Watercooler 0: Nothing Is A Problem For Me

(God I realise that I sound like a horny old letch most of the time, with my "Pictures, please!" requests to the boys, but honestly... I'm just a *visual* person!)

How about some hairy brummies instead?

http://www.brumbeat.net/sabbs2.jpg

There was a very, very brief period of time when Ozzy was actually hott. But it didn't last very long at all.

I don't get perved over very often, so it's really not something I mind! I'll be sure to take some pics.

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.

It's from Gulliver's Travels (talking about the English) xxxxxpost.

I can barely imagine being drunk around my colleagues! Let alone pilled up!

I've refused point blank to go to any more Xmas parties around here.

This is what we get: http://www.the-christmas-company.co.uk/venues/leicester/leicester.htm

(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.

That's almost exactly what we had for our Xmas do last year!

Ha ha ha ha ha, yeah, This looks like a good idea...

We did that one last year kate! It was alright - the bumper cars are the coolest.

Tissp, was it any good, or were you sorely disappointed?

The problem with all these kind of thigns is that they're a bit enforced fun - you WILL have fun in THIS way, otherwise you're just a party pooper. The trick is finding OTHER ways to have fun, of which there are many if you keep your eyes peeled.

We didn't have any fun, enforced or otherwise. We had to sit through a million speeches by wankers bankers and all these awards being given out, for which nobody in our department was even in the running.

A paid-for trip from London to Leicester is probably more worthwhile than a half-paid-for trip from Grimsby to Scunthorpe. In fact, it's at the Forest Pines Hotel - the place I originally nicked the name of - which would have been slightly confusing for me.

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.

The only high point was getting to see my (then) office crush in a tux.

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.

Frankly, it was AWESOME.

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.

Argh, I don't know if this is post-lunch slump or just being wound up by idiots, but grrrrr, I'm grumpy now.

People are cunts. That is all.

OH MY GOD

TWENTY FIVE FUCKING POUNDS TO GET TO LONDON AND BACK?

FUCK YOU FIRST CAPITAL CONNECT

I've just realised, it's exactly 2 months until my birthday.

That's a weekly travelcard for me! Shee-it.

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

Tissp - the megabus is your friend.

http://www.iggysbread.com/main.html

I'd have to get the megabus from Cambridge->Oxford->London for some bizarro reason

Am considering now leaving work early Thursday and coming down for a bit of StencFAP action depending on where people will be and at what time. I have to get the train from KX at 9pm.

Oops, wrong thread

They're all the same thread.

FP, I just read the end of that story about the painter. I feel like I've been punched in the stomach. I assume that's the point.

He wasn't a painter, he was a carpenter!!! THat was the whole point!

I think the point is kind of feeling "Oh my god, I wasted *how much* time reading that for such a weak pun at the end?"

Exactly. Punched in the stomach.

There was a pun?

Do you know, that's the 3rd or 4th time I've read that story, and I didn't notice the pun until it was pointed out to me?

God, I'm a dummy. :-(

Also, where is Ed with my pictures of Dancing Boys, dammit!

check yr email.

plz to post here!

Aaaaah! I just posted it to your MySpace. Oh well, I can put both of them here:

http://static.flickr.com/117/314157188_727547e58f.jpg

http://static.flickr.com/110/314157182_f15ddb5447.jpg

All my life, I have wanted dancing boys. I think it was something to do with early Madonna videos. And you have made mine dreams come true!

(L to R: K8, PBW, Li$a, Gooblar, Yana, part of AMP's arm)

Wicked.

Kate, I LOVE LOVE LOVE your dress, and I'm not a girlie girl "woo I love that dress" kind of person AT ALL.

Thanks, Ailsa!

(Actually, it is not a dress, but a lacy red and black top, over a raspberry coloured Indian skirt.)

I was being all neurotic the other night, thinking that I looked rub, but seeing these photos, I feel good again because the outfit does look lovely!

Good Morning Watercooler.

Why is it that whenever you think everything seems lovely, something happens to kick you down again?

I was thinking that overnight watching Sky Sports.

Does this mean B&S will be the runaway most listened to weekly artist on your Last FM?

Nah, I haven't had it on much lately. There are better moping-songs than B&S anyway.

And, yes, the cricket too.

What's your moping band(s) of choice?

I don't so much have moping-bands as moping-songs.

The mopingest moping song is probably "Second Coming" by Sunhouse.

Oh, the cricket! It's kinda comforting being rubbish at sport again. (let's move away from cricket before k8 tells us off)

However, success with the bow-tie! I can now tie a bow-tie, and it only looks a LITTLE bit ragged. I tried to get my housemate to take some photo's of me, but they all came out highlighting my double chin. I do, howvere, look pretty dapper - I'm one of these people that look like they SHOULD be in a suit, all the time.

Moping songs - cue Leonard Cohen.

JB, you are a man made for stripy shirts and spotty bow ties.

You know, I've never actually had any Leonard Cohen songs in my collection. And that is not an invitation for you to send me any.

(hah, "my collection", makes me sound like I take it all seriously)

Ed, just the *thought* of that makes my eyes hurt at this time in the morning.

Spotty bow ties I've always thought of as a bit "wacky" - so not really a good look at all. On the other hand, our man Day there is packing a good look, so maybe I need to invest.