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Long sci fi thread is long and full of sci fi nonsense.
Do you believe in the paranormal? Have you ever seen anything spooky? Chompy's bollocks don't count.

Alt Q, Sci Fi to Paranormal, you'd think the irony would be lost on me wouldn't you?
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 15:51, 288 replies, latest was 15 years ago)
I saw TGB on Friday.
But that was more scary than spooky.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 15:53, Reply)
Is the reality worse or better than the myth?

(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 15:54, Reply)
Much better tbh.

(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 15:55, Reply)
I don't want to believe that but you are a trustworthy bloke so fair enough. How was it?
did you have a good time? I'm gutted I couldn't go but made up for it by drinking hard.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 15:56, Reply)
It was an excellent night.
But has been mentioned sufficiently now I think.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 15:57, Reply)
not read any of it so will have a scan later.

(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 15:58, Reply)
People went to the pub and talked to each other.
/summary.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:00, Reply)
+this was not interesting for people who weren't there

(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:01, Reply)
I agree with you, I apologise to the members of the board who weren't there.
Unless we get MASSIVE REVELATIONS about gossip that happened it's all a bit dull and lovey at the moment.
We should get back to arguing.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:02, Reply)
No we fucking shouldn't

(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:05, Reply)
You would say that.

(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:09, Reply)
Can you see the matrix?

(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:01, Reply)
I don't get the reference.

(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:03, Reply)
Therein lies the tragedy.

(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:05, Reply)
I don't think anyone gets the reference

(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:06, Reply)
you haven't worked in a long time, it's only normal that your brain
has atrophied.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:08, Reply)
I don't get it.
Want to insult me too?
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:09, Reply)
Nah I'm running out of ammo fast.

(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:09, Reply)
Save the last bullet for yourself please.

(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:11, Reply)
I like you, kiddo.

(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:14, Reply)
we know, there is evidence.

(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:15, Reply)
Says the druggie student
I mean, of course I'm obviously wrong. Look at everyone going on about how clever it was. Oh wait...
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:09, Reply)
It was meant in jest not malicously. I thought because of the new job
you had it would be ok to make that joke but sorry dude.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:10, Reply)
Unless there are pictures of it anywhere?

(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 15:59, Reply)
Chompy and Wormo abducted a drunk boy.
I caught them at it.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:04, Reply)
they're such pussies I bet the drunk guy was kidnapping them
and when you walked past they were all "Oh thank God, you saved us!"
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:10, Reply)
He was showing his disdain for them
by urinating against the wall in a busy street.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:18, Reply)
He was actually asleep when we found him
and then decided that halfway to the tube he needed to piss in public.

Londoners eh?
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:17, Reply)
You're a better man than I. I'd have left him to it.
/lived for too long in London
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:19, Reply)
No I don't believe in the paranormal you spastic.

(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 15:53, Reply)
I saw something that could have been a ghost at the most haunted castle in England
I think it was a crow though. Mainly because I don't believe in ghosts.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 15:56, Reply)
and it looked like a crow?

(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 15:56, Reply)
it kind of looked like a shadowy figure walking along the ramparts
but there weren't any ramparts any more.

Only saw it for a fraction of a second, but the shape could quite easily have been caused by a crow flying past with its wings at the top of the upstroke.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 15:58, Reply)
Man I read that three times as cow. And was getting a little confused.

(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 15:59, Reply)
Did you hear some ghostly weedy bass-playing?
As if played by a ghost with really limp wrists?
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:02, Reply)
I can't remember
but I wouldn't be surprised, so I'll say yes.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:06, Reply)
I don't think ghosts wear cordrouy.

(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:07, Reply)
perhaps they do
it would explain the soft swishing noise as they go past
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:23, Reply)
I don't believe in Crow.
I think he's a collective /OT hallucination.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 15:57, Reply)
I wonder how many people hope that this was true?

(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 15:58, Reply)
we can only hope so

(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 15:59, Reply)
I keep seeing phantom threads and posts
But then when I look again, they've disappeared. It's like seeing dead people.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 15:56, Reply)
I hope you delete this for smug lols

(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 15:57, Reply)
shit!
I missed a sci fi thread? Well it's too long for me to handle, now.

I suspect 'paranormal' consists of things we just don't understand yet, scams and complete bollocks. It'll be interesting to find out which is which
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 15:57, Reply)
I made a hysterical 'all sci fi shit is the fucking same' joke
which was got by no-one.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:01, Reply)
perhaps we do need a sarc mark
(that thing those guys tried to instigate to tell people when one is being sarcastic)
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:03, Reply)
Great idea (!)

