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(, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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I raided my sneaker collection for a pair of fresh Pumas, broke out a Rock Steady Crew shirt and headed off to the Forum to see the mighty KRS1 from Boogie Down Productions. I remember when his first LP came out in 1987.
It was excellent - I simultaneously felt really fucking old and 25 years younger.
What was the last juvenile thing you did and did you enjoy it or feel a complete tit?
(, Mon 4 Oct 2010, 10:00, 172 replies, latest was 15 years ago)
i am not sure if this is juvenile but it certainly made me feel a bit feeble-woman. and a complete and total tit.
so i got home from some weekend-related shenanigans over the weekend (oddly enough) to a sight of horror. i live in one of those victorian red-brick mansion blocks and the landlord, which is the crown, works really hard at keeping it authentic. so i headed innocently to the big front door. only to find a spider the size of a fucking HAND sitting right. over. the. keyhole.
i am utterly terrified of spiders. don't get me wrong, i would have screamed if this had been a moneyspider, but this thing was seriously, distressingly large. there are many aussies in west london and this thing must have been one of them, it was that big. i panicked for a bit, but there was only one thing to do. i called the emergency number for the porter.
he was UNimpressed at being phoned at midnight to move a spider. he told me that i needed to get "that bloke i lived with to sort me out". when i pointed out that i lived by myself, he said that i should seriously re-think whether i should be allowed to do so!!!
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wanted: one house husband. must be good at spider-slaying and cooking. in return: free accommodation including sky tv, occasional use of sports car and deep-throat on demand.
shall i put it in loot?
(, Mon 4 Oct 2010, 10:16, Reply)
.........
*Decides against it, on account of PINK exercise equipment and the boxing training. I'm not stupid, I don't want a kicking for burning your toast*
(, Mon 4 Oct 2010, 10:29, Reply)
And as an Aussie, I apologise.
(, Mon 4 Oct 2010, 10:14, Reply)
I have to valiantly go forth to do battle with the offending arachnid whilst my other half cowers in a different room whimpering and calling out "is it gone yet?"
(, Mon 4 Oct 2010, 10:23, Reply)
Mind you, a couple of friends of mine are so scared of them that they freak out even when they see a picture of a spider.
I had fun texting a picture of a massive evil spider to one of them while he was chatting up a lady...
(, Mon 4 Oct 2010, 10:29, Reply)
so if I sent her a picture of a spider it wouldn't be 'lol LAD', she'd go apeshit at me.
She doesn't come to my Halloween parties because there are fake spider webs and stuff. At least that's what she tells me.....
(, Mon 4 Oct 2010, 10:42, Reply)
I think she just doesn't like you. Or thinks your house smells.
(, Mon 4 Oct 2010, 10:48, Reply)
It actually smells of apple crumble at the moment because I made some last night. I also made Wiggy a little rammekin of crumble with no fruit because he doesn't like the apple part of apple crumble. Top girlfriending, right there.
(, Mon 4 Oct 2010, 10:51, Reply)
and the cinnamon is too overpowering when mixed with the toffee.
(, Mon 4 Oct 2010, 11:04, Reply)
I can see it not mixing well with the toffee though.
(, Mon 4 Oct 2010, 11:11, Reply)
he loved it.
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I had to deal with one about 2 inches across in Spain, and when I said 'I've got it, look, see?' and showed him (in a glass with cardboard over it, I might add) he screamed and told me to fuck off.
Big bloody jessie.
(, Mon 4 Oct 2010, 10:31, Reply)
i have a law society ethics question for you. hypothectically speaking only, of course..... say you had a case and you had promised it to a female barrister whom you knew well.
then you went out for drinks on thu night with a new set of chambers and met the most perfect man in the world APART FROM MONTY, who ticked every box from the deep to the shallow (right through to the shallowest point of having a double first from oxford and a masters in law from cambridge) APART FROM THE FACT THAT HE WAS NOT MONTY, who insisted that you stayed drinking with him at the end of the night and mentioned several times that he was single.
well. would it be unethical to instruct him instead so that you could go to conferences and court with nice hair and make-up instead of the scuzzy look you were sporting at thursday night's drinks?? surely not?!
