The first time I got a train on my own, I had to travel 4 stops to my where my dad was working. I had an ovaltine bar (no longer available?) for sustanance on my journey and as I approached the ticket office I realised I had no idea what to say. I wanted a single as my dad was going to bring me back in the car, but what I said was "Can I have a ticket to Romford and not come back please?" Anyway I got there ok, it was exciting being on the train and making sure I got off at the right station. I ate my ovaltine bar.
Post something you did for the first time. Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
You missed a great opportunity for "28 years old, I was at the time".
Oddly, I can't remember the first time I took a train on my own. I must have been quite old at the time, and very used to taking busses all over the place, so i don't think it made much of an impression.
I do remember the first time I got winded. I would have been four or five years old, and another kid in the classroom punched me in the gut. It didn't hurt much, but when I realised I couldn't draw breath, I was terrified. So it was also the first time - out of not very many - that I sincerely thought I was going to die, and also the first time it occurred to me that one day I would die. I had no idea what had just happened to me. I couldn't breath and I couldn't tell anyone what was wrong. I just staggered back, sat in a chair and thought "This is it. This is as far as I go." I remember being sad at how my parents would feel. Then, of course, it passed.
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
I found it harder than I'd have thought it would be to think of a 'first time' for something. But one that sticks out as a eureka! moment is when I was reading a book in the lobby of the pub (because children weren't allowed inside, and obviously my parents weren't going to allow children to interfere with their pub-going). I must have been about five and I was kneeling on the floor, with my book propped up on the red leather seat of the bench, reading out loud, because that was the only way I knew how. And one of my parents, can't remember which, on a brief visit to check we were still there, said 'why don't you read to yourself'. And the moment of realisation that I could 'hear' the words in my head. That was awesome.
Posted by dang65 (Member # 102) on :
Your story's really inspired me Octavia. I'm going to have a go at that myself.
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
Today was my first trip to work on my NEW BIKE! Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I would suggest putting mud guards on that.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
and spokey-dokeys.
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove: I would suggest putting mud guards on that.
Rear guard already in place.
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
I need to buy a new mount for my front Cat's Eye. You're treated with suspicion and contempt when you try and buy a mount for an expensive bike light, the staff assume you whipped it from some other bike and just want a mount because you didn't have the time or inclination to fiddle about swiping the mount, as well.
Posted by Abby (Member # 582) on :
Knogg lights have awesome rubbery attaching bits so the dont need a mount ... see?. They is well nang.
One time the mount for my old light was stolen, not the light which I had with me, but just the mount. What kind of cunry does that?
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
how are you today, Abby?
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
quote:Originally posted by Abby: Knogg lights have awesome rubbery attaching bits so the dont need a mount ... see?. They is well nang.
They is, indeed, nang. And xmas is coming...
Posted by froopyscot (Member # 178) on :
quote:Originally posted by Black Mask:
quote:Originally posted by Abby: Knogg lights have awesome rubbery attaching bits so the dont need a mount ... see?. They is well nang.
They is, indeed, nang. And xmas is coming...
Very slick, though I'm confused by:
quote:This is a safety light only and should be used in conjunction with a regular rear light.
I mean, aren't all rear lights for safety? What's the purpose of a "regular rear light" then? Riding backwards?
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
quote:Originally posted by froopyscot: What's the purpose of a "regular rear light" then? Riding backwards?
That, and making things look redder.
Posted by Abby (Member # 582) on :
Hi Benway. I am still pretty unimpressed with life on the whole. Things are grim, with no promise of improvement. You?
Regarding the rear bike light - the LEDs are red when switched on, so I don't know what they mean about that light being insufficient.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
sorry to hear that, Abby. I hope that you are looking after yourself as much as you can, and are not falling too far into the hole.
