Lets have some mindless Monday banter about the weekend - how was yours?
Mines been going on for 10 days now - since being made redundant I have been back in the UK for 10 days and have been having a lot of fun - I just seem to keep putting off going back home... although I feel now I *am* home.
Been wonderful drinking great beer, eating outstanding food and meeting up with old friends and family. But the highlight has to be the date I had on Friday with my first ever girlfriend from when I was 10 - she found me on facebook and for the first time in about 25 years we met up - and she is utterly adorable. Date went absolutely fantastic - she's funny, beautiful, adorable - she doesn't swear and she's girly but in a feminine way, and for the last 3 days I have been walking around feeling like a loved up teen and smiling like an idiot. Its a long time since I have felt like this and its feels wonderful. Don't know if there is a future in it - I have not admitted to her that I'm feeling like this and have decided to play it cool, although we have decided to meet again soon - I'm already planning to come back for new year and hope to see her then. We are chatting a lot, and on the date it was like we had been mates for years - no moments of shoegazing or anything like that - we just hit it off perfect. As is she
So any advice (Harley need not respond) on how to get this girl would be very much appreciated right now.... I want this girl to be mine!
Posted by McDirts (Member # 6680) on :
You've got to ask yourself, "How much is this girl worth to me? Really, how much?" Then take that figure, say it's £10 000 pounds incl. VAT, and add a 20% handling and administration charge to it. That'll take it to £12 000 total. So that's what she's worth - £12 000. Take that money and arrange to meet her nearest surviving male relative, be that father, uncle or brother, and arrange to pay them that money in exchange for her. Bear in mind that your estimation of what she's worth may not tally up with theirs, so be prepared to haggle and, indeed, have to raise your offer a bit, but, when it comes to love a trifle such as a bit more money shouldn't get in the way.
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
McDirts = WIN
Posted by Abby (Member # 582) on :
You wouldn’t want relationship advice from me, but I will just say that over the weekend as I was helping a friend move house (3.5 hours to drive from Kew to Stoke Newington – super!) we went past a curry shop in Wembley which sells a Six Foot Family Dosa! You could probably do a lot worse than taking here there!
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by Abby: I was helping a friend move house (3.5 hours to drive from Kew to Stoke Newington – super!)
WTF? It took me less time than that to move from Wimbledon to Oxford.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
Seeing as you've probably busted through the bitch shield already, I'd recommend winding down the negging campaign if you haven't already. It's now time for either Mystery Man or Cocky and Funny. But it might be too late for Mystery Man (seeing as you've spent a day with her) so it's guns blazing on Cocky and Funny. There are videos on youtube that can help you with this.
Anyway, going back to the real point of the thread, I spent friday night drinking with the frightfest people, then saturday was in woking visiting family, saturday night was drinking with omikin and pals (all other tmoers bailed), yesterday was lying on the sofa playing Fallout 3. Not a bad weekend. Quite standard. Shame about the weather though, eh readers?
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Posted by Abby (Member # 582) on :
I know! It was fucking ridiculous. I passed the time by singing along to the radio, much to the appreciation of my companions.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I didn't get to see the weather this weekend as I spent a good 30 hours of it passing liquid through my sphincter. All out, I wasn't forcing liquid up there or anything. I feel your lives have been enriched upong hearing this news.
And it wasn't 30 solid hours, it was sporadically for about 30 hours from the first movement to the last.
Then I made a nice Thai prawn noodle soup.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
I was down in London this weekend past, visiting some friends. All we did all day Saturday was drink and eat. It was marvellous. Yesterday, headed back to Oxford, a small splash of christmas shopping and then dinner out with Octavia. Simple and classic.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
if anybody is worried / wondering, I got the train to Woking, so there weren't any traffic problems. Unless you count the people on the tube who are trapped in some kind of slow motion temporal distortion, rendering their locomotive capabilities severely dampened.
In finsbury park tube, there is a long sloping corridor down from the entrance to where you go down the stairs. It's about a minute walk. In the mornings, You've bus loads of people being dropped off in front of the station. At this time, the corridor turns into an extremely high pressure situation.
It's split down the middle by a dividing metal handrail, to enforce directional flow. Each side is also split by tacit agreement into a fast / slow lane. However, all it take is for one person to walk too slowly and the whole thing falls apart, to the point where people freak out and just break into sprints down the corridor. They'll walk normally before and after the corridor stretch, but the pressure to move quickly just gets to people. The weak crack, and sprint. The trick is, I believe, to walk as fast as you can while maintaining dignity. So, while it may be possible to lean forwards, dig your hands in pockets and take crotch tearingly long strides, you're still 'losing', because you've traded your dignity to try and 'win'. Same with sprinting. To win the game, not only do you have to move quickly, but you have to do so with the outward appearance of minimal effort. Sweating, panting, sprinting, barging are all signs of failure to cope under pressure. Half the people playing aren't even aware of the rules. It's shocking.
