe in.
I'm just seething about the Supreme Court decision -and working for PP would be a way to help.

― aimurchie, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 19:05 (eighteen years ago)

Para -professionals aren't certified. Do you think having some expertise made you "too experienced'? I'm finding that, due to my age and vast amount of experience, I don't always get called for an interview.

absolutely. I think it's mostly a fear that I was just going to take their admin job until a better-paid web job opened up and then they'd be screwed.

― Ms Misery, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 19:17 (eighteen years ago)

you just don't like any days?!

I like weekends!

I will let aged wrinklies know that they are mocked online, how they will love me! (Don't worry, I won't!)

― kv_nol, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 09:39 (eighteen years ago)

Do you mind if i write a long post?
I guess there's not much you can do to stop me, but it is another dog/neighbour post.
The dog has been left unleashed twice and has taken to chasing cats, Specifically, mine.
yesterday, when calling my one (wonderful and lovely) outdoor kitty in, the collie puppy chased him across the street, The owner was in the yard, calling him back as I yelled "That's not cool, you guys!" and ran downstairs.
I said 'You HAVE to leash your dog. Your dog should not be chasing my cat!"
he replied: "I didn't know your cat was out!"
My reply? "leash your fucking dog!"
Whether or not my cat is out is not the issue! if the dog is going to run for small animals in a crowded neighborhood, it needs to be on a fucking leash!
(of course, my cat goes after birds, BUT....c'mon, this dog could snap my cats neck for fun - without knowing that it's NOT fun.)

Today...same thing. i was calling my cat in, and the dog is chasing my kitty across the street and through a yard. (He got up a tree - I THINK he's alive) So i marched downstairs, knocked on the door and said "You have to fucking control your dog."
Well, due to all of the bad neighbour stuff that has been going on, the mom of the hysterical teenager, who should be called, what, number one bad neighbour? got right into my face, backed me against a wall and...y'know, I thought she was going to hit me, but instead she backed off and she CALLED THE POLICE!
After some very aggressive arguing - i was scared, but...there's no argument, really. So it was hard for me to find any logic. I'm right and she's wrong.
And then the police came over.
I really have to say - I would admit if I was even slightly aggressive.But I was completely passive - including putting my hand up between her and me and saying: :"You need to not threaten me this way."
I have training with crazy people. I also have training in rape/crisis advocacy and prevention, so I could have just ruined her for sex for the next few weeks. And broken her nose. Knee/hand with adrenaline and force is very powerful.

Anyway, she got out of my face saying she was gonna call the cops, which she did.
She called the cops on me because her unleashed and unregistered dog ran wild after my cat. (There's been more build- up of tension, obviously, but,,,)
who do you think came out looking fucking sane?
That would be me.

I am now going to call the cops every fucking time they MOVE. I also got the cops to talk with the landlords. The landlords are on my side.
Of course, they have been on my side ever since they realized they rented to these awful people. As for the dog? Her barking and abandonment will allow me to call the police.
I took a klonopin to try to sleep - six hours later i revived this thread just to bitch.
These neighbours NEEd TO GO!
Time to feed the kitties - and try to find the one who got chased - too scared to come home.
I want to give that collie to better people - they don't deserve that dog.
Ok! happy Friday everyone!

― aimurchie, Friday, 27 April 2007 09:40 (eighteen years ago)

One scared wet kitty is home. it took almost two hours to get him home, but...now maybe I can sleep.
I am taking out a restraining order against ms. #1 bad neighbor.
call the cops on me when your dog chased my cat and you physically attacked me?
She does not know who she's fucking with.
I'm calling the cops every single time her mental teenage daughter has a breakdown!
I know this is information that is really not that interesting, but it feels good to write it out on ILX because i have had no sleep and couldn't call anyone in the middle of the night.
This thread is my middle of the night phone call.
Thank you. Sorry. I will not post about this again.

― aimurchie, Friday, 27 April 2007 11:51 (eighteen years ago)

I so sorry about crazy neighbors and your kitties. That would terrify me too.

I don't know about where you live but you might be careful about letting your cats out if this lady's already calling the cops. Here it violates the same city ordinace to have your cats out loose as your dogs. Someone could call animal control on a neighbors loose cat or dog and have them taken. :(

I have exciting stuff this morning. . .My brother just me a track where he RAPS WITH LIL' WAYNE!! omg, lil wayne is one of my fave rappers and my bro sounds so good with him. I'm ecstatic.

― Ms Misery, Friday, 27 April 2007 13:20 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah for good Friday news!
I think we all need to hear that track.
Ms.M
Link please? or is it too soon?

hateful neighbor called the cops because she is two fries short of a happy meal, and she will not be around in three months, when her lease is up. I just want to hurry up the departure, and also, they're awful and crazy and need some evicting.
I was basically serving the cop tea and discussing the finer points of tenant complaints with him.
I live in a tiny town. Population 16,000. And I'm popular. She's mental.

I am listening to "Slow Ride" right now, and boy is it good. I'm happy wacky street festivals/county fairs/ migrating amusements are gonna be here soon!
OOOOH! The taste of West Springfield! Nothing like eating six different kinds of food and getting on a ride that throws you up in the air - safe in the knowledge that said ride will be four towns over the next day!
Fuck Six Flags!

― aimurchie, Friday, 27 April 2007 16:21 (eighteen years ago)

Ms.M
Link please? or is it too soon?

I would love to share but I only have a rough mixdown now so better wait for something more official. It's on a track by a guy from the Goodie Mob which is also awesome.

Yeah your neighbor does sound nuts. Hopefully you won't have any more trouble with her before she moves.

We took my nieces and nephew to the Main St Arts Festival this weekend. it was awesome. I have pics but have lost the USB cord to my camer. :/

― Ms Misery, Friday, 27 April 2007 16:23 (eighteen years ago)

Did you go on rides?

― aimurchie, Friday, 27 April 2007 16:29 (eighteen years ago)

let's talk about rides.
I can't really go on super duper rides - I scream on little carnival rides.
BUT - I know the woman who is the bartender at the Six Flags water park, and I could just slide down a big slide and wade over for a margarita.

Superman- Ride of Steel? Oh my, when I learn to post pictures I'll post some we took when the park was closed. Winter.
I think it's the biggest roller coaster in the world.
I worked, a few years ago, with developmentally disabled people. Six Flags gave free/very cheap passes to the service agency - probably because we were providing them with awesome clean up crew staff.

Developmentally disabled (retarded) people love roller coasters. That's a sweeping generalization, but I have a theory that there's some freedom about screaming and throwing your hands around that is a great universal experience. Especially when you aren't being judged for it. Plus the freedom for most of my clients - from looking or acting different. Everyone's the same on a roller-coaster.

― aimurchie, Saturday, 28 April 2007 03:44 (eighteen years ago)

has anyone been on that millenium wheel? I'm terrified just mentioning it!

― aimurchie, Saturday, 28 April 2007 06:33 (eighteen years ago)

It's quite slow and un-frightening. Although I went on it on a date with a girl, and she didn't tell me she was totally terrified of heights until the thing started moving...

Right now I'm feeling similarly queasy cos I've a job interview in half an hour. Hate this feeling so much.

― braveclub, Monday, 30 April 2007 12:02 (eighteen years ago)

I browbeat a reluctant friend into coming on a ride with me once, and he vomited.

― Beth Parker, Monday, 30 April 2007 13:44 (eighteen years ago)

re: rides - none weekend before last as there weren't any at that festival. my nephew did climb a rock wall thing though. I want to go to six flags. :(

I'm depressed this mon. morning. The Mavericks are one game away from being shut out of the rest of the playoffs. IT WASN'T SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN LIKE THIS!! ;_;

― Ms Misery, Monday, 30 April 2007 13:44 (eighteen years ago)

Condolences. The Red Sox are doing quite well against their arch-nemesis (nemeses?), the Yankees. Maybe you should move here.

― Beth Parker, Monday, 30 April 2007 13:47 (eighteen years ago)

but I don't like baseball. :(

We're not even losing to our nemeses (see Spurs, Suns) but to some last minute Cinderellas! bah. I'm most sad at the thought of basketball ending for me so soon when I expected it to stretch for a few more weeks. No Mavs, no credibility.

