Hurrah it's Friday!
Come in, I've just put the kettle on.


( wanderlust, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 8:27, 290 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Nobody about then?
:(
( wanderlust, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 8:33, Reply)

Morning 'lusty
I be here, but was having a lie in.

Well today?
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 8:41, Reply)

I am very well thank you PoD
How be you on this splendid Friday morning?
( wanderlust, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 8:44, Reply)

I'm not bad
Though I had a rather strange dream where someone close to me died. Can't remember who though. It was a bit strange.

Up to much this fine day?
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 8:51, Reply)

That is a bit odd.
I don't like dreams like that, I always feel slightly depressed the next day.

Just at work today, then off to the pub tonight YAY! :D
( wanderlust, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 8:53, Reply)

Boo for the pub
As long as the dream wasn't a scene of things to come when I take my friend out driving later this morning.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 8:53, Reply)

morning folks
a nice sunny day!

going to have a nice meal and see gordon giltrap tonight. then tomorrow is my birthday which means surfing and lots of drinking!

yay!
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 8:54, Reply)

PoD
I'm sure it was just a dream and not a bad omen.

Morning Vipros, happy birthday for tomorrow!
( wanderlust, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 8:57, Reply)

Morning all
I'm tiiiiiiired.
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 9:09, Reply)

Morning Becky!
I know that feeling! Though I did oversleep until 6 this morning.
I can't belive I consider that oversleeping :(
( wanderlust, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 9:11, Reply)

Morning becks
How are you, other than tired?
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 9:11, Reply)

Ov erslept til 6?
Christ, I overslept til 9 and still don't think that's enough sleep.
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 9:12, Reply)

Well
I keep waking up at 7 on my days off. Stupid, stupid brain.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 9:13, Reply)

I plan on making up for it tomrrow
by staying in bed until midday at least.
( wanderlust, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 9:14, Reply)

'ningall!

Are you all comfy? I'm suffering 'QOTW writer's block' at the mo so I thought I'd pop over here where the cool kids hang out...if that's alright with you?
( Pooflake braces for an onslaught..., Fri 8 Aug 2008, 9:14, Reply)

Morning all
:-)
(Ethelred is watching cheese grow, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 9:14, Reply)

'ning pooflake and ethel
Both well I trust?
( wanderlust, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 9:17, Reply)

*waves to everyone else in here*
I'm off to work now. Will probably be in the Finsbury park area by half six(ish). Have numbers so will call if needs be :)
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 9:18, Reply)

Howdy Lusty!

The usual darlin'...slightly hungover.

But my boss has the day off so it cushty-ville for me today.


yay!
( Pooflake braces for an onslaught..., Fri 8 Aug 2008, 9:18, Reply)

see you tonight Becky :D
I am rather jealous mr pooflake. Not of your hangover, but of your boss being away.
Thankfully I haven't see mine this morning yet.
No doubt he'll be about later though, stealing all my oxygen, looking through my books and pretending to know what he's talking about.
( wanderlust, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 9:23, Reply)

I'm really annoyed
I've been looking forward to going surfing tomorrow like crazy, first time in ages and with my new board too

yesterday looked like this

today looks like this

it's unfair I tells you

fucking work, gets in the way of all the fun
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 9:26, Reply)

Ah, lusty...

The chocolate biscuits are set out...The tea is on...and I have bugger all to do.

I am indeed fortunate to have stumbled out from what I thought was the easiest job in the world...to an even easier one.
( Pooflake braces for an onslaught..., Fri 8 Aug 2008, 9:26, Reply)

I'm ok
but found that 3/4s of the way through my journey to work, the bottom of my jeans have a bit of crusty sick on them. Which means they were in the way when I got home on saturday, joy.

I've cleaned as much off as I can, but theres still a lingering smell :(
(Ethelred is watching cheese grow, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 9:28, Reply)

I'd enjoy my job a lot more
If I didn't have to work for a man who resembles a weasel shitting out a pine cone.

That is rubbish Vipros. Work does get in the way of fun! Oh how much I'd love a 5 day weekend!

EDIT: Ethel, that is disgusting. I don't know if I should laugh or feel ill!
( wanderlust, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 9:31, Reply)

@ Ethel...

Oh, I long for the days when I could wear jeans to work.

I have to be bloody suited and booted now...it doesn't suit me and I hate it.

I just don't see the point anymore of the pretentious culture that is suit wearing. All of the richest people and finest businessmen* in the world don't bother with suits and they've done alright...why should I have to put up with it?

*sulks*

EDIT:*and businessWOMEN. I apologise for my rampant, thrusting sexism. It's early in the morning.
( Pooflake braces for an onslaught..., Fri 8 Aug 2008, 9:33, Reply)

pooflake
completely agree with you

I like wearing a suit, but that's because I only have to wear one 2 or 3 times a year, makes it a bit special. At work at the moment I'm wearing a shirt with sleeves rolled up and collar way open, a pair of corduroy flares and no shoes.

I could be wearing jeans if I wanted to.

that's how I like it.

every other office in my building is some kind of banking or financial service so they all wear suits. they must think we are a bunch of scruffy weirdos. we've all got shit cars compared to theirs too, but the satisfying thing is that we probably get paid more.

and we get to see the looks of confusion on their faces when we wander out of the office clutching armfuls of random stuff, like oars and outboard motors.

@Ethel: that's grim, now you know it is there your sense of smell will become super sensitive to it
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 9:38, Reply)

I don't mind people wearing suits.
I just wish they could wear more interesting ones.

It's rather boring walking around and seeing everyone in black, grey and dark blue.
What's wrong with purple? Or green? Or puce?

Actually, fuck that. It'd be like going to work with Jonathan Ross every morning.
Maybe boring colours are for the best.
( wanderlust, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 9:40, Reply)

Yeah its not good
I noticed it when I turned the fan off in the car. Now all I can smell is that!

Its dress down Friday, its not a daily thing of wearing jeans.
(Ethelred is watching cheese grow, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 9:41, Reply)

@ Virpros...

'a shirt with sleeves rolled up and collar way open, a pair of corduroy flares and no shoes'.

You sound COOL!

God, I wish I had a sense of style. My taste in clothes and hairstyles consistently miss the trend time by several years.

I'm like the black guy in Boogie Nights...but without the fun of being in Pr0n.
( Pooflake braces for an onslaught..., Fri 8 Aug 2008, 9:44, Reply)

@pooflake
I find people who claim to have a sense of style end up looking like carbon copies of everyone else around them.

You having no sense of style makes you even more stylish in my book. Plus, you can always claim you're rocking the retro look.

Dress in what ever you feel comfortable in.
( wanderlust, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 9:51, Reply)

that's what I do
dress in what's comfortable

I have a fairly strong opinion on what looks good on me which helps, so I just go with that. fuck fashion, that's just a way of conning people out of their money

I'm also sporting an enormous quiff at the moment which happens every few days more or less by accident. sets off the beard and sideburns nicely. :-)
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 9:54, Reply)

Mornin'!
It's here! It's bash day!

I'll be there tonight, though not for the duration, but enough time to sink a few shandies!

I have a new phone/phone number... If anyone needs it for tonight, Gaz me!
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 9:55, Reply)

Nokia "customer care" are a bunch of unhelpful muppets.
[Phone Model: E90 Communicator]
[Order number: ]
[IMEI: ***]
[Contact topic: PC Suite or other software]
Good Afternoon,

I am unhappy with the service from the traffic reports for Maps.

I have the latest firmware, the latest Maps and a very recent subscription to the RTTI facility.

The problem is:

I can start Maps, plan routes, search for POIs and places, no issue, but as soon as I update the traffic reports, whether on WiFi or GSM/3G, the Maps application closes instantly, or the phone locks up.

Is there a known fix, or will I get my money back?

-----

They wrote back saying

"Dear Ethelred,

Thank you for contacting Nokia Care.

With regard to your email, this issue may occur when your Nokia N95 8GB is using old map data that is incompatible with the Traffic Info (real time traffic information) Service. It can be resolved by updating your map data.

To update your map data in Maps 2.0, go to "Options" "Tools" "Settings" "Map" "Options" "Check for map Updates" (this is only possible if you have allowed the mobile internet connection in Maps 2.0).
If there is a new release of map data, the application will prompt you to delete the preloaded map data.

