UK Watercooler Eleven: A Holiday In Devon

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That other thread is getting way too long.

New rules: No Footie, No B*g Br*th*r.

But yes to databases, office gossip, dirty dronerock boys/girls, new computers, new pedals and going down the pub. (Coffee and tea will be served every hour on the hour)

Plus, a wibblingly excellent soundtrack by Delia Derbyshire and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Can you feel the WUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUB?

― The Minimal Criminal (kate), Friday, 19 May 2006 09:27 (nineteen years ago)

Now I'm going to get some coffee. OH yeah.

― The Minimal Criminal (kate), Friday, 19 May 2006 09:30 (nineteen years ago)

Thi smaxwell house was kind of trash. i feel let down by BIG BLUE

― Mr Jones (Mr Jones), Friday, 19 May 2006 09:32 (nineteen years ago)

You and IBM...

― The Minimal Criminal (kate), Friday, 19 May 2006 09:33 (nineteen years ago)

maxwell was one of my least fav big brother contestants in the BB6 house

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 19 May 2006 09:34 (nineteen years ago)

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40160000/jpg/_40160440_red_card.jpg

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 19 May 2006 09:35 (nineteen years ago)

that red card looks a bit photoshopped

― koogs (koogs), Friday, 19 May 2006 09:39 (nineteen years ago)

mmm, wonder what it used to be?

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 19 May 2006 09:41 (nineteen years ago)

Look, you know the rules here. If you don't like them, there are 30,000 other threads on ILX. Pick one, any one. Or I will start spambombing your threads with random chatter and pictures of DDBs. How would you like that?

Anyway, I braved the smoke and plumped for Caffe Nero in the end. I think I like their beans better than Starbucks.

― The Minimal Criminal (kate), Friday, 19 May 2006 09:43 (nineteen years ago)

Coffee and tea will be served every hour on the hour

Hurrah!

(someone told me earlier that my habit of saying "Hurrah!" to good things makes me sound like someone from a Famous Five book. Fortunately, though, they didn't go as far as saying I was Dick)

Re: the new rules: am I allowed to put you all off your dinner by talking about My New(ish) Expensive Hobby?

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 19 May 2006 09:44 (nineteen years ago)

So long as you're not too graphic, FP...

― The Minimal Criminal (kate), Friday, 19 May 2006 09:45 (nineteen years ago)

Hurrah!

(again!)

(I'm not planning to do anything too graphic in the near future, to be honest. Off to another munch tomorrow, though)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 19 May 2006 09:46 (nineteen years ago)

I'm sorry, but that word just sounds filthy. I know that's probably the point, but still. I just think "carpet munching".

― The Minimal Criminal (kate), Friday, 19 May 2006 09:47 (nineteen years ago)

What, is this that Gor stuff we've been reading about in Ye Guarniad?

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 19 May 2006 09:48 (nineteen years ago)

Eh? I thought the Guardian was all about nature guides this week?

I don't think the bobbies involved are the lesser spotted kind. ;-)

― The Minimal Criminal (kate), Friday, 19 May 2006 09:53 (nineteen years ago)

well, IBM does sound like saying you crap, and coffee is a laxative

― Mr Jones (Mr Jones), Friday, 19 May 2006 09:53 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry, BOOBIES, not bobbies.

(Visions of Primal Scream dance in my head...)

― The Minimal Criminal (kate), Friday, 19 May 2006 09:54 (nineteen years ago)

I will never forget hearing the guitarist of that band saying January like "Jan-your-lee"

― Mr Jones (Mr Jones), Friday, 19 May 2006 10:00 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry, I'm still all up in a giggle about the Gor of Darlington.

So where is the alternate universe of Rog where women get to dominate dirty dronerock boys in leather pants and tie them up and make them do the dishes and serve? I think I'd like that place better. (Also, so would FP, I suspect.)

― The Minimal Criminal (kate), Friday, 19 May 2006 10:03 (nineteen years ago)

It's not supposed to sound rude at all! It's supposed to sound innocuous!

