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I'm at work
I am not happy.

Although yesterday I bought me one of these :D
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 9:17, 133 replies, latest was 16 years ago)
ditto on both counts.
I just took delivery of this:

www.headheritage.co.uk/unsung/thebookofseth/143

This has cheered me up a tiny, tiny amount.
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 9:27, Reply)
I'm not at work.
I'm not happy.
I have an essay to write and bought NOTHING for myself yesterday.
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 9:30, Reply)
I would actually enjoy having to write an essay.
That's how much working is 'not for me'.

What's the essay title?
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 9:31, Reply)

Discuss the extent to which Klein's contribution was an extension of Freud's work or was innovatory.
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 9:34, Reply)
This will probably help
'Monty Boyce off of the internet states that 'Freud was a fucking pervert and a mental case and whilst some of what he wrote had merit, a lot of his assertions tell us a whole lot about his own weird hangups, but they say scant else about people in general'.
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 9:37, Reply)
^ that yeh

(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 9:38, Reply)
Hello gorgeous
Good Xmas? Any good cheeses in particular?

I had a great Blacksticks blue goats cheese and, bizarrely, a Northern Irish brie that was stunning.

And some fucking GREAT cocaine. MmmmMMmmmMMMmmmm......
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 9:52, Reply)
Eh up luv!
Camembert, pie d'angloys, extra mature cheddar, peppered brie, brie, roule, stilton, parmesan (it's not just for pasta).
Oh, and I stole some Wensleydale with cranberry from my uncle Terry.
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 10:25, Reply)
*copies*
*pastes*
*gets MSc in Studying Mentallers*
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 9:41, Reply)
Congratumalations
Do come back and do a Phd , y'hear?
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 9:43, Reply)
This is very unlkely.
If I'm here procrastinating at this level, a PhD would take at least 15 years.
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 9:48, Reply)
I'm going for a MSc in jiggling

(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 9:47, Reply)
*is test case*

(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 9:48, Reply)
Oh, that's an easy one.
You see, you've got to look at the big picture. It was the 3rd of july and in those days, that was a big deal. The ships first appeared over the major citys, like New York, London, Washington. They could used the radio waves to work out where the hotbeds are. In today's world, I reckon they would be a ship flying over Iraq. They were too powerful for us, but with the help of Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum, we managed to send a bomb up to the mothership to send a virus and for it to filter down into all the other ships. This disabled their shields and we were able to finish them out.
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 11:28, Reply)
I do have to go outside today...
Aw man, when I bought my mp3 player I wanted it to be a Walkman, because I still say Walkman anyway. I figured that when people laughed and said "mp3 player, you auld cow!" I could show my Walkman and laugh. But they had none and I was in a hurry for music, so I got a Creative Zen balderdash.
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 9:32, Reply)
walkman FTW
it's really shiny as well
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 9:46, Reply)
Work's not so bad
all the coffee and toilet paper you want
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 9:36, Reply)
Is that how you define happiness, dear?

(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 9:39, Reply)
Right, no more coffee and toilet paper for you...EVAH!

(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 9:44, Reply)
Fuck you!!
For I have wine and kitchen roll...
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 10:19, Reply)
I don't like coffee
and the milk has gone off

WOE IS MEEEEEEEEEEeee
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 9:47, Reply)
The milk has gone off? THE MILK HAS GONE OFF???
*drops to knees* WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!???

Me no function good without coffee.
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 9:51, Reply)
From the BBC website...
"Yes the Chinese were right. Think of the damage and misery 4.5 kgs would cause. We didn't hear much about his mental state until now and bi-polar? That is hardly an illness that can cause you to break the law. It is a pity we do not have the death penalty and a our major drug trafficers were executed. As the Chinese Governmnet says' our people agree with the death penalty' and in England the majority would like to see the death penalty brought back."

