The 'I'm not going to the bash' thread.
Well I'm not. But the weather is really nice so I'm likely to be sat outside but I'm still not going to the bash as I'm skint.
Why are you not going?

( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Sat 23 Aug 2008, 9:05, 75 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Morning
I'm mostly not going as I live in Scotland. Plus I'm playing at a wedding reception this evening.

How are you?
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Sat 23 Aug 2008, 9:10, Reply)

morning my fellow non-bashers
how are you both today?

I'm at work. Again.

*pines*
(happylittletulip helpless and delicious, Sat 23 Aug 2008, 10:09, Reply)

Living in Scotland
is a good reason not to go.

I am good today thanks, as I said the weather here is lovely for the first time in about 4 weeks so I imagine I shall spend the rest of the day sitting in the garden.

*edit* Morning HLT. Work again? That sucks.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Sat 23 Aug 2008, 10:09, Reply)

The sun is out here too
"here" also being Scotland.

Scotland rocks.

London sucks.

Being skint sucks.

Bashes suck too.

*awaits flaming*
(happylittletulip helpless and delicious, Sat 23 Aug 2008, 10:12, Reply)

.
*twiddles thumbs*

*looks around*

*tumbleweed*

*realises is on own*

*puts cheesy music on*

*dances alone*

*cries*
(happylittletulip helpless and delicious, Sat 23 Aug 2008, 10:21, Reply)

I'm still here
but I'm going out in about 20 minutes.

Have you ever been to a bash?
I think I would be too frightened.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Sat 23 Aug 2008, 10:24, Reply)

not yet
but only because I'm broke and far away.

I am definitely going to the Edinburgh one next April though. why don't you come along to that one, then we can be nervous together?
(happylittletulip helpless and delicious, Sat 23 Aug 2008, 10:26, Reply)

It depends
it will need to be in the school holidays.

It's a thought though. I am planning a trip to Edinburgh and combining the two might be an idea.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Sat 23 Aug 2008, 10:28, Reply)

April 11th - Easter hols?
Go on, you know you want to.

*adopts Mrs Doyle voice*

go on go on go on go on go on go on go on go on go on go on go on go on go on go on go on go on go on go on go on go on go on go on go on go on!
(happylittletulip helpless and delicious, Sat 23 Aug 2008, 10:29, Reply)

Morning
Sun's shining up here (or down here, confusingly) but I'll be spending half the day in the loft on Phase 7 of Operation 'Sort My Shit Out'.

Aside from the infamous cowboy boots, I have found the ceremonially-cut-off ponytail, a set of shark's jaws, a machete, a collection of shot-glasses and books by the crate.
(osok Rebel without a clue, Sat 23 Aug 2008, 10:30, Reply)

Yup the 11th is the Easter Holidays
It really depends on me having a job by then and therefore having money.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Sat 23 Aug 2008, 10:32, Reply)

yay! Embra bash!
could you do supply for a bit?

morning osok. how's things? and if that's what you found during phase 7, what on earth did you find in the previous 6 phases?
(happylittletulip helpless and delicious, Sat 23 Aug 2008, 10:34, Reply)

Nothing
I repeat, absolutely nothing that was illegal, immoral or fattening.

I wish to make that quite clear.

*whistles nonchalantly*

*visits dump again under cover of darkness while disguised as Brian Blessed*
(osok Rebel without a clue, Sat 23 Aug 2008, 10:41, Reply)

oooh
*wonders what could be all of those three things at once*

*turns oven on*
(happylittletulip helpless and delicious, Sat 23 Aug 2008, 10:43, Reply)

Hmm
illegal, immoral and fattening.

Fat man jerky?

Right chaps and chapesses. I'm off out.

Have fun, see you later.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Sat 23 Aug 2008, 10:45, Reply)

byebye Mrs L!
have fun!