I'm alright, although very tired. Always tired. Surviving on around six hours of sleep a night now, which doesn't feel like enough. Ah well. Plus I've got to go to surrey tonight because I left my cocking phone there last night. Of all the annoying things to have to do. Apart from the tiredness and the related problems, I think I'm fine. Carrying on, you know. Pressing forwards with unjustified confidence into the gloomy abyss, because what else can we do. What else can we do, Abby. You tell me.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
i would like to ride to surrey in the folds of a giant cardigan, being worn by a giant caring woman. Perhaps in her pocket. Safe and warm, forever. Maybe it is God i seek.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
but no. Here I sit in a striplight fog, resting on a barren beech effect desk, with only the jubilee line, the circle line, a train, another train, and the victoria line in my future. *cries*
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I'll be strong for you though, Abby.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
please be strong for us too, benway, and we will be strong for you. oh how we wish we hadn't gone sailing. what we wouldn't give to have never dared to dream of nautical glory
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Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I know lads. Try and keep smiling. You'll be fine. Your parents love you.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
thanks benway, it means a lot to know that you and everybody back home is hoping for our safe return. it's all that's keeping us going right now. if we didn't have that we don't what we'd do. anyway we need to go for more interrogation about supporting the velvet revolution now, so see you later yeah Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
ouch! Sounds nasty. Don't confess to anything. Thanks for staying strong for me. I've got to go now - I have a train to catch.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
seriously guys I've got to go, you're going to have to do this one by yourselves.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I think they'll be sending you a big thank you card for keeping their spirits up while they were captured Benway. I wonder if perhaps this helped at all in their bid to be released.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
yeah, it's time for them to face the world without me.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
hope Abby is feeling alright.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
She should listen to your podcasts. That would cheer me up if I was feeling down.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
They've been freed now. Fuck. Can you imagine how unbearable they're all going to be? They're just never going to fucking shut up about this for the rest of their everyday life. Can you imagine sharing an office with that bullshit? When the photocopier goes on the blink "Of course, this is nothing like the time I was captured and interrogated in Iran..." When the deadline is looming and you're all under the cosh: "Honestly mate, I survived interrogation in Iran and you're worried about how quickly the courier can get to New York?". At the Christmas party, chatting up the new sales rep, he slides in next to you both: "I... you know... sometimes I feel like I never fully recovered from the time I was captured and interrogated in Iran... I wake up some nights... screaming... I think I just need someone to comfort me..." leaving you heading back to the bar while she sticks a sympathetic tongue down his throat. Wankers. Dickheads, all of them. How much to get Iran to take them back?
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
I wouldn't let that shit slide, frankly. If they tried to pull that nonsense with me I'd just remind them that they were only arrested and interrogated because they got hopelessly lost while in a boat race and somehow managed to drift into Iranian waters unknowingly.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
"No... I'm alright don't worry. Well. You know. No - it's fine. It's just... You know. Chris is being a real dick about the time I was captured and interrogated in Iran. I don't think he understands how you never really recover from something like that. It's like - Yes! Exactly Exactly! If someone's kid died or something you wouldn't just have a go at them about it. No, I don't know what his problem is, either. Some people are just dicks, I guess. When someone's had it easy all their life how do you expect them to understand?"
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Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
"Guess you'll be wanting a satnav for Christmas then, yeah? lol"
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
"I couldn't afford the satnav you wanted so I just got you this boxset of Lost. lol"
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
You could offer to give him drifting lessons,. Although it doesn't look like he needs them.
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Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
The thing is. They're now going to get vague celebrity and interviews and get paid to go on TV entirely because they were so shit at sailing that they drifted into the wrong waters.
They are probably going to make tens of thousands of pounds JUST BECAUSE THEY ARE SHIT AT WHAT THEY DO.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
"Yeah, obviously there are always going to be people out there that who are bitter, yeah. But you know, you just rise above it. That's what life is. It throws you a challenge and you have to rise above it. And - you know - to those people that say 'All you did was get lost' - you know - I ask them 'What have you ever done?' It's just - it's pathetic actually. It really is pathetic. When you achieve something there's always going to be others - people who never achieve anything - trying to tear you down for that. There's actually a chapter about it in the book, which you can get from Penguin for £12.99 this Easter. It's called My Story"
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Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
A lot of people have come up to me and said "Surely it is fairly simple to stay in the right part of the water as you have really expensive navigation equipment that shows you exactly where you are and you claim to be an experienced sailor so really you have no excuse to have drifted into Iranian waters?" and to save more people coming up to me and asking the same question I'd like to give the same explanation now that I give to them and that simple explanation is "Fuck you buddy. Fuck you you fucking **** . Fuck your mother, fuck your father, fuck your entire family you fucking arsebandit" Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
There's nothing worse than bitter seamen
(there, I did it)
Posted by dang65 (Member # 102) on :
quote:Originally posted by Ringo: There's nothing worse than bitter seamen
Yeah, even worse than the unrelenting Shi'ites.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
lol
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Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
lol Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
lolol
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
quote:Originally posted by Ringo: There's nothing worse than bitter seamen
(there, I did it)
LOL! I got a pun! Hah.
