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I recently fell off the wagon in a big big way
What's disappointed you recently?

Alt-Q - The sheepshaggers lost to Crawley last night. Whose failure has given you pleasure recently?
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 8:15, 217 replies, latest was 15 years ago)
I'm currently reading
losingmybottle.blogspot.com

bloke decides to give up alcohol for a year, makes about 2 months, slips, decides to try moderation instead, arses that up, starts again. Interesting.

"If you have to make rules about when and how much you can drink, you probably shouldn't be drinking" rather hit home. Didn't even need the implied "especially if you then break those rules".
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 8:20, Reply)
It's not drink that put me in rehab...
Looks like a good blog.

My favourite blog is memoiresofaheroinhead.blogspot.com

It's an incredible read.
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 8:32, Reply)
Hmmm
"If you have to make rules about when and how much you can shoot up, you probably shouldn't be shooting up" lacks the same impact.
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 10:22, Reply)
True...
As pinning is very naughty and shouldn't even be an option.

Booting is less naughty, but equally, "If you have to make rules about when and how much you can boot, you probably shouldn't be booting" lacks the same impact.
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 10:27, Reply)
Well, that's bright and breezy for a Tuesday morning innit?

(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 8:23, Reply)
Wait til Tuesday afternoon
when I start getting sick!

Then I'll really cheer up.
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 9:01, Reply)
Other people mainly
I'd like to say I'm not one for schadenfreude but that's bollocks, I just can't think of an example because I'm barely awake. It was possibly the bloke driving like an absolute cunt the other day whom I later saw struggling to get his convertible roof on in the pissing rain.
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 8:29, Reply)
He had his roof down in England, in Winter?
:/ What a tool.
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 8:31, Reply)
I always enjoy that sort of thing.
Like the prick who overtook me dangerously getting stuck at lights and me sailing past him!
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 8:33, Reply)
You drive a boat?

(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 8:34, Reply)
Absolutely!
Well, my driving certainly makes waves.
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 8:35, Reply)
That guy does sound like a wanchor though.

(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 8:39, Reply)
*SPANG*

(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 8:41, Reply)
I'm disappointed by your rudder lack of humour

(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 8:43, Reply)
*bows*

(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 8:44, Reply)
Mast you do that?
He'll only do it moor.
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 8:44, Reply)
I'd be careful, he'd easily deck you.

(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 8:52, Reply)
I'd hate to keel over as a result

(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 8:54, Reply)
I'll just give you a stern look instead.

(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 8:59, Reply)
Look, let's build a bridge
over a glass of port

I'm sure you're not a tanker.
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 9:00, Reply)
You can't just barge in here trying to fix things.
Ok I'm done.
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 9:05, Reply)
That was terrible
you naughty buoy.
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 9:03, Reply)
Haha winner.

(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 9:05, Reply)
Yacht a cracking comment.
berk FTW
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 9:20, Reply)
I just don't get what these puns are all aboat?

(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 9:30, Reply)
People are getting really tenuous in an attempt to keep this pun-fest afloat.

(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 9:37, Reply)
It had been quite crisp and sunny
but yes, he was a tool.
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 8:33, Reply)
That can only be a good thing
It means he can hear you calling him a wanker as he drives past.
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 8:38, Reply)
The realisation that I can't get out of debt this next month.
I'd planned on having the most boring month on record, but I'd forgotten that it's 3 of my friend's birthdays this month, so they'll cost me money. I'd consider claiming illness to get out of them, but that would only work for 1, and that's the one I want to go to the most. Not good at all.

Alt: There's been no instance of schadenfreude that I can remember for a while now, how boring.
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 8:35, Reply)
Haven't you been saying this
consecutively for quite a number of months now? 'Oh, this month I'll be really careful with money and get myself out of debt...' and then 10 days later 'fuck, I'm skint'. Not even I am quite that bad, how do you do it?!
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 8:37, Reply)
I was in a position at the end of November where things were going well, then Christmas came around and fucking spanked me
Also, I'm a retard who managed to piss my best chance of getting onto level ground up the wall.

I'd planned it for February, as it was always going to be a fairly dull month, as there are no birthdays for my in February. Sadly, I do have 3 friends at the end of January.
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 8:40, Reply)
That sneaky Christmas, how dare it creep up just after November!
Happy Candle day though dude.
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 9:55, Reply)
Oh, yes, happy Candle day.

