Tonight's dose of fluffeh has arrived.
In other news, what's your favourite idea for a theme party? Personally I'm quite fond of one-letter fancy dress, but think murder mystery ones are shit. Come in, sit down and tell me what you know, dear ones.


( Maladicta, Mon 3 Aug 2009, 19:17, 51 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

evening deary!
sorry i can't stop :-(
things to do.
you okay?
hugs
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Mon 3 Aug 2009, 19:28, Reply)

Pretty good thanks... hit the wall of malaise at work and can't be arsed at the moment!
Counting down to Paris at the end of the month :)
/hugs
( Maladicta, Mon 3 Aug 2009, 19:31, Reply)

Stops to give a quick hug to both of ya's
Counting down to the countdown in Paris then?
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Mon 3 Aug 2009, 19:41, Reply)

Very very much so. Am epically excited.
*hugs Spak* Countdown in Paris, good sir?
( Maladicta, Mon 3 Aug 2009, 19:49, Reply)

Haven't you heard?
They're going to launch the Eiffel Tower.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Mon 3 Aug 2009, 19:55, Reply)

How awesome is that?
We are so there. I've still not decided what I want to see or do and have managed to book a hotel in the strippers and sex shops end of Paris entirely by accident...
( Maladicta, Mon 3 Aug 2009, 19:59, Reply)

Sounds like you could probably get away with making up your trip as soon as you walk out the hotel.
Plus you'd get to see the Eiffel Tower fly by on your last day.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Mon 3 Aug 2009, 20:24, Reply)

Well, I didn't realise until Pot looked it up on Google Street View.
I was too busy being a French student and thinking Montmartre = Amélie and Sacré-Coeur, plus pretty easy to get to and from Gare du Nord on the metro. Now I'm all excited again! *contemplates four-week sickie from work*
( Maladicta, Mon 3 Aug 2009, 20:29, Reply)

Mmmm ... four-week sickie ... glargh
^{unless it's Swine Flu}
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Mon 3 Aug 2009, 20:40, Reply)

I've already had a vaguely swine-flu-type thing
that my flatmate gave to me. I'm still a bit sniffly and coughed so hard last week I scared the boss...
( Maladicta, Mon 3 Aug 2009, 20:44, Reply)

.
I wonder if it's possible to avoid swine-flu solely by being smug about knowing how un-panicked you are about the whole thing.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Mon 3 Aug 2009, 20:48, Reply)

I wasn't remotely concerned by it and so am not dead.
Should probably have had a couple of days off, though, since one of the girls I work with is pregnant...
( Maladicta, Mon 3 Aug 2009, 20:49, Reply)

ZOMGpregg0rz!!!
If we're not careful, she could give birth to a pig!
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Mon 3 Aug 2009, 21:01, Reply)

OH NOES!!!1
Now that would be interesting, since I'm the only woman in the office who doesn't think her pregnancy is fascinating...
( Maladicta, Mon 3 Aug 2009, 21:03, Reply)

.
If you convince yourself she's giving birth to a pig, you could make it easier to pretend to be fascinated, and then you'd fit right in.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Mon 3 Aug 2009, 21:06, Reply)

I wouldn't mind
but before she got knocked up she had photos of her kittums. Now everyone wants to see the scan photos and only I want to see kittums!
( Maladicta, Mon 3 Aug 2009, 21:11, Reply)

But I'm sure piglets will be cute too.

( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Mon 3 Aug 2009, 21:13, Reply)

They do make adorable noises.
*feels better about all the annoying soppiness at work now*
( Maladicta, Mon 3 Aug 2009, 21:16, Reply)

.
Also, if you want to create undue panic in your office, just make a set of piglet-sized sombreros for the piglets.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Mon 3 Aug 2009, 21:20, Reply)

To the stationery cupboard
for origami purposes!
( Maladicta, Mon 3 Aug 2009, 21:24, Reply)

I read that as "orgy purposes"
Needless to say, it wouldn't be stationery for long!
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Mon 3 Aug 2009, 21:39, Reply)

No. No orgies.
Far too much multi-tasking involved.
( Maladicta, Mon 3 Aug 2009, 21:43, Reply)

Evening all
One letter fancy dress is always good, I have a few stock costumes (pirate, postman, Death) that can generally be shoehorned into any letter if I'm feeling lazy, and something can generally be made up if I'm feeling adventurous.
As for my own favourite theme, my 18th (stealing the idea from my sister's 21st) was a casino party, a couple friends manning the tables, one doing cocktails (rotating every so often as they got bored), each person given 500 chips, and a prize for the winner at the end (an inflatable shark if I remember rightly.). Went perfectly, aside from everyone ganging up against one friend to make sure he didn't get the prize, and some slight misunderstandings about the rules of blackjack meaning it was somewhat easier to win.
The great thing is, if you don't want to get involved, its just a nice cocktail party.
( Tedium Alduce me to interlow myself., Mon 3 Aug 2009, 19:34, Reply)

I've always wanted a cocktail party, with cocktail dresses and men in suits.
Some of my friends at uni had a black and white party and that was all of the awesome (including a papier-maché penguin to hold a bowl of Ferrero Rocher and christened Jeeves). They are the same girls who made a cocktail known as Ship n' Wrecked that turned everything it touched a strange shade of blue...
( Maladicta, Mon 3 Aug 2009, 19:38, Reply)

