Watercooler Sub Zero: Ice Capades

Have just booked ANOTHER Shimuras gig for April. Blimey. AMP suggested getting yet another of her sisters to play with us. No, there is only SO MUCH PAYNE I can handle.

What are you doing, FP, getting stretched on a pink heart-shaped rack for VD? ;-)

Look, Gooblar, you've got your hott brothers, I've got my hott sisters, but there are very few puns you can make about inclement bandmates, are there?

wait, must stop this.

also I have just been called by a head-hunter.

Head hunter? Ooh, exciting - what kind of tribe are they representing?

I used to get scared when head-hunters called my dad. I did not understand it was just an expression. Too many stories my mum told me about head hunters and witch doctors while growing up in Africa.

Head hunters for the broadcast tribe, representing one of the spun off bits of a monolithic broadcasting corporation.

Everything cooked on a big open fire? Aren't there EU Elf directives against that sort of thing?

I am wearing the other glasses today, and they are TERRIBLE for my peripheral vision. It really annoys me. They have these huge chunky legs blocking out half my vision, and also the glasses do not go all the way to the edge of the frame in some weird kind of architectural thing (I hope they're supposed to be like that, and they didn't just run out of glass) so the edges of my vision are all blurry.

xpost kate you'll get used to it, i have 2 pairs with the arm vision blocking things and it was bloody annoying when cycling in them at first bc when looking over my shoulder to check for traffic they were *exactly* in the way. but you just get used to it, and turn your head further.

Argh, I may get different glasses next paycheck, because although these look great, it is bloody annoying. My head just doesn't turn that far, I have constant problems with my neck. Also, I may need an extra pair of reading glasses, as these are just too strong.

Affluenza... oh dear, that's the problem of the moment, isn't it? Another word for middle class angst? I read Alain de Botton on Status Anxiety, but that's about as far as I go. Maybe I will go and read the Guardian article, but these things tend to kind of wind me up!

CV request? that sounds promising.

It's just a bit embarrassing that she always sends these things to work.

I've heard "affluenza" before - it's just one of those buzzwords. Like I said, De Botton was talking about it in Status Anxiety, which *is* a very good, thoughtful, well written book.

Damn, I am now covered in little bits of fluff and corgi hair.

I think there's more to it than that. Apparently, it's sgnificantly worse in English speaking societies (i.e. free market societies)

But it's difficult when even your supposed friends start getting in the act.

I mean, that locked "ILX is down" thread ... I mean, honestly - WTF? I feel like I'm getting blamed for things I had nothing to do with, because someone else has some "thing" for me. I don't want to drag all this back up. TBH, it's like I was tried and convicted without ever getting a defense - when quite frankly, I couldn't even be bothered with dignifying some of the allegations with a defense.

I go offline with the dreaded lurgy for 3 or 4 days, and suddenly everyone is saying I'm the reason that JW decided to hack ILX. (News to me - the last contact I had with JW was an email exchange to the effect of "j/k we're friends now I thought".)

And now here's my name all over a thread about trolls? Thanks! Reinforce that image I'm trying to distance myself from.

I am going to regret hitting the submit button, but hey, I have to say something.

I'm not trying to start a conversation, or go back to the horribleness of last week, (unsolicited "advice" or criticism on the interweb says a LOT more about the advisor than the advisee) but honestly, enough. If you don't like me, just leave me alone. If you do like me, why perpetuate this horribleness?

(Actually, my guess is that he picked out you to ban because, well, that would kind of be the jw thing to do (like hacking in in the first place was), rather than from true renewed antikate malice.)

This is what I mean by being tried and convicted without evidence.

But then again, like I said, I was offline for the whole thing. Maybe he admitted it on the other ILX.

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http://flickr.com/photos/dotcommunist/388230335/

i think he's right, w all his affluenza stuff, but it's kind of obvious, no? like - set up your society like this, and of course all your citizens will end up feeling like that.

kate if you go to lilyallenmusic.com and sign up for the email list they'll send you some kind of free mp3 version of the album or something.

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Don't worry, Benjamin! I still love you! I was only kidding when I said the Sonic Screwdriver was better than yr pedals!

That said, I prefer the yin/yang cats.

I do like you, and I absolutely didn't mean to! The people who will always be arseholes will always be arseholes whatever; I started the thread to make the NICE people who just blithely join in the abuse realise that they are being dicks, and hopefully they'll then stop.

Again, I'm sorry to have named you (or anyone for that matter) and I'll aks the mods to take the names out.

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(for Kerr, not me, obviously.)