Mark C owes me £4

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And he has made no effort to pay me back.

Do you think he's trying to pull a fast one?

― Lara (Lara), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 09:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Why does he owe you?

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 09:41 (twenty-two years ago)

you put out cheap!

― gareth (gareth), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 09:57 (twenty-two years ago)

He ran out of cash and I gave him money so he wouldn't have to walk to work FROM HIGHGATE.

― Lara (Lara), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 10:07 (twenty-two years ago)

You live in a different country.

Do you take Paypal?

I feel persecuted.

― Mark C (Mark C), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 10:19 (twenty-two years ago)

And I notice you're willing to talk about usury before breakfast. Hmph.

― Mark C (Mark C), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 10:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Lara should skip breakfast and get on the first plane to England to collect her money.

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 10:23 (twenty-two years ago)

You use of an impressively archaic term had got me thinking of *impressively exorbitant interest*.

― Lara (Lara), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 10:37 (twenty-two years ago)

That night we ended up in bed together has me thinking of "impressively exorbitant interest".

― Mark C (Mark C), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 10:59 (twenty-two years ago)

*speechless*

― Lara (Lara), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 11:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Also, walk from HIGHGATE to PUTNEY. Not just a quick stroll.

― Mark C (Mark C), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 11:16 (twenty-two years ago)

It's a miracle you could walk at all.

― Lara (Lara), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 11:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Doctor: "IOU £4? It's an impressive bit of shaving, but what does it mean?"

― Tim (Tim), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 11:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Miracle! I was in a fine condition thank you. Wasn't I? Mmm, scampi.

― Mark C (Mark C), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 11:36 (twenty-two years ago)

I suppose you only lasted until 4am when someone else took over...

― Lara (Lara), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 11:38 (twenty-two years ago)

If you want to donate the 4 pounds to "charity" I could really do with leaving the house and I have no money and my parents are awol. they owe me a tenner.

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 11:40 (twenty-two years ago)

We'd still have the me sending £4 to Ireland issue, though.

Oh Lara, I understand now! You minx. So. Who was better?

― Mark C (Mark C), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 12:05 (twenty-two years ago)

It's ok, I found a fiver in my pocket and hey presto I'm in college!

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 13:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Do you know, if I collected all the tenners owed by all the ex-boyfriends around this country, I could BUY THIS PLACE AND SACK YOU ALL!!!

Graham Roby, you owe me nearly £17! Matt Thompson, you owe me £10! Simon Lewis, you owe me... oh shit, wait, I think he owes me money.

― kate, Tuesday, 28 January 2003 13:19 (twenty-two years ago)

you're hoping they wile away the hours googling their own names, aren't you?

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 13:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Graham doesn't even know what the internet is, he's so stupid. (Hey, he's a drummer, what do you want?) And Matt, well... he's a genius so he's excused. Being a genius gets you out of owing money and doing the dishes. Apparently. If I were hoping that people wile away the hours googling their own names, I wouldn't be writing about people that owed me money, I'd be writing HILTON BETEGEUSE, I LOVE YOU, WILL YOU BEAR MY CHILDREN?!?!?! now, wouldn't I?

― kate, Tuesday, 28 January 2003 13:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Is his second name really Betelgeuse? That was on tv last night.

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 13:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Hilton was on TV last night? that wouldn't surprise me. He should be on TV. he should have his own TV show, in fact, his own TV channel! Channel Betelgeuse! (Is that like Channel Heaven, which is my TV channel? Nothing but dirty dronerock, Time Team, astronomy programmes and Scooby Doo cartoons)

OK, I said I'd stop talking about Hilton, didn't I?

Yummy yummy yummy I got love in my tummy and I feel like loving you. I'm a bit MANIC today, maybe I should put the bubblegum comp on and just bounce around on the ceiling.

― kate, Tuesday, 28 January 2003 13:29 (twenty-two years ago)

google doesn't know who Hilton Betelgeuse is.

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 13:38 (twenty-two years ago)

I meant the film with Michael Keaton, actually the film name is beetlejuice isn't it but IN THE FILM the guy is called BETELGEUSE. And you've all said it at least 3 times so google or no google expect some second rate horror comedy any second now.

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 13:41 (twenty-two years ago)

For the umpteenth time, Betelgeuse is not even his stage name, let alone "real name" it is a psuedonym to protect the poor boy from my crush. Man, if I could just say "Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse" three times and have Hilton appear, then all my problems would be solved! He actually reminds me of Beetlejuice the character in the film a little bit. He's totally got that Manic Evil Genius thing down perfectly. :-)

― kate, Tuesday, 28 January 2003 13:46 (twenty-two years ago)

is he dead?

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 13:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Does he eat bugs?

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 13:49 (twenty-two years ago)

He wears black and white stripey things, I'm betting.

― Nicole (Nicole), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 13:49 (twenty-two years ago)

This is NOT the way to get me to talk about Hilton less, you know, you guys! Do NOT encourage the crush! DO NOT FEED THE KATE!!!

