I have remembered something awful about myself. I find waiting for a train oddly relaxing. I find waiting to meet someone else to catch a train incredibly stressful.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Saturday, 25 February 2012 09:35 (twelve years ago) link
Jesus Christ, Southern Oxfordshire you are SO DAMNED PRETTY, how can you be so pretty, you are killing me! Especially in the low, slanting golden light late in the day that turns the Thames into a mirror. Abingdon with your wonky inns, and your city hall on stilts, I love you. Clifton Hampden with your thatched cottages and your perfect one lane bridge, I love you. Dorchester with your genuine Tudor not mock Tudor wattle and daub and your flocks of geese and your avenue of pollarded trees I LOVE YOU SO FUCKING MUCH WHY DO I LIVE IN LONDON!?!??
What an absolutely glorious day. We didn't even make it up the Wittenham Lumps, we will have to save that for another day and another walk, we admired them from afar and nearer and nearer until they were almost on top of us, but the sun was going and we had to leg it through the gloaming to catch the bus back to Oxford as it was, but ah, another evening when the day is longer. I promise.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Saturday, 25 February 2012 22:04 (twelve years ago) link
I can't believe the Wittenham Lumps haven't been namechecked in a Half Man Half Biscuit song.
― stay in school if you want to kiw (Gukbe), Saturday, 25 February 2012 22:08 (twelve years ago) link
Dear Didcot Power Station: we know you can move about. STOP CREEPING UP ON US LIKE THAT. Thanks.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Saturday, 25 February 2012 22:29 (twelve years ago) link
sounds like you had a fun day. how many went?
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Sunday, 26 February 2012 00:48 (twelve years ago) link
In the end it was just me, the Grandpoint Genie and Emsk, but though a small party, it was v v good.
God I am in pain today, though. Just had to attend to a blister the size of a 10p coin on the side of my foot!
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Sunday, 26 February 2012 10:45 (twelve years ago) link
IT'S BEEEHIIIIIIIIIIIND YOU!!!!
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2b/Didcot_Power_Station_-_geograph.org.uk_-_503369.jpg
^^^^photo really captures the almost Stonehengian presence on the landscape.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Sunday, 26 February 2012 10:48 (twelve years ago) link
you think any rich pink floyd fans will buy the power station?
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Sunday, 26 February 2012 11:35 (twelve years ago) link
We were talking about this on the train! how some rich Pink Floyd fans should band together and purchase Battersea Power Station, and moor a flying pig over it, and charge tourists £5 to go in and have a "Pink Floyd Experience" - they'd rake it in!
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Sunday, 26 February 2012 11:39 (twelve years ago) link
pink floyd members could probably afford it
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Sunday, 26 February 2012 12:04 (twelve years ago) link
Ho hum.
http://memegenerator.net/instance/15286477
I have noticed that they are playing the city where my father lives, the day after my birthday. I could play the whole "Do you love me? How much do you love me?" game, I'm kind of idly contemplating it (several family members have offered to pay my air fare to the States) but I don't think even *they* could get me in an airplane to California. Sigh.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Monday, 27 February 2012 13:19 (twelve years ago) link
Santa Barbara or San Jose?
― Melissa W, Monday, 27 February 2012 13:24 (twelve years ago) link
San Jose. It's just a pipe dream, even that wouldn't get me in an airplane.
Also I'm not sure if my dad still has a flat there or if he's moved permanently to the cabin upstate.
Did you check my Flickr BTW? There's something you might like there that there's no way I'm posting to ILX ;)
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Monday, 27 February 2012 13:36 (twelve years ago) link
I don't know where your flickr is! And the San Jose venue is a big arena, not worth losing sleep over missing. I'll only be going to the Santa Barbara show because that venue is gorgeous. You should hit up my email though, there have been some things I've been meaning to mention to you that are also not ILX-appropriate.
― Melissa W, Monday, 27 February 2012 13:40 (twelve years ago) link
I've seen it. Needs tentacles, maybe not the subject's own...
― Mark G, Monday, 27 February 2012 13:44 (twelve years ago) link
It's linked from all the other pics on the Tregaskin Art Gallery thread!
Ach I'm not sure I have a recent email address for you? I suppose I can ILXmail you mine.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Monday, 27 February 2012 13:48 (twelve years ago) link
I feel utterly ashamed that I STILL haven't sent you the hat 'n' shawl. :-( No excuse. I feel bad about it. But I also feel bad about the work/financial situation. The crisis has hit our shop as well. Ah well, we'll plough (?) through.
― Nathalie (stevienixed), Monday, 27 February 2012 13:50 (twelve years ago) link
nath its great to see you back on ilx!
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Monday, 27 February 2012 13:51 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, where's my hat? Winter is almost over! LOL, no, take your time, I don't want to hassle you about anything, especially if times are tough.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Monday, 27 February 2012 13:54 (twelve years ago) link
Did you get my email, WCC?
― Melissa W, Monday, 27 February 2012 14:08 (twelve years ago) link
Hi Nathalie, hi Melissa.
I started writing a list of places in Oxfordshire mentioned in Half Man Half Biscuit songs but when I got to 4 I realised that even I didn't care. I'm sure there are that many for any other county too, they just don't leap out at me as much.
I just wanted to say "Uffington Wassail", really.
― Schleimpilz im Labyrinth (a passing spacecadet), Monday, 27 February 2012 14:23 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, I feel crap about it. I have never neglected to send anyone a knitted item(or something else). Bah! I want to slap myself senseless. hah. But yeah times are very tough here. We'll pull through though. We have to. I am contemplating adding some socks. What's your shoe or foot size?
