I dont remember football making much of an appearance on TMO but hopefully there will be at least 1 person who might be interested...
*donning my Motty coat for a minute*
I've just finished watching the best football match I've seen in recent times.
I admit I dont watch it as often as I used to...but I just happened to catch it whilst seeing a mate.
I'm talking about...
Everton v's Chelsea
Now I'm not a fan of either team but it was gripping, lively and most of all a game played with passion.
Everton matched pace with Chelsea from the off until a stinker of a challenge on Tim Cahill (E) by Sean Wright-Phillips (c) outside the box.
James Beattie (e) shot the penulty confidently past goalkeeper Chech (c)
It was a really really physical game. John Terry (C) getting a bloody nose after colliding with James Beattie (e). Claude Makalele's (c) head also suffered trauma from James Beatties stray boot!
Chelsea have been blazing infront so far this season with 9 Premiership wins out of 9 (before today) so far this season. But they still went back to the tunnel at half time 1-0 down.
Shortly after half time Frank Lampard (c) got the equaliser.
At 75 minutes Chelsea had made 15 attempts on goal compared to Evertons 2. Evertons defence was impressive but to be expected from a team in their position and playing from home.
Throughout the rest of the second half Chelsea and Everton were evenly matched. There was a late in the day scare for Everton as substitute Arjen Robbens (c) effort sailed just over the crossbar.
Attempts were made on both ends by both teams in the three minutes extra time but to avail.
Score 1-1
Disappointing, but by god i dont think either team deserved to lose...
Man of the Match for Everton
Duncan Ferguson and grudgingly James Beattie :smug wanker:
Man of the Match for Chelsea
John Terry for being totally cool even with blood trickling down his face and Lampard for his effort
If you've actually read this all the way down... a tenuous link for you...
Please tell TMO what you did this weekend which you may not have done in a while?
[ 23.10.2005, 16:39: Message edited by: Kira ]
Posted by Roy (Member # 705) on :
This is why Kira is great.
Posted by London (Member # 29) on :
quote:Originally posted by Kira: Please tell TMO what you did this weekend which you may not have done in a while?
I licked a giant ox heart and spent over £1000 of Levi's money on putting on a gig where a lady takes her top off and rolls around in meat. It ruled! I have never done either of those things before.
Posted by saltrock (Member # 622) on :
Well I shouldn't imagine either of those are your normal, every-day occurance!
I have a fondness for the Beattie boy from his Saints days. However, he did get somewhat chubby before he left. I can remember one game when we were in the stands and someone shouted, "get after that fucking ball Beattie - there's a pie in the middle of it". And do you know readers? He took off after it like a greyhound out of the traps!
I went to a wedding party last night and met a nice man, who seemed to like me too. This is very unusual a] because I usually only atract complete lunatics of the "tattoo and McEwans" variety and b] because I tend to scare people [men] away by being far too stand-offish and faux arrogant [really what I'm doing is that self-preservation thing of pretending to be like that in case they don't like me anyway]. So, y'know, that was unusual for me.
Posted by Dr. Benway (Member # 20) on :
My weekend was pretty much a carbon copy of every other weekend, although I watched THREE, count em THREE films. History of Violence, Dawn of the Dead remake, and Sympathy for Lady Venegeance. I went to a market as well, but didn't buy anything.
Posted by rooster (Member # 738) on :
We were actually social with our old 'city' friends! We were supposed to all pack up and go to a local Maize Maze, but they were closed due to weather (and mud), so we sat around all grown-up-like and played a game, which involved actual words and thought. I feel like the haze that's been on my brain for the past six months might be beginning to lift.
Posted by Stefanos (Member # 53) on :
I did a shit load of ironing. I pulled suspect manky leaves off the rhubarb plant. I walked with the missus when she went on a hack. We had Sunday lunch at lunch time. I spent my time wondering if the Oxyrnynchus papyri actually had anything in Latin and found out that they probably didn't.
Nothing that unusual. Makes a change from standing in a field dressed in a silly costume though!
[ 24.10.2005, 01:46: Message edited by: Stefanos ]
Posted by dang65 (Member # 102) on :
I took my son to a party at a friend's house on Sunday. We'd been told there was to be a "Party Bus" which he was particularly excited about. It was advertised as a converted double decker bus which had been fitted out with everything you could possibly need for a kid's party.
