Most people percieve their world through 5 senses - sight, hearing, kinesthetics, taste and scent.
But each of us has a favourite sense we use to perceive our world, and it comes through in our speech.
Take Ben for example:
Saturday I got a copy of the Genius Gizzer's Liquid Swords as I've heard it rated very highly by macs in the know. I've listened to it a few times now and I'm still not sure how I feel about it. I've alway found the Wu-Tang Clan and their various spin-offs/bum-chums much easier to admire than like; there's something airless and inorganic about the world conjured up by their raps - even as the music consistently impresses. Anyway, i'll give it a few more spins before I make my mind up - Cold World is pretty good.
So Ben is mainly kinesthetic.
Strange, eh?
Question:
So what are you?
Posted by kovacs (Member # 28) on :
What? Can you explain how those emboldened words and phrases tell you he's "kinesthetic"?
Posted by Purple Monkey Dishwasher (Member # 867) on :
Well, Ben told us something, and by doing so he gave descriptions. In other words, he told us how it was as he perceived it. I emboldened the words that give away his favourite sense, which in his case is feeling, both emotional and physical.
Primarily, Ben "feels" his world.
Posted by Benny the Ball (Member # 694) on :
I used feel, smell, hear, see and alluded to taste - I am changing my name to The Sensor!
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by Purple Monkey Dishwasher: Well, Ben told us something, and by doing so he gave descriptions. In other words, he told us how it was as he perceived it. I emboldened the words that give away his favourite sense, which in his case is feeling, both emotional and physical.
Primarily, Ben "feels" his world.
I - what? Surely 'heard' and 'listened to' are words for 'hearing', not feeling. Also they're pretty much the most generic terms you can use when describing your experience of a CD album. Not many people would write "I bought the new Wu-Tang album and it smelt great". I also don't see how 'making your mind up' constitutes a revealing sentence about how you feel your way around the world. I'm suer there's some truth - maybe - in the possibiity that the way someone experiences the world comes through in their writing, but those examples are a bit wank.
Posted by jonesy999 (Member # 5) on :
It's a nice idea for a thread(s), just the execution is lacking a little.
Posted by Purple Monkey Dishwasher (Member # 867) on :
quote:Originally posted by Benny the Ball: I used feel, smell, hear, see and alluded to taste - I am changing my name to The Sensor!
Wooooo!
Do you find you remember things really well by any chance?
Posted by Purple Monkey Dishwasher (Member # 867) on :
Well, no Thorn, not entirely. Ben did start by telling us about he CD itself, and indeed he does use "hearing" words to describe. He goes on, however, to describe the band themselves, which allows him to be more free with his choice of perceptive words, and then he chooses kinesthetic words.
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
PMD, you are talking bollocks. It's a useful theory but you've completely misapplied it to ben's paragraphs. Your point has been stretched further than Clarissa Wright-Dixon's knicker elastic.
Posted by Purple Monkey Dishwasher (Member # 867) on :
Misapplied... how, exactly?
Posted by Darryn.R (Member # 1) on :
Are there choices other than kinesthetic ?
[ 15.02.2006, 05:35: Message edited by: Darryn.R ]
Posted by ben (Member # 13) on :
*starts crying* Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
quote:Originally posted by ben: Saturday I got a copy of the Genius Gizzer's Liquid Swords as I've heard it rated very highly by macs in the know. I've listened to it a few times now and I'm still not sure how I feel about it. I've alway found the Wu-Tang Clan and their various spin-offs/bum-chums much easier to admire than like; there's something airless and inorganic about the world conjured up by their raps - even as the music consistently impresses. Anyway, i'll give it a few more spins before I make my mind up - Cold World is pretty good.
ben: apologies for the continued dissection and overkill here.
Heard: He's talking about received opinion. There's only two options really: heard or read, from neither of which can you really deduce anything wider. Listened: as noted before, he's talking about a CD, FFS. Feel: I suppose you could say that there's an alternative in the form of 'think' but since he's talking about music there's not much to be read into his choice of words here - music preference is inherently subjective. Admire/like, impresses: He's expressing a value judgement. What's he supposed to use? Smell? Touch? Airless: This is maybe the bit that fits best with your interpretation, but it's still a bit of a stretch. Make mind up: again this is expressing indecision in a value context. You can't really draw any conclusions from this.