(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:05, Reply)
that looks like an internet vagina/bumhole shot.

(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:06, Reply)
Yet pretty much everyone knows
It's the standard 'net sarc mark.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:08, Reply)
Wait a minute!
You aren't suggesting Bobby here is ignorant of something that is common knowledge to most sentient beings?

I doubt that very much.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:09, Reply)
Couldn't possibly happen.

(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:11, Reply)
Not knowing internet stuff makes me happy bromosexual.

(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:11, Reply)
they use it in subtitles too
so it must be right
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:11, Reply)
It's the nearest to a real one (of the former) you're ever likely to see.
Not that you're bothered.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:08, Reply)
You know I'm saving myself for your special pork sword.

(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:11, Reply)
I'm really sorry to threadjack you Bobby
but I thought that was better than a thread stomp.

I applied for a job at a chambers months ago and didn't hear anything so I assumed I didn't get it, but they've just invited me for an interview. I'm not sure what to do, here I'm bored and fed up, but I get to sit on b3ta all day unnoticed. If I started this job it would be a lot more involved and I'd be a hell of a lot busier. However, that's a good thing really, I can barely be arsed to do the work I have got here and since the office manager came back of maternity leave she's just giving me all the shit that she can't be bothered to do.

Neither job is in my career path and I've heard that the woman I would be working under is a bit of a mega bitch, especially to other women. Plus the interview is on Saturday and I'd have to dye my hair normal coloured about 3 hours before my party, plus if I got the job I'd have to keep it normal.

What would you do kids? Safe and comfortable or new and scary?
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:05, Reply)
That's twice now you utter biiiiiatch.
If it means you post less go for it.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:06, Reply)
Go for the interview,
do as well as you can, you don't actually have to accept the job.
Your hair is the stupidest fucking excuse I've ever heard for not going for a job.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:06, Reply)
it's not just about the hair
it's the principle.

but I agree. Go for the interview. You don't have to accept. Unless you are weak.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:08, Reply)
You don't even apply for Law jobs if you've got principles.

(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:10, Reply)
I dunno, 50% are probably ones with ethics who go into it to do charity work and 'make a difference'
the other 50% are horrible money-grabbing cunts.

the first half soon become part of the second.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:12, Reply)
humph
well screw you too!
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:13, Reply)
I don't see you denying it ;-)
I don't mean it's a bad thing. Evil rich women in suits with pencil skirts are pretty hot.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:19, Reply)
i have principles
and pencil skirts. i'm not evil or rich though.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:27, Reply)
*starts to lose interest*

(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:28, Reply)
Pretty hot though

(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:29, Reply)
now i am blushing
but you are only half forgiven for the bunnies
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:39, Reply)
Tbh, it wasn't meant as a way of apology, but I'll accept half off my sentence!

(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:44, Reply)
it's an application to be a PA
so I'd only be getting coffee for the unethical vultures.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:14, Reply)
I know that sounds stupid
but it does mean taking out all my piercings every day and dying my hair a colour I don't want it to be, so it's not as superficial as it sounds.

The main dilemma was sticking with what I know or venturing into the relatively unknown.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:13, Reply)
We all have to make sacrifices for work
and you're saying there is no office acceptable hair colour that you'd like?
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:17, Reply)
no we don't.
I haven't shaved for a week (around my beard, obviously I haven't shaved that bit in a lot longer), I'm wearing flares and trainers.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:20, Reply)
he wasn't far off the mark with that tramp thing was he?

(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:21, Reply)
I just look like I work in a 70s office
not like I live on the street.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:22, Reply)
Still you have to drive 70 miles for the next few months etc
I'm not talking purely about your appearance.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:22, Reply)
damn you
with your logic and stuff.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:23, Reply)
well yeah brown is fine I suppose
I just prefer pretty colours like blue and purple and pink. Although I suppose bright colours like dark purple and pink are becoming more acceptable so I could just make do with an XXL purple or something.

You've stopped reading by now haven't you?
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:20, Reply)
dye it black
both Wiggy and I will prefer it like that
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:23, Reply)
hahaha
he fucking said that in the supermarket the other day when I was choosing which shade of brown to put between the blue bits
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:28, Reply)
you should definitely do it then

(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:29, Reply)
I read from the bottom up so yes.

(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:23, Reply)
How much more money do you get?
Yes, Jews only think about money.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:06, Reply)
I love this

(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:08, Reply)
And killing Christian children...

(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:08, Reply)
And how much money you can get for the skins.

