sigh
Only 3.75 hours until the weekend, whoop whoop! The last few months at work have been absolutely murderous, so gonna spend the next few days kicking back, chilling, watching true blood series 2 and drinking some of the best real ales this fine country has to offer

How the hell are we all today?
(Halfy By light alone, Tue 25 May 2010, 8:01, 101 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Jealous of you, obviously.

( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Tue 25 May 2010, 8:10, Reply)

this
is my summer holiday! except the weather seems to have gone a bit meh on me!
(Halfy By light alone, Tue 25 May 2010, 8:11, Reply)

It's still spring until June the 21st.
I'm not going on hols until September.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Tue 25 May 2010, 8:14, Reply)

I have 2 weeks off in November
the ashes starts on my birthday so probably going to take a trundle over there and watch some cricket and join the barmy army for beach parties and liver abuse
(Halfy By light alone, Tue 25 May 2010, 8:17, Reply)

If I said good for you.
Would it sound insincere?
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Tue 25 May 2010, 8:19, Reply)

hahaha
maybe, it'll be my first proper holiday for almost 20 years so think I deserve it
(Halfy By light alone, Tue 25 May 2010, 8:21, Reply)

Early release?
or did you serve your whole sentence?
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Tue 25 May 2010, 8:24, Reply)

Hah!
just never really had the wanderlust bug, take lots of long weekends and stuff, been to dublin, madrid and prague but never just upped and gone anywhere for a few weeks on my own
(Halfy By light alone, Tue 25 May 2010, 8:26, Reply)

My summer holiday
isn't until the end of August. It seems an awfully long time away. I may have to take some time off before then to address this situation.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Tue 25 May 2010, 8:20, Reply)

Are you going somewhere nice?
I try to have my holidays in winter, as summer here is almost ok, but winter is a soul killer, so I try to go somewhere warmer.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Tue 25 May 2010, 8:23, Reply)

Rural France
A week of chilling out. Looking forward to it like a kid!
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Tue 25 May 2010, 8:25, Reply)

It sounds great!
I'd love to do something like that, or in Italy. I don't have enough holidays by far.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Tue 25 May 2010, 8:35, Reply)

Me neither
I had most of my holidays in February and only one week left that I'll use at the end of September.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Tue 25 May 2010, 8:19, Reply)

Only if
you're a 'merkin. Start of June is summer in the UK.
(berk, Tue 25 May 2010, 8:33, Reply)

Well, when you say 'summer'...

( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Tue 25 May 2010, 8:35, Reply)

Well
by meteorological reckoning, yeah. By actual weather? Your guess is as good as mine...
(berk, Tue 25 May 2010, 8:36, Reply)

Last weekend was summer.
We may get the odd warm day between now and September, but that'll be the best of the weather past for the year.

/grumpy old man
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Tue 25 May 2010, 8:45, Reply)

It's
still only May! And even if we do only get that one weekend, it's one weekend more than we had last year...
(berk, Tue 25 May 2010, 8:51, Reply)

Good point.

( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Tue 25 May 2010, 8:59, Reply)

Perhaps I should have specified the Summer Solstice.
Imagine all those hippies hanging around Stonehenge waiting for the sun to be in the right place, because some idiot told them that summer started on 1st of June.

You utter utter Deacon.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Tue 25 May 2010, 9:16, Reply)

me too
early September so the weather is still nice but there are no little kids getting in the way of my mojitos.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Tue 25 May 2010, 9:09, Reply)

Tired, but in a good mood
I went to the doctor yesterday and he thinks that all my problems are because I suddenly have hayfever, so I'm going to start trying some pills and eye drops and see how it goes. I hope it works.

Another boring day at work, but I'm going to Brussels from Friday to Tuesday, so I can't complain.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Tue 25 May 2010, 8:19, Reply)

I have never had hayfever
or found myself allergic to anything, must have been from eating lots of mud as a child!
(Halfy By light alone, Tue 25 May 2010, 8:20, Reply)

I've never had it before, either, and I'm 30
Only allergic to some products used for domestic cats (I don't know which), but that's about it. I used to eat a lot of mud and bugs when a kid and now, suddenly, this. Nobody is safe.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Tue 25 May 2010, 8:22, Reply)

evil flowers!
I know its almost summer as the fields round here are full of oil seed rape, love that smell.