― Ms Misery, Monday, 30 April 2007 14:04 (eighteen years ago)

nice, long weekend. and i took a stand! not. most sundays, i go watch my BF & sister play kickball. there is a couple on the team, they had a baby 8 months ago. they ALWAYS leave it with me to watch! the first dozen times, no problem. but i go to spectate & yell, support my BF & sis. can't do that with a baby! too, ike brings his pup on a short leash. i watch that little guy, too. i felt like these people were taking advantage of me, so i hid until the game started like a weenie. but i didn't have to care after any baby or dog!

going camping this weekend! something to look forward to!

also, we are considering moving to seattle. from little rock.

― Ai Lien, Monday, 30 April 2007 14:06 (eighteen years ago)

That's totally crappy of those people to always use you as a babysitter!

― Ms Misery, Monday, 30 April 2007 14:09 (eighteen years ago)

well, my candy-ass took care of that! ha.

― Ai Lien, Monday, 30 April 2007 14:28 (eighteen years ago)

next time you should show up with a big cigar, a bottle of whiskey and a Hustler.

― Ms Misery, Monday, 30 April 2007 14:29 (eighteen years ago)

and a rottweiler!

― Ai Lien, Monday, 30 April 2007 14:39 (eighteen years ago)

Good for you, Ai Lien. I recently had to tell someone that I couldn't be a babysitting resource, and it was very awkward. I felt mean, but the truth is, just because I'm at home a lot in the landscaping off-season doesn't mean I'm not doing anything (I'm posting on ILX, thankyouverymuch). But seriously, I'm the sibling that's here for my 88 year old mother, running errands and going to doctors and dealing with various medical crises. So I really can't take on non-emergency childcare.

― Beth Parker, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 00:46 (eighteen years ago)

Hey, who else up in this bitch wants a postcard? I keep cranking them out, insane landscaping schedule notwithstanding. I'm gonna have to rent a storage locker for them unless I get some takers. Help me out here!

― Beth Parker, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 00:49 (eighteen years ago)

I found some last weekend that I like enough to send to you guys, so I promise I will send them shortly.

My real estate agent just called me to tell me that my landlord died. Is it selfish that I am less upset about that, rather than the thought of having to move YET AGAIN when I have just gotten settled and absolutely love my unit. I feel like the earth has just opened up and I am running in the air like Wile E. Coyote, madly trying to stay upright.

― Hard like armour, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 01:58 (eighteen years ago)

Oh by the way, I have never met or spoken to my landlord. I did feel shock at his death so I am not entirely heartless, but now I am just pissed off.

― Hard like armour, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 01:59 (eighteen years ago)

How was the interview, braveclub?
I always go into some sort of fugue state when I'm on my way to one. Even for the shitty jobs i know I'm too qualified for - waiting tables, hosting, "personal assistant".
If it's an important job, well...it's even worse.

― aimurchie, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 02:06 (eighteen years ago)

OOOps xpost HLA!
No! You just got your daybed!
Do you have to move?

― aimurchie, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 02:16 (eighteen years ago)

hi everyone from various locations

i'm sorry about the move, hla

i am trying to procrastinate from workign on research papers right now, i am kind of hating schol and ready to graduate

― Maria, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 02:21 (eighteen years ago)

Like,you HAVE HAVE HAVE to move because the new landlords are stinkers? And are chasing everyone out? There must be some tenants rights in your lease.
Moving sucks, and I hope you can stay.

― aimurchie, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 02:24 (eighteen years ago)

So I really can't take on non-emergency childcare.
So I guess you don't want my kids from 2:30 to 4 Thursday afternoon.

― Maria :D, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 02:35 (eighteen years ago)

Thanks everyone, your concern has made me feel better. Sorry for not asking after you guys first, you've had lots going on too. I'm always playing catch up on Mondays after not having net access over the weekend. I just had to vent my stress & then get outside at lunchtime.

aimurchie, I got your email too & will respond soon. I hope you've recovered from the confrontation with your neighbours. I would have been absolutely shaking. You were really brave and I’m so glad your cat made it home safely too. At least you know those neighbours will definitely be gone in 3 months, if not sooner. Is contact with them in the meantime unavoidable? Also, how’s the black eye?

My daybed is terrific! Though I didn’t get to spend much time on it, as my guests sprawled on it for most of Sunday. They gave it the thumbs up too. It will be a while before I find out if I have to move. The reason the real estate guy called me (besides to tell me the landlord had died) was to ask when he can inspect the property, as the landlord’s relatives want all his properties appraised. He also said probate should take months, so I won’t have to start looking for something else straight away, but I hate that feeling of waiting for the other shoe to drop. I should just try to be positive, enjoy myself there for now and not worry about what might happen. The unit is in a good area and I am a reliable tenant, so hopefully the new owners will want to keep it on as an investment property and maintain the current long term arrangement. My initial lease was for 12 months, so I don’t think they can kick me out for another 6 months anyway. I will have to check the fine print in the lease. I guess that is the risk you take when renting – the impermanence and unpredictability. It’s just so disappointing because I am really happy there.

Maria, did I spy you on the wdyll thread with new hair?

kv_nol, how was France?

Braveclub, did you get the job?

accentmonkey, I meant to ask earlier what abuse do kids shout at you in the street and why?!?

― Hard like armour, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 05:18 (eighteen years ago)

France was fantastic. Weather was v dramatic (lots of sun and on the Sunday a fantastic thunderous hail storm enjoyed under an awning with parents and a bottle of rather nice white. V cool altogether). Went walking here at Les Cascades du Hérrisson on the Sunday as well which was beautiful but also a bit sad as there was so little snow the rivers that are normally full and deep are trickles. It was fun walking behind a waterfall though, I felt like Biggles! Saturday was spent drinking wine, eating smelly cheese and sausage and generally having the craic with aged wrinklies. It was suitably lush-like. Hard leaving Monday but ended up at Saba where the food was great but no space between tables so I was v uncomfortable chatting. Unusual for me!

Tonight it's The Cavalcaders (Probably going to be an illegal link) and early home to play with new preamp and cd player. Life is tough I tells ya!

― kv_nol, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 09:33 (eighteen years ago)

Bad grammar I call thee kv!

― kv_nol, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 09:33 (eighteen years ago)

I haven't checked in in a while.

I hopefully have got the job I've been training for, so I'm kind of waiting for that. Did my first full shift last week and it seemed to go well. Hopefully it will work out, I really want the money to move out and this seems a job I can do regardless of sickness.

Tonight will probably go and watch Liverpool in my friend's house, maybe have a barbecue and some beer.

Today mostly messing around in Ableton making some music, and doing a little bit of writing work.

― Ronan, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 09:38 (eighteen years ago)

accentmonkey, I meant to ask earlier what abuse do kids shout at you in the street and why?!?

They shout at me because I am fat and have dogs and therefore clearly am fair game for being shouted at. They sometimes ask if I fuck my dogs, or let them fuck me. They asked Mister Monkey once if he was gay, because he has dogs (I don't get it either). Sometimes they call me a lazy bitch because I have one of those ball thrower things and I throw the ball and the dogs run after it. Sometimes they shout that they're going to throw stones at my dogs. And sometimes they just laugh at me because I'm apparently humorous to look at.

It's not hard to figure out why they do it. They're bored, they have aggressive families in which the adults shout at abuse at people too and think it's okay. They like people to be afraid of them. I've probably built it up to be worse than it is, because actually I only see these kids maybe once a week. But I do hate them.

I'm back from ATP! It was great.

― accentmonkey, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 10:24 (eighteen years ago)

kids are evil.

― Ronan, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 10:39 (eighteen years ago)

Bloody hell accentmonkey. The kids in my estate are alright really, I once got shaken down for a fiver for a skipathon though. The little wench! Trish, can you call the guards? It could help to amybe have them moved on or something. I'm sorry though, it's no fun whatsoever.

Ronan, what is new job and congrats (in advance). Moving where or is that all to be decided?

― kv_nol, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 10:45 (eighteen years ago)

Braveclub, did you get the job?

I don't know yet. I just had another one though. I'm still really tense in every one, but at least I've started to slow down and talk at a sensible pace rather than just blurt out random crap.

Also in the interview yesterday they asked me what my favourite Madonna video is, which is a new one.

― braveclub, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 12:48 (eighteen years ago)

Geez, trish, throw the balls at those kids. or better yet mace them! That's horrible.

I would like to try Irish bbq.

Beth, I owe you some mail that has stamps.

― Ms Misery, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 13:00 (eighteen years ago)

I do a good bbq!

― kv_nol, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 13:22 (eighteen years ago)

what kind of meats?

