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Have you all died?
I have two more hours of work left :(((
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 19:00, 150 replies, latest was 15 years ago)
I'm still alive.
Daughter just cooked me pasta for dinner. Result! I could get used to this.
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 19:01, Reply)
Child labour FTW.
Does she peel grapes yet?
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 19:03, Reply)
Nah, I like grape skin.

(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 19:03, Reply)
frozen grapes are awesome

(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 19:05, Reply)
almost
but I'm still hanging on. Soon it'll be time for super-iron-based tea. Hopefully that'll sort out the recently returned wooziness

how can you make your work more interesting?
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 19:01, Reply)
are you sick, Crunchelina?
I'm not sure I can, I guess I'll actually have to do work. Ugh.
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 19:07, Reply)
you missed my exciting story what happened yesterday
..I just realised my multivitamins do not contain iron :(

sucks
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 19:08, Reply)
I do not take multivitamins because they make me sick.
Now, what sort of multivitamin are you taking that doesn't have iron?
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 19:11, Reply)
I don't know, I'd have thought they would
I was hoping I could just OD on them to sort me out. Anyway, I'm about to make a spinach and black pudding and sausage and egg and courgette thing
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 19:17, Reply)
I've never had black pudding.

(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 19:23, Reply)
it is proper tasty
not had it in ages
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 19:24, Reply)
It contains large amounts of blood
But you don't have to be a vampire to eat it.
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 19:25, Reply)
but does it turn you into a vampire?
I'm not a huge fan of blood.
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 19:29, Reply)
I've not noticed turning into a vampire yet
But maybe it's one of those things you can't notice in yourself.
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 19:30, Reply)
yummy yummy blood

(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 19:30, Reply)
I think the clue is the fact that iron isn't a vitamin
You can tell because it isn't called "vitamin [letter]".

Top tip right there.
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 19:26, Reply)
tits
it's got other shit in it that isn't a vitamin [letter]
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 19:28, Reply)
Sorry, I'm currently bedroom-LOLing at this
menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/news/s/1416379_double-decker-bus-crashes-into-railway-bridge-in-macclesfield

I can see that bridge from here, there was no way in hell that bus would make it under, what a tool.
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 19:02, Reply)
a bus did that near our college
scared the shit out of a lot of people on the top deck
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 19:03, Reply)
I have to visit Macclesfield in a few weeks
Am I likely to make it out again without any stab wounds?
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 19:07, Reply)
Aye, you'll be safe, just don't take the bus!
How come you're here?
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 19:40, Reply)
Stupid week-long residential course for work just outside Macclesfield
Can't be bothered going, but have to. Stupid.
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 19:45, Reply)
Well, if you're bored, let me know if you fancy a mini basg (i.e. 3 of us)

(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 19:53, Reply)
What's a 'basg'?
And who's the third?
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 19:57, Reply)
It's what happens when I try to type bash while a bit pissed...
Spikeypickle is third
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 20:04, Reply)
I think we're most to stay at the hotel most evenings
To socialise with other work-type people or some crap, but I may just wander off.
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 20:08, Reply)
Ahh, fair enough. Well, I'm only 2 minutes from town!

(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 20:14, Reply)
Good stuff
I actually know very little about it so far, other than the dates. Will let you know once I find out more.
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 20:17, Reply)
I am amazed how often this happens.
There's been two in our local paper this past six months.
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 19:09, Reply)
I finished work 6 hours ago
God bless half day Fridays, and sunny afternoons.

What's been happening here recently? I've not been about, and am too lazy to look at other threads.
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 19:04, Reply)
are you in school?
who gets half days at work?
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 19:06, Reply)
Nope, not school
We work longer Mon-Thurs, then all leave at 1pm on a Friday. It's the future, I'm telling you.
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 19:07, Reply)
luck-eeeeeeee

(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 19:12, Reply)
Damn straight
Although it does mean being in early every day.
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 19:16, Reply)
I've just had an early drink
and am out to dinner in a bit :)
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 19:07, Reply)
You're a student
Surely 7pm doesn't count as an early drink?
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 19:10, Reply)
what does? noon?

