Book Thread !
I just finished reading Micro written by Michael Chriton, I've read most of his books, he rocks. Micro is a good book.

I fancy something with myhtical creatures in a modern setting, but not american goods.

Jacket Potatoes are so fucking nice, I wish I didn't neglette them, I'm going to buy a bag of jacketing potatos today.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Sun 18 Mar 2012, 11:48, 110 replies, latest was 14 years ago)

I'm going to a cage fighting even in Clapham this evening.
I'm quite scared and can't think of anything I'd rather do less, but a good friend is putting it on so I have to go really. I'm just going to tell every fighter "remember, you go down in the 4th" as they walk to the ring.
(Barry from Eastenders is, despite the words written above, not a woman, Sun 18 Mar 2012, 12:26, Reply)

Make sure you get some sweat punched into your mouth from across the room.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Sun 18 Mar 2012, 16:13, Reply)

quite like these
robthurman.net/books/cal-leandros/

I've read the first three, they're pretty good.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Sun 18 Mar 2012, 12:43, Reply)

I'm a bit =/ over that, seems a bit like it's been done so many times.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Sun 18 Mar 2012, 16:15, Reply)

Are you adverse to comics?
If not, I'd heartily recommend Bill Willingham's "Fables".

There are something like 14 volumes available in collected editions as it's been running 11 years now, so if you love it as much as I do it turns into a big commitment though.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Sun 18 Mar 2012, 13:07, Reply)

Sorry, I've tried comics a few times, just can't get into them.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Sun 18 Mar 2012, 16:15, Reply)

After our book talk the other day, I've picked up the fifth book of the Dark Tower series.
I'd forgotten how good they were.

I can't recommend anything fantasy/mythical, but as a technogeek and an animal lover, I think you would like a book I just finished - Altar of Eden by James Rollins.

Also, they've been advertising frozen jacket potatoes that taste as good as baked. Haven't tried them, as I don't really eat potatoes, but if you had a stack in the freezer, you could have one whenever you felt like it.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Sun 18 Mar 2012, 13:13, Reply)

I've started buying little bags of new potatoes and rolling them in oil and cooking them like jackets.
They're fucking ace, especially if you overdo them slightly *purrs*
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Sun 18 Mar 2012, 13:52, Reply)

Never let it be said that you are anything less than an inspiration.
www.b3ta.com/questions/toptips/post1563786
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Sun 18 Mar 2012, 15:04, Reply)

Haha.

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Sun 18 Mar 2012, 15:52, Reply)

I'll look it up !
Hmm, isn't it easier to just cook them from raw than from frozen?
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Sun 18 Mar 2012, 16:16, Reply)

I imagine they're part cooked already,
so they should only take about ten minutes in a microwave.
As I said, I'm not a fan of potatoes, so I don't usually bother with them.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Sun 18 Mar 2012, 16:29, Reply)

Baking a tattie only takes 10 minutes in the microwave anyway.

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Sun 18 Mar 2012, 16:31, Reply)

It's a beautiful Sunday afternoon.
And I am listening to Palace Music.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Sun 18 Mar 2012, 15:12, Reply)

Lovely !

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Sun 18 Mar 2012, 16:16, Reply)

i read one michael Cricheton book
it was terrible. Someone in a place I worked told me to read it and I was too polite not to.

You might like Mark Chadbourne's 'World's End' series. It's in a modern setting, where the mythological world comes back to prominence and technology stops working. I've only read the first trilogy, but I think it's book 5 or 6 that me and my mates are in briefly.
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sun 18 Mar 2012, 15:13, Reply)

I've only read Jurassic Park and The Andromeda Strain.
I was 14. Cut me some slack.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Sun 18 Mar 2012, 15:24, Reply)

The "Dies the Fire" series by S. M. Stirling
is really good for that "technology stops working" schtick.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Sun 18 Mar 2012, 15:52, Reply)

Power cuts are good for that too.

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Sun 18 Mar 2012, 15:55, Reply)

Oh man, that sounds good.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Sun 18 Mar 2012, 16:13, Reply)

I've gone for it as my next book !
YAY THANK YOU ! =DDD
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Sun 18 Mar 2012, 17:32, Reply)

woo!

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sun 18 Mar 2012, 17:34, Reply)

I read one when I was a teenager
that was set in modern times, but in a Britain where the Reformation didn't take place. Everything was run by the church and there was magic and allsorts going on.

I can't remember what it was called (and it was probably aimed at teenagers) but I remember it being good.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Sun 18 Mar 2012, 16:31, Reply)

That reminds me of The Changes Trilogy by Peter Dickinson
loved those books as a kid
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Sun 18 Mar 2012, 17:20, Reply)

A brief search suggests it might possibly be Pavane by Keith Roberts.
If it wasn't that one, it was something similar.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Sun 18 Mar 2012, 17:46, Reply)

Is anyone watching the Newcastle/Norwich game?
Can I rant?

