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12:17 / 19.05.02

I last logged onto Barbelith on Friday afternoon. Now it's Sunday afternoon, and there's been next to no interesting new posts. C'mon, get a move on and give me something interesting to read!

It's a 'stay at home and revise' weekend and I'm bored as shit.

Bah.

Suedey! SHOT FOR MEAT!

12:42 / 19.05.02

Go and look at my badgers!

13:43 / 19.05.02

There's plenty of interesting things to read.

You did get the standard issue reading glasses, right? When you put them on, you get to see all the interesting stuff. Otherwise, the topics seem nonexistant.

13:50 / 19.05.02

Hmm. Many of us do tend to feel rather 'entitled' with Barbelith; we expect the place to entertain us at all times, and become faintly resentful when it doesn't.

The usual answer, Rizla: start an interesting post or seven. Alternatively, head three or four threads south and talk about your penis. Enquiring minds need to know...

13:51 / 19.05.02

I nearly turned into Pin last nite. That was... well it was scary, at any rate.

I'm happy again now.

Can I kick you for having access to The Powerpuff Girls? I don't even have Channel 5 down here...

13:57 / 19.05.02

Oh, and can I register now that I am not an enquiring mind, and I don't need to know about yr penis.

My Rizlacockless existence is actually really rather close to completeness already. And Rizlacock isn't going to complete it. Rizlarecordandbookandcomicandfuckingeverythingcollection might do tho.

14:09 / 19.05.02

Badgers? [Eddie Izzard] A badger with a gun? [/Eddie Izzard]

Rizla, if it's a 'stay at home and revise weekend', should you not be doing exactly that, instead of looking to Barbelith to relieve the tedium/brain ache?

I do sympathise though...I spent most of my coursework/take-home paper writing sessions flicking between Word and Barbelith. Which, on reflection, was probably a really, really bad idea. Count yourself lucky though (sorta) - my term finished on Wednesday, and I am now so goddamn bored and antsy that so far I've re-read the Ender books, given up on Soul Reaver because I can't kill the bloody wraiths, baked banana bread and already cooked tonight's dinner for my family... I half wish I had some essays to write...

14:20 / 19.05.02

Shut up Chloister.

Just... shut up. I've got seven more exams, over a three week period, left.

You're not helping., and neither is being here. But fuck it. Chimps who smoke are boring.

I never thought I'd say that...

14:24 / 19.05.02

Another 'exams are crap' thread, eh? Niiice...

14:50 / 19.05.02

The usual answer, Rizla: start an interesting post or seven. Alternatively, head three or four threads south and talk about your penis. Enquiring minds need to know...

Isn't there a shorter summary for this? Say, four words long.

You know, if people had a proper work ethic these days, they'd be out earning an honest living instead of engaging in all this Barbelith nonsense.

I suggest being honest about your timewasting. Go to the pub, where you can't even pretend that you're doing anything sensible. (Actually I have at times taken notes to the pub, to try and convince myself, and y'know, sometimes, it works. Sort of.)

Suedey! SHOT FOR MEAT!

15:19 / 19.05.02

Well, none of you looked at my badgers did you? Stop complaining.

16:07 / 19.05.02

I thought badgers were nocturnal - they're all tucked up in bed surely?

16:52 / 19.05.02

Nah Badgers are ornery at the best of times, just like them to kick your door down and open up with a brace of pistols.

Hmmm quietness might be this whole summer thing, people being outdoors and doing stuff rather than sitting down and posting on here. Sounds unhealthy if you ask me :-)

17:07 / 19.05.02

This outside place you speak of. Do not venture there! I saw many horrors! People wearing spandex, dogs wearing clothes, little creatures with their chocolate covered bodies grabbing at my clothing. It was horrible.

18:11 / 19.05.02

You could always venture into the Magick. There's tons of fun threads there at the moment...

...OR ARE YOU AFRAID?

Suedey! SHOT FOR MEAT!

18:42 / 19.05.02

These people are scared of badgers.

18:45 / 19.05.02

What badgers? Where?

Suedey! SHOT FOR MEAT!

19:04 / 19.05.02

http://www.barbelith.com/underground/topic.php?id=6761

you'll see. I dunno how to link properly. but they're there.

19:13 / 19.05.02

Neat.

I think that's the thing Barbelith has been missing. We don't have enough badgers around the place.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

20:58 / 19.05.02

Weeekends are often a bit quiet on the 'Lith. Most of the interesting shit happens between people geeting bored at work, and people realising they've spent all day playing "Egg John Prescott" and posting and now have to do 8 hours work in the 45 minutes before hometime.

That, and badger-deficiency.

22:20 / 19.05.02

Yeah, that's the phrase. badger deficiency. We could have a badger mascot. Maybe name him Barry the Barbelith Badger?

Suedey! SHOT FOR MEAT!

23:49 / 19.05.02

In fact, I drew a badger called Barry once. But he was a porn baron. Barry the porn baron barbelith badger? The barbelith badger of porn?

I'm tired.
But Barry was great, he had little badger nipples and all. Maybe I'll show you one day....

06:22 / 20.05.02

Oooh-eee. I'm on to the first boss in Soul Reaver. Turns out wraiths are easy to kill - you just punch 'em til they become transparent, then suck out their souls... who woulda thought it? I liiike this game, a lot. And I am very picky about such things.

