UK Watercooler 32: Fall Into The Meaning Gap

Also HATE the word 'dongle'. I am waiting to get a BT line as let's just say I got in a fight with them a little over six years ago about £500.

I'm so made to feel like just a temp. :-(

Dude is going around offering to buy sweets and stuff, and has asked everyone but me.

This is just shitty. I should print out that picture and staple it to my forehead or something.

Hang on a second... is that The Heads, as in THE HEADS?!?!?

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii47/Chris_Rocket/2333387240_f757d5cd4e_o.jpg

Yes

Rocket recordings is a subsidiary of Invada Records

I can go to that!

Hmm, looks like fun and I am, not currently, away then.

The last hour is the worst.

Oh, I can't wait for this job to end.

Half an hour. I suppose I'll go to Foyles after work to try and burn time until this gig.

God, it's like boarding school bullying. Who'd have thought it?

"Oh noes, butthurt, just a bit of fun, have you got no sense of humour?" etc. etc. if you don't go along with it and "be a good sport" with regards to this stupid, cruel, puerile atmosphere.

Are you talking about ILX or the NHS?

I really dislike what ILX has become. I wouldn't be here if it weren't for the sheer tedium of this job. I wish I had the willpower to stay off it. 3 more days.

Some funny people out there! No doubts about that!

Funny ha ha, or funny peculiar?

Latter. I don't take it that seriously, it's just a bunch of bored office workers wasting their employers' money.

I find it very difficult to cope with the endless... nastiness. It just creates a poisonous atmosphere, as far as I'm concerned. Something I find it very depressing to be around. If I had a thicker skin, I could shrug off lots of things.

I guess I just have to remember, it's 3 more days of this, and then I can get on with something else. And not have to be back on ILX until the next time I get trapped in an awful contract.

Nigel Havers looks oddly familiar

He looks like Nigel Havers.

I find it very difficult to cope with the endless... nastiness. It just creates a poisonous atmosphere

I agree, some of it makes me cringe and it's corrosive, I don't mind if it's actually funny however, being easily amused

Foyles made everything better. I wandered around there for a couple of hours and blew way too much money, even with the £2 classics section (I thought I'd try to persist with DH Lawrence for £2).

Bought some GK Chesterton and a book about Ley Lines and a complicated maths book about Godel, Escher and Back and a book called "Playing With Fire" which *isn't* about Spacemen 3 (I'm not telling you what it is about because I'm ashamed) and a book about Spacemen 3 which *isn't* called "Playing With Fire" (but probably should be).

And nearly fell over in shock when the whippersnapper at the desk actually tried to chat me up over the Spacemen 3 book!!! (Though he got J Spaceman's name wrong, and I rather icily informed him I was a Sonic fan anyway.)

And Konkakte were great, and the Lionheart Bros. were great and all in all it was a pleasant (though tiring) evening.

And, rehearsal tonight which always cheers me up.

Is this the thread where we idly speculate what that "Playing with fire" is about?

I would have thought that was obvious!

(n.b. it is not about K-Fed. That would be a step too far, even for me.)

Yay, I'm going to Northampton on Friday.

Playing With Fire (subtitled: Nigel Havers - A Cricketing Memoir)

IT's true. I'm so deeply ashamed.

The one book you DON'T want to be buying when getting chatted up by a cuet bookseller.

oh no, it's THURSDAY, not Friday, and so I don't know if I can go to Northampton after all. Whatever shall I do? I can't call in sick on Friday because I'll need to get my timesheet signed. ARGH! I was LOOKING FORWARD to that.

Yawn. So hungry today. I think that might be something to do with not having had enough sleep. I think I deserve some sag paneer at lunch.

Back in the UK. I saw an A380 on taxiing. I think I shall christen it the sky whale and yell 'thar she blows' when I see one.

Welcome home! How long you back for, before you have to go oversees again?

My god, my sag paneer was unexpectedly spicey. Not that I'm complaining, mind you. And they've given me some "healthy" carrot cake for afters. Hrrmmm. Suspicious.

Ah. "Healthy" means that it is as solid as a rock, and tastes vaguely of apple juice.

And I don't have enough change left to get some real chocolate. :-(

Cunt. There it went, my good mood. :-(

Dance, bear, dance.

Hi kate. Don't be sad. How's the reporting - all done?

(has the havers book got juicy pics?)

No, I've hit a wall with the reporting. Crystal just doesn't do what they want it to do. And I have 3 days left, trying to do something I wasn't even really asked to do, and I honestly can't be bothered.

What do you do when you reach something that can't be done?

The pics in the Havers book are not actually as juicy as the one in the Spacemen 3 book. I find this slightly relieving.

I guess I'm just sick of my name being used among children as a by-word for bitterness. Do you think I was bitter at their age? I wasn't. Do you think you might be tempted to be bitter by my age, if you'd been through the experiences I have had to go through?

And it's annoying because I'm not particularly bitter in and of myself. I'm quite happy and contented and sometimes even quite joyful when left to mine own devices in bookshops or curled up watching costume dramas.

The disapproval of people for daring to be an old spinster is almost as embittering as the experiences that got me here.

old spinster

Isn't this term in itself coined out of bitterness and negativity? Maybe find a more positive term for yourself.

Changing your name every few years is not going to make your advice any more useful to me.

Anyway, for those who don't read ILM:

http://www.wz-newsline.de/index.php?redid=204488

:-((((((((((((((((((

If you don't read German, RIP Klaus Dinger of NEU!/La Dusseldorf

Unsolicited advice is often not useful, yes.

So are puzzling statements but I'll let that one lie.

I don't have time for sockpuppets.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41XoRJ0BeZL._SS500_.jpg

I bought a Spacemen 3 book a few years ago when I met Ned in Glasgow. I cant find it though, wonder if I loaned it to someone and didn't get it back.

I'm so ashamed.

Actors are invariably rubbish because it turns out that you're just attracted to the role that they are playing.

Except, well, some of them seem to go through their entire lives essentially playing themselves. Maybe. I shall have to read the whole book to find out. But not in public. I've taken it to bed and it shall never be seen again, into the lost pile of embarrassing and objectionable things.

I don't have time for sockpuppets

huh?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_sock_puppet

Oh, and was this the Spacemen 3 book, Kerr? I don't think there's more than one.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51RRSSC5D2L._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_OU02_AA240_SH20_.jpg

It could've been worse. It might have been the Gordon Ramsey book Playing With Fire.

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yeah i think that's it. The drug stuff is quite harrowing IIRC

By naming his book after a Spacemen 3 record, he is sending out siganals!

(I'm sure this has occurred to you too...)

I still haven't read Japrocksampler and that Miles Davis book I bought at xmas time.

I am trying to teach myself to fancy older men by fancying Nigel Havers.

Except, well, I don't fancy him as an old man, I fancy him in his late 20s when he was making all those lovely costume dramas.

And well, all of Spacemen 3 are older than me (I think? Is Jonny older than me? I can't remember) anyway, so I'm already OK with Fancying Older Men.

When I was an impressionable teenager, I once had a jacket with this painted on it:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/183/484060338_2b7f874e31_o.jpg

No idea what happened to it. I hope it still exists somewhere...