New thread because the one below is boring.
My foot hurts which may stop me from going to the gym tonight. Ever felt like fate was conspiring against you to stop you from becoming the svelte goddess that's trapped inside?

Also since the TV channels never play old horror movies anymore, I've ordered some DVD's from Amazon.

Who was your favorite horror character from the black and white era?
( girlinthehole, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 14:17, 120 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

I love the word svelte,
didn't bother reading the rest, I'm now day dreaming.
(PsychoChomp, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 14:18, Reply)

It's like a combination of velvet and suede

( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 14:45, Reply)

totally
I started getting thinner a few years ago, then the doctor is all like 'your thyroid is fast' and made it slow so I put most of the weight back on :(
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 14:20, Reply)

What a bastard.

( girlinthehole, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 14:21, Reply)

I NO RITE!
it's not like it was making my hands shake constantly, stopping me sleeping and making me pace the house like a trapped tiger
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 14:22, Reply)

A skinny tiger though
to be honest, it doesn't really sound worth it...
(berk, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 14:27, Reply)

yeah :(
it also meant a resting heartrate of 90 and apparently if left unchecked would have fucked me up proper. They could have left it just a little longer until I was, like a size 12
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 14:33, Reply)

I often feel like fate is stopping me becoming the goddess I deserve to be.
Got any tips?
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 14:20, Reply)

I hear it's all about the way you shave your legs

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 14:21, Reply)

Are you saying I should throw away my eleven-blade Gillette Powerzing! and get my Venus on?

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 14:23, Reply)

you want to feel like a goddess?
then do it. Do it in a fountain with lots of other goddess wannabes
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 14:24, Reply)

*giggles*

( Lisette von Falcon, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 14:26, Reply)

get the vibrating waterproof one

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 14:24, Reply)

Man, I feel like a woman!

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 14:25, Reply)

I got bored and cut stripes in my chest hair the other day.

(PsychoChomp, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 14:26, Reply)

really?

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 14:26, Reply)

Yep, it'll grow out.

(PsychoChomp, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 14:26, Reply)

nice

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 14:36, Reply)

I once drunkenly decided it'd be fun to try one of my mate's wax strips.
Woke up the next morning with a perfectly bare strip of skin on my chest.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 14:27, Reply)

Unleash the Kraken.
Or as we call it, libido.
( girlinthehole, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 14:21, Reply)

I saw my first flower shoots of the spring a few days ago.
My libido is well on its way to being unleashed.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 14:22, Reply)

; )

( girlinthehole, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 14:23, Reply)

Yep yep yep
this sounds like a euphemism, but I've got daffodils coming up in my garden. I'm bored of winter, I want it to be spring now.
(berk, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 14:28, Reply)

It's now light enough around 5pm for me to get home after work and go out for my 5-mile circuit walk before it gets dark.
Bring on the miles!
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 14:30, Reply)

It's now light enough in the mornings
for me to be able to drag myself out of bed before 8:30. I've even been on time for work in the last week or so.

Yours was more impressive, I must say...
(berk, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 14:32, Reply)

I was amazed to see it getting pretty light at 7am, this means my walk to work will be punctuated by singing birds.
I've not been a slave to the alarm clock for a whole ten days. This morning's 5.10am wakeup was a bit of a bitch.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 14:35, Reply)

Did Poppet get away OK?

( girlinthehole, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 14:36, Reply)

Yup, pretty smoothly I think.
She's still got almost 24 hours until she gets home, I don't envy her. I've almost sloped off to bed three times since I got in.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 14:38, Reply)

I think she meant
did Poppet escape the manacles?

you deviant
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 14:40, Reply)

Surprisingly bitey, these Aussies.

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 14:44, Reply)

5.10am
5.10am. Jeeeeeeeeesus. I'm sure we've had this discussion before but that's the night time!
(berk, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 14:43, Reply)

Well yeah, it is.
That was to get to Heathrow for Poppet's check-in for her flight. Tomorrow morning I get to lie-in to 5.50am.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 14:45, Reply)

That's not really a vast improvement.
Sorry.
(berk, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 14:49, Reply)

I'm working on getting out of this job, I can't do another winter of dark walks to work.
Trouble is, it's great in the summer as finishing at three means I've got almost seven hours of daylight left after work. It's utter shit in the winter though. Well, it's utter shit all the time...
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 14:51, Reply)

... "the pit of hades"
I'd gathered you don't like it much. What is it exactly that you do?
(berk, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 14:55, Reply)

He's a taxi firm's bitch.

( girlinthehole, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 15:04, Reply)

Exactly this.