That's my reading, anyway.
Posted by jonesy999 (Member # 5) on :
quote:originally posted by ben *starts crying*
Look, you've hurt his feeling now.
[ 15.02.2006, 05:53: Message edited by: jonesy999 ]
Posted by Louche (Member # 450) on :
See! I was right yesterday when I said he was weird.
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Posted by omikin (Member # 37) on :
sp
Posted by Louche (Member # 450) on :
Eh?
Posted by not... (Member # 25) on :
quote:Originally posted by jonesy999: Look, you've hurt his feeling now.
From the use of the word Look we can deduce that Jonesy percieves his world in a visual sense although use of the word feeling tells us that Jonesy also percieves his world through touch.The use of the word hurt within this short sentence also tells us that Jonesy likes to look and touch but when he does it causes hurt.
Possibly due to over-wanking.
Posted by jonesy999 (Member # 5) on :
It's like he's inside my head.
Posted by Darryn.R (Member # 1) on :
I thought he was a she ?
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
This thread is rubbish. I hate PMD. PMD is the worst newbie ever. Posted by Darryn.R (Member # 1) on :
quote:Originally posted by Ringo: This thread is rubbish. I hate PMD. PMD is the worst newbie ever.
Dude, that's harsh, we've had a LOT of much shitter newbies.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Name one
Posted by Dr. Benway (Member # 20) on :
I like PMD and her crazy crackpot schemes.
Posted by LowLevel (Member # 30) on :
Me too... And she thinks I'm scary... Which is nice
Posted by jonesy999 (Member # 5) on :
And Louche thinks she/he is scary. There's a lot of fear in the room today.
PMD is like a sober Turtle.
Posted by Louche (Member # 450) on :
quote:Originally posted by Ringo: Name one
Gods Plumber. Though it could be argued that his frothing online breakdown was amusing enough in it's own way to make him worthy.
Posted by Darryn.R (Member # 1) on :
quote:Originally posted by Ringo: Name one
See, it's just this sort of thing that makes all newbies quit and make us seem so damn aloof.
As I have record of all members I'd have to say:
Manitou Findingnewmo Psycodelick vodkavillain Divine Max Serif
Are all 'shitter' as they all joined but have not posted one single post.
PMD is making an effort and as such I don't think deserves to be hounded down and called a shit newbie, especially when there are precious few newbies these days and we're starting to sound like a mountain family where your Mother is also your Sister and your Aunt.
Posted by Dr. Benway (Member # 20) on :
Louche deserves to be called a shit oldie.
[ 15.02.2006, 06:50: Message edited by: Dr. Benway ]
Posted by Dr. Benway (Member # 20) on :
she doesn't. You don't, Louche, I just said it. I wish I could retract it, but there you go. Sorry.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
This thread is much better now.
Posted by Dr. Benway (Member # 20) on :
sorry....I'm...drunk.
Posted by jonesy999 (Member # 5) on :
How was Valentine's Day Benway? Or are you still enjoying it?
[ 15.02.2006, 06:55: Message edited by: jonesy999 ]
Posted by Louche (Member # 450) on :
That post from Benway unlocked my frozen core and made me cry.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
I reckon if Louche did cry it would be like tear shaped confetti.
Posted by Dr. Benway (Member # 20) on :
It was good thanks man. I grilled some J. Oliver approved steaks and served them up with spring onion mash and a cream/mustard/onion sauce. Bought a new lampshade, place mats, crockery, cultery, and glassware, and topped it all of a with a bottle of Lanson. To be honest, I got off on spending all that money, and could justify it to myself, which makes a change from fretting for hours after buying a cream eclair when the money could have gone towards the laundry.
How was yours?
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Posted by Dr. Benway (Member # 20) on :
quote:Originally posted by Louche: That post from Benway unlocked my frozen core and made me cry.
that's a good thing, right?
