I walked six miles today.
I have sore feet but feel great. I took lots of pictures and had snow fall all over me and I have had the time of my life walking with my arms out to catch the flakes. I had fun. Completely missed the student protests too. It was ace.

So how are we all after our long days? had a good one or a bad one?
(Poppet some assembly required., Tue 30 Nov 2010, 16:55, 123 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

It was alright but I want to go home and do fuck all now
I might even turn my phone off.
(PsychoChomp, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 16:58, Reply)

wow, antisocial much?
I can't talk though, I'm staying in and doing a load of washing before I move on to my next place tomorrow.
(Poppet some assembly required., Tue 30 Nov 2010, 17:01, Reply)

it's only half over
it's been about middle of the road
nothing really to complain about, shockingly
also, manicotti and antipasto for lunch, fuck yes
( Lisette von Falcon, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 17:02, Reply)

yay! nothing to complain about!
what is that food though? I"ve never heard of it.
(Poppet some assembly required., Tue 30 Nov 2010, 17:03, Reply)

ohhhhhhhhhh
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannelloni
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antipasto
( Lisette von Falcon, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 17:07, Reply)

seems to be a lot of meat in the antipasto....

(Poppet some assembly required., Tue 30 Nov 2010, 17:08, Reply)

I know you don't really rate red meat
but antipasti rules the world with a rod of iron. Those fuckers know how to cure meat, they really do.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 17:10, Reply)

yeah but it's all bacon and salami...
:(
(Poppet some assembly required., Tue 30 Nov 2010, 17:11, Reply)

You say that like it's a bad thing.

(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 17:18, Reply)

I don't eat them.
mainly because I don't like them.
(Poppet some assembly required., Tue 30 Nov 2010, 17:21, Reply)

I did not know it was possible to be this wrong.

(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 17:24, Reply)

I'm sorry. I'm really, really sorry, okay?
I just find them a bit yuck. I have tried them on multiple occasions, just can't seem to enjoy them.
If it's any consolation, I'm completely won over by the Swizzlers.
(Poppet some assembly required., Tue 30 Nov 2010, 17:29, Reply)

I'm not entirely sure what those are. Are they like Frazzles?
We're from different worlds, you and I. And your world is a world where bacon isn't delicious, and thus needs to be destroyed.
(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 17:36, Reply)

No, everybody else in aus likes bacon, I've been disowned.
and they're an english sweet. Maybe I'm confusing the name.
(Poppet some assembly required., Tue 30 Nov 2010, 17:39, Reply)

You're probably right, I don't eat sweets much
because they're not as tasty as bacon.

Disowned, huh? Are you going to end up trapped forever in an airport like that guy in Paris when you try to go home?
(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 17:42, Reply)

fuck I hope not.
I"m still a citizen, just not part of my family.
Well not until I go to uni, then they'll all be proud and claiming me as their own again.
(Poppet some assembly required., Tue 30 Nov 2010, 17:48, Reply)

And to celebrate your graduation, BACON CAKE!
I'll shut up about bacon now.
(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 17:49, Reply)

I'll start talking about tofu if you keep it up.

(Poppet some assembly required., Tue 30 Nov 2010, 17:53, Reply)

what I had had no bacons
pepperoni, salami, capicola, other junk, it was like a large salad, with lots of meats and cheeses and was lush but the manicotti was shit
( Lisette von Falcon, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 18:00, Reply)

Avoiding students is always ace.
Today's been OK thanks. Catching up with an old friend for a chat and some MDs this evening. Should be fun provided the snow doesn't fuck up my travelling - looks to be OK for now.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 17:07, Reply)

Yeah I don't mind students (being one myself if I get in),
I didn't even know there were protests on until I got back in the house and looked online and realised why I'd been seeing so many coppers about.
(Poppet some assembly required., Tue 30 Nov 2010, 17:10, Reply)

I was one.
I hated the fuckers all the more for being lumped in with them. Self-absorbed, pompous, ignorant and unfunny spastics, in the main.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 17:24, Reply)

Did you have to do poetry?
I've never seen a more self-absorbed bunch of insular, blinkered cretins in all of my life. All completely in denial over the fundamental lack of relevance that their miserable "art" has.*

*hates poetry, may be biased
( Kroney, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 17:26, Reply)

Apart from Roman satire, no.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 17:28, Reply)

I think that
can be safely lumped in with Classics and thus exempted.

I sat through my poetry lectures in an excruciating vice with one arm being my desire to pass the course in favour of my overall degree and the other being my near overwhelming desire to tell them exactly what I thought.