Not far from the friend's house I got stuck behind a slow moving furniture removal truck, weaving its way around parked cars and tight corners. It was painted light grey, no other markings, and looked like the sort of vehicle the IRA would park on Whitehall and fire mortars out of.
Eventually, this van pulled up outside the friend's house and a short, fat, bald man got out. We watched. He opened the back doors of this enormous truck and the inside was fitted out from floor to ceiling with one of those Wacky Warehouse set ups - cargo nets, slides, ball ponds, rope swings. He got some steps out of the back then shut the big doors and put the steps next to a little door at the side.
It was incredibly sinister, a sort of updated version of the Child Catcher out of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. I had reservations about leaving my son there, I can tell you, and my doubts weren't calmed much when I got back later to pick him up and found the van was gone and there was no sign of the kids except for one who was sat outside the house on the doorstep looking miserable and abandoned, like the crippled kid out of The Pied Piper Of Hamelin.
Turned out he was just having a sulk while the rest of them played Musical Bumps indoors. Phew.
I also fell off a ladder while trying to cut the top of a very tall hedge at the back of our garden. I think Harold Lloyd would have been proud of the way I balanced for a couple of seconds, flapping frantically in an attempt to remain airbourne before falling through the hedge like Homer Simpson falling into a ravine.
Incredibly, no one saw me, which was a terrible waste of such a great slapstick performance so I thought I'd at least try and describe it.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
I spent some of yesterday working on *this. I also watched some of Hellboy, but sadly I didn't make it to the end. Niles Crane was most amusing as the voice of Abe Sapien. As I dozed off, I was half-expecting him to make a comment about Maris's sniffles.
Posted by OJ (Member # 752) on :
Just to make London's Ox heart adventures look even more rock and roll I shall let you into the secrets of the most uneventful weekend I've had in a long while.
I had breakfast in bed brought to me on a tray, with the newspapers and it featured home made soda bread, which the OH had risen several hours earlier to make. Fantastic and somthing of a new one on me.
I stayed up until 1am mending and making new linings for some retro (ie. ancient but kind of cool) curtains, when I knew I had to be up at 6.30 this morning.
Happy Monday TMO. I shall be henceforth sleeping under my desk like a dormouse. Haven't done that in a long while either and never without the excuse of intoxicants.
Posted by Roy (Member # 705) on :
I watched four hours of The Bill I had taped over the past few weeks.
Happy as a pig in wotsit, I was.
Posted by Waynster (Member # 56) on :
I worked 21 hours from home with what was supposed to be a couple of hours work, and was positively insulted by a director, but I already moaned about that on here. Then last night went and had lots of drinks with friends and sang Billy Idol songs very loudly.
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
I went to a champagne tasting on Friday at which I got fizzily legless (I know, could I be any more middle-class?)
Dossed around on Saturday, not doing anything much, then went out to dinner with friends in the evening (ahem, apparently I could be more middle-class, then). I redeemed myself a bit by getting the last bus home rather than a taxi.
Yesterday, did sweet FA. Actually, I did do something that I don't do very often, and that was cleaning out my Man U room. I have a Man U room, by the way. Not through any affiliation of my own, inherited from the previous incumbents who had a six-year-old Red, whose bedroom this was, and who somehow persuaded his parents to put up Man U wallpaper. It's quite a talking point.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
quote:Originally posted by H1ppychick: Dossed around on Saturday, not doing anything much,
Er, I was walking around Bristol city centre on Saturday doing nothing except killing time. It was then and only then I realised I could of asked if you wanted to hook up and also kill time. Sorry.
Posted by OJ (Member # 752) on :
H1ppychick - I have a Liverpool FC room. It's very similar I imagine - wallpapered in bright red club logo paper (ouch) with matching lampshade. Also inherited from a previous child owner.
We could have a room competition. Lock a couple of lucky forites in the respective rooms, with just the junk we store in 'em for company and see which one has a psychotic episode first!