*waves*
(happylittletulip helpless and delicious, Sat 23 Aug 2008, 10:46, Reply)

there's a bash?
I, too, am at work. I'm also not going to the bash.

The reason for non-attending is a) Don't know where it is, b) Too shy and c) Can't be arsed.

As for it being sunny, I'm working in a shopping centre and we don't have any windows, so I'm hoping it's really raining hard so that I'm not missing out on any decent weather, but in reality I know it's probably really sun shiney.

Meh.
( SeasonTicketless is too often the statue, and rarely the pigeon., Sat 23 Aug 2008, 10:48, Reply)

The sun is attempting to shine here
But I am planning stuff, then need to pack the car with PA and drive quite a lot. What fun.

Having fun at work all?
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Sat 23 Aug 2008, 10:53, Reply)

hello ST
*soothes*

1. it's in london
2. so is everyone else, probably
3. fair enough.

yeah, no windows is rubbish. have you got a fire door you can open?
(happylittletulip helpless and delicious, Sat 23 Aug 2008, 10:54, Reply)

I'm not going
because my head is up my arse these days. Also, until yesterday I was skint. Now I have more money than I've seen all year. I'm going to buy pizza and beer and a car and then I'll squander the rest.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Sat 23 Aug 2008, 11:09, Reply)

Joy Of Joys
My 4 year old is "helping"..................


An Embra bash sounds lovely as I've only been back to my home town once in the last 15 years, and I got lost on the way out and ended up in my charming former workplace of Wester Hailes.

However I am (a) poor (b) living amongst the Heathen and (c) unlikely to get a pass from the Obergruppenfuhrer after the last 'incident'.*







*I didn't realise that Urinating on a Police Vehicle was actually a criminal offence.
(osok Rebel without a clue, Sat 23 Aug 2008, 11:13, Reply)

ta
ta for the soothing :)

Yep, we have a fire door, but it leads to the service area for the shopping centre. And the place where all the rats live.

I'm only here till one, so I should quit moaning really.
( SeasonTicketless is too often the statue, and rarely the pigeon., Sat 23 Aug 2008, 11:13, Reply)

Crackers
Bank job was it?

"On the floor youse English Bastards and nobody gets hurt....except for him, he's carrying a man-bag........BANG.......now, hand over the cash"

Ahem

Returning all to briefly to coherence, what flavour of car are you thinking of buying?
(osok Rebel without a clue, Sat 23 Aug 2008, 11:24, Reply)

@osok
you can't prove that was me - I was wearing a very fetching balaclava.

I'm torn between a Nissan Micra or a Land Rover Defender. I realise these seem somewhat different, but both have excellent offroading capabilities.

I'm a cheapskate so it might be the Micra.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Sat 23 Aug 2008, 11:30, Reply)

CHCB
The Disco is lovely offroad, until something breaks. Which it will. Also, expect bills circa £1000 every time it goes near a main dealer service department.

Micras are pretty much bombproof, if ugly.

If you want a compromise, the titchy Suzuki 4x4 keeps doing well in the comparisons but isn't very comfy on the road.

How much offroading will you be doing, or this car destined for Johnny-Foreigner Land at some point?
(osok Rebel without a clue, Sat 23 Aug 2008, 11:38, Reply)

@ CHCB
I don't think a Nissan Micra fits in with your feisty self at all. You'll be obliged to drive everywhere at 28mph as well, and everyone will hate you.
(happylittletulip helpless and delicious, Sat 23 Aug 2008, 11:46, Reply)

^
Not a Disco, a Defender - easier to fix :)

If you mean the wee Suzuki SJs, that definitely stands for shitty jeep - they're dreadful. Fixed scrapped too many of those last year...

Yeah, I had thought if I got the Landy I could take it on the rally next year. Same goes for the Micra though.

I'll probably end up with whatever's cheapest with the longest remaining MOT. The archaeologist in me wants something that you can fit wheelbarrows in, though.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Sat 23 Aug 2008, 11:48, Reply)

And I'm not going
because I'm in Virginia and can't afford to hop a plane at whim. Dammit.

