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(I helped save b3ta! rob, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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One week til Christmas!
This makes me that odd combination of happy and sad - sappy, if you will. I'll be doing all my Christmas shopping on the afternoon of Christmas Eve.

Insane? YOU decide.

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(I helped save b3ta! Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 7:51, 360 replies, latest was 16 years ago)
Nooooooo
Not again!
*cries*

I'll go take my sign down then :(
(I helped save b3ta! wanderlust, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 7:52, Reply)
*snorts*
Oh Lusty! I'm sorry!

Please don't pepper my tonsils with paintballs! :)

I just tried to reply to your post saying I'd take mine down :(
(I helped save b3ta! Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 7:55, Reply)
*laughs*
Mine might have been a bit mean anyway. I don't think people really like being called a bunch of cunts first thing in the morning.
(I helped save b3ta! wanderlust, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 7:58, Reply)
How come you do it so much then?
:)

You can call me a bunch of cunts any time *waggles eyebrows*

How're you today?
(I helped save b3ta! Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 8:04, Reply)
Morning All
I just want Christmas to be over and done with.
(I helped save b3ta! Mrs Entity is in hiding., Thu 18 Dec 2008, 8:11, Reply)
I'm ok,
still feeling a bit ill. Sick came out of my nose yesterday. It hurt :(

How are you then?

Morning Mrs Bin! I know the feeling, if the run up didn't start in September I'd like it a lot more. I'm sick of christmas songs now! But, I get four days off work so that makes up for it. :D
(I helped save b3ta! wanderlust, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 8:12, Reply)
Oh sick out of the nose is bad
I've not long been up. I'm sat here waiting for my bath to run.
(I helped save b3ta! Mrs Entity is in hiding., Thu 18 Dec 2008, 8:15, Reply)
Eugh.
I feel for you, I really do. That's grim.

Morning Mrs Bin. I'm feeling a bit ambivalent about Christmas, but I always do until I go shopping Christmas Eve. If that doesn't get me in the mood, nothing will!
(I helped save b3ta! Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 8:17, Reply)
Mornings all
I've got more or less all of my Christmas shopping done. Woo for me.

*ducks to avoid barrage of missiles*

Except my mum's but my sister has agreed to help me there. Sisters are good for that sort of thing.

My GF, on the other hand, has hardly bought anything yet. She prefers to leave it until Christmas eve. I used to do that too, but have become more organised (or boring) nowadays.
(I helped save b3ta! K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 8:19, Reply)
I've got all my shopping done
and without having to go into town

huzzah!

god bless the internet and all who sail in her
(I helped save b3ta! Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 8:31, Reply)
*sails in the internet*
*is blessed*

Ohhh I'm feeling rather holy all of a sudden.
(I helped save b3ta! wanderlust, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 8:32, Reply)
want to put those holes to good use?
*winks*
(I helped save b3ta! Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 8:32, Reply)
I would concur
The internet has been the greatest gift of all to the male shopper.

I've not done so much this time round, but last year I did my entire Christmas shopping whilst sitting on my arse at my desk.
(I helped save b3ta! K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 8:36, Reply)
*yearns for credit or debit card, or functional PayPal account*
This time next year, Rodders, we'll be solvent!
(I helped save b3ta! Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 8:41, Reply)
vipros
How? Possibly using them to turn myself into some kind of human sieve?
(I helped save b3ta! wanderlust, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 8:41, Reply)
draining vegetables is a noble calling

(I helped save b3ta! Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 8:45, Reply)
Ah, er, yes, No3l
Solvency does help if you wish your bank to give you plastic money to use. That is very true.

Unfortunately, that same plastic often results in more rapid insolvency!
(I helped save b3ta! K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 8:46, Reply)
Morning all
I have to go Christmas shopping this weekend, and I'm not looking forward to it in the slightest. Internet shopping is out for me this year because Natwest are useless bastards.
(Son of Sam-i-am We're all as mad as hatters here, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 8:51, Reply)
Morning peoples :)
I am looking forward to xmas with somewhat childish glee.

But that's possibly because I missed xmas last year so I have two years of excitement build up going on :p
(darras jeg har en grevling i hodet. Grevling, grevlang, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 8:51, Reply)
Morning darras
How can you have missed Christmas? Were you on the moon, or in a coma or what?



And hello to everyone else who's just appeared.
(I helped save b3ta! K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 8:52, Reply)
It's entirely my own fault
I decided I wanted to experience a norwegian christmas last year.

But they LIE! It's not christmas. It's all on the wrong day with the wrong foods and so I missed christmas :(

Not to mention having to endure the worst party in the world on xmas day which was full of people with a collective IQ of about 12.
(darras jeg har en grevling i hodet. Grevling, grevlang, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 8:58, Reply)
You were at a /talk bash
AICMFP
(I helped save b3ta! Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 8:59, Reply)
I looked at the /talk board
just out of pure curiosity.

And I was surprised that there could be so many people like that all in one place without something imploding.
(darras jeg har en grevling i hodet. Grevling, grevlang, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 9:01, Reply)
Mornin'
My stolen bike is still stolen so I'm taking the bus to work. At least I now have my brand new second-hand PSP to play with on the bus.
(I helped save b3ta! mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 9:03, Reply)
I'm not much of a fan of Christmas
In fact it'd be fair to say I hate what it is at the moment but since spending Christmas in Tanzania last year and experiencing what a crazy religious Christmas is like I appreciate our over commercialised crap a lot more.

Ban all the advertising and Christmas music, give me a nice family meal on Christmas/Boxing day and small, token presents and I'm happy.

/humbug
(I helped save b3ta! Captain V, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 9:04, Reply)
A Norwegian Christmas?
I believe that involves watching "Dinner for One" on television.
(I helped save b3ta! K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 9:04, Reply)
* WHIORES *
www.b3ta.com/questions/hell/post328650
www.b3ta.com/questions/hell/post329827
www.b3ta.com/questions/hell/post330796

Enjoy.
(I helped save b3ta! mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 9:05, Reply)
I seem to have a knack for avoiding christmas
Too much over-commercialised crap. Did once spend Christmas in Cuba though, and mostly avoided it. At least it gives me an opportunity to just chill out for two weeks.

This year, I'm visiting my parents for Christmas.
(I helped save b3ta! mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 9:07, Reply)
Morning you lovely people
I hate xmas! I hate it with a passion that fills my heart with ice cold piss!

I just can't wait for it to be over this year.

/rant

So how are all of you today?
(Herr Doktor Lemminge Is bored, so cheer me up!, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 9:08, Reply)
K2k6
indeed it does. And wondering why your norwegian in laws find it so hilariously funny.. It was a very surreal experience!
(darras jeg har en grevling i hodet. Grevling, grevlang, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 9:08, Reply)
We invited loads of foreigners round for Christmas dinner last year
And they all turned up on Christmas Eve, while we were wrapping presents and peeling potatoes for the next day!

I think a lot more countries actually celebrate Christmas on what we'd call Christmas Eve, weird.
(Son of Sam-i-am We're all as mad as hatters here, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 9:09, Reply)
Does anyone know a proxy site
for here?

A certain b3tan has had this wonderful place blocked at work.
(I helped save b3ta! wanderlust, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 9:09, Reply)
Morning all
Try bighairymanchild.co.uk/

or jelly.b3ta.com
(Himjim died a little more inside on, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 9:11, Reply)
jelly.b3ta.com probably won't work if b3ta.com is blocked
The other one might well do though.

There's also plenty of proxy sites on the web, but they're usually slow and will probably be blocked as well.

Who is it who can't get on then?
(Son of Sam-i-am We're all as mad as hatters here, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 9:12, Reply)
Thanks himjim
*smooshes*
(I helped save b3ta! wanderlust, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 9:14, Reply)
In Scotland
Traditionally Christmas wasn't really celebrated at all. It wasn't even a holiday. But New Year was, which is why Hogmanay is still such a big night here.

@darras - my boss's daughter is married to a Norwegian and lives over there, which is how I have come to hear about this Dinner for One nonsense. He doesn't understand it either!
(I helped save b3ta! K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 9:14, Reply)
And so, I'm off to work
Hopefully, my PSP should make the busjourney more interesting.
(I helped save b3ta! mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 9:15, Reply)
Hogmanay rocks socks!
I got engaged at the hogmanay two years ago when the celebrations got cancelled because of the gale ;)
(darras jeg har en grevling i hodet. Grevling, grevlang, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 9:17, Reply)
Cheers Lusty!
Yay for proxy servers!
(I helped save b3ta! Boss Keloid Got your mother's maiden name tattooed on my arm, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 9:17, Reply)
No problem Lusty
how is everyone? I've been uber busy recently.
(Himjim died a little more inside on, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 9:18, Reply)
Hey himjim
Not bad - getting over the manflu.

Out on the lash with PB tomorrow night.
(I helped save b3ta! Boss Keloid Got your mother's maiden name tattooed on my arm, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 9:22, Reply)
Morning BK!
Yay for proxy servers, boo for shit jobs that block websites...

*remembers he is in charge of blocking the internet for everyone else who works here, and shuts up*

I should be uber busy himjim but I can't work up the motivation, I've just been sitting surfing the internet and watching my to do list grow in size...
(Son of Sam-i-am We're all as mad as hatters here, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 9:24, Reply)
All washed now.
And I'm dressed into the bargain!

My problem with Christmas is members of Mr Bin's family. But I'd better stop there as his brother reads B3TA!
(I helped save b3ta! Mrs Entity is in hiding., Thu 18 Dec 2008, 9:24, Reply)
So
what do we reckon today's new QOTW is going to be?
(Son of Sam-i-am We're all as mad as hatters here, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 9:25, Reply)
something
entertaining I hope! I'm having serious issues getting through my work days.
(darras jeg har en grevling i hodet. Grevling, grevlang, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 9:30, Reply)
I've been having fun reading a lot of peoples'
posts recently, they have kept me entertained through the darkness.

