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?
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I don't know what DIIS is. I'm just busy Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Don't worry, I'm here.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove: I don't know what DIIS is.
DIIS (deez) NUTZ Motherfucker!!!! GRAANNOOOWWWWoof
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
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.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Also, I've been banned from the Rock Band forums. Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
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
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Tent of Death sounds interesting. Why not tell us about that?
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: Also, I've been banned from the Rock Band forums.
Why not tell us about that?
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
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.
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
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.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
I thought it was called The Crippler. Did you change it by deed pole?
Posted by Abby (Member # 582) on :
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.
A riot last night…
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
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.
Posted by McDirts (Member # 6680) on :
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.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
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.
Posted by McDirts (Member # 6680) on :
Besides which, I'm fresh blood. You're positively thriving here at TMO.
Posted by Darryn.R (Member # 1) on :
Shhh - You'll wake someone up..
Posted by Darryn.R (Member # 1) on :
Shhh - You'll wake someone up..
Posted by Darryn.R (Member # 1) on :
ooo doubles
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
I don't tend to say much on TMO these days since I'm crippled by post performance anxiety, also I'm very, very dull. Still lurking, though.
Posted by Samuelnorton (Member # 48) on :
*stumbles past tumbleweed...*
I'm still here. Sort of. Interesting story about the tent, Ringo.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
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?
Posted by Darryn.R (Member # 1) on :
maybe it'll pick up later in the year, remember the summer lul.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
It's also worth noting that she's a hot chick.
Giggity
Posted by ralph (Member # 773) on :
quote:Originally posted by Ringo: It's also worth noting that she's a hot chick.
I think it was already implied (i.e. you're interested in her).
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
Hippy is a very hot chick.
Posted by Pepper (Member # 353) on :
quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove: I don't know what DIIS is. I'm just busy posting my dinners on TMT
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
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.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by H1ppychick: a white & freckly stealth ginger
Hang on. No. This doesn't fit with my mental image of you at all. I don't know what stealth ginger mean, though.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
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.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
Feckly, heh.
Posted by froopyscot (Member # 178) on :
quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis:
quote:Originally posted by H1ppychick: a white & freckly stealth ginger
Hang on. No. This doesn't fit with my mental image of you at all. I don't know what stealth ginger mean, though.
I don't see 'stealth ginger' on this scale anywhere. I don't think it's a real measure of gingerness. Gingerosity. Whatever.
nb: the owner of the site above needs to speak with someone about their irrational fear of redheads.
[ 19.06.2008, 09:44: Message edited by: froopyscot ]
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
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.
Posted by ralph (Member # 773) on :
40 miles one way or round trip? and how hot is she...on the ringo scale?
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
40 miles one way.
She’s pretty hot. But then my scale is pretty different to most guys’ scales I think. For a start, I find most ‘models’ (read slags who only exist to pose for photos in their pants for the enjoyment of knuckle dragging wankers) really very unattractive. For me, a hot chick is one with a nice smile and friendly eyes, who’s fun to be around. This one’s also into the drifting scene, which is always a massive bonus. Probably to most blokes she’d be a little on the plain side, but I think she’s gr9.
So yeah, at least an 8.5 on my scale. Maybe a little higher. Which is the perfect level. Any higher and the girl becomes prohibitively attractive, to the point where you’d not really feel like you had a chance of shagging her. It’s the shaggability factor that makes a solid 8 so enticing.
Posted by ralph (Member # 773) on :
she sounds lovely. I think my scale works much like yours, minus the drifting of course.
40 miles to you is probably a lot further than 40 miles is to me (I currently commute 45 miles one way). There's little to no traffic on my journey, so I can usually make it into work in about 50 minutes. I suspect it would take you a wee bit longer.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
Somebody help a brother out here. Ringo: moving in with someone you fancy is a recipe, nay a fucking personal chef, going out, hunting the ingredients for, putting together cooking up and force feeding you the food of disaster. Move in with someone cos it will be fun, not sexually pensive.
Posted by McDirts (Member # 6680) on :
quote:Originally posted by New Way Of Decay: Move in with someone cos it will be fun, not sexually pensive.
