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(, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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This evening, I'm going to watch the telly, have a glass of wine and cook some chicken.
What are you doing with your evening?
Alt q: What scared you most as a child?
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 19:41, 121 replies, latest was 15 years ago)
Whilst drinking cider and swearing repeatedly.
Alt: My mother; vicious cunt.
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 19:49, Reply)
(I will judge you, so if it's shit you might want to lie).
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 19:50, Reply)
In the fridge I have Aspell's and Westons. I will confess to enjoying Strongbow on occasion too (oh go on... say what you like) but Stowford Press is my favourite.
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 19:52, Reply)
Not that keen on Aspells (too sweet).
Strongbow? Lets not go there.
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* The baby shoots out and goes sliding down the hallway.
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 21:58, Reply)
Shame ITV4 isn't available in HD.
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 20:09, Reply)
I love all that rugged landscape. I think this is why I love Yorkshire.
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 20:12, Reply)
Always prefered it but when I'm feeling posh I have Early Grey.
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 20:10, Reply)
I think the ginger faced grizzly is the coolest on this programme so far.
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 20:20, Reply)
And attempting to find application forms on abysmal websites, and failing to find said application forms so e-mailing people instead.
I don't remember being scared of anything in particular. How dull of me.
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 20:03, Reply)
It's not a bad cider by a long shot. I prefer stowford press but magnets will do
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They keep lobbing extra fruit in their ciders.
If that trend continues, kids will go back to drinking bottles of K* cider and lashing a shot of Archers in it.
*Remembers when K and Diamond White were available in pubs and people drank 'em by the dozen.
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I remember the days of K and diamond white, after that, the next big things were Caffreys and then those alcoholic lemonades (fuck knows what they were called though) 2-dogs maybe?
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 20:36, Reply)
What happened to them, eh? Used to be a pub best seller, but where is it these days?
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 20:41, Reply)
www.foodanddrinkeurope.com/Consumer-Trends/Hooch-is-axed-but-alcopops-live-on
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 20:43, Reply)
Damn this Stowford is slipping down too well
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 20:53, Reply)
Thinking about it, I don't know if pubs still sell Bacardi Breezers either?
The ex-wife was mad for that particular type of tart-fuel.
Glad the Stowford is going down well. But with only 3 pints left, you need to start planning on what you'll move onto after its gone.
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I have to be the complete professional at work tomorrow y'know
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 21:40, Reply)
will forever be associated with the bride I saw, in her white wedding dress cut to reveal her tattoos, who was screaming at her children and new husband calling them 'cunts' while she swigged alternately from the orange and red ones
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 21:07, Reply)
I'd just typed 'and I was tugging on mum's dress begging her to stop'
Great minds and all that
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 21:11, Reply)
thanks to several little things that have combined to put a smile on my face.
Alt Q: I was scared of orcs escaping into our world when I was a child. I was also quite afraid of the dark because I had a massively vivid imagination that populated under the bed/the cupboard with all sorts of monsters
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 20:32, Reply)
Yay! for having a smile though.
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 20:34, Reply)
which is why when I first read Lord of the Rings I placed it flat down on the floor at nights so the orcs couldn't escape :( (I was 8 so not quite as frightened as it sounds)
Indeed yay. It's really rather nice. Enjoying your chicken?
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 20:44, Reply)
It was the haunted houses, the evil genius and that ginger with specs, Daphne.
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 20:51, Reply)
but I can imagine it was quite bizarre.
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 20:56, Reply)
He ruined it.
Oh, The Joker in the 1960's version of Batman also gave me the heebie-jeebies.
KAPOW!
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 20:58, Reply)
Gave me feelings of violence I never knew existed.
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 21:01, Reply)
Alt: Clowns and porcelain dolls.
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 20:36, Reply)
I just don't understand why.
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 20:38, Reply)
there's a suggestion that there could be anything underneath. Combined with the fact that for some people their routines are far more tragic than funny
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 20:47, Reply)
I've not had enough exposure to clowns to have an opinion either way.
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 20:57, Reply)
You've never been the victim of a flasher-clown then?
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 21:08, Reply)
kids are so rude, etc
still, scarred for life and that
plus I once had a dream that I was at a store and my mum said I could pick anything and I wanted a ballerina and a jester clown thing next to it got mad and climbed out and attacked me and my mum and was chasing us as we drove away, scarred for LIFE
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 20:59, Reply)
If one of those red-nosed fuckers had attacked me and my mum in a shop and chased us out of the car-park I'd be scared.
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 21:02, Reply)
totally rational and everything
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 21:11, Reply)
It's a Gallo sauvignon blanc - or however you spell it.
