a thread on atease
good lord, what are you thinking? (well, i guess i know the answer to that, but still!) i used to be semi-regular there and still occasionally visit for what i guess is masochism's sake, and what a horrible bunch of children they are.
― shart practice (Merdeyeux), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 22:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
Are those stained glass designs in the windows? I really like those.
x-post to Merd I know, I know, I'm stupid but I want to talk about Radiohead far more than ILX will really put up with, so stupidly, I thought it might be OK to talk about Radiohead in the Radiohead section of a Radiohead messageboard? But clearly it was unacceptable.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 22:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
yeah it's 'hoppers' above the window pane and the design is engrained in them.
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 22:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
Walk up my smallish street (we lived at the bottom) and walk up the next street (Ailsa Street) and this is the view
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 22:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
Lovely. So bleak. It makes me want to post up all the beach pictures I've taken, ever, but that would be silly.
― Also unknown as Zora (Surfing At Work), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 22:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
Thread is making me want to move to remote villages with funny names on the Antrim coast, or at least make bleak dubby techno tracks named after them.
Have spent all evening going "I caaaaan't do my German homework" instead of actually doing it, have now done really lousy half-assed job which is way too short, will soon go to bed. Exciting!
― Schleimpilz im Labyrinth (a passing spacecadet), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 22:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
prestwick sailing club
would cycle past that all the way along to that seat to watch the sunset. There was rocks n stuff there too. Will see if i can get a photo of that
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 23:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
The bleakness is just so inspiring and lovely. It's like a Boards of Canada record played at the wrong speed.
LOL, spacecadet, that's me with my Cornish homework. Except I actually forgot to go to class last week. As in, genuinely forgot, I didn't realise it was Friday until I was eating dinner and realised I was supposed to be in Holborn (an hour away) in fifteen minutes.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 23:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
here we go. The seat was just around where the lamp post is iirc.
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 23:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
I kinda wish I were there. Well, except for the smell and the neds.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 23:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
I am quite excited that Cornish classes are a thing which exists outside Cornwall!
Last time my parents were in Cornwall they brought me back a book (more of a pamphlet really, probably only 10 or so pages) of Cornish words which I spent a while excitedly crosschecking against the Welsh and Breton dictionaries we stopped mr spacecadet's father putting in a skip when his linguist mother died. The Breton part was a bit tricky as it was Breton-French.
Actually I don't think we got very far on that quest, but I liked that the Breton for rain is "glao", which is like the Welsh but spelt better.
― Schleimpilz im Labyrinth (a passing spacecadet), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 23:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
Cornish is a lot like the Welsh but spelled phonetically! It's great that way. It's funny, all Celtic minority language speakers are kind of obsessed with checking how their words translate in the corresponding cognates.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 23:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
want to explore the seafront?http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=prestwick+promenade&hl=en&ll=55.495784,-4.619318&spn=0.000741,0.002642&sll=55.495755,-4.616803&sspn=0.000748,0.003664&hnear=Promenade,+United+Kingdom&t=m&z=19&layer=c&cbll=55.495784,-4.619318&panoid=Q9jXDPb4MoXVJC_UPa0fIQ&cbp=13,281.97,,0,-2.83
ive taken you to the left so have fun going all the way to the other end
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 23:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
I want to say raining is ow kul glow (pronounced to rhyme with cow) in Cornish but I'm probably misspelling it.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 23:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
this will make it easierhttp://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=prestwick+promenade&hl=en&ll=55.495785,-4.618807&spn=0.000741,0.002642&sll=55.495755,-4.616803&sspn=0.000748,0.003664&hnear=Promenade,+United+Kingdom&t=m&z=19&layer=c&cbll=55.495801,-4.619555&panoid=GDc0R_dDdZFVqPhMfyXe1Q&cbp=13,339.49,,0,2
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 23:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
Nope, it's spelled Glaw.
Snow is "ergh" which I'm convinced is onomatopoeic for what ppl sailors say when they open their doors and think "I have to go out in that?"
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 23:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
i would like to find a pic of the council flat we lived in EK until i was 2 1/2 as i dont recall it at all. I do remember the council house in greenhills, EK, but cant find it either, it goes to a totally different address. Stupid google.Doubt the house in Blackwood will be on google maps
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 23:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
Did you have a browse along the seafront?
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 23:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
A picture of the seafront at sunset. That's Arran in the distance
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 23:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
Tides out as you can see. Used to go out quite far in summer. In winter it came up over the wall when it was stormy just in front of my friends house. Along past the sailing club and up where i posted the pic from, you got it the most. Further you went to the right it didn't go anywhere near the wall.
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 23:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
I'd promise to buy your house back, but I've never bought a lottery ticket.
― Also unknown as Zora (Surfing At Work), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 00:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
Sorry, I fell asleep reading my beeches book.
