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what is St Ockwell the patron saint of?

I like St John Bosco coz he's the patron saint of EDITORS!

― Grandpont Genie, Friday, 30 March 2007 09:20 (nineteen years ago)

Bastards (shakes fist feebly heavenwards)

― Tom D., Friday, 30 March 2007 09:21 (nineteen years ago)

As Stockwell was one of the first tube stations in London,* St Ockwell should be patron saint of tube lines.

* a pedant writes: but nowhere near the oldest *underground* station.

― Forest Pines, Friday, 30 March 2007 09:23 (nineteen years ago)

Ha, there was an email from grouty this morning "i've been banned again", "this again", I thought, went to unban him, and I was banned as well! haha.

― Pashmina, Friday, 30 March 2007 09:25 (nineteen years ago)

It's like Stalinist Russia, who will be denounced next?

― Tom D., Friday, 30 March 2007 09:25 (nineteen years ago)

Ah, I will dig out the Observer Food Monthly where it said where he sold it. If indeed he has started selling it yet!

Electric Jug, yes!

I have Camden, I wanted to move as FAR AWAY AS POSSIBLE from it. I just wish they would stop doing cool things there.

St. Reatham's Parish is the nice end, the drive-bys are all up by Brixton Hill.

Oh god, the hotttt mang was on the train again this morning. Swoon!

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 30 March 2007 09:34 (nineteen years ago)

Poll results on sunday!

― Ed, Friday, 30 March 2007 09:43 (nineteen years ago)

He is so lovely (the hotttt mang) - I see him quite frequently at the train station so he probably lives in St. Reathams Parish.

He's had his hair cut since I saw him last - he used to have shoulder length hair, but now it's just kind of floppy like a public schoolboy and he plays with it like he's not used to it. Sideburns. Dark brown, and dirty hair, all shot through with little bits of grey. He's got the best nose in the world, super-pointed but in this weird almost concave way, but not a horrible ski-jump nose at all. And these really, really piercing blue eyes. And he's always wearing lovely clothes - today he was wearing a tweed jacket and a black turtleneck and looked totally hott in a German maths professor sort of way.

I am so terribly misreading of train situations, I need to learn how to look in a flirty way, not an intimidating way. Like, smile and twirl my hair or something crap and girly like that. Because I fear I may be intimidating. And I can never tell when someone is being polite vs. being friendly vs. being flirty and I need to learn how to do it or else I shall turn into a Graham.

Because he was sitting on the bench where I usually sat, and I didn't want to go stand by the first carriage because it was raining. So I kinda looked longingly at the bench and he moved aside to make room for me. And we both smiled and pulled out our Guardians and started to read. Until the train started coming and I got up to go and wait by the first carriage. And he got up and was going to get on the second carriage, but then changed his mind and walked up and waited by my door. Looked up and he was sitting near me and I was pleased because I could continue to try to look at him but every time he nearly caught my eye I was all "ARGH LOOK AWAY, DON'T GET CAUGHT STARING, STARING IS RUDE!" And then he smiled at me and I panicked and burried my head in my paper and then he kind of shifted away and hunched his shoulders so we couldn't see each others faces any more and went back to playing with his hair for the rest of the ride. Until I got off the train before him, and I couldn't help but look back but he saw me and wondering is he thinking "argh, thank god that scary girl who was staring at me has got off?" or was he thinking "oh, she looked back at me" or was he thinking "shall I have bacon on toast or fried eggs for breakfast?"

And I'm just feeling all confused and wondering DID I ENTIRELY IMAGINE THAT?!?!? Like, have I completely projected my attraction onto his actions? Or were we both doing the kind of checking each other out thing, and I totally blew it? Or am I becoming the kind of scary old lady who thinks that the television talks to her?

SPRING PLEASE STOP FUCKING WITH MY HORMONES. BOYS STOP BEING SO SCARY AND CUTE.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 30 March 2007 10:00 (nineteen years ago)

That should really have gone on the "Dear Random Stranger, I Love You" thread but it's almost too entirely creepy for that.

I am worrying about myself lately.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 30 March 2007 10:01 (nineteen years ago)

After having resolved to waylay and talk to the hot redhead I sometimes see on the grays inn rd I have not seen her again, bah. Long hair, I think I will allow long hair if it is flame red.

― Ed, Friday, 30 March 2007 10:08 (nineteen years ago)

almost too entirely creepy for that

you can't be too creepy for that thread.

