The Chat Thread II: Chat Harder

Drunkalilly wrote:

I've still never been

Your time will come, my son.

JayMoyles wrote:

Started my first day of training at Sky today. Woo, employment! Boo, getting up early (something I've not really had to do for 4 years).

[Muttley]Nashen shacken frashen rashen Arts students[/Muttley] - I was up for 9am lectures most days.

My earliest class in my last year of uni was 12pm.

I was up for lectures on a Saturday!

I'm doing my degree through the open university, so my classes are whenever I damn well please!
I'm also 25 and still working at Tesco, so maybe a few morning lessons would've been a worthwhile sacrifice...

That's not a bad thing Drunka if you want to move up the ladder and it pays the bills

Inquiry, gents. I've just ordered Virgin Fibre Optic for the new place, in the hope of being actually able to play some online games. However, they apparently have a "data management" policy in place for heavy uploaders. I'm guessing that Splatoon, say, would actually do quite a lot of heavy uploading.

Does anyone else have Virgin? Any problems with it?

I think you'll be fine. When they say "heavy uploaders" they mean people with, like, business servers operating from home.

Was going to say, don't worry Balla as I've been playing online since the OG Xbox on a regular basis and it's never been something to worry about.

Cheers gents, looks like I'm okay. Only other problem is that it won't happen until the 24th, so while I'm moving stuff over on the 6th, the true move might be somewhat delayed. I can't live in a flat without Internet!

Became an uncle again at 3:20am today, when young Eva was born.

Congrats!
So when should we expect the pitter patter of extra zeroes?

Drunkalilly wrote:

So when should we expect the pitter patter of extra zeroes?

Haven't seen the icon for ages!

Not for about three years, is the answer. We're hoping to be married first.

I'm going to Abu Dhabi to work at their science festival again on Sunday. Tone down the woopsie-o-meter and I'll have a grand time, I hope.

Ooh, very exciting! How long are you there for? That's quite a trip!

About two and a half weeks. Training uni students there to deliver science workshops to the kids. Mine is about dinosaurs, because I'm demonstrably the coolest member of staff.

Anyone teaching dinosaurs is a winner in my book.

Blimey, Rum, that's quite good! Enjoy it as much as you can, in between the bouts of dinopedagogy.

Hello everybody! My sleep schedule for the last few days: five hours Friday night, two more Saturday afternoon, none Saturday night, and three this morning. Wheeee, everything's pink-shifted for some reason.

I spent last night helping to mastermind an "All-Night Lock-In": 42 writers in a very small bookshop, writing and playing word games from 7pm to 7am. It was tremendous fun, but descended into utter insanity after 4. Examples of things that are now "memes" in that group: cats, pirate ninjas, cannibalism, Barry Manilow.

If that makes no sense to you, congratulations! It makes exactly as much sense to me.

It is. Oh, it definitely is.

Barry Manilow is already a meme in my head... and cats are a meme already!

*Sighs heavily*  It's that time of the year again.  


When temperatures average this:


So we get these annoying bastards in the unit.  

Blurry so dont be afraid!:

Since the zoom and blur may make it hard to tell, that guy is about as large as the centre of my palm, the white thing is the ceiling skirting board and pretty much all of it is in the picture.  They're really annoying to deal with.

And if you were wondering why I'm never, ever coming to your side of the world...