(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 19:11, Reply)
We used to go for all day breakfast and cider about 11am after big hand-ins

(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 19:12, Reply)
eeeeesh
I did that twice this summer, once when I was sick as a dog I had hot totties and another time was during the world cup, killed a six pack and passed out by 5
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 19:16, Reply)
There're less opportunities to do it in a work environment I have found
No cider with lunch these days.
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 19:19, Reply)
We went out about five

(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 19:11, Reply)
Grade C
Must try harder.
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 19:15, Reply)
That's when I got back from coffee

(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 19:19, Reply)
Irish coffee?
(I'm not an alcoholic, honest)
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 19:20, Reply)
No sadly
just standard coffee. Now I'm bumbling over what to wear. I don't want to change, but if we're dancing then I can't wear this :(
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 19:26, Reply)
Girls and their propensity to bumble over what to wear
Something on the bottom half. Something that matches on the top half. Some shoes that don't prohibit walking. Done.
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 19:28, Reply)
Haha you think it's that easy
what I'm wearing pencil skirt/high heels/t-shirt is fine for dinner, but not for clubbing. Whereas short and tight is fine for clubbing and not for dinner
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 19:29, Reply)
Compromise
Or wear both. Or wear something reversible. I'm just full of answers tonight.
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 19:31, Reply)
I hate my body
I hate it I hate it I hate it AAAAAAARRRRGGGGHHHH.
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 19:17, Reply)
Has one of your legs fallen off again?
Can you not use science to fix it?
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 19:20, Reply)
No.
It has decided to oblige me with a bodily function I am medicated against having on sodding date night.
Fuck piss wank shit bilge toss cock wank shit fuck.
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 19:22, Reply)
I have notice that this is more likely to happen on any date night

(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 19:23, Reply)
and when you're likely to have sex for the first time in ever

(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 19:29, Reply)
There seems to be a large number of lady b3tans up on blocks at the moment.
Of course, any stress or excitement will do that to your body.

Plus, it's a good way of making sure you behave yourself tonight.
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 19:49, Reply)
i think that was part of the reason I went a bit funny yesterday
it's not good to bleed from too many places at once
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 19:50, Reply)
Have they still not told you what was actually wrong?
I find it hard to believe they let you leave without being able to tell you why it happened and that it wasn't going to happen again.
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 19:57, Reply)
well, I'm not being called back for anything, unless I fall over today
I have been banned from giving blood, though :(
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 20:02, Reply)
Did you tell them your body was giving it away anyway?

(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 20:04, Reply)
yeah
I had cramps a bit anyway, but while I was writhing around my lady parts hurt like a bastard. When I was eventually lucid enough, I told them. So amongst the *shrugs* I got a 'it might be that I suppose'
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 20:06, Reply)
mr b3th was rushed in just before xmas
and when we told them he was on a diet, all of a sudden it was 'that'. No further investigation. i am very cross at scapegoat medicine.

Make sure you get your GP to chase up the matter. He/she will need to know exactly what's going on with you, as your primary physician.
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 20:08, Reply)
nah, it'll be fine
I don't really go to the doctors unless I really have to. PLus, they usually just blame things on the thyroid. Man, I'm turning into a medical wreck
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 20:10, Reply)
You know what's really full of iron?
Chocolate.

Well, and Guinness.
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 20:13, Reply)
Shit I have no chocolate
:( I did have a snickers earlier on and I'm pretty sure nuts have lots of iron, too.
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 20:14, Reply)
You think you all have problems!
I HAVE PUT THREE POUNDS ON : (
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 19:33, Reply)
THREE STONE HERE
/one up
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 19:33, Reply)
What, since last week?

(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 19:34, Reply)
No I was helping build a rockery

(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 19:39, Reply)
I put a jumper on
I think we have different problems.
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 19:34, Reply)
I don't really know if I'm cooking spinach right
I'm probably lighter today than I was yesterday morning, though
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 19:36, Reply)
That's only like one really satisfying shit.

(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 19:37, Reply)
Psychologically I feel like Jabba the hut.

(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 19:38, Reply)
But you look like Princess Leia.

(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 19:39, Reply)
Hahahahaha!
Thanks!
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 19:40, Reply)
A guy at work reckoned he shat 5kg one day
And when I say 'one day', I mean in one go. I think he may have been lying.
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 19:39, Reply)
Hmmmm.
answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=455492
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 19:40, Reply)
How lovely

(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 19:45, Reply)
have you been working out?

(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 19:42, Reply)
Not so much.
I have been recently less careful with my diet and excercise so I know why but I still don't like seeing it.
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 19:48, Reply)
yeah but can you actually see it? other than on the scales?