(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 10:07, Reply)
try not drinking for the entire month except those three nights
pros: save money, get pissed easier on those nights
cons: impossible
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 8:42, Reply)
It's not impossible at all
I drink fewer than three times a month generally. That said, I have almost no social life, but it can be done. Or if you do go out, just drink soft drinks, make your lunch at home and stop spunking money on subway and lucozade every day.
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 8:46, Reply)
Yes, if you start from a position of rarely drinking
then drinking rarely is entirely do-able.

It's much harder if you start from a position of drinking 2 or 3 times a week...
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 9:46, Reply)
Still bollocks I'm afraid
I used to drink - and smoke- much, much more than I do now, until I realised it had gone from making me feel great to making me feel icky, and that it cost a bloody fortune, so I cut back. Easy as that. Decide to do it, and do it.
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 10:34, Reply)
Amen to this

(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 10:34, Reply)
Aye, that's my aim
And on those nights, I should be able to get away with not drinking on 2 of them, I hope. Worst comes to worst, I'll take a tenner to one of them, and leave it at that.
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 8:49, Reply)
Most recently disappointed by reading an article in the Guardian which I strongly suspect to be misrepresenting statistics
About 15 minutes ago. I'm going to do sone detectoring to confirm whether they have or not.

Alt: I very much enjoyed laughing at the EDL last week, after the 'noncegate' stuff broke.
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 8:41, Reply)
Don't the grauniad get most things wrong?

(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 8:45, Reply)
Ooh, controversial!
Well, it's debateable, but they're usually much better at not wanking about with stats than most other papers.
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 8:47, Reply)
Speaking as a despicable Tory
I find the Guardian is a massively biased fact mangler. The lefty Daily Mail (also horrible), if you will...
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 8:49, Reply)
I agree that they carry an almost excessive number of opinion based articles, but at least they're open about it.
Misrepresenting statistics, however, is shit up with which I will not put.
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 8:51, Reply)
True, but they do manipulate stats to suit their p.o.v.
Polly Toynbee is terrible for this.
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 8:57, Reply)
Yeah, but Toynbee can fuck off.
This seems like manipulation for shock value over anything else, which is behaviour I wouldn't expect. Anyway, I need to do some digging to see whether they are or not. Will post a link to the story when I'm out of bed.
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 9:00, Reply)
Please do.
I always like looking at this sort of thing.
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 9:02, Reply)
I just don't believe this
www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/jan/11/mental-health-women-crisis?INTCMP=SRCH

*dons deerstalker and commences investigation*
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 9:15, Reply)
stop it you paranoid mentalist

(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 9:19, Reply)
Meh, it's not like I have anything better to do
Plus, I'm hoping to get an article out of this, which will stop me just getting angry at the Mail being fuckwits again. That was my original plan for the day.
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 9:22, Reply)
Women suffer from mental health problems once EVERY month don't they?

(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 9:23, Reply)
There's no way I can respond to correct you on this without being accused of PMS-ing, is there?

(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 9:30, Reply)
Nope.
I win!
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 9:35, Reply)
Only because you're a chauvinistic, patriarchal pig!
*insert feminist rant here*
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 9:37, Reply)
/ignores

(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 9:42, Reply)
I'm going to stop looking at that article anyway. It's boring and I hate doing maths.
Plus, I've just found something even better to get wound up about.

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/8248030/Parents-face-government-fees-to-split-up.html

What the actual cunting fuck?
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 9:45, Reply)
Oh FFS
They're just showing how retarded they really are, aren't they?
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 9:57, Reply)
Someone has PMT.
xx
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 9:44, Reply)
I don't have PMT *sobs*
It's just... *sob* everyone's so *sob* mean, and life is so *sob* hard!

*devours sofa-sized bar of chocolate*

WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT ANYWAY?!
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 9:49, Reply)
Your tits.
Obviously, as a chauvenist.

Or ironically, as a nice guy.
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 9:50, Reply)
Haha
I rather set myself up for that, didn't I? Meh.
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 9:55, Reply)
Yeah, sorry,
but I never miss an easy opening...
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 9:57, Reply)
Badum-tcch!