The Gor stuff has been in every paper, hasn't it? To be honest I think Gor fantasists usually come across as a bit silly.

xpost: oh, definitely Kate :-)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 19 May 2006 10:04 (nineteen years ago)

I'm sorry but "munch" does not sound innocuous. It sounds dirty.

PAINT MY TOENAILS, DDB!!! ::cracks whip:: NOW LICK MY BATHTUB CLEAN AND DRY IT WITH YOUR HAIR - NO GREASE STREAKS!!!!

I think I could really get into this.

― The Minimal Criminal (kate), Friday, 19 May 2006 10:06 (nineteen years ago)

OK, this is going a bit far. I will stop.

― The Minimal Criminal (kate), Friday, 19 May 2006 10:07 (nineteen years ago)

Wow, Kate, it's a whole new side to your personality. You should pop round to that BDSM-flavoured cafe near your office to see if you can recruit anyone ;-)

xpost: bah.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 19 May 2006 10:08 (nineteen years ago)

What BDSM flavoured cafe near my office?

― The Minimal Criminal (kate), Friday, 19 May 2006 10:10 (nineteen years ago)

It's on Endell St. I've never been, but apparently it's very good.

Ah, here we are.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 19 May 2006 10:13 (nineteen years ago)

BWAH HAH HAH, that is really near my work. But no. My dominatrix side of my personality is something I do my best to supress.

Besides...

With almost everything you see for sale (with a possible exception of the personnel)

What is the point, I ask you? What is the point?

― The Minimal Criminal (kate), Friday, 19 May 2006 10:15 (nineteen years ago)

nsfw! (could've guessed really). but, ooh, oil wheels...

― koogs (koogs), Friday, 19 May 2006 10:19 (nineteen years ago)

Now, it does say *possible* exception ;-)

Do you remember when I was down in London last July on a training course? I had to walk down Endell St every day and didn't realise it was there - the following month I heard about it for the first time and was bloody kicking myself.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 19 May 2006 10:20 (nineteen years ago)

Oil wheels?

As in the lights that make pretty psychedelic colours (saw these in Hoxton the other day, need to go back and get one!) or is this something kinky I don't know about?

― The Minimal Criminal (kate), Friday, 19 May 2006 10:22 (nineteen years ago)

Not to be confused with the S&M cafe, which does fry-ups at Weimar-style hyper-inflation prices.

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 19 May 2006 10:27 (nineteen years ago)

thought that was an oil wheel projected on the body on that cafe page (only had it open for a split second). a second look shows i was mistaken, was just a non-oily projection.

― koogs (koogs), Friday, 19 May 2006 10:43 (nineteen years ago)

I can see how coffee and S and M would go hand in had - being forced to sip bad coffee is very humiliating

― Mr Jones (Mr Jones), Friday, 19 May 2006 10:45 (nineteen years ago)

The window at Matmos on Old Street has projection both non-oily and (looks like) oily. I want the pink and purple oily one, natch.

Oh, I'm sure I could come up with S&M uses for coffee - you know, like forcing a lad to hold a filter between his thighs as you poured the hot water through it so that the steam lashed his bits.

― The Minimal Criminal (kate), Friday, 19 May 2006 10:48 (nineteen years ago)

...I knew I should have got a small coffee instead of a medium. I can make ANYTHING about coffee now - even kinky sex!

― The Minimal Criminal (kate), Friday, 19 May 2006 10:49 (nineteen years ago)

Oh dear - what about forcing espresso into the eyes?

― Mr Jones (Mr Jones), Friday, 19 May 2006 10:50 (nineteen years ago)

OK, let's derail this train of thought now because I am still at work.

I've been reading the Routemaster book. It's lovely. It makes me really miss the old 159s. :-(

― The Minimal Criminal (kate), Friday, 19 May 2006 10:53 (nineteen years ago)

Stupidly long xpost from the last thread but haha at ailsa finally posting to ILX from work, on her last day!

I may manage along to the pub later to buy you a farewell drink, even though I've never worked with you.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 19 May 2006 11:08 (nineteen years ago)

Oh boy.

Touring/playing out of town gigs without a record out: brilliant display of self reliance, or foolish waste of money and effort?

Answers on a postcard, please.

