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Oh dear. : A thread about things that tick you off quite a bit, and might even elicit a frown.

  
  

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Spaniel
13:45 / 12.04.07
I think that might excite her hot a bit too much
 
 
Benny the Ball
13:47 / 12.04.07
I'm temp-ing, have been in an office for 5 days in total, have been given a set of keys and told to come in today, totally alone - and now have to put up with patronizing numb-nuts on the phone who don't quite get the phrase - I'm affraid I don't have an answer to that. Don't talk to me like I'm a 5 year old child, you c**t.
 
 
Red Concrete
13:09 / 15.04.07
Having to explain the difference between the hard disk and RAM, again. Jeez people, no, it's not all just "memory".
 
 
jentacular dreams
13:15 / 15.04.07
That one took me ages to get right when I were a nipper. I remember thinking that memory should be called something more accurate like 'thoughts' or 'consciousness'.
 
 
Shiny: Well Over Thirty
17:13 / 15.04.07
I’ve agreed to take the lead in getting some people together run some Anti-BNP action, as they are running a ward near my workplace. This elicits a frown not because I object to doing a bit of anti-fascist action. That I quite enjoy, and the BNP scum don’t scare me much since I really don’t want them to like me, and I’m told most of them round here are far bigger physical cowards than I am. It’s just the whole taking the lead bit that makes me feel a bit out of depth. I’m very shy, and deeply socially awkward with people who I don’t know well, as well as incredibly disorganised. So I’m really not a terribly good fit for the whole taking the lead business. But it’s one of those cases where if I don’t do it then no-one else will, so I’ve got no choice in the matter really.
 
 
Tuna Ghost: Pratt knot hero
17:22 / 15.04.07
Rise to the occasion, man. I'll bet you twenty dollars you'll do a more than adequate job.


I'm upset with some of my friends, who turned an otherwise delightful party into a violent testosterone fueled disaster, complete with revealed secrets, beatings and several visits from the police. I was having a great time, goddamit. I want new friends.
 
 
katsrevenge
22:07 / 16.04.07
My dorm room is a mess. Totally trashed. I really should do something about this...
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
21:43 / 21.04.07
Is anyone else finding the omnipresence of Lionel Shriver at the moment a teeny bit irritating? I mean, when We Need To Talk About Kevin was published, she made a really big deal about how it wasn't "about" school shootings, and that was just a trope she used to hang her story about dysfunctional mother/child relationships on. Now, after the Virginia university shootings, she's quite happy to play the fucking expert in every broadsheet going.

Am I being overly harsh or overly sensitive?
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
21:48 / 21.04.07
(Before anyone points it out, I've just noticed the interview with her in today's Observer was conducted before news broke of the shootings. But this had occurred to me before I saw that one).
 
 
Our Lady Has Left the Building
06:54 / 22.04.07
She's been doing the talking head routine for the Guardian and Observer for a while now. Her views tend towards making me shout "SHUT UP SHRIVER!" at the screen, which is always embaressing in public.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
13:02 / 22.04.07
Yea, her column in G2's always quite annoying. I just get the impression she's now claiming expertise in an area which by her admission she has little knowledge of, and it's all on the back of a bunch of dead people.
 
 
Mysterious Transfer Student
13:00 / 27.04.07
Now, I don't so much mind two guys having a rambling conversation about Man U at the desk next to mine. Other people's inane chatter is part of working in an office environment. I'm a grown up about this.

However, if one of the guys has recently coated his entire body in a revolting proprietary body spray (probably Lynx) before appearing nearby, to the extent that my eyes start watering and my nose running - I'm not kidding, I must look like the histamine reactive equivalent of David Bowie ageing 200 years in the doctor's waiting room in The Hunger right now - then, then I reserve the right to become annoyed.

At the Nuts-reading little twits.
 
 
Spaniel
18:12 / 29.04.07
4OD doesn't really work, does it? It's just a big pile of teasy teasy shit.
 
 
miss wonderstarr
19:46 / 29.04.07
It's good at mock-surprised, self-congratulatory, cutesy messages like "Everyone wants us! We're a bit busy at the moment so check back when we're less in demand "

You half-expect it to evolve these messages into "Oops sorry, can't give you your download now *giggle* Just out the shower and drying myself off. I'll be ready in half an hour... promise!! lol"
 
 
Shrug
09:36 / 30.04.07
I can't find my housekey! I can't find my housekey!

Argh, Argh, Argh!!!!!
 