(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 9:58, Reply)
I need a little Lurpak man to follow me about
with his trumpet for each of my shit jokes.
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 9:59, Reply)
Maybe for your birthday we'll club together and get you one.

(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 10:03, Reply)

www.sadtrombone.com
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 10:34, Reply)
Lovely
Thanks.
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 10:56, Reply)
Chocolate?
Christ, you must be upset.
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 9:56, Reply)
I was playing to a stereotype
I do not have PMS, and even if I did, I wouldn't eat that vile stuff.
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 9:58, Reply)
Chocolate is magnificent. Although I'm quite disgusted at myself today, last night I drank Strongbow, and enjoyed it...

(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 10:00, Reply)
I drink Strongbow
Or Kopperberg Mixed Fruits.
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 10:03, Reply)
Koppaberg mixed fruits is fucking lush

(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 10:06, Reply)
I love it.
Defo my favourite.
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 10:08, Reply)
Strawberry and Lime is fucking rank though. That shit is evil.

(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 10:12, Reply)
It's not good...
The mixed berry one though....

Mega.
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 10:18, Reply)
it's awesome!
The rekorderlig strawberry and lime one is better though.
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 10:38, Reply)
It tastes like cheap strawberry milkshake

(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 10:53, Reply)
I don't like strawberry milkshake
so the comparison is lost on me. It is a bit sweet, but I do like the taste and it's easier to drink than cider and black...
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 10:54, Reply)
What would you prefer to eat?

(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 10:03, Reply)
The phrase 'I'm not going to dignify that with a response'
Is a classic example of the liar paradox. Discuss [20 marks]
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 10:12, Reply)
OK
The problem of the liar paradox is that it seems to show that common beliefs about truth and falsity actually lead to a contradiction. Sentences can be constructed that cannot consistently be assigned a truth value even though they are completely in accord with grammar and semantic rules.
The simplest version of the paradox is the sentence:
This statement is false. (A)
If the statement is true, everything asserted in it must be true. However, because the statement asserts that it is itself false, it must be false. So the hypothesis that it is true leads to the contradiction that it is false. Yet the sentence cannot be false for that hypothesis also leads to contradiction. If the statement is false, then what it says about itself is not true. Hence, it is true. Under either hypothesis, the statement is both true and false.
However, that the liar sentence can be shown to be true if it is false and false if it is true has led some to conclude that it is neither true nor false. This response to the paradox is, in effect, to reject the common beliefs about truth and falsity: the claim that every statement has to abide by the principle of bivalence, a concept related to the law of the excluded middle.
The proposal that the statement is neither true nor false has given rise to the following, strengthened version of the paradox:
This statement is not true. (B)
If (B) is neither true nor false, then it must be not true. Since this is what (B) itself states, it means that (B) must be true and so one is led to another paradox.
Another reaction to the paradox of (A) is to posit, as Graham Priest has, that the statement follows paraconsistent logic and is both true and false. Nevertheless, even Priest's analysis is susceptible to the following version of the liar:
This statement is only false. (C)
If (C) is both true and false then it must be false. This means that (C) is only false, since that is what it says, but then it cannot be true, creating another paradox.
There are also multi-sentence versions of the liar paradox, which are essentially logical arguments. The following is the two-sentence version:
The following statement is true. (D1)
The preceding statement is false. (D2)
Assume (D1) is true. Then (D2) is true. This would mean that (D1) is false, and hence (D2) is false. This in turn means that (D1) is true, and this continues infinitely, creating a paradox.
The argument version of the liar paradox generalizes to any circular sequence of such statements (wherein the last statement asserts the truth/falsity of the first statement), provided there are an odd number of statements asserting the falsity of their successor. E.g., the following is a three-sentence version, with each statement asserting the falsity of its successor:
D2 is false. (D1)
D3 is false. (D2)
D1 is false. (D3)
Assume (D1) is true. Then (D2) is false. This would mean that (D3) is true, and hence (D1) is false, leading to a contradiction. Instead, assume (D1) is false. Then (D2) is true, which means (D3) is false. This would mean (D1) is true, again leading to a contradiction, and hence the paradox.
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 10:14, Reply)
I would give you 10 marks for that (you failed to address the statement in the question)
But I'm taking all your points away for obviously copying and pasting.

