DING!
What do you do APART FROM the internet? I'm looking for inspiration here - I'm not really supposed to have sat here all evening pissing about with you cunts.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 20:09, 105 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

But you have real life friends who live close by.
Go and mingle.

And more excitingly, my pal from New Zealand is over here and I'm off to see her on Sunday. *glees*
( girlinthehole, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 20:11, Reply)

I am reading some books on history

( willenium Fist bump for verification, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 20:12, Reply)

I am nothing without the internet

( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 20:15, Reply)

Are you a bot?

( willenium Fist bump for verification, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 20:17, Reply)

+ ter

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 20:18, Reply)

I dream in binary

( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 20:19, Reply)

Suaving.

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 20:15, Reply)

I'm getting drunk.
It's the only thing I do well.
( girlinthehole, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 20:18, Reply)

The tearful outbursts are all part of the joy of drunk posting

( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 20:20, Reply)

I haven't done tearful outbursts for at least six months now.
*prouds*
( girlinthehole, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 20:22, Reply)

Good for you
tears ruin your keyboard. salt water and all that
( willenium Fist bump for verification, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 20:24, Reply)

Are you single?

( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 20:25, Reply)

No

( willenium Fist bump for verification, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 20:27, Reply)

BGB needs to know these things
She's hot for cock
( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 20:29, Reply)

I know already Rory.
I DO MY RESEARCH.
( girlinthehole, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 20:30, Reply)

I'm just tryin to help a brother out here

( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 20:32, Reply)

You concentrate on your love life Rory and leave me to mine.
Whigfield won't wait forever.
( girlinthehole, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 20:33, Reply)

I think I love Rory Lyon.

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 20:46, Reply)

You me and Rswipe.

( girlinthehole, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 20:55, Reply)

when did he take over from me?

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 21:21, Reply)

Or
Drosting, if you will.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 20:22, Reply)

reading, crocheting, talking to guinea pigs
eating nommy nommy vietnamese food
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 20:31, Reply)

LARPING

( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 20:32, Reply)

oh yeah, I forgot about that
not going until end of may, though
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 20:33, Reply)

play with my dog
read
play with myself
( Lisette von Falcon, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 20:33, Reply)

What are you reading?

( willenium Fist bump for verification, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 20:34, Reply)

b3ta.com/questions/offtopic/post1186147

( Lisette von Falcon, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 20:35, Reply)

man, it's taken this long for someone to suggest wanking

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 20:34, Reply)

What's happened to us man?

( willenium Fist bump for verification, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 20:34, Reply)

too busy wanking to post

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 20:36, Reply)

i've heard it's hard to type with one hand

( Lisette von Falcon, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 20:39, Reply)

I heard that too
I also heard it gets easier with practice.
( willenium Fist bump for verification, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 20:41, Reply)

Being between gainful employment
I can piss about on the internet in the evening without feeling I've wasted daylight hours.

£61 worth of plants this morning - garden is now starting to look the way I thought it should be when I bought the house.

Out with the dogs this afternoon - sunlight and shade in a bluebell wood. More life, light and shade than anything the internet can synthesise.

Re-reading "Main Street" by Sinclair Lewis - a book that has a peculiar resonance with b3ta.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 20:34, Reply)

I'll give it a read next time I see it
EDIT: found it on project Gutenberg
( willenium Fist bump for verification, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 20:37, Reply)

Lewis is my favourite author
Unfortunately he was a chronic alcoholic.

He'd stay sober when writing but about 75% of the way through each book you could sense that he wanted a drink, so the ends are always a bit of an anti-climax.

If you can find it try "It can't happen here." Incredible book to say it was written in 1936.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 20:42, Reply)

can we turn this into a "what are you reading" thread?
What are you reading?
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 20:54, Reply)

b3ta.com/questions/offtopic/post1186190
( Lisette von Falcon, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 20:55, Reply)

smart arse

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 20:56, Reply)

haha
this.
( Lisette von Falcon, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 20:59, Reply)

A history of London

( willenium Fist bump for verification, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 20:57, Reply)

is everyone all about the history at the moment
between you and K, it's like the history channel here
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 21:00, Reply)

I like that about us.

