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I dont remember football making much of an appearance on TMO but hopefully there will be at least 1 person who might be interested...
*donning my Motty coat for a minute*
I've just finished watching the best football match I've seen in recent times.
I admit I dont watch it as often as I used to...but I just happened to catch it whilst seeing a mate.
I'm talking about...
Everton v's Chelsea
Now I'm not a fan of either team but it was gripping, lively and most of all a game played with passion.
Everton matched pace with Chelsea from the off until a stinker of a challenge on Tim Cahill (E) by Sean Wright-Phillips (c) outside the box.
James Beattie (e) shot the penulty confidently past goalkeeper Chech (c)
It was a really really physical game. John Terry (C) getting a bloody nose after colliding with James Beattie (e). Claude Makalele's (c) head also suffered trauma from James Beatties stray boot!
Chelsea have been blazing infront so far this season with 9 Premiership wins out of 9 (before today) so far this season. But they still went back to the tunnel at half time 1-0 down.
Shortly after half time Frank Lampard (c) got the equaliser.
At 75 minutes Chelsea had made 15 attempts on goal compared to Evertons 2. Evertons defence was impressive but to be expected from a team in their position and playing from home.
Throughout the rest of the second half Chelsea and Everton were evenly matched. There was a late in the day scare for Everton as substitute Arjen Robbens (c) effort sailed just over the crossbar.
Attempts were made on both ends by both teams in the three minutes extra time but to avail.
Score 1-1
Disappointing, but by god i dont think either team deserved to lose...
Man of the Match for Everton
Duncan Ferguson and grudgingly James Beattie :smug wanker:
Man of the Match for Chelsea
John Terry for being totally cool even with blood trickling down his face and Lampard for his effort
If you've actually read this all the way down... a tenuous link for you...
Please tell TMO what you did this weekend which you may not have done in a while?
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I licked a giant ox heart and spent over £1000 of Levi's money on putting on a gig where a lady takes her top off and rolls around in meat. It ruled! I have never done either of those things before.
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Well I shouldn't imagine either of those are your normal, every-day occurance!
I have a fondness for the Beattie boy from his Saints days. However, he did get somewhat chubby before he left. I can remember one game when we were in the stands and someone shouted, "get after that fucking ball Beattie - there's a pie in the middle of it". And do you know readers? He took off after it like a greyhound out of the traps!
I went to a wedding party last night and met a nice man, who seemed to like me too. This is very unusual a] because I usually only atract complete lunatics of the "tattoo and McEwans" variety and b] because I tend to scare people [men] away by being far too stand-offish and faux arrogant [really what I'm doing is that self-preservation thing of pretending to be like that in case they don't like me anyway]. So, y'know, that was unusual for me.
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My weekend was pretty much a carbon copy of every other weekend, although I watched THREE, count em THREE films. History of Violence, Dawn of the Dead remake, and Sympathy for Lady Venegeance. I went to a market as well, but didn't buy anything.
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We were actually social with our old 'city' friends! We were supposed to all pack up and go to a local Maize Maze, but they were closed due to weather (and mud), so we sat around all grown-up-like and played a game, which involved actual words and thought. I feel like the haze that's been on my brain for the past six months might be beginning to lift.
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I did a shit load of ironing. I pulled suspect manky leaves off the rhubarb plant. I walked with the missus when she went on a hack. We had Sunday lunch at lunch time. I spent my time wondering if the Oxyrnynchus papyri actually had anything in Latin and found out that they probably didn't.
Nothing that unusual. Makes a change from standing in a field dressed in a silly costume though!
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I took my son to a party at a friend's house on Sunday. We'd been told there was to be a "Party Bus" which he was particularly excited about. It was advertised as a converted double decker bus which had been fitted out with everything you could possibly need for a kid's party.
Not far from the friend's house I got stuck behind a slow moving furniture removal truck, weaving its way around parked cars and tight corners. It was painted light grey, no other markings, and looked like the sort of vehicle the IRA would park on Whitehall and fire mortars out of.
