Friday. Friday 13th! has anything bad happened to you yet? That yet was meant to be quite threatening, actually. Was it? Do you feel threatened?
Wearing A black suit. Durrr! The black suit is my Masky vans signature outfit. Boots which I wish were sandals. Bloody global warming.
Weekend Dinner with someone I've never met before. But what I know off the internet. Been a while since I've done this sort of thing. Mostly I have properly met most of the people I like and know off of the internet.
Shopping. No Black! I will try very hard.
Not babysitting for my sister. No. Not at all.
Other/Miscellaneous Reading recent purchase Pies and Prejudice. Liking Stuart Maconie.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
It's hailing.
Posted by Louche (Member # 450) on :
How bizarre.
Posted by Nathan Bleak (Member # 1040) on :
Wearing - White shirt and pin striped trousers. Pretty much the same outfit I've been wearing to work for the last 7 years. Utterly bland.
Weekend - Quiet one, I think. No plans. I think maybe I've agreed to go to a museum exhibition or something while I was up against it on Gears of War and wasn't really paying attention to what I was being asked.
As for anything being bad on Friday 13th. Not directly, but the day's not over yet, and there's some things that are teteering on the brink of... well, not disaster, because it's difficult to have disasters in a job as beige as mine, but definitely teetering on the brink of minor irritation. The MD is looking like a man on the edge, though, getting really annoyed after a client ranted at him in the morning and the bloke responsible just hasn't bothered to come in. He walked round the office sounding off about it, and he clearly hasn't simmered down yet. He nearly went apopletic about people not using their voicemail - as a kind of displacement activity for his rage, he sent round a big complainy email about this. So. As I say. It may be just 90 minutes before home time on this Friday 13th, but there's everything left to play for.
Posted by Jimmy Big Nuts (Member # 895) on :
hey, nice thread.
Wearing jeans, brown adidas, black 'Mr. Lif' T-shirt
Weekend Seeing El Topo tonight followed by one of those sit down things where a bloke interviews the director. A 'Q & A'. Looking forward to that, and it'll make a nice finale to the little film festival I've had this week. Probably on the piss on saturday with a friend. Sunday then will be lying around in the dark playing computer games. Same weekend I've been having for ten years.
Other/Miscellaneous
I had a chiabatta for lunch and there's white flour everywhere now.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
I am really looking forward to this weekend. It all revolves around a wedding, but promises to be “good”.
First of all, I can start editing the video of the stag do we all went on to Amsterdam recently. I was in charge of shooting, and now I’m going to edit it, using some fancy software. I’ve got it all storyboarded in my head, with titles and an intro scene, theme music, and some crazy cuts, edits and mash-ups. I’m really looking forward to doing that.
Tonight is the groom’s last night of bachelorhood, so, er, all the lads, and his old man, are going down the boozer for a few pints. People are coming up from London citytown, so it should be slightly better than the usual crap Friday night down the pub.
Tomorrow I can carry on editing, and then go to the wedding and get drunk and stuff.
Am wearing the same shirt that I’m wearing in those meat photos from three years ago. Jesus. Moving like a foreigner. Smoking like a gitano.
Posted by herbs (Member # 101) on :
Wearing Long brown skirt with unfeasibly large amount of material, cerise long-sleeved t-shirt which makes my rack look massive, brocade birkenstocks, pained expression
Weekend Drinking this evening, with colleagues and possibly friend of R's, though he now has a lurgy that may preclude activity. Though it's the same lurgy I had last week, and I managed. But you know what manflu is like. To family tomorrow, to see sis and nephews and try and be a good aunt and not get bitter about being barren.
Friday 13 misfortune None, yet. Even the tube behaved this morning, getting from one place to the next without coming to a grinding, sweating halt in a metal tube 100m below the surface. Gah.
Other/miscellaneous It is deathly quiet in here, despite boss being absent. What is wrong with young people today?
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
young people? they're all stupid, herbs
Posted by sam (Member # 884) on :
Friday. Friday 13th! Nothng so far and don't feel threatened. I do feel slightly worried that the chemist might be closed by the time I get there.
Wearing Nothing.
Weekend Back to my mum's. My sister's stint has ended and I am covering the weekend.
Other/Miscellaneous I am eating a cheese sandwhich.
Posted by Louche (Member # 450) on :
Fashion is making young people go through the eighties again, Herbs. You should pity them.
Posted by Jimmy Big Nuts (Member # 895) on :
you're naked then, sam, eh?
Posted by Abby (Member # 582) on :
quote: Friday 13th! has anything bad happened to you yet?
I have been tring to fill in my Personal Development Review Plan Can anyone think of how I might be 'supporting and increasing the equality and diversity of the college', and how I could increase my contribution in a quantifiable manner over a defined time?
Thanks!
This weekend... ...Tonight I am eating curry, which will be a harsh blow to 'operation make summer clothes fit', then pottering about tommorrow. In the evening I am going to a party, which will hopefully not be too crowded as I haven't invited anyone yet. Hah! If I am alive on Sunday I will take my brother out for dinner as he has been spinning me sob stories about eating nothing but noodles and frozen vege.
Posted by sam (Member # 884) on :
quote:Originally posted by Jimmy Big Nuts: you're naked then, sam, eh?
I was on my way to the shower when I realised I was hungry. Hence the cheese sandwhich, which I am finsihing as I type.
Soon I will be wearing a large, fluffy towel.
I do like to wander around in the buff, I admit.
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
Wearing
Fuschia-pink collared cotton shirt with 3/4 sleeves. Black trousers. Black 3" heeled shoes.
Weekend
Picking some National bets tomorrow morning. Hair cut and colour tomorrow afternoon. Summer beers somewhere later.
Sunday - gardening, no doubt. Admiring my daffodils. General slobbing. Maybe some shopping, for food or other. Blockbuster DVD-watching, perhaps.
Friday the 13th
Nada, zip, zilch. I am starving but without food, which could be considered unfortunate I suppose. Sam's tales of naked cheese sanger-eating aren't really helping, it has to be said.
Posted by herbs (Member # 101) on :
Abby, you've reminded me. I will also be applying for a job, right at the last minute, as ever, which includes the stipulation to demonstration 'an understanding of the importance of diversity in arts marketing'. What? How does anyone answer questions like that?
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
quote:Originally posted by herbs: 'an understanding of the importance of diversity in arts marketing'. What? How does anyone answer questions like that?
String quartet = Twinings and Harveys Bristol Cream Rasta drumming circle = Red Stripe and Rizla
Posted by dang65 (Member # 102) on :
quote:Originally posted by herbs: 'an understanding of the importance of diversity in arts marketing'. What?
I suppose it means you have to understand that people don't get much of a feeling of being cool and hip when all the records and books they buy have "3 for 2" printed on them.
Posted by sam (Member # 884) on :
quote:Originally posted by H1ppychick: Sam's tales of naked cheese sanger-eating aren't really helping, it has to be said.