Staff Christmas party tonight though...
(Himjim died a little more inside on, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 9:34, Reply)
Hey Sam
You managed to get hold of some Monster Magnet yet?
(I helped save b3ta! Boss Keloid Got your mother's maiden name tattooed on my arm, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 9:36, Reply)
Good ning good ning good ning!
I too shall be doing all of my Christmas shopping on the eve of Jebus' 2008th Birthday. In Southampton.

I think I'm going to need weaponry!

All alright?
(I helped save b3ta! Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 9:36, Reply)
What's all this talk of people having done their Christmas shopping?
Don't you know the rules people?

4 PM, Christmas Eve, Drunk!

That's how you do christmas shopping.
(bill, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 9:42, Reply)
Morning all!
Only three more days of work left for me, but I have to cram two weeks of work into them :/

Impossible, yes, that's what I've been telling 'them'.

How is everyone?
(I helped save b3ta! Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 9:43, Reply)
Pah! - Christmas shopping is for wimps...!

my wife does all mine for me...she has taste...and style...and a sense of practicality...and a knowledge of budgets and expenditure...and she's clever enough to understand that it would only spell complete disaster if I was allowed out in town with money...because I'd probably come back with 'magic beans' or something
(I helped save b3ta! Pooflake braces for an onslaught..., Thu 18 Dec 2008, 9:44, Reply)
Bah humbug...
Done all the shopping I'm gonna do already (basically bought my beer, spirits and other 'goodies').

Oh, morning all :)
(I helped save b3ta! snee held his breath since, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 9:49, Reply)
Not yet BK, my uTorrent is borked at the moment, it's on my list though!
In other news, I have instituted a 100% psychedelic rock policy in the office today, as I will actually murder someone if I have to listen to any more Radio 1.
(Son of Sam-i-am We're all as mad as hatters here, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 9:49, Reply)
Radio 1 is teh evil
Planet Rock is mostly what I'm listening to today
(I helped save b3ta! snee held his breath since, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 9:51, Reply)
Morning :)
I've not got much work to do today...
*watches clock creep towards band o'clock*

So...
*shrugs*
How're all you lovely people today?
(I helped save b3ta! Cawl, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 9:52, Reply)
SOSIA...
A little part of me died when I stopped liking radio one...it's like a coming of age...realising that I'm officially an old fucker.

I'm still lodged in Radio 2 though - haven't quite migrated to 4 yet - although I'm too stupid to understand what goes on at radio 4...that's Captain Placid territory.

Nowadays, Radio 1 makes me want to jab a knitting needle into my ear.

Edit: Morning Kaol! *waves frantically*
(I helped save b3ta! Pooflake braces for an onslaught..., Thu 18 Dec 2008, 9:52, Reply)
Today
I'm in an industrial hardcore mood, so that's what's currently belting out my headphones.
(I helped save b3ta! Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 9:53, Reply)
I went through a Radio 2 stage
Then I think I hit my midlife crisis and went back to R1 for a bit...but Edith Feckin' Bowman just makes me want to kill, so now it's Planet Rock all the way...

Morning Kaol - how's the mouth?
(I helped save b3ta! snee held his breath since, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 9:54, Reply)
I confess...
To actually liking radio 2!
(I helped save b3ta! Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 10:00, Reply)
I don't think I've ever liked daytime Radio 1
I used to listen to John Peel, One in the Jungle, and various other good things on at night, but I don't even do that any more. The person I share an office with insists on listening to it, but I'm pretty close to breaking point after the amount of times they've been playing that Hallelujah cover, so I've put my foot down today!

We're on the Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators at the moment... electric jug FTW!

Edit: as with many people on here I'm sure, Radio 4 is the sound of my entire childhood. I don't think either of my parents can cope without it for more than 20 minutes.
(Son of Sam-i-am We're all as mad as hatters here, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 10:00, Reply)
What a find!
I've just found a great list to help me decide where to live when I've got more money.

www.adherents.com/largecom/com_atheist.html

In related news I really hope this website is a joke: www.landoverbaptist.org/news0503/atheists.html

I'm feeling even more hateful than usual towards religion today.

:edit: Turns out the second website is a parody . Thank fuck.
(I helped save b3ta! Captain V, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 10:01, Reply)
I've never been a fan of Radio 1
I did used to listen to Radio 2 a lot, especially in the car on the way home from gigs in the middle of the night.

But now I have my iPod, so that's what gets used most of the time in the car these days. I have it wired into my stereo with a hand-knitted connection which both charges it and plays the audio into the CD changer port. It took a bit of modification, but it works great!

/boffin
(I helped save b3ta! K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 10:02, Reply)
Radio 2 was an epiphany for me…

The day when I embraced ‘untrendiness’, and could actually start moving towards being who I really was, instead of what I wanted other people to perceive me to be.

Whoa! – that’s way too profound for a morning…I’ve gotta start drinking again.

3 days now….I’ve got the shakes. Now I know how George Best felt.
(I helped save b3ta! Pooflake braces for an onslaught..., Thu 18 Dec 2008, 10:02, Reply)
I hope you used the line out on the bottom K2!
Can't be a proper geek if you're using the headphone output :P

Edit: surely that's a joke Captain V!
(Son of Sam-i-am We're all as mad as hatters here, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 10:03, Reply)
@Sam
Of course. I bought the 30 pin dock connector from a bloke on the web and wired it up myself!
(I helped save b3ta! K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 10:04, Reply)
That's what I thought Sam
But I wouldn't have put it past Americans for it to be serious either. Fortunately it is fake though.

*plans moving to Sweeden*
(I helped save b3ta! Captain V, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 10:06, Reply)
Morning Poof, Snee :)
The mouth is ok, but to return it to how it was will cost me £600. So they can fuck off.

Oh, and... www.b3ta.com/questions/offtopic/post331818
Hope you've seen this!
(I helped save b3ta! Cawl, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 10:11, Reply)
I'd definitely rather suffer the pain, and have the £600
New teeth, or new bass? Not a hard decision to make!
(Son of Sam-i-am We're all as mad as hatters here, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 10:14, Reply)
Yep, new bass :D
A bass is for life, a new tooth could get broken in a moment of drunken mayhem.
Not that I have those... Er... :|
(I helped save b3ta! Cawl, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 10:15, Reply)
Sam's right, Kaol
You've got plenty more teeth!
(I helped save b3ta! K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 10:16, Reply)
V
You don't want to move to Sweden, they talk funny over there. ;)
(darras jeg har en grevling i hodet. Grevling, grevlang, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 10:16, Reply)
darras
But there'd be less religious nuts to get on my nuts.
(I helped save b3ta! Captain V, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 10:18, Reply)
*morning all*
How are we? Everyone good?

Am knackered. I didn't leave the office until 11 last night. I need sleep.

BTW, last minute post-whoring:-

www.b3ta.com/questions/hell/post327561
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Thu 18 Dec 2008, 10:19, Reply)
Only slightly less
V. Scandinavia gets the joy of mormon groups flying over from America to 'convert' the heathens.
(darras jeg har en grevling i hodet. Grevling, grevlang, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 10:20, Reply)
My favourite story about Sweden
was when Dundee Utd played Gothenburg in the UEFA cup 20 years or so ago. A reporter from the local paper went over with the fans, and noted that they'd been walking down through the city playing a game of "spot the ugly woman".

Nobody won.
(I helped save b3ta! K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 10:21, Reply)
K2
I'm now hastening my plans to move to Sweeden!

@darras. Hmmmm. That doesn't sound so fun. Perhaps I should buy my own island and become self sufficient or something.

I'm being rather grumpy and bitter aren't I? I think lemons would probably wince if they took a bite out of me.
(I helped save b3ta! Captain V, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 10:23, Reply)
The thing about swedish women
is that there has to be a balance. Therefore, there MUST be a hoarde of munters they're hiding over there to balance out the hotties. You'll probably not see them until you've secured a residency pass and then they'll be ALL you see! mwahahaha
(darras jeg har en grevling i hodet. Grevling, grevlang, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 10:24, Reply)
Swedish Women
Aren't all they're cracked up to be... I dated one a couple of years ago.

Nice girl but she had no sense of humour whatsoever.

Blonde hair, blue eyes and liberal attitudes alone do not a perfect woman make.
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Thu 18 Dec 2008, 10:25, Reply)
Maybe
they just keep them locked up and never let them out in public.
(I helped save b3ta! K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 10:25, Reply)
Maybe there's a selective breeding programme?
*shrugs*

Those Nazi scientists had to go somewhere!
(I helped save b3ta! Cawl, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 10:28, Reply)
Morning all
Two more days!!!!!!!

After a really shitty and stressful day yesterday I went out last night and met lots of friends I hadn't seen in ages. Excellent!

The office staff are having dinner out today. Yay!

Unfortunately though we are going to Damons which is like a slightly more grown up MacDonallds. Never mind though, they do steak.
Free food FTW.

How is everyone?
Oh, Bah Humbug, bye the way.
(misspiggy In danger of having to get a job, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 10:29, Reply)
@Kaol
I wonder if they'd let me be part of the program? I think I might have too much (dark) hair though.
(I helped save b3ta! Captain V, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 10:31, Reply)
Hmm
*has blond hair and blue eyes*

*applies for programme*
(I helped save b3ta! K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 10:33, Reply)
Have you seen the QOTW?
SpankyHanky has come in with a late post which should win the entire internet, twice.
(I helped save b3ta! K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 10:35, Reply)
My eyes have changed colour again.
It's odd, they go from mid brown to quite bright green.
They're brown at the moment.

