YOU'RE ALL WANKERS
Posted by Jimmy Big Nuts (Member # 895) on :
*****.
Posted by Nathan Bleak (Member # 1040) on :
I'm super-pissed off today because First Great Western ahve changed their policy on bikes on trains as a result of more people wanting to cycle/ train to work. So, because loads of people want this service... they've removed it. For fuck's sake.
I've even written a letter of complaint, and written to my MP. I've never done that before and it's a completely depressing experience that just serves to highlight how helpless you really are.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
I'm a bit hacked off too. Just laid a patio for my parents, spent all morning doing the damn thing. Digging up the turf, turning the soil, packing down, laying shingle, etc etc. Got it all laid out, looking good, stood back to admire my work and one slab was slightlly on the piss. So I take my mallet. go to tap it down on a corner and *crack* the bastard corner broke off the bastard slab.
Also, my mate was suppposed to be giving me a hand. I rang him beforehand and he said he was on his way, he was just going to pop into the garage to get some oil for his car so we can change that while he's here. I say ok, I'm going to start anyway and he can help when he gets here. Halfway through I ring him again, asking where he is. "oh, sorry mate, had to sort out some insurance. I'll be over in a bit" I tell him to hurry, since I'm halfway done. I've just finished and he's still not here, clearly jewing his way out of helping me out by taking as long as possible, and now he's going to expect me to change the oil and filter in his car, then pay for snooker afterwards. Chisky fucker.
And this is how I choose to spend my week off work Posted by Abby (Member # 582) on :
Hello, Im helluva pissed of as well, because I was supposed to go and collect my new bike after work, but the cunry on the phone when I orderd it put 18th June in 'the system' instead of May so it isn't ready yet.
I have done a lot of work this week, so am now available for idle banter...go!
Posted by Abby (Member # 582) on :
Actually despite the bike fiasco Im not that pissed of because it is Friday, and I have managed to nearly finish the paper I am writing despite that looking like an imposible task at the beginning of the week. So I will probably be too drunk to ride a bike for most of the weekend anyway.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
It's now raining a monsoon upon my freshly laid patio, so I expect that'll have sunk into the ground within half an hour or so.
Posted by Abby (Member # 582) on :
And I interviewd a hot PhD student applicant today. And Im going to a party tonight.
Is the wind blowing south Ringo? It is ok here at the moment and I don't fancy a monsoon...
Posted by vikram (Member # 98) on :
i'm going to some sort of burlesque party with three 'glamour' models. wanna come bendway? islington
Posted by vikram (Member # 98) on :
though it'll probably anger you more
Posted by Nathan Bleak (Member # 1040) on :
I had a dream about Abby the other night. I was trying to fuck her, but Bill Sikes and Fagin were also in the room and kept criticizing my performance and complaining there was nowhere to sleep.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Roughly North, I would say. Very very windy.
Posted by Jimmy Big Nuts (Member # 895) on :
quote:Originally posted by vikram: i'm going to some sort of burlesque party with three 'glamour' models. wanna come bendway? islington
hmmm, I've got a birthday party to go to in angel. Maybe I'll sneak out of that and come to have sex with these models.
Posted by Abby (Member # 582) on :
Was I any good?
Posted by Nathan Bleak (Member # 1040) on :
quote:Originally posted by Abby: Was I any good?
I'm afraid not - it was incredibly disappointing. It was largely due to Fagin and Bill Sykes, although you were partly to blame as you brought them along. Also I don't think you were that up for it, or realised was I was pitching for. You had this kind of weary tolerance of me getting a bit hands-on because you and your friends needed a place to stay, but I don't think you were going to go for it.
Posted by Amy (Member # 11) on :
i'm not angry...just incredibly bored.
what's everyone doing this weekend?
Posted by vikram (Member # 98) on :
i'm going to some sort of burlesque party with three 'glamour' models.
Posted by Waynster (Member # 56) on :
I had a (slightly) TMO related dream the other night where Soph from attachments was a female officer in the army, who would get her breasts out to fire up her troops. Because of this they were fiercley loyal to her and would do anything she asked of them, which mainly consisted of them driving like bloody lunatics while drunk and naked, causing mayhem for the civil police, and making her laugh like a loon at the power she had over them.
