Watercooler Sub Zero: Ice Capades

I am waiting for my mum to ring me and tell me which train she'll be on. Or maybe I should just go to London Bridge. I don't know. Knowing her, she will forget to bring the phone entirely. Argh!

Cavuto is basically who Colbert is trying to ape most closely. That southern Hick, 'I am for controlling immigration so we never have a muslim majority in the House' was excruciating. Cavuto just isn't funny like O'Reilly.

i'm so bored with the u.s.a.

someone on another board is banging on abt how he has the hotz for k8 bush, and it made me thingk of the vermorels. Whatever happened to them? Weird, weird ppl.

vermorels?

Right, I'm out of here shortly.

Everybody have a fantastic Winter Consumerfest!

I'll try to check in occasionally, and I'll be at the Betwixt FAP.

Hope yer groovy!

Fred and Judy Vermorel. Pop theorists and TERRIBLE writers first known from punk. Fred wrote a creepy book about Kate Moss as an erotic totem last year.

Ellison handled it all with good grace and said it was time for Virgil Goode (the hayseed's name) to have "a little Civics lesson". I saw this on CNN, where they pointed out that KE could trace his American roots back to like 1749 or something.

So much of the "news" on these channels is non-stories with Free! editorializing! by Botox clones who seem to speak about, say, Donald Trump v. Rosie O'Donnell with an attention-hunger that borders on the perverted.

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see you shortly for mulled cider and other goodies

fred and judy vermorel, they were a husband/wife team of gutter/exploitative music/kultur writers in the '80's. Their high point was probably "starlust" in which they put out adverts in Sounds/NME/MM etc asking for pop start fan's fantasies, and printed the best ones in a book, real headfucking stuff, some of it, then they became somewhat creepily obsessed w/kate bush, who was a bit more prolific then, obv. I've never read the book they came out with, but supposedly it was totally crazed from beginning to end.

The craziest thing they have is the wierd hypno loop of clips they have playing next to the interviewee in his DVE box. (tatty Koran, muslim praying, Muslims waving Flags, Swearing in with Old Glory in the background)

That is odd, what channel?

It is a non-story (but one I've been commed to write about) in the sense that the official swearing-in has no book to oath over and the one where they do swear on a book is private, at their office. Ellison is basically refusing to call the guy a bigot because they've never met but the essence of his response is GET ONE CONSTITUTION.

That was on Fox, whilst Cavuto was talking to the Cracker.

You are literally watching yesterday's news, then. Mom's got Breakfast Fox or somesuch on. If you wanna see Ellison try CNN.

Happy Christmas, everyone! Hopefully our severs will be fine being left alone for a week…

Merry Christmas Watercooler!

I am occupying myself on Christmas Day by browsing OKCupid - I just randomly found Emsk's profile on there, and recognised her from the bee-in-mouth photo.

Merry chritmas. I am occupying my time by drinking the brandy that did not go in dinner.

Merry Christmas Ed and Watercooler - am at my sister's new place watching a 7 snd 6-year-old rip through presents. Drunk soon I hope.

Well drunk now.

I'm as sober as I ever get, I think.

Hope everyone had a nice Christmas.

Can I get my money back if I didn't? ;)

No, you just get to try again at orthodox christmas.

Good Christmas here, topped off by arrival of best friend's family late last night.

We will have a bit of Boxing Day celebrations later as BF's dad is ancient and English and regales us with stories of actual boxing-up of gifts for the family's servants and so on; it's like the missing link to the Victorian/Edwardian era. BF's mum is also 70 today.

Currently own mother watching endless news cycles on Fox about beauty contestants which I find hypocritical: 'you'll only wear skivvies in public when WE say so, Missy!'

Hello watercooler, merry Christmas and a happy - oh, never mind. All Xmas feeling I had has been deleted by the first ten minutes of being back at sodding work.

Firstly, some joker has put a sweet wrapper in my fan meaning it makes a horrible whirry sound when I turn it on. I work in an office where the women are made of icicles and so are permanently cold (hence the heating always on Max) so I use my fan regularly. I spent the first five minutes cursing in a mostly unchristian manner the comedian who figures this might be good.

