Topic: Re: Blog Thread IIa: Beyond Blogosphere. (Read 211837 times)

David_Dovey · « **Reply #4400 on:** 23 Dec 2009, 23:34 »

Quote from: Inlander on 23 Dec 2009, 23:12

Quote from: David_Dovey on 23 Dec 2009, 23:05
Guys guys guys my girlfriend got me a bottle of gin and a cocktail set for Xmas, but I do not have any tonic or vermouth in the house (and I can not be bothered leaving the house and standing in the gigantic lines that will undoubtedly be at every single store today). Helllppppp

GIN & COKE

REALLY?

McTaggart · « **Reply #4401 on:** 24 Dec 2009, 01:16 »

No.

-ed. It's worth going out and getting tonic water. Or I guess you could do soda water + lime or bitters. Lemonade if you want it to be sweet. Or long island iced teas if you're just trying to get yr drink on.

David_Dovey · « **Reply #4402 on:** 24 Dec 2009, 01:22 »

Yeah I'm going to it's just that it's Xmas Eve and I do not fancy fighting übercrowds just to get some shitting tonix

BeoPuppy · « **Reply #4403 on:** 24 Dec 2009, 01:49 »

There's a religious debate going on behind me. At work. Slo-ow ass times in municipal government. Someone is saying stuff like this: 'Darwin's law states that humans evolved over time. But that is not important. What is important is what you want to achieve by denying the creation of the world by God.'

Please get me out of here?

pilsner · « **Reply #4404 on:** 24 Dec 2009, 01:53 »

There's no place like home
There's no place like home
There's no place like home

If that doesn't work try "Beetlejuice" and "Candyman", one of them will probably do something.

David_Dovey · « **Reply #4405 on:** 24 Dec 2009, 01:54 »

Failing that you could try saying Candlejack but I can't guarantee what'd happen a

Jace · « **Reply #4406 on:** 24 Dec 2009, 01:55 »

Dovey noooo! you just need some juice for that gin.

JD · « **Reply #4407 on:** 24 Dec 2009, 02:27 »

I watched Dubya. Karl Rove looks like a gremlin in that movie.

David_Dovey · « **Reply #4408 on:** 24 Dec 2009, 02:29 »

I got some tonic!

And some lime cordial!

Gimlets!

Gimlets!

BlahBlah · « **Reply #4409 on:** 24 Dec 2009, 05:49 »

Quote from: Jeans on 24 Dec 2009, 05:39

It is Christmas Day.

OH SHI-

McTaggart · « **Reply #4410 on:** 24 Dec 2009, 06:04 »

Ok so someone linked to tvtropes and I end up five hours later watching foot fetishy clips from hi5 on youtube.

What am I doing with my life?

BeoPuppy · « **Reply #4411 on:** 24 Dec 2009, 06:13 »

Can you document how the one led to the other?

McTaggart · « **Reply #4412 on:** 24 Dec 2009, 07:03 »

Well I have this tab open: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FootFocus

Where I started or what came in between I do not know.

Gemmwah · « **Reply #4413 on:** 24 Dec 2009, 07:46 »

is it bad that i'm enjoying being at work because i'm not by myself? Even though i'm sick and i wish i could go to sleep in the office, i'm really liking conversation, and i am not looking forward to going back to my house and spending christmas in portsmouth by myself

Ptommydski · « **Reply #4414 on:** 24 Dec 2009, 08:49 »

Quote from: David_Dovey on 23 Dec 2009, 23:05

Guys guys guys my girlfriend got me a bottle of gin and a cocktail set for Xmas, but I do not have any tonic or vermouth in the house (and I can not be bothered leaving the house and standing in the gigantic lines that will undoubtedly be at every single store today). Helllppppp

Could have gone down to the subway,
With your oldest friend Jean-Luc,
And commemorated the occasion,
With your gin and his juice.

Scarychips · « **Reply #4415 on:** 24 Dec 2009, 12:13 »

Christmas Blog Thread,

I got something in the mail today and I am really happy that I got it. Long story short, I won a prize on a blog last year.The prize: A Christmas Mixtape. I was supposed to receive it last year, but the dude didn't have the time. Instead, he waited for this year to send it to me so it wouldn't feel out of place. This just made me realise how much I love getting mixtapes, so I decided I might "sign in" the mixtape exchange that people wanted to do. This makes me really happy, for no reason, actually.

With love, and happy holidays to all of you guys,
Anthony.

pwhodges · « **Reply #4416 on:** 24 Dec 2009, 14:55 »

Last night I settled down at home, late, to update twelve Windows servers remotely before abandoning them for Christmas. The mail server didn't restart when told to, but hung in the BIOS - it did this once before three years ago; as it was after midnight, I couldn't be arsed to go in to restart it, so I went in a tad early this morning to do it before too many people got grumpy (it restarted without a hiccup, of course).