I am thinking of developing it into a film script. With the exception of the naked squaddies - I want Ringo to direct the car scenes.
I am also thinking I really need to try and get more than three hours sleep a night as it is obviously driving me round the bend
Posted by vikram (Member # 98) on :
big picnic in the park tomorrow
bbq and gig on brick lane on sunday
Posted by dang65 (Member # 102) on :
quote:Originally posted by Amy: what's everyone doing this weekend?
Same as most weekends from March to November... hacking away at this lot like I was Harrison Ford out of The Mosquito Coast or Gerard Depardieu out of Jean de Florette or something. (Just the tragic and futile hard slog bits, not the rugged and romantic bits.)
Mind you, I can go inside and watch a bit of telly at the end of the day, which I don't think either of them could, so maybe it's not so bad really. In fact, it's basically a bit of gardening.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
My day just got marginally better since my mate has said he's not going to come over after all, as it's raining and he doesn't fancy doing his oil in the rain. Also, I had forgotten that it's someone's birthday tonight and I'm supposed to be going to a house party at his place instead of buggering off to play snooker. Which is a shame as the party is going to be half filled with his girlfriend's mates who are all like teenagers who wear baggy jeans and 'nu-metal' band t-shirts. The other half will be comprised mostly of my friends, who I have managed to somehow alienate over the past 6 moths or so. To compound the problem, his house is about 7 miles away and my only way of getting there is by bike (I'm not paying for a cab, that's just silly money) so I'm not going to be smelling too fresh when I get there.
On the plus side, as I've stopped drinking I'm not obliged to bring any alcohol and I can be relatively happy about cycling home in the small hours without having to crash into a bush and sleep by the side of the canal. Which, y'know, is nice I guess.
Posted by herbs (Member # 101) on :
Annoyance reasons: 1 working for moronic clients who wouldn't appreciate decent graphic design and editorial if it bit them on the arse; 2 trying to get an appointment at the hospital re being barren is proving more complex and difficult to fathom than the plot of Syriana, watched while on acid
Weekend: 1 chinese meal in Stratford with girls from am dram (4/10 to 6/10 on enjoyment scale, depending on proximity to annoying girl who drinks like fish then wonders why she's so fat); 2 quiz night and/or walthamstow dogs tomorrow (7/10); 3 driving to R's friend near Oxford for lunch (7/10 - would be more, but I'll be sober)
Posted by Nathan Bleak (Member # 1040) on :
I'm going to the launch of some bar tonight, whihc looks like it will be fun. No plans for the daytime tomorrow, I don't think, and then in the evening going out for dinner at some place called Branca that I keep calling Blanka, after the green fellow from Street Fighter II.
Posted by Jimmy Big Nuts (Member # 895) on :
I'm sure it'll be magical. I'm going to a party tonight, dicking around with a video camera tomorrow day and going to a party tomorrow night and then, like craig david, I'll chill on sunday.
I'll be around on xbox on sunday thorn, if you fancy a rumble. Got the halo3 beta yet?
Posted by Abby (Member # 582) on :
Sorry Thorn, sorry everyone.
I am, as I said, going to a party tonight. It is in the function room of a pub on my road which inevitably means that it will move back to my house afterwards and chaos will ensue. Saturday is likely to be sleeping followed by gentle pizza eating...though I do like the picnic idea...
Work on Sunday Posted by Jimmy Big Nuts (Member # 895) on :
ringo's life seems a bit depressing. Oil, patios, alienation, snooker, rain, sobriety. Nothing wrong with any of them on their own, but together, that's quite chilling.
[ 18.05.2007, 11:55: Message edited by: Jimmy Big Nuts ]
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
Babysitting tonight, which I might do while on the golf course. Then I will cook some spicy fish and drink alcohol. Don't know about tomorrow day. Evening is curry with parents then to a bar (voted "The Best Place to Drink in Britain 2006!" by The Observer readers, fact fans) (fact: it's not all that) where a mate is DJing. Sunday: hopefully work out how the hell to join two video edits from two tapes onto one DVDable final version using Pinnacle Studio.
Wow.