(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:10, Reply)
Is there a good market for childskin?
I have a cousin you're welcome to, we could go 60/40...
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:11, Reply)
Depends how big it is and the weight
I might be able to make a nice little change purse. Or maybe a page of vellum.

Safe journey back? Was lovely to meet you!
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:12, Reply)
and boiling them in a big pot and eating them.
Or is that Gyppoes? I do find it hard to keep up with modern thinking sometimes.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:11, Reply)
Gyps, Jews - all the same really, aren't they?
In that they are not British.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:13, Reply)
-hisses-
I don't know why I said that. Neither of my parents are very British but I'm not a jew either.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:15, Reply)
Too late, Juden.

(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:20, Reply)
Paternal grandfather.
I have the yidstincts but all my genitals, thanks!
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:22, Reply)
I'd get £4k more.

(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:13, Reply)
Do it.

(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:14, Reply)
I'm not all about the money y'know
Wiggy has money so I don't need to.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:31, Reply)
yeah but if it's 4k more for the short term that's 4k+ for cupcake corset mong business isn't it.
Plus Wiggy might want to spend his cash on something else.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:35, Reply)
Not really, it's 4k before tax
So, likely 3-3.3k, split over 12 months = about 250 quid a month extra.
That's how I'd look at it.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:37, Reply)
Well sure, tax, but it's still more isn't it. And more cash for a new business is a plus.
You horrible pedant ;)
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:38, Reply)
250 quid a month is certainly nice
But it's easier and more realistic to weigh up that against what you potentially give up, than try to picture £4k.

I could easily get 10-20k moving to London, but have to balance that against losing my chosen appearance, a LOT of my free time, plus having to pay London rates (admittedly not that dissimilar to Stratford rates).
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:42, Reply)
Yeah that's how I look at it,
it's £250 a month more, but that's not life changing and is it worth being miserable for. However, I won't know if I'm going to be miserable unless I try it, so I'll give it a go and see what happens.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:44, Reply)
I agree completely and I would do the same if I wasn't planning to start a business.
If it's only for a few years, going corporate won't hurt in the long run. We pay a price for our 'alternative' look but I won't cut my hair, lose the beard or tats for any job.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:44, Reply)
I wouldn't shave off my beard for any job.
unless it was really easy, stress free, interesting and paid a fucking fortune.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:47, Reply)
Dream job
man from del monte
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:49, Reply)
totally
I could do that. I doubt I'd have to shave off my beard either
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:56, Reply)
It would look better when you're poncing around in the linen suit.

(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:57, Reply)
this was a few years ago
hence the chubbiness
sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-sf2p/v132/60/109/576995337/n576995337_1100663_1328.jpg
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:59, Reply)
Good look,
There a lot heavier than you think aren't they. Excellent beard too.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 17:07, Reply)
they are indeed
I have a photo of me with a buzzard from when I was about 6 or 7. That thing was fucking massive and weighed loads.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 17:17, Reply)
let them offer you the job
then decide.

so go for the interview.

ooh, i can prep you with scary law questions!
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:07, Reply)
It's only PA
so I'm hoping they won't question why I didn't finish my law degree...
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:15, Reply)
i reckon my secretary knows a shitload more law than my trainee though
the questions are probably still reasonably scary - i think everyone should go for interviews periodically, it keeps you on your toes!
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:21, Reply)
That's true, I haven't had an interview for ages
and in the last one they asked me why I stopped my law degree and I nearly said "because law is boring". I did get the job though!
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:32, Reply)
you were right
it bloody is!
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:38, Reply)
if it's not on your chosen career path
and it would interfere with your enjoyment of life, such as having funky coloured hair and not working for a mega bitch I'd say not to go for it.

edit: I realise that this contradicts what I said above. I meant the job, rather than the interview. Although if you have no intention of taking the job then there is little point in going to the interview.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:07, Reply)
yeah that's the thing, if I go to the interview I have to dye my hair normal again
which is a faff if I never intend to go for the job.

But I'm so fed up here that this could be the change I need. However, I may regret sacking off my safe boring job that allowed me to laze around on b3ta all day for a job where I actually have to do work. And possibly for a massive bitch.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:17, Reply)
At some point you'll actually have to work.
Chances are at some point you'll actually have to work for a massive bastard/bitch. Might just as well start now as any other point.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:20, Reply)
yeah true
it's just because it's not in my chosen career so I won't be climing any ladders. However, as I only intend to stay there until I can start my chosen career even if she was a massive bitch I wouldn't have to suffer that long.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:22, Reply)
no one has ever said that before......