I'll 2nd that. I'll even 3rd and 4th it as well. I'll DP and Bukkaki Bath it if it'll help.
[ 19.06.2008, 10:43: Message edited by: McDirts ]
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
LOL, McDirts doesn't know how to spell bukkake.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
Actually the unknown and thrill of the chase can be fun too so scratch that.
Posted by Samuelnorton (Member # 48) on :
What Ralph said - same here, minus the drifting.
40 miles? Hmm. 80 miles a day, 400 miles a week... Probably a tank and bit in the Mazda, give or take. She sounds worth the effort - I'd go for it m7.
Better still, get a job in or around Cambridge. I have friends there, and having visited the area many times can say that it's a pretty pleasant place to live.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
quote:Originally posted by New Way Of Decay: Actually the unknown and thrill of the chase can be fun too so scratch that.
...said NWoD, before spotting a gazelle out of the office window, giving chase and finally fucking it to death.
Posted by McDirts (Member # 6680) on :
quote:Originally posted by MiscellaneousFiles: LOL, McDirts doesn't know how to spell bukkake.
Bukkaki, it's the 'i' on my keyboard, it comes out as an 'e'
Stupid keyboard. Stupid spunk faced schoolgirl style Japs.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
quote:Originally posted by McDirts: Stupid spunk faced schoolgirl style Japs.
THEY ARE NOT STUPID! Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Also, I think 'spunk-faced' should be hyphenated.
Posted by Louche (Member # 450) on :
If you move to Cambridge, Ringo, you could occasionally look after chocolatebun's children.
That's just got to be a plus all round, hasn't it?
Posted by McDirts (Member # 6680) on :
quote:Originally posted by MiscellaneousFiles: Also, I think 'spunk-faced' should be hyphenated.
Triple hyphenation if I had my way the little Spunk---faced oriental vixens.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Brr.
Posted by ralph (Member # 773) on :
quote:Originally posted by Louche: If you move to Cambridge, Ringo, you could occasionally look after chocolatebun's children.
Brr.
Posted by McDirts (Member # 6680) on :
is Chocolatebun's boiler bust or something?
Posted by ralph (Member # 773) on :
no, but the mere mention of her name sends chills down my spine.
Posted by McDirts (Member # 6680) on :
Why's that?
Posted by ralph (Member # 773) on :
I'd rather not say.
Brr.
Posted by McDirts (Member # 6680) on :
brr.
looks around nervously in case Chocolatebuns suddenly cames at me like a Rabid Bukkake Zombie Ninja. Posted by Suckmonster (Member # 8246) on :
Brrr.
Posted by McDirts (Member # 6680) on :
arghhh! What the fuck is that?
Posted by Suckmonster (Member # 8246) on :
I've joined two new forums, today.
Posted by McDirts (Member # 6680) on :
what's the other one?
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
quote:Originally posted by Suckmonster: I've joined two new forums, today.
Ooh, what's the other one like?
Posted by Suckmonster (Member # 8246) on :
It's a new bible forum. The old one was too political. Plus they didn't like me discussing amputee porn all the time. Fucking racist towards amputees, if you ask me, which you didn't.
Posted by McDirts (Member # 6680) on :
mmmm spunk-stumped.
Posted by Suckmonster (Member # 8246) on :
You're not allowed to say **** , here.
Posted by McDirts (Member # 6680) on :
****
Posted by McDirts (Member # 6680) on :
I never noticed that before. Cunting ******** cuntbubble
Posted by ralph (Member # 773) on :
I'm so sorry tmo. I've let you all down. Again. Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Amputee porn. What's the deal there? It does seem like a big taboo, but that seems a bit unfair to amputees. If someone loses a leg then it seems outrageous to suggest to them that anyone who finds them attractive is some kind of freakish deviant.
It reminded me of a thread on handbag about someone's 'worrying' prediliction for flat chested women. Imagine if you had an a-cup breast and someone told you that anyone who fancied you was basically a closet paedo. You'd be well within your rights to stab them.
