It's a start.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Hello Sam - how's things treating you?
I made Alice properly laugh for the first time on Tuesday. She was lying in her chair, and I was burbling nonsense in her face when I started doing baby talk in a Christian-Bale-Batman voice and she burst into a chiming, gurgling laugh, so I did it over and over again until my lungs hurt. Later that evening we were outside, finishing our dinner. Octavia had Alice on her lap, and I ran through various voices at her. When I did the 'Batman' one again, Alice startled so violently that her flailing arm flipped one of the plates off the table. She doesn't laugh at the voice anymore.
Posted by sam (Member # 884) on :
It's good, thanks.
My no 2 grandson was born about the same time as Alice and he has started doing the most heart-tugging laughs too.
I have the no 1 grandson, Luke, with me this week. He gets up so early! Today the beach - when I can get moving enough to get ready.
How are things going with you?
[ 14.08.2009, 04:49: Message edited by: sam ]
Posted by sam (Member # 884) on :
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Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Posted by sam (Member # 884) on :
Got any more gems, ringo?
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
I don't understand those at all. Not at all.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Oh wait. This explains it:
quote:variations of the concept typically involve people escaping situations by copypasting Trollface onto their heads and asking the suspicious or confused individual, "problem?" invariably followed by the aforementioned individual telling him "get the fuck out of here." Unfortunately these offshoots are often written by underage B&, and the result is almost always a heaping pile of unfunny fail
[ 14.08.2009, 07:10: Message edited by: Thorn Davis ]
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
A heaping pile of unfunny fail. Thanks for that Ringo. Thanks.
Posted by Jessica Rabbit (Member # 776) on :
quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: A heaping pile of unfunny fail.
That reminds me - hear back from anyone about your novel?
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
oof!
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
I can't believe that whoever trolls as Jessica Rabbits didn't have the guts to post that under their own name.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
I know I seem like I'd have the motive, but it's not me. I've never had any problem being an arse in person.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
That's true.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
I suspect that whoever drivs Jessica Rabbit is a real prick in real life.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
I'm on holiday in Germany and being destroyed. I've had a mosquito invasion That has left me looking like a leper. I wake up and am given litre bottles of beer. I'm going to have to come back to England to relax. Brutal.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: I suspect that whoever drivs Jessica Rabbit is a real prick in real life.
Yeah, no doubt. The whole thing reeks of tiny penis
Posted by Physic (Member # 195) on :
quote:Originally posted by New Way Of Decay: I'm on holiday in Germany and being destroyed. I've had a mosquito invasion That has left me looking like a leper. I wake up and am given litre bottles of beer. I'm going to have to come back to England to relax. Brutal.
I told you dude, currywurst makes everything okay, currwurst and a litre stein of luscious dunkel bier, mmmm...
Posted by Darryn.R (Member # 1) on :
I think I have swine flu.
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
Um... why?
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
More usefully... don't forget to double up with paracetamol AND ibuprofen. Both painkillers, both lower the temperature. Not dangerously incompatible. Drink whisky or brandy or similar. It IS a steriliser and disinfectant.
Posted by Darryn.R (Member # 1) on :
Two people at work have swine flu one of whom I take the train with every day. I have a shitty fever and feel generally crap which sucks as my holiday starts on Wednesday... It'd better be a cold..
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
quote:Originally posted by Darryn.R: Two people at work have swine flu one of whom I take the train with every day. I have a shitty fever and feel generally crap which sucks as my holiday starts on Wednesday... It'd better be a cold..
How you feeling today, dude?
Posted by Darryn.R (Member # 1) on :
generic rough.... what I'd call lurgee if I was feeling normal.. not ill enough to stay home but crap enough to feel slight worry... And Femke's got a touch of it too.. I'm calling it a summer cold, and if it doesn't stay that way I'm kicking it's Mexican ass all the way to Acapulco de Juárez
Posted by Amy (Member # 11) on :
Well, if you go all the way to Mexico, you should stop by and say hello! Since you know, youd be on my side of the pond...
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
I'm going to shamelessly paste something in from my blog. Apologies for the laziness but I know some people here enjoy stories of me humiliating myself.
++++++++++++++++++++++++
A famous historian slash political writer, who I'll call ST, just arrived in the office to pick up a manuscript. Should have been a relatively simple procedure - it had been left by the door because, I think, no-one wanted to get into a conversation with him. It didn't really work out like that, though. As I was handing him his book our Sales manager came in to the room to introduce himself. Turns out they knew each other, blah. While they were chatting, the owner of our publishing house came along to say hello. So somehow a crowd had formed, without me really knowing how.
The presence my boss sent ST into an extended rant about how difficult he had found it getting his most recent book published. I had a vague idea that this was exactly the kind of thing you shouldn't do with a publisher, but maybe ST is prestigious enough that he can get away with it. He went on about how publishers can't deal with complex, intelligent books, how they only publish books that fit a market (not true - as marketing manager I weep at least once a day as I try and work out who the hell the editors thought would buy our books).
His rant built up to a splendid rhetorical question - you know the kind. It's when someone gives a big speech or a rant and underline it with some irrefutable piece of evidence, or some example which makes their point beautifully. An "... all addressed to Santa Claus!" type moment. He said
"I offered it to Harper Collins, and you know why they turned it down? They said 'Who Goes to Burma?'"
So there was a silence as the sales manager, my boss and I, mulled this over. Except, I said,
"Rambo?"
Further silence, as my boss, the sales manager, and ST all stared at me, forcing me to explain with a shrug "In the fourth Rambo film, he goes to Burma."
Somehow, it's obvious that even knowing there is a fourth Rambo film marks me out as some kind of braindead halfwit. At one point in my life I had an idea that I was kind of - you know - intelligent. That I was right up there at the top. But apparently I'm a fucking cretin who brings up Rambo Part fucking Four in a conversation with a political activist bemoaning the difficulty he had publishing a book dissecting the human rights tragedies in Burma.
At this point I could mount some kind of defence about how it was a sideways glance at the supposed markebility of Burma, and if a Hollywood action movie - the crassest of all marketing driven commodities with the possible exception of cigarettes - can squeeze an audience out of the situation in Burma, then maybe that wasn't the problem with his book and he should shut the hell up.
But it wasn't. Basically, all I know about Burma I learnt from Rambo IV. At least I didn't offer to lend ST the DVD, although he should see it if he's interested in Burma, because it kicks fucking arse.
[ 18.08.2009, 12:45: Message edited by: Thorn Davis ]
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis:
"Rambo?"
LOL
This made me cry real tears.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Yeah, it made me cry too. Sometimes I think I may as well just admit that I haven't got a brain, and stop trying to operate on the same levels as clever people.
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
I bet they were all secretly impressed.
Posted by Darryn.R (Member # 1) on :
That my friend is a real thing of beauty, well done Thorn.
Posted by squeegy (Member # 136) on :
Haha, that's awesome!
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: I'm going to shamelessly paste something in from my blog. Apologies for the laziness but I know some people here enjoy stories of me humiliating myself.
++++++++++++++++++++++++
A famous historian slash political writer, who I'll call ST, just arrived in the office to pick up a manuscript. Should have been a relatively simple procedure - it had been left by the door because, I think, no-one wanted to get into a conversation with him. It didn't really work out like that, though. As I was handing him his book our Sales manager came in to the room to introduce himself. Turns out they knew each other, blah. While they were chatting, the owner of our publishing house came along to say hello. So somehow a crowd had formed, without me really knowing how.
The presence my boss sent ST into an extended rant about how difficult he had found it getting his most recent book published. I had a vague idea that this was exactly the kind of thing you shouldn't do with a publisher, but maybe ST is prestigious enough that he can get away with it. He went on about how publishers can't deal with complex, intelligent books, how they only publish books that fit a market (not true - as marketing manager I weep at least once a day as I try and work out who the hell the editors thought would buy our books).
His rant built up to a splendid rhetorical question - you know the kind. It's when someone gives a big speech or a rant and underline it with some irrefutable piece of evidence, or some example which makes their point beautifully. An "... all addressed to Santa Claus!" type moment. He said
"I offered it to Harper Collins, and you know why they turned it down? They said 'Who Goes to Burma?'"
So there was a silence as the sales manager, my boss and I, mulled this over. Except, I said,
"Rambo?"
Further silence, as my boss, the sales manager, and ST all stared at me, forcing me to explain with a shrug "In the fourth Rambo film, he goes to Burma."
Somehow, it's obvious that even knowing there is a fourth Rambo film marks me out as some kind of braindead halfwit. At one point in my life I had an idea that I was kind of - you know - intelligent. That I was right up there at the top. But apparently I'm a fucking cretin who brings up Rambo Part fucking Four in a conversation with a political activist bemoaning the difficulty he had publishing a book dissecting the human rights tragedies in Burma.
At this point I could mount some kind of defence about how it was a sideways glance at the supposed markebility of Burma, and if a Hollywood action movie - the crassest of all marketing driven commodities with the possible exception of cigarettes - can squeeze an audience out of the situation in Burma, then maybe that wasn't the problem with his book and he should shut the hell up.
But it wasn't. Basically, all I know about Burma I learnt from Rambo IV. At least I didn't offer to lend ST the DVD, although he should see it if he's interested in Burma, because it kicks fucking arse.
I have a friend who recently made a political poster at design college for the National League for Democracy in Burma and whilst Pia couldn't recognise the design work, I suddenly remembered this post.
Also, I have been asked to interview with Harper-Collins on Wednesday. Should I go?
[ 22.11.2009, 14:32: Message edited by: New Way Of Decay ]
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
nah.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
What would you be doing for them?
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
fuck it mikee, don't go.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: What would you be doing for them?
IT Support.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
morning. Whatever.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Raging Bull.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
right.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Yeah, I'd never seen it before, but it was a very good film. I've never been much of a fan of boxing or domestic violence, but I still enjoyed the story, the acting and the cinematography.
You really haven't experienced the wonders of film until you've seen Robert De Niro's right nipple in 1080p.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
right.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Got anything else to contribute, Kanye?
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by MiscellaneousFiles: I've never been much of a fan of boxing or domestic violence, but...
I don't know if Raging Bull is especially aimed at fans of boxing or domestic violence. Sort of the opposite. Anyway. Yes! A good film. Good use of sound. Apparently the foley artist went a bit potty and became incredibly protective of his work and burnt most of his sound effects so they couldn't be re-used for other films.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Fans of movie sounds will be pleased to hear that somebody caught wind that he was going to be burning his sound effects and managed to set up a microphone to capture the moment and that was the fire noise used in "The Towering Inferno"
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Some great thread titles on the IMDB board for Raging Bull:
quote: why make a movie about a terrible person?
You have to wonder, sometimes, what people expect to get out of film.
[ 24.11.2009, 05:52: Message edited by: Thorn Davis ]
Posted by Hades (Member # 57) on :
quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: Some great thread titles on the IMDB board for Raging Bull:
quote: why make a movie about a terrible person?
You have to wonder, sometimes, what people expect to get out of film.
Went to see Harry Brown last night. Coming out of the screen i overheard the women in front say it was ok but she "would have prefered a happy ending"
Personally i thought it was a rather happy ending. I was expecting a much bleeker one. I dont know what she was expecting from a film where an OAP goes around killing chav scum.
[ 24.11.2009, 06:27: Message edited by: Hades ]
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
quote:Originally posted by Hades: ...the omen in front...
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I've got an interview for a job. I've not done an interview for years. Panic!
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
Is it for a job as a plate designer?
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
It is not I'm afraid. It is for a product development executive.
I suppose plates are a type of product so perhaps it is.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
Plates are definitely a type of product.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
It's still with American Express though mart, and I'm fairly sure that even with these hard times we haven't branched out into plate design and manufacture to bring in extra money.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
I just wanted to put you right about plates being products. You said that you "suppose" that they're products, and I thought it would be beneficial for you to know for a definite fact that plates are certainly, most definitely, positively and affirmatively products.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
I'm a little bit surprised you didn't know this, to be honest.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
So will you be doing things like saying, "hey, maybe we should do a credit card with a 100% rate of interest?" and things like that.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
"How about a credit card that allows you to save... as you spend?"
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
^^^ not sure how that one would work, though.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: ^^^ not sure how that one would work, though.
That's probably why you're not a development executive.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Still. Working that out would be someone elses job, presumably. You can't expect a product development executive to waste his time on seeing a concept through to delivery.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Thanks for that mart. Thanks. Joke ruined.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
Well, you never know with some companies. I imagine that busy product development executives at, say, Royal Doulton, have quite a lot on their plates.
[ 24.11.2009, 07:46: Message edited by: mart ]
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Hey that gives me an idea for CiH's interview! At every opportunity he should say "Credit where credit's due, lol. Lol!". That could be their new slogan.
American Express: Credit Where Credit's Due, lol. LOL Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
nice joke there, mart.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Thorn. My name's Thorn.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
mart's joke was the nice one. It was classic mart, lacking cynicism, enjoying the natural interplay of words.
I thought about cherry working as a credit plan designer, and it just made me feel unsettled, so I found comfort in a gentle joke about plates.
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
I'm so slow. I only just got mart's joke.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
didn't you think it was good though?
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
Yes, it was excellent.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
steady on.
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
I like American Express. They're going to enable me to fly to Japan in about twenty years when I've spent a total of 32,000 with them.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
But they have square plates.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I'm not sure everyone at Amex has square plates. You don't have to sign a contract promising to have square plates.
Posted by Amy (Member # 11) on :
Does everyone @ Amex have an Amex account? Are you required to have a credit card through them? Are you allowed to have bad credit and still work for a credit card company?
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
You're allowed to have bad plates, that's for sure.
Posted by Amy (Member # 11) on :
Ah, I've missed tmo.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
quote:Originally posted by Amy: Does everyone @ Amex have an Amex account? Are you required to have a credit card through them?
No. I don't have one. I might get one though, they're alright.
quote: Are you allowed to have bad credit and still work for a credit card company?
You are in the UK but not in certain departments. It might be different in the USA.
You are allowed to have bad plates but they're not mandatory.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Everyone in the UK has bad credit, thanks to America.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
And bad teeth.
Posted by Amy (Member # 11) on :
Us, Americans, we ruin everything.
(Americans have bad teeth as well. We're not all hollywood)
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
we also pride ourselves on our sophisticated, dry sense of humour, and are the only Westerners equipped with the mental agility to deal in the science of irony.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
I reckon that's a hand-me-down from Shakespeare. Got it good and ingrained into the culture 500 years ago. Seeing Americans trying to handle irony is like watching a four year old investigating a firearm it pulled out of a cupboard by standing on a chair piled high with unread books.
Posted by Amy (Member # 11) on :
quote:Originally posted by Kanye West: we also pride ourselves on our sophisticated, dry sense of humour, and are the only Westerners equipped with the mental agility to deal in the science of irony.
Oy vey. I was being ironic!
Edit: that's to you too, thorn.
[ 25.11.2009, 05:59: Message edited by: Amy ]
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
living here is hilarious, as a result of all the irony we generate.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Hey guess what! I just thought about making a joke about British Steel and then thought that would be awful! So I didn't!
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
The thought of doing a joke about being steely crossed my mind but I realised it was fucking awful.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by Kanye West: living here is hilarious, as a result of all the irony we generate.
It's not hiliarious so much as it's a steady stream of wry chuckles, maybe interspersed with putting your hand on your chin and going "aha, yes, of course."
[ 25.11.2009, 06:11: Message edited by: Thorn Davis ]
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
yes, I would describe my life as a steady stream of wry chuckles.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
sowc
[ 25.11.2009, 06:17: Message edited by: Cherry In Hove ]
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
It's not going to take off like lol.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
The only explanation I could find for it was State of the World's Children. Not much help. It did make me go back and read the thread where Lickapaw used tl;dr for the first time. She really hated me, it seems.
Posted by Hades (Member # 57) on :
quote:Originally posted by Amy: Does everyone @ Amex have an Amex account?
I've wondered that type of thing. If you work at lloyds would they get annoyed if you asked your wages to be paid into a Barclays account?
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: The only explanation I could find for it was State of the World's Children. Not much help. It did make me go back and read the thread where Lickapaw used tl;dr for the first time. She really hated me, it seems.
Yeah well you have to expect a little bit of backlash if you're going to go around using things like 'reason' and 'logic' to expose the glaring holes in a person's ranting generalisations. It's a dirty tactic which can lead to all sorts of unrest on forums.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by Hades: I've wondered that type of thing. If you work at lloyds would they get annoyed if you asked your wages to be paid into a Barclays account?
Probably not, no. My bosses don't get annoyed if I read books published by other people. If you work at McDonalds they probably don't flid out if you have fruit and veg occasionally. Most companies probably accept that there are a wide variety of products on the market and that people might find something better suited to their personal circumstances elsewhere.
[ 25.11.2009, 06:42: Message edited by: Thorn Davis ]
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I assume you're all like me and you think "I'd like to save the environment but I don't want a shopping bag that has Waitrose or Tesco branding on it and really I want it to be branded with a mildly popular punk band from the 90s so until I can get that I will continue to use plastic bags and choke ducks with them"
Anyway, your prayers have been answered as you can now by a Carter USM Bag for Life. The obvious merchandise choice so you can fill it with cake and sing Sheriff Fatman to yourself.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I tend to just take a classic 'london blue' carrier bag with me when I go to the shops.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
That doesn't tell people your feelings about slum lords though. What's the point in having a bag to carry shopping if it doesn't convey your musical tastes and personality?
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I don't think that the residents of the andover estate would be interested.
Posted by missgolightly (Member # 34) on :
quote:Originally posted by Hades: If you work at lloyds would they get annoyed if you asked your wages to be paid into a Barclays account?
I don't know about lloyds, but if you work at rbs or natwest then they'll only pay your wages into an rbs group account. They'll give you a free gold account though, so it's not too bad really.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I've had an eye twitch for well over a week now, readers. Anybody else gone through this ocular torment?
Posted by Tilde (Member # 1215) on :
Didn't you have one last year?