(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:25, Reply)
Fair point but I'm studying at the moment
and I can't pursue my career until I've finished studying, so it's not an empty threat in my case, it's just a matter of time. And being able to get an internship.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:33, Reply)
I was just joshing. You will do it, you have put to much work in not to.

(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:37, Reply)
If your chosen career is self-employment
In the areas you have mentioned, you really should develop a strong second option. Not being negative, just be realistic. You'll need a decent job to support you in the years it takes to get going, for a start.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:26, Reply)
No it's not
I'm studying to be an interior designer, so when I've got my degree I'm going to try and pursue that as a career. The corset making and the cupcakery are just little side projects that are unlikely to properly take off.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:34, Reply)
fair play, then.

(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:35, Reply)
Go to the job interview and scope it out for yourself
Don't dye your hair, but if they raise it as an issue say you'd be happy to change it (if you are).
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:07, Reply)
^ this
I took my lip piercing out for my first interview, and then afterwards I thought fuck it, if it bothers them that badly I probably won't want to work for them anyway, but if the job is that awesome I'd gladly take it out.
I don't think my boss has ever even noticed it, to be honest.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:10, Reply)
I interviewed for this job with blue dreads and piercings
They said they would have to go if they offered me the position, I said that wouldn't be a problem.
I missed my medusa piercing, which closed up within hours, but the labret stayed open. Since then I've slowly got more piercings, plus the mo, and they don't care.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:13, Reply)
do you reckon I can get away with that?
I thought about doing that but I know they base a lot on first appearances. In the interview for the place I'm at now I dyed it brown and took my studs out and then after a week of being here I asked the big boss guy if I could leave it in and he was fine with it. I've since had my hair every colour of the rainbow (including all at once) and they don't mind at all, but chambers are a bit more specific about that sort of thing.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:18, Reply)
Hmm, I don't know
I would say go to the interview as you are, but make it clear you are happy to change your hair/piercings etc if they think it is necessary. Either way, neither your current job nor this one you're being interviewed for is on your chosen career path, so no harm no foul, right?
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:20, Reply)
yeah this sounds like a good plan

(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:24, Reply)
Go as you are, but dressed smart, obviously
If it's a problem they should say so, if they don't then they're not worth the hassle.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:20, Reply)
I'm with the Lab and the berk
Dress smart but keep the hair colour and piercings and make it clear that, given a good reason (client-facing role, say) you are happy to make relevant changes to your appearance.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:23, Reply)
well yeah I'd wear my suit and shit
but the blue hair is the kind of thing that would immediately mark me down as "not suitable" if they were that way inclined. Maybe if I tie it back and wear a beret they won't immediately notice and I could bring it up later.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:23, Reply)
I'd have a lot more problem
with someone turning up to an interview (I assume inside) in a fucking beret then I would with blue hair...
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:27, Reply)
I like my berets
sad face.

I don't wear it like a French.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:35, Reply)
It's a hat, though.
If you wear it inside in anything other than a social situation you might as well just have "I am a stupendous arse" tattoeed on your face.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:36, Reply)
Oh I never thought about that, I forgot you're not supposed to wear hats indoors

(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:42, Reply)
It's probably acceptable in pubs and at weddings
and I'm hardly one for following rules of social etiquette, daaahh-ling, but I think walking into an interview room in a beret unless you are already a member of the armed forces is likely to make the interview stupendously short ;)
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:46, Reply)
mmmm army guys....
sorry I lost track there
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:52, Reply)
Have you seen me in my airsoft gear? ;)

(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:57, Reply)
stop hitting on me
I'll get Vipros on you.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 17:01, Reply)
Did I hear 'mewing'?

(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 17:02, Reply)
MEOW

(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 17:06, Reply)
*barges in*
Oh, hi Kitty! Didn't you say you made me a cupcake? But they're all the way over there by the rest of LAAK, what say we go over there and you can give me a lovely cupcake?
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 17:09, Reply)
lovely cupcakes indeed
strawberry
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 17:18, Reply)
I only had a banoffee one
Didn't want to be greedy, but in hindsight I should have had more.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 17:18, Reply)
Fine :(
I've finished work so I'm going anyway
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 17:07, Reply)
i am walking home tonight in the ass toning trainers
which, btw, i do not recommend on an uphill setting on the treadmill.

i might have to pounce on one of them as he runs past me all sweaty and topless.

also i have my army officer friend's wedding on 6 nov. i should have taken you as my date!!!
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:57, Reply)
Oh that would have been awesome
Weddings are such pick up centres as well.

