UK Fnordcooler 23: Immanentizing The Eschaton - When The Pyramid Meets The Eye!

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Yes, arguing with Geir and Louis is my idea of a fun afternoon... NOT!!!

Besides, I've been using BULLET POINTS to explain equity. One of the few times my job comes in useful.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

I think you should do a powerpoint for the lex at the next FAP.

― Ed, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 16:17 (nineteen years ago)

I'm just realising, that as much as I complain about how my parents (especially my mum) f*cked me up on an emotional level (especially with regard to relationships) they (specifically my mum) gave me an INCREDIBLY grounded sense on financial matters.

And funnily enough, this didn't even come from the maths side of the family (my dad has to this day no sense of money because he grew up such a Trusta) but from my mum trying to run around cleaning up my dad's financial messes. And mostly, knock on wood, I have not made my parents' mistakes with money. The middle classes begat middle classes in more ways than just fronting deposits on houses.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 16:32 (nineteen years ago)

I'm feeling really freaking smug today. Someone shoot me.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 16:32 (nineteen years ago)

I finished varnishing the top half of the synthesiser cabinet:
pics here
it looks great!

― Pashmina, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 16:50 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, arguing with Geir and Louis is my idea of a fun afternoon... NOT!!!

geirbot excelling himself yet again with

But symphonic rock should have male singers. Yes did, Genesis did, ELP did, King Crimson did. No point trying to sound different from those in any way.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 16:57 (nineteen years ago)

You know, that's exactly the kind of thing that I'm trying to AVOID by not reading the thread.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 16:59 (nineteen years ago)

God I'm in love with your synth-cab, Pash.

― emil.y, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 16:59 (nineteen years ago)

It was surprisingly easy to build, though it took a while. I can sit in front of it and reach/see all the connections & controls really easily, which is exactly what I wanted.

Kate, I don't know how to reply to comments, but yes, that's the daisy retro-h 12-string, which I'll be bringing to the gig.

― Pashmina, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 17:07 (nineteen years ago)

You just leave another comment below it.

Aahhh, can't wait to hear the 12-string!

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 17:08 (nineteen years ago)

Things I've learned on ILX today - it's considered bad form to talk about your finances being healthy in a way it's never considered bad form to talk about your relationship being all SQQUUUEEEEE, LIFE IS SO GREAT!!!!

Smug homeowners are the new smug marrieds! Hurrah!

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 17:29 (nineteen years ago)

Where on earth have they hidden the bloody info that I need? Argh, I hate this db!

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 18:04 (nineteen years ago)

*bounce bounce bounce* i am neither married nor a homeowner.

― emsk, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, but you're hateable, because you have no credit card, therefore you are smug debt-free person!

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

you just got a job, it's only a matter of time.

― Ed, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

xpost

― Ed, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

Besides, I bought earlier than you therefore I am more smug.

― Ed, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

i am not debt free! i have like £3,500 or something of student debt. shit, what do i have to be making for them to make me start paying it back? it was £15,000 for ages which i've never been anywhere near, then it went up to £18,000 leaving me even further behind. they haven't sent me the Drreaded Letter this year yet, maybe i should call them or sth.

― emsk, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 18:13 (nineteen years ago)

You are same generation as me so you have to ring them up and ask them to start taking DDs.

― Ed, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

I am not being awful, but your "terrible student debt" sounds so TINY compared to US student debt. Or what UK are trying to turn student debt into. Bah.

That reminds me, I need to fill in my voter registration form (after all that excitement, I keep forgetting to send it) and hassle the utilities company to send me a bill to pay. You'd think they don't WANT my money.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

I don't have I have had an electricity bill since I switched to wind power.

― Ed, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

first have = think

― Ed, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

(I know I am a terrible person, but I am just so happy to finally find something to be smug about! I know I did not win the genetics lottery or the luck lottery on the relationships front - I am ugly, predisposed to be fat, have 0 people skills, never had a stable enough childhood to have a childhood sweetheart and therefore have no relationship, but I won on the maths skillz, the thriftiness skillz, the luck of finding well paid jobs in finance, and the genetic lottery of having lovely posh grandparents to conveniently die and leave me half a deposit luck)

I mean, so many things are just luck in being born who you are.

If I REALLY wanted to be a horrible person, I would go on the London Housing thread and say all the encouraging things that smug marrieds say to eternal singles - DON'T WORRY, EVERY POT WILL FIND ITS COVER, I MANAGED TO BUY A HOUSE, YOU CAN TOO, DON'T GIVE UP HOPE!!! HA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAAA YOU SINGLE LOSER YOU, YOU HALF A PERSON COZ YOU CAN'T GET A ~~BOYFRIEND~~ MORTGAGE!!!!

Not that I'm bitter or anything, mind you! :-)

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 18:22 (nineteen years ago)

Start chilling the champers, Tarquin, I'm going home.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 18:28 (nineteen years ago)

You are same generation as me so you have to ring them up and ask them to start taking DDs.

no i bloody don't! i don't want to give them anything! usually by this time of the year they've sent me a letter demanding the blood of my firstborn.

― emsk, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 18:47 (nineteen years ago)

Ah, but you have to give it to them, if you are the next generation then they just lift it from your paypacket.