(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 19:49, Reply)
This is why I rarely weigh myself.
I gauge my weight by how my clothes fit on me.
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 19:50, Reply)
^this
But in my head I can go up or down a dress size depending on my mood. It's scary.
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 20:00, Reply)
I spent the afternoon at a fashion and beauty event
having people tell me how slim, well-styled and made-up I was. Even though they were blatantly lying to try to sell me stuff, I enjoyed the ego massage.

Had my colours matched, body shape analysed, and make-up done.
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 20:01, Reply)
nice
so what colours have you been banned from wearing?
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 20:03, Reply)
yellow, orange and brown
and warm, orange-based shades.

apparently I'm a soft cool.
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 20:06, Reply)
what does that even mean?

(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 20:08, Reply)
You know that digital colour palette thing?
With red on the left, going all the way through to red again, with white at the top and black at the bottom?

Well, basically, I can wear most things along the middle line of that scale. as long as the colours have a cool, blue base instead of a warm, orange one.

http://www.cmbshop.co.uk/shopbycolour.asp?cc=r
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 20:12, Reply)
I'm always curious about that stuff
I think they'd hate me, very few colours look right on me. I look ill very easily
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 20:16, Reply)

look get
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 20:19, Reply)
losing a shit load of blood is not easily!
I mean, I was using that blood!
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 20:21, Reply)
never heard of it
but those are lovely colors, I can't wear them, I'm better in nuetrals, bronze, browns, beige sort of things
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 20:19, Reply)
well, it's nice to know you're cool

(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 20:09, Reply)
I'll just leave this here...

(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 20:02, Reply)
Busy evening there, eh Gonz?

(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 20:05, Reply)
Chinese and 3DS, was supposed to be going out tonight but I'm working all weekend and am shattered.

(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 20:16, Reply)
Damn weekend work ruining people's plans
Is the 3DS all the hype made it out to be?
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 20:18, Reply)
It 100% honestly is =D

(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 20:26, Reply)
not this duck
wildbirds-ai.cirad.fr/images/birds/fulvous-whistling-duck.jpg
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 20:09, Reply)
I think it's just all boy mallards
but they are best of the ducks
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 20:11, Reply)
the sign says ALL DUCKS
the sign LIES
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 20:18, Reply)
ducks are often misunderstood
like Eskimoes
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 20:23, Reply)
I feel it only fair to mention
Darth supports Nottingham Forest.
The Nottingham Forest goalkeeper is Lee Camp.

Evening all!
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 20:52, Reply)
OK, now tell us something interesting

(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 20:52, Reply)
Now you're asking
111111111 x 111111111 = 12345678987654321

How's that?
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 20:57, Reply)
that is pretty awsome to be fair
more of this kind of thing
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 20:58, Reply)
My favourite weird number is 142857
for obvious reasons.
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 21:00, Reply)
*googles*
ooooOOOOooo
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 21:01, Reply)
god I wish I had.
got woken up an hour earlier then I would have liked by the fire alarm going off. again.
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 20:58, Reply)
But it's now Saturday
And that's always worth celebrating.
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 21:08, Reply)
oh yeah, saturday.
completely forgot that.
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 21:09, Reply)
I sense high levels of sarcasm

(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 21:10, Reply)
no i really did.
I was up from 7 am thursday to 8:30 friday night with approx 3 hours sleep cos one of my hall mates was sick and I had to keep checking on her and then eventually driving her to the hospital. and then making sure she was honest with the doctors about what was wrong with her. I basically lost a day.
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 21:12, Reply)
In that case, just sleep through Saturday

(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 21:16, Reply)
can't sleep. clowns will eat me.

(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 21:17, Reply)
Damn, dastardly clowns
Damn them all, and their squirty flowers.
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 21:18, Reply)
Well thank goodness 'Craig David' didn't share your apathy,
or he'd have missed out on a whole day of 'making love' and beard grooming.
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 21:23, Reply)
And repeating his name at every opportunity...

(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 21:31, Reply)
I don't even know who this guy is.
am I blessed in this lack of knowledge?
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 21:36, Reply)
Yes.
Awful, awful 'RnB' solo artist with a shit beard.
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 21:37, Reply)
I see they've made a film of one my favourite boyhood books,
'Eagle of the Ninth' by Rosemary Sutcliffe. I'm certain I shall simply adore it. As much as the fabulous adaptation of 'The Dark is Rising' by Susan Cooper. And the vast improvement 'Nic' Cage made to the rubbish 'Wicker Man'. I'm really excited.