That photo with the crepuscular rays on the clouds is incredible, Arran looks so pretty. Can't ever get streetview to work on my interweb connection, which is just as well as I'd be spending hours strolling down country lanes in like, Lamorna, if I could.
On a completely unrelated note, I have just realised that I've spent the past ages mistaking "codex" for "concordance" and I only just found out while trying to look up on wikipedia what "indexicality" actually means (approximately what I thought it meant, but it was still nice to know.)
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 08:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
while looking for info on the cats on iron maiden covers thing i came across thishttp://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Evils%20in%20America/Rock-n-Roll/witchcraft.htmThere's no thread on witchcraft in music so i thought hows about discussing it here? It's not really something I know about so not starting a thread on it.
Anyway i just kinda wondered what your mum thought of stuff like this?
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 08:38 (1 year ago) Permalink
and i mean properly, not laughable articles like that
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 08:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
haha it links to this http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/2006/04/george-w-bush-barbara-bush-and.html not heard that one before
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 08:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
I'm not sure why my mum would be bothered? I suspect, knowing her personality, she'd think it was rather laughable.
I don't know. It seems like a lot of people in rock n roll muck about with ~the occult~ just to be shocking and a bit weird, and some paranoid people within christianity take it all rather too seriously, but they strike me as the same kind of thinking level as conspiracy theorists. Hedonism and rock n roll are all intimately tied up together, hedonism and satanism are all tied up, ergo they are one and the same. But these are people who think that the Devil is an actual gentleman who walks around with red horns and a tail, rather than a metaphorical personification of evil, which is a much more complex topic.
It's strange, I have to admit I've always had a vague fascination with the occult - but the devil worshipping aspect of it (usually christian projection onto older nature cults) always just seemed silly.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 08:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
But these are people who think that the Devil is an actual gentleman who walks around with red horns and a tail,
reminds me of that witch episode in The Blackadder.
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 13:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
What's Ed & Emsk up to these days? Is Mark C still around? I miss him.
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 14:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
Ed's on the bike forum mostly, don't know where Emsk is about. That reminds me, we were supposed to go on a walk to the Wittenham Lumps this weekend, but seeing as I've not heard from anyone since it was first mooted, I'm going to assume that's now not gonna happen? The internet was supposed to make it easier to keep in touch with people, but in many ways it's made it harder.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 15:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
Based on occasional attempts to hang out with Emsk over the last few years, she is probably working, whenever you read this.
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 17:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
Our walk does appear to be happening! Hurrah for Wittenham Lumps!
Also, random mindblowing etymological fact of the day: apparently Book comes from the same atymological root as Buche (German) meaning Beech! Books are not just made from trees, in a strange way, they *are* trees.
*head explodes*
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 19:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
this is pretty sad, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-17128997 they will only get £30 for scrap value according to the guy on the news but i dont think it's been stolen to order as there's a lot of metal theft in Scotland just now. A statue of a miner in Moodiesburn was stolen about a week after it was put up.
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 21:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
Afternoon everybody
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Thursday, 23 February 2012 12:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
Bleurgh. Afternoon. I'm feeling kind of otherwise.
Going to force myself to draw this afternoon, but I feel like I really should be researching for the Psychogeography Gang's walk this weekend. Like, are the Wittenham Lumps actually signature Capability Brown Clumps or are they overgrown Neolithic earthworks or something else?
They appear to have their own website! Or rather, a website dedicated to Paul Nash's paintings of them. I'm worried I might get obsessed.
http://www.nashclumps.org/
Ah, it appears they are both. they are chalk outcrops, with earthworks on top, and yet the beech clumps are some of the oldest planted beeches.
A Wittenham Lump:
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Thursday, 23 February 2012 13:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
But now I am worried I will see them not as their own Lumpy selves, and not even as the drawings I will no doubt make of them, but as Nash paintings.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Thursday, 23 February 2012 13:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
I'm sure you will have fun.
do any brits post on ilx now? it seems empty in the mornings until the yanks come online. Are they all on facebook or livejournal?
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Thursday, 23 February 2012 13:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
I blame the Austerity, man. Austerity.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Thursday, 23 February 2012 13:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
i dont get the love of facebook and lj myself. or twitter.
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Thursday, 23 February 2012 13:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
I'm usually here in the morn...
― Mark G, Thursday, 23 February 2012 14:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
i miss the tales of the grout schoolrun
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Thursday, 23 February 2012 14:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yeah, it's all "right tara youse two" either I'm out the door before them, or vice versa. They all grown up and walk to school themselves...
― Mark G, Thursday, 23 February 2012 14:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
you must miss it. What age are they now?
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Thursday, 23 February 2012 14:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
I mainly lurk on here these days and find that there are a diminishing number of threads I want to post on, or even comprehend from their titles. And I no longer have the kind of job or the inclination to click on 'blue writing' I don't understand (perhaps sadly).
Very busy at the moment, lots of travel. Was in Chester yesterday and will be in Leeds and Bingley on Monday!
