UK Watercooler: In the Year 2525 (Exordium and Terminus)

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A new, improved 'Cooler to match the (soon) hopefully new, improved LUMP FREE Kate...

You lot behave while I can't type, you hear?

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 26 April 2007 14:06 (eighteen years ago)

Of course, now I've got the Dukes of Stratosphear in my head... "2032... housewife shocking blue!"

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 26 April 2007 14:07 (eighteen years ago)

can we have a best krautrock poll or something

No no no, too many polls. Plus I'm dreading a Best Can Album poll and having to argue with everyone (again) about how "Future Days" is not their best album.

― Tom D., Thursday, 26 April 2007 14:11 (eighteen years ago)

If we had a poll, it would be something totally non-music related like

-cake
-chocolate cake
-tiramisu
-DONUTS!!!!
-cookie

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 26 April 2007 14:13 (eighteen years ago)

It's a good thing I've got a month to think about 26, because I'm flummoxed.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 26 April 2007 14:13 (eighteen years ago)

kate needs some fucking surgery

― g-kit, Thursday, 26 April 2007 14:15 (eighteen years ago)

Dada I'm doing the best Can poll it's already filled out!

Here's one for Kate so she can type on it today before she has to get the lump removed!
http://www.ilxor.com:8080/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=41&threadid=57444#unread

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 26 April 2007 14:16 (eighteen years ago)

Oh don't do a Can poll for God's sake

― Tom D., Thursday, 26 April 2007 14:21 (eighteen years ago)

Already told you it was done!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 26 April 2007 14:24 (eighteen years ago)

Argh, don't follow the link you end up in weird 8080 land.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 26 April 2007 14:28 (eighteen years ago)

polar bears >>>>>>>>> 8080

― g-kit, Thursday, 26 April 2007 14:29 (eighteen years ago)

Oh Best Can - my head sez Tago, my heart sez I am loving Soundtracks SO much at the moment. I'll probably vote for Saw Delight though. Very underrated.

Why are we on a nu-thread?

― Dr.C, Thursday, 26 April 2007 14:30 (eighteen years ago)

Because the last thread got too long and I won't be around to make a new one for 10 days after surgery.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 26 April 2007 14:31 (eighteen years ago)

Wasn't there a chic song "on a scale of one to ten my baby's a twenty six"?

Not one of their more catchy tunes, I'll grant ye.

― Mark G, Thursday, 26 April 2007 14:33 (eighteen years ago)

wtf @ ilm poll frenzy #17

maybe I should add a few:

best borbetomagus album
best tandoori cassette album
best third world war album
best rabbi josef gordan single

etc :-/

― Pashmina, Thursday, 26 April 2007 14:43 (eighteen years ago)

I tried to tell him not to do it, but he went ahead anyway

― Tom D., Thursday, 26 April 2007 14:44 (eighteen years ago)

Now we can have a poll about which Can poll is the best! Hurrah!

OK, I should do some work.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 26 April 2007 14:46 (eighteen years ago)

Sorry Kate but I thought I should start the best spacemen 3 album so you could vote on it now incase someone did it while you were away.

Norman please delete that other Can thread since Dada decided he must have Unlimited Edition to note vote for after all.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 26 April 2007 14:46 (eighteen years ago)

I'll text you the results Kate.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 26 April 2007 14:54 (eighteen years ago)

Can we have a pole instead?

I just got an email from a friend, that just said "Did you know Julia?" Which is, let's be frank, a little ominous. She's someone I know, not well, but I do know her. Well, it turns out, she's got cancer, it's thoroughly metastised, and she was told she has about 8 weeks to live. That will be about 7 left now.

― Forest Pines, Thursday, 26 April 2007 14:57 (eighteen years ago)

:( Sorry to hear that FP.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 26 April 2007 14:59 (eighteen years ago)

OK, Kerr, this is war...

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=41&threadid=57449

Oh man, that's awful, FP!

