Its Christma$$ eve. What are you doing online?

02:26 / 01.01.05

As I type..its 11:26pm on the last night of 2004!

02:29 / 01.01.05

You live in Hackney, Stoatie? What is this- I go to Dulwich, and it seems like everyone lives there. Move to Hackney- and the *other* everyone lives there.

02:29 / 01.01.05

Ay! We can celebrate Canadian New Year with you! (seeing as I kind of missed our new year by a couple of minutes).

02:30 / 01.01.05

I've lived in Hackney for years (Stoke Newington, me!)
'Tis "the Heart of London" and no mistake!

02:32 / 01.01.05

Aww....thats sweet of you!

02:36 / 01.01.05

Oh, wait, I did know that.
I love Hackney. We were welcomed into our flat by, I think, our downstairs neighbour being murdered within 2 weeks of us moving in. Well there was a policeman outside their door, day and night for 3 days. Then there were flowers...
I have the prospect of living in Hackney for 2 or 3 years. I'm not entirely sure it's a prospect I like, but am I buggery moving to somewhere that I cant get to school without being squished every day to get there. I prefer to be almost squished every day, cycling there.

02:45 / 01.01.05

What time's it now, Keggers? can I do Ace of Spades again?

02:47 / 01.01.05

11:47!

02:54 / 01.01.05

We're countin it down with ye, shipmate!

GB- Hackney covers many sins... bits of it suck, and bits of it are ace. Clapton, for example, has had me being mugged in it more than once. Stokey (despite being only 200 yards away from Clapton) hasn't, and I feel safe there.
Either way, it's better than being in Yeovil!
The thing I love about my bit of Hackney is that the orthodox Jewish community exactly borders the Muslim area (and yes, they are distinct areas) but there's never (like, NEVER) any trouble, cos they're all generally nice people. Dump those two connecting streets in Israel, and it just wouldn't work.
Hackney seems to me to be a very good example of multiculturalism working really well. I also imagine we'd all combine to kick Richard Littlejohn's head in should he turn up.
(jesus! Sorry... that rant was in reponse to reading newspapers rather than anything else. probably just as well we're not usually allowed to drink at work.)

Mazarine

02:56 / 01.01.05

For people as blind as you, Stoatie, I bring out the refracting lenses so they can actually kinda see what they're buying.

The one time I lost my glasses I was in my underwear, having just jumped off a bridge into a lake and was sort of fumbling through the woods and got the WORST case of poison ivy all over my ass. It turned out the friend I'd given them to still had them. I now keep my glasses really close at hand at all times.

03:00 / 01.01.05

If I had one image to end my year, Im glad its that of a wet Sally runnig around in her undies... Oh what the New year will bring!

12:00!!!!
Happy New Year Everyone!

03:00 / 01.01.05

HAPPY NEW YEAR, KEGGERS!!!!!

You know I'm born to lose
And gambling's for fools
But that's the way I like it, baby
I don't wanna live forever!

AND DON'T FORGET THE JOKER!!!!!!!!!

The Ace of Spades must always be sung at midnight on New Year's Eve.

03:02 / 01.01.05

"should old aquaintences be forgot' and never come to mind, should old aquaintences be forgot'...the Ace of spades!!"

03:10 / 01.01.05

Ahh, the whole "Ace of Spades" for New Year thing was due to being at a party about ten years ago and realising that none of us actually knew what the fuck "Auld Lang Syne" actually meant... ever since, it's been the Motorhead new year for me. I like the idea that myself and my friends (and their friends, and on and on fractally) have our own new year thing.
ALL SHOULD SING AoS on NYE!!!
(I meant to post about this earlier today, but I was asleep. Ah well, next year.)

03:11 / 01.01.05

Happy New Year, Mister Keggers!
Does every word in that sentense deserve a capital? It feels like it should, but I'm questioning the N and Y.

I live next to Broadway Market- I feel vaguely ok around there, but not in a "la-la-la I'm very comfortable walking up here alone at 3am" kind of a way, which is slightly odd moving from here to there. I went out in Inverness the other night and walked to my friend's house in the middle of the night and actually felt safe for the first time in months. It was lovely. Doesn't stop it being shit here, unfortunately.

