Misheard and Misunderstood
Rachelswipe says: My niece - after months of begging - was finally allowed to get a hamster, and her grandfather was utterly horrified to learn that it had been called "Nipples", a pretty good name for a pet if you ask us. Alas, it was only the more mundane "Nibbles" - what have you misheard or misunderstood, with truly hilarious consequences?
( , Thu 28 Aug 2014, 21:35)
Rachelswipe says: My niece - after months of begging - was finally allowed to get a hamster, and her grandfather was utterly horrified to learn that it had been called "Nipples", a pretty good name for a pet if you ask us. Alas, it was only the more mundane "Nibbles" - what have you misheard or misunderstood, with truly hilarious consequences?
( , Thu 28 Aug 2014, 21:35)
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I'm sure someone posted repeatedly here about being on holiday in Florida.
I must have misunderstood the part where they deleted yet another thread about it.
( , Tue 2 Sep 2014, 17:13, 98 replies)
I must have misunderstood the part where they deleted yet another thread about it.
( , Tue 2 Sep 2014, 17:13, 98 replies)
I pretended to be rich and interesting.
No-one was even vaguely impressed. :(
In fact, it turned out that the actual level of wealth I had was completely irrelevant; what mattered was being a total douche bag about it.
Maybe someone here ought to learn this lesson.
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No-one was even vaguely impressed. :(
In fact, it turned out that the actual level of wealth I had was completely irrelevant; what mattered was being a total douche bag about it.
Maybe someone here ought to learn this lesson.
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I'm happy to get my nob out for cash.
I expect everyone to be about as impressed.
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I expect everyone to be about as impressed.
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Yeah make it a camel shambo,
and I'll even let you look at my bum.
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and I'll even let you look at my bum.
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I often get up very early in the morning in the middle of my holidays to delete arguments I had on the internet about my holiday.
It's a perfectly normal and healthy thing to do.
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It's a perfectly normal and healthy thing to do.
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sometimes right ... sometimes ... when I'm on a business trip I'll take photos out of the hotel window
and make up stories about how my imaginary children are having a lovely time
But I'm definitely not mental.
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and make up stories about how my imaginary children are having a lovely time
But I'm definitely not mental.
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See, I was quite prepared to believe that he was going on holiday to Florida, right up to the point where he deleted the entire thread at a time when he should have been boarding his plane.
:/
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:/
( , Tue 2 Sep 2014, 17:53, closed)
You credulous fools.
He clearly boarded one of his own fleet of aircraft, which he bought to fly around his property portfolio and on which he's allowed to use wifi all the time, because the cabins are clad with special pizza-oven bricks so it doesn't interfere with the instruments or owt.
( , Tue 2 Sep 2014, 18:33, closed)
He clearly boarded one of his own fleet of aircraft, which he bought to fly around his property portfolio and on which he's allowed to use wifi all the time, because the cabins are clad with special pizza-oven bricks so it doesn't interfere with the instruments or owt.
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That's a bit cynical.
After all ... it's not like he was demonstrably still in the UK a week after having announced his exciting departure.
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After all ... it's not like he was demonstrably still in the UK a week after having announced his exciting departure.
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You're not a 'winner' here mate, by any stretch
Yes, Albert's been shown to be more of a pitiful fantasist than we already knew, and it's clear that you are wetting yourself with glee over it. But that's only because of a quite disturbing level of creepy and obsessive stalking, which seems to be becoming your MO.
Take a look at yourself.
( , Tue 2 Sep 2014, 18:47, closed)
Yes, Albert's been shown to be more of a pitiful fantasist than we already knew, and it's clear that you are wetting yourself with glee over it. But that's only because of a quite disturbing level of creepy and obsessive stalking, which seems to be becoming your MO.
Take a look at yourself.
( , Tue 2 Sep 2014, 18:47, closed)
Yeah. I still look pretty handsome and popular. Thanks for reminding me.