Posted by jonesy999 (Member # 5) on :
quote:Originally posted by Dr. Benway: It was good thanks man. I grilled some J. Oliver approved steaks and served them up with spring onion mash and a cream/mustard/onion sauce. Bought a new lampshade, place mats, crockery, cultery, and glassware, and topped it all of a with a bottle of Lanson. To be honest, I got off on spending all that money, and could justify it to myself, which makes a change from fretting for hours after buying a cream eclair when the money could have gone towards the laundry.
How was yours?
Fine. Couple of steaks, bottle of wine, allowed Kirsty to watch a cheesy rom com as a special Valentines Day treat.
Next year's card will say "for my wife". Crikey!
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Posted by Abby (Member # 582) on :
Hah! I was in Sainsburry's last night and the man in front at the checkout had all strawberries and wine and shiz, so the girl was all ooh lovely evening planned their sir! ooh!. Then when she put my stuff though she asked me if there was a lucky fella tonight?
I was buying washing machine tablets and ryvita. What a fucking mong.
Posted by Dr. Benway (Member # 20) on :
a lady did this to me too. After I'd paid, she went "I know what you're having - steak!" So I just said "yeah, I'm having....steak" and shuffled off. I don't know if she wanted me to be amazed by her powers of observation or something.
Posted by Doctor Agamemnon When (Member # 189) on :
quote:Originally posted by Purple Monkey Dishwasher: kinesthetic.
...and I thought you were going to do something funny, like running it through a translator into German, and then back into English. I like that sort of thing.
quote:Majority of the people percieve their world by 5 directions - sight, capacity of hearing, kinesthetics, taste and odor. But each one has us the favourite a direction which we maintain to perceive our world, and it let us come in our speech. Of the Ben take for example
See? Funny, huh? "and it let us come in our speech" is a winner.
Posted by Sidney (Member # 399) on :
quote:Originally posted by Dr. Benway: I grilled some J. Oliver approved steaks and served them up with spring onion mash and a cream/mustard/onion sauce.
This almost exactly describes the meal I had cooked for me last night! Have you been sharing tips with J, Benway? Or is it some kind of 'kinesthetic' approach to pre-coital cooking down in Man Land right now? *shudders* Posted by Dr. Benway (Member # 20) on :
I think it's more like, the ingredients are easy to get, and you can't really fuck it up.
Posted by herbs (Member # 101) on :
I did Observer-approved roast lamb studded with garlic, rosemary and anchovies, followed by Nigella-originated chocolate fondant puddings that are spongy on the outside and melt in the middle, with creme fraiche, all from scratch, and didn't even get a shag. Posted by jonesy999 (Member # 5) on :
That lamb with anchovies is pretty much my Sunday signature dish now.
Posted by jonesy999 (Member # 5) on :
Sorry, I mean, I'm a cnut.
Posted by Darryn.R (Member # 1) on :
That's criminal, a nice bit of roast lamb should earn a shagging, maybe the anchovies spoiled the mood ?
If you'd done it with mint sauce and yorkshire puddings I'm sure you'd have got one, hell. if you do it tonight I'll be erect and on the first plane out
(Damn this diet ! )
[ 15.02.2006, 08:30: Message edited by: Darryn.R ]
Posted by herbs (Member # 101) on :
It cost a blasted fortune, and all... Good recipe, though next time I'll leave out the lemon juice. I've got about four pounds of the creature left over, if you want to come round for an oil change. That's not a very good RAC metaphor is it. Oh.
What can one do with left-over lamb? Perhaps a curry, or perhaps leave it in the fridge until it goes off.
Posted by jonesy999 (Member # 5) on :
Curry is always good.
I chose the leave it in the fridge option this week. I took a few Brian Blessed style bites from the huge bone yesterday and then tossed the rest in the bin. I should be shot.
Posted by Darryn.R (Member # 1) on :
I love Brian Blessed style eating... I have two steaks in the freezer for when the diet is over, maybe later I'll make Femke take a picture of me holding one because they look like something out of a Flintstones cartoon..
