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[Lines]

Lindsay Lohan -like.

Full of STDs?

[GarandMarine]

Now a brief beverage lesson:

If you mix peach schnapps, Jagermeister and cranberry juice you'll make the wonderful beverage known as a Redheaded Slut.

Mix this same beverage with coke and you've made a Lindsay Lohan.

[BeoPuppy]

Drink it and you die.

[Patrick]

Ever heard of a Sandy?

It's a watered down Long Island

[GarandMarine]

So I'm going for the Son of the Year Award, I found a good quality original pressing of Queen's News of the World. Case isn't perfect but disk is gleaming like it's new. My dad is a huge Queen fan, so his birthday present this year is made of win already.

[Thrillho]

One of their better albums... and Queen don't have many good albums. Shitloads of good songs, mind. 'My Melancholy Blues' is absolute perfection. Shame that it opens with two of my least favourite songs of theirs.

[GarandMarine]

Yeah, I was originally going to do one of their live albums but when I inspected the disk it had a MASSIVE crack!

[BeoPuppy]

I really don't like Queen. Any soong of them. Not even Bohemian rap. And people make me feel like I am some sort of pariah for that.

[Barmymoo]

I don't massively dislike Queen but despite enjoying the fact that almost everyone seems to know the words to Bohemian Rhapsody I haven't ever been that fussed by them. But that is an awesome present for someone who does like Queen!

[Thrillho]

Queen fall into that same Nirvana territory where they are somehow underrated and overrated at the same time - underrated by those who only really know the popular stuff and don't understand the insane complexity and uniqueness of the music, but overrated by those who clearly don't listen to any of Queen's albums all the way through.

[BeoPuppy]

I understand that it is insanely complex music, certainly for its time. I just cannot find any worthwhile message in there.

Is Nirvana the same? Sounds less complex to me ...

[Thrillho]

What I meant was Nirvana are in the same overrated/underrated category.

They aren't complex, but they do deserve more credit than they get. Cobain had a very unique way with melodicism. A song like 'About A Girl' has some very bizarre chord changes. (verse is just Em and G, then the chorus is C#, F#, E, A, C put simply - it's weirder than it looks). It just shouldn't hang together, but it somehow does. Something being easy to play doesn't mean it's easy to write, either - I've tried to write songs with just three chords, deliberately, and it's fucking difficult to make something that isn't absolute ass.

As for a message behind Queen songs? No you pretty much have a point there, but - and this is a genuine question - do you look for a worthwhile message in ALL the music you listen to?

[GarandMarine]

I think there's a fair amount of message in Queen's music, but their really, really popular stuff is just the usual Arena Rock, which they mastered as an art form.

Interestingly while I love Queen I really can't stand Nirvana.

[BeoPuppy]

I do like to feel some connection to the lyrics of a band. If it doesn't mean anything to me or is very clunckily written it will annoy me and I won't buy the music. I appeciate writers who are basically poets who happen to make music. It's a bit more difficult in metal, since that includes a boatload of stuff I simply don't understand. I do worry about that. I hope I haven't picked up something incredibly third reich by accident. I can't not listen to lyrics and I'll judge bands on what they write and people if they don't listen to or are unaware of the lyrics of songs.

Nirvana is so much better than Queen, to me. Not to be rude to GM, but to indicate that lyrics are more important than musical prowess.

[Barmymoo]

Ahem. Music section?

I'm back home from Redball's and my intrepid trek around the country, and happy to arrive home to discover an email telling me that tonight's opera rehearsal is for men only, so I'm having an evening in catching up with my online course on Islam. So nice not to feel that I should be doing uni work - real, proper holiday!

[GarandMarine]

 I didn't know lawyers or couriers got up this early. I just got served papers walking out to my car regarding a child support claim out of SoCal, I don't recognize the name on the documents of the person who's suing me... any one know a good lawyer? Cause I might be screwed.

[Barmymoo]

Is it definitely genuine? It is, after all, April Fool's!

I'm meant to be tutoring right now - my student came online on Skype about 20 minutes ago, but has now vanished. Hmm.

[Patrick]

I'm pretty sure my work didn't schedule me for today just because I already troll them enough the rest of the year.

[Aimless]

I didn't know lawyers or couriers got up this early. I just got served papers walking out to my car regarding a child support claim out of SoCal, I don't recognize the name on the documents of the person who's suing me... any one know a good lawyer? Cause I might be screwed.

I hope for your sake it was an April Fool's thing :/

[GarandMarine]

It was my April Fools thing as it happens.

[Barmymoo]

Hah! Well I guess you got us, at least partly!

[GarandMarine]

Yeah, there we more suckers on FB. My mother and a few of my Marine buddies actually called me.

[Thrillho]

I read it, shat myself, then realised what day it was and chose to wait until today 

[Patrick]

One of my closest friends just told me, "I can never tell when you're drunk. You have the same shit-eating grin sober or drunk." I've never heard a better thing said about me.

[Loki]

First day of semester and first day working my job! <3

[snalin]

Now, I know that you shouldn't put aluminium foil* (tin foil?) in a microwave oven. Everybody knows that. For some reason I didn't think far enough to realize that an aluminium lid would be a bad idea.

So I kinda put our microwave oven on fire. As in the lid caught fire, the roof of the oven melted, and the kitchen stinks. I was fast enough to prevent the fire alarm from going off, so that's a plus, but I think this is the dumbest thing I've done in my life.


