Not location specific, no rules and pants are optional - Could this thread be heaven?

mmm, dharma beer.

Previous thread for those catching up and the thread that started it all

I need those of the anything-goes thread to advise me on working today.

Other "tehkit" is a bit rubbish and nothing like the real thing tbh.

I wouldn't. If you go in, you'll be unproductive and frustrated. You'll be snappy, sap goodwill of fellow employees and get really down.

This is another mental health day. Two in quick succession isn't bad or unusual, come on now, you should take the time needed to get self back on track. It's not like you even had a full weekend (In laws on Sunday etc).

Teh_kit, Ur blog, show it to me.

Yeah but he has proper myspace angles.

xpost

that's exactly why he's pap.

teh_kev, email needed as reminder!

http://gkit.blog.mthai.com/

vampires silly fool update hot!

Kv, why must you be speaking as my subconsious? ;)

My coworkers sap my goodwill and bring me down. This is part of the reason why I feel less than compelled to go in. Also i really am hurting.

whoa, kit, why didn't you warn us your blog was wired for sound?

I had to very very much force myself to go to work today. And I cried before I left and I cried again (quietly, dont think anyone saw) when I got in. Hopeless. And I got bugger all work done. Why did I bother?

Anyway I think I'm ok now.

i recommend another cake baking day.

xp because it's not my blog.
xxp <3 Trayce

sorry if that seems useless, but in my world, "<3" makes it all better, every time.

Sorry for faek blog with sound - I had my speakers off and didn't know.

Fanks Kit :D

I had to very very much force myself to go to work today. And I cried before I left and I cried again (quietly, dont think anyone saw) when I got in. Hopeless. And I got bugger all work done. Why did I bother?

urgh, that is not good. I've had jobs that made me cry and made me physically ill and they definitely sucked. Fortunately this one isn't that bad, it's just annoying and demotivating as of late.

Kit, stop lying. We know that's your blog.

good evening. it is very exceptionally rather cold here, and i am (once again) hanging out at home with my computer while the rest of my housemates are off having a life (i presume - possibly they're at AA meetings, or NA meetings, or OEA meatings...). although i did have a pretty sociable weekend.

It's all <3s in teh thread that listens.

Ms Mis: Kv is RITE
Trayce: <3
kit: I ilxmailed you an eMinder

Oh its not my job making me cry its other things, generally life isnt doing too well right now, but I'm trying to keep on.

Sorry to whine! I really must stop that heh.

:( Sorry Trayce.

I think you need a cake baking day.

Also, where are you RubyRed?

on an island in the middle of the ocean... but close to trayce...

NEW ZEALAND!
it feels so far away from all the exciting stuff, sometimes.

:)

I'm excited for those of you already in evening. It's barely past 5 am here.

Ms Misery it sucks to hate where you work. It can pass even if you take time away. I'm currently hating it but then there are times where it's all good. It's how I come to work that makes the difference. One of the main things that helped me was getting a bit of excersize and forcing myself to read again. I hope that this is only temporary and passes v quickly. Now you can have a L O S T marathon (first mention on the thread, a winner is me!) on your tobler and if you remember for next time you could have it under this bad boy (Link is not dirty).

Trayce, have seen you mention things a couple of times. Keep at it and all will be calm.

Fuck me, I sound like a guru or some shit rather than a stress addled misanthrope. Yay for internet!

I'd love to go to New Zealand. Colleague just back raving about the place :(((

Man I totally want a slanket. IT IS SO COLD.

It is grey here as well.

Can't think what to do for lunch. I have stuff for sandwich upstairs but don't really want to mingle with colleagues. It's not them per se, it's the level of fraught nerves at the moment.

I think I'd choose the ruby wine slanket.

Still worried about that military coup, kvlal?

i've got our huge gas heater fired up (which requires a medium-sized rock and an antique sewing machine to operate), and my feet are still freezing.

i have a leopard print polar fleece robe which i may have to haul out.

NZ is pretty rad, esp wellington. i live only a 15 min walk from the CBD but my street is like living in the country. we have a large couch, a fold out couch, and a spare bed - come one, come all! we love visitors!

:)

The slanket is just. . .bizarre to me. Also it is not slanket weather here at the moment. Just clothes are miserable enough.

Yeah I don't want to seem like I'm whining about my job. It's really not that bad. Compared to past jobs where I was getting cussed at, my colleagues were struck and my car was shot at, this one's a walk in the park. It's just my boss's complete lack of leadership skills are a drag and therefore time there has started to drag.

what kind of work do you do, Ms Misery?

It's pretty warm here, I've actually had to put my fan on.

xp holy crap ms mis... yr car got shot at??

Webmaster, web developer, whatever. I prefer Webmonkey. (nb, the cussing, hitting, shooting job I was referring to was when I was a teacher. xpost, yes)

Ha ha no, I can't wait to get back and try again actually. I'm about to print out officially strategy guide (I can email it to whoever if you webmail me). It's a pdf of about 7 megs. teh_kit, serious q: WTF is food situation? I can't figure out how to feed these people (scum that they are).

Lunch problem solved, I'm going with the boss. Ach well, free food is free food (thus spake the eternal student).

I am trying to buy slanket for a birthday present. Bleedin' international
postage messing me up!

Ms Misery re. leadership. It can be a real pain. I empathise.

The sky is blue here but apparently it will p1ss it down later. Again. I hope it doesn't get TOO quagmired at Glastonbury for the selfish reason that I want to borrow a Glasto-goers tent a fortnight afterwards! They'll be fine when they're there, Dunkirk Spirit and that eh la.

My job is bloody awful but this conversation is for another time, another place...

FOR FUCKS SAKE stop posting so quickly, I can't log in!! Haven't you got cups of tea to make??

FOURTH XPOST

Jesus effing christ finally - well that was worth it, to post about the weather...

hahaha, just ignore the xposts Sarah and make up for it later.

I'm not a tea drinker but I'm in my sewing room and the cat's just used her box. ugh. Might need to step away for a few minutes.

what are these slankets that everyone is referring to? i'm too lazy to find out.

ok, i'll boogle them and find out.

I like how polite not quite sweariness of "p1ss" became FOR FUCKS SAKE after 4 xposts :)

Hmm, just checked work email and my boss isn't coming in either. Can't decide if this means, 'ah fuck it' or go in and 'ah fuck it'

oh my god i want a slanket!!!!

kvlol:
Strat guide is for teh_weak! kitguide will be much more useful if u has the patience.
food is grown in the farms, and collected by hungry ppl when they want to eat from either farms and marketplaces. a good rule of thumb is to have one food producing farm per 30 people. this includes fishfarms, obv, but NOT coffee, tobacco and sugar farms. although I've survived on coffee, fags and sweets for quite some time, it doesn't work like that in Tropico. so plant up plenty of corn, papaya, banana and maybe invest in a fishing dock or two, and maybe goats & cows if you have the landspace. watch your population & build more if need be.

a cup of tea is a very good idea. although there is a bottle (actually, 4) of wine in the fridge...

dread @ glastonbury. DO NOT WANT etc

Hmm, this is sounding like Civilisation or Populous or something of that ilk - i.e. a TIME EATING MACHINE.

xxpostsss

dude, i played my game in 3 hours. and that includes making 6 pages of notes and 50 screenshots.

Yeah but then you're playing it for the 158th time or something. I are noob lerner.

If I start another post with "yeah but" please ban me.

Ach - people be coping with eventualities kit - the worst thing I found in 2005 was actually getting anywhere taking such a long time, you really had to plan where you were going and the happy wandering amount element suffered a bit. What I really recommend is A DAD STOOL - you will need to SIT DOWN - I still remember the sheer BLISS of being able to sit on dry ground on the Sunday and scoff a goat curry with a bottle of perry. Beautiful.

Sam: I say go in - if your boss isn't in then it'll be okay and you can just mess about all day w/o feeling guilt of taking day off and you won't have wasted a leave day! Also treat yrself to nice coffee or whatever on yr way :)

xpost: I'm approaching 48hrs worth of Pokémon...

Yes I like your thinking Sarah. Also if my physical issues arise again I can just tell my coworker, see ya sucker.

Glastonbury sounds like madness.

I was going to ask you where to start with Pokémon DS games but that's kind of scaring me.

xpost

I know not what the Pokemon DS games are other than what kitties like to show off.

Sam: asprin, cup of tea, go for run and afterwards I suggest a sneaky gin in a can - farewell w0mb problems!

ONNYMO: joooooin.... usssssss....

It's just that I've done the mud thing so many times. Which is why I now just want to stay home (and possibly watch 48hrs of Pokemon).

FOR FUCKS SAKE stop posting so quickly, I can't log in!! Haven't you got cups of tea to make??

OTM! Thread is flying today something fierce!

Can you go in and do no work if she's not there giving yourself a day off in future sort of thing while not exhausting yourself today? (xpost. Damn this thread is on fire today!)

Onimo, it really is. I sat down at 8 and only got up 12. I didn't notice time passing for four hours! Scary stuff!

I would like to try Glasto.

Lol @ googleproofed womb. Is that so the sperm can't google it and knock you up?

Did I mentiong my pokémon t0rrent has a bunch of files that don't work? TOTAL TRAUMA. I'm like 50 eps in the first series and have watched them in order and now they're not working and argh, argh!

Team Rocket just get funnier with each episode!

I see why they felt they had to introduce Butch and Cassidy but they just not as funny. No no.

Kit - just make sure you camp at the TOP of a hill...

My last post was gross. I apologise.

No kev it was hilario!

i'm camping in a 1st floor flat and checking out leigh folk festival at this rate...

xp no kv, yr a sicko

Yuppo.

Sam: asprin, cup of tea, go for run and afterwards I suggest a sneaky gin in a can - farewell w0mb problems!

Haha, my issue is a horrible yeast infection but I was trying not to be tmi. I might try that anyway though.

I've just emailed in. Just not happening right now. I had other things going on today like working out and therapy which I know will be harder to stick to if I stay at home. One thing at a time.

In the meanwhile I'm going to try going back to bed for a little bit and then will try to get in with the doctor.

I expect you'll be asleep when I get back. :(

Ha ha don't worry, at least 5 and a half hours left here! Sleep well etc.

I really REALLY fancy some decent soup. Preferably with bacon and cabbage!

g_kit: I didn't know that about the food! So should I be building farm, tenement, factory in that order in an area? Also why would no one go to my sports center :(

Ms Misery, this will sound kinda gross but my best mate highly recommends it: a tampon soaked in vinegar (i think she used white, not sure if 'flavours' make a difference). not sure how long you leave it in for, but a couple of hours i think.

she is a hippie, tho.

Ruby: may I point out that it is coming up to lunchtime here, and I have now lost all desire to eat, ever, again? Hooray weightloss ahoy :(

I bleedin' hate hippies.

Ugh, balsamic.

URGH!

plz 2 not become gusher thread

hee hee.

kvlol, i think farm, factory and tenement, rinse, repeat is a surefire way to go backrupt within 20 years. nobody goes to your sports centre because they're all too poor & depressed and therefore only give a shit about going down the boozer. most high-class entertainment is aimed 80% at tourists and i rarely bother with it if the locals are happy enough with the entertainment basics.

i guess there's a lot of trial & error involved when you're a big nubcake new to the game, but rest assured, kitguide will address all the basics AND MORE.

as soon as i clicked 'submit' it suddenly occurred to me that tampons and vinegar in the same sentence might be a tad yucky...

:/

Kit is this DS game or terrifying world of PC gaming? To the PCs I go not (unless I am playing Scrabble or D0pewars).

I liked that cartoon that had the slogan "My name is DJ Menses and my flow be fresh"

Kit, industry doesn;t seem to work for me at all :(

It is PC.

Kenan could probably tell us an awful lot about the various flavours :(

Yeah, it's PC but OMG how much would I love to get this on DS?

Industry requires cash, patience and planning.

Kit u didn't say nothing about having to plan. I wuz robbed :(

Only minor planning!

Kids never do as they're told though!

