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(, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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That's why I didn't say hello at lunch time... no lunch... I forgot to have a rest. Any idea if I can't eat until it's dark here or in Mecca? It makes a massive difference.
On other news, I'm happy. I made an awful simulation work, simplified it and now it gives great results. My boss is both happy and impressed.
Which big achievements have you achieved today? Or recently? Or during your life?
Alt. Q: Is there a mnemotecnic rule to remember when it's "live" and when it's "life"?
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 13:49, 206 replies, latest was 16 years ago)
Today I've managed to do a job in an hour, that takes the usual lad 4 hours to do. Apart from that, nothing really.
Alt Q: Easy way of remembering it I suppose would just be to 'live your life'
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 13:51, Reply)
It sounds easy. I'm sure I manage to get it confussed anyway.
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 13:52, Reply)

Creamy crab pasta recipy from last week, quite nice.
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 14:56, Reply)
mmmm think of it sweet and crumbly, with a nice cup of tea.
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 13:51, Reply)
I don't like chocolate. But I could kill for a biscuit, yes.
However, I'm stopping myself eating any of the food I brought just in case by thinking about the beautiful quiche that is waiting for me at home if I behave.
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 13:53, Reply)
No one will know, a pack of crisps wont hurt, who's going to judge you?
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 13:54, Reply)
I only have crumpets. Mmmm, crumpets...
But no, it's only the first day. I can't fail so quick.
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 13:55, Reply)
I'm doing it to try myself. I don't think I can manage the whole month, but I think I'm better than just have a day.
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 13:59, Reply)
There are quite a few muslims in the office and I've always been impressed at how well they manage and how they keep working as if nothing. I want to see if I can do it too.
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 14:04, Reply)
but have some in our head office.
They won't shake hands with women. Many of our clients, and in fact the head of the UK branch of my division, are women.
Stupid religion is stupid.
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 14:07, Reply)
bunch of vicious bastards, they are.
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 15:01, Reply)
I don't agree with that. Some of them are cunts. My mother works in the inmigration department, and she could tell you a lot of good stories (all in Spanish), like this very important muslim guy who prefered to talk with the security guy (who obviously knows nothing about inmigration paperwork) than with her.
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 14:11, Reply)
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 14:12, Reply)
this site should help you out my dear.
www.ramadantimetable.co.uk/
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 13:53, Reply)
This office has very stupid security rules for websites... I'll look at home. Thanks in advance.
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 13:57, Reply)
A quick look at the wiki article doesn't give me an answer for your timing questions, but I imagine it's the 'eating during daylight hours' bit that's important, rather than the timezone.
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 13:54, Reply)
But I've always been impressed at their control power, so I've decided to try this year. I'm drinking water, though, I'm not silly.
However, I keep thinking I should have tried a year that it was in winter.
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 13:56, Reply)
Then if you're doing it for the challenge, go from sunrise to sunset.
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 13:58, Reply)
Although I need to go to bed early and get up early as well, which means that I wouldn't be able to eat at all for the whole month. I think I'll count 8pm as night, as usually I have tea at 6.
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 14:00, Reply)
I'm happy someone understands my poor expresions :)
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 14:00, Reply)
it was perfectly clear. I don't know how sportscow managed to misunderstand.
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 14:14, Reply)
observed Ramadan very strictly. He ended up doing a 1-year stint in Sweden, you can imagine his relief when it fell in winter that year.
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 14:05, Reply)
broadcasts from the mosque giving the official word when its ok to eat.
It is dependent on where you are, not mecca.
I'm sure you can check online somewhere.
In fact, I bet there is an ap for that.
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 22:36, Reply)
I've done nothing but watch CSI. I love Horatio. I might go and get some food soon, as I'm hungry and I have nothing in the house.
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 13:55, Reply)
But, I guess I won't get... fooled again.
YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 14:01, Reply)
Gary Sinise. How the mighty have fallen.
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 14:03, Reply)
the old roommate watched miami and new york all of the time, I would read, hear the shit on tv and just groan
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 14:06, Reply)
But H is just so entertainingly bad and Calleigh (sp?) is fucking lovely!