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i'll just use him as practice to make sure that my skills are honed for you.
(, Mon 4 Oct 2010, 10:41, Reply)
Bros before hos. Or sisters before misters, in your case.
(, Mon 4 Oct 2010, 10:35, Reply)
Although I doubt I'm the only person in the world to have thought it.
(, Mon 4 Oct 2010, 10:37, Reply)
none of it is based on professionalism. In fact there's a woman in my office who's schmoozing with a really fuck off hot barrister (who used to be an underwear model, like I know right?!) and he seems to have some fantastic cases on at the moment...
(, Mon 4 Oct 2010, 10:44, Reply)
this guy is working on a big case involving my old firm (you may have heard of them as they were very big, were based in manchester and went into administration very recently...) and i REALLY want to know the
hang on, a barrister who used to be an underwear model? jesus.
(, Mon 4 Oct 2010, 10:51, Reply)
I met him a few weeks ago and I think I actually made an OMG face. You could cut diamond on his jaw.
I think I know which firm you mean, we've nabbed a few of their clients. I was really surprised when they went under, I thought they were huge. The office in Spinningfields is well plush looking.
(, Mon 4 Oct 2010, 10:55, Reply)
sod these female barristers for a laugh.
i wasn't, i'd been expecting it for a while - basically they got a £17M kickback from the spinningfields landlord. instead of taking it as a rent-free period, they divvied it up amongst the equity partners. then didn't commit them to having to repay it if they walked. then took they out a £20M loan. meanwhile the partners who had taken the cash walked as fast as they could, leaving the firm £20M in the hole with offices they couldn't sublet and massive amounts of rent to pay. the junior partners weren't told and are threatening to sue the senior partners. and four of the original senior partners are still on the hook as guarantors for the old premises at brown street.
what an almighty mess!
(, Mon 4 Oct 2010, 11:04, Reply)
That's like something out of a John Grisham novel, I can't believe they would be that stupid. I can believe the greed though, the old firm I worked for paid me £11k as a secretary even when I'd been there years and begged and begged for a payrise. Then I found out they were paying the post boy £3k more than me because he was the son of a friend of the senior partner. When I'm a boss I'm going to be well nice to my lackies.
(, Mon 4 Oct 2010, 11:08, Reply)
there was an interview in "the lawyer" with the ex managing partner, the comments run for about 25 pages, and they are very very scathing. i suspect the liquidators will be doing some investigating. you're absolutely right, greed killed off a great business and a great manchester name. it's a shame.
you can tell a lot more about someone by how they treat their lackeys, i think. just don't ask my ex-trainee (in my defence, he was a challenge to train!)
(, Mon 4 Oct 2010, 11:10, Reply)
there are solicitors in this firm who will not give the secretaries the time of day unless they want a coffee making or something.
My old boss used to ring me up specifically to order me to make him a brew and once when he deemed it wasn't strong enough he made me go back and make it again. He then bollocked me for not smiling when I brought the second brew back. I'm surprised he didn't think I'd spat in it.
(, Mon 4 Oct 2010, 11:15, Reply)
we have quite a few like that (we're pretty big, there's 2000 of us worldwide, so that allows for quite a lot of tools!).
i've never understood it myself, i spoil my secretary rotten - she makes my job 100000 times easier. although she does act like my mum and try to counsel me on whether i am eating properly/drinking too much/men!
(, Mon 4 Oct 2010, 11:18, Reply)
I'm now a west Lahndahner and there aren't many local exotic pet shops. Pretty much all of my pets eat giant spiders. Or in one case are a giant spider...
(, Mon 4 Oct 2010, 12:17, Reply)
No subtlety to it.
(, Mon 4 Oct 2010, 10:19, Reply)
Sadly, even in 1985 I was no longer a juvenile. So it doesn't count.
(, Mon 4 Oct 2010, 10:13, Reply)
BUT YOU CAN NEVER SILENCE THE TRUTH!
(, Mon 4 Oct 2010, 10:30, Reply)
The big issues are Is this food soft enough for me not to have to chew too hard? and Do those pants have an elasticated waistband?
