We can't make it! We're at a wedding. Bugger :'(
Ps daps we don't know yet. We can't party with out the sofa but the sofa is not here yet... Sploat, Inc thanks you for your interest though
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We can't make it! We're at a wedding. Bugger :'(
Ps daps we don't know yet. We can't party with out the sofa but the sofa is not here yet... Sploat, Inc thanks you for your interest though
Musha_Soturi
Member
Ah well I definitely can't do that. That's the day me and Andy are going to the Secret Cinema Back to the Future thing. Have a blast though!
Sploat, keep me informed as to when yours is likely to be
NinjaBoiX
Member
He's not that bad! It's my brother by the way, tread lightly.
#injoke
Fuck that Steve, you're penned in now bruv.
So that's another one for the permanent marker, excellent.
Boo!We can't make it! We're at a wedding. Bugger :'(
Ps daps we don't know yet. We can't party with out the sofa but the sofa is not here yet... Sploat, Inc thanks you for your interest though
Boo!Ah well I definitely can't do that. That's the day me and Andy are going to the Secret Cinema Back to the Future thing. Have a blast though!
Sploat, keep me informed as to when yours is likely to be
(This is an acceptable reason.)
dapperbandit
Banned
The thunder and lightning down here was a good alarm clock. Not a fan of the whole "oh god it's too hot my bedding is clinging to me" thing though.
Jedeye Sniv
Banned
4h 35 on the train, £42... hmmmmm. Tempting!
NinjaBoiX
Member
Don't toy with me Sniv. We can spoon bro, I'm an awesome big spoon.
It's wonderfully phonetic for those unfamiliar with the correct pronunciation.
Jedeye Sniv
Banned
maybe maybe. If I can convince some more people to make the epic trek with me then it might be more likely
never been to manchester though, would be nice.dapperbandit
Banned
We shall see.
Also Jed, you'd enjoy that thread on Siberian craters if you haven't been there already. Great tin foil hat material.
Also Jed, you'd enjoy that thread on Siberian craters if you haven't been there already. Great tin foil hat material.
Musha_Soturi
Member
Quiet today. Don't tell me everyone's working hard?
NinjaBoiX
Member
Day off Soturi. Picked up some stock, helped set up for service and had a primo brekkie but other than that, just been hanging around the house doing chores, had a quick workout and bopped to some tunes.
Just getting some food shopping in with the bro now, then having a little cocktail practice (mojito's ahoy), cooking some Thai green curry and watching a flick.
Early night for busy day tomorrow, that's about all that's fit to print.
Just getting some food shopping in with the bro now, then having a little cocktail practice (mojito's ahoy), cooking some Thai green curry and watching a flick.
Early night for busy day tomorrow, that's about all that's fit to print.
QuicheFontaine
Member
I will have one too if you're making a pitcher. Mojito is the best cocktail by miles.
Screaming Meat
Unconfirmed Member
dapperbandit
Banned
My day has been shocking and traumatic. The lightning this morning cut the power to my desk and others around it so i had to move ten feet away and sit somewhere else. This took some time and twenty minutes after I finished plugging all my toot back in the power was back, at which point I couldn't be bothered.
Sitting in a new space with subtly different ambient sound and different things going on in my peripheral vision has been an interesting experience. In this new place, time seems to flow at a hitherto unseen speed. I cannot believe it's almost four o'clock.
Now I don't know whether or not to move all my stuff back. I think I'll have to. I have a drawer of doom full of unfinished shite that just isn't going to get cleared up before I go at the end of August. I pity the person who has to go through my working folder in the months after I leave.
Watched an interesting film last night called Find Me Guilty. True story about a high profile legal case against a whole Mafia family and their affiliates. One of the high up guys in the family, Jackie Dinorscio (played by Vin Diesel), decides to forgo an attourney and acts as his own defence lawyer, meaning he has to cross examine witnesses, including the prosectution's star witness, Jackie's cousin who fled to the FBI after he failed to assassinate Jackie.
Thought Vin Diesel was very good.