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
I had one for a bit, recently. Assumed it was to do with being tired. Went away on it's own, but it was quite sort of... pleasant in an odd way. Like prodding a bruise.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
I get one quite regularly in my left eye. It goes away. Tiredness. Computer screen. Twitch. Twitch. Tired. Twitch. Words. Type. Look. Screen. Twitch. Tired. Bright screen. Words. Twitch.
Anyone know of a decent hairdresser in Edgbaston.
Posted by Tilde (Member # 1215) on :
Try Curled up and Dyed on the High Street.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
^^ an actual lol, there, from me.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
I had a twitch for a couple of weeks. Irritated the hell out of me. Thankfully I've not had one in a while but reading this has now given me the fear that it may return.
I sent an email to everyone in my team today addressing everyone as "Comrades!" but nobody has replied. I'm concerned that I may have given the wrong impression.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
What about one by Sandwell Hospital? I have to go there in a bit and could kill two birds with one stone.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
I've just had an email from my boss querying why an ad rate for a magazine with a circulation of 400,000 is higher than the rate for a magazine with 25,000. :despair:
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
quote:Originally posted by Kanye West: I've had an eye twitch for well over a week now, readers. Anybody else gone through this ocular torment?
I've not had that I'm afraid.
For the past week I've been getting this dull pain in my stomach that feels like the pain you get when you go 36 hours without eating and are really starving. I have been eating so it isn't that. It seems to come on more strongly when I eat something or drink a cup of coffee.
Anyone know what that means? Is it stress? Am I going to die?
Posted by Tilde (Member # 1215) on :
I don't know what it is but I can confirm that you are going to die.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
You probably just need a haircut.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Sounds similar to what I had back in February. My doctor put me on a course of proton pump inhibitors (Omeprazole was the brand) and it went away, and I slept better and felt better than I had in about ten years. They're amazing - they pretty much transformed the way I felt about life. I'd recommend it to anyway who reckons may have damaged their stomach lining through a decade or so of heavy drinking and/or smoking or stress.
[ 26.11.2009, 07:25: Message edited by: Thorn Davis ]
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Bleh. That means I'm going to have to register with a doctor. That sounds tedious.
I had a haircut yesterday mart. And a shave! I am now neat(ish) haired and beardless. And I'm wearing a suit. It's ridiculous.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Or I could take your diagnosis as gospel and just see if Kate can nick any of those from work.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
pics or it never happened
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I'm not sure that statement is true Ringo as it did happen whether I post pictorial proof of it or not.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Proton Pump Inhibitors sounds great though doesn't it. Like some kind of science fiction thing
Kirk - Scotty, I need full power to the proton pump inhibitors
Scotty - yep, no problem, we've got plenty of power and she'll hold together just fine
Kirk - Splendid work
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove: Bleh. That means I'm going to have to register with a doctor. That sounds tedious.
Yeah, I put it off for ages, until it got to the point where I was being sick each morning before work and I was like "All right! All right! Fine! I'll see a doctor! Jesus Christ" at my body.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
But just to keep you happy. Here is pictorial proof.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Cool, so that's our frame of reference, now let's see a post-haircut picture
[ 26.11.2009, 07:35: Message edited by: Ringo ]
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Alright, keep your hair on
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Here's one from 30/10 so imagine that with another 25 days of hair and beard growth. Although you don't know how quickly my hair and beard grow.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
If I didn't shave for a whole month I'd end up looking like Thorn in that video from the beard championships
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
CiH if you want to try and self-medicate whilst you sort out getting registered with a GP, try Gaviscon liquid/tablets, or generic Zantac-like tablets (75mg ranitidine) - these are proton pump inhibitors but are milder than omeprazole.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
That's a good idea H1ppychick. Kate kept buying massive things of gaviscon for use while pregnant so hopefully we'll have some around the house.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
i'm starting to look like this son of a bitch:
Posted by Abby (Member # 582) on :
I don’t have stomach problems, but I have been drinking heavily for some time so I reckon I will try the ranitidine as well.
How long will it take for my life to be massively improved? And I am talking psychologically and emotionally as well here, not just gastrically.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
hey abby, how's tricks? Alright?
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Kanye, are you grooming Abby to try to get her to post exclusively on your lunch thread rather than Thorn's generic food thread? There are laws against that.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I'm just being polite and friendly, cherry.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
And I wonder how tricks are with Abby, and if she's alright.
Anyway what about this pint do you think it will happen at all.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove:
quote:Originally posted by Amy: Does everyone @ Amex have an Amex account? Are you required to have a credit card through them?
No. I don't have one. I might get one though, they're alright.
Well, the decision to not get an amex card has come back to bite me. Today only I could have gone to boots as an amex employee and bought three clarins products and got a free gift worth £50 and £12 of advantage card points but I can't as you have to pay on amex.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I'm having a few pints tonight after the interview. I suspect that's not what you're asking.
If you mean everyone from here meeting for a pint, surely the question would be where it would happen. You're basically the only person who lives in London so there is no reason it should be there. Lets all meet for a pint in Reading or Milton Keynes.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
nowhere in London takes Amex.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
Abby lives in London. So does herbs. Lol, whatever happened to herbs. Ah well.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
quote:Originally posted by Kanye West: nowhere in London takes Amex.
That statement is untrue.
Posted by Abby (Member # 582) on :
quote: hey abby, how's tricks? Alright?
No not so much. I got dumped last night, so my relatively good gastric wellbeing is pretty much the highlight of tricks at the moment.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
sorry to hear that, Abby. Did you do something wrong in the relationship?
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
Have you got a plan for being kind to yourself? I hope so.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
It wasn't because you'd been to Croydon was it? It can do that. Croydon.
Posted by Abby (Member # 582) on :
No, just foolishly imagined that it was like, an actual relationship, that might develop further and have a future and stuff. Lol!
My immediate plans are to go and lock the lab door and nap/cry in the comfy chair. Later I am going to install myself on the sofa for the next few weeks, drink red wine, smoke, and watch DVDs. I have just got to the bit in Grey’s Anatomy ...*** season 5 spoiler*** … where George & Izzy (maybe) die. So that will be good.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
quote:Originally posted by Abby: My immediate plans are to go and lock the lab door and nap/cry in the comfy chair.
Sod the comfy chair - a situation like this demands the crash mat.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
sounds like you need a bit of tlc, Abby. What about getting a tamagotchi? That could help you to take your mind off things.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
Well I got my hair cut just off the High Street in the end, at a barber's, and didn't go to the hospital because the girl that I was going to visit told me not to go, so I didn't bother.
Now I'm back at home with a coffee and am about to start translating something about some archaeological site in Spain somewhere.
No eye twitching yet, or news on whether or not I get to go to the theatre tonight.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by Abby: How long will it take for my life to be massively improved? And I am talking psychologically and emotionally as well here, not just gastrically.
For me it took about a week. I do mean emotionally and psychologically, as well. For about ten years I'd been carrying around a sense of deep seated existential dread. Or at least, I thought I was. Because it turned out it was indisgestion, when it went away once I took the medicine.
But yeah. Like I say, the stomach thing made me feel stressed all the time, so I felt like I was in a constant state of anxiety and panic, all of which went away. As a consequence I slept better too, which also improved my psychological and emotional wellbeing. The doctor told me this would happen. He said "don't be suprised if your whole life improves", which is a nice thing to be told.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
quote:Originally posted by Kanye West: Abby lives in London. So does herbs. Lol, whatever happened to herbs. Ah well.
It's quite literally Herbs' birthday today, isn't it.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I don't know. I'm not friends with her.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
On facebook I mean. Although, it's not like we spend much time together these days.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
or any. But still. She was extremely kind to me once, kinder than anybody has ever been, and I will always be very grateful. I still use the towel that I bought for myself when I was staying with her. That towel was the beginning of my new life, before it got even worse.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
Well, let's hope she's having a lovely, happy birthday.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I'm sure she is, mart.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
Brilliant.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
Birthdays are funny things aren't they.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
Yeah. I never quite know what to make of them.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
Your own? Or other people's? Or both?
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
Mine, mainly. I don't have a problem celebrating other people's birthdays. It's a celebration of them, of friendship, of having fun together, and so on. But I don't particularly like it when I'm the centre of that. It's a combination of shyness/possible humility, and sheer laziness at having to make the effort to be all smiley and nice to absolutely everyone, who while liking me well enough feel the social pressure to get me a present, or a card, or something, and I find that quite awkward. I always try my very best not to "do" anything on my birthday.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
That makes me sound like an utter twat.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
What do other people here think about birthdays?
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I generally feel a bit absurd asking people to celebrate my existance, so I tend to avoid my own if I can, and sit at home, preferably alone instead. That's what I did last year, it was pretty good. I think Louise went out for a curry.
The birthdays of others though, you know, fine, but really it all seems more of a hassle than anything else.
[ 26.11.2009, 10:46: Message edited by: Kanye West ]
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
Yeah, exactly.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
yeah, that's what I mean.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I don't get invited to these things anyway, so it's not a problem. And if I do go, I take Louise with me, and she soaks up the social duties.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
That must be a relief for you.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
immeasurably so.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
I hate my birthday these days, but this year lots of people went to a load of trouble to arrange a house party at my friend's house, with a barbecue and loads of my friends and it was actually quite touching. But I did feel a bit silly, with all my mates making a fuss over me. Bit awkward. It was nice though. I had been feeling pretty down about getting older so a barbecue especially for me really helped.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
feeling a bit hungry now.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
that's not related to the story about the barbeque.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Thorn started a really good thread about things you were eating, yesterday. Perhaps you could have a look on that for some inspiration for something to eat?
There was another food thread. Something about brunch or something. Lots of silly rules. Can't remember who started it but it didn't seem very popular. But look on Thorn's thread, it's really good.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
Maybe I'll have a snack, just to make sure I get home without passing out.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
What kind of snack?
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I went 'balls out' and had a mars bar. I remember from my youth that they were advertised as being good for energy.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I didn't actually get my balls out.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
Taken on a daily basis, they are beneficial to one's employment, one's relaxation and one's active lesiure time.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
and I'm doing all three of those things at once right now.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
Proof if proof need be.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
You'll all be glad to hear that I think the interview went really well. I don't know when I will hear but they were talking about who I'd report into, how my skills would fill the gaps they have at the moment, what I'd be working on at the start and how they'd develop me to progress through the company. Positive I feel so I'm sure I won't get it.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
And I will be going to the theatre tonight, so it's been quite a positive afternoon.
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove: Kate kept buying massive things of gaviscon for use while pregnant so hopefully we'll have some around the house.
You can get it on prescription if you're pregnant, and then it's free. Or rather, the nation pays, which is as good as free.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Decorated the office tree today, in the spirit of christmas. Didn't have a fairy for the top so made one using materials at hand and a photo of a colleague. Felt like sharing:
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Your office looks like a fucking pigsty.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Is that a duvet in the corner?
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
That's a fair assessment. We are an IT department after all
ETA: no that's my jacket
[ 03.12.2009, 12:01: Message edited by: Ringo ]
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
And are those skiiing poles?
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Greg doesn't walk so good. Polio I think. So he uses the hiking sticks because I think he prefers that to crutches.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Look at this idiot. (needs sound)
Posted by vikram (Member # 98) on :
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Tastes like ass Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Phew. Tough crowd. That vid went down really well on the Rock Band forum. *kicks baby in disgust*
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
It was cute, if that helps, but I'm much better at moshing so I didn't want to gloat.
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
Frankly, you'd look a right **** if you dragged all that apparatus into the mosh pit.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I watched the first second of the video, realised where it was going, and closed it.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
i can't stop listening to this piece of metal. I recommend giving it 1 second before turning it off.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
the whole album is worth a 1 second listen, in fact. But I feel I've already mentioned it here.
does anybody listen to sunn o))))? They seem to be the socially acceptable face of metal at the moment within certain *ahem* circles. A friend of mine went to see them recently and his review of the gig was 'too much dry ice'.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I see. Well, me neither really. But only because they aren't on spotify.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
however, if you've got a dollar and you like computer game music, I recommend this. Listening now - hot shit.
Posted by dance margarita (Member # 848) on :
just the other day i namedropped sunn 0))) (is that the right way round?) with pretty much the sole intention of impressing a dreamy boy, if that counts. does that count? his response was 'you know sunn o)))?' and i was like, 'i am aware of their oeuvre', all flirtatious and shit. luckily at that point the conversation was interrupted. ive never heard them. i think i probably dont want to, but if an awareness of their existence will in any way improve the likelihood of said dreamy boy placing his hands on my whole- to quote another of the acceptable faces of hard rock- then i am all about them.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
how do you pronounce o))) ? Also, is that supposed to be a picture of the sun?
Posted by dance margarita (Member # 848) on :
you pronounce it 'sun'. you see? i have got GAME when it comes to this 'knowing shit about hipster metal' malarkey.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
so are they called 'sun sun'?
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
The second sun's supposed to represent the logo off the old Sunn bass-amp cabinets. You don't pronounce it.
[Edit for ennage]
[ 18.12.2009, 07:58: Message edited by: Black Mask ]
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
right.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
fuck me, readers, some absolutely storming tracks on that $1 album. Some serious chair dancing going on up in here.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
maybe I should sack off work, hammer down some 4-mmc and, party by myself all afternoon.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
how is everybody else finding it?
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
for real, for real. I hear you, and agree. It's got a kind of proggy vibe, right? It's like all the way from Goblin to Chris Huelsbeck via Giorgio Moroder and fucking Sasha.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
lol, Sasha. Who remembers the late nineties eh?
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
'if you can remember the nineties, you weren't really there!' that's what they say isn't it.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I can remember the nineties.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
the last Friday before christmas. Do you know what I'm doing tonight? Cooking and eating a curry by myself. Number of social invitations this party season = zero. So, you know. In the end, I get my comeuppance.
[ 18.12.2009, 12:00: Message edited by: Kanye West ]
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
believe me, if you think that chatting to myself on an internet chatboard is depressing, wait until i'm spooning a badly cooked lump of squash into my salty, tear-filled mouth.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
lol, I hear ya buddy. Never mind.
[ 18.12.2009, 13:54: Message edited by: Kanye West ]
Posted by Amy (Member # 11) on :
Benway! I've just realized where you got your name!
Naked Lunch. Nice.
Granted, its taken me years to realize it...
Go me! Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Soon you're realise that Thorn Davis got his name from Much Ado About Nothing!
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Next year she'll work out where the name 'Kanye West' came from.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I believe Benway just chose "Kanye West" because it is an anagram of "Sweet Yank" and he has always wanted to be American.
Posted by Amy (Member # 11) on :
*bows*
I aim to please.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I read Naked Lunch when I was 16, and I'm almost 35...I can't be expected to remember every characters name from every book I've ever read.
You'd think you guys would be pleased when posters drop in...even if it is just to randomly ramble. Hmph.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I'd be impressed if you knew where jimmy big nuts came from, amy. Unless you just googled it.
Posted by Amy (Member # 11) on :
Might take me another 9 years! :S
How about that...a lot of us have known each other almost a decade! Crazy.
Posted by Pink (Member # 459) on :
9 YEARS!
Where did they all go?
Posted by Amy (Member # 11) on :
Pink! I was just looking for you on Facebook, but didn't see you.
No idea where the years have gone...they've flown by, haven't they?
Posted by Pink (Member # 459) on :
I suppose a better do that soon! Send an e-mail to * and I will send you my proper e-mail address. I can then let you know when I have one of these new-fangled facebook thingies
[ 23.12.2009, 08:09: Message edited by: Pink ]
Posted by vikram (Member # 98) on :
quote:Originally posted by Kanye West: the last Friday before christmas. Do you know what I'm doing tonight? Cooking and eating a curry by myself. Number of social invitations this party season = zero. So, you know. In the end, I get my comeuppance.
I have invited you out to free booze corporate art party bollocks.
Posted by ralph (Member # 773) on :
Merry Christmans tmo. You bunch of *****.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
quote:Originally posted by vikram:
quote:Originally posted by Kanye West: the last Friday before christmas. Do you know what I'm doing tonight? Cooking and eating a curry by myself. Number of social invitations this party season = zero. So, you know. In the end, I get my comeuppance.
I have invited you out to free booze corporate art party bollocks.
invitations when I'm ill as fuck don't count Posted by vikram (Member # 98) on :
Edit: this was directed @ pink, in case you were confuzzled.
[ 23.12.2009, 13:43: Message edited by: Amy ]
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
FFS. I was just on the toilet. There are three cubicles that are all clean and all work in there and I was sat in one the end one furthest away from the entrance. So some wanker walks in, sees that the door is closed on one, walks past the first empty one and parks himself in the middle one and starts dumping within inches of me.
I can understand him doing this if the first one was dirty or there was someone in it or something, but to actively choose to use the middle one when you can see there is someone in one next to it is just a blatant disregard for all social norms.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove: FFS. I was just on the toilet. There are three cubicles that are all clean and all work in there and I was sat in one the end one furthest away from the entrance...
Was it a wee or a pooh?
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I was doing a wee but then using the time when nobody was next to me to browse reddit on my phone. My surfing time was cut short.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
This is what you get when you piss sitting down like a girl
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
No, this was entirely due to the lack of social awareness of the other person and nothing to do with my weeing.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
These are the consequences of your reckless toilet habits.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
You haters should try a sit-down-wee sometime. In fact why not make your next wee a sit-down? Report back here about how it made you feel.
[ 02.02.2010, 09:35: Message edited by: MiscellaneousFiles ]
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I think this was a consequence of my shirking work to browse the internet in the toilet rather than a consequence of my toilet habits. I still maintain that the other person is entirely to blame.
I would have left if he'd picked the far away cubicle anyway, but I just think it is disgraceful to not position yourself as far away from another (potentially) pooing person.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Maybe you should have gone and sat in one of the cubicles in the ladies' loos instead
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I don't think you choose the toilet based on whether you are going to stand up or sit down to pee, I think it is quite a strict rule that you only use the women's toilet if you actually are a woman.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
You seem to know a lot about toilets. I just go in, have a piss, wash my hands then leave. i give it literally no thought whatsoever.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
You wash your hands?
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
You don't? You fucking savage!
