No worriesI have been lax in deciding what to do with regard to delivery method
So you're turning Japanese, you're turning Japanese, you really think so?
So you're turning Japanese, you're turning Japanese, you really think so?
FYI... spacehopper badges posted tonight to UK folk who've paid but need postal deliveryI'm saving them for anyone else who has asked.
Overseas people - sorry, but you'll need to wait till I get back from holidays!
Thank you everyone for generous donations... eventually I'll pass it along to the hospice and let you know the total.
XXX
Overseas people - sorry, but you'll need to wait till I get back from holidays!
Thank you everyone for generous donations... eventually I'll pass it along to the hospice and let you know the total.
XXX
No worries Even in first classI think they take a dim view of that
I thought in first classSomeone helped out?
Several people.....
On board now. Slippers on, champagne in hand.
We already did a bottle of £130 Laurent Perrier Grand Siecle between us over breakfast in the Concorde Room...
I expect the oral sex will come along after takeoff, possibly as an amuse-bouche.
We already did a bottle of £130 Laurent Perrier Grand Siecle between us over breakfast in the Concorde Room...
I expect the oral sex will come along after takeoff, possibly as an amuse-bouche.
I have never flown first class.I did recently get a first class seat, but I got an economy plus tray meal, which ruined it.
Business is enough to sleep and have all the lounges, so I stick to that.
Business is enough to sleep and have all the lounges, so I stick to that.
Noodles,Sloggis
HACKED smoky ham/cheese/coleslaw/mustardon rye bread.
Primarni skids.
Primarni skids.
How do I sign up?/not paying attention
cowjam hat cowjam .co .uk if you need to mail me details.
cowjam hat cowjam .co .uk if you need to mail me details.
I willIf I don't get around to it this morning, I'll be back in a couple of weeks.
I tried to German herebut the board didn't like my scharfes S.
So have fun.
So have fun.
Wait, ßß
Na, it's probably just the usual post eating algorithm.
Na, it's probably just the usual post eating algorithm.
Viel Spaß!EDIT: Apparently so.
we'll fix that when brexit kicks in...
But will we fix it hard, or soft?is no fix better than a bad fix?
I thought this board was generally strong and stable...
I thought this board was generally strong and stable...
Fix itMeans fix it
I know we're all like-minded people (and Manley) on here, so may well all just agree:If the inverse correlation between voter turnout and the Conservative majority is clearly set out by a Tory overload such as Lord Ashcroft, doesn't that completely admit to having an undemocratic electoral system?
http://lordashcroftpol...
To me this seems like such a spectacular mike drop, I'm slightly knocked for six by it.
http://lordashcroftpol...
To me this seems like such a spectacular mike drop, I'm slightly knocked for six by it.
I'm not sure I followisn't the conclusion simply that socialists are lazy?
The more people vote,the fewer tories get elected.
Lazy socialists is a sub-conclusion, I think.
Lazy socialists is a sub-conclusion, I think.
I think it is pretty much the only conclusionwe can pull with any degree of confidence.
If there are any badges left,I'd like one... Will try to remember to nudge you in a couple of weeks - don't have any of your contact details but I can be got here:
tim
at
urchinpercussion
dot
com
Ta,
TAFKADogHorse
tim
at
urchinpercussion
dot
com
Ta,
TAFKADogHorse
DOGHORSE!I cannot even remember why I used to do that.
I was very lax sorry,am I still ok to get one after both you and I get home from hollibobs?
I didn't get an email.What are the deets mon?
you'll have to waituntil he gets back from Turning Japanese I Really Think So in a few day's time.
did you nick that off me?I keep saying Turning Japanese I Really Think So about Mr DC's upcoming sojurn to Yokahama.
BTW CI and I were talking about how it would have been surreal if he and Mr DC had managed to go to Japan (I really think so) at the same time. Now that would have been cool.
BTW CI and I were talking about how it would have been surreal if he and Mr DC had managed to go to Japan (I really think so) at the same time. Now that would have been cool.
we were talking aboutit at Scotty's sendoff last week but that tune is constantly in my head anyway :) The album it's from (New Clear Days, did you see what they did there) is pretty good too.
Nearly fucking finished enough fucking work that I can go on holidayShould be able to start packing by about 10pm.
Tomorrow is vote at 7am then off to Heathrow with the lovely Spaniard... First Class BA to Tokyo at lunchtime!
W/Y/H!
Going to be weird spending Election Day on a plane and waking up in Japan as results start coming in...
Tomorrow is vote at 7am then off to Heathrow with the lovely Spaniard... First Class BA to Tokyo at lunchtime!