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 26 April 2007 15:01 (eighteen years ago)

The last time I saw her was about three months back, at which time she had tests due at the doctor's, but outwardly seemed absolutely fine.

― Forest Pines, Thursday, 26 April 2007 15:04 (eighteen years ago)

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 26 April 2007 15:08 (eighteen years ago)

anyone know where that yeeeeeeeaaaaaahhhhh! thread is? kinda hard to search for...

― CharlieNo4, Thursday, 26 April 2007 15:14 (eighteen years ago)

Hi all. Popping in to say hello, I've not been posting cos work is the busiest thing ever rather than me thinking you all smell.

― The Wayward Johnny B, Thursday, 26 April 2007 15:17 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, we know we all smell. :-(

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 26 April 2007 15:18 (eighteen years ago)

work is the busiest thing ever

heh, wd that be coz you were "working from home" yesterday? ;-)

― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 26 April 2007 15:19 (eighteen years ago)

That's a drag, FP. I'm not sure what would be worse - hearing that when the person only has a few weeks left, or hearing afterward. (Gosh and I feel callous even saying that.)

― mitya, Thursday, 26 April 2007 15:28 (eighteen years ago)

Wow, that sounds tough, FP. I'm sorry, man.

― Pashmina, Thursday, 26 April 2007 15:29 (eighteen years ago)

(Exordium and Terminus?! I say we let someone less prog-afflictied like, Ed ~~Kerr~~ emsk name the next thread.

― mitya, Thursday, 26 April 2007 15:36 (eighteen years ago)

It's not prog, it's 60s psych!

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 26 April 2007 15:37 (eighteen years ago)

Chicken-in-a-basket psych at that!

― Tom D., Thursday, 26 April 2007 15:38 (eighteen years ago)

Says mitya the yes and king crimson fan

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 26 April 2007 15:39 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.lyricsvault.net/halloffame/zagerandevans.jpg

Folk rock, even!

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 26 April 2007 15:39 (eighteen years ago)

That's a better album cover than the copy I've got

― Tom D., Thursday, 26 April 2007 15:41 (eighteen years ago)

Actually, it's the wrong album, but I think only you and I would know that.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 26 April 2007 15:42 (eighteen years ago)

The real one is kind of brown and ugly, with that ker-azy 60s lettering on it.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 26 April 2007 15:42 (eighteen years ago)

The one I've got is a horrible amateurish sort of cartoon

― Tom D., Thursday, 26 April 2007 15:43 (eighteen years ago)

Blah. I wants more cake! I fear I have eaten it all up.

Oh wait, I have mousakka or something in my bag. I am just eating as much as I humanly can today because I know I can't eat at all tomorrow.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 26 April 2007 15:56 (eighteen years ago)

Kate, can you mail me with the approximate location of the hospital?

― Ed, Thursday, 26 April 2007 15:57 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, yeah! It's kind of under the London Bridge station.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 26 April 2007 15:58 (eighteen years ago)

I listened to a load of Amon Düül II albums yesterday and now it's time for some Faust.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 26 April 2007 16:00 (eighteen years ago)

But no Amon Düül II or Faust polls please!

― Tom D., Thursday, 26 April 2007 16:03 (eighteen years ago)

I'm not doing any more for a week.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 26 April 2007 16:13 (eighteen years ago)

You're just scared because you couldn't choose best Faust or Amon Düül/Amon Düül II albums. Like you couldn't with Can.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 26 April 2007 16:14 (eighteen years ago)

Stevem blames me for polls but i've done 6 polls in 3 weeks. Mark G has done 6 in 2 days. Geir has done 200 odd.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 26 April 2007 16:17 (eighteen years ago)

I just bought an ice lolly to have after my dinner. A nice juicy cold fruit pastilles ice lolly.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 26 April 2007 16:27 (eighteen years ago)

OK, this "moussaka" appears to be just aubergine in a cheesey sort of soup. Interesting.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 26 April 2007 16:31 (eighteen years ago)

It's no Fruit Pastilles ice Lolly!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 26 April 2007 16:32 (eighteen years ago)

Skipping 1367 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

Okay, done. I was contemplating 'doing a Hari', but the build-up wasn't there.

