As part of my New Year's resolutions, I decided to make the effort to get back into the forums I used to post on... and with a recent house move, I found a crumpled piece of paper which reminded me of you.
I found a copy of the "SeeThru Island Constitution". Now that, my long-lost friends, is a blast from the past.
So, how is everyone? Are we still all eclectic and slightly bizarre? I can see a few of you "Old Skool" folk are still here. Smashing.
Me? I got into Steampunk, but I'm getting bored now it's becoming popular... I still dress up funny, though. I moved house, into a water mill, which is nice.
Erm, I suppose I'll have a trawl through the threads, dip my toe into the word-basin that is TMO and maybe see you around, yeah? I'm well out of the cool clique, I bet. Must try harder.
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hallo. A huge amount has gone on with me since you last posted. I managed to get a gig as a script editor in tinseltown based on a revision i did for a friend's script. Moved over there, started my new life, met a lovely korean woman who i married, but I was injured in an accident involving the little golf karts that you get on the lots. basically I was left with crippling pain and now I cannot use one of my arms. The pain meant that I couldn't work, and I ended up going to korea with my wife to take advantage of some health care her parents had. In korea I ended up getting totally hooked on painkillers (a problem I'm still battling ), and my wife eventually left me to hook up with a fella who she arranged to have 'burgle' the flat we had together. Alone, unable to work and partially paralysed, I had to come back home, and moved here - doncaster - to live near my brother, where I now help out in the local kiwk save. Currently in the process of finalising both the divorce AND a settlement for breaking a contract with Fox. Can't afford either, and language / legal barriers mean I'm not properly able to represent myself in the Korean system. Could end up having to go back to do time in a special 'civil crime' korean prison. Life couldn't be any worse.
Search for the thread called "My new life begins!" in the Life forum. it's all there.
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still, mustn't grumble. Glad to hear things are alright on planet simon. I'm benway btw in case you don't recognise the 'kanye west' name. During one of my more..err... energetic phases thanks to the drugs, I registered on quite a few messageboards with the dr. benway name and...well.. it became synonymous with some strange behaviour that eventually meant I was being hounded by people looking to try and 'out' me.
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I've had a pretty good time of it since you've been gone, When. Hooked up with this Korean chick a year or so back and managed to get her deadbeat husband embroiled in a health insurance scam, which meant we didn't have to work for about six months. I even came up with the idea of ripping off the flat they were sharing and at the moment we're finding new ways to take him to the cleaners in the divorce courts, but that's on hold at the moment as we're trying to work out a way to get at his family's cash too. We really need him to move in with his brother, so we can try and get our hands on that house. Just need him to put it as his contact address on one document, and we should be away.
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I found out that I was adopted, and that I am actually three-quarters Korean. The shock of that caused some real soul-searching, and I confess I went off the rails a bit, trying to find my true identity and so on. I became so emotionally unstable and unhappy with who I was that I ended up going to the States for sexual reassignment surgey and extensive plastic surgery, to make me look and truly feel like the South-East-Asian woman that I now am.
I ended up staying a while in California after all the ops, and married some loser from the UK who paid for my new clothes and make up and all that stuff that every lady needs, but he ended up being a bit of a dick that I couldn't get rid of (unlike my own actual dick). So I found another English loser to do him over for me, and his family, and now I'm just waiting for all that money to come through before ditching him as well, though this one's a bit wilier and I might actually have to get my secret lover Richard Joshua (yes, the famous war historian) to kill him for me.
So, you know, ups and downs. I do house calls, by the way.
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I hate Valentine's Day. Stupid commercialised crap
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quote:Originally posted by Doctor Agamemnon When: As part of my New Year's resolutions, I decided to make the effort to get back into the forums I used to post on...
It's true that the internet was running desperately short of words - only last week Misc was complaining he'd run out of things to read.
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Last year I moved in with my girlfriend. We have two cats. They went outside for the first time this weekend. Anakin was a wuss and wouldn't go more than a few metres from the door without recoiling in terror and running back indoors. Obiwan was a bit more adventurous but was still shaking like a leaf and slinking around on his belly.
quote:Originally posted by Octavia: It's true that the internet was running desperately short of words - only last week Misc was complaining he'd run out of things to read.
That's right - I finished the English language section of the Internet last week. In the end, I learnt Chinese just so I'd have more content available.
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nothing has happened to me since you left us, doctorwhen. nothing at all. well, i say that: the reason that nothing has happened to me for the last few years is that in 2004 damo sent out this cicrcular email about an experiment that was about to start in the lab next to him- four hundred pounds to volunteer for two weeks as a test subject. i was fucking brassic so i stepped up, thinking theyd take some hair and stool samples and lock us in a room with free broadband, feed us sloppy food in plastic trays, collect our urine in kidney dishes, etc, and id walk away with dollar dollar to spend on christmas presents, cheap vodka, geegaws, manwhores, etc.
what actually happened was i turned up at this laboratory on a trading estate just outside stoke mandeville, filled in a form, put on a pair of plastic pants and a backless gown, and was then ushered into a room full of... well, theyre called 'spacials', they're like steel and chrome tanning booth type things. by this point i was feeling slightly circumspect but im such a people- pleaser, and anyway id signed the consent form. its a legal minefield really. i climbed into the spacial and before i knew it, well, the fuckers had fiddle- faddled with all my vital signs and put me into a state of suspended animation which has been ongoing for the last five years. about three years ago i had an operation which connected my cerebral cortex to a computer which reads and transcribes all my thoughts to a database, from which i have asked if communications can be forwarded to facebook, twitter, themoononline, and my own personal blog, http://www.braininashinybox.co.uk.
you know, its been a real journey, this. ive asked the controllers repeatedly if i can have some sort of legal representation or at least look at the consent form again but theyre like, well, not if we dont make your eyes work again, ha ha ha yes your contribution to medical science is invaluable dont forget, thankyou bye. so, you know. anyway. its frustrating but what can you do? theyre right, i am at least of use in some intangible, unknowable way, which i cant be sure would be the case if this had never come to pass. youve got to make lemonade when life hands you lemons, havent you?
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), and my wife eventually left me to hook up with a fella who she arranged to have 'burgle' the flat we had together. Alone, unable to work and partially paralysed, I had to come back home, and moved here - doncaster - to live near my brother, where I now help out in the local kiwk save. Currently in the process of finalising both the divorce AND a settlement for breaking a contract with Fox. Can't afford either, and language / legal barriers mean I'm not properly able to represent myself in the Korean system. Could end up having to go back to do time in a special 'civil crime' korean prison. Life couldn't be any worse.
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