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

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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)

Please please please someone tape it for me!

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

I am hoping the webbernet will provide

― Ed, Friday, 30 March 2007 12:35 (nineteen years ago)

I'm hoping I don't forget it's on!

― Tom D., Friday, 30 March 2007 12:37 (nineteen years ago)

oldskool

― Ed, Friday, 30 March 2007 12:38 (nineteen years ago)

"Hawkwind tonight....in a boring meeting argh" haha

― Pashmina, Friday, 30 March 2007 12:38 (nineteen years ago)

Hello everyone. I went to a great gig last night and ended up playing (two notes) with Quack Quack. Yay!

― emil.y, Friday, 30 March 2007 12:38 (nineteen years ago)

Oh yeah, almost did!

― Mark G, Friday, 30 March 2007 12:38 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, but which two notes, emily?

(We are partial to G and D around these parts.)

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 30 March 2007 12:40 (nineteen years ago)

Hmm, you know, I think it might have been G and D. One of them was D. I do like a D.

My favourite chord is F#minor.

― emil.y, Friday, 30 March 2007 12:42 (nineteen years ago)

D min, Amin, Gmaj, Amin7

― Pashmina, Friday, 30 March 2007 12:43 (nineteen years ago)

don't forget the C, we like that too.

― Ed, Friday, 30 March 2007 12:43 (nineteen years ago)

F#m is a lovely chord. I haven't used it lately, though!

We've been experimenting a bit with C, though, as apparently it's easy to play on a mandolin. And throwing in a bit of Bflat to make a C7 or something.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 30 March 2007 12:44 (nineteen years ago)

Lunch over. I need to get my head down and do some proper hard coding. Oh, how boring. Ah well, I'll put Easter Everywhere on the headphones and everything will be OK.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 30 March 2007 12:46 (nineteen years ago)

E! Motorik folks!!!!!!

― Tom D., Friday, 30 March 2007 12:46 (nineteen years ago)

E is too difficult to sing in! Just where my range cuts out at the top and breaks between head and chest at the bottom. Always drop E songs (heh) down to D.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 30 March 2007 12:48 (nineteen years ago)

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