Blue Saturday

I was probably just looking for something to panic about last Friday but I was convinced I'd lost my passport. It's usually in one of two spots, and I'm flying out this week and will need it. Did a bunch of tidying and moving stuff around, all while thinking about how I could get an emergency passport appointment and switch my connecting flight.

It was in the third place I'd look, where I'd moved it so I wouldn't forget where I put it.

(it was not actually the third place I'd look, naturally)

ah, the day-before-flight passport panic, been there

one time I left my passport by the sink in an airport toilet, thankfully a rather obscurely situated one and it was still by some miracle there when I noticed its absence 10 minutes later when my gate opened

has anyone seen my bus card btw? that's the most recent lost object. probably due for a top-up so not a great deal of £ if it's gone but I'll have to go into town and plead with them and pay the replacement fee which I only just got out of paying last summer when I managed to snap the card in half clutching it between thumb and forefinger waiting at a bus stop and apparently getting ~a little too tense~ about whether a bus would turn up in time for my appointment

(it did, and I didn't have a bus card to pay for it with because I'd snapped it, ha ha)

<3 to Fizzles and all here btw

yes to the avoidance and forever slipping down, wondering how everyone else seems to manage it when months of careful hard work only keeps you where you are and one bad moment wipes it all out again

oh that buspass story is tragic

(trigger but also beckett iirc

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the lack of taking care of things we dont care about is imo to be distinguished from the lack of care of things we do care about, which latter is i think what fits what youre saying fizzles

I've been the person who hands in a wallet at the airport (found in the bathroom), glumly aware that this may do more harm than good.

always the right thing to do imo. certainly the first thing i will think is that someone will have handed it in.

As somebody prone to drunken losing of personal effects, somebody handing something in always reduces my anxiety after the fact.

Definitely the right thing to do and I have done this as well.

oh yeah, handing it in would 100% have been the right thing to do, I was just glad on this occasion that it was still where I left it - but if it had gone I would of course have been immensely relieved that someone had handed it in

also if someone had handed it in, probably at the nearest staffed desk = my gate, and it had ended up inaccessible I would be annoyed at the airport procedures rather than the saint who'd handed it in

(maybe they would just check it against the passenger list, call my name and give it back - though I was fearing there would be reasons, probably even sensible reasons, why not)

the times things of mine have been handed in - wallet left at supermarket, phone dropped in the street - have always greatly restored my faith in humanity

The only time I've lost something that mattered* was the watch my father gave me. He was so disappointed.

* I lose umbrellas to the point that I just get wet now and who knows I might end up with pneumonia one day but it's annoying so I'll take my chances. That's more of a grey area.

Pub near work has so many lost umbrellas that never get reclaimed that it’s fairly easy to get one if you’re caught short. I think TFL lost property is like 99% umbrella as well.

think if i put in for another replacement bank card in the next few months they'll start asking me questions tbh

glasses are the weirdest things to lose on a bender, you'd think

in the last 12 months i've been definitely targeted and robbed at least once, drinking to the point of that kind of vulnerability ought to be a lesson but well here we are

somewhere in TFL lost property is a copy of At Swim-Two-Birds that I left on a bus, hope someone just takes it

(i did buy a replacement and finish it)

NV you should invest in a gilet covered in zipper pockets imo

no amount of zipper pockets is drunk me proof i fear

like the idea of stomping round Hull in a Barbour, boots and shooting stick tho

I also lost my copy of At-Swim-Two-Birds on a bus, still haven’t read it.

NV, can you let on you want a new card with a custom picture?

no amount of zipper pockets is drunk me proof i fear

like the idea of stomping round Hull in a Barbour, boots and shooting stick tho

often considered joining the Tories as a deep penetration agent

you live in yorkshire ;)

Didn’t need to read the sentence with those two elements in this morning.

Shout out to whoever put On My Own by Ulrich Schnauss on the playlist and reminding me of how much I love 1) the song itself and 2) the YouTube video of my favourite model with this song over the top. Good gloomy Tuesday listening imo.

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i grew up amongst huntin shootin fishin folk too

Radio 3 has been surprisingly decent this morning as long as you tune out the gushing presenter banter god i have got to check my choice of adjectives this morning

On My Own was my nomination! :) it'll be pretty high up my ballot, I love it. When I was younger I even put it as my favourite song of the decade in a self-indulgent ILM poll. I didn't know it had a video though!

gyac also a sleeper agent in deepest Tory Kent, they'll change their tune when the roads clog (maybe)

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very important off cut missing from the wall of gammon here.

