thanks man
Yeah, I guess maybe it's the loneliness kicking in. I've been on my own in this house since just after christmas. First time in 7 years this has happened.
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thanks man
Yeah, I guess maybe it's the loneliness kicking in. I've been on my own in this house since just after christmas. First time in 7 years this has happened.
Deaf Spacker
Memb
Didn't you get back with the mother of your child after you shagged your work colleague or did you realise that it was a shit decision?
Morning BritGAF!
Morning! My boss is off to BETT today (I'm going tomorrow - there's 4 of us in the department so 2 are going today and the other 2 tomorrow, so that it's not completely unmanned in our absence).
Screaming Meat
Unconfirmed Member
What company do you work for? The guys I work for usually sponsor the lounge.
EDIT: The best part of BETT? Loads of free pens!
We never did.
Jedeye Sniv
Banned
Penelope is a sexy name. All those syllables. hmmmm
That's half the reason that Rosie Huntington-Whitely makes me pop a boner.
The other half being that she's fucking fit.
Screaming Meat
Unconfirmed Member
How about Persephone, does that fill your thermometer?
Jedeye Sniv
Banned
I don't know what she looks like but dang that is a sexy name. Double barrelled, got an embedded 'ing' sound, the cuteness of the 'ie' on Rosie...
Yes.
Jedeye Sniv
Banned
Issa bit poncey innit? Crossed that fine line into horsefaced or bad-stripper territory
She looks like her name sounds. Google her and bask in beauty.
Persephone sounds like it should be sexy, but all I hear when I see that name is Homer Simpson's brother yelling about how "people don't want their cars named after hungry Greek broads."
Deaf Spacker
Memb
Fair enough, I could have sworn that you posted saying you'd got back with her.
Today is payday, praise the heavens.
Musha_Soturi
Member
Morning you lovely bunch of cunts
Double barrelled does not always equal sexy name. There's a reason I changed mine.
So, it's Thursday, the weekend is just around the corner, and I feel like putting up the question a day earlier.
What's everyone's plans for the weekend?
Tomorrow after work I'm going for a few drinks with Qasiel and a few other friends. Saturday will be mainly spent packing, probably popping out to get a few last minute things, then cooking a lovely dinner for 5 of us that are going on hols - I'm thinking Cottage Pie. Sunday will be getting up and leaving the house at 2am, get to the airport for 4am, on the plane at 7am and land in Spain about midday for a 3 hour coach ride to Andorra.
Double barrelled does not always equal sexy name. There's a reason I changed mine.
So, it's Thursday, the weekend is just around the corner, and I feel like putting up the question a day earlier.
What's everyone's plans for the weekend?
Tomorrow after work I'm going for a few drinks with Qasiel and a few other friends. Saturday will be mainly spent packing, probably popping out to get a few last minute things, then cooking a lovely dinner for 5 of us that are going on hols - I'm thinking Cottage Pie. Sunday will be getting up and leaving the house at 2am, get to the airport for 4am, on the plane at 7am and land in Spain about midday for a 3 hour coach ride to Andorra.
Screaming Meat
Unconfirmed Member
Hahaha! Penelope doesn't though...?
Ha! I read that in DeVito's voice, too.
Jedeye Sniv
Banned
Disappointingly skinny. With that name I was imagining darker hair and slightly more jubbly, like a young Nigella.
Imaginary girls are always super hot.
What company do you work for? The guys I work for usually sponsor the lounge.
EDIT: The best part of BETT? Loads of free pens!
Oh, we're not exhibitors, we're the other lot - I work for Long Road Sixth Form College in the ITServices Department.
And yeah I'm looking forward to the free pens
Jedeye Sniv
Banned
You got a pretty sexy name though.
My weekend is precisely fuck all apart from band practice. Absolutely no money, so saturday will be spent playing Baldur's Gate 2 on my iPad (this month's crippling addiction) followed by Netflix binging and finishing off the christmas beer.
Actually that's not a bad weekend, I ain't even complaining.
