This is the thread for senselessly frittering away the last hour of a Friday afternoon

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I want this day to END goddammit.

Go! Talk bollocks here!

(To be revived every Friday until the end of time)

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 30 January 2004 16:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Post links to good shockwave games here also.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 30 January 2004 16:10 (twenty-two years ago)

I still have an hour and a quarter to go :(

― robster (robster), Friday, 30 January 2004 16:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh my god, it's only 11:15 am here! I have timezone envy.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 30 January 2004 16:12 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm also stuck here for another hour and don't want to do any "work", so here goes...

EAT SOME PASTE!
http://www.geocities.com/Augusta/1660/anralph.gif

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Friday, 30 January 2004 16:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Where are you Matt? it's only 10:14 a.m. here.

― Huck Me Gently (Horace Mann), Friday, 30 January 2004 16:14 (twenty-two years ago)

www.candystand.com has good games.

― Chris V (Chris V), Friday, 30 January 2004 16:14 (twenty-two years ago)

i have distracting things, but they're all attachments, so i don't think they'd work. and they aren't that interesting anyway.

so just talk about interesting things. what are people doing this weekend?

― colette (a2lette), Friday, 30 January 2004 16:14 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.geocities.com/Augusta/1660/anralph.gif

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Friday, 30 January 2004 16:15 (twenty-two years ago)

bah to all you people with friday afternoons and weekends

― Ed (dali), Friday, 30 January 2004 16:15 (twenty-two years ago)

It is still Friday morning here, and I am desperately trying to search to find out if Hotel 17 has towels in their rooms. (They have shared bathrooms so they may not!) Perhaps I can get Stevem to call ahead and find out...

― The River Kate (kate), Friday, 30 January 2004 16:15 (twenty-two years ago)

OH CRAP well just look at this then:
http://www.geocities.com/Augusta/1660/anralph.gif

Why can't I post a link to a .gif? I am dim.

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Friday, 30 January 2004 16:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Daily Mail Headline Generator

David Blunkett Policy Generator

English to txtspk convertor!

Anyone FAP?

― Dave B (daveb), Friday, 30 January 2004 16:16 (twenty-two years ago)

This weekend I'm doing absolutely nothing, and I can't wait. No gigs, no going out plans. It's like the one weekend for months on either side that I can just lie around, clean, pay bills, do some insurance stuff I've been putting off, etc. Fun, eh?

(have to get through work first though, 6 1/2 hours to go).

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 30 January 2004 16:16 (twenty-two years ago)

what a great idea for a thread! I was just trying to think of something to post about and failing cos I've drunk so much coffee that all my thoughts keep falling out of my head. Now I don't have to! I don't have any links to any shockwave games that have not been posted here already I'm afraid.

x-post: I am going to see Elephant at the cinema tonight. Tomorrow I am going to buy a new suit, shirt, tie and shoes then I am moving flat. I will thus be rewarding my moving assitants with beer and curry. Sunday I will be settling in. I am most excited about all of this.

― hmmm, Friday, 30 January 2004 16:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Tonight, I am going out for drinks with my favourite person and her mum (!) who is coming down for the weekend.

Then I am off out for my friend's birthday in the evening, which will involve trawling round several Anna-friendly Soho bars. That's about it for now... could be a quiet one, could be very messy indeed. I have no idea.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 30 January 2004 16:17 (twenty-two years ago)

MY FRIDAY HAS ONLY JUST BEGUN.

God, I need coffee

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 30 January 2004 16:17 (twenty-two years ago)

How come I seem to be leaving this place with *less* luggage than I arrived with? Or is it cause I'm trying to space out one suitcase worth of stuff into two suitcases?

― The River Kate (kate), Friday, 30 January 2004 16:17 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm going for a meal and then watching the new sex and the city, then maybe dancing at GAY. tomorrow i'll hopefully learn to knit, then go to dinner and a party with my guy. i can't remember what i'm doing on sunday...

― colette (a2lette), Friday, 30 January 2004 16:20 (twenty-two years ago)

I am now the proud recipient of beer and cake courtesy of my work.

:))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))

― hmmm, Friday, 30 January 2004 16:20 (twenty-two years ago)

This is great...I thought today was Thursday until I read this thread. I was out sick yesterday and spent the entire day thinking it was Wednesday, so I must have lost a day somewhere at the start of the week. I guess I need a calendar.

Yay Friday...

― mmmmsalt (Graeme), Friday, 30 January 2004 16:21 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm going to see oneida tonight, bbq fap tomorrow as well as a birthday dance party, then hopefully to see "you got served" on sunday. these are the fun things.
unfun things: i need to figure out where i hid my passport when i came back to nyc in october. i also need to do a major clean before i leave as i hate returning from a trip to a disgusting house.