As I was going in, I got a text from the university computer service to say that the main university mail server (whose redundant backup went down yesterday

), had crashed and was unavailable, possibly until next Monday - he-he! at least my lot get better service than that!

Emaline · « **Reply #4417 on:** 24 Dec 2009, 15:13 »

I GOT A KITCHENAID MIXER FOR CHRISTMAS!!!!! And a cook book that I'm pretty excited about.

allison · « **Reply #4418 on:** 24 Dec 2009, 15:19 »

Fuck you, Emaline. That is all I wanted but it is always too expensive. I go over to my friend's house and his mom and I make things and I get to use her Kitchenaid mixer.

Metope · « **Reply #4419 on:** 24 Dec 2009, 15:32 »

Quote from: Jeans on 24 Dec 2009, 05:39

It is Christmas Day. I am currently residing in another forumite's house, several hundred miles away from home. I am not sure how I feel about celebrating Christmas without my family for the first time. I mean, May's family is completely awesome (they even have a dog that doesn't seem to hate me, which is pretty much a first for me), but I feel like something is missing when mum's not dragging us off to church. Tonight, I will eat something I am certain will taste nice, but it's not going to be juleribbe and sossiser and medisterkaker, and I'm not going to sing christmas songs while walking in a ring around the christmas tree. It's very weird!

On a less ridiculous note, England continues to be awesome. Though May has informed me that it is not the case throughout the country, everyone is super nice about everything and holds doors open and chats to strangers on the bus and smiles occasionally, and there is currently more clean snow in England than there was in Norway when I left. I am having a good time!

Jens we didn't have sossiser!

We missed you lots, and mom didn't drag me off to church this year because I was way tired from working all day and also I'm apparently a Big Girl now and I can decide for myself. Also I got awesome gifts and the food was delicious and my family is lovely and my aunt's dogs that hates Jens loves me and I love them too. Merry Christmas Jens and May and everyone!

David_Dovey · « **Reply #4420 on:** 24 Dec 2009, 15:45 »

Quote from: Ptommydski on 24 Dec 2009, 08:49

Could have gone down to the subway,
With your oldest friend Jean-Luc,
And commemorated the occasion,
With your gin and his juice.

Yeah no juice either

And in the evening, no one to say my

name

*shred shred shred*

Allybee · « **Reply #4421 on:** 24 Dec 2009, 15:52 »

I'm about to turn nineteen and I've never been even close to being in a relationship. this is not completely abnormal but I don't think I will ever be in a relationship.

I've realized that it isn't that there is anything wrong with me. I'm fine, I'm just not interesting/smart/pretty enough to really be worth anyone's time or attention - there is seriously always going to be a better option.

I am really fucking lonely, world!

pwhodges · « **Reply #4422 on:** 24 Dec 2009, 15:59 »

Quote from: Allybee on 24 Dec 2009, 15:52

I'm about to turn nineteen ... but I don't think I will ever be in a relationship.

You're way off having anything to worry about in that sense at that age. Forget about relationships, and simply go and find people to be less lonely with. One day a relationship will most likely happen, but without your planning it (unless you're in that sort of family, of course!).

Console yourself with the thought of all the mistakes you've avoided making!

And Happy Christmas anyway.

Allybee · « **Reply #4423 on:** 24 Dec 2009, 16:09 »

I don't celebrate but I hope you all have a good one!

jhocking · « **Reply #4424 on:** 24 Dec 2009, 16:12 »

Quote from: Allybee on 24 Dec 2009, 15:52

I'm just not interesting/smart/pretty enough to really be worth anyone's time or attention

If you really believe this then that's probably the stupidest thing I've ever heard you say.

plumbob78 · « **Reply #4425 on:** 24 Dec 2009, 16:33 »

Allybee, you have expressed exactly how I've been feeling lately, but I'm 31 years old. I imagine we are both wrong.

McTaggart · « **Reply #4426 on:** 24 Dec 2009, 16:58 »

Dear blog thread after hours of playing Soul Calibur 4 and being stuck on stage 7 of the arcade mode (the goddamn apprentice) I have prevailed. And all it took was quitting trying new characters, going back to my best character, Cassandra, and repeatedly hitting him in the nuts.

Then Algol was eeeeasy.

onewheelwizzard · « **Reply #4427 on:** 24 Dec 2009, 18:24 »

Quote from: Allybee on 24 Dec 2009, 15:52

I'm about to turn nineteen and I've never been even close to being in a relationship. this is not completely abnormal but I don't think I will ever be in a relationship.

