Louche
Carved TMO on her clit just to make you feel bad
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That wasn't very helpful, really, was it? I should elaborate. Talk about the glories of the Friday. Meander through a description of my clothes, take a brisk jog through the work situation, maybe touch, wistfully, on what I am having for lunch. Optimistically wank on about my weekend, drawing pictures of laughter and booze and normality and cheer and shit like that.
Truth is I am freezing and apathetic, paralysed by Fridayness, somehow dreading the size of the weekend and the amorphousness of the things I need to do in it, none of which I really have the commitment to achieve.
On a cheerier note, I'm going to see The Dark Knight at the Imax tonight. Better late than never, eh?
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quote:Originally posted by Louche: On a cheerier note, I'm going to see The Dark Knight at the Imax tonight. Better late than never, eh?
At some point this weekend I'll be doing the same, but on DivX rather than Imax.
I'm also supposed to be hooking up my tasty new 'AV Receiver' (you're apparently not allowed to call them 'amps' any more) to some speakers, mounting rear speakers on the wall, etc. I have a feeling that this may not happen, as I have the most stinking of colds, so I might just stay in bed with some whisky and fags and a fat, furry cat sleeping on my belly. Actually, that sounds like a pretty good weekend right now.
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Indeed she did. She's been listening to Wonder for decades, but isn't the kind of person who would buy the back catalogue, so there were quite a few songs she didn't know. She did say that the sound wasn't brilliant (at the Millennium Dome) but it was great to hear the old classics.
"You can't really call him Little Stevie Wonder these days though..."
quote:Originally posted by MiscellaneousFiles: She did say that the sound wasn't brilliant (at the Millennium Dome) but it was great to hear the old classics.
I saw Metallica at the Dome on Monday and I thought the sound was pretty good, if a bit loud - is that because it was Metallica or because I'm getting old? Probably both. However I did see some posts on a forum from people who were right at the back, so high up they were ducking when planes were coming in to land at city airport and they said the sound was pretty poor.
Back to the topic though - I'll give thanks for all the apples I picked from our tree this week. I had so many spare that I gave them to the canteen staff at work and they turned them into a lovely apple crumble which I've just had some of with lashings of custard.
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Oh, I can do this one! Big thanks for my new job, woop woop! I got the nod yesterday. Now I just need to survive the next 2 and a half months at the current place before I start.
Go me!
It's in sales though. Anyone here work in sales? I've never done it before. Fuck knows why they gave me the job. Raw animal magnetism I suppose.
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Thanks to some clever bods here where I work, as of this month I pay less tax, make bigger pension payments, and end up getting more money each month without actually having a payrise.
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actually, I do have something to be thankful for. I'm heading to NY for a week with work, and I'm going out a couple of days early to see some friends, maybe have a look at some things. Work have kindly (without me asking) put me up for one of these nights in a hotel of my choosing. Thanks work! Sorry everybody, this is a disgusting thing to mention, but I felt genuine gratitude towards the machine that feeds me, which is of course misplaced, because machines can't feel. Sorry again, I won't talk about this sort of thing in the future. Unless they put me up for some free time in LA for the other trip this year.
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rooster (can't be bothered to figure out my password and log on this machine):
I am going to see people I haven't seen since jr. high and I have a horrible disfiguring pimple on my philtrum. It will be like times haven't changed a bit.
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they'll be up all night talking about boys, too, i bet. and if that weren't bad enough, it will probably take me a solid week to scrape off the pages of tiger beat that will be plastered to the walls.
I'm amazed by the difference in car prices / attitudes on opposite sides of the pond. I've just read something about the latest version of the Ford F-150. It was apparently the best selling vehicle in America for something like 25 years... and it's a pick-up truck. The new one goes on sale at the equivalent of about £11,000 and has a 4.6L V8 engine:
Over here, that much money would buy you a Vauxhall Corsa with a 1.2L, 4-cylinder engine:
That's probably got a lot to do with exchange rates and that sort of thing, but I'm really interested in the rationale behind buying these trucks, as opposed to normal cars.
I also read that China is looking to install a nationwide network of charging points for electric vehicles. Powered by Tibetan monks on giant hamster wheels, no doubt, but at least looking towards the future.
Yes, I've been mostly reading the Internet today.
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Yes, I've noticed that cars are much more expensive over there than here - for example, for an Astra 1.8, Vauxhall is asking £14k, where in the US the same car (Saturn badges though) costs $18k, or £9800. The UK car is going to be better equipped though, but not sure that accounts for the difference in cost.
About the pickup truck vs small car thing - one of the reasons pickups are popular is they're relatively cheap to buy. These aren't complicated machines, and most US passenger car safety regulations don't apply to them, so they're cheap to make. Ford's F150 pickup sells here for $18k - so the same money as an Astra, and just a little more than a Focus. If fuel cost weren't an issue, the pickup starts to look like an option...
eta: and by 'old van' i mean i'm selling the 1989 Astro that I picked up earlier this year for $850. It's not a thing of beauty but it's useful for moving big or heavy things. Yeah yeah, like Americans.
quote:That's probably got a lot to do with exchange rates and that sort of thing, but I'm really interested in the rationale behind buying these trucks, as opposed to normal cars.
There's the price of petrol, too. How many people who'd be spending around £11k for a car could afford to run one with a 4.6l engine?
Trucks are probably more popular because they're seen as more rugged, larger and more American. When the apocalypse comes, truck and SUV drivers will be perfectly safe, I suspect their thinking goes, because they'll be inside their mini tanks.
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if trucks were in any way practical in the UK, I'm sure they would be more popular here. But all these pesky corners mean that you're best off with something that can steer.
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