[Tsundoku]

Loki, on 19 May 2011 - 10:48 AM, said:

I'm working at the State of Origin on Wednesday night - I don't like rugby league (it is league, yeah?) but I do like money

What are you doing there? No, I'm not being smarmy (this time).

Just be aware that the State of Origin crowd will probably be the biggest pile of drunken fuckwit losers you are ever going to see. Seriously, they roll up when gates open at 5pm drunk as skunks and behaving horribly. The cops will be everywhere so make friends with the ones in your area and don't hesitate to call them over to eject any shitheads. Mostly their shitty behaviour is confined to the stands though, so if you're an usher don't take any crap.

... then again you're a Collingwood supporter so I guess you've seen and done it all before yourself.

[Tiste Simeon]

Loki, on 18 May 2011 - 01:38 AM, said:

Tiste Simeon, on 17 May 2011 - 06:20 PM, said:

Epic day off seeing friends.

Where was my invite, hmm?

In Wales we don't have the internet yet so I had to send it through the post and you know how long that takes to get to Australia.

Making me happy is that I am spending a weekend with the fiancée this weekend, with lots of shenanigans planned!

And no, Sombra (or anyone else) that was not a euphemism for anything...

[Cyphon]

Finally got my masters applications off tonight.

[Illuyankas]

I absolutely need to spend more time on something awful. I'm reading a thread about people's favourite quotes from the site and there is some serious fucking gold here. I'm not going to post many but there's an exchange of insults between the horrible posters Infrateal and the heebie-gbs in the GBS forum which are sublime. I hurt myself reading this.

Spoiler

Infrateal lines in bold
the heebie-gbs lines in italics



funny that your opening comeback features prominent use of "super sub" which iirc was a main descriptor on your casual encounters ad
speaking of advertisements for casual encounters, remember that time you wore a GLOMP ME shirt to an anime convention and walked around all day inside an impregnable bubble of personal space


the stirrup was of paramount importance to invading muslim armies, allowing their horsemen to lean and strike from a distance. eventually charles martel was able to repel the rampaging hordes by using tightly packed units of men, which is coincidentally infrateal's favorite escape mechanism
when curtis lemay ordered his b-29s to switch tactics from precision daylight bombing with concussion bombs to nightime carpetbombing with leaflets bearing heebie-gbs posts the crews mutinied, claiming the order represented "soulless, vacuous depravity." only after he changed the munitions loadout to white phosphorous and napalm did they obey orders


infrateal? he a gelatin skeleton, flimsy guy gets caught in door jambs, flops sideways, failure complete in fisticuff feats. systemic erectile dysfuction has a cure but the precise alchemic notation was lost a thousand years ago in the imagined hyperreal transaction between hizzoner keith garrison and the chairman of the african union following an intense raquetball match in which there was no clear victor, but during which both of them chuckled and sipped from reusable watter bottles cold sweet draughts of the blood of entire nations, all laid once in turbulent folded timescapes at infrateal's feet, his soggy feet... could he lift one child they'd all be spared but he did not have the will. infrateal: literally murdering children on the astral plane


in world war I primitive tanks carried bundles of sticks on the front of their hulls which they dropped into trenches so they could cross them and the term for these objects is "fascines" but they could also be termed "enormous faggots" and basically if a wwI tank ever goes to mars and needs to cross the Valles Marineris it should strap heebie-gbs to the front of its hull

(spoilered just in case)

Oh hang on, we have a quote thread, don't we?

This post has been edited by Illuyankas: 20 May 2011 - 04:45 AM

[Loki]

@Sombra - I've decided not to - I've got a cold and knowing my luck it'll turn into a chest infection if I spend the night outside.


Good looking men in light coloured shirts jumping into water always makes me happy


EDIT: Also, because MTS made me think of it - this is making me happy

This post has been edited by Loki: 20 May 2011 - 08:24 AM

[Tsundoku]

Loki, on 20 May 2011 - 08:09 AM, said:

@Sombra - I've decided not to - I've got a cold and knowing my luck it'll turn into a chest infection if I spend the night outside.