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 15:09, Reply)

Doesn't sound desperately fulfilling, it's true
but it's infinitely preferable to do a shit job for a wage than to sit on your arse and do nothing.
Probably belongs in the thread up, but what would you be doing instead, if you could?
(berk, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 15:18, Reply)

Oops, got distracted.
Probably walling/fencing/hedging/boundary maintenance but that's a few courses and a good deal of investment away yet. I did think about starting a sandwich/lunch van for the town, I don't think there is one and I reckon there's a market for it. I fucking love sandwiches. Edit: other thread.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 15:39, Reply)

"And here, in the heart of the Bucks countryside, we find the roosting site of a Noel.
Come spring, and the melting of the winter frost, various signals indicate that the Noel is entering its mating season. We can see how this specimen is shedding his winter coat, but preparing himself to search for a mate. The Noel is a solitary creature, known to roam in seemingly aimless fashion across the hills and dales surrounding his habitat in search of a female, whom he may attempt to club over the head with a spare walking boot, or if locality permits, trap beneath a concrete cow, before dragging her back to his roost.

His catch rendered unconscious, the Noel checks his surroundings before shouldering the female. He must remain alert for another lone scavenger which will also be drawn to the female's scent: the Chompy."
(LongJohnBaldry, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 14:30, Reply)

I LIKE THIS!

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 14:31, Reply)

hahaha!
Read that in David Attenborough's voice.
( girlinthehole, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 14:32, Reply)

It's the "And here..." at the start

( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 14:47, Reply)

"Shouldering"?
Mate, that's not how it's done. No wonder you turned to the dark side.
(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 14:32, Reply)

And I always thought I had such sexy shoulders...

(LongJohnBaldry, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 14:38, Reply)

Oh God! man shoulders.
One of the best bits of a guy. It's funny what were hardwired to admire in the opposite sex.
( girlinthehole, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 14:42, Reply)

yeah
mmm sexy man-backs
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 14:45, Reply)

As long as they're not hairy
hairy shoulders and back are all kinds of wrong.
(berk, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 14:46, Reply)

that is true
I hate having them
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 15:16, Reply)

Hairy chests are great, don't get me wrong
but hairy shoulders/back... *shudders*
(berk, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 15:19, Reply)

I know
I feel the same. My mrs doesn't mind fortunately, and I don't mind having a hairy chest, but the back is just horrible.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 15:21, Reply)

It's amazing what you start to like when you meet someone special.
Never say never is my motto.
( girlinthehole, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 15:24, Reply)

good motto
my mrs probably would have said no beards when asked when we got together.

Fortunately, she is very much my type :-D
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 15:29, Reply)

I'm glad I don't!

( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 15:19, Reply)

Isn't shaving with that Venus razor supposed to turn you into a goddess or something?
Failing that, start taking the pill and you may well find yourself growing tits.

EDIT stupid work people delaying my reply and turning me from witty and original into derivative and shite.
(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 14:27, Reply)

I like breasts.

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 14:28, Reply)

According to the Metro this morning, moob removal surgery is on the rise.
BAAPS said so.
(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 14:28, Reply)

Hahaha what a great name for something related to tits.

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 14:30, Reply)

HA I win

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 14:29, Reply)

I am already a svelte goddess....
not true. Although despite troughing a massive portion of beef wellington, and doing my bit to churn through a large amount of chocolate over the weekend, I have still managed to lose a couple of pounds.

I can't think of any horror characters from the black and white era that haven't been done better in colour unfortunately. Apart from The Mummy ones possibly.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 14:20, Reply)

Not even Nosferatu?

( girlinthehole, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 14:22, Reply)

ah! vampires before they got all angsty
they must age backwards, they've regressed so far now they are teenagers
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 14:23, Reply)

I was tempted to go for Nosferatu
which is brilliant, but I really like Shadow of the Vampire, which kind of tells the story of the making of it.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 14:24, Reply)

Despite gorging on ribs on Saturday night
And an Indian take-out last night, I didn't put on any weight over the weekend. Pleasantly surprising!
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 14:22, Reply)

good lad
pending finding out what is wrong with my car, and replacing my now fucked dishwasher, I am so skint that I need to spend less on food, so should be losing some more over the coming months.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 14:26, Reply)

I read about this diet
Where you basically eat chicken, eggs, beef, spinach, black beans and/or lentils 6 days a week, then on the 7th pig out on whatever. I'm sceptical to say the least.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 14:27, Reply)

that sounds weird
my latest copy of Good Food has loads of cheap and healthy recipes that all look pretty nice, so I will be using those extensively.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 14:37, Reply)

I wouldn't really know what to eat with that anyway
I don't cook eggs.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 14:40, Reply)

I cook eggs a lot
partly because I get them free from my parents, but partly because they are very versatile and also delicious.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 14:42, Reply)

I could probably do with eating more
A hard-boiled egg for breakfast, for example. I just never crave them.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 14:44, Reply)

the more you eat, the more you will desire them
make sure you apply salt to them and you are away.

shove an egg on to boil while you shower, then mash it up and eat it on toast with salt and pepper. nom
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 14:54, Reply)

Quasimodo
Its an image I can aspire to.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 14:21, Reply)

Martin Luther King Junior

( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 14:21, Reply)

Pick me, boss.

(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 14:21, Reply)

Hello Dave!

( girlinthehole, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 14:26, Reply)

You're my wife now!

(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 14:43, Reply)

Woohoo!

