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The Unreconstructed, Shameless Boasting Thread

Whisky Priestess

14:49 / 31.03.09

We've all seen people do it, and we've all probably done it ourselves: 'subtly' letting people know that our face is in the paper, our mum's won an award, we have a hot new partner, baby, job or dog ... whether it's through Facebook status updates, carefully-dropped hints over drinks, or posts in the happy/miserable/bored/question threads, there's no need to be ashamed of your good news.

I know some of us are British, and boasting for us is generally to be avoided at all costs, but sometimes you just have to shout from the rooftops, "I HATE TO BOTHER ANYONE BUT I WOULD LIKE TO SHARE THE NEWS OF MY RECENT MINOR SUCCESS!!!"

So come on. Let rip. Don't sneak boasting in by the back door, bust in with all guns blazing, proclaiming your own fabulousness.

Annoying, I currently have nothing to boast about, so I can't start, but I want to hear yours. Come on now. You've got nothing to lose but your false modesty.

Closed for Business Time

15:47 / 31.03.09

I'm just really fucking clever, attractive, witty and could charm the craters off the moon. I just choose not to. That's my gift to all of you out there with, shall we say, lesser natural endowments. Oh, did I mention I'm also really fucking humble about it?

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

17:36 / 31.03.09

I just got paid a shitload to go away by my bosses. I fucking rule. Everyone bought me a beer this morning, and even made me a T-shirt they all signed. I fucking ROCK.

jentacular dreams

17:38 / 31.03.09

I just found a slice of free cake, sitting on it's lonesome in a meeting room! I am eating it as I type, and confidently declare myself winner.

Also found a carton of orange juice, which is the one thing I forgot to buy yesterday. Bonus victory points!

jentacular dreams

17:39 / 31.03.09

Sorry Stoats, crosspost. However, unless there was free cake involved I think I still win....

Eek! A Freek!

17:50 / 31.03.09

I just found out that I just won a handheld HD Sanyo DVCam in a fund-raising raffle. I don't win stuff that often.

I should get it in time for my Birthday next week.

Also, my wife and I are house-hunting and have a few viewings set up on Thursday. One of the houses is impossibly in our "affordable price range" (It's in a more rural area and we'd be slightly house-poor) and has an indoor inground pool and sauna... How cool is that?

Janean Patience

19:43 / 31.03.09

I'm in the process of arranging a barn dance with hogroast and rodeo bull. Also, now I think about it, there should be some shooting of tin cans. And yee-hawing.

Step out of your comfort zone? How about to the Wild West?

oryx

22:25 / 31.03.09

I'll be back on this thread on Monday, being smug, because by then I will have run the Paris Marathon, and raised about 700-odd quid for the Depression Alliance in the process. I'm impressed with myself already, and the race isn't til Sunday.

Alex's Grandma

01:44 / 01.04.09

I have the local prep (age 8-13) boarding school under surveillance, and so a large collection of intimate 'Mum and Kid' moments on film, which I sell over the internet instead of working for a living, like some schlub in an office. You'd be surprised how lucrative the market is - if you get the shot right, you can almost see their hearts breaking at the start of each term, while Dad fiddles with the car keys in the background. A small, but committed, set of aficionados pays top dollar for this stuff.

Last Christmas, annoyed by the urban foxes and grey squirrels going through the bins, I left out a plate of dog food laced with LSD. Haven't heard a peep out of them since. Okay, a local man was attacked, but nobody can prove anything.

I own a complete set of 'Flex Mentallo'.

(Is this the sort of thing ...?)

Whisky Priestess

14:11 / 01.04.09

This is all gold, my dears. It's really nice to hear about the Barbetriumphs that are happening all around us, if we but knew. Which we now do.

Anyway, I have one today, which is spontaneous, unprovoked niceness from the short story writing class I taught last term (final class was last Thursday and they are sending in their end-of-term stories this week):

"Thanks for a really great class - I think it's helped me no end."

and

"Thank you so much for the course - I really enjoyed it and I learnt a lot. Really liked the way you taught it - in fact, you as teacher is what really made it so good. Would love to do another course with you some day."

Even better, I think I may be able to use these as student testimonials for a job I'm applying for when my current one vanishes down an educational funding abyss. Score.

jentacular dreams

15:11 / 01.04.09

Whisky, I didn't think it was possible, but you may have beaten my free cake. I doff my pie lid to thee.