― Ms Misery, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 13:28 (eighteen years ago)

That was a bizarre "other message posted since you last looked"
Trish, you must move out of that horrible place! God!

― Beth Parker, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 13:29 (eighteen years ago)

Sam, just email me yr address and I'll pop some back copies off to you, as well as a postcard. You'd be saving my office from spontaneous combustion, really.

― Beth Parker, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 13:31 (eighteen years ago)

Oh God, pork, chicken, beef, marinaded, unmarinaded, ribs, anything! God, I'm making myself so hungry!

― kv_nol, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 14:18 (eighteen years ago)

yum. wait kv, are you irish? I was imagining Irish people bbqing lambs.

― Ms Misery, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 14:20 (eighteen years ago)

That's the old Irish. Come to Massachusetts and you will have your boiled dinner.

We are all going to spill condiments on your floor when we eat and drink you out of house and home!

― aimurchie, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:54 (eighteen years ago)

I am Irish (of the island, not the background). Lamb is cooked by some, not by me. I think it tastes foul. Ha ha aimurchie, the neighbour's cat will have the leftovers before you can say: "Get back here you swine, I wasn't finished with that!"

― kv_nol, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:57 (eighteen years ago)

haha...Irish bbq is the same as any other country bbq, I think, burgers and sausages and stuff.

the new job is sub-editing for one of the tabloids, I'm really happy to have gotten in and they called me for an extra shift this week so it looks good. Ideally I want to do it full time, or 4 days a week, it pays well enough too. It's mainly good to be doing a job I'm qualified for for the first time in my entire life.

― Ronan, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 16:01 (eighteen years ago)

Nice one man, congrats and I'm very happy to hear it. Is it one of the new free ones? That must be fairly hectic. Well done!

― kv_nol, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 16:03 (eighteen years ago)

congrats on the job! have tons of bbq!

― Ms Misery, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 16:06 (eighteen years ago)

no it's one of the classics! the st*r. it is very hectic but it's also good fun.

― Ronan, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 16:32 (eighteen years ago)

Congratulations Ronan.

― braveclub, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 19:36 (eighteen years ago)

Yay Ronan! I raise a hefty veal shank to your success!
Not really—I don't eat veal. I just wanted to get in on all the meat action.

― Beth Parker, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 00:20 (eighteen years ago)

Ronan - you have the cutest gf AND a new job?
I raise a veal shank and one lamb chop to you!

― aimurchie, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 02:21 (eighteen years ago)

sounds great ronan! congrats!

i had lamb for dinner today and it was awesome, i highly approve of lamb. especially ones with names, it was the first animal i've ever eaten whose name i knew!

― Maria, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 02:25 (eighteen years ago)

Maria, please give us the name.
We promise not to hurt you.
The name, please!!

― aimurchie, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 02:31 (eighteen years ago)

His name was...it was...it was Moseby!

― Maria, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 02:33 (eighteen years ago)

I don’t like to think where it comes from, particularly when I see sweet little lambs frolicking about on the way to my parents’ place, but you can’t beat roast lamb with rosemary gravy or crumbed/parmesan/parsley veal or veal shank pasta.
Are people who don't eat Lamb unAustralian?

― Hard like armour, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 05:31 (eighteen years ago)

I can't keep up with everyone. So much stuff going on.

Aimurchie: I am delighted that you now can call the police guilt-free any time your neighbours give you hassle.

Ronan: Great news about the sub-editing job. Which tabloid? Is it the reflective one, the daytime light one, or the tiny pinprick in the fabric of night one (that one's best).

HLA: Shit buzz about having to move house.

Everyone: Don't worry about me. The kids in my actual estate don't treat me that way. It is the kids outside, who are from TEH VILLAGE and therefore easy to avoid most of the time. It's only during the summer that I really have to deal with them at all. And they are rude to everyone, not just me.

We tried out our first barbecue of the year recently with a whole load of bbq'd vegetables, and they were great. I've gone off meat.

― accentmonkey, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 07:13 (eighteen years ago)

Oooh fancy Ronan. Well that's great, well done again.

Maria's story reminds me of visiting Maastricht for the Karnevale. This is a long story so settle in, etc. A very good friend of mine from the region had worked with me in Florence. When his parents came to visit he didn't really have a place he could take them to (he was a) a pig and b) his flat, while great, was shared with others who didn't really care for his messiness all that much!) so we took them in for the day. My flatmate made sushi (she made me sushi with ham because fish in any form = gross x a gazillion) and generally charmed the socks off them. Scroll to the future (past thingy)! I am in Maastricht with vegetarian friend who had been on the lash the night before and was, how you say, delicate. Very delicate. She was a delightfully patriotic green for the morning, that kind of delicate. Anyway, we sit down to eat and in the grand Dutch tradition everything had meat in it. Even the salad! Veggie friend is offered a great vegetarian delicacy, she out of politeness accepts hoping for carrots or something. A full fish with head and tail still attached is plonked in front of her after being killed (not in front of us, in a shop) by swimming in oil and wine. She nearly died and I'm still proud of her that she held on!

How does that remind me of Maria's story? Well out the back were two lovely little sheep and veggie friend (being a bit of a hippy) asks why those lovely little sheep are out there. Friend's father in the happiest of tones answers for food in a couple of months... Poor her, she really didn't do too well out of the whole day :)

― kv_nol, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 08:21 (eighteen years ago)

wait, I'm still stuck on the sushi with ham. Delightfully stuck, but...rice, seaweed and ham? and wasabi?
I'm going to think about this all day.

Also, that unAustralian Lamb thing is hilarious.

― aimurchie, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 12:34 (eighteen years ago)

It was just sushi with the rice, seaweed and everything but instead of fish it had ham. It was v nice and I felt all grown up eating it.

― kv_nol, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 13:40 (eighteen years ago)

kv_nol, that reminds me of a Chinese restaurant that sold me as a veggie option and then when I queried some suspicious lumps of flesh came back with 'yeah there's no meat, only pork'.

― braveclub, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 19:20 (eighteen years ago)

LOL 'sold me as a veggie option'

― braveclub, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 19:21 (eighteen years ago)

I hear that happens in Spain too. Some Jewish vegetarians were very frustrated studying abroad there because there is pork in everything, and one of their host families kept trying to fool them by slipping ham into their dinners.

― Maria, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 19:39 (eighteen years ago)

I feel like can't keep up either. Particularly as I am sleeping while you lot are conversing.

The France trip sounded awesome. I was also prompted to look up Maastricht today after the description of its gastronomic delights. Australia is such a “young” country, I expect I will be blown away by the ancient nature of everything in Europe when I start travelling.

aimurchie, I knew you would understand the humour of the lamb ad campaign after having had exposure to mongrels. Btw, ANZAC stands for Australian and New Zealand Army Corps. April 25th is a public holiday in Aust & NZ in remembrance of the ANZACS who landed at Gallipoli in Turkey in WWI. Dawn services are held because that was the time of the original landing. There is usually an address from an RSL (Returned and Services League) club official, wreaths are laid, a minute of silence is observed, “The Last Post” is played, “The Ode” is read and the ceremony is finished off with the National Anthem. Later in the day people head to RSL clubs or pubs for two-up (betting on a coin game) and lots of beer. In previous years the old diggers’ stories were always fascinating, but I found it difficult to relate to events that had happened so long ago. This year I met 3 sailors, 6 infantrymen & 2 MP’s and they had served in East Timor, Solomon Islands and Iraq. It was really different speaking to servicemen around my age and younger who had actually experienced events that I have witnessed in the media.

― Hard like armour, Thursday, 3 May 2007 00:57 (eighteen years ago)

I have a friend who keeps sheep and she only has the little rams slaughtered, and only when they begin to butt. So that makes me feel better about it. They 're beginning to act like assholes. Let's eat 'em.

― Beth Parker, Thursday, 3 May 2007 14:01 (eighteen years ago)

Ah, if only...

Never mind. Plus I have just noticed the answer to my question to Ronan, above.

Hey, it turns out I may not have asthma at all, but that my asthma-like symptoms may in fact be an allergic reaction to my blood pressure medication. Hooray! Except that I'm pissed off that it took my doctor four months to work this out, when she was the one that put me on the stupid medication in the first place, and has seen me three times since the asthma symptoms started. It's also boo because the last blood pressure medication I was on made me throw up and fall down. So now we're on medication number three. I am expecting to turn a delicate shade of violet.

