What are you putting off doing at the moment?
It's a grey day outside so I don't really feel the need to be outside at the moment, but nor do I want to be inside writing up cases for my portfolio. All morning I've been watching season 3 of Mad men and that's now ended, so I'm tempted to continue with Sopranos or Rescue me. I'm also loving the fact that my flatmates aren't around this weekend, so there's been no doors slamming, only mess that I've made in the kitchen, the bathroom's free for me to use the bath for as long as I want and I was able to do 3 loads of laundry and hang my stuff everywhere to dry - unheard of during the week.
/terribly exciting weekend.
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Sun 28 Feb 2010, 16:12, 85 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Blitzing the spare room.
We have 18 or so weeks to get the whole house overhauled, including building work and a new kitchen. I can't be arsed starting it and I'm knackered and achy.

Enjoy your flatmate-free time, that sounds win.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Sun 28 Feb 2010, 16:18, Reply)

Better to start it now while you're only a bit pregnant than when you're full blown about to drop size I reckon
Catface can't be trusted with heavy lifting, so you might want to call on some normal size people to help ,)

Oh it is, it really is. I'm so used to there being tons of people around since the latest one moved in that it's lovely not hearing other people's inane conversations.
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Sun 28 Feb 2010, 16:28, Reply)

Hah!
Nesting. Textbook.
( Larry Vest One day at a time, sweet Jesus, FFS., Sun 28 Feb 2010, 16:35, Reply)

If it was textbook nesting
then I'd actually want to do the work.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Sun 28 Feb 2010, 16:37, Reply)

So if I've got this right -
You're having a baby, building work and a new kitchen all at the same time this summer?
You're going to need some serious pandaring this year.
( Larry Vest One day at a time, sweet Jesus, FFS., Sun 28 Feb 2010, 16:44, Reply)

The building work and kitchen has to happen before the baby
as I'm not going to spend 39 weeks of maternity leave in a shithole.
(Not sure I get why there'd be pandering though.)
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Sun 28 Feb 2010, 17:17, Reply)

I was thinking of stress levels
associated with dealing with builders (considerable) and having a baby (un-imaginable - bad enough as a male partner).
( Larry Vest One day at a time, sweet Jesus, FFS., Sun 28 Feb 2010, 18:20, Reply)

Long-term answer: getting my act together and deciding what to do with life in general
Short-term answer: going down to the kitchen and preparing the belly pork I intend to have for dinner.
Even shorter-term answer: trying not to worry about the wax decoration I accidentally ate in a Chinese restaurant last night...
(LongJohnBaldry, Sun 28 Feb 2010, 16:19, Reply)

What do you want to do when you grow up Crow?
Was lovely meeting you the other day by the way :)
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Sun 28 Feb 2010, 16:29, Reply)

Lovely meeting you too, becky
Not entirely sure. You see I think it was always tacitly assumed I'd end up being a physicist. Trouble is, now I am one I'm not sure I want to carry on being one. Maybe I just need a change of field, possibly even a change of science, but part of me thinks that if I get out the other end of this PhD without being committed then I should get a complete change of scenery, if just for a couple of months, and then the old pipe dream of being a musician rears its juvenile head.

I can keep putting this one off though, with the excuse that I'm never really going to "grow up."
(LongJohnBaldry, Sun 28 Feb 2010, 16:55, Reply)

Heeeeeeeey, I didn't know that. You could end up being the one person viable to explain to me how xray machines work.
Being told that Cathy Cathode and Andy Anode are attracted to each other and cause a cloud of electrons - or neutrons, I'm not really sure - and that then creates the image strikes me as more dumbing down than is strictly necessary. Just the basics would help oh dear lecturer. I think the problem is that she's been taught it in this way and thus knows no other way to relate physics to her students.

I reckon you should be a physics teacher and wear leather elbow pads with tweed every day. In your spare time you could form a blues band and sing songs about particles and complicated equations. Yes.
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Sun 28 Feb 2010, 17:10, Reply)

Funny you should say that, I am wearing a corduroy shirt at present - only a short step from tweed if I understand correctly.
Anyhoo, X-ray machines...they actually work in a surprisingly similarly way to TV tubes, but obviously they produce a very different frequency.

So in a large vacuum tube, you have an "electron gun" which is basically the aforementioned Cathy Cathode pumped up to a very high voltage. "Andy Anode" is some distance away and the aim is to get the electrons to jump across the gap between them. Normally the positive charge of the anode is enough to draw the electrons to it, but you end up with a series of random electrical arcs between the negative cathode and positive anode.

