Watercooler Sub Zero: Ice Capades

::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?

My brother's name is Hamish, which means James in Scotlandish, yes. It's an old family name, there are lots of them in the family. He decided to call himself James for a while, but Merkins insisted on contracting this to "Jim" which he hated. So he started calling himself Ian which was supposed to be *my* name. It could have been worse - mine uncle unded up being called "Bangkok Jock" apparently. I never knew the derivation of his nickname, as I thought Jock was Scotlandish for John.

Does anyone know if there's going to be a betwixt Xmas and New Years Freaky Trigger pubcrawl? If not, can we organise a Sandbox pubcrawl next week?

I don't know what I'm supposed to be doing today, either, but I've just arranged a meeting with my project manager for 2pm. Hurrah.

I don't even want to live vicariously through FP. There is no sex. Anywhere. With anyone. I'm feeling very bereft of crush and done with it all right now.

Is there still food in the swan? I haven't been in for ages. I'm up for a lunchtime meet-up if I can have a cheese omelette.

Kate, has your crush left you now, or is it still clinging on, like the slightly runny nose at the end of a cold?

I have no access to my crush right now and that's no fun. Also, my mum tells me it's horribly Freudian and therefore Sick and Wrong. But Sick and Wrong Freudianness only makes crushes more fun!

Though I am sick of hearing about my brother's marriage, and that just makes me want to have wild flings with inappropriate boy toys. Which is never going to happen, so I'm just bored with the whole thing.

I still have the end of a cold, too. I went out with wet hair to meet my mum at the airport on Saturday morning and have had a sinusy headache ever since.

think I might ring the Swan and find out if they do cheese omelettes. If they don't would be prepared to eat other things (please say yes, please say yes).

the number of the Swan is v similar to the main no. of this office which makes me wonder whether Margaret gets phone calls saying "the Arkells 3B won't be delivered til Monday" or "do you open all day on Fridays?"

Sinousy headaches Kate? Welcome to my world. For me winter is just one long sinousy headache.

There's a competition on the Bombardier website to win a DSLR or a cask of beer. You have to submit photos of England. Can you guys help me decide which of my flickr photos I should submit?

Has Your Crush Left You Now Or Is It Still Clinging On - track 4 on the new morrissey album.

Wild flings would be fun, but I have a horrible feeling I just want to settle down with an elven type that I can watch HIGNFY and play scrabble with.

I would be happy with NOT cheese omelette, just any kind of food would be good. I don't be touching the devil drink at lunch anyway, I'm too tired and bleugh.

1.00 it is then.

Jarvis was great on Saturday at the Roundhouse. He did a cover of Silver Machine by Hawkwind!!

Mmmm, cheese omelettes. My mum bought me a frying pan. Maybe I should make one.

Oi! he nicked Silver Machine from me. He's never in his life talked about being a Hawkwind fan. Grrrrr.

A crush still clinging on is almost worst than no crush at all. Like, you cling hopelessly to a crush, even though you know you're never going to get anything out of it, not even urgent conversations about Dylan lyrics and songwriting, but you can't really find anything or anyone else to obsess on just yet.

And I actually like his music, that's just vaguely... I don't know.

Photos of England? Hrrrrmmmm.

Shortlist

http://flickr.com/photos/dotcommunist/307015288/
http://flickr.com/photos/dotcommunist/307015689/
http://flickr.com/photos/dotcommunist/307012456/
http://flickr.com/photos/dotcommunist/180074289/
http://flickr.com/photos/dotcommunist/177532352/

Also, this one is for Kate

http://flickr.com/photos/dotcommunist/224348580/

He introduced it by saying that it was a song "recorded thirty years ago in this very place".

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Ed is there any other criteria besides England (you've got a LOT of photos on flickr, i just realized)

I like the rainbow (though rainbows are such a cliche) and the narrowboat best.