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Post by The Doctor on Dec 17, 2010 21:26:13 GMT
i UNJDERSTAND MY FRIEMND1 I undewrstand!
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Post by Hero on Dec 17, 2010 21:31:19 GMT
Sat and watched Have I Got News For You with Blaise amongst lots of other stuff.
We've been getting flooded with visitors bearing gifts and food for the past week. It's been great!
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 17, 2010 21:35:43 GMT
hawwoooooo!!!
-rALPH
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Dec 17, 2010 21:39:02 GMT
Yes indeed.
(Tries to pull self together.)
Qi fomoshed now. Twentyb minutes tll the Mummy on some digital channelmot r other.
Eating chocolates.
Ifg I go to bed I know I will have angober. Btterev to eat and drink (weayter and milk) and be merry!
Martin
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 17, 2010 21:45:01 GMT
i do not know"!!"12 -RTalpoh
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Post by legios on Dec 17, 2010 21:47:18 GMT
I appear to be less drunk than I expected I would be at this point in time. I am not sure that this qualifies as cosmic justice.......
Karl
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 17, 2010 21:51:10 GMT
gOODNIGHTY! I stopped just iom t time before i GOT DFRUNk21 k justij time2 stopped justimn trime!!!
no chcken lpakapors"!!1
goodnight!!!
-Rsalph
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Dec 17, 2010 21:52:33 GMT
The RADIO TIMES lies. Itsays The Mujmmy but TV says The illusionist.
Not whart I WANT.
OK, watch QI on Dave ja vu insteaed.
Goodnight.
We;;done before stopping before getting drubnk Ralph.
Me too.
Marrtyin
Martin
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 18, 2010 10:10:58 GMT
I hope you get a nice new hat.
-Ralph
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Post by Dave on Dec 18, 2010 12:23:09 GMT
Had a busy week, house stuff nearly sorted, lots to catch up with.
Still waiting for some xmas presents to arrive...
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Dec 18, 2010 19:10:15 GMT
Cardiff is under six inches of snow this weekend, and I measured eight inches on my garden furniture. Broke out the wellies of hope for a walk down to Sainsbury's where I picked up a natty grey hat and matching gloves, and some coke and milk. Walked back the long route through the nature reserve. Was supposed to be doing some hedge-planting there tomorrow, but that's been called off. Have to decide tomorrow afternoon whether to go to the carol service at my friends' church a mile away, or a different one much closer to home.
Off work now till 4th January, but got one more work meal out Monday night.
Back to watching 'Ghost Busters 2'. Can't believe I haven't seen this film since the year it first came out.
Martin
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 18, 2010 19:41:19 GMT
I'm not sure I have either!
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Post by blueshift on Dec 18, 2010 19:55:40 GMT
I know people tend to hate it, but I really like Ghostbusters II, and actually much prefer it to Ghostbusters!
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Post by Bogatan on Dec 18, 2010 20:03:18 GMT
Ill. Ugh!
Finally go back to Asda for a while with 6am starts as usual and the worth turns cold again, I spend 4 hours yesterday and 2 hours today in a giant chiller so illness may not be a surprise.
Still I always enjoy supermarket work over Christmas and its nice to be back.
I like GB2 probably because I got to see it at cinema unlike the first. Also its a bit darker which suits it. Both films are ones I never really feel the urge to rewatch though.
Andy
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Post by Shockprowl on Dec 18, 2010 20:30:29 GMT
YEAHY!!!! DRUNK DOC'!!!!! Well funny!
OH MY GOD! SO BUSY AT WORK! I FEEL VIOLATED! Today, did 15 jobs in twelve hours, we worked it out we'd done 180 miles. Urrrrrrrrrrrr.
What's this? Why, Mr San Miguel, are you... are you looking at me? What's that you say? You want me to drink you? And your brothers? 'Kay.....
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 18, 2010 22:18:46 GMT
I have a lingering affection for Ghostbusters 2 even though I know it's not in the same league as the first film. I've only seen it once since it was in the cinema, which was a bit of a 'the meory cheats' experience. -Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 18, 2010 23:06:56 GMT
I know people tend to hate it, but I really like Ghostbusters II, and actually much prefer it to Ghostbusters! No. You couldn't be more wrong if you tried. Ghostbusters is superb!
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Dec 18, 2010 23:30:23 GMT
Phil's right. The first Ghostbusters film is amazing.
Andy
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Dec 18, 2010 23:33:18 GMT
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 19, 2010 10:36:33 GMT
HOORAY!
In other news, SNOW CHAOS has now caught up again locally. A big problem is that the SNOW CHAOS has never went away where my folks stay and public transport keeps breaking down so it's starting to look like touch-and-go as to whether I'll be able to get there for Chrimbo.