― The Minimal Criminal (kate), Friday, 19 May 2006 11:20 (nineteen years ago)

it's FUN ffs.

― teh_kit has 21 friends (g-kit), Friday, 19 May 2006 11:32 (nineteen years ago)

It's also expensive, and I have a mortgage, you know.

Damn, what is UP with ILX being so slow today? Is there increased mod activity, or is someone searching to high heaven?

― The Minimal Criminal (kate), Friday, 19 May 2006 11:48 (nineteen years ago)

God, I have turned into J@ne L0ll1es. :-(

― The Minimal Criminal (kate), Friday, 19 May 2006 12:13 (nineteen years ago)

..and ILX has turned into treacle.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 19 May 2006 12:16 (nineteen years ago)

Mmmmm, a treacle well!

― The Minimal Criminal (kate), Friday, 19 May 2006 12:20 (nineteen years ago)

Oooh.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 19 May 2006 12:22 (nineteen years ago)

Bah. I am so bored this afternoon. Also having a lot of trouble focusing, thanks to the coffee. Maybe I should eat the rest of yesterday's choccie to complete the post-lunch blahs.

― The Minimal Criminal (kate), Friday, 19 May 2006 13:08 (nineteen years ago)

Me bored too.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 19 May 2006 13:12 (nineteen years ago)

what fun are you kids up to this weekend?

― pleased to mitya (mitya), Friday, 19 May 2006 13:32 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think it's mod actions that are slowing the board down, because there's not much going on in that respect of late (not since ile got locked to unregistered users, anyway) It is a bit slow from time to time, I've noticed.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 19 May 2006 13:34 (nineteen years ago)

Not up to much of anything, actually. Tomorrow I'm going round AMPy's to give her a lesson in how to program in Reason. Maybe I'll go to the barndance after if Ed is still in town. Sunday I am going to play with my pedals and write smut.

― The Minimal Criminal (kate), Friday, 19 May 2006 13:35 (nineteen years ago)

i have a mortgage.

― teh_kit has 21 friends (g-kit), Friday, 19 May 2006 13:38 (nineteen years ago)

Skipping 1030 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

;)

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 16 June 2006 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

Peggy Hill is a big boggle fan (oops, tv reference, are they verbotten?)

burble.mp3 sounds great.

4 magpies in the tree outside my office window just then, eating the berries.

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Friday, 16 June 2006 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

Which reminds me, the EP is actually finished, assembled and everything, those of you who were interested in a copy...

Oooh Tissp... how do we go about getting one?

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 16 June 2006 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I'd be into a copy too, tissp.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 16 June 2006 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

Ooh, I like it, Pash! I wants one.

Currently having Blog argument with a girl I used to be in a band with, about why I want to be in a dronerock band with someone else, rather than just recording dronerock by myself.

Because being in a BAND, and getting that interplay, and jamming, is very different from just writing stuff on your own. It's like the difference between masturbation and sex. I need to play with someone who challenges me and surprises me occasionally.

(Also, TISSP, obviously I want one.)

― Sundogs at 22 Degrees (kate), Friday, 16 June 2006 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

me too </aol>

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Friday, 16 June 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

Mmmkay, probably the best way to do this is to email city-seventeen [at] iff-transponder [dot] co [dot] uk with where you want the thing posting, and they will be lovingly packaged and sent in the post for you. Then you can send me a cheque or something (I trust you all not to rip me off!) for the grand total of £4.50, and all will be well (hopefully).

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:05 (nineteen years ago)

That confuses me. I'll just text you my address, OK? Then you text me back where to send my money.

― Sundogs at 22 Degrees (kate), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:09 (nineteen years ago)

No problemo.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:09 (nineteen years ago)

This thread has gone on too long without me. Hello everyone. Come visit in a heap over here or something.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

Ned!!!!

(he's like Norm from Cheers, but Californian, and er, spacerock!)

― Sundogs at 22 Degrees (kate), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

do you have paypal account tissp? would that be easier?

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

(he's like Norm from Cheers, but Californian, and er, spacerock!)

