Ningles...

Good: For the first time in 3 years I got a payrise, (albeit a crap one), and a bonus (albeit a crap one). For so long I thought money was just something that happened to other people. Oh, and I'm working from home - Hence B3ta time :)

Bad: It’s motherwhoring cold obv, and my head feels like it’s being used as the fragrant y-fronts for an aged, herpes-stricken baboon that reached for the Imodium but grabbed the laxatives instead.

Alt Q: A breakfast bar. A FUCKING BREAKFAST BAR! All hope is lost…

How are you all this fine morn?
( Pooflake braces for an onslaught..., Tue 21 Dec 2010, 9:16, 3 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

Woo! Pooflake!
*faints with excitement*
( girlinthehole, Tue 21 Dec 2010, 9:25, Reply)

Careful now...

*Waits for 'Down with this sort of thing'*
( Pooflake braces for an onslaught..., Tue 21 Dec 2010, 9:27, Reply)

How are you hon?
Still rocking Coventry?
( girlinthehole, Tue 21 Dec 2010, 9:28, Reply)

At the moment I'm rocking all right...

Back and forth in a chair, wrapped in a blanket and tinkling a little bell whilst waiting for the present Mrs PF to bring me warm food and tea.

BTW - spotted the 'Bassfuck' thing. I should warn you - I'm on that site even less than I'm on B3ta - so please don't ask for anything that requires a remotely fast response :(
( Pooflake braces for an onslaught..., Tue 21 Dec 2010, 9:34, Reply)

I have no idea what you're talking about.
Bassfuck?
( girlinthehole, Tue 21 Dec 2010, 9:35, Reply)

Sorry...

It's a spoonerism.

facebook
( Pooflake braces for an onslaught..., Tue 21 Dec 2010, 9:39, Reply)

Oh! it's ok.
I figured as much : )

It's just nice to know you're still alive.
( girlinthehole, Tue 21 Dec 2010, 9:42, Reply)

Barely...

This place is changing...is it evolution or devolution?
( Pooflake braces for an onslaught..., Tue 21 Dec 2010, 9:48, Reply)

We're evolving
The rest of QOTW is devolving so fast several of the less familiar members are losing their legs, and developing gills.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 21 Dec 2010, 9:50, Reply)

I wondered what those things were growing out of my neck?...

I just assumed they were pissflaps - evolved to make it entirely obvious, thus saving people the bother of working out whether or not I am a total cunt.
( Pooflake braces for an onslaught..., Tue 21 Dec 2010, 9:56, Reply)

Yeah! many of the old crowd have gone.
I too may leave one day. Probably when my mind goes completely and I forget my password.
( girlinthehole, Tue 21 Dec 2010, 9:55, Reply)

Nooooooooooooooooooo :-(

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 21 Dec 2010, 10:08, Reply)

^^^ I agree wholeheartedly...
We can all come and go as we please - nobody cares - but you are the sticky glue that holds it all together.

I was thinking of a comparison to 'The Oracle' in a matrix way, but then thought you probably wouldn't appreciate that :(
( Pooflake braces for an onslaught..., Tue 21 Dec 2010, 10:14, Reply)

She is rather racist, after all

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 21 Dec 2010, 10:26, Reply)

Ha ha!...

I see what you did there :)
( Pooflake braces for an onslaught..., Tue 21 Dec 2010, 10:37, Reply)

Alright Poofers?
I too am homebound and hence b3ta time ensues. Today I shall assist in the erection of some wood that we obtained at the weekend.

I have no breakfast. Breakfast is for losers and those who stay in hotels.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 21 Dec 2010, 9:30, Reply)

Agreed
I only have breakfast in hotels, or if I'm staying with my folks and they do a fry up.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Tue 21 Dec 2010, 9:31, Reply)

Breakfast is there to assist in the destruction of hangovers for me
I didn't have any alcohol last night, so have no need for any.

Although Brunch can be good, having a Sausage, Bacon, Egg, Black Pudding and Brown Sauce roll at Midday is magnificent.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 21 Dec 2010, 9:37, Reply)

I really cannot eat when I first get up.
The exception is hotel breakfasts, and even then it's rare.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 21 Dec 2010, 9:40, Reply)

I need to be awake at least an hour before I can eat, apart from exceptional circumstances
Or if it's given to me the second I wake up.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 21 Dec 2010, 9:42, Reply)

I got told to eat breakfast because it kickstarts your metabolism and starts you burning calories straight away
but I reckon a cup of tea and a swig from the juice carton would do that anyway.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Tue 21 Dec 2010, 9:45, Reply)

The Right Reverend DG Esquire!...

How are you my handsome hero?

Erecting wood eh? In this weather I can't even find my wood.

*sobs*
( Pooflake braces for an onslaught..., Tue 21 Dec 2010, 9:36, Reply)

I'm good, Rev. Flake.
Yeah, we got the Christmas tree on Saturday but it's been sat downstairs in the porch aclimatising. Stops the needles dropping, see?
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 21 Dec 2010, 9:43, Reply)

You are indeed a wise and noble sage...

