It seems that Friday night has passed us by and we're here, all on our own again - b-but we won't let it get us down, hey? Cos we can have fun our way, yeh?
*Looks from side to side nervousely*
Just to kick things off...
How low have you sunk so far?
pf: So far I have eaten a whole large Morrisons Spicy Pepperoni Feast pizza and six little bieres (Morrisons own brand "premium lager" lol) and I am working my way through my Kazaaed Rocky Horror mp3s.
(So far I have got to Meat Loaf's song - Hot Patootie Bless Mah Soul - Arrealleh luv arrR OCKanrow)
There is a bottle of vodka in the fridge which I think will go very well with a carton of Ocean Spray.
How far have you sunk - can you beat this admittedly pitiful spectacle?
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Not yet, but give me a chance. In terms of food, I'm still pogged from the egg'n'chips spesh I made for lunch (and the two Marathon bars I scoffed with a cuppa char after my siesta)...
Booze, you say? Cheap bottle of wine in fridge, half a litre of lager about to disappear down gullet, lots of French vermouth.
NO SODDING GIN!
I am trying to compose a dub track, and dishing out advice on Spanish omelettes in one msn window, and *sighing* a lot in another about ex-girlfriends in Ealing.
Here's a picture of Johnny Mills, for no reason whatsoever.
Feel free to better it with a photo portrait of your choice.
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Vodka and Craberry juice is no kind of low, that's some relatively classy shit. It's not like you're swigging out of a meths bottle topped up with milk to keep it's pH level from eating the bottom out of your stomach or anything. Pull yourself together man!
For myself, I'm drinking Tennents lager and dicking around on the net having just finished trying to decide whether the PC version of Halo is justifiably long-awaited or just another bog-standard FPS. The jury's still out which probably means the latter.
I just found out that there was a new Chemical Brothers single featuring The Flaming Lips so I've Soulseek'ed that and it's quite pleasant. Next up is either the new Bubba Sparxx, some Jimmy Eat World or perhaps the new Basement Jaxx.
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Oh, and I'm munching from a huge tub of BBQ flavour Mini Cheddars. Mini-Cheddars are long-standing vice of mine the pleasure of which the years have yet to diminish.
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I drank a can of Stella on the walk from work to the train. I didn't actually enjoy it at all. I was listening to Late Bar by Duran Duran. My rucksack was wrenching something in my left shoulder.
At home I had a glass of rose and stuffed two plain chocolate biscuits whole in my gob. I had Go West on when my brother phoned. He did impressions of Alan Partridge.
I failed that level of the PS2 Starfighter again. I played it twice and lost at exactly the same point. I can see myself either cheating and thus making the game pointless, or giving up on it and never seeing the probably rich and painstakingly-designed 80% of content that lies beyond my abilities.
I zipped myself up and trekked to Brockley Costcutter for 21 petits croissants -- the most appealing breakfast goods stocked by this bleak striplit cavern of tat. 21 tiny babyfists of butter pastry is a ridiculous concept when you'd much rather have six decent sized ones, but it was that or some West Indian hard sour doughbread, mock-French madeleines that looked like they'd been sitting in their package for a week, or the shelves of Keith Talent-style Mr Kipling mini individual frosted bakewell fondants.
Then I bought a small cod, medium chips from the Chinese chippy. While waiting I got annoyed at old Sunday supplement articles about people who were, to my mind, undeservedly famous, like someone who edited a book of Poems to Fall in Love With and was being compared to Nigella Lawson because of her "swipe of hair" and "sultry eyes".
On the way back I felt mildly threatened by every knot of teenagers, and wondered if kickbox-aerobics would actually make me better at fighting. At least I throw hundreds of punches every week, and at least they're technically real punches.
I ate my chips from the wrapper, but on a plate, with cutlery. With ketchup. At the side of my plate I kept a tumbler of Hi-Juice Strawberry and Apple squash. I flicked between something about an airport, a sitcom with Ardal O'Hanlon, a celebrity sports show and Max Payne. When I was full of chips I played and won two further levels of Max Payne, which makes me feel paranoid and upset when I'm alone -- the snow, the empty yards with wire fence, the howl of sirens over the wall, the enemies around every corner. Then, I ate more chips.
Modge phoned from a hospital payphone. She was in a corridor with voices echoing, and sounded quite fitful. I was afraid she might be crying quietly at the end of the call.