However, clendrix will be here tomorrow! YAY!
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Sat 23 Aug 2008, 11:50, Reply)

trouble with a Landy
is that if you want to tax it or drive it anywhere it's going to suck every penny you have

my advice is always buy something German. they know how to make cars.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Sat 23 Aug 2008, 11:50, Reply)

@ Loon
that is a reasonable excuse.

Also, when I read the words "Virginia" and "plane" in your post, Bryan Ferry appeared in my head.

edit: ^ what vipros said. vorsprung durch technik ftw.
(happylittletulip helpless and delicious, Sat 23 Aug 2008, 11:51, Reply)

Give me a ticket for an aeroplane
I ain't got time to take no fast train
O lonely days are gone
I'm comin' hooooooome
my baby she wrote me a letter...

(I can only hear this in Joe Cocker's voice now)
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Sat 23 Aug 2008, 11:54, Reply)

Nyer Nyer Nyer
I'm just getting ready to go to the bash with the inimitable Pooflake (who really IS a bell-end).
Looks like being a great day, apart from my complete lack of drugs.


Ah well, you can't have everything.
(Captain Placid 24/7 ball gags, brownie mix and clown porn, Sat 23 Aug 2008, 11:54, Reply)

*pokes tongue out at CP*
*blows raspberries*
(happylittletulip helpless and delicious, Sat 23 Aug 2008, 12:01, Reply)

@HLT
Never underestimate the power of the Micra!

Last year's Micra:

( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Sat 23 Aug 2008, 12:06, Reply)

Sorry CHCB
Saturday eyesight. A Defender is of course the only proper Landrover, and is basically the world's biggest meccano set. However, they're daftly expensive.

On my list is the Airborne Lightweight version, with a 'somewhat' modified V8 and a rollcage.

However, if you want something that should give you the best longevity/value for money but is unlikely to be exciting, buy Japanese.
(osok Rebel without a clue, Sat 23 Aug 2008, 12:06, Reply)

nah
sorry, but nah. You can't have "Micra" and "power" in the same sentence, unless "pathetic lack of" is in there as well.

Micras are cars for people who don't like cars.

In the same way that James Blunt is for people who don't like music.

that said, your micra up there is marginally cooler than all the other micras.

but only because it's dirty. edit and appears to have the word "feck" on it.
(happylittletulip helpless and delicious, Sat 23 Aug 2008, 12:09, Reply)

Pooflake is not a bell-end.
He's Bertie Wooster, scrambled around a little bit and transported forward a century. He cracked me up when I met him, and hope to meet him again soon- and you as well, Cap'n.

BGB and I still joke about the "flat cap and weasel shops".
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Sat 23 Aug 2008, 12:12, Reply)

Hello
With less than an hour to go, I´m posting this from my friend´s laptop.

Woooooooo!
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Sat 23 Aug 2008, 12:20, Reply)

Hello all
I have returned from 'town'.

I am now off to sit in the garden while the going is good.
I shall be taking you guys with me though through the magic of laptops and wi-fi.

*edit* as far as cars go get one of these:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogPOmilB5VA

I have!
(not as expensive as you might think)
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Sat 23 Aug 2008, 12:24, Reply)

hello spakka!
did you have fun in "town" Mrs L?
(happylittletulip helpless and delicious, Sat 23 Aug 2008, 12:29, Reply)

Well HLT
I don't do people so I tend to avoid town on a Saturday. So all I did was meet Mr Inabin for coffee while he was on his break and buy a paper.

I may have also stopped at the old fashioned sweet shop.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Sat 23 Aug 2008, 12:32, Reply)

And as soon as I arrrive
I have to shoot off again.

BASH! HERE I COME!