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Of course I do... but last time we had the sit down wee debate, I seem to remember Benway or someone like that made a disparaging comment about the washing of hands after urination.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Well, bear in mind that Benway has apparently repeatedly given his family worms. I think washing your hands is pretty essential. I wash my hands maybe, like, ten times through the day?
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
I wash my hands and face about six times a day. I was a spotty teenager.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
fuuuuh REAK.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Washing your face that often is just weird. It's not like you go around rubbing your face on things. Is it?
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
I have quite greasy skin. The ladies love it...
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
perhaps he likes to understand his human environment in the same way that a dog gets to grips with its kinfolk.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
ie forcing his face into the crotches and anuses of all those he meets on a daily basis. He'll get worms that way.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
No, I don't take sugar, motherfucker!
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Is there a single normal person on TMO?
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
i'm normal.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
quote:Originally posted by Kanye West: i'm normal.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
it's quite common for young children to get worms, especially if they grow up in rural areas.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
But I thought you were from the 'hood.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
sometimes in the hoods, sometimes near the woods.
Posted by Tilde (Member # 1215) on :
Sometimes in a snood?
Posted by Tilde (Member # 1215) on :
feeling misunderstood.
Posted by Tilde (Member # 1215) on :
Sometimes in a Merkin.
Posted by Tilde (Member # 1215) on :
munching on a gherkin.
Posted by Tilde (Member # 1215) on :
Fellating a giraffe
Posted by Tilde (Member # 1215) on :
on the zookeepers' behalf.
Posted by Tilde (Member # 1215) on :
Eating a Jammy Dodger
Posted by Tilde (Member # 1215) on :
With a guy whose name is Roger.
Posted by Tilde (Member # 1215) on :
who'd like to stroke a mole
Posted by Tilde (Member # 1215) on :
and drive a Kia Soul.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
quote:Originally posted by Ringo: Is there a single normal person on TMO?
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Went to view this house on Saturday. Seems really nice. Better than the pictures really. It has two sheds with power in the garden. TWO SHEDS!
Going to view again on Wednesday evening and may make an offer. Scary stuff.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Did anyone else divide the cost of that house by four in an attempt to estimate CiH's salary.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
lol. I did similar the other day when you said how many dvd boxsets you could afford a month.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Yes, I think it's fair to say I've lost at salaries. Against you, and pretty much everyone I know. Still. At least I get to work in an office with a dog in it.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Although the dog hasn't been in for ages.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
If you divide the cost of that house by four, you do not get my salary unfortunately.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Maybe the dog is dead?
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Like Benway
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Could be.
We had a bad moment at the office with a dead cat and a teenage girl about a year ago. Dead cat lying in our driveway for a few days, and then a leaflet through the front door saying "have you seen this cat?" with a mobile phone number. Rang number said "Yeah, we've got your cat. It's dead in the driveway. Can you come and move it?". 17 year old girl turned up, bawling her eyes out, and started cuddling the dead cat, which was rigid from cold and death. Got a box for her to carry it home in, but the box was too small, and the cat had to be wedged in, with some crunching. More tears. A bad, bad moment.
[ 08.03.2010, 08:01: Message edited by: Thorn Davis ]
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Still. I had her phone number, which PUAs tell me is a success of some sort.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
How many biscuits should a man eat in a day?
ETA: I asked Jeeves, but he couldn't give me a conclusive answer. He started wittering on about diabetes and Michael Phelps, so I lost interest.
[ 08.03.2010, 10:40: Message edited by: MiscellaneousFiles ]
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
actual snigger at the dead cat tale. strange looks from colleagues.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
I'm going to try three today.
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
Better put the paramedics on stand-by.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
What've you got your mother for mother's day then?
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Box of chocolates from the chocolate shop next to the office. For the last batch of presents (Xmas, Birthday) I went off piste a bit and bought her things like Phoenix Wright for the DS, and some books I thought she would like. I'm not really sure that when down very well, so I'm playing it straight down the line this year.
[ 12.03.2010, 11:24: Message edited by: Thorn Davis ]
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Yeah, mo-day is definitely a chocolates and flowers sort of celebration isn't it? Originality is neither expected nor appreciated. I guess I'll drop a tenner at Hotel Chocolat and pick up some blooms from Marks's.
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
dp
[ 13.03.2010, 02:19: Message edited by: Octavia ]
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
Mine got knitting books so she can provide clothes for her granddaughter (at her request.) This'll be my first year as a mo-day recipient, so am interested to see what the childe will come up with. Chocs and flowers are not going to cut it.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Got her Scribblenauts for the DS and took my parents out for a meal. Was ok.
Got back to the flat to discover that the cats had killed their first mammal - a little field mouse laying prone on the rug.
Posted by dance margarita (Member # 848) on :
i didnt buy my mum anything. i sent her a card. i thought it was very funny- two little girls having a teaparty, you know, reto- ey type thing, and one of thems saying 'so i said to mummy, if my lunchbox isnt completely organic by monday im calling social services'. and the other ones saying 'well quite frankly sophie if you dont, i will'. inside i wrote a little message saying 'thankyou for feeding us bernard matthews mini kievs not mungbeans and for being a lovely mother in many other ways'. anyway my mum said she thought the card was 'very humorous' and that my message was an implied criticism of her child- rearing skills. i was like, 'NO! I REALLY LIKED BERNARD MATTHEWS MINI KIEVS! I HATE MUNGBEANS! I WAS BEING SINCERE!'. cant do right for doing wrong.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Replaced chocs with birdhouse at last minute.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Got my mum bendicks bittermints and a card that had a mother and childe penguin on it. Got Kate a card and nothing else. Two mothers sorted for about £8.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
It feels wrong, doesn't it, when you buy a mother's day card for your mother and partner at the same time. Part of your brain starts twitching.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Sounds like I had a massive overspend. The game was £20 (pre-owned) and the meal a whopping £80.
I'm a mug.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I didn't mind too much as we have a pot of money that people gave for a savings account for Amelie for when she was born so I just went to take £2 out of that to pay for her card, but there was nothing smaller than a twenty so I decided to just use that and keep the change as her nappies say they will keep her dry for up to 12 hours or something but quite often she soils herself well before that time is up and so I have to use another one so really because she has chosen to do that she has forced me to use another nappy unnecessarily which means that money should come out of her pocket.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I fucking hate the fact that when I buy a cup of coffee from our vending machine, at the end of the process, it flashes up a message saying "Product is ready".
The entire thing is digital, you select which drink you want whether it is coffee, tea, espressochoc, viennese coffee (whatever that is) etc. So it clearly has stored in it a digital version of what you are ordering, so why at the end of the process can it not say "Coffee is ready"?
This might not be the most important thing in the world, but I hate the word "product" which is unfortunate given my job title but why does everything have to be a "product"?
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
Viennese coffee is a rich and decadent combination of coffee, cream and chocolate, topped with whipped cream and cinnamon -- perfect for a lazy weekend morning or an afternoon treat. Not for dieters, this special drink is a wonderful way to relax and indulge yourself.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
quote:Originally posted by mart: Viennese coffee is a rich and decadent combination of coffee, cream and chocolate, topped with whipped cream and cinnamon -- perfect for a lazy weekend morning or an afternoon treat. Not for dieters, this special drink is a wonderful way to relax and indulge yourself.
I suspect that for 10p from our vending machine it is going to be almost nothing like that description.
Posted by dance margarita (Member # 848) on :
you know theres no reason why an indulgent viennese coffee shouldnt be an integral part of a healthy, well- balanced weight- loss programme. but so many 'dieters' have set up a connection in their sub-conscious mind which says 'healthful food' = 'deprivation', and youve really got to work on unpacking messages like that if youre going to commit to achieving your Full Nutritional Potential. myself, at the end of a week of gently disciplining my appetite (but still eating meals as varied and delicious as mushroom and seaweed eggwhite fritatta, smoked tofu served on a bed of beetroot quinoa with a four- leaf salad, goji berry and carob soymilk 'yumshake' etc), i like nothing better than to curl up in my gowner on the sofa, with a copy of grazia, and to enjoy a really decadent beverage. sometimes i even have a cupcake with it if ive been particularly on point with the healthy weight- loss programme, or have been on one of my bikram yoga retreats; sometimes i will roast an almond and shave it onto the coffee for extra treatiness (and also almonds are extremely efficient at lowering LDL cholesterol, so its a very healthy sort of treatiness! ). i do this because i love myself, and care about myself, and treat myself like a precious parcel of worthiness. creamy coffee drinks are a core message to myself about what i deserve in life.
[ 22.03.2010, 07:45: Message edited by: dance margarita ]
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by dance margarita: i do this because i love myself, and care about myself, and treat myself like a precious parcel of worthiness. creamy coffee drinks are a core message to myself about what i deserve in life.
^^ This is great. Unless you're being sincere, in which case it's ghastly.
Posted by dance margarita (Member # 848) on :
im really glad there was confusion about whether i might be sincere. that was my intention.
edit: because i used an emoticon for no reason, wtflol.
[ 22.03.2010, 08:41: Message edited by: dance margarita ]
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Some guy just walked by wearing a batman t-shirt, two batman fingerless gloves and he had a tattoo of batman on his arm. He must really like batman.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I wonder if he likes batman more than kovacs.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Probably. I doubt he's even heard of kovacs
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
[benway]LOL! CiH meant whether the man likes batman more than kovacs likes batman! But you pretended he meant 'does he like batman more than he likes kovacs' Hilarious! Hilarious isn't it Thorn! Your stupid obvious jokes! Loser! Wanker![/benway]
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Anyway.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
why does Benway always have to be so mean? Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
thorn asked for it.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Sure, just like women in short skirts are asking for it.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
you just have to learn to be more responsible with your 'jokes'. I'm not saying that every time you make a joke you are inviting me to be mean, but there are obvious patterns that you could change that would minimise the risk. It's common sense.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
That's true. Just like I wouldn't leave my car in a rough neighbourhood, unlocked with the keys in the ignition and "I Hate Women" scrawled across the windscreen in pink lipstick.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
It's thundering. How bizarre.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Yay, I love thunderstorms! Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
I love pina coladas and getting caught in the rain.
Posted by Harlequin (Member # 454) on :
I have been away from this forum for so long because I have been on Facebook a lot like so many others from here. Facebook certainly is addictive and also a fantastic way of finding old long lost friends and relatives too. Much better than the old FriendsReunited site.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I've never heard of this "Face Book". Is it just pictures of lots of people's faces displayed in a book? How can you find old friends like that? I guess you could just flick through until you see someone you recognise, but some of my school friends i haven't seen for 20 years or so, so I may not recognise them now.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove: I've never heard of this "Face Book". Is it just pictures of lots of people's faces displayed in a book?
It's more like a series of photos and updates of people you used to know. The object of the exercise is to go through their holiday/ party/ family photos and analyse the quality of their homes, the attractiveness of their friends and spouses, how expensive their clothes are, and how closely their holiday destinations resemble glossy brochures from expensive travel companies, and from there judge whether or not they are beating you at life.
At the same time, you have to go through your own pictures and updates and carefully select the ones that best represent the lifestyle you want people to think you lead. This means, for example, that if you're at a party and there's an attractive girl there, you fling your arm round her shoulders, gawp into the camera and stick it up as your profile pic, as though you and this girl are the best of friends. Do this a few times. Then make sure none of the photos of you curled up in a foetal position, sobbing into a bottle of creme de menthe are tagged with your name. Hey presto! You look like the Hugh Hefner of Broadstone.
If you've got kids, make sure you only add pics of them looking angelic, dressed in the most expensive clothes they own, and maybe pointing and gurgling delightedly at something off camera, while the other parent smiles adoringly down at them. Obviously don't post any pics of them grabbing handfuls of cowshit during a nature walk, while it pisses it down with rain and your partner storms off back to the car until you "bloody learn to control the little c**t". Also don't post any pics of the time they managed to get into the roll of barbed wire n the shed because you were busy in the loft, surfing for porn. Although, hopefully your first reaction on that occasion wasn't to grab the camera and take pictures.
Status updates... as with any communications campaign, you need to know what message you want to put out. Stressed!LOL is a popular one, so make sure you let everyone know when you've had less sleep than you feel you needed, or if you're Working Late... Again! Treat the status update as though people actually give a fuck. As though there's some cosmic Pity Bucket that you're gradually filling up, and that one day the universe will knock on your door and go "Wow! You've had it really rough!"
Alternatively, post up nebulous comments about forthcoming/ past activities that are going to be AMMMAAAAZINGGGG!!!! Perhaps you're going to Thailand, in which case you should start a countdown that goes THAILAND!!! 33 days and counting!! Or just post Looking forward to a big weekend - you know who you are ;o). This way people will look at your page and get jealous of the amazing hedonistic life you lead.
Ultimately you have to remember that Facebook isn't a tool for communication, or reviving old friendships. It's there for you to create a better 'you' and to be able to place that 'you' in a hierarchy of people that you grew up with, went to university with, or met through work. Good luck!
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I would agree with that, and as a result, I don't put any photos or status updates onto facebook. I suppose that the clue is in the phrase 'status update' really.
It's the reason why I prefer twitter. The dynamic is much less intrusive, and lends itself well to the task of maintaining weak ties. I plugged friendfeed into facebook for a while, which is like an aggregator for web activity (things I've favourited, things I've bookmarked, etc) but it confused the fuck out of everybody.
[ 31.03.2010, 07:04: Message edited by: Kanye West ]
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Although I understand how Facebook works, it doesn't stop me from obsessively going through people's photos and posts and worrying that they're much more successful and happy than I am. This is particularly galling if they're people that I don't like, and who I feel are not as clever or talented as I am. Which is basically everyone on my friends list.
[ 31.03.2010, 08:25: Message edited by: Thorn Davis ]
Posted by dang65 (Member # 102) on :
Excellent summing up of Facebook there, Thorn. Of course, all the best people don't actually go on it at all, which leaves one feeling completely worthless when searching for people who aren't even on there and wondering what they must be doing that is so fabulous that they don't even have time to advertise it on Facebook, and then a small twinge of relief as you think, well they're probably dead or dying or in a vegetative state and that's why they don't post, but then the anguish comes back as you realise that even those things are far cooler than anything you do.
quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: Also don't post any pics of the time they managed to get into the roll of barbed wire in the shed because you were busy in the loft, surfing for porn.
I was thinking about barbed wire the other day whilst walking through an unsavoury neighbourhood (which I forgot to change my Facebook status to and that would have been really cool) and also bits of broken glass on top of walls, and guard dogs, and fucking razor wire as well. What I want to know is, how is that stuff allowed, but they always say that if you booby-trapped a harpoon gun to your front door, or wired up five thousand volts through your car's bodywork when you parked it, then you'd be liable for assault charges if someone hurt themselves. What if I put razor wire all over my car, would that be ok? Why is a guard dog not a dangerous weapon like an armed guard would be?
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
I had a dream last night that I was lying in bed with the actress Jewel Staite. I was pretty happy about this situation, even though it was kind of platonic. In this instance Jewel Staite also happened to be Dang's wife. I kept trying to put my hand on her tit, and she kept taking it off. Eventually she said "I feel like I'm betraying Dang by doing this", and got up and left the room and I found myself hoping that she didn't tell Dang that I'd been trying to touch her tit.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Jewel and Dang at the MP3 MusicMan SuperVan Launch Event last October Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I have learned today that I have been pronouncing concatenate and segue incorrectly my entire life. I don't think I've ever said either of these words out loud so it's not a big issue, but I've been mentally pronouncing them wrong.
(I though concatenate was Con-Sir-Teen-Ate and segue was Seeg)
Posted by Abby (Member # 582) on :
duuuur! :mongface:
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Thank you for your wonderful contribution Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
BUUUHHHHH BY BAME'S PHHHHHERYY IB HOOOOOBE AM IM A REPARRRRRRRRD.
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
I thought seg-way and segue (pronounced sayg) were two different things for a long time.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
It's like that running gag on the Controller Throw podcast where that one guy picks a certain word each week to pronounce in a really bizarre way and the other guy sort of chuckles along and doesn't correct him.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
quote:Originally posted by Kanye West: BUUUHHHHH BY BAME'S PHHHHHERYY IB HOOOOOBE AM IM A REPARRRRRRRRD.
I wish you were killing yourself before 2012 Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove: concatenate
What in the hell is this word, anyway? I've never seen it before. What's it for? What does it do? Is this one of those iPad things I keep hearing about?
Seriously - I've read dozens of the greatest works of literature in the English language and not one of them has ever used this word. What is it? What's so good about it?
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
you obviously didn't concatenate during English classes Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
I'm having all kinds of fun trying to explain to someone on facebook the difference between hung and hanged
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
IfIdidwouldallmyessayshavelookedlikethis?
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Just ate three randomly picked Jelly Belly™ jelly beans from the massive jar in the office kitchen and washed them down with a swig of black coffee.
Mouth now tastes of uncooked mushrooms.
Explain, pls.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Maybe you have a tumor in your brain
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
I think it's more likely to be lupus.
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
I just spent £250 on car cleaning products.
Fucking hell.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
christ
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
£150 of that was on a dual action electric polisher, so I suppose it's 'not that bad' when you take that into account. And £20 was on a 'bag'
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
quote:Originally posted by Ringo: £150 of that was on a dual action electric polisher, so I suppose it's 'not that bad' when you take that into account. And £20 was on a 'bag'
Elbow grease is cheaper... wax on, wax off etc. [does Karate Kid hand movements]
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
It certainly is, believe me I'm no stranger to it. But the DA Polisher is able to give a finish you couldn't possibly get by hand, and allows you to remove every single minute scratch and swirl mark so the paint ends up with an absolute mirror sheen to the paint. Just impossible to get that result by hand, unless you had about a month to spend on it and arms like popeye
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
i've lost my voice
how bizarre.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
brilliant.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
That is going to make the podcast challenging. Perhaps Thorn could stand in for you?
