fond memories of P4ul H34ton allegedly fending off Poll Tax bailiffs with an air rifle from his Grafton Street mansion
― fat balls for wild birds (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 19 February 2011 12:47 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sNffR-yTA4
our civic anthem
reckon a goatfucker or similar on the sound bridge would put achill on the map
Ok, on phone, in body lotion section of an actual irl fancy dept store, and my full attn is required. Continue at yr own pace will check validity of the remainder of thread later
― Achillean Heel (darraghmac), Saturday, 19 February 2011 12:48 (thirteen years ago) link
suddenly I have Depeche Mode's "Just Can't Get Enough" with the lyric changed to "Just Can't Get It Up" stuck in my head as a good idea for a Weird Al song
― fat balls for wild birds (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 19 February 2011 12:49 (thirteen years ago) link
am not even dressed yet but gotta admit the water on the windows did inspire a bit of "oh sweet (not)..." earlier. mostly just glad to be the not at work though evne if this afternoon fails in my quest to do anything productive 4th week running.
lucky I have the new Radiohead album to listen to, high spirits ahead!
― side splitting genital based username (fndgo), Saturday, 19 February 2011 12:49 (thirteen years ago) link
"body lotion section" is boggling and lol
dude are you stuck in Dublin now I forget?
― fat balls for wild birds (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 19 February 2011 12:50 (thirteen years ago) link
i am inspired by people's not liking of the new Radionhead, and people saying it is all low key and tune-light, those are excellent qualities in a Radionhead rekkid to my mind
toothpaste aisle? I kind of love and hate Big Tesco
― side splitting genital based username (fndgo), Saturday, 19 February 2011 12:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Big Tesco has some great shit in it but I hardly go in any more, also it feels like a chore to trek all the way to the back of it, also the bastards took the pork and pickle pies off the deli counter
― fat balls for wild birds (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 19 February 2011 12:52 (thirteen years ago) link
conventional pork pies don't do it for me any more, i need pickle in there or i need to be at home where i can smother that shit in mustard
― fat balls for wild birds (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 19 February 2011 12:53 (thirteen years ago) link
something 50 Cent-ish about that last line
― side splitting genital based username (fndgo), Saturday, 19 February 2011 12:54 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQR0JgJO74s
This, btw gentlemen, is a FUCKING TUNE
is there much C&W on the Queen's jukebox, i don't remember and i feel a need? also lol my wife is gonna kill me hooray
― fat balls for wild birds (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 19 February 2011 12:55 (thirteen years ago) link
jesus no not in dublin ffs
Tho i have days, god help me, it almost tempts as a final surrender
― Achillean Heel (darraghmac), Saturday, 19 February 2011 12:55 (thirteen years ago) link
Pringles don't seem to do Wasabi flavour or Lime and Chilli flavour any more, I am a bit heartbroken, bastards
Marty Robbins fucking rules
― fat balls for wild birds (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 19 February 2011 12:56 (thirteen years ago) link
wot big city u exiled in then D?
and why have we got no ice cube bags in the house bollocks
― fat balls for wild birds (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 19 February 2011 12:57 (thirteen years ago) link
so tempted to text my eldest boy for a sesh but ah hell i'm gonna fuck this
― fat balls for wild birds (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 19 February 2011 12:59 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm gonna. full stop. fuck this
nearest big city is an hour south, not sure galway is as big as hull tho?
― Achillean Heel (darraghmac), Saturday, 19 February 2011 12:59 (thirteen years ago) link
not been to galway. i wd guess not, seeing as how Letterkenny is a teeming metropolis and it's about the size of the pit village i grew up in
― fat balls for wild birds (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 19 February 2011 13:01 (thirteen years ago) link
it's what saturday is for! x-post...boozing i meant.
am about to get up and cook an omelette with some pancetta. might hold off boozing till this evening. have a lovely bottle of wine in the fridge tho...
