Watercooler 0: Nothing Is A Problem For Me

I find nearby Taughton much more hilarious, as a placename.

I know someone who went to the Spam Museum. Info here : http://www.spam.com/

xpost, I too really want an electric fire in the shape of a scotty dog. It was brilliant.

Sorry, misread you there, Ailsa. Williton? It just sounds like a stutter to me.

((And I can't even FIND my boss to ask for a half day today, because I wanted to go ice skating with my sisX0r. Bah!))

And didn't Bakelite first start out as a type of lacquer or varnish or something? I vaguely remember reading (in The New Science Of Strong Materials, a very entertaining book despite the title) that the first major Bakelite product was the gear stick knobs on Rolls Royce cars.

A torture dungeon with gimp masks for horses (yes, yes, pfunkboy, you may make another "woo, FP to thread!" joke now)!

Hurrah!

I am annoyed today because I wanted to buy the mother a Nintendo DS for Christmas but absolutely bloody everywhere has sold out. Serves me right for leaving my Christmas shopping until a fortnight before, I guess.

On the other hand, I have salmon and cream cheese sandwiches for lunch. Hurrah! And I am having fun distracting the goth, too.

xpost: no, I've never been *down there* in my life!

This is just too good. Can make FP Knob jokes now too.

http://static.flickr.com/131/320446889_05a045270c.jpg

Blimey! Really? Bet he's frittered it all away by now though.

Grrrr!

(I've been going "grrrr" so much in the past hour, it's left me trying to remember which Welsh myth had a character called Gwawl in it. Because that's a good "grrr"-type noise, too.)

xpost: badoom-tish!

Maybe if she's been drinking, she'll be a bit more amenable to my request.

Like: Ailsa's last post = 1482 on the thread = the Hull telephone dialling code.

You haven't got her remote controlled up, have you?

My boss is not out all afternoon. I've just eaten a massive sausage sandwich and feel like my tummy is about to explode. I will get NOTHING done this afternoon.

Sorry. I'll try and stop now.

You haven't got her remote controlled up, have you?

Er, no. Although I do want to get one of those at some point. But not for use at work.

I have the afternoon off now.

Boo to indigestion :(

ashley cole to thread.

However, I'm off to hang out with sisX0r and St00ges, hurrah, ice skating and Brick Lane, here we come!

No offence intended, as always, FP.

FP, you had some Frosties?

(I hate shopping)

I like the charity idea, except I'd want to apply it to everyone i.e don't buy any presents for anyone. Some are bought though - so it would seem odd. Maybe next year. Normally I do a blitz of shopping with the missus but it's not gonna happen this year, she's too busy for even a mini-blitz, so has delegated a load of it to me. I'm going to have to take a day off and just...DO IT.

(However, I did let my husband help with the cost of my ATP ticket this year, but that's only because I couldn't afford it myself due to jacking in of job, and I'm pretty sure he'd have bailed me out anyway and it's just a "do something nice for me that I'll appreciate" rather than buying something just because it's Christmas)

It probably is - it was just that some animal rights campaign group called Animal Aid had put out a press release saying it isn't. Because, presumably, they think all goats should be free to roam in the wild blue yonder.

Incidentally, and in less soul-crushing news, I got a slightly odd offer from a firm the other day. They are a general computer supply company, but in the sales pitch phone call, they said that they had plenty of special offers on Xboxes, PS2s, iPods, and the like, which could be added to an order by the company, but wouldn't show up on the invoice, and could be delivered to a different address. I was quite impressed by the brazenness of the 'buy from us! steal from your employer!' angle...