But hey ... if sending a single gaz message with a traceable link and relying on him being profoundly stupid counts as obsessive stalking in your books then I'll just have to live with the terrible shame of disapproval from a sock puppet. If ... if ... if I could just stop this sobbing ... I'd ... I'd cuddle my children. Who aren't imaginary. Or stuck in a shopping mall in Florida. Sob.
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But hey ... if sending a single gaz message with a traceable link and relying on him being profoundly stupid counts as obsessive stalking in your books then I'll just have to live with the terrible shame of disapproval from a sock puppet. If ... if ... if I could just stop this sobbing ... I'd ... I'd cuddle my children. Who aren't imaginary. Or stuck in a shopping mall in Florida. Sob.
( , Tue 2 Sep 2014, 18:51, closed)
Dunno mate, the pictures that got posted of you were of a fat middle aged dull looking chap attempting "zany". Your superhero post count kindof tells it's own story as to how popular you are in real life.
You've even managed to out creep Albert with your l33thax3r sleuthing "trace" on him. Quite what you pull out of the bag when your kids bring their schoolfriends round is anyone's guess mate, but I imagine it'll be cameras in the toilet at the very least.
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You've even managed to out creep Albert with your l33thax3r sleuthing "trace" on him. Quite what you pull out of the bag when your kids bring their schoolfriends round is anyone's guess mate, but I imagine it'll be cameras in the toilet at the very least.
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Have you had cosmetic surgery?
Or are you confusing your Cliff Richards calender with the mirror?
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Or are you confusing your Cliff Richards calender with the mirror?
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I've learnt something new today
A calender is apparently a machine in which cloth or paper is pressed by rollers to glaze or smooth it
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A calender is apparently a machine in which cloth or paper is pressed by rollers to glaze or smooth it
( , Tue 2 Sep 2014, 19:43, closed)
yeah
the holes are too small to put your dick in unless-
i have disgusted myself
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the holes are too small to put your dick in unless-
i have disgusted myself
( , Tue 2 Sep 2014, 21:27, closed)
You seem to have gone totally Ahab here mate, is this guy your White Whale?
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I appreciate his extra effort this week in pricking Albert's fantasy blowfish
if it wasn't for fine B3tans such as him going that extra yard we might have had to tolerate the usual QOTW drabness. It's Albert who honda accords the forum in the first place with unrelated lookatme, so I reckon saying that checking his IP location is stalky is a bit strong.
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if it wasn't for fine B3tans such as him going that extra yard we might have had to tolerate the usual QOTW drabness. It's Albert who honda accords the forum in the first place with unrelated lookatme, so I reckon saying that checking his IP location is stalky is a bit strong.
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I thought the whole Florida thing was a good idea for a post.
After all, "Florida" is often mistaken for a pleasant holiday destination, even by USian "spring breakers", wealthy Brits and people going AWOL from various military forces and detention facilities
( , Tue 2 Sep 2014, 18:29, closed)
After all, "Florida" is often mistaken for a pleasant holiday destination, even by USian "spring breakers", wealthy Brits and people going AWOL from various military forces and detention facilities
( , Tue 2 Sep 2014, 18:29, closed)
i had a great holiday in miami
apart from the horrific sleazy old surveyor at the delano who was at a surveyors' conference and who was horrific and sleazy. he got talking to my friend about currency exchanges, oh great, now we're stuck with him. a bit later and a bit drunker, he's talking to my other friend about the upcoming election (this was 2008 so everyone was wondering if obama would get in). a lot later and a lot drunker, i somehow get him blabbering on about how he lost 200lbs and his wife still won't sleep with him, so he'd hired 2 hookers and shockingly they had drugged him and nicked his wallet and watch.
clearly having learned his lesson from this experience, he then asked me how much for "an english fourway" with us, offered $200 each (what a fucking insult), and then blurted out, word for word, "so do you girls shave your pussies? or is it true that all english girls are like sherwood forest down there?"
i hope albert enjoys this business trip more than that one...
