I dreamt - no word of a lie - that I came home
to find that my landlord had finally got round to putting our living room floor back down. It was so vivid that I was even slightly disappointed to come downstairs this morning and find the floorboards were still up.

This is how exciting my life has become.

Actually, it got more interesting after someone female came round to visit, and things got a bit exciting up until the point that polystyrene packaging got involved, for reasons best known to my irritable subconscious.
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 10 Mar 2010, 9:54, 2 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

is that because
you had to return her to thailand?
(bamboozled Can hear you getting fatter, Wed 10 Mar 2010, 9:56, Reply)

Good guess
But I seem to remember it being more along the lines of one of those "let me slip into something more comfortable" moments, only to find that "something more comfortable" equated to something which looked like it had been fashioned, Blue-Peter style, from a load of blocks of polystyrene.

(Should I be worried?)
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 10 Mar 2010, 10:00, Reply)

I reckon you should.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 10 Mar 2010, 10:07, Reply)

ENGAGING WORRY.
Oh, god, I'm a fucking polystyrene fetishist...
*shudders*
feels...so...squeaky...
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 10 Mar 2010, 10:21, Reply)

It's a gateway squeaky substance
You'll be on 'blackboards' next, you mark my words.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 10 Mar 2010, 10:23, Reply)

Oh god...
If she'd come downstairs wearing a sandwich board and carrying a huge chalk dildo...I...just don't think I'm ready...
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 10 Mar 2010, 10:26, Reply)

I'm not sure the world is ready for that.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 10 Mar 2010, 10:30, Reply)

No one wants a chalky hole

(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 10 Mar 2010, 10:37, Reply)

I always dream about secret half-floors
Like in Being John Malkovich but weirder.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 10 Mar 2010, 10:00, Reply)

We have a half-floor in our department
Between floors 6 and 7 is a 6 1/2th floor which they call '6M.'

My theory is that the 'M' stands for 'magical.'
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 10 Mar 2010, 10:02, Reply)

I dream that I find them in my house
There are acual voids, the landlord's told me. But i bet they don't hold wonderful secrets :(
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 10 Mar 2010, 10:07, Reply)

It depends
If you were a microbiologist, it could be a wonderful secret to think there might be fascinating colonies of micro-organisms flourishing, untempered, inside these cavitites.

But my guess is that you're not a microbiologist. (Unless you're a microbiology journalist? Or maybe just a regular-sized biologist.)
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 10 Mar 2010, 10:19, Reply)

I'm a micro-library/barmaidist

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 10 Mar 2010, 10:21, Reply)

So you serve behind the minibars in hotel rooms?

(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 10 Mar 2010, 10:23, Reply)

Self-service, yes

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 10 Mar 2010, 10:27, Reply)

Fancy...self-servicing me behind the minibar later?
(See above sub-thread: I'll pay extra if you're wearing polystyrene)
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 10 Mar 2010, 10:29, Reply)

I can't stand that squeaking
It proper knocks me.

*throws mini JD*
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 10 Mar 2010, 10:51, Reply)

Spurned! Alas...
*slinks off to 'punctuate the morning' with a cup of coffee*

OOH, stop press! Someone's left half a pack of malted milk biscuits in my office. Am I a bad person for taking one?
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 10 Mar 2010, 10:52, Reply)

EAT DEM

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 10 Mar 2010, 11:18, Reply)

ATE DEM
It was good. And they had a cow on the front.
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 10 Mar 2010, 11:46, Reply)

This post makes me sad
Kaol isn't here as he is an expert on this kind of thing. Especially bugs in hotels.
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Wed 10 Mar 2010, 10:21, Reply)

That's a point
Where is Kaol/Cawl these days? (Apart from Wales, obviously) Has he entirely abandoned us in favour of /talk?
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 10 Mar 2010, 10:22, Reply)

I think Mezzanine sounds so much more intriguing.

(porkylips looks better as the sun goes down., Wed 10 Mar 2010, 11:00, Reply)

Those in the know
Tell me that the 'M' is indeed for Mezzanine. And it does have a little mezzanine on one side. But that would spoil the magic for the children.
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 10 Mar 2010, 11:03, Reply)

Dreaming about secret half-floors
I have a theory that dreaming about secret half-floors in your house (or somewhere familiar) might be a symptom that you have an aspect of yourself that has been hidden from your concious.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Wed 10 Mar 2010, 20:42, Reply)