The wine currently resides in the fridge. I have two bottles of it in the fridge and I'm debating if I should open and drink the second bottle when I finish this one.
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 21:37, Reply)
I love Sauvignon Blanc. I'm totally getting some when I get off work.
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 21:45, Reply)
Made to sit right in the front by his Auntie, and on come the clowns. Immediately one runs to him and, thrusting a microphone under his nose says "Are you the front end of an ass?" "No," says Johnny. “Are you the back end of an ass?" "No," he replies. "Then I declare that you are no end of an ass!" bellows the clown triumphantly. Little Johnny runs straight home in tears. His mum says you must confront your fears to exorcise them from you forever and sends the poor boy back to the circus the next day, only this time with uncle Jim who is a master of the quick quip and witty repartee... "Watch your Uncle and learn," says Mum.
Next day and poor Johnny is back in the front row, but this time with uncle Jim, master of the quick quip and witty repartee. Enter the clowns, who this time make for Uncle Jim (master of the quick quip and witty repartee.) "Are you the front end of an ass?" they ask Jim, a master of the quick quip and witty repartee. "No." "Are you the back end of an ass?" "No," says Jim, a master of the quick quip and witty repartee. "Then I declare that you are no end of an ass..." But before the audience could react, Uncle Jim, a master of the quick quip and witty repartee, quick as a flash said "...fuck off you red-nosed, big-shoed cunt."
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 21:04, Reply)
drinking vodka and elderflower (only mixer available).
Alt Q: The dark. As soon as the lights went out I imagined there was a vampire at the foot of the bed watching for signs of life and if I kept still enough he might spare me. I was also scared of the Penguin Children's Classic book and tape of The Hound of The Baskervilles.
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 20:53, Reply)
Both here and various fictions on my hard drive. And smoking like a proper tortured artist.
Alt Q: Infinity. When I was 8 or 10, a visit to the local observatory scared me to tears by making me try to contemplate the size of the universe.
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 21:23, Reply)
When I was a kid, I thought 'infinity' was another way of saying 'unlimited lives' on a Spectrum computer game.
POKE 101, 49321
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 21:26, Reply)
They were just talking about it, and...you ever hear of the Total Perspective Vortex in Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy?
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 21:41, Reply)
As if the 'only' is silent.
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 21:58, Reply)
I'm all for people liking what they like. Not my place to judge and all that
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 22:00, Reply)
Don't worry, you still have nothing on the universe for making me feel small. That was my original point.
So, why the dislike for book 6?
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 22:13, Reply)
Douglas was not a children's writer. His books were accessible to children, and I was probably 9/10 when I came across them, but they were not written for children. Eoin Colfer is fundamentally a children's writer, and that bled through.
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 22:16, Reply)
I thought he was basically an unknown who was considered worthy to take up the torch.
It is a bit upbeat, and it certainly lacks Adams' bite, but to be honest I missed the old bugger so much I would take anything. I'll have to give it a re-read with that in mind.
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 22:20, Reply)
He's not even coming from the same cultural tradition of Douglas- his books are firmly rooted in Ireland, and the sense of humour is different.
I don't dislike him hugely, but he wasn't a worthy successor to the brilliance of the original. I'd have loved to have seen a book of short stories by various writers if there had to be a sequel
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 22:24, Reply)
and last night I had a discussion with cougar on the three laws of robotics. It doesn't get geekier :(
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 22:49, Reply)
whether robots went downhill after the Zeroth law was introduced
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 22:55, Reply)
based on what I think about it. :P
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 23:11, Reply)
was pretty much indefensible. From that moment humanity in Asimov's books is subordinate to robots. But then I'm prejudiced by the shittest of shit endings to the final Foundation and Earth
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 23:14, Reply)
I preferred the film anyway.
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 23:18, Reply)
it amuses me so much, how much of a guilty pleasure being so seriously geeky is.
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 23:20, Reply)
I am Nerd! Hear me roar!
rooaarr
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 23:36, Reply)
of the Zeroth law could prefer the film to the book :)
I'm quietly geeky. Most of my friends don't know it even
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 23:37, Reply)
gave up when there was another half hour of extra time. Not even the footballer who looks like a friend of mine oculd save it.
Alt: Wardrobes. Now they're my best friend.
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 21:56, Reply)
And for about 2 years couldn't fall asleep wihtout opening my eyes to check it every 15 seconds or so.
But I guess it's a reasonable fear, they made a film about it ffs.
(, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 22:00, Reply)
mother would threaten to take you to the gypsies.
If you didn't say your prayers it was Old Man Satan ;)
(, Wed 22 Sep 2010, 1:11, Reply)
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