MINOR GoT SPOILERS AHEAD
Anyway, enjoyable if you like court room dramas.
/stream of consciousness
Sitting in a new space with subtly different ambient sound and different things going on in my peripheral vision has been an interesting experience. In this new place, time seems to flow at a hitherto unseen speed. I cannot believe it's almost four o'clock.
Now I don't know whether or not to move all my stuff back. I think I'll have to. I have a drawer of doom full of unfinished shite that just isn't going to get cleared up before I go at the end of August. I pity the person who has to go through my working folder in the months after I leave.
Watched an interesting film last night called Find Me Guilty. True story about a high profile legal case against a whole Mafia family and their affiliates. One of the high up guys in the family, Jackie Dinorscio (played by Vin Diesel), decides to forgo an attourney and acts as his own defence lawyer, meaning he has to cross examine witnesses, including the prosectution's star witness, Jackie's cousin who fled to the FBI after he failed to assassinate Jackie.
Thought Vin Diesel was very good.
MINOR GoT SPOILERS AHEAD
Peter Dinklage also turned up as a defence lawyer. Very odd to see him in a court room again, I wonder whether the film had any influence on him being cast as Tyrion.
Anyway, enjoyable if you like court room dramas.
/stream of consciousness
NinjaBoiX
Member
Picking up the ingredients for cocktail night, just asked an assistant where to find the ice, she points nonchalantly in the vague direction of half the store and says:
"Over there in the freezers."
No shit Sherlock, don't go out of your way of anything!
Note: quality and structural integrity can not be guaranteed.
"Over there in the freezers."
No shit Sherlock, don't go out of your way of anything!
No probs guys, I'll be a whizz by the end of the night.
Note: quality and structural integrity can not be guaranteed.
lol
dapperbandit
Banned
Just got in.
Was walking home in the rain, all enigmatic and shit with my black leather jacket and black suit trousers and smart pointy shoes, my hair slightly wet and cool looking because of the precipitation. I'm listening to this on my MP3 player.
I live near a school and I walk past a bus stop currently sheltering some youths between 12 and 14 years old. I'm minding my business when this bespectacled girl waves at me. Walking at such a pace, my momentum carries me past the girl before I can stop and investigate.
I turn around and pull out one earphone and look quizzical. "Hi" she says. I scan the faces of the youths and they all look sheepish and vacant. "Did you want something?" I ask. The girl looks confused and says no. "Well...hi" I say before continuing my march home feeling confused and vaguely affronted myself.
Perhaps the girl mistook me for someone else? She required glasses after all, perhaps her eyesight was not so good. I certainly had never seen these particular kids and I'm good at faces. Perhaps she had been dared to greet me by the other kids. Least likely of all is the possibility she was just being friendly. This "say hello to a stranger" thing is more commonly seen on the continent, it's usually a "bonjour".
I'm still puzzled.
Fucking kids and their mind games.
Was walking home in the rain, all enigmatic and shit with my black leather jacket and black suit trousers and smart pointy shoes, my hair slightly wet and cool looking because of the precipitation. I'm listening to this on my MP3 player.
I live near a school and I walk past a bus stop currently sheltering some youths between 12 and 14 years old. I'm minding my business when this bespectacled girl waves at me. Walking at such a pace, my momentum carries me past the girl before I can stop and investigate.
I turn around and pull out one earphone and look quizzical. "Hi" she says. I scan the faces of the youths and they all look sheepish and vacant. "Did you want something?" I ask. The girl looks confused and says no. "Well...hi" I say before continuing my march home feeling confused and vaguely affronted myself.
Perhaps the girl mistook me for someone else? She required glasses after all, perhaps her eyesight was not so good. I certainly had never seen these particular kids and I'm good at faces. Perhaps she had been dared to greet me by the other kids. Least likely of all is the possibility she was just being friendly. This "say hello to a stranger" thing is more commonly seen on the continent, it's usually a "bonjour".
I'm still puzzled.
Fucking kids and their mind games.