Just a heads up there, in case you're thinking of visiting lovely Finsbury Park, maybe for a stroll, or to drop in on one of the many tmoers who call it their home.
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Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: I was down in London this weekend past, visiting some friends. All we did all day Saturday was drink and eat. It was marvellous. Yesterday, headed back to Oxford, a small splash of christmas shopping and then dinner out with Octavia. Simple and classic.
Ah, sorry, I must have missed your call Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
This was obviously the weekend to be in London.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
By which I mean that I was there too.
Posted by dang65 (Member # 102) on :
quote:Originally posted by mart: By which I mean that I was there too.
I've heard your staggeringly drunk sommelier act wasn't that big a hit though, Mart.
Posted by vikram (Member # 98) on :
saturday went to some sceney christmas bash that was a lot of drunken fun. dennis pennis's band rocked our world. sunday saw slumdog millionaire which was very very good.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
but at least i found my green pants
giant pants
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Posted by herbs (Member # 101) on :
I was here too. But then I usually am. I missed your call, Mart. But that's OK. I was busy.
Friday: work xmas do
Saturday: racing about buying christmas tree and decorations, going to Sainsbury's, avoiding killing its inhabitants, cleaning and tidying house, erecting tree and dangling stuff off it, weaving fairy lights through shelves. All in aid of:
Sunday: Xmas party, involving everyone bringing a dish, 'bran tub' present under said tree, boistrous 7-year-old twins, wobbly coffee table, glasses of red wine, new edition of Roger's Profanisaurus, the Magna Farta, and plenty of M&S extremely chocolatey rings.
Posted by McDirts (Member # 6680) on :
London was nowhere this week. I was in Dorset. Fiday night in Weymouth with friends, then on to Plush for a circular walk followed by Dinner and lodgings at The Brace of Pheasents. Further walking in freezing fog on Sunday, followed by a delightful, and I mean delightful, carvery at The Fox in Anstey.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
quote:Originally posted by McDirts: on to Plush for a circular walk followed by Dinner and lodgings at The Brace of Pheasents.
Brace of Pheasants does an amazing game pie. Obviously not at all times, sometimes they don't serve that, but when it is on, it is a great pie.
They also used to have an amazing adventure playground at the back of the garden, but last time I went, that had been torn down which was disappointing. Good hills around there though. Very good hills.
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Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
Yeah.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
mart you left a tescos bag with a towel in it round mine. Do you need it back, or shall I hang onto it?
Posted by McDirts (Member # 6680) on :
They didn't have Game Pie on the Menu when I was there. A shame as I would've inhaled it in an instant. Those hills though. Made me wish I still had both lungs....
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
I've just bid £10 for a DVD rip of Vanilla Ice's 1991 move Cool as Ice. In retrospect this may have been a bit reckless. I had the idea of everyone gathering round the TV to watch it on New Year's Day. Now I think about it though, they'll probably want watch something that's good in a more conventional sense.
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Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by Kanye West: Ah, sorry, I must have missed your call
You'd have loved it. Three middle class couples round a table in a three bedroom house in East Dulwich. Discussions as to whether each dish was from Ramsay, or Nigella or Hugh. At 7.00 the TV went on so people could watch the X-Factor final. Suggesting open a bottle of wine only for half the room to announce 'actually, I might switch to water'. It really was the kind of thing you'd have loved.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
I was in East Dulwich as well!
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Were you on St Francis Road?
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
Sadly no. I was just off Lordship Lane.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I gather that the x-factor is quite popular. I presumed it was some kind of collective sarcastic joke, and then it turned out no, actually, everybody is watching it. Disappointed.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
If it helps, I'd never watched it before. It just went on because a couple of girls there had been following it. Because women are fucking stupid.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
Yeah. We sloped off to the pub when the ladies switched the telly on.
Posted by McDirts (Member # 6680) on :
so, who has got the 'X' factor then? Who won? Was it John Sargent?
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
No, it was a black female singer with a big voice. Doubtless the world of music will be turned upside down by her arrival.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
the end result was anybody who watched it or voted in it have lost.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by mart: Yeah. We sloped off to the pub when the ladies switched the telly on.
Did you go to The Bishop? We had breakfast there on Saturday.
Posted by McDirts (Member # 6680) on :
this website's going to hell in a handcart.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by Kanye West: the end result was anybody who watched it or voted in it have lost.
The worst part was this weird moment weher they gathered together all the people who'd been really horribly ridiculed for being shit, or ugly, or disabled, or old, and had them all sing a song in this digusting Victorian freakshow way. I know the whole program is basically... that, but it was the degree to which it was made explicit that was genuinely distressing.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
We went to the Bishop, yes, and it was awful. Full of trendy London wankers trying to out London each other.