OK, I know I sound like a bitter old man, but they just had a 'minutes applause' for Muamba. Why? When did a minutes silence, a genuine mark of respect for people who sacrificed something for their fellow countrymen, turn into first something we do at the drop of a hat for anyone who died into a minutes applause because silence isn't good enough into a minutes chanting for Gary Speed into...well...Muamba is actually alive. We're a nation of premature grief junkies.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Sun 18 Mar 2012, 16:07, Reply)

Football fans are particularly prone to mass displays of emotion.
They are a terrifically vulgar bunch.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Sun 18 Mar 2012, 16:08, Reply)

/Unthinking Mass generalisation is Mass and Unthinking.

( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Sun 18 Mar 2012, 16:19, Reply)

Yes. But accurate.

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Sun 18 Mar 2012, 16:22, Reply)

*shrugs* people feel powerless
they want to do something

also feel like a part of any drama, hence the 'I met him once!' response to all deaths
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sun 18 Mar 2012, 16:10, Reply)

I met Osama Bin Laden once.

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Sun 18 Mar 2012, 16:12, Reply)

"...he was a lovely man, you could sense his warmth and I am shocked and touched by his death..."

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sun 18 Mar 2012, 16:12, Reply)

He let me sit on his knee.

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Sun 18 Mar 2012, 16:14, Reply)

I think you're confusing him with another man with a long white beard that is known for wanting preteens to sit on his knee.
Buster Merryfield.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Sun 18 Mar 2012, 16:16, Reply)

Preteens?
I was 28 at the time.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Sun 18 Mar 2012, 16:19, Reply)

His eyesight was failing.

( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Sun 18 Mar 2012, 16:24, Reply)

Clearly.

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Sun 18 Mar 2012, 16:24, Reply)

He had no feeling from the waist down either
so your 18 stone didn't register...
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Sun 18 Mar 2012, 16:25, Reply)

18 stone?
I am 11 stone.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Sun 18 Mar 2012, 16:26, Reply)

Bollocks.
You're from the internet. It's a well known fact that I am the only person online that isn't obese.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Sun 18 Mar 2012, 16:32, Reply)

I am a former catalogue model.
I am very far from obese.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Sun 18 Mar 2012, 16:33, Reply)

ww1.prweb.com/prfiles/2010/08/16/1310314/gI_FatCatalogTwitter.PNG.jpg
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Sun 18 Mar 2012, 16:35, Reply)

You're in danger of taking B3ta too seriously again I fear.
I mean, you already got CQ stepped...
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Sun 18 Mar 2012, 16:35, Reply)

OH LOL
I didn't get anybody stepped.

You really think I take him seriously enough to report him to the mods for bellending?
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Sun 18 Mar 2012, 16:37, Reply)

No, I don't. I don't think for a second you did that.
But you seemed to take me seriously, so...

...case rested, your honour.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Sun 18 Mar 2012, 16:38, Reply)

Well I don't know if you're serious or not, do I?
But he seems to think I did. Which is peculiar, because when I got stepped, during the SpankyHanky wars, I was told the reason why. I'm assuming CQ would have been told why as well, and I'm pretty certain Scaryduck or whoever doled out the stepping wouldn't have told him that I reported him, because 1, I didn't, and 2, I don't think he said anything vaguely reportable or offensive.

Plus I don't think I should hold his learning difficulties against him. I used to work with an aspergic autism, who was pretty much the single most annoying person I have ever met. I didn't hold his autism against him either.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Sun 18 Mar 2012, 16:42, Reply)

That reads a lot like
"I'm not racist but..."

It's OK though, Dozer, I don't hold your apparent "aspergic autism" against you either.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Sun 18 Mar 2012, 16:46, Reply)

Phew!
I'm safe then.

EDIT: Fuck it, I'm going to gaz the mods again and get myself stepped.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Sun 18 Mar 2012, 16:47, Reply)

I know.
Rationally, I do know.

But it's just so tacky, so crass.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Sun 18 Mar 2012, 16:16, Reply)

Very tacky.
Back about 5 years ago or so, our head of department died. It was weird, we came in to work (he died mid-week) and our Director was there. You could tell he'd been crying.

He told us all that our boss had died the previous night, straight out of the blue.

One of the teams thought it would be a good idea to do a collectively-signed With Sympathy card. You know, twenty-odd scrawled messages to his widow.

I found that tacky to an offensive degree, and refused to sign it.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Sun 18 Mar 2012, 16:19, Reply)

Actually, I'd have probably signed that.
It's someone a) you knew, and b) who had actually died.