-Ralph
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Post by Dave on Dec 19, 2010 10:47:05 GMT
Sweet! - the Turnbull Xmas greeting, not the SNOW CHAOS.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Dec 19, 2010 13:31:27 GMT
Thanks guys - felt it had to be something non TF - and I love the Chuck Jones cartoon version of The Grinch Who Stole Christmas.
Did that yesterday inbetween frittering time away on the Internet. Off to work today from my Sunday on. Loving the fresh outbreak of snow. Oh wait - no I am not.
Andy
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Post by legios on Dec 19, 2010 14:04:42 GMT
Hmm. I go into the cinema and it is a reasonable winter morning. I come out and halfway home the heavens open and deposit a fairly epic onslaught of snow on Falkirk.
I am supposed to be doing some travelling in the near future. The fact that the airports are basically closed for business does not bode well. Time to have a backup plan standing by as well methinks. (At the moment the question is whether I will be able to get as far as work tomorrow, let alone anywheres else).
Andy - brilliant Christmas message, thoroughly enjoyed it.
Karl
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 19, 2010 14:14:06 GMT
Hello!
Bit of a struggle this week, tummy hasn't been good at all. I needed to give it a rest and just have Soup but my friend Sophie, who was t 6th form college with me and is now an organic chemistry doctor at UCT in South Africa, was staying with us and we had lots of eating out planned (she'd not been to the pizza restraunt here). So I had to eat and didn't get to rest my stomach till Friday. It's still not great today, a trip to the Doctor is in order.
I wake this morning, already worried about the morning service, to find that one of my projection team is in hospital with a second stroke. He's mid forties, Not good :-( So I'm worried about my friend and trying to consider the implications for the team, which was already one man down.
Liz is signing the first of our Carol services tonight with one of my team projecting it and I'm projecting the second tomorrow.
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Dec 19, 2010 14:46:03 GMT
Feel better soon, Phil.
There is nothing that gives me such mixed feelings as heavy snow. Actually, that's not quite true. My heart thinks good, my head thinks bad. I can't look at it without feeling uplifted, regardless of whether or not it is inconveniencing me personally or people I know. I think it looks lovely, and as a general principle I admit to taking some satisfaction in nature telling man who's really boss and making him put his plans on hold. But then, the inconvenience that it causes actual individuals with real hopes and needs (as opposed to people as an abstract collective concept in need of taking down a peg or two) is horrible.
What's to be done? Spend a lot more money on preparation for such events, or lower our expectations and be more flexible in our plans in winter? I dunno.
The important thing as I see it, whether or not original plans have to be shelved, is to try to stay warm, and with whomever you end up spending Christmas, try not to be alone. (Unless you genuinely like it.) If anyone is stuck on their own, raise a shout and I'm sure we'll all make the effort to frequent this place on the day itself and give you some warm virtual company. But I hope that won't be necessary.
Had a nice walk around the nature reserve this morning with the Friends group. Off to the afternoon carol service now.
Martin
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Dec 19, 2010 17:28:46 GMT
Well, that walk to the carol service and back was scarier than the walk on the nature reserve this morning. Had a few near misses on the ice, and concluded that the only safe place to walk on many roads was on the uncompacted snow between the parked cars and the traffic (of which there was fortunately little). And to cut across the playing fields.
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Have witnessed a useable armchair made of snow, various snow people and snow fortifications, AND my next-door neighbour has built a cyclops. It is the size of a snow person but is mostly just a big head with one massive eye, horns and huge open jaws carved out of the snow. He took an hour or two to make it. I watched him from the warm. (I asked him when it had yet to take shape if it was a cat. He just said "We'll see how it turns out and then decide what to call it.")
It is facing directly into his patio windows.
Assuming they were out at the time it was being built, I wonder what his wife and baby made of it and whether it got the hoped-for reaction.
Martin
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Post by legios on Dec 19, 2010 20:17:44 GMT
[I thoroughly approve of your neighbour building a Snowmonster Martin. I wish I had thought of that!
The snow has mostly stopped here, we have had enough to give us another inch or so over the course of the evening (on top of the patches of ice that remain from several weeks ago - which vary from not present to four inches). It has certainly turned everything well and truly white. (I have spent the afternoon in, watching some cartoons and pottering around the house a bit. It is rather nice to watch the snow fall from the comfort of my heated living room).
Karl
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Post by Hero on Dec 20, 2010 0:09:46 GMT
I really dig the Christmas card, Andy.
I wonder if The Grinch had any influence on the design of the first Bayformer Megatron.
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