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 14:06, Reply)
Miami for terrible stuff, but I've not wtched much of the original. I just like NY, that was the first one I watched.
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 14:08, Reply)
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 14:31, Reply)
I like guessing who dunnit. The last one was "The murderer was her own reflection". Only in New York.
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 13:59, Reply)
If you're planning going hunting, killing it and preparing it all by yourself.
And then, eat it all.
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 13:58, Reply)
I'd grow some veggies but the one I'm watching one where someone was killed by e. Coli on a salad :/
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 14:00, Reply)
I grow my beans and peppers. I'm so proud of them!
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 14:03, Reply)
and BAM pretty 22 year old girls die, and suddenly the police care.
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 14:05, Reply)
Wow! I'd have thought that quality control and H&S was quite big in the States.
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 14:12, Reply)
Though I wish Horatio existed :(
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 14:12, Reply)
but my current achievement is having lost a stone. Weighed myself today.
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 13:59, Reply)
Well done! I haven't weighted myself for ages now... I'm too scared.
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 14:03, Reply)
And oh my goodness, I don't think I've seen such a good looking girl before in my life, not even in magazines, not even Nancy from Hollyoaks ! And I don't really know much about her except, OH GEE OH GOSH, she's swell.
AND THEN, get this, I was on Club Reps Uncovered about 8 years ago, and there is a girl who I was on the show with; she's a singer and I got up on stage with her. I see her every few months in and around this area, she's a bit of a local celebs; all the shop keepers know her. She wants me to come into buisness with her, her idea is completely retarded, but she might have some other ones.
AND mum bought me lunch today.
This last hour has been a rollercoaster of joy.
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 14:03, Reply)
WITH REAL BIG PEOPLE'S WAGES AND ON THE BOOKS AND NO MORE SELF EMPLOYEEDNESS
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 14:05, Reply)
Either of them, but I'd recommend trying cafe girl first.
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 14:05, Reply)
But It'll lead onto a "When are the tickets for? I'm free/not free on that date" and I'll sheepeshly say "Any time you're free, ever, it doesn't matter".
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 14:10, Reply)
Worst case scenario - she says no
EDIT:
Or kills you with serving tongs
EDITEDIT:
Glad you liked the Halloumi with sweet chilli sauce!
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 14:11, Reply)
I think I will, maybe for when I go to lunch there next, which I think I will tomorow.
The Halluoumi worked really well, I did it with a pasta sauce instead, as I had some left over, but I added some chilli to it to make it into a kindda aberetta.
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 14:13, Reply)
But I can't go, so I'm thinking on changing the date. Would you like to come with me? When?
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 14:13, Reply)
I'm great at inventing excuses to meet with future exes.
Another one is: I won these tickets but my friends are not interested; I have to tell them when I can go, would you want to come with me? when?
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 14:17, Reply)
You wouldn't consider it a 'cheap date', if he 'won' the tickets though, would you?
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 14:26, Reply)
that he's thought of me.
You can say too that you and your friend got the tickets, you can't make it tonight so he's going on his own. You'd be happy if she goes with you another day and you'd invite her to it. When would she do it? It has to be this week.
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 14:28, Reply)
"would you like to go out with me sometime?"
That way you get to find out what she'd like to do and when she's free after she's said yes.
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 14:13, Reply)
It forces them to give a definative awnser.
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 14:15, Reply)
just cut out the middle man and give her a raping.
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 14:16, Reply)
But I find, most of the time, I would say something like "Do you fancy [doing something] some time?" and she'll say "Yeah', that sounds good, I'm busy at the moment will let you know", and it'll never happen. Where as if you set a timeframe, if it's 'no', it's 'no', and you can deal with it, or "I'm going on holiday, I'll be back and maybe then", but end up waiting forever and in the mean time you don't move on.
If you say "Next week", then it's more definative.
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 14:24, Reply)
You should ask the girl in the café out. To the cinema or something, not out of the café or out of your life.
What did mum cook?
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 14:06, Reply)
It's the one where she paid for lunch, but I wasn't hungry, so I had some garlic bread and a lucazaid.
BUT, she did b[r]ought me some chicken livers, so tonight I'm going to flambay them with whisky and cream and mushrooms and onion, and do that on a bed of rice from the chinese across the road.