 
Mistoffelees
10:50 / 30.04.07
I just discovered a dead baby bird on my balcony. It lay on its side and looked as if it was taking a nap. It had two thin short legs and a pink belly.

As I thought about not touching it, I immediately had an image of crawling maggots in my head (thanks to school, where they showed us a fastforward film of maggots eating up a dead mouse).

I haven´t touched dead bodies in almost ten years (when I was transporting them to the cold room in the hospital basement). I really don´t like to be reminded of my own mortality. (edit: a couple of years ago I dropped a dead mouse that I discovered in the grid of the back of a fridge out of my office window).

I dropped the poor guy down to the ground. I am not the burying kind and couldn´t stand the thought of carrying the dead bird through my appartment and then drop him in the compost can.

Good night sweet prince! And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!
 
 
grant
15:46 / 30.04.07
How strange -- something got one of my chickens last night. Probably a raccoon, though I'm not ruling out a surly, savage rat, emboldened by hunger and gamma radiation. Had to bury a dead bird before breakfast, and move the coop to more secure ground (avoiding the tunneling, you see).

Dagnabbit.
 
 
grant
04:52 / 01.05.07


(No, the bird didn't die in the pool. This was a cunning ploy to avoid curious dogs. The other two chickens simply clucked disapprovingly until the dogs went away. Oh, dear. Poor Francis. Never good with the escape strategies.)
 
 
Our Lady Has Left the Building
08:05 / 01.05.07
Do chickens float?
 
 
grant
15:15 / 01.05.07
Yes. Yes, they do. Not terribly well, but yes.
 
 
Triplets
01:39 / 08.05.07
The author of Scarygoround, who is usually a really centred and nice chap, getting incredibly heated and defensive when queried (rightfully, I thought) on whether a line of dialogue could be considered a bit dodgy. Also: fanboys leaping in with "Oh no! That's not a right thing to say! I would never say anything like that while I stroked your hair! Swingball? Swingball?"
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
03:53 / 08.05.07
Everything floats down here, Lady.
 
 
Tsuga
09:38 / 08.05.07
Oh my god. Mickey Rooney kissed the queen's hand, for chrissake. HER HAND. HE KISSED IT. Well, her glove, anyway. Is there no decency in the world today?
  
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
09:49 / 08.05.07
No, it's the cover for the anniversary re-release of Smell The Glove, by Royal Approval.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
09:52 / 08.05.07
The author of Scarygoround, who is usually a really centred and nice chap, getting incredibly heated and defensive when queried (rightfully, I thought) on whether a line of dialogue could be considered a bit dodgy.

Really? Where's this? That is a bit sad, not least because SGR is refreshingly unpompous.
 
 
Ex
10:03 / 08.05.07
I believe it might be a new T-shirt design - have a look at the blog.
 
 
Ex
10:05 / 08.05.07
Ah, no - the T-shirt is apparently the second thing that's sparked off discussions this week.
Sorry to confuse.
 
 
Mon Oncle Ignatius
10:37 / 08.05.07
(Sir) Patrick Moore may be a great astronomer and legend of scientific broadcasting, but he's also an unreconstructed chauvinist git.
 
 
Janean Patience
10:42 / 08.05.07
It's only to be expected of Sir Patrick. After all, he lives on the Manhood Peninsula.
 
 
Mon Oncle Ignatius
10:53 / 08.05.07
Too true. I believe he catches the noon ferry to the Islets of Smugfuck each and every day, seated on his special deckchair of honour as Chief Gitwizard of the Men of Grump.
 
 
This Sunday
10:55 / 08.05.07
It's people like Moore that help the rest of us keep from being totally self-loathing, though. There's only so much loathing to go 'round.
 
 
Pingle!Pop
11:04 / 08.05.07
Dear media: please to stop referring to France's new president as "centre-right". Royal is centre-right, and Sarkozy's positions are probably closer to Le Pen's than hers. Have you considered a single word the cretin has said about anything ever?

I was also going to mention Patrick Moore, but I see that's already been done. Shut up, Patrick Moore.
 
 
Janean Patience
11:43 / 08.05.07
But Patrick Moore really does live on the Manhood Peninsula.
 
 
Mon Oncle Ignatius
11:52 / 08.05.07
Oh. Well, that explains quite a bit. A huge amount.
 
 
Janean Patience
11:53 / 08.05.07
When he talks about "admittance to the estate of Manhood" he can point to it just outside his window. And to a huge, phallic telescope.
 
  

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