― emil.y, Friday, 18 May 2007 14:21 (eighteen years ago)

I think you need to be drunker to "do a Hari".

Now I am feeling horribly guilty about crushgushing all over this thread. It's fine to have a crush, but not OK to talk about it all over the interweb. That is vaguely creepy and I know I should not be doing it. :-(

It's hard enough for me to recconcile the idea that my having a crush no matter how innocent on someone is not some awful punnishment that I am inflicting on them without turning into LJ in the process.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 18 May 2007 14:25 (eighteen years ago)

Bored now. More coffee?

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 18 May 2007 15:06 (eighteen years ago)

If it's any consolation, Kate, I've never met a girl (outside of ILX0rs) who's heard of Neu! apart from my wife. So it's not surprising that DDBs would ignore such ignorance, because they wouldn't get very far in life otherwise.

Yes, it's that time again when I get tipsy at lunchtime and can't do any work so I hover around Watercooler threads to pass the time! Mmm, Fridays.

― Colonel Poo, Friday, 18 May 2007 15:29 (eighteen years ago)

Look, most *people*, have not heard of Neu! - fuck, no one in my office, male or female, has heard of them. But you know, if you're *in* a dronerock club, wouldn't you have thought that you might have heard of them? I mean, they played them on the sound system.

I don't know what I'm bitching about. Just insecurity, really.

And a certain kind of male (not that I'm saying that MNSSC is like this at all, I've just known too many men like this) just really gets off on... like, trying to *instruct* women in musical taste. It's almost like they get off on how ignorant the girl is, and they in their magnificent knowledge, will show them the light. And they get scared shitless if they meet a girl who knows as much as they do, because then there's not this power imbalance, and they can't lord it over the girl.

It's not just music. I get frustrated by men in general who like stupid girls because it makes them feel smarter.

Also, I am not a small, cute, blonde, cute as a button clubber girl and seeing such girls brings it back down to earth with a bump how ugly I am. :-( All the dronerock albums in the world won't change that.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 18 May 2007 15:40 (eighteen years ago)

I've spent half my life being ignored by boys because I am not "hott". For once, it was nice that a boy actually did tear himself away from the hott girl to talk to me because he thought I was interesting/talented. This never actually happens.

Oh, depressio. I should go and eat something. But if I eat something now, what on earth will I do between the end of work and the Sonic Boom gig?

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 18 May 2007 15:44 (eighteen years ago)

Ack, sorry I didn't mean it like although I see now how it looks - I've never met a bloke who's heard of Neu! either outside of ILX0rs! I was putting myself into the position of DDB meeting girls... that's the only reason I mentioned a gender. Oops.

Anyway, I find musical taste a total turn on. Well, not a sexual turn on but a "ooh I'd like to find out more about you" turn on.

― Colonel Poo, Friday, 18 May 2007 15:49 (eighteen years ago)

Anyway, I'm a big fat hypocrite because, well, really - do I crush on boys because of their amazing record collections, their taste in guitars, their fine filigree psychedelic guitar playing, their talent, their collections of antique and boutique pedals, their scintillating personalities etc. etc.?

No, I crush on them cause they are totally hott DDBs with pointy noses and good shoes.

So there you go.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 18 May 2007 16:06 (eighteen years ago)

I really do crush on girls with musical knowledge. Prior to Mrs Poo the girl I never got over was the one who made me wicked mix-tapes with loads of post-rock and T-Rex and Gong. Although she was amazingly cute as well, which may have had something to do with it.

― Colonel Poo, Friday, 18 May 2007 16:12 (eighteen years ago)

Are these crushes so crushy because they are great people that happen to be cute?