If the map data is updated, the application will display "Your current maps are up-to-date". "


Sorry if I need to explain what I've done *TWICE*, let alone what phone I have.

*grrs*
(Ethelred is watching cheese grow, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 9:56, Reply)

Wow, Pooflake is here!
Nice.

How are y'all? I overslept to the tune of 9.20am (not counting cat pawing face at 7.15am) so I have no excuses about not being up for a drinking session later!

Ethel: if you go on a shooting spree, I'll come with you and we can sort Orange out at the same time.
( thealternativefact, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 9:57, Reply)

I'm bored...
I need a new challenge... I'm bored witless, although the folk I work with are all really decent people.
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Fri 8 Aug 2008, 9:58, Reply)

Vipros
I dislike fashion aswell!
Why would you wear something just becuas it's "in"
It bugs me when I see girls walking around wearing things that don't suit them, just because some stupid bint in a magazine said it's trendy.

Morning DiT.
I made gingerbread people for tonight :D
( wanderlust, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 9:59, Reply)

Ningall
And how are we all this morning.

I had a bad nights sleep as I had the 'Zombie' dream. This one was more 'I Am Legend' (the book not the film) rather than Day of the Dead.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Fri 8 Aug 2008, 10:01, Reply)

@ clendrix
You are more than welcome to shoot them, but I prefer big sticks and kung-fu chops.

The fact they are now saying that I can't get a refund for a service I can't use because it says no refunds in their terms and conditions. Which it doesn't.
(Ethelred is watching cheese grow, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 10:05, Reply)

@Vipros
I'm with you on that. I'll wear anything, if I feel good in it. What I really hate about the whole debacle is when you go in to a shop to buy a tshirt or whatever, and the shop assistants give you that appraising look as if to say "what are you doing in here?".

Bastards.

@Lusty: Gingerbread men? You're made of win!

@Ethel: I am slack jawed at their ineptitude. Still, it's not really surprising, is it? :)

@PJM: What do you do? What do you want to do? What is your dream?
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 10:10, Reply)

Ooh, big sticks.
If the alternative is ever 'big sticks' then go with the alternative.

Phone companies are so bloody frustrating. Keep persevering, Ethel!
( thealternativefact, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 10:10, Reply)

morning all!
woo, Friday!

happy new phone mr devil!
(happylittletulip helpless and delicious, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 10:10, Reply)

We need to think of something for PJM to do
that will result in a hilarious and pertinent post for the current QOTW.
( thealternativefact, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 10:12, Reply)

@DiT
I know that look

I'm one of those people who wears shorts almost all the time (apart from at work) and the fashionistas don't look fondly on me.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 10:12, Reply)

Fashion
If you can't buy it in Primark I'll not have it.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Fri 8 Aug 2008, 10:13, Reply)

@ DiT, Clendrix
I'll persevere as always. I'm a stubborn bastard.
(Ethelred is watching cheese grow, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 10:14, Reply)

That look
is the same one girls with, erm, curves get when they go into Top Shop.

I don't need to be size zero to buy a bag, so feck off.
( thealternativefact, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 10:14, Reply)

Top Shop
can just fuck right off.
(happylittletulip helpless and delicious, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 10:15, Reply)

Woo! Corporate blasting!
Yey
(Ethelred is watching cheese grow, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 10:16, Reply)

Hello grapple fans.
Done my mornings work and if people leave me alone I may be able to actually stay on here for a bit.
( girlinthehole, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 10:16, Reply)

hello miss blouse!
I hope that doesn't mean we've got to leave you alone!

*pesters*
(happylittletulip helpless and delicious, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 10:18, Reply)

G' morning all
rather busy today so I may just pop in and out occasionally.

Following Pooflake's suit rant, I too am one of the booted and suited brigade. I don't mind as such, but I'm rueing the years and the putting on of weight. Why? Well, although the jackets still fit, I can no longer fasten the trousers on my purple, electric blue and bottle green suits that I had lovingly hand-made in the Far East back in 2001.

*Sighs*
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Fri 8 Aug 2008, 10:18, Reply)

@clendrix
I have never bought anything from topshop. I have serious issues with that place.

DiT, ginger bread people...

www.b3tards.com/u/95c1be9a51b242f0ac56/ginger_bits.jpg
( wanderlust, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 10:19, Reply)

@DIT
I have 10 years in payroll, currently I run large multi-company payrolls. I don't feel particularly stretched to be honest...

Dream jobs? Hmm... That's a toughie.

What does everyone do in civvy street? I know Beckyconsonants is a Vet nurse, but what about everyone else?
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Fri 8 Aug 2008, 10:20, Reply)

top man has recently been doing a nice line in flared jeans
which is good, because I won't wear straight legged trousers.

(if this carries on you may find out too much about how I like shopping, have quite a lot of clothes and am fairly vain. In my defence though, all my clothes are cheap, and they certainly aren't fashionable)

@PJM: I'm a coastal and rivers engineer. I generally spend my time making hydraulic numerical models of river systems and seeing how much they will flood. I've designed bits of lifeboats stations and stuff too.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 10:21, Reply)

@Tulip
Of course I mean people here at work. Not you lovley lot.

Next shop - ftw. Yes I know they're not cheap but their trousers fit me perfectly. I'm a funny shape.


Edit - @PJm - my step-dad has an engineering firm and I run the office.

*I now know who to contact for payroll queries, Yay!*
( girlinthehole, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 10:21, Reply)

I'm
a self-employed geek
(Eds Meds Mathskillz=1,Socialskillz=0, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 10:21, Reply)

@ Vipros
I wish I did a cool job like that!

@DG - Handmade bottle green and electric blue suits... Now is making a positive statement. I like.

Right now, I'm suited and booted having driven to work today. I normally cycle and get changed at the office.

*Edit*

BGB - You can contact me anytime if you get stuck, would be glad to help you out.
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Fri 8 Aug 2008, 10:25, Reply)

I'm dole scum
Well not really, I'm between jobs shall we say.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Fri 8 Aug 2008, 10:25, Reply)

LOL - Edmund, the Man Who Never Sleeps

BGB - yes, Next trousers/jeans! Fit everytime!

Actually, I don't think I actually ever bought anything in Top Shop in the end. They suck. I have bought things in Top Man, including my ace pirate socks.

/classy
( thealternativefact, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 10:26, Reply)

@Vipros
I'm curious. How do you get to do a job like that? I didn't know that job existed and I'm sure your school careers officer didn't either.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Fri 8 Aug 2008, 10:30, Reply)

@PJM
Oooh, that's something I know very little about... Maybe you could apply for a company you really want to work for, doing kind of the same thing, bed yourself in and then go for a sideways move?

I'm an ex-bar manager, ex-investment rep, ex-helpdesk analyst, ex-recruitment consultant who is now a Marketing/Research Manager for a very small (in terms of employees) website. We do get a big bang for our buck, though, we're the world's biggest and busiest website for what we do!

I am, as most of you know, a wannabe actor and writer. Well, we all have a dream, eh?

EDIT: Lusty, they are fucking marvellous!
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 10:31, Reply)

ah, you all know what I do
I swan about the place and call everyone darling!

And I laaaaaave it too.

Plus I get to wear poncy scarves all the time. cos it's the arts innit.

what would you all like to see at the theatre?

*wonders if should organise a show night for b3tans*
(happylittletulip helpless and delicious, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 10:33, Reply)

I have a masters degree in civil engineering
which led to a job with an engineering conultancy.

civil engineering covers a broad range of stuff and I got a taste for the modelling stuff during uni, so got into that. found I've got a knack for it, so I'm now one of the top bods in the UK branch of our company.

doesn't lend itself to huge amounts of reward though :-)

as with anything, it's not as interesting as it sounds. I spend a lot of time fiddling with data in Excel.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 10:34, Reply)

@HLT
Where do you work?

I used to be a Stage Manager.
It's what my degree is in!
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Fri 8 Aug 2008, 10:35, Reply)

if one can do civil engineering
why don't they do rude engineering courses?
(happylittletulip helpless and delicious, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 10:35, Reply)

@ Mrs L
I work in a tiny provincial Scottish town, about as far away from the West End as is possible to be without becoming a singer on a cruise ship in the Med.