― accentmonkey, Thursday, 3 May 2007 14:10 (eighteen years ago)

With the red hair that could be kind of cool Ms Monkey!

― kv_nol, Thursday, 3 May 2007 16:05 (eighteen years ago)

How was the bbq?

― braveclub, Friday, 4 May 2007 10:48 (eighteen years ago)

WE DEMAND ANSWERS!

― kv_nol, Friday, 4 May 2007 11:07 (eighteen years ago)

My fish had a baby fish! (Only one, I suspect some may have already been eaten)

We've made a start on the garden, 3 hours with a petrol strimmer with a blade, not a wire, and three hours with a large petrol lawnmower. Been raking and digging out stumps, hacking down bushes and tearing out the fence. I have a pleasurable ache all over and have lost 3lbs.

I've been diagnosed with a heart murmur, a small hole (oo err) and a dilation of the chamber wall. I'd been experiencing breathlessness, an irregular heartbeat and a constant awareness of my heartbeat.

Had to wear a monitor for a week, sleeping was a nightmare, kept dreaming that I was tangled up in fishing nets.

This talk of barbecues is making me hungry!

― *rumpie*, Friday, 4 May 2007 13:19 (eighteen years ago)

The BBQ was great, I had a few beers and it was fun.

Then it was made even better by the events depicted below, albeit after almost two hours of sickly nerves.

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42872000/jpg/_42872483_winners_getty416.jpg

― Ronan, Friday, 4 May 2007 13:33 (eighteen years ago)

Yikes, Rumpie! A SMALL HOLE????? Can they patch it?
Good for you for remaining active. Probably the best thing for it.

― Beth Parker, Friday, 4 May 2007 13:34 (eighteen years ago)

Woah, that's no fun rumpie. Does it ever close up?

Ronan, get thee to the Attn: Dubliners thread. Plans are afoot for FAP.

― kv_nol, Friday, 4 May 2007 13:35 (eighteen years ago)

Every year our pond frogs have a million tadpoles, and not one makes it to adulthood. They eat them all. I think it has to do with the size of the pond.

― Beth Parker, Friday, 4 May 2007 13:36 (eighteen years ago)

I'm v. sorry about your heart rumpie! what are they going to do?

My weekend/spring was ruined last night by this:

http://espn-i.starwave.com/media/apphoto/ec91eb20-a96d-496c-ae8e-8ef7b5790766.jpg

Note my guys are the ones in blue, lost in that dismal sea of gold. We went from top in the league, favorites to win the championship to the bad end of "biggest upset in NBA history" in six games. ;_;

― Ms Misery, Friday, 4 May 2007 13:39 (eighteen years ago)

The Red Sox continue not too shabby. Not that I watch the games myself, but my two sons are total fanatics so I am concerned on their behalf.

― Beth Parker, Friday, 4 May 2007 13:43 (eighteen years ago)

That's a shame. We overturned a losing score from the first game in a two leg round to beat a club owned by a Russian oligarch, via a penalty shoot out. which is in this youtube...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRHaORK7ymg

the last time we won this trophy was pretty much the happiest day of my life, around a month before I became sick. as I said on the football thread I like to think, in a silly way, that if they win it this year I might feel better again! they're playing the same team in the final and they beat the same team in the semi-final.

― Ronan, Friday, 4 May 2007 13:44 (eighteen years ago)

That is rather a sea of gold up there. Looks like fall foliage in the Berkshires.

― Beth Parker, Friday, 4 May 2007 13:44 (eighteen years ago)

A pond, there's an idea.

I've to go back for results of the monitor thing next week, they may consider injecting a dye or something too.

The cardiologist said that it could be 'a variation of normal' since I'm otherwise healthy, and the palpitations, breathlessness etc may be an 'abnormal awareness' on my part of my heartbeat!

I'm not sure if I'm totally happy with this explanation, but the monitor should have picked up any abnormal rhythmns - I had to keep a diary of when I felt symptoms and see if this matches up.

― *rumpie*, Friday, 4 May 2007 13:54 (eighteen years ago)

hope you feel a bit better. unexplained symptoms are shit.

― Ronan, Friday, 4 May 2007 13:57 (eighteen years ago)

Thanks man, the anxiety of the whole thing is giving me palpitations!

― *rumpie*, Friday, 4 May 2007 14:02 (eighteen years ago)

Good one.

― kv_nol, Friday, 4 May 2007 14:03 (eighteen years ago)

The Red Sox continue not too shabby. Not that I watch the games myself, but my two sons are total fanatics so I am concerned on their behalf.

no, they'll be fine. it was something different prior to '04. being a sox fan meant having a really self-defeating, self-hating, pessimistic outlook that would cloud everything and spill over into real life. but the new ownership wants to win so things are different. now if only the bandwagon jumpers would jump the fuck off it would be perfect.

― chicago kevin, Friday, 4 May 2007 14:08 (eighteen years ago)

I'm getting into baseball more than ever this year, thought still in that delightfully naive "so if he hits the ball he HAS to run?" kind of questioning way, and I am finding, as I follow the results, that some teams inspire support and others the opposite. I feel antipathy towards the Yankees, the Angels, the Dodgers, the Marlins, The Tigers, the Braves and the As, while I cheer for the Rockies, the Cubs, the Twins, the Blue Jays and the Reds.

― Mark C, Friday, 4 May 2007 14:16 (eighteen years ago)

i've never really gotten into baseball. It's just too slow.

― Ms Misery, Friday, 4 May 2007 14:18 (eighteen years ago)

Ihear you get big beers though which can only make me like it!

― kv_nol, Friday, 4 May 2007 14:25 (eighteen years ago)

nothing beats a beer, an open screen door, and a baseball game on the radio.

xpost

― lauren, Friday, 4 May 2007 14:26 (eighteen years ago)

except a beer, a big screen tv and a basketball game.

boo, I can't believe the season is over for my time. I'm going to have content myself with watching the suns/spurs.

― Ms Misery, Friday, 4 May 2007 14:31 (eighteen years ago)

bah. you people with your large modern tvs and non-bootleg cable.

― lauren, Friday, 4 May 2007 14:42 (eighteen years ago)

;)

Hey, I suffered for years with the 15" tv/vcr I got for my high school graduation and the cable I slipped a guy $50 to rig for me.

― Ms Misery, Friday, 4 May 2007 14:48 (eighteen years ago)

nothing beats a beer, an open screen door, and a baseball game on the radio.

xpost

-- lauren, Friday, May 4, 2007 9:26 AM (22 minutes ago)

let's get married.

― chicago kevin, Friday, 4 May 2007 14:49 (eighteen years ago)

What about a beer, open French windows, BBQ fired up and speakers playing drinking music? There would need to be friends of course!

― kv_nol, Friday, 4 May 2007 14:55 (eighteen years ago)

Also if you get married all of this thread have to be invited. We were there at the beginning of this engagement after all!

― kv_nol, Friday, 4 May 2007 14:55 (eighteen years ago)

we're not getting married. my wife would find out and kill me.

― chicago kevin, Friday, 4 May 2007 14:57 (eighteen years ago)

Uh oh.

― kv_nol, Friday, 4 May 2007 15:03 (eighteen years ago)

bbq fired up, open french doors, drinks music on the stereo, etc is of course nice. that's basically my parents' house every night when the weather is warm. my mother is a maniac when it comes to outdoor dining and has ruined many sets of patio furniture by moving them out way too early. the last set was decimated by a freak april ice storm.

― lauren, Friday, 4 May 2007 15:07 (eighteen years ago)

kevin, do you have a screen door? after years of apt living, that's like a holy nostalgic grail to me.

― lauren, Friday, 4 May 2007 15:09 (eighteen years ago)

Lack of screen doors is one of the things about Britain which most infuriate her.

― Mark C, Friday, 4 May 2007 15:14 (eighteen years ago)

Her being my gf. Not sure how I managed to leave her out of that post.

― Mark C, Friday, 4 May 2007 15:14 (eighteen years ago)

Oh! I just remembered something really cool that my ha><or chums on the internets would appreciate - when I gleefully bought my summer holiday plane tickets, the reference number for the flights was Y4YXOR :D

― Mark C, Friday, 4 May 2007 15:15 (eighteen years ago)

is lauren your girlfriend? ;) j/k. . .

we have a screen in front but none on the french doors in the back which lead onto the patio. a minor thing but screen doors are def. nice for keeping out flies.