Or cute people that happen to be great?

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 18 May 2007 16:15 (eighteen years ago)

Ohmigod, WANT...

http://www.rocknrollvintage.com/prodimages/thumbs/hughes-kettner-tube-rotosphere-leslie-pedal%20s.jpg

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 18 May 2007 16:17 (eighteen years ago)

In all honesty in this case it was the latter - but she decided she preferred girls to me :'(

― Colonel Poo, Friday, 18 May 2007 16:17 (eighteen years ago)

Hey, if I could just snap my fingers and go gay, it would be so much easier. ;-) But it's not that simple. Boys are too cuet.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 18 May 2007 16:20 (eighteen years ago)

And vice versa ;)

― Colonel Poo, Friday, 18 May 2007 16:35 (eighteen years ago)

I am beginning to wonder if I am going to make it to Sonic Boom tonight. It's only 6pm and I'm dropping of exhaustion. Must! Stay! Awake! Must! Go! Out!

He never plays in London, if I miss this one, he won't play again for years, possibly.

More coffee required, I guess.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 18 May 2007 16:48 (eighteen years ago)

Sonic Boom is playing tonight? Where? You know I might even be able to drag Mrs Poo out to see him. Unless it's going to be one of his Speak'n'Spell EAR gigs.

― Colonel Poo, Friday, 18 May 2007 16:50 (eighteen years ago)

Some place called Proud in Camden near the Stables! I know, I only just found out about it recently. UFO Club.

here's that flyer again:

http://a164.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/15/l_d2b3817cbbf8608bcdf12f5fd148fb63.jpg

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 18 May 2007 16:51 (eighteen years ago)

The Gin House, the Stables market, it claims.

http://www.atproud.net/

Mmmm, gin. If I start drinking again, will my energy come back?

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 18 May 2007 16:57 (eighteen years ago)

oh dear got taken to pub :/

― emsk, Friday, 18 May 2007 17:14 (eighteen years ago)

Pub is a bad thing?

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 18 May 2007 17:19 (eighteen years ago)

pub is a GOOD thing
v
v
good

also they have nice cider
and got to gossip with girlies
but now have to rowk... til 8 or 9...
er, WORK

― emsk, Friday, 18 May 2007 17:20 (eighteen years ago)

SEE?!?

― emsk, Friday, 18 May 2007 17:20 (eighteen years ago)

Working while drunk, ha ha fun. I am so bored I have been looking up things on Flickr. Vanity googling, really. Good lord, there's a lot of photos of Shimura Curves on Flickr. A lot more than MNSSC's band, which is kind of irritating, as I'd rather look at them, they are prettier than us*.

*Actually, not really. It had been such a long time since I'd been able to look at old lineups that I had forgotten how visually arresting we used to be.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 18 May 2007 17:23 (eighteen years ago)

I should probably work some more. Might be nice to get *something* done today.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 18 May 2007 17:27 (eighteen years ago)

OOH i just drank some kickass coffee and am suddenly all on track again

― emsk, Friday, 18 May 2007 17:44 (eighteen years ago)

Coffee makes everything better.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 18 May 2007 17:50 (eighteen years ago)

yeah i'm making some more. NINGNINGNINGNINGNINGNINGNINGNINGNINGNINGNING

― emsk, Friday, 18 May 2007 17:52 (eighteen years ago)

Aw, I wish I had some of your coffee, ours kinda sucks. And is burning holes in my digestive system.

Pictures of crushboys make everything better, too.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 18 May 2007 17:53 (eighteen years ago)

i bought my own coffee it is nicer

i need a new crushboy!

― emsk, Friday, 18 May 2007 18:01 (eighteen years ago)

What, AGAIN?!?!?

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 18 May 2007 18:01 (eighteen years ago)

It's to build a new treehouse an' that!

