Ah that sucks luv
At least being ill you know FOR A FACT that you can stay home all warm and snug and can refuse invitations with impunity. I'm being given loads of grief for staying in. I don't want to go out there...
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Sat 14 Nov 2009, 18:13, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

I refused one last night to go to the pub
because I already felt shitty and there's been a cold circulating my department since the desk move on Tuesday.

Isn't "the weather is shit, I'm not going out in that?" a good enough excuse these days? I had a five-minute walk between bus and work yesterday and looked like a drowned rat by the time I got to the door of the office. Woe.
( Maladicta, Sat 14 Nov 2009, 18:15, Reply)

Some people have no sense
I'm all about getting walloped in the house there days
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Sat 14 Nov 2009, 18:22, Reply)

I'm wondering if I should crack open that bottle of red on the side there
just to get rid of it. I'm sure it's delicious but it may not go with the cold.
( Maladicta, Sat 14 Nov 2009, 18:26, Reply)

On the other hand
The alcohol might warm you up, helping to get rid of the cold
(Fredz A graveyard of hopes, a dump of ambition, Sat 14 Nov 2009, 18:28, Reply)

I like this idea although I do need to eat something first.
Now that I live on my own it is bad form to throw up on things from solo drinking.
( Maladicta, Sat 14 Nov 2009, 18:30, Reply)

Nah
It's only bad form if you don't clean it up before the next visitor
(Fredz A graveyard of hopes, a dump of ambition, Sat 14 Nov 2009, 18:32, Reply)

Duly noted.
Where's the corkscrew?
( Maladicta, Sat 14 Nov 2009, 18:35, Reply)

Do it
I'm going to have mint juleps later
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Sat 14 Nov 2009, 18:31, Reply)

Absinthe
Works wonders for colds. Or any ailment in fact; it makes you so you don't feel a thing.
(stimpy, Sat 14 Nov 2009, 18:32, Reply)

Absinthe...
Is the devil itself. I love it but judging by haloween weekend, or at least what people have told me, it doesn't like me.
(Fredz A graveyard of hopes, a dump of ambition, Sat 14 Nov 2009, 18:34, Reply)

I've never had it
but have heard enough horror stories to not want to go near it.
( Maladicta, Sat 14 Nov 2009, 18:35, Reply)

It's deadly
I have a bottle of some really good stuff. I can have two shots if I've had a good meal and absolutly nothing else to drink... I tend to do stupid things after any more than that. Like waking up in Edinburgh (I live in the Midlands!)
(stimpy, Sat 14 Nov 2009, 18:40, Reply)

I had quite a lot
mixed into cocktails. Absinthe and vodka martinis anyone? I got off with a few people, told some rather embarrasing stories, snogged a bloke for some reason and woke up on the kitchen floor wrapped in a plastic streetsign thingie surrounded by broken eggs. All in all an interesting experiance
(Fredz A graveyard of hopes, a dump of ambition, Sat 14 Nov 2009, 18:43, Reply)

Quod erat demonstrandum, Mal will not touch absinthe.

( Maladicta, Sat 14 Nov 2009, 18:45, Reply)

In all fairness
it was a LOT of fun. or at least I think it was....
(Fredz A graveyard of hopes, a dump of ambition, Sat 14 Nov 2009, 18:48, Reply)

I've had that before
where you end up doing something and have no recollection of how or why you came to be doing this thing (in this case, on the knee of a 6'4" goth chap with ringlets and velvet trousers who keeps calling you 'darling' in a plummy accent).

Then again, if I lived in the Midlands I'd drink to numb the pain.
( Maladicta, Sat 14 Nov 2009, 18:50, Reply)

I live in canterbury
I call the drinking to numb the pain excuse too
(Fredz A graveyard of hopes, a dump of ambition, Sat 14 Nov 2009, 18:51, Reply)

Trashford beats Canterbury!
I aspire to be able to afford to live there again!
( Maladicta, Sat 14 Nov 2009, 18:54, Reply)

Ashford?
Nasty! Okay, Ashford beats Canterbury. But only just.
(Fredz A graveyard of hopes, a dump of ambition, Sat 14 Nov 2009, 18:56, Reply)

I studied in Canterbury
but I work here and rent is cheaper. Miss the place.
( Maladicta, Sat 14 Nov 2009, 19:00, Reply)

That sounds nice.
It's either that or the awful Iceland chocolate cream liqueur, which is only fit to clean the drains...
( Maladicta, Sat 14 Nov 2009, 18:33, Reply)

this all over with tinsel on

( rosalicious i fucking love youve been framed, Sat 14 Nov 2009, 18:39, Reply)

It's always the way
You get on the bus and it looks fine, you go 10 minutes up the road and it's pissing it. Hope you feel better soon, and you can demand hugs and rubs from someone! Make next door do it.
(stimpy, Sat 14 Nov 2009, 18:26, Reply)

Word.
I'm not asking next door, that's the Eastenders flat where he knocks her around on occasional weekends... next door but one have a newborn who is likely to be an opera singer one of these days judging by his lung power. The former flatmate told his parents he looks stoned.
( Maladicta, Sat 14 Nov 2009, 18:29, Reply)

Eastenders?
Fetch the petrol. Or a big PA and some noise cancelling hardware so they can't hear anythign at all.
(stimpy, Sat 14 Nov 2009, 18:32, Reply)

Oh they sound like an episode of Eastenders when they get going.
LET ME IN BABE I'M SORRY
NO FUCK OFF YOU'LL HIT ME AGAIN
NO I WON'T I PROMISE I WON'T
(etc)

I'm currently wishing I had 5.1 speakers because my 2.1 ones are not doing Rilo justice.
( Maladicta, Sat 14 Nov 2009, 18:37, Reply)

Rilo Kiley!
Gwan gal!
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Sat 14 Nov 2009, 18:41, Reply)

Fucking love them.
I saw them twice a couple of years ago when they were touring... front row both times. Jenny Lewis is ridiculously beautiful up close.
( Maladicta, Sat 14 Nov 2009, 18:42, Reply)

I've seen em too. She's a darling.
Did you see her tour with those twins? They gave out a song sheet! It was ace.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Sat 14 Nov 2009, 18:45, Reply)

No I didn't :( couldn't afford it if I remember rightly.
They had Ewen McGuinness supporting them the first time and he was pretty good, and the second time Grand Ole Party who I wasn't overly fond of.
( Maladicta, Sat 14 Nov 2009, 18:46, Reply)

Ebay
Get a good pair of Logitechs. Although, if it's volume youre after, a good power set of 2.1 will knock the crap out of any cheap 5.1s. Or, find yourself a theatrey friend who knows their sound kit and get them to build you one - had a mate back home who did it and had something stupid like 200w per channel, and a 1.2k sub. Sounded fantastic, but he said he wanted something bigger, but didn't want to run so much power through the mains.
(stimpy, Sat 14 Nov 2009, 18:43, Reply)

I've had a couple of techy friends in my time
including one who keeps telling me to come and visit him and his Mrs (they came to see me and then-Flatmate a couple of months ago) so I may raid his kit.

I like the idea of subjecting the neighbours to extremely loud Guns N' Roses.
( Maladicta, Sat 14 Nov 2009, 18:48, Reply)