You get a U.
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 10:17, Reply)
I thought that was how modern day students did things
I was trying to be down with the kids.
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 10:19, Reply)
Nah, they've got software to stop you doing that now.
Which was a bit annoying.
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 10:21, Reply)
Good! I'm glad to hear it.
GCSEs and A-Levels are easy now, Degrees should be hard so they remain a real achievement.
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 10:28, Reply)
Besides, have you seen how long their articles are? Fucking massive, and they use long words like "Miscontraception" and "Intuative" (only spelt right).
Give me The Metro any day of the week.... no tits, good summery of the news, always seems to last exactly however long my tube journey is... and it's free !
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 9:07, Reply)
The ones I really hate are ones like the sun, who use random full upcasing on words and they
try to speak to you like they're a politition who's just walked into the roughest pub in the UK.

OUR BOYS up front in the hellzone of HELMAND provance today were barrasic, so we sent 'em a fiver to sor' 'em ou'. THE SUN can report that THE LADS of the first squarden were WELL CHUFFED with the fiver.
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 9:10, Reply)
The Sun should fuck the fuck off.
Lying scum cunts.
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 9:12, Reply)
Some of you lot are gonna laugh at me with this, but when Diana died, that was the day I realised that 99% of the news reporting press is full of shit.
Remember, I was about 10 or whatever, so I had never been around for their previous failings at an age where I understood the bullshit behind it (eg, the falklands reporting, Iraq 1?, whatever).

I was really confused because for the last 3 years all I read was how this lady was a 'scarlet harlot', was cheating on the future king of the country, shagging the son of an arabic man, doing charity stuff just so she can get friendly with celebs... all of that. Then suddenly she's dead and she's the princess of our hearts. All these years and the Daily Express still manage to dredge up her past (guilt?).

I just thought to myself, at the time, "This is some poor boys's* mother, who they've just lost. If I lost my ma' I'd be gutted, let alone being constantly reminded about this'n'that".

I honestly don't trust the press, esspesh TV, where in my brief run ins, they stage everything and really don't give a shit how much it effects someone's life. And if you're not a company, they'll fob off payment big time.

* How do you do a belonging of two people?
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 9:22, Reply)
Diana was a lunatic slut.
And you use a possessive apostrophe - just do not add the s.
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 9:24, Reply)
Not really, she doesn't seem to have any bad intentions from my point of view.
I started out trolling the typical "Diana was a slag" people, 'cus it's an ovbouse point of view (to me, it's on par with "The police are pigs")... but the more I think about it, the more I think she's a fundementally good person.

I'd rather she got what she strived for in the world, than someone like Katie Price.
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 9:32, Reply)
She did some good
But she WAS a weirdo stalker.

I didn't like her (or her reported actions, more accurately), but she wasn't a bad person - she had a crap existence really, but... she cheated on her husband and had a son by a ginger (I know he wasn't faithful), she made harrassing phone calls and she was a bit mad. And a bit of a slapper.
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 9:56, Reply)
also, massively 80s
I pity poor Kate Middleton having to wear that massive, ugly, gaudy ring
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 9:59, Reply)
Prince WIlliam will doubtless have a much nicer ring to insert his digits into.
(sorry)
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 10:09, Reply)
I SAY

(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 10:11, Reply)
Not to worry Gonz, I was only 8 when it happened, so it was new to me too!
I learned about bias in the press when I was out of school for a few months, during the fuel blockade in 2000. My Dad made me study different newspapers, so I could understand how they each had their own take on it.

Was certainly eye-opening, although not necessarily interesting.
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 9:25, Reply)
I think it's a good lesson, they should do that in all schools.