Wait what game are u talking abt here? SimCitee?

Tropico! It is brilliant but complicated!

Um sorry for thread derail. There is another thread in ILG that we could go to if people are sick of us here.

and now that you're gone, it's all over. come back and tell us all about your games.

i was having lunch

Ditto. I had baked spud with chilli and cheese. So nice. They always put huge lumps of raw onion in salad so had to avoid most of healthy greens!

Is Ireland unusual in that we always have lunch in pubs but never drink during the day? Totally frowned upon here. In the UK it seems to be v v different.

Certainly with old alkie boss you would DEFINITELY drink in pubs but rarely would someone actually get pub food - people generally eat something afterwards back in the office - boss would go for 1xKEBAB. Those were the glory days, now no-one goes out for lunch at all :( In fact I haven't had a lunch drink with co-workers since I moved into this place! Have only had an afterwork drink like four times (and actively enjoyed TWO of them and even then it's been with one part-time guy here I get on with). Bleh JOBS.

Oh and I had an egg sandwich and a banana for lunch! There are cherries to scoff on during the afternoon.

It's my birthday on Thursday and I will be bringing in Krispy Kremes. And if people don't like them then they are ungrateful fuxx0rs and I will eat them all. Can you tell how much I just love my co-workers?

Cherries ftw! We do not have KK here. You love your colleagues really, you just don't want to share them so you're trying to scare us away.

I would love pints at lunch but I'd be asleep by mid afternoon! Also kebab? YUCK for garlic breath the rest of the days.

Pub lunches are dangerous. I always have at least two pints but have been known to squeeze in four. This leads to afternoon tiredness + endless running to toilet + danger that some tit might say something controversial within earshot of me when I'm a bit too loose to keep my mouth shut (hi dere 0r4nge M4rch Fite 2004).

I've also occasionally enjoyed pub lunch so much that I've phoned the office and asked someone to pack up my desk for me as I was staying out to get royally pished.

Classic but dud.

i only get half hour for lunch so there's not even time to get to the pub and order food, let alone wait for it, drink a pint and eat it.

Flexi time is both a blessing and a curse.

Cor this thread is busy!

I brought in birthday chocolate cookies for my coworkers today (but for selfish reasons really as loads of food left over from my party on Sunday and if I eat it all I will be even more of a heifer than I already am post-bebe). But then anyway somebody bought me a Famous Mars Bar Slice (self-styled by the canteen ladies here) so I had to eat that and now feel sick.

I just wanted to post a hug for Trayce really, if you're still up. I hope things get better soon {}

HPY BRTHDAY AR_CHEL rite?

I have a half day because people are coming to survey my house and hopefully buy it off me. So I am taking advantage of not-being-in-work to, um, drink wine and dick about on the internet.

Each time he posts, I become more convinced that Onimo is so OTM in my eyes about stuff that he might as well just be me.

HUGS to fellow-stripey-topped Trayce <3

oh, and happy birthday to Archel too <3

About to go to sleeps... but thanks Arch :) And happy birthday to you! :D

And thanks Ails. Youre all lovelies.

See, you are the only person I don't go grrr aarrgghhh at when they call me Ails. That's got to count for something :-)

Happy bday to missus A!

Onimo, that would be the danger, yes. That and the other people on the other end of the phone not "getting it" sort of thing!

Uh oh, I think I might have called you Ails. Good to have the warning though!

Worst OldBoss moment I think was when we were three bottles of wine down, it was 3 o clock AND THEN HE ORDERED ANOTHER ONE - my colleague and I who were left were desperately trying to come up with a plan to get him out there - he then ended up drinking most of the wine from his pint glass, which still contained lager residue. Gawd. Phones went on voicemail for the last hour or so in the office. Email was NOT replied to. I think we just stared at each other, developing headaches, then home and STRAIGHT TO SLEEP.

When i say 'worst' I mean 'best' obv

We are having office wine later. We're also giving it to undergraduates as a reward, as far as I can tell, for not doing any work all year. I will report back on the ensuing chaos.

I managed to drink an entire bottle of red wine at my desk last Friday, having had no lunch (wine at desk = boss' idea of "teambuilding" - I surprisingly managed to not insult ANY of my work mates, or even go off on one about how shite organised work fun is)! I was a bit wobbly, but I still made it to the pub and drank another bottle without saying anything stupid then went home and drank some champagne too and had a great big rant about how crap organised work fun is. My liver can't be too fond of me.

kv, me going grrrr aarrggghh isn't really very scary, don't worry about it.

I would just like to derail thread and say FINALLY, we got some rain. Probably an inch or so overnight, and it's still coming down. It's not a degree cooler, but at least it's wet outside.

Too little too late for a bunch of farmers who thought they'd cash in on Ethanol Mania and plant corn this year, though.

I'm not sure that's true ailsa! (About that not being scary I mean.)

There was an article somewhere recently (NYTimes maybe) about workforce mandatory-drinking sessions in Korea, and how women entering the workforce there is changing the drinking culture.

Women spoil all kinds of stuff.

:P

OMG ONIMO HAS BEEN POSSESSED BY THE GHOST OF BERNARD MANNING

(archel, I'm really not very scary. I think an attempt at being scary would just give off an air of a non-scary person trying and failing to be scary)

Exactly, how could ickle-wickle Ails be scary? Our Ails is like a wee teddy bear! Awwwww! *pinches cheeks* etc

STAND BACK!

There are too many people that know me on this thread. I don't think I'm convincing anyone.

*I* wouldn't be frightened of me.

Rock, that's cos we've been hogging it all!

Organised work fun is horrible. I especially hate organising it!

Don't worry Ailsa, I'm sure you're proper fierce when you get going. I am, of course, horrifically manly and frightening. Even Chuck Norris is scared of me!

I just hate being told I have to have fun and spend time with people that I'm only spending time with because I'm getting paid for it. Don't get me wrong, some of my colleagues are OK. But people TELLING me that not only do I have to be civil and polite to them to make a pleasant working atmosphere (which I am, because I'm not a fucking moron), I have to drink with them after work and have fun with them and spend more time with them than is necessary = DIE DIE DIE DIE (in a non-scary manner)

I should point out that it's not just me getting told to be palsy-walsy with everyone, we all get told it. I'm the only one that seems to object.

I'm scared of everyone.

Did someone say pants are optional? Awesome.

I'm assuming that's not pants in the English sense? I can sort of handle the mental image of everyone on this thread posting with no trousers on, but with no underwear on? Even my mind starts to boggle a bit.

I am w***ing as I type.

Aw Arch, are you kicking me off?

I can't decide what's worse between ppl posting commando or sitting in their underwear :-/

In my head you are all fully clothed and shall remain that way.

You are all posting fiends.

Bit of sleep nice. I am minimally clothes. Sorry.

ugh. still half asleep. need food.

I would hope that those of us at work are fully clothed, at the very least.

Genius!

I am in work and I am not commando. Actually there's a puzzler, do commandos not wear undies?

I meant it in the American sense by the way. Commando is cool as well, just put something on the chair first!

Christ, I have to book my Christmas flights now. Stupid skiers all booking seats on the plane I need to get home :(

Archel, what if one works in a nudist farm?

I am at work!

XP: Yes, kv, "commando" typically means "w/o undergarments".

I know that, cheers. I was asking if commandos didn't wear underpants!

Then I'm confused by "put something on the chair first"? It doesn't mean without trousers/jeans/skirts/petticoats/whatever.

Err, sorry if the two layers of clothing between my skin and my office chair aren't enough for you!

I just went to B&Q and bought a geansai load of white paint to paint the ex-housemates' room. I thought about a whole bunch of different colours, but, fuck it, you can't beat white.

Having decided on white, I then realised that my paint choices were based on three things: price, my ability to carry the containers of paint, and the possible uses to which I could put the empty paint containers. The actual quality of the paint didn't feature.

Am I stupid?

So Kv, you want to know if he's boxers or briefs?

http://www.impawards.com/1985/posters/commando.jpg

I have been trying to find a way to post 'oh I really hope Laurel does go to work with no pants on' without sounding creepy. Not going to happen I fear.

Pants schmantz. Do people just love doing laundry? I don't.

Hay fever can fuck right off. That is all.

Laundry and hay fever can both fuck off.

Oh right, I meant the nudists among us. Sorry!

Ms Misery, I felt pretty sure that he'd appear at some point. I think he would but the odds of me GIS for weightlifter underpants is slim to none. At work. At home, aw yeah...

Accentmonkey, no. Those Sound like fine criteria.

Has Beth Parker disappeared off the face of the Earth or is it just her busy season?

I need to go and talk to a bank manager about buying a house.

Apply online, you can't beat the impersonal lack of touch.

As opposed to that personal lack of touch.

No, I have a v. nice bank manager who wuvs me and cares personally about my finances and also has an office next to the pub.

I've never met my bank manager. Come to think of it, my "branch" is almost 500 miles away.

I'm with onimo except branch is around the corner *taunting* me with my lack of funds.

That said, mortgage approval (or at least the getting of it) is teh suck.

I've only actually met mine once, the last time he lent us money to buy a house. He seems quite a pleasant chap, all told. I have no idea how much he cares, personally or otherwise, tbh, as long as he gives us enough money to buy a house.

Oh noes I shall have to avoid the latest smoking thread as the last one turned me into (more of) a dick.

That's statistically impossible, and you know it!

Don't start!

:-)

Right, have to go and see a man about a mortgage.

don't start smoking?

okay?

i know rite?

smoking dicks?

god, i love my new job. my old one was nearly an hour away, now the new one is about 15 minutes away. i get to sleep so much more!!

consequently, i am staying up a lot later, so i dont think i am any more rested than before...

oh and i am totally addicted to the SIMS--its really bad. I suddenly sympathize with the WoW addicts.

ooh, which sims, which system?

Aren't they all the same?

Oh dear onimo... Thank God Trayce is asleep. For now.

most of the console ones seem frighteningly unlike "The Sims", which is pretty weird.

you know... the Sims, with all the expansion packs n stuff!

My addiction also goes beyond to an addiction to downloading things for my Sims, specifically slutty clothes.

I've never played any of them tbh, I'm scared I might like them. I'm bad enough wandering around Animal Xing with only about 10 things to do (I caught an hammerhead shark last night yay me!).

I should get SIMS. That seems like the type of game I could cotton to.

I'm Sims2. It's another game I find myself returning to now and then.

I play less Guitar Hero these days as G. has discovered GTA. Sometimes I find myself wishing we owned two game systems.

Get another one. Two consoles is like the two TVs of 1990.

GTA? Which one?

Also cosign two consoles. What need you to be talking for?

He's just got, hmm, San Andreas? But he loves it. I don't mind watching him play, sometimes I navigate. But he's no longer interested in playing GH together. :(

I can get addicted to the Sims for about 2 weeks straight, and I mean hardcore "I will stay up until 4am, playing" addiction (SimCity included). But then, I think I realize after how much time I've just spent at my computer and there's a sink full of dishes to wash, it hits me, and I'm off it for a good 8 months.

Molly, I have had Sims2 for about 3 years and that has always been my experience.. but this latest go-around is really bad. It's lasted about 2 months. I only play about an hour and a half a day, which is good.. but the only reason its so little is because its on my sister's computer and she needs her room to do like, other stuff besides watch me play Sims.

My last Sim City bender was really bad too! "Just another 15 minutes!" I'd tell Ben, and boom, 5 hours later, I'm still playing, but I have an awesome rocket pad and an opera house.

GTA:SA is the finest game that has ever existed. I love it and wish that I could go back in time to play it for the first time all over again!

Sims 2 I couldn't get in to really. A bit too hands on! Fun torturing them though!

So this is also a computer game? Is it better to play that way than on a game system?

???

Is it wrong that I make my Sims get into sordid love triangles, which leads to a mess of bastard children?

No.

Am I showing my extreme game ignorance Kv? I make no attempts to hide it.

Molly, I totally do the same thing ... right now I am really into playing a character I named Howard Tootsie, who has like 12 girlfriends, and my eventual plan is that he will knock up a few of them.

