Work Munchies

although it's so cold in the office today that i might be drinking hot cocoa all day just to keep warm!

*slurps 3rd cup of coffee*

Like Robster I tend to munch more when work is, or I am, slow.

that said, if there's biccies in the office, i'll sit and stuff my face.

hello archel. and mark.

*hugs hobart*

Great, i'm hungry now.

last night i saw the WONDERSTUFF. and my impressions were confirmed that

1. i don't really LIKE the wonderstuff all that much
2. a lot of wonderstuff fans (or people who go to wonderstuff gigs in the west midlands, at least) are wankers
3. voice of the beehive were GRATE... (they were the support)

ooh...a hug...just what i needed..

oh - should i be staying on topic here or are deviations allowed?

err...i'm about to eat a banana. and go for a cup of green tea.

Also it satisfies my work-eye-hungries as the girl near the water cooler is gorgeous.

nostalgia is a strange thing, isn't it? it can only be the fact that things seem better in retrospect that allow people like mr. hunt and co to play an ARENA. ten years of listening to them (very) sporadically had convinced me that i actually liked them a lot more than i remembered liking them.
apparently, that isn't the case.

(*mwah* to Kate)

on topic: Pret a Manger's baked doughnuts - only 160 calories each! And so light and fluffy you have to stop them floating away.

Grrr, I'm cranky, I wonder if it's too early to go to lunch.

is that condescending, or just having my own tastes? surely its no more condescending than having a go at someone for liking belle and sebastian?

goodness, you're very angry, aren't you? i do apologise for daring to have different musical tastes from yours.

'simpering twee pabulum'???

i'm just not even going to START on that.

okay, i apologise for (inadvertently) offending you by making that comment about duran duran. i take issue with the way you chose to make your point, but, ultimately, that's your choice.

i don't consider loving my bands 'admitting to liking', no. i'm aware that lots of other people do. equally, apparently you don't consider loving your bands 'admitting to liking' either.

perhaps that makes us equally bad?

(NB I am offering myself up as someone for you to turn on together - join forces to fight the greater enemy, if you will)

I like Belle and Sebastian and I like Duran Duran and I have often inner struggles to try and take sides between these two rival bands.

Duran Duran = band still going but one that is limping feebly on, fuelled by eighties nostalgiacs, having not released any good records since, I don't know, Meet El Presidente in 1987.

I am not going to see Belle & Sebastian - tickets 17.50?! Jaysus the Edge (also I forgot they were on and haven't heard the new album and and - I'm not getting away with it am I).

I do not really munch although today I brought in MINCE PIES for everyone! My office is surprisingly un-gannet-like and 6 still remain from pack of 12 cor blimey eh. ALL THE MORE FOR ME.

I drink a lot of water at work but rarely eat. My fruitbowl remains empty most days. Hmm.

2 Packets of Quavers
3 Cans of Light 7up
An apple
I packet of M&S Percy Pig & Pals
Chicken CupaSoups
1 pkt Chocolate Buttons
1 pkt White Chocolate Buttons
A finger of Fudge
2 baby toffee crisps
2 baby aeros
A pear

I'm such a pig! Although it's meant to last for weeks and weeks and I do share, a lot :0)

I hope santa buys me a vending machine for xmas.

German xmas food = better than any other country's. (Pannattone - WTF?)

kate. i'm sorry i offended you by suggesting you should apologise for liking your band (haven't i already said this once? maybe...i'll say it and actually mean it this time). it was unintentional.

actually, i may as well be honest about this, it was unintentional to begin with. after that, it was intentional. and i don't hate duran duran quite as much as i made out - i don't LIKE them, but 'detest with a passion' is a bit strong - by that point i was trying to be offensive.
(there, is that honest enough? probably too honest)

so, you're right - it was hypocritical to get pissed off because you were offensive in reply. i don't think either of us has an exclusive right to a moral high ground on this one - the point i was attempting to make was that you were doing some of the things you were getting angry with me for. i'm not sure that we're going to get anywhere by continuing to be angry with each other. certainly, it isn't making my world any more marvellous.

now, can we make up?? i'm capable of doing stroppy for as long as anyone, i'm sure, but it gets bloody boring after a while.

usually, i'd attempt to finish this on a light, sort of jokey remark to make things seem a bit nicer, but i can't think of one. insert one here. or don't. the choice is yours.

(goddamit, how do you quote in itallics?)

mark, how could i possible refuse an invitation like that?

who is the greater enemy, then? i'm going to be quite careful about suggesting any bands just at the moment..

Chris: I like to think that, had you heard B&S's rendition of Stay Loose (which is possibly one of the songs you think don't cut it) at the Astoria on Friday it might've changed yr mind.

but anyways, this thread is really abt FOOD, goddamit....

I did overreact, yes, I'm feeling very touchy today so I'm sorry about that.

But part of the reason I blew up at you so badly is I've experienced so much of that kind of attitude about that specific band in question in the past - to the point where I actually actively denied that I'd ever loved them for over ten years, because I was so cowed by peer pressure of "The Cool Kids". I'm ashamed of myself for ever being cowed into being ashamed of a band that meant so much to me. So perhaps I become more strident in defense to make up for lost time?

Turning it around, and acting like a cunt myself was an attempt to (over)prove a point.

I could really freaking do with some munchies or some comfort food at this point, though... sigh.

X-post, Oh, and Mark, I happen to really like the Electric Barbarella album. So there.

a mince pie or some stollen would be nice, right about now.. i'm eating egg sarnies (more hypocritcal actions, then, after SPEAKING OUT against doing so earlier. god i'm really very BAD indeed...) but now i'm thinking of christmas food, instead.

SAVE A PRAYER is great too

Is it greedy to have two of the mince pies you brought in for SHARING?!

ftr...i have never been one of the Cool Kids. nor even one of the cooler Uncool Kids and will admit to liking all sorts of (oops...there i go again) will be PROUD of liking all sorts of exceedingly unfashionable bands, including quite a few 80s pop acts... (just not the same ones as you, by the looks of it.. (joke))

i know what you mean about being pressured to like certain types of music. i've been in that situation, from various directions, for most of my life.

also, i thought duran duran were sort of hip nowadays? i'm usually i a minority when i say i don't like them (which is why it was probably a daft thing to say, but never mind...)

err...mark said this thread was about food... errr...

i'd love some pastels, but would be careful about eating too many sugarcubes.

sorry..

also, back to the topic, voice of the beehive did an album called honey lingers. and honey is sort of food, although i think they were just being rude, and the title refers to something else entirely.

i won't comment on the other meaning. i have very little experience of such things..

Oh, sorry! D'oh! Here I'm doing what I'm accusing N. and Barry of.