Go on someone, score it out.
(Halfy By light alone, Tue 25 May 2010, 8:24, Reply)

Been there, done that
I once announced to a crowded pub, just at one of those moments when everyone stops talking simultaneously that "I like the smell of rape".
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Tue 25 May 2010, 8:26, Reply)

haha smooth!

(Halfy By light alone, Tue 25 May 2010, 8:30, Reply)

*waves*
Gud moaning!
( girlinthehole, Tue 25 May 2010, 8:26, Reply)

Good Morning Blousey
How they hanging?
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Tue 25 May 2010, 8:29, Reply)

Knee-high I expect.

(porkylips looks better as the sun goes down., Tue 25 May 2010, 8:30, Reply)

They're supported at the moment.
Thank God.
( girlinthehole, Tue 25 May 2010, 8:30, Reply)

Pit props?

( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Tue 25 May 2010, 8:34, Reply)

Scaffolding.

( girlinthehole, Tue 25 May 2010, 8:36, Reply)

Two
boob hammocks, if you would be so kind!
(berk, Tue 25 May 2010, 8:37, Reply)

I so badly want a hammock
the regular kind though.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Tue 25 May 2010, 9:10, Reply)

hello!
so looks like you have a house full for your birthday, is there any comfortable crash space left to bagsie please?
(Halfy By light alone, Tue 25 May 2010, 8:31, Reply)

There should be.
I have a large attic room for everyone to kip in. Just bring a sleeping bag.
( girlinthehole, Tue 25 May 2010, 8:37, Reply)

righto!

(Halfy By light alone, Tue 25 May 2010, 8:38, Reply)

I though you just kept flowers up there?

(porkylips looks better as the sun goes down., Tue 25 May 2010, 8:40, Reply)

Pfft!

( girlinthehole, Tue 25 May 2010, 8:51, Reply)

My back is aching like an emo's breaking heart.
Spent 4 hours yesterday afternoon digging over, tidying and replanting the sister-in-law's grave.
I enjoyed it but it was fucking hard work. Heavy clay can fuck right off.
Going back this morning to water the plants I put in and make sure all is hunky dory.
(porkylips looks better as the sun goes down., Tue 25 May 2010, 8:30, Reply)

You've re-planted your sister-in-law?

( girlinthehole, Tue 25 May 2010, 8:31, Reply)

Yeah, bitch won't stay dead.
Cut her head off this time though. Should keep her in there.
(porkylips looks better as the sun goes down., Tue 25 May 2010, 8:38, Reply)

Remember Carrie
and don't get to close.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Tue 25 May 2010, 8:42, Reply)

I said that to my son while we were breaking the soil on the top of the grave.
He stopped and stepped off the grave. Idiot believses in zombies too.
(porkylips looks better as the sun goes down., Tue 25 May 2010, 8:59, Reply)

I'm off for a fortnight a week Thursday
but that means that I'll be left with just 3.5 days holiday for the rest of the fucking year, which isn't so good.

Still, I ordered some rather nice shorts that have arrived at my office this morning, I trimmed the cat's claws and descaled the washing machine and dishwasher last night, instead of shoving booze and drugs down my neck, consequently I walked to the tube instead of taking the bus and I am frighteningly on the case today.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 25 May 2010, 8:45, Reply)

god yeah
the rock and roll lifestyle of having your own house

I spent sunday vacuuming, washing & ironing and cleaning the windows inside and out
(Halfy By light alone, Tue 25 May 2010, 8:48, Reply)

GANGSTA

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 25 May 2010, 8:49, Reply)

hell yes
I'm sure the house proud thing will wear off eventually, or i'll find some nice woman share it with and help with the cleaning!
(Halfy By light alone, Tue 25 May 2010, 8:51, Reply)

My flat looks like a squat that has been burgled
but they didn't take anything, crossed with a derelict library and a record shop. I'm such a fucking CHICK MAGNET it's untrue*.