Posted by McDirts (Member # 6680) on :
However, is it a taboo? It's just a bit specialist isn't it?
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Similarly old people porn is viewed as appalling and deviant, but really... what's wrong with finding old people attractive? I dunno. Sometimes I think porn is the only genuinely equal opportunities industry there is. Where else is every point of difference, from weight, to skin colour, to size, to age not only not an obstacle to success but welcomed with enthusiasm and turned into a plus point?
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by McDirts: However, is it a taboo? It's just a bit specialist isn't it?
Its taboo nature forms a plot point in Vernon God Little, but maybe that's just in DBC Pierre's imagination. Even there though he makes a clear point that it's not something the narrator is into himself, which suggests a feeling that if he were the author felt it would alienate the character from the reader too much.
I don't know. It crops up too rarely to guage people's reactions to it, but I would estimate that if you announced it as your 'thing' people would find it harder to process than if you said 'I like big boobs' or 'I like blondes'.
[ 19.06.2008, 12:58: Message edited by: Thorn Davis ]
Posted by McDirts (Member # 6680) on :
sorry, I'm not quite addressing the issue there. I would reckon that most amputees partners are in no way deviants being as they most likely fell for the person and not the stump. Most people who actively search out amputee porn specifically for wanking over stumps is certainly a little specialised in what turns them on. Then again, how do we know that the person who fell for the amputee wasn't initially attracted to the stump in the first place? I knew a very attractive girl years ago who had a false arm, I never realised for the best part of a year. If someone ended up with her it would've deffo been because of her and not her stump because it was actually hard to ascertain she had a stump.
Posted by ralph (Member # 773) on :
quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: Similarly old people porn is viewed as appalling and deviant
not in Japan Posted by McDirts (Member # 6680) on :
What about feeders? I remember being at a festival one year and watching a very skinny lad lovingly feeding his alarmingly obese girlfriend spoonful after spoonful of icecream. There was definitely something sexual about the way they were doing it. I got a bit chubby just watching. Could you argue that any level of getting specifically turned on by someone's handicap (be it obesity, amputated limbs etc) is about a power thing? Perhaps the control that person's disability allows you to exert over them, and by the same token that the sort of person who gets turned on by the disability rather than the person, possibly has got a few psychological issues.
[ 19.06.2008, 13:08: Message edited by: McDirts ]
Posted by Suckmonster (Member # 8246) on :
I don't remember that in Vernon God Little. (I'd probably wanked myself into such a stupour that I passed out and forgot all about it.)
The clock is wrong in this place.
[ 19.06.2008, 13:07: Message edited by: Suckmonster ]
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
I hate Wikipaedia. I clicked that link, and after reading that article, I went on to read entire pages about Flight of the Navigator (which I never realised starred BootFace [aka SJP]), Howard the Duck, Catwoman, Alex Borstein, Stewie Griffin and David Hyde Pierce.
I'm supposed to be sending a Japanese catalogue to press today, with a circulation of 25,000. As a result of reading too much Wikipaedia, I'm not going to have time to check it properly, so it may end up full of mistakes and could well feature a full page photo of a conjoined freak child with vaginas for eyes and penises for ears in place of an advert for the latest release of Visual Studio.
Thanks a lot, Froopyscot! Posted by froopyscot (Member # 178) on :
quote:Originally posted by MiscellaneousFiles: I'm supposed to be sending a Japanese catalogue to press today, with a circulation of 25,000. As a result of reading too much Wikipaedia, I'm not going to have time to check it properly, so it may end up full of mistakes and could well feature a full page photo of a conjoined freak child with vaginas for eyes and penises for ears in place of an advert for the latest release of Visual Studio.
Thanks a lot, Froopyscot!
Oh, come on, a few mistakes would serve them right. I wonder if there's an equivalent in Japan to what engrish.com is to the English speaking world?
And who knows, the vagina-eyed penis-eared image you describe might be an effective product mascot in Japan, just stylize the drawing and add some tentacles, right?
[ 20.06.2008, 10:46: Message edited by: froopyscot ]
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
That's not a bad idea. But do the Japanese really need any more bizarre fetishes?
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