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
One of my friends' party repertoire includes "Brian Blessed does Basil Brush" - just imagine it - *BOOM-BOOM*. Another friend used to do "Bowie does Bond", but I haven't seen him for a while :sadeness:
Posted by Abby (Member # 582) on :
quote: What can one do with left-over lamb? Perhaps a curry, or perhaps leave it in the fridge until it goes off.
Rissoles? Really nice sandwiches?
Posted by herbs (Member # 101) on :
Cold lamb's all clarty though, isn't it, with that weird granular fat. *gag*
Curry. Or pie. Or Blessed/Henry VIII banquet-style gnawing.
Posted by Abby (Member # 582) on :
Pasties!
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
quote:Originally posted by herbs: clarty
great word, this. Is it a northern? My gran used to say this and she was from Geordieland.
Posted by Doctor Agamemnon When (Member # 189) on :
Mmmm. Curry.
I had a Chicken Boti and Balti Kofta Egg last night.
My workmates love me today, but at least they let me keep the Air Con on.
Posted by squeegy (Member # 136) on :
quote:Originally posted by Abby: Rissoles? Really nice sandwiches? Pasties!
Yes! Herbs, you know this is the way to go. I am now craving all three of these tasty treats.
Posted by Purple Monkey Dishwasher (Member # 867) on :
Darryn: Thank you! So good to have somebody on my side!! (Vitriolic look at Ringo). Tell you what, though, everyone says this 2 part thread's been rubbish, but it got everyone talking, n'est pas?
I am, indeed, female.
ETA: Who the fuck is Turtle, anyway??
and...
I still haven't seen anybody properly disprove my theory!
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Posted by kovacs (Member # 28) on :
I'm a bit disturbed and disappointed at myself that my efforts for Valentine's Day were apparently precisely the fucking same as every other 30something man in Britain. However I bet you didn't all sing that song from Chicago with your missus when you were washing up the steak plates. The one where Richard Gere has thing on some strings and goes "where d'ya come from?" her: "Misissippi!" "And your parents?" she, squeakily: "very wealthy!"
I have had a terrible cold for three days which is roaming around my body... chestburn, throat-rack, now infesting my nose and head. I think the medication is doing me as much harm as the sickness. I swigged half a bottle of Sainsbury's bronchial mixture on Sunday afternoon and was soon staggering and shivering. Last night I shoved cotton wool up my nose and within an hour it seemed to be crawling in sodden lumps towards my brain. I dreamed about doors and passages opening and at 2am woke, thinking I was getting some revelatory insight into the workings of English Magic. Today I am scouting my office wondering what I can use as a bed and whether I could sleep for 20 minutes before I have to go to a late lecture. All I've consumed today is water, black coffee, Vicks, bronchial mixture and some sweetmeat from the Islamic Awareness Week stall downstairs. I think I might pass out.
Posted by kovacs (Member # 28) on :
Just realised the hissing and whining I could hear was Ladytron on ipod in my pocket, set off when I clutched my side.
Also I have one other foodstuff I haven't tried, in my utility bag: co-proxamol I think it's called.
No, co-drydramol 500mg. That will suffice!
Posted by jonesy999 (Member # 5) on :
quote:Originally posted by Purple Monkey Dishwasher:
ETA: Who the fuck is Turtle, anyway??
Turtle is a poster who turns up periodically to start threads in which she presumes to tell people what they are thinking. Her trade mark moves include a patronizing delivery and a supercilious belief that she understands people and their motivations more than they understand themselves. She is usually way off the mark.
I wasn't accusing you of being her, though your "no one has disproved my theory" shtick is certainly something she might come out with. She also tends to post a lot of over-familiar stuff - a bit like you did when you were describing Louche yesterday (of course you might know Louche better than I was led to believe, in which case it's my mistake).
I'm probably being harsh in making the comparison between you and Turtle, PMD. For what it's worth, any contribution to the boards at the moment is a welcome one as far as I'm concerned - fair play to you for posting and starting threads. However, I once said something similar to Turtle and she became a mentalist within 5 days, so if you feel yourself turning even weirder, that's probably my unintentional curse taking over your soul.
