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Tell me something awesome
Or an amazing fact.
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 21:38, 153 replies, latest was 15 years ago)
I don't care what people think of me.
Apart from close friends of course.
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 21:39, Reply)
Now is that something awesome or an amazing fact?

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 21:40, Reply)
That is awesome.
I've got hiccups : (
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 21:42, Reply)
Have some water.
I get the hiccups all the time.

It annoys me.
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 21:44, Reply)
I hate hiccups : (
I've downed a glass of Vimto. That's fixed it.
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 21:47, Reply)
Me too.
BOO!
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 21:48, Reply)
I got sent out of a lecture today.
that is awesome.
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 21:41, Reply)
Were you being naughty and passing notes to uni-girl?

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 21:42, Reply)
Nope I was being 'snipey and unreasonably objective'
it was creative development and she was talking utter bollocks.Plus I nailed her with a one liner that won't translate on here well cause you had to be there.
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 21:44, Reply)
Well tell us the whole story
Otherwise it reads '28 year old student should know better than to behave like that'
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 21:46, Reply)
she was slating some creative development activites such as
children making christmas cards that had been made out of templates created by adults. Her beef was that it wasn't creative. She then said that 'bunka' is much better which is effectively threading a piece of string through a loop. I called her up on it and said how can one be shit and the other not when they are in effect the same and that I though her argument was a bit 'wooly'. She was wearing a ridiculous woolen dress and bobble hat (like the hippy she is) and got upset and sent me out.
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 21:49, Reply)
Good work Bob.
You fight the system.

I'm proud of you. Did you feel obliged to apologise to her afterwards?
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 21:51, Reply)
no she had set out circuits of 'activities' to do that should have taken all afternoon 3 hours.
I did them all in 40 minutes and she was not happy.
1. Winter scene using black and white paper - 5 minutes
2. Plasticine man - 5 minutes
3. Make a sculpture out of rubbish - ghostbuster back pack 7 minutes
4. Make a mouse out of whatever you can find - 20 minutes.
5. Big world farm scene - 3 minutes. Here is my mouse.
www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/photo.php?fbid=10150345317605471&set=a.10150345317600471.579680.760710470
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 21:55, Reply)
I'd have to log into Facebook to see your mouse
And I can't be fucked.

So your day his basically been an episode of Take Hart?
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 22:00, Reply)
it's a good mouse!
Yeah, had a presentation this morning which went well, he loved my home made resource and said I clearly had a knack for holding a room so I was chuffed.
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 22:03, Reply)
Yeah, I sometimes got sent out of classes in school if I didn't understand something and wanted to find out what it actually meant.

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 22:25, Reply)
There is a medical condition called 'Glam Rock Shoulder'.

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 21:48, Reply)
Tell me more.

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 21:50, Reply)
One of my lecturers is a journalist, or was.
And after a festival or something his mate was telling him that his shoulders were killing him, and said lecturer knew a doctor who loved getting involved with news stories so they conjured up 'glam rock shoulder' and got the story and condition in all the red tops. Was about ten years ago.
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/1080222.stm
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 21:54, Reply)
Fantastic!

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 21:56, Reply)
Science is pretty awesome
if only I didn't have to know quite so much of it...
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 21:48, Reply)
I think people who have any inkling of how science works are awesome.
Being able to draw is nice but understanding science is awesome and I bow down to your skillz.
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 21:51, Reply)
You knows loads.
And you knows loads about cake as well.

The only thing you seem to know fuck-all about is heating.
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 21:51, Reply)
I know loads about heating!
certainly I know enough to know that I'll never take another flat that has cocking storage heaters...
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 21:52, Reply)
Do you have the storage heaters
With built in electric heaters? We had those, and they were almost useful. We never used the storage heater bits.
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 21:54, Reply)
No
these are at least 10 years old, and they are frankly crap - at least, they are lovely and warm between the hours of, say, midnight and about 2pm, but then they start getting cold, so by the time I get home from work they are lukewarm at best (even if you turn the output down to '1') and certainly at no point do they give off enough heat to make my flat warm.
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 21:56, Reply)
Sucks
We just put up with the cold last winter, and my flatmate used hot water bottles quite a lot. This winter I'm just wearing a baselayer under my t-shirt.
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 21:58, Reply)
I can't sleep if I'm cold
When it was uberchilly last week there were 8 layers between my skin and the outside, and I was still frozen. I could even see my breath in the air - that's how shit these fucking storage heaters are.
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 22:03, Reply)
Seriously, Helly Hansen baselayer top
You'll love it.
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 22:05, Reply)
I shall check out the sales post christmas
I really can't afford something that sounds that expensive right now!
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 22:10, Reply)
You got yourself home yet, or are you still cuddling up to a bunsen burner?