(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 9:32, Reply)
in the last days before we left school
our teacher, in his "wear sunscreen"-type speech to us all, said the most important advice he could give us for the future would be to learn how to critique and interpret news media.
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 9:39, Reply)
At school, for General Studies A Level
One teacher taught us how to tackle the cryptic crossword in The Times.
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 10:04, Reply)
I might post like this ALL DAY today.
I like the idea of adding occasional emPHAsis.
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 9:14, Reply)
Hang on hang on hang on.
You say "no tits" like it's a good thing?
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 9:18, Reply)
It's dull, I'm really not bothered by seeing a pair of tits in the paper of some tart with a 'quote' by her on something political or scientific, using a vocab that I really doubt came from here.
"I think that the repocusions and revinance of the western occupation in Iraq will echo in the sands of time for centuries to come. I am most flustered by the indication that the war was under false pretences.... tee hee, and I got my tits out. tee hee".
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 9:27, Reply)
I wholeheartedly agree, I was TAKING THE PISS
a little bit. Breasts are great, but in print they're just not fulfilling their purpose. Their JIGGLY JIGGLY PURPOSE *
* I am aware that breasts are for the feeding of infant mammals
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 9:32, Reply)
Oh, but they're always hilarious
"I think the ramifications of the removal of the requirement to be impartial in news coverage in the USA have been demonstrably negative, and this weeks events prove it to us once again. I like glitter!"

Except, this being The Sun, they would never think what I just said.
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 9:34, Reply)
The Grauniad never spell correctly
Hence the nickname.

(Yes Prime Minister, both the series and the recent stage show pick up on this in a very funny way).
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 9:21, Reply)
So do ISIHAC

(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 9:24, Reply)
What do you think of Jack Dee?
He's good, but not Humph...
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 9:35, Reply)
glad you posted that
I couldn't for the life of me work out what ISIHAC was

seems obvious now
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 9:38, Reply)
He's good, certainly the natural progression for the show
But as you say, no Humph.
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 9:41, Reply)
does he do his pretend moody thing?

(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 9:45, Reply)
Not so much, no
He's still a bit deadpan though.

He's good, and I'm glad it continued after Humph's death.
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 9:54, Reply)
The Guardian do it all the time
To things they get a bee in their bonnet about. Its the guilt coming through because so many of them are privately/oxbridge educated and the guilt is unbearable
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 10:31, Reply)
Goddamn Oxbridge educations
Wouldn't you say that 'those' kind of people are all insufferable Rah-Rahs? ;)
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 10:32, Reply)
Well I'm not rah-rah
And this proves that no oxbridge student is

/Guardian usage of stats there
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 10:51, Reply)
Haha nice work there!

(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 10:51, Reply)
thanks :)

(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 10:59, Reply)
I fell off the wagon a while back
but this week got a chest infection and have been back on it without even trying.

The failure of my week has to be watching my wife struggle to put her own shoes on over her 32 week baby bump. I did help in the end, I was laughing because she refused to ask for help.
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 9:15, Reply)
Bloody hell, is she at 8 months already?
it seems like only...seven and a half months ago that you told us the good news.

Tempus fugit and all that
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 9:21, Reply)
32 weeks isn't 8 months silly
pregnancy's last 40-42 weeks she's just over 7 months.

Incidentally my little sister went in to labour today with her second child. She the size of a barn, I feel sorry for her hahaha, at 20 weeks she was the size that my wife was at 30 weeks.
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 9:36, Reply)
I always use 4 weeks as a rough-guide to working out months
which is stupidy incorrect.

Good luck to your sister!
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 9:39, Reply)
I noticed that :P
Seems common though, I pity the women having the 10-10.5 month pregnancys under that system.

My sister needs the luck. She's the only woman I have ever seem pregnant with one baby where I was sure there's twins in there. She's been walking on crutches for the last two months because she can't lug the fat git around with her.
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 9:45, Reply)
Fell off the "making my own lunch to save money" bandwagon
With a boots meal deal, and then the mcdonalds offer on the back of my bus ticket because I'm that classy.
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 9:20, Reply)
Me too.
Damn public transport offers.

And damn McDonalds. I'm fat enough already after Christmas.
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 9:52, Reply)
I'm not pleased with my failure to sleep last night
my insomnia hadn't been too bad except for isolated incidents for the last year or so, but the last week has been getting steadily worse. Last night was fucking shit.
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 9:24, Reply)
You'll probably sleep well tonight
I rarely go 2 nights w/o sleep. Rarely.
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 9:28, Reply)
considering I haven't slept well for the last week
I can't really be reassured by that.
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 9:30, Reply)
As a fellow insomniac, I sympathise
didn't sleep a wink Sunday night. The only suggestions I have are go to bed and get up at the same time each day (even at weekends) and dont drink.
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 9:34, Reply)
the going to bed at the same time thing is probably the issue
after being up late and getting up late over christmas I've probably fucked what little rhythm I had.

