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Cripples and elders are usually pretty light, and at least you'd avoid the guilt of having stolen a wheelchair.
Alternatively, if you're feeling really lazy, sit in the chair on Carshalton high street, trying to point your flailing arms toward the hospital, doing your best hnnnnnng face and pleading "Hoth-pickle, peathe!" at passers-by. Make a social experiment out of it. Crying and dribbling optional.
2. Eating: A CLUB, for I do indeed like a lot of chocolate on my biscuit.
3. Weekend: Trying to catch up on some sleep after a fortnight of epic insomnia
4. Watching: Almost reached the end of the second series of Gilmore Girls. Things are looking pretty bleak for Dean and Rory. Wondering if Jess is going to return to Stars Hollow...
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I can imagine people finding Fuck Shit Up a bit of an odd choice at a dinner party, but the rest of the album's pretty easy to get to grips with.
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Wearing: Thorn's Riff After Riff After Motherfucking Riff sweatshirt, and pyjama bottoms (ah the joys of maternity leave). Eating: muesli for breakfast, leftover mash for lunch. Weekending: Probably more batches of contractions and popping paracetemol. Watching: True Romance because Speed yesterday put me in a Dennis Hopperish mood. Listening: Radio 4 just now. Reading: Hawksmoor
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quote:Originally posted by Black Mask: 4. Watching: I watched 30 Days of Night again, last night. Slower paced than I remembered. Also, didn't spot that the chief vamp was that Huston guy.
Speaking of vampire movies, I watched Blade again last night. Stands up remarkably well. Some of the FX are a bit shonky, but then they were at the time. The things that leapt out at me were stuff like how well paced the movie is, how well put together. It seems to know exactly how many characters it can handle (unlike, say, Van Helsing), and gives all of them an appropriate amount of screen time. The other thing that seemed quite pronounced was just how crucial and capable Karen - the female lead - was. It might have just stood out because I'd recently watched the Transporter trilogy where women are treated like shit, but Karen was smart, unflustered, capable. Saves Blade's ass on more than one occasion. In fact, had it not been for her, not only would Blade have not had the gear he needed to kill the blood God (the EDTA she makes him), he wouldn't even have been rescued from the tomb in the first place. In a way she was just as much a main character as he was, although a movie called 'Karen' probably wouldn't sell well.
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quote:Originally posted by Octavia: Wearing: Thorn's Riff After Riff After Motherfucking Riff sweatshirt, and pyjama bottoms (ah the joys of maternity leave). Eating: muesli for breakfast, leftover mash for lunch. Weekending: Probably more batches of contractions and popping paracetemol.
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1. Wearing: Work attire (Shirt, black jeans, Docs) - Have a feeling this will morph from shirts with collars to those without and various tour dates on the back as seems to be the norm here)
2. Eating: Lunch in a bit - sarnies that you knock up yourself. Fills a hole.
3. Weekend: BBQ and football. And lie ins!
4. Watching: Watched the last of series 6 of Shameless last night, which was brilliant, but like all great series you work through, sad when you know there will be no more for a while. Also 20 19" monitors at the same time covering various market feeds and system monitoring applications.
5. Listening: Post Pending for this shortly in music
6. Reading: Various operational procedures and dreaming up how they can all make sense
quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: Speaking of vampire movies, I watched Blade again last night. Stands up remarkably well.
Best of the trilogy. We watched them back to back, recently. That was before we had to set some rather severe age restrictions on the Masketeers' viewing. Thanks to some unfortunate behaviour...
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quote:Originally posted by Black Mask: Wow, is it imminent?
Was due on Wednesday - contractions of various timings and pain-levels since Tuesday but never at a point that isn't going to make a midwife look pityingly at me and send me home again.
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quote:Originally posted by Black Mask: Wow, is it imminent?
Was due on Wednesday - contractions of various timings and pain-levels since Tuesday but never at a point that isn't going to make a midwife look pityingly at me and send me home again.
Aces! Little Thorntavia is just straightening her goggles. This is a very important time, s/he's putting her affairs in order, doing a bit of light dusting in order to leave the place immaculate for the next conception and then, probably, fixing a bracing cocktail. Gin Martini, at a guess. You need to start playing lots of ROCK, very loud.
quote:Originally posted by Black Mask: You need to start playing lots of ROCK, very loud.
Good idea. I think the first sound that every new born should hear upon escaping from their 9 months in isolation is Ozzy screeching "Satan laughing spreads his wings"
That will make it clear to them that this is a good world they are coming into.
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Octavia and Thorn should have a St.Nickening with lots of flames and the congregation singing "All Hail the New Flesh" not unlike in the Simpsons when they sang "In the Garden of Eden" in Church.