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 30 January 2004 16:21 (twenty-two years ago)

God, so many BOXES!!! Here is the answer. I ended up putting more stuff into storage at my mum's house than I ended getting out, and now I have hundreds of boxes which I have to stack on top of each other. :-(

― The River Kate (kate), Friday, 30 January 2004 16:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Bah, my day has just started. Adaml and I mock your aimless angst.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 30 January 2004 16:23 (twenty-two years ago)

http://leech.dk/penguin.swf

http://zone.msn.com/en/rocketmania/default.htm

― Sarah (starry), Friday, 30 January 2004 16:23 (twenty-two years ago)

I need to get off the internet and start packing. Or maybe even take the dog for one last walk. Ach, I'm nearly packed and I don't want to move boxes, so one last dogwalk it is. You will probably be down the pub by the time I get back!

― The River Kate (kate), Friday, 30 January 2004 16:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Today I have been given some cloutie dumpling and some marmalade. Everyone in the office is stuffing envelopes for a big mailing, which is the perfect, mindless Friday afternoon job. Tonight is National Pop League and hopefully no slipping on ice and whacking my arse off the pavement. Tomorrow I'm going to sow my sweet peas.

Here's something for the bored: http://www.yook.de/tetris/

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 30 January 2004 16:26 (twenty-two years ago)

SomethingAwful has Photoshops up for you to peruse.

including this one on deranged movie posters

― Kingfish Funyun (Kingfish), Friday, 30 January 2004 16:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Have a great time in NY K!

Hooray I've only got 30 mins to go before I am outta here! I should have got paid today (woo hoo) but someone messed up & we arent getting paid til monday, which kind of messes up my plans to spend, spend, spend this w/e! Ah well. Still am planning to get drunk tonight though! yay!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 30 January 2004 16:28 (twenty-two years ago)

This is the message board for senselessy frittering away the long hours of a life less ordinary.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 30 January 2004 16:29 (twenty-two years ago)

well, i just put on some nice hand creme and lip balm, that took up 45 seconds. and writing about it took at least another 30...

― colette (a2lette), Friday, 30 January 2004 16:32 (twenty-two years ago)

45 minutes to go before running the gauntlet of Paddington and taking the first train out to the countryside. I can hardly wait to hear the barrage of monotone PA apologies, excuses and the old favourite "this train has been cancelled due toafault on this train which cannot be rectified."

― a shotgun, Friday, 30 January 2004 16:39 (twenty-two years ago)

The Daily Mail headline thingy has made me spit coffee with laughter.

― robster (robster), Friday, 30 January 2004 16:42 (twenty-two years ago)

i wish i had this option for senselessly frittering the other day. instead i passed the time by ordering some perfume, overpriced hand cream, and a toaster oven online. wtf? at least i didn't order an ab-wheel.

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 30 January 2004 16:45 (twenty-two years ago)

My god play this one if you are safe from epileptic fits...

http://www.mausland.de/dolphin.swf

― Sarah (starry), Friday, 30 January 2004 16:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Me too, Rob. "Will Gays Hurt The Church?" Hahah... Oh.

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 30 January 2004 16:56 (twenty-two years ago)

DOES CHRIS MORRIS INFECT FARMERS WITH AIDS?

That's beautiful on so many levels.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 30 January 2004 16:59 (twenty-two years ago)

ow, sarah, my eyes!

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 30 January 2004 16:59 (twenty-two years ago)

I hope they don't make me stick around any longer here and waste my time. It's Friday goddammit. I can't even check my email thanks to MyDoom.B and there is nothing else for us to do. I want to leave! I need to get on a train to NYC! Aaaargh.

― TOMBOT, Friday, 30 January 2004 17:04 (twenty-two years ago)

I imagine this to be "PLUR"!

― Sarah (starry), Friday, 30 January 2004 17:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Doom.B sounds a bit like....

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 30 January 2004 17:08 (twenty-two years ago)

FBI agent recommends Macs for the security conscious, says FBI can't afford them though, also recommends mac for criminal types since they have to send them to the mounties to see what's hidden on them

― Ed (dali), Friday, 30 January 2004 17:14 (twenty-two years ago)

I should instead be spending my time trying to catch the author of the MyDoom virus as Microsoft and SCO are each offering a quarter million to whomever nabs him. It's like the old west, except it's snowing and I'm stuck at work and have no idea where to start.

― TOMBOT, Friday, 30 January 2004 17:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Haha yes Ed I saw that article. It made me hate my job a lot.