Oh dear, point taken. I bet she was still enthusiastic though.
German Jen...hhhhhhhhhhnnnnnnnnnnnnnngggggggggg
Screaming Meat
Unconfirmed Member
NAY!
Oh, we're not exhibitors, we're the other lot - I work for Long Road Sixth Form College in the ITServices Department.
And yeah I'm looking forward to the free pens
Aaaah, right you are. We're natural enemies then!
NinjaBoiX
Member
Yup, too slim. She's is super pretty, but I like a bit more meat on the bones. But she models underwear, so I guess she has to keep a close eye on her figure.
That Hayley Williams bird wants to get a few burgers in her these days too, she looks better with a bit more chub, it accentuates the cute.
My pal is eventually moving out of his missus' place on Saturday, so there is a leaving do tomorrow night (it's not like it sounds, they've been split up about a year and have been on good grounds ever since) and combined welcome do for her insanely hot new French housemate.
Then Saturday/Sunday just dull shit, gym, parents, maybe a bit of shopping and vidya games. Possibly go to the flicks too, see if people fancy it.
Death probably. Baseball nightout on Saturday and I'm a fresh meat noob...pray for me Britgaf.
Today I'm going mad for that Skrillex track from Far Cry 3 (Make It Bun Dem). Can't play it loud enough.
Aye, she is that. I tend to look at her from the neck up, and imagine the rest.
This is true.
Not too much. Just starting my 4-day weekend now by going to bed. Got studying, website management and a meal out tonight. Tomorrow is gym/swimming, then a mooch around London before drinks with Musha and friends, then the weekend will be spent (hopefully) longboarding, cinema-going and generally chilling out before a bitch of a week at work next week.
I'm job hunting on Saturday, got a few close friends round on Saturday night for drinks and videogames, then taking the little one to see Frozen on Sunday.
Aaaah, right you are. We're natural enemies then!
I do have influence with the budget holder's purchasing though! So it's important to convince me to buy your
Screaming Meat
Unconfirmed Member
Sadly, tomato-less this time...
Family day Saturday, so I think we're hooking up with a couple of friends to swap baby war stories and act adult. Sunday is band practice day. We're very nearly gig-worthy but need a couple more tunes under our belts. Interestingly, we have access to the CCTV where we practice, so we may record an impromptu live performance. I got a snap shot last week of what it looks like and it's pretty mint.
I do have influence with the budget holder's purchasing though! So it's important to convince me to buy yourshitfine products!
You were right the first time! I'll let you know if we get anything good in, though
Jedeye Sniv
Banned
Sadly, tomato-less this time...
Family day Saturday, so I think we're hooking up with a couple of friends to swap baby war stories and act adult. Sunday is band practice day. We're very nearly gig-worthy but need a couple more tunes under our belts. Interestingly, we have access to the CCTV where we practice, so we may record an impromptu live performance. I got a snap shot last week of what it looks like and it's pretty mint.
You were right the first time! I'll let you know if we get anything good in, though
That sounds cool man, looking forward to hearing some recordings once you're up and running. We shall have to play together at some point this year.
Screaming Meat
Unconfirmed Member
T'would be an honour. Looking forward to hearing your new shizzle.
sorry if this has been covered before, but I'm not in here very often.
Is it just me, or are referendums/da a stupid idea for crucial matters that impact everyone?
i.e the Scotland independence one, and the upcoming 'should we stay in europe?' one.
Both will surely be voted on primarily based on heart/gut instinct and feelings, and a lot of the detail of the practical implications will be mostly ignored.
As much as someone from Scotland might want to be independent, they may not fully understand what that will mean economically etc. And it doesn't just impact Scotland either - how come the rest of the UK doesn't get to vote?
Same with Europe - we're a naturally sceptical population but if we really did drop out of Europe we'd be fucked. Yet people will be going in to vote with the likes of the Daily Mail scaring them about how straight bananas will be if those crazies in Brussels get their way.