The anode is normally a metal plate with a bevelled (45^o sloped) edge around the outside. For some reason that I can't remember, you can generate X-rays more efficiently if you can get the arcs to strike this sloped edge. So, using magnets to point the arcs in the right direction, these electrons jump across the gap, and dissipate most of this enormous voltage when they land on the anode. About 1% of this energy is given out as X-rays. The sloped edge again comes in handy as most of the X-rays are emitted at an angle of between 60^o and 90^o to the sloped edge.

The X-rays pass through a small window and through your flesh. Those that are not absorbed, scattered or reflected make it through to some sort of detector, which in some cases may just be a piece of photographic film.

I hope that makes sense; admittedly a few of the facts were taken from Wikipedia so may not be entirely reliable. Perhaps your suggestion of physics-teachering is a good one...I spent a while trying to explain to my sister over the phone yesterday why a glass prism splits white light into pretty rainbow colours, so if my attempt to explain X-rays makes any sense then I might take it as a sign!
(LongJohnBaldry, Sun 28 Feb 2010, 17:27, Reply)

OMG Cathy Cathode wants to kill Andy Anode!
We were told a love story about them - yes it was proper feeeelth - but there were just too many silly made up bits that were just put in for the purposes of story telling for it to be any good. So if the KV isn't high enough then the x-rays wont pass through the body to the bones and you'll get a shit looking x-ray because the electrons will have bounced off as scatter, but if it's too high then it'll be over exposed and you'll essentially fry the subject.

Excellent, many thanks Mr Crow :)
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Sun 28 Feb 2010, 17:46, Reply)

A good description
Also, I kind of wish my TV could fire stuff through me. It would be even more impressive since it's a flat screen.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Sun 28 Feb 2010, 18:03, Reply)

Making Lasagna. Meh!
Isn't one's own company simply delightful?
( Larry Vest One day at a time, sweet Jesus, FFS., Sun 28 Feb 2010, 16:24, Reply)

It's your birthday, tell them that you expect to be taken out to dinner and treated like the lady you are.
Then make a lasagne tomorrow and scoff the lot yourself.
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Sun 28 Feb 2010, 16:29, Reply)

lady husband of a lovely woman who has never had to learn to cook because she is thoroughly bleedin spoilt.
( Larry Vest One day at a time, sweet Jesus, FFS., Sun 28 Feb 2010, 16:33, Reply)

Oops sorry.
Well if you will give in to her whims...Best to be taken out to dinner than ask her to cook for you in that case.
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Sun 28 Feb 2010, 16:35, Reply)

I am always putting off
planning lessons

I have placed many pieces of paper over the floor to try and make sense of someone else's course plans, but not got much further.
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sun 28 Feb 2010, 16:33, Reply)

For ages I was putting off my dissertation
But since I started making tables in Excel, it all seemed far more exciting. Now I'm just putting off actually writing it up.

I get my flat to myself every weekend when my flatmate wanders off. It's amazing to be-able to do whatever you want the entire weekend.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Sun 28 Feb 2010, 17:15, Reply)

I do hope you take advantage of this solitude
As an opportunity for nude house time.
(LongJohnBaldry, Sun 28 Feb 2010, 17:29, Reply)

we should all declare today
NAKED DAY!
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sun 28 Feb 2010, 17:49, Reply)

A girl? Suggesting nuding up? Online?
Surely not.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Sun 28 Feb 2010, 17:53, Reply)

ENGAGE THE PANDERTRON!

( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Sun 28 Feb 2010, 17:57, Reply)

I refuse to pander to a girl

( fuck shit up the best you never had, Sun 28 Feb 2010, 17:58, Reply)

Lies
I reckon it just has to be the right girl.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Sun 28 Feb 2010, 18:00, Reply)

wrong
Unless it's Clendrix or Roota. They get special pandering
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Sun 28 Feb 2010, 18:03, Reply)

Again, 'Panda-ing' would make this better.

(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Sun 28 Feb 2010, 18:06, Reply)

I read that as 'Panda-Tron'
And pictured a retard bear driving a Tron bike.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Sun 28 Feb 2010, 18:00, Reply)

This will be in the sequel.
And if it isn't, it bloody well should be.
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Sun 28 Feb 2010, 18:03, Reply)

To be honest, I think it should be in every film
No matter the setting or plot, it should just race across the horizon at some point.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Sun 28 Feb 2010, 18:06, Reply)

"What was that?"
*knowing turn to camera*
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Sun 28 Feb 2010, 18:11, Reply)

no cameras aloud!

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sun 28 Feb 2010, 17:58, Reply)

Or even allowed?
Aren't you a teacher? If so, you should probably know that kind of thing.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Sun 28 Feb 2010, 18:05, Reply)

um, maybe
man, that's pretty embarrassing. I was just too excited about my first pandering
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sun 28 Feb 2010, 18:07, Reply)

You've been here almost 7 years and that's your first pandering?
I don't know which is more shameful ,)
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Sun 28 Feb 2010, 18:11, Reply)

And to be honest, it wasn't much of a pander at that.