Where did you get your Stage Management degree? and how come you switched to teaching?

*thinks*

ah, must be the sucky hours, which you swapped for long hols and no evening shifts.
(happylittletulip helpless and delicious, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 10:38, Reply)

civil engineering ftw
CE = useful maths :)
(Eds Meds Mathskillz=1,Socialskillz=0, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 10:38, Reply)

You've all got interesting jobs
I'm the biggest wannabe writer there is... I'd love to have a crack at writing something, but self motivation is a massive hurdle.

I'd love to be involved in the cycle business too.
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Fri 8 Aug 2008, 10:38, Reply)

Brace yourselves people...

For a possible overload in extreme awesomness that is my job...

...


I work in IT.

And I don't even do that in a good way.

I am an IT Asset and Licence Manager.

For a Pharmaceutical distributor.

I am badly dressed, out of place and out of my depth. Everyone around me seems to be intelligent, conscientious and care about their job.

I on the other hand, am the polar opposite, so I spend all day on B3ta
( Pooflake braces for an onslaught..., Fri 8 Aug 2008, 10:39, Reply)

@HLT
I would very much like to see David Tenant in Hamlet.

*not gonna happen*

Otherwise, I would like to see:

Singer by Peter Flannery
Sexual Perversity in Chicago by David Mamet
Spamalot (again)
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 10:39, Reply)

@ HLT
You got it.

I also found it so hard to get work. (Hang on a minute, I'm seeing a theme here).

I do miss it, but not that much.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Fri 8 Aug 2008, 10:39, Reply)

@Poo
So does this mean that you're working for a legal drug dealer? Ace. :)
(Eds Meds Mathskillz=1,Socialskillz=0, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 10:40, Reply)

^^
*considers strangling Tulip with poncy scarve*



I am a lapsed artist - I went to art school and then joined the real world.

I currently have a sketch book and several pencils and have been waiting for a few years for the muse to spang me.
( girlinthehole, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 10:40, Reply)

@PJM...

Writing...go for it!

You'd have the motivation and support of Chickenlady too.

What does one do to get oneself published?
( Pooflake braces for an onslaught..., Fri 8 Aug 2008, 10:41, Reply)

Right chaps
I'm off out.
I'll be back it time to laugh at the opening of the olympics though.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Fri 8 Aug 2008, 10:42, Reply)

@Pooflake
I'm not conscientious either and I don't particularly care about my job. I work to live, not the other way round.

most of my working days are spent counting down the time till I can go surfing or play with my band.

edit: bah, just had a call from the other half. my car windscreen has a huge great crack on it, as if some twunt has leant on it heavily. I've sorted out the RAC to come and sort it out, but my gf doesn't seem too interested in disrupting her very informal plans to get it sorted out.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 10:43, Reply)

@ Devil
I would like to see David Tennant full stop.

You're right though, that's not going to happen.

@ Mrs L - will keep all appendages crossed for job hunt!

@ BGB - oh no!
(happylittletulip helpless and delicious, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 10:43, Reply)

@DiT
I didn't think sexual pervesity in chicago was that great.
But I'm sure that had a lot to to with the fact that I saw it when Matthew Perry was in it so all I was thinking was Chandler from friends just said fuck. That's a bit rude!
( wanderlust, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 10:44, Reply)

@ Edmund...

Yep, and that gag floating around the building 500 times a day is the shining highlight of my workytime and most exciting thing about my career so far.

I don't even get discounts on my prescriptions or anything FFS!

You know what I can get (a small) discount on?

Well, it's obvious really...

Perfume.

No, I don't know either.
( Pooflake braces for an onslaught..., Fri 8 Aug 2008, 10:44, Reply)

OMG
The smallest man in the country is on the TV.

He's married with a kid. Am I the only one whose first thought was the mechanics of that.

*edit* right I really am off out now.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Fri 8 Aug 2008, 10:44, Reply)

Just spitballing but...
With my l33t acting skillz, Mrs. Liveinabin's l33t State Management skillz and the combined talents of the rest of B3ta and some major financial backing, we could have a massively successful theatre company on our hands.

The IT people can do the IT stuff, the writers can write, the designers can design, the modellers can model, the musiccy ones can do the music, and all the rest can look at us adoringly. After a while, the theatre work will be going so well that we'll branch in to TV, and ultimately film (but we'll always say that theatre is our 'first love').

Perhaps the ginger fuhrer will back this once-in-a-lifetime venture?

*awakes from dream*
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 10:45, Reply)

Oh Virpos...

I used to be in a band...

*reminisces*

In fact, now is the only time in 20 years that I haven't been in a band.

I don't know what to do with myself anymore.
( Pooflake braces for an onslaught..., Fri 8 Aug 2008, 10:47, Reply)

@DiT
I think we could conquer the world if we could all get off the computer for long enough : )
( girlinthehole, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 10:48, Reply)

@ DiT...
I'm in!

For anything except the IT stuff.

*looks adoringly*
( Pooflake braces for an onslaught..., Fri 8 Aug 2008, 10:48, Reply)

Oh, I'm never going to get out
In the style typical of a British Summer it's pissing down and I don;t have a brolly.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Fri 8 Aug 2008, 10:48, Reply)

@ DiT
me too me too!
(happylittletulip helpless and delicious, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 10:49, Reply)

@ Mrs Liveinabin...

Out you go.

*sends out kind of forcefield thing, like what whatserface from the Fantastic 4 can do*

my pleasure.
( Pooflake braces for an onslaught..., Fri 8 Aug 2008, 10:50, Reply)

I was in a band once, too
but only singing and that's the least talented part of all (and I aint even very good at that!).
The rest of the band comprises people who've worked to become as good as they are - can state for the record that Vipros rocks!
( thealternativefact, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 10:50, Reply)

Ta Poo
I think you miss fired somewhat though. It's not got here yet.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Fri 8 Aug 2008, 10:51, Reply)

Work
I currently work as a rural regeneration adviser, pissing millions of pounds of taxpayers money up against the wall… I fell in to it quite by accident, having trained as a graphic designer and then spending years languishing in the civil service waiting to be discovered.

I actually enjoy my job, bar the bureaucracy.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Fri 8 Aug 2008, 10:51, Reply)

DG
That actually sounds like an interesting job!
( thealternativefact, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 10:52, Reply)

@Clendrix...
I know what you mean, I've always struggled with the singer / musician talent / credit ratio.

I'm probably best known as a singer but can strum and plinkety a bit. I always got all of the credit when a gig went well, and everybody always blamed the band when it went badly.
( Pooflake braces for an onslaught..., Fri 8 Aug 2008, 10:53, Reply)

@Mrs Liveinabin...

Yeah, it's there...it's just invisible. Go out running into the rain and it will protect you. Promise.

*sniggers*
( Pooflake braces for an onslaught..., Fri 8 Aug 2008, 10:54, Reply)

OK then, Poo.
You don't have to do any IT stuff.

I'm going to put on a turtleneck, start smoking a pipe and call everyone dahling.
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 10:55, Reply)

thanks clendrix
:-)

I am enjoying the band, but we're getting a few too many gig offers at the moment. it's fun to do, but it's not really going to go anywhere so I want to keep the surf/band/diy balance right.

we've actually started playing more of the songs that I've written* all the music for as well which is awesome. gives a bit of variety.

*made up off the cuff during a jam
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 10:59, Reply)

I'll do
the IT bit
(Ethelred is watching cheese grow, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 11:00, Reply)

@ DiT...

Woo!

*Practices 'Sir John Gielgud' Impression*

Edit: Strange that...not 10 seconds into my impression and John Sessions turned up, announcing that he was suddenly my best mate...
( Pooflake braces for an onslaught..., Fri 8 Aug 2008, 11:02, Reply)

Pooflake
It often seems that the singer gets all the attention, but one can either open one's mouth and sing, or one can't. Yeh, there's voice training, but that's not hard work. It doesn't make the ends of your fingers painful or your arms ache!

You're welcome, V!

I have no talent to bring to the b3ta theatre, except maybe a bit of writing and some hot admin skills.
( thealternativefact, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 11:04, Reply)

I'm sure
I can camp it up a bit, dahhhhlings!
(Eds Meds Mathskillz=1,Socialskillz=0, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 11:05, Reply)

@ clendrix
everyone can sing, darling!

