so I've now been sick for four days.
I've had chicken soup and vitamin c and lots of rest and am really. really. bored.

Cheer me up with how awesome your days are going to be.

ALTquestion since people say they have nothing to contribute:
how does one exact revenge upon an old boss for stiffing one out of at least 200 dollars for one's tax return?
(Poppet some assembly required., Thu 5 Aug 2010, 8:42, 87 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Getting sick sucks.
Have you tried theraflu? I swear by it.
My day will be a pain, it's 3.45am and I gotta get up for work at 6.
(nolongernuts, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 8:46, Reply)

don't have the flu according to the doc,
just a bad virus. And I can't take cold&flu tablets.
(Poppet some assembly required., Thu 5 Aug 2010, 8:47, Reply)

If you've ever had proper, psychedelic flu
you'll never confuse a severely heavy cold with it again...
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 9:23, Reply)

Have had the flu. it's disgusting.
hot and cold spells, hallucinations from high temps, vomiting and coughing the whole way through, as well as aching joints that felt like they were 40 years older then they were.
The main concern was whooping cough, since mum's just been tested, but I don't have that either - just a garden variety virus that makes you feel shitty!
(Poppet some assembly required., Thu 5 Aug 2010, 9:27, Reply)

I had flu as a teenager
and fuck me I have never tripped out so much in my life (until I tried DMT, that is).
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 9:36, Reply)

hahah yeah I had some pretty surreal hallucinations and dreams.

(Poppet some assembly required., Thu 5 Aug 2010, 9:40, Reply)

I have nothing to contribute to this thread.
It's sunny, I suppose.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 9:20, Reply)

I'm sick as well.

(PsychoChomp, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 9:20, Reply)

'I'm in bed with my sister!!!11111!!!'

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 9:22, Reply)

*snort*

(Poppet some assembly required., Thu 5 Aug 2010, 9:27, Reply)

i am very nearly in tears
just walked past what i thought was a plastic bag but on stupid second glance (why? why??) turned out to be a pigeon that had fallen or been kicked and was feebly flapping one wing and struggling trying to get up. i really hate seeing things suffer like that but i am far too wet to do anything about it. so my day needs to get a lot better, please. now would be good.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 9:28, Reply)

if I was there I'd unleash my moggy on it.
he kills things very quickly.
as it is I'm in Aus and my kitty is curled up on my bed, so I'm sorry.
(Poppet some assembly required., Thu 5 Aug 2010, 9:29, Reply)

When I was a boy
I once saw a pigeon being MURDERED by a bird of prey, one day after school, just outside my house. The pigeon was trying to hide under a car but to no avail. It was rather traumatic to me, being a sensitive, artistic soul.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 9:33, Reply)

I was once in the garage
when I heard a massive THUD on the side. Peeking out the window I saw a bird of prey happily tucking in to a pigeon. There were feathers everywhere for weeks.

Top Tip: Mowing over the feathers will not make them go away but will result in feather confetti everywhere
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 9:36, Reply)

You were allowed to take the school perigrine home?
That is posh.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 9:45, Reply)

Ah, there's a story from my old school, home of mentals
concerning a pigeon. I probably would mentally scar you if I told it to you again :P
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 9:46, Reply)

As opposed to physically scarring me
Your usual modus operandum.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 9:52, Reply)

Shut up, or I'll punch you
AGAIN
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 9:58, Reply)

sensitive, artistic soul raging bumder
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 10:07, Reply)

My day will be awesome only
if I get to go home early, for I too am quite mingingly ill.
(berk, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 9:29, Reply)

I'm actually kinda pleased in a way.
I've not been sick since january, which is really really good for me. I got sick quite a lot last year and the year before that.
but get well soon Berk :)
(Poppet some assembly required., Thu 5 Aug 2010, 9:30, Reply)

Like you, it's only a virus
but I'm knackered from the weekend so it's hit me quite hard and I'm moping about like I have manflu. Hey ho, it's the weekend soon.
Get well soon to you too :)
(berk, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 9:33, Reply)

This might cheer you up
givingpledge.org/#enter
(PsychoChomp, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 9:33, Reply)

I read about that.
Not bad at all, is it?

I can't seem to find 'Bono Vox' on that list, though. Perhaps there's something wrong with my computer?
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 9:35, Reply)

Is that what he's changed his name to?!
Oh man, seething.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 9:36, Reply)

I think this guy is quite possibly a legend
cms.givingpledge.org/Content/uploads/634164477018179285_Pickens_080310.pdf
(PsychoChomp, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 9:37, Reply)

that's amazing.

