This is just too good. Can make FP Knob jokes now too.
― pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 13:28 (seventeen years ago) link
http://static.flickr.com/131/320446889_05a045270c.jpg
― tissp! (tissp!), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 13:31 (seventeen years ago) link
Blimey! Really? Bet he's frittered it all away by now though.
― Dr.C (Dr.C), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 13:33 (seventeen years ago) link
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!
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 13:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 13:35 (seventeen years ago) link
Maybe if she's been drinking, she'll be a bit more amenable to my request.
― masonic boom (kate), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 13:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 13:37 (seventeen years ago) link
Like: Ailsa's last post = 1482 on the thread = the Hull telephone dialling code.
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 13:39 (seventeen years ago) link
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.
― Johnney B has zeros off the line (stigoftdumpilx), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 13:40 (seventeen years ago) link
Sorry. I'll try and stop now.
Er, no. Although I do want to get one of those at some point. But not for use at work.
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 13:41 (seventeen years ago) link
I have the afternoon off now.
― masonic boom (kate), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 13:42 (seventeen years ago) link
Boo to indigestion :(
― Johnney B has zeros off the line (stigoftdumpilx), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 13:44 (seventeen years ago) link
ashley cole to thread.
― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 13:48 (seventeen years ago) link
However, I'm off to hang out with sisX0r and St00ges, hurrah, ice skating and Brick Lane, here we come!
― masonic boom (kate), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 13:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 13:54 (seventeen years ago) link
No offence intended, as always, FP.
― pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 14:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 14:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― emsk ( emsk ), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 14:18 (seventeen years ago) link
FP, you had some Frosties?
― pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 14:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 14:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 14:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 15:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― M Grout (Mark Grout), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 15:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr.C (Dr.C), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 15:36 (seventeen years ago) link
(I hate shopping)
― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 15:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― g000blar (g00blar), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 15:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 15:57 (seventeen years ago) link
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.
― Dr.C (Dr.C), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 16:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 16:08 (seventeen years ago) link
(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)
― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 16:12 (seventeen years ago) link
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.
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 16:20 (seventeen years ago) link
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...
― carson dial (carson dial), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 16:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 16:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― Johnney B has zeros off the line (stigoftdumpilx), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 16:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 16:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― carson dial (carson dial), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 16:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― M Grout (Mark Grout), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 16:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 17:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 08:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 09:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 09:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― g000blar (g00blar), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 09:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― carson dial (carson dial), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 09:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― emsk ( emsk ), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 10:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 10:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr.C (Dr.C), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 10:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 10:23 (seventeen years ago) link
I'm quite excited by our xmas party on thursday. Should be mildly amusing. I've been practising doing my bow tie, and I look brilliant. I have to learn the words to the Internationale by tomorrow - eeek!
My goodies arrived from cafepress today - 2 cool t shirts and a mug. You lot will appreciate them: http://www.cafepress.com/barlowshop
― Johnney B has zeros off the line (stigoftdumpilx), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 10:57 (seventeen years ago) link
I don't do that thing Forest, but I had a housemate who did. She was from Austin, TX but was a student of British history who was obsessed with King Charles I. Fascinated by the fact that our landlord's VCR had its clock in 'military time' (ie the 24 hour clock) one day she pointed at it all excited and said "Ooh! Ooh! 1625! The year Charles became King of England and the year he married Henrietta Maria!"
― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 11:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 11:08 (seventeen years ago) link