Can I be in charge of the box office/contracts/PRS/invoices/HR/volunteers/H&S/admin/private hires/FOH/posters/and administering cake and hugs?
(happylittletulip helpless and delicious, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 11:10, Reply)

HLT
Well, everyone can sing, but it's not everyone you'd want to listen to.
My friend Vaughan sings with all the passion necessary and yet not one note is correct.

Edit: Looks like HLT has everything covered!
*settles down into audience*
( thealternativefact, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 11:13, Reply)

@HLT...

I too struggle with the thought that people cannot sing.

I practiced the piano and guitar until my ears bled to get any good but singing just 'happened'. No talent, work or practice.

So when people say I'm a good guitarist or pianist I can accept that as a reward for my hard work, but when people say I'm a good singer (and unbelievably, people do), I just think 'meh'
( Pooflake braces for an onslaught..., Fri 8 Aug 2008, 11:13, Reply)

@'Flake
Ouch!

Job's yours, HLT. Oh, er, dahling. *air kiss*
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 11:13, Reply)

^Pooflake
Spot on.
( thealternativefact, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 11:15, Reply)

@ clendrix
well, not quite everything.

we need a techie!
(happylittletulip helpless and delicious, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 11:15, Reply)

@DiT
Can I do costume design and change?

I'll get to see people in the nuddy then *grin*
( girlinthehole, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 11:17, Reply)

@BGB...

If you wanted to see me in the nuddy you'd only have to ask...

oh, you knew that already...and that's why you haven't asked
( Pooflake braces for an onslaught..., Fri 8 Aug 2008, 11:20, Reply)

Woohoo!
I can has another interview. This one's in Islington.

How are you my cuddly friends?
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 11:32, Reply)

@ HLT
my offer feel upon deaf ears then, oh my. *sighs melodramatically*
(Ethelred is watching cheese grow, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 11:33, Reply)

Theatre is it today?
I'll be the techie as long as I'm in charge of the special effects.

Also, I can sing. Not sure if I'm good or not, but I enjoy singing. Maybe we should have a b3ta Karaoke bash?
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 11:37, Reply)

'ning misterspakkaman...

Good news on your interview and good luck!

And I'd be up for a karaoke bash...although it would most likely turn out to be a case of 'I do karaoke...then people bash me with the soiled microphone'
( Pooflake braces for an onslaught..., Fri 8 Aug 2008, 11:46, Reply)

I just had to spunk a load of cash
on treats for the ingrates in my office as it is my birthday tomorrow. annoying.

on the bright side my birthday present was delivered too, so that's good.

congrats on the interview spakka!
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 11:47, Reply)

hello everyone!
Congrats on the interview Spak!
I've just popped on to say that I'm off for a drive now for the first time in over two and a half years. If I don't appear on B3ta again, then the drive went as badly as I think it will!
(Lucy Van Pelt embracing ginlovers, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 11:48, Reply)

@LvP
Good luck!
(Eds Meds Mathskillz=1,Socialskillz=0, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 11:54, Reply)

I'm going to be very british
and talk about the weather.

It's fucking miserable outside.

Is it too much to ask for a bit of sunshine in August?
( wanderlust, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 12:10, Reply)

It's crappy.
I hate it being too hot, but a day without rain would be nice.

So much for lazing around in the park later.
( thealternativefact, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 12:20, Reply)

I was desperately hoping we'd be able to have fun in the park.
Oh well, looks like we'll just have to settle for the pub.

I don't mind though, as long as the beer's flowing and the company is good.
(I have no doubt the company will be amazing)
( wanderlust, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 12:23, Reply)

Lusty
What sort of time will you get there?
( thealternativefact, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 12:27, Reply)

I've just been let down by my mate...

Who had promised to help me enjoy Coventry City's first crushing defeat of the season tomorrow.

what a cuntstitch.

Now I'll have no alternative to start drinking from 4pm today and not finish until the final whistle of the community shield on Sunday.

Who's with me?
( Pooflake braces for an onslaught..., Fri 8 Aug 2008, 12:28, Reply)

I could get there about 5.30
probably a bit earlier, but I've got some stuff to sort out after work.

I can't be bothered to go all the way home to then come back into town again...

So i'll be starting early!
Expect me passed out under the table by 8pm.
( wanderlust, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 12:31, Reply)

Pooflake...
football? Sigh...if only you lived closer. No one I hang out with seems to like football.

Wanderlust - will be aiming to be there between 5.30 and 6.00.
( thealternativefact, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 12:35, Reply)

I'm finishing up at 5.30 today...
So should be there at about 6. Is that OK?

I'm gonna have to be away by about 8.30 though... a friend is buggering off to Spain for a year and I have to go say 'bye.

DiT - Spreading the love since 1980...

EDIT: I like football. Up the MIGHTY GUNNERS!
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 12:39, Reply)

DiT
You seem lovely, but Arsenal? FFS...

Can't wait to meet you later!
( thealternativefact, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 12:40, Reply)

@clendrix...

Oh yes, Football, heavy drinking, burps farts and war movies.

I am all things to all men.

Hold on, that didn't come out right.
( Pooflake braces for an onslaught..., Fri 8 Aug 2008, 12:40, Reply)

clendrix & DiT
I shall see both of you there then.

*excites*

Has anyone heard anything from Bert?
( wanderlust, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 12:41, Reply)

What's wrong with Arsenal, eh?
They're Ar-sen-al, Ar-sen-al FC! By FAR the greatest team, the world has ever seen!

_{please don't tell me you support sprus...}
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 12:42, Reply)

Hello All
I have returned.

The excitement of the opening of the Olympics may well be over shadowed by the police breaking into the flat over the road to see if the man who lives there is dead!
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Fri 8 Aug 2008, 12:44, Reply)

Course I support Tottenham.
Why wouldn't I?
They're by far the greatest team the world has ever seen.*




*clearly not true
( thealternativefact, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 12:44, Reply)

How can you support
a team with "arse" in the name?
(Ethelred is watching cheese grow, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 12:45, Reply)

@ DiT..

Ah, the Gooners. I am just about to embark on the matched betting thing mentioned previously by fireflier and one of the first bets I am going to place is on Arsenal Vs West Brom.

Because WBA'a odds are about a billion to one.

I always thought it must be brill to support a team that are actually quite good. Cov on the other hand are, have always been*, and always will be, utterly pant-stainingly crap.

*apart from one FA cup in 1987 but that's hardly much to swing your pants about is it?
( Pooflake braces for an onslaught..., Fri 8 Aug 2008, 12:45, Reply)

Oh well.
As you're a fellow B3tan, I'll let it slide. It could be worse, you could be a glory hunting Chelsea supporter.

@Ethel: It's better than supporting sCUNThorpe...

@Pooflake: It's not all good. You get used to a bit of success and then, when you're not winning any more, the constant moaning is a nightmare, even when you're playing attractive, flowing football. At least teams who don't win anything don't have stupidly high expectations...
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 12:46, Reply)

@ DiT
I'll let you have that one.
(Ethelred is watching cheese grow, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 12:49, Reply)

Oh?
Let it slide, will you?

I live in Tottenham. I ain't scared of nuffin, innit.

However, would rather have nice hug with you later than argue about the only North London team versus the pretend one.
( thealternativefact, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 12:50, Reply)

@ Mrs L
That's quite sad really.
Did you hear about the man that was found the other day who'd been dead for 2 years.

How can someone be dead for two years with out anyone noticing?!
( wanderlust, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 12:51, Reply)

Ok,
The olympics are about to kick off with what seems like 10,000 people sat infront of the Arc out of Indiana Jones.

I'm worried what the Chinese are about to unleash on the world.

@Lusty. Yes it is very sad. No one has seen him in about two weeks, although I does have a son who is in regular contact. He was discharged from hospital a couple of weeks ago so the hope is that he has gone to stay with his son.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Fri 8 Aug 2008, 12:51, Reply)

All my friends support good teams…(Prem top half)

And rub their hands together expectedly every Saturday with a genuine belief that their team will win.

Whereby I sit there with my head in my hands, rocking back and forth waiting for the inevitable with a face like a smacked arse.

Still, I can’t tell you how good the elation feels those 2 times a year when the other team forget to turn up or something and we actually win.