But yes, the walk is ON. Huzzah for Wittenham Lumps!
WCC, thanks for the Buche/Book thing. It solves a mystery for me. There is a kind of finch which is called Buchfink auf Deutsch and I was trying to figure out the connection twixt books and birds!
― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 23 February 2012 14:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
there are a diminishing number of threads I want to post on,
Why I'm so glad to see the cooler back!! I really missed it.
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Thursday, 23 February 2012 14:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yep Pfunkboy, I missed it too!
Bird was this geezer (if that's not a contradiction) -- a chaffinch:
― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 23 February 2012 14:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
They are 13 and 11 (14 and 12 next month)
I don't post much about them here thesedays, they have their own Facebook profiles (around 100 pics of themselves on there).
Still, Alice is a dab hand at finding old pics posted on this place..
― Mark G, Thursday, 23 February 2012 14:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
they could be posting here and you dont know! Like when enbb didn't realise who roberto spiralli was!
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Thursday, 23 February 2012 14:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
― Mark G, Thursday, 23 February 2012 14:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
is that them now? I forget which one is the eldest
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Thursday, 23 February 2012 14:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
Amber is the eldest.
― Mark G, Thursday, 23 February 2012 14:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
hey are we allowed mansplain in this thread now btw
― banlieue jagger (darraghmac), Thursday, 27 December 2012 23:35 (4 months ago) Permalink
(stifled lol)
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 27 December 2012 23:36 (4 months ago) Permalink
my last retail gig was selling high-end men's clothing which for anyone who knows me is an endless lol.
― packt like phoebe cates's dad in a chimney (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Thursday, 27 December 2012 23:39 (4 months ago) Permalink
i've only got a low-end, i had to get that shit tailored
― banlieue jagger (darraghmac), Thursday, 27 December 2012 23:40 (4 months ago) Permalink
anyway hope s/thing comes up clouds, getting cash in has to take precedence over the fulfilling lifedream stuff most of the time ime, but i hope yr e works out at a balance you can live with in the longer term
― banlieue jagger (darraghmac), Thursday, 27 December 2012 23:42 (4 months ago) Permalink
"by your affirmative keystroke you authorize an investigative report concerning past employment, mode-of-living and general reputation"
fucking hell
― nevaeh for evaeh (clouds), Friday, 28 December 2012 20:09 (4 months ago) Permalink
you have a lovely reputation, screw them: PUSH THE BUTTON AND LOOK THEM DEAD IN THE EYE
'them'
'eye'
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 28 December 2012 21:50 (4 months ago) Permalink
― packt like phoebe cates's dad in a chimney (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Thursday, December 27, 2012 6:39 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
my job of 8 years is with a company that makes cooking tools, which for anyone who knows me is too lol to even be funny.
crossing my fingers for u clouds. want u to be able to buy albums and talk to me about them.
― ~farben~ (Jon Lewis), Friday, 28 December 2012 22:04 (4 months ago) Permalink
i don't know if there's a 2013 unemployed thread so i'm just gonna bump this one to propose the following:
so say you have a guy who's pushing 60 and has many years of experience as a computer programmer under his belt. and say his current company is letting him go because they're moving the office to another state and the guy doesn't want to move (and even if he did want to, he'd have to quit and then re-apply for the job he currently has). and say this guy doesn't really have enough to live off of for retirement to support both himself and his wife (who doesn't work), and that he has a whole host of health issues and a mortgage and other debts and bills to pay off on top of that.
in the year of our lord 2013, is this guy pretty much screwed?
― steaklife (donna rouge), Monday, 18 March 2013 17:18 (2 months ago) Permalink
sounds like
― j., Monday, 18 March 2013 22:25 (2 months ago) Permalink
computer programming isn't the most age-friendly career, it's true, but it may also depend on what technologies he's familiar with. does sound like a bad situation though, good luck to him
(suspect someone more US-based would be better placed to provide specific advice, sorry)
― susuwatari teenage riot (a passing spacecadet), Monday, 18 March 2013 22:30 (2 months ago) Permalink
my dad was recently in this situation and he wound up getting a contract job with a cemetery. there are jobs out there, it's just a question of looking in perhaps unconventional places.
― maura, Monday, 18 March 2013 22:53 (2 months ago) Permalink
yeah, the guy is my dad, also
― steaklife (donna rouge), Monday, 18 March 2013 23:11 (2 months ago) Permalink
there's at least some time before all this happens (his current job ends next year and he'll have a pretty decent severance package). and today he underwent some significant surgery that i'm optimistic will do wonders for him, so he'll be in better shape by the time he has to seriously start dealing with this
still, hell of a spot to be in :/
― steaklife (donna rouge), Monday, 18 March 2013 23:16 (2 months ago) Permalink
It's rough, but having computer skills is one of the few ways "make money from home, ask me how" can work out for people.
― Philip Nunez, Monday, 18 March 2013 23:17 (2 months ago) Permalink