I love On My Own and I kind of love Ulrich Schnauss in general but whenever a Schnauss tune pops up on random I always go "oh it's Happy Cycling by Boards of Canada, oh no it's Ulrich Schnauss, oh it's not even the Ulrich Schnauss tune I thought it was"

saw him twice, once in a nice chill venue with comfy seats and perfect lighting for zoning out to drifty electronic noises and it was brilliant, so I eagerly bought tickets the next time round to see him in the art museum basement thinking that that would also be a nice chill space and it was a horrible place with too many people, nowhere to sit, pillars obscuring the stage and heavy stink of sweat and the soundguy's vape

(said chill perfect venue has also ripped out all its seats and reverted to being just another dark sweaty pub back room, which is too bad as a friend wants to go there this week - the first gig I've ventured out for in ages, if I actually go)

haven't dared look at the poll as I don't have time to think about it properly and also feel bad about how few tracks I can think of from the past decade due to being a) old b) scatterbrained and only ever remembering things I've heard in the past 2 days

imo if you're pressed for time, do a single pass through the spreadsheets and only c&p anything you really, truly love. it's hard though and obviously i'm being a bit blasé. we could do with your vote though!!

I usually apply (b) as a positive feature to polling on the grounds that if I can't remember it it's not worth it

have never seen schnauss live alas. really i've not seen much electronic music live. idk how it works can it be good idk idk they have to have mad visuals right?

glasses are the weirdest things to lose on a bender, you'd think

I have lost countless pairs of glasses while drunk. I have no idea how that happens, can only assume I've passed out on a night bus and someone just nicks them for a laugh, because I can't see why I would take them off and leave them somewhere myself

On My Own was my nomination! :) it'll be pretty high up my ballot, I love it. When I was younger I even put it as my favourite song of the decade in a self-indulgent ILM poll. I didn't know it had a video though!

gyac also a sleeper agent in deepest Tory Kent, they'll change their tune when the roads clog (maybe)

tbf unless my gammon chums are correct Hull is as Labour af

Taking my glasses off is second nature to me :/

i stand corrected (although isn't Greg Clarke MP from around there?)

tbf i think Kent is certainly quaking under the strain, when I went to Sheerness recently there were several Labour signs visible

As a sometimes glasses wearer I can say this has never happened to me, only cos I can’t see beyond the tip of my nose if I take them off ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I’ve left them in work a few times though which is always horrendous

gyac's russophilia has also been noted and it will have been speculated whether she and her spouse met in moscow

i am extremely blind (up to -10) and would never lose my glasses. usually i wear contact lenses when i go out socially though

Gotta feeling in the past I've dropped glasses while falling over or puking

I did a spectacular face plant at 6 in the morning in McDonald's the other week and popped a lens out of my glasses, got found by a helpful pitying stranger after 5 minutes of searching

I only really need them for TV or movies tbf but I can't enjoy either without them

tt is another 'no glasses unless at cinema' denizen, but we usually sit front row anyway so sometimes there's no need

gyac's russophilia has also been noted and it will have been speculated whether she and her spouse met in moscow

my stupidest glasses move was trying to superglue a silicon nose pad back onto them whilst quite drunk. You get superglue on them lens they are finished!

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i left glasses on the jacks at the Oliver StJohn Gogarty during a twelve pubs spree in 2014 and when I went back the next year some cunt had swiped them

God you can't trust nobody

also, birdwatching is impossible with glasses because glasses + binoculars = nonsense

i've just volunteered to be the london bird club's spotter for my two local parks, so i'll be wearing contacts a lot more. adding a morning ramble to my schedule might be a fillip for my otherwise-stagnant creative life and a generally good thing for the *soul* etc etc

ilx birdwatching club anyone

maybe not so much a russophile as a pivovarovaphile, sorry to generalise

i left glasses on the jacks at the Oliver StJohn Gogarty during a twelve pubs spree in 2014 and when I went back the next year some cunt had swiped them

I can tell it's time for an eye test because my glasses have started falling off my face if I look down/bend over. the lenses still seem about right but new frames that don't do that would be lovely

(you can tighten them but once they're a couple of years old my fat head forces them loose again within a day or two)

the numbers claim I'm only a bit shortsighted but astigmatic as hell so it's all the same really, can't see much of use without them on

re 00s poll, NV partly otm about needing to remember something for it to be worth voting for, but on the other hand recency bias will see me deciding that whatever noise I heard two minutes ago was the jam of the decade while forgetting all the things I actually love. BUT I will look through the noms and try to get something together and howl in anguish when I remember some classics I should have nominated

birdwatching club anyone