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Post by Shenguin on Oct 15, 2018 11:58:33 GMT
Leonard Cohen’s Greatest Hits was my first album. I’m cool like that, but not happy about it.
The big hit in the final year at my primary school was Cliff Richard’s Mistletoe and Wine. I hated it when I was a boy, I hate it now I am a man, so shall it be when I grow old or let me die.
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Post by Shenguin on Oct 15, 2018 12:01:52 GMT
Five hour drive to work this morning. I'm beginning to think that if I wanted a role model in the 'box, instead of trying to emulate Scubar I should just have started making sex jokes and become shit at Fortnite.
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Post by scubar on Oct 15, 2018 12:24:16 GMT
Best box role model is “anyone but Shenguin.”
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Post by Amiibolover on Oct 15, 2018 12:24:28 GMT
Oioi
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Post by scubar on Oct 15, 2018 12:26:31 GMT
Wait...
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Post by BabyfarkmcGeezak on Oct 15, 2018 12:42:40 GMT
Re-heated pasta bake for lunch.
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Post by cobblers on Oct 15, 2018 12:46:06 GMT
Hello. Black history month has been retooled into BAME history month here and some bright spark in CSR has produced a quiz that’s been circulated.
One of the questions on it is about a Housaki painting. What could go wrong, you wonder? Surely it’s going to be a question about The Great Wave or one his iconic paintings of Mt Fuji.
Nope.
It’s the Dream of The Fisherman’s Wife. Patient zero for tentacle porn. Inspired.
IMPORTANT EDIT. If you are unfamiliar with this painting I would caution against searching for it on a work computer.
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Post by tenthenemy on Oct 15, 2018 12:49:56 GMT
Grandchildren update: both lads have made it into the world and everyone is okay. The question whether they are identical twins or not is still open. Apparently one has a bigger nose than the other.
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Post by tenthenemy on Oct 15, 2018 12:55:01 GMT
One of the questions on it is about a Housaki painting. What could go wrong, you wonder? Surely it’s going to be a question about The Great Wave or one his iconic paintings of Mt Fuji. Nope. It’s the Dream of The Fisherman’s Wife. Patient zero for tentacle porn. Inspired. Is that Hokusai's lesser known cousin? Inspired and educational. |
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Post by BabyfarkmcGeezak on Oct 15, 2018 12:58:59 GMT
Grandchildren update: both lads have made it into the world and everyone is okay. The question whether they are identical twins or not is still open. Apparently one has a bigger nose than the other. And will Granny be picking up any babysitting duties going forward? Or, like my parents, have you wisely moved to the other end of the country to avoid this? |
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Post by crankcaller on Oct 15, 2018 13:07:05 GMT
Congratulations tenthenemyJust had our annual fishing expedition from a journalist with an foi asking about overdue items so they can do their "Aren't libraries a waste of money" story. She's asked for the info in a spreadsheet. I'm spending tonight downloading an Amiga emulator and spreadsheet to send the file back in a format she can't open. Also she asked for overdue books. So any other stuff such as DVD's I'm not passing over. |
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Post by Shenguin on Oct 15, 2018 13:19:27 GMT
Grandchildren update: both lads have made it into the world and everyone is okay. The question whether they are identical twins or not is still open. Apparently one has a bigger nose than the other. Congratulations Tent Hen. If they don't look the same can you be sure they are twins at all? |
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Post by tenthenemy on Oct 15, 2018 13:20:44 GMT
Grandchildren update: both lads have made it into the world and everyone is okay. The question whether they are identical twins or not is still open. Apparently one has a bigger nose than the other. And will Granny be picking up any babysitting duties going forward? Or, like my parents, have you wisely moved to the other end of the country to avoid this? I stayed where I was. It's them who have moved too far away. Too bad, really. *weasels out of call of nappy changing duty* |
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Post by Shenguin on Oct 15, 2018 14:18:31 GMT
Tent Hen, in the conservatory, with the grandchildren chat.
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Post by RollingEscargot on Oct 15, 2018 14:33:07 GMT
What does the tentacle porn picture have to do with Black History month? I've been trying not to ask, but I have failed.
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Post by Shenguin on Oct 15, 2018 14:47:31 GMT
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Post by RollingEscargot on Oct 15, 2018 14:51:34 GMT
Listen, I have a lot of respect for all cultures, at all times of the year, BAME History month or not. I'll have you know that some of my best friends are octopuses.
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Post by tenthenemy on Oct 15, 2018 14:55:58 GMT
Grandchildren update: both lads have made it into the world and everyone is okay. The question whether they are identical twins or not is still open. Apparently one has a bigger nose than the other. Congratulations Tent Hen. If they don't look the same can you be sure they are twins at all? |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2018 16:06:56 GMT
First singles/Albums
Jeff Wayne’s War Of The Worlds, double cassette cardboard box - great art, I don’t recall there being any inserts in the tapes. I played that forever and ever the Christmas of 1978.
Chris De Burgh - A Spaceman’s came Travelling. Now Wikipedia says it was released in 1976 - but I’m sure I bought it the week before I bought The Police - Walking On The Moon 1979.
My next couple of records I nicked from my Aunt, just after her wedding in 1980, Leonard Cohen’s Diamonds in the Mine and about half a dozen Abba singles stand out from then.
I was one of those who bought the banned Relax single with the bondage 12” sleeve in 1983 - which then led me to collecting a number of 12” remixes, The Smiths, Prince, Art Of Noise, Grace Jones.
I swapped the lot for a load of comics.
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Post by Shenguin on Oct 15, 2018 16:12:02 GMT
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Post by lonewolf on Oct 15, 2018 16:34:31 GMT
First album owned Bad.
First Album bought, Californication.
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Post by lonewolf on Oct 15, 2018 16:36:06 GMT
I can wear red to work as part of give racism the red card.
Pretty sure the head of the KKK wears red.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2018 16:58:40 GMT
I can wear red to work as part of give racism the red card. Pretty sure the head of the KKK wears red. Turning up to work in a red klansman outfit - can’t see anything going wrong with that. |
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Post by Felice Landry on Oct 15, 2018 17:01:11 GMT
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Post by Destry on Oct 15, 2018 17:24:49 GMT
First album: Bruce Springsteen; Born To Run.
EDIT: I still have the vinyl album.
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