However I think such a ceremony may damage any political aspirations Octavia may have as the press will never see the funny side.....
quote:Originally posted by Octavia: never at a point that isn't going to make a midwife look pityingly at me and send me home again.
that was the single worst aspect of the whole birthing process for my partner, Rusty. The being sent back in a taxi with crippling contractions because she wasn't dilated enough. Then dreading the taxi journey back up there again. They can be bastards like that, Hospitals. Don't get up there till the little mite's hanging out by it's toes... that seems to be the only way they'll be satisfied you're 'ready'.
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quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove: I think the first sound that every new born should hear upon escaping from their 9 months in isolation is Ozzy screeching "Satan laughing spreads his wings".
We've got The Clash (amongst other things) for the delivery room - might throw in some AC/DC and GnR just for shits n giggles.
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quote:Originally posted by Octavia: We've got The Clash (amongst other things) for the delivery room - might throw in some AC/DC and GnR just for shits n giggles.
Maybe McDirts could do you a mixtape? You know, swinging your hair to some John Denver. Bit of air-guitar to the St Winifred's School Choir.
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Hey, flip you, you flummin ice hole. You want to listen to the lyrics of some of that stuff. That cr*p is well edgy. And that's swearing. Sorry, I just felt I needed to get my point across.
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My parents had that conversation with my Junior school form teacher after I lent one of my little friends my collection of James Herbert books.
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That link above is pretty sweet too. The sikhs are so modern in their thinking. You can imagine a police station, sunny afternoon, three guys playing cards over the table and Dal pops his head around the door.
'hey guys I was wondering if, er I could get to carry a gun like? Yeah?'
Geoff looks up from his game unenthusiastically. The three men all look at each other in silence. Geoff nods knowingly and his face lights up. 'Fuck yeah man, let's take you to the armory!' and the guys all flop their cards on the coffee table and scrabble up. Dal beams.
Cut to the armoury. All 4 of the guys are playing with different weaponry. Tony's got on full riot gear and Ben's hitting him with a baton in the stomach. Geoff takes out a pistol from a box and casually disposes of the polystyrene its surrounded in. He hands it to Dal. 'Check this fucker out' he says and passes it to Dal. Dal holds it in both hands and makes a slight feedback motion and mouths 'pow' They both look at each other with a nod of acknowledgement. Geoff balks suddenly and spins around 'nearly forgot mate' he says searching around, finding a helmet on the shelf. 'You've got to wear one of these to be on firearms duty' and he lifts it above Dal's grinning head and stops, attempting to assess the situation. The helmet is tight, but Dal's turban is quite bulky. He attempts to steer the helmet on from different angles and stops. 'Shit mate, I can't get it on over your turban. Can you....take it off?'
Dal stands there for a minute with a look of concentration. 'no, no' he says disappointed 'actually......no I don't think I can'
There's silence for a long time except for the thudding of the nightstick on kevlar. The sound stops and Ben stops turns to them with his mouth slightly ajar in revelation.
'What you want mate. What you want is a bulletproof turban'
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1. Wearing: Red plaid shirt, black jeans, Redwings.
2. Eating: Pint of coffee, for breakfast. Might have fish and chips for lunch.
3. Weekending: Going to see the grandparents. Maybe visit a Chinese restaurant. Bit of DIY...
4. Watching: I watched The Apprentice this week. That's about it. I've been on the wagon all week. There's obviously some correlation between drinking alcohol and lying prone on the sofa watching rubbish.
5. Listening: AC/DC - Powerage. Over and over again. I might as well get rid of all my other albums. I'm particularly looking forward to Kicked In The Teeth this afternoon while sucking down a goblet of Leffe.
6. Reading: H. P. Lovecraft - The Colour Out Of Space. Found it in my jacket pocket this morning. Got the train into work because it's rainy. Good story. Good old H. P.
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1. Wearing: Black Levi's, 20 Hole Docs, Ramones Tee
2. Eating: Mcdonalds for the first time in ages
3. Weekend: Not sure as yet - maybe meeting friends
4. Watching: Not much as Sky has buggared up my satellite box with their new EPG. Did watch an interesting documentary film called Cocaine Cowboys last night though
5. Listening: Totalrock radio, so lots of stuff - eagerly awaiting new Green Day and Manics albums
6. Reading: Nowt at the moment - I'm too lazy when it comes to books.
quote:Originally posted by Tilde: playing: GTA IV, stuck on the Three Leaf Clover mission with Pakie, done it about 7 times now and got killed before the end each time. Hard.
I'm stuck on that as well. I was doing quite well at one point, until I accidentally killed Packie with a grenade.
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Excellent, I just did exactly the same - I've figured out that lobbing grenades at the police was the easiest and most visually attractive way of destroying them and chucked a couple out from inside the building... one bounced back inside and killed us all. BOOM!
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Ok make that 8 times. just checked and it's an end level, so that's why it's so much harder than previous stuff. Annoyingly once I actually made it to the getaway car but after a 10 minute car chase involving several car swaps managed to get one of the irish fellas killed before I lost my wanted level.
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