Er... Also, my christmas rant:

Right...

I hate shopping, most of the time.
Because I hate "the public", and shopping means walking shoulder-to-shoulder with a bunch of greasy, sweaty meat-tards.

Now, Christmas shopping means double the amount of pork-slabs, combined with the fuckin' horror that is Christmas music.

So...
Spare a though for me when I realise, on Christmas Eve that I've been a procrastinating idiot, and have to go do my shopping.

I'll kill every last one of the motherfuckers with a turkey-carving knife, in a festive spray of crimson.
(I helped save b3ta! Cawl, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 10:36, Reply)
Mine do that Kaol
From dark brown to mid green.

I think it's a sign of inherent evil potential.
(darras jeg har en grevling i hodet. Grevling, grevlang, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 10:39, Reply)
Yay!
I've not been able to work out what makes them change though, and it seems to be at random.
(I helped save b3ta! Cawl, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 10:41, Reply)
How the hell
does that work then?

I thought iris pigmentation was fixed. But I'm a physicist so I don't know about that sort of thing.

*awaits explanation from biologically qualified person*
(I helped save b3ta! K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 10:42, Reply)
At a guess
It's something to do with protein partial solubility.
(I helped save b3ta! Cawl, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 10:43, Reply)
Re-ning you lot
Late entry this week... wasn't sure I'd post it but fuck it!

www.b3ta.com/questions/hell/post332018
(I helped save b3ta! Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 10:44, Reply)
Mine change too.
You're just an old stick-in-the-mud*, K2k6.

*Biologically speaking.
(I helped save b3ta! thealternativefact, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 10:44, Reply)
Blimey!
Swedish women have nothing, nothing on Finnish women. A friend dated one once, and she was madder than a bag of greased tasmanian devils.

And that.
(I helped save b3ta! Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 10:48, Reply)
I enjoyed my time in Finland.
*grins*
Then again, I've got a massive thing for women with dark hair...

EDIT: Not that "massive thing".
(I helped save b3ta! Cawl, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 10:49, Reply)
Massive?
Yeh, whatever...
(I helped save b3ta! thealternativefact, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 10:51, Reply)
*sighs*
I know... :(

How're you today, Ms. C?
(I helped save b3ta! Cawl, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 10:52, Reply)
I'm in need of some fun, Mr K...
How are you?
(I helped save b3ta! thealternativefact, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 10:53, Reply)
By massive thing
I think he means his Fairbairn-Sykes...

Edit: Hi clendrix! I will reply to your gaz in due course, wasn't online last night at all..

I'm almost certainly even more slack than you at replying in a timely manner!
(Son of Sam-i-am We're all as mad as hatters here, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 10:53, Reply)
Devil in Tights
I've a half-Finnish cousin. She's as mad as a box of beards.

Must be something in the water.
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Thu 18 Dec 2008, 10:54, Reply)
I've been to Finland a couple of times
and everyone just seemed more miserable than mad!
(Son of Sam-i-am We're all as mad as hatters here, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 10:55, Reply)
Hello Sam!
No worries, my lovely. We can play gaz tennis at whatever speed suits us best!
*hugs*
(I helped save b3ta! thealternativefact, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 10:55, Reply)
Some fun...
You free on Saturday night?
I think a pub-trip might be in the pipeline :p
(I helped save b3ta! Cawl, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 10:56, Reply)
I think I might be free
if someone special wanted to do something with me.


Like, celebrate a birthday?
:)
(I helped save b3ta! thealternativefact, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 10:57, Reply)
Woo
Despite all the lectures I give all the people who work here, my computer seems to be absolutely riddled with spyware. Probably something to do with the vast amounts of inappropriate websites I spend my day on...

Hopefully I won't have to reformat it, but this constant opening of Firefox windows advertising dating sites, LCD TVs, online bingo etc is starting to do my head in!
(Son of Sam-i-am We're all as mad as hatters here, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 10:58, Reply)
*Staggers in*
*trips*

*bokes on self*

*whimpers*



'ning all. Got a thumping head today. A little too much 'Awesome v 3.27' (read: Blue nun/Guinness/lager/Vokda & Orange in a pint glass) at the Manc B3ta bash last night.

Ouch.
(Colonel Santiago Introduced surprised kitty to the world., Thu 18 Dec 2008, 11:01, Reply)
Jesus, that sounds horrendous!
Morning Colonel!
(Son of Sam-i-am We're all as mad as hatters here, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 11:02, Reply)
Colonel S
That sounds absolutely disgusting!

I feel bad enough from too many pints of Tiger.
I would not like to be your stomach today!
(misspiggy In danger of having to get a job, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 11:03, Reply)
Clendrix,
Birthday celebrations sound great :D

EDIT: Col. S, sounds interesting, I'd certainly have given it a go!
(I helped save b3ta! Cawl, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 11:03, Reply)
It's my colleagues I feel sorry for...
There are some truly toxic aromas eminating from me today, over which I seem to have no control.

Bloody Guinness.
(Colonel Santiago Introduced surprised kitty to the world., Thu 18 Dec 2008, 11:04, Reply)
Good one was it, Colonel?
PJM, it's something about Scandinavian women altogether, I think. I would talk about the Danish contingent, but I don't want to get myself in trouble!

*swoops on Clendrix*

Alright, missy?
(I helped save b3ta! Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 11:07, Reply)
A gorgeous vision in tights!
*squeezes Tightly*

Don't worry about smells. It's sprouts time of year; the entire western world smells of poo.
(I helped save b3ta! thealternativefact, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 11:10, Reply)
I know one Danish woman
and she's a pain in the arse.

Her daughter's a looker though. But it's hardly a statistically significant sample size.

And every Finnish person I've ever encountered has been dull as dishwater. Mind you, they've all been male.
(I helped save b3ta! K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 11:11, Reply)
Morning all
I've got to admit that Scandinavian women don't do it for me, I think it's the funny accent!

Colonel that sound horrible, no wonder you are leaking smelly all over the place!
(Herr Doktor Lemminge Is bored, so cheer me up!, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 11:12, Reply)
@Clendrix
Are you Danish? For some reason I thought you hailed from the USA!

*confuses*
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Thu 18 Dec 2008, 11:13, Reply)
I used to know
a Danish man called Thorkil (probably spelled wrong) He was very sexy!

Went and married a french woman, damn his eyes!
(misspiggy In danger of having to get a job, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 11:13, Reply)
PJM
I am totally confused by your post.
(I helped save b3ta! thealternativefact, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 11:14, Reply)
Congratulations!
Ms Whelmed.
(misspiggy In danger of having to get a job, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 11:15, Reply)
Happy B3taday CU
*hugs*

*crys a bit*

Everybody is older than me! ;)
(Herr Doktor Lemminge Is bored, so cheer me up!, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 11:15, Reply)
That's because you're dutch Clendrix
Dutch people don't understand things unless they're posh, like Lucy.

:edit: Happy b3taday CU! *hands over champagne*
(I helped save b3ta! Captain V, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 11:15, Reply)
@PJM
I think it's DiT who's Danish and doesn't want to get in trouble from his fellow country(wo)men!

Edit - Happy B3taday, CU!
(I helped save b3ta! K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 11:15, Reply)

It was probably Torkild miss piggy Well that's the norwegian spelling atleast. :)

I love the norwegian accent :D But I can see why it wouldnt be a particularly sexy one. I just find it amuses me! I'm busy cultivating one for myself
(darras jeg har en grevling i hodet. Grevling, grevlang, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 11:16, Reply)
@ DiT -
It was a good 'un alright!

Ms Underwhelmed, how's you head today?

(Probably fine I'm guessing, being the young whippersnapper that you are.)

EDIT: Oh, and Happy Candle day!
(Colonel Santiago Introduced surprised kitty to the world., Thu 18 Dec 2008, 11:16, Reply)
I'm an idiot
I got Dutch and Danish muddled up in my poor little mind. I need alcohol to rectify this situation!
(I helped save b3ta! Captain V, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 11:16, Reply)
I've met PJM
so I'm concerned about having sounded like I'm from the US!
(I helped save b3ta! thealternativefact, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 11:18, Reply)
*pats clendrix on the head*
It's ok, people think I'm Russian :|

Happy B3taday C.U!
(I helped save b3ta! Cawl, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 11:19, Reply)
Kaol
So slow down then.

/coat
(misspiggy In danger of having to get a job, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 11:22, Reply)
Oh fuckin' hell...
That's awful :|
(I helped save b3ta! Cawl, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 11:23, Reply)
People think I'm an alien...

I often get the contemptful looks of something that just fell off Jabba's sail barge.

I breed well though, two handsome, blond haired, blue eyed boys.

(yet I'm fugly, brown haired and fucked up eye colour...)

hmm...ring any bells?

Yay for my own personal master race!
(I helped save b3ta! Pooflake braces for an onslaught..., Thu 18 Dec 2008, 11:23, Reply)
Sometimes
in continental Europe, I've been mistaken for being Dutch. Fair enough, as the language has a similar sound (and indeed vocabulary) to Scots.

But in the US, I'm frequently mistaken for being Irish. I don't know why, but that irritates me a bit! It's odd, as it sort of makes sense. But it still gets on my tits.
(I helped save b3ta! K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 11:24, Reply)
Miss Piggy
I thought it was funny, but then we Americans tend to laugh more than those dour Russians.
(I helped save b3ta! thealternativefact, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 11:25, Reply)
Apologies for the confusion Clendrix
Ah, before I met you I thought you were American.

I've been skim reading the O/t posts this morning in between meetings and for some reason I seem to have read DiT's post wrongly...
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Thu 18 Dec 2008, 11:25, Reply)
Don't the 'merkins think that about all the Celts though?

