I got married eight years ago, tomorrow.
What were you doing eight years ago? ('Member 2005?)
How much has your life changed since then?

Alt: Tell us about something more interesting than this, or what you are stuffing into your fat faces right now.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 12:23, 143 replies, latest was 12 years ago)

Doing my mock AS Levels
Quite a lot, as I'm no longer at school.

Alt: Leek and potato soup.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 12:25, Reply)

I also phrased the alt badly.
For clarification, I meant "more interesting than what you are having for lunch"
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 12:30, Reply)

I was running a business
and working in a bookshop.

Things have changed 75% since then
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 12:25, Reply)

I posed that question incorrectly.
I meant "how has your life changed" not "how much..."
I realise these things are difficult to quantify.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 12:27, Reply)

in which case
since then I have been married, divorced, had about 8 jobs, got another post grad, got a career, got a house, got guinea pigs. Hung about on /OT instead of /board or 4rthur. That's the really big change
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 12:30, Reply)

wtf fuck is 4thur?

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 12:32, Reply)

before the days of talk
it was a board for anyone cool off of b3ta.
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 12:33, Reply)

It wasn't really.

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 12:34, Reply)

OK, cool was stretching it
it was basically like here, but with less whinging and bullying
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 12:34, Reply)

I thought it imploded from whinging and bullying
or some sort of drama anyway
( glued eel /questions/questionsyoudliketoask/post1648081, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 13:19, Reply)

Moving house, or about to, I think
alt: latest lolfatty gadget
www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/ces/9784616/CES-2013-connected-fork-helps-you-lose-weight.html
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 12:26, Reply)

You'll only stick it up your arse.

(PsychoChomp, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 12:27, Reply)

no room with your finger up there

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 12:28, Reply)

Fucks sake
Can these people not just eat less?
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 12:30, Reply)

of course they can't
because everything has to be someone else's fault or responsibility now.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 12:35, Reply)

But whose fault is that?

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 12:35, Reply)

fuuuuuuuck. I don't know.
RECURSIVE. Everything has gone full circle and I have a lapful of sperm
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 12:36, Reply)

I was working for a logistics company.

(PsychoChomp, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 12:26, Reply)

Also joining facebook by the looks of things.
And having exceptionally shit hair.
(PsychoChomp, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 12:42, Reply)

I appreciate that you have looked back to find out.
No one else has made the same effort.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 12:43, Reply)

curtains?
i can imagine you with curtains
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 12:46, Reply)

Jewfro

(PsychoChomp, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 12:50, Reply)

January 2005
was most notable for a visit to Canada for the ex's birthday. I got her some awesome presents, I'm an awesome present giverer. Obviously we are no longer together. My life has changed a lot, mostly for the better. I'm pretty confident that 2013 is going to be a good year.
( Kroney, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 12:28, Reply)

lol star trek reference, Kronely.

( Kroney, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 12:28, Reply)

i don't get it

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 12:31, Reply)

Ok, looking at the responses so far, I can see that these were particularly shit questions.
Sorry everyone.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 12:28, Reply)

see if you could add something extra to it

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 12:32, Reply)

And upset the post count?
Almost as bad a thread deletion.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 12:33, Reply)

do it!
live on the edge for 2013!
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 12:34, Reply)

its alright tanglebum,
I'm here to save the thread.
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Mon 7 Jan 2013, 12:41, Reply)

I only start them in the hope that you will show up.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 12:46, Reply)

8 years ago I was fucking a woman in a wedding dress, she was getting married the next day.

(PsychoChomp, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 12:30, Reply)

you are all class, you know that?

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 12:32, Reply)

Why were you wearing a wedding dress?

(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 12:32, Reply)

I wondered this.

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 12:33, Reply)

I like the lacey bits.

(PsychoChomp, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 12:33, Reply)

You don't like cagney?

(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 12:35, Reply)

married to you?

( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Mon 7 Jan 2013, 12:40, Reply)

I was planning a move to the big city
since then I have bought a flat, got married and had a child. Life has changed a lot.

Alt: i ate my lunch earlier, but now I'm hungry, but i only have £1:30 on me :(
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 12:31, Reply)

Getting divorced, I expect.
I hope this helps.

So my life has changed a fair amount since then.

Alt: I'm stuffing air into my fat face, I can't get enough of its oxygeny loveliness. I may go and get a baguette shortly, though.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 12:31, Reply)

The rest of my colleagues have just discovered that Veet for Men Amazon page.
I think they might still be in 2005.
( Kroney, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 12:34, Reply)

Show them the Paul Ross screen print. you'll be the toast of the office.

