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I just finished labouring through an edited digest of the works of DT Suzuki and seriously. I mean, seriously come on. I've also been listening to Stephen King reading an unabridged version of his book "bag of bones" and actually, seriously as well, Stephen King. How fucking long do your books have to be. I mean that seriously.
How about you, Benny the ball? There's a book about David Bowie cosplay that I read about but I haven't actually read. Did you read that?
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I only have time to read reviews of books and add them to my amazon basket these days. Reading actual books is for losers.
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I've just taken the lid off the swimming pool. There are lots of creatures. The miscifferlets are disappoint.
I read a Peppa Pig book last night. Mister Bull is a fucking terrible roofer, but the teacher, who also seems to be responsible for upkeep of the buildings and grounds, just accepts the poor quality of his work and keeps hiring him to replace the school roof. He'll appear on Cowboy Builders before long. Matt Allwright will be dressed as a matador.
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I read a lot of super hero comics these days, since I discovered the Marvel Unlimited app. I tried to read the whole of the Dark Reign event but it made no sense however I approached it. Now I just read Venom and Ms Marvel. I tell myself that I'm either reading them ironically or checking to see if they're suitable for the kids. But truthfully I just sleep better if I doze off imagining that Ms Marvel will swoop in through the window and take me on an adventure. Did I mention I'm going to be 40 in a couple of months? I never realised that this is what 40 year olds think about.
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Life - married, two kids, moved to LA, work, old, knees hurt
Books - Started reading Dark Money and Listen Liberal, but the combined left, right blows of seeing American democracy crumble under the weight of greed and stupidity was proving too much for me during these times.
So I read some Herman Hesse instead.
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2 minutes ago, If you'd asked me whether Beck was still alive, I'd have had to really think about it and then finally admit that I have no idea.
I'm glad that I've reached closure on the whole Beck alive/dead situation without having to think hard about it, so thanks for that.
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Oh wow. Active topics page doesn't update in real time, I'd completely forgotten about that. That's a throwback to the 2000s and the sort of thing we don't have to live with in this day and age.
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quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove: Oh wow. Active topics page doesn't update in real time, I'd completely forgotten about that. That's a throwback to the 2000s and the sort of thing we don't have to live with in this day and age.
Stop complaining ! It's proper internets that the kids won't understand and keep the little buggars out.
Young today - want everything automated and on demand. What happened to working for something? Bah humbug etc.
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I was going to do this thread. I think we all were. My take was going to be to ask you to list your most recent post here and then update as to what has changed since then. Benny I think you've really let this nascent rebirth down.
If you think you had a better take on this than Benny, please let us know.
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Also for introducing me to benway, who I recently shared a cocktail with in a Rio roof top swimming pool as a result of our selling shit via the medium of adverts for dell.
I hang out on www.rllmukforum.com - in theory it's about games but they do all sorts.
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I now live in Epping with my girlfriend (who I met on Guardian Soulmates) in a 1 bed flat and I run the Audiology Department here. I did not in my life think I would ever be running anything but here we are. I have an allotment and running headlong into middle age. I last read a fairly terrible book on the politics of power, and before that a book about Gordon Brown's spin doctor, which was good. However I prefer reading sci-fi. I last watched arrival, life and passenger which were all semi-decent sci-fi flicks. I am playing player unknown battlegrounds. I stopped making adverts in 2012 just because....I ran out of energy. It had been five years and it was getting a bit samey. Still, this was the best I think I made: https://vimeo.com/52745318
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So a lot has happened in the 5 years since TMO has been away. In short, I grew up. A lot.
House √ Wife √ Childe √ Dog √ Cat √ Driving License √ Cars (2) √ Green Card √
I also after 7 years left my employer (strangely after I promised in the interview that I would stick it out for 7 years). Now work in Aviation (A life long love) as a proper, pips on shoulder manager. A perk is I get to mess around in the coolest video games on the planet. Also I am now a Firefighter in my local town (they'll take any fucker) which is fun if sometimes a bit on the scary. So if you have any questions regarding explosives, rescue, active shooter scenarios (trained by the FBI no less) or getting cats out of trees I'm your man.
Reading - technical manuals for FF and for work mainly. My wife is a writer and is dismayed at how little I read and how many books I have on my to do list. I still have a Ben Macintyre to start on (love his books)
Watching - A lot. Except Game of Thrones which I never started. Halt and Catch Fire for the nerdgasm and nostalgia, redid Breaking Bad after recently being in the company of Bryan Cranston. Netflix addicted - What Happened To Monday comes very highly recommended and I need to watch that again. Dunkirk had me weeping - stunning piece of work.