Messofanego
Banned
I've had something weirder on buses. A teen girl sat next to me and asked something ridiculous like "do you like me? do you think I'm hot?". I was like 20 at the time. Trollbait right there. I just respond with "uhh who are you? What do you want?" then they go back to sit with their friends, giggling. Don't ever take the question seriously if this ever comes up, kids just like this dare kind of uncomfortable crap.
Fuck me. Just casually singing a nursery rhyme to the kiddo. Minding my own business as I deftly wove a tale of money, rye, and a damned good cake. There we were, enjoying a peek into the life of a monarch long-passed, when this fucking blackbird comes down, and pecks the nose off the most vulnerable member of the household: the maid. Pecks her fucking nose off.
Well, me and the kid are shaken. There's no follow up to the story* so I have no idea if the maid continued to be employed by the king and queen. I'm thinking that her horrific disfigurement will leave her facing all manner of discrimination and almost certainly unemployed, but I don't really want to burden a kid of less than five months with such gruesome truths.
It pecked her fucking nose off. This blackbird just swept down out of nowhere and avenged his two dozen cousins by striking at the weak and defenceless maid as she went about her daily business. Not the gluttonous king that had inspired the creation of the avian-apocalypse pastry, no. He's still sitting on the throne waiting for someone to bring him a puffin-spunk latte.
Jesus, this has been utterly harrowing. No wonder we abolished the sixpence.
*well, no real follow up, anyway. There are two conflicting stories, each of which is clearly fabricated:
The blackbird pecked her nose off. It didn't neatly remove it with a scalpel. You ain't sowing shit, or should I say, guano?
Amateur hour cover up job. Jokers.
Well, me and the kid are shaken. There's no follow up to the story* so I have no idea if the maid continued to be employed by the king and queen. I'm thinking that her horrific disfigurement will leave her facing all manner of discrimination and almost certainly unemployed, but I don't really want to burden a kid of less than five months with such gruesome truths.
It pecked her fucking nose off. This blackbird just swept down out of nowhere and avenged his two dozen cousins by striking at the weak and defenceless maid as she went about her daily business. Not the gluttonous king that had inspired the creation of the avian-apocalypse pastry, no. He's still sitting on the throne waiting for someone to bring him a puffin-spunk latte.
Jesus, this has been utterly harrowing. No wonder we abolished the sixpence.
*well, no real follow up, anyway. There are two conflicting stories, each of which is clearly fabricated:
Oh, fuck off. A bird can't simply replace a nose in such a manner. Even if we were dealing with a human...Witness 'A' said:
Objection. Bollocks. You're lying.Witness 'B' said:
The blackbird pecked her nose off. It didn't neatly remove it with a scalpel. You ain't sowing shit, or should I say, guano?
Amateur hour cover up job. Jokers.
Even having lived over here for years I still can't get comfortable doing that. I usually avoid the gaze of strangers until they pass then mumble "Gruezi".
NinjaBoiX
Member
It turns out most of the cool people can't turn up on the 23rd August so I'm delaying the meet by a few weeks. It'll be some time in September now, probably nearer the start so as not to coincide with the main meet.
Deets to follow. If you can, let me know when would be better for you guys and I'll try and accommodate as many peeps as possible.
Deets to follow. If you can, let me know when would be better for you guys and I'll try and accommodate as many peeps as possible.
It's Vegetation Week (TM) so I'm usually splayed out on some bean bags and reaching for the computer requires Effort. Also, still drinking and drink + heat means -energy. It's too hot for Things!
That's real stuff, that is. If I ever had to move desk I'd probably move firms. I have a great seat with two decent window views and nice neighbours. I like my area. I don't have total coverage if I want to go on the internet during work hours (i.e. there are people sat behind me) but I'm only on one row of desks (i.e. only 2 other people, who are very nice, in my neighbourhood).
Just got in.
Was walking home in the rain, all enigmatic and shit with my black leather jacket and black suit trousers and smart pointy shoes, my hair slightly wet and cool looking because of the precipitation. I'm listening to this on my MP3 player.