(PsychoChomp, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 12:37, Reply)

yup
definitely worth scoffing at people who don't spend so long on the internet that internet things are new to them.

yeah, I'm guilty of this, too
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 12:39, Reply)

finishing my A-levels I think,
although, knowing me back then, instead of studying i was probably terribly stoned as Tuesday was a free day for us.

I've just written the pub quiz, i didn't miss the break from it. I might find a cretin to take it over as I genuinely hate having to write the fucking thing.
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Mon 7 Jan 2013, 12:39, Reply)

fuck
you're younger than I thought, then. Shut it, youngy
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 12:40, Reply)

I'M NEARLY 26,
THAT MAKES ME A GROWN UP AND I DEMAND A LITTLE RESPECT.
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Mon 7 Jan 2013, 12:40, Reply)

woah
I'd been treating you like a real human and everything
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 12:41, Reply)

i bet you're like 40 and old and shit.

( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Mon 7 Jan 2013, 12:41, Reply)

Oi!
I am only 2 of those things.
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 12:43, Reply)

i thought he was older as well

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 12:44, Reply)

ha! seems we all did

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 12:44, Reply)

I didn't.
I've paid attention in the past when he has referred to his age.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 12:45, Reply)

stalker/nonce

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 12:45, Reply)

I've even seen a picture of him
and didn't realise
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 12:46, Reply)

Not long until you are all three though.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 12:44, Reply)

yeah :(

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 12:44, Reply)

you are nearly shit?

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 12:45, Reply)

it's something I've been training to be since birth

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 12:46, Reply)

Alright Andy Bell.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 12:42, Reply)

Really? I thought you were forty something.
Only because you're a pub manager and they all seem to be old and fat, mind.
( Kroney, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 12:43, Reply)

Being 25 means he has to ask himself for ID everyday before he can serve drinks.

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 12:47, Reply)

yeah,
people always seem surprised that i run a pub at my age, beause they find it hard to equate that sort of success in a chosen career with their own lives, where they are nearly 40 and still working for someone else.
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Mon 7 Jan 2013, 12:51, Reply)

working for yourself is so very 2005

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 12:53, Reply)

Perhaps. I could see a bar manager being 26.
But with pubs it seems there's an expectation that it's something people take up later in life, rather than some measure of success. I'm not sure the general opinion really considers pub managers to be successful career-people. I don't mean to put you down or anything there, but I think it's something that people expect to retire to, or as a career change.
( Kroney, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 12:54, Reply)

fair enough,
but if everything works out according to plan, I'll have my own pub in the next couple of years.
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Mon 7 Jan 2013, 12:55, Reply)

My mate ran a pub at your age, then went to uni at 27 the same year as me.
He's now moaning about losing all his child benefit so he's going to be making good money.
(PsychoChomp, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 12:54, Reply)

to be honest,
i was just seeing if i could find anyone to get riled up, i'm aware that it's not something i want to be doing for much longer, unless i can actually buy my own pub, i've hit a ceiling.
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Mon 7 Jan 2013, 12:56, Reply)

so do you get to pick what barmats you use and everything?

( glued eel /questions/questionsyoudliketoask/post1648081, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 13:20, Reply)

I chose to have no bar mats glued. none.

( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Mon 7 Jan 2013, 13:27, Reply)

So you shouldn't, it buggers up the varnish when you have to unstick them

( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 13:31, Reply)

7th January was a Friday in 2005, does this change things?

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 12:41, Reply)

i would have had philosophy on fridays.
So no.
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Mon 7 Jan 2013, 12:42, Reply)

Can't you just buy questions off people once a week.
A pub near me did.
(PsychoChomp, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 12:43, Reply)

there must be a website with ready made quizzes on

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 12:44, Reply)

I wish OT did that.

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 12:45, Reply)

yeah,
I can, but it would lose some of its charm if it was just a generic pub quiz i think.
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Mon 7 Jan 2013, 12:49, Reply)

I'm 8 years older than I was this time 8 years ago.
Which makes me unique.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 12:42, Reply)

Is that in dog years?

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 12:43, Reply)

No.

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 12:43, Reply)

are you a dog?

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 12:43, Reply)

years
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 12:44, Reply)

probably masturbating
not much has changed haha
( The Doveston haunted by the memory of his own amnesia, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 12:53, Reply)

your keyboard
must look like alphabetti spaghetti
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 12:56, Reply)

thhhe kkkeys sticcck a bittt

( The Doveston haunted by the memory of his own amnesia, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 13:02, Reply)

I had some BBQ hula hoops for lunch :(

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 12:59, Reply)

beef flavoured crisps are the worst kind
you poor thing.
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 13:00, Reply)

this is incorrect
cheese and onion are the worst kind
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 13:01, Reply)

close
but not quite
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 13:02, Reply)

what should i have for lunch?

( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Mon 7 Jan 2013, 13:01, Reply)

gammon steak, egg, chips and a fried tomato

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 13:02, Reply)

2005 was a fairly big year
bought a flat, lost my mum, qualified as a solicitor, moved jobs, split up with my bf of 4 years. it was a hard time.

not that much socially. been through a few more boyfriends. moved jobs again. a lot more responsibility and more money to spend. lots of nice holidays.

alt: al is a major elton john fan. no lunch. new year detox.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 12:59, Reply)

do we have to have the detox/starvation discussion again?
in othr news happy New Year etc
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 13:01, Reply)

If you don't want to talk about something
don't bring it up. Or draw attention to it.
( Kroney, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 13:02, Reply)

no, it's only 2 weeks this time
you'll be alright. but expect severe snapping as the diet coke withdrawal kicks in.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 13:05, Reply)

i'm steering clear of the booze for a couple of weeks, as I may have put on a little "holiday weight"

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 13:06, Reply)

don't go climbing down any fire escapes then...

( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 13:21, Reply)

quite so

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 13:23, Reply)

Missing meals will make you binge out later
better just to have some fruit or something than nothing.
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 13:07, Reply)

don't do it localboy
step away from the diet discussion
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 13:09, Reply)

I can recommend the flu as a way to lose weight
despite all the sugary stuff and alcohol over xmas I lost 4lbs.
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 13:10, Reply)

I was DJing in various bars
as well as being a serious pillhead and alkie! Great days!

Since then I've moved to Manchester and seriously slowed down on the booze and drugs. Swapped the bar work for administration and now enjoy having free weekends and Bank Holidays!
( GeordieJay Bummers are deaf, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 13:11, Reply)

Great news everyone, holding a cold can of coke has helped my finger no end.

(PsychoChomp, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 13:13, Reply)

oh thank god

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 13:14, Reply)

you'll have it back up your bum i no time

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 13:14, Reply)

did you startle the dog midfingering and get caught in the sudden constriction?

( glued eel /questions/questionsyoudliketoask/post1648081, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 13:14, Reply)

When an anal gland needs milking then you have to get knuckle deep ASAP

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 13:15, Reply)

No it was already dead.

(PsychoChomp, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 13:30, Reply)

I think I had a chicken and bacon ginster's sandwich, a packet of prawncocktail crisps and a bottle of coke
possible a yorkie for afters

today I might have a double decker instead
( glued eel /questions/questionsyoudliketoask/post1648081, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 13:14, Reply)

is that from 'Glued Eels Lunch Diary 2005'?

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 13:14, Reply)

check it out in waterstones
actually, I might set up a kickstarter
( glued eel /questions/questionsyoudliketoask/post1648081, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 13:15, Reply)

2005
I can't really remember much about it. I blame the MDs.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 13:14, Reply)

bigmac induced amnesia?

( glued eel /questions/questionsyoudliketoask/post1648081, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 13:15, Reply)

fatty deposits on the brain

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 13:16, Reply)

The ket, mdma, coke and weed.
Barely drank though.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 13:17, Reply)

I might make my New Year's resolution to smoke more wed

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 13:20, Reply)

I can't cane it like I used to.
Gives me the fear something chronic.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 13:22, Reply)

and Booker T

(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 13:17, Reply)

This thread is a disappointment

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 13:23, Reply)

make a better one
I hear you're famous for great threads
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 13:26, Reply)

careful, sarcasm can get you strangled round these parts

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 13:28, Reply)

thread
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 13:26, Reply)

why is your name still stupid?

( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Mon 7 Jan 2013, 13:30, Reply)

naked_ ape has been nicked

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 13:31, Reply)

January 2005 I was working for West Midlands Ambulance Service
But looking for another job as they were calling it a day on the in-house development. Since then I've doubled my salary, sold my house and moved to London, so fairly dramatic.

Alt: Chicken, Ham Hock and Leek Pie with Parsley Mash from the new canteen at work. They're already outperforming the old canteen company by publishing a menu, sadly today is the only day with a main course I liked.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 13:28, Reply)

H C
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 13:29, Reply)

2/10

( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 13:34, Reply)

\o/

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 13:39, Reply)

Highest score ever

(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 13:41, Reply)