So, what's everyone been up to for the last few years? Read any good books?
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I just finished labouring through an edited digest of the works of DT Suzuki and seriously. I mean, seriously come on. I've also been listening to Stephen King reading an unabridged version of his book "bag of bones" and actually, seriously as well, Stephen King. How fucking long do your books have to be. I mean that seriously.
How about you, Benny the ball? There's a book about David Bowie cosplay that I read about but I haven't actually read. Did you read that?
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
I only have time to read reviews of books and add them to my amazon basket these days. Reading actual books is for losers.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
It's true, if you've got time to read then you've clearly failed to hit some milestones.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
I've just taken the lid off the swimming pool. There are lots of creatures. The miscifferlets are disappoint.
I read a Peppa Pig book last night. Mister Bull is a fucking terrible roofer, but the teacher, who also seems to be responsible for upkeep of the buildings and grounds, just accepts the poor quality of his work and keeps hiring him to replace the school roof. He'll appear on Cowboy Builders before long. Matt Allwright will be dressed as a matador.
Three Garys.
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Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
I read a lot of super hero comics these days, since I discovered the Marvel Unlimited app. I tried to read the whole of the Dark Reign event but it made no sense however I approached it. Now I just read Venom and Ms Marvel. I tell myself that I'm either reading them ironically or checking to see if they're suitable for the kids. But truthfully I just sleep better if I doze off imagining that Ms Marvel will swoop in through the window and take me on an adventure. Did I mention I'm going to be 40 in a couple of months? I never realised that this is what 40 year olds think about.
Posted by Benny the Ball (Member # 694) on :
Life - married, two kids, moved to LA, work, old, knees hurt
Books - Started reading Dark Money and Listen Liberal, but the combined left, right blows of seeing American democracy crumble under the weight of greed and stupidity was proving too much for me during these times.
So I read some Herman Hesse instead.
Posted by Benny the Ball (Member # 694) on :
Oh, Beck has a new album coming out. It sounds really Beck like.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
2 minutes ago, If you'd asked me whether Beck was still alive, I'd have had to really think about it and then finally admit that I have no idea.
I'm glad that I've reached closure on the whole Beck alive/dead situation without having to think hard about it, so thanks for that.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Oh wow. Active topics page doesn't update in real time, I'd completely forgotten about that. That's a throwback to the 2000s and the sort of thing we don't have to live with in this day and age.
Posted by Waynster (Member # 56) on :
quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove: Oh wow. Active topics page doesn't update in real time, I'd completely forgotten about that. That's a throwback to the 2000s and the sort of thing we don't have to live with in this day and age.
Stop complaining ! It's proper internets that the kids won't understand and keep the little buggars out.
Young today - want everything automated and on demand. What happened to working for something? Bah humbug etc.
EJ Thribb age 97 3/4
Posted by Benny the Ball (Member # 694) on :
I just discovered that the sphinx in Never Ending Story had nips. I don't remember this at all.
I think the first nip that had an affect on me was Dr Frank N Furters in Rocky Horror Picture show, and it left me confused for years.
Posted by jnhoj (Member # 286) on :
I was going to do this thread. I think we all were. My take was going to be to ask you to list your most recent post here and then update as to what has changed since then. Benny I think you've really let this nascent rebirth down.
If you think you had a better take on this than Benny, please let us know.
Below:
Also for introducing me to benway, who I recently shared a cocktail with in a Rio roof top swimming pool as a result of our selling shit via the medium of adverts for dell.
I hang out on www.rllmukforum.com - in theory it's about games but they do all sorts.
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I now live in Epping with my girlfriend (who I met on Guardian Soulmates) in a 1 bed flat and I run the Audiology Department here. I did not in my life think I would ever be running anything but here we are. I have an allotment and running headlong into middle age. I last read a fairly terrible book on the politics of power, and before that a book about Gordon Brown's spin doctor, which was good. However I prefer reading sci-fi. I last watched arrival, life and passenger which were all semi-decent sci-fi flicks. I am playing player unknown battlegrounds. I stopped making adverts in 2012 just because....I ran out of energy. It had been five years and it was getting a bit samey. Still, this was the best I think I made: https://vimeo.com/52745318
Hi!!!!
Posted by jnhoj (Member # 286) on :
We need now and then style pictures as well.
Posted by jnhoj (Member # 286) on :
I insist on seeing the ravaging effects of time on our once beautiful youthful selves.
Posted by Waynster (Member # 56) on :
So a lot has happened in the 5 years since TMO has been away. In short, I grew up. A lot.