It was very nice, Finished off with a Sainsburys Light and Fluffy.
*sighs with contentment* Now for that warm shower.
Posted by Louche (Member # 450) on :
Hey, Dang, do you want to be on the telly? I just randomly got this:
Channel 4 is looking for a family to take part in a documentary series. They should be prepared to share their lives and show the nation what it means to be a family in Britain today. The producers of the documentary are particularly interested in busy families with three or more children still living at home.
The aim is to document what makes a family tick, how they relate to each other and how they pull together to get through whatever life throws at them.
If you would like further information, please contact Sarah Rubin at Firefly Film and Television Productions. sarahrubin@fireflyproductions.tv
You should apply, sowe can all beak at your life.
Posted by Samuelnorton (Member # 48) on :
Wearing: Bathrobe, having just emerged from the shower to check my email prior to heading off to do yet more home hardware shopping. This is what moving house does to you - it is endless.
Weekend: Building two HTML newsletters for a client who likes impressing their customers. If the weather is as nice as it is today I will be doing this at the garden table while Nightowl continues with her design of the garden. Will probably end up getting a pizza.
Friday the 13th Misfortunes. Nothing so far, save for the electricity bill. Ugh.
[ 13.04.2007, 11:40: Message edited by: Samuelnorton ]
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
That's given me a semi
Posted by jonesy999 (Member # 5) on :
lol
Posted by Louche (Member # 450) on :
Unfortunate timing there, Ringo.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Oh Jesus! Sam, I mean, not rick in a bathrobe. That was a total boner de-throner
Posted by jonesy999 (Member # 5) on :
Still lol.
That little exchange has made my day.
Posted by Samuelnorton (Member # 48) on :
quote:Originally posted by Ringo: Oh Jesus! Sam, I mean, not rick in a bathrobe. That was a total boner de-throner
Thank fuck for that. Your going gaye on me would have been a genuine Friday the 13th nightmare.
[ 13.04.2007, 11:42: Message edited by: Samuelnorton ]
Posted by Abby (Member # 582) on :
quote: Sainsburys Light and Fluffy
What the hell is this? You keep mentioning them. They must be good....mmm...approx 4 hours until curry time... goddamn Im hungry.. Posted by jonesy999 (Member # 5) on :
Fuck. I din't realise it was Friday the 13th.
Posted by herbs (Member # 101) on :
quote:Originally posted by Abby:
quote: Sainsburys Light and Fluffy
What the hell is this? You keep mentioning them. They must be good....mmm...approx 4 hours until curry time... goddamn Im hungry..
I'd been wondering this. I'm not sure I like the cut of their jib.
Posted by sam (Member # 884) on :
quote:Originally posted by Abby:
quote: Sainsburys Light and Fluffy
What the hell is this? You keep mentioning them. They must be good....mmm...approx 4 hours until curry time... goddamn Im hungry..
It's a chocolate bar with a white, creamy filling.
Mr Sam buys them for himself and I eat them. I wish he'd buy himself something I liked but what can you do?
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
Sainsbury's Light and Fluffy sounds like whipped Jamie Oliver jazz, in a jar with a spoon.
Posted by SilverGinger5 (Member # 49) on :
quote:Originally posted by sam: I do like to wander around in the buff, I admit.
Taxi to Tescos?
Posted by Louche (Member # 450) on :
The restaurant I am going to hasn't got the decency to have their menu online. This is frustrating me.
You're not a triskaidekaphobic, are you, Jonesy?
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
lol! haven't heard that for ages
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
The memories..
Posted by Louche (Member # 450) on :
Oh, we've moved on.
Posted by Nathan Bleak (Member # 1040) on :
quote:Originally posted by Ringo: Oh Jesus! Sam, I mean, not rick in a bathrobe.
A lesson to us all. The quote button is your friend.
Posted by sam (Member # 884) on :
quote:Originally posted by mart: Sainsbury's Light and Fluffy sounds like whipped Jamie Oliver jazz, in a jar with a spoon.
...topped with a light drizzle....
Or is that tautology?
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
quote:Originally posted by Nathan Bleak:
quote:Originally posted by Ringo: Oh Jesus! Sam, I mean, not rick in a bathrobe.
A lesson to us all. The quote button is your friend.
It was bound to happen wasn't it, seeing as it's Friday the 13th and all.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Unless I'm mistaken Sainsbury's Light and Fluffy is the supermarket's own brand rip-off of the popular classic Milky Way.
Posted by jonesy999 (Member # 5) on :
quote:Originally posted by Louche: The restaurant I am going to hasn't got the decency to have their menu online. This is frustrating me.
You're not a triskaidekaphobic, are you, Jonesy?
Not really. I just, you know, like plenty of warning when awful thing are guaranteed to happen to me.
Posted by Nathan Bleak (Member # 1040) on :
quote:Originally posted by Ringo: It was bound to happen wasn't it, seeing as it's Friday the 13th and all.
Yes. Friday the 13th really did a number on you there.
I see you're staring down the barrel of the big 8k Ringo. I imagine you've got a pretty tasty post up your sleeve, to celebrate.
edit: FFS bleak, take your own advice.
[ 13.04.2007, 11:56: Message edited by: Nathan Bleak ]
Posted by Louche (Member # 450) on :
quote:Originally posted by Nathan Bleak: I see you're staring down the barrel of the big 8k Ringo. I imagine you've got a pretty tasty post up your sleeve, to celebrate.
Oh, god, don't put him under pressure. We lost benway for weekslast time.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
If ralph were here, he'd no doubt tell us that the American Milky Way has caramel on top of the nougat, much like the European Mars Bar but that a caramel-free derivative is sold in the U.S. market as 3 Musketeers.
At least I'd like to think he would.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
I'll have to stop posting, to build up anticipation, then deliver nothing and start posting again under a really bobbins pseudonym. Johnny Giant Balls or something.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
*Here's a website which analyses the differences between the U.S. and U.K. versions of the Mars Bar.
Posted by herbs (Member # 101) on :
Did you know, the American version of Bounty is called Mounds? Stupid ralph.
Posted by dang65 (Member # 102) on :
quote:Originally posted by Louche: Hey, Dang, do you want to be on the telly? I just randomly got this:
Channel 4 is looking for a family to take part in a documentary series. They should be prepared to share their lives and show the nation what it means to be a family in Britain today. The producers of the documentary are particularly interested in busy families with three or more children still living at home.
The aim is to document what makes a family tick, how they relate to each other and how they pull together to get through whatever life throws at them.
If you would like further information, please contact Sarah Rubin at Firefly Film and Television Productions. sarahrubin@fireflyproductions.tv
You should apply, sowe can all beak at your life.
There could be some big fun to be had with that, it has to be said. Not by my family though, sad to say.
Posted by scrawny (Member # 113) on :
quote:Originally posted by herbs: Did you know, the American version of Bounty is called Mounds? Stupid ralph.