My point at the moment is that 30,000 people have just done a bastardisation of a mark of respect for the dead for someone that isn't actually dead.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Sun 18 Mar 2012, 16:22, Reply)

I made a donation to the British Heart Foundation, and donated to the flowers that we sent to his funeral.
He'd just had his redundancy confirmed. I expect his wife may have laid some of the blame for her husband's heart attack and death in his early forties at the door of his employer.

And yeah, the Muamba minute's applause thing is weird.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Sun 18 Mar 2012, 16:24, Reply)

That does all make sense,
just in that situation I wouldn't have had any objection to putting my name to his card.

But it does seem we are pretty much on the same page apart from that.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Sun 18 Mar 2012, 16:26, Reply)

Meh. Whatever you deem to be tasteful I suppose.
Obviously as a department we should show our respects, but I would have preferred a card on behalf of the department, signed by our director and accompanied by flowers, to be the most tasteful option.

I'm no doctor, I don't know if his death was in any way linked to his redundancy and associated stress etc, but I didn't think it was appropriate to have a multi-signature card sent to his widow and two young daughters.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Sun 18 Mar 2012, 16:30, Reply)

Yeah, I really don't think we disagree actually.
The only difference is that if that card was put in front of me and being sent anyway, I wouldn't have refused to sign it. I think both of us agree that being asked to sign it in the first place may not be ideal
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Sun 18 Mar 2012, 16:34, Reply)

This is a bizarre convo in which to establish mutual ground.

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Sun 18 Mar 2012, 16:35, Reply)

Well, at least Muamba's situation
has served some good then...
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Sun 18 Mar 2012, 16:36, Reply)

I suppose.

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Sun 18 Mar 2012, 16:37, Reply)

His family will appreciate it.

( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Sun 18 Mar 2012, 16:39, Reply)

I'm sure they are deeply touched by the action of strangers.

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Sun 18 Mar 2012, 16:42, Reply)

I was deeply touched by a stranger once.

( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Sun 18 Mar 2012, 16:47, Reply)

Lucky you.

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Sun 18 Mar 2012, 16:55, Reply)

I just made a big batch of Baboti meat, which is a south african dish that had Mince Meat, Appricot Jam, Madras Paste, Mango Chutney, Onion, Mushroom, soaked bread and I can't remember the rest. I'm not sure if I should freeze it in portions for the week, or have one of those portions now with the potato.

I think I might have it tomo in taccos with dips'n'shit.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Sun 18 Mar 2012, 16:17, Reply)

So, is anyone else trying to summon up
the wherewithall to phone their mum? I have a headache so I'm finishing my cup of tea THEN I'll do it.
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sun 18 Mar 2012, 17:03, Reply)

If I can have a Ouija board then I'll have a crack at it.
Not sure how successful I'll be though.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Sun 18 Mar 2012, 17:07, Reply)

you should ask that Derek Acorah dude
he got very upset when my boss in the bookshop said to him " be honest, now, it's all bollocks isn't it?" while they had a fag on the shop roof
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sun 18 Mar 2012, 17:09, Reply)

He's clearly a massive faker, even if you believe in ghosts and that.

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Sun 18 Mar 2012, 17:11, Reply)

Haha, dead mum, gutted.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Sun 18 Mar 2012, 17:34, Reply)

*sadface*
Just don't tell Quinten or Rory.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Sun 18 Mar 2012, 17:38, Reply)

Everyone on here has a 'thing' that they shouldn't get taken away from them, or even diluted by someone else having a similar 'thing'.
Like...
- B3th, she's like a hawt anti-couger
- Cavy, she's like all Lord Of The Rings'n'stuff.
- Barry, the one who's living out everyone's dream youth that nobody would admit
- Piston, he's like the social larper*

Then there are a few cross overs, like Stunned and Monty are both the druggies, but one is stuck in the 80s and the other is some kind of high-flying executive.

I wouldn't take away AA's thing from him, so don't you worry about that.

* I might have confused "Someone with Leprocy" and "Live Action Roll Play'er".
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Sun 18 Mar 2012, 17:52, Reply)

What's my thing?

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Sun 18 Mar 2012, 17:53, Reply)

Don't cross dozer or you'll get stepped

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Sun 18 Mar 2012, 17:55, Reply)

I see all the Palace albums have been reissued.
I got Lost Blues... today.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Sun 18 Mar 2012, 18:00, Reply)

Indeed. That was the one I had on the other night
Having just bought the reissue to plug a gap in my collection.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Sun 18 Mar 2012, 18:02, Reply)

I'm honestly not sure, sorry mate, I'm sure you have one.
It's probably more about me not knowing anything about you rather than 'cus you're dull or anything like that though.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Sun 18 Mar 2012, 18:00, Reply)

I would hate to be thought of as dull.