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 14:08, Reply)
I suppose she brought and bought them.
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 14:14, Reply)
and find out what to do.
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 14:16, Reply)
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(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 15:01, Reply)
don't think that's necessarily an achievement, mind
I used to write. A lot. Now I never do.
Gawd what is wrong with me today. *wallows in self pity*
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 14:05, Reply)
First you put yourself down with your achievement and then you tell us your anti-achivement
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 14:07, Reply)
realising if it weren't for my roommates I wouldn't have any friends, and only friends with them because their partners have left them
all my other friends are consumed by their relationships, guess it's time to get a boyfriend or something
lol like I could
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 14:10, Reply)
this is a low I never thought I'd achieve
there's something to add to my achievements in life
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 14:26, Reply)
I don't want to be friends with the people I work with, I want people who share my interests, but it's not like you meet people out and about unless it's through other friends.
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 14:30, Reply)
and whether they put work relationship or friendship first.
since a couple of people left my office I'd only class one person here as friend first and colleague second.
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 14:35, Reply)
I now have the odd situation where I'm in charge of some of my mates
This can be odd
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 14:37, Reply)
one of my mates (and mate of my brother) is my brother's girlfriend's boss.
That can be awkward.
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 14:38, Reply)
She helped get me the job (by making blu-tack voodoo dolls of the other applicants).
I also got another mate a job here, he's one of the very few here that I'd consider having 'round my house.
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 14:41, Reply)
and consider to be among my best friends. Unfortunately they have both left and moved to other cities. The bastards.
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 14:42, Reply)
Moved away before Christmas. Have just planned to meet him soon for drinks.
Edit: If you remember my shitty comics, he's the smoking guy with the bandanna.
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 14:45, Reply)
which is quite convenient.
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 14:46, Reply)
because we didn't talk all that much back then
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 14:59, Reply)
aaah, the innocent time before The Picture
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 15:01, Reply)
You know in Mario Kart, where you do a time trial, and later on when you're racing you see a ghost of your previous performance?
Yeah.
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 15:06, Reply)
"This is what happens when you go through life with a mohawk instead of a beard"
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 15:08, Reply)
I reckon I'll stick with the mohawk.
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 15:12, Reply)
I just meant I personally don't want to be friends with the people I work with, most of them spend their time in trendy wine bars showing everyone else how successful they are.
Not one of them finds aids funny.
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 15:02, Reply)
Its the fact that the people you work with are cunts, not the fact that you work with them
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 15:02, Reply)
now it's all awkward
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 14:36, Reply)
if you want to go and hit on someone in a bar you can say "I like you, can I buy you a drink, etc" but if you went up to some stranger and was like "I heard you talking, I want to be friends with you" they'd probably have you thrown out for being weird.
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 15:04, Reply)
I'm writing a pole routine for my class tonight. I'm hoping that my whingey bitch student will have more fun and stop complaining as much, it's kind of bringing me down.
I now know all the words. She says "I want you in my rear window". Odd woman.
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 14:08, Reply)
It's a bit same-y.
Your profile pic makes me want a croissant.
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 14:14, Reply)
I made my very-confused girlfriend take the pic this morning.
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 14:14, Reply)
As your hair confused me.
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 14:16, Reply)
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 14:24, Reply)
I need to get the sides shaved again, it's far too long.
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 14:28, Reply)
it's now about 2 inches long. I wihs my hair grew that fast.
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 14:31, Reply)
It's about a cm, maybe two, in length.
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 14:32, Reply)
awful, awful idea women, shaving parts of your head is horrible.
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 15:04, Reply)
I had a croissant on saturday for breakfast. it was awesome.
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 14:17, Reply)
I eat them plain though. People who butter them are strange.
edit - a croissant not Lab's face. That may be better with butter I just can't comment
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 14:21, Reply)
I tend to go for the almond-paste-filled ones if given a choice. The one the other day was a dark chocolate paste one (different, and superior, to a pain au chocolat)
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 14:26, Reply)
I know it's boring but I'm not terribly adventurous with food.
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 14:30, Reply)
we can start a meme. Croissants around the world.