House √ Wife √ Childe √ Dog √ Cat √ Driving License √ Cars (2) √ Green Card √
I also after 7 years left my employer (strangely after I promised in the interview that I would stick it out for 7 years). Now work in Aviation (A life long love) as a proper, pips on shoulder manager. A perk is I get to mess around in the coolest video games on the planet. Also I am now a Firefighter in my local town (they'll take any fucker) which is fun if sometimes a bit on the scary. So if you have any questions regarding explosives, rescue, active shooter scenarios (trained by the FBI no less) or getting cats out of trees I'm your man.
Reading - technical manuals for FF and for work mainly. My wife is a writer and is dismayed at how little I read and how many books I have on my to do list. I still have a Ben Macintyre to start on (love his books)
Watching - A lot. Except Game of Thrones which I never started. Halt and Catch Fire for the nerdgasm and nostalgia, redid Breaking Bad after recently being in the company of Bryan Cranston. Netflix addicted - What Happened To Monday comes very highly recommended and I need to watch that again. Dunkirk had me weeping - stunning piece of work.
Listening - something happened last year which made me lose a lot of love for music - kind of a betrayal. I buy maybe 2 or 3 albums a year off iTunes and listen to playlists in the car. I hate listening to stuff I haven't played in years because the artist died - I've done a lot of falling in love with bands again after their vocalist corked it. Did see Faith No More twice here a while back and shed a tear at their brilliance. Did see Kvelertak with Thorn as well. Which was nice.
Planning on maybe getting my PPL through work. Also looking at buying a classic MGB GT and dropping a Ford 3.5 liter engine. Also revolution - so much went wrong since 2011 - Shitgibbon in charge, Brexit, fracturing my foot last bloody night - I blame TMO shutting down. I hope now it is back everything will return to normal.
Posted by Bamba (Member # 330) on :
quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: I read a lot of super hero comics these days, since I discovered the Marvel Unlimited app. I tried to read the whole of the Dark Reign event but it made no sense however I approached it. Now I just read Venom and Ms Marvel. I tell myself that I'm either reading them ironically or checking to see if they're suitable for the kids. But truthfully I just sleep better if I doze off imagining that Ms Marvel will swoop in through the window and take me on an adventure. Did I mention I'm going to be 40 in a couple of months? I never realised that this is what 40 year olds think about.
I haven't read a real book since Iain Banks was alive because there's just too many comics to read. And video games to play.
Man, who knew that teenage me would be more literate than nearly 40 year old me.
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
quote:Originally posted by jnhoj: I have an allotment
No no, that's not right. jnohj is about 19 and doing drugs for the first time. Something wrong there.
Posted by Darryn.R (Member # 1) on :
He's growing marijuana weed and crack on his allotment though - That and the sub-letting to the dogging people is what's funding his pension fund...
Posted by Samuelnorton (Member # 48) on :
I am reading the same sort of books as I did before. But for fun, rather than research.
Bought own house close to ten years ago, and rolling smoothly into middle age with Nightowl and cat. Finally looking to transition from office job of thirteen years to freelance writing.
Not politics, but football. Sorry to disappoint those of you expecting the former.
Snorton is still Snorton, but I snort a lot less.
Posted by herbs (Member # 101) on :
I have embraced my dotage with a passion, and spend my time doing things The Young cannot fathom, such as getting exponentially fatter, not painting my face to look like a waxwork, watching telly programmes as they come on the schedule, naming pets after 1970s sitcoms*, getting confused by Instagram, and owning a house.
Since I was last here I have gained one son, two stone, two cats (*Jerry and Margot), and a new career (teacher). I have lost two cats and any semblance of reasonable income.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Bought house Got married Had childe Got fat Went grey Got skinny again Got fat again Grew a beard Shaved beard off Stretched earlobes like some mid life crisis prick Played an awful lot of Minecraft
Edited to add: Got some tattoos as well
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Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Then:
Living in a flat above a burger bar
Living in "sin"
Computers all over the place
Smoker
Two-eyed git
Working as a web designer for an IT company
Stay up until 3am playing video games
Marijuana
Appearing on stage as part of Interloper
Know how to write UBB Code™ by hand
Now:
Living in a sensible three bedroom detached house
Married to Kellifer since 2011
Kid doesn't know how to use a mouse
Serial vapist
Four-eyed git
Working as a UX / graphic designer, social media person for the same IT company...
Stay up to 3am just waiting for sleep
Citalopram
Trying to find the time to finish a home studio
Just click the buttons like a fucking moron
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
I went on a mad world rampage of getting married to an American and contracted in London for a few years with some of the best jobs I am likely to see in my life. For a few years I went back and forth to London and Kentucky and got stuck in visa hell. It was a laugh but mostly a pain in the ass. I moved to Milton Keynes to live with Ringo for a bit. That was also a laugh with only mild ass pain. I wrote a small amount of music on a Gameboy.