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Sun 18 Mar 2012, 18:03, Reply)

Totally, indifference is the worst emotion you can give someone.
I think, maybe. I'd like The Hulk to be indifferent to me, for example. Is indifference an emotion though? Isn't it a bit like how atheist isn't a religion?
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Sun 18 Mar 2012, 18:15, Reply)

Indifference is not an emotion.
FUCKDAMMIT, WHAT IS MY MEME?
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Sun 18 Mar 2012, 18:18, Reply)

tell 'im, Gonz, or he'll have you stepped

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sun 18 Mar 2012, 18:19, Reply)

I'll have you stepped if you're not careful.

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Sun 18 Mar 2012, 18:19, Reply)

KAPLOWIE, there we go, you've got a mod in your pocket, bribe him with some kind of marketting quid-pro-quota.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Sun 18 Mar 2012, 18:25, Reply)

The mod in my pocket is extremely small.

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Sun 18 Mar 2012, 18:26, Reply)

that will disappoint the ladies
back it up with a bit of dildo action
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sun 18 Mar 2012, 18:29, Reply)

*takes notes*

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Sun 18 Mar 2012, 18:31, Reply)

I lolled heartily at chompy's description of Stunned as an alcoholic pretending that it's all a big laugh rather than a serious illness.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Sun 18 Mar 2012, 17:55, Reply)

He nails the posting style of a few posters:
www.b3ta.com/questions/offtopic/post1553713
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Sun 18 Mar 2012, 18:12, Reply)

Can you imagine giving me a hug if I'm wearing this?
www.amazon.com/Star-Wars-Chewbacca-Furry-Hoodie/dp/B006JX8XE2/ref=pd_sbs_a_4
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Sun 18 Mar 2012, 17:35, Reply)

Oh man, I think you'd have trouble
stopping people from giving you hugs in that
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sun 18 Mar 2012, 17:37, Reply)

Mrs Dupinblue bullied me into ringing mine.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Sun 18 Mar 2012, 17:52, Reply)

I feel a bit bad that people don't think of their mothers as the best people on the planet.
I feel like a shitbag if my Ma' has esenchally repeated the same thing 5 times over in different wording and I say "Yeah', ma', you said...I got it.".

Growing up without an awesome mum must really suck, I bet people think the same of me when I didn't grow up with a grandparent or a dog.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Sun 18 Mar 2012, 17:56, Reply)

Oh don't get me wrong. My mum is fucking ace.
I'm just a shit son with a domineering wife.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Sun 18 Mar 2012, 17:58, Reply)

Oh good, I think.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Sun 18 Mar 2012, 18:19, Reply)

Mine actually phoned me
because she was out shopping and wanted to tell me about something she'd found.
She's gone for dinner with her two favourite children in Edinburgh today. I hope they spoil her.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Sun 18 Mar 2012, 18:01, Reply)

At least they care enough about her to live in the same country.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Sun 18 Mar 2012, 18:01, Reply)

Genuinly not being funny here, genuinly curous.
You know your step-kids and step grand kids, do they get your mother's day stuf? I mean, I don't think you raised them, so I'm not sure.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Sun 18 Mar 2012, 18:21, Reply)

I'm currently reading this book:
www.faber.co.uk/work/electric-eden/9780571237524/
Although I rarely seem to have time to read these days.
I'm cooking a vegetable biryani right now. That has potatoes in it, but they are not jacket potatoes.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Sun 18 Mar 2012, 17:51, Reply)

Where is everyone?
Dozer ban you all?
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Sun 18 Mar 2012, 19:38, Reply)

i've been banned

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sun 18 Mar 2012, 19:49, Reply)

Sorry to hear that Cap'n

( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Sun 18 Mar 2012, 19:53, Reply)

well you live with that
danger when dozer's around
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sun 18 Mar 2012, 19:56, Reply)

True, I'm ignoring him to be on the safe side.
not worth the risk.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Sun 18 Mar 2012, 20:02, Reply)

What risk?
Do you honestly think I gazzed the mods and got you stepped? Why would I do that?
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Sun 18 Mar 2012, 20:04, Reply)

ban annoy
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Sun 18 Mar 2012, 19:52, Reply)

what's he been up to now?

( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Sun 18 Mar 2012, 19:53, Reply)

You're all banned, every last one of you.

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Sun 18 Mar 2012, 19:59, Reply)

and your little dog, too

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sun 18 Mar 2012, 20:13, Reply)

Your guinea pigs are banned.
And my hamster is the new mod.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Sun 18 Mar 2012, 20:15, Reply)

*tumble-weed*

( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Sun 18 Mar 2012, 20:29, Reply)

youtu.be/4tiPOMd14eQ
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Sun 18 Mar 2012, 20:32, Reply)

Michael Crichton is fucking terrible, Gonz.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 19 Mar 2012, 8:20, Reply)