Random Thoughts

Gillibeanz · Post by **Gillibeanz** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 4:53 am

double dutchess wrote: On another travelling note: I may venture to Boston this weekend, weather and laziness permitting. Any tips?

Yep - take a sleeping bag incase the laziness overcomes you, and an umbrella incase the weather turns!

miss buenos aires · Post by **miss buenos aires** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 6:29 am

Who Shot Sam? wrote:I want to hire Jarvis Cocker to come over to my house and tell bedtime stories to the kids. What a great reading voice - love that Sheffield accent.

http://www.podcastnz.com/index.php?main ... cts_id=238

I want Jarvis Cocker to come to my house and tell me bedtime stories. And he can skip the bedtime stories, if he wants. Great find, WSS?.

PlaythingOrPet · Post by **PlaythingOrPet** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 6:43 am

I still haven't had time to listen to the 'Jarvcast' yet. Thanks to WSS for the heads up.

I'd forgotten how much having the folds of ear cartilage pierced hurts like a mother when you sleep on them. The other half had his tongue pierced which has been...interesting so far.

Who Shot Sam? · Post by **Who Shot Sam?** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 6:56 am

miss buenos aires wrote:I want Jarvis Cocker to come to my house and tell me bedtime stories. And he can skip the bedtime stories, if he wants.

Haven't gotten as far as Jarvcast 3 yet (it's a bit longer than the Icelandic tales).

miss buenos aires · Post by **miss buenos aires** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 5:48 pm

PlaythingOrPet wrote: The other half had his tongue pierced which has been...interesting so far.

Yeah, I'll bet. Lucky you...

verbal gymnastics · Post by **verbal gymnastics** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 4:07 am

Hmm...has it gotten anymore interesting yet Plaything?

I wish I'd known in advance that I wouldn't be required to sit in court today so that I could have stayed for the 2nd Elvis show in Amsterdam. Especially as I'm sure Steve would have sorted me out with a ticket

Gillibeanz · Post by **Gillibeanz** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 4:49 am

PlaythingOrPet wrote: I'd forgotten how much having the folds of ear cartilage pierced hurts like a mother when you sleep on them. The other half had his tongue pierced which has been...interesting so far.

You remind me of my daughter when she was 15 - she had 6 piercings in each ear including her ear cartilage! Interested in the tongue piercing - did it hurt like hell? Does it bash his teeth? You have to be careful it doesnt damage the enamel apparently.....

Who Shot Sam? · Post by **Who Shot Sam?** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 8:59 am

Best Album title - ever

Yo La Tengo's new one - I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass

verbal gymnastics · Post by **verbal gymnastics** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 9:45 am

Is Yo La Tengo making two separate statements? Why would someone want to beat a poor defenceless four legged ass?

verbal gymnastics · Post by **verbal gymnastics** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 10:21 am

Back to random thoughts...

...where's bobster these days?

...and laughingcrow?

PlaythingOrPet · Post by **PlaythingOrPet** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 7:50 am

Gillibeanz wrote:You remind me of my daughter when she was 15 - she had 6 piercings in each ear including her ear cartilage! Interested in the tongue piercing - did it hurt like hell? Does it bash his teeth? You have to be careful it doesnt damage the enamel apparently.....

He says it didn't hurt but he was squeezing my hand an awful lot at the time.

The barbell is the correct length so there should be no loss of enamel/teeth, and it only bashes his teeth when he plays with it.

My rook, which I completely love.

VG - I'd like to know where the crow is as well. No luck via email and he's never on IM.

verbal gymnastics · Post by **verbal gymnastics** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 8:18 am

Plaything - at least he gets an email from you

As far as the tongue piercing is concerned what made him want to do it?

Otis Westinghouse · Post by **Otis Westinghouse** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 6:28 pm

When did the word 'Oriental' become non-PC? There are good reasons why Eskimo is non-PC (it's inaccurate), or 'coloured' (creates an us and them notion of white = neutral and everyone else as The Others, but then 'people of colour' isn't considered offensive in the same way, right?, and yet is no different at all). 'Oriental' is not wrong or offensive in the same way, but seems to have become deemed offensive simply by being the common term at the time of colonial expansion. Or am I missing something?

verbal gymnastics · Post by **verbal gymnastics** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 3:34 am

I believe chinky is the appropriate term

(no offence to anybody who is Chinese).

It's a very difficult area when it comes to PC. My work colleagues are very un-PC (as am I on occasion). I even got a mild ticking off when chatting to a barrister for telling a story about one of the girls at work. I'm not supposed to use the word "girls" and should be saying "women" or "ladies"

oily slick · Post by **oily slick** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 11:50 am

or "broads".

mood swung · Post by **mood swung** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 12:09 pm

you say the most random things ever, os. that's why I love you.

On 'girls' v. 'women': for me, it's who's speaking and what's said. My boss(es) frequently to the women in my office as girls and when he's saying 'you girls take the rest of the day off' (no matter how infrequently) it's music to my ears. When he says 'get one of the girls to find/file/write/seek/cook/order it', it irritates me because he would never say 'get one of the boys....' My mom calls me and my sister her girls, and that's fine. My older co-workers call me and my age group girls, and that, to borrow a fine phrase from G2S, gets on my tits.

Context is everything, in accessories and in the real world.

Boy With A Problem · Post by **Boy With A Problem** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 1:04 pm

Otis wrote:

There are good reasons why Eskimo is non-PC (it's inaccurate)

Unless we are talking about Eskimo Pies.

Otis Westinghouse · Post by **Otis Westinghouse** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 6:16 pm

I decided that was probably a song by The Kinks and then found this.

Goody2Shoes · Post by **Goody2Shoes** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 2:13 pm

In my opinion, the Eskimo Pie pales in comparison to the vastly superior Klondike Bar.

mood swung · Post by **mood swung** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 2:16 pm

Boy With A Problem · Post by **Boy With A Problem** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 2:17 pm

Goody2Shoes wrote:In my opinion, the Eskimo Pie pales in comparison to the vastly superior Klondike Bar.

Which begs the question Goody, "What would you do for a Klondike Bar?"

Goody2Shoes · Post by **Goody2Shoes** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 2:32 pm

You know, it's easier for me to think of things I wouldn't do for a Klondike Bar.

Boy With A Problem · Post by **Boy With A Problem** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 2:43 pm

Goody2Shoes wrote:You know, it's easier for me to think of things I wouldn't do for a Klondike Bar.

http://www.misterpoll.com/2189387955.html

Goody2Shoes · Post by **Goody2Shoes** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 3:02 pm

Okay, since you asked....

1. Smash head in with a mallet? - no
2. Watch reruns of the Pitts for a week? - probably not
3. Jump over a lighted candlestick? - yes, I'm a good jumper
4. Stand on one leg? - sure
5. Act like a dog? - would depend upon what aspect of dog behavior was required
6. Kill a man? - would depend on the man
7. Skinnydip in my grandma's pool - she's dead, and she didn't have a pool, but she did have a pond, so yes
8. Wear the same pair of underwear for an entire year? - I think I would rather just go without the underwear for a year for a Klondike Bar.

verbal gymnastics · Post by **verbal gymnastics** » Fri Sep 15, 2006 5:39 am

Goody2Shoes wrote:8. Wear the same pair of underwear for an entire year? - I think I would rather just go without the underwear for a year for a Klondike Bar.

Not so Goody2Shoes!