I live in Towcester, which is a little by Silverstone. It is lovely. Very active but also really chill and picturesque. I work as a Support Manager in a company that creates checkin systems for Patient Assessment Systems at hospitals. It is not rewarding but it is better being the boss than the lackey.
Reading - I haven't read anything like a book in a long time. I've been reading a manga called Dorohedoro and waiting on the next volumes in the post. It's about a guy who wakes up with a reptile head. He lives in the human world (The Hole) and Sorcerers come from the sorcerer world to mess with humans using their magic which is black smoke from their fingers. As a result Caiman, our lizard-headed hero slices off the fingers of sorcerers to cripple them. It is bonkers as shit. Cutesy, but ultra violent.
Watching - Binging Netflix loads and fucking loads. Watched quite a bit of horror. Stand out films have been Beyond The Gates with Barbara Crampton of Reanimator fame. Campy, low fi fun.
Listening - A couple of recent records I bought: Ringo Deathstarr - Pure Mood (modern shoegaze, Strange U - LP4080 (lofi London, nerdy, space hip hop)
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Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I have transcended corporeal bondage, and am now living my life as a 2 frame 16 bit animated flame sprite, but a blue flame because it's like a spirit flame.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
You're so deep hun x
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Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
I can't actually remember when 'then' was, but present state of affairs is that I'm halfway through a Masters in Librarianship and Information Science, which I started when I decided to be an academic librarian.
And the smallest goblin is about to go to school for Whole Days, so I'm job-hunting for the first time since 2004, which is giving me The Fear, frankly, in case I'm now officially over the hill and nobody wants to employ me.
However, other things are good. I can now make chairs and other useful wooden items.
Posted by jnhoj (Member # 286) on :
Thanks for ignoring my 'bit' about routing out your last post from 2011, you lot haven't fucking changed.
Posted by jnhoj (Member # 286) on :
Goddamn double post
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Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
quote:Originally posted by jnhoj: Thanks for ignoring my 'bit' about routing out your last post from 2011, you lot haven't fucking changed.
I don't know how to find my last post-before-now. Posted by jnhoj (Member # 286) on :
Go to your profile and fetch your member number, then go to the 'search' button up thar and it appears to sort by date.
Posted by Damon's Off (Member # 3) on :
This was my last comment, in response to our post about shutting down the forum:
quote:Originally posted by Damon's Off: Oh, right, so NOW they all come out of the woodwork. Bastards.
I think it works just as well as a welcome back message, so here you go.
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
This was my last one, on the thread about a pre-Christmas meat:
quote:Originally posted by Octavia: Everyone should definitely come to Oxford in the new year.
Which I stand by
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Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
quote:Originally posted by jnhoj: Go to your profile and fetch your member number, then go to the 'search' button up thar and it appears to sort by date.
My last comment before I started to have problems logging in was "fuck this", which seems a little out of character.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by Benny the Ball: Oh, Beck has a new album coming out. It sounds really Beck like.
Since the forum ended, I've gotten into power metal in a big way. There's something absolutely freeing about the absurdity of it, completely devoid of any semblance of self-consciousness or sense of what's cool. It seems to be massive on the continent and is getting a foothold over here.
This one, whilst being a fantastic song also takes a moment to step away from the absurdity and give a bit of good life advice in "Fireballs make everybody die".
So, even if you don't enjoy the music, at least you've learnt something that may help you at some stage.
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Posted by Banana (Member # 89) on :
Well this is scary, makes me remember being young and first posting on Seethru and being terrified of all the scary, talented, clever, witty people I was joining in with. Most people won't remember me and that's fine, I was a lot quieter in general back then but then life happened to me and I ignore fear (to a point) these days.
So things that have happened since it's been gone...
Moved back down south Married The Teflon Kid Had 3 cats together Started working in IT and discovered I'm not too bad at SQL Found World of Warcraft Got divorced (this and the previous point are totally related I'm sure) Moved to the midlands Became a step mum
I read lots of books and am currently reading Alice in Zombie land. It's a young adult, teenage angst slayer type affair but sometimes that's just what a 40 year old woman wants to read Posted by Louche (Member # 450) on :
I cheered up. A bit.
Posted by Bamba (Member # 330) on :
quote:Originally posted by Louche: I became a hippy. A bit.
Fixed that for you.
Posted by Louche (Member # 450) on :
I'm currently really passionate about Tai Chi.
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Posted by Bamba (Member # 330) on :
It's not gong bathing, but then, what is?
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
^^ I don't really understand this exchange, but I want to join in, so I'm just going to post #SQUADGOALS!! like an idiot to pretend that I get a joke and can add to it.
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