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
less of what people don't like, more of what they do.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Will we hear you typing in the background on tonight's podcast, and NWoD reading your comments out? Perhaps he could put on a Benway voice so listeners could tell who was saying what.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
we record on tuesdays now, so it might be ok.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I would like to hear Benway type his thoughts into a text 2 speech program and we can hear it as if Steven Hawkings was doing the podcast.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
yes, mikee and i have discussed that option.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by MiscellaneousFiles: Will we hear you typing in the background on tonight's podcast, and NWoD reading your comments out? Perhaps he could put on a Benway voice so listeners could tell who was saying what.
The temptation the make benway say what you wanted would just be overwhelming, surely? "Oh - yep - looks like Benway agrees with me again. And what's this he's just typed? 'Not only were you right about what you just said, but you were right about everything we've ever argued about ever. I like pigfuck'."
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
Apparently it can speak again!
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Disappointing. Could you just punch him in the throat when he comes in the door?
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Slip a dash of drain cleaner into his "tisky"...
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
WTF is a tisky anyway? is it some injoke I'm not aware of?
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
I always assumed it meant "whisky".
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Oh right. I didn't know if it was some kind of foreign super strength lager or something. Neither would surprise me.
Posted by Tilde (Member # 1215) on :
Polish lager, 5.6% I think. Apparently it's "better than stella" which I personally hate. Other reviews include "2 bottles makes you a lover, 4 a dancer and 6 a fighter, a great saturday night beer"
Kind of explains the emotional journey of some of the podcasts.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
That makes more sense, I suppose.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I'm looking forwards to the next podcast when Benway has to cry about how wrong he was about Linux users and thier willingness to pay for software. I suspect half of the show to be filled with his sobbing apology.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
I'm not sure he'll be able to process this fact which appears to be at odds with his usual corporate mindset which instantly labels anyone who wants to get anything for free/cheaply as a scrounging scumbag who shouldn't be catered for in any way shape or form.
Posted by froopyscot (Member # 178) on :
quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis:
quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove: concatenate
What in the hell is this word, anyway? I've never seen it before. What's it for? What does it do? Is this one of those iPad things I keep hearing about?
I suspect that there's a correlation between being a joyless slave to Microsoft Excel and knowledge of the word. Or at least, that's how I came to be familiar with it.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
quote:Originally posted by froopyscot: I suspect that there's a correlation between being a joyless slave to Microsoft Excel and knowledge of the word. Or at least, that's how I came to be familiar with it.
That's EXACTLY why I know the word.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Me too, although my days of using Excel are thankfully well in the past
Actually this morning I have in interview for another job. Hmmm.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Good Luck Ringo! Is this the same company or an entirely new endeavour?
I thought that I'd be mostly behind Excel when moving to this new job but I seem to have spent quite a bit of time working on macros since starting.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
Is it for a Cabinet position, Ringo?
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I think Ringo's spent a bit too long in his current line of work to think about starting again as a carpenter mart.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
They haven't been around for 30 years, Cherry, and one of them's dead, so of course Ringo isn't going to be joining The Carpenters. That's just silly.
[ 12.05.2010, 05:16: Message edited by: mart ]
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
It's a purely technical role here in the same company, but in a department which is focused on new and emerging technologies, so I'd get to play around with some really snazzy bits of kit. Assessing new technologies, giving training and support, that kind of thing.
Anyway I had the interview and totally fucking aced it.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Well done Ringo fingers crossed for you m8
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Good work Ringo, hope you get it. I would have replied earlier but was in a meeting and then out to lunch at Waggamammas. I had dumplings followed by noodles and a carrot juice.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Good choice. I had a pot noodle.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Tomato and pate sandwiches.
Good luck with your job, ringo. It must be nice to be doing well at careers and things like that.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Talking of careers, is it normal to be offered a bonus and then constantly distracted from the task in hand by your 'superiors' as if they're trying everything they can to ensure you fail?
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
I'd say so, yes. Or at least I would do if I had ever really been offered a concrete bonus, rather than having a very vague carrot of future promotion dangled and then yanked away at the last minute.
It's a shame because in principle I like working where I am now. It's a team of people I get along with, and the work isn't bad. But there seems to be little or no interest in personal development, and I've hit a bit of a ceiling in terms of how far I could go in my current role. In fact I hit that ceiling a long time ago but haven't really had much inclination to do much about it.
This is only a year's contract, and there's not really much scope for it to be extended so if I'm offered the position and accept then I'll be leaving a secure position to face an uncertain future. But it's a decent rise in pay and the work is much more varied and exciting, and it's in a department I can get really enthusiastic about.
It's funny how interviews seem to get easier as you get older. Maybe it's not so much the case out of the IT industry where things are a bit more fuzzy, but when I was having this interview it just felt like I was being asked a load of questions on subjects I can consider myself something on an authority on. I've got the better part of a decade of experience in the industry now so there's not really a lot that's likely to phase me now.
But I'm not counting my chickens. It's still possible that someone better applies. But in terms of my own interview performance I can feel satisfied that I gave as good an account of myself as I possibly could. I certainly didn't let myself down.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
I've had that before, in a previous position. It ended with a brief meeting that went like this:
"Ian, about the bonus." "Yes." "We can't pay it." "Right. Er... I thought... you know. I'd done the... you know." "Right, but we can't pay it." "Oh. Er, OK." "Ok, then."
and that was it really. So my advice is that if they screw you on this just accept it, along with every other kick in the teeth.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Also, it's important in the above situation to leave the meeting feeling as though you've done something wrong in presuming that you were going to receive the bonus that was promised to you.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
You also had that excellent situation where someone resigned and rather than getting someone else in, they just made you do his work as well and as a bonus for doing the job of 2 people and saving them a full salary they gave you a pay rise of £250 or something.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: Also, it's important in the above situation to leave the meeting feeling as though you've done something wrong in presuming that you were going to receive the bonus that was promised to you.
So true. Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
£850, yes. I actually stood up for myself on that occasion, although it didn't make any difference. That was the closest I ever got to just saying "fuck it" and handing in my notice.
[ 12.05.2010, 09:33: Message edited by: Thorn Davis ]
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I don't get bonuses so I can't really help. I occasionally get pitiful payrises but then occasionally I get very good payrises so it works out alright.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
I can beat that: I haven't had a payrise or a bonus for the two years I've been in this job. In fact, as I took two weeks unpaid paternity leave last year, my earnings actually went down. I think it's fair to say I'm failing at 'careers'.
[ 12.05.2010, 09:49: Message edited by: Thorn Davis ]
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
I got a basic cost of living increase over the past two years. In fact the COL allowance last year was equal to the RPI which at the time was over 5% so I was quids in. Though I'm still chronically underpaid as IT support roles here are lumped in with basic secretarial and clerical roles. Meaning I get paid no more than someone who answers the phones to take payments for courses, aside from a series of yearly incremental payrises.
At the end of the interview I actually negotiated for a higher starting salary than they were initially offering which is the first time I've ever actually done that, and it was oddly empowering. I literally said that the lower brackets of what they were offering weren't worth me leaving a secure position for and I'd need to start at a higher point. Considering how well the interview went, I think I'm entitled to that.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Actually it was 2008 not last year. Christ. I've been here far too long. I was 18 when I started here. I'm now 27.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
I've been in the same job for almost ten years now. Salary has doubled in that time, as has workload...
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
I've worked for the same company in that time, but for lots of different departments. I think my starting salary was something like 12k and suffice to say it's considerably more than that now.
I have a friend who has been working in the car insurance industry for nearly as long as I've worked in IT, and she's still earning considerably less than 20k which I find difficult to fathom.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Yeah, I've stayed in the same department but my job has changed dramatically over the years. I started out as a plain old web designer, then picked up graphic design and 3D design, and now write and edit news articles because apparently I'm the only person in the whole company who knows the difference between their, there and they're.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Didn't get the job. They said my interview was really good and I met the requirements that they could have offered me the position, but someone else that applied had a bit more applicable experience. So there's not much you can do to account for that can you. I did my best, that's all I can say, and I have to feel reasonably satisfied with that.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Sorry to hear that M9 Good effort though. You going to keep looking for new stuff?
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Yeah, well they said there may be another position coming up with a similar job spec which I'd be considered for if I was interested, for the same sort of money, and they want to meet up to discuss other development opportunities. So it's not like they've just mugged me off, they said I was their second choise and they're still interested in me.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Could be time to look outside of the OU for another position. Positive feedback, though, if nothing else. And lets not forget you weren't quite certain about trading your current security for this new job.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Dear Ringo,
Can you arrange for me to have free OU courses?
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Yeah, it could well be. People who have been at the OU for as long as I have tend to get a bit institutionalised, and you start to feel like working in the private sector is going to be much more stressful. But actually I don't really think that's the case any more.
It's certainly true that in a private company I'd be earning a fair whack more than I do here, and while i wouldn't be entitled to 33 days holiday a year, that's a perk I could live without.
I dunno, I wasn't actively looking for a job when this one came up, but maybe now I've started thinking about it I should have a look at what's out there.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove: Dear Ringo,
Can you arrange for me to have free OU courses?
No, sorry. Though if you worked for the OU you'd get them free.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
That sounds like quite a good perk. Let me know if you need any product developers with a background in the finance industry. Preferably with the ability to work from home. We've just had a load of new employee perks introduced some are quite good some are weird.
One is that you can buy or sell five days holiday a year which is excellent.
Another one is a bike scheme which is strange. Basically, you choose a bike you want between £150 and £1000 and Amex pay for it and give you a token. You then go and exchange the token for the bike and 1/12 of the cost of the bike is taken off your salary (before tax which is good) for a year.
This sounds excellent in that you basically get a bike without paying tax and pay over a year. However, at the end of the year, you don't actually own the bike as you are actually hiring it from Amex, and it says "At the end of the twelve months, you have the option to buy the bike at a fair market rate" which just seems weird.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
We've got a similar cycle purchase scheme here, but I don't know the particulars as I already own a bike so never looked into it. Sounds the same as your one though. Maybe it's a government initiative for companies who choose to opt in.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Our American CEO has come to the UK office today for some meeting, and he's brought along his new iPad. Someone just unironically asked "Can I t..touch it?"
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
If you nick it, CEX are paying a fairly good price for Ipads.
Posted by Abby (Member # 582) on :
That bike thing is wierd. Usually you do own it at the end of the 12 months, so you do in fact get a bike for half price.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Exactly! If it had been like that, I'd have gone for it straight away. Perhaps I misread it or misunderstood it :shrug: Perhaps the monthly payments aren't 1/12 of the cost of the bike. I shall investigate as I would like a new bike.
Posted by sam (Member # 884) on :
Hi CiH. Did you investigate? Are you getting a new bike?
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I went down because they had a 2 hour session about it and there was a queue so I gave up. I need my information immediately. I'll see if it is mentioned on our intranet or something
Posted by sam (Member # 884) on :
I don't blame you. What takes two hours? Maybe it isn't the scheme the govt were dong. We got our information in an email.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
had a bike when i was a kid. Pretty good. Sense of independence. Also, jumps.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
i wish i lived near a private area where i could skateboard. I would love that. Really.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
A friend of mine used to skateboard a lot until about a year ago when he was skateboarding home from the pub, came off his skateboard at high speed and smashed his head into the bumper of a car. Long story short - He's now got a massive piece of titanium in his head where it used to be skull and can't lift anything with his right arm.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I got a skateboard from a megastore thing in France (leclerc or something?) when I was about 7 and spent much of the holiday learning to skateboard. I tried doing "bunny hops" where you sort of crouch down, put both hands under the board and jump. Like an Ollie for people who can't do them I guess. Anyway. I did some of those and then one of the trucks broke. So we took the skateboard back to the megastore and they didn't have any more in stock so we got the refund and my sister got a new rucksack from it and that was the end of my skateboarding career.
I'd love to give it another go, but if people see a 30 something year old on a skateboard they assume that they are going to be amazing and I'm not sure I can handle the year or so of embarassment.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I had a sweet-ass corey o' brien deck that I'd covered in Vision Street Wear stickers.
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Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
has that blown your fucking minds.
Posted by Tilde (Member # 1215) on :
Nice, my brother had the same one. At about the same time, 88, 89? I had a Rob Roskopp, The one on the left. Posted by dang65 (Member # 102) on :
quote:Originally posted by MiscellaneousFiles: Someone just unironically asked "Can I t..touch it?"
I t..touched an iPad the other day, but only so I could fix a bug on our website which only appears when you open it on an iPad. Nice of them to keep me in work though, I suppose.
If those iPads were a bit bigger (and they're very small actually) then you could screw some wheels to the back and use them as skateboards, with a different cool graphic on every day.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
I had a black and red skateboard from Hamleys with a drawing of a ninja on the bottom of it. Aside from the colour scheme (shared by the A-Team's van, and Knight Rider), I don't think it was very 'cool'.
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Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
my brother had a Deathbox with an insane concave on it. Was like a canyon in the middle of the board.
Posted by dang65 (Member # 102) on :
quote:Originally posted by MiscellaneousFiles: Aside from the colour scheme, I don't think it was very 'cool'.
But, surely it had you standing on it, Misc.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by MiscellaneousFiles: I had a black and red skateboard from Hamleys with a drawing of a ninja on the bottom of it. Aside from the colour scheme (shared by the A-Team's van, and Knight Rider), I don't think it was very 'cool'.
I had a 'toy' skateboard, too. Something called a Turbo II that was bought from toymaster. I was never very good with it. Much happier with rollerblades, to be honest. I just wish there was somewhere round her to use them. That was (the) one good thing about London - loads of parks to skate round.
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Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Sadly I probably wasn't very 'cool' either when I was nine. How things have changed...
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
i loved skateboarding. all the kids in the street were into it, and we were out pretty much all the time for a few years, getting better at tricks, swapping stickers and magazines, listening to black flag and half-man half-biscuit. That was also when I got well into the Amiga, starting 'going out' with girls, getting off with girls, just... don't know. I think I pretty much kept out of my parents way, had my own life. it's quite painful because that was all pulled from underneath me, and I think it's why I get so nostalgic about that stuff. It's like I was on course for one life, but was then given another one that wasn't anywhere near as good. that change is what defined who i am now. I have to resist thinking about skateboarding because it just leads to sadness and self-pity.
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Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
How did it get pulled from under you?
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
i got hit by car, and now I'm stuck in this wheelchair.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
LOL. You can't walk.
Posted by sam (Member # 884) on :
in my day, skateboards looked like this: Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
In my day skateboards looked like this
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
no, that's the Hoverboard from Back the Future Pt. II. Skateboards have never looked like that. pwnt.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by Kanye West: i got hit by car, and now I'm stuck in this wheelchair.
Wouldn't that be like skateboarding all the time?
Anyway. If you liked awesome extreme stuff like skateboarding when you were - you know - normal, you should think about taking up murderball now you're in a wheelchair.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
If Benway was in a wheelchair, I would go to visit him every day. Walk him somewhere he didn't want to go, unbolt the wheels, and leave.
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
Skateboarding fits into my category of Activities Of Pure Terror. Rollerskating and ice-skating are also covered. Ski-ing was pretty dreadful too. Anything that slides uncontrollably away with my feet standing motionless on it causes my entire body to rictus in fright and fling itself to the ground to cling on. Ski-ing was only remotely tolerable because of having a stopping mechanism of sorts.
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
I thought skateboards were for saps. I used to leap off the Westway directly onto jagged, rusty railings.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: If Benway was in a wheelchair, I would go to visit him every day. Walk him somewhere he didn't want to go, unbolt the wheels, and leave.
would you also wank me off on public transport and tell me that if i told anybody then you'd give me something to really complain about? would i be pushing you away with limp wrists going sort of 'mmmmmnnoooo....mmmnnnoooo' but you'd do it anyway and humiliate me in front of the other passengers and i'd just have to look out of the window an imagine that I was twenty foot tall and you were just a little ant, and I'd think back to the accident and wish that a superhero could have snatched me up before my spine was shattered? Then leave me soiled all day, and keep telling me how disgusting and pathetic I was? Taking me to the cinema but pointing me the wrong way so i couldn't see the screen? Telling schoolgirls that i fancy them and then when they come over, showing them my dingaling and they all laugh and i bury my face in your shoulder and beg for you to stop? Yeah? Tipping cans of drink over my head? kicking the back of my chair? slapping me in the face? Burning me with cigarettes? The authorities call it one of the worst cases of abuse they've seen in years? You end up going to prison? I kill myself by parking on a level crossing, and have to fight with motorists who stopped at the level crossing, who try and move me off the tracks? I have to say "mmmmoooo! mmnnnmmnooo letttt meeeee nnnggooo!" as they try and move my chair, but it gets stuck in the rails? And you're getting severely bullied in prison? And the second before the train hits me, I look up and see the glint of an aeroplane above and think that maybe my childhood superhero will come and save me? As the air rushing in front of the approaching train swirls around me, i think i'm being lifted to safety? And you get addicted to heroin? And octavia ends up hitting the bottle and turning tricks like that one out of 'last exit to brooklyn' at a local pub that's frequented by retired essex gangsters, in a bid to try and get protection for you in prison? And you get AIDs? And you lose an eye in a fight over something pathetic like a pair of headphones or a mug or something? And when you get out of prison, you fall to your knees and sob in the street while your wife bends over a snooker table with glazed, empty eyes? How could you even think of that kind of thing? You're ill, man. You should talk to somebody about that.
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Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
quote:Originally posted by Kanye West: no, that's the Hoverboard from Back the Future Pt. II. Skateboards have never looked like that. pwnt.