Posted by jonesy999 (Member # 5) on :
Everton goals celebrated: 1 Offsides celebrated: 1 Pieminister matador pies consumed: 1 Money spent on clothes: £256 Pieminister minty lamb pies consumed = 1/2 Words written: 2000. Money spent on wood: £1012 Trips to the tip: 3 Roast dinners consumed: 2 Money spent on builders: £1800 Bottles of wine consumed: 2 Glasses of whiskey consumed: 4 Hours of Jericho watched: 2 Fights between gangs of lesbians observed: 1 Cigarettes smoked: 30 Posts made on TMO: 7
Posted by Darryn.R (Member # 1) on :
quote:Originally posted by jonesy999: Money spent on wood: £1012 Trips to the tip: 3 Money spent on builders: £1800
What are you having done that uses that much 'a wood' ?
I have just looked up what pieminister pies are and now positively hate living abroad.
Posted by jonesy999 (Member # 5) on :
I'm buidling an ark.
Posted by jonesy999 (Member # 5) on :
Actually, it was a wooden floor.
It is draining me of money like a hard-wearing child.
Posted by Darryn.R (Member # 1) on :
And the builder are fitting it, couldn't it get DIY'd ? Those are some high costs for a floor.
Posted by Abby (Member # 582) on :
I put up pikey double glazing! It seems pretty good so far, and the tape is holding up for now. I’m quite impressed with it - if you trim the edges properly and get all the wrinkles out it is pretty much invisible. It isn't really cold enough today for a proper assessment of it's insulating properties, so you will have to wait a little longer for that exciting revelation....
On Friday night I got home from Teh Meat and instead of going to bed we stayed up drank a bottle of wine and watched loads of Firefly, but that is nothing new, I have done that loads of times before. Doh. Posted by Darryn.R (Member # 1) on :
quote:Originally posted by Waynster: I have just looked up what pieminister pies are and now positively hate living abroad.
HOLY FUCK YES.
THEY LOOK GOOD.
They deliver ! (in the UK)
[ 24.10.2005, 06:28: Message edited by: Darryn.R ]
Posted by OJ (Member # 752) on :
And more to the point, Jonesy...
a) What clothes did you buy for £256? Descriptions please.
b) Where did you observe a fight between gangs of lesbians? Blow by blow account please.
ps. My girlfriend says I'm not allowed to speak to Everton fans, so you'd better answer quick. Posted by Waynster (Member # 56) on :
quote:Originally posted by Darryn.R: HOLY FUCK YES.
THEY LOOK GOOD.
They deliver ! (in the UK)
Physic????
I am actually considering taking up an offer to visit a mate in Bath just due to its proximity to Bristol so I can try one of these pies.
[ 24.10.2005, 06:43: Message edited by: Waynster ]
Posted by herbs (Member # 101) on :
Joan C, were the lesbians fighting outside the Oak, or whatever that pub's called opposite your flat? My best friend has become a lez, and often drinks with her girlfriend in that bar. The g/f is a bit 'handy', apparently, and indulges in fights. So it might have been her! Gracious.
New experiences this weekend: Buying guilt-inducing non-free-range chicken: 8 pieces Stropping out of Asda for being too pikey and crowded: 1 Picking up dishwasher from steep hill in Chingford with non-functioning handbrake: 1 Asking gardener how to prune my bush: 1 Writing surprisingly unamusing account of amateur operatic experience: 1000 words
Posted by Vogon Poetess (Member # 164) on :
Saturday.
Stayed in pjs ALL DAY. Because I could. Me an Octavia made Thorn go out and buy eggs and waffles for a fry-up. Ah lovely fry-up. Then we felt like watching Batman Begins, so we sent Thorn out to buy it. Watched horseracing and dozed pleasantly all afternoon.
Sunday.
Reluctantly got dressed in order to go out foraging for food. Bought boring food and also treats for finishing exams: Kingdom of Devon on DVD, 1 green top for work, 1 sparkly green top for non-work. Spent day re-reading HP6.
Posted by Dr. Benway (Member # 20) on :
I saw some lesbians fighting as I glumly surveyed the nightlife from the top of the N29 on Saturday night. It was quite a lame fight, and not hugely aggressive. One lesbian was holding something that the other lesbian wanted, and a playful struggle turned semi-playful. That was it. BYE!
