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Post by The Doctor on Jun 22, 2008 21:08:59 GMT
Thus, unemployment begins. Though I am still working on practice hours. I just don't get paid.  -Ralph |
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Post by Gav on Jun 22, 2008 21:17:17 GMT
I start in a new position tomorrow, which hopefully will be incredible.
Feeling a little delicate still from last night - as i was out dressed as the Hulk for a fancy dress party, and was making merry till the wee hours.
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 23, 2008 11:11:37 GMT
HULK SMASH HANGOVER!
-Ralph
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Post by Shockprowl on Jun 23, 2008 11:44:21 GMT
Hello Sports Fans!!!! Hope you are alllll well. Minor distaster to tell you about before I give a full report on Piglet's birthday fun. Work have blocked The Hub!!!!!! I'm trying to get it unblocked, but for now my posting will be extreamly limited (untill we get a new PC at home). So you're all gunna have to try and have fun without the normal amount of Shockprowl goodness. I know it'll be hard (?!).
Anywho, Piglet is now two. TWO!!!! She had a lovel party on the Sunday. The Shockprowl house is now FULL of prezzies and we don't know where to put them all! (I partic love her new dolls' house, it's marvelous! Think my new Action Force 25th Aniv figs will have great fun in it!!!! note: Action Force, not G.I. Joe- yep I've been on a nostalic trip of spending- death from Mrs Shockprowl imminent...). On Monday we went to Tropical World in Leeds and looked at the exotic animals (Piglet loves animals and the like). Then on her actual birthday Tuesday we went to Hesketh Farm Park near Bolton Abbey and looked at less exotic, but equally enjoyable animals with a coupla family members in tow (I loved brushing the Pigs! Gods they were huge!). She had a great time. Add these events plus shopping for sofas, playing in the park, playing on her new bike etc etc, Mrs Shockprowl and I need a holiday to recover from the holiday! Yes that old chestnut!
So, great time had by all. On my Mum's PC at mo, gunna go now and do some Uni work. Uni work! I'm so grown up!
Ian
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 23, 2008 15:13:32 GMT
Following on from my mhuge eby winnings last night I've been shopping. Got a DVD recorder with a USB socket on it. Said USB socket allows playback of MP3, JPG and DivX. Now what can you download in DivX. Philips model, £90 in the Argos catalogue, but £75 when you get in store.
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 23, 2008 16:39:44 GMT
I feel awful today, haunted by terrible fears for the future which I just can't shake. Not even a long walk in the sun helped.
-Ralph
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Post by Hero on Jun 23, 2008 23:01:24 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 24, 2008 15:53:22 GMT
...and another day in which getting out of bed was a complete waste of fucking time.
-Ralph
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Jun 24, 2008 16:37:50 GMT
Stay in bed, read Wheelie to sooth your head!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 24, 2008 16:53:13 GMT
A few months ago the Gereral Director (aka gaffer of gaffers) at another one of the factories owned by the multi-million pound company that owns the factory I work for became director of a charity that I have no intention of giving money to. The charity raises money and gives it to retired meat factory workers that, upon retirement, haven't got much money to keep them afloat for very long. I have no intention of giving money to this charity because these retired meat-factory workers are only in this state of affairs because they worked for tight-fisted millionaires like the one who is director of this charity (who most likely won't even put so much as a single penny to the charity himself). This director is pretty much asking other low-paid workers to cough up the money that he himself didn't want to give to the said workers when they were employed. This director is so rich he shits racehorses and wipes his arse on £50 notes and that is why I prefer to keep my money to myself.
I mention this now because the charity came up in a conversation at work a couple of days ago and put my point across which the other workers I was talking to all agreed on.
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Post by karla on Jun 24, 2008 21:31:52 GMT
I hate money......unless I was to have alot of it then I wouldn't have to worry about it at all. don't seem to be having a bad week, my car insurance wasn't too bad, but it's the petrol that is going to hurt me most so no unnecessary journeys. heh i'm planning to go to uni over the next few years, when the credit crunch or whatever doom looms over comes, won't have to worry about money too much then  hopefully this will cheer you up, it should really be for november 5th, fireworks saftey 'n' all but I can always re-post it nearer the time  www.laaf.info/don't take it seriously!! |
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 25, 2008 10:07:02 GMT
My spirits are very very low. It now looks like an impossible task to complete my course due to events completely outwith my control. No wonder I'm just out of bed and it's 11am.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jun 25, 2008 10:11:54 GMT
EMERGENCY CHANNELING!!!!
NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
HHHUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUURGH!
Andy
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Post by kayevcee on Jun 25, 2008 16:32:54 GMT
I channel also for Ralph and Ken.
My grandpa suffered a panic attack last night and is now in the Royal Infirmary. My mum and I are going up to see him at 7. He's 89 and has had bother with his Alzheimer's and breathing problems since getting back from Malaysia. Jetlag + Alzheimer's is a nasty combination at the best of times.
Anyway, life for me is plodding along as usual. Picked up some stuff for Ken this afternoon (sounds like you could use a bit of good news, chap) and I think I've straightened out any outstanding bits and bobs related to graduation.