I feel kind of fat and oily now, and my posture is awful.
quote:Originally posted by kovacs: I failed that level of the PS2 Starfighter again. I played it twice and lost at exactly the same point. I can see myself either cheating and thus making the game pointless, or giving up on it and never seeing the probably rich and painstakingly-designed 80% of content that lies beyond my abilities.
I'm at exactly the same point with Eternal Darkness but unfortuntely I know there are no cheats which means I have to give up on what was otherwise an enthralling experience with only a sense of my own inferiority left in it's place.
Edit to add: Best wishes (how twee does that sound) to modge also now that Mart's asked the question I wasn't sure to.
quote:Originally posted by Bamba: I'm tempted to ask about the last line of your post but fear getting over-familiar so I'll take bit above: I'm at exactly the same point with Eternal Darkness but unfortuntely I know there are no cheats which means I have to give up on what was otherwise an enthralling experience with only a sense of my own inferiority left in it's place.
I'm intrigued that you think my performance on a PS2 game could lead you to get too familiar...[edit: I see now what you meant.]
With me it's perhaps more disappointing because I've only had the game 24 hours, and so far it's obviously had so much care invested in it -- all the voice acting and cut-scenes, for instance, and the music from Episode I -- that it seems perverse of them to effectively stop people from seeing everything they've done, by making the second level so frustratingly hard to complete.
Imagine a film that you could only watch 10% of unless you passed an exam to show you understood the plot properly so far, and you kept failing and didn't realise why!
It's not as though I know why I'm not completing the level, which I could deal with. I'm doing everything I can, probably getting faster and more accurate every time, and I still get thrown out of the game at exactly the same point.
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D has abandoned me for the next couple of days, having gone on a "murder weekend" with her sister. This means I'll probably end up lolling about in a heap of refuse (already tottering impressively) trying to read Generation X and rereading Fight Club so I can ruin it for Thorn by embarking on a solid month of pastiche and dissection.
The vodka and cranberry idea's already given out - no more carnberry, and I'm done with supping vodka neat - so I'll have to go onto the 3l bottle of Gaymer's Olde Englishe that survived the Leeds Festival.
(rhps - I've just re-played Eddie's Teddy - as performed by by Dr Scott (sieg heil!))
Also: I have lit the tealights in a six-cup candleholder.. for "atmos". :
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Sinking... rapidly... with... processed... food... diet... I've just had four slices of a Pizza Hut stuffed crust pizza with double mushroom. And a bottle of Lucozade. Good for the diet, that! Nothing stronger yet though, as I first have to traverse the Hanger Lane Gyratory to pick Mrs N up from work.
On return I will be having a Safeway microwave Spaghetti Carbonara, accompanied by a chilled 0.75l bottle of Hoegaarden.
There is a wonderful selection of other alcoholic beverages and tinctures to choose from, both in the fridge and in the wine cellar under the stairs, but as long as Ben keeps creating nice threads like this one - thus giving me no excuse to bite his head off for the mere sake of it - I can see the mouthwash-green absinthe seeing another evening pass quietly by without disturbance.
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Hello everybody.
I have sunk thus far: 3/4 bottle of cheap red wine, 1/3 spliff, 1 veggie saussie and mash supper, 1 "The Games" on TV, 1 spider now in bath, 1 phone conversation with parent about health insurance and dog, 0 Fun Stuff.
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Not worth its own thread when this one is so all-embracing:
Who here has ever cried while reading or posting something on TMO?
Poster fist: I don't think so, no. I did feel choked up when reading Moggiecookie's recent family post. I don't think I can remember any other occasion. Perhaps Uber's appeal for support had the same effect...and that story about the steerpikey kid who delivered envelopes with pictures of animals on them was pretty moving.
Why ask, then.
Well, I feel kind of sad about Johnny Cash, to be honest. That "Hurt" video really got to me while he was alive. I was thinking of downloading it again and seeing if it'd squeeze out a tear, considering I've been drinking and am not entirely my normal emotional self, with Modge passed out in a ward somewhere.
We're all fellas here so I thought it would be interesting to see whether the board had nudged that maudlin limit for anyone -- with girls, I would think it rather more likely.