(*it is entirely untrue)
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 25 May 2010, 8:54, Reply)

ah
well this is my first place all to myself, so haven't had the chance to accumulate years of bricabrac to clog it up, still have big yawning empty spaces around where furniture or pictures will go.

Luckily got enough bookshelves before I moved in and operate a one in one out system on clothes to stop having tonnes of shit i neither wear or want anymore
(Halfy By light alone, Tue 25 May 2010, 8:59, Reply)

If you never let it get too bad
it's easy to maintain.

Monty Boyce - giving out sound advice he cannot take himself, since 1973
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 25 May 2010, 9:03, Reply)

I have a place for everything and everything in it's place.
I once lost an eyeliner pencil and nearly had an epileptic fit.
( girlinthehole, Tue 25 May 2010, 9:08, Reply)

You shouldn't keep your makeup
next to a strobe, then.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 25 May 2010, 9:10, Reply)

Probably not but it helps with the autism.

( girlinthehole, Tue 25 May 2010, 9:11, Reply)

Who are you and what have you done with Monty?

( girlinthehole, Tue 25 May 2010, 8:52, Reply)

It's all wrong, isn't it?

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 25 May 2010, 8:55, Reply)

I guess even Lemmy has to wash a cup now and then.

( girlinthehole, Tue 25 May 2010, 8:56, Reply)

I have been at domestic rock bottom for some time now.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 25 May 2010, 8:59, Reply)

you can't spell rock bottom without ROCK!

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 25 May 2010, 9:07, Reply)

Great maxim there, young fellow-me-lad

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 25 May 2010, 9:10, Reply)

Or bottom, you bummer

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 25 May 2010, 9:10, Reply)

trust you to think of that you gaybo

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 25 May 2010, 9:12, Reply)

I fear Foxtrot has infected me with some kind of ballroom bum disease

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 25 May 2010, 9:21, Reply)

doesn't surprise me
the grubby little blighter
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 25 May 2010, 9:21, Reply)

At uni I had a jar, that way I knew no one else was using it

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 25 May 2010, 9:00, Reply)

How the fuck did that work with hot drinks?

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 25 May 2010, 9:04, Reply)

It was a bit burny, until I got one of those stubby holders Australians use
A sort of neoprene sleeve.
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 25 May 2010, 9:05, Reply)

Mum's going to hospital today.
They're knocking her out and taking all her teeth out. Turns out she's had a chronic phobia of dentists all her life which would explain why the bottom half of her face looked like Stonehenge, if Stonehenge smoked rollies and drank coffee.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 25 May 2010, 8:57, Reply)

What a marvellously-put phrase, Noelus.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 25 May 2010, 8:58, Reply)

I once heard someone described as having
"teeth like a row of condemned shithouses"
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Tue 25 May 2010, 9:01, Reply)

My orthodotist was an absolute cretin
and never finished my treatment, consequently when I bite as apple it looks like it's been pressed against some kind of flail.

It's ok though, she's dead now.
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 25 May 2010, 9:03, Reply)

Thankyou kind sir.
Seeing her with a standard set of straight, sparkly dentures is going to be a surreal experience.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 25 May 2010, 9:01, Reply)

Implants or a life of country fair gurning competitions?

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 25 May 2010, 8:59, Reply)

I think it'll be regular dentures
which surprises me, although if she's shitting it about going to hospital to have them taken out I can't imagine what her reaction would be to the thought of someone physically screwing falsies into your face.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 25 May 2010, 9:04, Reply)

Horrid, I had 6 teeth pulled in one session
I had to have 17 injections into my gums to numb them; but to pull teeth you grip them twist and push down into the jaw whish you can still 'feel', horrid business.
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 25 May 2010, 9:10, Reply)