― kate, Tuesday, 28 January 2003 13:51 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't know what the first bit of this thread is about, and it scares me. I do know what the second bit of this thread is about, and it scares me also. Please, kate, for my sanity if not yours, just phone the guy and tell him or something.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 14:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Why? This is about me, more than him. I mean, would you have reccomended that I get on the phone and call Julian Casablancas? Just because this guy has danced through my life in one weekend doesn't mean that I know him, or should persue this. I think I should just leave it in potentialhood. I idealise him far too much to ever have a viable friendship with him. It just feels nice right now. And after how crap I've felt for the past few months, I think I deserve to feel nice for a while before I destroy the crush with the harsh icy wind of reality.

― kate, Tuesday, 28 January 2003 14:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Aye, but just cos you think you idealise him to much for it to work doesn't mean that it won't work, does it?

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 14:29 (twenty-two years ago)

My point being that the main thing that would stop it from working is you thinking it wont work. I spend half my life explaining this to the girlfriend.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 14:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Nick, you are a romantic, as are most people who are in happy relationships.

The main thing stopping it from working is that he has expressed utterly no romantic or sexual interest in me whatsoever. Lots of friendly interest, lots of musical interest, but nothing else. End of story.

Faced with this knowledge, it's better to beat it into the form of an ironic crush on an imaginary person with the aim of working out my issues (with sex, boys and self esteem) through a semi-fictional dilemma, and burning it as creative fuel. Which is a much better thing to do than pine around after someone who doesn't actually want you, que non?

Hilton Betelgeuse probably bears about as much relation to the real person inspiring the imaginary crush as The JC Ass bears to the real person Julian Casablancas. I don't feel the need to actualise either of these things. If Hilton wanted it, it would happen. That's not me surrendering my power or wimping out, it's me Facing Facts and dealing the best way I know how.

I probably should tell him, but only in the "you should hear this from me, rather than hearing it through the grapevine, so you know exactly what I mean, not what someone wants to read into it" sense.

― kate, Tuesday, 28 January 2003 14:52 (twenty-two years ago)

By grapevine, do you mean "explicit ilxor thread"?

Yeah, I guess I kind of am a romantic fool, but I was when I was single too.

Fair play girl.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 15:01 (twenty-two years ago)

No, I mean, grapevine telling him the thread was here and interpreting it for him. If he came here and read it, I think he'd be amused/chuffed. But knowing that some of his friends occasionally lurk here, I'd be scared that they would read it, think I was a stalker, and report back "Oh my god, this chick is crazy" and tell him so. He knows I'm crazy, but he doesn't need to hear it from his friends.

― kate, Tuesday, 28 January 2003 15:05 (twenty-two years ago)

ehehehehehe...

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 15:07 (twenty-two years ago)

As for the subject at hand, if Mark C wants to give me 4 pounds, sure.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 15:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Join the queue, mister.

― Lara (Lara), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 15:50 (twenty-two years ago)

miser.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 15:54 (twenty-two years ago)

I shared my crisps with you. AND MY SICK CHILDREN CHARITY TASTELESS JELLIES.

― Lara (Lara), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 15:56 (twenty-two years ago)

I wasn't calling you one. but. I don't think I ate your crisps and I definitely didn't eat your charity tasteless jellies [with spelling mistakes].

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 15:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Can it be stated that I offered to share aforementioned crisps and charity jellies? And I let you enjoy the spelling mistakes *for free*.

― Lara (Lara), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 16:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Those jellies were really nice and not tasteless at all!

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 17:18 (twenty-two years ago)

you ate them all.

and couldn't pick out the words that weren't spelled properly.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 17:21 (twenty-two years ago)

What? I don't remember that. But you definitely didn't eat them all so you're living on a fantasy island anyway.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 17:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh - that makes no sense. I misread the first sentence as 'I ate them all' because I am an egomaniac.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 17:46 (twenty-two years ago)

ILX people who owe me money: Sterling, though he owes Wendy's and not me; Felicity, but only in a karmic way for my compulsive overtipping at Rainbo; New Yorkers, although possibly I owe them money, because all I remember is that the money-leaving process was sort of confusing and my margin of error was probably +/- $30; and Momus.

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 18:02 (twenty-two years ago)

I sometimes feel I owe Nabisco because he makes everything all right.

― Mark C (Mark C), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 16:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Just cough it up Casarotto and stop procrastinating.

― Lara (Lara), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 18:25 (twenty-two years ago)

three weeks pass...

And he did. He 'dispatched a messenger, who crossed land and sea to finally press into my tiny hands the long awaited billet-doux'.

― Lara (Lara), Monday, 24 February 2003 09:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Took his time though, eh? How's your hotmail?

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Monday, 24 February 2003 10:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, he dispatched it a while ago but there were suspicions that Andrew Farrell had hot-footed it to Rio with the cash. Turns out he couldn't get a flight out of Dublin so he gave it after all.

Hotmail has been restored! Once I deleted all your pictures it bounced back to life. How’s you?

― Lara (Lara), Monday, 24 February 2003 10:10 (twenty-two years ago)

I am dealing with God.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Monday, 24 February 2003 10:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Aces wild?

― Lara (Lara), Monday, 24 February 2003 10:41 (twenty-two years ago)

I am glad you got it! Thanks Andrew, for your 19th century style delivery (I hope you remembered to change horses regularly). Lara, you now have to come back to London to spend your shiny new fiver!

― Mark C (Mark C), Monday, 24 February 2003 15:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes. Please can I? I will come over after your birthday and we will celebrate in style - on a fiver!

― Lara (Lara), Monday, 24 February 2003 16:02 (twenty-two years ago)

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