[ 18.05.2007, 11:57: Message edited by: mart ]
Posted by Zygote (Member # 883) on :
I've had a pretty shit week. After the brake disc fiasco the other day, I took my cat for its MOT -- it failed. Apparently, the exhaust system needs replacing. I'm too scared to get a quote just yet, so I'll deal with it next week. Don't know what I'm doing tonight. Supposed to be going to some breakbeat night but I'm really not in the mood, so might just make a start on my Johnny Walker Green Label and read until the words become a mish-mash of squiggles.
Posted by Jimmy Big Nuts (Member # 895) on :
quote:Originally posted by Zygote: After the brake disc fiasco the other day, I took my cat for its MOT -- it failed. Apparently, the exhaust system needs replacing. I'm too scared to get a quote just yet, so I'll deal with it next week.
.
It's the constant licking.
Posted by vikram (Member # 98) on :
quote:Originally posted by Jimmy Big Nuts: dicking around with a video camera tomorrow day
Posted by Darryn.R (Member # 1) on :
I'm trying to work out if I can put a satellite card capable of picking up full HD into a Sony VGX-XL100 as thy have one knocked down to a grand at a local shop..
I think the thing only takes PCI cards though not PCIe..
Posted by Jimmy Big Nuts (Member # 895) on :
Posted by vikram (Member # 98) on :
Posted by Nathan Bleak (Member # 1040) on :
Dammit, the MD Just came over to my desk for a chat, right after I'd guffed into my chair. So I had to hold a conversation with him whilst smelling like I'd just shat my pants.
How could life be any worse.
Posted by Jimmy Big Nuts (Member # 895) on :
sounds like you need to work on your diet, young bleak.
Posted by Zygote (Member # 883) on :
quote:Originally posted by Nathan Bleak: How could life be any worse.
It could've been a hott female MD.
Posted by Amy (Member # 11) on :
quote:Originally posted by vikram: big picnic in the park tomorrow
bbq and gig on brick lane on sunday
i love picnics.
we have no plans for the weekend, except watching loads of movies. we are now part of blockbuster's monthly subscription thing, where you pay a specific amount of money per month and set up a movie queue. then they send you 3 movies at a time. once you watch them you can either take them to the store and exchange them for something else or mail it back to them. once they get all the movies they've sent you, they send that many more. tonight we're taking the queen and some kung fu movie back and getting saw II & III.
Posted by Nathan Bleak (Member # 1040) on :
quote:Originally posted by Jimmy Big Nuts: sounds like you need to work on your diet, young bleak.
I don't have any say over my diet any more - Octavia prepares all my meals, makes my sandwiches, prepares breakfast etc. I am reduced to the status of a spoilt child.
Posted by Waynster (Member # 56) on :
quote:Originally posted by Darryn.R: I'm trying to work out if I can put a satellite card capable of picking up full HD into a Sony VGX-XL100 as thy have one knocked down to a grand at a local shop..
I think the thing only takes PCI cards though not PCIe..
Pretty sure it won't mate - I'd be vary wary of buying an off the shelf as they aren't very forgiving when it comes to adding your own bits
Posted by vikram (Member # 98) on :
quote:Originally posted by Nathan Bleak: How could life be any worse.
You could find out your mate is betraying your birthday picnic in favour of "dicking around with a video camera"
Posted by Darryn.R (Member # 1) on :
It has a PCI expansion slot, and I reckon I can bung this into it:
The Sony media thing isn't all that bad, and considering each time I try and put seperates together (say at Alternate) I end up with a machine that's 1800 upwards a grand for a box that'll do what I want seems fine..
As long as it'll take the card..
I think I might just ring Sony... I saw a nice reciever amp today at the media markt too, 299 with dual HDMI in and single out..
[ 18.05.2007, 12:23: Message edited by: Darryn.R ]
Posted by Nathan Bleak (Member # 1040) on :
I am literally at my wit's end.
Posted by Jimmy Big Nuts (Member # 895) on :
quote:Originally posted by vikram:
quote:Originally posted by Nathan Bleak: How could life be any worse.
You could find out your mate is betraying your birthday picnic in favour of "dicking around with a video camera"
look man, it's like, I'm not, you - you have to understand, listen okay, right, it's, I agreed that I'd help out on this thing with the video camera long before your thing turned up, man. I, you know, it's not that - it's more - I -
Posted by herbs (Member # 101) on :
I did a guff at a tube station yesterday. Victoria, to be precise. I've been on a health kick, and been eating lots of fibre. Usually even the sturdiest trump can't be heard among the melee of commuting, but yesterday's had a fatal combination of wooden bench, close proximity to suited men, a bent-over shoe-tying position, and the only moment of quiet on the London Underground rush hour since 1903.