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 22:05, Reply)
At home now
I still have work to do but I'm taking a break to scoff some dinner.
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 22:06, Reply)
What are you having?

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 22:07, Reply)
Have you eaten yet?

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 22:09, Reply)
Yeah.
I went to the supermarket and the sausages stood out as being well worth buying.

So I had them, with mash and veg and some onion gravy.
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 22:11, Reply)
Good!
*retreats from mother mode*
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 22:13, Reply)
*peers shamefacedly in to bowl*
erm...baked beans with cheese, some sort of salami stuff, and 2 fried eggs. I'd kill for some bacon and some mushrooms but I don't have any, so I'm basically having a student fryup.
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 22:09, Reply)
You need to get yourself to the shops berk.

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 22:13, Reply)
I do, for sure
tomorrow is crumble night though, and I've got stuff in for that!
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 22:14, Reply)
No!!!
Be strong berk. BE STRONG.

I don't want you to crumble, break down and cry.

Go on now, go. Walk out the door.... Just turn around now...
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 22:24, Reply)
You're not welcome any more?
You won't be if you keep making puns. I'm having pear and chocolate crumble OR tayberry and apple, I haven't decided yet. I might make a little one of each...
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 22:28, Reply)
Selma doesn't like the puns.

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 22:30, Reply)
Heheh!
You should have changed that stupid lock
You should have changed that stupid key
If you have thought for just one minute
He'd be back to bother me.
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 22:29, Reply)
And Patty laughs at them.

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 22:30, Reply)
When wind turbines are designed
The blades are so long, they need to make sure they won't travel at supersonic speeds, or else bad shit happens.
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 21:49, Reply)
Hmm
For the very biggest turbines, maybe. If the blades were 40m long it would have to be spinning at 81rpm to break the speed of sound. A smaller turbine would have to spin far faster, but I'm really not sure that drag forces would let them get that fast except in a hurricane...

I should clarify - I'm not saying you're wrong, just that I think problems would start to occur way before the blades got to "speed of sound" levels.
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 22:42, Reply)
I'm an awesome singer.

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 21:51, Reply)
Really?

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 22:01, Reply)
I am awesome
The biggest explosion on earth is STILL the explosion created by the Union army under the Confederate defences at Petersburg in 1864.

I don't think that this includes the Great Tunguska Explosion in 1908.
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 21:51, Reply)
You are awesome because you have a date.

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 21:54, Reply)
Blousie.
That was the first post TD has made this week without mentioning it, and you've got to spoil it.
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 21:58, Reply)
Sorry : (

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 22:00, Reply)
Look
In my 42 years I've been asked out maybe three times - and one was a huge fat biffer (and yes I did, before you ask.)

She's called Jackie, she's extremely funny, I can't believe it either but by hell I'm pleased with myself.

She works in mental health so she might be grooming me for a case study...
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 22:08, Reply)
Three more times than I have Mr sex God.

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 22:10, Reply)
Seriously?
that's rubbish. Perhaps you are just too intimidatingly awesome? I have come to the conclusion that that's mine and swipes problem...
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 22:13, Reply)
We should start some sort of self help group for awesome women.
I really wish I knew what my problem was.
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 22:17, Reply)
I'm sure the problem isn't with you!
Men really are just too dim to know when they're on to a good thing.
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 22:20, Reply)
I have had a couple of ex's who said they regretted splitting up with me but by then it was too late to go back.
I think I'm just unlucky but that's ok because I have had lots of luck with other parts of my life.
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 22:24, Reply)
Can I join the self-help group too?

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 22:26, Reply)
No.
Women only and you're the enemy.
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 22:29, Reply)
I'll be very quiet and I'll bring some biscuits* with me?
*Proper biscuits, not your dog.
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 22:31, Reply)
Posh biscuits?
Not your Asda crap?
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 22:36, Reply)
God yeah. I'll even get chocolate hob-nobs if I can join your club.

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 22:38, Reply)
Ok then.
But don't get any funny ideas that you are the same as us.
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 22:40, Reply)
I'm fair sure I'll remember the differences.

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 22:41, Reply)
You managed to keep a woman long enough to get married to her!
so you can't be that much of a reject.
conveniently ignoring the aftermath, of course...
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 22:30, Reply)
You are also overlooking just how cunning I'm trying to be.
Lots of single women + Bloke = Bloke has a chance of pulling.
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 22:33, Reply)
Lots of needy traumatised menhating women?
Pfft. Your funeral mate.
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 22:35, Reply)
Taking on a woman with issues is a lot like getting a rescue dog.
Looks great fun to start with, but they become completely mental in no time.
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 22:37, Reply)
That metaphor doesn't really work for you
If you treated a woman like you'd treat a rescue dog it'd be the Fritzls all over again...
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 22:39, Reply)
True.
I retract that remark.
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 22:44, Reply)
I don't really hate men.
I just hate the ones who don't realise what they turned down.
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 22:41, Reply)
You make complicated human relationships sound like an episode of
Deal or No Deal.
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 22:43, Reply)
It wasn't complicated to me.