I've realized that it isn't that there is anything wrong with me. I'm fine, I'm just not interesting/smart/pretty enough to really be worth anyone's time or attention - there is seriously always going to be a better option.

I am really fucking lonely, world!

I read this and immediately connected it to my girlfriend, who didn't enter any kind of relationship at all until well into college (I believe she was about the same age as you are now). Her first relationship started in the second semester of her freshman year, I think, and lasted until the first semester of her junior year (when it became blatantly clear that she could do way better). She's spent the time before that relationship thinking that she wasn't interesting/smart/pretty enough to be worth anyone's time or attention, and most of the time after that relationship resigned to the idea that there wasn't anyone interesting/smart/handsome enough to be worth HER time, and I'm one lucky schmuck to have proved her wrong on both counts.

You should probably know a few things.
(1) You're smart as hell. It's obvious. Anyone who was on the forums when you were highly active can see it. I'm really not sure where you got the idea that you weren't but you don't need that idea anymore, it's not doing you any good.
(2) You're very talented and you make a lot of mental connections that wouldn't occur to other people. This is basically the textbook definition of an interesting person. Your mind works in a unique way that many, many people throughout your life will only wish they could fully appreciate.
(3) Have you looked in a mirror recently? You're fucking stunning. Kay? Kay.

For my part, I hope you feel better and more confident soon, but I think the forum's collective patience with your failure to recognize what is so patently obvious to anyone here paying attention (specifically, that you are a gem of a girl and any one of your male peers would be unbelievably lucky to get a date with you) might wear thin if you keep this up.

Allybee · « **Reply #4428 on:** 24 Dec 2009, 18:41 »

oop, I didn't mean to slip back into my whiny 16 year old self. I think I should start keeping a personal journal again - wallowing is not super helpful to anyone, least of all me, I know. sorry, blog thread.

that said, thank you.

onewheelwizzard · « **Reply #4429 on:** 24 Dec 2009, 19:06 »

Hey, like I said, the first association I drew from your post was directly to my (absolutely awesome) girlfriend, so as far as I can tell, you're doing just fine.

Drill King · « **Reply #4430 on:** 24 Dec 2009, 19:44 »

GOD MY LANDLORD IS DICK
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Drill King · « **Reply #4431 on:** 24 Dec 2009, 20:12 »

Actually
this is my life uh oh

FIXDIX · « **Reply #4432 on:** 24 Dec 2009, 20:17 »

Drinkin' summer ale and watching Deadwood. Ooooooooooooooh yeeeeeeeeeah CHRISTMAS

fatty · « **Reply #4433 on:** 24 Dec 2009, 20:27 »

Ally i'd not been in a serious relationship until this year (20) and to be honest that came as a big surprise. Wallowing is unhealthy but we all do it. The resilience that I practiced when single and lonely makes me well prepared to cope with a lot of things. You've got a lot going for you. Slap yourself out off the mood and keep on going I guess.

Arthur is in hong kong with his family and not here for Christmas and New Year ): what will I do?

Emaline · « **Reply #4434 on:** 24 Dec 2009, 20:58 »

Quote from: allison on 24 Dec 2009, 15:19

Fuck you, Emaline. That is all I wanted but it is always too expensive. I go over to my friend's house and his mom and I make things and I get to use her Kitchenaid mixer.

Hahahaha I didn't buy it. I'd never spend that kinda money on myself. My boyfriend kept hinting that he had his dad help him out on a gift and I was kinda freaking out that is was something else. I was so happy that it was this. Its apparently the top of the line one as well! I'm so excited to use it.

J-cob9000 · « **Reply #4435 on:** 24 Dec 2009, 21:27 »

It doesn't feel like Christmas guys.
I am going to get awful presents and I feel really bad for being sad about it.

Zingoleb · « **Reply #4436 on:** 24 Dec 2009, 21:29 »

I'm kind of amazed that despite how damn near psychotic I am I always have relationships that last over a year.

And then she left me for a one-legged black porn star named Joe who has split personality. Goddamn do I wish I was kidding.

Blaggy,

My grandmother gave me my Christmas present yesterday. It was a backscratcher. That was...that was exciting.

Edit: Oh, and yew are lucky Jens, I love May to pieces and wish I could be around her.

negative creep · « **Reply #4437 on:** 25 Dec 2009, 02:02 »

So it is Christmas Day, almost 11 am, here. I am still awake after working all night long.

Merry Christmas!

Right now I'm listening to a live recording by a band called Half Mile Fox Fur, which I found on my computer. I don't know how it got there, but I suspect someone on meebo linked me to it last week when I was to drunk to remember it now? I like it quite a lot thus far.

