Watercooler Sub Zero: Ice Capades

I've already had the big argument with my brother about Winter Consumerfest that we have every year which ends with him telling me the British economy is going to shit and it's like DUDE!!! It's your currency that's turned to monopoly money, not mine! And then he calls me a raging liberal and I call him a tory and try to throttle him for eating all the mincepies and my mum has to separate us. Except I call him by his real name for the rest of the season which really winds him up. Hah!

Yeah, the British economy's in a LOT of trouble.

Except I worshipped as a GOD here because my wallet's full of ££££££.

"Look upon a real currency and DESPAIR!!!"

What is Latin for James? I feel another windup session coming on.

Jacob-something

Iacobius? Like Jacobite?

I thought Jacob was a different name from James, as there's both Jacobs and James in the Bible.

Ah!

James is English form of the Late Latin Jacomus which was derived from Ιακωβος (Iakobos), the New Testament Greek form of יַעֲקֹב (Ya'aqov) (see JACOB). This is the name of two apostles in the New Testament. The first was Saint James the Greater, the apostle John's brother, who was beheaded by Herod Agrippa in the Book of Acts. The second was James the Lesser, son of Alphaeus. Another James (known as James the Just) is also mentioned in the Bible as being the brother of Jesus.

(I wonder if that greek and hebrew will post)

While Jacob is From the Latin Jacobus, which was from the Greek Ιακωβος (Iakobos), which was from the Hebrew name יַעֲקֹב (Ya'aqov). In the Old Testament, Jacob (later called Israel) was the son of Isaac and Rebecca and the father of the twelve founders of the twelve tribes of Israel. He was born holding his twin brother Esau's heel, and his name is explained as meaning "holder of the heel" or "supplanter". Other theories claim that it is in fact derived from a hypothetical name like יַעֲקֹבְאֵל (Ya'aqov'el) meaning "may God protect".

Ha ha, it's Diego in Spanish. I'll start calling him that to REALLY wind him up, considering how much he freaked out when my mum said she was learning Spanish.

Wait, is this your brother?

http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/original/oreillyaugust26.jpg

'Cause I think I saw him on tv once.

No, that is not my brother. (Who is that? I don't recognise American politicos any more.)

Dammit, I'm trying to remember what his fake Republican name is that he writes his windup articles under, but I forget. I want to say Milton Keynes but that's too funny for him.

Wow, this site has some wacky name meanings! I've never heard that my name comes from Hecate before! Awesome, I like that so much better than "pure".

From the Greek name Áéêáôåñéíç (Aikaterine). The etymology is debated: it could derive from the earlier Greek name ‘Åêáôåñéíç (Hekaterine), which came from ‘åêáôåñïò (hekateros) "each of the two"; it could derive from the name of the goddess HECATE; it could be related to Greek áéêéá (aikia) "torture"; or it could be from a Coptic name meaning "my consecration of your name". The Romans associated it with Greek êáèáñïò (katharos) "pure" and changed their spelling from Katerina to Katharina to reflect this. The name belonged to a 4th-century saint and martyr from Alexandria who was tortured on the famous Catherine wheel. Another saint by this name was Catherine of Siena, a 14th-century mystic. This name was also borne by two empresses of Russia, including Catherine the Great, and by three of Henry VIII's wives.

Also, aikia means "torture" in Greek, bwah hah hah hah.

Oh no, that Greek didn't work. :-(

Ha, and I thought it was the root for torture in Swedish...

Excellent. My mum has just gone to work. She brings the dog and he runs around for a bit before he hops into her Caddy, the door shuts, off they go. She has just spent the past half hour telling me that I shouldn't disrespect GWB and that Obama has Parkinson's.

::bashes head against desk::

At least my brother hates Bush as much as I do, albeit for different reasons.

Nope, he ain't biting. Must be at work or something. Dammit, I'm bored. Who else can I wind up?

My mum is online, but only to tell me she's leaving for the airport.

She just asked me about U Tube. WTF? Does she mean the train? Or the website?

ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!

What American accent do you have?
Your Result: The Northeast
Judging by how you talk you are probably from north Jersey, New York City, Connecticut or Rhode Island. Chances are, if you are from New York City (and not those other places) people would probably be able to tell if they actually heard you speak.

What American accent do you have?
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(The little graph thing won't turn up on ILX.)

Oh Noes!

What American accent do you have? Your Result: The West 

Your accent is the lowest common denominator of American speech. Unless you're a SoCal surfer, no one thinks you have an accent. And really, you may not even be from the West at all, you could easily be from Florida or one of those big Southern cities like Dallas or Atlanta.

The Midland Boston North Central Philadelphia The Northeast The South The Inland North What American accent do you have?
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What American accent do you have?
Your Result: The Northeast

Judging by how you talk you are probably from north Jersey, New York City, Connecticut or Rhode Island. Chances are, if you are from New York City (and not those other places) people would probably be able to tell if they actually heard you speak.