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 22:45, Reply)
I also have NEVER been on a date
I went straight fgrom nothing to being merrried. mr b3th was a strange internet stalker. Or rather i was.
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 22:18, Reply)
I don't understand either
I'm not remotely attractive.

I'm not interesting, I'm not physically appealling.

I'm not skint by any means but I don't wear that on my sleeve.

Apparrently, I laugh a lot.

Jeff-BGB - go out there and laugh.
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 22:19, Reply)
People laugh at me, not with me TD
I feel like Orville the duck.

'The other birds laugh, and say that I daft and I am (you're not), I am!'
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 22:27, Reply)
D'you wish you could fly?
Way up in the sky?

Keith loves you.

Bedtime for me, darlings.

xxx - sleep nicely.
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 22:38, Reply)
Night TD

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 22:47, Reply)
Oh my god
You shat in a fat biffers handbag?

You sick sick individual.
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 22:10, Reply)
lol

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 22:17, Reply)
I have settled down a bit now.
I've taken on a Friday evening shift through Bramley as a swap for Saturday.

But yes, I am awesome. My cheekbones hurt from grinning.
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 21:59, Reply)
Not from being repeatedly punched in the face for being a smug-pulling machine?

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 22:02, Reply)
Erm...
No it isn't. In terms of man made explosions, that would be the testing of the Tsar Bomba by the Russians. The blast was equivalent to 50,000,000 tons of TNT.

/rains on parade
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 22:44, Reply)
Immortal Jellyfish
The Hydrozoan species Turritopsis nutricula is capable of cycling from a mature adult stage to an immature polyp stage and back again. This means that there may be no natural limit to its life span.[23] However, no single specimen has been observed for any extended period, and it is impossible to estimate the age of a specimen.
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 21:54, Reply)
That thing about the tramp, last night.
It's fucking true.
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 22:04, Reply)
What was that?

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 22:06, Reply)
Eh?

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 22:06, Reply)
you skinned a tramp you nutter
I need your skills if you have 5 minutes off from mutilating the homeless.
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 22:07, Reply)
What skills?
Feel free to PM me.
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 22:09, Reply)
done ta!

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 22:16, Reply)
I didn't just fucking skin him.
I used his eyeballs in a fucking snowman.

Just for shits and giggles.

The kids on my street pass it on their way to school each morning.

I can't stop laughing about my snowman eyeballing the schoolkids on their way past.
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 22:19, Reply)
When you go to prison and we have the inevitable thread about you
what do you want me to say about you?
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 22:20, Reply)
That I goatsed you.

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 22:25, Reply)
I am so fucking drunk
I can barely construct a sentence.

*giggles*
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 22:13, Reply)
Hahaha!
On a scale of one to ten. How happy are you that your brother is planning to marry Roota?
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 22:14, Reply)
eleven
: D
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 22:15, Reply)
Correct answer.
I haven't even met her yet and I'm in love.

She reminds me of me but without the crappy bits.
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 22:18, Reply)
my new sister is fucking boss
i already prefer her to my brother
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 22:20, Reply)
Hahahaha!

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 22:25, Reply)
what you been drinking?

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 22:14, Reply)
not toddys
with southern comfort and hot water and sugar.

I have to abttle the jaffeaids somehow.
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 22:16, Reply)
lol
at my own typos
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 22:17, Reply)
OMG you are mega smashed.
Southern Comfort for the win though.
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 22:18, Reply)
it had to be a dark spirit
and I only ever drink clear alcohol. It was soco or dark rum.

soco ftw
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 22:19, Reply)
i am now going for a hot bath and bed
don't tel me how smashed i was tomorrow morning.

I will be mortified.
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 22:23, Reply)
I just got my foot behind my head
I'm not sure whether this is awesome or amazing, but I'm impressed and also a little sore now. Whatever clicked, I really don't think it should have done.
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 22:22, Reply)
Why?

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 22:25, Reply)
I wondered if I could!

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 22:27, Reply)
I'm even more amazed Hot-Bloke doesn't want to know you now!

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 22:29, Reply)
Ah well, c'est la vie
If being a little bit flexible made me an awesome lay then I would probably be much more in demand. As it is I'm more confident in my ability to get my left foot behind my head than I am in my bedroom abilities.
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 22:34, Reply)
I went to a gym once and asked them if they could teach me to do the splits.
They said, 'How flexible are you?'

