ask oppet

hi oppet

please introduce yourself to ilx!

Is your last name Tunity?

OMG

Are you Swedish?

No, that is not my last name.

No, I am not Swedish. I am, as Whiney noted, "Brit-centric".

no umlaut tho...

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öppet

1. absolute indefinite neuter form of öppen.

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öppet

1. openly

I have been to Ikea.

Hey you guys I'm about to go and eat some tea but please post any questions and I'll answer them all during Coronation St.

ya, oppet is from manchester (iirc)

So, oppet, (btw, enjoy tea) as "brit-centric", what's more exciting, the Royal wedding on April 29th or Arsenal vs Man U on May 1st?

hey oppet

can you recommend a cider? i don't like yr namebrand strongbows and stuff but don't feel i should give up trying.

if you could transplant yr brain in someone elses body for a day, who would it be?

Dear oppet,

(1) How did you find ilx?
(2) How was lurking on ilx?
(3) What is your opinion of ilx?

Best,
markers

hey oppet

have you ever been hoodwinked by a tranny?

love,
sam

Ok, I feel like I have to go through with this. Please bear in mind that I didn't join ILX because I thought I had any funny, interesting, or otherwise valuable contributions to make. Right now I feel like when it's a tennis match and one of the players hilariously gets a ballboy to take their place for a moment, except instead of it being a joke they start shouting "WHY ARE YOU SO SHIT AT TENNIS".

lolllll You get points just for that analogy.

So, oppet, (btw, enjoy tea) as "brit-centric", what's more exciting, the Royal wedding on April 29th or Arsenal vs Man U on May 1st?

Well the wedding has the inherent excitement which accompanies all national ceremonies and I think it will be great for bringing the country together and allowing us to forget all our troubles. Arsenal vs Utd will be dull as fuck but I will wait to see who the referee is before passing final judgement on this matter. The most exciting event of the weekend has fallen into the cracks between those happenings i.e. Brentford will beat Southampton and go level on points for 6th place in league one with just the final match remaining. That's living.

hey oppet

can you recommend a cider? i don't like yr namebrand strongbows and stuff but don't feel i should give up trying.

Apple Sourz

if you could transplant yr brain in someone elses body for a day, who would it be?

BBC chief football seer Phil McNulty (only on a big match day obv). Does his brain go into my body at the same time, cos that might change things.

Ok, I feel like I have to go through with this. Please bear in mind that I didn't join ILX because I thought I had any funny, interesting, or otherwise valuable contributions to make. Right now I feel like when it's a tennis match and one of the players hilariously gets a ballboy to take their place for a moment, except instead of it being a joke they start shouting "WHY ARE YOU SO SHIT AT TENNIS".

― oppet, Friday, 8 April 2011 19:46 (2 minutes ago)

tsscchhh nuff with the self deprecation this is ilx not all souls

Dear oppet,

(1) How did you find ilx?

(2) How was lurking on ilx?

(3) What is your opinion of ilx?

Fucking hell, I'm running out of steam already. What a day.

(meant unself-deprecatingly)

hey oppet

have you ever been hoodwinked by a tranny?

Yes, but not in that way and the whole thing ended in a quite unseemly slanging match on Manchester's Canal St.

Thanks for playing, y'all.

1 spacemen 3 vs public enemy vs lfo
2 messi vs zidane
3 why 'oppet'
4 please tell us something interesting about manchester that people who haven't been there won't know

thx

this thread is so much deja vu

do you like football oppet? who should I put as my fantasy football team captain for this weekend? your choices are: gomes, hangeland, baines, huth, ivanovic, bardsley, parker, gamst pedersen, malouda, etherington, adam, bent, berbatov, odemwingie

1 spacemen 3 vs public enemy vs lfo

2 messi vs zidane

3 why 'oppet'

4 please tell us something interesting about manchester that people who haven't been there won't know

do you like football oppet? who should I put as my fantasy football team captain for this weekend? your choices are: gomes, hangeland, baines, huth, ivanovic, bardsley, parker, gamst pedersen, malouda, etherington, adam, bent, berbatov, odemwingie

My fantasy football this year has been a total disaster. Really shameful. I've gone for Malouda as my captain this week. You should prob go for Berba BUT I'd be tempted by Gamst Perdersen, for reals.

5 who is the more hateful former member of spacemen 3, j spaceman or sonic boom

Voting Boom.

what does your username mean

oppage

haha did you not read the rest of the thread because that has been asked and answered

I hate you, whiney.

whiney never reads the rest of threads, thought you would know that by now

Do you know any ilxors irl?

Not afaik, but I have been to the club run by piscesx and affectian.

Who are those people?

which is your favorite legendary british king

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_legendary_kings_of_Britain

Sorry!