Poor Benway. Can't imagine a world in which you don't need wheels to get around so had to pretend that these things don't exist.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Maybe I'll just let Louise look after Benway. Occasionally drop by with a mix tape I think he'd like or some Japanese horror DVDs I heard were good.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Give up my sunday to help install a handrail in the bathroom, something like that.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Organise a local football match to raise money for an access ramp to be put in to Benway's favourite pub. Write to Necro explaining what an inspiration he's been to Benway who, before the accident, really enjoyed abusing 'hos and living in the hood. Arrange for them to meet, and take a photo of Necro with his arm around Benway's shoulders, giving the thumbs up.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Would you be able to install a handrail in the bathroom that didn't fall off? I don't see you as the type to have that sort of skill.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
and louise would say that it's lovely to see you and then you'd come into the lounge and there would just be the sound of a crappy clock ticking from a display case full of worthless 1950s nick knacks? I'd ask how you were doing and you would bite your lip and hold back from telling me about how well its going because you can tell in my eyes that I couldn't stand to hear about it? And I'd take the dvds and study the back of the case really closely and say thank you and kind of jerk and you'd say hey did you see Have I got News For You last night and I'd say no and you'd say oh it was funny, charlie brooker was on, and I'd say i wish i had seen it but really i'm saying that i cannot stand to be reminded of the outside world? and i'd show a story that i've written but it doesn't make any sense because of the drugs i'm on from the pain but you'd say it's really good and i'd say thanks man, you're a real friend and you'd have to go upstairs to cry and louise would come upstairs and grab you and push you against the wall and you'd say n-no and she'd start crying and would say please... please anything... do anything to me... you don't know what its like and you'd say i--i--can't you know i cant and she would collapse and cry and you'd look into our bedroom as shall falls to your feet and you'd see a weird contraption that i use for getting in and out of bed? and you'd come back downstairs and i'd know and you'd know that i'd know but you'd say 'shall we watch the film' and i'd say no and you'd look at me with an expression that says that you know that i know an i'd look back completely helplessly?
Posted by dang65 (Member # 102) on :
If you did a Fun Run to raise money for Benway, what would you dress up as?
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I mean, it's the thought that counts really, but will Benway be able to see that as he's lying on the bathroom floor, covered in faeces with blood gushing from a head wound obtained when he put his weight on the hand rail to get off the toilet and it came off sending him sprawling head first into the sink? I would hope he'd understand that you'd tried but I suspect he really might have problems at this stage.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
quote:Originally posted by dang65: If you did a Fun Run to raise money for Benway, what would you dress up as?
I'd dress up as an F-16 Fighting Falcon.
Or something similar.
[ 19.05.2010, 11:06: Message edited by: MiscellaneousFiles ]
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove: Would you be able to install a handrail in the bathroom that didn't fall off? I don't see you as the type to have that sort of skill.
Well, yes - that's why I said I'd help install it. I imagined that someone like Jonesy or ben would be doing the actual drilling in and everything, while I handed them tools, and ferried stuff in from the hallway and shouted through to the living room "This is looking really good Steve! Wow, this is really going to help! I almost wish I had one myself!" and thinking "Obviously I don't wish that - I'm really glad that I can get on and off the toilet unassisted."
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Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
As you all show him the handrail you'll be saying "Look Benway, look at how good this is" and he'll be all "fank ooo. fank ooo for my rail. it. it will help load" and he'll try to smile but only one corner of his mouth will raise and you'll all leave to go to the pub to celebrate your good deed and Benway will be "too tired fo pub. fanks guys" and as he hears the door close he'll try to hit the rail but won't be able to swing his hands high enough and his useless arm will swing down and hit him in the groin and a tear will start running down his cheek.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
This might be the most powerfully depressing thread we've ever had.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
sucks to be me.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Good luck getting Ben or Jonesy to help you with the handrail. Sure they were around straight after the accident, being helpful, trying to keep Benway cheerful, but as time went on they stopped being able to cope so well with Benway's depressed face when they suggested going out somewhere. "Trip to the park Benway! You love going to the park" "too tired", "Come on Benway, the fair is in town, let's go and win a goldfish", "too tired".
Sure Jonesey still pokes his head in occasionally to give the pretence of still caring, but for Ben it all became too much and he had to just cut contact altogether and banish any memories of Benway to a back space in his mind that he only thinks about when lying in bed occasionally unable to sleep but he can't come back now. Too much has changed. Surely Benway is better off without him, but he still can't sleep.
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Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
Alright mate? .... Benway? Yep Ah, thought you couldn't - - I was just getting the - - ah - sorry - - you know, the strap - - yes, sorry i didn't - - didn't...? - I mean I wasn't trying to - - Oh, i know, just still getting used to it myself - so you're er...you're coming strapped! - uhmm? - you know...mc ehit.. "we come strapped"... - oh, right... right - you still listening to that - - Nah... I....I don't... - seen that Snoop has got a new - - I don't really.... - Ok, Ok - Yeah. - ...... - ...... - so, you called because.... - well, just sort of, seeing how you're doing really, you know - okay - .... - so... you doing okay? - oh, yeah, you know. lol. getting there - yeah. - it's hard because - - are you getting out much these days? - well... I haven't really been - - fancy a pint? I could have one...ah wait, actually - - i could have one now if you could bring some round - yeah, no, sorry, I just remembered i can't tonight or.... it would have to be - - don't worry about it, it's alright - no, no, I'd love to, I just, I forgot that I'm seeing... - ..... - ....err... seeing...doctors. Going to the doctors, I - - alright some other time mate. - alright, yeah, looking forward to it! - yeah, me too. - yeah. - ..... - .....
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HELLO M8 SORRY GOT CUT OFF THERE LOL!
YEAH NO PROBS
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
That certainly sounds like a nightmare vision of a world in which Benway spends his entire life just sat in his house, with no real social life, spending night after night playing computer games and watching films, in a lifestyle so devoid of meaning and direction that all he can do is voice his inner angst on internet forums.
In a wheelchair...
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Goddammit. I was thinking of a post along similar lines, with Benway's doctor saying "I'm not going to sugarcoat it: from now on your life is going to change dramatically - at best you'll be able to just about stagger from your work room to your sofa, but once there you'll be pretty much completely sedentary, able to do little more than eat, drink, and twitch your thumbs at meaningless stimuli. Also, as a result of the medication you'll be pretty much always completely smashed." and Benway saying something like "I guess I'll just have to learn to adjust, one day at a time."
Or maybe something where it takes Louise six weeks before she even realises that Benway is crippled. Or maybe it takes Benway six weeks to realise he's crippled.
Anyway. Great minds and all that.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
yes, isn't it
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
I hope ben and fifichan and steelgate and samuel norton and kovacs and jonesy and squeegy and rillion and keef will come back soon. This place just isn't the same without them.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
It hasn't been the same since infinite jones and robin left
Posted by Abby (Member # 582) on :
Did you know you can buy fake tongues on ebay to make taxidermy? I guess it makes sense when you think about it, but I hadn’t previously done so. Now I realise that I quite want a fake mallard tongue.
This was prompted by the dead-goat tongue above. Obvs.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
I thought it was a dead horse. Like the saying.
Posted by Abby (Member # 582) on :
Oh yeah, you could be right.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
It was a dead donkey.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Another cracking round of Identify the Fetid Animal Corpse
[ 02.06.2010, 10:00: Message edited by: Ringo ]
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Posted by Abby (Member # 582) on :
Polar bear!
Posted by Abby (Member # 582) on :
The other one maybe a hare?
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Sorry, no. They're both aliens.
Posted by Abby (Member # 582) on :
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
It's a sad day when the TMO donkey dies not from overwork but from neglect.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Stevie's back!
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Is the second one a camel?
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Sorry, no. They're both aliens.
Posted by Abby (Member # 582) on :
If it wasn't an alien would it be a capybara? Though it looks too hairy for that...
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
The first one is ben, naked and face down outside the theatre bar. I know because I took that photo.
Posted by Tilde (Member # 1215) on :
After Lowlevel bummed him?
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
quote:Originally posted by MiscellaneousFiles: Stevie's back!
I'm not the one who can't tell a donkey from a goat.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Did this yesterday
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
It looks good.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Thanks. Doing the graphics took maybe an hour and a half. Polishing on the other hand took about 8 hours...
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Your car is not competitive for this series. Would you like to automatically upgrade it?
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
In this weeks competition for "Poor font choice" we have a close run between
A) computer magazine
B) Matalan website
[ 17.06.2010, 03:25: Message edited by: Cherry In Hove ]
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
I'd say the computer magazine wins on the grounds that 'Anal Fantasy Tactics' could actually mean something, whereas 'fucking them in at night' doesn't quite work as a standalone phrase.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
I don't know, "fucking someone in" sounds like it means beating them up. I'm picturing a scarred East end gangster with a diamond earring looming over a poor unfortunate who he's sending out on his first job....
"You cock this deal up and I'll fuck you in, my son! I'll fuck you right in!"
[ 17.06.2010, 05:33: Message edited by: MiscellaneousFiles ]
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
I thought it implied sexing someone so vigourously as to cause physical damage to the fuckee.
have you seen how Tracy is walking this morning? I heard brian fucked her arse in last night Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
I've just had an email from Tracy. Perhaps I should ask her to confirm this thing about Brian.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
From what I understand, fucking an arse out is far worse than fucking one in.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Holiday snaps Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
I liked your pictures, Ringo, but I can't really think of a single worthwhile thing to say abot them, as I know nothing about cars. I liked the colours on this one...
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
This one looks frakin' awesome, although I can't quite picture where the guns fit.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Ringo - When I was in Italy they had a classic car race around Bergamo old town and there were tons of old ferraris, lotuses etc etc. and I got a load of photos of them. Would you like me to post the pictures up here?
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
The Audi was the eventual winner of the race, when all four Peugeots retired with engine troubles. There were a lot of very glum French people walking about.
There was a Corvette show we went to the day before the race and I got a load of good phots. I'll upload them in a little while. Also got some good night shots of the pit buildings.
Cherry I'd love to see the pictures. At the Corvette show there were hundreds of other cars from various classic clubs, like Lotuses, Morgans, TVRs, etc etc. large number of classic British sportscars. Excellent stuff.
[ 17.06.2010, 09:36: Message edited by: Ringo ]
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I'll do a batch run to shrink them when I get home as at the moment they're about 5MB each and if you happen to want any of the original sizes I can send those to you.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
Here is a picture of a nice car that I took from my window recently.
This is another one that I tried to turn into a "good" photo despite the fact that I missed it.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Oops. DP.
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Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Can anyone find an imdb biography page that is more impressive that this one Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
No, that's pretty impressive.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Now put all my pictures up on Flickr Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
I had to go to the doctor's at lunchtime about this thing, and he said he was 99% sure there was nothing wrong, but he wanted to send me to a specialist just in case. He said he didn’t want to be sitting in the pub a couple of months later thinking “actually I wonder if that guy’s...” and I said “dead?” and he said “yes”.
[ 24.06.2010, 12:02: Message edited by: Thorn Davis ]
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Oh. Hope you're OK Thorn.
I keep meaning to register with a doctor but then I get to the website about how to do it and lose interest.
Posted by dang65 (Member # 102) on :
Hang on in there Thorn. As you said before, we've not met yet. That's the thought which really pulled me through when I was dying recently, I must say. The doctors said it was a miracle, and the Vatican are on the bloody phone all the time.
As long as we never meet we should both live to a ripe old age.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
I think that's the plot of Hancock, isn't it? As long as Will Smith and Charlize Theron are apart, neither of them can be killed.
Anyway, no, it's nothing serious. It's one of those stupid skin things where it's almost certainly nothing, just be on the safe side blah blah blah.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Well. I got a call from our mortgage people to say that they couldn't approve the mortgage at the moment as we hadn't given them three full consecutive months of bank statements which seemed strange as I took four full consecutive months of statements into them that they scanned in.
Trying to find out what was going wrong he was saying "we've got 1st March to 15th March, 1st April to 15th April, 1st May to 15th May".
Oh. It appears that the person who scanned the statements didn't realise that statements are printed on two sides and so only scanned one side of each so now we have to go back in and probably wait another week Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
I was wondering how your house purchase was going. I don't think it counts as a purchase unless you have at least one eye-rolling, bureaucratic fuck-up.
We had a major setback when our lender suddenly decided they wouldn't lend us the money on the grounds that the property had two kitchens, and therefore a part of it could be sub-let - causing a frantic search for someone that would lend money on a property with two kitchens. Sorted it in the end with another lender, and we got a letter from Lender1 refunding the valuation survey thing, and essentially stating "We're really sorry about the fuck up - the guy who told you you couldn't have the money is a fucking cretin", which is the best possible result in these kinds of situations.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Fortunately it's all sorted as Kate faxed the documents across and phoned them up and they said they'd look at them next week and she told them that this was their fault and no, they would look at it right now, and they did and it's all approved. Hoorah.
Will wire money to the solicitors today and hopefully exchange next week!
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
But we're only going to have one kitchen. I feel that I need two kitchens now.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
One of the kitchens is total bullshit, though. It's going to be torn out. The house has been student accomodation for yonks, so it needs a fair amount of work.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Anyway! Good news on the exchange. Exciting times.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Our one is ex-council and I don't think it's been updated in the last 20 years so it's got artex on lots of walls and ceilings, horrible deep red carpet, wooden panels on walls upstairs and some horrible mirrored wardrobe in the master bedroom, so we're going to have to do a lot of work to get it nice, but it's liveable straight away.
That said, we're going to pay a plasterer to come in and plaster over all the artex before we move in and possibly remove the wooden panellings and plaster that so that we have nice smooth surfaces everywhere that can be covered in crayon in the next few years.
Although, just found out that the solicitors still haven't found out whether they got planning permission for the extension they built 10 years ago so need to wait on that before completion.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Obviously the extension in the last 10 years counts as an update in the last 20 years but you know what I was saying.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove: Our one is ex-council and I don't think it's been updated in the last 20 years so it's got artex on lots of walls and ceilings, horrible deep red carpet, wooden panels on walls upstairs and some horrible mirrored wardrobe in the master bedroom, so we're going to have to do a lot of work to get it nice, but it's liveable straight away.
Yay! We should have a photo contest to see who's moving into the house with the most interior decorating mis-steps. We've got a load of artex to get rid of too, I think. Definitely some bad carpets, and if I recall correctly the downstairs has got that floorboard effect linoleum stuff over actual floorboards, which seems a bit pointless. The downstairs toilet looks a bit toxic and there's loads of weird stuff throughout the house, like doorframes that have been painted blue and things like that. And, of course, being a student house every room has a different but equally upsetting smell. But it's all stuff to work on. Hopefully after a couple of weeks living there all the rooms will have a single, uniform smell, at the very least.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Exciting stuff! Have you got a date for moving or completion?
I'm going to take lots of photos when we move in and hopefully within a few months have photos of the rooms looking nicer.
Then a bit down the line we're going to knock down the wall between the kitchen/dining room and put an island in, build a conservatory on the back of the dining room and that should be nice.
Also, it's got a really nice sized garden but they couldn't be bothered to mow lawns or anything like that so they just put paving slabs over the entire thing, so there is a lot of potential there.
There are also two raised carp ponds and I suspect we'll use one as a raised bed for something and get rid of the other one as I don't have much interest in having a carp pond.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Can I play the 'moving into a new property' game?
I appear to have jewed my way onto the property ladder through a series of fortuitous sets of circomstances.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
sounds interesting, and i do like the use of "jew" as a verb. Tell us more.
Posted by dang65 (Member # 102) on :
My cousin had the most amazing bit of luck recently. He was doing some work on a big house (he's a plumber) and noticed another house in the grounds. Making small talk with the owner, he asked about the other house and the guy said that he and his wife were hoping to sell it quite quickly as she was dying, and with even less time to live than Thorn. So they wanted to sell it quick to avoid complications with all that legal wotnot when you die.
So, my cousin takes a look at the place and it's fantastic. Needs a bit of work and that, but total bargain.
Only problem is that he has to sell his own house, PDQ. So he goes to the estate agent and arranges for them to view, then goes home and just outside his house a woman asks him if he happens to know of any property for sale in the area.
He shows her round and she makes an offer of the asking price. Sweet as. Just like that. Just an amazing string of luck. Bargain property to buy, and asking price on his own place with no agents' fees or anything.
Unfortunately, the old lady died last week before they could complete the deal. It might still go ahead, but now my cousin is like the rest of us, living on fear and nerves while everything collapses around him. Still, at least he had a couple of days when things looked quite hopeful for a bit. That must be a great consolation.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by Ringo: Can I play the 'moving into a new property' game?
I appear to have jewed my way onto the property ladder through a series of fortuitous sets of circomstances.
This definitely needs elaborating on. What's the situation?
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Well, it's a ridiculously long story, so I'll give you the short version.
Basically before she met me, Reema lived with her ex in a flat which was on a 60% shared ownership. When Reema and pete broke up, she moved out but he stayed there. The idea originally was that she would be taken off the mortgage and that he would stay on it by himself. However the mortgage provider said that his earnings weren't sufficient to take on the mortgage by himself. His parents offered to go in as guarantors, but that was refused by the housing association as they didn't qualify for social housing on their shared ownership scheme.
It all got a bit nasty as Reema just wanted the place to go up for sale, while he refused to leave. In the meantime, pete got a lodget in with him and between them they covered the mortgage payments. And that is how it has stayed for the best part of a year, with Reema being named on the mortgage, but not living there and not actually paying anything towards it. It would have been a good situation for her were it not for the fact that communications between them were very bitter, and sometimes really petty.
A few months ago she got legal advice and found that legally she could force a sale on the flat. Because of the slump in house prices, the flat was in vey slight negative equity, but only by a couple of thousand. The housing association initially sought to put a person on their waiting list forward to buy the place, and when that fell through the flat was put onto the market through an estate agents. There was a little bit of interest but nothing concrete.
Then we found out that pete and his current partner were expecting a baby, and that he intended to move in with his parter and her daughter, so that they could be together when the baby was born. The flat was too small for the four of them to live in. He told Reema that in lieu of a better solution, he intended to stop paying the mortgage at the end of the month, in order that the flat was repossessed and he would simply be free of it.
Obviously this wasn't the best of news for Reema as she'd be equally implicated in being blacklisted for mortgages and credit when the place was repossessed.
So if you hadn't already guessed where this was going, it became apparent that the only real solution which seemed to satisfy all parties was if Reema and I took ownership of the flat and moved into it. Reema was naturally a little reluctant as she wasn't happy when she lived there with pete, and the place would obviously be filled with memories of how things were when she was with him. But we decided that if we threw some paint at the walls, ripped up the knackered carpet, used the second bedroom, etc, that we could make the place into our own home.