Also, I f****** hate contemporary flemish folk singers. Especially those 20sth girls. ARGH! Do NOT inflict me with that dialect! ARGH! I actually prefer kiddie music over that shit. (I am venting YES I KNOW).
I have also rediscovered the Tudors. Man, do I LOVE THAT PERIOD. The clothes! The... everything but the hygiene. lol
― Nathalie (stevienixed), Monday, 27 February 2012 14:25 (twelve years ago) link
But Henry VIII wanking in the Tudors series. Okay, what is up with that? I thought it was so not condoned by God. Or the Pop.
― Nathalie (stevienixed), Monday, 27 February 2012 14:26 (twelve years ago) link
Since when did Hank 8 care about God or the Pope, or indeed the Pop?
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Monday, 27 February 2012 14:29 (twelve years ago) link
Sorry! My mum rang! I got yr email, Melissa!
Ready to Uffington!
Wanking Tudors!
Dear god I'm so glad the Watercooler is back!
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Monday, 27 February 2012 14:29 (twelve years ago) link
Wait, I just typed out a proper response and added it to this thread, where did it go? Did it end up in the wrong thread? Did it end up in an email to Mel? Did it disappear into a wormhole? ARGH.
It was all about how mentioning Uffington got Pop Is Dead stuck in my head, like just seeing the Wittenham Lumps got Faust Arp stuck in my head for 2 days. And something about Tudor sex habits and views on masturbation with references to this book on 17th Century sex practices that's lined up for after I finish the book about beech trees. WHERE DID IT GO?
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Monday, 27 February 2012 14:47 (twelve years ago) link
Did it disappear into a wormhole?
i now have images of the cat in red dwarf saying "but what is it?"
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Monday, 27 February 2012 14:54 (twelve years ago) link
I really need to find some books on medieval sex. Kindle variety. Cheap variety. Sleeeeazzzeeeee variety. Lol
― Nathalie (stevienixed), Monday, 27 February 2012 15:53 (twelve years ago) link
poor thom
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Monday, 27 February 2012 15:56 (twelve years ago) link
imagine his face when you bring an iron maiden home for him
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Monday, 27 February 2012 15:57 (twelve years ago) link
He can look for all those hidden cats
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Monday, 27 February 2012 15:59 (twelve years ago) link
hahaha (btw WCC not *that* thom that you're probably thinking of)
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Monday, 27 February 2012 16:12 (twelve years ago) link
That gave me about 30 seconds of complete perplexment until I remembered Nathalie's husband's name. LOL.
Hidden cats.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Monday, 27 February 2012 16:13 (twelve years ago) link
more like 30 seconds of filth in your mind with thom yorke and ancient medieval sex toys/instruments
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Monday, 27 February 2012 16:15 (twelve years ago) link
lol medieval sex toyshttp://hwaettheswyve.blogspot.com/2010/04/greetings-earthlings-after-emerging.html
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Monday, 27 February 2012 16:18 (twelve years ago) link
I dare you WCC to GIS medieval sex toys with safe images off
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Monday, 27 February 2012 16:20 (twelve years ago) link
nathhttp://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51tx5XcSWHL._SL500_AA300_.jpg
Things I'd really rather not. Glad I have images turned off, in fact.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Monday, 27 February 2012 16:23 (twelve years ago) link
oh i dont post nsfw images in here, i only posted a book nath might want from amazon.
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Monday, 27 February 2012 16:24 (twelve years ago) link
It's Colin who's supposed to be the ~expert~ on, like, Victorian perversion and historical pornography!
(This is one of those things I've had in my head for so long I've no idea any more if it's actually true, or if it's just something that got repeated in fan fiction that it became part of fanlore.)
Anyway, stop being distracting! I've got to finish this book about beeches if it kills me. Then draw The Lumps.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Monday, 27 February 2012 16:26 (twelve years ago) link
as in black eyed peas?
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Monday, 27 February 2012 16:29 (twelve years ago) link
As in Wittenham? Have you not been paying attention?
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Monday, 27 February 2012 16:30 (twelve years ago) link
it was a joke
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Monday, 27 February 2012 16:36 (twelve years ago) link
Thom is not being exposed to the Tudors. Lol. But I keep talking about it. Even more annoying. I am interested in that book! Oh baby! Hehe
― Nathalie (stevienixed), Monday, 27 February 2012 17:28 (twelve years ago) link
::tries and fails to make a hilarious Tudor-themed joke about Lancasters vs Yorke::
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Monday, 27 February 2012 17:59 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHYpunHHE54
For you, WCC.
― Melissa W, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 08:32 (twelve years ago) link
Oh.
My.
GOD.
I haven't even got more than 6 seconds into it while I wait for the video to load but...
1) he is wearing THOSE TROUSERS
2) He is doing the SEXAY THOM dance
3) They are playing MY FAVOURITE RADIOHEAD SONG IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD FOREVER
::explodes with joy::
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 09:11 (twelve years ago) link
There were two new tracks as well. You want?
― Melissa W, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 09:16 (twelve years ago) link
nnnngggg nnnnnggggggg what do you think?
(I'm still getting over the ponytail. You are not Aphex Twin, knock it off.)
Perhaps we should revive/start a new RH thread? I don't think anyone else on the Cooler is as interested in Radiohead as we are.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 09:18 (twelve years ago) link
Only if it's the Melissa and WCC Radiohead thread with a DNRIYHU.
― Melissa W, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 09:19 (twelve years ago) link