Eventually, this van pulled up outside the friend's house and a short, fat, bald man got out. We watched. He opened the back doors of this enormous truck and the inside was fitted out from floor to ceiling with one of those Wacky Warehouse set ups - cargo nets, slides, ball ponds, rope swings. He got some steps out of the back then shut the big doors and put the steps next to a little door at the side.
It was incredibly sinister, a sort of updated version of the Child Catcher out of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. I had reservations about leaving my son there, I can tell you, and my doubts weren't calmed much when I got back later to pick him up and found the van was gone and there was no sign of the kids except for one who was sat outside the house on the doorstep looking miserable and abandoned, like the crippled kid out of The Pied Piper Of Hamelin.
Turned out he was just having a sulk while the rest of them played Musical Bumps indoors. Phew.
I also fell off a ladder while trying to cut the top of a very tall hedge at the back of our garden. I think Harold Lloyd would have been proud of the way I balanced for a couple of seconds, flapping frantically in an attempt to remain airbourne before falling through the hedge like Homer Simpson falling into a ravine.
Incredibly, no one saw me, which was a terrible waste of such a great slapstick performance so I thought I'd at least try and describe it.
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I spent some of yesterday working on *this. I also watched some of Hellboy, but sadly I didn't make it to the end. Niles Crane was most amusing as the voice of Abe Sapien. As I dozed off, I was half-expecting him to make a comment about Maris's sniffles.
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Just to make London's Ox heart adventures look even more rock and roll I shall let you into the secrets of the most uneventful weekend I've had in a long while.
I had breakfast in bed brought to me on a tray, with the newspapers and it featured home made soda bread, which the OH had risen several hours earlier to make. Fantastic and somthing of a new one on me.
I stayed up until 1am mending and making new linings for some retro (ie. ancient but kind of cool) curtains, when I knew I had to be up at 6.30 this morning.
Happy Monday TMO. I shall be henceforth sleeping under my desk like a dormouse. Haven't done that in a long while either and never without the excuse of intoxicants.
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I worked 21 hours from home with what was supposed to be a couple of hours work, and was positively insulted by a director, but I already moaned about that on here. Then last night went and had lots of drinks with friends and sang Billy Idol songs very loudly.
H1ppychick
We all prisoners, chickee-baby. We all locked in.
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I went to a champagne tasting on Friday at which I got fizzily legless (I know, could I be any more middle-class?)
Dossed around on Saturday, not doing anything much, then went out to dinner with friends in the evening (ahem, apparently I could be more middle-class, then). I redeemed myself a bit by getting the last bus home rather than a taxi.
Yesterday, did sweet FA. Actually, I did do something that I don't do very often, and that was cleaning out my Man U room. I have a Man U room, by the way. Not through any affiliation of my own, inherited from the previous incumbents who had a six-year-old Red, whose bedroom this was, and who somehow persuaded his parents to put up Man U wallpaper. It's quite a talking point.
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quote:Originally posted by H1ppychick: Dossed around on Saturday, not doing anything much,
Er, I was walking around Bristol city centre on Saturday doing nothing except killing time. It was then and only then I realised I could of asked if you wanted to hook up and also kill time. Sorry.
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H1ppychick - I have a Liverpool FC room. It's very similar I imagine - wallpapered in bright red club logo paper (ouch) with matching lampshade. Also inherited from a previous child owner.
We could have a room competition. Lock a couple of lucky forites in the respective rooms, with just the junk we store in 'em for company and see which one has a psychotic episode first!
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I put up pikey double glazing! It seems pretty good so far, and the tape is holding up for now. I’m quite impressed with it - if you trim the edges properly and get all the wrinkles out it is pretty much invisible. It isn't really cold enough today for a proper assessment of it's insulating properties, so you will have to wait a little longer for that exciting revelation....
