UK Watercooler 32: Fall Into The Meaning Gap

Basic rule of watching Cricket:

If someone in white does something drink a pimm's (down south) or a pint of bitter (up north).

Not rules, LAWS!

What I really need is a site that has all the terminology in the rules hyperlinked into little explanatory popups.

I'm useless at watching sport. An ex boyfriend once tried to make me watch a f**tb*ll match. I observed closely, and figured out that every time one of the little men got the little spotted ball in a net, you were supposed to jump up, spill beer everywhere and shout "HOORAY!"

So I did this, the next time the little spotted ball went in the net and found everyone glaring at me. Then-BF shouted at me that I had just cheered on the Germans. Um, whatever.

Oh no, I just talked about f**tb*ll. I'll have to ban myself!

To placate myself, and avoid having to be banned, here is a picture of NH in a top hat:

http://www.moviemarket.co.uk/library/photos/179/179659.jpg

By the way, my brother's got an album out, this is the band:

http://www.abelganz.com

4 tracks! Shortest 13 minutes! Longest 23 and a half minutes! Can you guess what kind of music they play?!?!? I've never heard them but I'm badgering him to send me a copy...

Holy crap, Tom. I'm pretty sure I have their first album stashed somewhere. IT's neo-prog, pretty decent as I remember (you'd hate it, har, har) I think the singer is also in Pallas?

Gratuitous Flash? I've got that!

Singer from Pallas sings on one track on the new album. My brother only joined to help out 'cos they were taking years to finish the album - and I mean years! Only two guys left from the orig. band + I'm pretty sure my brother+guitarist+drummer are all far better players than anyone who's ever been in the band before!

Gratuitous Flash and the Fulminating Five?

Quite possibly! I don't recall there being too many really good players in neo-prog bands except maybe the bassist from marillion or the old keyboard player from IQ. The album I had had a couple of good tunes on it, but the recording quality wasn't so great.

SO HUNGRY.

Norwegians don't play much of the cricket, no. Well, up until about now anyway, I believe some cricketing is going on amongst youth of Pakistani parentage etc.

Hi Kate & Cooler! Long time since last time, I think I've been out of the loop since last year or something. Blimey, Ed's been in Oslo eating brunost!

Drammen, actually, which isn't nearly as exciting as Oslo.

But it's the home of Stromgodset

... sorry f**ball

Hello! Welcome back to the loop.

Thanks!

Haw, Drammen. There's a Norwegian saying going "Bedre med en dram i timen enn en time i Drammen", ie "Rather a dram* per hour than an hour in Drammen".

*) as in small, strong drink

... same in English

Even the local beer is Aass.

I think I'd be quite happy with a dram per hour! My gran swore by a wee dram.

Aass is pretty well-regarded elsewhere in the country too actually, with "Friends of Drammen Beer" societies etc.

Is it pronounced like "arse"? God, I want to go to Norway even more, if I can walk in a pub and ask for a "pint of arse, please!"

No it is pronounced like AWES!

Aassome

Damn, you ruined my fun.

But, anyway, my fun has been ruined, since apprently the gossip from the tour is that these Lionhearts are nice, very religious boys from Trondheim and go home to pray instead of committing acts of naughtiness. Very disappointed with this. Although I could take one home to meet my mum and she'd be happy about that!

I'm a happy girl, though, coz I get to have Messican for lunch.

Aassome.

I am now full of lovely tasty Messican food, and I has an autoharp tuning key!

(Though I had to take Emsk with me to stop the lovely shopfolk from making me try out and/or buy every instrument in the shop.)

They had a lovely oud in the window, but she wouldn't even let me look at it!

The Bowlers Holding, The batsmans Willey

Classic quote there.

Ed, im afraid the Chambers Brothers album isnt much cop, neither is the live album I have. Time Will Come Today really is the stand out song.

Oh! I love that song! I didn't realise that was who you were talking about. My SOUL has been PSYCHEDELICISED!!!!

My former housemate used to play that all the time.

Is NH actually a little titchy thing, or are David Walliams and Anthony Michael Head just super enormo-huge?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hampshire/7328410.stm

Walliams is very very tall.

What, a man sadder than me, that he has to actually hire drinking buddies?

x-post he makes NH look like a toy:

http://thenigelhaversimperium.4ya.nl/homepage/show/861501.jpg

NH is small, I saw him in the street once. Shorter than me.

Well at £3.49 from amazon, i shall have the album (plus about 4 psych and folk comps that they recommended at me)

I can't remember if you're taller than me or not.

He's taller than the Queen, but that's not saying much.

Ed, have you planned my birthday walk yet?!?!?

I used to be 5'9", but I've probably shrunk

Well, I'm 5'8" so if you've shrunk, that makes you about the same size as me and NH shorter than me. Teeny, titchy men, I just want to pick them up and put them in my pocket.

HA HA H AHA HA HA HAAHHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!

I've just been told by Carruthers that I have no shame.

He's quick..

No, my blog's been down all day, I've only just seen it. I had to go and have a LOL in the loo.

myspace blog?

what is the cruthers laughing about?

Walk at wendover taking in the wendover woods, taking in, if possible the Grim's ditch and iron age fort.

Between Banbury and Biscester didn't have enough pictureques.

The MySpaz blog where I was talking about being chatted up about the S3 bio by the bookshop clerk while trying to hide the NH autobiography.

And he should be calling his former bandmate shameless for posing for photos IN THE NAKEDIDITY!!! rather than calling me shameless for, well, noticing.

yay for Grims Ditch! I just like the name of it. GRIMS DITCH. Woods and iron age forts, too. Picturesques are good! Remind Emsk of it, because she had the day wrong.

I'm glad that says forts

iron age forts

Sorry, for some reason, I can't read this without thinking "iron age farts"

oops xpost!

Trains are 27 and 57 minutes past the hour from Marylebone, taking 47 minutes. Which one are we aiming for?