Whisky Priestess

10:19 / 02.04.09

They're just sucking up because they want to sleep with me

Dead Megatron

12:07 / 02.04.09

They're just sucking up because they want to sleep with me

Now, that is boasting...

Exactly. Bring it!

i survived being hit by a car while riding my bicycle a couple weeks ago - albeit with nine ribs broken in twelve places, concussion that still has me with double vision, and some grazing to the extremities. but yay! and big up for helmets - i won 'my life continued'...

is this what we wanted here?

Spaniel

09:57 / 12.05.09

You definitely have an awesome helmet!

Shrug

22:44 / 14.05.09

Commendable survival skills, astrojax.

Your fortitude is definitely boast worthy. Mend well.

Whisky Priestess

01:50 / 15.05.09

Nice work. I trust the car is a write-off, given that you are clearly made of adamantium?

Disco is My Class War

09:23 / 15.05.09

Um, this is the first time I've even logged into Barbelith for six months, maybe longer. And I came back just to lurk and read a bit. But I have a legitimate boast, I do I really do. I am about to submit my PhD thesis in ten days. Shortly thereafter I'm getting on a plane bound for the US of A, to take up a postdoctoral research fellowship. Which means I'm relocating to Bloomington, Indiana for the foreseeable future. It's helluv exciting and I can't wait... I never thought I would actually get this far, and suddenly a bunch of vistas are opening up -- I get to do the research I want, write what I want, teach a bit, and in the country I want to do it in.

There. Enough said.

Tsuga

20:48 / 15.05.09

Congratulations, Disco. I hope Indiana is to your liking.

19:21 / 18.05.09

I'm incredibly handsome. In fact, I want to live in Germany so that I'm surrounded by people who look like me. I've been successful at almost everything I've done in life; I'm intelligent, I'm a musician and artist, I'm athletic, et cetera. In three words, I'm fucking awesome.

Mistoffelees

19:58 / 18.05.09

I live in Germany and see people who look like me all the time. No wonder the term Doppelgänger was invented here. It is a bit weird, but over the years I got used to it. But I don´t find it awesome. And why would you? Your handsomeness would not gain anything from it, would it?

astrojax69

23:00 / 18.05.09

brilliant disco! (and this praise from someone with awesome continued existence capacity...)

Whisky Priestess

21:47 / 19.05.09

In fact, your handsomeness would be distilled amongst all the beauty. And if you moved to Sweden, you'd probably just look normal.

Back on-topic: I've got a story in a tolerably prestigious anthology coming out in a few months, and it's one I've always liked but have been trying to place for three years. I've yet to find out if I'll be paid for it, mind ...

astrojax69

21:54 / 23.05.09

of course, the other boast i neglected to mention is that a small astro will arrive in late september, thanks to the accommodating womb and associated bits of demanding lover, astress - so i have a champion sperm. well, had.

thrilling.

Dead Megatron

12:10 / 25.05.09

Astroboy?

Well, boy, girl, or octuplets, congratz, astro!

Whisky Priestess

13:20 / 25.05.09

Astrobaby! Like in 2001!

Whisky Priestess

11:41 / 29.05.09

I've won second prize in a short story contest (why do I feel like this is a game of Monopoly?) and got my $100 cheque in the post from the U.S. this morning. Yay me!

Only problem is that it's in dollars. Anyone know how much it would cost to cash/convert in the UK? Is there any way I can pay it into my Paypal account and thus avoid currency conversion charges?

Internaut

22:10 / 29.05.09

Marks and Spencers. They never charged me for conversion.

Whisky Priestess

01:28 / 30.05.09

Really? I'll try that. Cheers.

grant

12:46 / 03.06.09

Hey, I was just interviewed in this new zine.

Sounds like a cool project - the zine, I mean. But I would say that.

But really, it's like a dictionary that has thrift store art in it, and Jonathan Richman, and bhaji recipes and David Rees of Get Your War On.

It is a thing of joy.

astrojax69

21:02 / 07.06.09

hey dm, have discovered it will be an astroboy and, better, it isn'toctuplets...

i also apparently now look like a sexy philosophy professor in my new glasses (to correct nerve injury from accident), so that's cool, too!

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