... but what a chest infection it would be.

Seriously, that sounds fair enough, it really does get quite nippy in those stands.

And if it rains ... uuuugggh. People who have seats in the parts that are getting soaked refuse to go back to their seats and just crowd the landings of the vomitories (yes, that's what they're called - the tunnels out of the stands) and give you very drunken attitude when you try to get them to move on because it's a safety risk.

The highlight of my State of Origin experience was watching NSW win while I was ushering level with the halfway line, halfway up the stand - best spot in the house and I got paid for it, while watching thousands of Queenslanders get soaked and depressed, resenting me cheering NSW but not being able to do a goddamn thing about it because I had the cops standing next to me ... who by a weird coincidence were also NSW supporters.

As you know, sadly, this was a fair while ago. Stupid QLD streak of series wins.

[King Lear]

It's my birthday, I am drunk and I will be again tomorrow
Wheeeeeeeeee!
I've had an awesome day. With extra awesome sauce

[Tiste Simeon]

Happy Birthday! ^

This song is making me happy for tremendously nerdy and sad reasons...

[Tiste Simeon]

I just got repped for a post I made nearly 6 years ago. Odd, but a nice surprise nonetheless.

Ooh, and the Fiancée is down this weekend!

[Captain Beardface]

Project presented and handed in, final exam done, work package finished awaiting final sizing confirmation and I'm two beers in... Hello weekend...

[Mott]

All hail the Celts! We managed to end the season with something and it looks like Lennon will be offered a contract to stay. This is making me very happy.

[Ain't_It_Just_]

Yummy cookies at rehearsals, chicken schnitzel for dinner and my play is next week. Looking good.

[Silencer]

The new series/mini-series thingy 'Sherlock' that just premiered on TV One. I'm pretty sure it's not going to last very long, but it was very well done, and just makes Steven Moffat more god-tier as a writer, imo. Good acting for the parts, too, mind.

[Binder of Demons]

Silencer, on 22 May 2011 - 10:28 AM, said:

The new series/mini-series thingy 'Sherlock' that just premiered on TV One. I'm pretty sure it's not going to last very long, but it was very well done, and just makes Steven Moffat more god-tier as a writer, imo. Good acting for the parts, too, mind.

I've said it before, it's an excellent reworking of Sherlock Holmes and all the more impressive in that they managed to set it in modern london and yet keep the "feel" of Holmes.

As for it not lasting long. They have initially filmed 3 episodes (and they're really good) but had to stop it then because most of Moffat's crew are involved with DOCTOR WHO, which is a flagship programme for the BBC.

They have plans to make another 3 when the current series of Doctor Who finishes filming. So, good times.



On a similar note, I just watched a couple of episodes of Season 5 of LEWIS (The Inspector Morse spinoff). I love the feel of that show.

[Gothos]

It would seem that something broke inside me on Friday... turns out a side effect of broken hope is that it would seem like my fear of heights has been significantly dampened. Today I've opened the 'balcony' door (there's no balcony behind the door, just a railing) wide for the first time since August, and I feel comfortable with it (10th storey).
Well, there's some good in everything.

[Messremb]

My better half has accepted a copy of GotM, one convert to SE expected shortly

[Adjutant Stormy~]

Drinking at my brother's apartment with his weird friends Playing Mario kart, gonna be hungover for his graduation tomorrow. AWESOME.

[Solidsnape]

I'm having another baby!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Ain't_It_Just_]

Solidsnape, on 24 May 2011 - 04:51 AM, said:

I'm having another baby!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thats fantastic, congratulations! Another li'l second-gen Malazan.

I'm happy because my friend, who wanted to do a cover of Counting Crow's Mr Jones has signed me up as the vocalist. Seeing as I have no other musical talent (instrumentally, that is), this is terrific. Big props Nando!

[Solidsnape]

Well done. Singing is a very SPECIAL talent.