Damn Wiggy.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 17:06, Reply)
AHEM

(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 17:07, Reply)
I know, right?
I've been to 4 so far this year, and not been single for any of them. I'm sure THAT's the only thing holding me back from teh laydeez.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 17:10, Reply)

track my knickers and dignity
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:57, Reply)
it happens a lot

(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 17:06, Reply)
I'm trying to be better, honest!

(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 17:07, Reply)
Tie back, sure, but maybe not the beret
It's not like it's entirely bright blue, it's streaked.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:28, Reply)
I suppose
it's way more obvious than it used to be, it just used to be the underneath, so maybe I'm just more conscious of it because it's different.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:35, Reply)
You'll be fine
Bottom line, go to the interview if you're at all curious about the job. If you'd rather coast in your cushy job, don't bother.

This is why I haven't moved to London.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:39, Reply)
Ok b3tans, I have decided to go for the interview!
If I get horribly rejected I am blaming you all and I'm going to be proper emo about it because then I'll be stuck in the cushy job AGAINST MY WILL
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:43, Reply)
I'm sure we'll deal with it
Gives you more time to be on b3ta, talking shit and gazzing folk etc...
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:44, Reply)
new and scary!
I took on some mad shit recently. Far more responsibility than before, some more work, etc. and on top of my current job.

So far it's been scary and occasionally frustrating, but I suddenly found myself handling everything in a way I'd not realised I could.

(awaits strike-throughs)
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:08, Reply)

new and scary!
took on some mad shit recently. Far more responsibility than before, some more work, etc. and on top of my current job.

So far it's been scary and occasionally frustrating, but I suddenly found myself handling everything in a way I'd not realised I could.


like it up the bum
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:11, Reply)
subtle, I like it

(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:12, Reply)

subtle forcefully is how
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:13, Reply)
only one thing
that utterly convinced me there are some things you simply can't explain. but it's a bit depressing so i won't depress anyone with it.

instead i'll say that i still haven't had any lunch, but i did just split one of the new cadbury's vanilla mousse bars with my colleague. 7/10.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:06, Reply)
Was it The Who's first single?

(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:12, Reply)
almost
"i should be so lucky" i think.

meanwhile your new theme tune is what, "this charming man" ?
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:14, Reply)
Don't you dare associate me with that horrific tosser.
For the second time today...*hurt face*
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:16, Reply)
i'm sorry darling

(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:21, Reply)
I spend my every waking moment
thinking of new ways to charm you - and in return I get likened to a middle-aged Mancunian homosexual.

*cries*
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:29, Reply)
you've already charmed the pants off me!

(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:38, Reply)
'Zoot Suit' is hardly a fitting response.
Edit - you should 'Substitute' it for their second.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:14, Reply)
That was released as The High Numbers wasn't it?

(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:16, Reply)
Well yes - but I really wanted to burst your pompous bubble.

(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:18, Reply)
But in trying to do so
you have piddled on your own shoes.

Unlucky.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:20, Reply)
The wetness of my socks is of no importance to me.
And I laugh at urine soaked brogues.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:22, Reply)
There are lots of things we can't explain
Only a species as simulatenously retarded yet obsessed about its own importance and intelligence as humanity would decide that the solution is to lump it into an area of such truly mindblowing horseshit as "the paranormal"
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:15, Reply)
Or to put it another way
'the paranormal' is just religion in a diaphanous dress with healing crystals. Although that's probably an awful slight on religion.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:18, Reply)
All that effort, and you didn't even notice my picture in the last thread
*sadface*
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:18, Reply)
That picture of a poof in a bath was of you?

(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:25, Reply)
Benderist.

(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:26, Reply)
If I looked anything like that, I'd have to beat the girls off me with a shitty stick

(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:30, Reply)
Ghosts exist
but only in the mind of the person seeing them. They aren't a physical construct as such, merely an imagined artefact.

If anyone is telling about their 'paranormal' experiences and the story starts, "I just woke up", or "I was in my bed about to go asleep when...", or "It was the middle of the night and I woke up"....WRONG, you were asleep, whether you think you were or not. I dismiss them at that point.

The only credible story I have ever heard was from a froend who was up beside a river on a sunny Summers day. Admittedly he was having a spliff. However, he turns round and sees a very solid loking monk standing about 50ft away, full robe, the works. He turned away and looked back to see the monk still there. Turned away for a second time, now shitting himself, and looked back to see the apparition gone. He got the fear and fled.