This is AWESOME.
Friday 13th has totally shat on my head today. I have far too much to do, I am weak and hungover, tired and stressed, I have to go to ANOTHER wedding tomorrow, and even though I have an awesome new dress I am hormonal and will look like a giant whale in it anyway.
On the plus side, Bandy picked up the Wii today so I have this evening to tone my arms playing tennis. And apply fake tan. But that has nothing to do with the Wii.
Posted by sam (Member # 884) on :
I miss ralph.
I miss...not.
I miss NWOD even though he scares me a bit sometimes.
Remind me where not went? Or why. Is it temporary?
Posted by Darryn.R (Member # 1) on :
Where did Ralph go ?
And where did Not go too ?
I hate it when we lose people.
Posted by jonesy999 (Member # 5) on :
It looks like the TMO ribbing not received here for his email circular S&R thread was more than he could bear, particularly after Louche (the woman he's admitted several times [off board] to being in love with) laid the boot in. So it looks like he's bowed out quietly. I'm upset. I know what it's like when the clumsy children break you. Come back not.
[ 13.04.2007, 15:04: Message edited by: jonesy999 ]
Posted by Darryn.R (Member # 1) on :
come back not, we all still love you..
i thought that was all but playful jesting.
Posted by jonesy999 (Member # 5) on :
I'm sure it was but, well, you know: bad day, you're feeling a bit fragile; you log onto TMO for a wee pick me up and receive the kind of ribbing you'd ordinarily shake off without a second thought. But today is different. You're delicate. Today this playful smack down is weighing heavy, dragging you under. You're drowning but, fuck it, you've been here before a hundred times. You paddle like crazy against the tide and pull your head above water. It's worth it, the woman you love is right there on your thread. She holds out a tootsie and you reach out, figuring to climb up her long leg to the safety and security of a rack Thorn was once, apparently, quite complimentary about. But what does she do? She takes those tootsies, makes a foot fist and lays the boot in. Down you go, under the waves. You're gone. Come back not. Swim for it. Go on, nibble on my ear it's real nice.
[ 13.04.2007, 18:51: Message edited by: jonesy999 ]
Posted by sam (Member # 884) on :
I don't understand the reference to the email circular.
Do you think this is why ralph went?
Posted by sam (Member # 884) on :
Uh oh. Dr Who is being repeated even as I type. I missed the first showing so I have to see this.
Posted by jonesy999 (Member # 5) on :
quote:Originally posted by sam: Do you think this is why ralph went?
Maybe. I always thought ralph was impervious to the barbs of banter. Maybe he wasn't.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
He fucked off before didn't he, then turned up by coincidence on some other forum used by half the people on here and everyone was like 'wtf, ralph, have a word with yourself and get back on tmo' and he did, but now seems to have gone again.
Oh well, he was shit anyway.
Posted by Benny the Ball (Member # 694) on :
I hope ralph is okay.
Stupid pharmosueticals
[ 13.04.2007, 16:55: Message edited by: Benny the Ball ]
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Oh yeah!
Sorr Ralph, you're not really shit. I only say such things in jest.
Posted by sam (Member # 884) on :
Dr Who was great. Shakespeare saving the world and all that. I am really enjoying the new series.
I don't think not did anything too un-tmo, in fact it was rather funny. He surely wasn't ribbed too badly for it. Maybe he's gone on holiday or something. He has to come back.
ralph is on meds, maybe he was feeling in need of tlc and got shit instead. No one is totally fire proof.
Goo'night jonesy, and darryn if you're around and benny and be nice ringo.
eta bad timing of this post. ringo is nice. sorry ringo. goodnight.
[ 13.04.2007, 17:02: Message edited by: sam ]
Posted by Benny the Ball (Member # 694) on :
Goodnight all
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Did I miss something? Why's everyone going to bed? It's only 10..
Posted by jonesy999 (Member # 5) on :
Morning all.
Posted by jonesy999 (Member # 5) on :
Louche, if you get a minute, please can you confirm that you haven't been killed by an internet freak who you may or may not have met on Friday the 13th.
Cheers.
[ 13.04.2007, 18:17: Message edited by: jonesy999 ]
Posted by Darryn.R (Member # 1) on :
quote:Originally posted by sam:
Goo'night jonesy, and darryn if you're around and benny and be nice ringo.
Goo'night Sam, take care of yourselves... And each other.
Are you still naked ? - Are you still eating a cheese sandwich ?
Posted by dang65 (Member # 102) on :
quote:Originally posted by Benny the Ball: pharmosueticals
Are they what you use to treat spotted dick?
Posted by vikram (Member # 98) on :
last week i pretty much reached the vacuous heights i've always dreamed of so have no need for plans this weekend or ever again
so yeah, probably drinking. went to AA today. it was... interesting. lucky i'm not an alcoholic i guess.
stupid ralph
[ 13.04.2007, 20:54: Message edited by: vikram ]
Posted by Benny the Ball (Member # 694) on :
AA's depressing, and where all the uncool kids hang out - you need NA, vikram - much more your style!
Posted by jonesy999 (Member # 5) on :
What did you go to AA for Vikram? Were you researching something or was it some kind of flash mob thing?
[ 14.04.2007, 03:46: Message edited by: jonesy999 ]
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
quote:Originally posted by sam: I miss NWOD even though he scares me a bit sometimes.
Scary?
Posted by jonesy999 (Member # 5) on :
Yeah, right. Mikee's about as scary as a marshmallow kitten sleeping behind bars.
[ 14.04.2007, 06:43: Message edited by: jonesy999 ]
Posted by sam (Member # 884) on :
I only said a bit.
I only said sometimes.
I don't know why. I'm not on first name terms with him like some of you.
Maybe I think he wouldn't have quite as much patience with my stupidy as some of you others. Maybe. I might be wrong.
I like you though NWOD.
[teeny weeney voice]your avatar scares me a lot[/teeney weeny voice]
Posted by sam (Member # 884) on :
quote:Originally posted by sam: I only said a bit.
I only said sometimes.
I don't know why. I'm not on first name terms with him like some of you.
Maybe I think he wouldn't have quite as much patience with my stupidy as some of you others. Maybe. I might be wrong.
I like you though NWOD.
[teeny weeney voice]your avatar scares me a lot[/teeney weeny voice]
ETA See? I can't even do a simple post without showing my stupidy.
.
.
Or pressing the wrong f*ing button! *sigh*
[ 14.04.2007, 07:05: Message edited by: sam ]
Posted by jonesy999 (Member # 5) on :
Shut up, stupid. Everyone likes you.
Posted by Jimmy Big Nuts (Member # 895) on :
alright?
Posted by sam (Member # 884) on :
LOL jonesy
Fine jimmy. Listening to Lily Allen.
Sun is shining. How bizarre.