Tried doing this in one essay. It was well-reasoned and argued. It was failed because of "content inappropriate for the subject" ie they didn't like me saying poetry was crap.
( Kroney, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 17:31, Reply)

The gay cunts.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 17:58, Reply)

I quite like some poetry.
I like the quirky stuff that's not as well known. I'm currently reading one of Michael Luenig's books, I may have to buy another one.
(Poppet some assembly required., Tue 30 Nov 2010, 17:32, Reply)

I don't.
I can find something to loathe in all of it, past about 1000AD.
( Kroney, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 17:33, Reply)

really?
aww that's a shame.
(Poppet some assembly required., Tue 30 Nov 2010, 17:39, Reply)

I quite like Coleridge and the MASSIVE DRUGS gang.
On the whole I believe poetry to be an awful method of self-expression. Modern lolwaki poets like Roger McfuckingGough I would dearly love to slowly torture to death.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 17:59, Reply)

I like poetry that makes me laugh
and I can tolerate some of the stuff that doesn't. Unfortunately, after developing a a cynicism towards it at GCSE I was less than impressed when a friend of mine accidentally got us stuck at a poetry night in some bar. I didn't mind the occasional funny poem, but the rest of it really was the pinnacle of pretentious, navel-gazing cockcheese.
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 17:43, Reply)

99% of people at poetry readings
are other poets, the rest are people who are there by accident. The whole thing is feeding off itself and has ceased to have any real relevance outside of poetic circles.

In my opinion, for something to be considered an art form, it has to be capable of speaking to people who don't actually create it.

This is more or less what I said in that essay.
( Kroney, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 17:47, Reply)

I think you have a very good point there
Speaking as the 1% who was not there by design, it was nothing short of cringeworthy.
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 17:49, Reply)

I'm still bitter about that essay
grumble grumble gripe gripe
( Kroney, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 17:50, Reply)

Write a poem about it.
That'll show 'em.

EDIT: Seriously, there was a woman there trying to make her poems sound profound despite reading them in her unashamedly ghastly Essex accent and then doing a tap dance after each one. What the fuck was that supposed to be about?
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 17:51, Reply)

I have written one poem
which I submitted to the same class. It was long and based on being hungover. It was vulgar, it mentioned poo and vomit. They praised the meter completely without irony.

I had lifted the meter wholesale from Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven".
( Kroney, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 17:53, Reply)

This wasn't Kroney's "The Vindaloo," was it?
Plenty of chances to mention defecation and regurgitation, with the main theme being
"Quoth my arsehole, 'never more.'"
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 17:56, Reply)

I hate students as well
terrible cunts the lot of them
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 18:10, Reply)

I lost my bank card.
Got a tenner to live on for five days. That's not even a pack of cigarilloes a day.
(Barry from Eastenders is, despite the words written above, not a woman, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 17:11, Reply)

Oh dear. D'you have any idea where you lost it or did you just open your wallet to find it gone?

(Poppet some assembly required., Tue 30 Nov 2010, 17:13, Reply)

Not a clue.
Been using cash the last couple days so hadn't even given it a second thought. Could be anywhere.
My mate's said he'll lend me what I need so I can go out tomorrow so it's not all bad. Other than that it's been a good day, finally feel like I'm going somewhere.
(Barry from Eastenders is, despite the words written above, not a woman, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 17:16, Reply)

I'm glad that overall it's okay.

(Poppet some assembly required., Tue 30 Nov 2010, 17:18, Reply)

That'll be Sol getting his revenge.

(Cave Duck, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 17:14, Reply)

Indeed.

(Barry from Eastenders is, despite the words written above, not a woman, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 17:22, Reply)

It's snowed at home
but not at work, leaving me with the unenviable prospect of being snowed out.
( Kroney, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 17:12, Reply)

I didn't know that was possible...

(Poppet some assembly required., Tue 30 Nov 2010, 17:13, Reply)

Well sure
I do work thirty miles from home, though. Apparently Uxbridge is so pikey that even snow won't be seen dead here. It was like that with the heavier snow back in January, too.

Edit: Although that time I was snowed in, not out.
( Kroney, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 17:14, Reply)

There's no 'apparently' about it.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 17:22, Reply)

This is possibly
one of my most fascinating anecdotes.
( Kroney, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 17:24, Reply)

There's no 'possibly' about it.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 17:29, Reply)

I'll have to remember this one
in case I have to do any public speaking.
( Kroney, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 17:32, Reply)

It'll be a winner at weddings I reckon.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 18:01, Reply)

Cold cold cold
I also really need to clean the kitchen, but my sister has guilt tripped me into coming to a concert with her tonight. I'm meeting her in 2 hours, but I've got to GET there and have my tea etc etc. Therefore I really shouldn't be on here, I should be cooking! ARGH
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 17:35, Reply)

get in the kitchen woman!!

