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Post by Tuffers on Jun 21, 2022 18:40:59 GMT
I recall that after one of our Amsterdam trips, probably around 2000/01 (pre euro foreign muck, good old British gilders) I went to a mates about a week later and in the inside jacket pocket was about an 1/8th of white widow in a little plastic bag I'd totally forgotten about. Ritual was, on the last day, empty all pockets into a bin before heading to schipol. So lucky! a) because I didn't get inspected by a long fingered Dutch customs dude and b) I had top notch weed back home!
Like a young Mr Nice. Ahh, the good old days..
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Post by RollingEscargot on Jun 21, 2022 18:54:26 GMT
Bunch of druggists.
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Post by Faceless on Jun 21, 2022 19:07:05 GMT
muffrat which Cypress Hill cd's? I will be judging you
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Post by muffrat on Jun 21, 2022 19:14:59 GMT
I really liked the Belgariad and Mallorean when they first came out, they seem a bit cheesy today though. I loved them when I was 12/13, and they got a re-read every couple of years I suppose. Flicking through them again the writing is pretty woeful, it reads like it's all been dictated straight to the page without editing. They can go on the bookshelf near the bog for emergency toilet reading |
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Post by MrTiddles on Jun 21, 2022 19:21:49 GMT
I really liked the Belgariad and Mallorean when they first came out, they seem a bit cheesy today though. I loved them when I was 12/13, and they got a re-read every couple of years I suppose. Flicking through them again the writing is pretty woeful, it reads like it's all been dictated straight to the page without editing. They can go on the bookshelf near the bog for emergency toilet reading Bookshelf boasting at it's worst, or possibly, you have extremely long arms.
Last 'bog book' I read was The Catcher in the Rye. I enjoyed it as a teenager, but now... 'pffft'.
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Post by muffrat on Jun 21, 2022 19:22:27 GMT
muffrat which Cypress Hill cd's? I will be judging you Black Sunday, and the self titled first one. Will be blasting it in the car tomorrow morning as loud as I dare |
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Post by muffrat on Jun 21, 2022 19:29:39 GMT
2 Cypress Hill CD's, a ton of hip hop and jungle mix tapes, and VHS copies of Dumb and Dumber and Withnail & I I was about to comment about those smelling of dope, then I got further down the post. My friend is convinced there are a bag of superdoves in his mother's close basement as he used to keep them there when he was dealing. He also "remembers" losing them as he had to pay the tick bill. The deluded fool no doubt munched them. This post reminds me of the first episode of Wasted from channel 4, where they dig up a stash of legendary 90's pills from a field. (Still on 4player if you've not seen it, it's not Shakespeare but there's a few laughs in there. Like a sort of happy shopper, West Country 'Spaced') |
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Post by Destry on Jun 21, 2022 19:32:30 GMT
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Post by Faceless on Jun 21, 2022 19:34:26 GMT
muffrat which Cypress Hill cd's? I will be judging you Black Sunday, and the self titled first one. Will be blasting it in the car tomorrow morning as loud as I dare excellent. Their first two albums were decent. Everything after that not so much |
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Post by crankcaller on Jun 21, 2022 19:34:49 GMT
muffrat I've never even heard of that. Will check it out.
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Post by tenthenemy on Jun 21, 2022 20:04:08 GMT
This might be the only way I can tolerate Emily Dickinson. (I'm sorry, I once had to sit through an academic presentation on her work. Politeness was the only thing that kept me in my seat. Dire doesn't even come near to describing it.)* *it was a great example of how US academics aren't trained to present their work |
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Post by Sheep2 on Jun 21, 2022 20:08:34 GMT
Literary games Sylvia Plath: The Game Your aim is to sell enough terribly depressing poetry to afford a full prepaid card for the gas meter Be warned though. The longer it takes you the higher the price of gas. Also your estranged husband's poetry becomes more successful making it more difficult to sell your poems. |
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Post by amipal on Jun 21, 2022 20:22:51 GMT
Amipal - are you going to Big Beach Boutique? I don’t know what that is, and do not wish to find out. |
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Post by muffrat on Jun 21, 2022 20:22:56 GMT
Literary games Sylvia Plath: The Game Your aim is to sell enough terribly depressing poetry to afford a full prepaid card for the gas meter Be warned though. The longer it takes you the higher the price of gas. Also your estranged husband's poetry become more successful making it more difficult to sell your poems. I love this. I can also see some legs in a Hemingway 1st person shooter, where you have to shoot the 1st person. World's easiest Battle Royale, you'd only need one bullet |
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Post by crankcaller on Jun 21, 2022 20:26:32 GMT
I just watched a 360° YouTube video of an EDM festival from the USA on the Oculus..
