― g000blar (g00blar), Monday, 4 December 2006 11:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Monday, 4 December 2006 11:56 (seventeen years ago) link
Problem is, I never remember the *names* of the dances I like! That over-and-under one is great! Everyone gets tied in knots.
I think the other one I really like is called Riverside - is that the one where the top two couples run down the room yelling "Charge!" and you have to duck before they take your heads off?
Plus, it's got doe-si-doeing in it.
― masonic boom (kate), Monday, 4 December 2006 11:56 (seventeen years ago) link
Riverside is the decapitation dance, I've done that one with 120 people in a field
Canadian Lodge is the go fast bum bumping dance
― Ed (dali), Monday, 4 December 2006 11:58 (seventeen years ago) link
There were lots of men last night - just none of them would get on the dancefloor - they hung back behind us, looking at the girls.
x-post - Waves of Tory? Ah, so that's why they were talking about Ireland!
Is Canadian Lodge the one that goes round in a big circle? I've yet to dance that one, I always end up deciding to sit out a round before it comes up.
I can't imagine we'd have the energy to go dancing after a rolling London walk.
― masonic boom (kate), Monday, 4 December 2006 12:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Monday, 4 December 2006 12:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― masonic boom (kate), Monday, 4 December 2006 12:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― Johnney B has zeros off the line (stigoftdumpilx), Monday, 4 December 2006 12:05 (seventeen years ago) link
they had real hay, too, not that rubbish fiberglass stuff.
― masonic boom (kate), Monday, 4 December 2006 12:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― masonic boom (kate), Monday, 4 December 2006 12:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr.C (Dr.C), Monday, 4 December 2006 12:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― g000blar (g00blar), Monday, 4 December 2006 12:09 (seventeen years ago) link
Ugh, Gooblar, I think that's the kind of thing that put me off formal dances for ages. That whole "you have to ask a partner" thing which is just rubbish. It's far easier and less pressure to just have everyone turn up, whether they have a date or not, and have fun as they chose. (Which is what they did at my high school - I never had so much as a friend date in all three years there.)
― masonic boom (kate), Monday, 4 December 2006 12:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― g000blar (g00blar), Monday, 4 December 2006 12:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― tissp! (tissp!), Monday, 4 December 2006 12:53 (seventeen years ago) link
Should I start with a cheap violin while I'm re-learning the instrument, on the offchance that I get bored with it, in which case I've only really wasted £50/£60.
Or should I go for a better quality, prettier (I'm looking at lovely purple electric violins from Hobgoblin) violin which will tempt me to play more, and be more performance-ready when I get up to speed?
― masonic boom (kate), Monday, 4 December 2006 13:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― tissp! (tissp!), Monday, 4 December 2006 13:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr.C (Dr.C), Monday, 4 December 2006 13:06 (seventeen years ago) link
But there are some mid-range violins at about £250/£300. Electric ones (I'm pretty sure that I'd rather have one with a built-in pickup rather than fiddling (heh) about with installing mine own).
― masonic boom (kate), Monday, 4 December 2006 13:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― g000blar (g00blar), Monday, 4 December 2006 13:12 (seventeen years ago) link
Was this like a school orchestra thing, or proper playing?
I only ever played violin as part of a school orchestra when I was, like, 10. I liked it, but I kept trying to play my brother's cello instead. (He's tone deaf and couldn't make head nor tail out of it.)
― masonic boom (kate), Monday, 4 December 2006 13:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― g000blar (g00blar), Monday, 4 December 2006 13:18 (seventeen years ago) link
Hello! Look around you!
― masonic boom (kate), Monday, 4 December 2006 13:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― M Grout (Mark Grout), Monday, 4 December 2006 13:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― Louis Jagger (Scourage), Monday, 4 December 2006 13:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Monday, 4 December 2006 13:28 (seventeen years ago) link
I don't think so.
Where on earth would I keep it?
― masonic boom (kate), Monday, 4 December 2006 13:36 (seventeen years ago) link
I was first clarinet in the Grimsby and District Youth Orchestra, back in the day.
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 4 December 2006 13:38 (seventeen years ago) link
I got yer email, FP, I will look after hours.
― masonic boom (kate), Monday, 4 December 2006 13:40 (seventeen years ago) link
I went into town to buy my suit for the xmas works party, and I've come out with a beautiful tuxedo for only £130! I now have to learn to tie a bow tie, which I'm sure can't be as hard as I think it is.
― Johnney B has zeros off the line (stigoftdumpilx), Monday, 4 December 2006 14:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― g000blar (g00blar), Monday, 4 December 2006 14:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 4 December 2006 14:16 (seventeen years ago) link
Can we have pictures of you in the Tux, JB? Please?
I dunno, I tend to take the view that if I spend a lot of money on something, I tend to use it more, in an attempt to get my moneys worth out of it.
I just wonder if it's something that would be substantially cheaper in the US with their worthless monopoly money. And since I have relations coming over, soon...
― masonic boom (kate), Monday, 4 December 2006 14:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Monday, 4 December 2006 14:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― masonic boom (kate), Monday, 4 December 2006 14:19 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.brumbeat.net/sabbs2.jpg
― Ed (dali), Monday, 4 December 2006 14:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― masonic boom (kate), Monday, 4 December 2006 14:24 (seventeen years ago) link
I know what you mean about the part FP, but cos it's a big company they DO put on a good spread, AND we get a day off work to go up to Leicester and back again, AND they pay for the hotel. The whole thing may well be a little dull, but a few of us may just eat some happy pills and dance like monkeys, which will be funny enough.
― Johnney B has zeros off the line (stigoftdumpilx), Monday, 4 December 2006 14:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― g000blar (g00blar), Monday, 4 December 2006 14:25 (seventeen years ago) link
I've refused point blank to go to any more Xmas parties around here.
― masonic boom (kate), Monday, 4 December 2006 14:26 (seventeen years ago) link
(The irony of Br1t1$h G@$ holding a Soviet themed party has not been lost on me)
Being in various states of gonewrongness around work people is great, if only cos it confuses them.
― Johnney B has zeros off the line (stigoftdumpilx), Monday, 4 December 2006 14:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― tissp! (tissp!), Monday, 4 December 2006 14:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― masonic boom (kate), Monday, 4 December 2006 14:48 (seventeen years ago) link
Tissp, was it any good, or were you sorely disappointed?
― Johnney B has zeros off the line (stigoftdumpilx), Monday, 4 December 2006 14:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― Johnney B has zeros off the line (stigoftdumpilx), Monday, 4 December 2006 14:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― masonic boom (kate), Monday, 4 December 2006 14:59 (seventeen years ago) link
At least ours don't have speeches, just the enforced fun and the whole: "you're a bloke! You must therefore drink lots of beer, get drunk, and expect to *like* it when we try to drag you in to stupid party games" atmosphere.
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 4 December 2006 15:01 (seventeen years ago) link
Hrrmmmm, I wonder if any of the cute hipster boys from Brighton will be coming this year? That's just about the only thing that would make me go.
God, I am *SO* shallow.
― masonic boom (kate), Monday, 4 December 2006 15:06 (seventeen years ago) link