I don't know where we're going, but it can only be 5K away (Part whatever)

Leg End Reject

NewRed2 wrote: »

In the sunroom, finally getting to listen to some tunes after Vodafone's blackout for the evening. Muppets.
Really wasn't a good day. It started to go wrong around 7.30am when I was minutes away from work and in a 120km zone when a van in front of me decided to literally stick his brake peddle to the ground in a seriously dangerous way, he went from around 125 to 80 in a few seconds, van swerved and everything. So I had to quickly move into the overtaking lane, sped up to do it coz car to the right was moving up fast-ish and thinking WTF are you doing.
Then after speeding up to overtake and moving back in to the left land I realised he had done it for a speed camera. So now thanks to him being a melodramatic idiot and me having to overtake I'm quite sure I have penalty points, I mean by all means tip the brakes but don't try to literally stop in the middle of a motorway, jackass.
Speeding ticket should arrive in a months time, would be fun if it lands on Christmas day. I wonder do they add little Santy faces to be festive?

Then into work and I'll change names here coz ya know, to be safe, so in work we share a premises with another company and the boss of their crowd (Margaret) is lovely but she wouldn't be tolerant of messing as most bosses wouldn't I guess. So there's this lady there lets call her Niamh and meself and Niamh are always just acting the maggot, doing stupid childish crap to annoy each other but it makes the day go faster with the few giggles and bit of harmless banter. So this morning, by the way she always eats healthy and everyone from their company takes tea break at the same time. So 10am she heads off to the toilet and leaves her phone on the bench and a peeled satsuma fairly close by. By now all other staff are up in canteen getting coffee/tea.
So I got a tape-gun and sellotaped her satsuma to her phone. Did a good few rounds with the tape gun, a fine thorough job.
Childish, yes, but sorta typical of stupid crap we occasionally do.
Anyway... Niamh comes back and sits at the bench and I can see shes smiling. So after a while I said "are you not eating today?".
And she gleefully replies, "not yet but Margaret will be down in a minute wondering why someone has sellotaped her orange to someones mobile".
I never ripped layers of sellotape off something so fast. I'm not sure what happened after. I left the sticky orange behind and legged it.

And then to top it all off my Elvery's weight lifting equipment has been delayed. Now to give a brief background, I'm average height but always was sorta skinny growing up. So a few months ago I got these dumbbells for improving biceps and I've stuck with it every day and now have fairly decent biceps, nothing amazing but no longer puny arms. So that was enough for me really, I'm not into the muscular look. But one night after a skinful of craft beers I started the series on Netflix called "Kingdom" which is a great show by the way but involves a lot of guys training to be cage-fighters and I recall at one point thinking yeah Grrr I can build muscles. And when I awoke the next morning I checked my email to see I had lodged 600 euros worth of weight lifting equipment. Grrr indeed.
So I rang them and asked about cancellation and she asked why did I want to cancel and I wasn't sure how to explain about Kingdom on Netflix so I said ah sure screw it, and let the order stand.
So over time I've become excited about it. It didn't land today but some day soon I'll have my own mini gym with bench press, power tower, some weird yolks where ya hook it over the bar and then pull on the ropes to lift the weights up and stuff.
Don't have a clue how to use any of it or where in county laois will sell me protein shakes and steroids but sure we'll see how we go.... Grrrr!!!!!!

Does a wherer have a little crush on Niamh?????

Purple Mountain

@NewRed, I think I'll wet myself reading your post. That was very Covid unfriendly mauling Margaret's orange and now you're going to bulked up like those male bodybuilders in their little underpants and shaved head! Sorry to hear about the stunt the other fella pulled on the motorway.
Can anyone give me a small synopsis of IAC. We just left Toy Show on. I saw who left but did I miss anything else?
I'm actually enjoying the TS. Usually wouldn't sit and watch it but there's a bit of craic on it tonight.

NewRed2

Leg End Reject wrote: »

Does a wherer have a little crush on Niamh?????

ha, no, I like her but she's mid 60's and i'm 40 so I'd say not. Good shout though, I can see why you'd deduce that alright

Purple Mountain

The older the fiddle...