And that keeps me going.

(Can’t remember the last time it happened though.)

@Mrs L – Imagine how pissed off he’d be if he wasn’t dead and came home to find the pigs police have kicked his door in anyway.

Bollocks the Olympics, keep watching you neighbour and keep us informed!
( Pooflake braces for an onslaught..., Fri 8 Aug 2008, 12:55, Reply)

Hallo everybody
How's it hanging?


And how's the gout?

EDIT: DiT, I have access to David Dein's season tickets if you ever fancy going to a game...
( Madam Marlboro wonders if you've found her yet, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 12:57, Reply)

Footie
Inverness Caledonian Thistle ftw
(Eds Meds Mathskillz=1,Socialskillz=0, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 12:58, Reply)

Olympics
Do not watch if you are likely to have a fit!!

Looks fantastic 2008 drummers doing some kind of coundown
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Fri 8 Aug 2008, 12:58, Reply)

Holding the Olympics in Beijing in the summer is probably not a good idea.
All the athletes from North-West Europe will collapse from heat-exhaustion.

Edit: Hallo MM. Mmmmmm...
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 12:59, Reply)

Afternoon spakka
My brain appears to be made of mulch today.
( Madam Marlboro wonders if you've found her yet, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 13:01, Reply)

Well
the announcements are in French, then English then Chinese.

That won't do
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Fri 8 Aug 2008, 13:01, Reply)

Noon MM!
Really? Do you really? How?

*praises*

That. Would. Be. Awesome!
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 13:02, Reply)

Anyone watching it online?
If so, whats the linky please?

All I can find is porn. Which isn't great viewing for worktime.
(Ethelred is watching cheese grow, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 13:06, Reply)

The olympics so far
A quite fantastic drumming display that I won't attempt to describe at the moment.

Now a firework display of giant footprints stomping to the stadium.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Fri 8 Aug 2008, 13:07, Reply)

I washed my hair earlier
and then let it dry naturally and haven't touched it since.

So for those of you meeting me for the first time later, I may look exactly like this:


( thealternativefact, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 13:08, Reply)

DiT
We've worked for him a couple of times and he is a lovely lovely man, an is more than happy to lend us his tickets when we fancy going.


Which is nice.


EDIT: Clendrix, although the hair is pretty spot on, I'm going to disagree with the rest of that....
( Madam Marlboro wonders if you've found her yet, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 13:09, Reply)

A Chinese girl high on helium
is singing something.
( thealternativefact, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 13:10, Reply)

All the sparks
from the fireworks have come together in the centre of the stadium to form the rings, which then flew into the air!

Now a Chinese child is singing while other children in national dress of other countries bring the Chinese flag to be raised on the flag pole.

Stand up now for the Chinese national Anthem
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Fri 8 Aug 2008, 13:12, Reply)

I hate opening ceremonies
Unless the Chinese are wheeling out a criminal for some ceremonial Leng Tch'e I'm not interested.

*edit*
And hellos, hugs, happies to everyone!
( Boss Keloid Got your mother's maiden name tattooed on my arm, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 13:16, Reply)

Now some kind of crazy
dancing resulting in a painted scroll.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Fri 8 Aug 2008, 13:16, Reply)

Fuck me, Mrs Bin
are you watching this painting stuff?

Fuck - I dread to think what Britian will do in 2012. They've got this art that's leaving me speechless. We've got fucking Banksy.

Great.

Edit: BK! Yay!
( thealternativefact, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 13:17, Reply)

Afternoon folks!
How are things?

I am hoping that I can leg it up to the pub this evening in time for last orders, so boo to all you going-home-early types.
(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 13:17, Reply)

Big *flex* for clendrix
Maybe we'll get Tracey Emin to wheel out her jizzy bed again.

*edit*
Afternoon Mr Wookie
( Boss Keloid Got your mother's maiden name tattooed on my arm, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 13:18, Reply)

We'll probably have
five morris dancers, a punch up, and Ian Botham lighting his own farts.

That's where your tax is going, Londoners!
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 13:19, Reply)

Wookiee
Whatever time you arrive, I'll be there, face-down in a pile of sick, not necessarily my own,
Even if you get there at 7.30pm.
( thealternativefact, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 13:19, Reply)

@clendrix
I was thinking exactly the same.

Nothing we can do will match this.

I think we should just roll out Chas and Dave and some Pearly Kings and Queens
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Fri 8 Aug 2008, 13:20, Reply)

^DiT
You're hilarious!
( thealternativefact, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 13:20, Reply)

@DiT
Hee hee, or the Chelsea Pensioner Display team and the Essex Burberry Choir in a rousing chorus of "You're going 'ome in a fackin' ambulance!"
( Boss Keloid Got your mother's maiden name tattooed on my arm, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 13:21, Reply)

@clendrix
This moveable type stuff on now is amazing.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Fri 8 Aug 2008, 13:24, Reply)

b3ta should be in charge of this auspicious task
of the 2012 Opening Ceremony.

All of the great British traditions should be represented, including drinking to the point of near death, laughing at people trying yet failing and general apathy.

Edit: Mrs Bin - this really is good (good goes nowhere near describing it really).
( thealternativefact, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 13:24, Reply)

god, every aspect of us holding the olympics makes me cringe
but at least we won't have to worry about an opening ceremony because none of the building work will be finished in time.

actually, we will have to worry about it, because it'll be in the Millenium Stadium in Cardiff.

At least they have some mildly arty/musicy people in Wales
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 13:27, Reply)

@clendrix
Are you watch on the TV, if not they commentators just said the the guys doing the movable type have been rehearsing for a year!
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Fri 8 Aug 2008, 13:28, Reply)

Perhaps
we could pretend the last-minute buildingworks are part of the opening ceremony.

And here we have typical British builders with half their arse-cracks on display.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 13:29, Reply)

Mrs Bin
I heard that!
I thought how flat one would feel the next day - rehearsing that hard and that long for something so spectacular.
( thealternativefact, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 13:30, Reply)

I don't think we could get enough people to turn up
and practice enough to put something like this on. It'll all be people on community service.


Sorry to people not watch or who don't care but 'God's Cock' is the only expletive I feel summs this all up.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Fri 8 Aug 2008, 13:30, Reply)

Hullo everyone.
I have a cream cake in the work fridge waiting for me. I can hardly contain my exitement.

This is a cream cake bought for me so it won't have any calories. Woo!
( girlinthehole, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 13:31, Reply)

hello miss cakey blouse!
also, if you break it in half before you eat it, all the calories will fall out.

*believes*
(happylittletulip helpless and delicious, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 13:31, Reply)

is it me
or has the ceremony just turned into Blue Peter?
(happylittletulip helpless and delicious, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 13:33, Reply)

What is it with the Olympics?
Is it going through an "Oppressive Police Surveillance State" phase at the moment?
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Fri 8 Aug 2008, 13:33, Reply)

Mrs Bin has a point...
This opening ceremony might have been something I'd not bothered to watch, but must say if you can catch some highlights later, do. It's beyond description.

However, I would like to see the commentators hanged in the middle of the stadium during the next bit, pointless mongs.
( thealternativefact, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 13:33, Reply)

*hugs for blouse and tulip*
Howdy doodies!

I'm incredibly hungover, which always puts me in a giddy mood. Spent most of the day bouncing round the office singing Mighty Boosh songs.
( Boss Keloid Got your mother's maiden name tattooed on my arm, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 13:34, Reply)

I don't give a flying fuck
about all the sport and that.

But this is really worth watching.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Fri 8 Aug 2008, 13:35, Reply)

@Clendrix
I never usually bother watching the start of the Olympics but I think I will now.

*hugs* BK and Tulip.


I shall have an evening of curry, beer and Olympics.
( girlinthehole, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 13:35, Reply)

ooh, a hug from BK!
yay!

*hugs back*

is all well sir?
(happylittletulip helpless and delicious, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 13:36, Reply)

Hello arrivers
Am currently flitting back and forth between the TV and the computer. Saw the movable type part of the ceremony earlier.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 13:39, Reply)

@Tulip
All is well.