(Poppet some assembly required., Tue 30 Nov 2010, 17:40, Reply)

+where you belong
/old-fashioned-sexismlols
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 17:45, Reply)

you are an old fashioned sexism.
yeah. that told you.
(Poppet some assembly required., Tue 30 Nov 2010, 17:49, Reply)

*draws on pipe*
And what's an innocent young thing doing in a place like this all by yourself?
*gives friendly-but-ultimately-patronising pat on the behind*
*draws on pipe*
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 17:50, Reply)

*slaps your shoulder*
I'm not that innocent. I'm a b3tan.
*takes pride*
(Poppet some assembly required., Tue 30 Nov 2010, 17:51, Reply)

Gadzooks!
*drops monocle*
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 17:53, Reply)

I know. Shocking, right?

(Poppet some assembly required., Tue 30 Nov 2010, 17:54, Reply)

By Jove, I should say
*polishes monocle*
*re-stokes pipe*
*believes this will cover up inability to think of anything to say*
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 17:59, Reply)

She is NOT innocent
Hello to the both of you. Homemade pizza is now in the oven. It will be delicious.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 17:54, Reply)

Hahaha, I was waiting for you to get back with something like that.
Yummy. What've you got on it?
(Poppet some assembly required., Tue 30 Nov 2010, 17:56, Reply)

As I am a simple soul
just mozzarella, oregano, basil, and herbes de provence. Made the dough myself though yesterday, it's nicely rested.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 17:56, Reply)

that sounds lovely.

(Poppet some assembly required., Tue 30 Nov 2010, 17:59, Reply)

Oh it is.
How's Brighton? Are you still there? Describe your feelings towards your father?
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 18:01, Reply)

why would I describe my feelings towards my father?
they're quite benevolent anyway. He's been really good about this trip. Much better then my mother has been.
Brighton is lovely. Very cold, but it's snowed, I walked all through it, and I'm here until some time tomorrow where I go a bit up the road.
(Poppet some assembly required., Tue 30 Nov 2010, 18:03, Reply)

Standard Bert-check - if you'd answered "lustful," we'd have been suspicious.

(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 18:06, Reply)

It was just the constant stream of questions
and "tell me about your mother" etc is one of those standard ones. Where to next?
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 18:06, Reply)

just up the road to Seaford - staying with a family I know through another website there.
Apparently they've had much more snow then brighton.
(Poppet some assembly required., Tue 30 Nov 2010, 18:15, Reply)

On the whole, it's been an alright day.
Haven't got quite as far as I'd hoped, but I've solved one of the problems and that makes me feel like I've achieved something. Also chuckled at the thought of student demonstrators potentially being kettled in the middle of one of the snowstorms, liked the misanthropic git I am.
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 17:46, Reply)

busy day, but curry on the way!
yay!
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 17:53, Reply)

I'm having vege bolognese for tea tonight.
nom nom nom
(Poppet some assembly required., Tue 30 Nov 2010, 17:55, Reply)

hungry and cold right now
them dudes at the curry house better get a move on
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 18:15, Reply)

i miss my 6 mile walk home
stupid cold weather.

i was going to say "you need ass-toning trainers, they are really comfortable to walk in, AND they tone your ass and legs." but then i thought that you probably DON'T need them, not even a little bit!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 17:56, Reply)

I could imagine they'd be well slippy in this weather
I'll be wearing my many pairs of Docs for the foreseeable future.

How goes it, Swipe?
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 17:57, Reply)

i very very nearly did the splits on the wet tube floor this morning
i can't do the splits :(

all good, just working til 7.30, then the gym til 10.30... ugh! how about you??
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 18:08, Reply)

ahaha I don't know if I need them or not. I'm not particularly fit but I can do 6 miles relatively comfortably if I'm walking.
I'm wearing my fuckoff sexy boots. :D
(Poppet some assembly required., Tue 30 Nov 2010, 17:58, Reply)

You can't walk upstairs very well. I know this.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 18:01, Reply)

Shut up.
No one needs to know that.
(Poppet some assembly required., Tue 30 Nov 2010, 18:04, Reply)

How is she downstairs?
Wait, that sounds dirty.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 19:01, Reply)

6 mile walk and the gym?
Mental.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 18:05, Reply)

I loathe the gym. I've never been.

(Poppet some assembly required., Tue 30 Nov 2010, 18:07, Reply)

i keep avoiding it
and I am all too aware that it's making me fatter and poorer
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 18:16, Reply)

How is not going to the gym making you poorer?