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apart from the horrific sleazy old surveyor at the delano who was at a surveyors' conference and who was horrific and sleazy. he got talking to my friend about currency exchanges, oh great, now we're stuck with him. a bit later and a bit drunker, he's talking to my other friend about the upcoming election (this was 2008 so everyone was wondering if obama would get in). a lot later and a lot drunker, i somehow get him blabbering on about how he lost 200lbs and his wife still won't sleep with him, so he'd hired 2 hookers and shockingly they had drugged him and nicked his wallet and watch.
clearly having learned his lesson from this experience, he then asked me how much for "an english fourway" with us, offered $200 each (what a fucking insult), and then blurted out, word for word, "so do you girls shave your pussies? or is it true that all english girls are like sherwood forest down there?"
i hope albert enjoys this business trip more than that one...
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Wait, YOU were hooking?
And you drugged some poor bloke and nicked his wallet and watch?
SHAME ON YOU!
:(
( , Tue 2 Sep 2014, 19:43, closed)
And you drugged some poor bloke and nicked his wallet and watch?
SHAME ON YOU!
:(
( , Tue 2 Sep 2014, 19:43, closed)
There's no shame in drugging and robbing creepy perverts.
I'd say it was a moral duty.
( , Tue 2 Sep 2014, 19:45, closed)
I'd say it was a moral duty.
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Oh come on ... the guy made pocket change giving people lifts on a scooter
do you think he'd turn down $200 to bang his Shepherds Bush against the drooping skinfolds of a lonely salesman?
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do you think he'd turn down $200 to bang his Shepherds Bush against the drooping skinfolds of a lonely salesman?
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i always thought that the whole point of albert was that everyone knew it was all fake
but he enjoyed winding everyone up by pretending to believe it was real.
( , Tue 2 Sep 2014, 19:48, closed)
but he enjoyed winding everyone up by pretending to believe it was real.
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See ... I thought that ... but then when you poke him he becomes incredibly defensive.
Posting photographs of a retirement swamp from your hotel balcony is more than a double-bluff wind up. That's proper bonkers.
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Posting photographs of a retirement swamp from your hotel balcony is more than a double-bluff wind up. That's proper bonkers.
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i think the defence is part of his wind-up campaign
he probably lives somewhere depressingly normal and boring and does a depressingly normal and boring job with a depressing and normal wife
( , Tue 2 Sep 2014, 19:52, closed)
he probably lives somewhere depressingly normal and boring and does a depressingly normal and boring job with a depressing and normal wife
( , Tue 2 Sep 2014, 19:52, closed)
I refuse to believe this.
He's either a genuine dullwitted property developer who holidays in a swamp. Or he's a deluded fantasist who genuinely wishes he was a dullwitted property developer who holidays in a swamp. Anything else is no fun at all.
( , Tue 2 Sep 2014, 19:54, closed)
He's either a genuine dullwitted property developer who holidays in a swamp. Or he's a deluded fantasist who genuinely wishes he was a dullwitted property developer who holidays in a swamp. Anything else is no fun at all.
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the second one would be much more fun
for once - and this is genuinely a one time only thing - i hope you are right
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for once - and this is genuinely a one time only thing - i hope you are right
( , Tue 2 Sep 2014, 20:11, closed)
I reckon we all just agree to believe that then.
Save trouble all round.
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Save trouble all round.
( , Tue 2 Sep 2014, 20:12, closed)
ok
i solemnly declare that i believe that he has convinced himself of everything he types
( , Tue 2 Sep 2014, 20:16, closed)
i solemnly declare that i believe that he has convinced himself of everything he types
( , Tue 2 Sep 2014, 20:16, closed)
Christ almighty
A surveyors' conference? That's not one you want to walk into by accident.
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A surveyors' conference? That's not one you want to walk into by accident.
( , Tue 2 Sep 2014, 19:48, closed)
there were about 200 surveyors there
we didn't know that when we walked in and saw what we thought were lots of nice attractive men.
we soon realised.