A vision! But I am of a different shape.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

I don't have a PayPal account, no, sorry! (I am pretty technologically impotent when it comes to things like this)

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

I'll stick a fiver in an envelope then?

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:44 (nineteen years ago)

I may have to charge you 50p postage to return your change...

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:47 (nineteen years ago)

Damn. Ripoff :(

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:49 (nineteen years ago)

Hahaha, and you haven't even heard it yet

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:49 (nineteen years ago)

Are you talking about rock star ways, Mr. Tissp? You're supposed to share the music FOR FREE. (I might lie.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

I just sent my address to you!

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:51 (nineteen years ago)

Mr. Ned, there are MP3s available:

http://iff-transponder.co.uk/city_seventeen/

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

(Plus, in order to truly challenge established music fat-cat practices, one must first know them...)

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:53 (nineteen years ago)

oh noes!

SONIC CATHEDRAL SUNDAY SERVICE

SUNDAY JUNE 25

THE LOVETONES (Live)
ULRICH SCHNAUSS (DJ)

12noon-6.00pm

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Friday, 16 June 2006 16:31 (nineteen years ago)

I think we're supposed to be on just after 6-ish, so you might be able to go to both!

― Sundogs at 22 Degrees (kate), Friday, 16 June 2006 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

Mr. Ned, there are MP3s available:

YEAH RIGHT oh I guess there are. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 16 June 2006 16:36 (nineteen years ago)

Oooh I meant to ask you Kate what time your gig was at, in case I have to get an early train down to London

(I still haven't got around to booking a hotel or anything yet - I really should)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 16 June 2006 17:22 (nineteen years ago)

I think I have an ear infection. My left ear has a kinda dull feeling like the last time i had an infection a few years ago and some noises are kinda high pitched. I hope it doesnt get worse overnight as i cant get to the doctors til monday at earliest now as its the weekend.
If i had got this this afternoon i couldve at least got a prescription or something. Damn.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 16 June 2006 20:28 (nineteen years ago)

Morning. Good weekend everyone? I can feel my comedown starting.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 19 June 2006 08:51 (nineteen years ago)

No! Copious amounts of chocolate, FP. Let the sugar keep you going :).

Another blah weekend for me, unfortunately. Stuck in a rut that I can't seem or want to escape. But! Off to London next Sunday to see Johnny Boy, so if I can just get through the next five days, I should be reasonably okay...

― carson dial (carson dial), Monday, 19 June 2006 08:58 (nineteen years ago)

Copious amounts of chocolate, FP. Let the sugar keep you going :).

The denizens of Another Site Which Is A Bit More Specialised Than This One recommend the same thing to cope with the drop.

I am also off to London on Sunday, assuming I get around to booking somewhere to stay.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 19 June 2006 09:12 (nineteen years ago)

Abstract arrhythmic electronic piece:
http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=8217B1D8194A0727

Also, chech out F/i, "america's longest running space rock band", fantastically good & rocking:

http://www.myspace.com/fispacerock

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 19 June 2006 11:00 (nineteen years ago)

I had a fucking fantastic weekend, cycling over to Greenwich Park down the canal all pastoral-in-the-city for a birthday picnic, and then an amazing Doctor Who, and then spending 8-9 hours yesterday at a barbecue, old and new friends and a little bit of dancing.

Were we expecting no Kate today?

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 19 June 2006 11:50 (nineteen years ago)

Pleasant surprise: my friend Queen Eric is in town. He is the Wisconsin Wilde.

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 19 June 2006 12:00 (nineteen years ago)

I haven't watched Doctor Who yet.

Over on the Observer Music Monthly thread David Tennant has been exposed as having dodgy taste in music.
he has the same taste as people did at my secondary school back in the late 80s. As i say in that thread
Observer Music Monthly

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 19 June 2006 12:19 (nineteen years ago)

Haha Beverly Craven, I saw that.

When you KNOW that most drama students have SHOCKING taste in music this is not a surprise.

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 19 June 2006 12:23 (nineteen years ago)

Well hes 2 years older than me. So when you grow up in scotland mid-late 80s I KNOW how bad most peoples tastes would be. (Ailsa is an exception, she seems to have always liked good music that noone at my school(myself included) would have heard of at the time.)

