The sweet demure girl I managed to chat up last week appears to have turned into a SCARY HARRIDAN

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Oh 'eck. I got drunk at a birthday night out, and made friends with a new young lady, and she seemed a bit quiet but really nice, and we got on really well. At the end of the night I got her number and we planned to go out. And tonight just called her to finalise plans, and suddenly she's gone all shouty and has a horrible loud grating SARF LAAAHNDAN accent and jeez, I can hardly believe it's the same person.

She seemed a bit sniffy about my suggested date too, but agreed to it (in a kind of "er, ok, whatever" way), and by that time it felt like it was too late to say "actually, you know what, it's alright, forget it" so now I'm going out with her tomorrow and well, I'm worried.

― JimD is not logged out! (JimD), Monday, 15 August 2005 20:52 (twenty years ago)

worried because she has an accent?

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 15 August 2005 20:54 (twenty years ago)

haha its funny that being american i would have no idea whats wrong with her accent. Oh there were some british cats in the mcdonalds by wrigley field the other day asking me where they could find a brothel. Then they called my friend a 'fit bird.'

― deej.., Monday, 15 August 2005 20:54 (twenty years ago)

what else about her seems scary? is it just her voice?

― sittin here la la waitin for my ya ya (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 15 August 2005 20:55 (twenty years ago)

SARF LAAAHNDAN

oh NO

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Monday, 15 August 2005 20:55 (twenty years ago)

British cats and their brothels! Will they ever learn?

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Monday, 15 August 2005 20:56 (twenty years ago)

pet peeve: "being american," as if every american is just like that.

― sittin here la la waitin for my ya ya (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 15 August 2005 20:57 (twenty years ago)

It's just scary that she didn't seem anything like I remembered her. I didn't think I was that drunk. But I thought she was nice then, and yet tonight she just didn't seem to be, much.

― JimD (JimD), Monday, 15 August 2005 20:58 (twenty years ago)

Hey man! Still offended by the whole New Balance thing? Well, I'll leave you to your New Balance sneakers and your english accent experience.

― deej.., Monday, 15 August 2005 20:58 (twenty years ago)

yeah, i'm offended actually. that's what happens when you say offensive things. people get offended.

― sittin here la la waitin for my ya ya (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 15 August 2005 21:00 (twenty years ago)

This happened me once before, I didn't arrange a date with the girl though, I flirted outrageously with her and then the next time I saw her I realised I didn't like her at all and took a vow of silence for the evening.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 15 August 2005 21:00 (twenty years ago)

Pardon me, dear boy, but could you direct me to a quality cathouse full to the brim with eager young fillies? That would be absolutely capital.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Monday, 15 August 2005 21:00 (twenty years ago)

"that SAUF LAHNDAN bird looks fit in those new balance sneakers."

― deej.., Monday, 15 August 2005 21:01 (twenty years ago)

Or was it more Mike Skinner -

geezers on some of that homegrown
paper scissors or stone
this is my zone
WHERE'S THE FACKIN' BROTHELS?

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Monday, 15 August 2005 21:02 (twenty years ago)

its strange, though, that when you saw her at the party she was probably a bit liquored up, and she was quieter then

are you sure you got the right girl's number?

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Monday, 15 August 2005 21:02 (twenty years ago)

things i know about myself thanks to deej: "being american," i'm a myopic ignoramus who is unaware of any culture outside the u.s.a., and also i'm an indie loser because i bought a pair of sneakers that i'm happy with.

― sittin here la la waitin for my ya ya (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 15 August 2005 21:03 (twenty years ago)

are you sure you got the right girl's number?

Oh god I hope so, her friend was hideous... :/

― JimD (JimD), Monday, 15 August 2005 21:03 (twenty years ago)

Don't forget about how I identified your inability to take a joke.

― deej.., Monday, 15 August 2005 21:04 (twenty years ago)

omg you're not going to pull that one, are you? typical: "hi, i'm a troll, but if someone gets offended by my trolling, i'm going to tell them they have no sense of humor."