He signed it: MIHAEL EDWARDS
It could be he is actually called Mihael. However, it's much more likely he's incapable of spelling his own name.
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 9:47, Reply)
ha!
Epic fail

*jiggles*
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 9:49, Reply)
...or 'traffickers'
...or 'government'....
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 9:55, Reply)
I had an impulse buy and spent £195 on a pottery plaque so that I have an heirloom to leave my family when I die.
I have no children to remember me, so some distant future relative can say it was handed down to her and I will be remembered that way. It's a small price to pay for immortality.
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 10:05, Reply)
hOW DRUNK WERE YOU AT THE TIME?
CAPS LOCK GLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 10:06, Reply)
I was sober and actually in a real life shop and not on-line.
This makes it all the more weirder.
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 10:10, Reply)
is it
a rude plaque? erottery!
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 10:18, Reply)
Nope! it's pretty.


Just found it on the internet and realised I could have got it 25% cheaper : (
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 10:41, Reply)
Would you have bought it if you had seen it on tinternet
It looks like something you have to see to want
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 10:42, Reply)
Fuckin hell Beegie
Your nieces and nephews are gonna spit on your grave! It's not money and it doesn't DO anything!!
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 10:46, Reply)
It's a future antique.
A hundred years from now it will be on the antiques roadshow.
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 10:50, Reply)
Well just make sure you spoil the kids now
Just in case
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 10:53, Reply)
Looks like a twat.

(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 11:04, Reply)
I don't think
it looks like you at all
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 11:09, Reply)
The picture does a bit too !
ZING !
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 11:09, Reply)
I think I might give up,
I'm not going to top that reply today.
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 11:13, Reply)
Keep it up, you never know what'll happen !

(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 11:21, Reply)
So YOU'RE the person who buys that kind of thing.
I thought everyone else who buys that sort of thing had passed on at 90 years old.
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 11:09, Reply)
£195 for immortality is a fucking bargain.
Did you get it in the sales?
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 10:10, Reply)
Nope!
I don't go shopping in the Christmas sales. Too many fucking people about.
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 10:11, Reply)
I'd quite like something weird and creepy as my heirloom
I may chop off my hand before I die and get it mumified.
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 10:11, Reply)
Durrrr
Boobs???
I would SO have my boobs mummified, as should Clendsmobile and Beebiejeebie.
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 10:23, Reply)
Ok that's proper weird
*backs away from the weird boob chopping off nutter*
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 10:26, Reply)
Ok, go chop off your hand
And boil yer 'ead while yer there!
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 10:27, Reply)
I'll chop off your hand
Yeah how you like that
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 10:36, Reply)
I'd laugh
and lick the stump
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 10:38, Reply)
Everytime I read your sig
I add Gromit to the end of it
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 10:39, Reply)
I made you do that.
I'm controlling your miiiind.
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 10:40, Reply)
Oh dear
we're all in trouble now
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 10:41, Reply)
you paid to get the plague?
tsk, some people will do anything to get away from relatives at christmas.
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 10:11, Reply)
What exactly does it say on the plaque?
"Fucking remember me or I will haunt your sorry arses, you breeding little fucks!"?
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 10:21, Reply)
I'm at work, and was yesterday as well, which was horrific.
Today has been brightened by the fact that the cunts DID NOT make it into the 'top 100 companies to work for' pissing contest in The Times. Despite the fact that one of the cock suckers leaped down into the dungeon the other week to proclaim that they HAD made it into the top 100.

Stupid. Fucking. CUNTS.
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 10:05, Reply)
Hahahah excellent

(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 10:08, Reply)
A belated Xmas gift, and no mistake
Not as sweet as my duck down duvet though, it makes getting out of bed approximately 12.4 times more difficult than normal
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 10:11, Reply)
Not as difficult as getting out of bed with my
new lead down duvet
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 10:12, Reply)
or as difficult as getting out of bed with my
new Down's Syndrome girlfriend in it.
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 10:21, Reply)
Ha!
Brian Ferry was in with the in crowd, you're down with the downs kids
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 10:24, Reply)
I'm contemplating making that my sig - it's got a certain 'something'
EDIT and did you have a good Xmas?
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 10:45, Reply)
t'was ok
boring mostly
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 11:36, Reply)
My mum gave me a fabulously heavy duvet
She wanted to keep it but my dad said it was like sleeping under a garage door.
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 10:22, Reply)
This Down's filled one
is as light as the proverbial feather, you hardly feel it at all...you do get covered in their drool though, and the lolling tongues, well, i'm still getting used to them.
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 10:28, Reply)
I like heavy blankets
So one filled with real people (special needs or not) would be perfect for me.
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 10:32, Reply)
IF YOU LIKED IT YOU SHOULD HAVE PUT A RING ON IT !
oh-oh-oooo oh-oh-oooooooo

Sorry, I have nothing to say, but feel the need to say something.
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 10:34, Reply)
Mornin Gonzito

(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 10:35, Reply)
Mornin' r0o0o00o0otah
How's the old *whistle* going?
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 10:47, Reply)
Great thanks
You want your tzatziki back?
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 10:50, Reply)
Thank you very much for your kind offer, but I'm going to have to politley and respectably decline your very kind offer.

