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I've been to the gym, bought new shoes online and it's only 11:42.
What else is there to do on a day off?

Alt Q: Prince or Bowie?
(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 11:44, 148 replies, latest was 15 years ago)
Someone ask bobby what kind of shoes

(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 11:45, Reply)
Don't wanna

(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 11:47, Reply)
Why not?
I like shoes I wanna know what kind of shoes
(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 11:47, Reply)
Then you ask him
I couldn't give a shit what shoes he's bought, because I bet they're not the wheely-heeled ones he was spaffing about the other week.
(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 11:51, Reply)
Oh man I want wheelie shoes
But I have no sense of balance..
(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 11:55, Reply)
You should totally get some then
*gets popcorn*
(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 11:56, Reply)
why do you want me to hurt myself!

(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 12:05, Reply)
WHAT KIND OF GYM?!?
Wait, I think I did that wrong.
(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 11:46, Reply)
The one where fatties lose weight.

(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 11:47, Reply)
they are better than the poser gyms
with stick thin women looking OUTRAGED than you are bringing the average BMI up
(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 11:49, Reply)
oh you can have so much fun with this.
Except he pretended to block Bert once and didn't so he might be doing that again.
(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 11:50, Reply)
How dare you accuse bobby of lying

(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 11:55, Reply)
The fatties that drive there
Do a bit of exercise, go outside and have a cigarette, then drive home again?
(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 11:49, Reply)
Spliff, I don't smoke fags anymore. They are bad for you.

(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 11:51, Reply)
what, unlike spliffs?

(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 11:55, Reply)
Hai badger!

(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 11:55, Reply)
well hello there.

(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 11:56, Reply)
I was being facetious.

(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 11:57, Reply)
I see. Fair enough.
I've just come across too many idiots in the past who do seem to believe the "no, see, cos I don't put baccy in it, it's not gonna give me cancer" shite.
(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 11:59, Reply)
The only way to enjoy it without the carcinogens is with a vapouriser
but I don't want to spend 300 sheets to suck a bag. I know what you mean. I am well aware of the damage I am doing unfortunately.
(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 12:02, Reply)
I'm not convinced a vapouriser removes carcinogens so don't waste your money.
Meh, I'm not being critical. Our bodies are our choices. I just don't like people who righteously claim it's "better" for you than the fags.
(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 12:07, Reply)
I was under the impression that it didn't get off enough to burn the weed
just the thc? I suppose anything foreign introduced to the lungs can't be a good thing.
(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 12:08, Reply)
Oh, I see your point, I've misunderstood how it works then.
But a) yes and b) I'm pretty sure THC is fairly fucking carcinogenic.

and c) you'll vapourise lots of other things do, I doubt THC is the most volatile thing there.
(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 12:10, Reply)
I wrote off enough and when I meant hot. Weirdly you understood. Ha.
I will do some research my friend has one and only smokes it during the week then has pipes on the weekend. He is one of those tossers you mentioned above.
(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 12:14, Reply)
I can't remember who it was that was ranting about people
who are anti smoking but pro drinking in terms of antisocial behaviour
"I've never had five marlboros then punched someone in the face" (obviously not said by Lampito)
(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 12:09, Reply)
I fucking have*
nah, all very valid points. I just dislike idiots. Especially idiots trying to seem smug about their idiocy.

*may contain mistruths.
(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 12:12, Reply)
I hate walking behind smokers on the way to work
they smell.
(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 12:33, Reply)
You are Swipe
AICMFP
(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 11:46, Reply)
Haha, I just read this out loud
Made me laugh.
(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 12:02, Reply)
Threadjack
How greedy of me right?

I need to add some books to my amazon wishlist but I can't think of any, halp please. I'm not massively into sci fi, so sack that off, but other than that I'm pretty open. Oh, I hate time travel too, it pisses me off.

Oh PS Bobby, WHAT SHOES DID YOU BUY?!
(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 11:49, Reply)
Fanks :)
do you like autobiographies? Stephen Fry's is supposed to be really good.
(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 11:50, Reply)
Funnily enough I read a fiction by Stephen Fry only recently
and I hated it. He was just using it as a platform to use as many long and unusual words as possible. Plus there was horse fuckery. For serious.