Right on! Sometimes, I build giant hippie communes where everybody kicks it in each others' vibrating beds, causing lots of tears, slapping, and illegitimate children, who are not looked after.

The hippie commune usually needs a cemetery.

I love you, Sims!

This game sounds totally bizarre.

Doesn't it though? Mental. Given that I used to be addicted to computer games when I was young, nowadays I never play them because I'm always fretting that I should be doing something else. Plus I am rubbish at the ones they make nowadays. The controls and everything are too good, and I get killed a lot. I think Wolfenstein was the last thing I played with any regularity, and even that used to make me scared and jumpy that people were going to leap out from behind scrolling brick walls and kill me.

I am lurking on your thread (because I'm fully clothed and completely out of Dharma Beer). But this is the first time that the Sims has ever sounded interesting to me.

...So I mentioned this to my husband and he told me that once he got really annoyed with the Sims and he figured out a cheat code to get tons of money. Then he created a huge house with rich people. He gave them a swimming pool and they went swimming. Then he deleted the ladder. So the rich characters all drowned.

I love my husband.

yes, i have had some sims die from drowning, burn in a grease fire, and one kept puking in a dirty toilet and died somehow.

it's also really entertaining when a sim dies because the other household sims will weep at random.

I am seriously considering playing this game now.

Yes! The money cheat code (rosebud!1!!) or something is great. That's how I can afford to build giant communes of ill-repute.

Grease fires are the worst. Or, when you get that phonecall saying "Your days are numbered" and the Grim Reaper walks through the door and pulls out your poor Sim, causing the others to weep. You can make them mourn on command if you take them to the cemetery!

Sometimes, I force my Sims to be artists, and make them pain in a room with out doors all day. They usually cry, and then die.

Woah! Puking in a dirty toilet death! I didn't know about that one.

I have this creeping suspicion that I'm going to go on a Sims bender soon.

Wow. There's a whole (virtual) world out there, just waiting to be explored!

Don't dead Sims sometimes come back and haunt the others?

That game is so much cooler than I thought.

Really! If I get it on the DS, do I have to talk to it? That's what put me off Nintendogs. Plus I could never leave them alone or they'd die. Can you leave Sims alone?

Nintendogs die? Ours hasn't been switched on for months!

poor wee Floyd ;_;

onimo, I've never had a Sims haunting, but now will murder my characters in the hope that it will happen.

I haven't got pants on, can I play, too?

http://pnmedia.gamespy.com/screenshots/pts/82490786.jpg

accentmonkey, once you turn off the Sims, they stop. No secret life, no partying, no dancing, no nefarious activity.

Also, it is possible to get your Sims drunk.

What version of the Sims is that!? I think mine might be old.

Yay, creepy hauntings!

A quick google says that if you keep family graves on your family's lot you may get a ghost.

I think the sceenshot's from Sims 2 but I'm not sure as I've never played them - it was GIS for sims+ghost or something.

Hi Luna!

Hey G!

I admit that I've never been tempted to play SIMS before, but now I kinda want to. Man, I'm easy.

I am scared of things like Sims. I have a totally weird phobia of things that aren't real but make you think they're real then aren't, and Sims seems like the kind of thing that'd take over my life and make me cry for no good reason :-/

I'm kind of obsessive about games* when I get into them so I could see something like Sims removing time from my life.

* for example: I just decided to have a teensy wee shot at Animal Crossing as I know I have to water my red cabbages (don't ask!) every day or they die yet I ending up checking for the money rock, catching a fish and a tarantula (yay!), diggin up three fossils, clearing weeds and paying a few grand off my mortgage.

what the hell kind of game is that!

Srsly, do you buy SIMS for your PC? Please don't laugh at my dumbness.

Yeah, Sam you do.

I must get Sims 2. Should I get the DELUXE edition?

what the hell kind of game is that!

It's brilliant. You basically fuck around and make friends and catch bugs and dig stuff up and shake trees. Think Simplified Sims with added cutesy mentalism.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Crossing:_Wild_World

Happy Birthday Archel! I put it on the other thread as well. Both belated.(I was hoping Archel would sneak over to this thread...I got my wish - hope all of yours, Archel, continue to come true!)
Hi, everyone!
Boy, leave for a week and everything is different. It's sort of like pressing a GIGANTIC refresh button. Nice to see that this thread is becoming popular, but still retaining its sangfroid.That's not really the word I'm looking for, but it seems fitting after my initial shock at the sheer amount of POLLS.
I was at the big family wedding, on Grand Isle in Lake Champlain, which is in Vt. You can google "ShoreAcres Inn - Vermont" if you want to see where I was staying. Quite deluxe, but also very user friendly. All 23 rooms where taken up by family - so it was quite the party!
Uncle Harry WAS one of the first people i saw at the clambake, the day before the wedding, and he DID tell me about ancestors who lived in Vermont (but didn't make it, and fled, starving, because pioneering in Vermont in the 1700's was, erm, not so easy.)he then found a nice man to talk to about the fact that chowder is not New Eng;and Chowder OR Manhattan Chowder - the only real chowder is fish chowder, cod, and...
it was nice to see him, in all of his bombastic splendour.
Also, by 23 rooms I mean...over 50 some odd family members, and more in other places right down the road!
i attempted to play tennis with a nine year old and his mom - bad idea. We were slightly more successful with croquet.
Although nine year old boys seem to think that whacking anything is more vital than actually trying to "volley". never mind the fun of whacking croquet balls down to the corner of the lake.
We gave up tennis when Isaac, the nine year old, started holding his racket like a baseball bat, screaming "Serve! I wanna rally!"
Nice to be back - semi long post, but I am trying to avoid my essays of the past.
IMPOSSIBLE!
I'll be ranting away in a day or two.

wait you dont have SIMS 2?!?! ITS SO MUCH BETTER THAN SIMS 1

here is why Sims 2 is great:

1) You can get bitten by vampires
2) You can get abducted by aliens
3) Men can get pregnant if they are abducted by aliens. And then they give birth to really cute little green alien babies!

Problem is you need a pretty fast computer to run the game. :/

I have SIMS 2 with HOT DATE and the program where you can give them haircuts and make new outfits.

I have a PC that's I bought in 2004(ish). Would that work, you think?

Is the Deluxe edition way cooler than the regular version? Who am I kidding? I'll end up getting the one with MORE CRAZY SIM behavior anyway.

No no, SIMS 1.

I don't know, I had Sims 2 on my laptop that I bought in 2004 and it ran really, really, really slow. I had to uninstall it.

Although I had Sims 2 + like 4 expansion packs which is probably why it ran slow. When it was just the base game it ran okay.

Aw man, I go to sleep and you all start talking about the Sims!!

I havent played Sims in so long. I havent played games at all, have had other distractions. But yeah Sims2 is awesome, I have all the expansions right up to Seasons, the new one which gives you rain and snow and autumn leaves and whatnot :D

Also Sims2 needs a proper gaming video card (like a Radeon or Nvidia with lots of RAM), if you have a crummy old pc with built in graphics sims2 pretty much wont run.

I thought about getting seasons, but i heard that the rain + snow animation makes the game a lot slower, plus the sims always stop whatever their doing to go watch the rain.. which would annoy me when I am trying to make them practice the piano or work out n stuff.

Oh, thanks Trayce! My Dell is kind of clunky, and I think I have too many mp3s on it anyway, as Picasa always yells at me about disk space when I open it up. Old School Sims for me, I guess. ;_;

I didnt find that happening much... it has introduced a few irritating bugs though.xpost

When I get home from work, I'm totally going to try to kill one of my dudes from puking, dirty toilet style.

I know ladies puke when theyre pregnant and i think ppl puke when theyre sick if you dont send them to bed and rest them.. and puking is what makes the loo dirty. But I guess the reverse could happen, I dunno! ive never seen it.

Once my dude was fixing the dishwasher and got electrocuted. And then he died. But his wife had a "beg death" choice so there she is on her knees..

(hahah)

... sobbing and begging death to bring him back. And shazzam it worked! I think that's pretty rare though.

Usually my dudes just die from getting blown up by the stove. Can a Sim get slapped to death? I might try that. I'm in the middle of packing up my apartment to move, but what's a little experimentation in the name of Sim advancement? It won't hurt anything.

Sims seems to bring out the sadist in people.

Yet they ban a harmless wee game like ManHunt 2.

Sims seems to bring out the sadist in people.

I know! I'm scaring myself. Well, it's not like I'm going to go home and sacrifice a sheep or anything.

Ok, now I'm totally convinced. If y'all don't hear from me again, you know what happened.

I'm just gonna add this for the fun of it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EALx4Rpo5cY

I'm sure everyone in the world has seen it, but i just discovered it and...I want to go on the paddleboat and sing "Anna is a bot!" with dreamy guy.

You know how in Sims 1 you could drown people in the pool by taking the ladder away? I tried that in Sims2 the last time I played AND SHE WOULDNT DIE. I left her there swimming back and forth for two whole (game) days. She yelled and cried and said she was hungry and tired but nooooo shejust kept on swimming, what is she, Ian Thorpe.

The more I read about this, the more awesome it gets.

I am a terrible person.

My fave part of Sims2 is building and interior decorating my house. I spend forever landscaping the gardens, designing the floorplan, and getting the furniture and decor just so. I employ money cheats up the wazoo to get this to work. My last house was perched on a lovely downward slope, and I cut some nice gravel stairs into the hillside meandering down to an inground pool under the decking. I figure I'll never afford an Actual House so this is my vicarious livin'.

OMG that "i know a bot" thing is a SONG ABOUT IRC, that is so awesomely lame and yet so plain awesome.

Hi Aimurchie! A big wedding in Vermont sounds brilliant, especially if the wedding is basically taking up the whole hotel where it's going on. I haven't played croquet for years, and tennis never, but I can see how croquet would be more successful for a young 'un. One of the things I like about it is that unless you're playing against someone who's really good, you've got a good many goes to get it right before the game ends.

Am I showing my extreme game ignorance Kv? I make no attempts to hide it.

-- Ms Misery, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 17:29 (Tuesday, 19 June 2007 17:29)

No, no not at all! Sorry I couldn't understand the question. Sims 2 is a game, it's on various consoles including PC and DS. Oh right, that's been answered. Sorry anyway.

Also g_kit, poor KEV LOL. Monster that you are.

Sims 2, great concept but v boring. Couldn't stick with it.

Hi Accentmonkey. Vermont is beautiful. I was swindled into the whole tennis thing -grrr.
(I feel like I'm ducking between posts about games.)
yeah, croquet was easier,except - I don't like nine year old boys! I mean, i don't HATE them, but...they seem to treat every object like a potential weapon.

Yes, it's true, they do. Still, at least he was willing to play SOMETHING, and didn't just mope about complaining about how bored he was. Or maybe he did. I don't know, I wasn't there.

I would like to go to Vermont some time, though.

I can't really complain about playing tennis (or not), and croquet on Grand Isle.
Vermont is a very good state.
Come on over, and I'll drive you up!

I used to think that Vermont was in Canada. I r geographical fule.

I was 15 minutes from the border, so...not so fuleish.
It is a big state that borders Canada.
And New York, Massachusetts and New Hampshire.
Vermont has threatened to secede, recently. Vermont WANTS to be part of Canada.
You had vermont's best interests at heart, kv-nol.

Ha ha thanks aimurchie. I got Vermont's back...

could this ned be heavens ;) ?

I'm gonna get ned and ken c's backs right now, because if this ned be heaven I might never leave.

I had loads of trains cancelled this morning. Finally got to work at 10:15 and I'm going away on a half day for a prize giving at the school. Hardly seems worth being here.

Poor g-kit, the Glasto forecast has lots of these...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/images/symbols/fiveday_sym/14.gif

Looks like yesterday's OMG New Thread posting frenzy has died off.

I'm going to go vote on every poll on new answers.

I know what you mean and of all the days when a bit of distraction could be good. Why is summer not being summery. V depressing!