[ 15.02.2006, 10:54: Message edited by: jonesy999 ]
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
It seems my plan to wipe out TMO's old faithfuls with a dangerous superbug is working just as well as I had hoped...
Posted by kovacs (Member # 28) on :
Either I am in a ludicrously unfit state of mind to be at work "leading" a "Field Team" or opening doorways into exciting new corridors of human insight, because I just spent 2 minutes staring at that word "excellent", thinking it was spelled wrongly.
Posted by Louche (Member # 450) on :
quote:Originally posted by jonesy999: She also tends to post a lot of over-familiar stuff - a bit like you did when you were describing Louche yesterday (of course you might know Louche better than I was led to believe, in which case it's my mistake).
Haven't a cocking clue who Purple is, and the over familiarity contributed to my describing it as weird. There's a fine drawn line of people what can get away with over familiarity with me.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
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Posted by kovacs (Member # 28) on :
If it's turtle she may get her wish, because I feel like I'm going to die on her thread.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
My favourite bit about turtlely excellent adventures is that she is always nice to Jonesy at first, then when he sniffs her out, turn sinto a shrieking wild thing. Like the librarian ghost in Ghostbusters. I expect.
Posted by jonesy999 (Member # 5) on :
quote:Originally posted by Purple Monkey Dishwasher: Oh.
I just did a poo.
I don't think Turtle would post something like that, at least not until she was well into her third bottle of vodka of the day.
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Posted by jonesy999 (Member # 5) on :
I don't really understand why I've got such a hard-on for Turtle.
Posted by Louche (Member # 450) on :
I suspect it was that precise post Jonesy quotes there that made me think it was male.
I'm still not for believing it's female.
Posted by ben (Member # 13) on :
"Day Nurse" is the stuff, Kovacs. While poorly I've been alternating between reading a book about Freud and Ger Greer's Courtney biog That Hole Woman so have been thinking some pretty deep thoughts. Like the other night, when my entire consciousness was excruciatingly focused on one wheezing 1/4-inch aperture in the front of my face and I finally grasped the concept of the Death Instinct. Posted by omikin (Member # 37) on :
does anyone know where my passport is? i can only find my old one and i reckon my ability to cover the sliced-off corners at passport control is somewhat limited.
Posted by ben (Member # 13) on :
Try looking in the bags you took with you when you travelled last - after one goes through passport control the tendency is to stuff the passport in the easiest found pocket before breaking into a sprint to get to the nearest Gents before those condoms full of smack vomit themselves up.
Posted by omikin (Member # 37) on :
i've tried those. i had my passport in the back pocket of my jeans when i got home, and i put it down in a "safe place".
trouble is i've been doing loads of tidying up over the last week or so and i'm concerned i might have chucked it amongst a pile of papers or something.
Posted by omikin (Member # 37) on :
i had to read your post twice, ben, as i was puzzled as to why you'd be a drugs mule for "smack vomit", and wondered if i'd missed a new urban drugs trend.
[ 15.02.2006, 12:14: Message edited by: omikin ]
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
I thought ben was synergistic?
Posted by Louche (Member # 450) on :
Best find it quick omikin, lest your next one cometh with a free ID card and the government starts looking through your bins. Or something.
Posted by ben (Member # 13) on :
Smack vomit
Spunk weed
A key of hot shit
Believe it or not, these are all drugs that are about to wash up on your street in the next six months.
Ah yam TV's Ni Ckross annai yam *twitches* had dicted to hot-hotshit *stares* Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
lol(smotheredinopenplanoffice)
Posted by jonesy999 (Member # 5) on :
They're already here. My sister had one single key of hot shit and her bowels went into a coma. Now she has to defecate through her sweat glands.
Posted by kovacs (Member # 28) on :
I did better than that, Ben: with my left eye feeling like a slow bullet edging into my skull, I sat queasily, squintily through an hour of presentation by old-skool Screen "cinepsychoanalysis" theorist Laura Mulvey, fisting down a couple more of the co-drydoxacol during lights-out for the screenings. Then asked a question beginning "Many of your points rang immediately true, but I found myself resisting your absolute assertions." Not really a question, I suppose.