Posted by vikram (Member # 98) on :
quote:Originally posted by jonesy999: What did you go to AA for Vikram? Were you researching something or was it some kind of flash mob thing?
was accompanying a friend. i think she's trying to save me. was kinda fun actually, especially the sweet old geezers
[ 14.04.2007, 08:52: Message edited by: vikram ]
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
quote:Originally posted by sam: I like you though NWOD.
[teeny weeney voice]your avatar scares me a lot[/teeney weeny voice]
..and I like you sam. You know it's just a picture. I don't go around fighting people with dildos or anything.
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
sun is shining, have just put bet(s) on the National, debating whether to go sit outside in the sun with a book for an hour and enjoy sunshine on pretty new haircut, or to make lightning strike on the grocery shop. whatcha reckon?
Posted by Darryn.R (Member # 1) on :
who had the haircut ?
Posted by Darryn.R (Member # 1) on :
Oh... You had the haircut - sorry being a bit dim there.
Posted by sam (Member # 884) on :
I'd vote you should chose sitting in the sun with the pretty new haircut.
I might not feel so guilty then for sitting in the sun listening to music and messing about doing illustrated letters to people I like instead of going with the groceries option.
You live once but you shop weekly; which makes a better option to drop once in a while?
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
sorry, can't hear you, i'm sitting in the sun
we are all agreed.
Posted by sam (Member # 884) on :
quote:Originally posted by New Way Of Decay: You know it's just a picture. I don't go around fighting people with dildos or anything.
I can't help it though. It gives a whole new meaning to the question: was he shooting blanks? It makes me shudder because if it isn't, then -
I am training myself to look beyond it. I figure it'll be good for me to treat symbols as mere pictures and not actual representations of attitudes.
I like the double play you have to do with your mind sometimes when posting on here. You know, be aware of the symbol so you get the joke and totally not be 'aware' so you don't get offended. If you get good at it, you even get to laugh. Mostly I laugh. Your avatar is a bit of a sticking point for me at the moment, but I'll get there. Sometimes an image or comment from BM will do that: make it almost too hard to look beyond. He's one clever man when he gets going.
That is way too pretentious for a sunny day.
[ 14.04.2007, 10:30: Message edited by: sam ]
Posted by Sidney (Member # 399) on :
Wearing denim knee length shorts, a white billowy top, red wedge heel sandals, sunglasses.
Weakend A friend of J's has come to stay and we've been having lots of fun catching up etc. I've put the garden furniture out (including a sun bed for me), bought lots of nice food for a BBQ later this evening, got the marinades on the go and am now eyeing up a bottle of sparkling rosé in the fridge; I might treat myself to a small glass this evening after we've stuffed ourselves with food and while we continue with our catching up.
Other I'm feeling a little pleased with myself as I managed to mend, assemble and erect a sun parasol. Not exactly an accomplishment I know but I'm pleased with the result.
Posted by Darryn.R (Member # 1) on :
I think you might be over thinking things sam.
Go sit in the sun and do illustrated letters to people you like.
I did all my groceries this morning.. Now I should be hanging a mirror and reframing pictures instead of which I'm trying to resist the temptation to kill my son who won't take a nap and who is taking all sorts of things off my desk (Pda, memory cards, USB sticks) and showing them to me saying "And this is Becketts too" before hiding them.
I want to sit in the sun with my Ipod on too... Sleep you little fucker, sleep....
Posted by jonesy999 (Member # 5) on :
Hello, I'm sure no one is interested in this but I'm going to share it with you anyway because I'm feeling so chirpy about it. Last year I did the hardest, most soul destroying, Hell filled contract of my entire *laugh. It was dead pet awful. There were a number of reasons but the main one was the boss - a giant waste of space. I won't go into details because I tend to foam at the mouth when I let it all out on the subject. I think I posted a short entry on someone's Worst Ever Colleagues thread around that time and it went something like - "I've recently met my work nemesis....and she's won."
Anyway, it was a while back now. A few months ago, I was foaming at the mouth and relaying some of her choicest moments to a guy I was working with. New contract, nice guy. We were sharing awful working experience tales and I was foaming a cautionary tale in his face, all fizz and 'fucking!' After an hour of foaming, I calmed down and we went outside for a cigarette. We were chatting away about happier things when my phone rang. Mid sentence, I looked at the display and then stopped: "Oh, my God," I said, "I don't believe it."
"What?" he asked.
"It's her. It's her I!" I said.
Even demons deserve professional anonymity, so for the sake of such things, let's call her Kaiser Soze.
"It's her," I said, "It's Kaiser Soye! I don't believe it."
My first thought was one of absolute dread. This creature had actually expressed an interest in working with me again but I thought our mutual loathing meant that this could be nothing more than blatant insincerity (which was pretty much her trademark anyway). I assumed she was ringing to offer me work and I thought seriously about not answering. But I was curious and, if you've ever been a freelancer then you'll know how hard it is to not answer such a call. Perhaps she wanted to recommend me for a job which wouldn't involve working with her. Perhaps it was something good. I had to answer. So I pushed the relevant button, held the handset to my ear and spoke.
"Hello."
Note that I didn't say "Hello, Kaiser." Some instinct meant I didn't mention her name.
"Hello, hello Michael." came the familiar voice of Soze.
"Yes. Hello."
She hung up.
Now, this woman was the biggest techno fool I have ever worked with anywhere. Whenever she'd visit the edit suite, she'd leave a crashed computer behind with somewhere in the region of two hundred separate internet explorer windows open at the same time, she didn't understanding the basic terminology and technical building blocks of an industry she has supposedly worked in for the last twenty years. She is the only person I have ever known who's mobile phone delivered the following message when she could not be reached: "I'm sorry, you cannot leave a message because this mobile phone mail box is full", due to her inability to understand how to delete a message. This is a woman who was on location and needed to be in constant contact. Her emails were written in such a unique cross between yodaspeak, spasmogurgle and Mr. Myagi that the greatest minds of Bletchley Park could not crack them given Big Blue, Will Hunting and a hundred years to turn them into English.
I could go on, but the foaming is starting.
So, as you can imagine, I just assumed she's pressed the wrong button on her phone and cut me off. I waited for the call back. It never came.
Oh well.
So, a couple of weeks later it happened again. Another phone call. Another "Hello is that Michael?" Another "Yes. Another hanging up.
Whadafuck?
Eventually I came to the conclusion that the thick fucking bitch had got more than one Michael in her phone book. She'd phoned me by accident and hung up when she recognised my voice. Obviously the stupid bitch thought that this was the perfect crime, being too stupid to realise that I would have her name in my phone and the words KAISER SOYZE would flash up every time she calls. Stupid bitch.
So, she's just done it again. Ten minutes ago. That is the fourth time she's done it. I've also had two missed calls from her. Stupid bitch. Anyway, I've just sent her the following text.