― sittin here la la waitin for my ya ya (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 15 August 2005 21:05 (twenty years ago)

sorry for the thread derailment jimd, please continue.

― sittin here la la waitin for my ya ya (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 15 August 2005 21:07 (twenty years ago)

No one asked you to take my bored at work jokes seriously, playa! I'm not trying to 'troll.'

― deej.., Monday, 15 August 2005 21:08 (twenty years ago)

I could just pretend to be sick and cancel, I guess. Though this thread will probably turn out more fun if I go along.

― JimD (JimD), Monday, 15 August 2005 21:08 (twenty years ago)

(I mean jesus I thought my ignant american act was a bit over the top but regardless amusing and i'm not sure why you're so easily offended by it, or my jibes about New Balance sneakers, which really did give me blisters! Of all the ways to make enemies on this board...)

(xp)

― deej.., Monday, 15 August 2005 21:12 (twenty years ago)

Can I 'accidentally' bump into you at the date location?

― marianna lcl (marianna lcl), Monday, 15 August 2005 21:13 (twenty years ago)

To rescue me, or just to have a nosy? :)

― JimD (JimD), Monday, 15 August 2005 21:26 (twenty years ago)

You MUST go and tell us all about it after the fact. The phone call may have just been a bad fluke, and the date might be a dream. Or, you can ask for our sympathy if it all goes horribly wrong.

― Wiggy (Wiggy), Monday, 15 August 2005 21:30 (twenty years ago)

A little of both, but mostly the former. I would also like to test whether or not, upon first meeting her, she acted demurely towards me.

― marianna lcl (marianna lcl), Monday, 15 August 2005 21:30 (twenty years ago)

Some people just aren't great on the phone. On the other hand, I am amazing on the phone but a total fucking bitch in real life!

It's just one date, if it doesn't work out, you can leave it at that.

― Penelope_111 (Penelope_111), Monday, 15 August 2005 21:41 (twenty years ago)

Jim, go and then suddenly escape. (Also complete apologies for forgetting you helped direct me back to Waterloo one evening on the trip! My brain was fogged.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 15 August 2005 21:42 (twenty years ago)

what the fuck is new balance dude's problem???

all american girls think that all english dudes speak like hugh grant. it's true, i met one and she told me.

― beatles fan, Monday, 15 August 2005 21:45 (twenty years ago)

and she prounced leicester "lye-chest-er"!!

― beatles fan, Monday, 15 August 2005 21:45 (twenty years ago)

i think jbr is overreacting, though. i don't think deej meant "all americans are myopic ignoramuses about british culture," i think he meant "being american, i'm far less likely to understand the intricacies and connotations of british regional accents than someone who's native to the area." which is totally true!! i mean, if you disagree with that, then you're just trying to prove how much you know about british culture, which is all very good and respectable, but isn't really the point.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 15 August 2005 21:49 (twenty years ago)

omg, what if it really was her flatmate on the phone? Maybe the date will be like a Three's Company episode!
xpost, I guess

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Monday, 15 August 2005 21:51 (twenty years ago)

Robin Carmody made fun of me on ILM for saying that "as a British" I'd never heard many Kiss or Night Ranger songs!

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Monday, 15 August 2005 21:54 (twenty years ago)

My brain was fogged

haha, fogged with BEER! :)

Ok, I'll be brave, and go. She'll no doubt turn out to be lovely, and we'll get together, and stay together, and get married, and be happy, and then one day she'll see this thread and I'll get dumped and then I'll be sorry won't I, eh?

― JimD (JimD), Monday, 15 August 2005 22:24 (twenty years ago)

Be brave, good luck!
I wonder how often this works the other way, as in, you're drunk at a party and start talking to someone who is just a total asshole yet somehow (beer fog!) you give them your phone number or they give you theirs and then when you talk on the phone they're totally sweet and polite. And the date goes well, etc, etc. (and... I just realized that this is why I don't like to get drunk on beer. It is obnoxious-asshole-in-full-flirt-mode fuel, for me.)