W/Y/H!
Going to be weird spending Election Day on a plane and waking up in Japan as results start coming in...
And yet, I'm rather jealous.Sounds awesome.
Headed back south tomorrowNight. Will be getting the midnight* train going aaaaanyyywhere**
*Quarter past
** Euston
*Quarter past
** Euston
AwesomeWe're heading back to Japan in November. I love that place!
If you're jet lagged and culture stunned I can recommend a walk round Koshikawa Korakuen Garden up by the Tokyo Dome - good for the soul.
If you're jet lagged and culture stunned I can recommend a walk round Koshikawa Korakuen Garden up by the Tokyo Dome - good for the soul.
Excellent, Tokyo is mentally brilliantYeah, one of the disadvantages of being 11 hours ahead, is that all the results come in during the work day on Friday. Like with Brexit, one of the worst Fridays ever.
*jealous*But will be in Japan for three weeks in August. Can't wait...
I postal voted, I can't decide if that's old or clever. Pointless as the Tories will walk it hereThe wife's having her wisdom teeth out tomorrow, probably a metaphor. Have a good jolly.
I postal voted tooAnd I think mine may just be the vote needed to overturn a 20000 tory majority*
*no, I don't, but fuck it, gotta at least try
*no, I don't, but fuck it, gotta at least try
Best place to beAs far away as you can get
Hello there!From just about as far away as possible!
still not finished. At home, working with wine.
The Spaniard went to post badges for me.
I'm hoping to start packing before midnight.
The Spaniard went to post badges for me.
I'm hoping to start packing before midnight.
I went to Milton Keynes at the weekend, it was alrightdid you do anything passably acceptable at the weekend?
It is Al's birthday todayand I spent the whole weekend worrying if he would have a good time.
TaI went gin drinking with my mother on Saturday. This was fun. Still got a nasty cough.
What you need isa nice cup of tea and a sit down.
I've had manyThey help
saw the Divine Comedy in a bandstandtook a powerboat down the Clyde
watched the missus do a 10k
went to 4 restaurants
drank much beer, cider and whisky
taken today off because groan
watched the missus do a 10k
went to 4 restaurants
drank much beer, cider and whisky
taken today off because groan
perfect venue for D.Cnever seen them live
Flew back from a week in RomeAnd it turns out someone I know has gone missing since the attack on Saturday night
http://www.express.co....
fuuuuck. ooh blimeyfingers crossed.
oh noit's not good news i'm afraid
YeahJust seen his sister's posted something on FB...
jebus i heard her on the radio.. poor womandeepest condolences it's fucking awful.. was he a colleague?
He was a flatmate of a really good friendI spent a lot of weekends round there a few years ago
Oh shit:-(
BallbagsSorry to hear that.
Shitbags,the news ain't good. Poor family.
Shit!I'm a bit out of the loop, though. Who is he?
Showed off a load ofmy Binary dinos in the Computer museum in Cambridge with a load of other geeks and visitors all day saturday, sunday drove to Worthing to meet a bloke who had a few brand new versions of the phone system I've been restoring for the last 7 months including all the source code so I'm slightly excited.
sounds suitably nerdywhen you say brand new you mean unused from the 70's or something?
unused from 1984 yes.Unfortunately also missing power supplies because they were a bit of an achilles heel thanks to badly vented cases resulting in overheating.
You are OLD!
*waves* Like really properly fuckingold.
We went to Windsorand picked up a big box of bees. We perfected last week’s monkfish dish (see www.nikandedwinascookb... for details, but not till tomorrow because i haven’t got round tp putting it up yet). We went to the gym. We went to an art thing. All very nice thing, though with a rather sombre tone to yesterday for obvious reasons.
I bought 2.5 metres of bright orange fabric on Saturday,to make some cushion covers.
Sunday, I took the boy for his swimming lesson then to a local national trust place for a wander about while his mum got some sleep, recovering from the bug he and she have had.
Sunday, I took the boy for his swimming lesson then to a local national trust place for a wander about while his mum got some sleep, recovering from the bug he and she have had.
we went to a rather fabulous weddign in the prossecco hils near treviso....
As it was a bank holiday weekend (thanks Liz)We rented a bach* up the coast at Waitarere Beach and had a very chilled weekend of sitting in front of a roaring fire, reading books and relaxing to some nice tunes. With occasional beach/forest walks and runs.
*small holiday home.
*small holiday home.
It's her biffday next Mondayaccording to the Australian calendar.
Taking of which...Hoopy Buffday, Witchy, I believe?
Indeed. ta!50 is as 50 does...