It was pouring down in Fife this morning and still raining in Edinburgh when the train got in (early?!) and now that I'm at work it's gone sunny.

I just voted for George Noory on "COAST TO COAST A.M." - I have no idea what that even means </tuomas>.

Wiki tells me it's a radio talk show that often discusses the paranormal and that I should probably have voted for Art Bell (that or stayed the fuck away from threads that don't concern me).

Looks kind of like Fortean Times Radio. I think I might need to find a download.

Trayce - I missed your comment on "Anna Is A Bot" until now.
I got it off metafilter yesterday, and thought it was (is) hilarious.
it's just SO GOOD ON SO MANY LEVELS!
But I'm usually several months/years behind so...I figured everyone in the known universe had seen it.
I posted it, not so much to distract from the game talk, but to enhance the game talk.
But this one is even better for you game chat thread folks:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQ-TZk4gPKM

Why won't today just end? Gad. Frustration city right now.

My working day is almost over already :)

I shall investigate aimurchie's links when I get home.

Why did nobody tell me about Basshunter?

That's MY frustration city.

I forgot about yesterday's SIMS conversation and kept reading Molly's post about puking over and over, so confused. And then "my dude" being electrocuted. wow.

back at work. Pouring rain and forgot my umbrella. I think I just need a vacation.

My ex bf is properly moving out tonight. He's staying here tonite cause the electric isnt on at his yet, so its too cold to stay there. Which is ok. We've been really "take the bandaid off slowly" about our breakup. And he's only moving like a block up the street. But still. 4 years. All over. All my fault. I'm a bit blank right now blergh.

Good grief I don't want to worry you Glasto-goers BUT THE COUNTRY IS FLOODING, camp at top of hill!

Ugh god sorry how miserable was that heh. Its not that bad really. Just weird.

And that would be an xpost: oof - stay strong trayce :(

Eh Im ok.

Hopefully this will allow both of you to move on. It's good that he's not a million miles away and that you've been able to be fairly* adult about the whole thing.

Hope it all calms down soon enough and that you meet someone new when the times is right.

*using fairly because everyone always slips!

But still. 4 years. All over. All my fault. I'm a bit blank right now blergh.

Trayce, I don't know the details of your situation but just like it takes two people to make a relationship it takes two people to unmake it. Don't shoulder all the blame yourself.

Yeah I think I'm ok about it. It was my fault but his decision, and we have been very adult about it and we're still good friends - and thats a first for me like woah. He's been there for me through all this plus other shit and ok now I have got to stop being so personal on ILX ugh.

Wise choice in a way, it's amazing what people remember and use against you! This is not a chance for certain people to pop up and go lol yeah I've learned my lesson. Plz to sit quiet.

Or avoid thread altogether would be great. It's not you (really), it's what you do/attract...

I am bastard and in terrible form. Sorry for nastiness there.

gosh Trayce, you are being very brave and strong. Don't shoulder the blame and do try for friendship.I'm sure you love each other for all the right reasons, and that's worth trying for friendship in the aftermath, right?
That's tough, 'though....
hey, thanks for being the ONLY ONE to indulge my Basshunter madness.

it's rainy/gloomy today - apparently England and Ireland have sent their weather to me. I'm going to blame teh kit just because. (Good for plants and nature, so I'm not too unhappy about the rain.)

i've been wearing my boxers back to front all day.

Must have made having a slash awkward...

It is lightening and pouring rain here too. When will our deluge stop?

Shortly after we left G's parents on Sunday, it flooded. Here's their backyard which normally doesn't have this much water. Except for the pool which is, er, underwater:

http://www.askforjanice.com/imgs/flood.jpg

There was a tornado that night. Glad we didn't stick around for pizza. . .

Bloody hell!

Blimey.

um, i meant inside out, actually. i should do some work.

cool amazon back yard stylee.

That is not a "back yard"! A back yard is a small square of concrete out the back of yr terrace! That's a FIELD!

In other news I would like a Wispa. Do they still make them and if so where can I find one.

Are Wispas the sort of airy crunchy chocolate bars?

ms misery, i like that you got out AFTER the hot cheese thingies yet BEFORE the pizza. Do your in laws just eat through every natural disaster?
"Oh look - flooding! Time to make some devilled eggs!"

xpost

They have three acres bordered by a creek so I guess it's more than a yard. But still you step out of the back door and there is grassiness so. . .

"She can ban you, ban you so hard"

lol

I think Cadbury stopped making Wispas.

Join teh Wispa campaign!

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/bringbackthewispa/

Cor remember Wispa Gold. Sigh. Yes the "Bubbly" is TRYING to be a Wispa but what a FAIL by Cadburys there. It's almost making me change over to Aero (except I took against them for some reason as a nipper and it is hard for me to change).

Aero bubbly hot chocolate is nice. I think my favourite chocolate bar is the Double Decker.

Dunlike the nuggaty bitz in Double Deckers. But then again this may be a taken-against-as-a-bairn thing! Except that I have no desire to rectify this one. The last chocolate bar I bought was a FLYTE! Which is strange, like a growed up Milky Way? Odd. But I sort of liked it?

peanut chunky kit kats tho NOM NOM (and I hate peanut butter so my liking of the bar makes NO SENSE)!

I once had a wine flavoured Kit Kat. It was from Japan (plain people of internet: NO KIDDIN').

toffee crisps and lion bars, i like gooey and crispy

That sounds... disgusting.

Spot on re. NOM NOMiness of kit kat bar. I would still like to punish them but that is because I am a sadist...

Sorry the wine flavoured kit kat sounds disgusting.

Can I get a t-shirt that says "Wispa Wanderer"? if so, I'll sign that petition!
Australia has some airy, crunchy bar, i think. Similar to a Wispa (or is that blasphemy, to compare anything to a Wispa?)

And lo, kv_lol spake the troof, for indeed was the wine Kit Kat quite disgusting. However if you scoffem on a birthday picnic in the sun about twenty bottles of GIN down, the taste starts to be less important! G0d bless you Cybercandy.

Onimo, so glad you enjoyed the Basshunter link.
I think my favorite part is the guy dancing on the paddleboat.

OMG the DotA one.

We're sitting here in Ventrilo
playing some DotA
We push on and we're owning
with the opponents we're toying
Running around creeping
the opponents we're sleeping.

WAHT?

The guy saw a gap in the market for game related Europap and e took it :)

But, y'know, it WAS a perfect visual for me when all youse were going on about teh games.
I was the Mum, bursting through the door (thread), demanding to know what was going on!
Basshunter rules!

Hmm hmm hmm. Hello all.

Hello the Ned.

Everyone, I can't get my work done. My BRANE refuses to cooperate with me. What shall I do?

Pickle it in spirits.

Nedward, that would be an excellent suggestion, if I didn't have to go and pick Mister M up from the train in a couple of hours.

Plus I am saving my drinking arm up for Dr. Who this weekend.

I sense the problem here. Therefore, it is necessary that a minion must either pick Mr. M up or do your drinking for you. I suggest the former option.

mr m should drink an onion.

He is more of an olive man.

i'm sorry to hear that. who's olive?

No, I mean he is olive. Touch of jaundice, you know.

I'm confused as to why he should drink an onion!

Because minion. But also martini!

The Martini Minions should be the name of your band.

We would be the lounginest band EVAH.

Right, that's enough sitting at my desk pretending to work for one day. At the risk of turning every television programme into a huge perv-fest for me, I would like to give a big shout out to the BBC, which is starting the second series of Rome tonight, which has not one, not two, but three blokes in it I fancy. I may already have seen it, but now I get to see it on the BIG SCREEN (my telly).

Hooray. Until the eggs, people (hasta la huevos).

Dr. Who! Do you have Sci-Fi Fridays?
I keep getting these weird wrong number calls. This guy just called saying he wanted to pick Shameeka up at 4:30. I called him back and told him that would be impossible.
He said:"You're not Shameeka! I'm not picking you up!" That would be true.
Before that, a guy called apologizing for missing his phone interview with Adam. I called HIM back and said, well, I wish Adam the best of luck.
before THAT, a guy called wanting Kevin to play classical guitar at a wedding. Also impossible, as Kevin does not play guitar.

Hi ned! Do you love Basshunter?

I might? If I knew what it was.

There's a couple of links upthread. you might want to check him/them out.

Compilation download taking forever. Also Tropico proving hard :(

Also missed saying hello Ned. Thread now has official seal etc.

Our yard is a hole in the ground now. I think we Yanks use the word 'yard' the way you others use 'garden'.

i'm very much enjoying the ILX comp now. I still have not Internets at my office, but am "working" at home this afternoon.

Yes garden is where you plants veggies or maybe flowers.

OMG! I have tickets to see the Arcade Fire in Glasgow in October! Excitement!

Still no pants, and I'm disappointed I didn't come here to post this morning, because I would have been all over the pub lunch had I thought of it. Maybe tomorrow!

How are you, cats and kittens?

SLEEPY. *tired* But I likes my garden.

The small cat is good.

i have a small cat.
And two large. As well.

The small cat = apparently inescapable.

The small cat is the all cat.

Where's the love for large?
Where's teh-kit for God's sake?

"Hi babe, what are you watching?"
"Fuck off I'm ginger!"
"I was only asking...talk about your fiery redheads!"

All is clear...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/listings/programme.shtml?filename=20070620/20070621_0050_4288_9653_55

OMG! I have tickets to see the Arcade Fire in Glasgow in October! Excitement!

Yay possible drink opportunity!

I do not have a small cat, but I'd like one.

And a drink, too.

I fear small cat would eat my small rodents and make me sneeze (more).

I have never partaken drink. Definitely not TONIGHT. Ha ha omg BEER and CURRY and now I am watching the High Life. From 1994! '94!!!

Gosh being on my WORK DISTRACTION thread outside of work is probbly DUD.

And naff nancy numpties are NAFF NANCY NUMPTIES.

Sarah you lie about drink.

Hey was Rome any good? We only saw it was on er at five to 9 when still in the pub so er whatevs.

Right it is actual bedtime now so goodnight awl.

Ned - there are no rules!
Rome was really good. The hunks will be there tomorrow, stored in the television. Somehow. To be retrieved.
(like most kids, I WAS convinced everything was "live" - like Captain Kangaroo was waiting inside the television to do his show. waiting for me to wake up.)
So, yes Titus Pullo will certainly be waiting for you when you awake.

Small cat, small cat...named Pudding.

boo, I was obviously beat to coming to say I was a "small" cat. I like calling kittens baby cats but I think I shall start calling them all small cats.

yay! Someone else is awake! Ms. Miz - it can get quite boring here when everyone goes to sleep.
That's when I tend to write the very long posts.
So - nice tilework!
That's a hard thing to do -
i saw this special about Liberace and his mirrored piano. The guy that did it - did it BY HAND! Every single little mirror on that piano. PLUS! He had to re-glue after the first concert because the tiny little mirrors fell off under the heat of the klieg lights.
Hope that makes your tiling less tiresome.
I'm not sure i need to know all this stuff about Liberace - yet, he is a fascinating man.

I don't have the patience for that sort of detail. I admire people who get it done!

Sam, not to worry; I'm sure you can be a small cat, too. This is a democracy! (ha, I typed "democrazy" first, which might be more ILX's reality)

Airmurchie, no one needs to know about Liberace's piano, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't.

No. Only Spidey is the small cat.

That's a bit cryptic, John Justen. Don't you have some crazy drinking to do on a different thread?

Just like JJ and FB, Liberace was a well known heartbreaker.
Some facts about Liberace:
He owned several smallish and largish cats.

Don't you have some crazy drinking to do on a different thread?

John and FB are falling tragically behind in their responsibilities.

I will look forward to visiting this thread again for more Liberace facts.