I don't drink much anyway, and don't have any caffeine.
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 9:37, Reply)
get some book tapes read by someone with a really soporific voice
and a litre of tesco value vodka.
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 9:33, Reply)
to be honest I doubt even that would work at the moment
over the past week getting really caned hasn't worked, not getting really caned hasn't worked and taking valerian hasn't worked, which are some of the best methods I've found for helping me sleep. Just need to wait until this bad patch goes away unfortunately.

Wouldn't be so bad if I were at home all the time, but being away makes it even more shit.
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 9:35, Reply)
maybe do the swimming in the morning rather than after work
I find going running or whatever in the evening wakes me up too much when I should be drifting toward sleep.
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 9:49, Reply)
there's no way I could bring myself to get out of bed early enough to do that
I've never dealt well with mornings, even before the insomnia.

I've been swimming immediately after work, so am finished by half 6 at the latest, so don't think that is the problem.

Thanks for the suggestion though
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 10:00, Reply)
You could just try reading this post a few times.

(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 9:35, Reply)
Do you claw the furniture at home?

(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 9:41, Reply)
totally
he also buries his poo in playground sandboxes.
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 9:52, Reply)
Aha
I'm at one with my inner cunt.
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 9:53, Reply)

t one with my inner
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 10:02, Reply)
*punches gently on shoulder*

(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 10:07, Reply)
nothing huge springs to mind.
BUT, my horrible boss who ran the Indian place I was working at before I came to england has had to shut down, because he couldn't keep his staff. And I told him on multiple occasions that if he treats his workers like shit then they would leave, and that his business would fail. And it came true. And after all the shit he gave me, I'm actually a bit smug.
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 9:39, Reply)
Sorry to hear that mate
Keep me posted, I'm best geographically poised to do an intervention.

Alt Q - it was Australia's cricketers but the filth's recent form has me in stitches, as my current FB status will attest. That made me even happier than the return of GLEE

Morning all. I notice a severe lack of gay jibes above. Now I've given you an opening (fnarr)
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 9:43, Reply)
It's like you can't help yourself isn't it?
GLEE? GLEE?!?! For fuck's sake.

Morning, anyway.
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 9:47, Reply)
Morning sexy
Glee's awesome. Not QUITE as intellectual as your thoroughly interesting conversation with DP above, but that's exactly why I watch it; I get enough highbrow stimulation from browsing B3ta
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 9:49, Reply)
Which one?
The Grauniad or the PMT?

I love Glee. But rarely have time to watch it.
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 9:53, Reply)
I think they've both gone completely un-intellectual now

(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 9:58, Reply)
Nothing like a bit of lowbrow...

(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 10:01, Reply)
I don't understand people who watch TV to let their brains turn off
Read a book.

Plus, I find Glee actively offensive:
www.b3ta.com/questions/worstband/post1024651

How was your weekend of sequins and piers?
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 9:53, Reply)

pi que
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 9:59, Reply)
You might as well have just capitalised the P

(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 10:02, Reply)
I've met his missus and, disappointingly, she's not even slightly manly.
I thought she may be merely pretending, but they were holding hands before seeing me.

Although DF was wearing a trilby of some sort...
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 10:06, Reply)
It's not funny if you stick up for him!

(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 10:07, Reply)
True...
DF bums men!!!

Honest!!!

But is he the Bummer or Bummee?
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 10:10, Reply)
Bumee, definitely.

(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 10:18, Reply)
Cheers mate, appreciate the support
Even if my missus is taller than you
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 10:35, Reply)
Taller, prettier, better at dancing
*cricks neck*
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 10:39, Reply)
Yeah sorry mate you're shit out of luck
Maybe if we'd met nine years ago
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 10:45, Reply)
Yeah, I was taller then
And slimmer

And spent my nights dancing (very gayly)

And more androgynous (well, not really).
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 10:53, Reply)
So you shrunk?!
What kind of drugs did you take?
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 11:01, Reply)
Um, all of the ones I could find?
The reduction in height though, was down to a pioneering operation designed to help giraffes reach low branches. I was a guinea pig.
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 11:06, Reply)
Excellent answer
How's the post-op going by the way?
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 11:13, Reply)
I could make a lame joke about DF and post-ops but I won't
My op yesterday got cancelled - Now Feb 18th.
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 11:21, Reply)
Please do
I want to see where you're going with this one.
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 11:28, Reply)
I should have thought it was perfectly clear...