I think Ben asked how low we had sunk. I'm now downloading any video with "sister" or "shower" in it, in an attempt to boost my Kazaa rating and get these Queen tracks faster.
quote:Originally posted by kovacs: I think Ben asked how low we had sunk. I'm now downloading any video with "sister" or "shower" in it, in an attempt to boost my Kazaa rating and get these Queen tracks faster.
Meh, just download the latest version and sidestep all that ratings nonsense.
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Sab! The very man! My normal BT links site is fucked at the moment, any suggestions? Sorry, I know it seems like I'm just using you for your tech knowledge but your sudden appearance just as I got the "Cannot find server" error seemed so fortuitous.
What did you think of that Halo PC Beta btw? I'm not that impressed with it.
quote:Originally posted by Bamba: Sab! The very man! My normal BT links site is fucked at the moment, any suggestions?
Suprnova work around. Just found this one last night... Seems good, it's where I'm getting Office11 non-beta from as I type...
quote:Originally posted by Bamba: What did you think of that Halo PC Beta btw? I'm not that impressed with it.
Like most things I get, I get them just to say I have it and never install it (120gb so far)... I'll most likely delete it and never install it... I'm a gamer really.
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quote:Originally posted by kovacs: I think this remix of Flash Gordon is giving me...an orgasm.
Big-band techno whizz and friend of mine Matthew Herbert considers Flash Gordon to be the finest soundtrack ever recorded. He used to dress up as a ballroom dancer in an orange all-in-one and play it very, very loudly while I was trying to revise. I have a photo somewhere.
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Bamba, man, it was a joke. Only a borderline sociopath would read a book specifically so he could hurt the feelings of people who loved it.
Anyway: I too was saddened by Johnny Cash dying. There's a great bit in the album Live at San Quentin where Cash snarls...
quote: San Quentin / I hate every inch of you
and all the prisoners roar assent. It's incredible there wasn't a riot, really. The great thing is, you get the powerful sense that Cash has been there - as an inmate, a convict, an outcast - and he's singing entirely from the heart.
Also: I'd challenge anyone to come up with a better song about father/son relationships than A Boy Named Sue.
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I'm still at the office. It's past 5:30 and I still have two projects on my desk which I'd hoped to have finished by now. But being as the other people interested have already left to begin their weekend, I suppose there's no harm in leaving the rest of my work on these particular items 'til Monday morning...
Have a good evening all.
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quote:Originally posted by ben: How far have you sunk - can you beat this admittedly pitiful spectacle?
Anyone currently performing a 90% word-perfect rendition of Eric B and Rakim's Lyrics of Fury? With the original track on earphones so only I can hear the track and actual vocals, and my impression of a tuff Black voice sounds bravely unaccompanied to my neighbours? With the curtains open so my wigga hand gestures are visible like free contemporary theatre to the street outside?
quote:Originally posted by kovacs: I'm now downloading any video with "sister" or "shower" in it, in an attempt to boost my Kazaa rating and get these Queen tracks faster.
Why not use this? No ads, auto-ban of known RIAA/BSA ip ranges, and auto 1000 rating...
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quote:Originally posted by sabian: Like most things I get, I get them just to say I have it and never install it (120gb so far)... I'll most likely delete it and never install it... I'm a gamer really.
Thanx for the linx dude. As for your comment above, I know the feeling as I do this with the people at work as well. Sometimes I get the feeling that no one actually watches any of the DVD rips we all get, everyone just wnats to be the first to say they've got it. Mind you, in my cast that might all change when I take delivery of this badboy.
quote:Originally posted by ben: Bamba, man, it was a joke. Only a borderline sociopath would read a book specifically so he could hurt the feelings of people who loved it.
I doubt you'd actually be hurting Thorn's feeling simply by hating Fight Club, just pissing him off a helluva lot which I took to be the point. Anyway, fuck all that bullshit as I really don't want to start any kind of argument.
I've just got in from the pub, where I drank precisely 2 pints of coca cola, and smoked 6 cigarettes. My sore throat is playing up slightly, but otherwise, I'm rocking pretty damn hard.
Have I ever cried while reading a post?
No, but when Moggiecookie sent me a text message thanking me for my reply, I did well up..
Next up on my evenings playlist is either Bubba Sparxx, Basement Jaxx, 50 Cent, Mogwai, Eminem or Tosca (th dub remixes). First to reply gets to control what I actually hear for the next hour or so. The power, the prestige, how can you all resist?
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