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if only Babysham had.

― Mark G, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 10:23 (nineteen years ago)

Because then we wouldn't have babyshambles?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 10:25 (nineteen years ago)

nothing sparkles
nothing sparkles
nothing sparkles like an Ickle Ibex

― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 10:26 (nineteen years ago)

OK, ha ha ha, that B&S cover is funny.

I feel like crap. I am not pregnant. I am just stupid. Remember yesterday after lunch when I thought I was hungry due to rumbling stomach and headache? Erm, no. It was the first symptoms of food poisoning. Looked at the rest of the yoghurt drink I had for lunch - I thought it expired on the 2nd March - week out of date, but still drinkable, right? No. It expired on the 3rd February. Yoghurt really can go off. I've been on the ginger tea and rice pudding. Stomach is mostly OK now but headache has not lifted.

And I am jealous that Emsk sees Boris Johnson riding his bike so much and I never do. Bah.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 10:33 (nineteen years ago)

Urgh food poisoning sucks.

― G00blar, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 10:35 (nineteen years ago)

Emsk sees Boris Johnson riding his bike so much coz Emsk rides her bike so much?

― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 10:35 (nineteen years ago)

She said he was wearing a red touque. (OK, she said woolly hat, but still.) I said RED!??!?! That's not very Tory, he should wear blue, the party tearaway him. What does he think he is, a bloody socialist?

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 10:37 (nineteen years ago)

I remember being at work and feeling FP coming on, I went round cancelling meetings still looking perfectly well/fine, but saying "I have to get home fairly quickly"

Got home, by then really bad.

rest of week off.

― Mark G, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 10:40 (nineteen years ago)

Someone should make tshirts of that and you all wear them at the next Shimura Curves gig!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 10:41 (nineteen years ago)

I haven't actually vomited, only the little baby vomit in the mouth thing. Won't be fun when it reaches the other end. (TMI, sorry.)

It's the headache that is really bothering me, I have little tolerance for headaches.

Also, Emsk never sees Boris while cycling! She is usual pedestrian or on the bus or something!

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 10:42 (nineteen years ago)

maybe he picked up a Labour mp's hat off the hat stand by mistake? This is the man who put campaign leaflets through the doors of houses that weren't in his constituency after all.

hope the headache clears soon Kate. You do seem to suffer from more than yr fair share of illness (not that illness is ever fair but you know what I mean).

I have just been visited by Chair Lady. Ok so that isn't her real job title, but she came up to my desk to investigate the back pains I have been suffering on a/c of my work chair. There is a bump in the back which is digging into my back and giving me pain. I have been assured that:

these are Special Ergonomic Chairs that cost 200 +squid and are Specially Designed Not To Give People Back Pain

I pointed out that my chair that I use when using the pooter at home has a comfy flat cushion on the back (identical to the one I sit on, on a/c of it being kind of chair which folds out --> camp bed) and that *never* gives me back pain. Puzzling answer from Chair Lady "just coz it's comfortable doesn't mean it's doing you good"

Cynically and possibly unwisely I remarked to Chair lady that so called ergonomic chairs made uncomfortable on purpose to stop employees falling asleep. Which of course *is* ergonomic, in a sense....

― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 10:44 (nineteen years ago)

I remember being at work and feeling FP coming on

roffle! (sorry)

― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 10:46 (nineteen years ago)

Have you got any tiger balm or similar to rub on your forehead? Also : sip water. Lots of headaches are due to dehydration!

Hope you feel better soon, Kate.

― C J, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 10:46 (nineteen years ago)

I'm a bit worried that FP came on to him at home

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 10:47 (nineteen years ago)

I drink so much water I'm surprised I'm not a fish. I've had a cup of tea this AM so it's not caffeine withdrawl. I've even had an ibuprofen (I never take such things unless I'm utterly desperate) but it's not doing any good.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 10:48 (nineteen years ago)

I miss x-post notifications

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 10:50 (nineteen years ago)

Massage the acupressure point between your thumb and index finger on your left hand, Kate.

― C J, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 10:57 (nineteen years ago)

anyway Chair Lady kept saying "I believe you have back pain" through our conversation, tho there seemed to be an unspoken subtext that nothing on earth was going to get me a new chair. The level of the back was adjusted "did you know it did this?" she asked, as if the lever on the side hadn't been clue enough over the last 3 years. I pointed out, not unreasonably I thought, that this would mean that the bumpy bit would simply be sticking in a different part of my back and cause me to have pain somewhere slightly lower. On her suggestion I moved my screen so it was at the centre of my desk rather than to the left.

We shall see....

― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 11:00 (nineteen years ago)

I really, really hope tiger balm isn't made of tigers.

― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 11:01 (nineteen years ago)

I would only really smear something on my forehead if it *was*made of tigers.

I have a cushion for my work chair, Mark, to stop all bumps and annoyances and it not supporting me where I need it. Cushions are way better than stupid arguments with ergonomic experts who think they know all about what you need. Also, my cushion is paisley, and no one ever ever nicks my chair because they know they would not get away with it.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 11:03 (nineteen years ago)

I may have some ginger tea.