Posted by jonesy999 (Member # 5) on :
quote:Originally posted by Darryn.R: And the builder are fitting it, couldn't it get DIY'd ? Those are some high costs for a floor.
The builder am. He's doing other things as well.
It's a hard wood floor so it needs to be mounted on a plywood sub-floor first. To fit it myself, I would need to hire a compressor and a floor stapler (I've never used one of those) and a decent mitre saw. It's all a bit of a palaver and I didn't want to risk doing it myself. I had the builders in anyway - knocking down a supporting wall, so I took advantage and got them to fit the floor. They've nearly finished and I must say it looks very nice. I'd hate have chucked all that cash at a floor only to fit it myself and do a substandard job. Plus I'm lazy.
Posted by Darryn.R (Member # 1) on :
Sounds nice Jonesy, what wood is it ?
I have to say I've only had bad experience with builders of late. A part of me thought it seemed like a LOT of money for a floor, but thinking back now that's about what I spent on carpeting which is now so badly stained by Beckett it could really do with replacing, I'll wash it once first though maybe it'll scrub up.
If I'd gone for wood it woodn't be an issue.
I like Beech on a floor.
[ 24.10.2005, 06:48: Message edited by: Darryn.R ]
Posted by jonesy999 (Member # 5) on :
Herbie
Yes, yes it was spill out from the Oak. It wasn't so much a fight as a screaming session. They just swore at each other for a long time. It was in the early hours and I was half asleep. At first I thought it was two huge families of chavs. There was a lot of tracksuit action and some serious FUCKING SWEARING and posturing. The whole thing broke up slightly when a police car came but started again shortly afterwards.
After the police left two couples started kissing and then there was a regroup and a new argument.
I couldn't really work out what it was about but I think someone had kissed someone they shouldn't have earlier in the night.
It was a very butch affair in everything but the lack of actual physical violence. It just goes to show that girls really do like to talk more than men. In the hour and half this went on, similarly pissed up blokes would have beaten each other senseless, made up, eaten a kebab and then started a new argument with someone else.
I hope your friend wasn't there, Herbs. No one came out of the affair with any glory.
[ 24.10.2005, 06:50: Message edited by: jonesy999 ]
Posted by jonesy999 (Member # 5) on :
It's oak, Darryn.
Posted by OJ (Member # 752) on :
Christ! I'm glad I stayed in at the weekend. Lesbian shouting matches everywhere it seems. Okay two. They sound pretty mild actually, judging by the lack of pool cue/ earring ripping action and punches thrown.
Sorry, way off topic. I'm going to sleep off my sewing now.
Posted by jonesy999 (Member # 5) on :
Do you have any good lesbian fighting stories OJ? Or do you wait until the bar room brawl kicks off and then crawl out on your hands and knees like The Fall Guy?
[ 24.10.2005, 06:58: Message edited by: jonesy999 ]
Posted by dang65 (Member # 102) on :
quote:Originally posted by Darryn.R: what I spent on carpeting which is now so badly stained by Beckett it could really do with replacing, I'll wash it once first though maybe it'll scrub up.
Carpets usually scrub up a treat, even old ones. It's unbelievable what those spray on/hoover off machines can get out of carpets, and how gorgeous the place looks when they're freshly cleaned. Possibly the only genuinely satisfying household cleaning duty known to [a] man.
Posted by jonesy999 (Member # 5) on :
Dang's right, Darryn. Again.
[ 24.10.2005, 07:03: Message edited by: jonesy999 ]
Posted by jonesy999 (Member # 5) on :
He'll recommend the Sven Hassel carpet cleaner in a minute. And he'll be right again.
[ 24.10.2005, 07:05: Message edited by: jonesy999 ]
Posted by herbs (Member # 101) on :
Ooh yes, carpet shampooers rule. Hire one from a tool hire shop for extra-robust, non-nonsense action. I cleaned the fag-ash infested carpet of my old flat with one, and the resultant mixture sucked up by the device resembled tar, and stank something terrible. It was ace.
Posted by Waynster (Member # 56) on :
Darryn - what about the stolen Steam Cleaner? - that does all of that type stuff.