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 18:16, Reply)

well if I pay for it and don't go
I am throwing money away
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 18:25, Reply)

Well cancel the membership
And find a gym that'll let you pay by the session.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 18:28, Reply)

this one will
but the subs make sure I will actually go. In theory
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 18:29, Reply)

But the theory is flawed
There are going to be loads of people who pay membership and never go. If everyone did go, the gym probably wouldn't be able to cope with the demand.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 18:30, Reply)

it's not massively expensive, it's the local council one

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 18:31, Reply)

You really don't have to give me any justification.
Why?

Because I don't care that much, that's why.

Tell me something interesting.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 18:33, Reply)

i have most delicious curry in front of me
and I intend to eat every last bit

may not be that interesting to you, but it's certainly the thing in the forefront of my mind.

You tell me something interesting
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 18:34, Reply)

I'm left handed.

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 18:34, Reply)

no way
I'm ambisinistrous
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 18:35, Reply)

Crazy isn't it?
You've got Beadle hands.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 18:36, Reply)

aww
curry 1, crunchy 0

guess some of that's for breakfast
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 18:40, Reply)

How did you lose to a curry?

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 18:41, Reply)

it was a lot of curry

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 18:42, Reply)

*Is going to try and be really good and not turn this into the usual pun-down*
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 18:43, Reply)

I'm glad to hear that.

( girlinthehole, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 18:44, Reply)

too full of curry to think

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 18:46, Reply)

mental necessary
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 18:25, Reply)

How you bought any more home exercise equipment recently?

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 18:27, Reply)

It's been okay
I still have drinks and possibly clubbing to come tonight though :(
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 18:05, Reply)

Maybe just pass on them?

(Poppet some assembly required., Tue 30 Nov 2010, 18:11, Reply)

nah I organised and am hosting the drinks
and have promised to go out
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 18:11, Reply)

I've had a lovely day.
Been to the dentist and didn't need lots of scrapey scratchy digging about and I have new bras.
( girlinthehole, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 18:38, Reply)

So it's all about the teeth and tits today?

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 18:39, Reply)

kinky

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 18:39, Reply)

My only redeeming features need to be looked after.

( girlinthehole, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 18:40, Reply)

I'm sure they're not your ONLY redeeming features

(Poppet some assembly required., Tue 30 Nov 2010, 18:46, Reply)

Evening Poppet!
Glad you got your snow!

We had a "Team Building" day at another site, it was actually not that bad. Some games to edumacate us about teamwork, one of which was really weird, a canteen lunch, and lots of feedback about improving the team experience.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 18:55, Reply)

what was the weird game??? details?
thank you! I'm loving it. I really am. I took a photo of the snowflakes on my arm only to realise that one of the flakes looked like a Bunny. Not even kidding.
oi52.tinypic.com/2mxo6xd.jpg
see?? I circled it an all.
(Poppet some assembly required., Tue 30 Nov 2010, 18:56, Reply)

Oh yeah
I forgot to mention it before, but I was surprised you sounded so Australian. I have no idea why!
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 19:01, Reply)

ahahaha, really?? I wasn't aware that I had one!
and by one, I mean a discernible accent to another person's ears.
(Poppet some assembly required., Tue 30 Nov 2010, 19:05, Reply)

guess you never hear your own accent
I can't hear myself as having one. But yeah I think I was expecting Chase off House's accent, but it was really strong
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 19:07, Reply)

ahaa sorry if it was a bit impenetrable.

(Poppet some assembly required., Tue 30 Nov 2010, 19:11, Reply)

It briefly looked like a bunny but the more I looked the more it looked like a dog
/jeff

The weird game was we divided into two teams of 5 and 2 lined up opposite 3. Everybody stuck out an index finger horizontally and face-up and a stick was laid across them. The object of the game is to lower the stick to the ground without anyone's finger losing contact with the stick.

Sounds easy, is actually tremendously hard. After we'd almost got to the point of "WHICH OF YOU BASTARDS KEEPS MOVING IT UP" we were told the name of the game is "floaty sticks".

The rule about keeping contact with the stick means that everyone is exerting a tiny upward pressure on it, and the slightest deviation means that someone's finger leaves the stick, so they move their finger up to touch the stick again which moves it up a bit more and so on.

To get it down you have to constantly talk about moving it downwards, which for some reason works.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 19:08, Reply)

ooo
I really want to try this now
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 19:09, Reply)

I KNO RITE
I can't wait to unleash it on a roomful of drunks.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 19:11, Reply)

that's hilariously mean.

(Poppet some assembly required., Tue 30 Nov 2010, 19:12, Reply)

hilarious being the important bit

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 19:13, Reply)

It really does seem to have a mind of it's own
You'd think holding your finger steady wouldn't be that hard, but it bloody is.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 19:24, Reply)