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Monday, 15 August 2005 22:31 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, whatever. Go along. If she's horrible, make your excuses and leave after a beer. Who knows. Maybe she doesn't like phones - I often come across as a cunt if people ring me, just because I feel so awkward being on the phone. Oh, wait, I am a cunt. Never mind.

Ach. If it's awful, you can always report back with amusing stories to entertain us.

Maybe she'll turn out to not be single after all, like Logged Out's date!

― Mrs. Cranky (From Crankytown) (kate), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 06:58 (twenty years ago)

Arrgh I'm almost in the same situation, except instead of South London she's from Birmingham and I'm supposed to meet her tomorrow or something.

I have some video I shot of us the other night where I kissed her a bit and stuff. She's nice and all, but I just don't much fancy doing anything else with her. I was drunk and enthusiastic for sex, and she professed an intense desire to have sex with me which I reciprocated. Now I'm all like "err sorry I don't really much fancy having sex with you anymore it was just the alcohol" and she's been emailing me and oh god what have I done!!!

― Andrew (enneff), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 07:48 (twenty years ago)

When I say "some video I shot of us the other night where I kissed her a bit and stuff" I literally mean kissed her.. yes it was shot with night vision but no it doesn't qualify as porn. And no I'm not uploading it!!

― Andrew (enneff), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 07:49 (twenty years ago)

Dear mr not logged out..

She didn't give you her friends number? A-A-J?

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 07:56 (twenty years ago)

This thread and the other thread just make me never want to meet anyone, ever again.

Now I'm not even going to ever give my phone number to anyone (not that anyone has even asked in months) for fear that whoever it is will just change their mind as soon as they sober up. :-(

― Mrs. Cranky (From Crankytown) (kate), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 07:59 (twenty years ago)

I have some video I shot of us the other night where I kissed her a bit and stuff.

is this something people do these days?

― N_RQ, Tuesday, 16 August 2005 08:05 (twenty years ago)

these kids of today eh?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 08:06 (twenty years ago)

i mean, you met the girl for the first time that evening, put a move on, and then 'ok, we're rollin''?

― N_RQ, Tuesday, 16 August 2005 08:08 (twenty years ago)

what's that called, "Happy Copping"? xpost

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 08:08 (twenty years ago)

What's the big fetish for "sweet and demure" girls anyway?

And was she *aware* that you were filming her?

― Mrs. Cranky (From Crankytown) (kate), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 08:10 (twenty years ago)

i mean, you met the girl for the first time that evening, put a move on, and then 'ok, we're rollin''?

and

And was she *aware* that you were filming her?

No no no no I knew this would be misinterpreted. We were out at this bizarre nightclub in Laos, and I got my camera out to film some of the Lay kids busting their moves to american rnb, and then I was filming the friends that I was with and the girl decided to give me a big smooch while the camera was pointed at us.

― Andrew (enneff), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 08:14 (twenty years ago)

I only mentioned the video because it is my only real means of remembering accurately what it was like that night. Taking video on a drunken night out can be mighty disturbing, and has been the cause of a couple of personality crises endured by myself and other friends of mine. (ie "What the hell?! I did what?! Oh my...")

― Andrew (enneff), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 08:16 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, this is a problem with digital cameras and cameraphones. Stuff that happens when you're drunk and should really be left in the bleary netherlands of "I don't remember" gets exhumed and overhauled in the cold light of day.

I've only ever been filmed drunk once in my life, (by some annoying film students at art school) and I was shocked. Firstly, because it was proof positive that I really do sound *incredibly* English when I'm drunk. And also because I was, slightly more worryingly, earnestly interviewing a piece of fried chicken at the time.

Ah well. Can't you just pull the "I'm sorry, I was hideously drunk, and... I HAVE A GIRLFRIEND!!!" line and spare yourselves the horror?

― Mrs. Cranky (From Crankytown) (kate), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 08:25 (twenty years ago)

I've had variations on the "Sorry, I've got a boyfriend," line used on me twice in the past few months, and both times I was really pissed off and upset by it, so that's out. I think I'm going to have to use the truth, however painful it is to deliver.