"Dear Kaiser. That is the fifth time in the last two months that you have called my mobile phone, said 'Hello, is that Michael?' and then hung up when you have heard my voice. I can only assume that you have me mixed up with another Michael in your phone book and that you are trying to contact him. I suggest you rectify this issue because it is extremely rude to continuously ring someone and then hang up on them when you realise you have made a mistake. If I am mistaken about this then I suggest you contact your mobile service provider because you appear to have a unique technical fault. Many thanks. Michael."
Made my day a bit brighter anyway.
ETA: * Hahaha. Best Freudian slip ever.
[ 14.04.2007, 11:15: Message edited by: jonesy999 ]
Posted by sam (Member # 884) on :
quote:Originally posted by Darryn.R: I think you might be over thinking things sam.
You might be right. I was just thinking there how ringo's boner used to make me wince but now I just accept it for the joke it is meant to be.
Posted by sam (Member # 884) on :
lololol jonesy. beautifully put! Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
We don't have a garden. The neighbours downstairs have. Maybe we should demand to only occupy the space from the first floor upwards. On a string system.
Posted by Darryn.R (Member # 1) on :
quote:Originally posted by sam: I was just thinking there how ringo's boner used to make me wince but now I just accept it for the joke it is meant to be.
It still makes me wince.
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
I lost all my stake on the National *sulks*. But I'm back on the decking on the steamer chair and it's so luvverly. You can come and sit at my feet if you like, Mikee, I need a slave boy to fetch me cool drinks and cushions.
Posted by sam (Member # 884) on :
Is your sprog asleep yet darryn?
Posted by Darryn.R (Member # 1) on :
No...
He's just spent the entire Grand National jumping up and down in front of the TV shouting
"Beckett no like a horses"
Which kinda spoilt the race for me.. And next door are having a party and there are children there dressed as clowns, so he'll be entering 'hyperspazz' mode soon.
At least if the football doesn't over run he'll calm down during Doctor Who.
And now I have to cook..
Steak 'n' chips, I've already par boiled the chips, so it's really just cooking and making a light salad, but it's warm in the kitchen and I'm a touch hungover and feeling slightly off so I won't enjoy it.
Sunday though will be ace as I'm going to see Gruff Rhys at the Paradiso.
[ 14.04.2007, 13:46: Message edited by: Darryn.R ]
Posted by Physic (Member # 195) on :
I'm cooking dinner too, steamed pork buns, steamed red-bean dumplings and mi goreng noodles, god bless the Thai mini-market in Guildford, they rule Posted by sam (Member # 884) on :
You're both making me hungry. I shall have to go now and rummage around and see what to cook for us all. Enjoy your food!
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
quote:Originally posted by Physic: I'm cooking dinner too, steamed pork buns, steamed red-bean dumplings and mi goreng noodles, god bless the Thai mini-market in Guildford, they rule
Pia and I did the kissy-jealous face when I read that out loud.
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
someone's cooking steaks somewhere. if my stomach wasn't in a state of ruination from having left-over easter egg for breakfast, i'd have someone's tongs off at the wrist.
Posted by Physic (Member # 195) on :
quote:Originally posted by New Way Of Decay: Pia and I did the kissy-jealous face when I read that out loud.
Lol, they were very nice indeed. Incidentally, can you email me your current snail mail, got something to send you Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
quote:Originally posted by sam: ringo's boner used to make me wince but now I just accept it for the joke it is meant to be.
You sound just like my ex-wife...
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
Exciting times for Mr. 8k
Posted by Louche (Member # 450) on :
Oh, the anticipation.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
of what?
Posted by Louche (Member # 450) on :
Oh Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
You sound like my ex-wife..
Posted by Louche (Member # 450) on :
I'm only pretending to be disappointed
Posted by Zygote (Member # 883) on :
So: I've just returned from Salisbury. I knew that Manchester was bad, but its badness is multiplied million-fold when compared to a city like Salisbury. I need to live somewhere similar. Soon. I mean - now. For the past three days I have been utterly content and haven't had a stressful thought at all. Now that I'm back home, I feel deflated. The contrast in living conditions/people is mind-blowing. It's only now that I can truly see how much I need to live away from urban society. I was going to write a load of stuff about the babbling brooks and beautiful sights, but I'm too sad at the moment. Stupid Manchester.
Posted by Zygote (Member # 883) on :
quote:TMO's Member
Posted by Nathan Bleak (Member # 1040) on :
quote:Originally posted by Zygote: So: I've just returned from Salisbury. I knew that Manchester was bad, but its badness is multiplied million-fold when compared to a city like Salisbury. I need to live somewhere similar. Soon. I mean - now. For the past three days I have been utterly content and haven't had a stressful thought at all. Now that I'm back home, I feel deflated. The contrast in living conditions/people is mind-blowing. It's only now that I can truly see how much I need to live away from urban society. I was going to write a load of stuff about the babbling brooks and beautiful sights, but I'm too sad at the moment. Stupid Manchester.
I'm genuinely suprised by this, because I grew up in a place like Salisbury, and went to Salisbury quite often and I never once thought that it would be the kind of place a late-twenties metal head would aspire to live in. Having said that, I've never been to Manchester so I don't know how it stacks up. In my head, Manchester is kind of (exactly, actually) like Bartertown from Mad Max Beyond the Thunderdome, with Louche as Tina Turner.
Posted by dang65 (Member # 102) on :
quote:Originally posted by Zygote: It's only now that I can truly see how much I need to live away from urban society. I was going to write a load of stuff about the babbling brooks and beautiful sights, but I'm too sad at the moment. Stupid Manchester.
You don't need to go as far as Salisbury, pal. Just come to Wilmslow if you want babbling brooks and shit like that. Mind you, you have to avoid the people at all costs, but that's not too difficult really.
At the weekend, for example, we went to the local corn mill which ran continuously from 1589 to 1937, and still runs now from time to time when they switch it on. The landowners round those parts had a manor house there but it burned down in 1779. But they didn't rebuild it in the same place because [this is interesting] the A34 was too noisy. In 1779. They diverted the road, which still follows the new wonky route today, and built a new house much further back.
The people responded to this outrageous wealth brandishing by simply building much noisier vehicles; a tradition which continues to this day.
Posted by ralph (Member # 773) on :
quote:Originally posted by sam: Do you think this is why ralph went?
ralph didn't go anywhere. I posted this on the 12th:
quote:Originally posted by ralph: I think I'm the only one here nwod. And I can't have a drink with you for countless reasons. Good luck with the new job next week. I'm on hols, so won't be back until the 16th.
Doesn't anyone read anything I post? Posted by Vogon Poetess (Member # 164) on :
I backed the winner of the National and took the early price (40-1) rather than SP (33-1). Then I got drunk.
Posted by dang65 (Member # 102) on :
*swoon*
Halle's back! Yay! Can I get your autograph? Please, please, please. I loved you in that film, that one, you know, and the other one, I've got all your films, and your records, and, er, have you written any books? I've got them too!
Posted by Nathan Bleak (Member # 1040) on :
quote:Originally posted by ralph: Doesn't anyone read anything I post?