(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 11:30, Reply)
Yeah, but I wanted to see it anyway.

(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 11:32, Reply)
That's what all the girls say
(in fact, I hadn't thought of the joke in full)...
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 11:36, Reply)
You have no idea how disappointed I am now.
Do all the girls say that too?
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 11:38, Reply)
Sadly, the majority do.
But I live in hope.
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 11:39, Reply)
Weekend was fun
but the dancing went crap. On this occasion, and you'll have to take my word for it that this is a rarity cos I'm usually very hard on myself, I blame the judges. They put some total dross through ahead of us. Pissed me right off.

Thank you for asking though. Well done on the continuing success of your blog, well-deserved
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 10:32, Reply)
You've answered my below question
Did you not offer the judges any, erm, gratitude for a good placing?
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 10:33, Reply)
If by "gratitude" you mean a good shoeing
then I was sorely tempted. Ms Foxtrot expressly forbade me from kicking off. The threat of sex ban was sufficient to keep me in line. And yes I knew what you meant there, you filthy pervert.
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 10:39, Reply)
You sure do
A nice card and some flowers.

Certainly not a nosh.
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 10:40, Reply)
Haha "nosh"
Although I'd never use that in any degree of seriousness, it cracks me up in this context
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 10:44, Reply)
I love the phrase nosh
but you couldn't ever use it in serious chit chat with your missus. It's a jokey one with your mates, I think.
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 10:52, Reply)
*Dances like a loon*
Yeah, it's awesome! I have loads of cool people following me now!

And by cool people, I mean people who's blogs I've been following for ages, but didn't start my own because I thought it would be no good in comparison to theirs. So yeah.

Sorry to hear that it turns out you're bad at dancing.
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 10:40, Reply)
He's very good,
he just had a bit of a limp, for some mysterious reason.
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 10:41, Reply)
Oh, fuck you
I'm absolutely not bad at it and that's why I was so pissed off. If I'd had an attack of nerves and messed up my footwork, or forgotten the routine, or collided with another couple (all of which I've done in the past) then I wouldn't have minded, but we were awesome and the judges ignored us. Useless cunts.

As I said last week though, am delighted that you're getting kudos for something you enjoy so much, I really am. The fwap-o-meter blog was particularly entertaining
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 10:43, Reply)
I know you're (probably) not bad at dancing.
It was a joke. I'm sorry.

Glad you liked the fwap-ometer post, or was that just for the link to the article I wrote about?
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 10:49, Reply)
Didn't actually click the link but the article had me in stitches
probably because I know plenty of blokes, ex-colleagues mostly, who the descriptions applied to perfectly. That's what I like most about your writing, it engages.

*awaits Pandatron*

Apologies for the "fuck you", it appears I may have some unresolved anger issues regarding the weekend
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 11:00, Reply)
It made me really angry
I don't even know who the fuck that bimbo is. How is eleven pictures of her in a bikini on holday news?
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 11:02, Reply)
It isn't
It was a good post.

She's an actress, famous principally for getting her tits out. I think they're fake now though, which lessens the appeal.
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 11:04, Reply)
"actress"
(trans: vapid spunk-dumpster)
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 11:11, Reply)
Well, what's wrong with that?
She has a nice living, and enjoys what she does for millions of dollars...
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 11:15, Reply)
In all fairness,
she most likely is vapid and is almost certainly a spunk repository. Bella was probably just recounting what she believes to be fact with no bitterness or judgement whatsoever
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 11:17, Reply)
I think so
There are no gender politics or rabid feminism at play here...