( willenium Fist bump for verification, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 21:01, Reply)

I'm kind of reading history
www.amazon.co.uk/World-War-Z-Max-Brooks/dp/0715637037/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1304020993&sr=8-1

it's so much better than it sounds
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 21:03, Reply)

I saw that in the library
already had my quota of books though
( willenium Fist bump for verification, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 21:06, Reply)

it was my third in a 3 for 2
www.amazon.co.uk/Our-Tragic-Universe-Scarlett-Thomas/dp/184767089X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1304021319&sr=1-1
mainly because The End of Mr Y had someone remarkably like me as a main character

www.amazon.co.uk/City-China-Mieville/dp/0330493108/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1304021342&sr=1-1
because it's China Meiville. Not read it yet...
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 21:10, Reply)

I didn't actually want to read that but I got into about 10 pages of les miserables and wanted to kill myself
so that is what my roommate had just read and she was all YOU HAVE TO READ IT IT'S SO GOOD
( Lisette von Falcon, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 21:01, Reply)

was she right?

( willenium Fist bump for verification, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 21:02, Reply)

I don't know, I got about 30 pages in and then her girlfriend took it to her room.
Just as well, it was quite technical and not very interesting to me.
( Lisette von Falcon, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 21:08, Reply)

find another book
what's next?
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 21:10, Reply)

I've read all my books.
Next will probably be Sweet Surrender
( Lisette von Falcon, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 21:20, Reply)

porn?

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 21:21, Reply)

hehe
yes
( Lisette von Falcon, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 21:23, Reply)

I always liked those ones we had in our bookshop which were american imports
they'd have some painting of some woman in a posh frock and some dude in a suit, then a kind of secondary front cover in which the woman had her frock off her shoulder and the guy's shirt was undone or even off, shocking! They always made me laugh
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 21:30, Reply)

oh i hate those
I've grown into the ones with better covers, megan hart has some excellent covers

example
( Lisette von Falcon, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 21:41, Reply)

heh
nearest thing I read to porn was probably Poppy Z Brite, but that's just a vampire book with a lot of sex in it
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 21:45, Reply)

heard of her but haven't read her
i suppose i am a bit particular about my porn
sounds stupid
but most of them actually do have great stories, especially Megan Hart
( Lisette von Falcon, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 21:52, Reply)

You know I'm going to say it
But I'll say it because I can.

I've stood on the grassy knoll, you know. Three times.

Because Dallas is my second favourite US city after Portland, Oregon.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 21:06, Reply)

You can say it. Doesn't mean I understand it.

( Lisette von Falcon, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 21:07, Reply)

It's where Zapruder was standing
And the alledged "other assassins" fired from.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 21:10, Reply)

oh!

( Lisette von Falcon, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 21:19, Reply)

It's a strange place
Kennedy was killed five years before I was born, and five thousand miles away, but it's an incredibly moving place to be.

Maybe because I expected to be moved. I don't know. Maybe it's where the concept of the media circus was born out of tragedy.

I'll go there again, and I suppose I'll feel the same sensation of a time and place again.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 21:35, Reply)

Which one?
There are quite a few.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 21:02, Reply)

its by Steven Inwood
www.amazon.co.uk/History-London-Stephen-Inwood/dp/0333671546/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1304021048&sr=1-1
( willenium Fist bump for verification, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 21:03, Reply)

Don't think I've read that one
It's a good history, though.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 21:09, Reply)

Product brochures from various chemical companies.
Thrilling stuff, I know.
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 21:07, Reply)

what ones?
Fisher has nice pictures but Sigma Aldrich has more choice
( willenium Fist bump for verification, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 21:09, Reply)

Look! Look! He's one!
He'd do a Leeds bash!
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 21:11, Reply)

I so would

( willenium Fist bump for verification, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 21:12, Reply)

Not you..Grypy...Woodside.

( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 21:13, Reply)

Of course, we met at the Ponte bash

( willenium Fist bump for verification, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 21:15, Reply)

do they have a good plot?

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 21:26, Reply)

Not really

( willenium Fist bump for verification, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 21:29, Reply)

Its mostly just chemicals

( willenium Fist bump for verification, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 21:30, Reply)

the connections between the characters are quite good though?

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 21:31, Reply)

Only if you go for the covalently bonded ones

( willenium Fist bump for verification, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 21:34, Reply)

sounds quite charged

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 21:35, Reply)

only the the ones that can stabilise a localised electron surplus/deficiency

( willenium Fist bump for verification, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 21:40, Reply)

OK
you have now hit my limit of chemistry knowledge that isn't just about mixing up developer from a bottle
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 21:46, Reply)

Its where compounds are able to maintain a constant charge

( willenium Fist bump for verification, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 21:49, Reply)

will discussing this with boys be more or less likely to get me laid
than discussing how Tesco club cards only exist because of a blackmailer?
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 21:53, Reply)

I met my current partner of three years when I sold her a fag for 50p
So yeah you probably cant do much worse.
( willenium Fist bump for verification, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 21:57, Reply)

not bad going
I met my stupid ex while dressed as a zombie
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 21:59, Reply)

I figured I would never see her again
so I needed to be compensated for the loss of one of my last two fags.
( willenium Fist bump for verification, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 22:01, Reply)

PROFIT

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 22:02, Reply)

I gave a fag to a tatty old dosser yesterday
Oh bugger...
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 22:03, Reply)

congratuations

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 22:03, Reply)

An act of Charidee, mate
Tatty old dosser was content, I felt a degree of capitalistic empowerment, end of transaction.

Hang on, there's someone at the door...oh bugger x 2.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 22:14, Reply)

Lots of stuff
I do a lot of cycling, I play tennis, poker, pool and cribbage, I drink whisky, I read books and as of this June I will be working as a freelance kite instructor in Newquay, Cornwall (I got offered a job last Sunday).

Revising for uni exams should really be higher on this list.
( Hdjejjwsjdjjf LOOK, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 21:27, Reply)

what are
you reading?
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 21:36, Reply)

i don't reckon he reads
he specifically noted all of the things he does
and reading isn't one of them
( Lisette von Falcon, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 21:44, Reply)

except for the bit when he said
"...I read books..."
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 21:45, Reply)

Apart from the bit where he says
"I read books".

Well spotted Countess...
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 21:46, Reply)

it's good to be agreed with

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 21:48, Reply)

DON'T YOU SEE WHERE HE WROTE HE READS BOOKS YOU DOZY TWANK

( Lisette von Falcon, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 21:48, Reply)

you herped when you ment to derp

( willenium Fist bump for verification, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 21:50, Reply)

But he's gone very quiet on the subject

( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 21:50, Reply)

one more step down the road to madness

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 21:50, Reply)

What books might MatJ read
Haynes Powerkite manuals, I reckon.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 21:53, Reply)

Or we could slate his character
and say he reads Dan Brown and Andy McNab and likes the True Crime section of waterstones
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 21:53, Reply)

Catherine Cookson and Barbara Taylor Bradford

( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 21:56, Reply)

...and misery memoirs
and Jordan's autobiographies
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 21:57, Reply)

For one of my retirement presents
I was bought Lady Gaga's biography.

It went to the RSPCA shop yesterday unread.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 21:59, Reply)

people should not be allowed to write autobiographies until they are at least 60

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 22:03, Reply)

It was a biography
Possibly more a hagiography.

It's not in my obsessively sanctimonious and literate house any more so that's the end of that.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 22:07, Reply)

Jesus
I vanish for a few minutes to do some actual work, and I come back to this...

Oh and at the moment? Giles annuals.
( Hdjejjwsjdjjf LOOK, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 23:08, Reply)