I look forward to meeting Accentmonkey since we keep managing to not meet every time she's in Glasgow. Yay drinking.

heh, we had similar to that "fuck off I'm ginger" conversation round my house, my husband taking it as confirmation that I've embraced my inner gingerness (which I haven't, given that I'm not ginger, even though he seems to think that one picture of me aged seven with slightly sunkissed auburny locks = I am ginger, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary)

Yes, yes, Glasgow drinking. Now that I actually know some people (one person), I will be more insistent with my family. No no, I will say, I have to go and meet my FRIENDS.

Rome was great. There's nothing like opening the second series of a programme with Caesar's dead body on the floor of the Senate and everybody fighting. My favourite bits were Mark Antony saying "Amnesty? I'm going to eat their livers!" and Vorenus and Pullo just killing the fuck out of a load of people. Brilliant.

OMG! I have tickets to see the Arcade Fire in Glasgow in October! Excitement!

FFS I am so jealous!

Glasgow karaoke repeat performance?

Ailsa - you are SO not ginger! That's a non-starter! Honestly!

My head is a bit sore today. TIME TO EAT SOME LIVERS.

Are u hannibal? *backs away slowly*

I was doing the... *waves hand vaguely* Mark Antony.... thing.

I did actually have chicken livers for my tea yesterday! They were awesome!!

Okay people I'm in Belgium for the weekend: recommend me some lagers plz, none of that fruity crapola.*

*Bad experiences in the Ardennes, think deliverance with a Ruud Gullit accent with Scooter remixing Swamp Thing by The Grid.

Also livers are yay! Plz to also see kidneys ESPECIALLY in Steak & Kidney pie.

Drool

:-P
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I... don't know what that's meant to be.

Sorry, a bit giddy today.

FFS I am so jealous!

Dude, there are tickets left. You could go too. Of course, you are saving for a house, so maybe not.

I am in love with Mark Antony. Why fight it?

Morning all, and isn't it a crappy pollen filled eye streaming nose running throat itching stinker?

I think I've gone off offal. I can still eat a steak & kidley* pie but the thought of cooking myself a bit of liver does nothing for me.

Morning the onimo. It's midsummer's day! I'm sure there's a sun out there somewhere. Hanging about. In the sky, like.

Sigh, summer's a bit rubbish so far.

My poor friend A is off for a nice summer holiday to the UK shortly and she's terribly disappointed that the weather's apaz been so crappy :(

You hardly have to cook the liver though - really you just chuck it in a pan for two seconds, then turn it over then shove it on some toast. But yesterday it was proper nepalese chicken livers with mushrooms and er, other stuff! Yay!

Sigh, summer's a bit rubbish so far.

OTM! I can't go accentmonkey, would love to but doing Berlin next weekend as well, France in August, wedding in Florence in September I am too poor. Poor but travelled so yay me </bragging>

Sarah, please stop. I'm starving. Okay, one more question: Nepalese livers wtf?

I like to fry them for a couple of minutes with some sautéed mushrooms and onions.

I can't eat nearly raw meat. I love the flavour of a rare steak but chewing it makes me feel a bit off.

xp

Me da used to have brains in white sauce on toast for breakfast. I used to like it, but I think I just liked the white sauce. Brains are kind of floury... a lot of offal seems that to me? Im not a fan of kidneys or liver, we used to have crumbed liver fried up for dinner, mum called it "lambs fry" (I suppose that sounds nicer than "liver"?).

Isnt offal really bad for you cause it is loaded with cholesterol?

my nana called it lambs fry aswell - it smelled so good cooking in the pan, but i remember the first time she served it to me, i just about gagged on the taste. can't stand kidneys either. but i do love me a gourmet fancy-pants pate.

I love liver. I used to despise it as a child but now it's one of my favourite meals, with a little bacon it's really nice.

I feel so fucking awful today, I ate A CRACKER WITH HUMMUS last night and instantly got a really awful headache and had diarrhoea and stuff during the night, kinda weird, I reckon the hummus was gone off or something. Easily the worst migraine I've ever had and sleeping hasn't killed it off.

BAH.

Eep thats not good!

Ok Paris Hilton is now being compared with Ian Huntley and Kafka's Hunger Artist. Only on ILX...

Woah Ronan. That'll teach you to eat healthy :(

lol hi dere

i am teh_kit

what's this small cat rubbish?

We have a new cat in town. A rival no less, men want to be him and women want to stroke him. Do you smell that kit? Can you smell what the small cat is cooking?

noes.

hi teh_kit aren't you supposed to be rolling in mud?

indeed. yet i am clean and dry! \o/

How did you manage that?

(note: the small cat is cooking spag bol)

Also teh_kit I did so well in TROPICO last night that I got a Presidente day named after me at the end, vibrant economy with no tourism at all and 59 in happiness! I r rock!

awesomes! wp. did the kitguide help?
i'll finish it up over the weekend.

g-kit, i have been summoning you to this thread for 24 hours! there has been a small cat explosion on ILX - I don't really get it, but it's fun to play along.
is there something to get? if so, clue me in.

Just have to say it is a perfect summer day here. Just about eighty degrees, sparkling blue sky, a nice breeze, everything is GREEN and GROWING.
Birdies singing in the sky, etc. etc.

i have no idea aimurchie. it's nothing to do with me.
i don't really understand ILX.

I am back (although work is getting in the way of interwebmonging).

DEVO was awesums.
I do not understand Small Cat either.
We had flash floods here on Tuesday, which I am trying not to post pics of on the Glastonbury thread.
I am mostly playing Puzzlequest on the BS, but getting onto it because of F playing Animal Crossing is difficult.
I has a house full of parents.

a house full of parents!
I hope you're getting some use out of them!

use them as sandbags!

They are not proving to be any use at all except in bringing down white pudding and square sausage.

You say that like bringing white pudding and square sausage is not #1 U&K visiting Scottish relative useful thing to do.

i don't really understand ILX.

OTM!

Understanding is overrated but reading

this is the thread where my mom is totally batshit insane

should help with the small cat confusion.

yay! Someone else is awake! Ms. Miz - it can get quite boring here when everyone goes to sleep.

haha, I went to bed right after that. sorry. :(

It is Ally's mother's cat which told the pyschic it was small.

I don't want to talk about my bum week.

Every week is 'I don't want to talk about my bum' week to me.

Well obv it is #1.

Downsides:

Increasing the cost of a round in teh pub
Reducing possibility of short notice FAP with mates
Always being in the bog
Flushing said bog at odd times during the night
Snoring
Being awake when you go to bed and awake and there when you get up WHEREVER IN THE HOUSE YOU GO
Talking all through anything you're watching on the telly because they don't watch it
Getting in the way of playing Puzzlequest
Turning lights on and off (in a house with dodgy Victorian electrics this is not the best plan)
Taking an hour to prepare for doing anything

Good Things:

Bringing white pudding and square sausage
Bringing bridies and well-fired rolls
Buying the odd round in teh pub

Square sausage? Bridies? WELL-FIRED ROLLS? WHAT'S GOING ON!?

The main part that helped (and many thanks again) was the Russian cheap flats, the teamster advice and the Coffee. Also patience, that I hadn't tried before and it's a real winner! (xpost to teh_kit_gamemaster)

DEVO was awesums.

You even got a bukkit :( I wish I'd gone now.

JOCK FOOD IS WHAT IS GOING ON.

The songs DEVO played (as far as I can remember):

Through Being Cool (? Not sure they played this)
Girl U Want
Peek-a-boo
Whip It
Satisfaction (I Can’t Get No)
Secret Agent Man
Uncontrollable Urge
Freedom Of Choice Theme Song
Blockhead
Mongoloid
Smart Patrol/Mr DNA
Gates Of Steel
Jocko Homo
_______________________

Gut Feeling/Slap Your Mammy
Wiggly World
Beautiful World (Mothersbaugh as Booji Boy)

Jocko Homo was about 15 minutes. Booji Boy threw us all superbouncy balls at the end.

Sounds good, I wouldn't know half (a quarter) of those songs. I just wanted to see Devo! Sad but true!

yay kvlol. :D

easiest way to come undone in Tropico = rushing.

And good morning. What madness is this.

you always say that to me :(

I find myself being too reactive in those types of games. It took me ages to decide that my advisors in CivII were a bunch of useless arseholes.

advisor in Tropico has COOL ACCENT and should therefore always be listened to.

you always say that to me :(

Out of love.

Actually the Advisor is pretty good in TROPICO!

What I can't figure out is how to improve the environment!

I had loads of roads last night too. Score etc.

re: small cats/ that thread
i was so enraptured by the larger transcript - about Schmoo-Schmoo and Mona and Suzy - that i missed the small cat comment from Spidey!
Also - it makes my mother seem relatively sane, which is a feat.

Dunno about pet psychics - i have a friend who swears by hers.

"Being awake when you go to bed and awake and there when you get up WHEREVER IN THE HOUSE YOU GO"
So unbelievably true. how do they do it? I used to host my Mom, regularly, when I lived on the Vineyard, and it was EERIE - she was just THERE, all the time, like she had slept standing up in the kitchen.
However, she was very useful - she'd have the oven cleaned and the coffee made by the time i stumbled down at, oh, 8:30 a.m.
She never brought any white pudding or square sausage - she did, however, bring us a very small cat!
Gotta respect a mom who delivers a small cat to an island. She decided we needed a kitten, and lo-the kitten was delivered. (of course, she didn't really ASK me if i wanted a kitten.)(But i did want a kitten, i just didn't know that i wanted a kitten.) he's now a big cat and has no time to be talking to pet psychics.

Heh yeah I can see most cats just snidely going "oh get out of my head you" :D

Still have any falcon addicts out there? The ones in Indy have all grown up and flown away, but there's a live feed of the nestbox in Richmond VA.
http://www.wvec.com/cams/richmond1.html

New house full of boxes, old house full of crap and all my plants (plus more feathers and down per square foot than is acceptable by EPA standards).

I am not a small cat.

The only family visits anytime soon are younger siblings, and they will bring random crap from my mother (including some of her strange art products), many-month-belated gifts and cards, and an appetite for good Mexican food.

I am not a small cat.

WELL THEN.

# When outdoor sex on a pyramid-shaped roof goes too far [Started by Ned Raggett, last updated Thursday, 21 June 2007 15:11] 6 new answers

I want to click this thread but with a title like that I can't :( Damn you NR!

Trust me, it's work safe. For now.

it's only a matter of time.

I just fear having the thread name in browser history on work server... Funny really cos every other swearword is fair game, sex just makes me nervous.

Obvious joke time now...

"pants are optional" isn't a problem?

Fair enough. Hope it's worth all the worry. Badump-tisch!

hey Bluski way to go with this CSS sheet, it's exactly the same as our intranet at work so ultimate disguise and all that. cheers x

sup everyone? I finished exams last Monday and now after all the celebrayshuns are done, I'm feeling a bit sad and empty. melb winter not helping.

Sorry, roz :(

I'm feeling a bit sad and at crossends. No end of anything to blame though.

"The only family visits anytime soon are younger siblings, and they will bring random crap from my mother (including some of her strange art products), many-month-belated gifts and cards..."

This bodes well for those of us on the patita excellent box-o-stuff list.
Strange mom art products should be, like, our book swap. (Alternatley, we could send our strange moms to each other.)

I can't find the baby falcons!

congrats on finishing the exams! it's hard to relax after completing something that is soo stressful.

aw sorry to hear ms misery. what's up? xpost

thanks aimurchie. Yeah I'm pretty relieved it's over and I have a couple of weeks before I have to go back to work so I'm looking forward to some downtime. But at the mo, life just seems a bit.. lifeless.

on the bright side, going shopping tmr!

Just relax and zone a bit, Roz. Then one's natural inclination to do something to stave off boredom will kick in.

a couple of weeks of downtime sounds good. It will perk you up soon.

I feel depression coming as I'm finding it hard to get myself to work, out of bed, etc. urgh. Have not stopped anything I should be doing, etc. Just hate to see it comimng.

ugh i feel ya. well the weekend's coming up, have a day in bed and recharge.

I kill the thread with my bummerz. :(

Aw. Well then let me spark it up with flowers. :-)

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1318/573584377_a545b523d9.jpg

argh get away! Some bastard stuck flowers in my face on the train home and I'm still sneezing.

ahh, a rose.