Thank the Lord our God that there are people out there prepared to help those rubbish authors and film makers of the past by showing them how it should be done.
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 21:21, Reply)
is that the roman thing?
beware the scary heathen scots!
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 21:24, Reply)
Damn straight

(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 21:25, Reply)
It is.
I believe 5' ballet-meister 'Billy Elliott' is in it. The perfect choice for a grizzled legionary. No doubt Russell Brand plays the Emperor Hadrian, and Lee Evans a battle-hardened centurion.
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 21:26, Reply)
One of the main guys was in the GI Joe film I believe
And that was a truly awful film, with little in the way of 'acting' in it.
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 21:28, Reply)
Isn't that like objecting to the absence of credible characters and plot
in 'Super Mario Brothers', though?

GI Joe is the US equivalent to Action Man, right?
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 21:32, Reply)
Yes, kind of
The DVD was only £2. I would like my £2 back.
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 21:34, Reply)
You bought an Action Man film, FOR MONEY,
and now you wish to complain about the quality of your purchase?

The 'warning: contents are hot' statements on McDonalds' coffee cups are for people like you.
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 21:37, Reply)
looking at imdb
there seems to be a lot of foreigns in it.
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 21:31, Reply)
Dear God above
is there nothing those asylum seekers haven't got their fraudulent mitts on?
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 21:41, Reply)
I had to read Eagle of the Ninth
in a book quiz in school. I didn't like it. We won the county finals of the book quiz, though
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 21:24, Reply)
I read and re-read it several times as a yout'man.
It's quite possible that it's shit but neither I nor my brother, nor my either of my parents thought so. My mother was quite possibly pretending to read it, whilst secretly devouring the works of Sappho, though.
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 21:29, Reply)

works dripping delta
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 22:05, Reply)
There was an interview on 't radioweb tonight.
With the woman from Hadrian's Wall Heritage tonight. She basically told them that bits of the book (and the script) were inaccurate and told Hollywood to hoof certain bits.

Except health and safety vetoed the 'Romans didn't have stirrups' bit.
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 21:31, Reply)
hollywood in
'not 100% historically accurate' shocker
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 21:33, Reply)
Well yeah.
The elephant man's name wasn't even John, ffs.
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 21:35, Reply)
Davvers old stick,
do you remember the film 'Babylon' starring Jacko from Brush Strokes and Aswad?
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 21:47, Reply)
I'm afraid I don't.
Was that the one where they were all kids and lived in London Double Decker bus?
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 21:50, Reply)
Ah mate it's brilliant:
vimeo.com/6562600

the 'being sick on your dad's slippers' thing me and Jeff won't leave be comes from this. As if that's not enough of a selling point there's also great footage of late 70s London and some incredible music.


EDIT shit he's sick on his mum's slippers, not his dad's. It's at 9:10. In my defence it's been years since I watched it.
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 21:54, Reply)
All I can see are lots of brown cars...
Also, my computer's twatting about and being slow.
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 22:00, Reply)
But Brinsley Ford WAS in the Double Deckers, I think.

(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 22:00, Reply)
That's racist.
We don't call them 'choccoes' any more, DG. Get with the times - they're 'Donnie Darkoes' now.
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 22:02, Reply)
It was 1979, all cars were brown.

(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 22:01, Reply)
Bits of a children's adventure book were inaccurate?
Outrageous. That 'Peter Pan' could never have flown, ACTUALLY, as well, right, because the human form is ACTUALLY incapable of flight.
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 21:35, Reply)
I NOES RITE?
And Winnie the Pooh wasn't even made out of poo, either. Plus, bears can't talk.
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 21:36, Reply)
...let alone whinny,
that's HORSES. GOD, DON'T YOU KNOW ANYTHING?
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 21:38, Reply)
so is the bumble bee's
but those sneaky fuckers manage it.
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 21:37, Reply)
You will find
that this is the work of the sinister 'Ijewminati' who secretly run the world out of a synagague on the North Circular.
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 21:39, Reply)
AND THEY'RE ALL ON BENEFITS.

(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 21:40, Reply)
You tremendous quender.

(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 23:16, Reply)
zzzz...
I'ma leave this here:



and go to bed. Rock and roll!
(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 23:08, Reply)
brilliant, I cant get on pornhub so this will have to do.

(, Fri 25 Mar 2011, 23:28, Reply)

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