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
quote:Originally posted by OJ: H1ppychick - I have a Liverpool FC room. It's very similar I imagine - wallpapered in bright red club logo paper (ouch) with matching lampshade. Also inherited from a previous child owner.
We could have a room competition. Lock a couple of lucky forites in the respective rooms, with just the junk we store in 'em for company and see which one has a psychotic episode first!
I'll show you mine if you show me yours. I'll post a picture up tonight or something. Then you can all appreciate the wonder of my Man U room!
Posted by OJ (Member # 752) on :
quote:Originally posted by jonesy999: Do you have any good lesbian fighting stories OJ? Or do you wait until the bar room brawl kicks off and then crawl out on your hands and knees like The Fall Guy?
Er, no. I'm not much of a fighter. I did once break a window in anger, but this is mainly notable for the fact that the breakage involved throwing overarm accurately and at some velocity for the first and last time in my life.
Apart from that, when I used to frequent pubs of any degree of roughness, I was always the one obliviously carrying on talking whilst chairs whistled by and people were being pinned to pool tables. I don't think anyone's ever gone for me, being too weedy to be worth a fight and too lazy to have snogged your girlfriend in the toilets.
[ 24.10.2005, 07:22: Message edited by: OJ ]
Posted by Darryn.R (Member # 1) on :
The *ahem* borrowed steam cleaner gets out the odd stain or two but the carpets now such a patchwork of stainage it need a good down and dirty cleaning. We have the mega Dysons, we have the stolen steam cleaner, we have magic Dyson carpet dry shampoo AND we have a one year old who thinks the funniest thing on Earth is to stamp Kiwi Fruit into the carpet OR squeezing crap out of his nappy and smearing it onto the floor as soon as one of us isn't watching.
The Sven Hassel carpet cleaner looks good if I can find one here, it's just such a pain in the arse having to empty the whole room out to clean the carpet.
The carpet is a very light beige, three years ago it seemed like such a good idea.
[ 24.10.2005, 07:28: Message edited by: Darryn.R ]
Posted by Roy (Member # 705) on :
We did light beige too, except it was called 'Oatmeal'. Now it could be called 'Soup'
Posted by jonesy999 (Member # 5) on :
The beige carpet I put in my flat to sell it was so light it boredered on white. That was less than six months ago and it's already fucking filthier than TMO's collective imagination. If the current 'buyer' doesn't come through with cash then I'm going to have to call in Sven Hassel before I put it back on the market.
[ 24.10.2005, 09:28: Message edited by: jonesy999 ]
Posted by OJ (Member # 752) on :
quote:Originally posted by H1ppychick: I'll show you mine if you show me yours. I'll post a picture up tonight or something. Then you can all appreciate the wonder of my Man U room!
It's a plan. Will take a picture of mine at the weekend (viewings by appointment only, evidently )
Posted by doc d (Member # 781) on :
friday: went to restaurant opening. it was shit. sambuca. old. gothic looking. shit. shit jazz band for dinner. old men, young ladies with plastic surgery. from there to a fashion show. shit. absolutely shit. shit clothes, shit makeup, hair = cool. from there to bar, got asked for id. asked why. with the words "jesus wept, i haven't shaved for almost a week and i'm 30. why are you carding me?" "becuase you're a little dude". wank. bar. people dancing on tables. and on bar. over priced drinks.
home. saturday: hangover. hugely distracting. didn't go to work. sat at home and did fuck all. minded mates store for two hours. played disc-golf. drank colt 45. tried a brass monkey. thought it was alright. went back to nashville, ate pizza, watched some football, fell asleep. woke up walked home.
sunday: cycled to international supermarket on 8th and jefferson. bought vegetables with the other immigrants. danced to asian muzak. cycled home up the hill of death on church street. got home. cooked roast vegetables. went to friends birthday. ate with geeks. vegetables went down well. shook hand of man about to go to iraq, 9 days after his 2nd kid was born. got home. went for walk, checked out neighbourhood decorations for halloween, some good some bad, two haunted houses, picked up a free (read just lying on the street) new york times, went to the teet got some milk, went home. watched magnolia. went to bed. listened to our upstairs neighbours dancing/running in high heels/ i have no fucking idea what they do up there but christ on a bike its fucking loud.
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