Listening - something happened last year which made me lose a lot of love for music - kind of a betrayal. I buy maybe 2 or 3 albums a year off iTunes and listen to playlists in the car. I hate listening to stuff I haven't played in years because the artist died - I've done a lot of falling in love with bands again after their vocalist corked it. Did see Faith No More twice here a while back and shed a tear at their brilliance. Did see Kvelertak with Thorn as well. Which was nice.
Planning on maybe getting my PPL through work. Also looking at buying a classic MGB GT and dropping a Ford 3.5 liter engine. Also revolution - so much went wrong since 2011 - Shitgibbon in charge, Brexit, fracturing my foot last bloody night - I blame TMO shutting down. I hope now it is back everything will return to normal.
quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: I read a lot of super hero comics these days, since I discovered the Marvel Unlimited app. I tried to read the whole of the Dark Reign event but it made no sense however I approached it. Now I just read Venom and Ms Marvel. I tell myself that I'm either reading them ironically or checking to see if they're suitable for the kids. But truthfully I just sleep better if I doze off imagining that Ms Marvel will swoop in through the window and take me on an adventure. Did I mention I'm going to be 40 in a couple of months? I never realised that this is what 40 year olds think about.
I haven't read a real book since Iain Banks was alive because there's just too many comics to read. And video games to play.
Man, who knew that teenage me would be more literate than nearly 40 year old me.
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quote:Originally posted by jnhoj: I have an allotment
No no, that's not right. jnohj is about 19 and doing drugs for the first time. Something wrong there.
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He's growing marijuana weed and crack on his allotment though - That and the sub-letting to the dogging people is what's funding his pension fund...
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I am reading the same sort of books as I did before. But for fun, rather than research.
Bought own house close to ten years ago, and rolling smoothly into middle age with Nightowl and cat. Finally looking to transition from office job of thirteen years to freelance writing.
Not politics, but football. Sorry to disappoint those of you expecting the former.
Snorton is still Snorton, but I snort a lot less.
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I have embraced my dotage with a passion, and spend my time doing things The Young cannot fathom, such as getting exponentially fatter, not painting my face to look like a waxwork, watching telly programmes as they come on the schedule, naming pets after 1970s sitcoms*, getting confused by Instagram, and owning a house.
Since I was last here I have gained one son, two stone, two cats (*Jerry and Margot), and a new career (teacher). I have lost two cats and any semblance of reasonable income.
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Bought house Got married Had childe Got fat Went grey Got skinny again Got fat again Grew a beard Shaved beard off Stretched earlobes like some mid life crisis prick Played an awful lot of Minecraft
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I went on a mad world rampage of getting married to an American and contracted in London for a few years with some of the best jobs I am likely to see in my life. For a few years I went back and forth to London and Kentucky and got stuck in visa hell. It was a laugh but mostly a pain in the ass. I moved to Milton Keynes to live with Ringo for a bit. That was also a laugh with only mild ass pain. I wrote a small amount of music on a Gameboy.
I live in Towcester, which is a little by Silverstone. It is lovely. Very active but also really chill and picturesque. I work as a Support Manager in a company that creates checkin systems for Patient Assessment Systems at hospitals. It is not rewarding but it is better being the boss than the lackey.
Reading - I haven't read anything like a book in a long time. I've been reading a manga called Dorohedoro and waiting on the next volumes in the post. It's about a guy who wakes up with a reptile head. He lives in the human world (The Hole) and Sorcerers come from the sorcerer world to mess with humans using their magic which is black smoke from their fingers. As a result Caiman, our lizard-headed hero slices off the fingers of sorcerers to cripple them. It is bonkers as shit. Cutesy, but ultra violent.
Watching - Binging Netflix loads and fucking loads. Watched quite a bit of horror. Stand out films have been Beyond The Gates with Barbara Crampton of Reanimator fame. Campy, low fi fun.
Listening - A couple of recent records I bought: Ringo Deathstarr - Pure Mood (modern shoegaze, Strange U - LP4080 (lofi London, nerdy, space hip hop)
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I have transcended corporeal bondage, and am now living my life as a 2 frame 16 bit animated flame sprite, but a blue flame because it's like a spirit flame.
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I can't actually remember when 'then' was, but present state of affairs is that I'm halfway through a Masters in Librarianship and Information Science, which I started when I decided to be an academic librarian.
And the smallest goblin is about to go to school for Whole Days, so I'm job-hunting for the first time since 2004, which is giving me The Fear, frankly, in case I'm now officially over the hill and nobody wants to employ me.
quote:Originally posted by jnhoj: Go to your profile and fetch your member number, then go to the 'search' button up thar and it appears to sort by date.
My last comment before I started to have problems logging in was "fuck this", which seems a little out of character.
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