― Ms Misery, Friday, 4 May 2007 15:16 (eighteen years ago)

anyone seen the new york doll documentary? i fell asleep last night while watching it. :-(

― nathalie, Friday, 4 May 2007 15:17 (eighteen years ago)

we have a copy of it, but i've yet to watch it. probably because my bf had a similar reaction to yours, nath.

― lauren, Friday, 4 May 2007 15:24 (eighteen years ago)

Her bf isn't me, btw

― Mark C, Friday, 4 May 2007 15:25 (eighteen years ago)

I'm heading home to white wine in the sun and a good chat. Hopefully God of War 2 will have arrived so if the evening flags I'll have that to potter around with!

― kv_nol, Friday, 4 May 2007 15:47 (eighteen years ago)

Yr bf, aka not-mark c, is pregnant? ;-)

― nathalie, Friday, 4 May 2007 15:48 (eighteen years ago)

that would explain his frequent dozing off.

― lauren, Friday, 4 May 2007 15:49 (eighteen years ago)

we just had a new ballpark built two blocks from my home -- it is wonderful! it's the farm team for the l.a. angels. i think they're the l.a. angels, formerly anaheim. which is total 'boo' because we used to have the st. louis cards!

― Ai Lien, Friday, 4 May 2007 15:55 (eighteen years ago)

I just got an awesome package from patita! Thank you!

― aimurchie, Saturday, 5 May 2007 00:57 (eighteen years ago)

Frogs and submarines and ...a CD that i will listen to in a few minutes! And animals that are magnets and, oh my god...
my day is made. Times eight million.

A big box of stuff! Thank you so much,Patita!

― aimurchie, Saturday, 5 May 2007 01:05 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, Patita now i am listening!

― aimurchie, Saturday, 5 May 2007 01:19 (eighteen years ago)

kevin, do you have a screen door? after years of apt living, that's like a holy nostalgic grail to me.

It's not as romantic, but 15 years after I left my parents' house, I finally got my first clothes line. It sounds stupid, but with the clothes line and the nice weather, I'm actually almost enjoying getting washing done, and am washing everything, including coats and hats.

I imagine the fun will pale after a while.

― accentmonkey, Saturday, 5 May 2007 07:30 (eighteen years ago)

I was able to watch the doc. last night. What a sad sad story. :-( I mean, it was grebt... and then the end just blew me away even though I knew it was coming.

― stevienixed, Saturday, 5 May 2007 07:57 (eighteen years ago)

i has a flu :(

― g-kit, Saturday, 5 May 2007 08:11 (eighteen years ago)

Ah teh_kit, that's rough. I'm huffing flixonase in preparation for the camping. Roundwood/Glendalough here I come. Thinking of going to that gig in Tripod on Sunday, I won free tickets so it would be rude not to go. Also won tickets for Neosupervital this evening but needless to say won't make it.

― kv_nol, Saturday, 5 May 2007 09:21 (eighteen years ago)

i has allergy, i think. i feel even crapper than usual pregnant self.

― nathalie, Saturday, 5 May 2007 09:27 (eighteen years ago)

I like the clotheslines that go out of the second story window and get reeled in. I don't have one, but i admire the few that exist in the neighborhood.
I like seeing clothes hanging out to dry, way up in the air, dancing in the breeze.

Sorry for all flu/allergy things for everyone!

Everyone should ask Patita for a gift box. It rocks!

― aimurchie, Saturday, 5 May 2007 15:22 (eighteen years ago)

Is it wrong to be happy that Paris Hilton is going to jail?
I think it is - jail sucks for anybody.
Today is Gay Pride (here) - is it national? I'm not sure. But the parade in Northampton, MA. is today, which means....lot's of fun and dancing and outrageous behaviour, all sanctioned by the city and state. Northampton is one of the top gay communities in the nation, according to many reputable sources.
(Oh, and six weeks ago I posted about the St. Patrick's Day parade in Holyoke, which is the opposite end of the spectrum.)
I could be marching in the parade - with the organization I work with, which provides support for survivors of sexual assault and...provides support for anyone who needs support, basically.
But I think it's more fun to be on the sidelines and watch.
There will probably be a few weddings. Yay! And, not to be crass, but - I like it when the trannies get dolled up and blow kisses at a crowd!
I expect there will be some "Free Paris" t-shirts, as she is a cult figure amongst the cross dressing community.
Gay Pride parade!
I love all three of those words.

― aimurchie, Saturday, 5 May 2007 16:25 (eighteen years ago)

Ooh, aimurchie, you are only a couple hours away from me! Cool. We do not have a gay pride parade, but we had a lot of campus queer pride events last month. Not as exciting...sounds like fun over there!

I think it is great to be in a state where there can be weddings - when I've caught myself making jokes about gay marriage being illegal (don't know why or how they come up, but they do) and remembered that it actually is here, it makes me happy.

― Maria, Saturday, 5 May 2007 16:46 (eighteen years ago)

Hi maria! You are the graduate ancient boat maria, correct?
I agree, you can bitch about Mass. as much as you want to, but it's the FIRST state to legalize same sex unions as marriage. Thank fucking God for our state supreme court. Because our governors have not been so great. MITT ROMNEY. But now we have Deval Patrick, and we are all sort of happy.
(Just to let you know, anyone who cares, Mitt Romney was the Governor of Massachusetts and is running for president as a Republican. He was elected in Mass. because...I don't know why a Mormon from Utah became the governor of Massachusetts. He was fondly referred to as "Nit Wit Mitt". it's as complicated as trying to understand Red Sox statistics.
Romney sucked.)
I'm in a "don't get me started" mood about Romney and the great Republican debate.
But our state supreme court continues to rock.
Deval Patrick might show up for gay pride.
It's a queer mardi gras!

― aimurchie, Saturday, 5 May 2007 18:15 (eighteen years ago)

Deval Patrick? Surely the name of someone who appears on Star Trek, not someone who runs your state?

― accentmonkey, Saturday, 5 May 2007 20:33 (eighteen years ago)

What makes you think Massachusetts is NOT Star Trek?
I might be posting from the Enterprise.

― aimurchie, Sunday, 6 May 2007 02:42 (eighteen years ago)

Holy crap. I want to live where you live. Except lycra does nothing for me. Too bumpy.

― accentmonkey, Sunday, 6 May 2007 09:37 (eighteen years ago)

I will be so freaked out if Romney ends up as a serious contender for the presidency. I mean, I probably wouldn't cry myself to sleep if Giuliani were, not so happy about McCain, SERIOUSLY freaked out by Romney.

(And yes I am graduate boat Maria. The spaceship will drop me by the coast.)

― Maria, Sunday, 6 May 2007 18:12 (eighteen years ago)

ok i didn't get either of the jobs :(

― braveclub, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 13:16 (eighteen years ago)

Not meant to be. Where are you? Northern hemisphere? If so, it's SPRING!!!! Get thee to a landscaping crew. Fuck the office job with brainiac skillz involved. Get dirty!
I have to go pick up many sacks of manure and mulch now, making multiple trips between garden center and job so that I don't kill my poor Corolla.

― Beth Parker, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 13:26 (eighteen years ago)

Sorry to hear that Braveclub. What were they?

I was in a garden center here:

http://www.powerscourt.ie/gardens/images/banner_homepage.jpg

Camping was a success! We were here (Vartry reservoir/lake. Much bigger than in the photo):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:IMG_4135w.JPG

and here (my holy namesake's region. I had a great time seeing 'Saint' before my name. It felt right somehow!):

http://www.mountaineering.ie/features/gallery/Upper%20Lake,%20Glendalough%20(1).jpg

― kv_nol, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 13:41 (eighteen years ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/91/IMG_4135w.JPG/240px-IMG_4135w.JPG

Hope that works!

― kv_nol, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 13:42 (eighteen years ago)

SCORE!!

― kv_nol, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 13:42 (eighteen years ago)

Beautiful!
Obviously, I have not gone to work yet.
The problem with solo self-employment.

― Beth Parker, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 13:49 (eighteen years ago)

What were they?

more subediting jobs. but the idea of working outside is a very appealing one right now.

― braveclub, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 14:07 (eighteen years ago)

i keep forgetting about this thread. i posted on watercooler. nobody noticed.

anyway, summary of last week or so:
sick!
maed igloo!
downloaded bad films!
played WoW! of all things!
relocated igloo!
pined for human contact!
turned down a free haircut!

i want to eat real food again soon.