Dear Oppet,

Who are those people?

Love (means nothing to a tennis player),
Laurel

Laurel: The CLIQUE (Manchester) thread.

Hope this helps.

welcome oppet :)

which is your favorite legendary british king

oh youre a mate of ian's?

No, not at all. Just a 'satisfied punter'. I am friends with the other one on fb. #connected

is ur name in fact oprah petersen

hey oppet

- do you really think that you can last as a new mover and shaker whilst continuing to ignore important q's like the one directly above?

Thks

Dmac

Sorry darragh. My name is actually Ophelia Petridis.

Oh shit, should have googleproofed.

Dear Oppet,

Welcome! Are you related to Alexis Petridis?

Yours,

If yes, how?

If not, why not?

There's what.. 3? I can think of. mini TOmbot, mini n/a/sarah, and mini kim/noodles... who else?

n/a & sarahel had a child?

pp and ss have a factory going on

I wonder if salsa shark took my fantasy football advice.

― oppet, Saturday, 9 April 2011 16:01

Gamst seems like terrible advice.

I went with Malouda, and had my first decent score in months. Too late to turn the season around tho. 400,002nd place would not be a disaster. Kick on next season.

ilx is a terrible dating site imo

― the salmon of procrastination (darraghmac), Saturday, 9 April 2011 17:07 (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

tell that to the children ilx has produced

― popular gay automobile (a hoy hoy), Sunday, 10 April 2011 06:13 (17 hours ago) Bookmark

is the contention that these relatinoships were made possible through ilx?

wrt spanish seafaring vessels imo

wtf @ nakh 2 days ago, lol

Awesome thread, love all you guys. Rock on.

^^ Awesome screen name tbh

dear oppet,

i am going to manchester tomorrow and might get a free afternoon for ambling about. is there any bit of manchester that you reckon a person who likes wandering around in cities might particularly like, or should i just go to the museum of science and industry again?

yrs sncrly,
c

glad you liked the club Oppet!

yeah i'll buy 'satisfied'. oppet you write a bit like a guy i know irl who i convinced to start lurking on here, thought you were him but you're not. you should probably meet some day and maybe fight for the rights of that mode of writing/thinking.

yours, Ian (née Affectian)

ps. c, dunno about wandering the streets (well, a few of my mates have enjoyed mooching about that disused train station bit over the road from piccadilly stn) but if you want to sit in nice bars/cafes surrounded by nice people and served by nice staff then i can recommend a few

ian: please do!

Hello everyone. This thread is so very...something. I'm just enjoying getting this far and looking forward to playing with a smile on my face, it's my cup final, etc.

Disused station = excellent idea. My standard 'couple of hours to kill' tour is along the lines of: get onto canal from oxford rd, head out past deansgate locks and castlefield, marvel at ersatz roman ruins, walk through THE HORROR of spinningfields and wail at the misery of it all, maybe head up to cathedral gardens to watch the teen emo hordes. This might not be the most convenient plan for you tho. There are many nice cafes and bars to hang around in. There's a nice korean restaurant.

The architectural beauty of Manchester
http://www.lookingatbuildings.org.uk/typo3temp/pics/M_16ed620f72.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2256/2189267659_e68fd124a4.jpg

http://www.lookingatbuildings.org.uk/typo3temp/pics/M_a490ace13c.jpg

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5225/5552911304_8611e3e6cc.jpg

http://www.oube.co.uk/images/uploads/places/lrg/9_1.jpg

http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/04/uk_britain0s_worst_buildings/img/5.jpg

amazes me how there's now a tatty 'For Sale' sign casually hanging on the top of the old HSBC building.

I dread to think what's going to happen to it. It is a beautiful building.

northern quarter good for a leisurely stroll

Manchester City Art Gallery is pretty nifty if you like Victorian art, and the City Museum down at the university has a nice little ancient Egyptian collection. My favourite cafes (Love, Cafe Pop, the grotty little place in the Corn Exchange) are long gone, never to be equalled.

viz. the HSBC building, you'd like to think it would be listed and protected, but Manchester City Council are uncultured heritage-blasting fuckwads.

there's a kapoor exhibition at the city art gallery at the moment, plus a mary kelly one at the whitworth. both good.

viz. the HSBC building, you'd like to think it would be listed and protected, but Manchester City Council are uncultured heritage-blasting fuckwads.

yes. the displacement of the cornerhouse is so ridiculous it's untrue.

The council's approach to regeneration is tragic. Anything non-madchester/factory rcds related is deemed irrelevant to the city's 'great cultural history' afaict. They're so desperate for investment now that anything will go.