― Grandpont Genie, Friday, 30 March 2007 10:10 (nineteen years ago)

Wait, I thought all your crush belonged to the waitress with the groovy shoulderblades?

Is this sort of behaviour totally certifiable, or just English?

I mean, blokes, if you saw some girl (and not a hott cute girl, but a mad, fat, middle aged woman like me) acting like this towards you on the train, would you think she was a mentalist? Or would you not even notice?

I mean, if someone cuts me off getting on the train, sometimes I glower at them all the way to Herne Hill. I hope he did not think I was doing that!

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 30 March 2007 10:12 (nineteen years ago)

I would quite like it I have to say.

― Grandpont Genie, Friday, 30 March 2007 10:15 (nineteen years ago)

I think I probably need to get laid. Not have a relationship or anything like that, but just have some kind of random casual sex so I will stop being influenced by the crazy spring thing. But what if I can't even get *that*?

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 30 March 2007 10:22 (nineteen years ago)

I think I have gone insane.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 30 March 2007 10:32 (nineteen years ago)

hint: do not have casual sex on train.

― Grandpont Genie, Friday, 30 March 2007 10:33 (nineteen years ago)

I would take any girl making flirty eyes at me on the train as a compliment at the very least. However it is spring and I think they are all making flirty eyes at me.

Re: hoot waitress etc.

It is spring, I want all the girls.

― Ed, Friday, 30 March 2007 10:35 (nineteen years ago)

Also Re: next friday, I will have to get over to spitalfields by about 7-7:30pm that evening so an afternoon slot in the alldayer would suit.

― Ed, Friday, 30 March 2007 10:35 (nineteen years ago)

On a crowded commuter rush hour train, no less. Oh good lord. It must be spring, I don't often get the urge to shout to the dude opposite me "sod going to work, let's get off at the wrong station together and go to a posh hotel and fuck like animals for a few hours between bouts of cream tea and buns!"

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 30 March 2007 10:36 (nineteen years ago)

― Mark G, Friday, 30 March 2007 10:37 (nineteen years ago)

Argh, see, I just hope he thought that I was making flirty eyes, and not glaring at him for stealing my bench or coz his flies were open.

I am taking some comfort in the thought that spring affects the males of the species, too. So I don't feel like such a mentalist.

Ask on the other thread, Ed!

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 30 March 2007 10:41 (nineteen years ago)

I mean, blokes, if you saw some girl (and not a hott cute girl, but a mad, fat, middle aged woman like me) acting like this towards you on the train, would you think she was a mentalist? Or would you not even notice?

Oh yes, I notice! It happens in the supermarket. Why a mentalist? That's what people do, check each other out.

But I'd say that the jury's out on whether he is checking you out or not. Say 'Hi, I'm Kate' next time and/or use a smalltalk intro.

― Dr.C, Friday, 30 March 2007 10:41 (nineteen years ago)

I have been paid. When can we look at this bellzouki?

― Ed, Friday, 30 March 2007 10:42 (nineteen years ago)

[i}I am taking some comfort in the thought that spring affects the males of the species, too[/i]

Ha ha, you've only just realised that!?!??!

― Tom D., Friday, 30 March 2007 10:43 (nineteen years ago)

Who's not been? Goddamn BACS!

― Mark G, Friday, 30 March 2007 10:43 (nineteen years ago)

Use the fact that it is spring to talk to the hot man.

― Ed, Friday, 30 March 2007 10:44 (nineteen years ago)

I very nearly asked him if I could check my crossword answers against his G2, as I was finishing yesterday's paper today. But then worried that this might make me look like the sad kind of mentalist who actually cares about crossword puzzles. And also the sad kind of mentalist who reads yesterday's papers. (Fact is, woman on the train left it on her seat one stop before mine, and I nicked it for the crossword puzzle. SKINFLINT!!! I was lying in bed trying to get to sleep when that one popped into my mind and I had to get up, turn the lights back on and write it in.)

But then again, a 30-something mang in a tweed suit and a black turtleneck reading the Guardian - chances are, he probably likes crossword puzzles, too?

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 30 March 2007 10:45 (nineteen years ago)

Probably more than sudoku.

(Sudoku is a swizz, it is not a maths problem at all)

― Ed, Friday, 30 March 2007 10:47 (nineteen years ago)

I very nearly asked him if I could check my crossword answers against his G2, as I was finishing yesterday's paper today.

Aw - you should have done. That would have been ideal.

