Be Excellent To Each Other

WB Shoes!

They're shit stickers. No wonder they didn't take them home.

Back to work tomorrow.

Time for a quick cider and a go of Dark Souls then.

I'm quite pro tunnels. I think it's good that you either go that way, or go around.

Heh, if they gave them to adults you could guarantee at least one massive boaby on the wall

Clearly they did, unless some of those little kids can reach the ceiling.

Can someone stop me knee from hurting so I can go to sleep please?

Thanks...



Malc

It's not working...

Malc

What you need to do is concentrate on keeping the pain out of your knee.

bleugrh

Malc

boooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

Back in work.

You know how sometimes a smell is described as a hum? I now understand that, as the main bin on this floor clearly wasn't emptied before the break. Phew!

Me too. But at least now I can do something about the £120 expenses I wasn't repaid in December.

Awaiting landlord to come around to formalize the 'we aren't renewing the tenancy' stuff, and complain to me about the tenor of the email I sent him. It appears we can now break the tenancy at no cost and have our bond returned, but I'd be happier with an undertaking for that. The damp on the first floor (that got through the wardrobe and on to the clothes) is, according to him, caused by condensation, and not, as his builder friend said last week when we were with him 'water coming through the walls'. So, it should be a funtime from 11am onwards. Especially as I'm still knackered.

Extra Bank Holiday again this year! Thanks Queeny.

And my birthday falls well on the 6th May as it's followed by a Bank Holiday Monday.

This year is awesome so far!

Top Gear special was very weak this year. Felt like it was a parody of itself.

Shame as I've enjoyed previous ones and was looking forward to it.

I agree. I watched it last night and it wasn't a patch on the excellent Vietnam special. That was some of the best TV I've ever seen.

Agreed. It is a checkbox exercise based on previous specials now, whereas previously it was innovative. The 'doing everything really badly' schtick is particularly tired as a formula.

Actually, this all applies to the series itself in general.

Well, my insurance company advice was 'wait until the landlord comes around to asses it'. Which is less than helpful.

The fire alarm is going off almost constantly. We've been told to ignore it all day because of some kind of work being done on the system.

I'm not sure what kind of view the HSE and insurance people would take of that, but I'm pretty sure it would involve at least one of wide-eyed horror and laughing in faces.

That used to happen in a place I worked years ago. The fire alarm would go off and people would wait to be told to get up and leave the building...

Me? You couldn’t see me for dust!

I regret moving the wardrobe without gloves and a mask, now. That wardrobe is 10 weeks old.

Bloody hell. I take it the carpets are damp too?

One of our cupboards looked like that, but brusing it down removed all the crap. For us it was caused by drying clothes in a room with no ventilation. Dehumidifier in there now.

At some point I need to move the wardrobes that haven't been moved in over 5 years and are likely to have similar dampness. However, I'm good at putting it off.

No, it's only on the walls. And the wardrobe. And the inside of the wardrobe. And our clothes. One position is we're at fault causing the condensation, with poor ventilation and lack of heat. The other is the water is coming through the wall. Which the man who is here now said it was last week.

EDIT: Clothes are mainly dried in the basement which is, bizarrely, damp free.

And breathing. Don't forget your filthy breathing.

We're hardly ever breathing in that room. We sleep in the attic. Where the roof leaks.

I somehow think I'm not choosing the next place..

How did it go?

He is now propping up the fireplace.

I take it you've been having phonecalls from MaliA too, then?

At the beginning of last year, I culled facefuck 'friends' who were filling my feed with ridiculous Homeopathy bollocks.

Today it is looking like I'll have to do the same with breastfeeding advocates. Not because breastfeeding is bollocks, but because half my wall is filled with pedantry and whinging about peoples views on the matter.

Why are you looking at breastfeeding?

Picked up season five of The Wire on DVD as FX no longer has the rights to show the last season, the fuckers. Sky Atlantics got it but there's no way I'm waiting until they show all four seasons to catch up with the awesomeness.

I managed a slow walk through Nam-like rain to get it too.

I defeat you mother-nature!

Sky Atlantic are showing The Wire from the start? Awesome!

Yeah, this Friday!

Seems I'm going to get my clothes cleaned, and he doesn't wish to fall out with me. Still blames the condensation, though. Oh, and we can stay if we want to.

Oh, no. He'll give us £25. To dry clean 2 suits, 3 dresses, 2 jumpers, 2 jackets, 3 skirts 2 body warmers, 3 pairs of trousers and 3 shirts.

I have a pool table again! Yay!

I think you should send him the bill for whatever it costs Mali, this bloke sound like a 'Dickensian' landlord of the highest order and is still trying it on.

Oh, I do hope you are specifically being treated to the 'breast feeding in public' shouty folks. Then someone will say that it is the most natural thing in the world, why should it be hidden? Then someone will add that milk formula is all if the evilz of the earth in powdered form, then one woman will say that 5% of mothers CANNOT breast feed and the demonisation of the formula users makes her out to be a bad mother, then someone won't read that reply with due care and reply 'yes but breast is best' and you are on the Ravelry forums not Facebook you fool, run away whilst you still have your sanity.

Yes. In particular those that operate on a basis that breastfeeding in public is fine (I agree, wholeheartedly), but that take this to mean that when in an empty coffee shop, with nooks, crannies, and other secluded areas, that if someone suggests that maybe they may prefer to do it in one of those secluded areas, as some people aren't 100% comfortable with it, for whatever reason, and could you assist this with a tiny concession of choosing to sit in that area, which is just as comfortable, rather than in the window. To which the reply is then IT IS THE MOST NATURAL THING IN THE WORLD. ME AND ALL MY FRIENDS WILL COME AND SIT ON THE BAR BREASTFEEDING! AND LOOK, I HAVE A VAGINA. SEE MY BIG FLAPPY DANGLING LABIA AND RAMPANT BUSH. WHY ARE YOU ASHAMED OF SOMETHING SO NATURAL. Or somesuch.

The correct (if somewhat risky) response to that is to whap your dick out and start wanking. It's equally natural

Or call their bluff/try a bit of reverse psychology; " C'mon darlin', get them baps out where we can all see them. HEY LADS, COME AND GET A LOAD OF THESE PUPPPIES."

I should add that I know that 2 of the 3 people polluting my wall with their breastfeeding views this morning use Mooncups. I do not believe that it is normal that I should know this.

I wish I hadn't googled that.

There's bound to be a 'Two Girls one Mooncup'.

Quote from the nearest dry cleaners was £137. He toldme he'd spent close on £20k on the property. I didn't ask if the builder's office had big windows. So, I'll have to write another email/letter tomorrow once we've decided what the plan is. That dampometer doohickey was c£20 from the shop on town. Now he's offering us money, I think he knows he's on potentially thin ice right now, so he was extra nice to me this afternoon.

Looked around a 3 bed terrace just now. Looked OK.

My friend and his girlfriend recently moved in together, both moving into a new shared house. She moved her stuff in a couple of days before him, and when he was looking around in the cupboards found a portable electric single ring hob and a saucepan in a bedroom cupboard. The conversation went thus:

Him - "Oh, this is good. The old tenants must have left this behind. We may be able to use these for something at some point, say, if the gas goes off"
Her - "It wasn't left behind - it's mine"
Him - "Oh, I had no idea, what do you use it for?"
Her - "Cleaning my mooncup"

Whilst a conversation that I'm sure he would have preferred not to have had at the time, it is a conversation that he is surely happy that he DID have.