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A fringe benefit of working in a belgian office appears to be pretty good coffee and an endless supply of really good chocolate biscuits.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 16:30 (seventeen years ago) link

gonna have to start watercooler -1 soon

― Sandbox Scourage, Tuesday, 28 November 2006 16:31 (seventeen years ago) link

I doubt we'll hit 1000 posts in a week. There aren't that many pointy noses in London.

man, I'm jealous. I want chocolate biscuits.

― masonic boom (kate), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 16:33 (seventeen years ago) link

The biscuit seems to be but a carrier for a brick thick layer of chocolate on top.

Further 'coolers here shoul incrent in i.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 16:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh! I know those biscuits. You can get them here, though I forget the name. They are the best thing ever for dipping in coffee or tea.

― masonic boom (kate), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 17:00 (seventeen years ago) link

It's funny, I never dip chocolate biscuits in tea on the few occasions I have it. Digestives or Rich Tea biscuits or Ginger Nuts on the other hand get dunked(not the choco versions though).

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 17:59 (seventeen years ago) link

I suppose the chocolate biscuits are better in coffee, really.

But anything that goes in coffee, I'm perfectly happy to dip in tea.

― masonic boom (kate), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 18:08 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't like coffee and I very rarely have tea, but I have been having a cup of tea before bed several times in the last couple of weeks.
My dad likes his coffee though, my mum prefers tea but occasionally has coffee.

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 18:19 (seventeen years ago) link

I actually used to post much much more on ILM, but after a while I got tired of feeling like everyone had already discussed everything before.

― mitya (mitya), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 06:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Morning cooler residents. I got myself so wired on office coffee yesterday that I spent till 2am reading jane austen. Maybe it is time for a fiction jag. Recommend me some books (although I think if fiction is the order of the day then beyond black or my name is red are on the cards next).

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 09:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Good morning! I did some aromatherapy this morning and now I feel SPARKLING and ENERGISED. I never thought that stuff worked.

After Pride and Prejudice, you should read Thackeray's Vanity Fair, Ed. It is the dark, evil, hillarious Julie Burchill side of Austen's world.

― masonic boom (kate), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 10:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Morning!

In the past few months, I've seen a few people. And all those relationships have involved me travelling off long distances to meet people.

I've got a date, of sorts, tonight. And for the first time ever, someone is willing to travel a fair way to meet *me*.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 10:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Robert Tressel beckons as well

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 10:26 (seventeen years ago) link

It is going to be almost impossible to keep mine mind on work today.

― masonic boom (kate), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 10:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Rob Tres! It's like "Auf Wiedersehen Pet" with less jokes.

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 10:59 (seventeen years ago) link

I laffed when the foreman killed himself.

― Domino Man (Modal Fugue), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 11:00 (seventeen years ago) link

I know nothing of this in the icen forests of Holborn.

― masonic boom (kate), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 11:00 (seventeen years ago) link

It is going to be almost impossible to keep mine mind on work today.

You're not the only one!

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 11:08 (seventeen years ago) link

Ed just messaged from his BOOZE KROOZE.

Mmmm, strawberry beer.

― masonic boom (kate), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 11:24 (seventeen years ago) link

It's far too long since I've had some.

(ie, that trip to London at the end of June)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 11:25 (seventeen years ago) link

No work for me! I truly have nothing to do today.

― g0000blar (g00blar), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 11:25 (seventeen years ago) link

I am wagging it from work 2day. We was booze-croozing up Ullswater on Saturday. Mulled wine mmmmmmmmmmm [/Homer]

― Domino Man (Modal Fugue), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 11:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Nope, another message came through said no strawberry. I asked for apple and peach instead.

― masonic boom (kate), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 11:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Strawberry Beer sounds intriguing. I had garlic beer once, and it was truly vile.

Morning everybodypeeps! Is the person coming to see you the person you went to visit recently, FP? If so, I hope that all continues to work out well for you both :)

I am looking forward to the weekend too - my husband is taking me off to Bath ~~for a dirty weekend~~ to do some Christmas shopping on Friday and Saturday. Two whole days without kids!

