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beer tonight - mebbe - i am thinking of either going to see the rebeccas somewhere in whitechapel (don't know anything about them, the belgian wants to go) or future of the left (ex-mclusky) @ lumi. where are you thinking of drinking?

― emsk ( emsk ), Friday, 1 December 2006 12:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh damn, that's only 3 days after my wrist operation. I'll probably be wearing a brace and not very mobile with my hand.

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 1 December 2006 12:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Wherever there is beer and company. Xpost

― Ed (dali), Friday, 1 December 2006 13:04 (seventeen years ago) link

you don't need a hand to drink

― tissp! (tissp!), Friday, 1 December 2006 13:07 (seventeen years ago) link

And hott boys:

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b364/LennonWoreChucks/Picture%20Stash/sm1.jpg

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 1 December 2006 13:10 (seventeen years ago) link

x-post!

I do so need hands to drink! How else am I going to hold the booze? And I refuse to drink booze through a straw. (Especially magic straws like Suzy tried the other night.)

But no. Hott boys shall never lead me into the Chasm of the Delayed Aftereffects again.

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 1 December 2006 13:11 (seventeen years ago) link

I will hold the bottle of tequila for you! We can get a funnel and everything!

― tissp! (tissp!), Friday, 1 December 2006 13:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Get behind me, Satan.

AND NO GRABBING MY ASS WHILE YOU'RE BACK THERE.

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 1 December 2006 13:15 (seventeen years ago) link

you have another hand kate! unless... unless... i've been missing something?

― emsk ( emsk ), Friday, 1 December 2006 13:17 (seventeen years ago) link

That is my left hand. My left hand does not know what my right hand is doing. That's how I play guitar, after all!

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 1 December 2006 13:18 (seventeen years ago) link

TSM boys are always on time. They have watches!

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b364/LennonWoreChucks/Picture%20Stash/sm2.jpg

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 1 December 2006 13:20 (seventeen years ago) link

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/d/d5/250px-FlavaFlav.jpg
pwnd

― teh_kit (g-kit), Friday, 1 December 2006 13:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Kate, we will pour the beer down your throat for you. No hands necessary.

However, Clerkenwell is also far for me... this week (wiggles eyebrows suggestively)!

― substitute, mitya for him (mitya), Friday, 1 December 2006 13:23 (seventeen years ago) link

ha ha! x-post

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 1 December 2006 13:25 (seventeen years ago) link

oh god i'm so bored today

― tissp! (tissp!), Friday, 1 December 2006 13:27 (seventeen years ago) link

i am seriously tempted to start playing civ right here, right now

― tissp! (tissp!), Friday, 1 December 2006 13:28 (seventeen years ago) link

lunch suggestions for under £1, anyone?

(since i woz robbed)

― tissp! (tissp!), Friday, 1 December 2006 13:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Not allowed to talk about Civ here, tissp. The rule is "take it to ILG".

― teh_kit (g-kit), Friday, 1 December 2006 13:30 (seventeen years ago) link

I have so much to do today... arggh. But can't start any of it just yet.

You can get an egg mayo sammich at Sainsburys for 95p, I think.

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 1 December 2006 13:35 (seventeen years ago) link

4 packets of noodles.

― emsk ( emsk ), Friday, 1 December 2006 13:37 (seventeen years ago) link

have bad chest, up the last few nights coughing & spluttering, got appointement @ doctors this am, 10.40. finally got seen @ 11.50. annoyed.

― Norman Phay (Pashmina), Friday, 1 December 2006 13:37 (seventeen years ago) link

hmmm, i'm limited to tesco sandwich wise, but they may have equally cheap ones, assuming the hoardes haven't eaten them all already! the noodles are a good plan, but i have no way of cooking them (i tried to do it in the microwave once and it was a terrible disaster. we don't speak of that anymore)

― tissp! (tissp!), Friday, 1 December 2006 13:39 (seventeen years ago) link

fucking hell pash, that's pretty bad

― tissp! (tissp!), Friday, 1 December 2006 13:39 (seventeen years ago) link

I was going to say, why are you complaining about being seen ten minutes late, then saw the hour. Jeez! That is bad!

Happens, though, when one of the doctors is off sick, and the others end up having to take up their patients as well as their own. That's what happened last time I went to the Dr.

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 1 December 2006 13:41 (seventeen years ago) link

The rule is "take it to ILG"

but but there is no ILG to take it to :(

― nu_onimo (nu_onimo), Friday, 1 December 2006 13:41 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't make the rules, I'm just quoting from experience.

― teh_kit (g-kit), Friday, 1 December 2006 13:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Board's lack of existence is no excuse in the eyes of the law, etc.

Get well, Pash. Sounds like Toker's cough.

― teh_kit (g-kit), Friday, 1 December 2006 13:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Go make another thread to talk about videogames - in fact there is indeed a "ILG refugees" thread.

This one is for flirting and bitching and pointy nosed boys and Victorian novels.

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 1 December 2006 13:44 (seventeen years ago) link

i am (apparently) a pointy nosed boy so this means i can talk about whatever i like and still be on-side. word.