* gives hugs to those not going *

BTW: If I´m not too hungover, I´ll be going on a walk tomorrow

See ya!
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Sat 23 Aug 2008, 12:37, Reply)

Have fun spakka
Does anyone have a phone number for the clouds so I can call them and ask them to get the fuck away from the sun?
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Sat 23 Aug 2008, 12:40, Reply)

No, but
you could try blowing on them.
(happylittletulip helpless and delicious, Sat 23 Aug 2008, 13:23, Reply)

A good economical little 4x4
That is often overlooked is the Fiat Panda 4x4

Review here

www.honestjohn.co.uk/carbycar/index.htm?md=883&
( RadG Drinking Mojitos in the sun, Sat 23 Aug 2008, 13:53, Reply)

Radg
Fiat and good in the same sentence?






Sorry, but I'm a bitter man after the bill for the MOT for Mrs O's Fiat came to £700 ish. And it still needs a cambelt and the a/c has gone tits up. Who came up with the idea of putting an Alfa engine in a Fiat, mutter, mutter, mutter.
(osok Rebel without a clue, Sat 23 Aug 2008, 14:18, Reply)

it's gone all quiet
I suppose all the cool kids are bashing now.

*sighs*
(happylittletulip helpless and delicious, Sat 23 Aug 2008, 14:29, Reply)

The cool kids are bashing!
I've come back inside which makes me think about doing housework.
I really should clean the bathroom, but it's not much fun!
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Sat 23 Aug 2008, 14:36, Reply)

clean the bathroom? on a saturday?
noooooooooo don't do it!
(happylittletulip helpless and delicious, Sat 23 Aug 2008, 14:44, Reply)

I'm going to have to
no one else is at home.
The sun has gone in.
And if I sit here and read then that dirty bathroom is just going to be tapping away at my brain.
As I'm not working Saturday is like any other day but without Jeremy Kyle.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Sat 23 Aug 2008, 14:48, Reply)

good old Jezza
car crash telly at its best.

you just can't not watch!
(happylittletulip helpless and delicious, Sat 23 Aug 2008, 14:51, Reply)

I love it
I sit and watch it in the bath in the mornings. (my bathroom is en suite so I can see the TV in the bedroom from the bath)
My problem is that after next week Mr Inabin will be working in schools too and, once I have a job, I won't have days off on my own.
He looks down his nose a daytime TV so I don't think I'll get to watch it!
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Sat 23 Aug 2008, 14:55, Reply)

pah
that sucks

just pretend you've lost the remote. then he'll get sucked in like the rest of us.
(happylittletulip helpless and delicious, Sat 23 Aug 2008, 14:57, Reply)

Look
www.itv.com/Lifestyle/jeremykyle/default.html

You can watch them all online but I can't get it too work!

yay, got it working!
Hurrah. Wall to wall Jezza!
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Sat 23 Aug 2008, 15:39, Reply)

awesome!
probably shouldn't watch it while I'm at work though...
(happylittletulip helpless and delicious, Sat 23 Aug 2008, 16:13, Reply)

Jeremy Kyle?
I've only been exposed to his show courtesy of the NHS, and I was left with a few thoughts:

1. If you're legally allowed out without a responsible adult or carer, you should be clever enough to realise you'll be exposed to the world as pikey trash.

2. Could someone not tell them to wash their hair before going on national TV. Bob on a bike, you'd be able to scrape the grease off their pillows and make candles.

Jeez.

Anyway, since the cool ones are off vomiting on each other, it seems a bit tumbleweedy, even for a Saturday. HLT will be still pretending to work, Mrs L will be being a domestic goddess, and Vipros might even have finished the tiling.

I'm desperately avoiding work, and have even managed to dredge up a not very funny story, but have just had a phonecall I've been expecting and dreading for a while so will probably go and do something physical for a while to take my mind off it.
(osok Rebel without a clue, Sat 23 Aug 2008, 16:34, Reply)

Im not going to the bash
because I'm in the wrong country. I've been checking for cheap flights the last few days but there all around E200. The mind boggles why planes will leave with empty seats.