Ralph, Ken- if there's anything I can do to help out either of you chaps, you have my email address/phone number/carrier pigeon. Do NOT hesitate.
-Nick
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Jun 25, 2008 17:02:13 GMT
Ralph, Ken- if there's anything I can do to help out either of you chaps, you have my email address/phone number/carrier pigeon. Do NOT hesitate. Ditto! Though carrier pigeons are liable to be intercepted around here. I find it unbelievable that Ralph would not be permitted to complete his course having got to this stage. Positive wishing thoughts heading north and east. Martin |
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jun 25, 2008 18:59:53 GMT
I shall channel for your grandpa Nick. I hope he recovers soon.
Andy
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Post by grahamthomson on Jun 25, 2008 19:19:34 GMT
I am channeling for Ralph and Ken and Nick's grandpa.
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Post by kayevcee on Jun 25, 2008 21:06:01 GMT
Grandpa was in good spirits when we arrived, and appropriately repentant about injuring his back out on the driving range earlier yesterday. Not through swinging- he was trying to sneakily pick up a couple of extra balls that had come to rest at the near edge and couldn't get back up. I felt kind of bad for the man opposite us- he didn't move except for blinking the whole time we were there, and while grandpa had five people crowded round his bed/hanging out in the corridor whenever staff came by, nobody was there for him. We're going back up tomorrow afternoon- hopefully his loved ones will put in a better showing then.
-Nick
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Post by legios on Jun 26, 2008 20:01:58 GMT
I shall engage channelling for Ralph, Ken and Nick's grandfather. If there is anything I can do chaps, let me know.
At the moment I am slowly settling back to Earth after a crazy fortnight - I spent a good chunk of last week on Jury Service, and then after that I had to head down to Middlesborough, so that my sister and I could drive down to Shrewsbury on Monday for her to take possession of her new flat. Then we have spent the following two days unpacking furniture and possessions she hasn't seen since they went into storage five years ago . That would have been an exhausting experience enough, without also having to fight off a foul cold that I seem to have picked up somewhere along the way.
Between the tiredness from sleeping on the floor for three days and extensive physical labor and the constant doses of cold medication I feel more than a little dazed. I am looking forward to the weekend in the hopes I can finally get myself straightened out and settle back onto the ground.
I'm feeling glad that we've been able to settle my sister in a bit - she's well placed to start her new job next week, without having to immediately worry about racing around to get food in and find where her clothes have been packed and whatnot.
Karl
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 26, 2008 22:50:05 GMT
I was over at a friend's place last night for a gathering and strategically parked myself beside the nibbles while much banter was had and movies watched, etc. A former flatmate had left behind a 70cl bottle of Sainsbury's 'Basics' Vodka. I had no idea there was a 'Basics' kind of vodka, but the 'Basics' toilet roll is pretty good so I thought: what the hell. If that range of keenly priced produce is good enough for the cheeks of my arse, it's good enough to go down the gullet.
It was only at the end of the night when I got up from the stool I was perched on to make ready for the journey home that I found myself to be steaming drunk. This was a bit of a surprise as I had only had most of the bottle and possibly some Archers too. Just five minutes previously I had been engaged in erudite conversation and yet here I was, bouncing off of pavements and shaking my fist at the moon, which was winking at me. 'What on Earth has happened?' I asked myself, while falling over a fence. I just hadn't seen it coming. Even when, in a strange out-of-body experience, I found myself peeing up the side of the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall while shouting "wheeeeeee!" and smiling at folk passing by, I still found the situation most unexpected.
The worst thing though was when I woke up in bed sometime later and was upset to find no chicken pakora in the flat shortly before my bowels exploded in screaming torment.
Hmmm.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jun 26, 2008 22:58:39 GMT
Sounds like you had a good night even if you did end up paying for it this morning.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 26, 2008 22:59:59 GMT
Oh I paid. Five times!!!
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jun 26, 2008 23:03:37 GMT
Five times?! Dear lord that's a severe doing your bathroom got. Almost as bad as when Karl, Gav and I were last round at Burns Mansion.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 26, 2008 23:05:45 GMT
It was brutal. I'm half the man I used to be.
-Ralph
badwolfbadwolfbadwolf
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Post by grahamthomson on Jun 27, 2008 8:11:24 GMT
You peed up the side of the concert hall? My goodness! Remind me to buy some Basics vodka next time I go shopping!
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jun 27, 2008 12:15:50 GMT
I'm a fucking idiot. Spent this morning sorting out arrangements for a stag do in August and booked my flights. Turns out I booked them for the same weekend as Auto Assembly and instead of shelling out £102.00 for flying I've had to stump up £150.00.
BAH!
Not even a foot long Italian BMT on Honey Oat for lunch could cheer me up.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 27, 2008 15:30:38 GMT
Oh dear. First Nick, now you. Hubbers should not book flights unsupervised.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 27, 2008 16:10:08 GMT
You peed up the side of the concert hall? My goodness! Remind me to buy some Basics vodka next time I go shopping! Can you make jelly from it ? |
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 27, 2008 16:14:46 GMT
Probably.
Been a while since I made vodka jelly.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 27, 2008 18:54:42 GMT
A fave of the London mob at one pt.
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