Haha, was he trying to sell them to you or was he one of those free-hug hippie types?

It was a woman. It was a bunch of flowers she'd just bought. The train was mobbed and she was trying to squeeze past the aisle hoggers into an empty seat and somehow rubbed the flowers in my face. Not her fault etc but made my journey absolute hell.

I thought it was a peony. Wrong.
Onimo, your life among the blossoms is filled with sadness and despair.
Some homeopaths urge clients to eat the things that they're allergic to.
I don't suggest this with poison ivy.

If not a rose, perhaps arty thistles as such:

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1109/573356994_f4ed640b3f.jpg

bluebonnets

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1133/535421381_4ae0a936eb.jpg

Gladioli:

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1357/573598545_1ac0f79512.jpg

http://www.starnursery.com/images/items/721166.jpg

that's scary! surely your allergies don't require the killing of all nature!!

WHY do I end up posting when everyone's asleep?

I'm awake but it's near the end of the day so I'm about to clean up before G. gets home.

Ah yes, the odd bits of family art and craft cruft that wash up my way would make excellent exchange fodder! Also the assortment of penguin-themed items that come my way... there's no end. I'm still waiting for xmas presents of 3-4 years ago to get shipped to me--doubtless there will be treasures aplenty in there!

We need a crazy mom stuff swap. She's declared that she's making me a rug, and each time she mentions another detail about it I get a little more nervous about the final product.

Ms. Misery, if you'd be interested in getting together some time next week, I can give you a bag of fabric and buy you a coffee/tea!

If you're going to give me a bag of fabric surley I should be the one buying the coffee!

weeds != all nature, wtf?

I empathise with hayfeverers, as anyone who had the misfortune of seeing me last weekend or the weekend before will testify. Or else I'm allergic to weekends and Guinness. I prefer to think of it as hayfever though.

My mother has just phoned me and she is drunk. On a Thursday! She's got work tomorrow! Whereas I am drinking coffee and have just finished watching Question Time. Something's gone kind of wrong here somewhere :-(

weeds != all nature, wtf?

Well weeds are technically plants you don't want so I'd wipe out all the flora and then the fauna would die off as a result, with tragic results for the entire natural world - but the sneezing would stop.

won't harm lawns

I picked the wrong stuff, though lawns are kind of ok as long as people don't cut them.

Just been to "Tell no one", savage stuff!

Also drnuk-ish. Svge.

There must be some kind of plant that'd survive your wrath. Tobacco, for example. Tea? Coffee?

If you want lawns that aren't cut, you might want to come pay me a visit before we move. Sting's probably planning a conservation order and benefit gig right about now.

They aren't plants, they're essential to survival (apart from the ciggies but I'm still close enough to my last ciggie to empathise with my fellow addicts).

I have decided to smoke a pipe like this:

https://www.gttobacco.com/secure/itemimages/AMBER-4124.jpg

I will look so hot. Before my teeth go yellow and the throat cancer. Sigh.

I am also a total Dunhill brand whore obviously.

it's not the weeds but the damn mosquitoes that are getting me.

Ms. Misery, you can buy the second round!

another round of random thing packages to go out soonish, send an email if you want in! the joys of moving to a smaller abode. Include t-shirt size! Who knows what will come out of all these boxes.

Swap you mosquitoes for the midgies that were eating me alive last Sunday. Wee fuckers. I look like I've got Teh Pox. Combine the bright red snottery nose from the hayfeveriness of sitting around outside pubs getting attacked by pollen, and the poxiness of sitting around outside pubs getting attacked by midgies, and you have one miserable-looking ailsa :-(

At least you got to pubs.

It was the pub that broke me. You weren't missing much, except abject misery. Oh, and beer. That kind of broke me too.

Hey, Glasgow folk on this thread. Should I move there? I am shipping out of Nottingham this time next year, but Glasgow doesn't offer the MA I wanted to do. It is, however, the city I think I would most like to move to in the UK, and I could apply to do a research MA, possibly, if I make my mind up within the next couple of months.

Why do you want to move to Glasgow? Then we can dispel your romantic notions of it, or tell you that you're right to want to move here.

I mean, it's got good record shops and excellent club nights and a lot of live music and probably a ready-made social life for you and all that, which I guess you already know. But is that what you're after? No idea about cost of living compared to Nottingham and that sort of stuff.

Well, I've played there a few times, and that social life is pretty much better than any other city I've gigged in (aside from London, which is discounted because it's more like a couple of cities tied together with a ludicrous rent and massive distance between things). Cost of living would be something I'd be worried about, but my other options seem to have been knocked down to Bristol and Brighton, which are both very expensive, but do have the MA course that I wanted. Pretty much all I'm after is the record shops/gigs/etc thing, which I already know is great. I dunno, I just want someone to say either 'yes! I love it here' or 'no! 'tis rubbish and expensive and I get mugged every day' or something.

Well having met and spent time with Ailsa and Mr. Ailsa (the mysterious N.) I think they would definitely make sure that you had fun. After that, well it can't be so bad can it?

yes! i love it here. come on up. it'd be fun. etc.

there, decision made. see you in mono. mine's a bottle of organic cider. ailsa will have the same.

I am both a bit scared of moving in general and also giving up a course I had been set on for a while. I do have quite a good idea of what I would apply for if I tried Glasgow, which would be non-taught but could be tailored to appeal to whoever teaches their 'modernity, modernism and post-modernism' course, but I fear that Nottingham would actually be better for anything I wanted to do academically. I just don't want to stay in this town.

Can I have a job, grimly?

i wish i was in a position where i could give people jobs right now. or even replace the staff i'm losing :(

i wish i was in a position where i could give people jobs right now.

not safe for work

mine's a bottle of organic cider. ailsa will have the same.

No I sodding won't. Only good thing about Mono = it is really near my work. It has a record shop, but though it is an excellent record shop, it is IN A PUB. and a CRAP pub at that.

aw. spoilsport.

Well having met and spent time with Ailsa and Mr. Ailsa (the mysterious N.) I think they would definitely make sure that you had fun. After that, well it can't be so bad can it?

kv_ have you not met anyone else off Glasgow ILX? (I know we had this conversation in London, but I was quite drunk and v sleepy, so can't remember). I can wholeheartedly recommend all Glaswegian ILXors as excellent drinking companions (well, all the ones I've met anyway) - you know a couple of them anyway, don't you emil.y? (I think our paths might have crossed at some point, I certainly recall drinking with one of your band-mates at some occasion in the dim and distant past)

Mr Ailsa is still tremendously apprehensive of the whole internet mentalism meeting-up thing, despite the fact he's only met approximately two people off ILX* that he hasn't actually really liked as opposed lots and lots that he does like.

Also, my N. is not the same N. that used to post on here, that one's not mysterious at all. N(eil) is only mysterious because he doesn't post here (though I'm beginning to suspect he lurks a bit, hello dear!).

This board is weird! I don't understand half of what you guys are talking about!

N(eil)??

I haven't met anyone else of the Glaswegian ILX krew. Soon, I'm sure. Sadly not at Arcade Fire gig :(

I do have quite a good idea of what I would apply for if I tried Glasgow, which would be non-taught but could be tailored to appeal to whoever teaches their 'modernity, modernism and post-modernism' course,

Hi -- if you mean the Modernities course, I used to teach on it when it started out a few years ago! (and I teach on a similar course at A.N. Other Scottish University now). If you would like to ask someone privately about the academic side of that city erm uni erm dept, mail me via the click-on-the-name thing. I think byebyepride at gmail also works!

ha ha I have also taught at Bristol, and studied at Uni Sussex, which seems to cover yr various options listed above.

Having spent the weekend in Brighton, I can safely say Bristol is nowhere near as expensive.

Bristol isn't much more expensive than Glasgow unless you're looking to buy a house (I think renting is still fairly reasonable). It probably has more good bands because of the location (plus most gigs in the South are still accessible) and a pile of decent club nights. Unfortunately no decent record shops any more due to GREEDY BASTARD LANDLORDS. Also the ILX social life amounts to just me.

I have this great image of you sitting in a pub on your own, wearing a party hat.

Mr Ailsa is still tremendously apprehensive of the whole internet mentalism meeting-up thing, despite the fact he's only met approximately two people off ILX* that he hasn't actually really liked as opposed lots and lots that he does like.

I am always hugely *shy* when it comes to meeting people off the internet, despite the fact that every time I have met ILX0Rs we have ended up a) drunk and b) having a great time. Or I have, anyway.

You know what it is, though? It's the initial meetup part. I don't like meeting people when nobody knows anybody. Which is why ATP was great, because Farrell was able to introduce people around and then leave us to our own devices.

ATP was also great because no-one bothered with the "so what do you do?" pish and got down to the nitty-gritty of which artists from the ATP line up we could take in a fight and whether drinking creme egg shots for lunch counted as "taking it easy" :)

urgh, i had erased the creme eggs shots from my mind. what the hell is wrong with you people?

btw nobody asks the "what do you do" crap because everybody knows that everybody else does fuck all because they're too busy pissing around on ILX.

That's not true, I am very busy curing cancer, posing for hot male model calender shoot and saving a puppy with a broken leg I just found. God, it's so hard being me...

Creme egg shots though... Go on...

It's funny, I was the same as Accentmonkey at first because it seemed everyone knew everyone. This turned out to be correct but when I realised that I didn't necessarily need to love everyone (sort of thing) it made it a lot easier. I probably would have been a bit wary FAPing in London if I hadn't had a non-ILX friend with me (Sorry Blueski but in my mind you were one of THEM)! Now, it wouldn't be so bad. Less people would show up though, curiosity sated etc etc!

ATP was also great because no-one bothered with the "so what do you do?" pish

I always do a bit of that, but only because I don't want to come out with some line like "all civil servants are complete COCKS, no exceptions!" and then have to eat my words (or someone's fist).

I had a London FAP once. Six people came. And two of them left to go to a folk evening. Nobody likes me! Wah!

(I'm kidding.)

It's ok, we are all complete COCKS, especially aldo.

the bluewater FAP was champion because we all stayed at home and played video games instead.

i'm a complete cock too

i'm quite pleased i got out of glasto fap because i don't know any of them

A stranger's just a friend you haven't met.

Or someone who's going to set fire to your car.

Anyone who sets fire to my car is a friend, as long as I'm not in the thing.

Hi -- if you mean the Modernities course, I used to teach on it when it started out a few years ago! (and I teach on a similar course at A.N. Other Scottish University now). If you would like to ask someone privately about the academic side of that city erm uni erm dept, mail me via the click-on-the-name thing. I think byebyepride at gmail also works!

Cool, thank you for this. However, I will probably leave it for a day or so whilst I am not so hungover, if that's okay with you.

Ailsa, I am unsure as to whether we have met or not. I was probably very drunk. I do know Madchen and Ally C, but the former doesn't seem to post here that much anymore, and the latter has completely vanished.

aldo, does Bristol really have good bands these days? I always thought it died a death some years ago.

Popular threads I have yet to click today.

LASER VAGINAL REJUVENATION INSTITUTE
why are most of the ilx men fuckably delicous

That I'm considering doing so sums up how motivated I am at work today. When you'd rather read about fixing vaginas than do what you're paid for you know there's something wrong with your job (unless you're a professional fanny fixer upper).

dude fannies are way more interesting than like 98% of jobs.

Someone I know is currently undergoing IVF treatment, and her doctor refers to himself as a fanny mechanic, which I think is quite reassuring.

You're confusing interest in fannies with interest in reading ilxors talking about rejuvenating them.

The thread will probably be funny but having "LASER VAGINAL REJUVENATION" in all caps across the top of my screen at work might not be wise.

xpost

My FAP was a conjoined with Ailsa. Her star power meant a bigger crowd than previously expected. I was the Richard Carpenter to her Karen!

I don't mind civil servants.

Everyone's a cock! EVEN THE LADIES!! Yay for gender equality.