Miss Keloid is coming across today instead of tomorrow so she can come to the BBQ I'm off to tonight and meet all my friends, and have an extra night of sexytime when we get back

*happies*
( Boss Keloid Got your mother's maiden name tattooed on my arm, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 13:40, Reply)

Aw BK!
Young love is grand.

*sighs*
( girlinthehole, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 13:42, Reply)

BIG GAY BEARS IN TIGHT LEATHER COATS
I can't watch the ceremony :(
(Ethelred is watching cheese grow, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 13:43, Reply)

What the hell
is that playing the piano?

It's Chinese Liberace
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Fri 8 Aug 2008, 13:44, Reply)

@BGB
I know, we've become one of those annoying huggy couples.
( Boss Keloid Got your mother's maiden name tattooed on my arm, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 13:49, Reply)

My Vision of 2012
By DiT, aged 28 and a half.

~The Opening Ceremony~

The Stadium is dark. The crowd are hushed with anticipation.

A single shaft of light pierces the night, illuminating a figure in the centre of the stadium. It is none other than The Queen. She surveys the thousands of people around her with an imperious air.

"People of the world!" she cries "Let the games begin!"

She is swept away as we are shown the first presentation, entitled 'A British Friday Night'.

Women fall in to the stadium, drunk out of their minds. Big, bald guys roll in after them, their knuckles bloody from fighting. The congregate in the centre of the stadium, and bang down seven shots of sambucca.

At this point, in a moment of incredible choreography, they vomit in to a channel in the floor of the stadium, creating a glorious river of multi coloured alcholoic puke.

Meanwhile, pub doors and alleways are erected around the performance area, and if we look closely we can see the men and women dissipating, meeting together for a quick knee trembler out the back of Ahmeds Kebab House.

All of a sudden, there is a cry of "YOU FAACKIN' WAAANKAAAA!" and all of the men and women lay in to each other with abandon.

This is the end of the presentation.

As the detritus is swept away, a giant ship rises through the floor. It sails majestically through the river of vomit and - yes! - we can see dancing slaves on the deck of the ship - reflective of Britain's inexorable link with slavery in the past few hundred years.

We see a long line of unelected spongers we call royals, indiscriminately fucking and killing each other.

We have a choir of as many as can be bothered singing "Two World Wars and One World Cup.", followed by "England, England, England".

It's now time to light the flame of hope. But the Gas has been cut off. A student with a Zippo has to hold it above his head for two weeks.

Surely, this will be the best games of all time.
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 13:51, Reply)

@All
I've been just down in the basement at the gym here watching it and seeing Chinese people watching their countrymen p!ssing about in Beijing.

In all the time I've been here I've never seen people STOP on treadmills to stand watching the TV when their national anthem was played. Can't work out whether it's blind nationalism, pride or brainwashing.

Whatever it is, it's downright fcuking ODD!
(Eds Meds Mathskillz=1,Socialskillz=0, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 13:51, Reply)

@DIT
love it, sounds just right to me. Sorted, I think you should send it to the olympic committee.

Oh crap, a typical Chinese classroom.

Imagine if we had that in the London Olympics.

God Damn. Massive Fu display.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Fri 8 Aug 2008, 13:55, Reply)

@DiT
Now that I WOULD watch.


Edit - I've just eaten my cream cake and it went down in 3 bites : )
( girlinthehole, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 13:56, Reply)

@DiT
If they were to get the river of multicoloured puke right, everyone would have to have colour-coordinated diets.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 13:57, Reply)

DiT
This plan is superb.

I have been skyping my friend all morning, and she and I have concocted a smiliar plan, with events, for the paralympics.

Sadly, I cannot share these as will feel too ashamed. However, we have laughed our arses off so much that I now feel a bit sick.
( thealternativefact, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 14:00, Reply)

^Well that's a given, Spak.
I mean, we're not fucking about here, this is the olympics...
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 14:01, Reply)

@clendrix
The hurdles! The hurdles!

*mimes wheeling*
*smacks head*
*mimes wheeling*
*smacks head*
( Boss Keloid Got your mother's maiden name tattooed on my arm, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 14:03, Reply)

Oy! BK that's naughty.
*giggles*
( girlinthehole, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 14:04, Reply)

@ BK
I doff my hat dear squire.
(Ethelred is watching cheese grow, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 14:06, Reply)

Sarah Brightman
What the hell is she doing there?

Must go, Mr Inabin is home for his lunch.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Fri 8 Aug 2008, 14:07, Reply)

I'm afraid that by the time we'd finished, BK
it resembled 'It's A Knockout' (1970s, Stuart Hall masterpiece - not that shit piece of crap the royal family did).
( thealternativefact, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 14:07, Reply)

@clendrix
Stuart Hall - I always thought he was going to cark it on air, he used to piss himself laughing so much.
( Boss Keloid Got your mother's maiden name tattooed on my arm, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 14:09, Reply)

BK
His constant hysteria, especially everytime the Belgians attempted something, was an absolute delight.
( thealternativefact, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 14:12, Reply)

hee hee
Reet, I'd better bugger off and get some work done. Hope you have fun at this minibash tonight.
I probably won't be on til Sunday so you can tell me all about it then

*hugs*
Byesies!
( Boss Keloid Got your mother's maiden name tattooed on my arm, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 14:14, Reply)

Afternoon all
Hows things here this fine afternoon??
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 14:14, Reply)

This is getting more bizzare
the counties are all parading out to a Bagpipes playing Scotland the brave!
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Fri 8 Aug 2008, 14:15, Reply)

I'm loving the bagpipes.
I didn't think the ceremony would have started yet. How un-with-it of me.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 14:17, Reply)

200
Woo!
(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 14:29, Reply)

Another idea for the London Olympics opening ceremony.
The entire ceremony will be one person in the middle of the stadium reading out a long list of excuses for why nothing has been completed on time.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 14:42, Reply)

@ spakka
Thats if hes bothered to turn up on time
(Ethelred is watching cheese grow, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 14:45, Reply)

PJM Newsbureau latest
"By 2062 the British taxpayer will have finally finished paying off the massively overbudget 2012 Olympics."

Tarquin Wasteful-Quango, the spokesperson for the Department for Government Profligacy later denied that the idea of London hosting the games was "Shit".
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Fri 8 Aug 2008, 14:48, Reply)

@Ethelred
That would be part of the ceremony. Everyone would be waiting without a clue what's going on. Then, this bloke appears and starts making excuses. When asked questions, he can't answer a single one.

About halfway through, he'll announce that the stadium will be spontaneously closing and everyone is to move to a new stadium. Of course, not all the exits will be finished and it takes ages to empty the stadium. By the time the last stragglers have reached the new stadium, the ceremony would have finished.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 14:53, Reply)

Spak
Nice idea, but it'll never happen. By the time the stadium is half built (in 2013) someone will vandalise it beyond repair while we're all down the pub.

You've put more effort into devising your opening ceremony than will ever be applied to the real thing.
( thealternativefact, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 15:05, Reply)

My man of the Olympics
Is the flag bearer for Brazil, Bobby Shite. Yes that's right, the man's name is Bobby Shite

edit - Ok it's spelt Scheidt but pronounced Shite
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Fri 8 Aug 2008, 15:07, Reply)

@clendrix
And that was what I devised between negotiating the time of my interview and watching the opening cermony.

Maybe I should apply to the London Olympic committe and offer my services so I can work on this full time (although if they take up my offer, it would have to be renamed the 'Olympickle games').
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 15:10, Reply)

I turned over and put the news on.
Russia has just invaded Georgia and war is on the cards.
I must say that the procession of Russian tanks crossing the border lacks the charm and beauty of the Chinese acrobats on the other side.
( thealternativefact, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 15:11, Reply)

Is it outside of the realms of possibility...
That London can put on a good show? Are we really that rubbish?

Well, I say we. What I mean is 'you'. That's right, I'm using my Danishness to escape culpability should the whole thing go tits up.

EDIT: Shit. More war.
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 15:14, Reply)

Dear Russians
I saw what you did there.

Don't think that just because there's a distraction going on, us newshounds aren't paying attention (we've got the Internet and that).

When will they learn?
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 15:14, Reply)

Just found you can watch
it all live on BBC's front page! Bit late now though.

Russia invaded Georgia, that's not good.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Fri 8 Aug 2008, 15:15, Reply)

DiT
You get the pastries in, we'll sort out all the fireworks and shit.