However, we are having a Hibernian bash on 5Sep to which you are all, of course, invited.

rafter!
baz
(bazmorningstar efil4nat3b, Sat 23 Aug 2008, 16:34, Reply)

Fab-o-rama
I had Jezza playing while I cleaned the kitchen.

It makes cleaning out the cupboard under the sink a far more acceptable thing to do with your time when you know that some pikey scum are having a shitter life!
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Sat 23 Aug 2008, 17:02, Reply)

I was sooo tempted to stay on the tube just now
and head down to Victoria as it's not far from me at all, but I'd be relying on other people to buy me drinks and my stupid pride wont let me do that. So instead I've been sensible and come home from rabbit sitting and studying all day. Going to watch a film now and relax for a bit before recommencing Operation brain cell: Activate, as I seem to have mislaid some along the way.
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Sat 23 Aug 2008, 17:39, Reply)

I'm off
yay!

back Tuesday. have smashing weekends y'all.

*snogs*
(happylittletulip helpless and delicious, Sat 23 Aug 2008, 17:50, Reply)

*Is alone again*

( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Sat 23 Aug 2008, 18:15, Reply)

Well, I still stop by periodically.
I got a phone call from BGB, Captain Placid, Pooflake, Chickenlady and PJM. All sounded like they were having a blast. Wish I could be there in person... but at least I got a glimpse of it!
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Sat 23 Aug 2008, 19:04, Reply)

You had a phone call!
That must have cost £1000000
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Sat 23 Aug 2008, 19:08, Reply)

I really don't know.
BGB called me rather than the other way around. But it was only a five to ten minute conversation, so it shouldn't have been too bad...

It was wonderful to hear from them, though.
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Sat 23 Aug 2008, 19:26, Reply)

I'm not bashing
I only live a short distance away, but I am very poor due to a recent move and they will insist on having these things at the end of a month's pay.
( Kroney, Sat 23 Aug 2008, 19:35, Reply)

I think alot
of people have found the end-of-the-monthnes to be a problem.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Sat 23 Aug 2008, 19:39, Reply)

Hello from the bash!
Seems there's no-one here at the moment.... But we're stopping in to say hi!

Love,

DiT
Wookie
Ancrenne
Kaol
Rakky
Rotating Wobbly Hat
BGB
Herr Doktor
GayPond
Captain Placid
MM
Al
Spakka
Davros
Tourette's

X x x
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Sat 23 Aug 2008, 21:35, Reply)

Thanks for remembering us guys.
It seems like it's just me, BECAUSE EVERYONE IS AT THE BASH. Not that I'm bitter.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Sat 23 Aug 2008, 21:41, Reply)

Evening one and all
I am not going as I am saving up some cash for next month.

How is everyone?
(Ethelred is watching cheese grow, Sat 23 Aug 2008, 21:47, Reply)

Everyone
is stretching it a bit.

Seems like it's just me and thee.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Sat 23 Aug 2008, 21:50, Reply)

Both of
our extremely attractive personalities make up for what we lack in physical size.


*thats what I usually tell the ladies
(Ethelred is watching cheese grow, Sat 23 Aug 2008, 21:54, Reply)

And I'm sure the ladies believe you!
I don't think they're having any fun at all.
I bet they're having a really dull time........or something.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Sat 23 Aug 2008, 22:15, Reply)

As
We are the life and soul of the party so I can guarantee* they are having a boring night out




*Guarantee like an extended warranty
(Ethelred is watching cheese grow, Sat 23 Aug 2008, 22:21, Reply)

Oh yes indeed
It would be so much more exciting with us there!
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Sat 23 Aug 2008, 22:46, Reply)

"Well" she said
talking to no-one in particular "I'm off to bed".
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Sat 23 Aug 2008, 23:58, Reply)