― Dr.C, Friday, 30 March 2007 10:47 (nineteen years ago)

It is just my insecurity that I think most men would be *horrified* to realise that I am checking them out. Or would never actually think that I was checking them out through sheer oblivion to the fact that I even exist.

I don't quite see him enough to make small talk - I mean, I don't see him every day or even every week becuase I rarely take the same train. But I have seen him probably half a dozen times on the platform. And I very much remember his nose. And his tweed jackets.

Argh, BACS are evil.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 30 March 2007 10:48 (nineteen years ago)

Anyway, Journey of the Sorcerer is GRATE!! I cannot believe that it is really The Eagles.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 30 March 2007 10:55 (nineteen years ago)

No they wouldn't be horrified.

I am fecked - I have run out of painkillers and everything HURTS! Also - I am facing a weekend of no boozing when I very much NEED to booze!

― Dr.C, Friday, 30 March 2007 10:56 (nineteen years ago)

I did a mix after you guys left last night, it is very prog.

― Ed, Friday, 30 March 2007 10:56 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, did you record any of it? I really want to capture Frances's wubwubwub synthesis.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 30 March 2007 10:58 (nineteen years ago)

How do they make a banjo sound like a sitar? I suppose it's all the backwards reverb or whatever that is.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 30 March 2007 11:00 (nineteen years ago)

I sympathise Kate. It is spring's fault. THAT is why I just convinced myself that one of my longest standing friends is, in fact, the person I should be going out with. It's even taken over all previous obsessions already and I only found out at 2pm yesterday. Could be something to do with the fact he now has a girlfriend for the first time I have known him. I think I want winter and harmless Noel Fielding crushes back, thanks!

― Nobodysprawn, Friday, 30 March 2007 11:02 (nineteen years ago)

It is a resonator banjo, i'm almost certain banjo+dobro= sitar (kate love)

― Ed, Friday, 30 March 2007 11:03 (nineteen years ago)

OK, I am starting to see the point of resonator banjos. Hrrmm, two things Kate hates = something Kate loves. It could happen.

Argh, Prawn, that sounds awful. But sometimes it's just the fact that someone you always thought was just there is now unavailable makes them seem so much more attractive.

Platform Dude's new haircut makes him look a bit less like Brandon Curtis and a bit more like a member of Kraftwerk. But I have learned my lesson of trying to compliment hott blokes by telling them what rock stars I think they look like in case they hate the person I compare them to.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 30 March 2007 11:06 (nineteen years ago)

A bobro? A danjo?

― Tom D., Friday, 30 March 2007 11:06 (nineteen years ago)

That kay I posted yesterday was a tenor resonator.

― Ed, Friday, 30 March 2007 11:08 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know. I just don't want to be sleeping anywhere within a mile of where it is playing.

Ha ha, though they were teasing me last night that I would put up with a banjo for hott banjo player. Erm, probably.

CRUSHES GO AWAY, THERE ARE TOO MANY OF YOU POPPING UP ALL OVER THE PLACE, BOYS STOP BEING SO CUTE!!!

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 30 March 2007 11:10 (nineteen years ago)

testing

― mitya, Friday, 30 March 2007 11:37 (nineteen years ago)

Mitya, are you at work and POSTING ON TEH COOLER?!?!?

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 30 March 2007 11:38 (nineteen years ago)

yes! the IT guy was on the floor taking down serial numbers or something and I asked him to freshen up the ol' computer. (should've got him to put an IM program on, too, darn, why didn't i think of that)

― mitya, Friday, 30 March 2007 11:40 (nineteen years ago)

Excellent, just in time for Friday afternoon whiling away the time. Do you have any springtime crushes, or has spring not made its way to the steppes yet?

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 30 March 2007 11:43 (nineteen years ago)

I have carrot cake. Be very afraid!

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 30 March 2007 11:58 (nineteen years ago)

It wasn't even very nice. It was kind of stale and a bit hard. But I do feel drugged now. Wheeeeee!

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 30 March 2007 12:24 (nineteen years ago)

Sonic Cathedrals are showing the Nico film at 3pm this Sunday. Means I have to make my curry early - Nat wanted me to bring it down! No no no, MY curry.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 30 March 2007 12:31 (nineteen years ago)

Hawkwind tonight

― Tom D., Friday, 30 March 2007 12:33 (nineteen years ago)

in a boring meeting argh.

― Ed, Friday, 30 March 2007 12:34 (nineteen years ago)

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