Oh, it did have a zero in! I thought it was 7x7 this year. God, you old bastard! ;-)
I'm having a lovely* time in Majorca It's pissed it down half the day.
I went dizzy and decided not to run in the rain.
Went out to lunch with my sister Inlaw which was nice.
Sat outside for dinner with brother & SIL & twins and nearly cried.
Had to explain why I was upset after kids went to bed, and brother said I will feel sad and guilty for enjoying myself.
I completely don't. I'm still angry and jealous I don't have the kids and now I don't even have the husband to share my life with and sit around a dinner table. I've not got that to look forward to unless I go visit someone and eat at their house. It's so fucking horrendously unfair I want to scream and cry. My chances of happiness with him have been ripped away and I have to start all over again without him. Fucking cunting bastard shit whores of a world.
I went dizzy and decided not to run in the rain.
Went out to lunch with my sister Inlaw which was nice.
Sat outside for dinner with brother & SIL & twins and nearly cried.
Had to explain why I was upset after kids went to bed, and brother said I will feel sad and guilty for enjoying myself.
I completely don't. I'm still angry and jealous I don't have the kids and now I don't even have the husband to share my life with and sit around a dinner table. I've not got that to look forward to unless I go visit someone and eat at their house. It's so fucking horrendously unfair I want to scream and cry. My chances of happiness with him have been ripped away and I have to start all over again without him. Fucking cunting bastard shit whores of a world.
Fucking cunting bastard shit whores indeedI can't really add anything, other than some sympathetic swearage
Cunt sucking mother fucking son of a bum fucked Eskimo.That is something my father used to say if, for example, he hit his thumb with a hammer.
Now I write it down it seems a bit off.
Now I write it down it seems a bit off.
I certainly thinkyou may have put your foot right Inuit
Other pearls from the gentleman known as 'Old Man' include"That'll stop 'e farting in church", generally after tying a knot or tightening a bolt, and "Fuck pig fall over".
This last is amusing in that none of us know quite what it means. Turning up at a farm, the lad in the yard went off to fetch his father. He returned shortly afterwards and reported that "Father says, Fuck pig fall over".
Whether the farmer said 'fucking pig' and then fell over, said that the Fucking pig has fallen over, accused my father of bestiality with a fallen over pig or, like Old Man, merely adopted the phrase, we shall never know.
This last is amusing in that none of us know quite what it means. Turning up at a farm, the lad in the yard went off to fetch his father. He returned shortly afterwards and reported that "Father says, Fuck pig fall over".
Whether the farmer said 'fucking pig' and then fell over, said that the Fucking pig has fallen over, accused my father of bestiality with a fallen over pig or, like Old Man, merely adopted the phrase, we shall never know.
I want to write something profound and comforting here, but I cannotYour current situation is fucking shit. Just terrible.
You will grow immune to it, used to it, never over it, and it will stop being as painful, but it is going to take time. There is no snapping out of it or getting over it. Nor should there be.
You will be properly happy again, but nothing I can say or do will make now okay, it is just shit. If I could syphon off a portion of your pain, or offer answers, I would. All we can do is be here for you and remind you of that as often as you need. We cannot be strong for you, but we can be here, and I think the last few days has shown how much everyone here is behind you, not to push you, or even really sure what role we could serve, but merely here, in reserve, just in case you do need us.
I said that really poorly, and I hope it doesn't come across as glib or offensive, I make no pretence of knowing what you are going through, nor how you feel or what you need, so if I got it all wrong, then do tell me to fuck off, but all of us mean well, so if you do need ought, just tell us how to get it right, once (or if) you know what that looks like.
Right, I am going to stop before I put my foot in it and upset everyone with my clumsy bollocks. In other news, I just pasted a screenshot into an email to my M.D. Except I didn't, I pasted the phrase "Son of a bum fucked Eskimo." Jammers, I blame you.
You will grow immune to it, used to it, never over it, and it will stop being as painful, but it is going to take time. There is no snapping out of it or getting over it. Nor should there be.
You will be properly happy again, but nothing I can say or do will make now okay, it is just shit. If I could syphon off a portion of your pain, or offer answers, I would. All we can do is be here for you and remind you of that as often as you need. We cannot be strong for you, but we can be here, and I think the last few days has shown how much everyone here is behind you, not to push you, or even really sure what role we could serve, but merely here, in reserve, just in case you do need us.
I said that really poorly, and I hope it doesn't come across as glib or offensive, I make no pretence of knowing what you are going through, nor how you feel or what you need, so if I got it all wrong, then do tell me to fuck off, but all of us mean well, so if you do need ought, just tell us how to get it right, once (or if) you know what that looks like.