Leg End Reject

NewRed2 wrote: »

ha, no, I like her but she's mid 60's and i'm 40 so I'd say not. Good shout though, I can see why you'd deduce that alright

You could be a toy boy, it'd be a nice change from orange-molester.

NewRed2

Purple Mountain wrote: »

The older the fiddle...

a satsuma in the middle....?

Leg End Reject

PM, IAC was the usual. All blubbering about how they love one another and are friends for life. Ruthie will be going tomorrow night I'd say. Poor Hollie was very upset but was all lovey about the other in her interview.

NewRed2

Leg End Reject wrote: »

You could be a toy boy, it'd be a nice change from orange-molester.

ha yeah Maybe, I suppose orange-molester isn't setting the bar too high to start with so who knows

Purple Mountain

Leg End Reject wrote: »

PM, IAC was the usual. All blubbering about how they love one another and are friends for life. Ruthie will be going tomorrow night I'd say. Poor Hollie was very upset but was all lovey about the other in her interview.

Did they vote Bitchie for tomorrow's trial again?

Leg End Reject

Purple Mountain wrote: »

Did they vote Bitchie for tomorrow's trial again?

It's DumbMo. I think, I only half watch it because it's so boring. :pac:

Grandeeod

We're all still stuck into the Toy show here. Vodafone came back with 1 min to go.:eek: But it's stalling a bit every now and then. It will do. Some money raised for that Toy Show appeal.

Autosport

Loving the toy show, someone cutting onions nearby

NewRed I agree about older the fiddle

On the Beach

Goodnight crayturs. May your dreams be peaceful.

Leg End Reject

On the Beach wrote: »

Goodnight crayturs. May your dreams be peaceful.

Crayturs? You suddenly seem familiar!

Gremlinertia

Umpteenth mug of tae, it's feckin baltic on this site

Sardonicat

NewRed2 wrote: »

In the sunroom, finally getting to listen to some tunes after Vodafone's blackout for the evening. Muppets.
Really wasn't a good day. It started to go wrong around 7.30am when I was minutes away from work and in a 120km zone when a van in front of me decided to literally stick his brake peddle to the ground in a seriously dangerous way, he went from around 125 to 80 in a few seconds, van swerved and everything. So I had to quickly move into the overtaking lane, sped up to do it coz car to the right was moving up fast-ish and thinking WTF are you doing.
Then after speeding up to overtake and moving back in to the left land I realised he had done it for a speed camera. So now thanks to him being a melodramatic idiot and me having to overtake I'm quite sure I have penalty points, I mean by all means tip the brakes but don't try to literally stop in the middle of a motorway, jackass.
Speeding ticket should arrive in a months time, would be fun if it lands on Christmas day. I wonder do they add little Santy faces to be festive?

Then into work and I'll change names here coz ya know, to be safe, so in work we share a premises with another company and the boss of their crowd (Margaret) is lovely but she wouldn't be tolerant of messing as most bosses wouldn't I guess. So there's this lady there lets call her Niamh and meself and Niamh are always just acting the maggot, doing stupid childish crap to annoy each other but it makes the day go faster with the few giggles and bit of harmless banter. So this morning, by the way she always eats healthy and everyone from their company takes tea break at the same time. So 10am she heads off to the toilet and leaves her phone on the bench and a peeled satsuma fairly close by. By now all other staff are up in canteen getting coffee/tea.
So I got a tape-gun and sellotaped her satsuma to her phone. Did a good few rounds with the tape gun, a fine thorough job.
Childish, yes, but sorta typical of stupid crap we occasionally do.
Anyway... Niamh comes back and sits at the bench and I can see shes smiling. So after a while I said "are you not eating today?".
And she gleefully replies, "not yet but Margaret will be down in a minute wondering why someone has sellotaped her orange to someones mobile".
I never ripped layers of sellotape off something so fast. I'm not sure what happened after. I left the sticky orange behind and legged it.

