So, it's June.
It's 6 months into the New Year, AKA half way through.

How did your resolutions hold up? (If you can't remember what you told us, there's a thread here

Did you fail? Succeed? Don't give a fuck?

ALT Q: What's the most exciting thing to happen so far this year?
ALT ALT Q: When was the last time you were terrified?
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 11:50, 115 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Do we need alternative questions?

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 11:53, Reply)

Didn't make any resolutions so I'm winning splendidly
it's been a bit of a 'meh' year so far nothing exciting.. rubbish
( Neddy shucking chit funt, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 11:57, Reply)

For people who didn't make resolutions?

( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 11:57, Reply)

I've achieved everything I set out to do in that thread!
I.e. Nothing

Alt Q: I've finally grown a spine, which is nice. Standing up for my mates to get rid of a drunken dickhead, not something you would have caught me doing this time last year.

Alt Alt Q: When my housemate moved out, I thought I was going to lose the house. That was pretty damn scary.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 11:56, Reply)

Everything apart from the midweek drinking.

(PsychoChomp, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 11:58, Reply)

Did you want to do more or less?

( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 12:00, Reply)

It's in the linked thread,
my plan was to stop, now I drink less only really if there's people coming over or football on at the pub.
(PsychoChomp, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 12:01, Reply)

I would love to be tee-total

( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 12:04, Reply)

The most exciting thing to happen this year
was meeting Vipros of course. Most exciting thing of this decade really.
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 11:59, Reply)

awwww
I got engaged, but other than that most exciting was clearly meeting TGB. Would've been better if it were just the two of us though. (and maybe Lusty)
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 12:07, Reply)

Mine:

1. Lose 2 dress sizes FAILED
2. Take my medication regularly FAILED
3. Stop being an idiot in social situations FAILED PARTIALLY
4. Hopefully meet a nice boy FAILED, met a seemingly nice boy and realised he wasn;t.
5. Be nicer to people I dislike. ...POSSIBLY?
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 12:00, Reply)

On 5
I'm sure I saw you being nice to Chompy the other day. So you can upgrade that to PASSED
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 12:02, Reply)

I don't dislike Chompy
I find him mildly pathetic.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 12:05, Reply)

oh you're back to fail now.

( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 12:12, Reply)

Nah, she said mildly
Which isn't too bad.
(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 12:14, Reply)

Don't think there's anyone I actively dislike on b3ta
if I actively disliked him then that'd make him special.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 12:14, Reply)

Aw, look you've upset him now.
He doesn't even have a 'witty' comeback.
Carry on.
(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 12:15, Reply)

Reduced to nitpicking my insults.
Pah.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 12:19, Reply)

stfu

(PsychoChomp, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 12:14, Reply)

I hope you wander into a roundabout and get used as a speed bump

( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 12:15, Reply)

Cars don't drive over roundabouts thikko

(PsychoChomp, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 12:17, Reply)

Surely a roundabout can refer to the roads that go ROUND the BOUT?

( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 12:18, Reply)

no it doesn't, stfu

(PsychoChomp, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 12:19, Reply)

FAIL

(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 12:21, Reply)

Then what are the roads called then?

( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 12:23, Reply)

roads

(PsychoChomp, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 12:24, Reply)

"Take the roundabout, 2nd Exit"

( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 12:25, Reply)

"stfu"

(PsychoChomp, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 12:27, Reply)

"S: (n) traffic circle, circle, rotary, roundabout (a road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island) "the accident blocked all traffic at the rotary""
translation: You're wrong.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 12:28, Reply)

If only you spent this much effort revising.

(PsychoChomp, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 12:31, Reply)

Finished exams.
So fuck you.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 12:34, Reply)

Sorry, I meant
"If only you had spent this much effort revising."
(PsychoChomp, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 12:36, Reply)

A quick google and winding someone up and proving that I'm RIGHT GOD DAMN IT?
Yeah, maybe
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 12:37, Reply)

JUST BONE DAMMIT

(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 12:31, Reply)

HAHAHA!

( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 12:33, Reply)

I beg your pardon?

( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 12:34, Reply)

I'm imagining a look of shocked outrage on your face
Am I correct?
(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 12:37, Reply)

I don't understand what that means
It's a random string of words...
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 12:39, Reply)

It's basically "get a room"

(PsychoChomp, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 12:41, Reply)

WHY WOULD I WANT TO GET A ROOM WITH YOU?!!?!?!

( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 12:44, Reply)

So you two can bone
Is the accusation.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 12:45, Reply)

I didn't fucking say it,
I was just explaining it.
(PsychoChomp, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 12:45, Reply)

I know bbz
but still, why would I want to do that?
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 12:47, Reply)

I have no idea,
didn't stop you trying though
(PsychoChomp, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 12:49, Reply)

I...was in a bad place?

( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 12:49, Reply)

I'm not a big fan of the Porterhouse either.

(PsychoChomp, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 12:53, Reply)

-muted applause-
I really can't apologise enough for that.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 12:55, Reply)

don't worry about it
(PsychoChomp, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 12:58, Reply)

stop bringing it up then.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 13:01, Reply)

stop saying you hate me and or find me pathetic then
(PsychoChomp, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 13:03, Reply)

there are aspects that I find deeply pathetic about you. but you can say the same to me. please mock me for something like that rather than something I did when I wasn't thinking straight.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 13:04, Reply)

fucking hell,
I don't find anything about you "deeply pathetic" that's just harsh.
(PsychoChomp, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 13:07, Reply)

I'm surprised.
There are aspects to me that are deeply pathetic.

Maybe having the "deeply" was a step too far.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 13:08, Reply)

I haven't met many people I'd describe as deeply pathetic
and it certainly wouldn't be anyone I liked
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 13:10, Reply)

Last time I was there I had to leave because of being a massive emo.
Can anyone recommend a song that might best describe my feelings at the time?
(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 12:55, Reply)

Was it at the end of August?

( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 12:56, Reply)

Within a couple of months,
so yeah, why not?
(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 12:58, Reply)

It was an attempted WMUWSE joke
I don't knwo whwere it was going.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 13:00, Reply)

I know.

(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 13:08, Reply)

ahhh,
There's the shocked outrage
(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 12:46, Reply)

I was going to make a funny comment about something,
but I just managed to really upset myself. I'm fucking special me.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 12:48, Reply)

Eh?
How? What?
(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 12:49, Reply)

Because I'm truly an idiot.
Mocking my fears and things that upset me doesn't really work
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 12:50, Reply)

Aw, Come here
*hugzzz*
(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 12:58, Reply)

I really should become asexual, it'd make everything easier.
Sorry for coming across all emo. I'm going to play cheerful music loudly.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 13:00, Reply)

Do that,
And remember that I'll be down in less than two weeks :)
(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 13:15, Reply)

Mine was to stop being so much of a disgrace.
What do you reckon guys, have I passed or failed that one?

Most exciting: Finding out Soundgargen were reforming and the fashion show I modelled in.
Terrified: Saturday afternoon, watching [REC] 2
(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 12:07, Reply)

my resolution was to continue to be at least as awesome as I was last year
I feel this is going well.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 12:08, Reply)

Have you resolved your shoe issue yet?

( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 12:10, Reply)

shoe impotence
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 12:11, Reply)

ha!

( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 12:12, Reply)

+r

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 12:13, Reply)

eh?

(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 12:14, Reply)

makes it say importence
albeit spelt wrong
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 12:15, Reply)

ahh,
I was saying 'rimpotence' I thought it might be some sort of anal joke that I wasn't quite getting.
(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 12:17, Reply)

hahaha
"I like that girl, she has rimpotence".
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 12:20, Reply)

Rimpotence
What a man suffers from when his girlfriend finally agrees to give anal a go, but at the last minute he cannot achieve sufficient hardness to affect penetration.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 12:25, Reply)

Did your girlfriend make that up at the weekend?

( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 12:28, Reply)

*sadface*

( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 12:29, Reply)

hahaha
nice
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 12:28, Reply)

not yet
need to take a look at some in the flesh I think. I've got a while.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 12:12, Reply)

Flesh shoes, that is definately the answer.

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 12:15, Reply)

I imagine they would be pretty comfy

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 12:16, Reply)

i saw a section on a TV program here last night
that was about death masks of "famous" people (hadn't heard of anyone except Hitchcock. One guy was a murderer, who had parts of his flesh removed by the mortician and turned into shoes. Quite gruesome for the 30s - sure people wouldn't bat an eyelid these days.
(bamboozled Can hear you getting fatter, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 13:03, Reply)

Don't overthink it
'cos that's what girls do innit
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 12:16, Reply)

I won't
I will look at shoes and if I see some I like I will buy them
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 12:16, Reply)

Sort of, been to the gym lots and looking much fitter
Generally I think resolutions are a waste of time, you have to really want to change something, not decide to change based on an date in the calendar.
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 12:14, Reply)

I don't really make resolutions
although I did tell myself I would finish the first three modules on my degree course which I haven't.

I don't think anything particularly exciting has happened this year, it all seems to have flown by in a mundane blur of Monday-Friday, Monday-Friday, leaving me feeling like my life is slipping away slowly.

The last time I was truly terrified was just after I had watched The Sixth Sense, notably the scene with the cyclist when she appears at the car window. That wasn't the terrifying bit. I watched it with a friend who I then drove home at 2am. When I arrived back at my flat I parked outside and was just reaching across into the passenger footwell to retrieve my bag. As I reached over, a woman was standing outside the passenger window with long bedraggled hair covering her face and her hands on the glass. I screamed so fucking loud and jumped as far back into my side as I could. At that point she opened my passenger door and started leaning into the car. My heart had nearly stopped by this point. She pulled her straggly hair away from her face and said "are you a taxi love?"

