Home Sweet Home

( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 19:38, 67 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Evening dude.
My washing machine is once again fucked, and it has suddenly become freezing cold here. Also, the shops are full of Christmas stuff and this displeases me greatly.
( Maladicta, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 19:48, Reply)

Evening Maladelica
I too have been made aware of the sudden cold by having to rapidly switch coats to something warmer at an alarming pace. At least the Diwali festival is warding off Christmas over here for the time being.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 19:51, Reply)

Evening Maladicta
Permission to bask in the warm smugness of central heating?
(stimpy, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 19:53, Reply)

Evening Stimpy (I always hear your username in the appropriate voice)
I do have central heating after a fashion; little tiny storage heater things that either blast out all the heat in the world or do fuck all. Today is apparently a do fuck all day, so I'm wrapped in a blanket.
( Maladicta, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 19:55, Reply)

I too can has central heating
but I'm at the mercy of my landlady. It's up to her to decide whether or not I turn into a block of ice at any given moment.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 20:06, Reply)

A bit like my feet at the moment!
I accidentally emptied the hoover over my slippers some time ago and they haven't been the same since. Fuck knows why I took my tights off...
( Maladicta, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 20:08, Reply)

Tights should not be removed
They feel so nice and clingy on the legs... do not remove until the last possible oppertunity!
(stimpy, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 21:17, Reply)

That they do.
Got to admire any job where no one cares if I turn up in fishnets...
( Maladicta, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 21:22, Reply)

Oh, not here.
The shops are full of family selection boxes and advent calendars and so forth... I am not ready for Christmas and won't be for some time.
( Maladicta, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 19:53, Reply)

I'd suggest hiding somewhere with a large Asian community
Or some other culture that doesn't do Christmas.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 20:07, Reply)

I spend December pretending to be Jewish
so I don't have to bother... then I remember my family are half-Catholic, half Welsh Chapel.

Of course, I do get to go to Lille at some point this December with work so I may have to de-Scrooge.
( Maladicta, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 20:09, Reply)

I once told a die-hard Christian I was giving up religion for lent.
Unsurprisingly this wasn't met with belly laughs. Or even a smile.
(Paolo Nutini's Bikini Better than Frederick Fleet's optometrist, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 20:18, Reply)

Some of them take these things well, others look at you like you have sprouted a second head.
I worked with a lovely, non-forcing-Jesus-on-you Christian lady and it was like a breath of fresh air.
( Maladicta, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 20:21, Reply)

Oh yeah, don't get me wrong, I've met some lovely Darwin disbelievers in my time
and had some fantastic discussions with them.
Just this one in particular was very jovial and jolly and yet quite clearly couldn't take a joke. Bless.
(Paolo Nutini's Bikini Better than Frederick Fleet's optometrist, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 20:28, Reply)

My crowning achievement was making a Baptist nearly swear.
This was when I was telling her of the insanity of Stalker Girl, and this girl never said anything mean about anyone, ever. She said "She's ... a piece of work!"
( Maladicta, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 20:34, Reply)

Heya Spak
Hows tricks?
(stimpy, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 19:52, Reply)

Greetings Stimples
Have spent the day at work having to apply voodoo magic to get my software to work properly. This is not helped at all by sleep deprivation. Installing Unreal Tournament 3 on my laptop hasn't helped either.

How's yourself?
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 19:56, Reply)

Ahh, voodoo
Did it involve sticking a pin in a CD? UT3 had a real effect on my insomnia... cured it. Just couldn't get in to the game.

I'm good - two misbehaving rats, constantly fighting and decided to throw all the cage lining on the floor. Suggestions for how to stop them doing this? Talking sternly doesn't help.
(stimpy, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 19:59, Reply)

Nah
I just had to change the settings screen to a different sub-project to get the changes to register. I learned this by trial, error and gut instinct. Would still like to stick pins into the programmers who wrote this.

UT3 is having the opposite effect on me.

As for the misbehaving rats, have you tried separating them?
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 21:33, Reply)

UT3 fucking rocks on the PS3 :D
Of course, I would say this since I appear to have become a huge PS3 fangirl (I even bought Heavenly Sword to find out what 'twing twang' is and it's not a bad game if you overlook the very obviously rushed graphics).
( Maladicta, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 19:59, Reply)

Glad someone on here likes UT3
Does anyone want to help me test the online play? Would love to have a game full of b3tans.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 20:21, Reply)

I have rummaged through Maladicta and Flatmate's Pile of PC Games
and have discovered we also have UT3 for the PC. If I can persuade my router not to shit itself and die like it did playing Red Alert, I'm well in.
( Maladicta, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 20:26, Reply)

Yay!
If I can get UT3 to co-operate with my fireall, I could set up a server sometime tonight, but as I'm expecting a phonecall, I may not get round to it for sometime (or may even have to leave it until Wednesday if I can't do it tonight).
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 20:38, Reply)

I need a new router really, but the decent gaming one my flatmate wants is a hundred quid!
Firewall usually behaves itself but may need to be bullied into believing UT3 is kosher before I can attempt online play...
( Maladicta, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 20:43, Reply)

Let me know how the kosher bullying of your Internet doodahs goes and I'll see what I can do for a server.

( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 20:49, Reply)

Will do - may need to bully it a bit!

( Maladicta, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 20:56, Reply)

If in doubt
Get the latex out...
(stimpy, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 21:19, Reply)

You've never seen me threatening the router when it craps out again.
Guitar Hero drumstick, kicking it in very pointy heels, inflatable mallet, crop... kicking it again... the neighbours probably think I'm a nutter when they look in!
( Maladicta, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 21:24, Reply)

As counterintuitive as this sounds
this might actually be a better way of repairing a router than just throwing vast blobs of latex at it.

And if your neighbours are nutters themselves, you've just made some new friends.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 21:40, Reply)

Yeah, I'm not sure drowning it in liquid latex is the way to go.
The landlord would kill me for the mess on the carpet for starters!
( Maladicta, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 21:46, Reply)

Everyone loves latex though!
I sense a new product line. Computer equipment for the fetish market. My idea! None of you go stealing it now!
(stimpy, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 22:07, Reply)

Not computer equipment but user-interface design
for the scat-market - Apple's user-interface paradigm.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 22:15, Reply)

Most people, in fairness, only appreciate it because it stops them getting themselves or their partners pregnant.
It takes a certain calibre to see it having any other purpose!
( Maladicta, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 22:18, Reply)

Like preventing computer viruses?

( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 22:19, Reply)

Okay, that's three uses.
We're doing well!
( Maladicta, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 22:21, Reply)

Hullo Spakka.
I was accused of being your meat puppet the other day. I took it as a compliment but I'm not sure how you'd take it.
www.b3ta.com/questions/offtopic/post543328
By the way, this is my first time on a HSH thread. What's the etiquette? Have I got to offer imaginary biscuits or anything?
(Paolo Nutini's Bikini Better than Frederick Fleet's optometrist, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 19:53, Reply)

Biscuits are provided
Just stick around, this is the last bastion of warmth and niceness.

Hows your day been, Mr Thunderwolf?
(stimpy, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 19:55, Reply)

Pretty good thanks.
I've had the whole day off, and I've done nothing. The right kind of nothing, not the wasted day kind of nothing. Had a walk, ate some crisps, watched a movie, washed the dishes.
Yourself?
(Paolo Nutini's Bikini Better than Frederick Fleet's optometrist, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 19:58, Reply)

Greetings theophilous thunder(were)wolf
Welcome to HSH. Here, we talk random bollocks and whatever's on our minds (but not necessarily in that order), and unlike most other threads, we're not bounded by things such as topic. These threads are best described as a Bohemian Concept-Soup.

As it's your first time, we'll all offer you the biscuits. You can have a nibble at the "Home Sweet Home" sign if you want.

As you being accused of being my meatpuppet, I have a reputation on here for being positive in a nice and silly way, so maybe that might have been what set it off.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 20:04, Reply)

Wow, this really *is* home.
As talking about what's on my mind generally involves random bollocks anyway.
And this place could do with some nice silly positivity. It seems like childish jeering is in vogue right now.
(Paolo Nutini's Bikini Better than Frederick Fleet's optometrist, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 20:10, Reply)

By "this place" I mean B3TA in general.
It seems pretty civil right here.
(Paolo Nutini's Bikini Better than Frederick Fleet's optometrist, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 20:14, Reply)

nice silly positivity
You've come to the right place. Stay around and see the full range of bollocks, scrotums and foreskins on offer.

* offers another biscuit *
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 20:42, Reply)

Oh dear, you're putting me off now.
Seriously does anyone think genitals (of either kind) are attractive? They look like cast-offs from a 50s alien B-movie set to me.
And no more biscuits for me. I'm feeling a bit yip sick to be honest.
(Paolo Nutini's Bikini Better than Frederick Fleet's optometrist, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 21:03, Reply)

* considers auditioning genitals for cast of Plan 9 from Outer Space*

( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 21:42, Reply)

Momma said 'home is where the heart is' when I left that town
I made it all the way to west virginia, and that's where my heart found
exactly where I'm supposed to be, it didn't take much time
just south of the mason dixon line *sings*
( Lisette von Falcon, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 20:03, Reply)

Greetings Swizzle-Stick
Were you originally from North of the Mason/Dixon line?
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 20:12, Reply)

Naw, silly. It's a song lyric.