I live near a school and I walk past a bus stop currently sheltering some youths between 12 and 14 years old. I'm minding my business when this bespectacled girl waves at me. Walking at such a pace, my momentum carries me past the girl before I can stop and investigate.
I turn around and pull out one earphone and look quizzical. "Hi" she says. I scan the faces of the youths and they all look sheepish and vacant. "Did you want something?" I ask. The girl looks confused and says no. "Well...hi" I say before continuing my march home feeling confused and vaguely affronted myself.
Perhaps the girl mistook me for someone else? She required glasses after all, perhaps her eyesight was not so good. I certainly had never seen these particular kids and I'm good at faces. Perhaps she had been dared to greet me by the other kids. Least likely of all is the possibility she was just being friendly. This "say hello to a stranger" thing is more commonly seen on the continent, it's usually a "bonjour".
I'm still puzzled.
Fucking kids and their mind games.
Children! We once went into a local newsagents and said "We like Guinness!" together and walked out, because, you know, we were dared to and it was hillaaaarious.
I do not understand this. At first I thought that a blackbird had attacked your child! Then I re-read it and realised it was a nursery rhyme. Then read it again and wondered whether a blackbird attacked a toy maid. In my mind's eye you were performing the story with tiny hay figurines and a blackbird came down and took away the maid.
Depending on the date, I might be able to show up. Since I'm moving in early September as well so it might clash with my move. I'll let you know soon.
dapperbandit
Banned
Fairy tales and whatnot are creepy shit.
Somehow we still tell stories to kids about a cannibal child eating witch or that time a blonde girl got ripped to shreds by bears that eat porridge and sleep in beds.
Somehow we still tell stories to kids about a cannibal child eating witch or that time a blonde girl got ripped to shreds by bears that eat porridge and sleep in beds.
Are you not familiar with t'nursery rhyme 'Sing a Song of Sixpence'?
I've spoiled the ending so I can give a graphic violence trigger warning to those of a sensitive nature. Birds fight dirty.
It's a classic 'bird mutilates maid' tale.
Musha_Soturi
Member
I can't help on the job or room front, but I can take you for a beer?
The only paper I read is the Metro. Because it's free.
JonathanEx
Member
Here's what you need to know in one video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGscoaUWW2M
In summary...
Tabloids tend to manipulate stories, can be a bit sexist/racist etc depending on the title, but can be entertaining reads at times.
The Sun - Good if you're a fan of breasts alongside news about death, Bad if you're a fan of not lying about why people die in major tragedies.
Daily Mirror - Better than it used to be. Left wing tabloid, sadly responsible for Piers Morgan. Their parent company is doing good stuff like Us Vs Th3m, but are likely due being pulled in to phonehacking.
The Guardian - Lefty quinola obsessed and enemy of the British state. And the rest of the media. Don't go on Comment is Free online if you value your sanity. Love a liveblog.
The Telegraph - Incredibly Tory, incredibly whiny.
The Times - Think they're more important than they probably are. Good investigations on Sundays, because for historical reasons all are papers are different on Sundays. Tory. Wordy.
Daily Express - Diana/Weather/Xenophonia
Daily Star - The latest on Big Brother, lies and bullshit
Sunday Sport - Not a newspaper but a remarkable weekly work of horrific fiction.
Metro - It's free. PR guff mainly but free.
The Independent - Like a more worthy version of The Guardian. Will do a front page with a black and white photo and the word "DEVASTATION" like it's an amazing statement every other day. Despite being about WHAT REALLY MATTERS, online they're shit clickbait.
The I - Like the Independent, but with some stuffyness taken out. Nothing is longer than 200 words. So, Twitter when you don't have an internet connection.
Edit: I wrote loads more than I expected to there. I tend to read the Graudiad online. (The Guardian is famous for not being able to spell for shit historically)
Blimey!
No, I missed out on most nursery rhymes etc. My parents were slightly...um...different...