I sat in the car for about ten minutes after that, shaking like a whippet in the snow.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 12:18, Reply)

"Shaking like a whippet in the snow"
that's awesome.

I think there was a time recently where something made me jump so hard I screamed, but I can't remember. I remember screaming.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 12:20, Reply)

My whippet shakes in the snow
but she also shakes in the height of summer. And if anyone points a camera at her. Makes it hard to get photos of her that don't look like we've just beaten her.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 12:23, Reply)

Eh not really
Lost most of the Christmas weight, so that's all good.
Alt Q: Can't think of anything specific, most recently though it was from watching the trailer to Deus Ex 3.
Alt Alt Q: When a massive gritting truck nearly forced me off the road, because the cunt chose that he had right of way by virtue of being huge.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 12:18, Reply)

Drunk no more than three nights in any given week - PASS (due to convenient phrasing that still allows for a bit of booze on other nights)
Go to the gym - PASS (due to convenient phrasing that doesn't require me to go again)

Most exciting - buying (BB) GUNS.
Terrified - cowering in a pitch-black basement waiting for people with better guns to come charging in and shoot the shit out of me.
(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 12:20, Reply)

Airsoft perchance?
I'm hopefully going to a MASSIVE airsoft event soon, in an MOD training town (it's actually a town, with several multi-storied towers and all sorts). I'm going to get shot to shit by the guns with £3k guns.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 12:23, Reply)

Oooh ooh where's that?
It's the folks who'll happily spend a couple of hundred on pyro for a day that terrify me.
(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 12:25, Reply)

I'll get the details, it's part of a big campaign-style game
They have a couple of hundred players in various groups, and I'll be going along to help crew. In this game, more than one person has a military jeep with mounted BB machineguns...
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 12:26, Reply)

People keep pointing me at the BB minigun and saying "Go on, it's only a couple of grand..."

(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 12:29, Reply)

Or the guys who spend the whole weekend lying in the grass, in a full ghilie suit
With their £3k rifle, a grand spent on scopes and binocs...
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 12:31, Reply)

They give me the fear.
A little too much "I've tried to join the army SIX TIMES and they keep saying no but I'LL SHOW THEM..."
(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 12:33, Reply)

Reminds me of wozzizface (Mike?) in Spaced

( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 12:34, Reply)

That's the chap,
but I fear Cumbrian cab-driving rather than hilarious stolen tank escapades.
(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 12:53, Reply)

Doesn't it hurt to get shot by a BB gun?

( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 12:31, Reply)

A little
Ever done paintball? Not as much as that I find. Although I've heard that getting caught in a hail of automatic fire can smart.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 12:33, Reply)

If you get shot up close on bare skin it'll give you a little hickey,
If you're hit on a clothed bit it's pretty much no worse than someone flicking you.
(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 12:34, Reply)

I shot my then-boyf in the leg with a metal BB
well, a ricochet.

So yeah, I'VE SHOT SOMEONE
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 12:35, Reply)

ZOMG LAMPITO IS DEREK BIRD PT 2

( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 12:36, Reply)

Modest success
Saved a bit of cash - check
Fitter - check
Drinking less - check
New job? - failure

Still time to improve on all 4 though. The determination is growing!
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 12:21, Reply)

Alt Q;
Right now. Wish me luck people. If I'm back in twenty minutes it didn't go well
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 12:22, Reply)

BEst of luck bbz :)

( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 12:24, Reply)

Good luck!

(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 12:26, Reply)

Or it went really well.

(PsychoChomp, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 12:28, Reply)

Aw Chompy,
most people can't do it three times in twenty minutes.
(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 12:30, Reply)

I pity those fools.

(PsychoChomp, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 12:33, Reply)

Most of them
Drinking MUCH less, lost a lot of my stomach and got fitter due to cycling (still a way to go though) and I'm qualifying as an extreme sports instructor in just over a month.

Also improved my poker playing masses, but not quite as much as I had hoped for.
( Hdjejjwsjdjjf LOOK, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 12:34, Reply)

Nothing has happened that I wanted to : (
Except the tattoo.

AND THANK YOU FOR REMINDING ME HOW QUICKLY TIME IS FLYING BY.
( girlinthehole, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 12:40, Reply)

Half way through the year
I saw two things yesterday that gave me a WTF moment.
In Stratford there's a Christmas shop - that's right a fucking Christmnas shop that's open now.
On TV last night there was an ad for a christmas savings club - on the 6th of June.
WTF!?
(Captain Placid 24/7 ball gags, brownie mix and clown porn, Mon 7 Jun 2010, 13:30, Reply)