( girlinthehole, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 14:49, Reply)

Yeah last night
I ate noodles and some chocolate. Then topped it off by having soup at one in the morning.
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 14:21, Reply)

There's a svelte goddess trapped inside me?
Makes a change from some sweaty old queen.
(LongJohnBaldry, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 14:24, Reply)

Trapped, eh?
I bet they still laugh about it down at the fire station.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 14:25, Reply)

or the A & E

( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 14:29, Reply)

If you unleash anymore of your feminine side then were going to have to start calling you Mabel.

( girlinthehole, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 14:26, Reply)

Mabel? I think I prefer "Crowsephine"

(LongJohnBaldry, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 14:31, Reply)

I was just wondering yesterday if people still pray to Greek Gods.
Once I lost a load of weight on some meds. But they made me feel like I was dying from the insides out.

I don't think I've ever watched a horror film in black and white. I haven't watched many black and white films, tbh.
( Lisette von Falcon, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 14:28, Reply)

Some of the ancient egyptian ones still are
since we (larpers) were once told we weren't allowed to use certain god names for our 'ancestors'*

(*gods, but not quite)
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 14:30, Reply)

because people still pray to them?
how incredibly interesting
( Lisette von Falcon, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 14:32, Reply)

yeah, I think one of them was Anubis
which was surprising.
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 14:34, Reply)

that's super cool

( Lisette von Falcon, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 14:47, Reply)

I fucking love these larping annecdotes.

(PsychoChomp, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 14:32, Reply)

yeah?
nearly as much as I love your paperclip raping stories
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 14:34, Reply)

Raperclip.

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 14:36, Reply)

Ancestors?
As in "Aragorn, son of Arathorn, heir to the throne of Isildur, 'Strider' to the people of the Elven kingdoms and 'Steve' to his mates down the pub?"
(LongJohnBaldry, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 14:36, Reply)

hahaha
nah, it's more just a way of not using the term 'god'
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 14:38, Reply)

Fate you say?
well, if the three fates were called Lazy, Slacker and Chocolate, then yes by all means.

I genuinely cannot remember the last black and white film I watched.
(berk, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 14:31, Reply)

They just don't show them on the terrestrial channels like they used to.
And if they do it's a western or war film.
( girlinthehole, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 14:33, Reply)

I don't even have a tv
terrestrial or otherwise. If I were to watch some, which ones would you suggest?
(berk, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 14:38, Reply)

Well the old horror films are good.
I also like films with Katherine Hepburn / Spencer Tracy. Also Bette Davis and Joan Crawford. The films made from the Ealing studios are great. Google the Ealing studio films and take a look. There are some classics that should be up your street.
( girlinthehole, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 14:48, Reply)

You're not allowed to call the Chocolates lazy slackers anymore
PC gone mad.
(PsychoChomp, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 14:34, Reply)

I just have a question, if a guy uses a smiley in an email is the consensus that he is a twat?
I'm not sure I worded that properly.
Stupid american brain.
( Lisette von Falcon, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 14:41, Reply)

not necessarily
smileys are kind of useful in certain circumstances

why?
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 14:42, Reply)

I thought I read that somewhere on here once.
I've just started to email some bloke that I don't know and he used one of these ;-)
( Lisette von Falcon, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 14:47, Reply)

Flirty.

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 14:48, Reply)

I agree
I use smileys frequently, but only the following:
;-) -not serious
:-P -jokingly taking the piss
:-o -fake shock
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 14:55, Reply)

This
it's easier to use a smiley and risk looking like a bit of a knob for it instead of being misconstrued. It's one of the things I hate about email/online conversations, is that I often can't tell if I sound like a dick when in fact I was only joking.
(berk, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 14:58, Reply)

Yeah I use :) and :(

( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 15:00, Reply)

8====o ( )x( )
Dutch Schteve and Monty
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 15:00, Reply)

Hahaha grim.

(berk, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 15:01, Reply)

I suggested "Now that's what I call a reverse Dutch Steamboat 17"
as an album title to my band. They seemed surprisingly keen.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 15:07, Reply)

Do it!

( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 15:10, Reply)

"We're a much more depraved East 17"

( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 15:43, Reply)

it seems to me that if you're
emailing someone you don't know it may be wise to use them in case your words are misconstrued.

so is this guy, you know, a potential snog?
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 14:49, Reply)

I have absolutely no idea.

( Lisette von Falcon, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 14:55, Reply)

That means maybe.

( girlinthehole, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 14:56, Reply)

fuck yeah maybe
I was told he was "oriental"
( Lisette von Falcon, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 14:58, Reply)

I don't think oriental is PC anymore.
I like the chinks but they're just not tall enough : D
( girlinthehole, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 15:02, Reply)

that's why I put that in quotations
is it more or less PC than "chinks"?

Is Asian the proper term?
( Lisette von Falcon, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 15:03, Reply)

I was just joking.
Chinks is even worse.

Yes Asian is the proper term.
( girlinthehole, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 15:05, Reply)

you should've done with vipros smiley chart and added a ;-)

( Lisette von Falcon, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 15:14, Reply)

perhaps you misheard
and it was ornamental
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 15:04, Reply)

Michael Jackson

( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Mon 31 Jan 2011, 16:14, Reply)