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Saturday, 19 February 2011 13:02 (thirteen years ago) link
dammit my eldest has gone to his mother's for the weekend the twat
― fat balls for wild birds (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 19 February 2011 13:03 (thirteen years ago) link
the boy, not his mum. we get along fine
just made a Snowball, feels mad decadent in February.
think it's Merle Haggard time
― fat balls for wild birds (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 19 February 2011 13:05 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XeBn3AXeUc
― fat balls for wild birds (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 19 February 2011 13:07 (thirteen years ago) link
suspect that having a drink is gonna be took for being drunk, may need to flee the scene when i've done this snowball, badly need somebody to txt and give me an excuse
― fat balls for wild birds (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 19 February 2011 13:13 (thirteen years ago) link
the fact that there doesn't seem to be a Youtube of Merle's version of "Wishing All These Old Things Were New" is sort of a national disgrace.
― fat balls for wild birds (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 19 February 2011 13:16 (thirteen years ago) link
it's funny, in my head i'm 20 but in the mirror i'm a fat old cunt
― fat balls for wild birds (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 19 February 2011 13:17 (thirteen years ago) link
OH THE IRONY OF MORTALITY
― fat balls for wild birds (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 19 February 2011 13:18 (thirteen years ago) link
there's something out there that's not in here, but i don't think anybody knows what it is, for two gross of broken statues, for a few thousand battered books. it's a poor do really. don't think we've made the best of the situation as a species
― fat balls for wild birds (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 19 February 2011 13:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Hi Noodle. John Terry tried to do a stepover in the corner a minute ago, kicked the ball onto his standing leg and out for a goal kick. Blue Saturday nothing.
― Ismael Klata, Saturday, 19 February 2011 13:28 (thirteen years ago) link
:D
― fat balls for wild birds (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 19 February 2011 13:29 (thirteen years ago) link
there mayn't be a god, but karma has a sharp sense of humour sometimes
― fat balls for wild birds (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 19 February 2011 13:30 (thirteen years ago) link
thx for inspiring me to start my day with some non-alignment pact
― Roberto Spiralli, Saturday, 19 February 2011 13:30 (thirteen years ago) link
i used to have a thing about how people from hull should fuck off our philip larkin but i have recently begun to wonder if hull needs him more than cov does. yr thoughts?
― Roberto Spiralli, Saturday, 19 February 2011 13:32 (thirteen years ago) link
i think cov probly needs him a little more, i've never found it an inspirational place whereas hull wd be hull with or without big Phil Silvers. they put a statue of him up in the train station now. to be fair he did all his useful work here and he seems to have felt at home in the place whilst still feeling not at home. only Cov poem I can remember is based on the train station platform i think? could be wrong.
― fat balls for wild birds (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 19 February 2011 13:35 (thirteen years ago) link
Hull already has a decent claim to Douglas Dunn, Peter Didsbury, maybe Seaon O'Brien and now David Wheatley. Think Cov needs Larkin more tbh.
― Stevie T, Saturday, 19 February 2011 13:37 (thirteen years ago) link
thing is, as i say, he's obviously a Hull poet in a way that he totally isn't about Cov
― fat balls for wild birds (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 19 February 2011 13:39 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, tbh he was rid of cov as soon as he could be and never looked back.
triggered a memory of some 'celebrating coventry' bullshit that the city put on, the main element of which seemed to be putting up lots of those lampost banner things in town with pictures of famous coventrians. the highlight of the whole thing was an oversized poster with an artist's rending of sir frank whittle with one arm around pip larkin and the other pointing to the skies. i loved my city that day.