03:24 / 01.01.05

I'd just like to proclaim: (and I can seeing as how drunk I am) 2 things:

1: The greatest of things for the lateshifters in the new year!!

2: PIRATES RULE!!!

03:26 / 01.01.05

A
Fucking
men.

03:29 / 01.01.05

I dont like to anger drunk Canuks very often, but you are soo fucking wrong.

03:32 / 01.01.05

Lol! Oh dear GeeBee, one day you wil wake up and drop that silly illusion you have.

You are sooo Pirate! Search your heart..you know the truth.

03:44 / 01.01.05

Hmmm. No. Really.
What dya reakon, Stoatie? I believe I'm a true ninja- for a start, I couldn't find you in a crowd, when you were holding a big skull-and-crossbones flag. What actually happened what that I couldn't face standing under such a terrible terrible thing, and told the policemen to come on to Stoatie instead, while I tried to run. Unfortunately I was raped and pillidged by the scoundrels and forced to march under their banner of doom and terror. Bastards.

04:14 / 01.01.05

ooh. That was the scary "hello ******" (my real name) from the coppers day wasn't it?
Arrr.
I went on to commandeer (a nautical term) several ships. And defeat some zombies. And ninjas. And drink some rum, too.
Then turn up in the pub again.

OH BUGGER!
Apparently the late editions have just turned up. I have to do some work now. Arse.

04:14 / 01.01.05

04:32 / 01.01.05

G'night, me hearties.
Hope 2005 is as good as 11/12ths of 2004 was. x

04:33 / 01.01.05

Stoats...you're double posting!..

One hour and thirty three minutes later...Why hasn't my life improved??

Seth

12:39 / 01.01.05

Seeing as the topic of this thread is Christmas Eve I'm going to raise a moderation request to delete all the posts after 24.12.04. Shame on all of you for indulging in threadrot in such a brazen, arrogant manner.

Alex's Grandma

21:07 / 01.01.05

Well I share mine with Dennis Nilsen.
That freaks me out sometimes.

I think it's always good in life to face up to fate, destiny, that type of thing.

I mean as long as you've got a big enough lawn, it's only going to get easier after the first couple of times, and let's face it, it's not unusual to hear the comment these days;

" Oh I wish I had more time to spend in the garden, "

so you could help with that too, chief.

21:16 / 01.01.05

I've never been in my garden. Funny really - it's a communal garden shared by six flats and nobody ever seems to sit in it.

Mind you, I still haven't worked out how to get into it.

21:28 / 01.01.05

Oh, good evening everyone, by the way! For your information, I said that sentence in the voice of Alfred Hitchcock.

Alex's Grandma

21:34 / 01.01.05

Yeah... It would need to be a private garden, I think. There's something to be said for the anonimity of living in an apartment block, but if the interfering busy-bodies upstairs are going to always be looking out the window while you're attempting to give Juan or Gervais a dignified send-off under the patio, it would mainly just detract from the gravity of the whole situation, I'd guess.

21:38 / 01.01.05

Depends how much they interfere. I've always found my nosey neighbours most susceptible to bribery.

21:40 / 01.01.05

Bribery? Why didn't I think of that?
Now I've got even LESS under-the-patio storage space...

21:43 / 01.01.05

Well these silly sods will keep on pissing us off, won't they? Honestly, the woes of the serial killer are so inadequately documented ...

21:57 / 01.01.05

We generally prefer the term "homicidally challenged"...

Alex's Grandma

22:01 / 01.01.05

*sigh*

Just tell them it's a friend of yours who's had a few too many beers, and that what's more you've had the neighbours place under 24 hour surveillance on CCTV for the last few months, and that what's more, if they don't f"%^&&% can it, you'll send the dossier to the moral Dacchau where they work.
Basically, by the time they've processed that, you'll still have hours spare to do the necessary re-designs of the greenhouse, and that.