(Colonel Santiago Introduced surprised kitty to the world., Thu 18 Dec 2008, 11:25, Reply)
Today I am mostly being...
Slovakian
(misspiggy In danger of having to get a job, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 11:26, Reply)
Sometimes
I get mistaken for every nationality apart from my own.

Im english, quite obviously english. I even sport the nation's most famous skin tone, winter blue. And yet 'Are you from Australia?' 'Is that a canadian accent', 'Italian?'

And my weirdest to date, 'Are you from Jamaica?' WTF?
(darras jeg har en grevling i hodet. Grevling, grevlang, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 11:26, Reply)
Jeg er Dansk!
I am the Danish one... I must apologise for my Nations behaviour during the Battle of Copenhagen!

Tiny Edit: In America, I was by turn accused of being both Australian and Canadian. Why?
(I helped save b3ta! Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 11:26, Reply)
Phew!
I'd hate to think it was because of my Southern twang.
(I helped save b3ta! thealternativefact, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 11:27, Reply)
When I was in Prague
People in the street, in shops and bars would start talking to me in Czech.
My ex who I was with would always get talked to in English.

It's a little heart-breaking having to say "I'm really sorry, I don't speak Czech."

Similar thing happens any time I go into a Polish shop.
*shrugs*
(I helped save b3ta! Cawl, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 11:28, Reply)
Australian friends
were mistaken for Londoners in the USA. But if you've ever heard an American trying to do a cockney accent, that makes sense!
(I helped save b3ta! K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 11:29, Reply)
It's people getting my name wrong that gets my goat more...
I'm called Owen. It's not that unusual surely? Whenever I say my name people are all: 'What? Alan?' or Aaron, or whatever. I've actually even had a Geoff. Who the fuck confuses 'Owen' with 'Geoff'?
(Colonel Santiago Introduced surprised kitty to the world., Thu 18 Dec 2008, 11:29, Reply)
DIT
maybe it was a clever slight against the danish?
(darras jeg har en grevling i hodet. Grevling, grevlang, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 11:30, Reply)
In Yankland
I tend to be mistaken for an Australian!

No idea why, it must just be the stupidity of the people I meet.
(Herr Doktor Lemminge Is bored, so cheer me up!, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 11:31, Reply)
*confoozed*
Glad that's cleared up then Clendrix!

I'm lilly-white with dark curly hair and green eyes. However as a boy I was blond with blue eyes. And on rare occasions when I do tan I go quite mediterranean.

I've frequently been accused of being Italian.
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Thu 18 Dec 2008, 11:31, Reply)
In Yankland
someone thought I was Canadian.

FFS.
(I helped save b3ta! thealternativefact, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 11:31, Reply)
*has never been to yankland*
*wins*
(I helped save b3ta! Captain V, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 11:32, Reply)
Drixy
It's the so similar way of taking.

NOT!

:)

I do enjoy a nice Western English accent though, and athe Maine one!
(Herr Doktor Lemminge Is bored, so cheer me up!, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 11:33, Reply)
In warm countries
most people know I'm not from around there, because my skin is that sort of bluey white that doesn't tan.

I was once told after coming home from a three week holiday that I looked like I could do with going on holiday!

It's either red or white. So it stays white. Avoids the pain and the cancer risk.
(I helped save b3ta! K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 11:34, Reply)
I tend to
get mistaken for being Scandinavian in most places. Oddly though, in some parts of the world people automatically start speaking to me in German.

On a similar theme, lots of people (and lots of people who can't possibly have ever met each other) call me Chris for some reason. My name is nothing like Chris, so I wonder if I send out some sort of Chris-vibe.
(I helped save b3ta! rubberduck should only be used after consulting with your GP, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 11:34, Reply)
I'm lucky
In that I don't burn in the sun, I just go really brown.
But I don't like being in the sun either, so I don't get a tan.
I just hide in the shadows.

EDIT: A client of mine keeps calling me Tony. Despite my name being clearly on every email I send him. Idiot.
(I helped save b3ta! Cawl, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 11:35, Reply)
I do tan
But I'm never out in the sun long enough, in fact I'm weather beaten!
(Herr Doktor Lemminge Is bored, so cheer me up!, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 11:36, Reply)
Hello again!
My first QotW post in ages, I always tend to think of answers/anecdotes weeks after the question has ended...

Pimpage.
(I helped save b3ta! Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 11:39, Reply)
Mostly I'm mistaken for being..
Eastern European. When I worked out in the former Eastern Bloc countries I was forever being addressed in the native tongue by barmen, clients and randoms on the street. This was in the pre-beard days and I do have a fairly wide face so it kinda makes sense.


Oh, and my eyes change colour regularly.*





*Not counting the "2 fingers of redeye" I get on a daily basis.
(Captain Placid 24/7 ball gags, brownie mix and clown porn, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 11:44, Reply)
Last minute pimpage

My ex wife has found me on Facebook and if she's read my profile she knows I post a lot on b3ta.

She'll appreciate this one

www.b3ta.com/questions/hell/post332106
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Thu 18 Dec 2008, 11:54, Reply)
Oh dear!
Poor thread...I'm going out for a smoke.

Oh, it was saved.

Bugger it - I'm going out for a smoke anyway.
(I helped save b3ta! thealternativefact, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 11:55, Reply)
mr baldmonkey
oh dear what is the point of him? noone from /talk is joining in with him; noone from qotw is responding to him. i feel sorry for him trolling away all alone in the dark where nobody cares.
(I helped save b3ta! rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 11:55, Reply)
I responded
once again ruining your post
(PsychoChomp, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 11:58, Reply)
Morning.
I should be at work. I am not. I am at home in bed, unable to move, except for when i have to get up to puke.This is NOT good.
(I helped save b3ta! t0ria has forgotten how this all works, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 11:59, Reply)
Haha!
Nice to have a purpose in life, eh?
EDIT: This was directed at P.C, not you t0ria :p
Being ill sucks, hope you fell better soon.
(I helped save b3ta! Cawl, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 11:59, Reply)
@rachelswipe
Morning! How are you?

I have no idea. Baldmonkey has been on my ignore list for months now, I even missed all the recent controversy with him reposting Tourettes post.

I guess he just wants to get a rise out of someone, probably best to ignore and walk away.
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Thu 18 Dec 2008, 12:01, Reply)
Afternoon all!!
It's Thursday, I'm finished uni for the year, and I just finished my christmas shopping! Go me!

I may be a bit happy at all this.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 12:02, Reply)
To everyone
I've met baldmonkey in real life twice, he's actually a nice guy and he looks like Abe Edmonson.
(PsychoChomp, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 12:02, Reply)
Psycho & T0ria
Morning! Haven't seen you two round here yet...

Welcome to the thread, I'll type it slowly for the benefit of those with a hangover.
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Thu 18 Dec 2008, 12:03, Reply)
poor t0ria
you have my sympathies! Is it self induced? (hangover) or real illness? :D

And go Penguin! Although I was finished in November with mine.. I hate shopping in crowds.
(darras jeg har en grevling i hodet. Grevling, grevlang, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 12:04, Reply)
I've been around for ages
mainly a /talker, I don't really like off topics style (I like to reply to individuals) but I'll go anywhere there's something more interesting than my job going on.
(PsychoChomp, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 12:05, Reply)
noon PJM
I pop in from time to time, I'm normally hanging around /links. I like it here :)

I may have had a couple too many at Manc bash last night.
(I helped save b3ta! t0ria has forgotten how this all works, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 12:06, Reply)
He may be a nice guy in person
As are a lot of the /talk crowd. I can't be bothered sifting through his detritus to find something worth reading and I have a dim view of persistent trolling so he's on ignore.
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Thu 18 Dec 2008, 12:06, Reply)
MESSAGE TO THE MODeratorsS
Who is the most ignored person on b3ta.?
and does ignoring someone on "talk" also means ignoring them on "off top"?
(bugboybeast, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 12:13, Reply)
I wonder if anyone is the other way around.
Y'know, really nice online, but an absolute cunt in person.

EDIT: Creepy web-paedos, I guess.
(I helped save b3ta! Cawl, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 12:14, Reply)
@ PC
bloody hell maybe if i get everyone to ignore you, then it will make sense!

@ PJM - hola, all set for christmas??
(I helped save b3ta! rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 12:14, Reply)
@t0ria
I've seen some of the stuff you've created and posted on /board. Very, very clever if you don't mind me saying so.

Psycho - I haven't seen you post much, I do occasionally lurk on /talk as it can be quite funny. Nice to see a new face here though, so post away!
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Thu 18 Dec 2008, 12:14, Reply)
@swipe
Not quite - I have someone very important to buy a present for. No prizes for guessing who! I work in Covent Garden now so I need to get out shopping.

How about you?

BugBoy - as far as I know "ignore" is global, if you ignore someone, everything they post is off your radar.
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Thu 18 Dec 2008, 12:17, Reply)
@PJM
Fair enough that's what the ignore button is for.
(PsychoChomp, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 12:18, Reply)
i can't ignore anyone
as i am far too nosy and might miss something. they're only a few pixels, after all.

pjm - you must mean me? that's so sweet!
(I helped save b3ta! rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 12:22, Reply)
Exactly
I try to keep my ignore list as short as possible. I like to read something fresh and new, but there is a trend from some /talkers flaming QOTW for being insipid and too cathartic of late.

What peeves me is that rather than attempting to post something funny or entertaining themselves, the minority (and it really is only a few) just flame away. Whatever happened to "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em"?
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Thu 18 Dec 2008, 12:22, Reply)
PJM- not me sadly!
I've posted a couple of things but nothing of note. I'm so envious of the talent some people have on here!
(I helped save b3ta! t0ria has forgotten how this all works, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 12:24, Reply)
The only thing
that Ignore doesn't work for is gaz.

