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Post by RollingEscargot on Sept 23, 2019 9:23:50 GMT
Famous people you've seen in waterstones chat? At last!
Tilda Swinton (Inverness); Graham Norton (London); Barry Robson (Dundee).
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Post by Felice Landry on Sept 23, 2019 9:25:40 GMT
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Post by amipal on Sept 23, 2019 9:55:31 GMT
Nerds.
Hello all.
Holidayblog - since our holiday in Austria next year has been cancelled, we're chucking the cash at one in the Scilly Isles instead. Accommodation booked, and now moving onto ferries etc. Exciting stuff.
TVblog - Disenchantment followed by TNG. Bev got held hostage by nasty terrorists.
Amigablog - setting up an SD card using fs-uae to then use in a Real Amiga. Progress is slow.
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Post by Destry on Sept 23, 2019 9:58:59 GMT
Holidayblog - since our holiday in Austria next year has been cancelled, we're chucking the cash at one in the Scilly Isles instead. Accommodation booked, and now moving onto ferries etc. Thomas Cooked it? |
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Post by Chumbles on Sept 23, 2019 10:06:19 GMT
Holidayblog - since our holiday in Austria next year has been cancelled, we're chucking the cash at one in the Scilly Isles instead. Accommodation booked, and now moving onto ferries etc. Thomas Cooked it? In time for our hurricane season - a by product of climate warming. Although at least they will still be there |
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Post by scubar on Sept 23, 2019 10:19:46 GMT
Scilly islands? Which one? Tresco is nice.
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Post by BabyfarkmcGeezak on Sept 23, 2019 10:38:51 GMT
If I was back in a position of power I would outright ban these silly workplace notices as they reduce productivity. The only one I would add would be a "no crying allowed" sign for the toilets, because that used to happen in there a lot.
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Post by Sheep2 on Sept 23, 2019 10:53:49 GMT
Hello. I was still in primary school in 1992, you old fuckers. So was I. Held back 8 years at school Or working as a caretaker in rural Cambridgeshire? |
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Post by Faceless on Sept 23, 2019 10:59:11 GMT
I'm trying to work up a joke about babyf being the one crying in the toilets, possibly linked to him being unable/unwilling to go for a shit at work. I'm sure the pieces are all there.
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Post by scubar on Sept 23, 2019 11:00:24 GMT
If I was back in a position of power I would outright ban these silly workplace notices as they reduce productivity. The only one I would add would be a "no crying allowed" sign for the toilets, because that used to happen in there a lot. You should have more fibre in your diet. |
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Post by Faceless on Sept 23, 2019 11:00:48 GMT
Babyfark. Were you crying in the toilets because you were unable/unwilling to go for a shit at work?
Although now I think about it, was it even baby who wouldn't shit at work?
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Post by Chumbles on Sept 23, 2019 11:07:08 GMT
Held back 8 years at school Or working as a caretaker in rural Cambridgeshire? Dear Ghods, I sometimes forget how young you are... in 1992 I'd been divorced from my first wife for 16 years and was regularly flying back and forth to the USA and had just started a very expensive long distance relationship with a ferociously intelligent American woman. I used to joke that she was a pop band because she had 3 degrees: law, librarianship and maths. So much had happened by the time you younkers had got to primary .... |
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Post by Sheep2 on Sept 23, 2019 11:17:21 GMT
Famous people you've seen in waterstones chat? At last! Tilda Swinton (Inverness); Graham Norton (London); Barry Robson (Dundee). Iain Rankin (Watford). He was doing a book signing at lunchtime. He was sat at a table in what was the crime and sci-fi section. Completely alone. There were no fans or other customers near him It was a bit embarrassing because I wanted to look at the sci-fi books, but I didn't want one of his books. I desperately tried to avoid making eye contact. Alan Lee, but I had gone to buy a book at a signing so not unexpected. Joan Collins in WHSmith on Princes Street many years ago. It was quite a warm day. She was wearing a pretty fabulous fur coat which must have been incredibly ho Brett Anderson from Suede in John Lewis in Kingston. |
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Post by BabyfarkmcGeezak on Sept 23, 2019 11:21:39 GMT
Cheese sandwich.