― stet, Friday, 18 May 2007 18:02 (eighteen years ago)

Eh?

is it new thread time? Oh, I'll start a new one on Monday.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 18 May 2007 18:02 (eighteen years ago)

We'll be back in an hour or two. This is just to roll out new code and features, with bug fixes.

― stet, Friday, 18 May 2007 18:03 (eighteen years ago)

Oh!

Ah.

Mine uncle is in London apparently and I didn't even know. Will have to get together for a drink or 6.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 18 May 2007 18:03 (eighteen years ago)

What, AGAIN?!?!?

yeah

i can't crush on noyfriend any more, he has noyfriended off (to explain to potential haterz, he did explain this at the very beginning and even told me which date which is why i'm not pissed off/miserable/whatever)

― emsk, Friday, 18 May 2007 18:05 (eighteen years ago)

Argh. Email or text if you want a drink and/or comisseration or just to go scouting for new crushboys or whatevs.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 18 May 2007 18:08 (eighteen years ago)

nah it's cool! i mean, it's *actually* cool, i'm perfectly happy. i knew what was going on. i can deal with whatever, so long as i know what it is, i just can't deal with people fucking with my head, which he didn't even slightly.

― emsk, Friday, 18 May 2007 18:10 (eighteen years ago)

Fucking branson. Internets been down all day and its back but v v v sloooow. Cant get into gmail and everything takes 5 mins to load. I did a speedtest and its running at like 1% of what it should be.

Telewest was awesome until that bearded prick bought it over. Ruined the tv now the internet. I hate branson.

At least I got on in time to find out that ILX was going down and it wasn't my ISP. Unfortunately I wasn't in time to post it haha.

Everythings still slow. I guess it won't be fixed until tomorrow (if we're lucky) There's nothing on the status page, which used to be regularly updated before Virgin took over.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 18 May 2007 20:55 (eighteen years ago)

That's odd, I haven't had any problems with Virgin at all (though I know Onimo has, perhaps I am just the lucky one). Our telly used to freeze up a few times with ntl, but (touch wood) it seems to have been fault-free over the last few months.

― ailsa, Saturday, 19 May 2007 14:17 (eighteen years ago)

It freezes all the time here.
The internet has been down again since around 9am. It's just come back on.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Saturday, 19 May 2007 14:32 (eighteen years ago)

Where are you? I was planning on going back to them...

― Keith, Saturday, 19 May 2007 14:37 (eighteen years ago)

The network is Uddingston.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Saturday, 19 May 2007 15:57 (eighteen years ago)

Ah OK... I'm not going to be connecting there. Cheers.

― Keith, Saturday, 19 May 2007 15:58 (eighteen years ago)

Supposedly this was a national problem today(according to tech support on the phone), but obviously couldn't have been since Ailsa's connection was fine.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Saturday, 19 May 2007 16:01 (eighteen years ago)

Before you change to virgin, you should realise that they have brought in some form of capping(despite advertising there's no limits). If you download more than the allotment youre allowed between 4pm and midnight you get kicked onto slow speeds. If you are on the XL package(Â£38 per month) you are allowed 3gb then it's capped. (It's a lower amount for the other packages) But I have heard reports of a whole area being capped because people have went over the limit and those who haven't are still being capped. Have a look at the digitalspy forums.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Saturday, 19 May 2007 16:05 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/digitaltv/a46103/virgin-to-cut-heavy-downloaders-speeds.html

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Saturday, 19 May 2007 16:35 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=75

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Saturday, 19 May 2007 16:36 (eighteen years ago)

http://allyours.virginmedia.com/html/internet/traffic.html

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Saturday, 19 May 2007 16:37 (eighteen years ago)

Morning all, I have the killer death flu again.

― Ed, Monday, 21 May 2007 09:04 (eighteen years ago)

It is time:

UK Watercooler 27: I Want More (And More, And More, And More...)

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 21 May 2007 09:24 (eighteen years ago)

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