I have quite a few people on Ignore, as I can't be arsed wading through the shit that they post, but I made reference to one of them in another post, and received a gaz from him.
(I helped save b3ta! K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 12:25, Reply)
Hmm...
Half an hour 'til lunch.
*sighs*

So... Anyone had Christmas parties yet?
(I helped save b3ta! Cawl, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 12:26, Reply)
@Kaol
I have. It was messy ='[
(I helped save b3ta! Captain V, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 12:27, Reply)
They're trying to get a rise out of the crazies
the ultimate victory was when some guy (I've forgotten who it was) threatened to kill JMG.
They've just been trying to get that back.

I'm the same as you swipe, only used ignore once and that was for a spambot.
(PsychoChomp, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 12:27, Reply)
But P.C
what the hell is the point of achieving a death threat?

I don't see what's so funny/entertaining about winding people up on an internet forum. It's just a bit pathetic.
(darras jeg har en grevling i hodet. Grevling, grevlang, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 12:29, Reply)
Good work V!
We don't get one here.
And our "Christmas Bonus" is a bottle of Port...

On the plus side, I detest 90% of the people here, so have no desire to spend any more time with them than I have to.
So it's a good thing :D
(I helped save b3ta! Cawl, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 12:30, Reply)
I've attended a couple of Christmas parties
and was extremely well-behaved on both occasions.

Believe me, if I'd been naughty, b3ta would have been the first place to hear about it. Or Plod House.

I want to be naughty :(
(I helped save b3ta! thealternativefact, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 12:31, Reply)
@swipe
Haha, yes I owe you a gift in recognition of your hilarious poo-related posts!

Someone threatend to kill JMG? Got a link?
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Thu 18 Dec 2008, 12:32, Reply)
We have our Christmas meal
in an hour. It will be dull. I will scandalise everyone by having wine instead of coke. I will be the only one.

How sad is that?
(misspiggy In danger of having to get a job, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 12:33, Reply)
We're having
an in-house Christmas bash tomorrow lunchtime. With free food and drink.

Unfortunately I'll not be able to take much advantage of the free drink, as I've to drive home, then to a gig later. But no matter.
(I helped save b3ta! K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 12:33, Reply)
Danish-American
Sounds like some kind of special bacon :p

I'm all up for some misbehaving this weekend :D

EDIT: If there's free booze, and it's inappropriate to get drunk, I'll be the one that drinks too much, insults somebody, knocks a table over, hits on somebodies wife and passes out.
(I helped save b3ta! Cawl, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 12:33, Reply)
Ok Kaol
So long as there aren't any tramps involved this time!
(I helped save b3ta! Captain V, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 12:35, Reply)
I'm afraid that I'm King Of The Tramps
But I don't have to go home on my own, I'm staying with Clendrix :)
(I helped save b3ta! Cawl, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 12:36, Reply)
@Kaol
Our christmas party was fucking ace!
The drunk manager sent an email out telling(not asking) everyone that we were going for a curry and then to the pub on Monday just gone.

There are about 17 people in my department.

Not one person but the stupid, drunk, bastard cunt went!

I went home and watched the final of America's next top model with my mum and had a cup of tea and cheese and crackers. Best christmas party ever!
:D
(I helped save b3ta! wanderlust, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 12:37, Reply)
@Clendrix
I now have a mental picture of you being frogmarched to the cop shop!

Hahahahaha.

You seemed disarmingly pleasant in person to me, do you have an anarchic side then?
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Thu 18 Dec 2008, 12:37, Reply)
Awww...

*curses that you all live in London-type area*

*wants to go to more bashes*
(I helped save b3ta! Pooflake braces for an onslaught..., Thu 18 Dec 2008, 12:39, Reply)
The death threat was pretty funny
JMG kept telling him to "calm down" and to "stop taking the internet seriously" but he eventually said he'd find JMG and kill him, then when I told him that wasn't cool he deleted his posts and quit b3ta. So I can't link to it I'm afraid.
(PsychoChomp, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 12:41, Reply)
Pfft,
Clendrix has an evil side!
In the best way possible.
*grins*
(I helped save b3ta! Cawl, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 12:43, Reply)
@Flake
I'd like to go to more northern bashes.

The likes of yourself, DG & Tourettes, Captain Placid and BGB are all a decent crowd. Especially when you have your guitars.

I will be relocating even further south in the new year...
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Thu 18 Dec 2008, 12:44, Reply)
PJM
I am good! Erm, I've had my moments though...

As for Saturday night, I do have the pleasure of travelling around London on the most notorious night bus of all in order to get home with Kaol. So that should be fun.

Kaol! Shhh!
*grins*
(I helped save b3ta! thealternativefact, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 12:44, Reply)
The night bus
@clendrix - Was that the one you were telling me about where someone chucked a brick through the window and the passengers just shrugged and trudged off to wait for another bus?

Sounds like fun! Not.
(I helped save b3ta! K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 12:46, Reply)
K2k6
Yes, that's the one! And that was the middle of the day...

It's worse at night.
(I helped save b3ta! thealternativefact, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 12:48, Reply)
Mr. K...
That was the day bus, haha!

EDIT: Great minds eh...
(I helped save b3ta! Cawl, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 12:48, Reply)
@PJM
But I don't have a guitar!
Got a didgerido though....

....oh, I see.
(I helped save b3ta! Tourette's ( . )( . ) has a monkey hair in her fried egg, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 12:48, Reply)
K2k6
Yes, Kaol was with me...

He was very well behaved though. The brick was nothing to do with him :)

Edit: Actually, it was just someone's fist, not a brick. Nice.
(I helped save b3ta! thealternativefact, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 12:49, Reply)
@Tourettes
There is no safe way of saying this, so I'm going to blunder in with my size 11s

I'd love to see you play the didgeridoo.

(fnar, fnar etc...)
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Thu 18 Dec 2008, 12:52, Reply)
@Tourettes...

any chance of a solo on the pink oboe?

*hides from DG*
(I helped save b3ta! Pooflake braces for an onslaught..., Thu 18 Dec 2008, 12:54, Reply)
*Yawns*
*Stretches*

God damn I love days off work, you can slob around in bed all day and not feel guilty. And then read OT HSH and notice that people are happily asking Tourette's for a blowjob. Is there a queue or something?
(I helped save b3ta! jim_bob can herd cats., Thu 18 Dec 2008, 12:56, Reply)
'Just' someone's fist?
Oh, well, that's OK then. :)

Does it get upgraded to a shard of reinforced concrete at night? Or perhaps a shotgun?
(I helped save b3ta! K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 12:57, Reply)
Tourette's
Yes, I'd like to see you create harmony with that mouth of yours!

*doesn't hide from anyone*
*grabs Lusty and makes her join in*
(I helped save b3ta! thealternativefact, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 12:57, Reply)
*grins*
I'm well-behaved on public transport!

Although on the tube on Tuesday I convinced some man that the mosquito that was flying around "could have malaria, because it's warm in the Underground".
Haha!

EDIT: I'm now wondering if I could punch through a bus window.
I assume so.
But I don't really want to try, in case I mess up and look a broken-handed idiot.
(I helped save b3ta! Cawl, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 12:57, Reply)
Malaria?
I think I may have gone with dengue fever. Sounds more exotic!
(I helped save b3ta! K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 12:59, Reply)
I once saw someone
punch a hole in the roof of a bus with his bare hand.

Well, the inner skin at least. But it was still sheet metal. It was a school bus and he was probably about 15 at the time. He was also a complete prick, but I didn't tell him that, for obvious reasons.
(I helped save b3ta! K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 13:02, Reply)
I like malaria
It's my second favourite insect-vectored tropical disease.
After Chagas Disease, obviously.

Er... I'm going for lunch now.
*waves*
(I helped save b3ta! Cawl, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 13:02, Reply)
It is possible to punch through bus windows
An ex of mine saw it done, admittedly the gentleman doing the punching was something of a mong though.
(I helped save b3ta! jim_bob can herd cats., Thu 18 Dec 2008, 13:02, Reply)
afternoon all
boring day for me - nothing in the office for me to do, so I'm on here instead of preparing the company Xmas cards.

How are we all?
(bamboozled Can hear you getting fatter, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 13:02, Reply)
Kaol.
don't do that on Saturday night. I want some guitaring and singing from you on Sunday morning!

When I said 'just someone's fist' I meant it was unaccompanied by a brick.
I hesitate to talk about fist-related activities here, although Al is now several thousand miles away, so it should be OK.
(I helped save b3ta! thealternativefact, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 13:02, Reply)
Afternoon flesh
*sings*

Flesh - a ahh - saviour of the universe.



Oh, no, wait....

*goes off down town for a bit*
(I helped save b3ta! K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 13:06, Reply)
hee hee hee
*length*
*wood*
*blow*
*circular breathing*
*cheek action*

etc.
(I helped save b3ta! Tourette's ( . )( . ) has a monkey hair in her fried egg, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 13:09, Reply)
Good Lord madame!
You seem to be quite practised at the arts of *ahem* snake charming.
(I helped save b3ta! jim_bob can herd cats., Thu 18 Dec 2008, 13:12, Reply)
*joins in with clendrix*
What we doing then? Are you me and the sweary one involved in some kind of sucking and blowing action?

I'm not sure if I'll be any good with a didgerido. I'm not used to long, hard things being near my mouth.
(I helped save b3ta! wanderlust, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 13:14, Reply)
It works on the dog too
You should see her do her special HMV dog impression inside my hollow when I play it ;o)
(I helped save b3ta! Tourette's ( . )( . ) has a monkey hair in her fried egg, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 13:15, Reply)
*snuggles in with Lusty & Clendrix*
*puckers lips*
(I helped save b3ta! Tourette's ( . )( . ) has a monkey hair in her fried egg, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 13:17, Reply)
You've found a way of playing music out of your foo-foo?
Blimey!
(I helped save b3ta! jim_bob can herd cats., Thu 18 Dec 2008, 13:17, Reply)
Today
I have been mostly doing my Scotty bit (I also multiply all of my estimate by 4), and being a grumpy sod!