( , Tue 2 Sep 2014, 19:49, closed)
we didn't know that when we walked in and saw what we thought were lots of nice attractive men.
we soon realised.
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You live in Godalming. Surely you're used to being trapped in a confined place with no entertainment surrounded by surveyors?
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you can't even say "surrey" without sounding like you're apologising for it
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I'm sure there's somewhere nice in Surrey.
Where's Basingstoke? Because that's proper fucking grim.
( , Tue 2 Sep 2014, 19:53, closed)
Where's Basingstoke? Because that's proper fucking grim.
( , Tue 2 Sep 2014, 19:53, closed)
No?
To be honest, everything west of the M25 is either airport, unpleasant but unavoidable business parks, or the slow road to Devon and Cornwall.
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To be honest, everything west of the M25 is either airport, unpleasant but unavoidable business parks, or the slow road to Devon and Cornwall.
( , Tue 2 Sep 2014, 20:03, closed)
Pretty much every night.
I live in a city rather than a retirement village.
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I live in a city rather than a retirement village.
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You're out pretty much every night?
What sat in the pub typing on your phone like some kind of Marshmallow saddo? I suppose you're 'out on the town' right now?
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"you're"
And no ... I'm at home now. It's barely 8 o'clock. I realise that's ovaltine and bed time down there in sleepy dullshire.
( , Tue 2 Sep 2014, 20:14, closed)
And no ... I'm at home now. It's barely 8 o'clock. I realise that's ovaltine and bed time down there in sleepy dullshire.
( , Tue 2 Sep 2014, 20:14, closed)
Off out later to a 'gig' are we?
A fat 40 something consultant rocking it with the students down at the corn exchange. You're my inspiration.
( , Tue 2 Sep 2014, 20:35, closed)
A fat 40 something consultant rocking it with the students down at the corn exchange. You're my inspiration.
( , Tue 2 Sep 2014, 20:35, closed)
just the pub
I'm off to a gig tomorrow though. Shall I put it in the calendar?
I'm sorry that your life is already over but some of us are still quite enjoying ours.
( , Tue 2 Sep 2014, 23:18, closed)
I'm off to a gig tomorrow though. Shall I put it in the calendar?
I'm sorry that your life is already over but some of us are still quite enjoying ours.
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Can we have a photo of the 'gig' and for no reason whatsoever a picture of a Wednesday's newspaper in the shot.
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I can scribble "pwease believe me b3ta sock puppets! :( :(" on a bar mat if that'll help?
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"abloobloobloo people are having fun and I'm stuck in dreary commuterville blooblubberbloo"
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/aug/03/the-case-for-fortysomething-festival-goers
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www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/aug/03/the-case-for-fortysomething-festival-goers
( , Wed 3 Sep 2014, 9:03, closed)
30mins from central london is hardly 'stuck' in the most desirable place in the UK.
But then I'm not going to brag to a messageboard about all the cool gigs I got to because I'm not 14.
( , Wed 3 Sep 2014, 9:11, closed)
But then I'm not going to brag to a messageboard about all the cool gigs I got to because I'm not 14.
( , Wed 3 Sep 2014, 9:11, closed)
the train from here to London is as quick
and we both know that you never go out in London anyway so your theoretical proximity is entirely academic
( , Wed 3 Sep 2014, 9:17, closed)
and we both know that you never go out in London anyway so your theoretical proximity is entirely academic
( , Wed 3 Sep 2014, 9:17, closed)
Do you take the magic fantasy bullet train with Albert
when you go down to play the O2 with your rock band?
( , Wed 3 Sep 2014, 9:24, closed)
when you go down to play the O2 with your rock band?
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it's about 50 minutes to kings cross or Liverpool Street ... Dullville is the same from Waterloo
really dunno where you're going with this given that you've already whimpered that gigs are for the yoof
It may come as a shock but it's not actually much fun for me to watch a real person getting upset online. Why are you doing this to yourself?