Posted by vikram (Member # 98) on :
quote:Originally posted by Jimmy Big Nuts: look man, it's like, I'm not, you - you have to understand, listen okay, right, it's, I agreed that I'd help out on this thing with the video camera long before your thing turned up, man. I, you know, it's not that - it's more - I -
pftttttt
you could have been on my flickr dude, in my blog even. but now, now you're dead to me.
[ 18.05.2007, 12:36: Message edited by: vikram ]
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
painedherbslol
Posted by Amy (Member # 11) on :
Weird double post.
[ 18.05.2007, 12:55: Message edited by: Amy ]
Posted by Amy (Member # 11) on :
quote:Originally posted by Zygote: ...Johnny Walker Green Label...
Mmmm...Johnnie Walker Green. Have you ever had Johnnie Walker Swing? Excellent.
Now I want a scotch.
Dang- did you take those photos? You've got a great eye. I particularly like the blue daisy type flower with the bee on it. Is that your house? It's huge!
Does anyone know how to get a cat to stop chewing wires? She's done it for years (destroyed an incredible amount of wires) and I've tried cayenne pepper and some other thing I can't think of right now. Neither has worked.
Posted by Zygote (Member # 883) on :
quote:Originally posted by Amy: Mmmm...Johnnie Walker Green. Have you ever had Johnnie Walker Swing?
No, I haven't but I'll give it a whirl next time I see a bottle. Really loving the Green Label currently though. Oh fuck it, I'm going to have a glass now. It's all your fault Amy. You see what you've done to me?
Re: your cat. I believe that if you wrap tin foil around the relevant wires, the cat will cease to chew them.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Joy of joys, my mum has agreed to lend me her car. it's costing me a princely £20 in insurance (that's an absolute joke isn't it. £20 for 24 hours' insurance. *****) but it's still less money than a cab, and means I can go and leave as I please.
Result.
Posted by Amy (Member # 11) on :
It's what time there now? About 6:40? If anyone questions having a drink at this time, you can say it's Happy Hour...because it is.
The reason it's called Swing is because of the bottle it's in. Was originally created for cruise ships, so that when the ship hit waves, the bottle would gently rock back and forth. Rather than fall over and break.
Hmmm tin foil may just do the trick. Thanks!
Good job Ringers...at least now you won't end up soaked by the time you get to the party.Is it still raining? We're due for a Nor'Easter apparently.
[ 18.05.2007, 13:44: Message edited by: Amy ]
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
in the Uk weather cycles last for all of 5 minutes so it's now lovely and sunny out. Still, I didn't fancy cycling down past the canal at like 1am with no streetights or owt.
Posted by Amy (Member # 11) on :
quote:Originally posted by Ringo: in the Uk weather cycles last for all of 5 minutes so it's now lovely and sunny out. Still, I didn't fancy cycling down past the canal at like 1am with no streetights or owt.
Are there a lot of cars that could possibly run you off the road? Doesn't your mom's car insurance cover someone if they're just borrowing the car? Can you get car insurance just for the evening?
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Alas no. when I had my own car, my policy covered me in such a way that I could drive any car with the owner's consent (albeit only third party cover) but now I have no car I would need to be specifically added as a named driver on the policy relating to the car I wish I drive. It's not a great system, and it seems designed specifically to rob you of money and unfortunately not having insurance just isn't an option.
I don't cycle down the roads, thankfully, but my cycle route would take me down along a canal tow path. in the day it's really picturesque but at night it's literally pitch black for a few miles and I don't really fancy that. While I'm not one for worrying unduly about kids or drunken thugs or whatever, it seems safer not to go around that sort of area at that time of night. If simply because I wouldn't want to end up fallling in the canal, like I nearly did last week in broad daylight, when i nearly ran over a heron..
£20 is a lot of money, but it's cheaper than a cab, and means I can go and leave whenever I want. Odds of getting a cab from someone's house at that time of night on a friday are slight at best.