I've had two extractions.
One wisdom, the other quite rotten. I really enjoyed getting the rotten one out because I didn't feel a thing and the dentist had hold of the top of my head while she wrestled a pair of pliers around in my mouth. I remember thinking 'These noises are cool, I wonder if I could make them on a Maelstrom'.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 25 May 2010, 9:14, Reply)

I've never had a filling in my life.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 25 May 2010, 9:15, Reply)

nor me
I've had a couple of teeth removed because they were too awesome (and were pushing others out the way), but other than that, my teeth are hardcore to the max
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 25 May 2010, 9:17, Reply)

My teeth have more mercury than tooth-stuff in them
I've got 3 missing (two to make room for my Bugs Bunny front teeth when I was growing up, and one because of an abscess), 3 crowns and more fillings than a pie manufacturer's warehouse.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Tue 25 May 2010, 9:18, Reply)

I always brush my teeth too hard thus my gums are receding.

( girlinthehole, Tue 25 May 2010, 9:20, Reply)

Get an electric toothbrush
great for cleaning and you can't mince your gums.
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 25 May 2010, 9:21, Reply)

I must be brushing my hair too hard then.

( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Tue 25 May 2010, 9:28, Reply)

or it's because you're Scottish.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 25 May 2010, 9:38, Reply)

Neither have I, these were left over milk teeth and extras as my jaw is too narrow for all my teeth
I can't stand having dirty teeth so brush throughly and precisely for at least 2 minutes twice a day.

Let me guess you just gargle some Jack Daniels and spark up a Cowboy Killer.
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 25 May 2010, 9:20, Reply)

When I used to go to festivals as a nipper
I would go in the clothes I stood up in - no tooth brushing or washing for days on end. If anyone deserves to have no teeth it's me.

My little sister's teeth are fucked and she's been really good with brushing, flossing etc all her life.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 25 May 2010, 9:41, Reply)

You and your patrician teeth.
Honestly though, Is this because you lost them all in a fight at prep school. With a master.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Tue 25 May 2010, 9:22, Reply)

My dentist asked me if I grew up in the north
because in the 70s they did flourination experiments up there.

THE NORTH - can you fucking believe it? What an insult.

Of course I had the bounder flogged, and changed dentists immediately. Grew up in the north, I ask you...
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 25 May 2010, 9:53, Reply)

what an absolute oik!
the nerve of the man....
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 25 May 2010, 9:59, Reply)

I don't blame you.
You should have had him branded so other discerning people didn't make the same mistake of going to him as well.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Tue 25 May 2010, 10:01, Reply)

Not great
My housemate lost his job yesterday (because he's a tard). I've told him he's got until the 14th to get a new job, or he needs to move out.

I can't afford to keep the house with a freeloader in there. The upside is that I've already had an idea for a couple of people to move in.

I have a feeling there's going to be a massive argument tonight!
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 25 May 2010, 9:22, Reply)

my tenant has just moved out
so now I'm paying for two houses until I get another one. Epically skint.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Tue 25 May 2010, 9:26, Reply)

that sucks
it's bad enough paying for one house
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 25 May 2010, 9:33, Reply)

aye
hopefully I'll get another tenant quite quickly. I'm also pissed off with my old tenants for getting cigarette burns on the carpet despite me telling them they weren't allowed to smoke in the house. Grrrr.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Tue 25 May 2010, 9:41, Reply)

No deposit back for them, then.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 25 May 2010, 9:46, Reply)

m'alright
Just read that Slipknot bassist, Paul Gray, was found dead yesterday in a hotel room.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Tue 25 May 2010, 9:44, Reply)

Please tell me he suffocated in a stupid mask.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 25 May 2010, 9:45, Reply)

massive drugs
i suspect
(beanojam isn't really Ricardo Flange, Tue 25 May 2010, 9:46, Reply)

Autopsy report's not been filed yet
Though it's likely.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Tue 25 May 2010, 9:46, Reply)

ooops
he won't do that again
(Halfy By light alone, Tue 25 May 2010, 9:56, Reply)

marvellous
although i was up way too late playing guitar in my cellar of terror.
(beanojam isn't really Ricardo Flange, Tue 25 May 2010, 9:44, Reply)