Right, I am going to stop before I put my foot in it and upset everyone with my clumsy bollocks. In other news, I just pasted a screenshot into an email to my M.D. Except I didn't, I pasted the phrase "Son of a bum fucked Eskimo." Jammers, I blame you.
Dunno about how Jiva feels about itBut to me that reads very clear and sensitive and says what I think I'd say if I could get it down in words
I find myself in the somewhat difficult positionof having to wholeheartedly agree with Manley, even having to say, hear hear
aye,odd innit.
This,grudgingly.
Manley in "spokesman for the bodia" shocker!!
On this subjectAND NO OTHER
Well said.Well said indeed.
Well said. Accidentally pasting expletives is so five years ago.
ThanksI appreciate you all being here for me. Xx you put that just right
great to hear you have family with you screaming and crying to exhaustion is very liberating if nothing else
my favourite places are cliff tops overlooking the sea with the wind battering your face
primal gutt swears are a given ;)
*hugs*
my favourite places are cliff tops overlooking the sea with the wind battering your face
primal gutt swears are a given ;)
*hugs*
I went to Big Church Day Out North, which is a Christian music festival.I was part of the kids tent team, so I spent all day jumping around like a loon in the kids tent then all evening jumping around like a loon at the main stage.
MiniJam loved it, which was good because it was her birthday.
I felt like I'd been hit by a train when I got home.
MiniJam loved it, which was good because it was her birthday.
I felt like I'd been hit by a train when I got home.
This sounds excellentI am very much a CofE restrained organ and campanology kind off man, but it does sound like a good day.
It was two full days, so slightly wrongly namedAnd we arrived the night before and left the morning after.
I got in free for being on team, and they fed me.
And Tim Vine did a set, he was excellent.
I got in free for being on team, and they fed me.
And Tim Vine did a set, he was excellent.
He is a lot funnierthan he should be.
Had my stepboy over for the weekendwe build some Star Wars Lego and cooked a casserole containing sauerkraut, als you do.
In the extra day of weekend we get here ( Whit Monday ), Me and the gf did a little cycle tour ( weather was fantastic ) and ordered Turkish food.
In the extra day of weekend we get here ( Whit Monday ), Me and the gf did a little cycle tour ( weather was fantastic ) and ordered Turkish food.
well that was completely fucking lovely.and the internet support is rather fabulous too. I'll be able to use all of that when I've got tough days.
SO MANY HUGS.
SO MANY HUGS.
*HUGS RIGHT BACK AT YA!*Sorry I couldn't be there today, but I did do sort of tragicomedy stuff munkt0n would, I'd like to think, get a giggle out of, partly for him, partly for you and just a little bit for me. I think he'd be pretty darn chuffed at how well people thought about him and waved him off.
Edit: I did try to explain what was going on to the colleague I got to take a photo of me with the spacehopper on the iPad screen. He kind of didn't get it at first, then he said something that made me laugh elderflower squash all over my lap, to do with coffin bearers and spacehoppers...
Edit: I did try to explain what was going on to the colleague I got to take a photo of me with the spacehopper on the iPad screen. He kind of didn't get it at first, then he said something that made me laugh elderflower squash all over my lap, to do with coffin bearers and spacehoppers...
yeahwe didn't put coffin bearers on spacehoppers, that could have been all kinds of messy.
I just woke my wife upwith a snort at that.
It was suitably lovely.Waiting for the train back to that London... Witchy is off to Ely, Dominocat to crash out for the night. Great to see Batsgirl, EvilStevie, and other folk.
I hope we represented well.
There was much orange and a huge amount of love.
I hope we represented well.
There was much orange and a huge amount of love.
I'lll be sorting out your PayPal post haste!And hello everyone. I somehow missed this until jiva mentioned it yesterday.
well done, I can't imagine how hard it isunfortunately we're all going to be here for you, electronically at the very least.
MOAR HUGSThere was an awful lot of orangeness coming from the interwebs this afternoon. Top stuff. Plus you know where I am when you come back from teh Spains :)
cya munkt0n, save me a spacehopper yeah?
cya munkt0n, save me a spacehopper yeah?
so happy for you that it went well& it was lovely what people did online (especially that pic of scott's flickr feed you ended up using on his page)
now you look after yourself
now you look after yourself
All the hugs from NZGlad it went well, sorry we couldn't make it, but thinking of you xx
awesome.I'm glad we got there for a bit. We made it back safely too.
Now enjoy the escape to Spain!
Now enjoy the escape to Spain!
Yay - just as it should be Glad that all of our surrogates did us proud.