Actually I think they look like nice well-brought-up boys.
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
quote:Originally posted by froopyscot: What's the purpose of a "regular rear light" then? Riding backwards?
Umm. The flexible-attachment ones don't count as proper lights, for some reason best know to the police. To count as proper bike lights they have to have a fixed bracket. I think because the vibration of riding can make them move. Or something. I don't know. I just know they don't count as lights for the purposes of policemen.
Posted by Abby (Member # 582) on :
Madness! I got the flexible ones because the others kept joggling out of place and falling off. Fuck da police!
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Maybe they'd be legal if you wanged them up good and proper with a bunch of cable ties?
Posted by Abby (Member # 582) on :
But then you couldn't remove them easily to swap between bikes, or protect them from theft (determined thieves)...the very flexibility which is their defining characteristic would be lost! I feel passionately that this law is unjust! I shall have a campaign...I will be crazy bike light lady, it'll be fun....
Im hungover Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
Hi Abby, how are you today?
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
apart from being hungover i mean
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I'm alright, enjoying a coffee. Did you know abby that my eye twitch is still present? Imagine that. it's quite annoying. Also, abby - I'm going away this weekend! All that talk of 'needing to get out the city' and I'm finally doing it. A weekend in devon. I have bought boots / socks / coat specifically to go for a trot on the moors. I'm hoping it'll be the break I need. Might be going to some kind of devon film festival on the friday night. Great stuff.
Anyway, apart from the eye, I'm fine I suppose. Hope you're okay too, Abby. Feels like the weekend alright, lol. Maybe I'll just watch Sealab 2021 for the rest of the day.
I better get back to work - these emails about the annual pantomime being accused of pandering to PC because they aren't singing carols aren't going to snigger at themselves, right?
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
hey there, just to let you know that we're fine now - it's been quite a whirlwind of press and bollockings and hugs and sympathy sex, but we're finally on our way home, a little bit wiser and a little bit thinner. Just wanted to thank you personally, benway, for being strong for us. you really can't imagine what a difference it makes to have that kind of support. It was pretty scary being interrogated by the iranians. Jonty flipped out and started telling his whole life story, like that kid in the goonies. Lol. Anyway, catch you later yeah Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
that's alright boys, just be safe from now on.
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Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
wh...?
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
you're not getting any sympathy sex from me, if that's what you're thinking.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
lol, worth a crack. really going now - bye!
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Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I know you weren't asking me but I'm mostly feeling alright. My stomach pains disappeared the evening after the interview which would suggest that they were stress related although I didn't really feel stressed but I guess it could just be that I don't really recognise when I'm feeling stressed? Who knows? So I haven't bothered to register with a doctor or anything like that.
I'm feeling a little bit of sickness at the moment but I think that is just because I haven't eaten anything today. I shall go across to the cafeteria in a minute to see what delights they have.
We have people over for dinner tonight and really i'd rather just sit around doing nothing but I'm having to be sociable which is rubbish.
This weekend I'm going out for a meal for a friend's birthday on Saturday and have my sister and her boyfriend visiting on Sunday. I thought this would leave Saturday daytime free for doing nothing but Kate now wants to go and visit her mum on Saturday in the daytime so that means 2 hours in a car and having to make uncomfortable smalltalk with her father.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
sshh cherry, let Abby speak.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Oh god. I've ruined everything haven't I. I've scared Abby off. I'm sorry Benway. I'm sorry Abby. I'm sorry TMO
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
nah, it's cool, she just thinks you're a bit rude, mate. Bit inconsiderate.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove: having to make uncomfortable smalltalk with her father.
How are you unable to only have smalltalk with him? It's not like you're trapped in a lift with a stranger. You knocked his daughter up fer chrissakes. He should be inviting you into the tool shed to see his latest wood carving and insisting, insisting he gets you a 'just a small' glass of his best port.
Unless he's already got grandchildren then he doesn't have to do any of that shit with you and you're lucky he even looks at you.
Posted by Abby (Member # 582) on :
Hello...other than being hungover I am still feeling fairly glum. I think I will be wallowing for the foreseeable future.
I am also very hungry due to lack of breakfast...thinking of sneaking out to the noodle bar across the road for something warm and filling (fnar), which will have the added benefit of avoiding having to talk to anyone over lunch. The bad news is that I forgot to bring a book with me today....how will I resolve this conundrum? Find out later...