( Lisette von Falcon, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 20:24, Reply)

But which side of the Mason/Dixon line is the lyric from?

( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 20:43, Reply)

It doesn't say, actually. But it mentions wanting enough gasoline to get to the east coast and seeing the brightest pair of deep blue eyes walking into her life

( Lisette von Falcon, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 20:56, Reply)

Hi all
Just got back from the dizzying Southernness of SE23. I'm scared by the South. I have real bourbon biccies and diet coke (trying not to be a lolfatty and failing) and some Ovid I'm neglecting. But I have a new sewing machine. How very exciting!
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 20:09, Reply)

Hello lovely lady :)
What's the Ovid then? I have some mince that is defrosting and some water; badly need to go food shopping!

I have great respect for anyone who can use a sewing machine: my lady boss is a genius with them and makes a lot of her own clothes, so yes it is exciting! I can just about hem something ;)
( Maladicta, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 20:16, Reply)

Hello gorgeous
I can't be arsed looking. Seriously. Couldn't give a flying fuck. Ah well. In my room all I hve are baked beans and salt and vinegar crisps. I ate the biccies. Oh dear.

I can't yet, I know the logistics of it, and I have a plan for something that isn't clothes... But need some things from home. And a feather cape. I saw one in Spitalfields and WANT IT. And found some feathers...
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 20:26, Reply)

D'aww :) *preens*
Metamorphoses is fucking funny - I miss doing unseens of that; just the things the gods turn people into and why, it's class :)

I've eaten next to nothing since I got in but have decided tonight will be Shepherd's Pie Night, because I have several potatoes and some mince and don't think I can do stovies justice...

Oh, London shops are the besterest. Let me loose and I won't come back for hours! I'm quite enamoured with the idea of a feather cape myself, would love to wear such a thing to work!
( Maladicta, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 20:32, Reply)

Greetings Lampidoodle
You're originally from Oop North aren't ya. As long as you don't escape from London, the Sahrf won't bite.
* still has tooth-marks *
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 20:17, Reply)

You just have to know how to treat Kent.
Bring it some White Lightning and a copy of Razzle and it won't bite you.
( Maladicta, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 20:22, Reply)

Kent treated me well. My bitemarks are from the other side of South-of-London.
My favourite walk this summer was on a ridge overlooking the valley where HS1 amongst other things nestles. A much better experience than working a year in the commuter-belt.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 20:56, Reply)

I'm a Manc, born to ex-pat Southerners.
I don't sound like a mancunian. I'm just an average thing. And I'm living in Sarf Landan, and loving it.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 20:24, Reply)

I'm sort of from all over the place
but have finally managed to settle in West London. Also, my company has a wide ranging international workforce and I fit in just fine. While it's not the place I'd call home the most, I definitely feel like I belong here and am not an outsider.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 20:29, Reply)

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*rides past on a tiny bike, waving furiously*
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 20:51, Reply)

* waves back *
Look at it go!

Did anyone else see that go past?
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 20:59, Reply)

*pops a wheelie*

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 21:00, Reply)

YOU BE CAREFUL!
If you fall off and break both your legs don't come...
Oh, never mind. That's an old gag now anyway.
(Paolo Nutini's Bikini Better than Frederick Fleet's optometrist, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 21:05, Reply)

*skids to a halt with a screech*
Word up dudes. I got sweary on the qotw.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 21:14, Reply)

Riding your bike irresponsibly and now swearing at strangers? You wait til your father gets home...
Where did you get all sweartastic? Had a quick look but I'm far too lazy to try any harder.
(Paolo Nutini's Bikini Better than Frederick Fleet's optometrist, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 21:25, Reply)

*shakes fist*
I'll tell dad to stick it up his sweaty arse!

The instigation. Somebody referred to 'rap music' and then used techno as a generic term for all electronic music.

b3ta.com/questions/coldfish/post541147

So, in response,

b3ta.com/questions/coldfish/post541163
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 21:31, Reply)

Ah. Riding your bike to let off some steam were you?
I gave you a click for that. A very well thought out rant.
And, um... I'll never call them "Sunn Oh" again... [cough]
(Paolo Nutini's Bikini Better than Frederick Fleet's optometrist, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 22:04, Reply)

It's a bugbear of mine
As you can maybe tell.

There is no O in Sunn O))).
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 22:08, Reply)