So before we went on holiday we met with the mortgage provider and looked at what the options would be. They ran a credit check and told us what our combined borrowing power would be. My jaw nearly hit the floor when I heard how much they'd be prepared to lend us. The upshot being that we easily met the requirements to take on the existing mortgage between us. We then spoke to the housing association and told them our situation and they confirmed that the two of us would be fine for their criteria and would be able to live there.
The whole plan was neraly torn asunder though, when we checked to see if the cats would be able to come with us. The housing association which owns the flats has a 'no pets' policy and when we emailed them enquiring about it, we were given a flat "No" and told that absolutely no pets were allowed. It was a massive setback as we really weren't prepared to rehome our cats. I know the logical decision is to get rid of the cats but they've become like part of our little family, and as a pair of rescue cats we feel responsible for them. And more than that, we're really fond of them.
Reema sent a desperate plea to the housing association basically explaining the situation with regards to pete intending to default on the mortgage and that without us being allowed to bring our cats, the flat would end up being repossessed. I didn't hold out a lot of hope because they have no real obligation to help people who want to be sentimental and potentially put a couple of small animals above their own financial stability. But someone at the housing association must be a cat lover like us, because a couple of days ago we received a reply saying that they were going to send us a letter of confirmation, effectively giving us special dispensation to keep cats in our flat so long as they didn't cause a nuisance to any of the other occupants. When I saw the email I wanted to pull my shirt over my head and run around the office like I'd scored in a world cup final.
So that's where we are now. We've sent Pete a message informing him that we intend to take over the mortgage from him, and he's said he's happy just to walk away from it and even leave a lot of the furniture behind. From our conversations with the mortgage provider, it seems that him coming off the mortgage and me going on is merely an administrative formality. It needs to be signed off by a solicitor, but effectively I just get named onto this existing mortgage.
Six months ago I couldn't see a possible way for me to realistically get onto the property ladder. I have debt, which I'm sure I've mentioned on here enough times for people to know that I'm unlikely to be able to put together anything resembling a deposit. Now, I'm going onto a mortgage on a property which is guaranteed to increase in value massively, at almost exactly the value of the flat as it sits now anyway. It's a bigger place than we are renting now, and the combined rent and mortgage payments are almost the same as our current rent payments. It's maybe not as nice an area, and it's certainly a lot further away from work, but I think it's going to be a great little flat once we've redecorated and put our mark on it.
So how's that for a slice of good fortune?
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
I'd have replied earlier but some dickwit decided to give me work to do on a Friday fucking afternoon.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I enjoyed that story a lot Ringo. Congratulations!
When will everything be going through?
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Reema's away for the weekend but once she's back we'll sort out the paperwork. There's stuff to be signed by all parties, then we need to agree some kind of timescale with pete and with our current landlords. We can't afford any crossover where we're having to pay for the flat and pay rent on our current place at the same time so it's going to be a military operation. We think pete will be eager to get it sorted as soon as possible so is unlikely to be stubborn about sharing the solicitors' fees.
Ultimately I'd hope we'll be moved in within 6 weeks or so. Hopefully sooner.
I'll definitely miss where I am now. Lot of really good memories here.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Good luck getting it all sorted. I'm sure you've thought of all this, and that your solicitor will bring it up but make sure you get your name on the deeds to the house. You don't want to be responsible for the mortgage while this other bozo is named as co-owner of the house.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Things all looking good from our end. Transferred £11,400 to solicitors on Friday. Well, I think it was to the solicitors, I got an e-mail saying "transfer £11,400 to this account number and sort code" so I did it because I'm smart.
Work have managed to massively overpay me this month having underpaid me for the past 3 months which is nice, but I'm sure they're going to want it back at some stage but my boss phoned the people in payroll and they said it was definitely right even though it clearly isn't.
I'm trying to get her to not pursue the matter any further but I think she feels that she can't just let me have a bonus 2k.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Yeah, that's where the solicitor gets involved. The financial stuff is all being done by the Halifax. We were well advised about the procedure when we went to see the mortgage adviser, but we're going to look at all the documentation tonight and then work out a checklist of stuff that needs to be done to sort all of this out.
Then comes the mammoth task of getting all our stuff into the new place. Not going to be easy when all we have is an MX-5 and a VW Lupo...
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
Congratulations Ringo! That all sounds really cool.
Cherry, have you guys exchanged then? When do you complete?
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
We haven't exchanged yet, they just wanted 5% of the cost of the house for some reason. I don't know. I'm not really involved as Kate is on maternity leave so has more time to deal with this, so when she says "transfer £11,400 to this random account number" I just do it.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
There is a good chance that we will be exchanging on the 9th! That's only 9 days away!
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
We've exchanged contracts! Completion date is definitely next Friday! We're going to own a motherfucking house.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Fantastic news! That's really excellent, man. Congratualations!
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Huge success
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Beats rentin'.
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
Now that you 've found your paradise, This is your kingdom to command. You can go outside and polish your car, Or sit by the fire in your Shangrila... Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Surely the problem with the people described in Shangrila isn't so much that they've bought houses, it's that they have no inner life, and no aspirations beyond that.
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
No. It's all about the house. Once you've bought a house you're fucked.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
What happened with your house purchase in the end?
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
We have 25 long happy years of mortgage payments to enjoy.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I've got 33 years. That's exciting.
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
See? We're all fucked.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Thirty-fucking-five years over here! Let's see what The Kinks have got to say about that, eh?
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by Black Mask: See? We're all fucked.
But... if you don't buy a house, then you have to pay rent forever and there's not even a house at the end of it for your grandkids to squabble over.
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: But... if you don't buy a house, then you have to pay rent forever and there's not even a house at the end of it for your grandkids to squabble over.
Yeah, but... and here's the thing... you can just walk away... Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
Also, there are about two dozen blisters, cracks, stains and sags on the walls and ceilings of my house that make me wince every time I catch sight of them. Every one of those teeny defects are going to cost me thousands and thousands of pounds one day. If I was renting I could just phone my landlord and say "Hey! *****chops! Come and fix all this shit in my gaff!"
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Octavia did that a few years back and just... rented her house out. Or you can sell it, and pocket the extra £££. Like I say, it's about a lack of aspiration. If you really want to do something, owning a house isn't going to hold you back.
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
Hey, it's the 21st century! Who says we can't HAVE IT ALL?!
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by Black Mask: Also, there are about two dozen blisters, cracks, stains and sags on the walls and ceilings of my house that make me wince every time I catch sight of them. Every one of those teeny defects are going to cost me thousands and thousands of pounds one day. If I was renting I could just phone my landlord and say "Hey! *****chops! Come and fix all this shit in my gaff!"
That's true - landlords are wonderful aren't they? Just wonderful, magical creatures made of rainbows and happiness who are always a pleasure to deal with and show nothing but ceaseless dedication to their duties. No-one would write a song about landlords being shitty. They'd be lynched! 'Why are you putting the boot into the landlords?' people would shout 'They do so much for us, and all you do is slag them off!'. Good old landlords. They really are brilliant.
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
You just need to learn how to finesse them...
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Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I'm not going to miss our landlord.
Us "Even if we set the oven to 250 degrees C which is the maximum it only gets to 180, can you get that fixed?" Him "Just cook stuff for longer then"
Us "There is a damp patch in the top corner of the living room. It's quite small at the moment but it's appeared quite suddenly, I guess it's due to a leak upstairs" Him "Let me know if it gets worse"
Us "It's got worse and is getting bigger quite quickly and is going brown" Him "Let me know if it gets worse"
Us "It's really getting quite bad, There is clearly a leak somewhere that could cause problems if not sorted" Him "I'm sure that the people upstairs will sort it out"
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Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
You didn't call him *****chops, did you?
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
I'm looking at flats at the moment. It's tough bacuse the price can vary, but I have the luxury of time on my hands. I'm hoping to save up and wait for the most perfect place. Recently, an edwardian house that was fully renovated came up, 5 minutes walk from the one I currently rent. It was fully modernised, had a balcony, spotlights in the ceiling, new kitchen and bathroom and solid walls. Couldn't move in though. Brother didn't have the money.
We started looking for other places. Found a huge place, but the internal fittings were from the 70's - it was pristine really, but you get the impression if a landlord isn't going to spend a couple of thousand pounds over 30 years then he's not going to be any good in say...an emergency. So we're looking for the right place. Trying to be able to go look, know we want it and put down the deposit on the day. So far the agencies have taken us to some horrendous laughable shitpits, and we've just gone WTF is this?
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
quote:Originally posted by Black Mask: You didn't call him *****chops, did you?
I thought that was pretty much obligatory
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
quote:Originally posted by New Way Of Decay: So far the agencies have taken us to some horrendous laughable shitpits, and we've just gone WTF is this?
Yeah, the problem is that they'll try to get rid of the ones they've had on their books for ages first so they're always going to show you the ones that everyone else has turned down in the hope that you'll think it's wonderful. You just need to keep harassing them to let them know when new stuff is coming in and try to be the first to see it.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove:
quote:Originally posted by New Way Of Decay: So far the agencies have taken us to some horrendous laughable shitpits, and we've just gone WTF is this?
Yeah, the problem is that they'll try to get rid of the ones they've had on their books for ages first so they're always going to show you the ones that everyone else has turned down in the hope that you'll think it's wonderful. You just need to keep harassing them to let them know when new stuff is coming in and try to be the first to see it.
This is what we thought. One flat was quite nice but ridiculously small. When we mentioned how pokey it was he just said 'well if you want quality' - and my brother audibly laughed. Some of the flats though, you know if they're not shifting you'd think the agencies would let them know why. The first one we looked at just needed a few changes to be totally awesome, but they're not things you can change yourself.
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
Who needs all this shit!? Really? I mean, for fucks sake, a roof over your head!? You're all so fucking bourgeois!
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Ralph's right, we should just go and live in our cars rather than spend all this time worrying about paint schemes, light fixtures and mixer taps.
But no, it is a pain in the arse when you rent. Little things like putting up shelves or a new bathroom cabinet or whatever all involve some dialogue between landlord and tennant. We were lucky that our landlords were really nice people and were happy for us to do whatever we wanted really as long as it didn't mess the place up. But now we're leaving it's like, there's hundreds of pounds of stuff we've done to the place that we can't take with us. At least once we're living in our new place, if we make a change to the place it's our own decision and it affects the value of our own property. Renting is a mug's game.
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
What about when you inevitably break up, Ringo? It'll be all like, "I put up those fucking shelves!" "Fine! Fine! Fucking take them down then! Take them down and take them with you! Take them to your whore! I hope she likes your fucking useless shelves!"
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove:
Is this where you're moving to? Or is it something you pasted into your post by mistake. It looks nice on Google, either way.
[ 02.07.2010, 10:16: Message edited by: Thorn Davis ]
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
quote:Originally posted by Black Mask: What about when you inevitably break up, Ringo? It'll be all like, "I put up those fucking shelves!" "Fine! Fine! Fucking take them down then! Take them down and take them with you! Take them to your whore! I hope she likes your fucking useless shelves!"
I'm not petty. I wouldn't take the shelves.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis:
quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove:
Is this where you're moving to? Or is it something you pasted into your post by mistake. It looks nice on Google, either way.
Oh lol, I shouldn't have pasted that, can you edit?
[ 02.07.2010, 09:58: Message edited by: Cherry In Hove ]
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Nice.
Cherry in Maidstone then?
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Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Nah, I'm moving to Hangleton. That was the address of the friend I'm going to visit.
This is where I'm moving to. (Mine is the one without any grass in the garden )
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Oh well. It's not so bad...
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
It is the biggest garden in the block which is nice. Just needs a lot of work doing to it as they've paved over the entire thing.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Garden in Maidstone looked bigger.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Yes, I think CiH's friend is winning.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
His entire house was ridiculously big and nice. Fucker.
Have a very very funny skectch.
knock knock.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
It looked a bit suburban, though. Like you'd have to drive to the pub.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
I had a heavy day yesterday – wrangling a baby and two grandparents. The grandparents were hard work. Their idea of fun was to fill the baby up with rich food, then drive it round Oxford until it threw up.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
We did walk to the pub from there, but it was a good ten minutes walk. I'm used to living a minutes walk from a pub.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
I hope you mentioned that every step of the way. "Is it much further?" "There's a nice pub just round the corner from where we're moving to. makes it easy when you're staggering home!" "We'll have earnt that pint when we get there!" "Should get to the bar just in time for last orders, shouldn't we?" "I suppose it's a choice isn't it, if you want to have a big house but be out in the sticks. Still at least you don't get woken up by people passing through" and so on.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Thursday.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
2pts milk (semi-skimmed)
wholemeal loaf
cured meats
bottle of wine (white)
margarine
haribo
rizla
odor eaters
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
Shopping list? Midnight snack? Recommended diet for small alien being?
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
One of the cookery books we have it Carluccio's Simple Cooking or something and one of the recipes is "Platter of cured meats" and the recipe is "Go to the delicatessen, buy some cured meats, lay them out on a plate".
I appreciate the book is called "Simple Cooking" but I think that's taking it a bit too far.
Day off work today as we're completing so sitting around waiting for solicitors to phone.
Posted by Abby (Member # 582) on :
Those of you who know CiH offline should phone him from an unknown number at regular intervals throughout the day. It'll be well lolz.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
HA. THat plan won't work Abby as the solicitors have phoned and we now own a house. Going to get the keys at noon!
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Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
HOORAY!
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Well done CiH. Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
Cor! Congratulations! When are you actually moving?
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
No idea. Just spent the afternoon at the new place and I'd obviously listened very keenly to the line "Ignore the decor, you can change that so pay attention to the space" as the decor is ten times worse than I remember it. There are multiple different types of artex around the house and they cover every ceiling and almost every wall. The walls that aren't covered in artex have tacky wooden panels on. Some of them full height, some half height. There is an archway half way through the sitting room/dining room and they have put what appears to be crazy paving up the sides of the archway with concrete about 2 inches thick. It's fucking madness and there is so much to be done to the house.
So, we're getting someone in tomorrow to give us a quote and timeframe for plastering the entire house. Will ask him about getting rid of the crazy paving/panelling. We have just under a month left in our flat so we're in no massive hurry.
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
Careful! Don't just get wired into that artex. It may contain asbestos. Especially if it's on the ceiling.
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
And that crazy-paving almost definitely contains Ebola.
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
And... never... NEVER... underestimate the AIDS in the kitchen units.
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
Only kidding. Except about the artex.
Congratulations!
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
The artex on the ceiling is just being plastered over. The stuff on the wall that is just thin raised bits I'm scraping off but wearing a mask for doing it.
We've got a plasterer coming in next monday to plaster all of the downstairs walls and ceilings and the landing. Unfortunately it's a bigger job than we expected so we won't be getting the bedrooms done just yet and won't be able to put wooden floors down before we move in which is a shame.
Crazy paving on walls.
Wall after a couple of hours with a hammer and chisel.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I checked all the cupboards and there was no AIDS in any of them which is a victory.
There is also a satellite dish on the roof and they've left a sky digibox. I have no idea if I can use this to get satellite TV without paying anything.
Check out this awesome shed though.
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Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove:
Check out this awesome shed though.
Hello music studio!
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Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:But Angus Moat, 39, a tax officer, said of his younger brother: "He was a mentally ill man under a lot of stress who cracked, and it was just the final straw.
"His actions, although I appreciate were absolutely horrendous, and although I wish he hadn't gone ahead and done what he did, were a cry of anguish.
"It was a cry of pain. The media have been bigging him up as a kind of Rambo type character. It's crazy."
Moat's brother needs to dig out his copy of First Blood and give it a watch. John Rambo's rampage in that is exactly what he describes and makes the Rambo analogy quite apt. He needs to be more accurate in his film references. It's this kind of mistake that gets Drew Barrymore killed in Scream. (<--spoiler)
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
That shed really is brilliant. It's just got ManCave written all over it.
In fact, you should grab some red and black spray paint and do that.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
That crazy paving is mental. I'd be tempted to keep it.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: Hello music studio!
That is a good idea.
I was thinking about getting a lathe and stuff in there and making things out of wood. Like furniture and a dolls house and medieval instruments of tortue.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
quote:Originally posted by mart: That crazy paving is mental. I'd be tempted to keep it.
You might be able to tell from the second picture that this is not really possibly any more.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove:
quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: Hello music studio!
That is a good idea.
I was thinking about getting a lathe and stuff in there and making things out of wood. Like furniture and a dolls house and medieval instruments of tortue.
Well that would be good too. But I think you'd get some good use out of a music room, as would the kids. I keep looking at pictures of that shed and fantasising about it. If I was you I'd get the shed decked out first. The rest of the house can wait. Or let Kate and Amelie do it, if they care so damn much about it. I'll be in the shed.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Or you know. Do what you think is best. You don't have to run your family the same way I would.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
Combine both ideas and make a music studio out of wood.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
Or wooden crazy paving to replace the stuff you stupidly got rid of.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Yes! Make a massive jigsaw of like, a skull on fire with a snake writhing through its eyes and put it on the wall.
I agree with Mart - that crazy paving was freaking awesome and I really think you should have thunked twice about chiselling it off.
Posted by Tilde (Member # 1215) on :
You should have chipped it off more carefully, it would have made a lovely driveway.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I've actually filled one of the fish ponds with all the rubble and not used it for a driveway. I will then fill the fish pond with soil and use it as a raised herb bed. The rubble is there to provide drainage or something.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
That's crazy -- what are you going to use for the driveway now? Fish?
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: I agree with Mart - that crazy paving was freaking awesome and I really think you should have thunked twice about chiselling it off.
I don't believe that you actually thought that. It was horrendous. I don't believe anyone could like it and I think the previous owner was probably drunk when she did it.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
quote:Originally posted by mart: That's crazy -- what are you going to use for the driveway now? Fish?
It's already got a driveway. I can't actually remember if it's crazy paving or just tiles. The back garden is entirely concrete slabs which is a nice child friendly environment for a child to learn to walk and ride a bike on. It gives you more of an incentive to not fall over.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove: I don't believe anyone could like it and I think the previous owner was probably drunk when she did it.