Have an excellent time in Devon - you could visit my mum... If I told you where she lived, which I'm not going to. My favourite bit of Dartmoor is the old granite mine on Haytor, which lends itself very well to tromping about and exploring. Here is a very badly put together website about it... http://www.9fairfield.eclipse.co.uk/haytor/fmatextrac.htm
This weekend I am planning on sleeping as much as possible, then doing some work. Then getting drunk and watching many episodes of a random glossy American TV drama.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
has anybody else noticed that the picture being used for the kid who got killed by dogs makes the kid look like a gang enforcer.
He doesn't look like a little angel does he. Look at those eyes.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Knocking someone's daughter up out of wedlock doesn't automatically make them well disposed to you though. Sometimes it can do the opposite.
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Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Well, he's not actually her dad. He's just married to her mother. He doesn't really have any interests at all and doesn't do anything other than go to the local pub so we have very little to talk about. I don't think he really likes children so he won't be interested in Amelie and what she's been up to. Generally we sit there drinking coffee in tense silence with the TV on and he'll hand me the remote and say "You choose what we watch now" and I feel like it is some sort of test and he wants to see what I'm going to put on.
I generally only watch cookery shows and comedy on TV and as it is going to be afternoon the comedy will consist of awful things like My Family or some other unwatchable shit. He has no interest in cooking and so I don't really feel I can put the cooking channel on so I end up trying to think what he would like to watch and finding American Chopper or something like that which I have no real interest in but isn't actually offensive and we'll sit there while he talks to me about motorbikes and how amazing the one they are building is and I'll nod and making appreciative noises but not really have anything to add.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
you should have thought about that before you went runnin your mouth. See, Tommy doesn't like it when his friends start talkin. Makes him nervous. And Tommy doesn't like being nervous. He starts looking over his shoulder, not feeling safe in his own bed. Sits awake all night, holding that watch of his. Turning it round and round in his hand. Round and round. Round and round. Worries himself to death. But, me. No, that's a different story, son. I like it when Tommy gets nervous. It's what I live for. Shall I tell you why? Because that's when I get paid. You're doing me a favour.
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Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Can't you start a conversation about cyborgs? Surely all men love talking about that.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: Knocking someone's daughter up out of wedlock doesn't automatically make them well disposed to you though. Sometimes it can do the opposite.
Of course it does! Look, that dude isn't even Kate's dad and he lets Cherry put whatever he wants to watch on. Now that's respect.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I'm sorry to hear that you're still unhappy Abby. Is there anything we can do to help you? I'm worried that all this drinking and american comedy is going to make it a lot harder for you to get through this Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by Kanye West:
you should have thought about that before you went runnin your mouth. See, Tommy doesn't like it when his friends start talkin. Makes him nervous. And Tommy doesn't like being nervous. He starts looking over his shoulder, not feeling safe in his own bed. Sits awake all night, holding that watch of his. Turning it round and round in his hand. Round and round. Round and round. Worries himself to death. But, me. No, that's a different story, son. I like it when Tommy gets nervous. It's what I live for. Shall I tell you why? Because that's when I get paid. You're doing me a favour.
In my mind, this is what all children are like up North.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
chilling.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove: Well, he's not actually her dad. He's just married to her mother. He doesn't really have any interests at all and doesn't do anything other than go to the local pub so we have very little to talk about. I don't think he really likes children so he won't be interested in Amelie and what she's been up to. Generally we sit there drinking coffee in tense silence with the TV on and he'll hand me the remote and say "You choose what we watch now" and I feel like it is some sort of test and he wants to see what I'm going to put on.
I generally only watch cookery shows and comedy on TV and as it is going to be afternoon the comedy will consist of awful things like My Family or some other unwatchable shit. He has no interest in cooking and so I don't really feel I can put the cooking channel on so I end up trying to think what he would like to watch and finding American Chopper or something like that which I have no real interest in but isn't actually offensive and we'll sit there while he talks to me about motorbikes and how amazing the one they are building is and I'll nod and making appreciative noises but not really have anything to add.
Well I think he sounds like a good guy. Likes motorbikes, watches American Chopper... I don't see the problem.
Maybe it's unfair of you to say that it's all his fault. Maybe you're falling into that trap that most new parents do, where they automatically assume everyone wants to hear about how their baby does the exact same things as everyone else's. Maybe he's so bloosy bored by hearing about how she can say certain words, or how she made a picture in her toddler group, that he would rather just hand you the TV remote in the hope you might find something distracting enough to stop you talking about it for five minutes.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by Ringo: Maybe you're falling into that trap that most new parents do, where they automatically assume everyone wants to hear about how their baby does the exact same things as everyone else's. Maybe he's so bloosy bored by hearing about how she can say certain words, or how she made a picture in her toddler group.
