UK Watercooler 32: Fall Into The Meaning Gap

Is so.

It'd be funnier if that guy from Moss had said their band should be pronounced "Sadie Frost"...

Not nuch funnier, I grant you. And not actually past the threshhold level of actually funny, no.

I have managed to kill an hour. And still have an hour and a half to go, and no idea what to do. I'm gonna start messing about with the database just because I'm so bored, and that's when things go HORRIBLY WRONG.

And I manslaughtered that hour, it wasn't even murder. How pathetic.

I suppose you dont get this?
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v675/shatteredsounds/blackestMedium.jpg
I bet col poo gets it.

Hmm. Needs a final one where a rub metalperson goes "I threw a can of Tennants once. At a verger!"

I don't understand at all. :-(

I am just not getting these references. Actually, I'm quite glad I'm not getting them.

Those cartoons are pretty terrible!

The cartoons are awesome! and funny!

This is a funny one too I posted here TS: SLEEP vs HIGH ON FIRE

Have you seen Metalocalypse, Kerr?

Maybe I'll just install SAS on my machine and see if it crashes.

OK, I just overheard that my boss is going on yet ANOTHER holiday. I haven't actually been told this yet, I just overheard it. Next week is my last week. I've not actually been told who I should be reporting to next week, or anything like that.

I suppose I should probably ask, but right now, I'm so frustrated with this job I don't even know that I dare.

Metal's lost its transgressive value since it got taken up by chin-stroking Wire readers

Mark, I havent actually. Is it good?
Can i post the tony iommi/black sabbath cartoon here or would no-one get it?

you never know.

OK, but for every comic you post, I get to post some ridiculous picture of Nigel Havers.

Basically Metalocalypse is an actually well drawn and funny version of the picture you just posted above ;P

That other one isn't even in English! It's in, like, Esperanto or something! How on earth am I supposed to understand that?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v713/simopekka666/iamironman.jpg

I like nigel havers in that sitcom with Tony Britton.

Ah right! Because he's not really an Iron Man! Ahahahhhher?

Where's the joke?

No, no, no, you have to have a PICTURE of Nigel Havers.

And that really isn't funny. I don't get it at all.

... I'm not saying metallers don't have a sense of humour but...

http://www.randomthink.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/lolcat_mao.jpg

The watercooler rules are becoming even more convoluted than cricket at this point!

-1 no f**tball
-2 no B*g Br*th*r
-3 no jazz
-3.1 except when accompanied by pictures of Julian Barrett
-3.2 except in the context of WILD 1920S JAZZ PARTIES (and accompanied by hott pictures of hott flapper gurls)
-4 no unfunny heavy metal comics
-4.1 except when accompanied by pictures of Nigel Havers

Were there any others? I can't remember at this point. What's our LBW again?

no cricket?

No Cricket, surely?

xpost HA!

I can't remember if cricket is banned or not!!

...anyway, this means I'm due about 15 of these by this point!!!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/ilove/years/1990/gallery/340/havers.jpg

And another one!!! In period costume, no less!!!!

http://www.hotmoviesale.com/dvds/29165/1/Nicholas-Nickleby.jpg

I saw him in the street once... small he was... bigger than a Nicolas Sarkozy tho

so tom and i can chat about cricket on here? awesome.
http://cache.viewimages.com/xc/1257609.jpg?v=1&c=ViewImages&k=2&d=659ED5252724A7521C3DC9B9AF0E3002A55A1E4F32AD3138

NO NIGHAV!!

Argh!

On my first holiday way w/Dawn, too many old ladies goiing up to D and saying "Ooh, he's a nice young man! Just like that Nigel Havers!"

And you know me. I@N NOTHIGHN LIEK MIGEL HAMBERS!!

http://cache.viewimages.com/xc/3335979.jpg?v=1&c=ViewImages&k=2&d=4DAA13B573E1BD2FD88A11378CABC468A55A1E4F32AD3138

I have nothing against Mr Havers.

here is a video featuring him, which is delightfully Eighties:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elJ6SihoLYQ

http://cache.viewimages.com/xc/3287755.jpg?v=1&c=ViewImages&k=2&d=4F84C7EF07395AB6CFFE3DF542597F5CA55A1E4F32AD3138

I don't remember if cricket is banned or not!

I suspect that Ed may have made a concession to allow its discussion, but I can't remember what the rule was.

One of these days I should actually make an effort to have someone explain me cricket (and not a 2-hour discussion using the contents of my crazy landlady's sewing basket) so I can decide whether to hate it or not.

I think it was decided that it was Not Sport and therefore open to discussion. Maybe? Help!

What about pics of old cricketers from yesteryear?

I don't like cricket.

And that is not going to be a lift from Dreadlock Holiday.

Actually, Mark, now that you mention it, there is a slight resemblance, but seriously, that's a compliment.

I really really like the outfits that they wear during cricket. And the beards. But I cannot shake the suspicion that it is Sport and therefore banned. But I can't complain if they're all wearing such lovely outfits, can I?

What video is that, that you've linked to? Not the Lloyds advert? I can't look at YouTube right now. Will have to wait another hour.

Ask Dan Perry to explain cricket to you

I think that would only be allowed here if accompanied by a picture of Nigel Havers *in* cricket gear!

(k-rowr!)

I'm sure there are many of those!

There are indeed.

I JUST CAN'T FIND ANY OF THEM ON THE INTERWEB, DAMMITT!!!!

In CoF he is wearing full cricket gear, including catching mitts plus trilby, ascot and cigarette in holder. He can't manage to actually hold a bottle of Moet and play cricket at the same time, but dammit, I bet he tried.

http://cache.viewimages.com/xc/3373031.jpg?v=1&c=ViewImages&k=2&d=89B856506CE54654D0D0F48DFA643800A55A1E4F32AD3138

Not in cricket gear, but indeed, not in very much gear at all!

http://www.moviemarket.co.uk/library/photos/271/271032.jpg

http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/2006/11/28/panesar_narrowweb__300x413,2.jpg

Modern cricket gear is so ugly. They should make them wear those nice jumpers with the go-faster stripes again. At least he's got an appropriate beard.

You can just about see the tiny edge of said jumper in this picture, but is obscured by that Scottish tosser they are carrying about...

http://images.barnesandnoble.com/images/14070000/14075295.JPG

God, I found a really toothsome one with his super-pointed lizard nose, but it's super-massive, so I won't post it here.

You called eric a tosser????!!!

As in cabers!

In snowy norway on the lokaltog.

Ed! Wow, you're in Norway! Can you resolve our cricket dilemma?

.....

Anyway, look at the pointed nose:

http://www.bbcprograms.com/pbs/catalog/dontwaitup/images/0102dont.jpg

Half an hour and then I can leave.