Hahaha

What American accent do you have? Your Result: The Northeast 

Judging by how you talk you are probably from north Jersey, New York City, Connecticut or Rhode Island. Chances are, if you are from New York City (and not those other places) people would probably be able to tell if they actually heard you speak.

Philadelphia The Inland North The Midland The South Boston The West North Central What American accent do you have?
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I'm not from America.

That's hilarious. I think Northeast is the default, actually, if you don't have any serious regional indicators.

My answer was basically "different" to every one.

They didn't actually have anything that wound indicate the Awl-benny accent that's closest to my "Merkin" accent.

OK, no, no, NO to squeaking Joanna Newsome. How does that keep getting in my playlist?

I've got the germination of an interesting idea WRT where to go next with music.

Joanna Newsome is great.

Kate, Psychic Ills - Dins?

Some of it was OK but there was a lot of wibble.

I thought you liked wibble?

Sometimes.

I bet you didn't listen to the Secret Machines' Christmas Carol!

No one is responding to any of my email and that makes me sad.

:-(

I did play it.

But cha hated it?

Email! No, it's more spam. Bah. There's more spam than there is real email, these days, isn't there?

I should give up and go home. My mum will be here tomorrow and then there will be the endless entertainment of FITE!!!ing.

It didn't have enough wibble. It weebled and it wobbled but it never fell down.

My gmail seems to get about 40 spam hits a day.
My ISP email gets about the same. No idea why that started getting hit by it all a few months ago, I never used to get any.

My gmail gets about 2,000 a month, roughly.

Most are to the address I use here. Which I have only ever used here, so has only ever been visible to ILX logins and people who have subscribed to threads.

lol@"flirtomatic" flash advert @ the top of "myspace" page.

maybe it was supposed to say "furvirtomatic" but they got caught out by spell-chech or something.

Morning, all.

Morning, Mitya! I have fucked my PC up a bit, so I'm posting thisusing Lynx.

On the other hand, the weekend was rather fun.

Lynx is fun, too. (At least that's what I remember from 1995!)

Eagerly awaiting tantalizing tidbits about your latest adventures with The Goth. ;)

Morning everyone!

You'll be pleased to hear that the xmas party on thursday was a throughlly enjoyable event. The soviet theme was tenious at best, but the food was tasty and plentiful, and alcohol was flowing, and I got to dance like a monkey for as good portion of the night. I did find my elven beauty in a satin dress, thought that the coincidence was too much to NOT be fate, then realised it WAS just a coincidence when I spotted her 10 minutes later snogging her boyfriend :(

The only sex life I have these days is lived vicariously through FP!

Good morning!

My mum is here so we're going through a period of adjustment, but I'm happy to report we haven't fought yet. This is good. I think she has learned not to even speak to me before breakfast. It's weird to have someone pestering you for conversations during meals. I'm not used to there being another person in the flat.

But it's good, it is lovely to see her.

Morning Kate, say hi to yr mum from me.

FuXoR the watercooler, I came into work today and the COFFEE MACHINE HAD DISAPPEARED! Oh noes! A big stonking expanse of formica where the coffee machine should be....

OH NOES NO COFFEE, AARRGGGHHH!!!

Our watercooler still isn't fixed, but one of my colleagues has been drinking it all through the Pestilence and appears to be fine.

My sister made me see 'The Holiday' at the cinema on Saturday. I want that two an a half hours of my life back, although I'd quite like to visit the mysterious Surrey Cotswolds.

Other things that suck: people who say they'll write you back later, and then don't.

OK, I get the message. You don't actually have any interest in continuing the friendship, you just don't want to think that I "hate" you. Whatevs.

x-post - Surrey Cotswolds? Eh? What on earth?

Are we still dancing on the 22nd? My mum says she will come, though she will not dance.

luckily the machine in the other pantry is alive and well. A slightly longer walk but at least I'm still functioning.

Would I be right in thinking you intend to tease yr bro coz Hamish = James in Scotlandish?

Yes we are, I think my sister and brother are going to come too. Possibly others (Emsk, did you tell Katie and Emma, the russian etc. ?)

Wow, what a weekend. I'll just say I have no need for vicarious FP tales. But keep them coming (ooer) anyway.

An amusing thing happened this weekend, I'll start a thread about it in full. Because why not. (clue: Newspapers)

I have a problem this morning. I've come into work AND I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I'M DOING HERE! I mean, there' no clue as to what work I'm supposed to do, no emails telling me to do stuff . . . yet I KNOW there's something important I need to be getting on with. I've been keeping myself busy running week-end reports, but I'm gonna run out of those soon . . .

sounds like a good opportunity to say - Swan 1.00?