Be Excellent To Each Other

That's really not very funny.

Baba Z is awesome at sleeping, mostly. Had a run lately of her waking up at 6ish but she's been getting back to sleep ok.

Win.

Swapsies?

Raven's normally pretty good, she's just teething at the moment, so this last fortnight's she's been less settled at night, plus she's picked up on Pauline starting back at work too after her Maternity Leave.

Malc

Nooooooo way.

"hey what does it say on your T-shirt, it's really cool. Retro T-shirts are really in at the moment"

"I bought this 16 years ago..."

Is that was it said on your t-shirt, or just what you said in reply?

My underpants are very trendy then.

That can't be right, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle merchandise was no longer on sale by '93.

Depends on driven wheels doesn't it? FWD and 4WD vehicles generally have pretty poor turning circles due to the drive to the front wheels limiting their ability to turn.

Give that man a banana!

Don't you start!

That's what I said in reply.

It says (as I've jsut got up out of bed and pulled some clothes on):

SWOBO: Makers of Authentic Kung-Fu-Ready Garb, Stitched From the Finest Fabrics Late at Night In a Seedy part Of Town

No, we went out near Chancery Lane, so went to Ye Olde Mitre.

Albin0Kid - on reflection, no, indeed not. The thought was there though. Still, apologies to all.

Zardoz, can you put Dimrill's head on Kirk shaking his fists at the sky so he can shout "CAAAAARRRRRRR!" with pictures?

Yes.

So. I'm off to my brother's wedding in Sheffield, where I am Best Man and am to deliver a *stunning* speech.

Those of you in the Northern Hemisphere will of course feel the shockwaves of laughter around 3:30pm tomorrow afternoon.

Toodles.

Malc

BLANK FUCKING OVERTIME CHEQUES FTW.

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Have fun. Don't forget to make an inappropriate comment about the mother in law.

Myp

Don't forget to completely shit yourself.

x

Already there

NynForToo

Things Rock Band Has Taught Me, Number 1022 In An Occaisonal Series: Singing songs you don't know is hard.

Things Rock Band Has Taught Me, Number 1023 In An Occaisonal Series: Apparently, I only know the chorus to Pearl Jam's "Jeremy".

Things Rock Band Has Taught Me, Number 1024 In An Occasional Series: My son thought that the line "What I got you gotta give it to your daughter" in Give It Away was "What I got you gotta give it to your dog."

Things Rock Band Has Taught Me, Number 1025 In An Occasional Series: What Anthony Kledis has got that you have to give to your daughter is his penis.

Ooooh, I love that song. I love Pearl Jam, actually. Does that make me a bad person? Moreso, I mean.

You can have some of my pearl jam any day you like, big boy.

If we're talking about the band, then they're ok too. Droman is a massive fan.

I'm sensing from those two responses that "Pearl Jam" is a euphamism for something.

Think about it.

Oh dear.

A friend contacted me recently, asking for some help. He'd booked a trackday at at racetrack called "GoldRock"for him and his brother through a company seeming to specialise in this sort of thing. 6 days before it, fell down a flight of stairs and broke his toe, meaning no driving. He's since contacted the agency asking for a refund/rebooking and they've said "they said they could do nothing as it was Goldrock whom I was booked with and that they had already invoiced them for the money. If they held the money they would've refunded me the money or allowed me to rebook in these circumstances." and Goldrock have said "Not our problem, guv, speak to the agency".

A look through their website he booked through T&C's brings up this clause:



And in the bumf he was sent, from GoldRock, post booking, there was this:



As it turns out, the agency off insurance for such events, but this was never offered at the time of the booking. He's asked me to look into it, as he wants to take legal action.

I'm intending to say to him:

"Frustrating as it is, it's less than £200 quid. The amount of time, effort, stress and cost of taking them to court over it would make it not worth it. However, there might be some case present, under s.3 UCTA 1977, but I'd seek proper, paid legal advice".

@myp
It's probably an area you're more familiar with than me.

We used to play Jeremy when we went busking.

I thought everybody knew that. It's why they chose that name, apparently.

It's not exactly a wildly ingenious euphemism.

The legal advice would cost far more than £200 of course.

I'm fairly sure it's not going to fall foul of UCTA or UTCCR, though.

I never realised either.

"SPUNK" would have been a far better name, to be honest. Or, perhaps more subtlely, "MANGOO"

You wouldn't have loved my version.

"AT home
Draw-ing pi...
Ofmountaintops
Wi... (unintelligible)
Aaaaaaah, aaaaaaaaaaaaah...
(Long wobbly note trying to find the right pitch)
DADDY din't gi... aaaaaaaaah!
Tothefactth... bollocks!
AaaaaaaaaaaahTHE WICKED!
Who the hell chose to do this one?
JEREMY! SPOKE! IN! CLAAAAAAAAASS! TODAY!"

Four bars in, Toby discovered he only knows the chorus to More Than A Feeling.

Having actually now read the act, I'm not sure, either (accompany materials he sent,, he mentioned it).

I'm currently viewing it as buying a ticket to a concert and then not turning up. I can think of many arguments as to why they don't have to offer him his money back, or rebook, as well.

I'll email him later.

Cor, it's uncanny. It's like Eddie Vedder's in the room with us.

There's also information about the other insurance in teh T&C's on the website as well, so, yeah. I can't see him getting anywhere.

This happened to me at a karaoke night once when I was doing Spandau Ballet's 'Gold'. I ended up doing the verses in a William Shatner spoken-word style.

Or a train ticket, for that matter.

He has no chance, basically.

No. Best band ever.



Partly as it's complete bollocks. That's not why they named the band that.

It was Mummy Vedder's marmalade with pschadelic qualities, IIRC.

Wiki:

I have to go and buy a Duffy CD now. I need to hide my face.

Thanks, Mr Chris, for confirming.

This'll be a happy response to an email that I get....

The most popular thing which I least 'get' is Duffy. I do not understand the appeal at all. Her voice sounds like someone is rubbing guitar strings with a cheese grater.

Oh, that's not what I came here to say. I wanted to ask if there was a way to set up auto-correcting on the mac. Not in a word processing program but in the browser (Safari) I have to add 30% of time used to type something back on tot he end of that time for correcting all of the instances of 'teh' that I write instead of the intended word every single time.