Hello ralphbear. Welcome back. Can you answer my genuine enquiry here about what constitutes a 'dark thought' when you are not on a medication pill, here Posted by Zygote (Member # 883) on :
quote:Originally posted by Nathan Bleak: I'm genuinely suprised by this, because I grew up in a place like Salisbury, and went to Salisbury quite often and I never once thought that it would be the kind of place a late-twenties metal head would aspire to live in.
I've always preferred to spend my time in more 'rural' areas. As a teenager I wrote for a carp fishing magazine (yes, I know...) and, as a result, spent even more of my spare time in picturesque settings around the country. I'm happier away from the hustle and bustle, the smog, the obnoxious twats, the noise, the constant 'rush' - everything that living in a busy city involves. The fact that the house we were staying in had a river running through the garden may have exaggerated my thoughts, but not so much as to completely distort them.
It's really nice to be able to go for a long walk without worrying about some thick cunt wanting to rob your clothes, or gangs of ugly, spotty-faced, Nike-wearing children crowding the streets, or pissheads swaggering around, screaming and shouting. It gets to you after a while, and spending a few days in Salisbury was an immensely therapeutic experience.
When walking through the town centre people would smile at you and say 'hello' - an alien concept to me. If you smiled at a stranger in Manchester, you'd be liable to get stabbed, or worse. Pretty sad really.
Posted by sam (Member # 884) on :
quote:Originally posted by ralph:
quote:Originally posted by sam: Do you think this is why ralph went?
ralph didn't go anywhere. I posted this on the 12th:
quote:Originally posted by ralph: I think I'm the only one here nwod. And I can't have a drink with you for countless reasons. Good luck with the new job next week. I'm on hols, so won't be back until the 16th.
Doesn't anyone read anything I post?
Hurrah! ralph is back.
Stop taking holidays dude. It's unnerving.
Posted by ralph (Member # 773) on :
quote:Originally posted by Nathan Bleak: Can you answer my genuine enquiry here about what constitutes a 'dark thought' when you are not on a medication pill, here
Thoughts of suicide, thoughts of doing harm to others.
Posted by Zygote (Member # 883) on :
quote:Originally posted by dang65: You don't need to go as far as Salisbury, pal. Just come to Wilmslow if you want babbling brooks and shit like that.
Yeah, I've been to most places in Cheshire and will eventually retreat there. You still get the problems of being fairly close to gridlife, but in terms of tranquility and peacefulness there are certainly places within Cheshire that will cater for such a requirement. I used to work in Wilmslow and am a member of their British Legion club - woo!
Posted by ralph (Member # 773) on :
quote:Originally posted by sam: Hurrah! ralph is back.
Stop taking holidays dude. It's unnerving.
It wasn't really a holday. I had good friday off from work, I took last monday and tuesday off to take down some trees for a garden area we'd like to build, the other three days last week were spent at our corporate training facility learning some 4GL reporting tool.
Posted by Zygote (Member # 883) on :
quote:Originally posted by Vogon Poetess: I backed the winner of the National and took the early price (40-1) rather than SP (33-1). Then I got drunk.
Well played!
I backed nothing, but got very drunk.
Posted by Waynster (Member # 56) on :
quote:Originally posted by Zygote: I used to work in Wilmslow and am a member of their British Legion club - woo!
I'm the PR officer for the BL here in Amsterdam strangely enough. I am seriously considering just going back to a member, as it just seems to be an excuse for old people to argue about banal things.
Posted by Nathan Bleak (Member # 1040) on :
quote:Originally posted by ralph: Thoughts of suicide, thoughts of doing harm to others.
Surely this is fairly normal? Like, whenever someone on here posts about waiting at a tube station and just stares at the line thinking about either throwing themselves in front of a train, or grabbing the german student next to them by the rucksack and hurling them onto the line, everyone always piles in saying "Oh yeah, I get that too". I mean, it's completely normal isn't it? Like when you see someone getting our of a car, and you want to run up and boot it with your foot to crush them between the car door and the frame of the car. How do you tell the difference between regular, near comical stuff like that, and genuine depression that requires medication?
[ 16.04.2007, 07:48: Message edited by: Nathan Bleak ]
Posted by Waynster (Member # 56) on :
I had a nice weekend - after my triumphant trip to Germany, Saturday was spent in the pub watching another abysmal performance of my footie team, and lots of lovely Amstel beer. Yesterday head into town, Sunday Roast, back to the pub where several of my footie mates arrived (including one all the way from Sweden), great conversation, then about 9 headed to a Tapas bar eating al fresco for a couple of hours.
And the weather was gorgeous Posted by ralph (Member # 773) on :
quote:Originally posted by Nathan Bleak: How do you tell the difference between regularly, near comical stuff like that, and genuine depression that requires medication?
Do you think about killing yourself thorn?
I don't know about other people, but I finally concluded that I was seriously depressed after being told by family, friends, and medical professionals for as long as I can remember that I just seem depressed and should seek help. That, and the fact that I don't think there's photographic evidence in existence proving that I've ever smiled without the aid of drugs or alcohol.
Posted by Jimmy Big Nuts (Member # 895) on :
I can kind of understand. When I was suffering, I used to be consumed with vivid fantasies about hurting or killing people that were close to me, to the point that I couldn't really speak to them or look at them, or do anything apart from try and get out the situations as fast as I could. That stuff never fully went away, but I can ignore it now, whereas I couldn't before. Also, I never really seriously thought of actually killing myself, but I'd have the word 'suicide' constantly flying around my head, and I'd link things up to suicide without wanting to. I wasn't really logically thinking about killing myself, but the word, the thought, the idea of doing it completely overwhelmed my consciousness. Still, to answer your question thorn, the difference is when you are crippled by your frightening, violent thoughts to the point where you can't function in social situations on any level, and even when you're alone you can't think properly.
I don't know if this is exactly what ralph's going through, but for me, it wasn't really comparable to idle thoughts, because they would completely overtake me, breed paranoid fear, and cause panic attacks and reclusive impulses. It's like... you're not living in reality any more, and everything is alien and threatening.
[ 16.04.2007, 08:05: Message edited by: Jimmy Big Nuts ]
Posted by herbs (Member # 101) on :
I quite often have a kind of passive suicide urge, like when crossing a road thinking that if the car hit me I wouldn't really mind. But I haven't actually got the will to leap out in front of it. I really should put my back into it.
Posted by sam (Member # 884) on :
ralph, you need a real holiday dude. Posted by Nathan Bleak (Member # 1040) on :
quote:Originally posted by ralph: Do you think about killing yourself thorn?
Yeah, like every day. But only in the abstract, I guess - like just as a "suppose I did, how would I do it? What would people think? What would it take to drive me to it? What would I do in the hours leading up to it?" etc. Like, say when you're in a meeting and you think "I wonder what people would do if part way through my presentation I just pissed myself? Just let it drain out across my trousers and carried on speaking?" You know - like not something you'd ever consider doing, but just an interesting train of thought to follow through.