Oh wait, EVERYONE'S GENITALS!

Well, that's just lovely for a a Friday lunchtime. Genitals. Thanks.

emil.y, I meant in terms of bands passing through on the gig circuit, really, but trying to post here with THREE MILLION OTHER THINGS TO DO makes my fingers unwork. That said, there are still a couple of really quite decent Bristol bands about but it doesn't have a scene as such any more.

I am now thinking about fannies. Which is not helping me work.

I am now thinking about fannies

That's because you're a cock.

No arguments here.

Am I to take it your lack of motivation is bonus related?

my lack of motivation is fanny related.

I won't hear bonus news until I'm back from hols in July, but I'm not optimistic (see 1, below).

My lack of motivation is a combination of:

1 place full of cnuts
2 it's Friday
3 only a week from hols
4 hay fever killing me
5 I always lack motivation

6 fanny

Yank fanny or European fanny? Either way, work civil servants. Make UK work properly!

Yank fanny???

Pffft. We invented fannies!

UK's fucked mate, give up.

i'm not a civil servant and i'll take either fanny

http://images.tribe.net/tribe/upload/photo/8d1/ac6/8d1ac63b-f5c5-4b15-87b3-7b4f858fd842

"Oh monsieur kit, you flatter me..."

UK's fucked mate, give up.

Now we may ride from the West and take what should be ours. Accentmonkey, saddle up!

PEACE OUT MAH PEEPZ I'm off, have a great weekend everyone!

take it easy !!!

Have fun, Kev-lol. Attack from the east. I'll be right behind you, I swear!

I haven't met anyone on this thread. And can barely talk to you as you're all leaving going just as I'm coming.

Accentmonkey, there was a fab picture of you at a London FAP - oh, it was several years ago. When i first came to ILX. it might have been on ILB.
Anyway, it was you, Mikey, Pinefox, Jerry the Nipper(? maybe?). I recall being quite enthralled - maybe it was ILB, because i seem to recall books being brandished.
Do you remember this?
As i said, it was way back when i first started here - and I was like "I wanna go to London and meet these people!"
Now, it seems like I should take a worldwide ILX tour.
it's comforting to know that i can FAP pretty much anywhere I go. of course, i don't go anywhere, but it's still comforting.

I generally want these ppl to leave London and come meet me. That doesn't happen, obviously, so I tend meet up with Glasgowers.

poor ms. misery always gets stuck with me as the only one posting! Once beth parker gets a break in her season of work, she'll assist with holding up the U.S. end. I think.
i was enjoying our celebrity visits - Ned, for example. sarah-C. perhaps if i mention some facts about Liberace she'll return.

WAHT MADNES IS DIS

who needs ned rite?

Do you remember this?

I certainly do. It was an ILB FAP in London, and there was me, Mark S, the Pinefox, JtN, Starry, Mikey G, and some other people. We had our photos taken reading books, but they were all out of Sarah's bag, I think, so we looked smarter than we really were.

yay! those pictures were fabulous! i could probably retrieve them, if I had the inclination.

Also, fannies are good, but fanny packs? Yikes! Women of a certain age seem to regard the fanny pack as a useful fashion device for belting large t-shirts that say "Proud Grandma!" or have glittery kittens on them. The fanny pack is always belted so the pack is actually a tummy pack.
This disturbs me. i get that it's practical, even useful, and celebrate their liberation from carrying a handbag. But it's a really bad look! They also seem to be no better at retrieving things - money, checkbook, credit card, chapstick - from the tummy pack.

fanny packs are dreadful.

I can't believe it's only 9:30. .

fanny pack = bum bag? Right?

onimo - yep.

how did the US and the UK end up with such opposing definitions of 'fanny'??

Hello hello. What is this fanny talk.

xpost, isn't that what the war was over?

There's a fancy pants restaurant in Buffalo called "Fanny's." No matter what English speaking country you're from, it's still an unfortunate name.

indeed

xpost, isn't that what the war was over?

The right to bear arms, pursue happiness, and have yer fanny in the wrong place!

RAAAAR I'VE GOT BEAR ARMS!!!

polar bear arms*

I'm now wondering whether a simple misunderstanding over the American use of fanny has led to their obsession with anal sex.

Which I probably shouldn't be wondering at work.

aldo, OTM.

(ok, not really)

xpost, i think you could be right

also, in that vein, "bummer." two different meanings on the 2 different continents, no?

i thought 'bummer' was universal.

well, it was made known to me by a britisher ilxor (mr. tim h.), when i blurted out, "oh, bummer!" in front of him, that it has lots of bumsex connotations. or, maybe that's just him being a dirty bird.

Yes, bummer is definitely a chap who does bumming. Not to be confused with faggot which is yummy big meat balls in gravy.

Faggoting is also an old-timey knitting term for connecting seams of garments. Everytime I see it in a pattern, I giggle, as I have the mental maturity of an 8 y/o boy.

Or a cigarette.

I know plenty of cigarettes that are very mentally mature.

i didn't know we had an obsession with anal sex! Well, regulating anal sex, i guess, is the obsession of lots of...ok, you're right, America is obsessed with anal sex.
massachusetts resoundingly shot down a proposed amendment to shatter our current amendment in favor of gay marriage.
The wedding industry breathed a sigh of relief.
the amendment was supposed to put gay marriage on a ballot, so everyone could vote yea or nay. But it got defeated - since we already have said Yay!

Ours was put on a ballot, and most said no. :(

Isn't NY proposing a gay marriage amendment? Yay, NY! It makes me sad I left.

x-post -- Oh give it time. (I am one of those weird people who still thinks progress actually happens, but only in fits and starts, sadly.)

Well ours was a constitutional amendment as well so a bit more work to turn over. I would expect it would happen at a federal level first.

Yeah, TN's amendment failed miserably too. However, it is nice that I work/live in one of the bluest counties in the entire state, and can discuss bleeding heart issues with all my coworkers.

I live in the green county. The amendment was actually to ban gay marriages. So a vote against it was a vote for the good guys.

Aren't you Merkins making the school boy error of assuming that anal sex just refers to gay type things?

The popularity of straight porn involving anal sex would suggest otherwise....

Oh, your county is so lonely, Sam.

Guilty, no. Bumsex for everyone!

Aren't you Merkins making the school boy error of assuming that anal sex just refers to gay type things?

No. We just started talking about gay marriage.

Fair enough, Ms M - I'm all for gay marriage and bumsex for everyone. Carry on!

I would really like to click on that old "ilx men" thread but that one word in the title is holding me back.

"most"

I read it not that exciting. I mean the monster cereal was okay but I'm reaching new lows of motivation at the moment.

"delicous"

Everyone here has gone to a conference, which I should have gone too as well, but whatever. I'm moving. I also don't want to hang out with 25,000 librarians. Twice a year is TOO MUCH.

"Aren't you Merkins making the school boy error of assuming that anal sex just refers to gay type things?"

Nope. we're just trying to figure out how it's regulated. And the fact that it might be regulated is funny. Unless you get arrested for breaking a sodomy law.
Mexico seems to be making strides - they might legalize prostitution! And they already passed their gay marriage amendment.
What's next, legalizing pot?
That would be a great day for the entire world.

Yes sodomy was only recently made legal in TX.

Well, bugger me!

That's what's so weird! I mean, I wish I was there to hear all the grand poo-bahs bellowing about whether sodomy should be legal. I would love to see a huge discussion about it on CNN.
"Sodomy: Yes or No?"

no thanks, i just ate.

How were everyone's weekends? Did we all have butt secks as promised or was it a mad drunken couple of days.* Brussels is fantastic, the clubs are a bit meh but the food & interesting things in bottles are fantastic. V onimoesquehungover at desk, please to make today end. Have the day off tomorrow as v good friend having her 30th tomorrow. What the hell do I get her at lunch for a present?! HELP ME ILX!

*Mine was the latter. Je ne regrette rien!

Hangover + hay fever. Must be Monday again.

Some tit arranged a morning meeting and I really can't face it. I think I'll go and hide in the server room.

haha xpost

Tit? Onimo, did you just use that in a negative way? You cunt.

My weekend was better than the latter part of last week. heh.

I'm still dry and not muddy. Had a great weekend.

This meeting starts in 15 minutes and I'm fighting waves of nausea. Not good. It's been a long time since I had to leave a meeting to throw up.

Oh yeah teh_kit tell us all about glasto! How was weather, bands, vibe, etc?

Onimo :(

Drinking a Big Giant Coffee wasn't the smartest move ;_;

MY PARENTS ARE STILL HERE.

I'm surprised they haven't come to work so they can be in the same room as me here as well. My dad seems to want to have serious discussions that threaten to bubble into fights EVERY HOUR ON THE HOUR. There was a 10 minute discussion last night over whether my ma should carry an umbrella on the 30 minute walk to the place we had dinner WHEN IT HAD JUST STARTED RAINING. In the end I took the car and forewent beer just to put an end to it.

They are sleeping in the room with the computer so I can't even escape to the interwebs.

ONLY TWO MORE DAYS.

i didn't go to glasto, you silly sausage.

Oh right. I thought you were going. Did you change your mind or something?

Breathe Aldo. Only two days and people can be very aware of vibes and things. Stay nice!

I AM BEING NICE. But my nice gland is in danger of running out of nice, possibly permanently.

Do they visit often? What do you normally do around the end to keep from parenticide?

(it is SO a word)

This is the first time they've been in about 2 years. I had forgotten the horror.

Hey onimo thanks so much fer the 65dos live sesh thing. Its awesome!

I had a very ill hung over monday too. I am so ashamed of how much I drink these days ugh.

i need to drink MORE.

Amen. Monday hangovers are so bad. I am currently enjoying a coffee bigger than my head! Ideas for 30th birthday presents please??

Aldo, it's always tough with guests for so long. I feel nothing but sympathy for you!

but i have been invited to a big boys' night out tomorrow, and i will be the resident female (or token female), so i feel the pressure to drink every male there right under the table.

Oh shit. xxpost. Sort of. Both work...

the only time i wished i was at glasto was when kat phoned me going "omfg i just did Tunstall on singstar on PS3 ON A STAGE and i got 9,000 points" and i was like "omfg pwnj why am i @ home?!?" but the rest of my weekend was so awesome, that was the only pang of regret.

Hey onimo thanks so much fer the 65dos live sesh thing. Its awesome!

It is isn't it? I really want to see them live now. I read on some forum somewhere that some mentalists in the US are paying $140 for Cure tickets just to see 65dos.

My meeting was a nightmare, but blissfully short.
Boss "Any other business?"
Me "No-one better have any."

Someone asked me if I was feeling ok and I claimed that I was having an adverse reaction to hay fever medication :)

My flatmate got home from Glasto whilst I was getting ready for work this morning - WTF??? No idea when they must have left, what mentalists. Anyway you can tell what sort of weekend it must have been as after abt 5 mins the house whiffs of the old whacky tabackey.

Someone asked me if I was feeling ok and I claimed that I was having an adverse reaction to hay fever medication :)

Nice one. It probably didn't work but quick thinking there batman!

Sarah, you didn't even know they were going? Madness!

Ah, the old stay up all night Sunday and get the 5.30 bus out trick. It's the only way. You can be at home and asleep in Dublin by lunchtime then. Good times.

Ideas for 30th birthday presents please??

What prices are we talking? I recommend the jewellery in Silver Trout, which is on the corner of Sth. William St and Sth. King St. They've a huge range of funky stuff at all manner of prices. I get a lot of my jewels there. They don't take cards though, so you'll need cash.

Alternatively, get some nice Aveda things in BTs or Whetstone on Sth. Anne St (or is it Duke St.?)

NO! I knew they had gone, obv... I mean - she got home very early! I do not know what time they must have left Glastonbury this morning!

I don't approve of this 5.30 bus stuff. And I think they all had got train tickets anyway! The queuing for the coach is all part of the Blitz Spirit. *sniffs*

I dread coming back from festival this sept, I had a lift last year just at the very end. I don't want to be hungover and in line for ages to get out of carpark :(

Teh_kit, can't believe teh_cat had to go on her own! For shame young man! Why such a good weekend as well also please why no second TROPICO blog post?