Some things - like gay marriage etc - work with referenda. More complex problems don't IMO
Is it just me, or are referendums/da a stupid idea for crucial matters that impact everyone?
i.e the Scotland independence one, and the upcoming 'should we stay in europe?' one.
Both will surely be voted on primarily based on heart/gut instinct and feelings, and a lot of the detail of the practical implications will be mostly ignored.
As much as someone from Scotland might want to be independent, they may not fully understand what that will mean economically etc. And it doesn't just impact Scotland either - how come the rest of the UK doesn't get to vote?
Same with Europe - we're a naturally sceptical population but if we really did drop out of Europe we'd be fucked. Yet people will be going in to vote with the likes of the Daily Mail scaring them about how straight bananas will be if those crazies in Brussels get their way.
Some things - like gay marriage etc - work with referenda. More complex problems don't IMO
Jedeye Sniv
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Yes I agree. The problem is that by and large the public is pretty stupid. And also, the people with the more extreme views are the ones who will probably vote in larger numbers. I'm fairly agnostic about europe but I think you need a hell of a lot of data to even know what goes on over there. Most people I know who are anti-Europe are usually coming at it from a slightly xenophobic level of patriotism. When really, Europe affects British people minimally while still being an important force in trade and politics.
My weekend: get home from Scotland, pick Z up from the station, hang out with her and Kev on Friday night, I'm doing some private work for a few hours on Saturday before a big night in with some movies and alcohol then meeting her mum and brother on Sunday for a pub lunch.
I'm also quitting smoking this weekend.
I'm also quitting smoking this weekend.
Jedeye Sniv
Banned
Oooh good luck. I'll be cutting down/not smoking much next month due to being skint as fuck. My least favourite reason to stop.
You can do it man.
I personally found that the whole point of getting over an addiction is not how far you can go without addictive item but how long you can get off it and keep it up. Usually I'd be like "Can I go without X for two weeks? Course I can!" and then two weeks later I accomplish it and then think "Well, that's me done 2 weeks. Now what? Back to the habit I suppose". Whereas, if you just keep at it week after week you'll eventually get to the point where you know that if you go back to old habits you'll break a pretty good streak so that'll just encourage you to keep going. Plus, guilt will also play a bigger part.
NinjaBoiX
Member
Nice avatar Blink Me, I love that record!
I must stop man, it's disgusting, expensive and anti-social.
Very true shorty. I stopped for 6 months before, without a great deal of trouble. But then I started again (fuck knows why) out of the blue.
I must stop man, it's disgusting, expensive and anti-social.
Yeah that album basically influenced a whole genre. Would probably have never heard of them if blink didn't mention how much they loved them.
phisheep
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I'm in two minds about this.
First of all, if you think "the public is pretty stupid" then you're going to have a hard job defending democracy of any sort. So far as I can tell the public isn't as stupid as all that.
Second, and the really good thing about referenda, is it pushes the political class to actually state their argument clearly rather than doing it all behind closed doors.
But third, all those things that seem obvious now were not obvious at the time. If left to referenda we'd have probably have never had votes for women. abortion, legalised homosexuality or gay marriage, and we'd still have corporal and capital punishment. These things need some push from the centre, from a position of power and influence. And that might argue to the opposite side.
Referenda can work (they work all the time in Switzerland - they have referenda about everything).
But as for the rest of the UK having a say in Scottish independence? No way. How would that have played with Australia/Canada/New Zealand etc? Wrong answer.
Jedeye Sniv
Banned
I keep forgetting to watch it, I need to set a series link or something.
Also Big Brother is the best trash TV
I'm enjoying this year a lot, I think I have a crush on Louisa Zissman. Fit as fuck.I just love how picky the girls are then some absolute meat head comes on who looks like he suffers from severe roid rage and the girls are foaming at the gash. And also when they go on a date with the guy but admit that they didn't like him in the first place.