Fast forward 10 years and he is giving a lift to some work colleagues who start talking about sppoky things and they mention 'the mad monk of duchal woods', his mind snaps back to the Summers day 10 years previous....and of course that is exactly where he was, at Duchal Woods. Legend has it, that Mons Meg, the huge cannon that now resides in Edinbro Castle, was taken down to Kilmacolm and used to destroy Duchal Castle, everyone fled except for the Monk who stayed and was killed.

www.paranormaldatabase.com/highlands/Invedata.php

When he saw the Monk, he had no knowledge of this 'legend' whatsoever, so it wasn't as if it was some sort of self fulfilling prophecy. I believed him, for what it counts.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:18, Reply)
I've only got 40 minutes
so I'll just say "shut up"
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:21, Reply)
Sook ma tits!

(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:23, Reply)
Things that are in your mind and exclusively in your mind
don't "exist" by any definition I have ever heard.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:24, Reply)
You are opening a massive can of philosophical worms with this.

(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:26, Reply)
Yes if you totally ignore any psychological reasearch since about 1970.
I'm not going to though so, boom headshot.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:29, Reply)
I know nothing of any philosphical theory newer then about 1850
and practically nothing about any older than that that's not Socratic, to be honest.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:33, Reply)
*sighs*
I firmly believe that we are creating reality, on the fly, in our own individual minds. The mind is the most complicated machine that we know of in the entire universe and is capable of some pretty amazing feats. Therefore,'seeing' a ghost is a pretty easy thing for it to achieve.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:52, Reply)
We are not creating reality,
We are percieving reality from the sensations we recieve. the mind is incredibly complicated but it also takes a shit load of short cuts and is easily fooled.
I don't really get your argument, are you saying that ghosts "exist" only in the mind? In which case I would say they're no more real than any of the optical illusions you can see, like the face on mars.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:57, Reply)
I am saying that
the mind decodes 'a reality' from the fog of information we are constantly surrounded by. Some of this 'fog' is widely accepted as real...eg, chips and boobehs. Some of it is classed as paranormal, our mind still perceives this although in this day and age we try to dismiss it as hogwash etc etc. We all have a 'sixth sense', our instincts if you will, this is merely our mind detecting this so called paranormal information. Ghosts and visions are merely a more condensed form of these energies.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 17:09, Reply)
I've got my mind on my money and my money on my mind.
Are you saying my money is not real?
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:27, Reply)
Bitches ain't shit.
Are you saying bitches ARE shit?
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:28, Reply)
Snakes with tits.

(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:30, Reply)
^ bitter single man is bitter and single ^

(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:34, Reply)
I've never pretended to be anything else.
I hate all women, hate them.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:41, Reply)

Really?
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:46, Reply)
O_O

(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:55, Reply)
The impossible is merely something we as yet have no rational explanation for
where as the improbable is exceptionally unlikely within the rules we accept our universe runs by. Therefore Holmes has it the wrong way round.

/Gentleys
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:34, Reply)
go on then, as you've challenged it, explain this
after my mum died, i had quite a lot of really distressing dreams where she was there but i couldn't speak to her, or she was there and then she disappeared, or she was horribly ill, lather rinse repeat, all part of the fun of bereavement.

then one night about two years after she died, i dreamed that she was calling me over and over and i couldn't make her hear me however loudly i shouted back. i woke up at about 5.30am, pretty disturbed, usual stuff. calmed down, went back to sleep. when i got up for work, i had a missed call on my mobile from a number i sort of recognised but wasn't in my phonebook. the call was made at about 5am.

when i rang it back, it was my mum's school.

i literally can't explain this. not one person at the school would have had my mobile number, and anyway, who would be in a primary school at 5am?

any ideas, mr sceptic??
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:25, Reply)
Dodgy caretaker?
serious answer, no clue sounds horrid though.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:30, Reply)
I understand why you feel the need to find an explanation
but the answer is odd coincidence which your subconscious twists to fit a narrative of an episode that is obviously distressing for you.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:31, Reply)
but how can that possibly be right?
i woke up from a very vivid dream. a few hours AFTER the dream, i found the phone with the missed call. and i simply cannot think how my mobile can have received a call from that number, at that time! it's not as if i got the call, then fell asleep...
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:34, Reply)
coincidence is how you got a call from that number.
It would be quite complicated to work out the odds of you recieving that call at that time but it'll be lower than you'd imagine. Certainly within the territory of, say, winning Euromillions, but no-one claims there is a paranormal explanation for that.