(, Mon 4 Oct 2010, 10:38, Reply)
Are you going to tell her to piss off?
You bastard
(, Mon 4 Oct 2010, 10:49, Reply)
Took the mick out of your girlfriend by saying "Ooo, how's your booooooooooyyyyyyyyyyyyyyfffffrrrrrriiiiiiiiieeeeeeennnnnnd?" then giggling.
(, Mon 4 Oct 2010, 10:53, Reply)
Are we still pretending it's a secret?
(, Mon 4 Oct 2010, 10:56, Reply)
Are we? If people don't know by now, then they're stupid.
(, Mon 4 Oct 2010, 10:59, Reply)
People are so stupid they can't tell the difference between alcoholic and non-alcoholic beer
(, Mon 4 Oct 2010, 11:01, Reply)
This pairing is a Good Idea if you ask me.
(, Mon 4 Oct 2010, 12:27, Reply)
but Wiggy says I look like a complete tit and doesn't want to be seen with me.
I used to love jumping through big piles of leaves until he pointed out that there's probably loads of hidden dog poop under there.
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Catching leaves as they fall.
All part of the autumn experience.
(, Mon 4 Oct 2010, 10:31, Reply)
and the something something chestnut shell. Ok I thought I could remember that hymn better than I actually could.
(, Mon 4 Oct 2010, 12:40, Reply)
So I'll get back to you on that one.
Good morning.
(, Mon 4 Oct 2010, 10:21, Reply)
Sounds like it was a good weekend, then?
(, Mon 4 Oct 2010, 10:28, Reply)
How I got talked into ingesting MDMA powder at all (I haven't touched it for the best part of a decade), let alone at a hip hop show, I do not know, but it was fucking hilarious.
(, Mon 4 Oct 2010, 10:33, Reply)
He gives me such a disgusted look
(, Mon 4 Oct 2010, 10:42, Reply)
I loved it even though it was a animated kids film.
It was japanese though which means that it ticked the smug and pretentious boxes I have to pick before admitting liking a film.
(, Mon 4 Oct 2010, 10:23, Reply)
There I was in my jacket and shoulder bag, with riding boots on, striding away, giggling like a mong.
Then djtp came over, pointed at the 'do not attempt to use the equipment' sign, helped me off the machine, and promptly facepalmed.
This is not as bad as the fact that me and my mum have played with John Lewis's display model of Butterscotch the animatronic pony so many times that they remove the batteries when we're in the store.
(, Mon 4 Oct 2010, 10:38, Reply)
"Do they know how much I spend here? What if I'm trying before I buy?"
"Mum, you've been 'trying' for 18 months now."
(, Mon 4 Oct 2010, 10:43, Reply)
Beeatch reneged at the last minute.
(, Mon 4 Oct 2010, 10:53, Reply)
That horse scared the shit out of me! I stroked its mane as I walked past and it fucking turned and looked at me. It scared me so I flicked it on the nose and it reared its head and snorted at me!
FO SERIOUS.
(, Mon 4 Oct 2010, 12:46, Reply)
It makes the best squeak noise ever, it's exactly like the bird from UP!
(, Mon 4 Oct 2010, 12:47, Reply)
But that pony is crazy. I want a triceratops though!
(, Mon 4 Oct 2010, 13:58, Reply)
As all I did was play computer games. I slaughtered thousands of zombies in Dead Rising 2, giggling like a mong when I dressed the character in a gimp suit and bludgeoned zombies with a purple ft-long 'massager'.
I then fired up Battlefield Bad Company 2 and sniped people in the face gleefully.
(, Mon 4 Oct 2010, 10:44, Reply)
especially the bit at the end when he's on a pink tricycle.
Yes MONTY I am VERY easily amused because I'm a child and like eating chocolate bars and all the rest of it
(, Mon 4 Oct 2010, 10:46, Reply)
But I have cycled away from a zombie horde on a pink tricycle.
(, Mon 4 Oct 2010, 10:49, Reply)
But you can get a version of it, just with far far less zombies on screen. At one point there must have been over 300 zombies on screen in this, it was fucking epic!
(, Mon 4 Oct 2010, 10:57, Reply)
Or are you just pleased to see me?