(Poppet some assembly required., Thu 5 Aug 2010, 9:38, Reply)

Don't read the George Lucas one,
he compares himself to Plato.
(PsychoChomp, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 9:41, Reply)

He IS like Plato
in that he has done nothing of merit for years.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 9:54, Reply)

He's no Raoul Moat.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 9:58, Reply)

It's probably because he is Africa now
personally dishing out his cash. No internet innit
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 9:38, Reply)

hmmm yeah kinda and not really at the same time.
mainly because it baffles me how some people can be so generous and some (for example my ex-boss) can be such tightwads. It makes me sad.
(Poppet some assembly required., Thu 5 Aug 2010, 9:36, Reply)

I'm seeing my mum
who I've not seen for several weeks, and also ended up in an Italian hospital for falling down a mountain. That's going to make my day awesome, I guess.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 9:36, Reply)

How did she fall down an Italian Mountain?
but yay for Mum-visits.
(Poppet some assembly required., Thu 5 Aug 2010, 9:36, Reply)

She was in Italy, and tripped.
It's not too bad, only a smashed up face.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 9:38, Reply)

poor thing.

(Poppet some assembly required., Thu 5 Aug 2010, 9:39, Reply)

She and the Italian mountains have a bad relationship.
My dad shattered his ankle in a climbing accident over there when she was 7 or 8 months pregnant. She had to drive him back from Italy.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 9:41, Reply)

O.O

(Poppet some assembly required., Thu 5 Aug 2010, 9:41, Reply)

I can't get out of bed.
Has anyone else got IBS, are you supposed to be THIS exhausted after a spell of it?
I'm hoping it's a mis-diagnosis and that I have helicobacter pylori instead. It sounds like helicopter.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 9:36, Reply)

MEDIC!
*looks for Craig*
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 9:37, Reply)

I have IBS
but not particularly badly. When it happens, I feel run down and a bit manky, but no more than that. H.pylori gives you stomach ulcers, I could be wrong but it shouldn't make you bedriddenly exhausted.
(berk, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 9:39, Reply)

But now that I'm a qualified netdetective
I look into it, and it's often hereditery, and my mother always had ulcers, she's got 'IBS' she got osteoporosis very young (like a lot of people with h pylori who crave calcium).
People with rosacea (like me and my mum) often have it. The things used to treat rosacea are almost identical to the things used to treat h pylori, but in different ways.

I think I'm onto it. Last night was dreadful. And I'm the WORST hypochondriac in the world.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 9:43, Reply)

Stick a cork in it.
NEXT PATIENT PLEASE.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 9:55, Reply)

I think it's stopped
But now I'm tired and dizzy and MENTALLY ILL
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 9:57, Reply)

Nothing shifts a cold like a good old snotty wank.
My day shall be tremendous.
I have next week off to visit a very good friend who I have only seen for a few hours since Christmas, and as of 10 minutes ago I have also taken tomorrow off so shall be spending tonight having a farewell drink or 30 with a friend who is off to Korea for a month.

And it's sunny, well said Mr Boyce
(TheColonel, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 9:38, Reply)

I'm having an Angel Card Reading today, WTF taht is.
Think it's Tarot for hard core hippies. i shall be cynical.
(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Thu 5 Aug 2010, 9:51, Reply)

Pretend that something they 'predict'
has a massive relevance that you have entirely made up, and see if they run with it and in so doing reveal themselves for the charlatan (or deluded cretin) they undoubtedly are.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 9:57, Reply)

Yeah, I was thinking along the same lines.
There's also Yoga classes, which I've always been interested in; and facials, *fnarr*, but not that type methinks.
(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Thu 5 Aug 2010, 10:03, Reply)

A pal of mine swears by that bikram (sp?) yoga.
The one where it's fucking boiling hot.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 10:14, Reply)

There's one of them in Manchester
apparently it's brilliant. I don't dare go though.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 10:16, Reply)

Whereabouts?

(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Thu 5 Aug 2010, 10:19, Reply)

Northern Quarter
opposite Afflecks methinks
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 10:20, Reply)

Okies, might check it out.

(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Thu 5 Aug 2010, 10:21, Reply)

if you do, let me know, I'll come with
we can sweat and fail together
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 10:34, Reply)

The only thing opposite afflecks I can ever think of is a car park

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 10:23, Reply)

It has four sides to it though
It might not be exactly there but it's very close by, it's definitely one of the buildings that has orange signs above it that are all over that section of the NQ, like Forbidden Planet.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 10:29, Reply)

Tools
One tarot woman said that by this November I'd be sat with my baby daughter in my arms. Er, yeah.
I only went as moral support for my mate. I couldn't be arsed.

