Meenzer

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Palms chafing? Ask Jimbo for some tips...

Metallica - One This can't possibly be 17 fucking years old already.

Ahhh, "my" band. Stood by that lot through thick and thin... and there's been plenty of thin. Can't believe they're still going really, saw them late last year in Hamburg and Andy Cairns is showing no signs of giving up, though his voice (and beer gut) are starting to show the strain. Whatever, "Troublegum" will always be my teenagey "mooch around the streets with my Walkman on full blast because life's so unfair" album.

A Chinese takeaway or the Chinese takeaway? 60831[/snapback] They even gave me a money-off voucher this time 60832[/snapback] I imagine you've helped two or three of their kids through college by now

A Chinese takeaway or the Chinese takeaway?

There's just one thing missing from this thread....

Got a text from him a few days ago, saying he'd changed phone numbers. Was one of the few Toontastic-ers I met, and he seemed canny enough. 60337[/snapback] And I got a text from him a few weeks ago from his old number, complaining that the "Accrington Stanley? Oo're they?" advert hadn't been included in some Best TV Ads Ever show. Legend. 60447[/snapback] Does he write REALLY REALLY long texts? 60448[/snapback] Exachhhhly! Actually, it was quite concise really. I miss not having JJ around on MSN when I'm still up at 5am bashing out some financial translation rubbish and I fancy a natter about Lithuanian Euro qualifiers.

Tsk... go find the thread.

Got a text from him a few days ago, saying he'd changed phone numbers. Was one of the few Toontastic-ers I met, and he seemed canny enough. 60337[/snapback] And I got a text from him a few weeks ago from his old number, complaining that the "Accrington Stanley? Oo're they?" advert hadn't been included in some Best TV Ads Ever show. Legend.

Never mind all this, how was the Karl Kennedy concert?

Who needs smack? I'll have EIGHT ESPRESSOS dammit

Spot on. I'm used to super-size mugs, though. I'll need at least four of those cups.

I need more coffee.

Aaaand I'm a freelance translator. Business has been less than steady lately so I'm basically having to take whatever I can get, no matter how unreasonable the demands (in this case, five days' worth of work in about three days).

Would that I did... Enjoy it, that is, not get paid. If I didn't get paid for it then I'd really be stoopid. I hope I get paid for it...

On balance, that wasn't particularly random. Um.... WRENCH/PAROXYSM. There.

Woo, it's 5am and I'm still working. Bless my customers and their unreasonable deadlines, not to mention my willingness to bend over (as it were) and chase the fast buck.

A mate of mine put it thus: Unfortunately, I had [my eyes] open to witness one of the most horrific crimes ever committed against celluloid. Seriously, it was the worst trailer ever made, EVER. It seems that there is to be a film of 'Lassie'. Has anyone else seen this? I don't feel that I am adequately able to describe how fucking dire it was... there aren't words. It was probably 2 minutes long and included every single ridiculous, offensive stereotype of poor stupid Northern folk with hearts of gold (I swear it opened with the line "theh clursin' down t'mine, Jurr") intercut with horrible, horrible shots of a stupid dog running around, golden and shiningly illuminated as if from some internal sun. And then STEVE PEMBERTON FROM THE LEAGUE OF GENTLEMEN. What. The. Fuck. Honestly, I still can't believe it's not a joke. It is a joke, right? ...Right? I mean, the shitty guitar ballad music which included the lyrics "she's turning me on"?? Bestiality? Family film? No. Please. I didn't know whether to laugh or cry or vomit, but then by the time the line "Yer a bad dog Lasseh and we durn't love yeh" was uttered, the choice was no longer mine to make: all three. Argh.

Are you auditioning for a part in Eastenders or something?

Should do his damnedest to avoid Frankfurt itself, for that matter.

All I see is "pint... pint... pint... pint..."?

You remember that "welcome to half an hour ago" comment a wee while back? Change that into "welcome to one page ago", and....

...that's even gayer than Meenzer in a pink skirt and antlers tbh 51143[/snapback] You in a pink skirt and antlers, then?

Rialto - Monday Morning 5:19 Nothing much to say about this lot really. Slightly smug/knowing attitude, odd intonation, sweeping cinematic soundscapes, rapidly disappeared in a puff of "they've just released the same album twice, haven't they?".