08:48 / 20.05.02

"people realising they've spent all day playing "Egg John Prescott" and posting and now have to do 8 hours work in the 45 minutes before hometime."

oh, for a job in which i actually did have more than 45 minutes work to do! You see, if I started on my menial tasks tight now and worked hard until they were done i'd be finished by midday. My life is wasting away in this airless vacuum of administration! .... actually it's not always this bad, it's just been quiet recently.

So, have i managed to change this from an "exams are bad" thread to a thread on the equally groundbreaking and unexplored topic of "crappy office jobs that you wander into because you haven't put any effort into jobhunting are bad"?

09:22 / 20.05.02

Hmm, what I have to do before I leave the UK is finish both Devil May Cry and GTA3, because I won't be able to use my UK PS2 in the States, which sucks, because I will have to buy all new games as well. Unless someone can think of a good solution to that.

Thus dragging the thread in the "I have computer games to play" direction.

Suedey! SHOT FOR MEAT!

09:38 / 20.05.02

I'm here to rectify the barbelith badger deficiency. And so's Barry.

09:49 / 20.05.02

Ooh, CHo, I keep having to start again from the beginning after I kill the first boss (the big spidery guy, yes?) - let me know how you get on (as I have to start from the beginning AGAIN due to my Playstation LOOKING at the memory card in memory card slot one and saying "There is no memory card in memory card slot one, you know" no matter how many times I point to the fucking memory card in memory card slot... oh, you get the idea).

14:35 / 20.05.02

Dear Boy: The juxtaposition of the dreamer's grim, grey room and Barry's colorful clubword totally reminds me of Billy Dee Williams & his Colt .45 commercials. This reference may not translate across the pond, so a brief explanation:

Back in the 70's, suave & sophisticated Billy Dee Williams did a series of commercials for Colt .45 Malt Liquor, in which he was always sharply dressed, chilling at the pool table with the lay-dees and a cold can of Colt .45. These commercials usually aired late at night, when the young impressionable Ierne was not supposed to be wide awake watching Hammer Horrors or whatever was on at 3AM.

Needless to say, Colt .45 is neither a suave nor sophisticated beverage; It was/is what the drunks that hung out by the corner bodega used to imbibe, so the smooth image Billy Dee provided covered the often painful realities faced by Colt .45's target market – African-American males.

15:40 / 20.05.02

Well, it seems many fine reactions have been generated by my initial grumpy teenager "GGOOODDD I'M BORREEDD" post. Yesterday was the first time I've actually, properly been bored since I was about 16, so I thought I'd make the best of it. And I liked the phrase 'Dead Weekend'.

The re-appearance of Suede's Badger cartoon is so hellishly cool I've downloaded it and am going to keep it. I'd stick it on my desktop, if I hadn't found a really neat 'If..' screenshot the other day.. God, cartoons are the best.

So, how did I combat my boredom?

Well I was going to tell you how I combatted my boredom, but then I thought "fuck it, if I'm going to type this trivial nonsense, I should at least have the decency to put it on my starvingblog." So I did just that.

19:39 / 20.05.02

Deva: So sorry about your Playstation - I think they do it on purpose, just to make the game-playing experience even more frustrating. It is all a dastardly ploy to get get extra cash when us long-suffering obsessive types finally lose it and go smashy-smashy with the little grey box. And then have to buy a new one, preferably of the more expensive and black variety (which reminds me - I am deeply peeved that Soul Reaver 2 is only available on PS2. Grr. I have fallen for Soul Reaver big time - it is much more satisfying, and infinitely more attractive than Tomb Raider, the only other game I've ever really liked. Plus the analogue control is actually usable, a minor miracle. And I like being Raziel the fucked-up vampire dude. I am wishing he gets his full wings back eventually though, 'cause that'd be fantastic...).

I killed Malchia, boss number one (yep, the nasty vampire spider bloke, 'my' baby brother) today. Oh, the guilt. Then I got to pick up a couple of cool goodies, thanks to my new ability to walk through solid objects, courtesy of my squished bro, in a Highlander-style power transfer. Woo!

It is a rare game that makes me consider my Playstation a worthwhile waste of time. Soul Reaver kicks serious arse, methinks. Good luck with your misbehaving console...

20:23 / 20.05.02

Oh, is this the thread where we bitch about our playstations? Whenever, I want to play a game, I have to either turn my playstation on it's side or upside down. But, soon, oh soon, I will have a wonderful black box to call my very own.

I never really got into the Soul Reaver games. I have little interest in playing a game where I end up spending 15 or 20 hours staring at some undead guy's ass.

21:03 / 20.05.02

I think that something is going to happen. I can FEEL it. It's COMING.

21:18 / 20.05.02

I have little interest in playing a game where I end up spending 15 or 20 hours staring at some undead guy's ass.

Sounds like a good weekend to me.

21:44 / 20.05.02

Well, if that's how you get your jollies, who am I to judge?

21:48 / 20.05.02

Oh come on, you want to really, you just won't admit to it.

Incidentally, the best way to have your PS2 is standing on it's side. It is easily the best looking of all the consoles. The Xbox is an ugly piece of crap, and the Gamecube is comical and Legoid like all of Nintendo's products. Why is it that only Sony have any sense of aesthetics?

(On the other hand, the fancy Sony MP3 walkman I bought recently looks like something you'd buy off the market, I feel a bit cheated.)

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