i am tempted by this
I just found out the local B&Q is open until 9 - I might go and get some tester paints

"one tin of CDC magenta, please, my good man!"
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 20 Jan 2012, 18:24, 2 replies, latest was 14 years ago)

That flat is near an office building called Runnymede CDC
always feel a bit conned when there isn't a big spunking cock drawn on their sign.
( broadsword now that's fresh, Fri 20 Jan 2012, 18:33, Reply)

:(

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 20 Jan 2012, 18:41, Reply)

You know what you have to do?
Take in a swatch and get them to colour match it for you, then use their magic spinny paint mixing machine to make it up - it's 'well good'.
I did it to get the deep pink colour I used in my bathroom. The woman was adding shot after shot of red into the machine, and she kept saying 'are you sure you want it *this* pink?'
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Fri 20 Jan 2012, 18:38, Reply)

i'm thinking this colour for the lounge
www.dulux.co.uk/colour/auburn_falls_3
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 20 Jan 2012, 18:40, Reply)

Mmmmm.
Diarrhoea brown.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Fri 20 Jan 2012, 18:42, Reply)

it's orange!
your monitor mustn't be calibrated
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 20 Jan 2012, 18:42, Reply)

I like that blue colour in the 'contrasting' ideas section.
I think that orange would be a bit much for me. But then again, I painted my bedroom hot pink, so what would I know?
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Fri 20 Jan 2012, 18:48, Reply)

but you learned from your adventures
Technically I should take advice, but fuck it ORANGE!
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 20 Jan 2012, 18:51, Reply)

I think I've now learned
that you can paint things a fairly neutral colour, and change your highlight accessories every few months to get a bit of bright colour.
I haven't done that, but it's what I've learned.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Fri 20 Jan 2012, 18:53, Reply)

Oh man, I like that, but I like how they've done it, with the feature wall thing, are you getting a feature wall? I fucking love feature walls, they make the room so big and posh.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Fri 20 Jan 2012, 19:05, Reply)

I had a feature wall in my little flat.
Three walls were cream, and teh feature wall was brick red. Then I stencilled lines of poetry all around the top of the walls in the red colour. It was really cool. Very Changing Rooms.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Fri 20 Jan 2012, 19:08, Reply)

I really like that idea, what poetry did you use?

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Fri 20 Jan 2012, 19:12, Reply)

Philip Larkin's 'they fuck you up, your mum and dad'.

( girlinthehole, Fri 20 Jan 2012, 19:14, Reply)

I've not heard of that, but let me guess.
I never thought I'd die alone
I laughed the loudest who'd have known?
I trace the cord back to the wall
No wonder it was never plugged in at all
I took my time, I hurried up
The choice was mine I didn't think enough
I'm too depressed to go on
You'll be sorry when I'm gone

I never conquered, rarely came
Sixteen just held such better days
Days when I still felt alive
We couldn't wait to get outside
The world was wide, too late to try
The tour was over, we'd survived
I couldn't wait till I got home
To pass the time in my room alone

I never thought I'd die alone
Another six months I'll be unknown
Give all my things to all my friends
You'll never step foot in my room again
You'll close it off, board it up
Remember the time that I spilled the cup
Of apple juice in the hall
Please tell mom this is not her fault

I never conquered, when you came
Sixteen just held such better days
Days when I still felt alive
We couldn't wait to get outside
The world was wide, too late to try
The tour was over, we'd survived
I couldn't wait till I got home
To pass the time in my room alone

I never conquered, when you came
Tomorrow holds such better days
Days when I can still feel alive
When I can't wait to get outside
The world is wide, the time goes by
The tour is over, I've survived
I can't wait till I get home
To pass the time in my room alone
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Fri 20 Jan 2012, 19:18, Reply)

Well that's cheered me right up.