But his autobiography might be better because he's had a pretty interesting life. I shall add it to the list, thanks badge.
(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 11:51, Reply)
Which one was that? I have a couple of his fiction books but don't remember any horse fuckery.

(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 11:52, Reply)
The Walrus, I think, is the one with the horse porn in.

(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 11:54, Reply)
Ah. I have only read The Liar and The Stars Tennis Balls.

(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 11:59, Reply)
My friend has just lent me Liar because she said it was really good
so I thought I'd give him another shot.
(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 12:14, Reply)
It was his first book and I think his best (except for his autobiographies)

(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 12:20, Reply)
The Hippopotamus.
but, meh, one blubbery semi-aquatic tusky thing is much the same as another ;)
(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 12:04, Reply)
It's the Hippopotamus
EDIT: belm, what Badger said. What did you all think of his books?
(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 12:13, Reply)
Yes, that one. I liked it.
It's the only one of his I've read, though.
(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 12:24, Reply)
ha sound slike Monty would have loved it
for the long words... maybe for the horse porn
(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 11:56, Reply)
Damn right. Although Will Self annoys me.

(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 11:57, Reply)
The Hippopotamus?
That's a cracking book.
(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 12:02, Reply)
I didn't think so
It wasn't dreadful, but I just felt sometimes he was showing off. I liked the sort of twist at the end, but it wasn't really worth it.
(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 12:15, Reply)
Dr John's autobiography is utterly brilliant.

(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 12:18, Reply)
"the other hand" by chris cleave
is one of the best things i've read recently.
(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 11:50, Reply)
what's it about?

(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 11:51, Reply)
Biography of Jeremy Beadle

(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 11:59, Reply)
oh monty
you are the first thing to make me smile this morning x
(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 12:00, Reply)
One tries one's best

(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 12:19, Reply)
Small book though

(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 12:00, Reply)
But on the other hand....

(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 12:00, Reply)
You deleted your first attempt at that joke you fool!
Beadle had a small cock...
(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 12:00, Reply)
I have actually read this....

(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 12:04, Reply)
it's the story of a nigerian refugee
told both by the nigerian girl and the middleclass white suburban housewife upon whom she descends illegally. it has a really intriguing thing on the cover, something like "we don't want to tell you too much about this story because we don't want to spoil it for you" and they are absolutely right - it is BRILLIANT but absolutely unique. it got some dreadful richard and judy award and costa coffee award.
(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 11:59, Reply)
Sounds shit
Any guns, explosions, double-crosses or breasts?
(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 12:02, Reply)
loads
of all of them! as well as being funny, it is quite shockingly horrifying, i had to hide it under a cushion at one point (not actually joking)
(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 12:03, Reply)
How big are your cushions?

(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 12:04, Reply)
what a personal question
how big is your draught-excluder?
(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 12:06, Reply)
Well, it's the width of the door.
Well obviously the cushion would have to be big for you to hide under, but are we talking about a floor cushion, or maybe a bean-bag?
(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 12:09, Reply)
She hid the book under it
you belming spazzer
(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 14:10, Reply)
sounds good, I'll add it, thanks.

(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 12:16, Reply)
HG Wells
The Time Machine.
(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 11:51, Reply)
thanks, I'll add that onto the list next to Time Traveller's Wife.

(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 11:52, Reply)
I've got that at home
One of my friends left it, but she's a tosser, so I can send it to you if you so desire?
(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 12:40, Reply)
I actually have a copy in my room as well, a girl at work insisted I read it
but thanks anyway.
(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 12:45, Reply)
A few various authors to check out
Christopher Brookmyre
George Orwell
Iain Banks (avoid Iain M Banks if you don't like Sci Fi)
Sebastian Faulks
Tom Sharpe
(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 11:52, Reply)
A good list
apart from Sebastian Faulkes who should be put up against a wall. Birdsong was unbelievably shit
(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 11:58, Reply)
I am halfway through Birdsong at the moment & enjoying it.