I dunno, this is a friend but I don't want to go overboard sort of thing. There was an incident involving makeup and money so they're both off limits (good call though re. Aveda. I can think of other people who can get them). I was thinking Avoca and a nice card. Something small but shiny.

tropiblog updated this week as promised on post#1

Aren't hangovers supposed to fade as the day goes on?

A colleague just passed with a cup of onion soup urgh omg FUCK OFF!

I was thinking Avoca and a nice card.

Beware of Avoca at lunchtime, though.

I don't approve of this 5.30 bus stuff. And I think they all had got train tickets anyway!

Yah, you get the bus to the train station and then snooze on the train back up to London with all the SQUARES going to WERK.

But I want it noooooooooooow :(

WTF @ onion soup hate!? Damn onimo, rapidly losing my sympathy here (also I need it all soon for imminent self pity party i.e. shopping at lunch in a v noisy shop :*( ) HA HA HA xpost!

Sorry I was laughing at the accentmonkey comment re. Avoca. So true. Will avoid basement though.

Nothing wrong with onion soup per se, but teh smell of onion soup in the office while I'm sitting here FUCKING DYING frankly isn't on.

People have no consideration.

Hey, you know what I hate? I hate it when people tell me that they have information that I might want, but then tell me they're not going to tell it to me. Like when people say "I have a surprise for you, but you have to wait to see it". Then don't fucking tell me about it.

Also, I hate that on those new Ariel ads where they talk about turning to 30 on your washing machine, the woman actually turns the dial to somewhere between 30 and 40. Why? When the numbers are abitrarily written on a fake washing machine, why not just have her turn the dial to the right place?

It's going between me and my rest.

BBC "live - Wimbledon" person brings teh funny.

1235: Henman Hill looks pretty bleak at the moment. It can't be much fun queuing up for hours, spending a fortune and then sitting in the mud watching re-runs on a big screen. It would be like going to Glastonbury and ending up watching The Who.

Uh, a secret is only worthwhile if the other knows there's a secret!

Onimo, so you survived the meeting. Yay! I never had one. Well, I have talks with my parents (my bosses) but I rarely if ever have *proper meetings*. There are moments when I could kill my dad though. Oh yeah. Oh yeeeeaaaah. Last time I just solved it by putting him on a plane back to Japan. hahahahah

Survived is about right. A colleague pointed out afterwards that I was less outspoken than usual. I didn't explain that speaking might have risked following through.

No way could I work for my parents. My brother once sacked my Dad - he took it quite well.

People don't realize how hard it can be. I have walked out several times. But I always pretending nothing happened and returned the next day. That said, you have to be a little masochistic. My mum refuses to understand how hard it can be.

Then again I don't know what else I would do.

ILX has stopped :(

At this rate I'm going to end up working.

That wouldn't do.

It's days like this you mourn the loss of the 'random' button.

Ya'll talk too much.

It's raining here, again. But this morning I finally remembered to bring my new umbrella. I marvelled at this fancy invention which kept me mostly dry. Friday it started pouring monsoon style just as I stepped off the bus. By the time I got to the house every inch of me was absolutely completely drenched.

So tired. . .I've been exhausted constantly lately and don't know why.

Is it Friday yet?

Maybe iron deficiency? If I am tired (and don't know why) it's usually my iron intake. Which reminds me that I need to take my pills again.

Talk too much? WAH? No way! Onimo's right: we need to chitchat more. I am avoiding work. Too worried about stuff.

Yeah, could be iron. I hate taking vitamins though. I take too many other pills.

Well you talk to much before I get in. Then there's a ton to catch up on and you're all talked out!

Mrs O was taking liquid iron supplements when she was pregnant, I tried one and it was like licking railings on a rainy day (don't tell me you've never done that).

Wow. That sounds so much better than swallowing nasty pills.

I think it was called Spatone. She usually mixed a sachet on fresh OJ.

http://www.spatone.com/en.php?section=faq&id=7

on = in

Hmm, I'll look into that. Especially if it makes me all smiley and lovin' exercise like that lady in the picture.

Ms. M, it might be your thyroid. I know two people with hypothyroidism whose main complaint is lack of energy.

You guys, my new Mac of Total Devastation is being delivered today. I woke up at 5:30 and couldn't get back to sleep because I'm so excited.

Shiny new toy!

It's been sitting on the truck in Tupelo since Saturday afternoon. I wish I could have gone to pick it up. But not having it meant I got a fair amount of housework and shelf-building done this weekend. And it shipped Fedex Ground instead of Air, so it probably won't be delivered until the afternoon.

Ms. M, it might be your thyroid. I know two people with hypothyroidism whose main complaint is lack of energy.

Yes both my GP and pyschitraist have been concerned about my thyroid in the past. The latter has said that I'm already borderline and by taking Lithium I will probably have thyroid issues in the future. I'll bring it up again when I see him next month.

Congrats on the new machine. :)

I have done a small flowchart. That is all I've done in an hour and half. I hate the brain fog I've had lately. Maybe Dementors are surrounding me.

I have the Wimbledon live feed minimised in a sneaky window - I am Mr Motivated today :)

I know two people with hypothyroidism whose main complaint is lack of energy.

You're not kidding. I was two weeks without my tablets recently, for complicated reasons, and it felt like I was living in a big foggy swamp. Made of toffee.

:( maybe this is it then. I can hardly do what I need too during the day. As soon as I get home, I'm ready to go to bed!

The good thing is, though, that once you get the blood tests, the medication is cheap. And harmless.

Trish, you make three then. Mrs. Hardy and He!di the Pig Book Publisher are the other two. The latter was just diagnosed recently and is having a hard time with it.

Pig book?

A livestock-industry magazine I work for. "The Pig Book" is easy shorthand, though it covers more areas than swine.

The Pig Book! I like that. I get my thyroid checked annually, so far it's hanging on borderline.

somehow the rainy day is not conducive to calculating percentages of disabled people from census numbers or tracking down random subdivisions in aerial maps.

is it wrong to hope that we get a power outage and we're all send home?

"Show us ya tits" at the top of new answers as my boss silently creeps up and looks over my shoulder at my browser window. Just what I need.

I am very tired. I stayed up late watching a fairly entertaining punk docu on More4. I am now going to my son's school to watch his class perform "The Gingerbread Boy" - what fun.

Ive wondered about thyroid stuff for years. I have an... oddly swollen neck that has been commented upon by more than one doctor. But of course no ones DONE anything re that have they.

xxpost So did your boss show his tits?

I finally started taking my iron pills again. Biofer. They rock the casbah.

I should catch up on sleep but I always end up in bed around 11/12 which isn't so bad unless you have to wake up at six 30 and are pregnant. I feel as though I am drained. :-(

Still haven't recovered from my sewing machine fobia. My cleaning lady just called and said she has prepared the thread - I told her I was too stupid to figure it out with a manual and she has the same one - but told me I need another "spool" which might be hard to get since it's an old one. Urgh. I should have bought a new one, I guess. I really need to tackle that machine. Maybe do a few lessons? :-(

Which reminds me I need to order "education cheques" so I don't need to pay for my knitting class. HURRAH!

Talk ing of grebt docus: I saw the one on George Michael. I think he's ace. Made a ton of classic songs but above all I like his attitude. A bit like Robbie Williams.

Well, they're both closeted homosexuals who take lots of drugs...

GM out of the closet now, obv.

xxpost So did your boss show his tits?

Thankfully, no.

How can it be nearly one o'clock when it feels like eight in the morning?

I just got sent a death metal song to listen to... AND I LIKED IT. It was like Lycia but with screamy vocals.

I will get iron pills at the pharmacy today. And mention the thyroid thing to my psych. later this week.

Onimo, what doc?

Nath, I love how you've had your cleaning lady help with the machine. Although a class was key for my knitting I've learned quite a bit about my sewing without one. The old machine might be holding you back though. I know here you can get a new simple one for under $100. Great for learning. I assume she was talking about a bobbin? As in you need one for underneath the feedplate? look up the make and model of your machine online. There's probably someone who sells parts.

Anna, maybe you're on our time. It is eight here.

Well, she said I had one bobbin (?) but needed another one (so I could wind the thread of the second uh... thread bobbin whatever you call it). She also said that she'd look for a second one. if she had an extra one, she'll give it to me! Isn't that sweet?

Ophelia is not feel so good today. :-( I have been worrying too much about her UTI. :-( I ph34r she'll get it back and then what? It is such a difficult thing to find the cause of.

What kind of treatments have the doctors given? antibiotics? Do you think it would safe to have her drink cranberry juice?

I have now got to the point where I am counting the hours until they go home. ONE MORE NIGHT.

I worked out last night that my dad seems to believe everything that's printed in the red tops.

I just logged onto IRC. God talk about old school. Urh!

YAY@IRC wp

I just read about the cranberry juice solution. Maybe I should try it? She's been on antibiotics now for the third time (in about two months). :-( I mentioned to my husband about the scented things being EVIL (for people suffering from UTIs). If that's (part of) the cause, wtf do we use as a replacement? :-(

What are you using that's scented? Yeah that's bad for sensitive areas for anyone of any age.

Cranberry juice is fantastic for UTIs. Way better than antibiotics and a good preventive measure. Just don't get the blends that are only 10% cranberry. I imagine you might have to dilute it for her with water or something since she's young (it's pretty strong tasting) but just be sure it's 100% cranberry juice.

Oooh, I am gonna try it! :-)

Scented towelletes. They claim it's "sensitive" but I doubt it.

Home on day off. Reading horrifically violent Robocop by Frank Miller. I regret buying it now!

Sorry to hear about Ophelia. I've often heard that Cranberry juice is very *ahem* lady friendly. There must be truth in it!

Also break a leg to Omino's kid.

Onimo, what doc?

This one: http://www.channel4.com/more4/documentaries/doc-feature.jsp?id=152

Punk: Attitude
Filmmaker Don Letts retells the story of punk and pays tribute to it in a unique documentary created out of archive live footage, exclusive interviews and shouty soundtrack.

Lots of good talking heads including a highly entertaining Henry Rollins talking about the obvious homo-eroticism shown by hardcore guys stripped to their shorts and sweating and throwing each other about "get a fuckin' room you guys!" Um, Henry... hellooo?

Well worth watching if you can pick up a t0rr3nt somewhere. I'm sure More4 will repeat it. They probably spent too much time on NYC/CBGB for my liking and basically missed out the ten years before Nirvana but it more than made up for this with excellent footage and anecdotes from the 70s.

Also break a leg to Omino's kid.

onimo's kid delivered his 4 lines with aplomb :)

Rollins is a hoot.

Aye he cracks me up, he's so brilliantly expressive. He is also great at swearing.

I went to see Rollins doing his spoken wordy thing in Glasgow years and years ago. I can't remember anything he said, but I remember really enjoying it.

That documentary sounds about 8 million times better than that crappy Seven Ages of Rock shite that's on Saturday nights.

i've only seen that 'liar' video. but it was pretty good.

I saw Rollins do his spoken word thing here in Toronto last year and loved every second of it!

Do you guys watch his show?
I think we get it off...hmmm...it's "The Rollins Show.". maybe a weird network that ends up Tivoed because we're asleep. (Weird being American vs. alternative networks - BBC1 is way up in the hundreds of channels, after so much shopping bullshit))
Rollins does his usual Rollins, in a Carson way, and then interviews people.
Marilyn Manson - classic.
Joan Jett - classic.
he's bombastic!
in both a good and bad way. Can't hate the thick necked geek.

Yeah I saw Rollins spoken word maybe 5 or 6 yrs back and it was pretty great. The whole second half was this one gigantic rant about a KISS concert and how wonderful KISS fans are, it was so sweet.

And then America gives you "Being Gene Simmons" - bravo network.

i apologize!

that's why i switched to Aerosmith, as a young'un.

Best.Band. Ever.
good morning?