Spak, when's your interview?
( thealternativefact, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 15:16, Reply)

@ Mrs Liveinabin
Our internet access goes through the US head office, so the BBC wouldn't allow me to watch the opening ceremony, but I could watch videos of fat cats being on diets and the russian invasion. Neither were spectacular.
(Ethelred is watching cheese grow, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 15:17, Reply)

@PMSL
At Bobby Shite and the lack of acrobatic grace shown by Russian T90 tanks
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Fri 8 Aug 2008, 15:18, Reply)

I think I might be in love with Bobby Shite.
Clendrix Shite.
It has a nice, and relevant, ring to it.
( thealternativefact, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 15:22, Reply)

O HALP!
Sorry to TJ, but for anyone going to the Minibash, are we now going straight to the pub due to adverse weather conditions?

EDIT: How is Clendrix Shite relevant? If his surname was 'awesome', I'd see your point...
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 15:23, Reply)

Because I do talk an awful lot of shite...
DiT!
*blushes lots*

Not quite true, but lovely all the same.

Edit: I will be heading straight for pub.
( thealternativefact, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 15:25, Reply)

and I would as well.
Here he is:


( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Fri 8 Aug 2008, 15:25, Reply)

Bobby Shite
is about to be offered a job with the official PJM News Bureau.

Can you imagine the misunderstanding when he walks up to the Prime Minister to introduce himself and announces "Bob Shite"?
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Fri 8 Aug 2008, 15:25, Reply)

when my gf and I get married
I want to change our surname to Awesome

and have two daughters, Totally and Freaking.

(points for knowing what this came from)
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 15:26, Reply)

OMG
The Yanks are all wearing white flat caps.
Everyone is booing!
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Fri 8 Aug 2008, 15:28, Reply)

I'd like to change my middle name
To Danger.

NO! SCRAP THAT!

I'll change my first name to Les and surname to Danger.

Les Danger! Les Danger!

EDIT: I endorse your name change, V. Me and the Mrs are currently in debate as to whether she takes my name or not when we get hitched.

I am winning, so far.

(Now that's an obscure reference if ever I saw one...)
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 15:28, Reply)

@clendrix awesome
The interview's on Friday 22nd at 3pm, and my other interview is on Wednesday 27th 10am.

Now, I just need my friend who I'm visiting to keep me entertained for the days I'm not b3tabashing.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 15:29, Reply)

The Americans
look like they all have jobs at Conservative Butlins.

Spak, what, keep you entertained for all that time? Hmm...you might need to make some plans to do some stuff too.
( thealternativefact, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 15:30, Reply)

If Bobby Shite were a newsreader
I can just picture him reading a newsitem about Shi'ite Muslims.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 15:31, Reply)

@C A
The Tuesday is reserved for more interviews. However, the one on Wednesday is somewhere in rural Oxfordshire so if I get no further interviews, I could explore the area.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 15:34, Reply)

@Spakka
Yep, responding to machine gun fire with "Bird shot"

*edit* Good luck with the interviews
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Fri 8 Aug 2008, 15:34, Reply)

interesting
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7547148.stm

Don't have 86 wives, says the 84 year old with 86 wives.
(Ethelred is watching cheese grow, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 15:38, Reply)

I used to work for a solicitors
and I asked one of them if he'd change my name to Chesty La Rue. He said no :(
( wanderlust, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 15:39, Reply)

Haha
I shall call you Chesty LaRue anyway... ;)
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 15:41, Reply)

You've got to check
if "Chesty La Rue" has already been taken as a b3ta monniker.
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Fri 8 Aug 2008, 15:43, Reply)

To change your name
you can just take a classified add out in the Times.
If you also then insist that everyone calls you that then that is good enough.
Honestly.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Fri 8 Aug 2008, 15:44, Reply)

"Chesty La Rue"
makes me think of cleavage as wide as a street.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 15:46, Reply)

I've always preferred the name
Hooty McBoob to Chesty LaRue
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 15:46, Reply)

@vipros
That made me snort with laughter
*shames*

I think I look more like a chesty though.

Sometimes I'm so thankful my parents chose my name for me. When I was younger I wanted to be called Rainbow Sparkles.
( wanderlust, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 15:48, Reply)

Ethel
Aha! I have learned from the Nigerian man story that the way to get blokes to go out with me is to say, 'But god says it must happen.'

I'm sure my success rate will increase accordingly.
( thealternativefact, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 15:49, Reply)

@ clendrix
Yep, I was about to use that chat up line myself!
(Ethelred is watching cheese grow, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 15:52, Reply)

.
@wanderlust
My parents should have let me name my little sister. She probably would have ended up with a very unique name.

@Miss Awesome
That wouldn't work with Atheists.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 15:52, Reply)

@Clendrix
it may work but have you seen some of his wives?

if I were him I'd have said "god says it must be, but not with you, because to be brutally honest you're pretty ugly"

right, I'm off for the weekend. time to start the birthday celebrations!

have a good one everybody. enjoy the bash tonight those who are going and give everyone real life clickyhugs from me
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 15:53, Reply)

And as its strange news Friday,
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7549301.stm

Snoop Dogg goes Bhangra, dawg.
(Ethelred is watching cheese grow, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 15:55, Reply)

Names
I've got Scandinavian in my genetic heritage somewhere so I've always been tempted by a good, strong Scandinavian name and have an ad something to the effect of:

"WITH IMMEDIATE EFFECT, , OF GREENWICH WISHES TO BE REFERRED TO LARS ANDERSSEN"
(Eds Meds Mathskillz=1,Socialskillz=0, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 15:58, Reply)

When I was about 5
My mum found me crying in my room on my own.

When she asked what was wrong, I replied "Why didn't you call me Percy?"

I disticntly remember writing "Percy" on my pencil case.

Quite why I wanted to be called Percy I don't know, but thank God I'm not...

EDIT: Bless ya, Ethel. My real name is about as Scandinavian as they come, and believe you me when I say the amount of times people go "oooh, is that Swedish" (I'm a Dane) is really annoying.
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 15:58, Reply)

Ahhhhh I love Bollywood films
They're so over the top.

My favourite is Kal Ho Naa Ho.

They sing a hindi version of pretty woman!

If you can find it on youtube I recommend it, for teh lolz as it were.

EDIT: DiT that is the sweetest thing I have heard for a long time! Percy is an amazing name. There's not enough Percys in the world!
( wanderlust, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 16:00, Reply)

DiT
I'm assuming the Chris is Christof?
(Ethelred is watching cheese grow, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 16:03, Reply)

Nope!
That's French!

EDIT: The 'Chris' is short for 'Christian', which is the most common name for a male in Denmark.

DOUBLE EDIT: I'm quite nervous about going to the bash tonight!
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 16:12, Reply)

DiT
Are you worried Kaol's going to attack your face?
( wanderlust, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 16:16, Reply)

@DiT:
Learn to feast on the adrenaline caused by your nervousness and consider it an adrenaline-high.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 16:19, Reply)

DiT
Why?
Seriously?
Please don't be (well, I am a tiny bit, but I've met a few of the people already).
( thealternativefact, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 16:19, Reply)

Dunno
I don't have confidence problems, I can just get very very shy and build up the event in my head before I go and worry about it and worry that I'll be an idiot and worry that people won't like me and Oh God I have just let all my insecurity out on the interwebs...
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 16:21, Reply)

Quitting time for me!
I'll see some of you later on.

Everyone else. have a lovely Friday! :D
( wanderlust, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 16:23, Reply)

@DiT
I was quite nervous myself when about to meet my fellow b3tans for the first time but it quickly evaporated. I may still be a bit nervous at the Megabash in 2 weeks.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 16:25, Reply)

Bye WL
To all this evening's bash people:

Have fun and don't do anything I wouldn't do.

* Is already making arrangements for the following bash *
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 16:28, Reply)

What does that leave me with, Spak?
;P
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 16:28, Reply)

^ ^
Fun, fun, fun, and bashing! Woooooooooooo!
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 16:30, Reply)

Devillish One
We will take good care of you.






Mwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahahahaha
( thealternativefact, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 16:31, Reply)

Devil
Most of the people you dun meeted before going, clendrix is an angel and I'd like to see you.

