UK Watercooler 32: Fall Into The Meaning Gap

The Wire purposesly DOES NOT DO FUN because so much of their readership is abroad - especially in Germany - and humour simply does not translate.

I'm still cross about the Boris cover. You would have liked it if it had been *my* Boris cover, that I was going to do, Pash.

A kate cover *has* to happen!

ONE! HOUR! LEFT!!!

ONE!!!!! HOUR!!!!!! LEFT!!!!!!

I don't think I will ever have been so happy to leave a job!

HALF! AN! HOUR!!!

A pointless session of self googling actually led me to a recent Flickr photo of my ex. It does not appear that the man has bought any new clothes in 5 years. I recognised every single garment that he was wearing. I'm not sure if this means my memory is good or... well, I guess it means that I'm completely over him, that it was amusing to look at the picture, and not painful.

Sod it, I'm going NOW.

have fun

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7333155.stm

Oh great. A hidden solar system!

Happy birthday to me, happy birthday to meeee!

And I got the bestest present ever... I'm going to Harmoniaaaaaah next week!

Woooo! Happy birthday Kate! I''ll bake you some kind of tasty birthday carrot cake for next time I see you!

Yay!

happy birthday.

Weather looks good for saturday too.

Happy birthday, lady!

Happy birthday, Kate! Here's Gaston, to play some drones on the Gaffophone for you.

http://lagaffemegate.free.fr/journalspirou/index/images/obj/gaffophone.jpg

Happy Birthday, Kate!
is Saturday walking still on?

kiss me maybe I turn into birfday ddb prince!

http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080410/capt.9aa651cc136342408e3060152a639600.indonesia_lungless_frog_bk104.jpg?x=400&y=266&sig=W1KZcfnL4ahVFifiOM3mTA--

Happy birthday

Woo, Kate: Birthday, have a happy one, all that jazz (um, no, not jazz! All that drone, yes, better).

Yay, thank you! Through the hangover... oh, life is good. I love life. yes! Walk on for tomorrow. Pester Ed for details. It's a MYSTERY to me.

JAZZ HANDS!!! oh yeah.

So how is everyone?

Still resisting the new SPZ album. But may be caving on the broadband idea.

Hello all, I was indirectly grumped at by a grumpy welsh newscaster yesterday.

Also we talked of an outing to a steam railway at some point, when shall we do it and shall we pick one that FP can come to as well (GCR or Peak Rail would suit, probably)

Huw Edwards?

HURRAH HURRAH, STEAM RAILWAYS, OH YES!!!

Also, I want this on a t-shirt:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2248/2420117503_8e73c3c6aa.jpg

easy enough to do with those iron on inkjet transfer things.

we talked of an outing to a steam railway at some point

http://www.indietracks.co.uk/

I would steal all there lunch money

their damnit their

Why do they have to take such a great idea and ruin it with such RUBBITCH music?!?!?

Why can't they have a technoshoegazesteampunk festival to go with steam trains? Speaking of which...

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2020/2423182652_768ca210e8.jpg

I've got iron-on transfers and black t-shirts. Carruthers has volunteered to be my model/victim for the first experiementa t-shirt. We shall see how this goes.

Maple propellors! EXCELLENT idea.

Sycamore, actually, but it would take a botanist to know the difference!

That *is* pretty cool.

Tanfield Railway is near us, we go 2 or 3 times a year:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/16804034@N00/183224811/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/16804034@N00/183228206/in/photostream/

It's a tiny little stretch of line, but it's really charming, a delight to go on it.

So pretty! I want one in my garden to take me up to the high street.

My debut gig is next week, I'm kind of a-scared after listening to the practice tapes. I dropped notes all over the place through sheer nerves!

Come if you promise not to throw things...

http://a282.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/100/l_76e57ec60cc867d43f372a7a1f2d1b09.jpg

Do you know when you're on? My supervisor is having a party to launch her book that night, but I think it'll be over pretty early.

10pm, stage time. Apparently. I don't know if the Buffalo Bars runs late or not.

Book launch? Oh, you academic types!

Cool.

It's a book on boxing!

('Cool' meaning: I think I can make it)

All sounds good. Will be there, will try and bring sande as well, she seemed keen.

I borrowed a car today, was driving to work, rifling through my dad and step-mum's cds. Looking for something non awful to listen to, found the temptations, put it on, ooh this sounds wierd, I didn't think they had bad pcm synth horns in 1967. It turned out it was songs re-recorded by the temptations in 2001. They can't hit any of the notes any more, high or low. Slightly depressing really.

Can I have a chicks dig bass and an autorotation t-shirt please, I will pay money etc.

Autorotation design = awesome; the not-maple whirlinoses = great idea yes! :D

hello

Tom D do you know anything about Whisky David?

Never heard of him/them/that

Stephen Malkmus was talking about him in Plan B. It's some 70s scottish guy who made a glam rock album. I thought you might know something. Very little on internet.

http://img131.imageshack.us/img131/9757/whiskydavidfrontsimplevc9.jpg

Not many google results but the translation in one says

Hard rare, but a true marvel. "Whiskey" David Waterson is a Scottish singer and organist who has been involved in numerous groups

Sounds like a wind up to me

Well if you'd said he was glam rock I would have downloaded it before. I took one look at Scottish singer Whiskey David and went uh I'll pass thanks.

It's real. Dont you ever check your email?
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I do. It looks like a wind up to me.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=GC6Nw_9wMOw

WAAAGH I JUST FINISHED THE FILM TREATMENT FROM HELL!