(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 12:03, Reply)
I guess we're all different
but I'm right

Have you got to the worst sex scene in literature yet?
(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 12:04, Reply)
Yes.

(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 12:12, Reply)
Also Tom Sharpe just isn't funny.

(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 12:03, Reply)
Correct.

(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 12:19, Reply)
Wrong. Everything up to The Midden is very good.

(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 12:30, Reply)
I need more info Battered, I want to know why they're good
and which books in particular. Come on, do my research for me.
(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 12:20, Reply)
Amazon have this amazing thing on their site called reviews. Try them.
But a couple to get you started...

1984 by George Orwell
The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
Any of Brookmyre's.
(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 12:32, Reply)
for placement and smart parties

(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 11:53, Reply)
MASSIVE CLOGS

(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 11:53, Reply)
I love brogues.

(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 11:54, Reply)
Crop that shit

(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 11:57, Reply)
Don't know how, any tips and I will.
don't worry worked it out.
(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 11:58, Reply)
Open it up in Paint
Stretch/skew and change the percentiles to at least 50%, probably even 35%.
(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 12:01, Reply)
Just the one?
You are now Heather Mills and I'm claiming another fiver.
(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 11:54, Reply)
Mate I'm a student, you are not getting a penny until I am earning over £15,000
and I will pay you 10p a month.
(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 11:55, Reply)
I hope the uni fees cripple you.*
*I mean really cripple you, so that you've got to be pushed about in a wheelchair.
(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 11:57, Reply)
My dad is paying
yay for being a spoilt rich kid!
(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 11:58, Reply)
He must be very proud of you

(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 12:05, Reply)
I was going to be really mean here

(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 12:07, Reply)
do it. I'm curious.

(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 12:10, Reply)
TBH so was I
but I decided not to be a total judgemental prick, just a bit of a judgemental prick
(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 12:11, Reply)
Ha,
he is paying my fees, I am paying for everything else. He did the same for my brother so no way am I turning that down. It's bloody expensive.
(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 12:10, Reply)
Anything by Christopher Brookmyre
I last read 'Pandaemonium', and it's good.
Do you like Neil Gaiman?
'Crooked Little Vein' by Warren Ellis is also good, but then I love his comic book writings.
(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 11:53, Reply)
Is Neil Gaiman a graphic novelist?
I think I've just borrowed The Sandman from a friend. Well I have borrowed it, I mean I think it's by him.
(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 12:23, Reply)
Calvin and Hobbes for bathroom frills

(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 11:53, Reply)
I'm a girl, I don't read in the bathroom.

(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 12:29, Reply)
Any of the Bryant & May novels by Christopher Fowler.
Otherwise I shall require slightly more guidance on your tastes.
(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 11:54, Reply)
are you suggesting she reads a box of matches?

(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 11:54, Reply)
Are you suggesting she's allowed matches?

(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 11:58, Reply)
Are you suggesting she has the coordination to be able to strike a match?

(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 11:59, Reply)
I'm suggesting I have some matches
these matches are:
my arse and your face
your mum and my bike
(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 12:02, Reply)
Sick burn

(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 12:04, Reply)
Yes, that's precisely what I am doing.
Not some books about geriatric detectives working for the Met's Peculiar Crimes Unit, based in Mornington Crescent.
(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 12:15, Reply)
I love Chuck Palahnuik
and any stories that are fictionalised around real events.

I also love Terry Pratchett and Jeffrey Deaver, although his stories have become a bit predictable now. I'm willing to try any sort of novel though, except for aforementioned sci fi and time travel.
(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 12:24, Reply)
You love Joey Deacon, more like.

(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 12:28, Reply)
I still don't know who this is
save to say he's a belmer, so have the usual retort of I dislike you, etc.
(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 12:29, Reply)
This
amzn.com/0385021399
(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 11:54, Reply)
I hate you

(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 12:24, Reply)
'Keep It Together' by Rich Deakin

(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 11:55, Reply)
what's it about?

(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 12:31, Reply)
The Deviants and The Pink Fairies.
You don't need to be a fan of either to enjoy it, though, interesting account of British counterculture in the late 60s/early 70s.
(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 12:41, Reply)
sounds well dull.

