Board’s lack of existence is no excuse in the eyes of the law, etc.
Get well, Pash. Sounds like Toker’s cough.
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.
i am (apparently) a pointy nosed boy so this means i can talk about whatever i like and still be on-side. word.
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
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I asked he why the appt was so late and her answer was (sing-song voice) “oh it’s just friday”
eh.
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.
*holds circle*
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?
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.
Don’t even try talking about videogames, TISSP or you’ll be out on your pointy-nosed ass.
rowr
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.
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.
The gamers thread isn’t a “general chat and moan about any old crap for office drones” thread. This, allegedly, is.
xpost kit otm
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.
“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?
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!
In your dreams buddy. Its hard enough when you are foreign and resident. xpost
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.
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.
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.
OK, what about pointy-nosed girls?
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.
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!
OMG at teh pointy-nosed girls!
(Sorry to go all lex, but who’s Joanne Newsom?)
Oh, you’d love her, JB. Let me google something up...
“Beth Orton”
Is the right answer.
Harp-playing gelfling girl:
Uh . .. um . . .. hi . . . . uh . . . so, do you like Novel X?
Anyone want to scare up some boyish girls for me.
She’s inherited Beth’s old haircut!
:-)
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.
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.
For Ed:
“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!”
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.
I had forgotten about the cuteness of the organ.
Why, hello Johnney B! Will you save me from these wolves?
Beth Orton looks a heck of a lot like my former bassist:
that man is configured for supersonic speeds
Or Willow from Buffy:
(She does also look like my wife)
Jane or Beth?
or drummer canuck (whose name I forget after all these years)
The first ever gig I went to was a Beth Orton gig. She was supported by Travis, who were rubbish.
LL Matt Hew?
awwww, poor Travis. Their bassist is HOTT.
“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”
OH MY GOD. I hope that’s true now, because I tried to do this when I arrived in London five years ago. I had all of the above, PLUS I had a letter from my HSBC branch in Australia saying how fabulous I was. The bastards STILL refused to give me a bank account. As did every other bank.
Dougie Payne... what a hottie:
Separated at birth!
::insert quizzical Lex face::
I have no idea who that is.
Beth, naturally.
xpost, naturally.
Travis bassist hotness = final proof of kate’s mentalism! ;)
Lollies bass-mistress looks like all 4 of my sisters sort of made into one. But a bit younger.
What can I say? He’s go a GREAT nose!
this thread has taken a turn for the strange since i went for lunch
He’s also really really sweet. And he was a fan of the Lollies, which automatically makes him cool! :-P
Is that you, Kate, next the cute bassist?
I hope Johnny likes Joanna, because Beth is MINE. (Or whoever’s—has she had the baby yet?)
Thanks for the bank info. What a nightmare. I need to find a non-US, non-Russian bank. (And no, I am not money laundering. Much.)
What’s everyone doing at the weekend? That’s a suitable water-cooler question.
Me :
Tonight—Quiz + Booze
Tomorrow—Christmas shoppin’ (a.m), Rugby if knee recovers, it should do(p.m), cinema maybe (evening)
Sunday—helping kids with homework, cooking, playing guitar if time.
That was me, next to the cute bassist. :-(
What am I doing this weekend?
Tonight—working.
Tomorrow—Shimura Curves rehearsal! In a STUDIO! (if the ceiling doesn’t leak and Dave Q doesn’t forget)
Sunday—MULLING party! Hurrah!
I hope g00blar got my email about mulling.
Apparently tonight I am drinking beer, as my bipolar friend has decided today that she does not hate me (sure to change shortly after seeing me, no doubt).
Tomorrow I should really try pricing a synth as I think that is what I will get myself from Xmas and I would like to be certain it’s cheaper in London than here.
Sunday I am meeting a real estate agent.
None of these days am I working. (Yay!)
I’m gaming this weekend.
tonight—gig, hopefully, dunno which one. tomorrow—as kate, then someone’s birthday party somewhere off old st. sunday—mulling party & barndancing yay!
Practice & Dodgy Sci Fi Film Night tonight,
playing with mellotron tomorrow, late show at cinema tomorrow night
sunday is free but will probably involve giving a driving lesson and a walk in the country somewhere (assuming the weather is okay)
What synth are you going to get? (buy a nord, they are red)
Tell me which gig, emsk
Gooblar! Come mulling! Bring K! Do not bring Jim if he wants to be a poo-poo head. Also I should remind Matthew and the Payne Sisters that they are to come mulling.
i’m also gaming, in between christmas shopping (for my tree too), cooking fancy things, and hopefully if my mind is up for it a little artwork and xmas card making.