― g-kit, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 15:06 (eighteen years ago)

Hopefully more will come along braveclub. Chin up.

Real food is great. Someone actually cooked me a meal last night. I always forget how nice it is to have more than one thing on a plate :) I should really get back to cooking, I used to be so good at it :(

Hang on, igloo? WTF kind of weather is there in downsouth-roffleton?

― kv_nol, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 15:19 (eighteen years ago)

i builded it out of things in my living room.

― g-kit, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 15:24 (eighteen years ago)

Ice blocks?

― accentmonkey, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 15:38 (eighteen years ago)

I presume it was to make sure that polar bear wasn't homesick.

― kv_nol, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 15:47 (eighteen years ago)

actually i totally emptied my freezer this week. but that's cos i was too much of a pussy to leave the igloo and go shopping, so i ate all my frozen delights.

― g-kit, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 15:48 (eighteen years ago)

ooh, polar bear. i WILL make that picture when i look more healthy/less dead

― g-kit, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 15:48 (eighteen years ago)

Poor teh kit. It's miserable to be sick.

― accentmonkey, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 16:41 (eighteen years ago)

I teleport some roast chicken to you.

― Beth Parker, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 23:50 (eighteen years ago)

WOW!!!! I just got my box from Patita! AMAZING collection of stuff! Wind-up penguin! Plastic monkey! Weird rubbery pink thing with bristles that wants to jump out of your hands! Book of Marital Advice! Parrot letter-opener! More and More and More! Stuff just kept coming out of the MAGIC BOX!!!!!!
OH! And a bundle of thousand-dollar bills, FROM HELL!
This is the best box ever!
Thank you thank you thank you!!!!!!!!!

― Beth Parker, Thursday, 10 May 2007 03:22 (eighteen years ago)

Plz don't telepotrt chicken at me, i'm a vegetarian!

― g-kit, Thursday, 10 May 2007 07:52 (eighteen years ago)

Beth Parker! I got your postcard! It is BEEE-OOOOOOOO-TIFUL! I've put it up on my Cabinet of Interesting Things for now, but I'm going to get a nice frame for it soon.

Will send you English Pebbles (but must not get caught as is apparently an offense to take them now) or something interesting in return soon!

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 10 May 2007 09:17 (eighteen years ago)

i got told off for igloo :(

― g-kit, Thursday, 10 May 2007 12:25 (eighteen years ago)

Did you not get planning permission or something?

― kv_nol, Thursday, 10 May 2007 12:26 (eighteen years ago)

I think we should all quit our jobs and apply for an arts grant to finance our compulsive mailings.
G-kit, did you make the igloo out of unsightly household trash? What was the problem? What a bunch of wet-blanket killjoys.

― Beth Parker, Thursday, 10 May 2007 12:45 (eighteen years ago)

i don't really know.

― g-kit, Thursday, 10 May 2007 12:48 (eighteen years ago)

Who told you off then? That might help team ILX figure out why!

― kv_nol, Thursday, 10 May 2007 13:40 (eighteen years ago)

landlord said i'm not allowed to build an igloo and sublet the rest of my house

― g-kit, Thursday, 10 May 2007 13:54 (eighteen years ago)

Ah well, there's your reason! Was the igloo a tent or a treehouse sans tree?

― kv_nol, Thursday, 10 May 2007 14:01 (eighteen years ago)

the authorities were getting itchy about my defences, too.

― g-kit, Thursday, 10 May 2007 14:04 (eighteen years ago)

100% sans tree

― g-kit, Thursday, 10 May 2007 14:04 (eighteen years ago)

Right, but you probably overlooked the NO MOAT! clause in your lease. It's common enough, but it catches out a lot of tenants.

― accentmonkey, Thursday, 10 May 2007 14:06 (eighteen years ago)

It's a bath!

― g-kit, Thursday, 10 May 2007 14:08 (eighteen years ago)

And that portucullis? That would be what exactly?

― kv_nol, Thursday, 10 May 2007 14:25 (eighteen years ago)

Shit. No prizes for spelling mistake spotting!

― kv_nol, Thursday, 10 May 2007 14:26 (eighteen years ago)

screen door

― g-kit, Thursday, 10 May 2007 14:30 (eighteen years ago)

boiling oil cauldron = flower pot
archer slits = cracks in brickwork
drawbridge = skateboard in front garden

― g-kit, Thursday, 10 May 2007 14:32 (eighteen years ago)

Big flies down there in downsouth-roffleton?

Pots of boiling tar? Redoing the roof were we mr. g-kit? (xpost) you got in in front of me!

― kv_nol, Thursday, 10 May 2007 14:33 (eighteen years ago)

me clever, me plan ahead

― g-kit, Thursday, 10 May 2007 14:33 (eighteen years ago)

see if you spot at which post the LIES started.

― g-kit, Thursday, 10 May 2007 14:36 (eighteen years ago)

You never had any flowerpots?

Right, that's it. G-kit's strictly-above-board wuv for our ursine friends in the north has reminded me of what's important. For the last three days Mister M and I have been contemplating what to do with our Special Savings Account money and we talked about buying a new car and what-not.

But, like Edmund and the Turkish Delight, I allowed talk of shiny estate cars to distract me from what is important, namely, going to the North Pole on one of those trawler chaps so I can see WHALES and POLAR BEARS.

Thanks, g-kit.

― accentmonkey, Thursday, 10 May 2007 14:37 (eighteen years ago)

TAKE ME WITH YOU

― g-kit, Thursday, 10 May 2007 14:38 (eighteen years ago)

i'll bring singstar ^_^

― g-kit, Thursday, 10 May 2007 14:38 (eighteen years ago)

i want to go to sweden again now.

― g-kit, Thursday, 10 May 2007 14:40 (eighteen years ago)

Sweden is great. You should be using that SSIA money for something sensible [/mother]. The North Pole sounds deadly craic! Go for it!

Mixed messages? Moi?

Also I think the lies started when G-kit pretended to be a cat. I could tell he wasn't. Comfortable using the mouse for a start.

― kv_nol, Thursday, 10 May 2007 14:50 (eighteen years ago)

ooh, i never pretended to be a cat. did i?
ps TRACKERBALL, BEEYOTCH

― g-kit, Thursday, 10 May 2007 14:52 (eighteen years ago)

today I'm all for quitting my job. Although I'm horrible about getting things in the mail so probably wouldn't qualify for that art grant.

― Ms Misery, Thursday, 10 May 2007 15:04 (eighteen years ago)

You cannot be L33t and use trackerball! For shame man-kit.

― kv_nol, Thursday, 10 May 2007 15:14 (eighteen years ago)

Web of lies... collapsing around me...

― g-kit, Thursday, 10 May 2007 15:15 (eighteen years ago)

Oh g-kit...

― kv_nol, Thursday, 10 May 2007 15:24 (eighteen years ago)

Have a beer. It'll make it all easier to accept.

― kv_nol, Thursday, 10 May 2007 15:25 (eighteen years ago)

I haven't consumed alcohol for about... 10 days! I'm still not feeling up to drinking, but I know it'll happen again sooner or later...

― g-kit, Thursday, 10 May 2007 15:26 (eighteen years ago)

I'll have it for you so.

― kv_nol, Thursday, 10 May 2007 15:26 (eighteen years ago)

www.irishspring.com

I am failing at linking. basically a bunch of lasses are hanging out being Irish on the edge of a river ....you know, combing your hair by the river in a slip!
And then they all get sucked down a river vortex and end up in a bottle of Irish Spring body wash.
And a guy takes a shower with the Irish Spring.

And one of them winks at the showering guy - from the bottle. The rest of them are still in the bottle?
It's weird, and I need to alert you about it.

― aimurchie, Friday, 11 May 2007 05:25 (eighteen years ago)

I swear I can find this....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XtaQAS4dzA

I just need you to know this is happening.
How are your leprechauns?

― aimurchie, Friday, 11 May 2007 05:34 (eighteen years ago)

This gives me nightmares.

― aimurchie, Friday, 11 May 2007 05:42 (eighteen years ago)

This gives me dreams.

75-Year-Old Woman Makes North Pole Trek
She's Believed To Be First Black Woman To Make Trip

NEW YORK -- The bone-numbing trek to the North Pole is riddled with enough perils to make a seasoned explorer quake: Frostbite threatens, polar bears loom and the ice is constantly shifting beneath frozen feet.

But Barbara Hillary took it all in stride, completing the trek to the world's northernmost point last month at the age of 75.

