UK Watercooler 32: Fall Into The Meaning Gap

His brother Leslie Compton
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And again
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MC Hammer would be jealous of those trousers

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Watch that posh hottie's hair flop about...

Better picture of the cricket gear, with less Scotsmanfondling...

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nope, that second set are too modern and I don't like them.

God, I HATE Dickens, but am I going to have to sit through an entire miniseries just to get to see him dressed up like this?

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Anyway, I should go home.

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A top hat, too, oh god, curse you Dickens, bah humbug, etc.

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No, seriously! I am going.

::FALLS OFF CHAIR::

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GIVE ME YR DRESSING GOWN!!! GIVE IT TO ME NOW!!!

Oh god, I've just realised - he looks kind of like an even wetter David Tennant. :-8

impossible

Well, I have spent the entire weekend in a veritable costume drama extravaganza!

I went to Zavvvvvy and obtained a slew of Merchant Ivory (including Maurice, quite simply the most homosexual film ever made) though I couldn't locate A Passage To India (my mum went on Amazon and ordered this for me, as she insists it's part of my headucation.) Got Brideshead Revisited, a Bronte box set, series 3 of Coast and, erm, the lugubriously Edwardian Havers vehicle that features that amazing dressing gown up there. It's veritable costume pr0n, boots and frock coats and dressing gowns, oh my - even a stroppy SUFFRAGETTE wife. Hurrah!

Getting into the costume drama spirit:

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It has finally stopped raining in norway. Sunday afternoons here explain a lot about world beating suicide rates and black metal. I'm enjoying the brown cheese though. Some kind of norwegian marmite (love it or hate it). It has a consitency somewhere between red leicester and fudge, not hugely special in the taste department, but hugely moreish.

Brown cheese? I hate marmite, but something that's a cross between red leicester and fudge sounds like the best stuff on earth.

I still want to go to Norway, even with the suicide rates and the black metal.

Reviews Ed. from Tzr now asking me about Nu Folk! Good lord! He just asked me to reccomend him 3 nu folk releases. Um. I don't even know what he likes!

I guess I'm going to spend today reading about the Boer War, unless someone comes up with something for me to do, quite soon.

Unlikely, given that IT haven't even installed Crystal on the machines of the people I'm supposed to be training to take over the reports.

Give me STRENGTH.

Check out wheat woven whispers website for a lot of nu folk.

I don't know enough about it myself to be reccomending other people! I know what I like, but wouldn't dream of trying to guide someone else.

Since he started talking about The Owl Service, I should direct him to Espers and Fresh Maggots. (Though that is hardly new.) But what does he like? Harmony singing? Stomping Morris tunes? High death counts? Does he want Spiers and Boden, or A Hawk and A Hacksaw?

I am considering making a giant calendar for the next week, to count down the days.

What am I doing here, wasting my time and their money, when I could be sitting at home watching costume dramas?

could you not watch the costume drama at work? I assume they're on dvd?

Well, technically... they're not on the internet, are they?

(Obviously, I'm being very dilligent about this interweb ban, am I not?)

I've finished the Boer War and am getting up to the build up to WWI. How about some War Poets?

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Anthem for Doomed Data Analysts.

I would actually do a full Owen pastiche, but I have a Monday morning headache so am not feeling up to it.

Aw, I'm sorry you have a headache. Owen pastiche would be great just about now.

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Sorry, that last one was Sassoon, not Owen.

10,000 more jobs to be cut in The City. Doomed, doomed, we're all doomed, I tell you.

Owen:

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That's a very difficult question. Does he mean:

Old New Folk: Fresh Maggots, ISB etc. (incidentally there is a good comp called new electric muse that has a lot of the early stuff on)

Slightly less old new folk with a punk tinge: New Model Army, The Levellers, Blythe Power, Atilla the stock broker

New Old Folk: Second Generation Carty, Spiers and Boden, Bellowhead, Devil's interval, new old timey folks etc.

New New Folk: Espers, Circulus etc.

Singer songwriter: Everything from KT Tunstall to Cowboy Jim (the excrable to the good)

I remember seeing boer war veterans on TV on remembrance day back when I was a kid.

Exactly! That's the sort of question I need to ask him! And that's not even getting into the trendy Devandra Barnhart type stuff or Palimpsest type stuff.

Asking someone "explain me the current state of folk in 3 albums" would be like asking "explain me the current state of... well, Pop, in 3 albums."

x-post the Squire in this terrible/great costume drama I'm currently watching is a Boer War veteran. With a ridiculous stuck on mustache.

There was this terribly moving scene where he was supposed to be explaining to his (second) wife (not the cool suffragette one who divorced him) that he was NOT having an affair with the local strumpet, he was actually delivering the sad news that her other half had been KILLED in the trenches... and I was totally distracted by the fact that during the entire speech, the left side his mustache was wobbling as if the glue had come loose and was about to fall off into his brandy.

Oh, it's going to be one of those days, isn't it? The slathering malcontents of ILX foaming at the mouth in an apoplexy of faux-liberal posturing. The same arguments, again and again, don't they ever get bored of it?

I have just been asked 'are you from Heaven?' by someone who styles himself like Cliff Richard. 'No I am a broadcast Engineer'

What on earth? What is that supposed to mean?

I think it is another branch of this xtian tv station I am working at.

HAHAHAHA. I can now report this is the first Jehovah's Witness doorknocker-free weekend I have spent in my new flat. Caretaker says there's probably a Christian in the block letting them in, bastard.

On the plus side, new cooker and hob delivered at 8am. Looks like delivery guys try to get to central addresses before parking Nazis activate.

Argh! Oh no, scary Christians. I thought it was some obscure reference I wasn't getting. Or did you float down out of the sky?

My birthday's in a week. Have we sorted out where we are going for my Birthday Walk?

The first - and last - time I opened my door to the JWs here, I was faced with stern African man asking the following question: "Would you like...a tract?"

EEEEK.

I thought I was being hassled by some doorsteppers yesterday, but it turned out that it was just the man who had come to fix the boiler next door, asking me if I had a manual.

I did, naturally, as I saved everything to do with flat.

I just want various political parties to stop sending me bloody flyers. Back in my dad's day, local politicians had to turn up in person to canvas! I remember being dragged on these expiditions. Now they just spam me with junk mail. And seem to think I'm in a lesbian partnership with my former next door neighbour, according to the little notes that the Liberals send me. They and Labour are trying to outdo each other in their little local papers. I suppose the Tories don't even bother trying to campaign here.

Has anyone heard from Emsk recently?

Well, I've got feedback from one of the users. Makes me want to bash my head against the desk. "Why does this particular page say this on it?" BECAUSE I WAS COPYING THE ORIGINAL DOCUMENT I WAS GIVEN!!!

This stuff is all editable. I only put in text blocks for display purposes only. You are supposed to edit it when the database and indeed report is finalised.

I shall put some legwork into the walk this evening but something up Bicester way looks good.

Bicester sounds good to me.

Excellent, excellent.

Today I have mung bean curry. I shall really miss the whole foods curry in a bun when this assignment is over.

For those of us in the area, what is this place and when is paneer day?

Every day is paneer day, I just choose different curries to suit my mood.

It's on Warren Street, same block as the tube station on the opposite side of the road. Nothing amazingly special, just good, cheap, whole food for office workers.

Flop, flop, flop, watch that hair flop. Sigh.