ALL TEH HUGS
edit/ fuck me I'm up early. This'll never do.
ALL TEH HUGS
edit/ fuck me I'm up early. This'll never do.
Greetings from a flipping freezing Friday morningObviously sorry we can't, for purely geographical reasons, be in Naaarch today, but will be thinking of you all, and of course Jiva particularly. In homage, I shall be wearing an orange shirt to work. xx
And maybe even orange pants too, which you may turn into an AQ if you like!
And maybe even orange pants too, which you may turn into an AQ if you like!
Yes indeed,good luck tomorrow. I don't own anything orange so I'll just think orange thoughts.
NAARCH is always a bit behind the times, today isn't today yet., it's still tomorrow.
NFN Ha! after failing to herd cats for a trip to celebrate a friends 50thi was planning on going up but i received a txt* telling me of a hospital thing i've been waiting ages for
so that scraps another plan.. where's hannibal when you need him?
so biggest biggest internets hugs ever to Jiva
and i'll be wearing orange socks in memory of one of the best internet weirdos
*thankfuck nhs do these backup notifications as letter not received
so that scraps another plan.. where's hannibal when you need him?
so biggest biggest internets hugs ever to Jiva
and i'll be wearing orange socks in memory of one of the best internet weirdos
*thankfuck nhs do these backup notifications as letter not received
I have no orange shirts,but I will be trying to get phrases such as 'munkt0n's send off', 'earsocks required' and 'wanking into a hat' into either or both of the meetings I will be in today. And thinking of him, of course, and of lovely Jiva too
good luck todaywe're all thinking of you.
Guess the airportI got up at 4.40am.
We're not evenhaving a pint.
Gin?....
Teathen coffee.
It's at EasyJet, so Gatwick?
Correct!Then Venice. Now a car rental office.
Eh?Whilst you're right, that's not a logical leap that works. From London, EasyJet could be Standard, Luton or Southend too.
It does work.Look, it just worked.
That car is redTherefore all cars are red
Therefore that other red thing is a car.
^^ this logical leap could work too ^^
Therefore that other red thing is a car.
^^ this logical leap could work too ^^
orange, surely......
Yes, right.Sorry.
Currently sitting at 55 badge ordersEven if some of the FB expressions of interest don't come off, we're going to be giving the hospice a good few hundred quid...
BADGER! BADGER! BADGER! MUSHROOM MUSHROOM
SNAKE!SNAKE! SNAKE! SNAKE!
excellent. Cellent,Oh, it's a lent.
He used information to inform his guessHe didn't say all easyjet flights flew from Gatwick.
I only really know 6 airports in the UKHeathrow
Gatwick
Exeter
Birmingham
Edinburgh
City
I know it's not Heathrow, Exeter or City and I doubt you'd be in Birmingham or Edinburgh. My limited knowledge helped me out. But stop defending me, that is not on at all.
Gatwick
Exeter
Birmingham
Edinburgh
City
I know it's not Heathrow, Exeter or City and I doubt you'd be in Birmingham or Edinburgh. My limited knowledge helped me out. But stop defending me, that is not on at all.
I'll do what I likeand you can't stop me.
I'll like what I doand that is the same thing, said Alice.
There are six airportswith a claim to being "London" with regular passenger services. Easyjet operate from four of these as base airports.
Not in my experienceand that is all I have.
StopJust... Stop
You cannot deny that itWorked.
Stunted?...
All the best for today Jiva.We'll be thinking of you.
Similar sentiments from me.I don't own anything suitably orange to wear to work, but I'll put a very orange t-shirt the very second I get home tonight. xx
Everyone will be missed, but I'm sure there in spirit.....
I'm in ScotlandNot Scottland.
But I've got an orange t-shirt from Mushybees
But I've got an orange t-shirt from Mushybees
I bet my orange shirtis brighter than yours.
Doing night shifts in B&Q again???
You say thatbut I regularly work at night for B&Q.
Probably not wearing the uniform and stacking timber though....
I'm going to assume"stacking timber" is a euphemism here.
"mocking up a kitchen"?"wheeling out the barbecuss"?
"emptying the orange buckets"?
"emptying the orange buckets"?
Oooh Emptying out the Orange buckets, eh?
DispensingThe sealant
It's worth ignoring the twats and having a llok at the FB thread. Lovely orange tributes today... shirts, t-shirts, hair, pants, a plane and a digger...
I just accidentally reported a post to Admin.If that is you, please ignore I.
It was Mr TingleyHe rather kindly deleted the offending post because power went to his head.
His mum knitted my daughter a scarf. It is excellent.
His mum knitted my daughter a scarf. It is excellent.