She is one of the oldest people to reach the North Pole, and is believed to be the first black woman on record to accomplish the feat.

Hillary, of Averne, N.Y., grew up in Harlem and devoted herself to a nursing career and community activism. At 67 and during retirement, she battled lung cancer. Five years later, she went dog sledding in Quebec and photographed polar bears in Manitoba.

Then she heard that a black woman had never made it to the North Pole.

"I said, 'What's wrong with this picture?'" she said. "So I sort of rolled into this, shall we say."

In 1909, Matthew Henson made history as the first black man to reach the Pole, though his accomplishment was not officially recognized for decades -- it was overshadowed by the presence of his white colleague, Robert Peary.

Ann Bancroft, a physical education teacher from Minnesota, was the North Pole's first female visitor in 1986 as a member of the Steger Polar Expedition, which arrived unassisted in a re-creation of the 1909 trip.

Various scientific organizations said no record exists of a black woman matching Bancroft's feat, although such record-keeping is not perfect.

"It's not like there's a guest book when you get up there and you sign it," said Robert Russell, founder of Eagles Cry Adventures, Inc., the travel company that leads thrill-seekers like Hillary to the farthest corners of the globe.

Russell conducted six months' worth of research, interviewing fellow polar expedition contractors and digging through history books, but failed to find a black woman who had completed the trek.

Russell's paying customers can travel to the North Pole in various ways, from 18-day cross-country ski trips to simply being dropped off at the Pole via helicopter. The trip costs about $21,000 per person.

Hillary insisted on skiing. Only trouble was, she had never been on the slopes before.

"It wasn't a popular sport in Harlem," she quipped.

So she enrolled in cross-country skiing lessons and hired a personal trainer, who finally determined she was physically fit for the voyage.

"She's a headstrong woman. You don't tell her 'no' about too many things," Russell said.

Her lack of funds didn't stop her, either. Hillary scraped together thousands of dollars and solicited private donors. On April 18, she arrived in Longyearben, Norway, where it is common for people to carry guns to ward off hungry polar bears.

"Before I arrived, the word was out that soul food was coming," she joked.

The travelers were then flown to the base camp -- which is rebuilt each year due to melting ice -- and pitched their tents. On April 23 Hillary set off on skis with two trained guides. Russell, fearing for her health, had convinced her to take the daylong ski route to the Pole in lieu of the longer trips.

As the sunlight glinted off the ice, distorting her gaze, Hillary struggled beneath a load of gear and pressed on. In her euphoria at reaching the Pole, she forgot the cold and removed her gloves, causing her fingers to become frostbitten.

Standing at the top of the world, she could have cared less. The enormous expanse of ice and sky left Hillary, for once in her long life, speechless.

But for Hillary, the achievement extends beyond race. She hopes her journey will inspire hope in other cancer survivors. With her feet back on dry land in New York, she is already plotting a new adventure: that of a global-warming activist.

"What if?" she said. "I'd like to go and lecture to different groups on what they can do on a grass-roots level (to fight global warming)."
Copyright 2007 by The Associated Press. All rights

― aimurchie, Friday, 11 May 2007 05:58 (eighteen years ago)

Also, as i go to beddy bye, the thunder and lightning is awesome. First summer storm. Also good for the asparagus, which i NEED to be eating right now. Tomorrow.

― aimurchie, Friday, 11 May 2007 06:23 (eighteen years ago)

I remember when I was in the U.S. once, being shocked to see our very own Bryan Murray, beloved actor of these isles, peddling Irish Spring or Irish Breeze or some such thing. It was all very ho ho, me boyos, sure here's some clean hair for ye, or similar.

We went to see Sweeney Todd at the Theatre last night. It's a great show, but sadly it's the second play I've been to in Dublin this year that was more like an excellent amateur production than a decent professional one.

― accentmonkey, Friday, 11 May 2007 07:42 (eighteen years ago)

i'm so glad to hear that barbara hillary made it! i read an article about her a while ago, and at that point it wasn't looking like she'd be able to raise the funds for the trip.

― lauren, Friday, 11 May 2007 14:26 (eighteen years ago)

the interviewer asked her what her secret to robust longevity was, and she gave him three tips. the two that i remember are "mind your own business" and "don't be afraid to tell someone to go hell if you need to."

― lauren, Friday, 11 May 2007 14:28 (eighteen years ago)

That sounds like sound advice for decreasing stress.

― Ms Misery, Friday, 11 May 2007 14:32 (eighteen years ago)

I had a dream last night that I got sunburn :(

― g-kit, Friday, 11 May 2007 14:36 (eighteen years ago)

What a silly thing to dream about.

― g-kit, Friday, 11 May 2007 14:36 (eighteen years ago)

was it a really bad one? Or were you doing something fun when you got it?

― Ms Misery, Friday, 11 May 2007 14:37 (eighteen years ago)

I was just walking around and then I realised I was burning and was really disappointed in myself because I always cover up IRL.

― g-kit, Friday, 11 May 2007 14:47 (eighteen years ago)

i like that in my world, RL is the opposite of dreaming.

― g-kit, Friday, 11 May 2007 14:47 (eighteen years ago)

I just realised that I've never had a L O S T dream. That saddens me somewhat.

― g-kit, Friday, 11 May 2007 14:48 (eighteen years ago)

I had a dream about you, g-kit! I had moved to Hong Kong, and you and I were sharing an apartment, and we sat in the living room watching a film on telly about a mafia guy who looked like Fabio who was sleeping with his boss's wife, but because he didn't have a girlfriend everyone thought he was gay, so they were going to kill him. The wife was going to confess to her husband so that her lover wouldn't get killed, but he said no, because then her husband would just kill them both.

So we were sitting in our chairs, watching this film, and I noticed I was getting a headache from this bright light that was shining in my eyes, so I started to move my chair and you said "don't, that's how they watch you. If you move it, you'll get into trouble".

That was my dream.

― accentmonkey, Friday, 11 May 2007 15:18 (eighteen years ago)

Sounds like teh kit has been camping a bit too much in CS:S!

― kv_nol, Friday, 11 May 2007 15:43 (eighteen years ago)

That's mental! If I could choose my ideal career, I'd totally want to be a deliverer of cryptic messages in dreamworld. I'm really pleased that somehow, somewhere, in somebody's subconcious, I'm actually achieving this. Hoorah!

Did you actually dream up the whole plot for a mafia movie? That's pretty amazing, too.

― g-kit, Friday, 11 May 2007 16:27 (eighteen years ago)

I dreamed that I went to a lawyer because AT&T is harassing me with bill collectors, and the lawyer made an AT&T voodoo doll.

― Beth Parker, Sunday, 13 May 2007 00:36 (eighteen years ago)

Dreams rule, sometimes.

Hey, my brother got engaged today! Big Essex wedding!

― accentmonkey, Sunday, 13 May 2007 14:34 (eighteen years ago)

lol essex :)

― g-kit, Sunday, 13 May 2007 16:03 (eighteen years ago)

I know! Maybe they'll have a horse-drawn carriage to take them to the church, because there's nothing classier than Barbie dream coach on your wedding day.

I'm sorry if anyone here had a Barbie dream coach to take them to the church.

― accentmonkey, Monday, 14 May 2007 07:36 (eighteen years ago)

Congrats to your brother! I take it that this is not the one I met based in Scotland or the other based in London? Savage!

Barbie Dream Coach? Oh dear...

― kv_nol, Monday, 14 May 2007 07:39 (eighteen years ago)

Sure, I heard about a couple in Lucan who were pissed off because they were denied clearance from air traffic control at Baldonnell aerodrome to travel from the church to their reception by helicopter.

Talk about money to burn. Jesus.

Anyway, no, it's Ed, who is the middle brother. We are all very happy, his lady is lovely and already like one of the family (in that she calls us on our birthdays to tell us we smell of poo, which only family is really allowed to do).

― accentmonkey, Monday, 14 May 2007 13:19 (eighteen years ago)

http://whatisee.org/mt/archives/images/racept-1.jpg

We got married here, by a justice of the peace. Just us and the kids. We didn't tell anyone we were doing it, because it would have turned into a clusterfuck of friends and family (otherwise known as "a wedding").

It's a life-saving station in Provincetown. Using a cannon, they used to fire life-preservers on ropes out to sinking ships. The outer cape is full of shipwrecks. Lots of rocks. We just stumbled upon the place and called up the J.P., who drove out to perform the deed. She told us that a pair of whales had come into the town harbor, so we drove over there and saw them. Astonishing. They were breaching right by the dock.