It confirmed my predujices regarding these events. Absolute shite music for idiots. Viva House music.
I might watch a bit of Glastonbury on it - not in 360 though as that's barf inducing. Big fuck off TV mode instead, Bluetooth buds in.
Wondered why I kept not being paired with folk on Warzone in trios etc. Apparently I had matching switched off. Just got a 2nd place by pairing up with what sounded like a bunch of 11 yr olds from Cheshire. One of them was interpreting my comments for the others
"What's he saying"
"I'm spraffin' aboot yer maw wee man"
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Post by tenthenemy on Jun 21, 2022 20:28:18 GMT
I loved them when I was 12/13, and they got a re-read every couple of years I suppose. Flicking through them again the writing is pretty woeful, it reads like it's all been dictated straight to the page without editing. They can go on the bookshelf near the bog for emergency toilet reading Bookshelf boasting at it's worst, or possibly, you have extremely long arms.
Last 'bog book' I read was The Catcher in the Rye. I enjoyed it as a teenager, but now... 'pffft'.
for toilet reading? Shades of Plenzdorf's The New Sufferings of Young W.All I'm saying is be careful around electronics. There's too much literature on this thread today. |
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Post by Tuffers on Jun 21, 2022 20:35:13 GMT
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Post by Sheep2 on Jun 21, 2022 20:35:58 GMT
Literary games Sylvia Plath: The Game Your aim is to sell enough terribly depressing poetry to afford a full prepaid card for the gas meter Be warned though. The longer it takes you the higher the price of gas. Also your estranged husband's poetry become more successful making it more difficult to sell your poems. I love this. I can also see some legs in a Hemingway 1st person shooter, where you have to shoot the 1st person. World's easiest Battle Royale, you'd only need one bullet The special shotgun edition comes with Kurt Cobain DLC. Too soon? |
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Post by Chumbles on Jun 21, 2022 20:47:10 GMT
I couldn't stand her pomes, and the game looks like a child's learning tool, or an inferior version of the conceptual TBTs I used to put together using Asymetrix Toolbook for clients who ignored my protestations that you shouldn't try and change attitudes with TBT/CBT* *Because it's stupidly expensive and requires assessment of the target group, which inevitably demotivates them if they already don't want to change/learn. And it never fucking works. So the sponsoring training department just allocates a miniscule sum for it so that they can pretend that the job's done... Guilty of this idiocy (besides my Sales manager, who was venal as they all are) were ICL, British Aerospace, WAVE Technologies, Bradford & Bingley, Marks & Spencer, British Gas, Murkysoft amongst others... |
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Post by BabyfarkmcGeezak on Jun 21, 2022 21:19:49 GMT
I just watched the Stranger Things episode where Max has to escape the big baddie with Kate Bush blasting out. Excellent stuff.
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Post by Shenguin on Jun 21, 2022 21:30:09 GMT
This might be the only way I can tolerate Emily Dickinson. (I'm sorry, I once had to sit through an academic presentation on her work. Politeness was the only thing that kept me in my seat. Dire doesn't even come near to describing it.)* *it was a great example of how US academics aren't trained to present their work Dickinson's poetry leaves you so cold no fire can ever warm you? |
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Post by Destry on Jun 21, 2022 21:35:29 GMT
So, nobody's posting their Emily Dickinson's score then?
I didn't do very well but, to be fair, my poetry was a definite improvement.
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Post by Shenguin on Jun 21, 2022 21:45:03 GMT
71%, but I'm pretty certain anyone who's played Fortnite with me will back me up when I say that my aim is worse than my reading.
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Post by tenthenemy on Jun 21, 2022 22:00:42 GMT
This might be the only way I can tolerate Emily Dickinson. (I'm sorry, I once had to sit through an academic presentation on her work. Politeness was the only thing that kept me in my seat. Dire doesn't even come near to describing it.)* *it was a great example of how US academics aren't trained to present their work Dickinson's poetry leaves you so cold no fire can ever warm you? Oh, I think her poems would make an excellent fire. |
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