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Hi. I still use LJ, follow my friends and similar, but I've moved my main host to Dreamwidth now, and am crossposting everything to here, but asking people to comment there.
Mat Bowles.
It's still fully interoperative, the OpenID comment functions there are good and improving, and I can follow everything from both sites easily.
Mat Bowles.
It's still fully interoperative, the OpenID comment functions there are good and improving, and I can follow everything from both sites easily.
Poll #1003180 Fixing things
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You switch on a light in your new(ish) house and all the lights go out
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Leave it, who needs lights anyway?
3 (5.9%)
Figure out a fuse has gone, and ring parents in a bit of a panic because you don't know what to do 2 (3.9%)
Call the landlord to complain 0 (0.0%)
Go look at the fusebox (because you know where it is) but leave it because it's beyond you 2 (3.9%)
Switch the fuse that's in the obviously 'gone' position back on following the very clear instructions 44 (86.3%)
Visiting your (smarter than you?) girlfriend in her new house to be told the fuse has gone and her Dad is coming around later you...
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Assume she's done everything practical and leave it to her Dad 7 (13.7%)
Proclaim that you know nothing about technical stuff and leave it to Dad 1 (2.0%)
Go look at the fusebox but don't touch anything because electrical stuff is scary 3 (5.9%)
Look at the fusebox, check the obvious instructions to be sure, then flick the right switch - go back upstairs with a smug grin 40 (78.4%)
When Jennie gets home from work and reads this, Mat is...
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Dead 13 (26.0%)
So very very dead 23 (46.0%)
In for a bit of a spanking 33 (66.0%)
Going to get kicked back to London quickly 5 (10.0%)
Something else you'll suggest in the comments 4 (8.0%)
( Thursday May 31st - Last day at work, lunch in Portcullis House, the Houses of Parliament )
( Friday 1st June - Jennie visits, the Tate Late panel discussion ) ( Adrian Searle on State Britain - very luvvy )( Pubs and wandering late around Soho )
( Saturday 2nd June - Pirates, Disney and comic fangirls )
( Sunday 3rd - Wednesday 6th - Relax + job hunting )
( Thursday 7th June - Book signing at Waterstones with )( Jon Courtenay Grimwood, )( Steph Swainston )( and a BBC camera crew )
( Wondering home chatting, and putting names to usernames )
( Friday 8th June - A family visit and a meeting with friends )
( Saturday 9th June - Ballet - the Three Musketeers )
( Sunday June 10th - Wandering Wimbledon )
( Tuesday June 12th - Hyde Park with a friend )
( Wednesday June 13th - Yorkshire bound and zombie avoidance )( Rik Mayall - The New Statesman )
( Today? )
( Upcoming )
Did I say summary? That's a summary? Oops, probably good job I didn't go for the long version isn't it...
- Location:Brighouse, Yorkshire
Of course, my main problem with pastafarianism is the pirate obsession; everyone knows ninjas are better than pirates.This, it appears, was a controversial statement. ( pirates are cool, ninjas are better, QED )So we come to the conclusion. Pirates are cool. Everyone knows pirates are cool. Well, unless you're in, for example, the Brazilian navy, and have to fight against the bastards every day, or your ship gets attacked by them and you get killed. Ninjas? Ninjas don't exist, they have never existed, they are a figment of your imagination, peasant superstitions, foolishness. That shadow you think you saw? Merely a curtain in the moonlight. Those shuriken taking out your guards? Don't be silly man, it didn't happen.
Completely incidental aside, before I turn in.
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lokean has had an LJ for longer than me, reads his friends list a lot but rarely posts. I think he a) needs more LJ friends and b) should post more often. For those at nadriel's birthday last weekend, he was the lunatic that kept buying me drinks (thanks for them BTW mate, much appreciated). So, well, you all know what to do, right?![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif){kind=small}
pastafarians. Oh yeah, if I hadn't already mentioned it, ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/syndicated.gif){kind=small}
venganza_fsm, you know what to do...innerbrat has made the icon we talked about Sunday, one that will definately be of interest to faeriecween and freddiefragglesAnd then we have
unimag's guide to American spotting online, well worth a read: Food Obsession(via
No, this isn't an 'Americans are fat' comment5; I'm talking about posting pictures of food. And talking about food. At every opportunity. When a British person posts about having a meal, we post about what happened during the meal - anecdotes that were told, stupid stuff that happened, people getting insulted, Aunt Gladys choking to death on the meringue... entertaining things like that.
Americans, on the other hand, post about the food. With pictures of the food. If we're especially lucky, the people who were actually eating the food might get mentioned (in passing), but only if it doesn't shift the focus away from the food too much.
metaquotes, which has been a bit poor recently)I like movie pirates. I like pop culture pirates. I also, (whispers) like ninjas. Like most Lib Dems, I want it both ways and am somewhere in between. ( Thoughts on the modern term 'pirate' )
So, yeah, talk like a pirate. Use a silly icon. Have a giggle. Only, LJ? Next time you decide to celebrate International Talk like a pirate day? Could you make it so the little tricks you put on the profile and update pages showed up for people using English English as well as US/LJ English? Thx muchly.
notes from the basement
halcyon_shift managed to get to 1000 comments. Utter insanity. Cool.Also? How not to hunt for a place to live in London. Not a good day. More seriously,
jantshira really could do with a stroke of luck finding a room to rent in London. If anyone reading this knows someone that could help?sinju asks me matgb - Which is cooler...pirates or Ford Prefect?, to which my response is...I can't decide. Y'see, Ford, definately cool. Very cool. The man invented the pan-galactic gargle blaster, right? How can that not be cool. But, on the other hand, pirates. So...
Poll #762673 Decide for me
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Which is cooler
The meme in total thing isn't a bad one, I'll try to do it when I'm not, say, in the office at 20.30 on a Wednesday...
Which Pirates of the Caribbean character are you?
Hmm. Is anyone actually surprised by that one?
Which is worse, I did the meme, or felt the need to correct the html and add alt and title text? Still,
mapp is Barbossa. I win.Aside, but related to an earlier similar meme. Which one of you gits voted for me as "women pirate"?
- Location:My Flat, Torquay
What kind of pirate am I? You decide!
You can also view a breakdown of results or put one of these on your own page!
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active_apathy, you go click and vote on what sort of pirate I be. Not a bad little idea for a meme. Much better than that johari/nohari thing, which, now I've finally managed to get to the site (server overload is such a bitch...) I've decided I hate.But, more importantly: criticalmissforums.com for all your forum needs. Especially if you happen to like Critical Miss a lot, or find
jonnynexus particularly funny. And it is still the stated opinion of the management that swearing is both big and clever, so the profanity filter is off.Not that I'm likely to remember to go back there more than once a week at best, I've gone off forums these days. A lot.
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