And then to top it all off my Elvery's weight lifting equipment has been delayed. Now to give a brief background, I'm average height but always was sorta skinny growing up. So a few months ago I got these dumbbells for improving biceps and I've stuck with it every day and now have fairly decent biceps, nothing amazing but no longer puny arms. So that was enough for me really, I'm not into the muscular look. But one night after a skinful of craft beers I started the series on Netflix called "Kingdom" which is a great show by the way but involves a lot of guys training to be cage-fighters and I recall at one point thinking yeah Grrr I can build muscles. And when I awoke the next morning I checked my email to see I had lodged 600 euros worth of weight lifting equipment. Grrr indeed.
So I rang them and asked about cancellation and she asked why did I want to cancel and I wasn't sure how to explain about Kingdom on Netflix so I said ah sure screw it, and let the order stand.
So over time I've become excited about it. It didn't land today but some day soon I'll have my own mini gym with bench press, power tower, some weird yolks where ya hook it over the bar and then pull on the ropes to lift the weights up and stuff.
Don't have a clue how to use any of it or where in county laois will sell me protein shakes and steroids but sure we'll see how we go.... Grrrr!!!!!!

My favourite post of the week. Grrrrrr

Leg End Reject

Gremlinertia wrote: »

Umpteenth mug of tae, it's feckin baltic on this site

It's very cold lately, I really hope it gets milder. I wouldn't like to be working through the night so I hope you have lots of tea and some comfort food.

Purple Mountain

Do you have hot water bottles with you?
I think if I worked over night, I'd need one and id probably have a lap blanket too.

Sardonicat

Watching Annie Lennox here. Shes lost a little bit if her range and her voice us bot quite as pure but it's all the more moving for it. She still sounds like an avenging angel.

Gremlinertia

Love Annie, listening to Jeff Buckley So Real right now.

Sardonicat

Sardonicat wrote: »

Watching Annie Lennox here. Shes lost a little bit if her range and her voice us bot quite as pure but it's all the more moving for it. She still sounds like an avenging angel.

Tiny tiny claim to fame but I was in the audience on this night.

Sardonicat

Gremlinertia wrote: »

Love Annie, listening to Jeff Buckley So Real right now.

Jeff makes me cry. Really cry. I'm a soft eejit, aren't I? Do you think I'm able to kid anyone I'm not or should I just stop trying?

Sardonicat

Sardonicat wrote: »

Jeff makes me cry. Really cry. I'm a soft eejit, aren't I? Do you think I'm able to kid anyone I'm not or should I just stop trying?

I will see your cry and raise you a complete break down. I cry every time I listen to Tim Buckley sing "dolphins" which apparently is about Jeff.

Sometimes I think about Saturday's child
And all about the times when we were running wild
I've been out searching for the dolphins in the sea
Ah, but sometimes I wonder, do you ever think of me

Mam of 4

Sardonicat wrote: »

Jeff makes me cry. Really cry. I'm a soft eejit, aren't I? Do you think I'm able to kid anyone I'm not or should I just stop trying?

Stop trying Sardi , everyone knows you're like a Cadburys Creme Egg , tough outer shell , soft inside

Tis freezing here too , car frozen over again . Am hoping the dog isn't up too much during the night , she's old and tired now , needs to pee a lot , very human characteristics really !

Sardonicat

Lump in my throat now. I'm gonna source some stompy music to make it go away.

Purple Mountain

Mam of 4 wrote: »

Stop trying Sardi , everyone knows you're like a Cadburys Creme Egg , tough outer shell , soft inside

Tis freezing here too , car frozen over again . Am hoping the dog isn't up too much during the night , she's old and tired now , needs to pee a lot , very human characteristics really !

Does she cry to go out or is she at the bed wetting stage yet?

Sardonicat

Sardonicat wrote: »

stompy music

?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNoPNC3ebYQ&ab_channel=StevenBothwell

?

Mam of 4

Purple Mountain wrote: »

Does she cry to go out or is she at the bed wetting stage yet?

My kitchen is in two halves , she sleeps in bottom half , so scratches the door to get me up , just as well I don't sleep much . Not bed wetting yet , thankfully PM .

Sardonicat

[Deleted User] wrote: »

?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNoPNC3ebYQ&ab_channel=StevenBothwell

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Did the trick nicely, thanks. Wish I could make noise like that. Off to my bed now. Night everyone

Purple Mountain

Mam of 4 wrote: »

My kitchen is in two halves , she sleeps in bottom half , so scratches the door to get me up , just as well I don't sleep much . Not bed wetting yet , thankfully PM .

You sleep in the kitchen?