So there.
( Madam Marlboro wonders if you've found her yet, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 16:42, Reply)

@everyone
Good after noon all, i'm bored at work. I can't be arsed to read 256 replies...

What's up?
( Axai is in Montréal, Canada O.o, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 16:44, Reply)

.
I can assure you that clendrix doesn't bite, but I'm not sure what will happen is you ask her to.

Edit: Yo Axai!
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 16:45, Reply)

Axai
I think everyones gone and fucked off. There was talk of the Beijing Olympics, and then we were discussing the bash tonight.

EDIT: spak's here too. *waves*
( Madam Marlboro wonders if you've found her yet, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 16:45, Reply)

@MM
Well thanks! I watched the opening it was amazing. Damnit! I didn't realise there was a bash tonight. Arse.

I'll be at the one on the 23rd though, woo.

edit: yo spakk! How goes it
( Axai is in Montréal, Canada O.o, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 16:46, Reply)

I am here too.
But soon I will taken from this place to another place where I will drink from the glass until I am dead*.

*or will at least feel like I am
( thealternativefact, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 16:48, Reply)

Axai
are you really only 18? If so how did you become so infernally brilliant with the computerness?
( Madam Marlboro wonders if you've found her yet, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 16:48, Reply)

@MM
Well, it's simple really. Take being a loner at school, mix it with a bit of 'nasty y00f' and add a fascination for computers.

Result: No social life, and that time being spent learning about computers.

Luckily though, i have made up for the social life part - b3ta helped ;)

edit: I'm 19 now, my birthday was a month ago *updates profile*
( Axai is in Montréal, Canada O.o, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 16:50, Reply)

Fair enough
I think all of us on b3ta are or have been geeky loners at one time or another. But your proxys are pure win : )

EDIT: Happy birfdays!
( Madam Marlboro wonders if you've found her yet, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 16:52, Reply)

@MM
Haha, pretty much right! I really like the proxy, i've tried best i can to evade detection (stupid websense). Im glad you're all liking it though!

Will you be at the bash on 23rd?

edit: thanks for the birfday wishes :)
( Axai is in Montréal, Canada O.o, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 16:55, Reply)

I will indeed
I have even arranged my Edinburgh trip around it. I'm not quite sure what that says about me.
( Madam Marlboro wonders if you've found her yet, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 16:56, Reply)

^MM's right, Axai!
Nice to have you here - congrats on reaching the last year of your teens too!
( thealternativefact, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 16:57, Reply)

* waves *
Let's start a Mexican Wave!

@Axai: Have been multitasking today. Sorting out stuff with my interviews while fitting in time for the olympic opening ceremony and b3taing. I'm also not going to tonight's bash, but only because I'm in a different country. Will be coming to the August 23rd one.
Your lifestory seems too familiar. Wish I had b3ta back in my day. Is having a geeky childhood really a pre-requisite for making contributions in the domain of computery goodness?

Edit: Belated happy birthday.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 16:59, Reply)

@ both of you
Thanks muchly, it's nie to be here... what with all these lovely people to keep me company!

And yay! I'm looking forward to meeting y'all but be gentle.. i'm shy

*wants to go home*

edit @spakk: that sounds like muchos fun. What country you in right now? See you august 23rd! I think it is a pre-requisite, i don't know many geeks that didn't have a childhood like mine... don't quite know why either
( Axai is in Montréal, Canada O.o, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 17:00, Reply)

To be quite frank spak
the different country excuse smacks of laziness to me.

EDIT: Axai, the reason we're all here is that we're all fairly similar minded people, and you'll be suprised how quickly you hit it off with everyone when you meet them.
( Madam Marlboro wonders if you've found her yet, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 17:00, Reply)

@MM
That's what i thought, and what i'm hoping. You all seem a great bunch, and i've been with b3ta for a year now.. so why not!
( Axai is in Montréal, Canada O.o, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 17:02, Reply)

'Noon Axai!
Alright?

Hey, MM! What time you gonna be there tonight? I have to leave early doors!
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 17:04, Reply)

Alright D
How goes it? Slow and boring afternoon here. *sigh*

Out of curiosity, what time is the bash and where tonight?
( Axai is in Montréal, Canada O.o, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 17:05, Reply)

The first bash
I was hiding round a corner for quite a while, and beckyjsbx actually left and waited for Kaol outside cause she was too scared to ask people if they were from the internet. But then we all got chatting and it was great. Looking forward to meeting yous anyhoo.
( Madam Marlboro wonders if you've found her yet, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 17:05, Reply)

@MM
That's hilarious! Do you call eachother by your usernames or real names? I'll have to know what at least one of you looks like so i can spot you!
( Axai is in Montréal, Canada O.o, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 17:07, Reply)

Devilus!
I don't know, I was trying to figure out what time everyone else was getting there. What's early doors?

Axai, it's at the Old Dairy in Finsbury Park at whatever time you feel like going really.

EDIT: I'll take my camera down and stick photos up. And it depends on how stupid our usernames are. Kaol quite likes his but me and wanderlust prefer our real names....
( Madam Marlboro wonders if you've found her yet, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 17:07, Reply)

Come on Down, Axai!
MM, early doors is about 8.30. :(
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 17:08, Reply)

I'm off soon
and will be there around 6pm.
( thealternativefact, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 17:09, Reply)

Axai
A pic is in my profile. But I don't have a plane. Or hair.

So that was pretty useless! :)
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 17:11, Reply)

@all
I may just go, depends what time i get off work.
Now, question for the ignorant: What's early doors?
@D: HA! Awesomeness. Ill add a pic to my profile
( Axai is in Montréal, Canada O.o, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 17:11, Reply)

Axai
Take a look on the calendar entry for directions to the pub from the tube station. I reckon you'll know us when you see us - hope you can come!
( thealternativefact, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 17:15, Reply)

Also
I will have the dog in my profile with me.
( Madam Marlboro wonders if you've found her yet, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 17:16, Reply)

Photo
Now in my profile ;)
I'm gonna try and make it tonight, Finsbury park is actually my way home anyway :)
What time will everyone get there?

edit: @MM A BOXER !!! I love boxers, i have two :)
( Axai is in Montréal, Canada O.o, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 17:19, Reply)

Axai
I think we'll be dribbling in from about 6ish

EDIT: omigodomigodomigod

If you've got boxers you must be alright : )
( Madam Marlboro wonders if you've found her yet, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 17:21, Reply)

I think i'll be there
At about 6:30-7ish and stay for an hour, as my journey home sucks. Anyone else heading north from Finsbury park?
( Axai is in Montréal, Canada O.o, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 17:22, Reply)

I am calculating
and keep making people organise bashes I can walk to from my house.

Right, I'm off to sort myself out for tonight. See you in a bit!
( Madam Marlboro wonders if you've found her yet, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 17:23, Reply)

@MM
My boxers are lovely, both 6 years old. The boy (Arthur) looks exactly like the one in your profile picture. He likes hugs, which is strange. He'll just sit with you four hours and the second, molly, is just.. well, crazy.

Ill see if i have a pic
( Axai is in Montréal, Canada O.o, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 17:25, Reply)

.
@Axai: I know a few geeks who didn't have a childhood like that, but can better empathise with the ones that did. I did have some friends as a teenager, but they were geeks too. I'm keeping my location secret to reduce the chance of potential employers googling like mad until they find my b3ta posting-history, but I'll Gaz anyone who asks.

BTW: We call eachother by our real names. It's sort of like learning sex education at school. It's nothing you don't already know - they just have different names for everything.

@MM: I feel a bit left out from missing out when everyone went to their first bash and were all shy and nervous, but I did quickly fit in with my first bash (where everyone else had already met a b3tan before). I think the megabash will be a different kettle of fish alltogether from a 5-person bash. The first-bash nerves does sort of remind me of my first Internet Dating experience.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 17:28, Reply)

@spakk
Nice, it's just the first "Uh, are you from teh intarwebs?" question... and walking round like a lost sheep until you find someone.

I've met loadsa people from the intarwebs, but it never gets any easier.

I'll be heading off around 6, get there for 7 :)
( Axai is in Montréal, Canada O.o, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 17:31, Reply)

@Axai
Maybe you should get one b3tan to look out for you and say hi.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 17:38, Reply)