― TOMBOT, Friday, 30 January 2004 17:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Try the Ukraine.

x-post

― Ed (dali), Friday, 30 January 2004 17:17 (twenty-two years ago)

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!! this is when I feel very smug and superior and know that I made the right choice in getting a Powerbook. I was a sys admin when the ILOVEYOU bug struck. I never used Outlook again.

I am still herding cats, but it looks like most of the cats are in corrals now, and I am so excited about the weekend, I get to meet all kinds of ILXors, I get to see my bestest friend in NYC, and I get to see the hott ex-boyfriend (who made a point of telling me about his pageboy haircut! woo!). I just have to remember that I am old and married and boring now (and I think he's married, too, now, or pretty close) and Stevem's hair will get jealous.

― The River Kate (kate), Friday, 30 January 2004 17:44 (twenty-two years ago)

I've been waiting 2 hours for my boss who is 'en route,' just so he can come tell us to go home. I hate everything.

― TOMBOT, Friday, 30 January 2004 18:51 (twenty-two years ago)

We got finished with our training at 11:15 and cleaned out the classroom by 11:30. It's now 2pm and nobody can figure out what to do with us. So we wait.

I want to see a human being on fire running around screaming. I mean in person. Not on a screen.

― TOMBOT, Friday, 30 January 2004 18:56 (twenty-two years ago)

my perfume just arrived courtesy of ups. it smells like an extremely wealthy middle-aged woman. boo.

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 30 January 2004 18:57 (twenty-two years ago)

We just got a Fedex shipment of LL Bean goodies. Which my mum tried to give to me. I'M SORRY BUT I REALLY DON'T NEED ANY! MORE! SHOES!!! It was my New Years Resolution to stay out of shoe shops.

― The River Kate (kate), Friday, 30 January 2004 18:59 (twenty-two years ago)

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Wise idea, that.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 9 April 2021 23:07 (five years ago)

Not positive how I spent the last hour but I spent it! Time to make pizzas.

― Canon in Deez (silby), Saturday, 10 April 2021 00:01 (five years ago)

one year passes...

hello?

Drinking a fino sherry while doing my lame friday work.. no plans for the evening

― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 5 August 2022 22:32 (three years ago)

wfh, internet down. on the phone with isp. why.

― brimstead, Friday, 5 August 2022 22:35 (three years ago)

but somehow you're posting here

― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 5 August 2022 22:38 (three years ago)

I have a 5G tower in a sinus cavity

― brimstead, Friday, 5 August 2022 22:40 (three years ago)

I read a story about a kid with a Lego up there for years, so I guess that's possible

― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 5 August 2022 22:41 (three years ago)

four months pass...

35 minutes to go and I'm off until January 3rd. Time has slowed to a crawl -- and I'm at home, even!

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 17 December 2022 00:25 (three years ago)

I have to work next week, but then we're off between Xmas & NYE.. I think the 2nd is a fed holiday

― Andy the Grasshopper, Saturday, 17 December 2022 00:41 (three years ago)

Having some fino sherry and running out the clock

― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 23 December 2022 23:26 (three years ago)

love when you can just close a browser window to 'leave' work

― ꙮ (map), Friday, 23 December 2022 23:39 (three years ago)

three weeks pass...

three day weekend…kinda checked out as it is for Reasons…kinda just want to lie down

― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Friday, 13 January 2023 22:20 (three years ago)

This is only our second year getting MLK as a holiday, so I scheduled a meeting for Monday cos I forgot. Whoops!

― fentanyl young (Neanderthal), Friday, 13 January 2023 22:23 (three years ago)

Uh oh makes you look racist

This will be our second year getting Juneteenth as a holiday you’re an entire holiday behind the curve

― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Friday, 13 January 2023 22:25 (three years ago)

We get Cesar Chavez in California as well.. well, some of us do. I think kids still have to go to school.

― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 13 January 2023 23:05 (three years ago)

I'm about ready to crack open a beer. Dry January was not quite what I planned

― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 13 January 2023 23:06 (three years ago)

Would it were truly dry (well, drier) January out here. Two hours to go, zoning...

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 13 January 2023 23:11 (three years ago)

HI DERE

― Farewell to Evening in Paradise (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 13 January 2023 23:20 (three years ago)

i worked from a dr's office while my dad got a thorough checkup, then we had to drive home, and then mom wanted to go to early dinner and complained about everything dad did the entire time, wound up lifting him and setting him down 5 times.

I am tiiiired and about to watch 70s exploitation horror flix.