Anyway, this probably isn't terribly interesting to read, and I'm now done eating my cottage pie so I'm going to go get my party on.
ciao
Posted by vikram (Member # 98) on :
well that was the most SKINS PARTY EVER
i left early and did not take any drugs or anything
i wish i was a teen NOW - it is amazing Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
How did the party from hell go, Ringo?
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
It was ok actually. It does kinda make you feel a bit old being surrounded by people who are about 4 or 5 years younger than you, seeing them acting in a way you used to. The fact I was sober also gave the evening a surreal feeling, like I was an abserver rather than a participant. But actually I had a laugh and that's what counts.
Also, the one particular person I wasn't looking forward to seeing wasn't there. She phoned Kev up at like 8pm (kev's birthday, remember) asking if he would pick her up, then drop her off after. Kev did little more than laugh at her. That gave me some slightly petty satisfaction. Particularly since time was I would have been the first to say "hey, I'll go get her" and then run off like some sort of gaylord. Not that night though.
Highlights included me managing to make the barbecue (my old one from Shenley, if you remember it) hotter than the flames of hell itself, meaning nobody was able to stand within 2 metres of it. Also, catching a spider in a plastic cup then getting it high. Then it slid on the floor and Ashley accidentally trod on it. Silly foolish things, but funny all the same.
There was some really skanky fat chick. Really drunk. insisted on showing me her pierced nipple. It was hideous. She was also stroking my hair which was particularly sharp, if I do say so myself.
Low points include me, ashley and kev all sitting together in the garden feeling slightly old and past it while becky's teenage friends all took drugs and drank lots of alcohol. Spending more time talking about good times we'd had in the years before than having a good time then.
Ah well. All in all, an interesting and amusing, light hearted evening in which I saw breasts, made fire, and laughed at the misfortune of one who has wronged me. So, y'know, about 7/10. Asseptable.
Posted by dang65 (Member # 102) on :
I want to sit round a fire. I mean, I couldn't really sit round an entire fire on my own, but I'd be amongst a number of people who together were sitting around a fire. No, just me and one other, sitting adjacent to a fire. Wine out of a shared bottle is the fireside preference I would say. That's what I want. Waves breaking a short way off. A gentle sea breeze. No one else but the two of us. Where can I purchase this experience?
I was reading the other day about a new documentary about Joe Strummer in which all the interviewees are filmed talking by firelight. The director (Julien Temple, for it is he) reckons it got them more relaxed and introspective than if they were in broad daylight in some posy location of their own choosing. I like the idea, though the film's probably rubbish I expect, being about a superhero as it is.
Posted by Waynster (Member # 56) on :
There is something special about a campfire that does seem to relax people - I don't know maybe it is some ancestral link back to our caveman days - something that has remained with us throughout time. In a lot of cultures of course its still a relevant thing - a central point of the settlement. It provides essential light,heat for warmth and for food, and I guess in a wilderness at night its the one place where everyone heads.
Yup you can't beat a good camfire for a good social gathering. Just a shame about the bloody smoke...
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
quote:Originally posted by Ringo: That gave me some slightly petty satisfaction.
It doesn't matter how many people tell you your victory is hollow. Petty satisfaction is still the hot shit.
Posted by dang65 (Member # 102) on :
quote:Originally posted by Amy: Dang- did you take those photos? You've got a great eye. I particularly like the blue daisy type flower with the bee on it. Is that your house? It's huge!
Forgot to answer this, sorry. I did take the pictures, but it's not so much a good eye as effective cropping. I don't know what other people do, but I sussed out a trick the other day. What you do is set the canvas size on photoshop (or paint.net in my case) to the size you want the final picture to be - say 600 x 450 for those web pics. Then you paste in the full size jpeg off your digital camera, so it'll be about 20 times the size of the canvas or something. Then you just resize and drag that image around till there's just the really nice bit of the picture in the middle of the canvas, and you save it.
Up till I figured that out I'd been using the cropping tool method which was a complete pain and far less flexible.
Anyway, sorry to drone on like that, but TMO isn't exactly buzzing right now so I'm just keeping the word count up really. That may be a common technique that everyone uses anyway and I'm just a bit slow.
Also, that is my gaff, yeah. Surely not huge by American standards? Too big to maintain though, I can confirm that.
Posted by Tilde (Member # 1215) on :
I like the look of your shed. It's pretty, but it also looks like you could have someone chained up in there.
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