But that stuff would be amazing! If CiH's baby was speaking and drawing pictures it should be on the flippin' news. "Oh yeah, yeah, your baby's talking and drawing blah blah blah miracle of development blah-de-blah scientifc community dumbfounded yadda-yadda-yadda. Shut up while I watch American Chopper". Guy sounds like a jerk.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
She won't be making any pictures yet unless the medium is a shitstorm and the canvass is Pampers.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
i would rather watch a program about motorbikes than cooking any day of the week. Yes, ladies. I'm that rugged.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Well, y'know, whatever it is that babies do. i just tune it all out.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
any day of the week.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
I would be equally uninterested in a programme about cooking as I would in a programme about motorbikes.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Sits down to pee, doesn't like motorbikes...
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
I can imagine him now. 'What's so good about a baby though? What? You fucking WHAT?! You can't open up a baby on full throttle and feel the wind tussle in your hair. What? Yes I do. Drink your coffee'
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
ideally though I'd watch a program where bearded men reminisce about the first time they saw the SR-71 in flight.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
or one where recent college graduates cynically dismember mainstream media in self-congratulatory wankfest of unfunny 'comedy'.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by New Way Of Decay: I can imagine him now. 'What's so good about a baby though? What? You fucking WHAT?! You can't open up a baby on full throttle and feel the wind tussle in your hair. What? Yes I do. Drink your coffee'
Is that Ringo now, or Kate's dad?
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
They're interchangeable.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
or maybe one of those lame american sex tv shows that come on after 11, and I can look at in mock confusion muttering about 'thinking south park was on now' while pretending to try and change the channel.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Well, I'm sure to parents babies are pretty rewarding. But unless your baby has some kind of proper amazing talent, they're all just basically the same at that age. Lay around gurgling, poo themselves, that kind of thing.
But motorbikes.. I mean, come on. The motorbikes they make on American Chopper are unique!
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
Abby have you tried a baby? That might cheer you up.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
That's not a good idea. They're full of carbs.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Bit mean to suggest that when she's just broken up with her boyfriend NWOD Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
if you're feeling a bit low, carbs are great. I had a large spag bol last night with an ass-load of spag, boiled to perfection in a pan of my own tears.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Benway could seed her.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Perhaps that was NWOD's attempts at seduction?
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
yeah.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I once sat to next Abby at a meet, but we didn't really talk.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
she's too good for me, or something. All in the past though, pmsl.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I can't believe she said that. FFS Abby. You could have let him down easier, you don't have to just come out and say that. The man has feelings Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
See again I try to help someone out and all I get back in response is just a load of abuse. I just want to be useful but not be mean like froopy. Why isn't there an easy balance?
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
quote:Originally posted by Kanye West:
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, right there.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
I talked to Abby at a meet once, and Raz, blind drunk and - I think - having taken a load of codeine staggered over to us and yelled in my face "So are you two going to fuck or what". That was quite tense and then he said "But you've got a girlfriend" (I didn't, at the time) and I got some spittle in my eye. That was quite unpleasant.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by Octavia: Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, right there.
So... what are you saying? That it's a good thing he's dead?
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
It's a shame that Raz got banned from the internet. Good old Raz.
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
Goddam it, I hate it when I don't refresh, reply something and then discovered that the thread's moved on without me.
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Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: So... what are you saying? That it's a good thing he's dead?
Good thing for who?
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
quote:Originally posted by Octavia: Goddam it, I hate it when I don't refresh, reply something and then discovered that the thread's moved on without me.
You need to make sure you ignore any distractions. Sure your daughter may be crying, but you're arguing on the internet. That shit doesn't wait. The baby will still be there in 10 minutes :yes:
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Why is it that when a dog that's mauled a kid is killed they use the term 'destroyed'? Seems like a pretty weird turn of phrase doesn't it. You don't say that the dog destroyed the kid, even though that would probably be more accurate.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
The dog pwned the kid.
Posted by Tilde (Member # 1215) on :
quote:Originally posted by Octavia:
quote:Originally posted by Kanye West:
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, right there.
More like Fatal Alsatian Syndrome.