(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 10:56, Reply)
I insist
*is actually laughing hysterically*
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 11:00, Reply)
Nah', I think there is to much cucumber in there, looks like you've used least 5 of them.
Give it to Al, I'm sure he'd enjoy it.
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 11:04, Reply)
I'll ask him
He loves sampling stuff off the deli counter
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 11:16, Reply)
Ask him for a slice of his salami, it's got 12 differnt herbs and spices.

(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 11:21, Reply)
Ah same old Gonz

(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 10:37, Reply)
Listen, you know how you were sayin' the other day how the one stipulation of you moving in with me, is that they open a Subway sandwich shop within walking (and without smelling) distance?
Well, just so you know, the dream has happened.
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 10:46, Reply)
Yes you have told me that
about 8 times now.

I told you Gonz until the roof garden is complete I'm not moving in
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 10:49, Reply)
The single thing that would improve my life
is safe access to my roof
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 10:50, Reply)
Oh man, I'm totally getting myself down to B&Q later.
I hope they still have christmas lights for sale, I think I need about 4 more 10m ones, that should do it nicely.

And a little grassy patch for the dog, by the way, we're getting a dog.

By the way, have I told you, Subway is opening !
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 10:55, Reply)
What kind of dog?

(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 11:13, Reply)
Not entirely sure yet...
Everyone loves Labradors, but they're a bit to big for this place. Ditto with Huskys.

It'll have to be a smallish one, I quite like King Charles Caverlers and Pugs, but they can both be hard work.

A non-yappy Jack Russel is another good choice.

What one you reckon we should go for?
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 11:15, Reply)
I'm at work and bored as Fuck
Functional testing:
1. Do something trivial that's guaranteed to work
2. Write down that it worked.
3. Take a screenshot
4. Paste into MS paint
5. Save as .PNG
6. Insert into word document
7. Repeat
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 10:36, Reply)
That sounds awesome
I am going to request listening to 80s music tomorrow

Taaaakkkkke onnnnnn meeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 10:38, Reply)
Aw man that bit at the end where he's stuck in the doorway
and he's all sweaty and doity...
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 10:39, Reply)
You watch that video
in the newsletter ages ago where some people sing what is going on in the video?
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 10:41, Reply)
Yeah!
I like the Tears for Fears one because it's in a library.
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 10:47, Reply)
And you get
turned on by books?
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 10:49, Reply)
I work in a fucking library
It's books and erotic internettery or nothing!
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 10:51, Reply)
A fucking library....
I bet you have to shh people quite a lot in that
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 10:58, Reply)
Yeah
Much noisier than a reference library or even a heavy-petting library.
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 11:01, Reply)
Fucking in complete silence
Is creepy and off-putting I find. Makes me a shit rapist.
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 11:01, Reply)
Aw what you talkin bout Willis???
Sometimes it's ace!
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 11:05, Reply)
There's a pillow over the face tragic accident joke to be made here I'm sure

(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 11:09, Reply)
Oh, how often does that actually happen?
Pah.
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 11:10, Reply)
If it happens more than once
I've got to think it's no longer an accident.
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 11:39, Reply)
Still typing, so that would be zero for me
:)
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 11:42, Reply)
I was casting you as the pillower
Rather than the pillowed.
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 11:49, Reply)
Oh no dude
Homey don't play dat
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 11:58, Reply)
What is your job?

(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 10:38, Reply)
Oracle Developer
But now all the developing is done and all must pitch in with the testing. Not just "does the new stuff work?" but "does all the old stuff still work?" Argh.
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 10:50, Reply)
Luv, Oracle went bust years ago (NYE 1992)
It became ITV Teletext and now I think it's just Nightscreen.