― Beth Parker, Monday, 14 May 2007 13:24 (eighteen years ago)

essex is without doubt the best place 2 haev wedding

― g-kit, Monday, 14 May 2007 13:25 (eighteen years ago)

I used to work for a company that provided carriages for weddings. They were none of them pink, however. Perhaps they missed a trick there?

― Zora, Monday, 14 May 2007 13:30 (eighteen years ago)

I thought you said that he was married! Madness! She is truly family if she is allowed away with that kind of thing :)

How was trad gig? (Apologies for odd behaviour on Saturday and any rudeness. I was not doing so good with the whole hangover).

Beth, I can't see that. G-kit I know nothing of Essex.

― kv_nol, Monday, 14 May 2007 13:32 (eighteen years ago)

i went to a FUN wedding this past weekend. it was held at this woodsy retreat with ducks, paddle boats, canoes, obscene amounts of champagne & a cake that didn't have too much icing & tasted good. everyone looked so pretty and cute!

― Ai Lien, Monday, 14 May 2007 13:37 (eighteen years ago)

Pedaloes + booze = deathtrap, surely?

― kv_nol, Monday, 14 May 2007 13:39 (eighteen years ago)

Oh me oh my my grammar belongs in a sty :(

― kv_nol, Monday, 14 May 2007 13:39 (eighteen years ago)

Not to mention my attempts to rhyme :(

― kv_nol, Monday, 14 May 2007 13:39 (eighteen years ago)

Or spell.

― kv_nol, Monday, 14 May 2007 13:40 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.cr.nps.gov/maritime/park/oldhbr.jpg

Here's another pic. Can you see it?

― Beth Parker, Monday, 14 May 2007 13:47 (eighteen years ago)

Zoom-In-able Life-Saving Station!

― Beth Parker, Monday, 14 May 2007 13:53 (eighteen years ago)

Aparently there are life-saving stations all over the place.

― Beth Parker, Monday, 14 May 2007 13:54 (eighteen years ago)

Kev-lol, you were your usual charming self on Saturday, do not fear. Also you look v. well. Seems you have dropped that weight that was nagging at you. Good show.

Nope, it is my older brother who is married.

Beth, Mister M and I got married in a park in Halifax NS, for exactly the same reason as you: couldn't be arsed to organize a wedding.

― accentmonkey, Monday, 14 May 2007 14:03 (eighteen years ago)

Relief to heat that I wasn't as bad as I thought and thanks for compliment, will be keeping at it but always nice to hear something's happened!

Beth, that looks wonderful. V cool.

― kv_nol, Monday, 14 May 2007 14:25 (eighteen years ago)

FREEEEDOOOOOOOOOOM!!!111

― g-kit, Monday, 14 May 2007 15:38 (eighteen years ago)

(and polar bears)

― g-kit, Monday, 14 May 2007 15:38 (eighteen years ago)

???

― kv_nol, Monday, 14 May 2007 15:39 (eighteen years ago)

got told off on watercooler

― g-kit, Monday, 14 May 2007 15:40 (eighteen years ago)

What for? Did you cross the thread-mistress?

― kv_nol, Monday, 14 May 2007 16:01 (eighteen years ago)

FFS, g-kit, Mitya asked you not to spoil the plot of a television programme he hasn't seen yet. How is that getting "told off"?

Don't spread terrible lies about people across different threads. That's really not very nice.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 14 May 2007 16:03 (eighteen years ago)

Was this programme LOST? Bold g-kit! I still haven't watched it though.

Chill out everyone. No need to have a go at each other on a different thread.

― kv_nol, Monday, 14 May 2007 16:06 (eighteen years ago)

aka we are all at peace on island ATNATTIALSO...

― kv_nol, Monday, 14 May 2007 16:06 (eighteen years ago)

terrible lies

roffle

― Ms Misery, Monday, 14 May 2007 16:08 (eighteen years ago)

Now now everyone. There are no rules but hate crimes are bad mkay?

― kv_nol, Monday, 14 May 2007 16:08 (eighteen years ago)

And after a brief scuffle, the Wombles settled back down to their snoozy afternoon.

― accentmonkey, Monday, 14 May 2007 16:10 (eighteen years ago)

Oh no! I've the theme stuck in my head :(

But then I remember the only good bit in Breakfast on Pluto so I feel better. Score.

― kv_nol, Monday, 14 May 2007 16:11 (eighteen years ago)

What's a womble?

― Ms Misery, Monday, 14 May 2007 16:11 (eighteen years ago)

Here you go.

― kv_nol, Monday, 14 May 2007 16:16 (eighteen years ago)

They're fictional creatures who live on Wimbledon Common and make things out of litter. They live in burrows and they choose their names from Great Uncle Bulgaria's huge atlas, so they are called things like Tobermory and Orinoco and Wellington.

Elizabeth Beresford wrote the books, which are brilliant, and the BBC adapted some of the stories for television in the seventies, also brilliant.

Or, what Kev-lol said.

― accentmonkey, Monday, 14 May 2007 16:17 (eighteen years ago)

hmm, interesting. The one I saw looked like a furrier fraggle.

― Ms Misery, Monday, 14 May 2007 16:18 (eighteen years ago)

One of them later co-wrote Katie Muehla's (I can't spell her name and there's no way I'll google it) songs. Sad but true. Bloody theme still in my head accentmonkey. You are mean.

― kv_nol, Monday, 14 May 2007 16:19 (eighteen years ago)

Underground overground wombling free!

Also, ZOMBLES! They eat discarded brains.

― accentmonkey, Monday, 14 May 2007 16:20 (eighteen years ago)

!!!! That sounds like a frightening children's book. So this thread's inhabited by zombies then?

― Ms Misery, Monday, 14 May 2007 16:20 (eighteen years ago)

You made zombles up!

― kv_nol, Monday, 14 May 2007 16:22 (eighteen years ago)

Ho ho, nicked!

The thread only has zombies on it if Kev-lol's been on the batter the night before, can I get a witness?

― accentmonkey, Monday, 14 May 2007 16:22 (eighteen years ago)

Don't spread terrible lies about Wombles across various threads! Keep 'em on this one. Uncle Bulgaria has a map of the world that shows where every Illuminati obelisk is located.

Also: FU I R TOTALLY ALERT ON MORNING AFTER...

It's the afternoons that kill me :(

― kv_nol, Monday, 14 May 2007 16:24 (eighteen years ago)

Going to Mulligans later so will prob be as bad tomorrow :)

― kv_nol, Monday, 14 May 2007 16:24 (eighteen years ago)

there are no rules except we PURGE hate criminals. (blood will pour out their nose)

― Ronan, Monday, 14 May 2007 16:24 (eighteen years ago)

The recycled rubbish is used to make wraps for cocaine sold on wimbledon common.

Jesus Ronan, that's hardcore. Soon to start new thread Ronan? There are many posts or is that too close to DC, Watercooler and other balkan threads? Will we keep this going until we break server?

― kv_nol, Monday, 14 May 2007 16:25 (eighteen years ago)

ACtually, how to tell how many posts?

― kv_nol, Monday, 14 May 2007 16:26 (eighteen years ago)

I don't know. I suppose we should. If that's ok with everyone? This is a democracy.

― Ronan, Monday, 14 May 2007 16:26 (eighteen years ago)

This thread is long for me. I get intimidated when I open huge threads and have to try to find where I left off.

― Ms Misery, Monday, 14 May 2007 16:29 (eighteen years ago)

Don't, like, give it a 2 or ii after the name. This is organic man, not linear. Like, don't get all numerically fascist and stuff. That's just my opinion dude.

― kv_nol, Monday, 14 May 2007 16:29 (eighteen years ago)

Chicago's been keeping it loose with no numbers.

― Ms Misery, Monday, 14 May 2007 16:31 (eighteen years ago)

I have to go now. I leave it to you people to decide.

http://trio.caamuseum.org/image.asp?media=%5C%5Cserver2003%5Chome%5Cimages%5CMovies%5CDo+the+Right+Thing.jpg

― kv_nol, Monday, 14 May 2007 16:31 (eighteen years ago)

Woah. Hueg.

― kv_nol, Monday, 14 May 2007 16:31 (eighteen years ago)

Never mind. I have started new thread.

― accentmonkey, Monday, 14 May 2007 16:34 (eighteen years ago)

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