( girlinthehole, Fri 20 Jan 2012, 19:19, Reply)

MARK FROM BLINK 182 STOLE MY DIARY WHEN I WROTE THIS AND MADE IT INTO A SONG.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MRdtXWcgIw

*Clinicly depressed late teen fives*. Got better though, now I can go on Flickr and look at pictures of pugs.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Fri 20 Jan 2012, 19:21, Reply)

Haha!
I haven't been able to listen to any sad songs for ages now. It's got to be up beat. I've got the new Adele album and I haven't heard it yet. I daren't.
( girlinthehole, Fri 20 Jan 2012, 19:25, Reply)

I give a good proportion to that every day, as when I open up iTunes, it's near the top of the alphabedical list.
I really love "Rumour has it" and "rolling in the deep".
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Fri 20 Jan 2012, 19:32, Reply)

I might be brave this weekend and put it on while I'm cleaning.

( girlinthehole, Fri 20 Jan 2012, 19:38, Reply)

I've generally listend to the first half of the album rather than second, on account of listening to it before I do my jobs for the day....
... but it generally stricks me as "Kick ass, I don't need no man" rather than sad.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Fri 20 Jan 2012, 19:40, Reply)

There is a vast amount of truth in that poem
Apparently people have done studies (of which I have no proof) that the more this relates to some people, the more likely these people are to be successful sales people.

Might be bollocks, but sort of seems slightly logical to me when you look at the type of people who have a need to prove themselves.
( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Fri 20 Jan 2012, 19:27, Reply)

Did you click reply in the right place?

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Fri 20 Jan 2012, 19:31, Reply)

I thought so, but upon review that the poem has changed. I thought it was "They fuck you up"
However I have been to the pub so am probably mistaken.

How are you anyway Gonz?
( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Fri 20 Jan 2012, 19:33, Reply)

Ahhhh, coolio.
I'm doing good thanks, at work I re-designed the video pages and made the side bar down the edge of this: video.mpora.com/watch/5Pgs2slxu/ .
That video went up 1 week ago, and look at how many views it's gotten.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Fri 20 Jan 2012, 19:41, Reply)

How's you?

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Fri 20 Jan 2012, 19:42, Reply)

V good thanks Looking forward to a quiet weekend. Got the baby into a new sleep routine which is working well and means my wife is catching up on the sleep she needs.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Fri 20 Jan 2012, 19:44, Reply)

Oh lush, proper martial bliss in the homestead.
If I remember correctly, when we actually last meet, you were single (like, a year and a bit ago in Kings Cross)... Ovb if that is the case, that the kid was (to use a phrase I like) "The best mistake [you've] ever made". How did you meet the misses though?
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Fri 20 Jan 2012, 20:12, Reply)

Looks good. BTW - got invited to join pinterest the day after you mentioned it. Interesting idea.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Fri 20 Jan 2012, 19:45, Reply)

Sweet !
I've only used it in a coding mind, rather than as a user, but I think it has a lot of potential, say, for collecting recpies. I really think it'll be a big thing.

This has some good ideas: mashable.com/2012/01/19/pinterest-brands/
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Fri 20 Jan 2012, 20:06, Reply)

It was something I wrote myself.
I wrote an epic poem about a prince who goes on a quest. all a bit D&D, really.

Anyway, I used a few lines of that. I used Harbinger as the font, since you asked.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Fri 20 Jan 2012, 19:22, Reply)

Very celtic-esque. I like it.
I've never read a story in a poem for, such as Bearwolf and all that, they don't really do that these days do they. I think there is a trick missing there. I guess the modern equivilent is when someone tells a story via hip-hop/rap. I totally love this for a story in that form: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkvWOAJeZmM
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Fri 20 Jan 2012, 19:30, Reply)

Thgat was what I was going for.
This prince goes to rescue his princess from a dark lord who's kidnapped her. It was all done in rhyming quattrains.

There was a second one where tehy battle a dragon, but I never finished that.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Fri 20 Jan 2012, 19:36, Reply)

Get you Miss Smarty pants.

( girlinthehole, Fri 20 Jan 2012, 19:37, Reply)