Posted by Tilde (Member # 1215) on :
That would have worked if there was a dog breed beginning with A that looked like alcohol.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
quote:Originally posted by Ringo: Why is it that when a dog that's mauled a kid is killed they use the term 'destroyed'? Seems like a pretty weird turn of phrase doesn't it. You don't say that the dog destroyed the kid, even though that would probably be more accurate.
I suppose because the dog is obviously evil, and you can't just kill evil, you have to destroy it. There was probably an epic battle between the dog-beast and the cops. The cops had to wait until the dog showed its true form before they could attack its weak spot, a giant pulsating purple eye in its chest and a group of electrified tentacles snaking from its hollow eye sockets. I imagine that the cops attacked the weak spots of the giant enemy dog-beast for massive damage.
[ 03.12.2009, 07:53: Message edited by: Kanye West ]
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
I thought destroyed is the word used for putting down the dog.
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
quote:Originally posted by Ringo: You don't say that the dog destroyed the kid, even though that would probably be more accurate.
Perhaps newscasters feel that the emotional content of the word is inappropriate to the tragedy.
"In Bangladesh's worst floods for a century, 1,500 people were destroyed in a catastrophic landslip."
I mean, it sounds like something you do in a game.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
DUH DUH DUH
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
it's also used when talking about your performance in COD 4: modern warfare
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
I'm out of control. I can't edit. I can't sing. I can't dance. I look awful.
I'll go a long way.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
quote:Originally posted by New Way Of Decay: I thought destroyed is the word used for putting down the dog.
Well.... yeah I do get that. I'm just wondering how such a term came into general usage. It's such an evocative word to use when for the most part it probably just means that they gave it a lethal injection and then cremated the body.
I mean, you wouldn't say you took your grandfather to switzerland to have him destroyed, would you?
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
You folks are too quick for me.
[ 03.12.2009, 07:56: Message edited by: Octavia ]
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
Just go on without me guys I won't make it.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
quote:Originally posted by Ringo: I mean, you wouldn't say you took your grandfather to switzerland to have him destroyed, would you?
you would if he was a force of near unstoppable evil.
[ 03.12.2009, 07:57: Message edited by: Kanye West ]
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
then the dog-beast showered everybody with glowing jizz and the world exploded, like in urotsukidoji.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
What if your grandfather was a massive racist? a lot of old people are pretty racist you know.
Even if he wasn't, I suppose you wouldn't say "put him down" either, really.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
It would different if it was in Urotsukidōji. The dog would scarily gobble up the boy. Then, later when the dog is impounded, possible awaiting the opportunity to go before a county court, the boys corpse would turn into a dog hybrid creature and kick his guts open from the inside out.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by Ringo: What if your grandfather was a massive racist? a lot of old people are pretty racist you know.
Even if he wasn't, I suppose you wouldn't say "put him down" either, really.
What are you getting at? That we treat people and dogs differently and the terms we use to refer to dogs and people are different?
[ 03.12.2009, 08:05: Message edited by: Thorn Davis ]
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
quote:Originally posted by New Way Of Decay: It would different if it was in Urotsukidōji. The dog would scarily gobble up the boy. Then, later when the dog is impounded, possible awaiting the opportunity to go before a county court, the boys corpse would turn into a dog hybrid creature and kick his guts open from the inside out.
and then all the women would get raped at the same time.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Well, I think that's pretty evident. But, like, destroyed? Why destroyed? When I think of something being destroyed I think of it being completely obliterated. I suppose if they used a handgrenade or something.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
All of them. Then the next day at high school no-one would be any the wiser.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
In Spain they would 'sacrifice' the dog.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
yes, the next day at high school is just another day really, even though every female was raped the night before by a giant demented man-dog-beast.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
oh, urotsukidoji.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
lol.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
I threw away my copies of those before I moved in with Reema because I was a bit concerned she might watch them and start to have doubt about me.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
if she knew that you were into watching cartoons of chicks being raped then she would probably destroy you.