I'm sure there are many, many occasions in that period where you woke up from a vivid dream involving your mum but hadn't recieved any phone call, too.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:39, Reply)
well of course! unfortunately.
i don't believe there is a paranormal explanation, but i'd like to hear a practical one that would make me understand it.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:48, Reply)
This was kind of the point of my short rant above.
We (as a species) are intelligent enough to know we should search for an explanation but sometimes we aren't quite rational enough to accept that explanation when we find it, because the explanation isn't "enough" for us.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 17:01, Reply)
but this doesn't explain how
someone could have called me.

it would mean someone at the school had to be in there at 5am and to stumble across my mobile number out of the blue and call it. i mean, seriously. HOW?!

it's really not that i imagined it as dream-aftermath, although that is the natural assumption. i showed my flatmate the missed call just to prove this to myself!
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 17:09, Reply)
wrong number?
it's possible. Don't underestimate the power of coincidence.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 17:15, Reply)
hmmmm
i just don't know. unless someone got locked in the school office overnight and was slowly dialling their way through every 11 digit combination, it is a mahoosive coincidence!
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 17:17, Reply)
you are totally sure it was the school's number?

(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 17:21, Reply)
yeah
it wasn't in my phonebook, although i did recognise it. so i returned the call by pressing the "call" button on my phone. and the school answered.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 17:44, Reply)
This is the point.
It's only a massive coincidence because you aren't comfortable with it. Things of that level of statistical likelihood happen all the time and we ignore them because they don't phase us.

Someone being in a school at 5am isn't unlikely. Teachers get drunk, stay out half the night, go into their work at random times just like the rest of us. Perhaps they are pissed and drunkenly decide to phone an ex and get the number wrong. Coincidentally they dial your number. I mean, you don't think "blimey, that's immpossibly unlikely" every time you get a wrong number, yet the odds of that alone are pretty unlikely.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 17:34, Reply)
i suppose
but it doesn't satisfy my burning need to put this to bed!

besides, my mother's colleagues were on average 50, not sexy young single teachers!
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 17:44, Reply)
There are many explanations
but to talk about this specific circumstance is insensitive.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:40, Reply)
It was God
telling you to come round mine later with an 8th of premium bugle and very little in the way of clothing.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:41, Reply)
I got that call too....

(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:45, Reply)
Listen, I'm flattered and all that...
OK bring the 8th, but keep your kit on and leave by 9, alright?

After that I'm going to be 'busy', ya get me blud?
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 17:00, Reply)
holla

(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 17:08, Reply)
only an 8th?
and what would you be taking?!
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:46, Reply)
Ha!
You know you can only goad Monty for so long with this MASSIVE drug talk before he does actually arrive at your house. Like a long haired manifestation, replete with cognac, Colombian flake and an obvious hard-on
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:55, Reply)
won't be that obvious if he samples his own stuff on the way round
speed dick is not a good look.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 17:07, Reply)
I much prefer sex not on cocaine.
This was not always the case.

Ideally:

1. Few drinks
2. sexual marathon
3. drugs and drink marathon
4. sleep marathon
5. slightly less marathonic sex
6. food marathon
7. rinse and repeat
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 17:12, Reply)
I really fancy eating a
Marathon Snickers now.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 17:14, Reply)
define "marathon" in the context of sex
men and women often differ here!!
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 17:16, Reply)
A few hours, with a break or two in there....

(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 17:17, Reply)
oh
oh ok. i can get on board with that.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 17:17, Reply)
Any longer than that and people start getting injured, I've found.

(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 17:19, Reply)

A few hours, with a break or two in there.... Until I say I'm done, bitch.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 17:20, Reply)
I'm far too charming to say anything like that.

(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 17:21, Reply)
You were somewhat charming
So I can believe this.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 17:22, Reply)
Is that a half marathon, or the 'full monty'?

(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 17:17, Reply)
hahaha

(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 17:19, Reply)
What was I thinking?
An 8th each it is.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 17:01, Reply)
actually
see my reply above.

you can have yours after the event.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 17:09, Reply)
I'm not so sure
given that the mind fills in so many details for us automatically, it seems very odd that it would deliberately put in anomalous constructs that do not fit with what we are expecting
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 17:26, Reply)
No

(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:19, Reply)
Cool story bro'.

(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:21, Reply)
He didn't ask for a story
Ok, on re-reading his post he did ask for a story.

One day I was walking through a graveyard and nothing happened because there are no such things as ghosties or ghoulies or long-legged beasties and things that go bump in the night.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:28, Reply)
Hey - I was just digging your minimalist style.
No need to grow tits.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:31, Reply)
Just call me "Tits-McGee"

(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:33, Reply)
Alright, Tits?

(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:34, Reply)
That's "Staggs" to you sonny-jim

(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:37, Reply)
Colonel Colin "Tits-McGee" Stagg Dracula?
Fucking hell.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:43, Reply)
I would change my name to that by deed poll
but i'm just soooo lazy, I mean REALLY lazy.