― tissp! (tissp!), Friday, 1 December 2006 13:46 (seventeen years ago) link

the first thing the doctor (who is hott, btw) asked was "how much are you smoking"? I was like "I don't smoke at all"! It's a sinus infection, and the goo from it is trickling down the back of my throat at night
[/TMI]

I asked he why the appt was so late and her answer was (sing-song voice) "oh it's just friday"

eh.

― Norman Phay (Pashmina), Friday, 1 December 2006 13:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Don't even try talking about videogames, TISSP or you'll be out on your pointy-nosed ass.

x-post ask Emsk about the CITRICIDAL for getting rid of the sinus thing.

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 1 December 2006 13:48 (seventeen years ago) link

*holds circle*

― nu_onimo (nu_onimo), Friday, 1 December 2006 13:49 (seventeen years ago) link

i thought this was originally "UK Watercooler Conversation". Why are we not allowed to talk about video games at work, by the watercooler? There's no rule like that at my place of employment.

Or am I missing a trick?

― teh_kit (g-kit), Friday, 1 December 2006 13:49 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.fbtb.net/robert/m8.jpg

― nu_onimo (nu_onimo), Friday, 1 December 2006 13:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Though Citricidal is *the* nastiest thing I've ever tasted in my life. It's up there with earwax, I think, for utterly foul and rank.

It made my face go all puckered up and icky even as I was drinking fresh water from a glass someone else had had some in!

Maybe it's secretly made from earwax, I don't know.

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 1 December 2006 13:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Don't even try talking about videogames, TISSP or you'll be out on your pointy-nosed ass.

rowr

― tissp! (tissp!), Friday, 1 December 2006 13:52 (seventeen years ago) link

OK, how would you guys like it if I went over on the Gamers thread, and started talking about cute boys and prog rock and posting photos of pointy nosed boys?

You wouldn't like it at all, would you? So keep it off here.

Don't like it? Make your own thread.

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 1 December 2006 13:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Because it's called UK WATERCOOLER CONVERSATION.

I think it must be a misnomer.
Why not just call the next one "This is the thread where kate and kate's friends talk about kate."?
At least people won't come by under the impression that they're free to talk about whatever subject interests them.

― teh_kit (g-kit), Friday, 1 December 2006 13:54 (seventeen years ago) link

The gamers thread isn't a "general chat and moan about any old crap for office drones" thread. This, allegedly, is.

xpost kit otm

― nu_onimo (nu_onimo), Friday, 1 December 2006 13:56 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.fbtb.net/robert/m8.jpg

― nu_onimo (nu_onimo), Friday, 1 December 2006 13:57 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.trustedreviews.com/images/article/inline/3450-6.jpg

― teh_kit (g-kit), Friday, 1 December 2006 13:58 (seventeen years ago) link

You know what, Kit? You have a point. Where's that shout for the moderator thread? You're clearly not happy here, I don't understand why you stick around.

Why do I find myself explaining the same thing to you, thread after thread?

I am having the last of the curry for lunch. With chocaccino.

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 1 December 2006 14:04 (seventeen years ago) link

"Tempers flared by the Watercooler today, as..."

On a completely different topic - did I ask this already a few months ago? - does anyone know whether I, as a non-UK resident, can (easily) open up a UK bank account?

― substitute, mitya for him (mitya), Friday, 1 December 2006 14:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Not very easily, Mitya. there's all kinds of hoops and forms and double checks and crap to prove you're not money laundering - even if you *ARE* a UK resident!

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 1 December 2006 14:09 (seventeen years ago) link

In your dreams buddy. Its hard enough when you are foreign and resident. xpost

― Ed (dali), Friday, 1 December 2006 14:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Requesting that I am banned every time you start a new thread != sticking around.
At the moment, I'm here fighting for consumer rights. This thread is badly labelled, and people are breaking the rules inadvertantly because of it. In my opinion, this needs to be rectified, before more innocent people are named and shamed for breaking rules which they didn't know existed. This is possibly because the rules are made up on the fly.
It's a police state, but at least the water is cool.

― teh_kit (g-kit), Friday, 1 December 2006 14:11 (seventeen years ago) link

My colleague here who works at HSBC tells me that they give out accounts to non-EU types if they bring along -

- a passport
- a letter confirming their UK address (or bill or something like that)
- a letter from their employer saying "Yep, this person isn't a bum"
- their visa

but I guess all banks aren't the same.

― Johnney B has zeros off the line (stigoftdumpilx), Friday, 1 December 2006 14:14 (seventeen years ago) link

I think that some (non-UK based) banks will let you essentially set up a bank account based in their own country, but you can use it in the UK like a UK bank account.

But it's very difficult. Even if you are a student with a visa and all.

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 1 December 2006 14:18 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.go-quick.com/pics/bethnos.JPG
OK, what about pointy-nosed girls?

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Friday, 1 December 2006 14:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Blinkers on!

If anybody can be bothered to ban me from this thread, please do so.
Kate, maybe one day, you'll drive everyone away, and get your wish: a thread all to yourself. Wow.

― teh_kit (g-kit), Friday, 1 December 2006 14:22 (seventeen years ago) link

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