I am on a commuter train to Canterbury accessing lovely b3ta from my phone.
Unfortunately, it being the summer, the train is also packed with small and loud children who are playing snap at Blessed volumes. And one of them just called the other a 'clumsy clot'. Are we trying to get our kids bullied? Thank feck for casual Friday and Finsbury Park tomorrow evening. It's 99% possible that I will at least make an appearance so you know I'm not a 50 year old librarian named Gerald.
( Maladicta, Thu 7 Aug 2008, 17:16, 14 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Ah...
Would be great to see you!
If you turn up, I'll buy you a drink.
Can't get fairer than that.
( Cawl, Thu 7 Aug 2008, 17:22, Reply)

oh
I live in canterbury. if you have time check out palace st - there's a nice place to get coffee down there that also serves alcohol. Other than that - I think it's mostly whitefriars - which sucks.
(Fredz A graveyard of hopes, a dump of ambition, Thu 7 Aug 2008, 17:53, Reply)

I like the word 'clot'
We use it as a euphemimsy for 'cunt' in our house...
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Thu 7 Aug 2008, 17:53, Reply)

Hello Gerald
Clumsy clot is brilliant! I can't wait to use that again after all these years.
( thealternativefact, Thu 7 Aug 2008, 18:18, Reply)

@DG
As in, "I'm gonna clot you in the frock!"?
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Thu 7 Aug 2008, 18:18, Reply)

@ Kaol
Woo! Ahead of time, mine will contain the least amount of alcohol possible as the taste makes me feel sick :)
( Maladicta, Thu 7 Aug 2008, 19:36, Reply)

@ fredz
Hello there, never seen you around here before :) I'm based in Canterbury at the moment, commuting to London every day to work at Waterloo but I've been here for four years and have never really left. Moving to Ashford in a couple of weeks, all being well...
( Maladicta, Thu 7 Aug 2008, 19:37, Reply)

Nope.
I'm fairly new myself - just starting to post! And canterbury is nice - sometimes! Sounds like a hell of a commute though.
(Fredz A graveyard of hopes, a dump of ambition, Thu 7 Aug 2008, 22:01, Reply)

The commute is a bitch
but fortunately Eurostar are picking up my travel tab ;) they paid for a season ticket for me, because it's so far away and after this month I'm going to be based in Ashford anyway.

I like Canterbury; the cosy little pubs and the shops are great, plus I came here for uni, but the other half grew up there and in Thanington and in Whitstable and he hates it!
( Maladicta, Thu 7 Aug 2008, 22:14, Reply)

Yeah - Canterbury is nice
Personaly I'm looking for something outside kent sometime soon - and I get why your other half doesn't like tankerton or whitstable much! Place is basicaly dead. Mind you they had a bowling alley there last time I went - and bowling after a few drinks is somehow very funny indeed!
(Fredz A graveyard of hopes, a dump of ambition, Thu 7 Aug 2008, 23:38, Reply)

Ah, AMF :)
The one in Margate is much better; we went there a little while ago and there was a much lower chav to human ratio!
( Maladicta, Thu 7 Aug 2008, 23:41, Reply)

Somehow....
The chav ratio didn't seem to matter after a few Snakebites! Mind you - neither did scores - what lane the ball ended up in or whose shoes where whose...
(Fredz A graveyard of hopes, a dump of ambition, Thu 7 Aug 2008, 23:56, Reply)

@TRL
Something like that, yes... it came about as Tourette's spazzed something all over the kitchen, and I immediately wanted to blurt out "Clumsy fucking cunt..." (it's a term of endearment - honest, and part inspired by a fabulous documentary about a kid with Tourette's Syndrome called 'The Boy Can't Help It). However, Sweary Junior was about and so 'cunt' was replaced by 'clot'.

It's stuck ever since.

I'm going to Hull, aren't I?
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Fri 8 Aug 2008, 0:52, Reply)

Personally
I like the use of 'Blessed Volumes', perhaps there could be a scale used to measure Blesseds with a similar measurement system to the Richter scale- e.g 0.5 Blesseds= A foghorn and 1 Blessed= Something coming from the man himself?
Far more useful than decibels as you've got a universally known example as the most extreme example to use as a reference point.
(Evilweevil is covered in bees, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 15:49, Reply)