It sounds like a lot of paperwork, and my working day is full of paperwork. I cant even be bothered to type properly anyjhsdhjbsmnBdmnkjjlsdaljbhlhj \hdb
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:47, Reply)
we represented a guy at our old firm
who had changed his name to Grim Reaper. Seriously. He was dead nice.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:48, Reply)
How much does it cost
because if I put another C in my initials will be ACDC
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:51, Reply)

initials will be lifestyle is
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 17:05, Reply)
iyguiefokkkkjksa
kjbdiueeeeebndokjnd oh this isn't working, do I really have to type out ACTUAL ENGLISH?

At NatWest I saw a customer by the name of "Monkeywrench Loading-Bay", what a cock.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:51, Reply)

d(*⌒▽⌒*)b
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:52, Reply)
A framed picture of Pope John Paul II appeared in my meter cupboard about a week after I moved into my flat
It has never been explained.
I think it was a dead family member reminding me to get the meter on the fiddle.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:22, Reply)
tssssk you northeners and your petty crime.

(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:32, Reply)
It's the only crime they can afford.

(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:34, Reply)
Pfft

(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:37, Reply)
And the crime they commit against received pronunciation whenever they open they're gobs*
*unless said gob is full of chip butty/anything in batter.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:40, Reply)
Mushy peas and gravy on chips

(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:42, Reply)
vile.

(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:45, Reply)
Fuck off!
Mushy peas are shit.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:45, Reply)
I wasn't saying I liked it
It's what these northerners up here like :(
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:51, Reply)
I'm as Southern as you can be
and I fucking love mushy peas.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:54, Reply)
Mushy peas = good
Mushy peas on chips with gravy = so fucking wrong
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 17:04, Reply)
that does sound wrong

(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 17:08, Reply)
I'm further north, we get better!

(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:55, Reply)
What's this thread everyone is on about that's been deleted?
Trollols?
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:47, Reply)
I didn't see it,
therefore it must have been a ghost.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:48, Reply)
rory said that bella's post was shit and dull
other people said that he was shit and dull.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:49, Reply)
That was pretty awesome
The first time I noticed Rory, he was trolling one of my posts. It was mildly entertaining.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:50, Reply)
he reminds me of rathen

(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:50, Reply)
Bert and him were like a tag team for a while
when bert left he chilled out. I like the guy he is funny.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:52, Reply)
I do also.

(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 17:07, Reply)
bella as in BelladonnaAnodyne?
is that Maladicta?
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:55, Reply)
i think so

(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:55, Reply)
The photos in her profile don't look the same...

(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:56, Reply)
you are right
don't think it is her. I didn't read the story, but assumed that as it was entitled StalkerBoy that it might be her.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 17:03, Reply)
That's what I thought too
so drew up her's and compared. I don't think it is.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 17:03, Reply)
maybe there's something
about a particular type of girl that encourages stalkers
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 17:21, Reply)
I DIDN'T DO ANYTHING

(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 17:03, Reply)
Really?
Didn't realise...
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 16:57, Reply)
don't think it is
I leapt to a conclusion that appears to have been wrong.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 17:03, Reply)
i haven't looked
just saw the word "stalkerboy" and drew the same conclusion!
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 17:06, Reply)
I've managed to save some of it
b3ta.com/questions/relationships/post931427

Oh noes I've been put on ignore and everything !
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 17:16, Reply)
fucking hell
I hate blogs. They are one of the worst things that has ever happened to mankind.

If I was more motivated I'd find as many blogs like that as I could and spam the comments bit with "NO ONE GIVES A SHIT ABOUT YOUR LIFE"
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 17:20, Reply)

Then i dun the sex. i didnot cum. the man (the other other 1) txted me. We met up dat afternoon. We dun the sex. He cum but i didnot. I then drank vodka for work. I meet some mens there and we went to a party. I dun the sex with the one who wasnot fat, i went on top and then he did. I cumed. I then had cocaine and drank. The man sexed me when i was asleep. I cummed.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 17:24, Reply)
Rinse and repeat

(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 17:24, Reply)
I wouldn't take the rinsing for granted
with that turnover
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 17:25, Reply)
ha!

(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 17:27, Reply)
I'm surprisingly bitchy today
I think it is hunger
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 17:30, Reply)
I believe the purpose of the blog is to enrage her ex-fiancee who dumped her
with what he's missing out on. Ever the optimist that one.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 17:28, Reply)

There is the occasional work-related blog in my industry which is useful, however 99.9999999% of all blogs are shit.
(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 17:29, Reply)
I couldn't agree more.

(, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 17:33, Reply)

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