Posted by Purple Monkey Dishwasher (Member # 867) on :
Ah.
Well, in that case, I'm sorry Louche for being too overfamiliar, and I'm sorry to everybody if this thread appeared to be patronising. That wasn't meant to be the case.
Louche, the comments I made that you objected to were really more to do with nothing much happening on the board and a rather ham-fisted attempt by me to get people talking. Same goes for this thread - but hey, can't win 'em all.
[pout]do you forgive me?[/pout]
Posted by Roy (Member # 705) on :
I haven't post a thread in AGES. I think I need to, you know, give something back.
Well done, PMD.
Posted by Louche (Member # 450) on :
quote:Originally posted by Purple Monkey Dishwasher: Louche, the comments I made that you objected to were really more to do with nothing much happening on the board and a rather ham-fisted attempt by me to get people talking. Same goes for this thread - but hey, can't win 'em all.
[pout]do you forgive me?[/pout]
Mate, it takes a fuck of a lot for you to offend me to the point I see you as needing forgiving. Jesus, I share a board with Kovax and find him laughable these days. I simply treat new things with a combination of suspicion and contempt until they've proved they're interesting enough to enact with. The jury remains out after your two tier thread bollocks, but you're posting, which is more than can be said for most.
Posted by kovacs (Member # 28) on :
Why do you keep sniping at me, Louche? What's the point? If anyone ever cared about your opinion of me, you've made it plain several times already... so do you include these irrelevant little barbs only for my benefit? I don't know you, haven't met you and am not planning to; I've never felt anything much for you online one way or the other; I didn't know I was ever in your favour to fall from it, I don't really care who you like or dislike. What's the purpose? You don't contribute a great deal here; you run your own forum. You act as though you suffer by being in my online presence, but you don't leave. I don't understand this hard-on you have that refuses to go down, despite the fact that you and I barely have any contact and have no history that I remember.
This isn't baiting; I really don't see where you're coming from, at all.
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
quote:Originally posted by Louche: I simply treat new things with a combination of suspicion and contempt until they've proved they're interesting enough to enact with.
Man, you never did grow out of that goth thing, did you. That's so depressing, starting from an assumption of disappointment.
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Posted by Dr. Benway (Member # 20) on :
I so have no idea about what goes on here anymore.
Posted by jonesy999 (Member # 5) on :
Say "goodnight" Benway.
Posted by Louche (Member # 450) on :
quote:Originally posted by kovacs: Why do you keep sniping at me, Louche? What's the point? If anyone ever cared about your opinion of me, you've made it plain several times already... so do you include these irrelevant little barbs only for my benefit? I don't know you, haven't met you and am not planning to; I've never felt anything much for you online one way or the other; I didn't know I was ever in your favour to fall from it, I don't really care who you like or dislike. What's the purpose? You don't contribute a great deal here; you run your own forum. You act as though you suffer by being in my online presence, but you don't leave. I don't understand this hard-on you have that refuses to go down, despite the fact that you and I barely have any contact and have no history that I remember.
This isn't baiting; I really don't see where you're coming from, at all.
Um, I’m doing genuinely bemused here. I didn’t think I was sniping at you. There was the comedy baby spat about Ulysses a bit ago but apart from that I’m not here very often and I don’t tend to bother to interact with you when I am. The reference on this thread was simply me half-assedly referencing above mentioned mini spat. I genuinely don’t know where you’ve got this sense that I’m perpetually sniping and I’m sorry you seem to think that’s the case.
Posted by jonesy999 (Member # 5) on :
What an odd little thread.
Posted by omikin (Member # 37) on :
i still totally can't find my passport. the passport office say the earliest i could get a replacement would be monday week, which would mean i would have to miss a three day meeting in sweden next week. work are going to kill me. Posted by Vogon Poetess (Member # 164) on :
Omikin, my boss once told me that in pre-terrorism days, you could get through with ID other than a passport ie birth certificate and another form of photo ID.
