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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

Is that Beth Orton or Joanna Newsome? Joanne Newsom has a pretty pointed nose, but is too gelflinglike to be actually attractive. Beth Orton, however, rowr!

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 1 December 2006 14:23 (seventeen years ago) link

OMG at teh pointy-nosed girls!

(Sorry to go all lex, but who's Joanne Newsom?)

― Johnney B has zeros off the line (stigoftdumpilx), Friday, 1 December 2006 14:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, you'd love her, JB. Let me google something up...

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 1 December 2006 14:28 (seventeen years ago) link

"Beth Orton"

Is the right answer.

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Friday, 1 December 2006 14:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Harp-playing gelfling girl:

http://www.dragcity.com/press/pimages/photos/dc263ph01.jpg

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 1 December 2006 14:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Uh . .. um . . .. hi . . . . uh . . . so, do you like Novel X?

― Johnney B has zeros off the line (stigoftdumpilx), Friday, 1 December 2006 14:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Anyone want to scare up some boyish girls for me.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 1 December 2006 14:33 (seventeen years ago) link

She's inherited Beth's old haircut!

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Friday, 1 December 2006 14:35 (seventeen years ago) link

:-)

Ha ha, it's hilarious when I know my friends' "type" as well as mine own. I could spot Ed going all gooey over a bassist on Wednesday as easily as he could spot me going all gooey over Gooblar's band.

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 1 December 2006 14:35 (seventeen years ago) link

i love joanna newsom. i want to listen to her NOW but i am too busy listening to viva voce, can't bring myself to switch it off.

― emsk ( emsk ), Friday, 1 December 2006 14:36 (seventeen years ago) link

For Ed:

http://www.mintrecs.com/mint/files/media/the_organ/organ01_lowres.jpg

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 1 December 2006 14:37 (seventeen years ago) link

"Hello, Ed, we are here to knit you a new tent, then possibly chop some firewood and have you cook us up some stew on our campfire!"

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 1 December 2006 14:38 (seventeen years ago) link

When I was young and foolish enough to do such things, I nominated Beth Orton in the FHM Top 100 Sexy Women of the Year list.

She wasn't placed.

― Johnney B has zeros off the line (stigoftdumpilx), Friday, 1 December 2006 14:39 (seventeen years ago) link

I had forgotten about the cuteness of the organ.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 1 December 2006 14:40 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.billions.com/artists/joannanew/images/newsome_highrez.jpg

Why, hello Johnney B! Will you save me from these wolves?

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 1 December 2006 14:40 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.partydomain.co.uk/d-commerce/media/bpartbignose.jpg

― nu_onimo (nu_onimo), Friday, 1 December 2006 14:41 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.hisplacecommunitychurch.com/images/Bruce_bald_and_big_nose_2_copy.jpg

― nu_onimo (nu_onimo), Friday, 1 December 2006 14:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Beth Orton looks a heck of a lot like my former bassist:

http://www.popboks.com/img/intervju/bethorton.jpg

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 1 December 2006 14:42 (seventeen years ago) link

that man is configured for supersonic speeds

― Ed (dali), Friday, 1 December 2006 14:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Or Willow from Buffy:

http://www.underexposed.org.uk/lollies/lol5.jpg

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 1 December 2006 14:44 (seventeen years ago) link

(She does also look like my wife)

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Friday, 1 December 2006 14:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Jane or Beth?

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 1 December 2006 14:52 (seventeen years ago) link

or drummer canuck (whose name I forget after all these years)

― Ed (dali), Friday, 1 December 2006 14:53 (seventeen years ago) link

The first ever gig I went to was a Beth Orton gig. She was supported by Travis, who were rubbish.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 1 December 2006 14:55 (seventeen years ago) link

LL Matt Hew?

awwww, poor Travis. Their bassist is HOTT.

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 1 December 2006 14:55 (seventeen years ago) link

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