It's always best to agree on the rules of a game before you play it.
I once tried to remember the rules of Shithead from memory and it was only once we were playing that we realised I must have forgotten a rule or two.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Mon 3 Aug 2009, 19:46, Reply)

I can never remember how to play Shithead. Ever.
The rules seem to change by region...
( Maladicta, Mon 3 Aug 2009, 19:50, Reply)

Don't tell me they have regional variants too!
It's been so long since I played it that I've almost completely forgotten about it.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Mon 3 Aug 2009, 19:57, Reply)

Well, Leicester Shithead, where I grew up, is different to southern Shithead
that I played at uni, something about how you shuffle...
( Maladicta, Mon 3 Aug 2009, 20:00, Reply)

My Shithead was polished Oop North
So it should really be called Shitehead.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Mon 3 Aug 2009, 20:07, Reply)

They do, as does the name
(Fuck it, Burnout, etc)
Generally though, so long as you have the 3 face up/3 face down, a transparent card, a reset card, and a burning card things work well.
( Tedium Alduce me to interlow myself., Mon 3 Aug 2009, 20:00, Reply)

Evening b3tafolk
Am starting to turn into a walking-addict. Am even thinking of going on another walk with my walking-group tomorrow evening.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Mon 3 Aug 2009, 19:40, Reply)

I did actually read that as "wanking addict."

( Maladicta, Mon 3 Aug 2009, 19:50, Reply)

Me too :/

( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Mon 3 Aug 2009, 19:51, Reply)

Great minds think alike
eh? 'Ning DG!
( Maladicta, Mon 3 Aug 2009, 19:52, Reply)

'Ning
Not stopping long. Busy cooking dinner.

In fact I'm off now. Laters!
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Mon 3 Aug 2009, 19:53, Reply)

See ya DG
Chatting on b3ta and cooking dinner at the same time? No wonder so many people talk about what they're having for din-dins.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Mon 3 Aug 2009, 19:58, Reply)

we had tastey leftovers made into super tastey things...
taking my inspiration from iain banks (whit?) we had black-pudding dhansak samosas followed by white-bean and chorizo stew with funky cauliflower-cheese pasties.
nomtastic it were.
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Mon 3 Aug 2009, 20:09, Reply)

We had faggots and chips
and it was most nomsome.
( Maladicta, Mon 3 Aug 2009, 20:21, Reply)

Have been one of those for a while now
but taking up walking is a good way of surreptitiously attempting to change the conversation matter to masturbation by hoping you're misheard or misread.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Mon 3 Aug 2009, 19:53, Reply)

and i'm turning back into a biking addict...
did about 350 miles over the weekend, not bad considering the saturday morning malaise that had struck, on account of weather and spark-plug issues...
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Mon 3 Aug 2009, 20:00, Reply)

Eras
I've been to a couple of 'era' themed parties;

1980s - Good music, crap clothes and some very questionable alcoholic 'inventions'

1970s - Bad disco and everyone wandering around drunk looking like the result of an explosion in an eastern european charity shop.

But the best one had to be a 1940's themed party - think an episode of Foyles War, but with much more drinking and naughtiness. Most of us were staying in a cheap B&B up the road from the venue - so you can imagine we freaked quite a few people out as we made our way back.

Took me ages to stop saying things like 'Wizzbang' and 'Spiffing' - there's a photo of a group of the blokes all sitting in big leather armchairs, all dressed in RAF uniforms or pilot's combat gear with very large whiskey's all round.
( HSDriver was probably still at work on, Mon 3 Aug 2009, 20:04, Reply)

60s, 70s and 80s
was our work do last year. Worth it only for my boss in what was to all intents and purposes a pimp shirt... and my then-boyfriend telling him so!
( Maladicta, Mon 3 Aug 2009, 20:08, Reply)

Evening coopsweb
Just assign 'bad' randomly to one or more of music, clothes, alcohol or naughtiness and you can pick an era.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Mon 3 Aug 2009, 20:43, Reply)

I've never been to a themed party, other than halloween which no one really dressed for anyway
I'd tell you what I know but you'd just disagree with me and get all defensive, pretty much like everyone else today. *Fargo smash*
( Lisette von Falcon, Mon 3 Aug 2009, 20:25, Reply)

Tell me anyway. I'll give you gin.

( Maladicta, Mon 3 Aug 2009, 20:27, Reply)

edit: nevermind
too much drama
( Lisette von Falcon, Mon 3 Aug 2009, 20:32, Reply)

Oh noes, I missed it!

( Maladicta, Mon 3 Aug 2009, 20:44, Reply)

it went something like this 'blahblahblah offline blah blah blah'

( Lisette von Falcon, Mon 3 Aug 2009, 21:03, Reply)

Bah, sounds about right.
Mine goes "blah blah blah need a holiday but boss says YOU CAN NOT HAS blah".
( Maladicta, Mon 3 Aug 2009, 21:12, Reply)

mine is like 'blahblah best friend being hurt but won't do anything blah blah etc'
lets run away together
( Lisette von Falcon, Mon 3 Aug 2009, 21:18, Reply)

Gah... that's the worst.
*hugs* yes, let's.
( Maladicta, Mon 3 Aug 2009, 21:24, Reply)