Posted by Hades (Member # 57) on :
I remeber the first time i went on the internet. I was about 10 and it was round my friend Katie's house. Didnt really know what to do on it but eventaully found yahoo chat rooms and spent about 3 hours just chatting on them. For about 2 years yahoo chat rooms were all i really did on the internet. *shudders*
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
Lol. I used to spend hours on Usenet on the Babylon 5 forums. I also spent an entire summer on a bread-making forum arguing about whether bread machines make decent bread.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Was a conclusion reached about this? I like fresh bread but I'm too lazy to do it regularly so I feel a breadmaker might be useful but if it doesn't make good bread then perhaps it wouldn't.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
They don't
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
That issue was resolved quickly. I'm quite surprised it took Octavia an entire summer to discuss what Ringo has sorted out in two words.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
I imagine the problem stems from the fact that some people will have been claiming to have some amazing homebrew recipes for the best bread ever (in that way that people do when talking about cooking) while what I did with mine was just follow the recipes and they all turned out basically not as nice as the bread you could just walk into the supermarket and buy.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Don't get me wrong, it was edible. Especially if you did like tomato bread and stuff. It just occupies an uneasy position midway between off-the-shelf bread, and making some yourself with your hands and baking it in the over. And the bread you end up with is not as good as either alternative. The only real argument in favour of using a break making machine is that it has the cheapness of making it yourself but it's a little less hassle (if you find making bread a hassle). But the bread you end up with isn't great.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I don't really buy normal off the shelf bread as I don't eat a lot of it so I buy bread from the bakers at the bottom of my road but that is something like £2.20 for a large loaf which is amazingly expensive for what probably costs about 15p in ingredients.
If a bread maker can't turn out really nice bread then it would be no use to me so I do need to get into making it myself occasionally. It is one of those jobs like washing up that I find it hard to motivate myself to do but when I actually get around to it I actually find it really relaxing.
I do motivate myself to do washing up more often than I motivate myself to make bread fortunately as otherwise my kitchen would be a real mess.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
See that's the kind of thing I quite enjoy. Though our kitchen is a bit small to get too involved in mass baking. But stuff like bread, cakes, etc etc. The things you basically mix up on the side then wang in the over for a few hours. I love all that stuff.
The bread from the machine is far from inedible. I just found it all a bit stodgy and often the ingredients weren't mixed as well as you'd have liked. Plus for reasons I can't quite explain, I find a perfect cube of bread deeply unsettling.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
my first internet experiences were me and some friends posing as women, entraping and laughing at men looking for online action. But you know, I was 16. Also I went to a grammar school, all boys, which probably stoked the gender bending fires.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I am going to make bread this weekend Ringo, you have inspired me. Did I show you all my rosemary and sea salt foccacia that I made ages ago? I think I did but I can't remember.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
right now, i am eating a pain au chocolat that I warmed in the oven. Feels pretty good. Rustic.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
also, drinking a ridiculously strong coffee that was ground up by the lovely Louise only an hour ago. Authentic.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Yeah probably. I don't know. When people start posting pictures of food they made I usually tune out.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Benway, you seem to think you're posting in Thorn's food and snack thread.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
i was joining in all this talk about home cooking and feeling good.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I was gratified to see thorn's thread slip out of favour. I think that the good people of TMO know who they can trust to deliver a quality lunch-chat experience.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
The Kanye brand is one that forumites can trust.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
It's part of the Dr Benway family of brands.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Thorn didn't really make any effort to nurture his thread. It could have been successful but he really needed to work a bit harder at it. He mistakenly assumed you could just put it out there and expect people to immediately want to get on board.
[ 11.12.2009, 05:20: Message edited by: Ringo ]
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I liked the idea of it. It seemed a bit more care-free and relaxed than Benway's lunch thread. You didn't feel you were going to get shouted at for discussing an amusing pidgeon you saw on the way to work rather than what you had eaten whilst on the Benway lunch thread you felt like if you discussed any other meals you were going to get disciplined. I thought the lack of rules would allow it to thrive but it appears that no matter how much we all claim to want freedom we do need guidelines to provide quality threads.
[ 11.12.2009, 05:23: Message edited by: Cherry In Hove ]
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
anarchy is fine in the sixth form common room, but it's no way to run a civilized, productive society. Or thread.
Posted by Abby (Member # 582) on :
Here at the cutting edge of science we have a problem with the main door to the building. The card scanner is broken, so one can gain access by approaching the door and waiting for a security guard to notice you from behind the desk. They will then extend a pole with an envelope taped to the end into the motion detection zone which automatically opens the door as you exit the building.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
Abby, do you worry about Strangelets being produced by the experiments in the LHC?
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
If I was starting up a two-tone band, I'd probably call it 'The Strangelets'.
Posted by Tilde (Member # 1215) on :
Can I just point out that this is my thread, about First Times You Did Something.