It's funny that you should sound English when you're drunk. I've found that I start sounding more and more American the drunker I get. Ugh.

― Andrew (enneff), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 08:29 (twenty years ago)

I get more Mancunian when drunk. I'm not a manc in the slightest.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 08:30 (twenty years ago)

The "you're talking English" phenomenon is well documented. Sigh.

― Mrs. Cranky (From Crankytown) (kate), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 08:31 (twenty years ago)

i was filmed drunk, once, 'playing' electric guitar w/o a pick and bleeding everywhere. it was quite upsetting.

― N_RQ, Tuesday, 16 August 2005 08:36 (twenty years ago)

I dunno - I'd find the "I don't really fancy you when I'm sober" excuse *FAR* more upsetting than the "I've got a boyfriend/girlfriend" excuse.

(Maybe despite everything, I'd actually prefer to be lied to. Or maybe that just says more about my own particular situation at the moment.)

― Mrs. Cranky (From Crankytown) (kate), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 08:39 (twenty years ago)

I've seen you drunk a few times, Kate, and would never have claimed that you were talking English. An English accent, maybe.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 08:43 (twenty years ago)

(It is a think that equally drunk people tend to say *to* me - one's grasp of grammatical concepts is not quite so strong at such times.)

― Mrs. Cranky (From Crankytown) (kate), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 08:44 (twenty years ago)

She didn't give you her friends number? A-A-J?

Well, I doubt it, since her friend was intently pursuing one of my other mates...

What's the big fetish for "sweet and demure" girls anyway?

Who said it was a big fetish? I usually go for the opposite. It's just what she happened to be like, though.

― JimD (JimD), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 10:36 (twenty years ago)

So, it wasn't the sweet, demure loner girl from the last time I saw you, Jim?

― BARMS, Tuesday, 16 August 2005 12:54 (twenty years ago)

"Sweet and demure" girls are usually/sometimes good for dirty/wild sex.

― David Merryweather Goes To Far (scarlet), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 13:10 (twenty years ago)

I don't understand what the problem is with the accent. Many years ago I went out with a gil from Cannin' Taaaaaaahn for a while and the accent never bothered me at all.

Mind you, my own accent is a strange amalgam of all the very worst aspects of Cockernee and Baaaarksh'r'....

"Some people just aren't great on the phone. On the other hand, I am amazing on the phone but a total fucking bitch in real life!"

Apparently I sound extremely posh on the 'phone.

"I was drunk and enthusiastic for sex, and she professed an intense desire to have sex with me which I reciprocated."

Is it just me is does this narrative leave at least one hugely obvious, frankly enormous question unanswered?

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 14:16 (twenty years ago)

I think the word 'anymore' in the next sentence may by the key to theis mystery.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 14:33 (twenty years ago)

But the word "anymore" comes after the word "now"

What's happening "now" is clear, it's what did or didn't happen then that intrigues me!

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 14:55 (twenty years ago)

B - no, no, no...

I don't understand what the problem is with the accent.

Well, It wasn't the accent so much as the tone of voice really. I mean I can hardly get sniffy about accents with my yorkshire/manc mix.

BUT! I just spoke to her again, and she sounded...well, a bit nicer this time. Meeting her in about an hour. Fingers crossed!

― JimD (JimD), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 15:21 (twenty years ago)

Good luck, dude, and if it all goes wrong, I got a .38 and a shovel.

― BARMS, Tuesday, 16 August 2005 15:26 (twenty years ago)

blimey, remind me not to go on a date with you barms :S

― ambrose (ambrose), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 17:26 (twenty years ago)

Noone ever knows what my accent is. People in London know it's from Up North somewhere, but people here think it sounds posh and southern. When I lived in Scotland, Scottish people would ask me which part of Scotland my accent was from.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 19:20 (twenty years ago)

WHO CARES ABOUT THIS THREAD? I JUST WANNA SEE PEEPZ BUSTIN MOVES ON THE DANCEFLOOR

― I'm Hi, Jared Fogle (ex machina), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 19:59 (twenty years ago)

Hmmm. It's been 4hours since he was supposed to meet her...