― C J (C J), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 11:32 (seventeen years ago) link

I should have some coffee and FOCUS FOCUS FOCUS and maybe set up some new users and change some account managers or something.

But I'd rather choose pictures of my cute bandmates.

― masonic boom (kate), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 11:33 (seventeen years ago) link

I love ~~dirty weekends~~ Bath.

― nu_onimo (nu_onimo), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 11:33 (seventeen years ago) link

What is a dirty weekend? I can't remember.

― masonic boom (kate), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 11:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Is the person coming to see you the person you went to visit recently, FP?

Ah. No.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 11:47 (seventeen years ago) link

None of us can keep track of FP's affairs.

― masonic boom (kate), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 11:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, sorry FP! :(

We've been married for yonks, so a 'dirty weekend' for us usually just means one where we get very muddy taking the dog for a walk across the fields. Hopefully, it won't be like that this weekend (we are not taking the dog with us).

― C J (C J), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 11:57 (seventeen years ago) link

None of us can keep track of FP's affairs.

Including me, I think sometimes.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 12:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Today's traffic jam posting comes courtesy of a raising canal bridge in aalst, incidentally next to the tate and lyle factory.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 12:15 (seventeen years ago) link

jam ... sugar ....

― C J (C J), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 12:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Tate and Lyle are stalking you this week, Ed.

La la la, the list of books I've read before I die took up some time. Kinda crap list, though. (And quite, quite male, but that's to be expected.)

― masonic boom (kate), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 12:44 (seventeen years ago) link

The funny thing for me was actually noticing how much of the "female canon" (such as we'll call it) I had actually read.

― mitya (mitya), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 14:26 (seventeen years ago) link

What female canon? You mean, like every Austen or Atwood or Eliot book ever written?

― masonic boom (kate), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 14:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Neil from Dandelion Radio came up with the most absurd way of dealing with my crush on PBW ever:

that I should actually TALK to him.

Utterly absurd! I could never do that!

― masonic boom (kate), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 14:48 (seventeen years ago) link

HAHAHAHAHA!

― sandbox suzy, Wednesday, 29 November 2006 15:07 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost

no, i just meant the specific women-authored books on that list (a fair number of which now seem reasonably obscure to me).

― mitya (mitya), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 15:08 (seventeen years ago) link

You know he might have a point (Neil).

― g0000blar (g00blar), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 15:17 (seventeen years ago) link

::hides behind amplifier::

― masonic boom (kate), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 15:18 (seventeen years ago) link

omg just do it.

― Sir Gregory of St.Kitts (g-kit), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 15:20 (seventeen years ago) link

I can't actually *talk* to cute boys. They are not like other mortals. They laugh at my puny efforts.

Besides, whenever I try to talk to a cute boy, my brain totally malfunctions, and I either start going "ugh, me like you, want give you thing, ugh" like a cavewoman who has no concept of speech or else I start immediately tearing off about 4 dimensional modular forms or something completely indecipherable.

No, it's all a very bad idea.

― masonic boom (kate), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 15:22 (seventeen years ago) link

just forget it then.

― Sir Gregory of St.Kitts (g-kit), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 15:24 (seventeen years ago) link

"ugh, me like you, want give you thing, ugh"

This sometimes works.

― nu_onimo (nu_onimo), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 15:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Either that, or if I have the slightest amount of alcohol in my system, I become a totally arrogant egomonster and start trying to hit on cute boy by saying totally offensive things like "Huh, you're a pretty good guitarist... FOR A BOY!!!" and then wonder why they are running away from me and not laughing at my funnies and letting me buy them drinks as an excuse to stare at their eyelashes.

― masonic boom (kate), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 15:27 (seventeen years ago) link

gnngh, who are the mods on sandbox?

― Sir Gregory of St.Kitts (g-kit), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 15:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Why do you need a mod?

Because I'm painfully useless with men?

― masonic boom (kate), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 15:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Argh, someone just left their drink in the coffeemachine and I sprayed scalding hot tea all over myself trying to get it out. Bah!

― masonic boom (kate), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 15:40 (seventeen years ago) link

stet are the mods on sandbox

― nu_onimo (nu_onimo), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 15:41 (seventeen years ago) link

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