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Is this it? I know a lot of former TMOers are posting on DIIS now. Is that where everyone has gone or are there still some people left?
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To clarify DIIS isn't a real board. It was... it was just a way of getting.... You know... the joke in. It's all Benway's fault by the way. All of this is his fault.
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I only got back from France on Tuesday so I'm not really sure what's going on. There seems to be some kind of injoke or meme going on that I don't understand so I'm just staying away from it all for the minute
Holiday was good, in case anyone's interested, despite chronic ear infection and the Tent of Death
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It wasn't that exciting. There was a thread saying "What's your band name and how did you choose it" and I posted "The band's called Teensplitter and it's named after my cock". I suppose they've got to have their standards given they're supposed to be promoting a product.
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quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: It wasn't that exciting. There was a thread saying "What's your band name and how did you choose it" and I posted "The band's called Teensplitter and it's named after my cock". I suppose they've got to have their standards given they're supposed to be promoting a product.
That's how Ringo got kicked off the Rock Band forums, too.
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I’m here. Last night I went out filming again and we staged a small scale riot with flag burning. Turns out the flags were made out of amazingly flame retardant material so we had to douse them in lighter fluid, and even then we were able to burn them over and over again with no damage! The real police turned up after a while but didn’t seem overly concerned and went away again.
At the end the director said It’s a wrap! and we all high-fived and went to the pub. Living the dream.
quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: Tent of Death sounds interesting. Why not tell us about that?
The Tent of Death was a pretty ill-advised venture. You know those things you see on the internet and think “that’s a really great idea!” only to find that the reality comes nowhere near to what was promised?
Well as you may or may not know I went to Le Mans this year, camping, for the 24 Heures Du Mans. But we went in a mark 2 Toyota MR2 (rev2 turbo) which has absolutely cock-all boot space. So while looking for elegant solutions to our tenting problems, we came across a website selling those auto-erecting tents. You know the ones, they fold up into a disc, and you just kind of throw it and it becomes a tent magically. Great, we thought, they’ll fit right in the spare wheel space in the car. This was our first mistake – the disc into which these tents fold is about a metre in diameter meaning the only place they would fit is behind the seats, completely obscuring the rear screen. The irony here is that if we had gotten conventional tents we would have been able to get massive ones in the actual boot. In fact, camping next to us was a guy in a Ferrari 360, who parked up next to us, opened the front boot, and proceeded to pull out a mansion sized tent, clown hankie style.
The second issue with these tents (we had one each) was the size. Now these are advertised as two-man tents but let me be very clear on this point – two human beings would not physically fit in these. I know this because one human being has trouble fitting in them. To the point that I (shortarse as I may be) was actually unable to lay with my legs straight, meaning every night was punctuated by bouts of me waking up with massive cramp in my thighs and calfs.
Naturally they’re only single skinned as well, which means every morning the tent is utterly soaking from condensation, which makes it impossible to move without getting covered with freezing cold water.
But I could excuse all of this. After all, that’s just a shit tent, I mean nobody stipulated they were massive or any good. However the real problem I had was the bit where the tent tried repeatedly to kill me. Well, that may be a little harsh, because there probably wasn’t that much of a danger of death, however I can’t imagine they’re awfully good for your health. Let me explain – every night I woke up two or three times, as I say with awful cramp and sore knees, but also with a racing pulse and panting for breath, unable to control my breathing. Now I just figured I was having some kind of panic attack, like waking up in such a confined space, claustrophobic or whatever. I’d put on some jeans, go for a walk to the toilet and feel better. However, it was only when my friend who had an identical tent to me described having the same problem that we realized the rather massive design flaw to these tents – that the only ventilation flap on the thing fell shut when the tent was erected, meaning that there was actually no fresh air getting in. No oxygen. And in a tent as capacious as a body bag, it’s pretty easy to see what was happening.
Thankfully by using my pen knife and my best ingenuity, I managed to improve the airflow to my tent and prevent further bouts of carbon dioxide poisoning.
But let’s just think about this for a minute – I was in a lot of discomfort, not sleeping very deeply, I was by myself and I woke up. Imagine if this tent were being used by a couple of kids, who could probably sleep more easily. It’s not hard to imagine them maybe not waking up. I don’t want to say that these tents actually have the potential to kill people but… well. As I say, it can’t be any good for your health.
So yeah, that’s the Tent of Death. Rest of the holiday was awesome though.
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I was expecting something along the lines of you bought the tent from an old antique shop owned by Peter Cushing and he was loathe to sell it you, but you rather boorishly insisted and ended up getting strangled to death by a demon thugee. Your version was still good though.
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I've been working in-house at my old job (the one where they fired me) for the past couple of weeks, and now I'm moving house. That's why I 'm not here very much at the moment. I might not have any internet for a while now as well. I haven't 'left' TMO though.
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Alright Hippy? You're cycling these days aren't you? In Bristol? Apparently you're not alone, according to the news. It's the UKs cycliest place.
Perhaps TMO can help me out here - someone from another forum I use is living near Cambridge and is looking for a housemate. The costs are low, and she has a good social circle of other people on this drifting forum, so it'd be an opportunity for me to meet new people with the same interests as me, while moving out of my parents' house. I think I can more or less afford it, but it's pretty far for me to get into work.
What should I do? I'd probably need to sell the Spazda and get a diesel or something for commuting, and probably end up looking for a job there.
Should I do it or am I setting myself up for a fail?
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We all prisoners, chickee-baby. We all locked in.
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Ringo I am still cycling to work, the princely sum of 4 1/2 miles each way, when not put off by the weather. I'm currently a fair weather cyclist, not least because I don't have a locker yet where I can hang up any wet gear to dry during the day.
Cycled for the first time this week today, since I was returning from the IoW Festival on Monday, then overslept on Tuesday, then it bucketed yesterday. It was only when I got to work this morning that I remembered I had "streamlined" my keychain so as not to take anything unnecessary to the IoW and as a result didn't have the key to my bike lock with me. I had to resort to smuggling my bike up in the lift and stashing it in our filing room for the day.
mart - thanks m8! i am quite hot* at the moment.
*sunburned from being a white & freckly stealth ginger who has been standing in a field for 3 days.
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I think stealth ginger means she doesn't actually look like a ginger, but she has the skin of a ginger when it comes to getting burnt and being a bit pasty and feckly and all that shit.
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I've given it some thought and, hot as this chick may be, a 40 mile commute is not something I can centemplate given this peak oil problem we're having at the moment.
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