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

10 minutes. hoorays

Thailand v Iraq
Viet Nam v UAE
Japan v Qatar
Indonesia v Bahrain
Malaysia v China
Iran v Uzbekistan
Korea v Saudi Arabia
Oman v Thailand
Qatar v Viet Nam

I think. The Korea match depends on which Korea. South then them, North then Saudi.

First Friday I'm working in what seems like a while. Sucks.

DO NOT WANT TO WORK TODAY

:(

srsly considering calling in sick...

...

Call in sick. Fuck working a hat

Hey, HLA, how did those tips end up with teh Asian cup??

I ended up 2 from 10, but that was thanks to all the draws. It's 2 more than what I would have got if I had picked them myself. It didn't help that I missed picking the Iran v Uzbekistan game altogether and submitted it as "Soccer Game 7". I am just about to put in this week's tips, so I will take the kindly suggestions from the mongrel thread.

Whoa, that sucks. ;_;

Maybe put every game as a draw.

I think they've barred that option this year because lots of people did that last year with the World Cup. So I would say everyone else went shithouse in the first round too.

cool.

I'm going to have a slow weekend I think avoid b00ze. I might try and work out this nu camera I've got. I have no real idea about it yet, except for pointin' & shootin'.

Also, I've been talking up climbing Mount Warning again for ages, could hit that, round some dueds up.

http://www.kinstitute.com/images/Picture045.jpg

Quiet last weekend so going all out tonight. Bookending weekend with booze - pub tonight, dinner Sunday. Maybe see the Australia Through the National Geographic Lens exhibition at the Australian Museum and wash my car in between.

Three hours to go. Argh.

Four hours, 27 minutes. I'm not sure I'm gonna make it.

I just fell asleep at my desk. Hard. Maybe I should leave.

Hi again.

wau, this wend is not going to be so cool coz my grandfather died on wednesday and i have all these (probably tedious) family get togethers to attend before the funeral on Monday.

I shouldn't complain I guess ):

Oh no, so sorry to hear about your grandfather. Hope your weekend is not too shitty. :(

it is not friday afternoon yet, it is only 11:33 on a thursday night, but i am frittering.

listening to giant sand (swerve)
drinking copious amts of water, which really is the answer to everything
relaxing w/ benzos + valerian root

I've been drinking loads more water too, now that I've stopped drinking coffee and only having one or two cups of tea a day.

GOD DAMMIT Windows Calendar Guy stop staring at my screen! "uh huh huh whassat is that Live?" (wtf?) while looking at my lastfm screen grrr.

(*laboured whisper*) i think he likes you

ARGGGGGH

Two and a half hours. I'm not sure I can make it.

Nothing is really stopping me getting up and walking out and starting my weekend. But yet, i stay.

Same here...*zonk*

I sort of have some work to do, I just haven't been doing any. And it will be someone else's work soon. But I'm too nice.

We've got five hours, my brain hurts a lot.

It's only 7pm on thursday! go back to sleep

Dude you ALWAYS start this thread ;D Its only just "the afternoon" as of a minute ago argh!

I already wanna go home though hot damn, the only thing keeping me here today is the free "xmas in july" lunch we're about to have in half an hour. If it turns out to be cold ham and salads, I will kill someone with my bare hands (and possibly eat them).

Yeah, I do always start it. I kind of see Friday as my bludge day at work.

Other claims to fame: you also inflict arguably the funniest non-Seward image-bombs.

In fact, a Drooone special on this thread would not only be amusing, but very, very appropriate.

brilliant. from URB's review of Caribou's Andorra:

"he chose the new name while hung out on LSD, apparently, and Andorra’s vibe suggests Snaith has been in the sky with diamonds in recent months, too."

Urb was the magazine the dude in that thread was from btw.

It looks a fine publication.

Hey Droone,
Did you end up climbing Mt Warning the other weekend? I take you must reside somewhere in it's vicinity if you were thinking of climbing it?

hey yep I'm @ tweeed heads. And no, super low fitness level ruled me out of the climb. And lack of co-conspirators.

I'm sure YachtMan With Two Abs would have been up for it. Did you ask him? I hear you on the fitness though...pretty hill but hiking is a bit too much hard work

shhhiiiiiiiiiit. I was all set for an afternoon of bludging. But now I has a meeting at 4. ):):

But I am drinckin tonight. :):)

Ive just spent ages packing shit into a big box and pissfarting around with bubble wrap. My workmate put the rest of the bubblewrap on and said it was a wedding dress.

Yay fridays.

God I love that Caribou album. Have tickets to see him in September, very excited!

Yes! I am now at home thanks to a power cut at work. Power cut? COWABUNGA CUT more like!

fritter, anyone?

Seriously, will today EVER END?!?! There's only so much daydreaming of recipes and what colour I'm going to dye my hair I can do.

I took today off. Slept til 1pm. Sorry bout dat The Man.

LONDON (Reuters) - Businesses are losing more than 50 million pounds a year because of employees leaving work early on Friday, according to a survey published on Friday.

The top excuses for starting the weekend early are a long lunch, doctor's appointment and an out-of-office meeting near to home.

"Our evidence suggests that more and more workers are seeing Friday afternoon as an unofficial holiday," said Pam Rogerson, head of personnel at Employersafe.

"We have estimated that this is costing British business just over 50 million pounds a year, which all goes to form part of the overall 13 billion pound cost of workplace absenteeism."

The company has developed a software system which detects patterns of absence and recommends appropriate disciplinary action.

Employersafe also said the "Friday Feeling" trend has been reinforced by motoring organisations which report that the Friday rush hour now starts around noon.

Research by the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) suggested earlier this year that managers believe one in eight of all workplace absences are due to staff faking illness - and the favourite days to do so are Fridays or Mondays.

Your not going to get many replies to this, Mark - everyone's buggered off home.

Long (ie all afternoon) lunches used to be positively encouraged in my office but that era is kind of over now.

I have spent SOO much money on baking stuff!

2 x deep sandwich tins!
2 x packs silicone muffin cases in multicolours!
1 x pink! silicone spatula!
1 x "Good Housekeeping" deep cake/muffin tray!
oh and...
1 x pack of freezer bags which is arguably less exciting :)

YAY! Tonight is going to be ginger and lemon sponge night! I will bring Elaine Paige the laptop into the kitchen and watch JEKYLL whilst I whisk. Thankfully I have got over fear of flour going all over the keys by now! Mwahaha. So impressed with the muffin cases! They are not only good for baking but for seperating out food in my lunchbox!

Easily impressed, yes yes.

MDC - I so hear you!

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