I don't mean to sound like I'm interrogating you or anything, I'm just kind of curious about what makes people realise they're clinically depressed, as opposed to just depressed because their life is shit. A few people (strangers off the internet) suggested I went on meds when I was all morose about life (shit job, shit girlfriend), but it seemed to me to be a natural reaction to my life actually being very depressing, rather than somethign that needed medicating. So, you know. I was just curious about what made people think it was them that was getting them down, rather than just life.
[ 16.04.2007, 08:24: Message edited by: Nathan Bleak ]
Posted by Nathan Bleak (Member # 1040) on :
quote:Originally posted by Jimmy Big Nuts: Still, to answer your question thorn, the difference is when you are crippled by your frightening, violent thoughts to the point where you can't function in social situations on any level, and even when you're alone you can't think properly.
Ok, yeah. That makes sense.
Posted by ralph (Member # 773) on :
quote:Originally posted by Jimmy Big Nuts: I don't know if this is exactly what ralph's going through, but for me, it wasn't really comparable to idle thoughts, because they would completely overtake me, breed paranoid fear, and cause panic attacks and reculsive impulses. It's like... you're not living in reality any more, and everything is alien and threatening.
This is exactly how I've felt my entire life. When my depression and anxiety is at it's worst, I completely withdrawl from everyone. My profession was chosen on the basis that I'd have almost no close interaction with other humans on a regular basis.
Posted by Jimmy Big Nuts (Member # 895) on :
heavy. I hope the drugs work for you - they did for me, but I had three or four runs before something clicked.
But then, I still drink booze, which is probably what keeps me going.
Posted by ralph (Member # 773) on :
The drugs seem to be doing something. My wife looked deeply into my eyes last night and said are you still in there?
You should probably stop self-medicating, Steve.
eta: What became of all the new members from that dating site? Did they disappear while I was away?
[ 16.04.2007, 08:29: Message edited by: ralph ]
Posted by herbs (Member # 101) on :
I'm not sure. It's very quiet today, isn't it. Is it still a bank holiday?
Posted by Lickapaw#2 (Member # 1049) on :
If everyone else is doing what I'm doing, they're being very busy, what with it being Monday, and everyone else in their office is being busy, hence not daring to open TMO.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
yeah, that's me, pretty much
Posted by Jimmy Big Nuts (Member # 895) on :
I'm sort of busy, but I finished my urgent task this morning and now I'm coasting, looking at last.fm, looking at youtube, checking email, drinking coke zero, emailing a chick in taiwan. Plenty to do like, but nothing really pressing.
[ 16.04.2007, 10:25: Message edited by: Jimmy Big Nuts ]
Posted by jonesy999 (Member # 5) on :
Yeah, I'm well busy. I'd post a greamlin on the gender stripped thread but I don't really understand it. At all.
Welcome back ralph. Where have you been? You should make an anouncement or something next time. People were worried.
[ 16.04.2007, 10:29: Message edited by: jonesy999 ]
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
I'm mainly catching up with homework, cuz it's back to school tomorrow. Today's an "inset day" whatever that means. All I know is I get another day off. Gonna be tough to be back behind a desk... and, ugh, GCSEs soon!
Posted by herbs (Member # 101) on :
I'm at my usual setting of having lots to do, but without a deadline looming, so am fannying around on the interweb. I'm Shit.
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
I have shitloads to do but am fed up by Project Manager and System Support people having a pissing contest which my project is caught in the middle of.
Also I have a headache.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
I'm pretty busy but now I'm on the wind down for the afternoon. I'm about to make my last cup of coffee of the afternoon, which more or less marks the cessation of further working activities until tomorrow morning.
Posted by Louche (Member # 450) on :
I’m waiting for someone to ring me back, then I might bugger off home, I think. I’m vaguely planning what to have for tea, and wondering what possible excuse I can manufacture for being out, somewhere, anywhere, all evening.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
Have they rung you back yet?
Anyone remember that time when Elvis found himself ringing Ben, for legitimate work reasons... and had to fess up that he was in fact, "Elvis".
I was imagining getting a phone call from someone about work who then says "Actually, I must tell you, I'm louche", which would be an interesting thing to hear. Better than, say, "I'm Mart"...
"I'm not" would be a good one
Anyway.
Posted by herbs (Member # 101) on :
Brrr. that would freak me out. It was bad enough talking to Dang on Skype for three seconds.
I'm even putting off phoning someone to do with work who was a friend of an ex-boyfriend. I last saw this person about 10 years ago. Do I say who I am? Will he remember my name and wonder why I haven't said that I know him? What if I say who I am and he thinks "like, whatever"? The whole thing is a minefield.
Posted by Nathan Bleak (Member # 1040) on :
I've a feeling that my working life may brush up against Louche's later in the week. Not in a major way, but just a brief convergence of interests. I could be wrong, and I kind of have to guess at what she does and where she does it, but if she has an encounter with someone pretty well known before the week is out, then I was right.
Posted by Louche (Member # 450) on :
quote:Originally posted by Nathan Bleak: but if she has an encounter with someone pretty well known before the week is out, then I was right.
I've not had an encounter with anyone pretty well known yet. Is there still time? Though it seems unlikely that anything will happen today, as my plans are to organise a few meetings, buy a sandwich, scarf off home as early as I can and maybe have a bottle of wine later.
Posted by Nathan Bleak (Member # 1040) on :
No, it's happened already. It was to do with Tony Blair being up your way yesterday. I'd speculated that you had something to do with amenities in Manchester, like you worked in the public sector in some way, so I thought maybe you would know about/ be involved in his visit in some way. But obviously not.
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
Louche is all about the education sector, IIRC Nathan.
Posted by Nathan Bleak (Member # 1040) on :
Right! So I thought Tony Blair opening a school in a deprived part of Manchester would show up on her radar.
Posted by Louche (Member # 450) on :
Oh, that. It was in Wigan, not Manchester. Not far down the road from my house, actually. I wonder if he stopped by at Joe's Top Pies for his lunch, or perhaps popped into the Alexandra for a pint of bitter and a knife wound.
Posted by Nathan Bleak (Member # 1040) on :
If he did, at least he would have been near the beautifully designed new health centre that was opened at the same time as the school. A real world class facility, that.
Posted by Nathan Bleak (Member # 1040) on :
Although, probably under equipped for stab wounds.
Posted by Louche (Member # 450) on :
I am disproportionately gutted that we haven't got a BNP candidate in our ward (having just, probably inadvisably, checked that out by checking out the BNP website). It would at least have given me someone to vote against.
Posted by jonesy999 (Member # 5) on :
Why don't you put yourself forward?
Get Norton to put in a good word.