Bit rich come from someone who shovelled tiles into their fish pond, paved their driveway with fish, and put a lathe in their music studio. I've probably known you longer than anyone else on here and therefore I guess it falls to me to say you sound like you've fucking cracked, mate. If you need some to help look after you, or just to talk to someone or anything like that... I dunno. Give Rob Tooker a call or something. I've got enough on my plate without you ringing me at four in the morning asking what's the best way to staple kippers to the skirting board or somesuch.
[ 12.07.2010, 07:09: Message edited by: Thorn Davis ]
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
You should have definitely kept this, and then you could have worn an animal skin around the house and a raggedy little blue necktie.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
That was my first thought as well when I saw it.
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
That carpet looks just like the stuff that was down in our place when we moved in. Does it smell of piss?
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
rofl
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
It smells alright. Although the woman has put air fresheners in every room which suggests she's hiding something.
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
Have you ever had a shower and, instead of water, gallons of hot fresh blood has poured all over you?
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I've not actually tried the shower yet.
The woman who lived there before for some reason left us a bar of soap in the shower but one that has been mostly used. Did she really think we were going to use her well worn soap?
Bizarrely enough, I'm meeting Benway for a beer after work. I wonder if I can persuade him to come and shave artex off my walls.
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
Maybe, if you offered him the soap.
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove: Bizarrely enough, I'm meeting Benway for a beer after work. I wonder if I can persuade him to come and shave artex off my walls.
If you buy Benway enough beer he'll do anything, apparently. Are you going to do the shaving by hand? I was wondering about one of those power sander jobs, though they'd be heavy to hold against the wall. Assuming we get the house I'm screaming at people to exchange contracts on, we'll be faced with mountains of woodchip wallpaper. Am torn between the cheap option (hire stripper for Thorn and get him to do it) (insert obviously set-up joke there) or pay someone to Do It Properly.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
You could get a power sander on the artex, just not a full-on belt sander. Electric orbital sanders would probably work pretty well.
But I'd just plaster over it.
I think you should have kept the crazy paving too. It was a unique feature which is now lost forever.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Surely the cheap option is sticking with the woodchip wallpaper. Why don't you and Alice do it, if it means so damned much to you? I'll be in the shed.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
quote:Originally posted by Octavia: Are you going to do the shaving by hand? I was wondering about one of those power sander jobs, though they'd be heavy to hold against the wall.
Yeah, we're doing it by hand. Have got a couple of these and some spare blades.
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
Thorn, have you thought how the woodchip might look after some dry-brushing? Black primer, undercoat of turquoise, highlights in tangerine?
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove:
Argh!
I got through about twenty of those when I decided to strip the walls of my bedroom back to the plaster a few years ago.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
better Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Better for pussies who are afraid of real work, yeah!
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Pffft who's the bigger pussy, the one using a gay little spatula to slowly scrape a few millimetres of plaster per hour, or the guy rocking the enormous noisy power tool, demolishing whole walls in minutes amidst a cloud of dust and flying debris?
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
The Freudian interpretation, though, suggests that you have a little gay spatula in your pants, while CiH is packing an enormous power-tool capable of staggering acts of destruction.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
If that were the case then CiH may as well smash the artex off the wall by swinging his weiner at it like a fleshy wrecking ball.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
That website has sections entitled Boring and Riveting. I didn't notice a lot of difference, tbh.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
On an unrelated note, but still about equipment and tools and stuff, do any of you have any experience with or knowledge of mechanical (non-mebrane) computer keyboards?
I've been finding out about them and have entered a whole sub-culture of utter geekery.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
quote:Originally posted by mart: On an unrelated note, but still about equipment and tools and stuff, do any of you have any experience with or knowledge of mechanical (non-mebrane) computer keyboards?
I used a computer with a Model M keyboard quite a bit at university. The feel was really odd compared to any other keyboard I've ever used, but very satisfying, if that's the right word.
[ 12.07.2010, 10:43: Message edited by: MiscellaneousFiles ]
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
Yeah I've just bought a 1990 Model M from some guy in Spain; I'm really curious as to how it will feel. The other end of the scale is the Filco Majestouch 105, but they don't do that in Spanish yet. Am considering blank keys for it, but that's just daft when I stop and think about it (for what they cost).
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Sounds excellent.
Have you seen Das Keyboard? ] Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
Yes. Don't like the sticky out bit. No UK/Euro 105 key layout. Interesting otherwise though.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Personally, I use these at both work and home:
They're very comfortable and reliable, but I'm so used to them now that I think I'd find it really difficult to go back to a standard layout. So if mine break and Microsoft end production, I'll probably have to stop using computers altogether.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
You could always use one of these.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
quote:Originally posted by mart: You could always use one of these.
I saw that at a Design Museum exhibition at the about human-computer interfaces (easy now). They had hundreds of utterly bizarre keyboard, mouse and joystick replacement concepts that never took off.
Steelgate out.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
There's a room here at the University which is full of these obscure looking input devices. We definitely have one of those, along with some with things like little joysticks and allsorts. Some non-qwerty keyboards as well. Seems the standard layout is the best though.
We used to get machanical keyboards with some of the older systems we used here. They weigh a ton and make loads of noise when typing but typing on them is a really positive experience, and oddly you feel like you can type much faster and more accurately than you can with a squishy keyed board.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
Yeah, I've decided to try and find the most comfortable keyboard experience to work with. My work rate has gone up recently (I can get more words done in a day, for some reaon), and I'd like to reward my hands. As it were.
I must have acid fingertips or something, as the Ctrl and Shift keys are almost worn through, and the A, S and E letters are gone, and this happens on every keyboard I use after about five years, so it's time for a new one.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
Maybe Cherry can make me a crazy-paving-shaped wooden keyboard in his music studio.
Posted by Darryn.R (Member # 1) on :
I have the same one at home, I find the keys a little stiff.
[ 12.07.2010, 17:12: Message edited by: Darryn.R ]
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
We're moving on Saturday although the plastering now won't be finished until about Tuesday which is annoying but never mind.
Anyway. Even though I've known that we're moving on Saturday for about a week I only bothered to look into hiring a van today because I'm clever like that and obviously everywhere is fully booked up so I've been sitting here feeling sick and stressed and googling and phoning people to be told that no they can't give us a van (apart from one that could do us a van from Saturday until Monday for £280), until i managed to find a man with a big van who will come along and help us load the heavy stuff in and everything for £25 an hour and he reckons it will take about 2-3 hours which is much less than a van hire would have cost and we get the bonus of a man to help carry stuff.
Being disorganised pays off again.
Posted by herbs (Member # 101) on :
Cherry - I spent two weeks full time trying to rid one room of artex with a gay spatula. In the end I got a plasterer in.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I got rid of a massive amount with the gay spatula but that was just so that the plasterer could plaster over it. We're getting there. All of upstairs is now plastered and painted with a first coat. Hallways is plastered. Half of the living room is plastered and the bit where the crazy paving was has been built up into a wall that can be plastered over. It's massive improvements but there is still a fair bit to go.
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Posted by herbs (Member # 101) on :
Gracious lord.
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
I preferred the crazy paving. It had real character.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
I'm glad everyone agrees that the crazy paving was best.
Hey - Cherry! Isn't it funny, right, because at the weekend, right your hallway is going to be half plastered, right? How things have changed! I remember the days when at the weekend you yourself would have been completely drunk, lol!
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Wait, I got that wrong...
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
crazy paving>sensible plastering
Posted by dang65 (Member # 102) on :
I've got some acting-a-bit-strange-recently tiling just next to the kitchen sink. I reckon it could crack at any moment.
Posted by Amy (Member # 11) on :
quote:Originally posted by mart: Yes. Don't like the sticky out bit. No UK/Euro 105 key layout. Interesting otherwise though.
What is this UK/Euro 105 key lay out thingy? I guess I could just Google it, but I thought I'd drop in and say hello to all of you. Hope you're all doing well. xo
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
US keyboards (which have what's known as ANSI layout) have a differently shaped Enter key and a longer left Shift key.
Elsewhere in the world -- certainly in the UK and most of Europe (and Canada, I think), the ISO layout is used. This has a larger Enter key, and there is a punctuation key between left Shift and Z.
Most of the punctuation keys are in different places, though it's the computer that is configured to type the particular character, rather than the keyboard itself, which doesn't know what it's doing or where it's from. Control Panel > Regional Settings is where you alter this in Windows (I tell my computer to be Spanish, for example, just because it's what I'm used to).
And QWERTY isn't universal. They use QWERTZ in Germany and elsewhere, and AZERTY in France and Belgium.
Then there's Dvorak, which is different again and supposed to be the most efficient layout, now we're not using actual mechanical typewriters.
I tell you, there's a whole world of geek out there about keyboards. So far I'm really liking the IBM Model M. Misc and Ringo were right, it really is very satisfying, once you get used to it and stop raining finger blows down on it.
After a week or so of using it (and a Dell AT102W, and another mechanical one), I tried out my trusty old keyboard that I had been happily, devotedly using before I started getting into all this.
I was cheerfully prepared for it to feel completely fine and just like any other bloody keyboard, thus failing to justify all the time and expense I'd put into trying out new (old) ones. But it really did feel like complete mush. I'd happily use it again, if I had no other, but I do like the clickety clackety of these old behemoths.
I reckon I do anywhere between five and eight million keystrokes a year, so I'm fully justified in spending money on lots of keyboards and just have them lying around everywhere.
[ 02.08.2010, 14:40: Message edited by: mart ]
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
Is there a way of reconfiguring keyboards? Ours has the " and the @ transposed and there's no pound sign at all (even though it's marked on the number 3 key). Pound as in GBP livre symbol, not pound as in American hash key.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
Yes. The keyboard itself doesn't know what it's doing. It doesn't know what labels and signs are on each key. It's your computer that takes each keystroke and decides what to do with it.
I don't know but it sounds like you may have a UK keyboard and a computer that wants to type American, or the other way round.
For Windows XP (I don't know about any others):
Control Panel > Regional and Language Options > Languages tab > Details.
Try that and see what the default input language is, and the services installed bit.
If that says UK English, then you may have a US keyboard (as described previously). If it says US English, then change it to UK and your keyboard should then type what it says on each key.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
quote:Originally posted by Octavia: Is there a way of reconfiguring keyboards? Ours has the " and the @ transposed and there's no pound sign at all (even though it's marked on the number 3 key). Pound as in GBP livre symbol, not pound as in American hash key.
Sounds like you're using a US keyboard layout. Assuming you're using Windows, you can choose a different layout in Control Panel > Clock, Language and Region > Change keyboards or other input methods. You need to add English (United Kingdom) and remove English (United States).
ETA: What Mart said.
[ 03.08.2010, 04:27: Message edited by: MiscellaneousFiles ]
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
Nope - all the settings are already in English (United Kingdom)...
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
Then I have no idea, sorry. Have you tried it with another keyboard?
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
I have a feeling you're looking at the region and language options and not the keyboard option. hold on..
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Do you know which version of Windows you're using?
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
You use Ubuntu don't you?
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
It's Windows XP. Ubuntu is only installed on the laptop.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
The control panel for XP is a bit different. The keyboard option is kind hidden. I know it's a button under the middle tab, but I couldn't tell you exactly where. I'll see if i can borrow a colleague's computer.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Go into Control Panels, and open Regional and Language Options.
Click on the Languages tab and click the Details button under Text services and input languages. This will open another window where you should be able to change from US English to UK English. You may need to add it using the button, but it’s all pretty straight forward. You can remove the US options after you’ve installed the UK ones, and if you feel so inclined you can probably remove advanced text services and handwriting recognition as nobody ever uses them.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I've got Xp here at work.
Under Regional and Language settings in the control panel.
Regional Options Tab set both drop downs there to United Kingdom.
Languages Details - Click on Details - should just have English (United Kingdom). There might be a US one in there that you have to scroll down to see. If that is there, click on it and click remove.
That should be it. If you've made any changes you may have to restart the computer.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
So, basically, you're all telling her to do exactly what I wrote earlier, yes?
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Yes but she obviously didn't read it otherwise she'd have solved the problem by now.
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
Got it! It was the Text services and input languages bit that was still set to US. Thanks everyone. £££££££££ Look at me go!
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
quote:Originally posted by mart: So, basically, you're all telling her to do exactly what I wrote earlier, yes?
Yes.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I'm glad I was able to help.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Thanks Cherry - good to know at least one person on this board is willing to help.
Posted by Amy (Member # 11) on :
Hey, thanks for the explanation Mart. I knew there were different set ups, but not nearly so many. Guess it makes sense though. I think I'm going to google Asian keyboards, just for the hell of it.
You know...now that I'm thinking about it, I didn't notice anything different on keyboards when I visited years ago. And it wasn't like I didn't use a keyboard. Hmm...weird.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
I started an exciting new thread.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
I've just had a massive fucking fight with my broadband provider and stormed out. Anyone got any recommendations for a good Unlimited service?
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: I've just had a massive fucking fight with my broadband provider and stormed out. Anyone got any recommendations for a good Unlimited service?
I'm on BE Unlimited and I get a faultless 20 mbps (aka "up to 24 mbps") connection for just under £18 a month. The website looks terrible but don't be put off.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Aha! That looks ideal, thank you very much Misc.
No connection fee either! That's exactly like what I was after.
[ 04.08.2010, 12:10: Message edited by: Thorn Davis ]
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
All the documents are now with the solicitors from the housing association and our mortgage providers, we're now just waiting for them to get us the final paperwork to sign and then we'll be agree a completion date. So hopefully we'll be ok to move in around the end of august/start of september.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Rinog's going to be a homeowner. If only Ralph was still alive to see this.
We exchanged last friday. Moving on Monday.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: I've just had a massive fucking fight with my broadband provider and stormed out. Anyone got any recommendations for a good Unlimited service?
I've just signed up with virgin for phone line, Broadband and TV. £34 a month including phone line and 156 channels of TV that I won't watch and a 10MB connection is pretty good. Apparently it was all connected today so will test it out when I have a new VGA cable. Assuming that the reason I get nothing on my monitor is because the VGA cable broke in the move.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: Rinog's going to be a homeowner. If only Ralph was still alive to see this.
We exchanged last friday. Moving on Monday.
Exciting! Good luck with the move.
We officially moved in last Saturday although the plastering won't be finished until next Wednesday and so painting won't be finished until about the end of August.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I could have paid about another £10 a month to get 50MB connection but I really really cannot see why I need more than 10.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Well. Apart from the obvious reason which is "to get porn faster"
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: Rinog's going to be a homeowner.
Well, it's on a shared ownership, so we'll initially only own a 60% share. But as part of their attempts to initially sell the property, they discovered there was the scope within the contract to be able to fully buy the property at 100%. This is something we're going to look into pretty soon.
When we saw the mortgage adviser we discovered we were easily able to borrow the full value of the flat, plus plenty more, so we can afford it. And actually I think if we did do that then the increase in the cost of the mortgage would be less than the money saved by not having to pay rent on the other 40%, so we'd be better off plus own the whole thing. Well, as much as you ever own a flat, that is.
Posted by Amy (Member # 11) on :
Well done, Ringers! Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Thanks Amy. To be honest it's mostly thanks to me meeting Reema. I think otherwise I'd probably be either renting or still living with my parents.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Speaking of keyboards, I'm toying with the idea of getting a Dvorak keyboard and learning to type properly on it. It seems a bit silly that we are still using QWERTY layout keyboards when the reason for them has long since passed into history.
Posted by dang65 (Member # 102) on :
Isjkd skks a Dvorak sklemme kkd kakksjcvmn great.
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
Work has fucking sucked today.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
You don't have to buy a specific Dvorak keyboard. You can use any keyboard and swap the keys around, and then tell Windows to be Dvorak.
Sorry about work Hippy.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
And Radio 4 had a fairly crappy programme on QWERTY this morning.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
quote:Originally posted by mart: You don't have to buy a specific Dvorak keyboard. You can use any keyboard and swap the keys around, and then tell Windows to be Dvorak.
Sorry about work Hippy.
Are all the alternate characters the same then? So shift plus ' will still give me an @ even if the key is in a different position?
I've seen you can get replacement labels for the tops of your keys, but I didn't realise all the keys were basically the same but in different places.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
I'm not sure about punctuation. The generic Dvorak layout is designed for ANSI 104-key layouts (that is, US keyboards), so I don't know what happens when you do it with a UK/ISO layout.
In order for improvements to happen with Dvorak, you need to be able to touch type, with all your fingers resting naturally on the home row (which is what Dvorak does -- concentrate 70% of key use to the home row, with vowels on the left and the most common consonants on the right, so you alternate hands much more). If you can't touch type properly, I doubt Dvorak or Colemak will improve things much.
I might be wrong though.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
This might be of some help.
Posted by dang65 (Member # 102) on :
I don't know what you've recommended there Mart, but I notice that no one's been able to type a reply since.
Posted by dang65 (Member # 102) on :
Mart?
Noooooooooo... Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: Rinog's going to be a homeowner. If only Ralph was still alive to see this.
We exchanged last friday. Moving on Monday.
Ironically we are looking at temporarily moving in with my parents with most of our stuff stored while I spend two weeks from the start of September to totally gut and decorate the flat.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Ralph'll love that.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by Ringo: while I spend two weeks from the start of September to totally gut and decorate the flat.
Are you going to do the whole place out in black, red and chrome?
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Two weeks to gut and decorate a flat sounds pretty ambitious. We've taken 5 weeks now and have managed to get everything plastered but only painted upstairs and the living room.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Yeah but I don't have any crazy paving or floor-to-ceiling artex to deal with.
It's just a two bedroom flat.
In the first week we'll be going there in the evening to rip out the old carpets, clean everything as best we can, and measure up for new carpets. Then with it empty, I'll take the following week off work and spend the whole week repainting the walls, papering two walls, regrouting the bathroom tiles, and possibly ripping out the old storage heaters (assuming I don't get time to do it the week before).
So yeah it'll be a lot of work. It'll be me and my unemployed mate in there from early morning to late evening every day, but I reckon between us we'll be able to do pretty much everything.
