Blue Saturday

I had to look up mad Friday. Never heard of it before.

I had to look up mad Friday. Never heard of it before.

Thanks Zing, that really added to that post.

also known as Black Eye Friday

anyway, hangover, drank more than i shd've but it was ok in the circumstances, most of the remorse was chemical. i've actually had to do a bunch of grown-up sorting my life out phone calls the last couple of days and alongside the usual pre-Christmas chores every ounce of me wanted to retire under the duvet but shit i made it i feel well not strong but y'know :D :D :D

You (legitimately) love to see it. What are you doing for the Christmas?

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going to mom's which means no Playstation and overexposure to bad TV for a week but hey, Christmas, it's all part of the occasion

What do you play on the PS4? Also I didn’t realise people outside the Midlands said “mom”!

I grew up in the Midlands so it's Mom. Still on PS3 tbh but I got Atelier Meruru for my birthday and I'm deeply in love with it.

Actually years of Hullness means I alternate between mom and mam

Oh that makes sense. Honestly think buying a ps3 for £50 was one of my best purchases of recent years, I’m very slowly doing all the old MGS games.

ive been pondering how much of an investment it would take to get a PS2 era pro evo operating without actually having a PS2 within mrs macs eyeline

I keep thinking about getting that HD reboot of the MGSes, our Joel loves them but I dunno if I'm patient enough. They look beautifully mad tho.

xp like emulators or compatibility? I have to admit I don’t miss our PS2 at all, that fucker sounded like a jet engine after ~20000 hours of Tekken Tag Tournament

xp strong recommend, they’re ludicrous. Full of what the fuck moments all over from start to finish (including the Irish language song over the credits of MGS)

emulator would require me to up the juice on my under-tv pc and i cannot justify it tbh

What have you got atm that you’re mulling over then?

i get about as far as weve just reached tbh

ive an xbox one on loan. too advanced tbh.

Second hand PS2 probably costs buttons but I realise that defeats the object

NV the Yakuza ps3 games are good, they’re all getting remade atm, but if you’re interested you could have them?

Cheers g, I've looked at them too but I'm good for now thanks, I usually spend weeks on a game and I've still got another couple of Ateliers I'm eyeing up before Persona 5 Royal comes out and then I have to get a PS4. And I've finally got my head around last year's Football Manager so I'm not short of frivolous distractions atm

Merry Christmas people! From us and our two demons.

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Merry Christmas! In the car listening to Now That's What I Call Disney. No cats until I go to my brother's.

upstairs in the library bar at the central (best in town imo) with a single malt approvingly watching the yanks and the english diaspora doing it correctly

that’s a good place that is.

merry christmas all. just ion a bus heading back home and thinking about an afternoon beer.

on the ferry to belfast, just spent 20 minutes teaching my daughter to drive the batmobile in front of a batman arcade cab on display mode

reckon she’ll be fine to drive us to her grandparents when it’s time to disembark

Why would you be going there (no offence bg)

it’s my wife’s place of birth

alas

Alas indeed. Nah, I haven’t been to Belfast since the Clinton presidency, people say it’s nice to visit? I’m so curious about the black taxis.

it doesn’t feel too different to glasgow (for good and for ill) tbh

my sister's BF has sourced a snack-sized turducken, except he calls it "turgenduck" -- he is now singing the word "turgenduck" to the tune of "agadoo"

we are listening to a radio v4 drama called "the christmas present" even tho none of us remotely enjoys radio drama. the xmas eve ep of the archers was blurbed thus: "it's jim's big day"

thrilled for jim tbh, he deserves it

Making the gravy for tomorrow (the Jamie Oliver recipe with medlar jelly instead of cranberry sauce flung in at the end) and then after getting dressed for dinner, going to Polish Christmas Eve in NW5 - friend’s mum that usually hosts an army in Chippenham is between old house and new house, so her son (my friend C) is the host this year.

I’ve just come back from the central Londoner’s Christmas Eve perk of touring the little Waitrose, Sainsbury’s and M&S for steeply reduced posh food - picked up quite a few prawn things, ham, and truffled Brie.

the best radio drama action is on 4 extra - a *star* studded Thunderball adaptation with Tom Conti and celebrity UKIP voter John Sessions. TBH I'm actually enjoying it!

Bbc4 has the MR James ghost story this year, this one has Peter Capaldi.

as judge jeffreys (= the worst person from wem)

runners up: the critic hazlitt and grouty from porridge aka maester aemon

judge jeffreys' "first major trial in James' reign was that of Titus Oates. While there is no doubt of Oates' guilt, Jeffreys' conduct was no more decorous than usual; the latter part of the trial has been described as such an exchange of insults between Jeffreys and Oates as to make it doubtful if proceedings could continue."

(he behaves humorously badly in this story also lol)

I've read some revisionist accounts of Jeffreys that reckon a lot of his awfulness was exaggerated by Whig propagandists, which Macaulay relished and amplified, but I'm happy to believe he was an angry drunky vengeful monarchist lapdog tbh and Macaulay's anecdotes are pretty funnny

Francis Barlow made a comic strip about the Popish Plot and Oates in 1682 named A True Narrative of the Horrid Hellish Popish-Plot, which is generally considered the earliest example of a signed balloon comic strip.[10]

^^^bad not good

people underrate john oates’ first blue-eyed soul duo with steve ‘popish’ plot, glad to see them getting their due here

Even when he was sober, his violence was sufficiently frightful. But in general his reason was overclouded and his evil passions stimulated by the fumes of intoxication. His evenings were ordinarily given to revelry. People who saw him only over his bottle would have supposed him to be a man gross indeed, sottish, and addicted to low company and low merriment, but social and goodhumoured. He was constantly surrounded on such occasions by buffoons selected, for the most part, from among the vilest pettifoggers who practiced before him. These men bantered and abused each other for his entertainment. He joined in their ribald talk, sang catches with them, and, when his head grew hot, hugged and kissed them in an ecstasy of drunken fondness. But though wine at first seemed to soften his heart, the effect a few hours later was very different. He often came to the judgment seat, having kept the court waiting long, and yet having but half slept off his debauch, his cheeks on fire, his eyes staring like those of a maniac. When he was in this state, his boon companions of the preceding night, if they were wise, kept out of his way: for the recollection of the familiarity to which he had admitted them inflamed his malignity; and he was sure to take every opportunity of overwhelming them with execration and invective. Not the least odious of his many odious peculiarities was the pleasure which he took in publicly browbeating and mortifying those whom, in his fits of maudlin tenderness, he had encouraged to presume on his favour.

^^^ me posting with a hangover

He was constantly surrounded on such occasions by buffoons selected, for the most part, from among the vilest pettifoggers who practiced before him.

it me

misread as scottish tbph

If Macaulay could have backed it up he'd have accused him of that too

why do i keep listening to the red thread

and that's fuckin serious

here comes the blue wave, stuck here in I don't know, unsure whether this feeling of static unspoken sadness and empty routine is my fault somehow or the natural ambience of the home I grew up in

or the truth in the middle, melty

fuck me is this a life I wonder if I'm not getting where my emptiness comes from or just letting my own self-important gloom cover every scene around me

could really do with a cig and some time in the pub but not here