My record's been one hour twenty sat on my own in the pub
Then all my friends turned up at once, all saying "Oh, sorry I'm late, but figured the others would be here on time to keep you company".
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Thu 27 May 2010, 12:05, 3 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

I couldn't stand it
I would start to get paranoid that everyone in the pub thought I was supposed to be on a date and had been stood up for being a munter and were all laughing at me.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 27 May 2010, 12:06, Reply)

I can't lie
I also had the same paranoia.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Thu 27 May 2010, 12:10, Reply)

I also hate walking across an expansive empty space in a pub or bar,
when you have to cross the centre to get to your friends. I start to envisage tripping over or falling out of my heels and I get quite stressed until I reach the other side. I've never *touches wood* actually fallen over in public yet, but it's only a matter of time.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 27 May 2010, 12:13, Reply)

especially when carrying drinks
it takes complete concentration for me sadly
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Thu 27 May 2010, 12:14, Reply)

I get paranoid when carrying drinks that I'll trip, fall forward, and smash them all in my face
Some might say this has already happened.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Thu 27 May 2010, 12:15, Reply)

It's a paranoia I am entirely familiar with
so I get nervous and hold on tighter, and they spill a bit anyway
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Thu 27 May 2010, 12:17, Reply)

oh my god
now I've got a new fear!
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 27 May 2010, 12:18, Reply)

I cannot apologise enough!

( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Thu 27 May 2010, 12:19, Reply)

My father always said
'unpunctuality is the sign of a disordered brain'

As a result I'm the cunt at the airport 8 hours before the flight leaves...
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 27 May 2010, 12:06, Reply)

I get really stressed if I'm late
even if it's five minutes.

I was once 90 mins late to work because I missed the first train at 7.30am and the next one an hour later was cancelled so I didn't get into work until half ten, I was mortified, but everyone was fine with it.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 27 May 2010, 12:11, Reply)

I am entirely the same.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 27 May 2010, 12:12, Reply)

Same. :(

( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Thu 27 May 2010, 12:13, Reply)

Thirded

( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Thu 27 May 2010, 12:14, Reply)

A bit late and rather upset about it...
Fourthed.
(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Thu 27 May 2010, 13:24, Reply)

Same here
I get very anxious and twitchy if it's approaching the time to set off for somewhere, and the missus hasn't finished faffing around.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Thu 27 May 2010, 12:11, Reply)

just extra time
for a little pre-flight drinkie, surely??
(Purpledoris I've got afeckin' job, Thu 27 May 2010, 14:21, Reply)

Ouch!
I sat and rolled a strip of filters, and read the paper. Watched the world go by. It was quite nice to be honest.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Thu 27 May 2010, 12:07, Reply)

Always carry a book
Then at worst you look likely to be a lonely alcoholic rather than an unpopular loser.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 27 May 2010, 12:11, Reply)

^This
Although I don't carry a manbag, so tend to just browse the web or play games on my phone.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Thu 27 May 2010, 12:13, Reply)

Don't have a bag big enough/book small enough
I'm meant to be going to the library. I don't want to.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Thu 27 May 2010, 12:13, Reply)

at least you haven't got an invoice from the Sackler
demanding money for 'Flavian Rome' which I forgot about and found behind my desk
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Thu 27 May 2010, 12:15, Reply)

I owe about 20£
:(
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Thu 27 May 2010, 12:17, Reply)

they don't even want the £20 fine now
they want the £60 or whatever ridiculous amount they charge for lost books even though I have the book. And they've frozen my library card so I can't go to the History faculty library, though my college library are alright
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Thu 27 May 2010, 12:19, Reply)

BASTARDS
Papercut them to death.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Thu 27 May 2010, 12:21, Reply)

or brain them
with a fucking massive copy of Volume XI of the bloody Cambridge Ancient History Dictionary
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Thu 27 May 2010, 12:22, Reply)

Shut their face in the Liddell and Scott

( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Thu 27 May 2010, 12:24, Reply)

I don't know if this is going to mean anything
to anybody but me, but I might have Miriam Griffin as my tutor next term
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Thu 27 May 2010, 12:26, Reply)

Apparently it didn't
Congratulations! Or You poor bastard! Depending.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Thu 27 May 2010, 14:47, Reply)

My proudest moment at university
was having a library book so overdue that they completely changed their archiving system in the meantime, accidentally writing off about £170 of fines. Hurrah!
(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Thu 27 May 2010, 12:30, Reply)

I've never met anyone who studied classical stuff
I love that there are two of you on here.