In other news:

- I'm still not drinking.
- I may have a crush on a girl who might have told me her name last week, but I don't remember it for obvious reasons. I saw her again a few days ago at the shitty local disco wehre I emt her, but i was too scared to talk to her and from the looks she gave me, she was making fun of me with her friend. We do have mutual friends, though, so I will investigate.

evilbobthebob · « **Reply #4438 on:** 25 Dec 2009, 02:35 »

Quote from: J-cob9000 on 24 Dec 2009, 21:27

It doesn't feel like Christmas guys.
I am going to get awful presents and I feel really bad for being sad about it.

Snap. Only plus point: parents realised that dragging myself and my brother round relatives is a bad idea.

Lunchbox · « **Reply #4439 on:** 25 Dec 2009, 02:41 »

My 100-year-old great grandmother died on the night of Christmas Eve.
It is now Christmas night and my day was very sad and horrible.
Thank heavens for my awesome daggy Dad and my amazingly fantastically wonderful boyfriend!

Eris · « **Reply #4440 on:** 25 Dec 2009, 02:49 »

My mum bought my dad a new akubra hat (about $120) and as soon as he got it he put it on the ground and jumped on it. The awkward hostility that happens every Christmas happened from then on. I think it's a record time for this to happen. Luckily he didn't stick around for lunch or there probably would have been a full blown argument and hostility. Don't you just love Christmas?

Zingoleb · « **Reply #4441 on:** 25 Dec 2009, 03:02 »

I'm sorry about that Lunch, I hope you feel better soon.

Uh, Eris (Is it Hannah? I don't feel right calling you by name), I'm...confused. Why would he do that.

Eris · « **Reply #4442 on:** 25 Dec 2009, 03:07 »

Because he is nuts. His justification was that jumping on it beats it up a little so you don't look like you're wearing a new hat. Except he hasn't done that with any of the other akubras that we have gotten him over the years, so it doesn't make sense. He does a lot of things that make no sense these days, but this really just threw us for a loop. It's the last time we'll be getting him a new hat any time soon, that's for sure.

Jace · « **Reply #4443 on:** 25 Dec 2009, 03:20 »

Quote from: Eris on 25 Dec 2009, 02:49

The awkward hostility that happens every Christmas

This is pretty much my family. I skipped xmas eve, I just slept through it and I feel terrible because I was supposed to go see my dad and instead I was asleep.
I might skip xmas too.

Spluff · « **Reply #4444 on:** 25 Dec 2009, 03:56 »

Merry Christmas everybody! And to those that don't observe Christmas, or plus plain old don't like it, I hope your day was pretty good too!

Highlight of the day, playing the spicks and specks game where the basic premise is to sing a well known song, taking the lyrics from a completely unrelated text. I challenge any man to sing 'Queequeg' as part of a song and keep a straight face.

[edit - Ally : (

and also my thoughts are going out to you guys who had a bad christmas]

Zingoleb · « **Reply #4445 on:** 25 Dec 2009, 04:48 »

And she aches just like a queequeg
And she takes just like a queequeg
And she makes love just like a queequeg
But she breaks, just like a candy cane

Yeah, I can't do it, I'm laughing

Jace · « **Reply #4446 on:** 25 Dec 2009, 04:57 »

Quote from: Spluff on 25 Dec 2009, 03:56

playing the spicks and specks game

Offering to play this game would get me stabbed depending on who was around.

Jimmy the Squid · « **Reply #4447 on:** 25 Dec 2009, 05:06 »

I have a love/hate relationship with Christmas. For instance, I love going to my Dad's place for Christmas Eve and seeing my parents and my nagymama (grandma) and my aunty and uncle and cousins. I hate going to my Mum's place for Christmas Day (I'm not going into the myriad reasons as to why. Suffice to say it involves an incredibly filthy house and an insane, lonely and unbearable middle-aged woman). I love eating rad food and talking to my favourite Aunty on Christmas Eve. I hate my Dad and nagymama telling me that I'm so fat and that I need to lose weight.

All in all it wasn't too bad. I mean ok yeah, Christmas Day was the worst it's ever been but at the same time I just came home to my beautiful girlfriend who greeted me with cuddles and presents and a slice of delicious chocolate cake.

McTaggart · « **Reply #4448 on:** 25 Dec 2009, 05:08 »

Quote from: Zingoleb on 25 Dec 2009, 04:48

And she aches just like a queequeg
And she takes just like a queequeg
And she makes love just like a queequeg
But she breaks, just like a candy cane

Yeah, I can't do it, I'm laughing

Man that is not the game. What you do is you switch all the words with the text from some random book, like old finishing school texts, books about soil or pieces of legislation. See this video which is the first example I came across: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48A5_rvCVTc . I think it's a book about making clothes.

Zingoleb · « **Reply #4449 on:** 25 Dec 2009, 05:14 »

My bad. I've, uh, never heard of it.

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