― Craig Gilchrist (Craig Gilchrist), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 20:11 (twenty years ago)

This would seem to indicate that all is going either very well or extremely badly.

― moley, Tuesday, 16 August 2005 20:36 (twenty years ago)

they are humpin' like fiends

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 20:37 (twenty years ago)

but is he alive?

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 20:41 (twenty years ago)

If he is, does he wish he wasn't?

― Craig Gilchrist (Craig Gilchrist), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 20:47 (twenty years ago)

they are humpin' like friends

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 20:49 (twenty years ago)

They are fiendin' like humps.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 20:51 (twenty years ago)

they are struggling with the video equipment

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 20:53 (twenty years ago)

im trying to think up a clever rhyme.. to do with humpin'.. and I'm not clever enough.

dan perry?

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 20:55 (twenty years ago)

Contrary to popular opinion, "Dan Perry" does not rhyme with "humpin'".

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 20:57 (twenty years ago)

Tho' her accent was lumpen
Her bones he was jumpin'
And all through the dalliance
She wore her new bal(i)ance.

― Beth Parker, Wednesday, 17 August 2005 01:46 (twenty years ago)

the harridan may have been scary
for no reason here's dan perry

― jimmy glass (electricsound), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 01:57 (twenty years ago)

and as he was popping her SARF LAAAHNDAN cherry
he saw not her face but the face of Dan Perry

― Beth Parker, Wednesday, 17 August 2005 02:03 (twenty years ago)

the mirror, the mens room, i'm saying a prayer
top gear got me thinkin' bout her top on the chair
pissed up, pilled up, right wobbly and lairy
the more i put back, the less her accent seems scary
so me pants gives me a brain a firm little shove
and i'm all 'shall we take this to mine or yours, love?'
she tickles my palm while she plays with her hair
and in the cab heading home she puts my hands there
we fumble and tumble so i shut off my phone
and i'm wishing for big things when i catch a wishbone
i cant even speak now cause of whats in my hand
im gutted and sick cause that bird was a... DAN

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 02:42 (twenty years ago)

Ill-fitting shoes
will give you a bruise
but a peacock-voiced maiden
will give you the blues

Her chalkboard-scratch warblings
your eardrums will scour
You’ll be deaf as a lamppost
inside of an hour

But when all's said and done
at the end of the day
The sages and mystics are all known to say
tis better to wed a ill-sounding harridan
than to unwittingly bed an unsightly hairy dan.

― Beth Parker, Wednesday, 17 August 2005 02:51 (twenty years ago)

Beg pardon, Dan Perry, for conduct appalling,
like pitbulls indulging in pekinese mauling
though we've not been introduced,
the dogs of doggerel have been loosed.

― Beth Parker, Wednesday, 17 August 2005 03:10 (twenty years ago)

the suspense is killing me

― matlewis (matlewis), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 04:09 (twenty years ago)

We'll find out soon. I hope. All these dates last night!

(I'm hoping that the nastiness was just pre-date jitters. And that they end up getting together. And then at some point when she's lying around his boudoir and he's left the interweb open, she looks at this thread and goes... AAARRRGGGGHHHH!!!)

― Mrs. Cranky (From Crankytown) (kate), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 07:04 (twenty years ago)

Hi Kate! I was sure the new message was JimD reporting back!

― estela (estela), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 07:08 (twenty years ago)

And then at some point when she's lying around his boudoir and he's left the interweb open, she looks at this thread and goes... AAARRRGGGGHHHH!!!

ILX = Relationship death.

(I was trying to explain ILX to some friends yesterday. They looked intrigued, but in a slightly scared way)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 07:09 (twenty years ago)

ILX isn't necessarily relationship death. Joe used to really get off on being talked about on ILX, and would sort of strut around the flat going "HSA!!! HSA!!!" and pointing to himself.

(Ugh, sorry, it actually pains me to type those initials now.)