(is it made from REAL GINGERS?!?!?!)

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 11:04 (nineteen years ago)

yes, Prince Harry and Mick Hucknall.

― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 11:07 (nineteen years ago)

I think Prince Harry is quite cute, actually.

ARgh, I never noticed the sign on the microwave saying MICROWAVE LEAKAGE!!

When I was a child, I was convinced that you should never ever look at a microwave while it was cooking, or it would cook your eyes and turn them into hard boiled eggs.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 11:08 (nineteen years ago)

I am confused.

― Forest Pines, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 11:09 (nineteen years ago)

You can't remember ever being at Mark Grouts house?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 11:10 (nineteen years ago)

I think Prince Harry is quite cute, actually.

Takes after his father

― Tom D., Tuesday, 13 March 2007 11:14 (nineteen years ago)

Which one? Natural one?

― nathalie, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 11:15 (nineteen years ago)

Actually, he's the spitting image of Diana's brother, but hey, no Egnlish monarchs have been legitimate since Richard III or whatever.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 11:15 (nineteen years ago)

Edward the confessor was the last truly legit one.

― Ed, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 11:16 (nineteen years ago)

only monarchs born in Oxfordshire count.

― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 11:17 (nineteen years ago)

Can't find pictures of him when he was younger, but...

http://www.meijsen.net/diana/images/broer.jpg

Ginger used to be rampant in the royal family in medieval to Tudorbethan times - when did they all get so boring? I suppose the Spencers are probably closer related to the Tudors than the current Royals, tho.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 11:19 (nineteen years ago)

Did you see that article in the Guardian last week about how the heir to the Bourbon throne is actually an Indian businessman?

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 11:20 (nineteen years ago)

actually there have been three kings born in Oxfordshire! Kings Richard I and John were born in Beaumont Palace here in Oxford, which became a white friars monastery for a while until the dissolution of the monasteries, when it was mostly pulled down and the stone used to build St John's and Christ Church Colleges. The last remaining bits of it were destroyed when Beaumont Street was widened in the 1820s.

― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 11:23 (nineteen years ago)

when did they all get so boring?

When they let the Germans and Dutch take over

― Tom D., Tuesday, 13 March 2007 11:23 (nineteen years ago)

Ah, yes, Mark, that was in my book about Eleanor of Aquitaine, yes!

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 11:27 (nineteen years ago)

Beaumont Street these days is a kind of Oxford versh of Harley Street, full of private doctors and dentists.

― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 11:28 (nineteen years ago)

the only effects of the Chair Lady's visit so far is that I can no longer see my colleague opposite's face, only his spiky hair.

― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 11:30 (nineteen years ago)

Bah, pickup issues not resolved as David K unsure when pickup tamburlins are coming in although he has what he describes as a 'delivery damaged lionheart' which he may be able to cannibalise for me.

Sales to the states have been down because of the Dollar and that is 50% of his market, so dudes, buy some citterns.

― Ed, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 11:31 (nineteen years ago)

Delivery Damaged Lionheart = King Richard after being ransomed?

Oh, STOP CLICKING THE THREAD, YOU POXY FULE.

(Am talking to myself, why do I keep clicking the purple threads, even though I know they are rubbish? Because I want a new crush. Yet instead of new crushes on parade, I get endless moranism.)

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 11:37 (nineteen years ago)

I'll see what he says but I may end up going down the PUTW in the end.

― Ed, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 11:43 (nineteen years ago)

revivify an unsullied crush thread.

― Ed, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 11:43 (nineteen years ago)

I was all happy yesterday because I had run out of reports to do, but now my boss seems to have remembered a whole bunch she was supposed to brief me on. And I don't want to do *ANY* of them. They're all Oracle or ::glurgh:: Worksmart. Bah. I suppose I'll do the Rate Roll Offs.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 11:44 (nineteen years ago)

Hullo again. Am still sickish. Bleh.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 12:12 (nineteen years ago)

The Britishers made Ned poorly :( I apologise on behalf of my country.

― C J, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 12:18 (nineteen years ago)

It wasn't us, it was flying on the toothpaste tube of pestilence!

(I am sorry you are sick, Ned.)

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 12:19 (nineteen years ago)

it was flying on the toothpaste tube of pestilence!

Nah, unfortunately it WAS the UK. I started feeling raspy in the throat on Thursday. The toothpaste tube likely didn't help but I slugged down a lot of Airborne Virus pills in hope.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 12:21 (nineteen years ago)

I'm sure shouting in a smokey pub did not help.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 12:23 (nineteen years ago)

We're the Sick Man of Europe, and we've come to spread our germs

― Tom D., Tuesday, 13 March 2007 12:23 (nineteen years ago)

Lionheart is the bouzouki iirc?

I'm tempted to get one off him, but the chroma is going to be eating 500 quid in repair charges next month, so I'd better not!

― Pashmina, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 12:26 (nineteen years ago)

I am so hungry because of the smells below. Would it be so wrong to eat mine lunch now? But I will be hungry again come 3pm! Argh.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 12:28 (nineteen years ago)

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