And If Nirvana hadn't come along then im damn sure mines would be bad(if i even cared about music, most of my age group from my school probably dont or buy 5 big selling cds a year now, or at least the few i have kept in touch with).

On that thread we talk about what people listened to at secondary school. So what did everyone listen to at the schools you all went to?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 19 June 2006 12:29 (nineteen years ago)

Most people I know who were into good music had older brothers or sisters (who usually went to university). I didn't, so the only music I heard was what was on R1. and late 80s 1FM was the pits!!!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 19 June 2006 12:31 (nineteen years ago)

So when you grow up in scotland mid-late 80s I KNOW how bad most peoples tastes would be. (Ailsa is an exception, she seems to have always liked good music that noone at my school(myself included) would have heard of at the time.)

OK, since I've been invoked to thread, I listened to most of the stuff David Tennant likes when I was at school, and still do occasionally (didn't read the article, but if it involves Love & Money, Hipsway, Deacon Blue etc, then colour me as having a shite taste in music as well). I bet you he liked Goodbye Mr MacKenzie as well.

I have no idea what other people I went to school with liked, neither did I care, except that the blokey I fancied listened to the Jesus and Mary Chain and started treating me with a wee bit more respect when he found out I did too. This put me off him a wee bit -then, as now, I'd prefer to be judged on more than just my taste in music.

Most people I know who were into good music had older brothers or sisters (who usually went to university). I didn't, so the only music I heard was what was on R1. and late 80s 1FM was the pits!!!

I listened to late-night Radio Scotland (Beat Patrol/Bite the Wax) where I discovered other stuff. Also, you know, Radio One, John Peel?

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 19 June 2006 13:23 (nineteen years ago)

I never listened to late night radio til about 1990ish.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 19 June 2006 13:28 (nineteen years ago)

I miss Beat Patrol

― Greig (treefell), Monday, 19 June 2006 13:29 (nineteen years ago)

My friends sisters fave band was Slide. I also remember River Detectives got a hit single because Steve Wright played them a lot.
Most of those bands I read about in the sunday mail in Billy Sloans column, but never actually heard them until that festival on tv in Glasgow(the one sheena easton got bottled).

I wonder if he likes Runrig too. They really were huge.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 19 June 2006 13:34 (nineteen years ago)

Awww I just did a search on ILM for a Billy Sloan thread and there wasn't one. :(

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 19 June 2006 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

He was talking about In Tua Nua so I was waiting for a namecheck for something like the Waterboys. I think he might just have a good memory, or be a recovering early/mid-80s U2 fan. All signs seem to point to it.

Oddly, there was a knot of Postcard fandom at my school, instigated by a friend who had the hots for Roddy Frame and who then went fairly completist due to shocking cute-girl discount at Mpls' finest indie record shop (which was the shopfront for a big importer).

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 19 June 2006 14:07 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, do you have to "recover" from still liking bands you used to like 15-20 years ago? This is worse than ILM!

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 19 June 2006 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

btw, I'm guessing no Billy Sloan thread because no-one gives a fuck about him?

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 19 June 2006 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

btw, I'm guessing no Billy Sloan thread because no-one gives a fuck about him?

Like that stops other threads being started?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 19 June 2006 14:32 (nineteen years ago)

OK, because no-one *else* gives a fuck. That better?

(really, being less blunt now that I've had some coffee, he's a regional "journalist" that in no way appeals to yr average ILX poster, even if there were more than a handful of ILXers based in Scotland who read the Daily Record, which I would fairly confidently state that there aren't, therefore about as limited a thread as you're going to find, if you were to find it at all)

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 19 June 2006 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

Theres plenty of threads with no answers so who cares if noone replies. Its there if someone does want to.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 19 June 2006 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

God, you don't half take throwaway comments to heart, do you?

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 19 June 2006 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

WTF? How come I can't post as "masonic boom"? I *AM* Masonic Boom, don't keep asking me for my password. Anyway, carry on here:

Watercooler Twelve: The Deeper We Delve

― Sundogs at 22 Degrees (kate), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 08:33 (nineteen years ago)

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