― Mrs. Cranky (From Crankytown) (kate), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 07:12 (twenty years ago)

Awwww.

(but then, he *was* a masochist)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 07:19 (twenty years ago)

(I was trying to explain ILX to some friends yesterday. They looked intrigued, but in a slightly scared way)

Ha. Mrs No4 treats ILX with the unbridled suspicion it may deserve, but the fact that she now realises that she knows lovely people IRL who happen to post here, has relaxed her opinion a little.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 07:43 (twenty years ago)

A broInLaw spends some time on an online game/board site. "pseud"onyms abound . My Wife's dad: "Anybody could be on there. It could be Osama Bin Laden! The police could be round his (i.e. bil) house to raid his PC any time!"

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 07:49 (twenty years ago)

I'm so unimpressed that we haven't had an update yet. This is why I logged on this morning.

― Come Back Johnny B (Johnney B), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 07:51 (twenty years ago)

Maybe it was so bad that he just doesn't want to talk about it...

...or maybe it was so good that they're still Getting It Awn.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 07:52 (twenty years ago)

(God, we are such busybodies!)

― Win A Lie-Down, Mrs. Davies (kate), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 07:54 (twenty years ago)

If I ever go on a date* I'm too suspicious to tell anyone beforehand anyway, in case I get jinxed.

* yeah, like that ever actually happens.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 07:57 (twenty years ago)

Hello

― JimD (JimD), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 08:25 (twenty years ago)

I never read it. Terrible magazine.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 08:29 (twenty years ago)

slept in, then?
xpost not even the Neil Sedaka article this week?

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 08:31 (twenty years ago)

It cannot possibly be as good as my Neil Sedaka article. What does he think of Goldfrapp then?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 08:36 (twenty years ago)

I'm back. It was fine, she was...fine. And, um, that's about it really, there's no exciting story. Except that maybe I need to have a think about how my class attitudes have become warped. Cos, you know, I'm a northern, working class, council estate reared lad, and should be fine getting on with people from a similar background, but in fact, if I'm honest, once we'd met up last night part of me started thinking "aw jeez, she's uneducated! We're not going to have anything in common and everything I talk about is going to sound wanky!". Which was a) unfounded (she knew much more about art and theatre than me, I knew more about big brother than her, and we both like Koyaanisqatsi), and b) fucked up! I should still have been fine even if that hadn't been the case. Not sure when my attitudes changed, it seems to have happened without me noticing.

Anyway. It was pleasant enough, nothing special though. At the end of the night I went to give her a hug, and she went to kiss me. But I've got a nasty sore throat, so I wouldn't have kissed her even if I'd wanted to.

― JimD (JimD), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 08:37 (twenty years ago)

Ah, well. I'm glad it was OK, even if it was nothing special.

(I am actually really interested in the class attitudes in dating within/without one's own (perceived or actual) class, but I'd get shot down in flames if I started a thread like that.)

― Win A Lie-Down, Mrs. Davies (kate), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 08:43 (twenty years ago)

Neil is very much concerned about the reduction in melody over the past few years.

(The thing is, I'm actually not kidding about this. Check! (The new Hello might be out in Lon, so check the one with Price umm thingy on the front))

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 08:43 (twenty years ago)

Neil Sedaka was at one time desperate to work with the KLF.

He's just had a number one! What's he got to moan about?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 08:46 (twenty years ago)

(perceived or actual) class, but I'd get shot down in flames if I started a thread like that.)

DO IT KATE. I for one would have plenty (of meaningless doggerel) to contribute.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 08:49 (twenty years ago)

I don't dare. Honestly.

― Win A Lie-Down, Mrs. Davies (kate), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 08:53 (twenty years ago)

Frankly I am extremely disappointed by this feebly anti-climactic ending.