Manchester gallery is great, even tho I hate all the pre-raphaelite stuff. Haven't been to the Kapoor exhibition yet.

e.g. Jeremy Deller's procession was p amazing and an interesting interpretation of 'Manchester' but the council decided it wasn't pro-Manc enough to decided they had to fund a shit sequel which was correctly on message and fucking boring.

thanks! that sounds pretty good - i like canals, buildings, the emo hordes, etc, and i think i'll be heading from the Whitworth, so it's all very convenient. i have 0 clue what Spinningfields is but google has just informed me it is on Hardman Boulevard and surely nothing can top that.

quite excited about this now!

my free time's mostly going to be outside gallery hours my momz has insisted i go to the mary kelly in my afternoon off (and then gone 'oh let me look at the map for a second' and kept it, so now i have to get a new map. :/ but maybe that will encourage me to explore more!)

If you like hanging out with filthy crusties, it looks like the OKasional cafe has just popped up in castlefield. No doubt they will all be asleep if you go in the daytime. Tomorrow evening:
"Manchester Against Militarism present an open meeting exploring how Britain is always at war, why oppose the military intervention in Libya, and what we can do to challenge the military industrial complex in Manchester".

'God help us if there's a war', innit.

Anything non-madchester/factory rcds related is deemed irrelevant to the city's 'great cultural history' afaict. They're so desperate for investment now that anything will go.

Not even that stuff is sacred. They bulldozed the Hac, after all.

"keep fit comrade: non-macho boxing and fitness skillshare"

♡_♡

Zora did you know 'pop' is still there? cafe bit is now downstairs.

dear oppet

utd or city?
buckowski or keroauc?
could i pull off tartan golf trousers?

love,

sam
xxxxx

utd or city?

buckowski or keroauc?

could i pull off tartan golf trousers?

aw shucks

Zora did you know 'pop' is still there? cafe bit is now downstairs.

Yes, but they don't do hot breakfast any more, or fresh banana milkshakes. It's under different management and is basically not the same cafe.

oppet,

what would be some interesting and/or relevant questions to ask you?

hey there nakhchivan. I feel like I never really 'kicked on' as an ilxor after this thread. I think the pressure got to me, and then I moved house and stuff and I never really put in enough of an effort here.

Anyway I don't know what you should ask me but as ever I am happy to answer anything in a truthful and strangely emotionless manner.

I wonder if c sharp major enjoyed their visit to Manchester.

idk but if her visit was commemorated in a noir paperback i hope she was described as a major key girl in a minor key town

songs in the key of much hyped manchester band wu lyf.

oppet, what (if anything) to you have to say about carlos tevez' appraisal of your city?

"There's nothing to do in Manchester," Tevez said. "There's two restaurants and everything's small. It rains all the time, you can't go anywhere. There comes a moment where you say 'where am I going to go with my family?' and you begin to feel bad.

quo vadimus indeed carlitos

Well you know, he is correct on some points. There isn't very much to do in Manchester if you want your cultural enrichment to be handed to you on a fucking plate because you're an ingrate who is unable to find their own enjoyments.

There are definitely more than two restaurants. I have counted. Maybe he thinks there are only two Argentine restaurants. Well he's wrong on that too: there are two Brazilian restaurants. Maybe he can't tell the fucking difference. There is a Gaucho Grill which is probably full of Argie beef if he wants that. There are a lot of mediocre and expensive restaurants in Manchester so he does have a point but I don't think that's the point he was making really. And if you do go to footballers' favourite San Carlo at least you get to see Ballotelli taking the piss out of Rooney escorts.

"It rains all the time" Well that isn't true either. It doesn't rain enough for my tastes.

As for family trips. Well, I don't have a family but if I did I would take them on a trip round a museum or maybe on a train ride to the peak district. Morecambe is within striking distance if you want the seaside.

Men like Carlos and Mario do not enjoy Manchester. Manchester is for your Garys, your Phils, your Scholesies, your Waynes. Get Joey Barton here. He'd love it.

Nakh, has a talented international footballer ever insulted your hometown, and if so what did you think?

"It rains all the time" Well that isn't true either. It doesn't rain enough for my tastes.

<3

i can't think of any similarly despondent moaning from london based foreign football players, partly cuz they seem to have bought fewer similar ingrates

arshavin and veron (after he was the victim of armed robbers) come to mind

i think it's cuz there are always a few other wealthy expats from wherever to keep them company

Yeah I mean I am not from the Morrissey school of Manc drizzle-worshipping miserablism, I just prefer rain as an experience.

I think Manchester will appeal to the footballer who wants to have a large number of easily found crap nitespots where he will be the most famous, richest man in the room and the women will be easily impressed and there is little chance of accidentally ending up somewhere which doesn't have that peculiar level of sordid glamour-non-glamour. I mean, you kinda have to search for those places in London ime, but in Manchester it is the dominant form of night out.