― 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
However, it was more that my company nicked the idea and did it themselves, then decked it out with entertainment and free booze and food--the key part was that there was no "enforced" fun, which probably made it much more bearable.
― tissp! (tissp!), Monday, 4 December 2006 15:22 (seventeen years ago) link
People are cunts. That is all.
― masonic boom (kate), Monday, 4 December 2006 15:25 (seventeen years ago) link
TWENTY FIVE FUCKING POUNDS TO GET TO LONDON AND BACK?
FUCK YOU FIRST CAPITAL CONNECT
― tissp! (tissp!), Monday, 4 December 2006 15:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 4 December 2006 15:33 (seventeen years ago) link
OK, NOW I'M BOUNCINGLY HAPPY BECAUSE I FINALLY HEARD FROM DARA!!!!
She's flying into town tomorrow night. Which means she'll be in town for the gig on Wednesday. I'm going to kidnap her and make her come and sing New Order covers with us.
But now I don't know what I'm doing, because I don't know what they're doing. If they go down to Minehead on Thursday, obviously I can't go cause I have to work. But if they go down on Friday, I can throw a sickie and tag along. Oh dear lord... What Would Jesus Do? No, wait, What Would Iggy Do? :-D
― masonic boom (kate), Monday, 4 December 2006 15:39 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.iggysbread.com/main.html
― Johnney B has zeros off the line (stigoftdumpilx), Monday, 4 December 2006 15:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― tissp! (tissp!), Monday, 4 December 2006 15:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― tissp! (tissp!), Monday, 4 December 2006 15:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― tissp! (tissp!), Monday, 4 December 2006 15:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― masonic boom (kate), Monday, 4 December 2006 15:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― Johnney B has zeros off the line (stigoftdumpilx), Monday, 4 December 2006 17:00 (seventeen years ago) link