The office is far too hot and if I take anything else off I'll be done for indecent exposure.
(Herr Doktor Lemminge Is bored, so cheer me up!, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 13:17, Reply)
Lusty
You don't have to worry. You can just hold it. Tourette's and I will do the blowing.
(I helped save b3ta! thealternativefact, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 13:22, Reply)
@clendrix
Phew!
That shouldn't be a problem. I have a nice firm grip.
(I helped save b3ta! wanderlust, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 13:24, Reply)
*pushes to front of queue*...

ME first! ME! ME! ME!

*zip....lob*
(I helped save b3ta! Pooflake braces for an onslaught..., Thu 18 Dec 2008, 13:26, Reply)
Blimey Poo.
That's quite some instrument you have there!
(I helped save b3ta! thealternativefact, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 13:31, Reply)
*puckers*
ok clendrix, we need moist lips....

ready?

*can't blow for giggling*
(I helped save b3ta! Tourette's ( . )( . ) has a monkey hair in her fried egg, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 13:31, Reply)
*pops eyeballs at Pooflake's instrument*
*faints*
(I helped save b3ta! Tourette's ( . )( . ) has a monkey hair in her fried egg, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 13:32, Reply)
*abandons Pooflake*
*tends to Tourette's*
(I helped save b3ta! thealternativefact, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 13:33, Reply)
thanks clenders!
maybe we'd be safer with my tribal drum instead? It has a nice tight skin....
(I helped save b3ta! Tourette's ( . )( . ) has a monkey hair in her fried egg, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 13:35, Reply)
*is left holding pooflake's instrument*
ummm what should I do with it?
(I helped save b3ta! wanderlust, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 13:36, Reply)
Lusty
Bang it on Tourette's's drum.

^That's some interesting punctuation...
(I helped save b3ta! thealternativefact, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 13:37, Reply)
I'd say
give it a good bang!
(I helped save b3ta! Tourette's ( . )( . ) has a monkey hair in her fried egg, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 13:38, Reply)
hey flakey
how's the rhythm.......?
(I helped save b3ta! Tourette's ( . )( . ) has a monkey hair in her fried egg, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 13:39, Reply)
*positions self*
*bangs*
(I helped save b3ta! wanderlust, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 13:41, Reply)
Geeze
I leave you all for a 10 minute tea break and I come back to find... debauchery! *shocked*
(darras jeg har en grevling i hodet. Grevling, grevlang, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 13:44, Reply)
darras
Yes, we're terribly sorry. It does go wrong very quickly when the sensible people leave us. And you. And Kaol.

Yes, I know the above comment is ambiguous. But you all know what I mean and I'm too tired to rephrase it.
(I helped save b3ta! thealternativefact, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 13:50, Reply)
ITNOF!
I seem to have missed an innuendo-fest!
(I helped save b3ta! K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 13:51, Reply)
I was in the corner.
I saw it all, it was most informative!
(Herr Doktor Lemminge Is bored, so cheer me up!, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 13:53, Reply)
Dok,
stop that! For shame. Go and get a tissue and get back to your desk.
(I helped save b3ta! thealternativefact, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 13:54, Reply)
ahem.
*straightens clothes*

Where's Pooflake? Is he spent?

What's that crumpled heap over there? Is he ok?
(I helped save b3ta! Tourette's ( . )( . ) has a monkey hair in her fried egg, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 13:55, Reply)
But
I wasn't doing anything!

And anyway, my desk is boring, with nothing to do on it!
(Herr Doktor Lemminge Is bored, so cheer me up!, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 13:55, Reply)
Oh my goodness...
...you walk away from a thread for a few minutes and carnage breaks out...
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Thu 18 Dec 2008, 13:59, Reply)
Boredom is a terrible motivator
Although it has taught me one thing. I can't hit the high notes on "Hallelujah". Shame.
(I helped save b3ta! jim_bob can herd cats., Thu 18 Dec 2008, 13:59, Reply)
Here I am...!


I'm just trying to think about something else to keep my stamina going...
(I helped save b3ta! Pooflake braces for an onslaught..., Thu 18 Dec 2008, 14:00, Reply)
I'll bet
your colleagues appreciated your attempts piston :D
(darras jeg har en grevling i hodet. Grevling, grevlang, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 14:00, Reply)
I'm at home
Although I do find myself singing (quietly) at work sometimes. It can be anything from a Smiths song to this...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wMHcpMmV9g

*Not a rickroll*
(I helped save b3ta! jim_bob can herd cats., Thu 18 Dec 2008, 14:02, Reply)
Bloody hell!
Well...
Despite the excitement that's happened here, I think that smoking, coffee and lunch-food was better.
(I helped save b3ta! Cawl, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 14:03, Reply)
It is Piston
So far I've managed to motivate myself to be a grumpy sod, rude, and sarcastic, and some of them don't even get it when I'm insulting them!

Yes I work with ignorant twats.
(Herr Doktor Lemminge Is bored, so cheer me up!, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 14:04, Reply)
piston
we got some high notes out of Pooflake just now ;o)

EDIT

Just listened to mana-manah :o)
I work 1-1 with a 12 year old autistic boy who is a huge muppet fan. We spend most of our days singing this and doing Swedish chef impressions, interspersed with the odd Monty Python sketch... I love my job!
(I helped save b3ta! Tourette's ( . )( . ) has a monkey hair in her fried egg, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 14:04, Reply)
Nice work to both HDL and Tourette's there I think
Although twisting someone's nutsack to get castrato-like high notes is never a good thing.
(I helped save b3ta! jim_bob can herd cats., Thu 18 Dec 2008, 14:06, Reply)
Yep,
Poo was singing like Mariah.
(I helped save b3ta! thealternativefact, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 14:07, Reply)
Like Mariah?
screechy with two huge sacks attached somewhere on the body?
(darras jeg har en grevling i hodet. Grevling, grevlang, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 14:08, Reply)
Mariah Carey
Can suck on my big hairy ballsack. I really cannot stand the woman.
(I helped save b3ta! jim_bob can herd cats., Thu 18 Dec 2008, 14:09, Reply)
He was
I heard him.

I think I'll try that next Piston, could be good for a laugh!
(Herr Doktor Lemminge Is bored, so cheer me up!, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 14:10, Reply)
Oh good Lord what gave I unleashed?

(I helped save b3ta! jim_bob can herd cats., Thu 18 Dec 2008, 14:12, Reply)
my boss is going to be singing like Mariah soon
if he doesn't stop that GOD DAMNED WHISTLING!

Why do men feel the need to whistle?
(darras jeg har en grevling i hodet. Grevling, grevlang, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 14:12, Reply)
Mariah
has a nice glossy mouth - if you find her mute button...
(I helped save b3ta! Tourette's ( . )( . ) has a monkey hair in her fried egg, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 14:16, Reply)
I have a confession...
Mariah was in the log in front of me on the log-flume at Disney and I didn't take to opportunity to drown her.

/shame
(I helped save b3ta! thealternativefact, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 14:16, Reply)
Darra
I don't, I can't whistle very well so don't inflict it on people.

Piston, you have unleashed a monster, but really only gave it ideas.
(Herr Doktor Lemminge Is bored, so cheer me up!, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 14:17, Reply)
So,
Piston made the cannonballs and someone else is firing them?

Is metaphorical innuendo allowed?
(I helped save b3ta! Tourette's ( . )( . ) has a monkey hair in her fried egg, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 14:19, Reply)
I'm a rubbish whistler
My teeth get in the way. But I still do it. Not to be annoying, just because I like to do it. And I stop if I get funny looks.

There's a janitor round here whom we refer to as the Whistling Jannie, for obvious reasons. He whistles topical tunes too. I heard him giving big licks to Mary's Boy Child the other day, and once on July 12th I was gobsmacked to hear him whistling The Sash My Father Wore.

(If you've no idea what that's about, look it up, or ask CHCB).
(I helped save b3ta! K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 14:20, Reply)
Tourette's
Yes it is allowed, and the next person in the office who pisses me of is going to get them broadside!
(Herr Doktor Lemminge Is bored, so cheer me up!, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 14:23, Reply)
Need a hand Dok?
I was conceived in a council flat you know - and have 3.5 tattoos to prove my hardth ;o)
(I helped save b3ta! Tourette's ( . )( . ) has a monkey hair in her fried egg, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 14:33, Reply)
Afternoon guys!
Much been happening? I've been on an enforced absence due to riddling my computer with viruses this morning, so I've been sat reinstalling Windows for the last two hours, and have achieved nothing today. Joy!
(Son of Sam-i-am We're all as mad as hatters here, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 14:33, Reply)
Hey Sam!
So, you've burned the evidence of your filthy web-habits?
(I helped save b3ta! Cawl, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 14:34, Reply)
Yeah Tourette's
Come and give me a hand, this place need livening up! Me I was conceved in Coventry, but brought up on a council estate in Scotland, I is well 'ard as well!

Hi Sam, HaHa, windows is shit!
(Herr Doktor Lemminge Is bored, so cheer me up!, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 14:38, Reply)
Windows is shit, but all the alternatives are far shitter...
Top tip: if Firefox says 'This website is trying to attack you so we've blocked it' don't go 'ooh, I wonder what website that is then?' and click 'ignore warning and proceed to website'

Not good news! I'm allegedly a sys admin as well :S

I have disk images/network installers for all the users' machines, but mine's very different and has shitloads of software to install, gonna take the rest of the day I reckon!