Posted by Louche (Member # 450) on :
I somehow don't think standing as BNP candidate is something I ever saw in my future. My Mum'd kill me.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Newbury Grandmother stands for BNP
quote: She said that most of her time was devoted to her four grandchildren and stressed that, far from being bigoted, she was “too cowardly to be racist”.
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
Ooh, no! Racist? It's such a nasty word, I always think. No, I'm no racist, I just believe in old-fashioned values. Happy families. Strong communities. Safety. Security. Take paedophiles, for instance. They'd be much happier if they were all hanged, you just ask them. And darkies, they'd all be much happier on fire. They like the heat, you see? Posted by SilverGinger5 (Member # 49) on :
quote:We are a Christian country and we should be taught about Christianity
quote:I am a strong believer in the truth
If you're a strong believer in the truth, why do you want your children to be taught fairy tales? Posted by Jimmy Big Nuts (Member # 895) on :
She's got a pretty punchable face.
Posted by Louche (Member # 450) on :
quote: The BNP currently have just 20 councillors, out of a national total of over 8,000, yet the majority of even this small number have failed.
Luke Smith (Burnley). Was forced to resign after he smashed a bottle into the face of a Leeds BNP organiser. Despite claiming to be the party of law and order, the BNP failed to call in the police and press charges. Smith had only recently been convicted of football violence when he was elected as a BNP candidate. He has had several more recent convictions and was sentenced to 11 months imprisonment after being caught fighting in Manchester.
Brian Turner (Burnley). Was convicted of attacking his wife and a police officer whilst a councillor yet the BNP refused to disown him. In fact they even defended him by issuing a statement saying: “we are not in the business of persecuting our members because the state considers someone guilty.”
Richard Mulhall (Calderdale). Is currently facing charges on housing benefit fraud. Despite this the BNP has refused to disown him or demand his resignation if he is found guilty.
Robin Evans (Blackburn). Left the BNP after complaining about the drug dealers and football hooligans who dominated his local BNP branch. He also criticised the Burnley BNP councillors as useless.
Steve Batkin (Stoke-on-Trent). Steve Batkin attended none of a possible thirty committee meetings in the nine months to March 2005. Batkin has only spoken twice in his first two years as a councillor and one of those was to ask what “abstain” meant. Was once told to stop talking to the media after he questioned key facts relating to the Holocaust, including saying that Jewish people refused to debate the subject because they would be exposed as liars.
Adrian Marsden (Calderdale). The absent councillor. In the six months to March 2006, Marsden has attended just three council meetings and his work record for his ward constituents has been even worse. However, he managed to find the time and strength to act as a bodyguard to BNP leader Nick Griffin during the recent court case in Leeds. But then again, what can you expect from a man with several convictions and a long history with the violent neo-nazi group Combat 18.
I can't be a BNP councillor. I don't have enough criminal convictions and I know what abstain means. Oh well, nevermind, eh?
Posted by Jimmy Big Nuts (Member # 895) on :
crackers.
Posted by Fionnula the Cooler (Member # 453) on :
There was a BNP party political broadcast on BBC Scotland a few weeks ago. They focussed on relatively innocuous topics like health and education, and whenever they slipped in an anti-immigration line they related it directly to an issue they knew people cared about most - unemployment, poverty, crime. Now, you'd hope most people would realise what they were trying to do - pass racism off as socialism - but then there exist people of voting age who stay up till 4am phoning up Glitterball at 75p a call to try to guess the missing part of the word OVER_____. So I guess we should probably be concerned.
Posted by dang65 (Member # 102) on :
quote:She said that, far from being bigoted, she was “too cowardly to be racist”.
This is a disgrace. These illegal immigrants have put so much fear into our lovely British grannies that they're actually too scared to be racist any more. Posted by wonderstarr (Member # 1158) on :
quote:Originally posted by Fionnula the Cooler: then there exist people of voting age who stay up till 4am phoning up Glitterball at 75p a call to try to guess the missing part of the word OVER_____.
What's the right answer?
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
quote:Originally posted by wonderstarr: What's the right answer?
_DRAFT
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
quote:Originally posted by wonderstarr: What's the right answer?
CRAFT
[ 20.04.2007, 10:09: Message edited by: Black Mask ]
Posted by wonderstarr (Member # 1158) on :
It could be -TURE though, or -TURN. I thought FtC was implying this was a thicky question anyone could answer.
Posted by wonderstarr (Member # 1158) on :
Or -DOSE. Probably lots of other things, what do I know about English language.
Posted by Jimmy Big Nuts (Member # 895) on :
RUN, STEER, BLOW or FUCK.
Posted by Jimmy Big Nuts (Member # 895) on :
which is the title of the next Kid Rock album.
Posted by Fionnula the Cooler (Member # 453) on :
quote:Originally posted by wonderstarr:
quote:Originally posted by Fionnula the Cooler: then there exist people of voting age who stay up till 4am phoning up Glitterball at 75p a call to try to guess the missing part of the word OVER_____.
What's the right answer?
Hello wonderstarr from Lewisham in London! Congratulations, you're our last caller for this game! Let's see if you have the winning answer! Come on, then, let's hear it ... What was that? ... Say it again for me, wonderstarr ... Oversee, did you say? ... Could you spell it for me? ... Oh, overseas! Of course. Ok, wonderstarr. Overseas. Let's see if it's there ... Bad luck, mate! Overseas is NOT the right answer. I'm being told we've had overseas several times tonight already. As well as ... let's see ... overtake, overprice, overspend, overambitious, overindulge, override ... uh ... overture! overture was a good one! But no one quite worked out the correct answer! So let's see what that correct answer actually was ... DA DA DA! ... ah, of course! it's ... over...man? *presses ear, strains to hear* Yes, overman! Which means ... *presses ear* ... to employ too many members of staff, I'm being told. Overman! So obvious now, isn't it? I bet you're all kicking yourselves at home. And all you had to do was pick up that phone, dial that number, and swap your winning answer of overman for one hundred glorious tax free pounds!
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
quote:Originally posted by wonderstarr: I thought FtC was implying this was a thicky question anyone could answer.
These shows don't have questions, wonderstarr - they're just guessing games. I imagine they don't even decide on a correct answer until they're sure that they've made enough money on the phonecalls.
Posted by Jimmy Big Nuts (Member # 895) on :
nice one fionulla. I lol'ed.
Posted by wonderstarr (Member # 1158) on :
Oh I see what kind of quiz it was now I watched one of those once, and it was just as FtC describes. I think men who like to see pretty girls humiliated (eg. Thorn) would enjoy this kind of show, because the presenter was quite fit in a sort of Cat Deeley's little sister way, and she was desperately trying to string out a chatty monologue about absolutely nothing, while a camera followed her and never took its eyes off her, and she grasped around for some inanity to fill the space. It would have been good (for someone who likes that) if you saw small dark patches of sweat appear under the arms of her top, and she started blushing and couldn't stop.
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It was very nice, Finished off with a Sainsburys Light and Fluffy. ![[Wink]](wink.gif)
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