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 14:40, Reply)
we had the perfect balcony/terrace to recreate the smug man photo.
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 14:41, Reply)
I'll try and do it.
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 15:05, Reply)
I went through Borough on my way to East yesterday, it made me very sad.
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 15:08, Reply)
I'm all about amazing taste sensations
I'd cook and eat you if I could get away with it
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 14:32, Reply)
"Yes, officer, I totally saw BobbyPires getting on a plane to Peru. No records you say? Maybe he used a false identity, he did look rather worried about something."
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 14:33, Reply)
I am a man bear pig!!
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 14:38, Reply)
edit *shudder*
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 14:43, Reply)
and that your taste buds have been dulled by all the weed
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 14:35, Reply)
I don't really like marzipan, but the almond croissants are good.
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 14:36, Reply)
I suppose I haven't shaved the sides (or my face) in a while, and the hair's down.
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 14:22, Reply)
Maybe it's the angle of the head then, or that my mouth's open.
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 14:25, Reply)
as Applebite does.
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 14:15, Reply)
I'm working on getting a website up for my classes so I'll be putting photos and videos on there eventually, hopefully to entice new students.
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 14:18, Reply)
when there's so much specialised porn?
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 14:21, Reply)
You appear to age backwards. You're like some sort of Kitty Button character.
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 14:36, Reply)
The photos from your 22nd birthday appear before the photos of your 21st.
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 14:47, Reply)
Kaol pretended to have found out lots about him. I think actually found out lots about him.
edit: I've been pretty bored of late, there's only so much you can do to avoid applying for jobs.
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 14:54, Reply)
that's what happens when extensions get humid.
That was the night I was wearing a backless top and one of my friends tried to pull me towards him by grabbing a handful of the top and he just pulled it off.
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 15:07, Reply)
edits: Also, that isn't massive hair. Mine used to get massive if it got rained on.
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 15:19, Reply)
or are you just doing massive stalking?
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 15:24, Reply)
2. None at all
3. None at all
4. Can't think of one, sorry.
I like the word 'mnemotecnic' though, not come across that before.
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 14:55, Reply)
you have a kid, that's an achievement! I don't think I'll ever have kids. Plus you are also B3ta's most negative man, that's another achievement.
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 14:59, Reply)
I'm practically Edmund Hillary.
EDIT The stupid thing is there are loads of things I am passionately positive about but unfortunately they're all rather obscure so I rarely get the chance to enthuse about them here.
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 15:03, Reply)
I was only trying to cheer you up. MASSIVEFAIL!
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 15:05, Reply)
that having a kid is not an achievement. Any fucking retard can manage it.
It's more of an achievement not to have any.
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 15:04, Reply)
I should have said raising a child.
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 15:08, Reply)
and it would show you don't pay any attention.
A large part of Monty's unhappiness is that he doesn't get to raise his child.
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 15:14, Reply)
but he has made a huge effort under difficult circumstances to make sure he can still be a part of her life, even if it is only once a week or whatever, and that is a big and hugely worthwhile achievement.
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 15:24, Reply)
You don't need Netdizians to ego-boast you, you know where your skills and talents are better than anyone, and everyone, bar none, has some.
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 15:07, Reply)
Keith Chegwin?
Chico?
Gareth Southgate?
Michael McIntyre?
I believe these people have no talent at all Gonzo.
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 15:09, Reply)
George Bush: Fucking up the entire planet with Daddy.
Keith Chegwin: Making your dad's cringeworth drunken dance at a wedding not seem quite so cringe worthy.
Chico: Telling the time.
Gareth Southgate: Playing rugby in an international football match (from the time he kicked that penalty that went well wide).
Michael McIntyre: For the life of me, I can't remember who he is.
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 15:12, Reply)
I've done nothing with my life save acquire useless arcane knowledge and have a good time. I've achieved fuck all. Until I became a father this didn't bother me, in fact I found it somewhat amusing, but it's starting to wear a bit thin now I'm heading towards 40...
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 15:11, Reply)
I can't see any other reason for us being here, and if having a good time wasn't the meaning of life then it wouldn't feel so good.
(, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 15:15, Reply)
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