Kaol - there wasn't any evidence anyway, what sort of amateur do you take me for?
(Son of Sam-i-am We're all as mad as hatters here, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 14:42, Reply)
Just checking, Sam.
Good work :D

I was conceived (I assume) in a cottage in the middle of nowhere.
Where I grew up.

Isolated from the world...

*cries*
(I helped save b3ta! Cawl, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 14:43, Reply)
I wish I could say more than
I was conceived but I can't.
(I helped save b3ta! Captain V, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 14:44, Reply)
It was for the good of the world, Kaol.
You're back with us now.

Edit: If Sam burns all his filth, we should be able to see the plume of smoke from here.
Even if here is the moon.
(I helped save b3ta! thealternativefact, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 14:45, Reply)
Well, I think the moral of my story is
That if you grow up in the middle of nowhere, with no other young people about, expect trouble :p
(I helped save b3ta! Cawl, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 14:46, Reply)
What a feeble excuse!
Do we have to discuss your lovely brother again?
(I helped save b3ta! thealternativefact, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 14:47, Reply)
Ho Ho cunting HO...
I've got the day off tomorrow.

Then 2 and a half days until Christmas, whereby I take 2 weeks off.

I have just been given what has been conservatively estimated to be enough work to last 6 people over a month.

They want it done by Christmas. Done by me...on my own

I have no help.

My Christmas spirit has just been spluffed up the wall.

Jingle fucking Bell-ends
(I helped save b3ta! Pooflake braces for an onslaught..., Thu 18 Dec 2008, 14:49, Reply)
Kaol
Well it's a good thing that you were. You too V.

Pooflake, that is shit, total shit!
(Herr Doktor Lemminge Is bored, so cheer me up!, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 14:51, Reply)
poo
what kind of work is it? purely out of curiosity.
(darras jeg har en grevling i hodet. Grevling, grevlang, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 14:52, Reply)
Yep!
If it wasn't for me being born*, we wouldn't be going out on Saturday...

*Not strictly true... *waves at Clendrix*
(I helped save b3ta! Cawl, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 14:53, Reply)
It's more fun with two!
*grins*
(I helped save b3ta! thealternativefact, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 14:55, Reply)
I grew up in the middle of nowhere as well, shit isn't it?
Probably even more in the middle of nowhere than you Kaol!

Don't know where I was conceived, and I've never thought to ask! My mate Flaps was conceived in the toilets of a Simple Minds concert though. Which he actually boasts about...

clendrix - I've started the fire now, can you see the smoke? Don't know what this'll do for my carbon footprint.

I have loads and loads of work to do as well, my SQL online database thingy is completely fucking borked (as you can see, I know all the important technical terms). Still probably going to spend the rest of the afternoon having to set my computer up though!
(Son of Sam-i-am We're all as mad as hatters here, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 14:57, Reply)
*peers through smoke*
You bloody deviant, you!
*grins*
(I helped save b3ta! thealternativefact, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 15:01, Reply)
*chucks another load on the fire*
*stands back and prepares marshmallows on skewers as big flames erupt*

Least I won't have to put the heating on! Some of these fumes are pretty toxic though...
(Son of Sam-i-am We're all as mad as hatters here, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 15:02, Reply)
*purchases marshmallow the size of Saturn*
*toasts*
(I helped save b3ta! thealternativefact, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 15:05, Reply)
Woohoo
We've got our own hell here in HSH all thanks to Sam.
(Herr Doktor Lemminge Is bored, so cheer me up!, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 15:05, Reply)
*demonic grin*
*stokes fire with pitchfork*

Edit: I fucking hate Windows Update!
(Son of Sam-i-am We're all as mad as hatters here, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 15:05, Reply)
I love fire.
So, so much.
I think I love it even more than knives.

If you can't solve a problem, burn it.
That's my motto.
(I helped save b3ta! Cawl, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 15:06, Reply)
Fire is great
I never entirely grew out of my pyromaniac phase. Haven't made anything explode for quite a while though.

Edit: we should have a countryside b3ta bash, where we shoot things and set things on fire!
(Son of Sam-i-am We're all as mad as hatters here, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 15:07, Reply)
That sounds great!
"Grew out of"...
I take it you're not one of the "young batch" of OT regulars then?
(I helped save b3ta! Cawl, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 15:10, Reply)
This afternoon I've been learning about
Thai 6 hour clocks
24 hour analogue clocks
Hexadecimal Time
French Revolutionary Time (or decimal time)
Anno Mundi (calender period starting from the Biblical creation of the world)
(I helped save b3ta! Captain V, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 15:10, Reply)
Sam
I never grew out of it either, in fact I almost burn down my old mans workplace when I was younger.

There is only two things better than fire, and one of those involves a fire anyway!
(Herr Doktor Lemminge Is bored, so cheer me up!, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 15:14, Reply)
"the "young batch" of OT regulars"
So, who's that then, Kaol?

Eh?
(I helped save b3ta! K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 15:15, Reply)
Woo for pyromania!
I almost burnt down my mate's house when we were about 12, after a failed attempt to burn our names into the lawn with a gallon of petrol and some flares we stole from cadets. His old man is a fireman and was distinctly unimpressed to get a shout to his own address...!

Kaol - I'm 24, about the same age as you I believe? I have an extra 30-40 years worth of bitterness and cynicism on top of that though.

Any particular reason Captain, or are you considering a career in horology?
(Son of Sam-i-am We're all as mad as hatters here, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 15:17, Reply)
The young people!
Myself,
Captain V,
Lusty,
PoD,
MM,
and now Sam, haha!
There may be others...
(I helped save b3ta! Cawl, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 15:19, Reply)
C'n I join the list Kaol?
Because I wanna be incluuuuuuuuuded. And I fit the 'young' bracket if not the others :p
(darras jeg har en grevling i hodet. Grevling, grevlang, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 15:20, Reply)
I believe
I'm actually the youngest of all the OTers =D
(I helped save b3ta! Captain V, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 15:21, Reply)
What other brackets darras?
Ha, did you think I was old Kaol? :P
(Son of Sam-i-am We're all as mad as hatters here, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 15:22, Reply)
Hey clendrix, Dok Minge
Look, the children are making a list of their names!
(I helped save b3ta! K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 15:22, Reply)
Sam
the OT regular bracket, and possibly the clinically insane bracket. But most definitely the horribly bored at work bracket!
(darras jeg har en grevling i hodet. Grevling, grevlang, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 15:23, Reply)
K2
I noticed that, but they seam to have missed a few people out. And they think that it's us oldsters that have the bad memories!
(Herr Doktor Lemminge Is bored, so cheer me up!, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 15:24, Reply)
@Sam
This comic caused me to look up 24 hour analog clocks and I ended up in all those other places.
(I helped save b3ta! Captain V, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 15:31, Reply)
Look at that young ones.
The old people seem to be trying to be funny to disguise the fact they're bitter and old.

Ohhhh careful there K2k6 deary, we don't want you falling over and breaking a hip.
*raises voice*
Can you hear me ok?
(I helped save b3ta! wanderlust, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 15:32, Reply)
Missed people out...
Hmmm... TGB and himjim.
Dunno who else off the top of my head.

EDIT: Darras, how old are you then?

Oh, and Sam, I thought you were about 28. But you know lots of stuff!
(I helped save b3ta! Cawl, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 15:32, Reply)
Lusty
I wish I was bitter, and not so much of the old thank you. We are just mature!
(Herr Doktor Lemminge Is bored, so cheer me up!, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 15:34, Reply)
Lab?

(I helped save b3ta! Captain V, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 15:35, Reply)
300
Fuck yeah!

*EDIT* cock, beaten to it. Damn this steam powered PC.

noon all.
(I helped save b3ta! Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Thu 18 Dec 2008, 15:35, Reply)
Lab's ooooooold!
(Awh!)

As in over 25, haha!
(I helped save b3ta! Cawl, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 15:36, Reply)
@Dok
Four words.

Michael
Jackson
Was
Black
(I helped save b3ta! wanderlust, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 15:40, Reply)
Ah right
I forgot he was an old person.
(I helped save b3ta! Captain V, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 15:40, Reply)
@Dok
Mature? Speak for yourself. I've just been around for a bit longer than a lot of the folk here.

Mature? Pfft.

Whoa, Lusty. You're shouting!
(I helped save b3ta! K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 15:41, Reply)
Is TGB not over 25? Don't know why I think that either, strange the impressions you form of people on the internet
I often get called a miserable old man Kaol, not surprising really! I drink real ale and wear woolly jumpers, and complain about music being too loud in pubs.

Are you younger than me then?! I thought you were older as well..

Edit: cheers Captain, I'm now having to research all that as well!
(Son of Sam-i-am We're all as mad as hatters here, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 15:42, Reply)
I'm 22 :p
I'm not entirely sure how old TGB is, but it's not more that 2 years older than me.
(I helped save b3ta! Cawl, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 15:43, Reply)
@Sam
Nope, she's under 25.

:edit: Sam if you can get your head around why, for 2 hours per day, 3 different days of the week are being observed at once you're a better man than me. It's got me stumped at the moment =[

:edit2: Nevermind, the penny has dropped now.
(I helped save b3ta! Captain V, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 15:43, Reply)
Lusty
Please stop that, the tears are streaming don my face from holding in the laughter.

K2, mature in years not in attitude.

Kaol, How about Tulip!
(Herr Doktor Lemminge Is bored, so cheer me up!, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 15:44, Reply)
Ah. OK Dok
That's the spirit.
(I helped save b3ta! K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 15:45, Reply)
*whispers*
I thought Tulip was in her 30's...
:|
(I helped save b3ta! Cawl, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 15:45, Reply)
I think you're right Kaol
I believe she's 31. But she looks much younger, of course.

