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#12351 amphibian

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Posted 09 August 2015 - 06:58 AM

Tiste Simeon, on 08 August 2015 - 08:52 PM, said:

Sense of belonging, being part of it. If you're not into sports I guess I can understand you not getting it. I think there was a thread about it in here at one point.

Yup.

I still don't get why people do that "we" thing. I also have trouble understanding the "[team name] are crap." construction. They are a team, the very concept of team implies an attempted singular entity, which is why the proper way to say it is "[team name] is crap."

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#12352 Maark Abbott

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Posted 09 August 2015 - 11:19 AM

I'd wager that it's because people don't perceive the team as a singular, but as a group. A loose conglomerate, if you would.

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#12353 Studious Lock

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Posted 09 August 2015 - 02:43 PM

Had an amazing birthweekend partying from one end of London to the other, with new friends and old. I now am a complete mess and feel like I could die at any moment. Totally worth it.

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#12354 Tapper

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Posted 09 August 2015 - 06:23 PM

For our holidays, we brought our (100% indoor) cat to a friend of ours. This morning, he reported she did not come in last night. He spent the whole night searching for her in the communal (walled) garden before he messaged us.

Just as he returned from the local printing shop with the MISSING posters he'd made, the young lady showed up at the garden door as if she'd been gone for fifteen minutes instead of fifteen hours.

When he called, the sense of relief was insane. We were at that moment doing maximum allowed speed+ from the Polish seaside to Warsaw, with the option of a seat on the next plane home...

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#12355 Tiste Simeon

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Posted 09 August 2015 - 08:12 PM

Tomorrow my good lady and I are going to London. We shall arrive in the morning, spend the day dilly dallying in our nations' great capital* and then go to the Queen's Theatre in the West End to watch Les Miserables. It is a birthday/anniversary gift to her. Can't wait cos I love the show and it should be a jolly good day anyway.

*The North is still way better...

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#12356 Morgoth

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Posted 09 August 2015 - 08:40 PM

Tinder, it was made by gods to service my strange new life as a single man.

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#12357 amphibian

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Posted 10 August 2015 - 10:53 AM

King Briar, on 10 August 2015 - 05:33 AM, said:

I'm very happy with myself! Over the past 3 months I've gotten my pain pill intake down by a good portion. I'm still hurting at night massively so the Ambien is still a must have or I'd be in bed crying but atleast during the day I'm not near as drowsy.

This is a very significant achievement.

Now get yourself a baked potato and some sour cream as a celebration.

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#12358 Tiste Simeon

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Posted 11 August 2015 - 08:49 AM

Les Miserables was just stonkingly good. I'm still a little blown away the next morning...

Also in the airport just now my wife just told me "The price of that bottle of Lagavulin is really good you should buy it!"

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#12359 DeadHedge

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Posted 11 August 2015 - 02:05 PM

Been given a temporary promotion (potentially lasting for 18 months) which gives me about an extra 200 quid a month in pay.

Couldn't have come at a better time

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#12360 QuickTidal

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Posted 12 August 2015 - 01:11 PM

Tiste Simeon, on 11 August 2015 - 08:49 AM, said:

Also in the airport just now my wife just told me "The price of that bottle of Lagavulin is really good you should buy it!"

My wife does the same at airports. She hates Scotch...but she knows I adore it, and in her awesomeness always points out when it should/needs to be purchased.

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#12361 Tiste Simeon

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Posted 12 August 2015 - 03:46 PM

QuickTidal, on 12 August 2015 - 01:11 PM, said:

Tiste Simeon, on 11 August 2015 - 08:49 AM, said:

Also in the airport just now my wife just told me "The price of that bottle of Lagavulin is really good you should buy it!"

My wife does the same at airports. She hates Scotch...but she knows I adore it, and in her awesomeness always points out when it should/needs to be purchased.

Married the best women, we did.

Too right brother!

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#12362 Solidsnape

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Posted 13 August 2015 - 03:47 AM

George Carlin

http://youtu.be/AtK_YsVInw8

And Christopher Hitchens

http://youtu.be/MJ2LehsA1dk

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#12363 Tiste Simeon

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Posted 13 August 2015 - 09:05 AM

Been married 4 years today! Good times!

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#12364 worry

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Posted 13 August 2015 - 09:15 AM

Congrats. Time for the ol' "I think we have to talk" prank.

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#12365 QuickTidal

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Posted 13 August 2015 - 01:58 PM

I'm going to be a father.

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#12366 Maark Abbott

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Posted 13 August 2015 - 02:12 PM

QuickTidal, on 13 August 2015 - 01:58 PM, said:

I'm going to be a father.

Congratulations! Enjoy being a patriarch. I'll prepare the placards to vigorously protest you.

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#12367 QuickTidal

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Posted 13 August 2015 - 02:41 PM

Maark, on 13 August 2015 - 02:12 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 13 August 2015 - 01:58 PM, said:

I'm going to be a father.

Congratulations! Enjoy being a patriarch. I'll prepare the placards to vigorously protest you.

Thanks! I shall expect nothing else.

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#12368 DeadHedge

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Posted 13 August 2015 - 02:52 PM

QuickTidal, on 13 August 2015 - 02:41 PM, said:

Maark, on 13 August 2015 - 02:12 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 13 August 2015 - 01:58 PM, said:

I'm going to be a father.

Congratulations! Enjoy being a patriarch. I'll prepare the placards to vigorously protest you.

Thanks! I shall expect nothing else.

Congrats QT, Fatherhood is a great experience.

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#12369 DeadHedge

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Posted 13 August 2015 - 02:53 PM

Tiste Simeon, on 13 August 2015 - 09:05 AM, said:

Been married 4 years today! Good times!

Congrats on not being offed by your other half for 4 years, may you survive for 4 more

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#12370 Solidsnape

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