(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Sun 28 Feb 2010, 18:12, Reply)

nope
and I've never been gazzed any cocks, either.

In my defense, there were a couple of years when I wasn't on here much
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sun 28 Feb 2010, 18:17, Reply)

Cooking a ham.
Nottingham was fun though. Car journey home was not, though.

Just watched District 9, and was suitably impressed!
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Sun 28 Feb 2010, 17:50, Reply)

I was looking at Nottingham on a map
As I have to drive there in the summer. Not looking forward to it, it looks well far away.

Good work on the ham, though. A good remedy to rubbish journeys, surely.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Sun 28 Feb 2010, 17:52, Reply)

To be sure, Nottingham is what scholars refer to as a 'fucking hole'.
And they are right.

My house smells of cooking ham and peppercorns. It is win.
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Sun 28 Feb 2010, 17:57, Reply)

Is that to cover the smell that Nottingham has embedded in your clothes?
My flat smells of toasties, and something that seems to be originating in flatmate's room. Wish I had some ham to cover it.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Sun 28 Feb 2010, 18:00, Reply)

Very much so.
We went in to this club last night where there were ladies who didn't have many clothes on. What? It was a stag do. So anyway, one of Nottingham's finest approaches me and some friends at the bar, and asks if one of us (me) wants to buy her a drink. The conversation went as follows:

Me: Nah, you're alright. We're only here to get the stag a dance. Besides, I don't think the wife would like it. (As you can see, I used the only gambit available to me)
Her: Well, she won't know, will she?
Me: OK then, I've got no money on me.
Her: S'alright babes, you can pay by card.

Man. Nottingham strippers really want to take their clothes off for me. Especially considering that she collared one of the other guys, and they disappeared for 30 seconds before he came back. "She wanted bloody 20 quid to show me her clunge!" he declared "I told her to fuck off." Within a minute she was with me again - "Hey, did you change your mind about that dance?"

"No." I said.
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Sun 28 Feb 2010, 18:08, Reply)

Man, you're sure building it up for my going in the summer
Love how you jumped straight to the Wife card there.

Is that what actually happened, or is that just in case she reads it on here?
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Sun 28 Feb 2010, 18:11, Reply)

Haha, that is actually what happened.
What offended me most was that is was £10 to get in to the place, and there was nary a nipple on show.

If you have to go there there are a few nice pubs around the place, if you look hard.
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Sun 28 Feb 2010, 18:13, Reply)

I think it'll mostly be
- Drive to Nottingham
- Play at wedding
- Drive home, possibly the same night

This way, there shall be minimal having to hang around Nottingham.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Sun 28 Feb 2010, 18:14, Reply)

You have ham? I'm jealous. I have tasty sausages and mash for later though
District 9 was awesome :)
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Sun 28 Feb 2010, 17:57, Reply)

I do have a horrible feeling that they're going to make a sequel.
The guy who played the lead, who is also in the A-Team, was outstanding, I thought.
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Sun 28 Feb 2010, 18:03, Reply)

You're fokkin right he was awesome. I didn't know he was going to be in the A-team
The guy from Hangover's going to be in it as well. Special eye candy time.

Thursday still alright for you?
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Sun 28 Feb 2010, 18:04, Reply)

Yep, he's going to be Murdoch.
Bradley Cooper is Face, Liam Neeson is Hannibal and a rapper whose name escapes me is B.A.

Thursday is a-ok by me!
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Sun 28 Feb 2010, 18:10, Reply)

Apologies, Quinton Jackson is B.A., and he is a MMA person...

( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Sun 28 Feb 2010, 18:11, Reply)

I know not of this Quinton Jackson fella
Then I shall see you and the missus who is thankfully not a Nottingham stripper on Thursday. Oh god, I have to go to Nottingham for my practical exams. Really not looking forward to it.
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Sun 28 Feb 2010, 18:12, Reply)

As long as you don't have to stay over, it's OK.
:)
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Sun 28 Feb 2010, 18:14, Reply)

This backs up my plan up there ^

(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Sun 28 Feb 2010, 18:15, Reply)

Well, one of the guys that was there (who was a fucking prick)
Demonstrated his credentials as a fucking prick by driving from Nottingham to Wakefield after a skinful of beer.

Still, this is the man who within five minutes of meeting me said: Mate, shooting a *bad word used by White Sith Iffrikuns for Africans* for me is like shooting an animal. I shot my first *repeated use of bad word* when I was 10.