We'd spent the day helping friends move house from Plumstead to East Dulwich, so we were all a bit scruffy and knackered and had spent the day driving round in a white van and being ladlike. All we wanted was a quiet place to have a pint and chat bollocks.
So we ditched the Bishop and went to the Clockworks, which was much, much better.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Of course, Benway wouldn't have been completely out of sorts at this party - we did play some computer games. After the first round of X-Factor, in the hour before the final, someone said "Hey, you know what? Why don't we play our own X-Factor?" So Singstar went on the PS2.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Also, by 'someone' I mean me.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by mart: We went to the Bishop, yes, and it was awful. Full of trendy London wankers trying to out London each other.
Sorry about that.
Posted by Abby (Member # 582) on :
‘Cool as Ice’ is amazing. That is £10 well spent, and if your friends/family try to tell you otherwise on New Year’s Day then I suggest you get some different ones.
When I watched it I did at one point become genuinely distressed and consumed with feelings of regret for my wasted youth, as I realized that it was probably too late for me to learn to breakdance.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Check out 1:51 for Vanilla's amazing 'covered in bees' dance routine.
Posted by Abby (Member # 582) on :
Ahhhh yeeeah. Posted by McDirts (Member # 6680) on :
How did a white man get to be so funky?
Posted by McDirts (Member # 6680) on :
2:15 onwards he starts getting a bit fruity in his lyric. I notice -
"Proceed with caution, I'm like a blaze That's roared for days All the gays are amazed Dazed by the force that they just witnessed"
He's a free swinging chap ol' Vanilla, anything went in his highly sexed late 80's pleasure dome.
Posted by McDirts (Member # 6680) on :
although I predict a great future to the young lady singing at the start. What a smashing voice she has, plus with her looks she could be a Nuts Bedroom Babe or maybe even get into FHM.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I had the Vanilla Ice Album, and my favourite lyrics were those to Stop That Train'. The whole song is about how he accidentally ends up being buggered during a bondage session that goes wrong:
quote: The room was destroyed, not to mention my body Why did I ever tell her to "Pump it, Hottie?" What could I do to just ease the pain? I think I'll let the hook just try to explain
Oh, Ice!
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Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
I had that album and for a long while I had no idea what that song was about. Or most of the songs for that matter. It doesn't help that Ice is quite a poor story teller, and it's often difficult to gather what he's talking about. In Stop That Train, he refers to "the one who got me, the I-C-E', but it's unclear whether he means the one whipping him, or some other chick who broke his heart. I never really figured out what happened at the end of Ice, Ice Baby. So far as I can tell, a gun fight breaks out at A1A beachfront avenue and Ice cowers in the footwell of his car, clutching a gun, and then drives away at the earliest opportunity while the police ignore him and take care of the villains.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
quote:Originally posted by Kanye West: I gather that the x-factor is quite popular. I presumed it was some kind of collective sarcastic joke, and then it turned out no, actually, everybody is watching it. Disappointed.
I was just leaving the office and some of the girls were having a conversation about this. One of them said "Well, obviously they wanted the girl to win, as they'd obviously written the song for a woman's voice". And the other fucking twat agreed with her.
Fucking idiots.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
yeah it's not a great hip hop 'back in the day' story. I was in my car, some drug dealers started fighting with cops, so I drove off. It doesn't sound like he's the man to trust to solve a problem at all.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I know you just said that, but it was a strong enough point to be repeated.
Posted by McDirts (Member # 6680) on :
Vanilla Ice does not, and indeed never did "cower".
Unless it involved some kind of Homo-erotic S&M fetishism and he was playing the submissive role.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
lol, do you remember the A-Team. Classic. I ain't getting on no plane, fool. lol. Also, nobody ever died! Even though there was all that shooting.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
lol, I used to love Fresh Prince of Bel Air, but you watch it now and it's rubbish!
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
lol, adverts from the 80s.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I'm done now. Thanks for sticking with that one.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Talking of the 80s, don't you often think about the film Robocop and think "Meh, it's good, but it would be so much better it it was condensed to 10 minutes and had a Welsh guy rapping the narrative of it"
Well, your dream has come true! Posted by McDirts (Member # 6680) on :
whatever happened to Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh prince?
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
that's not true about Fresh Prince. I'm just about the same age as Tatyana Ali, and I feel like she was one of those friends who you grow up with as kids, play together, and then one day they put on a new dress that shows a bit of skin, and you totally want to bone them to death. Like having a sister, I imagine.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
quote:Originally posted by Kanye West: that's not true about Fresh Prince. I'm just about the same age as Tatyana Ali, and I feel like she was one of those friends who you grow up with as kids, play together, and then one day they put on a new dress that shows a bit of skin, and you totally want to bone them to death. Like having a sister, I imagine.
