His physical being was brought into the world in Inverness but his heart and soul were created in the beautiful Ballymena.
His physical being was brought into the world in Inverness but his heart and soul were created in the beautiful Ballymena.
That shit's great.
I always knew he was a bit of a dickhead, but I never realised how much of a one he was/is.
Definitely one of those people on facebook you look at and think, "Yeah. But what do you actually do for a living?"
Mans a self-facilitating media node
Donned this conference. Attended a total of two talks beside mine and avoided my advisor throughout, which meant I didn't have to practice for three hours and change everything in my presentation. Then I just winged it and donned it. Some nerds even surrounded me after the talk to learn more about it. Luckily my advisor was there to entertain them while I GTFO straight to the airport.
Not to mention that I flew there Monday night and flying back today. The other idiots had to drive there on Saturday and are not coming back until Friday.
I only went to one, and I blew most of the second day out to go and mooch around Brighton.
That's the proper way. Seems that only those who should already be retired enjoy them.
The actual thing was a bit of a bust really. It was on civilians and war, so there was me with my exploration of the logic of mass death, and everyone else with papers about *minority group* in the *lesser known civil war*. Tough crowd. Still, I got a free meal and a day out in Brighton.
Did you stand there and read your paper? I've heard that's what happens in the humanities. Sounds tragic. At least we have pictures and videos (and a shit ton of crappy graphs.)
I sat and read it, but it was too long so I had to skip bits of it, and then nobody had any questions.
Might as well just set a group email, no one needs stuff read to them.
Invite writing most of Saturday
I'm doing the envelopes, and she's doing the fancy bit so at least I don't have to be too careful. 237 on the list, which will hopefully amount to in or around 200 on the day.
I'll be waiting eagerly by my letterbox.
How many of those are on your side? That seems excessive.
Remember that Micks breed like rabbits, so that will be about three families.
I imagine he's got quite a lot that he's obligated to invite but if possible, he'd only want to invite two.
About half and half. 200 would be standard enough here. I was at one a few months ago where 320 were sitting for the meal and it was a bit nuts.Originally Posted by Offshore Toon
The best day will be the day after when there's around 40 of us left.
How many of those are family then? I've never understood this 'oh, you have to invite your second cousin in Australia!' stuff. If I got married today I'd have 5 family members there.
I've all the aunts and uncles that are alive(13). 8 cousins, I've almost 50 first cousins so inviting the lot is never done so just went with the close ones. The rest are friends and the ones from work, and a few lads I worked with in the last two jobs. Also gave each of the folks 4 slots each for ones they wanted (neighbours at home, etc). By the time they all have a plus-1 too, it doesn't be long adding up.
Yeah, true. At your age almost everybody will have a plus 1.
At my age it's getting to the stage where some of the plus 1's are dying off.
I'd definitely offer for a guest anyway as I'd be fucked off if I got an invite myself without one. Same reason as we don't have evening guests either (not sure if you do that over there) but I always seen those invites as worse than getting none.
I think people are forced to do those things because of the price of weddings these days. The evening is the best bit, anyway.
I just hope the there's a good few left for the residents bar as it'll be my first real chance to get a drink all day. The hotel are doing 50 bacon rolls at 2am
Off to see the West End production of Les Miserables on Saturday. Tickets have been bought for me. Anyone seen it? Any good?
All I know is that it's something to do with the French revolution.
@Giggles That's a great idea. At my mate's wedding last March we were told the bar would stay open as late as people were drinking, then they closed it at 1ish with about ten people still up. We ended up buying a couple bottles of wine and drank in the room my mates had. Then we found out you could ring any room in the hotel by dialing the room number. It was such a good night/morning.
We never even knew it was done until the hotel said about it as part of the package. Should be the best part of the day, apart from trying to stop my sister singing into the small hours. We got 80 rooms block booked and they're all gone, and some others are booked into regular rooms afaik so there should be a good stir for the late bit.
I haven't seen the stage show, but the film was fucking brilliant and by all accounts is basically the show on a different scale.
Also, you have no idea how tempting it is to spoiler the arse off it for you.
Ah fuck - I did it and then you ruined the joke
I seen it so that's it ruined for me. Ah well.
It's a musical about the French based on a novel by a nineteenth century Romantic poet. You probably weren't going to watch it anyway.
Sorry hoss. No idea if that's actually true - just wanted to spoil it for Hammer
Hence the ah well.
My mate is over with his wife(!!!) for a wedding on Sunday, so a couple mates are down from London and we're going out tomorrow. I've got £42 and only enough food in the cupboards to last another week tops (unless keto really kicks in and I can stop eating) so I'm tempted to not drink, but 3/4 till 11/12 is going to be a lot of effort sober and hungry. The mate that's flown over has already said he doesn't want a heavy night (because his wife will have said that and he's a pussy; he will be looking forward to this night more than a wedding for some dweeb he barely knows) so hopefully they bail early-ish. I've still got a bit of acid so might do a microdose which will make it pretty fun without booze and suppress my hunger for food I can't afford.
Went pub to see my mate's new band last night, they were surprisingly great. Was dancing next to this really cute girl for ages, she kept giving me the eyes and smiling at me and shit. Was trying to figure out how to proceed because I'm pretty rusty. At some point a big group of people all put their arms around each other and started dancing and I tried to introduce her to the circle and she literally just did a little shriek, and backed away.
Oops! Better luck next time, huh.
"Introduce her to the group." sounds like attempted gang rape, to be fair. I might get over to the other castle in the area tomorrow.
I was just trying out some methods Mert recommended, don't hate me cus you ain't me mate.
You can take the boy out of Turkey ...
Saw Les Miserables last night on the West End. Holy shit
The film was great too - I watched an hour of it beforehand and the rest tonight - except the singing wasn't as good.
Had a leaving do on Sunday involving a bottomless bag of cocaine, then some Xanax on Monday and didn't leave bed. I don't indulge much these days but both days were a blast.
I have a driving test in two hours that I felt confident about last week, but not so much right now.
Anyone remember 4chan girl? There was a girl I had sex with a few times during first year of uni who had a long term boyfriend. They split up eventually but i don't think he ever knew.
We had never met, and he showed up on Sunday night and I told him i knew who he was. I found it very funny, he didn't. Probably a bit harsh in hindsight.
Did he not smash your face in? Unless you're some sort of hard kickboxer.
I'm not, but he is even less that sort of person than I.
James: board alpha dog
On a train to London atm. Anybody got any banter to amuse me for the next hour?
You've definitely come to the wrong place if you want anything more than tumbleweed.
Use to it plan my birthday thread and/or Facebook post.
I'm a twit
#SAVETHEBOARD
Done with uni as of 4pm so might get #WASTED. It's been ages since I've been proper pissed.
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