I don't know how stringent they are nowadays, but it might be worth checking with the airline whether they accept any other kind of documentation.
ETA: work don't have to know that you "lost" it, surely? You can easily blame theft, flood damage, immigrants or something.
[ 16.02.2006, 05:48: Message edited by: Vogon Poetess ]
Posted by jonesy999 (Member # 5) on :
Low Level can probably get you a passport. Posted by ben (Member # 13) on :
quote:Originally posted by Vogon Poetess: Omikin, my boss once told me that in pre-terrorism days, you could get through with ID other than a passport ie birth certificate and another form of photo ID.
Trouble is, on his passport and any other piece of official documentation he ever receives Omikin always describes his occupation as "Firebrand Cleric".
Posted by Abby (Member # 582) on :
quote: ...trouble is i've been doing loads of tidying up over the last week or so and i'm concerned i might have chucked it amongst a pile of papers or something.
Over new year I threw out martin's credit card after he left it wrapped in a bundle of old recipts. Amusingly mine was eaten by a ticket machine at Shadwell DLR the following day, and his cash card by a cash machine in Aldgate shortly afterwards. We had to beg for food until the replacements came. Lol!
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
This site is the official government passport site. It recommends what to do to replace lost/missing passports urgently here, and the local offices referred to are here.
FYI if you have an E111 you now need an EHIC instead (details here.) - the help number has proved to be both efficient and speedy in my experience (called for a card on the Tuesday and it arrived on the Saturday).
Posted by omikin (Member # 37) on :
thanks guys. i've spoken to the passport office - i could get an appointment in the london office on monday, but it would then take 7 working days. i asked them if there was any way i'd be able to fly on tuesday but they said it would be impossible. they did wish me luck in finding the passport, though
i have already thought about other excuses for it being un-usable, vp, although yours are much better than mine. my current preferred option is to call in sick on the day, though. much better if my colleague from england turns up in gothenburg and gives my apologies saying that i'm ill rather than i've lost my passport.
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
I never knew that female incontinence was prevalent enough amongst our Scandinavian sistren to warrant a three day meeting. Another thing for them to be depressed about, perhaps.
Posted by herbs (Member # 101) on :
omikin, have you seen my driving licence? I've got to give its number after I was caught speeding by a camera in Finsbury Park. I blame Benway.
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
also, if you find my spare house keys whilst you're looking, that'd be ace.
Posted by LowLevel (Member # 30) on :
Actually, I'm a Yarborough knife missing if you see that on your travels...
Posted by omikin (Member # 37) on :
i've found your knife, ll - in the post to you now.
h1ppy - your spare keys are in the drawer in the kitchen with the corkscrew and the wooden spoons.
herbs - your driving licence number is HERBE 537449 SH74H. remember if your address is not currently correct on it this is an offence.
now can someone please tell me where i've put my passport!?!
Posted by omikin (Member # 37) on :
quote:Originally posted by H1ppychick: I never knew that female incontinence was prevalent enough amongst our Scandinavian sistren to warrant a three day meeting. Another thing for them to be depressed about, perhaps.
it's a swedish company, hence the meeting amongst the svens.
Posted by herbs (Member # 101) on :
You see that's it. All I can find is my old driving licence, with old address, thus compounding my felony. Lord.
Posted by omikin (Member # 37) on :
[sweeny]herbs, you're goin' daahn for a vewwy long toime, and you won't look 'arf as tasty when you cam aaht![/sweeny]
Posted by ben (Member # 13) on :
quote:Originally posted by omikin: remember if your address is not currently correct on it this is an offence.
I don't think they're really too fussed about this - if you're submitting it for points all they're really after is a quick turnaround plus whatever fine it is you have to pay.
Posted by omikin (Member # 37) on :
that's easy for you to say, you're not staring down the barrel of a five stretch in the scrubs! Posted by Doctor Agamemnon When (Member # 189) on :
Don't drop the soap.
Posted by ben (Member # 13) on :
I'm sure Herbs will adjust, in fact I could see her scrambling dirtily to the top of the chokey pecking order in no time at all.