I like the Graun too, mostly out of habit. Keith Stuart is a good games journalist and there are occasionally bits by Cara Ellison and Keza MacDonald that are good, although they only come along once every month or so.
You also missed out the Daily Mail!
Daily Mail - reactionary guff for people who buy Prince George souvenir plates. Incredibly fearful of anything un-British and wishes that we lived in a country ruled by Blackshirts. If you are even slightly gay, have any other skin colour than milky Aryan white or look a bit different, you should generally be careful of people reading the Mail as they are basically fascists who dream of a perfect Stepford Wives world. Basically, you should hate the Mail. It's putrid, vile and weeps the pus of wilful ignorance from every rancid, tumescent orifice. If you see anybody reading it, even a beloved family member, you should take a wrench to their head until they are no longer able to read again.
And The Daily Mail is that bad you missed it out completely.
JonathanEx
Member
How the fuck did I miss the Daily Mail, I made some viral crap making fun of it!
Well, good descriptions by others, but for completion's sake...
Daily Mail: Everything gives you cancer, has a moral wagging finger to everything, editor Paul Dacre is a cunt. Online version contradicts all those morals, exclusively written by celeb obsessed perverts. When not ripping off content from others.
Well, good descriptions by others, but for completion's sake...
Daily Mail: Everything gives you cancer, has a moral wagging finger to everything, editor Paul Dacre is a cunt. Online version contradicts all those morals, exclusively written by celeb obsessed perverts. When not ripping off content from others.
There was an image with a collage of headlines from the Daily Mail (I think) about what gave you/could prevent cancer and I can't find it. I'm pretty sure they contradicted themselves on one of them.
Also, the comments section of their site is so awful, but sometimes it's hard not to look at them.
Also, the comments section of their site is so awful, but sometimes it's hard not to look at them.
JonathanEx
Member
Comprehensive guide to KILL OR CURE, the Daily Mail cancer game! http://kill-or-cure.herokuapp.com/
I forgot about this, yeah, that's a lot.
Messofanego
Banned
Obligatory Daily Mail video: Why the Daily Mail is evil
Jedeye Sniv
Banned
I like that the women's section of the Mail (and the website) is so horrifically misogynistic that I think women reading it is akin to self harm. Awful awful thing.
Haha, just did a search for Suri Cruise on their site and they're still talking about her.
Messofanego
Banned
Musha_Soturi
Member
Yes, last weekend in September, after Eurogamer on the Saturday. Details to be confirmed but thread will probably be up in a few weeks
NinjaBoiX
Member
So 23rd August was a bust, most of the out of towners couldn't come, and as it's easier for the Mancs to fit in just popping into town for a few beers it seems fair that we try and fit around them. That being the case, it seems the following week (30th August) might be better.
How does that sit with peeps?
How does that sit with peeps?
It's not a bad video, but I would've preferred it to be a bit more rigorous and less preaching to the converted. More discipline!!!
I sometimes see the secretaries reading it. I cannot understand.
That should work for us.
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Today we are going to Slattery's, which is supposedly a Manchester institution and makes the finest cakes in all of Albion. I am going to don my cake-tasting hat and will report back.
Now that actually is my wedding.
So count me in.
Jen's Aunt is a chocolatier there, so go easy with your review
Oh and they are pretty good, do cakes for footballers weddings / birthdays and we are getting our wedding cake for free from them...
Musha_Soturi
Member
Good for me
NinjaBoiX
Member
So Steve can't make it, boo!
But sploatee and Musha can, yay!
I think jimbor is busy until the middle of Sept, so he might just be a write off anyway.
Mike, Jed, Daps, whoever else, what say you?
It's just a case of getting the most people accommodated as possible, I'm never going to be able to get everyone sorted unfortunately.
But sploatee and Musha can, yay!
I think jimbor is busy until the middle of Sept, so he might just be a write off anyway.
Mike, Jed, Daps, whoever else, what say you?
It's just a case of getting the most people accommodated as possible, I'm never going to be able to get everyone sorted unfortunately.
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