ANother b3tan had an old feminist blog - urbanfeminist.blogspot.com
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 11:19, Reply)
No, there was definitely judgement there
Stupid cunt.
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 11:31, Reply)
Unresolved Issues and DF
Is it just me starting to think...?
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 11:03, Reply)
Haha

(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 11:08, Reply)
Cheeky motherfucker
Well played though
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 11:15, Reply)
I refer the honourable gentleman to my earlier answer
about never missing an easy opening.
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 11:18, Reply)
And we all know how easy Darth's opening is now
The phrase 'chucking a hot dog down a corridor' springs to mind, for some reason.
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 11:30, Reply)
Ouch.
Or not, actually, owing to regular use...
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 11:35, Reply)
I'd like to say I'd hope for better from you two
but it would be bollocks
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 11:36, Reply)
"You'd hope for better....bollocks"
Grauniad reporting at it's finest.
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 11:39, Reply)
I'm sorry Darth
I'm trying to put off writing this article because I know it's going to make me tremendously angry, and I'm sort of in a good mood at the moment.

Please accept my most humble of apologies.
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 11:40, Reply)
Hehe I don't really mind
All in good fun, innit. Am torn between wanting to maintain your good mood and being keen to read your next blog
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 11:49, Reply)
I'm going to start it now
Remember, Duck AND Cover.
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 11:56, Reply)
Once again:
Badumm-tcchh!
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 11:37, Reply)
Eyethangyoo

(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 11:39, Reply)
The Filth?
I assume you mean Derby, not the Old Bill.

It's no biggie - I just bumped into a couple of people last week, and one thing led to another and I spent the last few days at it - not excessively (other than the fact any is more than I should have - the problem is that it doesn't affect my day to day life negatively in any way until I stop - which I now have. So it's going to be a bad couple of days, but nothing fatal. Just means I have to build up my clean time again.

What do you call a successful Australian cricketer? Retired!

How's it gone for the last few days?
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 9:49, Reply)
What do you call an Australian cricketer with a century? A bowler
I do indeed mean Derby but I think the filth sums them up better. Plus it's quicker to say and type than sheepshaggers, and I'm lazy.

Hope the rubbishness passes quickly mate. Good luck with building up the clean time
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 10:25, Reply)
It's easy enough.
Did you win?
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 10:29, Reply)
Nah mate
Thoroughly disappointing. There was a point on Saturday when we'd been eliminated from both disciplines, Forest were a goal down and I turned on the TV looking for something to cheer myself up. Found Star Wars... Episode ONE. Got drunk after that.
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 10:33, Reply)
Star Wars One
The Phantom plotline.

Horrible film.

You have my deepest sympathies.
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 10:34, Reply)
It's worse than it sounds
The Sky thingy came up saying "Star Wars Episode..." before the picture flickered on so I thought it was going to be the perfect way to cheer myself up
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 10:37, Reply)
Where were you dancing again?

(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 10:35, Reply)
Blackpool
This was the big one, hence my disappointment. Ah well. Fuck 'em, bloody poofters wouldn't know a decent Quickstep if they tripped over one
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 10:36, Reply)
You and the missus must have looked out of place
Or did you wear kappa and burberry to blend in and avoid being mugged?
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 10:41, Reply)
Hotel wasn't far from the venue
And when we went out to Funny Girls the night before we went in a big group. Safety in well-dressed numbers
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 10:44, Reply)
*phew*
did you take the Paul Smith nunchuks, just in case?
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 10:54, Reply)
Yes
but I'm glad I didn't have to use them, the diamante encrusting isn't cheap to replace
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 11:01, Reply)
As you'll agree,
Rhinestones ain't cheap!
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 11:02, Reply)
I hate that fucking advert

(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 11:13, Reply)
Me too, but I always think of you when I see it.
Do you eat cheesey peas?

*I hate these Aviva ads, and Paul Whitehouse has lost all credibility in my eyes*
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 11:16, Reply)
Nope
A workmate of mine said much the same yesterday. I just don't want anything to do with Aviva to remind people of me. Cunts.
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 11:37, Reply)
True - they tried to charge me a fucking grand for car insurance.
Wankers.
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 11:38, Reply)
I've disappointed myself recently
But am M'ing TFU slowly but surely. Am planning Epic Adventures with some friends, so that's putting a smile on my face.

I'm usually a Paragon of Schadenfreude, but recently I can't think of a single instance when I've stood astride the blubbing body of a FAILURE and mocked them mercilessly.
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 10:01, Reply)
Alright Lab?
What's been up?
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 10:02, Reply)
Not me
A culmination of things, which is worse as solving or shelving one of these doesn't cure all.
Like I said though, it's all in hand and I have lots of awesome things planned seeing various friends over the next few months.
(, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 10:06, Reply)

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