― fentanyl young (Neanderthal), Friday, 13 January 2023 23:26 (three years ago)

we got Juneteenth in 2020, then my company was like "lol use one of your floating holidays, we did our bare minimum" after that

― fentanyl young (Neanderthal), Friday, 13 January 2023 23:27 (three years ago)

wow - entitlements given cannot be taketh away

― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 13 January 2023 23:31 (three years ago)

three months pass...

Is anyone already drinking yet?

― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 14 April 2023 21:36 (three years ago)

spilled coffee everywhere about an hour ago

― brimstead, Friday, 14 April 2023 21:46 (three years ago)

I just ate a gummy and am just waiting for it to kick in.

― Bruce Hornsby–Big Stick 3:15 (Eliza D.), Friday, 14 April 2023 21:48 (three years ago)

reading my book, keeping a weather eye for email notifications (of which there are none) … hours to go before we get there

― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 14 April 2023 21:59 (three years ago)

okay I'm going to drink some stout

it's five o'clock somewhere in the world, as they say

― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 14 April 2023 22:01 (three years ago)

About to head to Sanford for a brief night at the breweries by myself (by choice, I don't wanna people today)

― Will.I.Am's fetid urine (Neanderthal), Friday, 14 April 2023 22:11 (three years ago)

five months pass...

Now I'm drinking dry vermouth on ice, with a splash of lemonade & bitters

― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 22 September 2023 21:26 (two years ago)

eight months pass...

just made a pour-over black & tan with Guinness & Sierra Nevada pale ale

― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 31 May 2024 23:39 (two years ago)

nine months pass...

cracking open a cold one

― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 7 March 2025 23:19 (one year ago)

I’m three hours ahead of you bro

― calstars, Friday, 7 March 2025 23:22 (one year ago)

I'll catch up

― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 7 March 2025 23:26 (one year ago)

Not likely

― calstars, Friday, 7 March 2025 23:28 (one year ago)

lol

― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 7 March 2025 23:31 (one year ago)

nine months pass...

feels like a fucking friday tbh. why am i here

― map, Tuesday, 23 December 2025 19:16 (five months ago)

I'll be working tomorrow, at least in the morning

― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 23 December 2025 19:30 (five months ago)

so will i but my boss leaves tomorrow and i wfh so i won't be doing anything work-related other than logging into my email if i can help it.

― map, Tuesday, 23 December 2025 19:33 (five months ago)

off til the 5th after today but “on call” thoughout
bleh

― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 23 December 2025 19:58 (five months ago)

I have less than 90 minutes until I can go home and not return until Monday, and time is going way too slowly, lemme tell ya

― Clever Message Board User Name (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 23 December 2025 20:12 (five months ago)

I'm working tomorrow but I get to leave at midday.

― you gotta roll with the pączki to get to what's real (snoball), Tuesday, 23 December 2025 20:12 (five months ago)

We had one of those insane “please don’t reply all” clusters that I thought were a thing of the past earlier in the afternoon, hundreds of emails, people leaning hard into absurdism and jokes and philosophy, which elicited ferocious laughter from everyone

― Clever Message Board User Name (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 23 December 2025 20:15 (five months ago)

love a good old fashioned reply all nightmare. absurdism the only called-for response to mandated bullshit 40 hours a week tbh.

― map, Tuesday, 23 December 2025 20:19 (five months ago)

We had one of those a few years ago, which escalated to include things like 'ransom note' GIFs, until a senior manager cut in with the message 'Please let's put a stop to this now. It's not professional/'

― you gotta roll with the pączki to get to what's real (snoball), Tuesday, 23 December 2025 20:21 (five months ago)

Got a rad bombshell from our CEO today... we all get two paid days off each month next year, which doesn't come out of PTO. They don't accrue, use 'em or lose 'em.. I'll definitely be using them. Hiking mondays twice a month!

― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 23 December 2025 20:27 (five months ago)

what kinda psycho wouldn't use them.

― map, Tuesday, 23 December 2025 20:28 (five months ago)

That’s fantastic!

― Clever Message Board User Name (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 23 December 2025 20:32 (five months ago)

We found the one good CEO.

― nashwan, Tuesday, 23 December 2025 20:33 (five months ago)

cue lots of employees dying in mysterious hiking accidents

― Father McGammycurry (calzino), Tuesday, 23 December 2025 20:35 (five months ago)

I am frittering away two hours before happy hour with friends in town -- Festivus, they call it.

― The Luda of Suburbia (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 23 December 2025 20:37 (five months ago)

We found the one good CEO

Well the full thing is that we're struggling and can't afford pay raises! but it's a nonprofit, so that's par for the course.. but a couple free days a month is better than a poke in the eye

― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 23 December 2025 20:38 (five months ago)

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