( , Wed 3 Sep 2014, 9:29, closed)
really dunno where you're going with this given that you've already whimpered that gigs are for the yoof
It may come as a shock but it's not actually much fun for me to watch a real person getting upset online. Why are you doing this to yourself?
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So upset I didn't have to post a guardian article about how it's 'cool' to be having a mid-life crisis.
And I am yoof, you tragic old man.
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fuck ... I can't imagine being young in a commuter village
no wonder you're so up tight
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no wonder you're so up tight
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I bet you can imagine being young though
And you do, for a moment when you close your eyes, at a Phil Collins concert.
( , Wed 3 Sep 2014, 11:39, closed)
And you do, for a moment when you close your eyes, at a Phil Collins concert.
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dunno what that means soz
I'm not a prematurely old dullard trapped in the commuter belt.
( , Wed 3 Sep 2014, 12:51, closed)
I'm not a prematurely old dullard trapped in the commuter belt.
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Of course now you're going to have to keep away for a few hours
while you pretend go out and party with the cool kids to complete the Marshmallow-style illusion.
You two are so much more alike than either of you are prepared to admit.
( , Tue 2 Sep 2014, 21:00, closed)
while you pretend go out and party with the cool kids to complete the Marshmallow-style illusion.
You two are so much more alike than either of you are prepared to admit.
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I know. There's not a single crack dealer on my road
It's so dull not living under the constant fear of being stabbed when going out to the pub.
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It's so dull not living under the constant fear of being stabbed when going out to the pub.
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Soz, grandma.
Didn't want to upset you by reminding you there was a world outside the bland commuter belt.
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Didn't want to upset you by reminding you there was a world outside the bland commuter belt.
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I forgot Cambridge was the party capital of the world
Well maybe it seems like it if 19 year old grunge twats from Eton are who you try and emulate.
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Well maybe it seems like it if 19 year old grunge twats from Eton are who you try and emulate.
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this is a bit horrible to watch
at least when swipe does this stuff it's obvious banter ... you seem genuinely upset
( , Wed 3 Sep 2014, 9:15, closed)
at least when swipe does this stuff it's obvious banter ... you seem genuinely upset
( , Wed 3 Sep 2014, 9:15, closed)
Yes, I do
Would seem to be a shame for anyone to devote their entire waking existence to a small part of it, wouldn't it?
( , Wed 3 Sep 2014, 9:28, closed)
Would seem to be a shame for anyone to devote their entire waking existence to a small part of it, wouldn't it?
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But he won't look silly, since a big part of this thread will disappear in a minute
and it will be like it never happened.
( , Wed 3 Sep 2014, 10:26, closed)
and it will be like it never happened.
( , Wed 3 Sep 2014, 10:26, closed)
ooh is this still going?
you can go on airboats in florida too. they are quite fun. although this one time, an alligator came up really close to the side of the boat, and it stared me out like a motherfucker, i KNOW it was thinking bad thoughts.
( , Wed 3 Sep 2014, 12:53, closed)
you can go on airboats in florida too. they are quite fun. although this one time, an alligator came up really close to the side of the boat, and it stared me out like a motherfucker, i KNOW it was thinking bad thoughts.
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I've twice been handed a baby alligator in a Florida bar
I don't know if this is a standard Floridian greeting or the opening gambit in sexual role playing. They're pretty cool though.
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I don't know if this is a standard Floridian greeting or the opening gambit in sexual role playing. They're pretty cool though.
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I've a vague recollection that one of the places that was passing a live alligator around was also selling alligator burgers
although I may have made that up
I did once sit around a camp fire with a warthog whilst eating roast warthog.
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although I may have made that up
I did once sit around a camp fire with a warthog whilst eating roast warthog.
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Yeah, we've all seen Live And Let Die too, you ridiculous fantasist.
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Now you have made me think of Barbara Bach
I know she isn't in that one but
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I know she isn't in that one but
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