Mind you, I like doing the cards myself occasionally. Focuses the mind on your life but I doubt there's much in it. Or maybe there is.
But I guarantee if you're paying for it, it's cack. Unless you're paying me on the 0898 number I worked for.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 10:06, Reply)

I worked on a Tarot line at uni.
What a fucking con.
(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Thu 5 Aug 2010, 10:13, Reply)

That's when I did it
I was trying really hard, and then they more-or-less told me I was a dickhead and should just spout any old shit.
I did get one poor fella who'd rung up for a bit of sauce and got asked by me "Hi I'm Roota, what's your name? Ok Reg, is there spomething specific or shall I do you a general spread?" And he goes "Eh? They don't normally ask me that..." Suddenly his 'asthma' made sense to me and I told him he'd mis-dialled.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 10:15, Reply)

We shared a building with the wank lines.
If you think Tarot lines are seedy, you should see the porn ones...
(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Thu 5 Aug 2010, 10:18, Reply)

I did it at home. They just diverted for my shift then I'd log out.
I reckon I could do porn ones if they paid better than the psychic ones.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 10:19, Reply)

one of my friends works for a dominatrix text service
she just tells them to go clean their kitchen and they wander off for half an hour.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 10:22, Reply)

Money good?
I got asked if I'd like a job in a dungeon once.
People have got me all wrong.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 10:24, Reply)

I think she only gets about £8 an hour, but it's £8 for very little work
and she's self employed so she sews whilst she's being a dom. She also sells worn socks on eBay, men are so gross.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 10:26, Reply)

Money for nothing
I never find out about these jobs.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 10:28, Reply)

I went round a pal's girlfriend's place in Spitalfields for a smoke once
The place was a fucking torture chamber. There was some kind of throne and a shitload of scary looking implements. All her clients were city gents and paid humungous sums to be abused. She didn't have to sleep with any of them.

Eventually she retired when one of her 'slaves' bought her a house in West Hampstead.

Fucking nutters.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 10:32, Reply)

Not feeling great
last few days have caught up with me somewhat. On the plus side Part 1 of Season 1 of Merlin has just been delivered so I can be killed slowly by enjoyable trash tv
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 10:03, Reply)

I'm well pissed off
I applied for a new credit card last week and they said they needed more info, so I thought oh sod it. But then this morning a sexy platinum card arrived in the post, so I got all excited about making sexy balance transfers for sexy 0% interest. However, when I rang Barclaycard to make the balance transfer they told me they'd closed the account because I didn't fit the lending criteria. Grr. Hopes....deleted.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 10:08, Reply)

credit cards are properly evil
as someone that will be paying theirs off for the next fours years I say lucy escape.
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 10:11, Reply)

But she's Kitty

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 10:12, Reply)

She'll spend all the money on poles
and knee high boots
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 10:13, Reply)

And your point is?

(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Thu 5 Aug 2010, 10:15, Reply)

hahaha I wish
It makes me sad that I can't have a pole at home.

I do have some killer thigh high boots though. Don't think I'd dare go on the pole with them, I'd probably stilletto myself in the eye
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 10:15, Reply)

Put corks on the ends

( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 10:16, Reply)

Roota might have some spare corks.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 10:19, Reply)

spare slightly soiled
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 10:20, Reply)

ew
that's not a pleasant strikethrough Miss Badge
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 10:23, Reply)

I only wanted a new one for the 0% balance transfer thing
I'm currently paying off my last remaining credit card, but the interest is about £50 a month, so obviously if I can bounce it to a 0% card I can get it paid that much quicker. I've learned my lesson about naughty credit cards.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 10:14, Reply)

I had two and owed about £7000 so I had to get a loan to pay them off. I also have nothing to show for that money about from a slightly knackered liver and some love handles
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 10:16, Reply)

The love handles are cuter than the liver...
ish.
(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Thu 5 Aug 2010, 10:20, Reply)

Likewise,
sans love handles.
( Undulating Tentacles of Love getting fun down to acceptable levels, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 10:22, Reply)

yeah me too
mine's on about £4,500 and I don't have anything substantial to show, in fact it's all probably accumulated interest by now. I did put my degree course on it at one point though so I suppose that's something productive.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 10:23, Reply)

I haven't. They're a lifeline I have to turn to
with alarming regularity.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 10:23, Reply)

I'm all for emergency credit card
but I've never been able to fully pay off the balance in a month like you're supposed to, so the interest just builds up. I've gained willpower since then though so I will be keeping one when it's empty, but hopefully never using it.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 10:24, Reply)

I've had to pay my mortgage on one twice this year :(

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 10:26, Reply)

ouch
maybe you should take up a tarot phoneline job.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 10:30, Reply)

Emergency cards are not meant for tattoos,
Hawkwind vinyl and class A's.
(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Thu 5 Aug 2010, 10:27, Reply)

This is where I have been going wrong.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 10:34, Reply)

Switch from chicken soup to a good spicy tom yam
It will clear your head.

Has the old boss done something illegal by withholding the money?
(Zoz prayed for twink on, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 10:17, Reply)

Whenever I had a cold and had to go to work
I would eat sweet chilli crisps, they really worked.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 10:25, Reply)