What's been your biggest disappointment of the week?

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Last night, looking through Heat's TV listings, I see that this week's Serious BBC Documentary Program Horizon is about how ships mysteriously disappearing at sea could all be explained by monsters. Halfway through the program, waiting for the monster theorising and artist's impressions to begin, I look again and it actually says "monster waves". WAAAH!

― Graham (graham), Friday, 15 November 2002 14:41 (twenty-three years ago)

(though I was gratified to learn that Captain Birdeye has found gainful employment at the helm of the QEII, and wasn't just axed in a misguided rebranding exercise hurrah)

http://web.archive.org/web/20011214125405/http://www.mykeweb.co.uk/3dmm/images/Grrrrrr.gif
A non-linear monster AAAAARRRRRRGGH!

― Graham (graham), Friday, 15 November 2002 14:45 (twenty-three years ago)

Wait, Graham, you mean it took you half the programme to figure out that it wasn't about monsters?

That was actually Uncle Albert from Only Fools & Horses.

― MarkH (MarkH), Friday, 15 November 2002 14:46 (twenty-three years ago)

Well they did do the docco cliffhanger "But then something happenned, something big, that couldn't be explained by normal science..."

Quantum Physics <<<<< SEA MONSTERS

― Graham (graham), Friday, 15 November 2002 14:51 (twenty-three years ago)

grrr that programme kept promising to explain how the FREAK WAVES weren't just ordinary sinewaves, but it never said what the mathematical formula was...

i was talking to talitha on the phone for the first 20 minutes: so i missed stuff — was the clip of film of the New Year Wave running down the oil rig digitalk or a reconstruction? It was very extremely scary even if it was faked.

There's another Fortean Ocean phenom they didn't mention, which is like single pillars of water of great height, w. little waterspouts dnaxcing on top

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 15 November 2002 14:51 (twenty-three years ago)

They didn't say, it looked real, but they had some pretty good digi stuff elswewhere in the show.

What mark, didn't you get it from the out of focus closeups?

― Graham (graham), Friday, 15 November 2002 14:56 (twenty-three years ago)

getting a proper job - yeah, cheers

― a-33, Friday, 15 November 2002 14:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Having to sit around alot.

Being at work.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 15 November 2002 15:00 (twenty-three years ago)

opening the v. voice music section.

the "fat" thread on ile.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 15 November 2002 15:08 (twenty-three years ago)

there's been so many...let's see erm, this girl
i'm seeing is coming to manchester and
'can't fit me in...i just don't see how i can'

yeah that'll do it.

― piscesboy, Friday, 15 November 2002 15:17 (twenty-three years ago)

The fact that my two housemates seem to have declared war on each other is not helping my week.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 15 November 2002 15:46 (twenty-three years ago)

my partner found a proper job.
i am glad for him (should i?), but i worry about having to do everything myself from now on...

― joan vich (joan vich), Friday, 15 November 2002 15:51 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm trying to buy a new car and its been three days since I've heard from the dealer. I called this morning and they said the credit manager from the bank is away until monday....great another 3 days to wait.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 15 November 2002 16:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Sandrone in the 3:30 at Newcastle.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 15 November 2002 16:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Arg...the new Don Hertzfeldt (Billy's Balloon, Lily and Jim) animated film, Rejected, was going to make its TV debut a little while ago on the Cartoon Network. I've been waiting months for this. Then, even though it's on the TV Guide network listing...nope. Like the geek I am, I check his website (http://www.bitterfilms.com) and find out that it was pulled at the last minute, because of sponsor concerns over the phrase "sweet Jesus" used in the film. WTF?! Good lord, people. What's next on the chopping block, "Goodness gracious"??

― Ernest P. (ernestp), Friday, 15 November 2002 16:19 (twenty-three years ago)

I've been home sick for two days, and I ran out of milk for my coffee this morning. :(

Now I'm debating between stumbling over to the coffee shop across the street for a latte, or opening a can of evaporated milk & using that. Only in Seattle would people who have the flu still be drinking 2 cups of morning coffee....

― lyra (lyra), Friday, 15 November 2002 16:28 (twenty-three years ago)

basle 3 liverpool 3

― michael wells (michael w.), Friday, 15 November 2002 16:34 (twenty-three years ago)

Finding out that Ed Rooney is a pedo.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 15 November 2002 16:38 (twenty-three years ago)

My Spelling

― brg30 (brg30), Friday, 15 November 2002 17:48 (twenty-three years ago)

my birthday.
and I have made little progress in finding a new job. i don;t understand. i can write marxist critiques of italian futurist painting but i can;t seem to find a job. that is due not only to my lack of motivation, but also the fact that one must jump through so many hoops just to make $5 an hour to xerox all day.

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Friday, 15 November 2002 17:49 (twenty-three years ago)

killing a thread ;-)

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Friday, 15 November 2002 22:42 (twenty-three years ago)

aaron you shoulda said it was yr birthday! anyway: hip hip hooray for aaron! on his magical birthing sometime this week-day!

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 15 November 2002 22:44 (twenty-three years ago)

my disappointment was the fact that once again i drank too much, and the fact that i have not managed to get to my 9 am class, and that i am no longer writing for a and e,

― anthony easton (anthony), Friday, 15 November 2002 22:49 (twenty-three years ago)

sleeplessness --> irritability --> everything makes me want to burst into tears --> everything is a disappointment.

― Maria (Maria), Friday, 15 November 2002 22:52 (twenty-three years ago)

thanks jel :-)

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Friday, 15 November 2002 22:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes, rah for birthday! Even if it stank, ya got good wishes. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 15 November 2002 22:58 (twenty-three years ago)

I tuned in to the Discovery Channel to a program entitled "How to Survive" or some such, and instead of providing me with useful common sense information about how to mollify an abusive boss or avoid drunken drivers, it spent nearly the whole of the hour telling lurid stories about people who had been randomly struck by lightning or gnawed on by ursine creatures. What a disappointment!

― Aimless, Saturday, 16 November 2002 00:19 (twenty-three years ago)

whooo, happy birthday aaron!!

― lyra (lyra), Saturday, 16 November 2002 00:49 (twenty-three years ago)

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