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14:32 / 12.06.06

Whistler: Maybe not, but it's far more fun to imagine that you would be able to perceive it, and how that might work.

Also, coffee. It's bean soup, really, isn't it?

Essential Dazzler

17:29 / 12.06.06

You're supposed to eat Pot Noodle with your mouth hovering an inch directly above the Pot and look like a bloody fool,James, not at arms length like proper food.

Ah Hubris, Ah stained Jeans.

dance margarita

18:16 / 12.06.06

every other person on myspace is friends with a girl from the american midwest called erin. none of the erins are the same, but of the erins at least 40% have karen o haircuts.

17:25 / 13.06.06

dance margarita is a very cool name.

14:59 / 15.06.06

If the Queen died would there be some sort of National Holiday of Mourning?
And would it be ethical to catalyze that so I could miss work?

17:26 / 15.06.06

why on earth did she not eat the chipoltle chocolate? True it had been half way around the world and back but it was perfectly good spicey dark chocolate. I mourn for you my long lost bar of smokey delight!
...and should I buy or make the wasabi chocolate?

22:54 / 15.06.06

Everyone loves a day off work regardless

Is it right to hate the mouses that populate your houses despite your best 'humane' efforts and just want to slaughter the lot of the irritable vermin?

foolish fat finger

22:28 / 05.07.06

I went to see gogol bordello last night. at one point, towards the end of the gig, during one of the songs, a guy climbed up on a speaker stack to stagedive. he was like, 20/25ft off the ground. he stood up there for ages, motioning for the crowd to close in and get ready to catch him. the singer, Eugene actually lost control of the gig at this point, something I have rarely seen. he made the visual signal for 'this guy is fucking nuts!' I was shouting 'no!' at the guy. he was either gonna kill himself, or seriously maim some other f*cker...

so then he jumped. he plummeted, it seemed like neck first, into the crowd. by the speed of him falling, I thought 'he's got a broken neck- he's dead'. but no, a few seconds later, he bobbed back up above the crowd, his fist raised in the air in triumph...

this morning as I was waking, I had a brief dream that I saw a car drive off a high cliff and onto the road below, in a bid for death... but when I looked at where the car would have landed there was nothing there... I wondered if the 2 things were related... anyway, I am mad at that guy for freaking me out...

foolish fat finger

10:29 / 06.07.06

If the Queen died would there be some sort of National Holiday of Mourning?
And would it be ethical to catalyze that so I could miss work?

princess swashbuckling, ethics aside, I think that if you were involved in a plot to off the head of state, you would get more than just a day off work...

I am just surmising here, so don't take this the wrong way, but I definitely get the impression that if you caused the death of the Queen, you would be found guilty of high treason, the penalty for which is that you get displayed in the stocks in the Royal docks for a week, with a goat strapped to your teeth, while peasants pelt you with rotting fruit, then you get hung, drawn and quartered, then dragged through the streets of old London town wearing a T-shirt that went out of fashion 3 years ago, they set fire to your smalls on national television, and finally throw you into a festering bog, while your name goes down in the history books forever as big bad villain number 3... (after guy fawkes and phil collins, obviously)

I mean, I am not saying 'don't do it', not at all, just that you might consider other methods of skipping work. phoning them and pretending to be ill often works I find...

21:11 / 03.08.06

I don't want the horrible soft drink. I want the actual Sprite.

22:49 / 03.08.06

maybe that weeping willow is crying with happiness

(i'm sorry it's so corny, but that's what i thought. it's starting to get green spring leaves)

23:04 / 03.08.06

Reading about the queen, I realize, there might be a market niche for some british royality cosplay. Just as charles likes to walk around in a kilt and his sons in uniforms, so non-royals could have a cosplay meet (like star trek or anime shows), where everyone can be dressed as anne, margaret, edward, diana, philip, corgy, donkey, riding teacher, the odd duchess or baron, sir ben kingsley, isaac newton, the what what king, victoria, wear charles clip on ears, and then they could papparazzi each other, suck on each others toes, divorce each other, duel, choose love instead of the throne, choose blue curacao instead of the red wine, etc.

People will spend their money on the weirdest things. This scheme could get us all rich.

23:13 / 03.08.06

It would be the richest field of play ever for a round of No-Talent Celebrity Tag.

18:20 / 04.08.06

I just re-read Preacher and there was a great page where he rants about what nonsense PC is for five panels, then stops and says "I gotta get laid."
Then I read Smax and found about a hundred minor characters from other comics, stories and stuff doing interesting things in the background (e.g. Stewie kidnapping Lisa Simpson, Luke Skywalker waiting in the quest permit line, even a version of Groo wandering the streets)
We had no electricity yesterday and when the team came to dig up the road they cut a wire and plunged the whole street into darkness until midnight. It was like the Gogol Bordello song 'Oh No', people came out of their houses and brought drums and a violin and made merry music and got chatting. Why don't they normally do that? TV, that's why.

19:15 / 04.08.06

I used to be a fucking muppet. Now, I see myself reduced to a mere lurker at the House of Hard-Core Big-Time Magicians. I'm just waiting for Money Shot to come back some day...