I feel slightly less of a weirdo.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 27 May 2010, 12:18, Reply)

Rome mostly for me in the classics area
I really don't like Greek history. Where did you study it?
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Thu 27 May 2010, 12:20, Reply)

North fucking London 'University'
That's what happens when the rave scene explodes during your 'A' Levels....
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 27 May 2010, 12:21, Reply)

Well if you did the subject you wanted
that's pretty much what counts
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Thu 27 May 2010, 12:23, Reply)

My ideal course might have been Celtic Studies
but it was a bit too language-y for me and was also based in fucking Cardiff so that was a 'no' straight away.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 27 May 2010, 12:26, Reply)

I didn't really think about the whole
university application thing. My other five choices were picked randomly from a list of places. When I actually read them afterwards 2 of the five wanted A-levels in Latin and Greek which I didn't have.
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Thu 27 May 2010, 12:28, Reply)

Forgive my lowering the bar...
...but did you watch Spartacus on Bravo?
(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Thu 27 May 2010, 13:30, Reply)

Didn't see it on Bravo
but I have seen the film yeah.
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Thu 27 May 2010, 14:08, Reply)

It's a new big-budget series

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 27 May 2010, 14:09, Reply)

Somewhat better than 'Rome'.

(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Thu 27 May 2010, 14:29, Reply)

lowering the bar even lower,
I don't get Bravo.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 27 May 2010, 14:08, Reply)

I owe the library money
they're going to tell me off.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 27 May 2010, 12:17, Reply)

It's to work
I don't think I can today. My head's not quite right.

I might crawl into my section of the mezzanine and cower.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Thu 27 May 2010, 12:18, Reply)

I usually have my MP3 player so I can at least pass the time
I always forget my book and then remember that I have a three hour train journey ahead of me and then my MP3 player will start displaying low battery in the first 3 minutes.

I hate people who go to coffee shops specifically to read a book. Not that you do that, just saying, I hate it. Pretentious douchebags.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 27 May 2010, 12:15, Reply)

Couldn't listen to an iPod in the pub!
What do you take me for, a weirdo?

I have stopped reading, it's very sad. I used to read a lot.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Thu 27 May 2010, 12:19, Reply)

I read for at least two hours a day.
This is because my office is an hour away from my house.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 27 May 2010, 12:22, Reply)

Last book I read was Terry Pratchett/Neil Gaiman
was pretty good, but I really shold read proper books. Having this conversation with my friend. Asked him the last book he read: "War and Peace".


Riiiiiight.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Thu 27 May 2010, 12:24, Reply)

Good Omens I take it?
Edit: and just laugh at your friend and ask him how it's taken him this long
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Thu 27 May 2010, 12:25, Reply)

Yeah. Enjoyed the Gaiman bits (the bit with the Antichrist)
Enjoyed the character of Crowley, but got a bit pissed off with Pratchett.

That was about a week ago. He'll have read everything ever by now :(
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Thu 27 May 2010, 12:27, Reply)

Pratchett is a cunt.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 27 May 2010, 12:28, Reply)

Gaiman is God
and has a hot fiancee
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Thu 27 May 2010, 12:32, Reply)

Agreed. And that Hogfather was utter pigshit.

(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Thu 27 May 2010, 13:33, Reply)

Fake War and Peace reading
just claim your favourite character is Andrei because he's everyone's favourite, and then blag some stuff about the futility of war, and the oppressive nature of society. Bingo
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Thu 27 May 2010, 12:30, Reply)

If you're going to pretend you've read War and Peace
at least pretend to like some character that no one likes.
Or act like someone who has read war and Peace and say "it's boring"
(PsychoChomp, Thu 27 May 2010, 12:55, Reply)

If you're going to pretend you've read any book whatosever
you deserve a kick in the fucking face.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 27 May 2010, 14:11, Reply)

I like that book a lot

( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Thu 27 May 2010, 12:27, Reply)

War and Peace is one of my all time favourite books.
I don't understand why people think it's a difficult read. It's just long. I think it's brilliant.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 27 May 2010, 12:27, Reply)

It's good
I read it a few years ago. And it is brilliant, but the problem is it's not the best book ever, and people tend to cite it as being so
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Thu 27 May 2010, 12:32, Reply)

It's dull.

(PsychoChomp, Thu 27 May 2010, 12:58, Reply)

If you're not interested in history it probably is.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 27 May 2010, 14:07, Reply)

To sum it up...
History controls everything we do, so there is no point in observing individual actions. Let's examine the individual actions of over 500 characters at great length.
THE END.
(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Thu 27 May 2010, 13:36, Reply)

I used to read on my hour long train journey
but as I now walk I hardly find time to read anything anymore. I tried reading at lunch times to make people stop bothering me, but it doesn't stop them and I have to re-read bits over and over which is annoying. I pass people on the way to work who are reading whilst walking, but that's just the worst idea ever.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 27 May 2010, 12:27, Reply)

I only ever read if I'm on the train going somewhere, or sat around in court siderooms
I've just started a Charles Stross book my Dad lent me, s'good so far.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Thu 27 May 2010, 12:29, Reply)

Ooh ooh which one?
He's fucking brilliant.
(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Thu 27 May 2010, 13:22, Reply)

The first in the Laundry series
Cannae remember the name though. I do recall you telling me about him in Edinburgh though.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Thu 27 May 2010, 13:36, Reply)

The Atrocity Archive.
I love that book. New one's out in time for my birthday, hurrah!
(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Thu 27 May 2010, 13:41, Reply)

That's the bastard!
Only just started it, but I like it.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Thu 27 May 2010, 13:46, Reply)