Not about bread discussion, kidnapped sailors, mauled dead children, Japanese rape videos or grooming Abby. Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
shush, I'm talking to Abby.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
go ahead, Abby.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I think you're making Abby a bit uncomfortable Benway. And you're ruining Tilde's lovely thread. You need to have a bit of a think about the way you seem to think that your threads have to stay on topic but you are free to romp off topic over Tilde's thread. Tilde and I were discussing it on Xbox live last night and we agreed that something needs to be done.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
that's weird, because last night I actually was talking to Tilde on xbox live, mostly about how you've clogged up tmo with your square plates and recycled material stolen from other messageboards.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I think you're absolutely wrong about Abby though.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
quote:Originally posted by Abby: They will then extend a pole with an envelope taped to the end into the motion detection zone which automatically opens the door as you exit the building.
Nobody say the NHS isn't dedicated to cutting unecessary costs.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Has anyone tried those powerline network adapters at all? I've not been on xbox live for ages because I've put the xbox in the bedroom and there's no network access there.
Of course, I'd just turn on wireless, but Microsoft think it's acceptable to release a top end console without a fucking wireless card built in. The bunch of thieving jews.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I'm sure I've mentioned them more than once here on tmo. Wake up ringo. I have these. I replaced them with Cat5 about six months ago when I added a nas to the home network, but they never performed badly. Got around half of the max bandwidth, which was fine.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Pretty expensive though. Over a hundred quid for two. I may as well just hand my money over to microsoft and buy the wifi adapter
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
Abby is probably busy with science right now.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Do you still have those network adapters benway? if you're not using them maybe you could sell them to me for an amount of money.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I do have them, yes, but I think I'm probably going to hang on to them.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Ok. Drop me a PM if you change your mind
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
Right. I won't. But okay.
Posted by Tilde (Member # 1215) on :
See they do a wireless N version of the adaptor now.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
yes.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
i have an n-router (DIR-655, tech fans) but nothing in the house uses n. That's interesting isn't it.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I thought about opening up the netbook (n110, tech fans) and replacing the internal card, but really. What's the point. There is no point, I thought to myself, as I resolved never to bother.
Posted by Tilde (Member # 1215) on :
I have a computer with N but my router is G (netgearDG834G) it's funny isn't it?
Posted by Tilde (Member # 1215) on :
I guess we should swap routers then everyone's a winner?
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
lol, what a funny world we live in.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
So these powerline dealies. Are they like, just wireless network adapters plugged directly into a plug socket?
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
they use the copper in your power line to transmit data. They are the equivalent of having a pair of connected network sockets in your home. They are obviously plugged into a powersocket, so that's how they get their power. When there is more than one plugged into powersockets in your house, they form a data network. Each one has a single cat5 socket on the side for plugging in things like the internet and PCs. That's the main thing to remember - there is only one socket. I had one taking an internet connection from a router and zipping it to another one that was feeding a PC in that room. Could you have a switch at both ends? I don't know.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Can you use them with multiple plower socket adapters?
Edit - Power, not plower...
[ 11.12.2009, 07:11: Message edited by: Ringo ]
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
I don't know. I didn't, but I don't see why not. Would the cable inside those multi-socket things be as good at carrying data as the copper in the house lines?
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
quote:Originally posted by Tilde: I have a computer with N but my router is G (netgearDG834G) it's funny isn't it?
I see that your router is carrying the following accolade:
Posted by Abby (Member # 582) on :
I am doing some science yes, but I don't worry about strangelets.
Posted by Tilde (Member # 1215) on :
sweet.
[ 11.12.2009, 07:26: Message edited by: Tilde ]
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
yeah you shouldn't because a couple of safety investigations have been done into these lhc experiments, and both came up saying it was well unlikely that strangelets would appear. Also, if the Earth suddenly because a giant lump of strange matter then that's a pretty quick death for all life.
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
I thought Abby was into mutating worms? Or was that damo
Posted by Abby (Member # 582) on :
Yeah it was damo with the worms. I do white blood cells.
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
you shouldn't mutate those.
Posted by Abby (Member # 582) on :
I don't.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
I think you should mutate them. Push the boundaries. What's the worst that could happen?
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
there's a book idea for someone. mutant killer white blood cells that eat you up from the inside out.
Posted by Abby (Member # 582) on :
Leukaemia?
Posted by Kanye West (Member # 837) on :
yes.
Posted by Cherry In Hove (Member # 49) on :
Yeah, you don't get enough scripts about supervillians using their leukaemia to take over the world.
[ 11.12.2009, 09:25: Message edited by: Cherry In Hove ]
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
i was thinking more of phagous supercells that eat your brainz! but hey, whatever.
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