I said, 'I can't make Thursdays'
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 22:36, Reply)
Genunie lol.

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 22:38, Reply)
Someone phoned me the other day to ask me what day I would be free to manage a football team in Sheffield.
I said, 'I can't manage Wednesday'
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 22:40, Reply)
Ok you're pushing your luck now.
I'm off to bed.

Play nicely with Berk and I'll see you tomorrow.
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 22:43, Reply)
Night Blousie.
Sleep well.
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 22:44, Reply)

/sigh
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 22:41, Reply)
Not even a flicker of a smile?

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 22:45, Reply)
There was a world-weary eye rolling
but no smile.
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 22:47, Reply)
I met a girl once who rolled her eyes at me.
So I picked them up and rolled them back.
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 22:51, Reply)
Obvious pun is obvious

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 22:53, Reply)
Obviously.
Warm enough this evening?
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 22:55, Reply)
*quirks eyebrow*
That sounds like a dodgy chat up line. But yes, I mostly am: hands are cold cos they're out of the covers but I've just turned the electric blanket up and the rest of me is toasty.
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 22:58, Reply)
It isn't a dodgy chat-up line. It was a genuine question regarding how comfortable you are!
How is the prep going for the interview?
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 23:00, Reply)
I know it wasn't!
Nobody ever chats me up, not even online. Prep is, erm. Well, I've done about 10 minutes of work since arriving home 90 minutes ago! I'll get it finished before I go to bed though.
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 23:06, Reply)
I still think it'll be worth taking the panel some cake, just to break the ice.*
*break the ice, as in your initial introduction, not to help them clear frozen ponds.
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 23:09, Reply)
BLOWN AWAY as I'm sure they would be
by my awesome cake making skills, I rather think they are interested in my science skills and will assess me only on those. Cake would be both redundant and unprofessional.
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 23:11, Reply)
Do you reckon?
I think you under estimate the power of cake.
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 23:14, Reply)
take cake to the interview?
are you mental Jeffers?
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 23:16, Reply)
I'd be impressed.
Especially if it was nice cake Bob.
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 23:19, Reply)
Day one when you're hired maybe
at the interview it just says 'hello I'm fucking weird, don't hire me'
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 23:21, Reply)
It would display charm.
I once interviewed a bloke who'd bought his guitar to the interview (to be fair, he had called me previously and said that unfortunately he'd need to have it with him as he was playing a gig later and it wasn't something he normally carried).

I made him play me a song.
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 23:24, Reply)
Au contraire
I just don't think it has a place in the interview process.
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 23:18, Reply)
How you worked out what you're going to wear?
A sports jacket with leather patches on the elbows suggests 'academic' to me.
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 23:21, Reply)
Male 40+ academic, sure
I shall be suited and booted. Well. Suited and heeled, technically.
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 23:28, Reply)
Do you wear glasses?
If not, get some. It'll make you look dead clever.
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 23:30, Reply)
I do wear glasses
albeit infrequently. But I shall be wearing them in my interview for precisely that reason (and also that I want to be able to read the damn paper I have to present)
Anyhoo. I have to go sleepytime now. Night!
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 23:32, Reply)
Night berk

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 23:33, Reply)
hellllllllllllllllllo bek and ajeff and all
i am going to say thi sjust once, i'vee been drinking since 12.30,

eeeeeeek. good day???
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 23:32, Reply)
I was hungover quite badly earlier
But I'm okay now.

How was the party?
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 23:34, Reply)
i think there was abar
i know there was vodka
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 23:41, Reply)
Superconductors in a magnetic field are strongly repelled by it, and will levitate.

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 22:23, Reply)
I love it when you talk geeky.

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 22:26, Reply)
I've done this with liquid nitrogen
It's really weird. You prod the magnet or superconductor (which ever one you're levitating) and it just stays there, hovering in whatever position you left it. It's like absolutely nothing else you've ever seen.
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 22:31, Reply)
Isaac Newton invented the catflap
Really. He did.

Also, Jesus invented cheese.
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 22:30, Reply)
The second one is lies.
Everyone knows Jesus invented soap on a rope.
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 22:32, Reply)
Dogs can smell cancer

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 22:37, Reply)
I can smell BO.

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 22:38, Reply)
Both posts are BS.

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 22:45, Reply)
Stephen Fry said it was true.

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 22:48, Reply)
I can smell BS
Edit: Dammit, beaten.
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 22:47, Reply)
The Tobacco Mosaic virus may give us lithium batteries that last 10 times longer
How cool is that?

Dammit, I've finished all my Dandelion and Burdock and now I want Vimto. But instead I shall be good and go to bed before midnight for a change.

Goodnight all!
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 23:15, Reply)
night bro

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 23:18, Reply)

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