Watercooler 0: Nothing Is A Problem For Me

I heard that we were in the new issue of MusicMart. But I went to the shop and they only had the old issue. Bah!

Bah! Go on, you know you want to etc etc.

ha ha, I haven't had a chance to read it yet because my colleagues are handing it around. But it's got the naughty picture.

Ha, I thought of you, I must admit.

they had one of those devices for wrapping christmas trees - a large metal funnel-shaped object where you push the christmas tree though it, pointy bit first, and it tightly wraps it in this meshy fabric stuff? Kind of like a sausage=making machine, but bigger, now I think about it. I looked at it and it occured to me that it looked just about big enough to put a person through, & they'd come out of the other side all wrapped up and, er, you know.

http://static.flickr.com/73/175386773_1671f59cc8.jpg

Related news: I just volunteered to model for a photoshoot and got a reply back straight away: "ooh, you'd be ideal". My ego is feeling all puffed-up right now.

Pointy-nosed anime slash graphix?

My.

God.

I've just realised that PBW *did* friend me. I thought he denied me. And I've posted stupid surveys with questions about "who are you crushing on?" and crap like that. ARGH! ARGH! red face of shame, argh, embarrassment, I am teh stupid.

::cringes::

I'm going to go and die now.

Oh god, my face is burning with shame.

Best insight: One student, writing about Shakespeare's Sonnet 20 (the one in which the speaker bemoans the fact that his beloved--a man--is, in fact a man. The speaker suggests that nature fell in love with this creature, and so wanting the beloved for herself, makes him a man by adding "one thing".), noticed that, unlike the majority of the sonnets, this one has 11 syllables a line (instead of the usual 10). She theorized that the extra syllable at the end of each line represented that "one thing added". Brilliant!

I remember looking around the hall at my fellow uni students on graduation day, and wondering who amongst us would go on to greatness of any sort in the future (answer = none, really!)

Just a thought: if this thread breasts 1000 posts before ILX3 goes live, will it be replaced with Watercooler Thread -1?

Ah, that sounds great, Gooblar - though reminds me of something Ian linked to on my blog, ha ha.

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/39205

you couldn't have said "reaches", could you?

OTM

I retry.

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y161/MarkGrout/Rainbow.jpg

I want a boat.

And who on earth left a message on the band MySpace saying I was "dreamy"? Come on, fess up. No one in their right mind would say that unless they were taking the piss.

From Jersey, apparently, but no idea.

My school physics techer said this was rubbish and it was better to just shout ROY-G-BIV! He would come into class in the morning and shout "YOUNG ROY-G-BIV RULES!" - it sounded stupid at the time but it obviously worked as I remember it some 20-odd years later.

Why do we bother with this "indigo-violet" nonsense anyway? Look at the rainbow - it's quite clearly red-orange-yellow-green-blue-purple-more purple. "indigo-violet" is just poncey pretentious rubbish, the kind of colours you only get in clothing catalogues where they think "blue" sounds too common so they sell you "azure" jeans.

Weird.

The "indigo" was added by Newton I think because it was the thing at the time that all natural things should come in 7 - like the known planets at the time. It was just one of those "magic numbers".

Azure.

Some day I will meet someone with Azure Eyes, that would be the coolest thing ever.

(It's almost my favourite colour, as well. Except that is actually Cobalt, which is close, but darker.)

How does sugar arrive at the Docklands? Like, in what form? It obviously needs to be refined, but is it solid, liquid, super saturated sludge? Or big hunks of sugar cane and/or beets?