Then the following weekend the carpet people will come in and fit the new carpets. No rush on the new heaters, that can wait until everything else is done. Once the new carpets are in we'll then be able to start moving in furniture.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Sounds like you've got it all sorted. Make sure you take lots of before and after pictures. Good luck with it Ringo, really chuffed for you.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Cheers dude, I'll make sure i take lots of pictures and put them all up on Facebook. The flat's going to be relatively spartan as we're leaving a lot of furniture with the intention of buying more when we've got the money, but so long as I can get a good standard of decorating sorted, I'll be pretty happy. It's certainly a lot of work to fit into a fortnight, and at the moment there's a bit of a cockup with the mortgage offer because apparently the provider forgot to put my middle name on it so the confirmation of the credit check isn't valid, or somesuch, so that needs sorting before we can complete.
It'll be pretty touch and go now as to whether we'll get it all signed off before the end of August. Hopefully we will though otherwise it'll become a real drag.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove: We've taken 5 weeks now and have managed to get everything plastered but only painted upstairs and the living room.
Yeah - it's a lot harder work than it sounds. We've been in the new place for over a week and all I've managed to do so far is unpack the television and the pornography.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I've got the computer set up and the wireless working, but this is all set up in the breakfast room with a window which faces onto the neighbours back door. As we haven't painted the breakfast room yet, we haven't put the curtain rail back up so I haven't risked using it for pornographic purposes yet.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
We got a piano delivered yesterday! It's horrifically out of tune and probably needs some work, but it's a nice looking 1920s upright (Monington and Weston) and it fits nicely into the living room.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
You should get saloon style swinging doors on your living room, and stop playing the piano every time someone new walks in.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
For anyone who hasn't seen on facebook, my decorating project has more or less come to a finish. Still need to replace the old fixtures and fittings (light fittings, plug sockets, etc) but it's basically all there now. Bloody hard week though, never again.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
I enjoyed looking at the pics on Facebook - seems like a ton of hard work has gone into it. It seems quite weird that everyone's doing these big house projects at the same time. Anyway - good job in getting it done in two weeks. Some friends of mine moved into a new place a fortnight ago and they still haven't sorted out a phone line. They keep emailing me asking for the numbers of workmen and then staring at them, wondering what to do.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Also, I'm about to win a piano on eBay, so CiH hasn't won yet.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
We were sort of forced into the situation really, so didn't have a lot of choice. We could have taken longer getting all the decorating done, and certainly it would have been done to a better standard if we had done (though it's by no means bad) but that would have meant staying with my parents longer which is frankly unbearable, or moving into a house which constantly reminded Reema of her ex. Something I was keen to avoid.
It's amazing the difference putting a bit of paint on the walls can make though. The irony is that the place was on the market for months before we did this and there was very little interes, with just a few offers quite a bit lower than the asking price. But the state of the place would have put anyone off as it was. One week of effort and it's like a completely brand new place with a totally different character from before. We've spent around £1500 so far on decorating items and carpet. We expect to spend another thousand or so on new heating, and then the cost of the new furniture on top, so the budget has rather gone out of the window. But since we're going to be living there, rather than being shrewd and trying to make a profit, it's worth investing a bit more and turning a fairly bland little box of a flat into a place which is warm and welcoming and you're happy to call it your home.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
I, on the other hand, am putting moving plans on hold for a year and thinking about buying an MX-5...
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
That's a fine idea. If you want any advice I'm happy to help. There's not a lot I don't know about MX-5s
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by MiscellaneousFiles: I, on the other hand, am putting moving plans on hold for a year and thinking about buying an MX-5...
Make sure you get plenty of advice about that before you commit. I can put you in touch with a mate from Uni who knows all about sports cars. I know it's a bit weird getting in touch with strangers, but no-one else I know of knows fuck all about this kind of thing.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Great. Ringo already ruined my joke. Over before it started.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
People have left TMO over less than this.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Thanks Ringo. I asked you for some info when my dad was thinking about buying one a few years ago. I've just read through your reply again and it's very helpful.
Briefly, I'm thinking of an MX-5 1.8i mk2 and I have a budget of up to £2,500. Ideally I want a UK car, not a Eunos, and something stock as I have no NCB. Does that sound possible?
ETA: I'd take this to email, but let's face it TMO needs the posts these days.
[ 14.09.2010, 07:26: Message edited by: MiscellaneousFiles ]
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Plenty out there for your budget. Don't bother looking at the 1.6 if you're only looking at UK models as the UK 1.6 was a de-tuned version with <100bhp and not much cop to drive.
If you can find a 1.8iS then it'll have a torsen limited slip differential and a few extra bits of chassis bracing which will make for a sportier feel through corners, but they're pretty much all good.
Here's what I could find on pistonheads from a quick search
Loads more but I got bored of copying links.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: Also, I'm about to win a piano on eBay, so CiH hasn't won yet.
My piano is out of tune and is going to cost £160 to get in tune. So in total that will have cost me £300 for a free piano.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I can't believe that ebay no longer gives you the name of the top bidder on items, so I can't find out what thorn is bidding on and outbid him and win a piano that I don't want. This sucks.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Unless I bid on every piano ending today.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Thanks Ringo. Some crackers there. I've seen one or two with hard tops for another couple of hundred quid. Any thoughts?
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Worth it for the winter, and doubly so if you have a garage or somewhere that you can store it in the summer. Driving with the hard top on cuts out a lot of wind noise and eliminates a bit of scuttle shake so the car feels a bit more 'together' with it on. Obviously the disadvantage is that you can't simply take the roof down, but I was never that fussed about that anyway. It's particularly good for the winter.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove: I can't believe that ebay no longer gives you the name of the top bidder on items, so I can't find out what thorn is bidding on and outbid him and win a piano that I don't want. This sucks.
Tell me about it. You think I want a piano? I can't even play the piano. But then I found out you were getting a piano, so I didn't really have much choice.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
You think I wanted a baby? We came to your house and you were having a baby and Richie was having a baby and it was like OH FFS, if everyone is doing it then I've got to as well, and now I don't get any real time to play Xbox Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
I'm not having a baby or a piano. I did buy a new guitar though.
Lost one of our cats Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove: You think I wanted a baby? We came to your house and you were having a baby and Richie was having a baby and it was like OH FFS, if everyone is doing it then I've got to as well, and now I don't get any real time to play Xbox
Wait until she starts walking. That's when the fun really ends.
[ 14.09.2010, 09:18: Message edited by: Thorn Davis ]
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Sorry to hear about your cat, Ringo.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
quote:Originally posted by Ringo: Lost one of our cats
Really sorry to hear that m9 Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Yeah, it's not what we need right now. He ran out of the door when I was letting a friend of mine out, nd my friend instinctively ran after him, effectively chasing him away. We searched for hours but never found him, and haven't seen any sign of him for a couple of weeks now. Don't know if we're likely to see him again.
The other one is really missing him. Keeps going round the house meowing at doors and stuff.
Bad times.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Not that there's ever a time when you actually do need to lose a cat.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
No, the only circumstances I can think of would be stupidly contrived.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Have you put posters up around? Put a post on your local craigslist etc?
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Yeah we did all that, and informed all the local animal shelters, RSPCA, that kind of thing. He's chipped, but doesn't have a collar (always loses them).
I think the chances are he's trying to find his way to the old flat, but he's not got a very high chance of finding it. I think our only hope for him being returned to us is if he's taken to a vet or the rspca and his chip is scanned. He's unlikely to still be in the general vicinity.
I just can't spend too much time thinking about it at the moment, it doesn't do any good. Probably people who don't own cats wouldn't understand how attached you become to them. I wouldn't say it was anything like losing a child, but certainly you feel like your cats are much-loved members of the family, and their absence leaves a very painful void. I'm just consoling myself with the fact that he's good around roads and won't have any trouble catching food, so I don't think he's likely to suffer for being outside. He's probably having a great adventure.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
I console myself with those exact thoughts everytime I think about Dr Benway.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
It breaks my heart what this forum did to him. Just needling away at him, chipping at his confidence, picking him up on every little thing he said and twisiting it into some bizarre tool with which to attack him. It makes me sick. You lot didn't deserve him. Just treated him like shit and now he's gone. Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
It's not all bad though, we've got Kovax back now.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Which reminds me, I've been reading Neuromancer recently. Oddly had never read it before. Pretty good.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Finally got a completion date of the 24th. Woop woop.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Oh, I assumed that as you'd been doing all the decorating you'd already completed!
Congratulations though. Exciting times. Exciting times indeed.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
No, it's a bit of an unusual sitation since reema is effectively buying the property off of herself and pete. So pete's coming off the deeds and I'm going on, but it's already Reema's property so we've had access all along, though we had agreed not to enter the property while Pete was still there. He moved out at the start of the month so we've been able to get in there for weeks, but didn't want to do anything until paperwork had been signed. We took a bit of a risk starting before the completion date (even though the transfer forms had been signed by all parties) but it was either that or contemplate another fortnight with my parents which just wouldn't have been acceptable.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
I hate Pete.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Anyone know much about mobile phones?
I'm due an upgrade now so looking around. I'm not interested in the locked down iphone so am looking at other stuff.
The Samsung I9000 Galaxy S looks really nice. Anyone have one/know if it's any good? Or have any recommendations for a different phone?
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
HTC desire is a good bet
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove: The Samsung I9000 Galaxy S looks really nice. Anyone have one/know if it's any good?
I don't have the I9000 Galaxy S, but I do have a Samsung C3050 which I guess is pretty much the same:
It's got a high quality 176x220 pixel colour screen and even a camera, which can take digital photos at up to 640x480 resolution! You can download Java games including a great one called Poppin Panda which I've just completed:
Posted by dang65 (Member # 102) on :
The HTC Desire HD is coming out soon - Mid October I think they're saying. I'm due for an upgrade as well and think I'll have to go for one of those as my first full-on smart phone. I like my Nokia E71, but I want to play about with some development for the state-of-the-art phones.
I like a keyboard though, and they're doing a keyboard version as well, which looks interesting. I'm not sure if it's going to be a bit flimsy though.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by MiscellaneousFiles: I hate Pete.
He's actually a really, really funny guy. We play on Xbox live every now and then. He's a solid bloke. Me, him and a bunch of others are going ski-ing in January.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
you're good mates with a ginger
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
A phone called the Desire is really stupid. Where do you go from there? The Obsession?
Posted by dang65 (Member # 102) on :
quote:Originally posted by Octavia: A phone called the Desire is really stupid. Where do you go from there? The Obsession?
I think they just do the manly thing and add more letters. The Desire GTX, for example. G, T and X are very arousing letters for males. I mean, just X on it's own = sex, right? GT is gran torino, which is actual Italian, which means that ladies will just do it with you, even on a train or something.
Obsession might be the girl's version, as it implies a sort romantic psychopathy, like a nice way to say "stalker", like that lady in the papers this week who kept following Radio Two DJs and Tory MPs around. Probably the most disgusting fetish this country has ever witnessed. But "Obsession" makes being a complete fucking nutter sound kind of tragic and poetic and, frankly, that sells phones. To ladies. Anything with a lower-case i and a combination of Z, X, G or D sells them to men.
*pushes desk back down*
[ 16.09.2010, 04:35: Message edited by: dang65 ]
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Completion day today. Got a call from the solicitor to confirm that I am now a total raving homeowner.
Will be cracking open a bottle of Tyskie in celebration.
And yesterday I finally got the TV up and running. It was a beautiful moment.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Very good.
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
Nice work, Ringers - welcome to the land of the hopelessly indebted.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Does anyone have any experience of running electricity out to a shed and also insulating said shed? I'm not going to be drawing huge amounts of power: nothing more intensive than - say - some cutting tools, a light and a video camera. The insulation doesn't have to be full on - I'm not going to just be sitting still in there; it's going to be quite physical, but I would like to keep some heat in and maybe some soundproofing so as not to wake the neighbours.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I have a massive shed that is insulated and has power. I have no experience of setting it up though. There are cables sort of going down the side of the fence via the pump room. You can look at my wires if you want.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
OK... so I need cables of some kind. Any idea what they do?
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
I think what you'll need really is an electrician. However you might be able to sort it out yourself, depending. If you have one of those little blanking plates on a wall in your house; the ones which look like there should be a socket but there's nothing, then you may have a power source right there. Turn the power off in your house and then take the blanking plate off - if you have a live, neutral and earth all terminated behind the plate, then you can buy a replacement for this plate which has a connector and a little slot in the bottom for a cable to come out. You could also just replace a single plug socket with one of these.
If you can sort this out then you'll need to get a decent length of electrical cable to go from the socket out to the shed. Get a fairly heavily insulated cable so it'll be weatherproof and won't be easily broken by wear and tear - I think an electrical supplies store should be able to provide lengths of weatherproof cable. You'll need to drill a hole in your wall to run the cable from indoors to outdoors, and you can get plastic covers to tidy up the hole where you run the cable from. Again, an electrical supplies store should be able to provide this. Then simply run the cable in a tidy route along your garden to your shed, making sure it's not going anywhere that it might be easily cut or broken. You can then attach more or less whatever you want onto the end of it - most likely a multi-way power adapter.
You could do it a little cheaper if you simply buy a long multi-socket power extension, and plug it into a socket and just run it outside in the way I describe above, but the proper way to do it would be with blanking plates and proper connectors and stuff. It's not hard to do, just fiddly, and you'll have to drill and eff-off hole in your wall with a massive masonry drill bit.
WRT insulating the shed, then probably the simplest thing to use would be the dimpled foam stuff you can get for sticking to walls in home studios. As it's soft you'll be able to attach it to the interior of the shed just using tacks or staples, and it'll be easy to replace if you need to. Just make sure your shed is nice and waterproof otehrwise it could easily rot, and it does make a nice haven for any insects who might want to live behind it.
Hope this helps
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Cheers Ringo - that's useful.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I'm going to be working in Victoria tomorrow if any of the massive amount of London based TMOers fancy a beer after work?
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
I've got a massive deadline factor going on, otherwise I'd definitely meet you for a pint. Even though (or because) we barely know each other.
But, either way, I won't be there.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
That's a shame. I'll try to give more advance warning next time I'm up, would be good to meet up for a beer.
Good luck with your deadline.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
There's always Benway, although I understand that he's given up drinking after consulting with a doctor.
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
Actual size.
Posted by froopyscot (Member # 178) on :
quote:Originally posted by Ringo: WRT insulating the shed, then probably the simplest thing to use would be the dimpled foam stuff you can get for sticking to walls in home studios. As it's soft you'll be able to attach it to the interior of the shed just using tacks or staples, and it'll be easy to replace if you need to. Just make sure your shed is nice and waterproof otehrwise it could easily rot, and it does make a nice haven for any insects who might want to live behind it.
Yes but do be mindful that the egg crate foam (particularly the inexpensive kind) is quite flammable. Not the sort of thing I'd like to have lining the walls of a small, enclosed space with home-made wiring junctions. But that's just my preference, you know, and bias against being crisped.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
Did you go for a pint in the end, then, Cherry, so?
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
Amusingly, today I'm typing on a "Cherry" keyboard. It's as if I were literally touching you with my fingers, as they tap-dance across your pale white body, and you make a satisfied clicking noise with every stroke that I make. So sensitive are you to my caresses that I'm bottoming out almost every time.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I had an offer from a "Dr Benway" of a pint, but ended up going for networking drinks with the people from the London office that I hadn't met before. They didn't want to discuss minecraft at all so overall it wasn't as good as if I'd met Benway.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Actually, I just checked and it wasn't an offer of a pint, it was an offer to "meet up".
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
And we all know what that means.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I assumed it meant "rough sex down an alleyway next to some bins"
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
And we all know what that means.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
It's Benway speak for getting some wine in and comparing notes on the subtexts in Kubrick films.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis:
quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove: You think I wanted a baby? We came to your house and you were having a baby and Richie was having a baby and it was like OH FFS, if everyone is doing it then I've got to as well, and now I don't get any real time to play Xbox
Wait until she starts walking. That's when the fun really ends.
Ah shit Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
After speaking to the guy at kwikfit yesterday and telling him I really just wanted to get the essentials done for the MOT, he listed of all the things they'd found and said it would cost £636.10. It's a sting but if it needs it to pass I agreed to it. Paid the money, got the car home and read through the documents and the ONLY THINGS it failed on were two new bulbs and a drive shaft casing which would have come to £60 in parts in total. Add on the cost for labour, service and MOT and it should have cost me about £200 but they decided to do all this other stuff as well even though it would have passed the MOT without it.
So, I now have new brake pads, new brake discs, new suspension coil, something else etc etc.
Fuckers.
I'm sure all these things are useful, but it's a bit deceptive.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
Yeah I read on the internet that that's what KwikFit do, almost as standard.
Sorry to hear you got your car fixed.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Ah balls. Just had a quick google and there are so many stories exactly the same as this. Wish I'd googled first. Will write a complaint letter but suspect that it will get me nowhere.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
While it may or may not be possible to get quicker than a Kwik-Fit fitter, they certainly aren't the boys to trust. Oi!
[ 14.10.2010, 12:44: Message edited by: MiscellaneousFiles ]
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Your best bet is to go to one of those MOT stations that just does the testing, not to a garage or fast fit centre that has an MOT bay on the side. When they have no vested interest in telling you everything's falling apart, it's surprising just how few faults they tend to find.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
God, that would piss me off. The worst thing about it would be standing there completely powerless, having to hand over your £600 - not just because as the goddamned customer you should be treated a bit better than that, but also because these are always the irritating little fuckheads that you were convinced you were better than at school. I recommend you log into the system at work and add all the mechanics to the credit blacklist.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
lol. Just got a courtesy call from Kwikfit customer services saying "We'd like to hear what you thought about the service and talk to you about possible savings". He didn't get to the bit about the savings as I told him what I thought about the service. He's going to get someone senior to give me a call back.
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: I recommend you log into the system at work and add all the mechanics to the credit blacklist.
I don't necessarily want to adhere to stereotypes but I can't imagine that Kwik-fit f**kheads are generally Amex-carriers anyway.
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