That's absolutely nothing like having a sister.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
bit defensive there, CiH.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Sorry, I really don't want to bone my sister.
It's probably more like one of your friends having a sister.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
quote:Originally posted by McDirts: whatever happened to Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh prince?
I shook Jazzy Jeff's hand once at The End. I doubt he remembers.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I do recall wanting to bone my friends' sisters when I was a teenager. All of them. Preferably in a situation where I come home from school and they're all inexplicably naked in the living room. Yeah I thought about that a lot.
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Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
maybe I should get on facebook. Try and make this happen.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by Kanye West: I shook Jazzy Jeff's hand once at The End. I doubt he remembers.
Not true - he brings it up all the time. Apparently he persuaded Will Smith to front the money for you to direct a film, but they were trying to get hold of you with an old mobile number that had expired. I was going to mention it and then I decided not to.
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Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
tch. Typical. Life shits on my face again.
Posted by McDirts (Member # 6680) on :
Do you think Jazzy Jeff Wwanted to bone the Fresh Prince's SISTER? No way would the Fresh Prince have stood for that, no way, HE'D BE ALL UP IN jAzzy Jeff's grill and he'd be all like "Girls ain't nuthin' but trouble yo!" and then he would've sold her for a couple of rocks. The Fresh Prince was a terrible, terrible crack head in those days, that's why his Moms shipped him out to Bell Air.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
which makes his transformation at the hands of Uncle Phil even more amazing. btw, what was it with working class black males going to beverley hills in the eighties? Beverly Hills Cop was pretty much the same thing. Was there some law passed that legalised this in the early eighties?
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
I just lost the game.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
But did you watch the robocop video?
Posted by Physic (Member # 195) on :
quote:Originally posted by Kanye West: Ah, sorry, I must have missed your call
You can talk - you visit Woking and don't even tell me Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
i should point out that I've seen the house that the Fresh Prince lived in, and it isn't in bel-air. it's in beverley hills.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove: But did you watch the robocop video?
I didn't. It sounds good though. I bet it's funny.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove: But did you watch the robocop video?
I did, and it was marvellous.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I watched Gremlins last night at the Roxy. A good film. Tight.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
Christmasy too. Good call.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
So, I'm feeling all achey, my eyes hurt, I'm bunged up and I keep switching between being really hot and really cold.
I suspect I have the plague, but co-op didn't have any plague tablets so I've taken beechams instead.
Posted by rooster (Member # 738) on :
We spent Friday living in the dark ages, literally, after a big ice storm swept the Northeast US. We drove two hours to purchase a generator, so we could keep our little ones warm (and the pipes from freezing) and kept it humming until last night, when we were back on the grid.
Froop posted a picture of one of the big limbs that knocked out our power (and phone and cable) lines on facebook.
One good thing that came of it all: not being able to function without email, we were *forced* to buy g phones - something I've been begging for as long as they've been out.
This morning cable was hooked up, so I'm back to more conventional means of getting online, and now we are just waiting for phone. Lots of fun and a fantastic waste of a weekend (plus 2).
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Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Gah. Quoted just after he fixed it
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Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove: Gah. Quoted just after he fixed it
Yeah, sorry about that. I'm all about the HTML at the moment, so my UBB's a little weak. Back to the good old days of table based layouts. None of this fancy XHTML you see. Chrissakes...
Just thought that some of the forumites on here probably liked hip hop and lego and that sort of stuff.
My mother returned from a cruise along the Nile last night, singing the praises of the lovely tour guide called Sharif. Seeing as I don't do holidays, she always insists on bringing me gifts when she goes away. This time she bought me some kind of two-stringed instrument that's apparently made from various animals including crocodile, horse, etc. I managed to get a not altogether unpleasant sound out of it after about an hour's practise. So I think this will mark a dramatic turning point in The Interloper Sound. Hope you don't mind too much, Mikee. Oh yeah, and a Fez. Nice one mum.
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Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
Sharif sounds like a right old charmer.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
Though he probably doesn't lock the taskbar.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
I'm starting to feel a hangover. I was ok this morning, but the goblins are trying to get in. It's not too bad though. Just a mild one. I can shirk it off easily. It was the works do last night. Suprisingly quite good. It was the usual affair. Lots of ego wanking going on. I did like a moment when a girl came over to us while we were queuing for the dodgems and started yabbering about sales and this dude who I'd never met before said 'We don't give a fuck about sales, because we're in IT' Silence filled the air. Then the best thing happened. She looked really, sort of crestfallen, except she almost stumbled over backwards. From standing. Her legs buckled and someone went to catch her. It was like she'd been told for the first time in her life that someone wasn't interested in what she was saying and it knocked her off her feet.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
quote:Originally posted by mart: Though he probably doesn't lock the taskbar.
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