― Ed, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 18:48 (nineteen years ago)

Emsk, you should phone them and ask them to post you a deferment form ASAP. I ended up squillions of pounds in debt because some twat at the SLC decided to send my form to my old address, and I just sort of assumed they had carried on my payment deferment when actually what they thought was that I was ignoring them and therefore accruing squillions of pounds in "charges".

― ailsa, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 18:50 (nineteen years ago)

(Funnily enough it took them three years to find me, via my aunt who I had named as a contact detail all those years before, who hardly ever leaves the house, so I find it kind of hard to believe that it took them three years to get her in. Less profitable for them if they find me and my shitty wage, I guess)

― ailsa, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 18:52 (nineteen years ago)

Ah, but you have to give it to them, if you are the next generation then they just lift it from your paypacket.

not if i'm not making £18,000 i don't. or £15,000. whichever.

Emsk, you should phone them and ask them to post you a deferment form ASAP.

yeah you're right actually, they *always* fuck up somehow, saying they've sent me stuff they haven't, saying i haven't sent them stuff i have... eventually they're always like "oh yeah. you're making a pittance. here's your deferment, you sad sorry fuck" but not after months of horrible threatening phone calls and crap...

― emsk, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 18:54 (nineteen years ago)

this job may end up paying enough for them to start demanding, they have ways of finding out.

― Ed, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 18:56 (nineteen years ago)

do you think they read the watercooler?

― emsk, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 18:57 (nineteen years ago)

They have eyes everywhere, I mean look, they found alisa in 3 years, through her aunt ;-)

― Ed, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 19:02 (nineteen years ago)

Welcome back Ailsa, Did you have a nice time?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 22:41 (nineteen years ago)

Mostly.

― ailsa, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 22:44 (nineteen years ago)

I saw Clint Eastwood in a petrol station, and I ate my own body weight in food several times over. I went on a boat in the Everglades, and I saw tons of alligators. I even tipped generously in bars!

There were some crap bits too, but the good stuff made up for it.

― ailsa, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 22:46 (nineteen years ago)

OMG, we went to Celebration! Ned-Flanders-ville alert! Creeptastic!

― ailsa, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 22:47 (nineteen years ago)

(I'm not sure about the Clint Eastwood sighting - me and my mum convinced it was him, the rest of our party, not quite so much. We did see Davis Love III though*)

Also, Ben Fogle's mum and dad were on our flight on the way back (Tampa to Gatwick leg) and our second home flight (Gatwick to Glasgow) got hit by lightning.

There ends the edited highlights of my holiday. I don't have many photos. My mum has several of me looking very wet and screaming a lot on various rides at Universal, which I hope will never see the light of day.

* Kate, don't ask, you don't care, honest

― ailsa, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 22:51 (nineteen years ago)

Obviously, best thing about Manatee County = manatees. LOOK AT IT! IT'S HUEG!!

[img]http://www.homesafe.com/manatee/photographs/xa19.jpg[/img]

― ailsa, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 22:58 (nineteen years ago)

oh bugger.

http://www.homesafe.com/manatee/photographs/xa19.jpg

― ailsa, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 22:58 (nineteen years ago)

http://drpeterjones.com/images/hugh_manatee.jpg

― Ed, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 22:59 (nineteen years ago)

I went on a boat in the Everglades, and I saw tons of alligators. I even tipped generously in bars!

Don't suppose you bumped into delboy and rodney?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 23:12 (nineteen years ago)

Is Clint Eastwood, Davis Love and the Fogle-parents not enough? Yeah, OK, I met them. Crockett and Tubbs too. And Gentle Ben. In my trip to THE FICTIONAL EIGHTIES FLORIDA.

― ailsa, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 23:33 (nineteen years ago)

No flipper, no credibility.

― Ed, Thursday, 22 March 2007 10:30 (nineteen years ago)

Did you go to Kennedy? Did they melt your heart? Do you want to be an engineer now?

― Ed, Thursday, 22 March 2007 10:32 (nineteen years ago)

Hello 'Cooler!

My parents have moved on to Paris, and although K's parents are still here, the main event has passed. Not too bad, all told. Everyone was on their best behavior, got along well, seemed to like each other. I was the designated chaperone during the days, taking them all around LDN, to see the sights, to the tate, to the theatre (Don Johnson in Guys&Dolls LOL). I'm happy to have nothing to do today (aside from pick up MORE theatre tickets for K's parents).

Actually the only real stress that came out of the visit/meeting was about wedding dates, and that completely from my side, as my mother is apparently very Jewish when it comes to when a wedding can be, but not so much for ALL OTHER ASPECTS OF LIFE.

― G00blar, Thursday, 22 March 2007 11:16 (nineteen years ago)

will their be klezmer?

― Ed, Thursday, 22 March 2007 11:39 (nineteen years ago)

Please say there will be klezmer.

― Ed, Thursday, 22 March 2007 11:39 (nineteen years ago)

A Little bit of fun for those who have a Last FM account

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 22 March 2007 11:42 (nineteen years ago)

And Morning all.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 22 March 2007 11:42 (nineteen years ago)

It doesn't work, Kerr, even if you put a dot in before "com".

(morning!)

― Forest Pines, Thursday, 22 March 2007 11:43 (nineteen years ago)

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