Sorry all your work's been for nothing.
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 10:52, Reply)
^ POST OF THE DAY

(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 10:56, Reply)
It's actually sad that I know that date. It went in my 1992 year summary in my diary.
I was destined to end up here wasn't I?
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 10:58, Reply)
*shakes head sadly*
Oh dear, Roota. Oh dear.
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 11:04, Reply)
I wish I was a proper geek
one who knows useful facts
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 11:06, Reply)
*humours*
Oh dear, best keep quiet about that while they continue to pay me.
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 10:58, Reply)
*strokes chin*
Nice factoids, you know your stuff. Ever been unemployed?
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 10:58, Reply)
Well I was at school at the time
And I have a strange fascination with teletext and regional ident cards etc.
Sad.
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 11:02, Reply)
Sad, yet strangely compelling.
Unemployment is never more acute than when you are watching looped news pages on Ceefax at 4am. Fact.
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 11:06, Reply)
I've been recording Ceefax for years
Only occasionally, but over a prolonged period.
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 11:07, Reply)
*does 'cuckoo' motion*

(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 11:10, Reply)
Soon these things will be gone
:(
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 11:11, Reply)
I loved the way that
despite enormous leaps and bounds in the development of computer graphics over the past 20 years they doggedly stuck to 'Donkey Kong' style presentation.
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 11:18, Reply)
It's comforting

(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 11:19, Reply)
Easy now love.
That's more information than required. Watching is one thing, recording......well, that's a glimpse into a world that must not be spoken of.
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 11:13, Reply)
It's only if I think on
Or if the music's particularly Ceefaxy, or Django Reihardty, or if I've come in from the pub and I'm feeling nostalgic.
I don't have a Ceefax library...
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 11:15, Reply)
Of course you don't,
No one has, no one would go that far, would they now?
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 11:19, Reply)
Did you ever finish Bambozled?

(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 11:30, Reply)
With Bamber?
Too fucking right.
You could cheat, because if it was taking a long time to reach the page, it was a wrong answer. If it was correct it would blip to it right away (you know those sub-pages)
So you could actually quickly press all the FastText buttons until you got it right.
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 11:34, Reply)
Blue Suede Views and Digitiser were my faves.

(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 11:38, Reply)
What was the name of the letters page on Oracle???
EDIT and oh my sweet jesus and his holy blessed mother, you've just blown yourself right up!!!!
Teletext freak!!!
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 11:39, Reply)
Well, seeing as how the truth is now out
teletext.mb21.co.uk/gallery/oracle/
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 11:45, Reply)
BUZZ
Oh this is like porn.
Think I looked at this a while back and lost hours in work...
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 11:48, Reply)
Hah cool, I didn't know that.
I don't think I ever finished that game, even though it was only like 20 questions.
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 11:42, Reply)
I just remembered the feel of our remote control :(
and coming home from school and putting on Teletext to see what had been going on.

Oh boy, I've really moved on...
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 11:44, Reply)
Tesco Value Internet

(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 11:46, Reply)
Vintage internet
You cunt
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 11:49, Reply)
I Can't Believe It's Not Internet

(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 11:52, Reply)
Utterly Netterly
It was born in 1978 and died a little in 1992
EXACTLY like me...
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 11:53, Reply)
Look
New Years Eve 1992, midnight, the 'bells',I was babysitting.
I actually rang in the new year watching Channel 4 Oracle flip to Teletext.
There. I said it.
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 11:55, Reply)
That's it, just let it all out.
I assume you do know that Teletext is stop altogether some time this month.

www.digitalspy.co.uk/broadcasting/news/a165453/teletext-to-shut-down-in-2010.html
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 11:59, Reply)
I do know
And I'm gutted. I've been taping bits of Ceefax. Especially the festive stuff.
But I haz internetz to keep me warm.
Wonder what it is about reaching into a screen when there's real stuff around.
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 12:01, Reply)
Real Stuff can equal 'Bad Touching', and no one wants that.
Except Al perhaps.
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 12:04, Reply)
I've gone all weird and tellyfied
I need a cuppa
(, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 12:04, Reply)

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