(, Mon 4 Oct 2010, 10:55, Reply)
That's a kids film (supposedly), but it's fucking superb.
Also, does snogging a munter while drunk count as juvenile?
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I'm deffo going to get this job, I can't see how not.
(, Mon 4 Oct 2010, 10:54, Reply)
as you need to feed me as I won't have any cash
(, Mon 4 Oct 2010, 10:57, Reply)
Though I was very drunk and it was an affront to my dignity and attractiveness, and at least I wasn't in the same room when I started crying.
Still a very childish thing to do though.
(, Mon 4 Oct 2010, 10:52, Reply)
they're revoltingly Americana.
(, Mon 4 Oct 2010, 11:02, Reply)
The December one. I have nothing to apologise for what happened in July.
(, Mon 4 Oct 2010, 10:59, Reply)
And it could have been worse, you could have stamped your feet*
*yes, I actually saw someone do this in a pub at the weekend.
(, Mon 4 Oct 2010, 10:58, Reply)
as we'd got off before, and of course this sent me into a "WHAT AM I THAT I'M SO UNATTRACTIVE I'M SO ALONE" thing.
(, Mon 4 Oct 2010, 11:00, Reply)
He clearly doesn't know he's on to a good thing.
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You got compliments off Monty the other day, and he doesn't seem to like anything.
(, Mon 4 Oct 2010, 11:12, Reply)
Monty complimented my new hair as last time I saw him it looked like, to paraphrase him, an mentally disturbed clown or something.
(, Mon 4 Oct 2010, 11:15, Reply)
The nightmare bit, anyway. Cheer up - being miserable is a catch-22; the more you mope the more miserable you'll feel until you end up a mascara covered mess sobbing to a My Chemical Romance cd. Nobody wants that.
(, Mon 4 Oct 2010, 11:21, Reply)
*Mashes keypad with my tear covered fist*
"I-I... *deep breath* N-need a *deep breath* Waaaaaaaaambulance"
*drops reciever to the floor*
*collapses in a heap*
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But it's more like fucking the street outside.
(, Mon 4 Oct 2010, 11:35, Reply)
... but maybe we can explore your feelings for me and you can take me out on a date, I'd be up for that, something casual-smart with an extensive cocktail menu.
(, Mon 4 Oct 2010, 11:38, Reply)
You're funny, you're intelligent, you're a cracking girl, and you're by no means ugly at all.
However, I would advise against searching for 'good thing' on google images with filtering off. It's a bit odd...
(, Mon 4 Oct 2010, 11:19, Reply)
I have no aim to snog you, get into your bed, into your knickers, even a kiss on the cheek. Once upon a time I'm sure things would have been different, but now they're not.
I just thought it'd be fair to express my opinion, maybe give you a little pick-me-up. Evidently it hasn't worked. Shame.
(, Mon 4 Oct 2010, 11:25, Reply)
... and they say "Get ya' willy out, I fancy some spunk" and you laugh and say 'no', and then they burst into tears crying "All i want is some spunk, why won't anyone spunk in me? Oh god, life is so unfair, my friend Jane got macdonalds for lunch, I don't see why she can get macdonalds and I can't get some spunk. WAH OH WOE IS ME".
(, Mon 4 Oct 2010, 11:10, Reply)
*shrugs*
(, Mon 4 Oct 2010, 11:08, Reply)
and Spongebob does have its moments of sarcastic hilarity, usually involving the bitter octopus.
(, Mon 4 Oct 2010, 11:11, Reply)
The Spongebob movies has quite a lot of "adult" humour in it, Patrick in fishnet stockings for example
(, Mon 4 Oct 2010, 11:19, Reply)
shows what I know (nuffink)
(, Mon 4 Oct 2010, 11:25, Reply)
Spongebob has made a list of all the fun things he and Squidward are going to do and as he hands it to him he says "I've written the ones that are SUPERFUN in red". Squidward says "but they're all red" and Spongebob goes "I KNOW!" and beams. The look on Squidward's face made me think of you and laugh for hours.
(, Mon 4 Oct 2010, 13:12, Reply)
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