[Zanth13]

stone monkey, on 22 August 2010 - 12:44 AM, said:

A hacking chesty cough, coupled with an inability to sleep... Amongst other things.

luckily older people dont need as much sleep...

or oxygen?

[StormHelm]

@ Hellian: Sorry to hear about the loss of your dog.

My girlfriend broke up with me and moved out 2 weeks ago, talked to her last night and not only is she tryng to blame everything on me, it sounds like she is seeing someone already. Everything is F#*$ed up right now. FML.

[bubba]

Just quit a job i had for 8 years........fuck!..... i am not happy about having to do that.

[Satan]

Ain, on 20 August 2010 - 10:38 AM, said:

So, that girl I asked to the social? She'd still love to come, but because she acted up or something (long story) her parents are effectively grounding her. My parents will try talking to them, but I doubt this will work.

Feel like total shit right now. FML.

I seem to remember you saying something about me being jealous of your age. How does it feel now? Hah!

..then again, I haven't had a proper date since the vagina was invented.

Tapper, on 20 August 2010 - 10:41 AM, said:

Tapper, on 20 August 2010 - 10:30 AM, said:

music festival coming up, but still 90 minutes to kill until my last meeting of the day, and then get through that one alive and with a contract....... before I can jump on the train and walk with a weekend bag, sleeping bag and a tent under my arm through Amsterdam to the place where my best mate will pick me up.... then an hours drive, putting the tent up, scrounging for dinner before I can finally sit back and do what I came for.....
Meh. I want to see music performers (and sexy groupies) live NAO!!

It gets better, no trains are going for the next three hours because someone decided jumping in front of a train was the very best way to end his life. Yeah, I'm heartlessly selfish.....
.....But so was that guy (edit: it is the most travelled track in the country in a passenger per day rate, and at this particular station, there's a very good chance quite a few people saw the accident to boot - and that is something you do not want to see).

Something like that happened to me as well, only -err- the other way around. I managed to jump on the wrong train at Stoke-on-Trent, so instead of going back to Liverpool by Stafford, I ended up on the direct line down to London. "Luckily" a chap inadvertently intervened for me, so I managed to get off at Rugby. Got to talking to one of them conductor fellows, and he said that it's quite common for people to kill themselves by jumping in front of the train. I can't remember the statistics now, but I remember being surprised at how many it was. At least a few of them each month.


On topic: I seem clinically deprived of worth ethics. I suspect alien abduction and testing. I hope they didn't go through my ass to get to the work ethics centre in my brain.

[MTS]

Borrowed some books from the library last week. Didn't realise a couple of them were two day loans. Came in this morning to find out I've been barred from borrowing books for a week, despite paying the (absolutely ludicrous) fine as soon as I realised. Sprinkling on the bacon bits of this suck salad is the fact I have 3 major assignments due in 3 days, with stuff from the library I still need to get. Balls.

[Mezla PigDog]

Washington DC makes me sweat. And not in a good way. This is mild for August too. Why would anyone live here?

[amphibian]

Mezla PigDog, on 23 August 2010 - 11:08 PM, said:

Washington DC makes me sweat. And not in a good way. This is mild for August too. Why would anyone live here?

It's better than Detroit.

And it's been one of the warmer summers in the Northeast too...

[Ain't_It_Just_]

Brynjar, on 23 August 2010 - 11:57 AM, said:

Ain, on 20 August 2010 - 10:38 AM, said:

So, that girl I asked to the social? She'd still love to come, but because she acted up or something (long story) her parents are effectively grounding her. My parents will try talking to them, but I doubt this will work.

Feel like total shit right now. FML.

I seem to remember you saying something about me being jealous of your age. How does it feel now? Hah!

..then again, I haven't had a proper date since the vagina was invented.

Haha, touche my friend. Guess we're even. And my condolences concerning your lack of vagina.

Goddamn libel assignment-why can't you piss off to another place?

[Gothos]

Withdrawal symptoms will probably be messing with my groove for the next month. Got to avoid alcohol, too.

[Mezla PigDog]

I'm at a conference (literally right now - pretending to be busy on my blackberry is more fun than networking) costing $2000 to attend and they don't even provide nibbles during the coffee break! Have you ever heard anything so uncouth?

[teholbeddict]

Mezla PigDog, on 24 August 2010 - 07:32 PM, said:

I'm at a conference (literally right now - pretending to be busy on my blackberry is more fun than networking) costing $2000 to attend and they don't even provide nibbles during the coffee break! Have you ever heard anything so uncouth?

If it's a larger conference I'm not surprised. For most of the conferences I've attended they give you lunch and coffee breaks, in which you are supposed to dash out and buy your own cup of tea or lunch. Some of the smaller ones do provide snacks or coffee, but that's about it. Half the time I wonder what I've forked over thousands for exactly, especially when the conference is a waste of time. I guess they look at it as most of your fee goes towards the cost of paying guest speakers/presenters and renting the venue or whatever. $2000's not bad actually fee wise, the prices are going up for those things all the time.

This post has been edited by teholbeddict: 24 August 2010 - 07:39 PM

[Mezla PigDog]

Its only a little one, 400 delegates. Even the 3000+ delegate ones I've been to manage a bagel in the morning or there are at least pharma companies trying to bribe you with chocolate. Makes you wonder how much the invited speakers are getting paid!

[Tapper]

Nobility throwing their titles and fancy long names and special paper with initials around to try and pressure me into a more favorable response.
And the frigging thing is that we have to scrape and grovel like this was the middle ages because losing a baron as a customer would be bad for the mouth-to-mouth publicity in the upper echelons of society..... some things never change

[Gothos]

Well, to be completely honest, SOME measure of a society's elite should be maintained. That it should not be hereditary is another matter.

[Tapper]

Gothos, on 26 August 2010 - 11:04 AM, said:

Well, to be completely honest, SOME measure of a society's elite should be maintained. That it should not be hereditary is another matter.

I don't mind the titles and the estates and such - it is not jealousy
It's merely that I dislike being pushed around because they can.

[Gothos]

Pushing around really sucks if you're on the receiving side, I'll drink to that.
Then again pushing people around is the best way to get shit done. Influence (and information) is power. Perhaps, however, they could learn that treating you with respect would have better results.
Bullies are not elites.

[Zanth13]

I am hungoverish from to much drinking

i think im gonna take a break for a while

[Macros]

'well he's a dutchman by birth but an irishman by heritage, and now he's playing against celtic!'
Please mr commentator man.
Please
Shoot yourself.
A- this is not noteworthy, celtic are a scottish team
B - any irish that support celtic don't give a fuck about the football
C - and possibly most important of all. Dutch
Hmmm
Considering the connection to ireland you suggest exists between celtic and it, you're suprised by a dutchman doing this why??

[Tiste Simeon]

Tapper, on 26 August 2010 - 11:28 AM, said:

Gothos, on 26 August 2010 - 11:04 AM, said:

Well, to be completely honest, SOME measure of a society's elite should be maintained. That it should not be hereditary is another matter.

I don't mind the titles and the estates and such - it is not jealousy
It's merely that I dislike being pushed around because they can.

Quiet peasant, get back to work!!!

Whats messing with my groove is a good friend has Leukemia and it doesn't seem like there's much the doctors can do any more. Just have to keep up faith that he will recover.

[Tiste Simeon]

Well this morning my friend Jon died after a 2 year + battle with cancer. It hasn't really sunk in yet and now I have to go to work. I think once it hits it's gonna hit hard, but my prayers are constantly with his family who are also all good friends of mine. Thankfully we all have faith and know that he is having a right good party up in heaven now, so it's all good.