I just got the missus to buy a plastic one for me to cover with tacky baubles and a fuckload of twinkly lights.

woo!
( Pooflake braces for an onslaught..., Tue 21 Dec 2010, 9:49, Reply)

It was going that way
Our normal supplier has disappeared. You basically went and cut your own down from a plantation for about a tenner. This year, he was closed up so we've ended up buying a Forestry Commission one for £26. Should have been £30 but I didn't have £30 in my pocket...
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 21 Dec 2010, 9:54, Reply)

I applaud your environmentalism...

I'm weak - and am finding it difficult to love a planet which seems to hate me :(
( Pooflake braces for an onslaught..., Tue 21 Dec 2010, 10:02, Reply)

Fuck off back to QOTW
...

*silently hopes someone gets this*
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 21 Dec 2010, 9:36, Reply)

*enjoys the silence*

(Bazongaloid, Tue 21 Dec 2010, 9:39, Reply)

Hate that song

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 21 Dec 2010, 9:41, Reply)

Freak.

( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 21 Dec 2010, 9:41, Reply)

Geek.

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 21 Dec 2010, 9:42, Reply)

Cheek?

( Pooflake braces for an onslaught..., Tue 21 Dec 2010, 9:43, Reply)

STREAK
Avert your eyes, ladies
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 21 Dec 2010, 9:45, Reply)

Meek
(Joe)
(Cave Duck, Tue 21 Dec 2010, 9:46, Reply)

mmm chic...

( Pooflake braces for an onslaught..., Tue 21 Dec 2010, 9:46, Reply)

Weak.

( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Tue 21 Dec 2010, 9:48, Reply)

Wine Critique?

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 21 Dec 2010, 9:48, Reply)

Greek!
(retsina)
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Tue 21 Dec 2010, 9:49, Reply)

Link.

( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 21 Dec 2010, 9:49, Reply)

Goodbye.

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 21 Dec 2010, 9:50, Reply)

Hello!
I assume you're talking about me
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 21 Dec 2010, 9:53, Reply)

Hello hello
I don't know why you say goodbye, I say hello
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 21 Dec 2010, 10:02, Reply)

Bleak :(

( Pooflake braces for an onslaught..., Tue 21 Dec 2010, 9:49, Reply)

Rafik(i)

CFB
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 21 Dec 2010, 9:51, Reply)

Twist?

( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 21 Dec 2010, 9:48, Reply)

Shout?

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 21 Dec 2010, 9:53, Reply)

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeellllll...

( Pooflake braces for an onslaught..., Tue 21 Dec 2010, 9:58, Reply)

I still would.

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 21 Dec 2010, 10:02, Reply)

Lulu?...

Or 'Otis Day & The Nights'?
( Pooflake braces for an onslaught..., Tue 21 Dec 2010, 10:03, Reply)

Lulu

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 21 Dec 2010, 10:04, Reply)

"The pop star who goes to the toilet twice a day"
At Archbishop William Temple Primary School in 1969 - That was considered to be a fantastic joke.
(Cave Duck, Tue 21 Dec 2010, 10:09, Reply)

I'm unimpressed it just made me laugh.

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 21 Dec 2010, 10:09, Reply)

*leaves in silence*

(Cave Duck, Tue 21 Dec 2010, 9:41, Reply)

*Personalises Jesus*

( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 21 Dec 2010, 9:41, Reply)

*Just can't get enough*...

( Pooflake braces for an onslaught..., Tue 21 Dec 2010, 9:45, Reply)

*fails to get enough*

(Cave Duck, Tue 21 Dec 2010, 9:43, Reply)

Curses!

( Pooflake braces for an onslaught..., Tue 21 Dec 2010, 9:46, Reply)

WHO SUNG THIS

(PsychoChomp, Tue 21 Dec 2010, 9:45, Reply)

The Thompson Twins
it was a labour of love.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Tue 21 Dec 2010, 9:48, Reply)

*wants to see you stripped*
As an aside, I know a lass who's such a fan of Depeche Mode that she changed her surname to Gahan...
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Tue 21 Dec 2010, 9:45, Reply)

Go on

(PsychoChomp, Tue 21 Dec 2010, 9:46, Reply)

What do you call a pop star who's mates keep pissing off?
Dave Gahan...
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 21 Dec 2010, 9:56, Reply)

I've heard 2 versions of Stripped, both are shit

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 21 Dec 2010, 9:49, Reply)

You're veering very close to a smack, boy...

( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 21 Dec 2010, 9:50, Reply)

Don't get me wrong
I don't despise Depeche Mode, I think Personal Jesus is a good track, it's just lacking any bite to it, if you get my meaning?
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 21 Dec 2010, 9:52, Reply)

Check John the Revelator
Probably my favourite DM track, has plenty of bite to it.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Tue 21 Dec 2010, 9:53, Reply)

It is excellent.
Songs of Faith and Devotion is probably my favourite album though.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 21 Dec 2010, 9:55, Reply)

Shall do
I know it's a fucking awful track, but the best example I can give of this problem is a track from a few years back - Jamelia - Beware Of The Dog. It used the tune of 'Personal Jesus', but gave it some bass, and a bit of agression.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 21 Dec 2010, 10:00, Reply)

It kicks arse live.
As do the Mode themselves. Very entertaining; haven't seen them for years though; not since they decided to only play London and call it a UK tour, the gits.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 21 Dec 2010, 9:59, Reply)

I never 'Got' DM at the time...

I appreciate them a bit more now. I think that a few more years down the line I'll hear them again and think, 'fuck, they were good!'

I'm like that with bands quite a lot...btw: who are these 'Beatles' chaps I've heard about?
( Pooflake braces for an onslaught..., Tue 21 Dec 2010, 10:10, Reply)

DM are shit. The Beatles are also shit.
Hope this helps.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 21 Dec 2010, 10:14, Reply)

Well I don't think any of us expected him to say that

(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 21 Dec 2010, 10:19, Reply)

Who'd have thought, eh?

( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 21 Dec 2010, 10:39, Reply)

He's right about the Beatles though.
Most overrated band ever.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 21 Dec 2010, 10:41, Reply)

I'd argue John Lennon as a solo artist is far worse for this
As are Nirvana
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 21 Dec 2010, 10:50, Reply)

Thanks for this service...

To whom would you recommend I listen to?

*fears worst*
( Pooflake braces for an onslaught..., Tue 21 Dec 2010, 10:21, Reply)

Hendrix
Dick Dale
and several others I've forgotten

^Monty's recommendations

I'm currently really enjoying Mumford and Sons.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 21 Dec 2010, 10:26, Reply)

I'll bet you are.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 21 Dec 2010, 10:42, Reply)

What's your 'cup of tea'?
My latest find is a 70s obscurity called Leaf Hound and their sole LP 'Growers of Mushroom'. It's a kind of Free/Zeppelin/Purple kind of heavy rock record, with lovely vocals* and some decent guitar/organ workouts.

*I think the chap was also in Cactus, but this may be wrong.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 21 Dec 2010, 10:26, Reply)

Strong, milk, 2 sugars please
Ta.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 21 Dec 2010, 10:26, Reply)

OK then...

Before I say, please remember I am a crusty old scrote...But I rather like the musical stylings of the following beat combos:

Not in any particular order:

Red Hot Chili Peppers, Radiohead, Manics, Ben Folds 5 (and his solo stuff), The Who, The Jam, Metallica (older stuff). Oh lorks, there's loads.
( Pooflake braces for an onslaught..., Tue 21 Dec 2010, 10:34, Reply)

Monty may well explode at those
But I agree with you on a few of them. Metallica especially.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 21 Dec 2010, 10:38, Reply)

There's a new, remastered and expanded (by about four times)
'Live at Leeds' on the market, as a Who man you need this in your life.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 21 Dec 2010, 10:41, Reply)

I remember one version of this coming out about 10 years ago...

A mate bought it and brought it round my house. It was incredible - like raw energy in plastic form.

But I'm an immense tightwad so never bought a copy for myself.

I will investigate a purchase forthwith.
( Pooflake braces for an onslaught..., Tue 21 Dec 2010, 10:47, Reply)

They do keep re-releasing it
but this latest one is worth having.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 21 Dec 2010, 10:53, Reply)

Of course it's not really my place to speak for anyone else...
But I'm fairly sure that Monty would recommend the lyrical wit and earthy humour of Ian Dury.
(Cave Duck, Tue 21 Dec 2010, 10:26, Reply)

For some reason this has just reminded me
The other day in the pub, Nick Cave started playing on the jukebox. Sweet Jesus tittfucking Christ that guy is shit.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 21 Dec 2010, 10:27, Reply)

Just about any fucker you haven't heard of, basically.
And Hawkwind, Motorhead and 50's rock and roll.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 21 Dec 2010, 10:50, Reply)

One being the Rammstein one I'm guessing?
It's not a bad cover.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Tue 21 Dec 2010, 9:51, Reply)

Aye, that's the one
I just don't think they should sing in English, it sounds awful.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 21 Dec 2010, 9:52, Reply)

I concur
Although my opinion is based entirely on that godawful "Amerika" song from the Reise, Reise album
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 21 Dec 2010, 9:59, Reply)

Only the chorus is in English, isn't it?
They've also released 'Stripped' and did 'Du Hast' as an English version.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 21 Dec 2010, 10:00, Reply)

The chorus was sufficient
Du Hast in English? Surely that's just...

You
You Have
You Have Me

Apologies for shockingly rudimentary knowledge of German
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 21 Dec 2010, 10:05, Reply)

Hate, not have

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 21 Dec 2010, 10:07, Reply)

Oh well that makes much more sense
In my defence, GCSE German was a fucking long time ago
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 21 Dec 2010, 10:11, Reply)