(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 12:45, Reply)
*sighs*

(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 12:50, Reply)
Christopher Brookmyre or Carl Hiassen.

(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 11:56, Reply)
anything by David Irving

(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 11:57, Reply)
Anything by Haruki Murakami
he's practically the only modern fiction I read these days.
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova is a very good read- quite literary but with a good plot.
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell is also fantastic. I'm a big fan.
(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 11:57, Reply)
Did Murakami write that one about the woman who works in the ready meal packing factory and ends up dismembering bodies?

(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 12:27, Reply)
Not that I'm aware of no!

(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 13:19, Reply)
Books
Any Pratchett you can get your hands on really.
The Host by Stephanie Meyer is a pretty damn good book (In advance, you can all get fucked, I like it)
Jodi Picoult - My Sisters Keeper
(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 12:03, Reply)
In contrast this list is not good :(

(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 12:06, Reply)
The best Pratchett in my opinion is ‘The Story of umm….ahhh…what was I doing in here, again?’
It's his new one.
(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 12:06, Reply)
Mort is the best one he's done

(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 12:13, Reply)
nah truckers and diggers

(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 12:15, Reply)
you are both so wrong
the early Discworld stuff is poor compared to the later stuff. Night Watch is probably the best one.

Diggers and Truckers are for kids and were also written before he'd got really very good.
(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 12:19, Reply)
Yeah I loved them as a kid. As I got older he got shitter.
He dropped the ball.
(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 12:21, Reply)
wrong

(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 12:22, Reply)
He dropped the ball
because he has lol-Alzheimer's and didn't remember what he was doing with the ball in the first place.
(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 12:24, Reply)
You're ALL so wrong. He is unremittingly shit,
Iron Maiden, Simpsons Tie, Red Dwarf.
(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 12:28, Reply)
...and a fondness for 'dining alone'.

(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 12:33, Reply)
The Hogfather is one of my favourites
but my absolute favourite is Nation, it's not a discworld novel, it's a novel about a girl getting washed up on a desert island in a storm and trying to adapt to their customs, it's great.
(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 12:28, Reply)
I'll throw in my vote for Christopher Brookmyre as well

(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 12:05, Reply)
Apathy and other small victories by Paul Neilan
is brilliant. Currently reading The Gargoyle by Andrew Davison which is very good too, but more serious.
(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 12:21, Reply)
CJ Sansom's Shardlake books are all brilliant.
I have said this before, as I recall young master Wookiee made a joke at my expense.
(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 12:23, Reply)
What sort of genre Your Montiest?

(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 12:29, Reply)
Historical crime fiction about a Tudor lawyer.
Best new(ish) writer I have encountered in years - read the reviews.
(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 12:30, Reply)
ok I'll give it a go, thanks

(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 12:31, Reply)
DUVET DAY
It's the only thing to do on days off
(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 11:55, Reply)
Alt: Bowie first - halberd to the noggin.
Prince afterwards, with a pickaxe through the face, the squeaky fucking midget.
(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 11:55, Reply)
Why not paint the handle of the pickaxe purple?
He'll love that.
(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 11:56, Reply)
I think if you and Bowie were going to fight it should be with rapiers.
You are both skinny lanky cunts with dodgy hair. It would look good. Prince would fuck you up mind. He is black so therefore double hard. trufax
(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 11:57, Reply)
Shut up fatso.

(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 11:58, Reply)
eating disorder lols

(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 12:01, Reply)
So mean Monty
shame on you
(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 12:07, Reply)
(!)

(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 12:20, Reply)
Pack my house up for me?
I'd kill Prince first, then thank Bowie for a couple of cracking tracks, then kill him too.
(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 12:05, Reply)
Where you moving to?

(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 12:07, Reply)
Only one town over, so it's not too bad

(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 12:12, Reply)
moving sucks though
Is it in a houseshare? Itw as you that went to that one with the kids wasn't it?
(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 12:22, Reply)
Originally, yeah, but I've decided against that
I'm heading back to my parents for a few months, will be going into a house share in the new year!
(, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 12:32, Reply)

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