Be Excellent To Each Other

Happy Birthday Mr Vision!

Thanks... and what a great birthday present to have you back!

Well I hope you get her to "play ghost castle", buddy.

Miller and Carter at Sutton Park is the paid family go to meeting place when there's too many of us to fit in one house. We have them in London but they're shit compared to the midlands ones.

Belated birthday wishes!

Enjoy your steak.

"It'll give you the willies".

Happy Birthday-for-yesterday TheVision!

It is fab there. I mush go again

Happy birthday.

Hope you had a nice evening. Belated Happy Birthday.

Belated returns!

In Brum today. Had four hours sleep due to being late back last night from netrunner and H-Bomb screaming from half four. Applied for four jobs already on train, and annoyed a woman by waking her up to move her 70l rucksack from the seat so I could sit down.

Sometimes when I board a busy train or bus and there's a choice of single seats sitting next to strangers I make sure to choose the ones where someone has placed a bag. I'm even more inclined to do this if the bag is on the window, not the aisle seat.

Happy birthday for yesterday TheVision!

Happy birthday for yesterday TheVision!

Happy birthday TheVision, but for yesterday and not today!

Standing only on train.bastards. pleased I had a beer first. Stupid day.

I pointed that out and got told to stop being such a smart arse.

Also, 2 of the game pieces are girls

Or, as the genre treats them, monster fodder

Shit wrong train

Got to Bradford and legged it through town. Jesus. What a knob move

Gave £1 to a beggar outside CoOp yesterday and he wanted another one! Mr Wendel he wasn't, so he gets nothing in the future.

All right Bumble the Beadle

"Are there no prisons?" asked Scrooge.

"Plenty of prisons," said the gentleman, laying down
the pen again.

"And the Union workhouses?" demanded Scrooge.
"Are they still in operation?"

Well that extra pound means a snack to you, but it would have meant a big deal to him.

Presumably a snack

If the invitation to a Christmas work lunch is forwarded twice before reaching me, I am unlikely to attend.

I've had not a sniff of a mention of any Christmas do here... I'm happy with this.

Our Christmas dinners are awesome. Loads of tasty food, free booze and everyone gets a bottle of champers to take home.

2016 is becoming 'my year of doing things for the hell of it', with me booking random things or seeking out new experiences just because I can. Tonight I'm going to my first opera, Verdi's 'Macbeth'. Although I have long been a classical music fan (my teenage years would have been far happier had I never discovered Mahler), I have always shyed away from opera so this is the equivalent of dipping my feet in the water.

Bootiful! I like the principle. I have just been to see the local Am Dram version of 'Company' - an amateur musical is asking for trouble, but they did pretty well - which is on a similar, if slightly less out there, basis of 'go to see the stuff that there is, locally'. There's so much joy in the world.

Is this some weird sexual thing? (Can't think of the word, like a sexual fantasy; something that turns you on...?)

I can't see anything specifically NSFW in the link, but haven't looked at all the pics, but I guess beware just in case DAVPAZ HAS REPORTED SIDEBOOB:

http://instagram.com/giantesssta

Fetish is the word.

And yes, I've seen it before. It tends to be an extension of the BDSM thing where people like to be dominated by a more powerful person.

I believe there's also a kink about being... ahem... smooshed by a Giantess.

Oh, and there's plenty of sideboob in the link. Enough to piss off more conservative bosses

Fetish! That's the one. What a mind blank. Will edit the post to mention 'sideboob'. Wth is 'sideboob'? Isn't that the band in Orange Is The New Black?

I googled sideboob with pictures. I wouldn't say that was nsfw, but I guess if bosses are, as you say, quite conservative.

There are bikinis, so some scantily clad women.

I get loads of these emails wanting me to buy stuff from Chinese factories. I think they're probably genuine for the most part but I just read them for lulz.

I have been considering getting a carbon fork from China to replace the hi tensile one on the road bike. It should save over 1kg in weight for £30.

Yes, i have seen those. I know it is the same factories, as the main suppliers. I would be worried about the testing.

yeah they're clearly looking to get rid of seconds, good luck warrantying anything you get direct from China! Or even receiving it in the first place...

I order stuff straight from China all the time. Probably had dozens of orders and never a problem. Although I probably wouldn't do it with anything that I couldn't afford to just write off. The main thing to watch out for is getting stuck with a big tax bill and handling fee but this seems to be a total lottery.

I have had a few bits of cycle clothing, took a month to get here, but it was dirt cheap

For £30 it's pretty disposable. I haven't read of failures and at 1/3 of branded product...

Mind you, not that I ride anymore

I've had a faulty ps4 controller arrive and ebay had to claw back the money and I've ordered a couple things direct from companies that just never turned up just my luck I suppose

Although I generally order cheap stuff to avoid any potential tax bill.

I'm rarely in a rush for something to arrive, so I'm happy to wait for stuff to get shipping from all over the place. Currently I'm waiting for some Playstation AV cables and the estimated arrival date is between October 24th and November 15th, so nice and precise.

Yeah I suppose random ebay sellers is a dodgier proposition. Most of the stuff I've bought is from bigger firms. HobbyKing, Banggood, Gearbest etc. Usually just little bits of electronics and various RC gubbins from a couple of quid up to about fifty.

Still can't quite get my head around how they can ship their stuff all the way from China and then to my door once it arrives in the UK and still offer free shipping most of the time. Even for items that cost less than the couple of quid it would cost me in postage just to send a game to the next town.

:this; I bought 10 little rubber nubbins for my Xbox controllers from China. They cost 99p and came with free shipping. How on earth does that work for them? The jiffy bag they came in looked about 50ps worth.