Gremlinertia

On to John Grant now plus more tea. Mam I can mind the dog think I'll be going to the toilet as often!

Mam of 4

Purple Mountain wrote: »

You sleep in the kitchen?

Yep , I have my own basket to sleep in beside the cooker

Thanks Grem , she has gone out once since I posted , seems settled now so hopefully a few hours straight sleep .
For her I mean !

Leg End Reject

Purple Mountain wrote: »

You sleep in the kitchen?

You have a delightful offbeat sense of humour! :pac:

Just finished watching the Toy Show, absolutely brilliant, cried through most of it , we could learn a thing or two from those kids,I'm in bits.
Fell asleep earlier so had to watch it on the plus1,wide awake now, might have a PJ day tomorrow.

Gremlinertia

Seems mostly positive reviews of toy show, fair play for managing that..

Lana Del Ray playing here

votecounts

bedside,
night all, hope ye all enjoyed the fanta moment:D

Surreptitious

Gremlinertia wrote: »

Seems mostly positive reviews of toy show, fair play for managing that..

Lana Del Ray playing here

Saw her in The Marquee. Loved it.

The Crazy Cat Lady

Bedside, wide awake, load on my mind

JupiterKid

Horizontal, couchside, listening to the golden tunes of DJ Funkybeak on Mixcloud.

Perfect antidote to an intensely busy week.

Gremlinertia

I'm on to Portishead now. Fatigue is strong..

smurfjed

Don't have a clue how to use any of it or where in county laois will sell me protein shakes and steroids but sure we'll see how we go.... Grrrr!!!!!!

Stay away from these fellas, get the right diet and away you go.

smurfjed

Woke up to find a wet city view outside my window. Working tonight so gonna walk now.

Gremlinertia

The rain unexpected?. It's clear and very cold here, gritting trucks out earlier though roads are mostly dry round here anyway..

Graces7

Sardonicat wrote: »

You can never have enough socks, Graces. Clean socks and knickers should be in infinite supply. Hang on to your extra socks. What if you can't get your washing done for a while? At least you'll have fresh essentials. I'll say it again: you can never have enough socks.

But I am nearly 80! My sock wearing years are limited. I would far rather share my bounty!

Graces7

smurfjed wrote: »

Sent a picture of them to my usual flying partner, he came rushing down to see them, in the subsequent conversation he told me that he had shipped his car over to this city a few days ago, but he doesn’t want to drive it, the reason, well its a Ferrari and he doesn’t trust the drivers in this city.

Sure enough he has a Ferrari parked in the hotel underground car park :)

The two Bugattis were just sitting outside the hotel with zero security, just me and this guy sitting there. Gotta love the innocence of this place.

Trying to imagine the reaction if someone sent me a car like that over here! Oh it would be AWESOME! lol.. Just to see their faces!

As if! Not even a disability trike ..

Graces7

Mam of 4 wrote: »

All the families getting prepared earlier for the Toy Show , kids excited to stay up late to watch it ...... unless they're with Vodafone , which went out three hours ago in a lot of areas .

Should have posted that in the TA thread :pac:

Anyone involved with Vodafone has my sincere condolences. I had a job even ditching them way back as they sent me solicitor;s letters re bills then they owed me Only got rid when I moved house without giving them the new address...

Does anyone still use landlines?

Graces7

I think the tide just turned on the ocean just behind here. Heard it! Amazingly, gloriously silent out here. To hear the tide turning!

Spent up. On the tree and lights.
So no chocolates this Christmas now. Staying clear of the Christmas forum consequently...

ah well! The lights will be worth it!

Back out shooting!!!

Sardonicat

Graces7 wrote: »

But I am nearly 80! My sock wearing years are limited. I would far rather share my bounty!

You've got more than 20 days in a row left! I repeat, keep a vast quantity of essential clothing in case accident/illness/plumbing disaster/cant be ar§editis prevents you from getting your washing done. Your world may be falling apart but your toes will be warm in fresh smelling socks. Its not like they take up too much room, now.

Sardonicat

Gremlinertia wrote: »

The rain unexpected?. It's clear and very cold here, gritting trucks out earlier though roads are mostly dry round here anyway..

Gritting trucks? Has snow been forecast?