― Roberto Spiralli, Saturday, 19 February 2011 13:42 (thirteen years ago) link
ah, we sure do love us some engineering in the midlands
― fat balls for wild birds (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 19 February 2011 13:43 (thirteen years ago) link
"artist's rending of sir frank whittle" - typo would've been even better than the real thing
― Roberto Spiralli, Saturday, 19 February 2011 13:44 (thirteen years ago) link
things I remember about Cov: weird elephant-shaped gym by the bus station, some kind of car museum nearby too, heavily graffitied Specials-era train bridge on the way out of town, ring road, cathedral, couple of Tudor houses and a plaque, pubs not great tbh
― fat balls for wild birds (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 19 February 2011 13:46 (thirteen years ago) link
the train bridge out of town into earlsdon is still there and still the same as far as i'm aware, although of course there is also a shopping centre underneath it now. v entertaining graffiti, one of the main cultural achievements of the city. fragment of my childhood. elephant-shaped sports centre with olympic sized pool i have found to be the main reason that people from elsewhere have been to cov. pubs still shite.
did you actually live in cov or juss lemmy spa?
― Roberto Spiralli, Saturday, 19 February 2011 13:52 (thirteen years ago) link
neither, my first wife grew up in Leamington and lived in Cov for a couple of years after we broke up, used to travel there to see the boy on the reg
― fat balls for wild birds (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 19 February 2011 13:53 (thirteen years ago) link
you always lived in hull, noodle vague?
does grandways still exist?
― utterfilth (whatever), Saturday, 19 February 2011 13:57 (thirteen years ago) link
good thread btw
― utterfilth (whatever), Saturday, 19 February 2011 13:58 (thirteen years ago) link
nah i grew up in a small town called Rugeley in Staffordshire, my fam are almost exclusively Black Country based, i came to uni in Hull in 87 and have stayed here since.
Grandways changed back to Jacksons, or was bought out by them, and then Jacksons sold the shops to Sainsburys a few years back, kept the Jacksons brand on the shop signs until last year and now they are just shitty Sainsburys. Jacksons bakery is still going strong tho.
― fat balls for wild birds (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 19 February 2011 14:00 (thirteen years ago) link
y/n: lenny henry has propelled you thru a canal tunnel with his legs, the quintessential experience of black country life
― Roberto Spiralli, Saturday, 19 February 2011 14:03 (thirteen years ago) link
tragically no, i have never even been to that Banks's Bitter 19th Century Aynoch and Ayli Museum Experience thing
― fat balls for wild birds (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 19 February 2011 14:05 (thirteen years ago) link
oh it's Aynuk and Ayli apparent
I have more problems with the present I think: eg often instead of enjoying this present moment, I’m so often cranky and irritable from the indignities of life and unable to relax despite my best intentions and the knowledge that I’m just sabotaging myself.
― Dr Drudge (Bob Six), Saturday, 1 July 2023 14:58 (eleven months ago) link
well yeah, that's one of the reasons it seemed best to mostly abandon this thread
i'm weirded out sometimes now by what feels almost like performing my age. it probably doesn't belong on the pile of things that are actually bad and make me sad tho
― orcas who sign their posts like it's a freaking email (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 1 July 2023 15:00 (eleven months ago) link
akshully maybe the majority of things that are making me sad now are things that people in their mid-fifties don't have to deal with if they made better life choices than me
― orcas who sign their posts like it's a freaking email (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 1 July 2023 15:03 (eleven months ago) link
Sometimes when I’m half awake I think of a pleasant memory from 20 years ago and it puts me in a nice relaxed state and I fall back asleep
i wonder if we can all do this but forget that we can do it when we're too focused on the downers
― orcas who sign their posts like it's a freaking email (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 1 July 2023 15:07 (eleven months ago) link
Houellebecq wrote in one of his worst novels when ruminating on nostalgia that the present is like an "abscess of suffering" we have to drag about with us, caught between the infinities of happiness and peace that are the past and the future. It was one of them beautifully concise lines of writing that rung a bell with me at the time and stuck with me, wasn't so sure about him including the future in this though!
― calzino, Saturday, 1 July 2023 17:04 (eleven months ago) link