*attempts to recover situation in case HLT's lurking*
(I helped save b3ta! K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 15:47, Reply)
I don't even understand the question Captain!
You mean in terms of them happening in different time zones?
(Son of Sam-i-am We're all as mad as hatters here, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 15:47, Reply)
Here ya go
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Date_Line

It's described in the first paragraph. If I've understood correctly it's caused by the IDL not being straight which means that there can be a difference of more than 25 hours between timezones near the date line.

The apparently time travelling boat was good too!
(I helped save b3ta! Captain V, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 15:49, Reply)
Gods
I would never have thought that about Tulip! She comes across as one of you youngsters.

Just goes to show how wrong you can be on the internet!
(Herr Doktor Lemminge Is bored, so cheer me up!, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 15:51, Reply)
Mental!
Yeah, looks like it's because it detours round a few countries, to avoid crossing them internally.

Pretty hard to get your head round though, I agree!
(Son of Sam-i-am We're all as mad as hatters here, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 15:53, Reply)
I think
The a country that is East of the date line has to be physically further West than a country that is West of the date line.

I want to find a globe with the date line on it now...

Damn you wikipedia...damn you for pandering to my penchant for learning!
(I helped save b3ta! Captain V, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 15:56, Reply)
Yeah
From what I've just read, the date line isn't something that's defined in and of itself. It's more like the countries choose which time zone they're in, and the borders of those time zones correspond to the edges of the countries, and then the IDL is defined by those borders.

Urgh, that's a horrible sentence.

Edit: you can see it in the picture on Wikipedia.
(Son of Sam-i-am We're all as mad as hatters here, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 15:58, Reply)
V
I'd watch that if I was you, there is a lot of crap on there!
(Herr Doktor Lemminge Is bored, so cheer me up!, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 15:59, Reply)
Haha, yeah
My lie in the page on WiFi still stands, most of my other lies got taken out though.

Damn humourless Americans...
(Son of Sam-i-am We're all as mad as hatters here, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 16:00, Reply)
Oh Aye
I know Dok. Anything without citation I tend to take with a pinch of salt.

I keep meaning to find the research I often read about that apparently shows wikipedia to be at least as accurate as any encyclopaedia in print.
(I helped save b3ta! Captain V, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 16:05, Reply)
@Sam
So where's the lie then? The wireless-fireless bit?

Or is it something technical that I don't know about?

And shouldn't the British site be Wikipaedia?
(I helped save b3ta! K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 16:10, Reply)
Shit...
I was out having yet more cake and tea and wasn't around to support K2k6 or discipline Kaol.

*warms slippers for K2k6*
*smacks Kaol on the back of the legs*

And Lusty, you watch it too or I'll be sorting you out on Saturday.
Oh wait, I am anyway. Nevermind :)
(I helped save b3ta! thealternativefact, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 16:11, Reply)
Nope - that may have been a lie added by someone else, or maybe it's actually true!
My lie doesn't concern anything technical.

Edit: surely Wikipædia, if we're being really pedantic ;)

Captain - yeah it is apparently, I still do my best to sabotage it though, just because I can.
(Son of Sam-i-am We're all as mad as hatters here, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 16:11, Reply)
Ho there!
I'm back, after a spirited attempt at breaking the internet.

Thankfully, I failed. *wipes sweat from brow*
(I helped save b3ta! Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 16:14, Reply)
Go Drixy
These young whippersnappers have to be put in their place every now and then! ;)
(Herr Doktor Lemminge Is bored, so cheer me up!, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 16:15, Reply)
@Sam
OK, I have neither the time nor the inclination to read the whole article in detail, so I'll just take your word for it!

I did think about using the diphthong but couldn't be bothered working out the key combination. œ¡∑´®†¥¨^øøππ“‘æ…æææææææ oh, wait, there it is!

Edit - thanks for warming my slippers, clendrix.

*puts on*
(I helped save b3ta! K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 16:16, Reply)
I cheated
And copied and pasted it from the character map.

It's Alt + 0230, if anyone wants to know.

And:

Wi-Fi also enables places which would traditionally not have network to be connected, for example bathrooms, kitchens and garden sheds. The 'father of Wi-Fi', Vic Hayes, stated that being able to access the internet whilst answering a call of nature was 'one of life's most liberating experiences'.

It was following a late night conversation on here about using your laptop to surf the internet whilst having a shit.
(Son of Sam-i-am We're all as mad as hatters here, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 16:18, Reply)
That kind of vandalism isn't too bad imo
Nothing particularly harmful about it really.

kubuntuforums.net/forums/index.php?topic=3097983.0

That guy has your quote as his sig!
(I helped save b3ta! Captain V, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 16:21, Reply)
Hahahahaha
Brilliant, I just officeloled a lot at that!

You have to be really subtle with the vandalism, cos they notice it far too easily otherwise. I've been banned several times for insisting Hitler was born in Scunthorpe, Margaret Thatcher was a male-female transsexual, etc
(Son of Sam-i-am We're all as mad as hatters here, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 16:26, Reply)
Ha ha!
Wi-fi on the bog! Love it.

For Mac users, æ is just Option-' (apostrophe)

Edit - damn, where's that bloody hat?
(I helped save b3ta! K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 16:26, Reply)
Kaol
Are you saying DiT and I are old? You utter utter cuntweasel.
(I helped save b3ta! fuck shit up the best you never had, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 16:39, Reply)
Hahaha!
I could've posted...
But I thought I'd let you stew :p

EDIT: Er... Hi Becky... Er... No... You're in the "middle group"... Er... 25-35.
*runs*
(I helped save b3ta! Cawl, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 16:39, Reply)
Hmmph
Not compared to me, you're not.
(I helped save b3ta! Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Thu 18 Dec 2008, 16:39, Reply)
Kaol,
Becky's gonna kick your arse.
*encourages arse kicking*

DG, we bring a sense of maturity and poise to the place.
(I helped save b3ta! thealternativefact, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 16:42, Reply)
DG
Or me...
(Craig Colclough I've been on the telly you know. And in the papers, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 16:42, Reply)
No :(
It's nearly my Birthday.
I don't wanna get arse-kicked.
(I helped save b3ta! Cawl, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 16:43, Reply)
Becky vs Kaol deathmatch!
I'll put a fiver on Becks if it's hand to hand combat, and a fiver on Kaol if weapons are allowed.
(Son of Sam-i-am We're all as mad as hatters here, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 16:43, Reply)
Saturday
lest my feeble time ravaged brain hinders me unable to remember...
(I helped save b3ta! fuck shit up the best you never had, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 16:43, Reply)
My money's on Becky
whether Kaol is armed or not.
(I helped save b3ta! thealternativefact, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 16:44, Reply)
You're still a youngster, becky
You're just over 75% of my age at the moment!

Edit - And I'm off home. I've been here long enough.

May return later.
(I helped save b3ta! K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 16:48, Reply)
Oh bloody hell!

Second place!

A-FUCKING-GAIN!

That's about a dozen times now

and I was winning up until 10:00am this morning.

what a bollocks day.
(I helped save b3ta! Pooflake braces for an onslaught..., Thu 18 Dec 2008, 16:50, Reply)
I'm impressed that one won though
It was only posted today!
(Son of Sam-i-am We're all as mad as hatters here, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 16:51, Reply)
Oh...
I never realised I was old... Won't somebody hold me?
(I helped save b3ta! Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 16:55, Reply)
Well I'm off
New qotw could be quite good although I don't think I have any stories to post and I doubt I'll feel motivated to fabricate one either.

Laters folks.
(I helped save b3ta! Captain V, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 16:56, Reply)
No front-page
For me, again, haha!

And I don't want to post any stories this week. Much, much to close-to-the-bone.
(I helped save b3ta! Cawl, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 16:57, Reply)
*steals Kaol's bones*
Now you can post!
(I helped save b3ta! Captain V, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 17:00, Reply)
Eh...
No thanks...
This QOTW is gonna make me sad.

At least there are only two days when I'll be in the office for it.
(I helped save b3ta! Cawl, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 17:11, Reply)
*shelters Kaol from the new QOTW*

Is everyone going?
*boreds*
(I helped save b3ta! thealternativefact, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 17:15, Reply)
I'm about to head off
and won't be around tomorrow as it's office Christmas party day! I'm gonna be soooo fucked on Saturday...
(I helped save b3ta! Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Thu 18 Dec 2008, 17:19, Reply)
I'm here 'til 6
*shrugs*

But then I'm stealing the guy from my office to come play some guitar for us :D
(I helped save b3ta! Cawl, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 17:21, Reply)
I'm here
wasting time until Wookiee tells me to leave working hard.
(I helped save b3ta! thealternativefact, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 17:24, Reply)
I'm faffing around
With a load of insurance documents.
I think I'm gonna have a fun-embolism!
:p
(I helped save b3ta! Cawl, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 17:27, Reply)
Kaol
I'm doing a budget report.

All this pent-up fun is going to EXPLODE on Saturday!
(I helped save b3ta! thealternativefact, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 17:27, Reply)
I'll wear a hat,
In that case...
*grins*
(I helped save b3ta! Cawl, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 17:28, Reply)
I'll wear my wellies.
And a smile.
(I helped save b3ta! thealternativefact, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 17:30, Reply)
I take it you won't be smoking then...
It'll be fucking cold outside!
(I helped save b3ta! Cawl, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 17:35, Reply)
Oh yes, I forgot.
Besides, I have to think about my friends - poor bastards.

I shall brings clothes and smokes.
(I helped save b3ta! thealternativefact, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 17:39, Reply)
Time for a new one I think...

(I helped save b3ta! jim_bob can herd cats., Thu 18 Dec 2008, 18:25, Reply)

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