Screaming Meat
Unconfirmed Member
Does it involve a gaggle of desperate women, a handful of creepy men, a perpetually gurning host, and a psychopath in the lighting rig armed with a sniper rifle, who decides who lives and who dies based entirely on I-Ching?
'Cos that sounds amazing.
Jedeye Sniv
Banned
Phisheep, good points all. Here's some thoughts:
I fall back on the old truism - "A person is smart, but people are dangerously stupid"! And tbh yes, I really have very little faith in our democratic system and the people who run it. And the people who vote for it.
I mean yes, my statement is pretty typical Jed-hyperbole but I think the general public as a mass are incredibly reactionary, easily led and not particularly well informed at all. Most of the public could not even tell you who the leader of the opposition is. I like to think that I'm moderately intelligent, and I readily admit that I know next to nothing about Europe and how it works and the myriad of links between us and the continent. I know enough to know I don't know much at all. But damn, get stuck in a conversation with some anti-Euro zealot and you realise that they know very little too while believing they have all the answers.
Maybe, in order to vote in a referendum you should need to sit a quick quiz just to make sure you have some grasp of the issues? Should eliminate around 80% of the voters!
True, but do you think that many people are actually seeking out and joining in on these debates? In a lot of ways, I think the political classes are preaching to the choir. The people who watch newsnight and question time and read newspapers will be aware of the issues, but I think these people are sadly the minority in our country.
Really, I WISH that people were better educated on these things. I wish I was. Politics should be taught as a timetabled subject in schools, political discourse should be part of prime-time TV on the regular. If the general public was actually truly engaged in politics the country would be a very different place I think.
I fall back on the old truism - "A person is smart, but people are dangerously stupid"! And tbh yes, I really have very little faith in our democratic system and the people who run it. And the people who vote for it.
I mean yes, my statement is pretty typical Jed-hyperbole but I think the general public as a mass are incredibly reactionary, easily led and not particularly well informed at all. Most of the public could not even tell you who the leader of the opposition is. I like to think that I'm moderately intelligent, and I readily admit that I know next to nothing about Europe and how it works and the myriad of links between us and the continent. I know enough to know I don't know much at all. But damn, get stuck in a conversation with some anti-Euro zealot and you realise that they know very little too while believing they have all the answers.
Maybe, in order to vote in a referendum you should need to sit a quick quiz just to make sure you have some grasp of the issues? Should eliminate around 80% of the voters!
True, but do you think that many people are actually seeking out and joining in on these debates? In a lot of ways, I think the political classes are preaching to the choir. The people who watch newsnight and question time and read newspapers will be aware of the issues, but I think these people are sadly the minority in our country.
Really, I WISH that people were better educated on these things. I wish I was. Politics should be taught as a timetabled subject in schools, political discourse should be part of prime-time TV on the regular. If the general public was actually truly engaged in politics the country would be a very different place I think.
Deaf Spacker
Memb
Saturday I'm doing nothing at the moment but on Sunday the missus's sister and boyfriend are coming over, I imagine that we'll get Chinese at some point too.
dapperbandit
Banned
I've also quit smoking since something like the 7th of January. I had a few last weekend but that's because it's impossible for me not to smoke on a night out. Been off them since then.
Question for other quitters, people who have quit/tried to quit in the past: can paranoia be a side effect?
I'm getting over it slightly now but my head has been a really strange place the last week. You know when you make inconsequential eye contact with someone and you suddenly become convinced that person has been talking/plotting about you when you're not around? I've been getting that so much lately, from co workers, my managers, my housemates, I suddenly started worrying that they know something I don't and it's made me anxious about the longevity of my job. I'm a contractor and I've been here for over 9 months, the contract itself is a year but is renewable and from what my manager has said, it's much better to have a contractor stay on than spend 3 months training someone new.
So rationally, I know there's not a big issue. But that underlying feeling is really pervasive.
So, back to quitting smoking, if the paranoia is unrelated, then I can go back to the comforting reality that I'm just an unhinged person. If it is related, I shouldn't have to put up with it for much longer.
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