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Joan C, were the lesbians fighting outside the Oak, or whatever that pub's called opposite your flat? My best friend has become a lez, and often drinks with her girlfriend in that bar. The g/f is a bit 'handy', apparently, and indulges in fights. So it might have been her! Gracious.
New experiences this weekend: Buying guilt-inducing non-free-range chicken: 8 pieces Stropping out of Asda for being too pikey and crowded: 1 Picking up dishwasher from steep hill in Chingford with non-functioning handbrake: 1 Asking gardener how to prune my bush: 1 Writing surprisingly unamusing account of amateur operatic experience: 1000 words
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Stayed in pjs ALL DAY. Because I could. Me an Octavia made Thorn go out and buy eggs and waffles for a fry-up. Ah lovely fry-up. Then we felt like watching Batman Begins, so we sent Thorn out to buy it. Watched horseracing and dozed pleasantly all afternoon.
Sunday.
Reluctantly got dressed in order to go out foraging for food. Bought boring food and also treats for finishing exams: Kingdom of Devon on DVD, 1 green top for work, 1 sparkly green top for non-work. Spent day re-reading HP6.
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I saw some lesbians fighting as I glumly surveyed the nightlife from the top of the N29 on Saturday night. It was quite a lame fight, and not hugely aggressive. One lesbian was holding something that the other lesbian wanted, and a playful struggle turned semi-playful. That was it. BYE!
quote:Originally posted by Darryn.R: And the builder are fitting it, couldn't it get DIY'd ? Those are some high costs for a floor.
The builder am. He's doing other things as well.
It's a hard wood floor so it needs to be mounted on a plywood sub-floor first. To fit it myself, I would need to hire a compressor and a floor stapler (I've never used one of those) and a decent mitre saw. It's all a bit of a palaver and I didn't want to risk doing it myself. I had the builders in anyway - knocking down a supporting wall, so I took advantage and got them to fit the floor. They've nearly finished and I must say it looks very nice. I'd hate have chucked all that cash at a floor only to fit it myself and do a substandard job. Plus I'm lazy.
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I have to say I've only had bad experience with builders of late. A part of me thought it seemed like a LOT of money for a floor, but thinking back now that's about what I spent on carpeting which is now so badly stained by Beckett it could really do with replacing, I'll wash it once first though maybe it'll scrub up.
Yes, yes it was spill out from the Oak. It wasn't so much a fight as a screaming session. They just swore at each other for a long time. It was in the early hours and I was half asleep. At first I thought it was two huge families of chavs. There was a lot of tracksuit action and some serious FUCKING SWEARING and posturing. The whole thing broke up slightly when a police car came but started again shortly afterwards.
After the police left two couples started kissing and then there was a regroup and a new argument.
I couldn't really work out what it was about but I think someone had kissed someone they shouldn't have earlier in the night.
It was a very butch affair in everything but the lack of actual physical violence. It just goes to show that girls really do like to talk more than men. In the hour and half this went on, similarly pissed up blokes would have beaten each other senseless, made up, eaten a kebab and then started a new argument with someone else.
I hope your friend wasn't there, Herbs. No one came out of the affair with any glory.
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Christ! I'm glad I stayed in at the weekend. Lesbian shouting matches everywhere it seems. Okay two. They sound pretty mild actually, judging by the lack of pool cue/ earring ripping action and punches thrown.
Sorry, way off topic. I'm going to sleep off my sewing now.
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Do you have any good lesbian fighting stories OJ? Or do you wait until the bar room brawl kicks off and then crawl out on your hands and knees like The Fall Guy?
quote:Originally posted by Darryn.R: what I spent on carpeting which is now so badly stained by Beckett it could really do with replacing, I'll wash it once first though maybe it'll scrub up.
Carpets usually scrub up a treat, even old ones. It's unbelievable what those spray on/hoover off machines can get out of carpets, and how gorgeous the place looks when they're freshly cleaned. Possibly the only genuinely satisfying household cleaning duty known to [a] man.
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