After all the build-up I really think you owed it to us to report that either:

a) she had turned out to be the love of your life and you were off to start a new life together on a sun-kissed beach; or
b) she had turned out to be an insatiable nymphomaniac and you had only just managed to crawl to the computer on your way back from the toilet and were just about to return to pleasuring her in a bewildering variety of differemt possitions; or
c) she had turned out to be a completely deranged psychotic maniac and you'd spent the entire night fighting her off and were just off to casualty to get stitches in all the wounds she'd inflicted.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 08:57 (twenty years ago)

I know which of these options I'd go for!

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 08:59 (twenty years ago)

Which, Marcello? do b and c amount to the same thing?

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 09:00 (twenty years ago)

I know which I'd prefer, and I also knoe which I'd prefer to read about. hint: they're not the same.

Yeh, dating outside of class/education is an awfully interesting subject - it shouldn't matter (all my best gfs have been Annie Hall to my Woody Allen) but there's always something lurking in your brane that tells you to mind out.

― Come Back Johnny B (Johnney B), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 09:02 (twenty years ago)

Frankly I am extremely disappointed by this feebly anti-climactic ending.

Guess what, so was I.

― JimD (JimD), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 09:05 (twenty years ago)

Best to stick to your own station in life, as Sid told Tony in Hancock's Half Hour ("You see my father was a bus conductor...it was hopeless from the start...her father was the driver...there was ten bob a week difference straight away").

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 09:07 (twenty years ago)

"Guess what, so was I."

There you go again, only thinking of yourself as usual, never mind how we feel or what we want out of this relationship.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 09:21 (twenty years ago)

he's seeing someone else, too.

― g-kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 09:23 (twenty years ago)

I like the way everyone on the thread is now turning into a scary harridan.

― estela (estela), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 09:34 (twenty years ago)

I wonder how often this works the other way, as in, you're drunk at a party and start talking to someone who is just a total asshole yet somehow (beer fog!) you give them your phone number or they give you theirs and then when you talk on the phone they're totally sweet and polite. And the date goes well, etc, etc.

Hah! That happened to me recently! I was stalked by this really drunk guy, who bugged me, I hated him and was really rude to him, but he wouldn't give up, and in the end, after about a million drinks, I kind of gave in and snogged him! And then reluctantly went on a date, and he turned out to be really sweet great guy! Haha we won't get married and have kids tho.

― Hanna (Hanna), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 10:55 (twenty years ago)

tell the story about the bill! that adds some drama...

― colette (a2lette), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 11:01 (twenty years ago)

after about a million drinks
only a million? Lightweight!

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 11:18 (twenty years ago)

(xpost)

You think? Well yeah, we were in a bar on the river which seemed really vague about table service, sometimes they brought us drinks, other times they ignored us for hours on end. At the end of the night we sat for maybe ten minutes waiting for anyone to walk past who we might be able to pay, and nobody seemed to be around. So we just got up and left, and wandered down the riverside feeling naughty and giggling and stuff. And I think I said something like "ha, I feel really paranoid now, I keep assuming those running footsteps behind us must be somebody coming to get us"...and then it turned out that it was somebody coming to get us. We got accosted by two embarrassed and flustered looking waitresses who'd chased us about 250 yards, and had to cough up the £11 we owed.

― JimD (JimD), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 11:26 (twenty years ago)

Heh, almost that exact scenario happened on my first 'date' with Matt - so it's obviously a good omen and you will eventually get married!

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 11:31 (twenty years ago)

Gulp!

― JimD (JimD), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 11:32 (twenty years ago)

The only time I've ever done anything like that, I was out with my brother! (Except we actually got away without paying. I mean, we made every *attempt* to pay, but no one wanted to bring us a cheque or take our money.) I certainly hope I'm not going to marry my brother - we're not *that* posh.

― Win A Lie-Down, Mrs. Davies (kate), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 11:50 (twenty years ago)

I like the way everyone on the thread is now turning into a scary harridan.
There's a reason we made
the internet choice
Online no one hears
our horrible voice

She may squawk like a guinea hen
sing like a lark
But a first date is never
a walk in the park

But just so she won't ever
call for your head
is there some way you can
neatly shit-can this thread?

― Beth Parker, Wednesday, 17 August 2005 11:57 (twenty years ago)

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