The pivotal moment would be when she shivved Mamma Quim in the kidney while queuing up for morning slop - after that it would be Grouty-esque special privileges all the way.
Posted by omikin (Member # 37) on :
she'd be hard, wouldn't she? i can see it now.
Posted by omikin (Member # 37) on :
it'd be like scum, but with tits.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
Oh FFS, it was a picture from The Big Doll House.
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Posted by herbs (Member # 101) on :
Shut iiiiiiit Posted by omikin (Member # 37) on :
quick, hide the snout, herby's here!
Posted by omikin (Member # 37) on :
not only is my passport still lost, but i'm currently on hold with southern electricity having the fucking beatles piped down the phone to me.
let it be my fucking arse.
Posted by herbs (Member # 101) on :
shut it you slaaag, or i'll show you what your arse is really for Posted by Roy (Member # 705) on :
Prison is not a nice place. I should know, I have three seasons of Oz on DVD.
Posted by Dr. Benway (Member # 20) on :
Oz rules. I liked the bit where they shat on the nazi's head.
Posted by Roy (Member # 705) on :
I've got the first three, and I'll order 4 and 5 when I get the cash.
Benway, if YOU was in Emerald City, which gang would like to be in?
Posted by omikin (Member # 37) on :
herbs totally gives me the horn when she orders me about like that.
Posted by herbs (Member # 101) on :
Going back to lamb, does anyone know anything about food hygiene. As in, if I put the leftover roast lamb in the fridge Tuesday night, and made a curry with it tonight, which I heated up tomorrow, would that cause my duodenum to liquify and shoot at high velocity from all orifi, or would it be OK?
ETA: and you'd have to clear up the mess, OhMyQuim
Bet you're raging now...
[ 16.02.2006, 11:40: Message edited by: herbs ]
Posted by jonesy999 (Member # 5) on :
I'd risk it, but then my innards are like Harringey.
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Posted by Dr. Benway (Member # 20) on :
quote:Originally posted by Roy: I've got the first three, and I'll order 4 and 5 when I get the cash.
Benway, if YOU was in Emerald City, which gang would like to be in?
I'd hang out with whoever was the toughest.
Posted by jonesy999 (Member # 5) on :
Tin Man, no doubt about it.
Posted by jonesy999 (Member # 5) on :
Actually, that's bullshit. Get in with the flying monkeys. They're bastards.
God that's shit.
Posted by Darryn.R (Member # 1) on :
quote:Originally posted by herbs: Going back to lamb, does anyone know anything about food hygiene. As in, if I put the leftover roast lamb in the fridge Tuesday night, and made a curry with it tonight, which I heated up tomorrow, would that cause my duodenum to liquify and shoot at high velocity from all orifi, or would it be OK?
ETA: and you'd have to clear up the mess, OhMyQuim
Bet you're raging now...
Do you have Tupperware ?
You should be fine as the meat is already cooked.
Posted by Dr. Benway (Member # 20) on :
I'd roll with the Irish.
Posted by omikin (Member # 37) on :
quote:Originally posted by herbs:
ETA: and you'd have to clear up the mess, OhMyQuim
Bet you're raging now...
rattling around on three legs, herbo!
Posted by jonesy999 (Member # 5) on :
quote:Originally posted by Dr. Benway: I'd roll with the Irish.
I'd roll with the homies.
This is ridiculous. I've done plenty today. Fancy a pint Benway?
Posted by Dr. Benway (Member # 20) on :
yeah okay. When? Now?
Posted by jonesy999 (Member # 5) on :
Yeah. Right now! Come and call for me.
ETA: Actually, scratch that. I need to get some money out. I'll be passing yours in five minutes.
Will that give you time to get dressed?
[ 16.02.2006, 12:10: Message edited by: jonesy999 ]
Posted by Dr. Benway (Member # 20) on :
give me like half an hour to have a shower.
ETA: Alright I'll just put on what I was wearing last night.
[ 16.02.2006, 12:07: Message edited by: Dr. Benway ]
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