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

15:13 / 14.08.06

Is the "Everybody" that "Loves Raymond" the same "Everybody" that "Was Kung-Fu Fighting"?

Why aren't the streets full of people punching each other's faces off while shouting "RAYMOND'S MINE, YOU BASTARDS!!! MINE!!!"?

And shouldn't Raymond just make a fucking decision as to who he wants to be with and stop this senseless violence?

paranoidwriter waves hello

19:31 / 18.08.06

Yeah, good point, Stoat... Oi, Raymond, no!

From some recent, odd, personal, slightly frightening, and subjective experience: I'm seriously beginning to worry that there's a way of communicating where (deliberately or accidentally) one might say both something and nothing in such a fashion that what one is actually trying to say becomes ambiguous, and nobody really knows what you're trying to say anymore. Knowaamean?

22:30 / 18.08.06

A Sandra always knows a Sarah. They are always either inseparable friends (possibly cousins, to boot) or sworn enemies. I have always believed this phenomenon to be true, but need some sort of acknowledgement.

21:54 / 22.08.06

What if I'm not clumsy but just uncareful? As vague and throwaway as this thought is it could also be really relevatory.

00:35 / 23.08.06

Slap the Panther, muthafuckas! Slap the Panther!

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

00:49 / 23.08.06

The Good Friday agreement. If, as we are constantly told, the conflict in Northern ireland was largely sectarian in nature, then what the blinking flip was everyone doing at work on Good fucking Friday?

paranoidwriter waves hello

14:24 / 25.08.06

Odd... Because of recent events and what Olulabelle said in the 'Burning Down the Haus Part 3' thread, I was thinking about self-delusion, misinterpretations, and how one can probably never be truly objective... So I thought I'd put on CBBC and watch a bit of light, cartoon fun; and guess what I saw / heard:

"Aha Brain, you make treachery fun!... Aha! Brain, you can't beat me!..." (a baddy talking to Brain in 'Pinky and the Brain')

I absoluetly love all the Animaniacs, and in particular, whenever I hear Pinkie's voice I can't help giggling like a giggly child at school getting told off by a teacher with snot on hir nose.

Class coincidence.

21:30 / 30.08.06

I just realised today philosophical debates make me laugh.

Out loud.

Maniacly.

I mean, Karl Pooper vs Ludwig Wittgenstein! Pure comedy!

MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!

22:34 / 30.08.06

If I had to turn to crime, I think I'd hijack those half-prefab-homes I see getting hauled around on flatbeds on the highways all the time. Because really, people would probably pay a LOT to get those back promptly. And if you were diligent and got both a left AND a right, even if they didn't pay up, hey: crime house!

Kiltartan Cross

22:48 / 30.08.06

Arranging a ransom dropoff would be a nightmare, though.

"Ok... I'll leave the... uh... property at number 12 Letsby Avenue. I mean 14. I mean... oh, bugger it."

paranoidwriter waves hello

03:02 / 01.09.06

It's almost like Superman and Clark Kent. If two people cannot be in the same room at the same time, I begin to suspect they may be two halves of the same problem.*

*I had a heated exchange with a close friend recently, revolving around the same issues that have seemingly recurred and increased in intensity during our many "theoretical" discussions over the years. It's a daft thing to say, but: our ethics and politics are almost identical, and yet our methodologies are often wildly different and even our star signs and exact birth-dates are on opposite sides of the wheel.

03:48 / 01.09.06

There rarely arises a situation in our household to which my wife or I cannot (often at the same time) apply a Mystery Science Theater 3000 reference.

Good god, people must hate us.

06:25 / 01.09.06

The best way to procrastinate at work: Find a webcomic that's a few years old, and read it ALL from the beginning.

Somehow, I've read over 2 years worth of Penny Arcade comics in the last two days...

07:39 / 01.09.06

there might be a market niche for some british royalty cosplay. Just as charles likes to walk around in a kilt and his sons in uniforms, so non-royals could have a cosplay meet

oh charles don't you ever crave
to appear on the front of the Daily Mail
dressed in your mother's bridal veil

08:29 / 01.09.06

If you put 5 draughts boards together then you could have some kind of ludicrous mega-draughts game with four players. I'm sure of it.

08:58 / 01.09.06

oh charles don't you ever crave
to appear on the front of the Daily Mail
dressed in your mother's bridal veil

Exactly! Imagine, women dressed as Charles in his m´s b v, alongside men dressed as prince phillip with Diana makeup and hairdo!

MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!

18:20 / 01.09.06

The problem with having a friend whose boyfriend is an award-winning chef is that you can never ask them round for dinner. At least not unless you've got a LOT more nerve than I do.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

23:10 / 02.09.06

My mum is a great fan of the phrase "what you win on the swings, you lose on the roundabouts".

Am I so naive that I've missed out on a whole world of people using swings and roundabouts FOR GAMBLING PURPOSES???

Especially my mum. She hates gambling.

This is just bonkers, really. AND I DON'T UNDERSTAND.

02:38 / 04.09.06

Is it possible to say the word 'sporran' without using, or at least attempting to use, a Scottish accent?

07:39 / 04.09.06

i find i say most words with a scottish accent.

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