At that point I declared I didn't want to talk to him any more.
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Sun 28 Feb 2010, 18:19, Reply)

Wow, what a cock
Drink driving = fail
Drug boasting = fail
General cockness = fail
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Sun 28 Feb 2010, 18:21, Reply)

Apols - made an edit, as for some reason post went weird.
But, he'd probably boast about drugs too, the cockend.
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Sun 28 Feb 2010, 18:24, Reply)

Well, I'm pretty sure that lowers my thoughts on him even further.

(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Sun 28 Feb 2010, 18:25, Reply)

Good.
He was an entirely reprehensible human being...
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Sun 28 Feb 2010, 18:30, Reply)

I think I have to as work are paying for me to be there for the weekend. The practicals are on the Saturday morning
so it'd make more sense for me to go up on the Friday and sit them on the Saturday, then come home Saturday night or Sunday :(
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Sun 28 Feb 2010, 18:18, Reply)

Ah, I see. Well, there are some sort of OK places.
Just avoid the Comfort Inn like the plague.
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Sun 28 Feb 2010, 18:25, Reply)

Why do I have the feeling that that's the kind of place they'll be booking me into?
Godammit, one of my flatmates just came home and is now in the kitchen crashing about. I was going to make dinner now, but I can't be bothered to go in there and make conversation just to get at the oven. On the upside, I've almost completed one whole case while I've been on here.
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Sun 28 Feb 2010, 18:28, Reply)

Just go postal, lovely.
Paint your face like a Native American and run in there with a Tomohawk shouting about sitting bull.
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Sun 28 Feb 2010, 18:31, Reply)

Go mental just like the woman on my bus did this morning
Proper mental-shouting-at-driver like.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Sun 28 Feb 2010, 18:37, Reply)

I've only just got them to agree to the cleaning rota, I can't upset them too much
Maybe I'll save that for a few months down the line.
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Sun 28 Feb 2010, 18:41, Reply)

Do you just live with randoms you don't actually know?
I've not done that in years. It was awful. And my room was triangular.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Sun 28 Feb 2010, 18:43, Reply)

Yep, I didn't want to live with friends because I knew when I moved in that I'd have little free time for socialising
due to college and work demands, so rather than keep saying no to people I live with when the ask if I'm coming out to the pub, I get relative peace and quiet here. I like it because I can come home from work and not have to make conversation if I don't feel like it.
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Sun 28 Feb 2010, 18:49, Reply)

Hmm, I do like that plus point
I considered just living alone next year, which would cost more but be so much simpler.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Sun 28 Feb 2010, 18:51, Reply)

Your mum

(Bazongaloid, Sun 28 Feb 2010, 18:31, Reply)

LOL!
Alright, althegeordie?
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Sun 28 Feb 2010, 18:31, Reply)

Alright Tights?

(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Sun 28 Feb 2010, 18:36, Reply)

Alright, Penguin?

( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Sun 28 Feb 2010, 18:59, Reply)

I'm totally putting off doing DiT's mum for a while
last time I think I broke her.
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Sun 28 Feb 2010, 18:42, Reply)

She's certainly been a bit shaky of late.

( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Sun 28 Feb 2010, 19:00, Reply)

Im at work,
with the Boss-lady; so Ive done today what Ive been putting off all week so I look busy! It's been a nice shift, Ive even got a few minutes off to piss about, but Ive done a large Risk assessment, some infection control, started a new set of notes... makes me look really busy!
(kitescreech still here, Sun 28 Feb 2010, 19:05, Reply)

Ooh, I'm doing some infection control procedures at the moment. Do yours include zoonotic?

( fuck shit up the best you never had, Sun 28 Feb 2010, 19:20, Reply)

?
Its more a rota so we sign off when weve cleaned door handles etc.
(kitescreech still here, Sun 28 Feb 2010, 20:01, Reply)

Evening you lovely people!
I'm putting off going to work. I have to be there at 8.
I'll have a laugh once I'm there though.

I'm giddy. Like Bob Hoskins said: "It's good to talk."
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Sun 28 Feb 2010, 19:42, Reply)

Hello!
Just back home from that there Northumberland place. Top weekend!
( Boss Keloid Got your mother's maiden name tattooed on my arm, Sun 28 Feb 2010, 19:45, Reply)

Hey yo!

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Sun 28 Feb 2010, 19:50, Reply)

Yo!
Had a nice day?
( Boss Keloid Got your mother's maiden name tattooed on my arm, Sun 28 Feb 2010, 19:52, Reply)

The best.
You?
Laters, I'm off to work :)
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Sun 28 Feb 2010, 19:55, Reply)

Alright Roota?

( fuck shit up the best you never had, Sun 28 Feb 2010, 19:47, Reply)

Hiya honey
Check yer phone ;)
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Sun 28 Feb 2010, 19:51, Reply)

Duly checked and responded with pandering ,)

( fuck shit up the best you never had, Sun 28 Feb 2010, 19:53, Reply)