Anyway, two broken pencils later and sweet wrapper is out. I log on to my machine to find some fucker's hacked into my ebay account and selling DVDs! Little House on the Prairie and Six Feet Under box sets, apparently. I also got an email saying that ebay had noticed weird things happening to my account, has cancelled the bad orders, and reset my password. Blimey.

In short, not a happy start - I'm stressed, tired and annoyed. As is the rest of the office, looking round.

I dunno who else is here today. I may log on and post to myself ala k8 the gr8, I have a feeling conversation will be sparse today.

And somebody's left loads of Mars Heroes on my desk. Nobody likes the Mars ones, why do they put them in? They must be as expensive to make as the others. Just put in more Fudge.

Perhaps you should try and melt their cold cold hearts with some of that god old fashioned Johnny B charm.

and enjoy the BT tower looking like a robot

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Freeze the mini mars and put them in ice-cream.

Hi Ed! I've tried using the old charm, but it's deserted me. I have not the strength or inclination to be charming, which isn't like me at all.

Ice cream's not a bad idea. Or even turn it into some kind of cookie . . . not bad!

Fudge rather than Mars? That's just crazy talk.

I suppose you're a Picnic apologist.

Yes. Yes I am. Much nicer than so-called "Lion" bars.

I think we can all agree that Maltesers are over-rated.

Yeah, sickly.

Madness unless you are specifically refering to the over chocolatey malteaser shrapnel found in heros boxes.

oh yeh, the heroes type. The Malteser Original is great.

They need to make a Heroes Double Decker.

I want Mounty bootd

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Ed, what is that with the BT Tower? Wowwwww.

Morning. I'm not at work, but I'm online anyway. My life is that interesting.

Bah, just settling into a nice hungover day making quince jelly and now I have to go into the office.

morning! *bounce bounce bounce*

god i hate national express

i think we have an MOUSE in teh HOUSE argh! i know there are all those mouseintehhouse threads on real-ilx, was the outcome of all of them that basically unless you can get a cat (i can't) the plug-in high-pitched-whistle-emitting thingies are the best, unless you want to be disposing of mangled mice?

yeah. there are also the "humane" ones that trap them alive so you can set them free but in reality the mouse will just get so patrified to the point of wetting itself and die of heart attack. i used one and it was awful.

hi kids welcome back. things are just winding down here. i have read the whole internet (2X) in the last four days. today we were given our corporate new year's gifts - a backpack and a bottle of champagne - and the caviar poacher appeared with his monthly bags of goodies. 6 quid-ish for little over a quarter kilo of red. (i should probably feel guilty, but as this is probably the first time i've EVER bought caviar and other people were buying a kilo or more of the stuff, i don't)

Sold a bike today.

Had thrilling dream about haunted pub last night.

Watched the following things on TV over xmas:

Harry Potter film (surprisingly enjoyable)
Dr Who xmas special (borderline ok-ish I suppose)
Prog about fetish scene in Berlin (mildly amusing)
Alan Tichmarsh on brit history/wildlife etc (very enjoyable)
A couple of episodes of "the world at war" (probably still the best tv series ever made, also the theme tune is incredibly good)
about 10,000 TV adverts for furniture wahehouses (WTF?)
2/3 of that Metallica movie (v enjoyable)
Documentary about courtney love (ms love surprisingly likeable & rowr also)

Also, a bunch of shit stuff I can't even remember now.

I didn't eat too much.

It was pretty boring, really, but not as bad as I ph34r3d.

All those Harry Potter movies have been good, Pash, not sure why you'd be surprised.

I didn't enjoy the book much!

Harry Potter's one of those weird franchises (to be honest, I can't think of another one) where books<We had mice not long ago emsk. Won't the council sort them out for you? They came round and sorted them nicely for us.

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― Johnney B has zeros off the line (stigoftdumpilx), Thursday, 28 December 2006 14:24 (seventeen years ago) link