I do shit at work when I have to.
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Post by Sheep2 on Sept 23, 2019 11:23:42 GMT
I do shit all at work quite often.
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Post by Felice Landry on Sept 23, 2019 11:30:02 GMT
The local council changed the traffic crossing red/green sign from high on the other side of the road to your side at chest height, the result being that if one person stood in front of it you can't see the sign, the sign on the other side was angled away so that was out.
I said it seemed a dumb thing to do, they "fixed" the problem by adding a second sign 2 ft higher.
I wish "That's Life" was still on so I could tell Esther instead of you lot.
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Post by BabyfarkmcGeezak on Sept 23, 2019 11:37:54 GMT
I can't remember the last time I saw a pedestrian crossing with the green man high up, it's all this nonsense hip height rubbish which is always blocked by some student twat who won't look up from his mobile phone. I tend to just look for the red light for the cars and cross then. Brexit now.
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Post by MrTiddles on Sept 23, 2019 11:40:13 GMT
The local council changed the traffic crossing red/green sign from high on the other side of the road to your side at chest height, the result being that if one person stood in front of it you can't see the sign, the sign on the other side was angled away so that was out. I said it seemed a dumb thing to do, they "fixed" the problem by adding a second sign 2 ft higher. I wish "That's Life" was still on so I could tell Esther instead of you lot. Maybe you could phone Frasier. |
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Post by tenthenemy on Sept 23, 2019 11:44:49 GMT
JK Rowling near the Sainsbury's on Tottenham Court Road. We both minded our own business and went our own ways.
Thrilling story, rich and compelling.
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Post by crankcaller on Sept 23, 2019 11:50:28 GMT
3 degrees? Calm down Prince Charles.
Many years ago when I hadn't long started in the library game we had Iain Rankin come give a talk one Wed afternoon when we were closed.
No bugger turned up - well very few - so we all took our badges off and pretended to be punters.
He told a story about writing his first book while still a student.
He went into a Police Station in Edinburgh to ask for advice on procedure as he was writing a book.
It was when a wee girl was famously abducted at Portobello beach - something he knew nothing about as he hadn't been keeping up with the news.
He asked the police "I'm writing a book about a child abduction - could you give me advice?"
"Yeah - sure son - come on in and have a small chat with us..."
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Post by Sheep2 on Sept 23, 2019 11:56:05 GMT
Loads of footballers as well. Mostly WBA & V**** people though as they tend to live fairly nearby
Andy Gray in Oddbins
Graham Taylor in Waitrose
Steve Staunton, Alan Wright and a 3rd V**** player in the pub. Possibly Ian Taylor.
Darrent Bent outside the chippie
Half the WBA first team in the chippie
Tony Pullis outside the Italian next door. He was really friendly. Admittedly I wasn't hissing at him.
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Post by Chumbles on Sept 23, 2019 12:01:36 GMT
Who's sending "Shark Tank Keto Diet Pills" advertising into my Junk Mail... calling me a fat bap are you? *mumbles* young shits, they'll be at the bloody doorbell again... little fuckers...This is what I think of this idea... I imagine you bastards in the cage...  |
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Post by Faceless on Sept 23, 2019 12:02:13 GMT
I once saw Peter Crouch at Tiger Tiger in Portsmouth. I was quite drunk, and decided I was going to try to convince him that he was really a Peter Crouch lookalike who had gone so deep into character that he actually believed he was him. I didn't though. Probably because I was quite drunk and it was a stupid idea.
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Post by Felice Landry on Sept 23, 2019 12:02:19 GMT
Holding a talk while closed seem self defeating.
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Post by tenthenemy on Sept 23, 2019 12:09:07 GMT
Got to meet Terry Jones when he was doing his "Barbarians" TV series. Good times. I never felt bad about rambling on in a lecture ever after because compared to him I was laser focused.*
*One s looks just better
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