It was a kinda weird experience to walk over when the microwave oven made the "I am done"-beep, and see a burning lid inside it. Took me a second to register what was going on.

[Barmymoo]

I did something similar once except the other way round - I put a plastic lid in the oven. After the hour and a half that the casserole needed I took the dish out and thought "I don't remember putting mozzarella on top of this". And then I realised I had shrink-wrapped my dinner.

[ev4n]

When my wife and I moved in together, her habit of putting wet dishes in the oven to try and my habit of pre-heating the oven resulted in a Dali-esque plastic bowl.

[Loki]

I once set toast on fire because it got crumpled up inside the toaster and didn't jump out of it when it was done. So the toaster continued heating.

Luckily, the toaster was on a fire-proof surface and there was nothing close above it.

[Barmymoo]

Rarrrrrrrrrrrrrgh why can't I get through to the community team I'm working with next week? I've rung at lunchtime, when they're usually back at base, and I've rung at 9.30 when they're usually all there (mostly they don't leave til about 10). Tomorrow I'll ring on the dot of 9am. I need to know my shifts!

[pwhodges]

This evening marks the first time in my adult life that I have been physically assaulted ('s OK, I'm not hurt).

I was walking the dogs in the twilight, and they were wandering ahead of me, off the leads, when we came on a man with an old dog on its lead (I have met this man before; the previous occasion was just over two years ago).  As she passed them, my older dog, Polly, turned to the other dog and barked in it's face several times, she then wandered off, having more interesting things to do - so I kept my attention on her, while intending to apologise to the guy for his dog being startled.  But as he came alongside me, he swung his arm, open-handed I guess, at my face and knocked me down (part-way, as I ended up against a fence), shouting "What a fucking bastard you are!".  By the time I had recovered my composure, he was well away, and I didn't feel like going after him to extend the experience; I also had to find my glasses in the dark, which I wouldn't have fancied having to pay for the replacement of.  The glasses are fortunately undamaged, as is my face, though it's still stinging slightly.

Last time I was in a physical fight was at boarding school at the age of eleven, but that was at least two-way (I lost physically, but won morally, as he was a well-known bully and I'd had a go).

[Thrillho]

I don't know what I'm angrier about, that this happened at all, that it happened for absolutely no fucking reason, or knowing that I am technically within physical proximity of the bastard that did this to you. Hope you're okay, Paul.

[GarandMarine]

Sounds like a real nice guy...

[pwhodges]

Thanks, guys.  I am just reporting the incident to the police, so that there is at least a record to refer to if it happens again.

[Akima]

Sorry to hear about it , and glad you escaped any serious injury.

[Loki]

Glad you are okay, Paul!

[Lines]

What a dick. I'm glad you're ok, Paul!

[Barmymoo]

How thoroughly bizarre. His insult seems almost Shakespearean as well. "Avast, ye cad!" and so forth.

[pwhodges]

Well, I agree that my dog barking at his close up could be annoying; and the other dog, though as large as mine, is nervous and got frightened.  Also, the same thing happened (the barking bit, that is) in February 2012, so obviously my dog is completely out of control and this is intolerable! (On that occasion, my dog kept barking for longer - this time she wandered off after a few seconds.)

Yes, what he shouted was strangely worded, which is why I remembered it so exactly.

My baseless guess is that the owner is having a sad and lonely retirement (I think he's about the same age as me), and his ageing dog is his only remaining companion, so he perceives the barking at his dog as an attack on him and his dog's fright is a reflection of his own insecurity.  Or something - I'm no psychologist.

[Thrillho]

I too have a theory of my own.

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He's a tosser.

[GarandMarine]

I'm a specialist in the field, and I concur with Gareth.

[Grognard]

WTF is a 'tosser' ?

[GarandMarine]

Tosser (Noun, Adj) 

Literally, one who masturbates. Common usage typically refers to anyone of whom you have a low opinion.

while the word wanker is a more general and term for expressing disdain for somebody, the word tosser describes a person with a tendency to show off or brag in an excessive and embarrassing way.
 
Or someone whose explanation of a word consists solely of another synonym.

[Thrillho]

I feel like 'Tosser' has fallen out of usage lately and doesn't really offend anyone - I mean, who out there doesn't masturbate, and of those people, who would be offended at being called a masturbator as an insult? - unlike the majority of insults which have some root in sexism or other prejudice.

[GarandMarine]

I always took tosser or wanker as implying you're so wrapped up in your own greatness you're constantly self gratifying yourself... over yourself.

[Thrillho]

That certainly makes it much more insulting.

[pwhodges]

I have a former friend who is now referred to by everyone who knew him in the circles I move in as "that tosser".  He fits GM's description to a T.

[GarandMarine]

That's how it was originally described to me by an Aussie friend any way...

[lepetitfromage]

Ugh. I'm sorry you had to deal with that but very glad you're ok. I'll never understand people lashing out like that at complete strangers. Dogs bark. It's not something we have much control over. 


As a side note, I thoroughly enjoy that definition.

[Loki]

I stayed awake until something like 2 am yesterday and had to get up at 7 today. Then I spent the day listening to boring lectures with barely any break inbetween. I am now trying to sleep. People in the kitchen opposite me are playing 99 red balloons, and while I appreciate the anti war message, cannot they stop it. (Technically, they are within their rights, it's only 8pm.)
Now they are playing "walking on sunshine".