Pete_the_Viscous

I'm torn between wanting the sort of high, inverted bit in Classical Gas to be longer... and thinking that that might be too much of a good thing, and maybe that I wouldn't like it so much if it were.

I get the bus to college and back, leaving the bus stop at 8 A.M. and arriving back at about 4:45 P.M. my timetable's pretty complicated, and not very interesting; suffice to say that I've got 1 hour long lessons interspersed with 1 hour long free periods -- more frees on some days than others; for instance Thursday on which I have a lesson, then a three hour break, then two lessons, then a break (I stay in college until 4 each day, though I finish at three on some days; it's easier to talk to people for an hour (there are always people out of lessons) and get the bus at 4).

Why don't they just install the telescreens and be done with it?

I liked it. I walked into a common room full of people watching it -- and had to stand for the whole film. Worth it, though.

Mau-mau was just the word they used in the league of gentlemen version for the tribesmens' word for shoving fruit up your posterior. The joke in that version is that the person opts out of mau-mau, thinking that he will kill himself in the process... only to find that he is going to be killed that way anyway. Half of the reason that it was funny in LOG was the bit that happens in between the actual joke and the punchline -- but I can't explain that any better; you really have to have seen it.

There's a different version of that joke, as featured in the League of Gentlemen: (short intro) They go to the island, get captured by a tribe and are put into an inclosure (I may be getting this bit wrong)... anyway, long story short, it turns out the same, in that they have to each get ten pieces of fruit and return with them. The first guy gets (jungle) strawberries, the second guy, plums... the third guy, pineapples. So, the jungle chief comes up to them with his entourage of tribesmen, and tells them that they can go free if they can survive mau-mau; if not, they will be killed. So the first guy says, "OK, me first": the tribesmen say, "Right, shove your fruit up your (aforementioned orifice)". The guy is a little shocked, but complies, without much trouble. He is accepted into the tribe, and can go free. The second guy (who, as you will remember, got plums), is a little more worried, but gives it his best shot, and manages. The third guy, however, knows that he's not going to manage it. "I'll never get those pineapples in," he says, "so I suppose it'll have to be death for me". (At this point in the League of Gentlemen there was a bit where the person telling the joke forgot the punchline, and his friend pulls a gun out and holds up the rest of the establishment until he tells the punchline, amidst crying and general worry). So, the jungle chief says "Death by mau-mau". Anyway, there we go, it loses a lot in the re-telling.

Cats have a habit of walking silently, and mine is no exception. I was lying on the sofa, with the TV down at a low volume (so I expected to hear anything creeping up on me (hint hint) ). Anyway, suddenly the cat is staring me in the face -- it was all I could do not to spasm and cause him to fly off me.

Hahaha :) Edit: whoops, just realised how spammy I was being in just laughing. Erm... I don't actually have anything new to say. I'd kill a million people with bad AIDS (brass eye -- I'm not serious).

You know, I'm going to change mine: I'd kill 500 people by giving them AIDS. :twisted: (Really I stand by what I said first, though).

I might kill 500 people who were dying of AIDS. Other than that, no. I can't really justify why or why not; I just wouldn't want to.

No, nor would I: I can't see that working at all. The idea of having (at least in some point in their career) "legendary heroes" just doesn't work if everyone's doing it; hence the feeling of relative insignificance in most MMORPGs.

Persistance always works for me -- I just lie there until I damn well fall asleep. Sometimes it takes a while, but it's always quicker for me to stay still and think of something nice than it is for me to get up and try and tire myself out somehow.

No; not everyone can play Vivaldi on a guitar -- but that's not blasting out some noise and screaming, is it? Nor is it typical death metal. Obviously they're skilled -- that doesn't mean that they don't usually blast music out of a guitar and scream. (Not that I'm saying they do -- I've never listened to children of bodom (to my knowledge) -- just saying that that video doesn't stop a lot of death metal being noise and screaming).

I don't really tell any whoppers -- the occasion just never comes up for me to have to. I don't concentrate on telling the truth; rather I always think what would be the best thing to say, be it the truth or a little white lie. So yeah, I lie when it stops me from hurting others' feelings, or when it makes everything run smoothly without causing problems later on (can't think of an example. but I'm thinking homework/college work, etc).

The alarmclock, when I'm already awake. I cringe when I think of the sound of my alarm when I'm awake; when I'm asleep it's OK, because I can turn it off before I register how annoying it is. There follows an impression of the alarm: *quite, peaceful, nothing going on".... "Meeeeep!! Meeeeeep!! Meeeeeep!! Meeeeeep!!" Just imagine the word Bleep said in a VERY high voice, incredibly loud. When you've got a headache. That's rougly how annoying it gets.

Well, I'd come back as a giraffe for, I think, obvious reasons. (...for the reason, see the Bottom episode Hole).

The fact that there are millions of people in the world is proof enough for me that God doesn't exist. (Not really -- I just thought that was the natural next step).

I would play them, but that would involve me just sitting there and wondering why on earth I can't get ye flask. Only one really springs to mind... something like "the adventures of... eric? the undready".... or similar.

Just as an asside: I didn't know who he was, so I googled his name. It came up with "See results for: clay aiken g&y" ... only with an a and not an ampersand.

Well, it might have been more conventional for you to say "Life begins at conception", for instance, as opposed to contra-. Still, life begins at contraception would be a good slogan for a birth control information service.

I've got it preordered... but I'm not sure it'll work on my computer :(. I suspect it will, but very slowly or in the worst details. I need to upgrade (and have needed to for a while) but I don't want to shell out that much.

I suppose when I was in years 7 and 8 (so when I was 12 and 13, I think). I didn't have a very nice time at school, and stopped attending much towards the end of that year. Then by year 8 I'd moved to a different school. I didn't have a very good time there, and stopped attending. Then I moved to another school. Can you guess what I stopped doing? I was running away from my problems, so to speak (I can't say what the problems were -- I just wasn't happy; no better way to put it. I wasn't bullied, or anything, just 'not good at socialising'). Anyway, at the end of year 8 (having stopped going to the third school) I moved back to the first school (it's not as if I'd missed anything good, learning wise), and things began to pick up, to the effect that by the end of year 11 I pretty much enjoyed going to school. I say pretty much... I mean that I can look back on those days with fondness; at the time I might not have been pleased at having to get up and go to school :). Now I'm in my second year of sixth form college and am really enjoying it, having made a load of good friends.

I didn't like school (and I know I'm nobody's fool -- sorry). I had no problem with the work; I wasn't picked on: I just didn't like it. Too many idiots, too many teachers with politics and agenda in the way of their teaching. I don't rule out that I'm just not a people person, but, since starting college, everything in my life picked up tremendously. I put it down to a few things: the people there are reasonable (even the chavs are polite enough to, for instance, hold doors and say 'thankyou'); I learn new things each lesson (well, in lots of lessons, anyway); I've got so much more freedom, and am treated as an equal by the tutors (at least, to my face :shock:). I think it's because everyone there is there because they want to be.

Ah yes, I was just going to say that. I would've added the Goonies, too, and probably a load of others that I've forgotten.