Also tonight: hoping the police aren’t around to notice that I completely failed to change my tax disc this morning
As hott as JN is (and thx to emsk, I approve of her skewed folk whimsy, cheers emsk) I find it vaguely disconcerting that people can “name my type”. I don’t know what that says about me, or even people who were successfully naming my type.
Marianne (and mitya), apparently HSBC have changed a lot in the last 5 years, so you should be fine. The account you’ll get is rather basic (No overdraft, basic ATM card, that kinda thing) but it’ll be there.
I worse a 3-pc suit into work today for no reason other than I wanted tom, and even if I say so myself, I look pretty damn good. This waistcoat is getting quite hot now, but I’m too psyched by my own suaveness to take it off.
I have an eye for beauty, and a head for patterns. That’s all it says.
3-piece suits *are* hott. And hot.
Yes, remind them, and mr DC should you run into them. Johnny B, come to London on Sunday. I want to see Matthew do a dosey do.
My weekend plans:
Tonight: a quiet night in cos I’m knackered, not getting home from the photoshoot until 1am last night.
Tomorrow: off to Donna Nook to look at the newborn seal pups
Tomorrow night: a cosy night in with DVDs
Sunday: Sheffield munch
but a tacit understanding that it goes no further
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
;p
I have myspaced him about it. I shall remind the Payne SisX0rs at rehearsal tomorrow.
x-post, keep your nose out of my blog!
My nose is out of everyone’s blogs
I was talking to TISSP!
But maybe that’s the difference. I *know* that TISSP! has a girlfriend, and that she’s lovely and I heartily approve of and like her. So I know that it’s So Not Gonna Happen.
PBW is kinda like a loose cannon WRT his Situation, and perhaps that would make the same sort of thing completely dangerous in a way in a way that it just isn’t with TISSP!, as lovely and pointy-nosed as he is.
I posted a very good shaggy dog story to my blog, recently.
Well, I say “very good”. I’m biased because I wrote it. In length-to-crapness-of-punchline ratio, it’s very good, I reckon.
xpost
i would think pointy noses were welcome in your blog, kate :)
how cool is tissp for playing with a mellotron over the weekend!
i am off, ladies and gents. have a one-der-ful one!
Yeah, but you never post the PUNCHLINE to your shaggy dog story.
(Unless you have done so in the hour or so since I read your blog this morning.)
...or maybe that’s the point.
I’ve decided to keep my PBW navelgazing on my blog and out of this thread, so I apologise for that above post.
x-post bye Mitya! Have a good one!
Sorry if I upset you, Kate :(
You didn’t upset me! I was teasing.
I wouldn’t put stuff on my blog if I minded people reading it. I just wanted to keep it there, not here. Cause I’m sure everyone is quite bored of my pathetic (lack of) lovelife by now.
Yeah, but you never post the PUNCHLINE to your shaggy dog story.
The punchline is the very last sentence of part three.
Ah, phew!
I would’ve commented on yr blog but I have no blogger account so thought it easier to post here!
xposts
Bye Mitya!
(OK, I’ve changed my blog settings—I just turned off anonymous posts because I got sick of having to delete crap from wankers and trolls.)
I still don’t get it, FP. (As I said on your blog, my browser must have displayed the cached version when I looked at it this morning. It’s always doing that.)
I am free Sunday (I think). Mulling? Eh?
Wine drinkers may want to read this
haha pwn3d
I never buy wine at Threshers! Ugh!
Champagne then?
To be honest, Kate, it’s not that funny, so you’re not missing much ;-)
Champagne has to be at least £50 a bottle before it starts getting palatable. Good wine can be had in threashers for cheapness anyway, so that voucher that I got passed may come in handy.
I dont’ actually like champagne. I know I’m a weirdo, but I don’t.
I tend to buy all my wine at Sainsburys—or Waitrose if I can get to one!—anyway.
The best wine I had from dodgy wine shop had an entirely white label with “Vineyard X” written on it. Classic.
No you’re not a weirdo, or if you are me and my dad are as well (although bruno paillard rosé is quite palatable), bring on the red wine.
Apropo of nothing, hotttttt boy crumpled on the floor:
I don’t like any wine :) (or indeed anything alcoholic. Can’t drink the damn stuff apart from 2 sips at most.)