INN OF LOST SOULS: general chit-chat thread

PadTheMad · Post by **PadTheMad** » Tue Nov 22, 2005 1:56 pm

Oooh, the countdown has begun - new avatars, a warmup to the Christmas story, bloody cold weather and tacky decorations. Ah, I love this time of year

Adamo · Post by **Adamo** » Tue Nov 22, 2005 3:12 pm

well, that`s my e-mail, that I`m currently using: "adamo900@wp.pl".
I didn`t get any "topic reply notification" from this site at all for a very long time.

yours still bounces the emails back to my inbox saying delivery failed.. either your email addy is incorrect or the site you are using has us blocked..

please turn off that option to me, if my email causes any troubles

Maybe that`s because I have a "free" email box on wp.pl domain.

Post by **PaulH** » Tue Nov 22, 2005 3:46 pm

Perhaps not as much snow you Canadians are used to, but I have been warned we are in for a fairly harsh winter in the UK! Maybe time for the thermal shell.

Post by **cowsmanaut** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 6:27 am

ha! I wish.. I live in British columbia.. not a snowy part of canada.. when we get snow here everyone one panics and drives at 10 kph.. and it only stays about a day or so and it melts.

Though if we get rain.. people walk outside with out umbrellas wearing shorts... because we are so used to rain.

so, I'll be dreaming of a WET christmas I think..

Adamo.. no worries.. I'll take a look in there again.. cheers

Post by **PaulH** » Thu Nov 24, 2005 11:53 pm

I know this is not funny, in fact possibly horrific, but I nearly choked laughing when I read this 1st paragraph of a story in a national paper:

'A woman was seriously injured when her boyfriend beat her with a cactus'.

PadTheMad · Post by **PadTheMad** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 1:38 am

Dear me! A cactus?! Whatever next? Beaten to death by a rug?!
Bet that was painful...

Post by **PaulH** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 1:50 am

There is something about the word 'cactus' that just makes me want to giggle like a loon.

I did read once of this lady who stabbed her husband to death with a piece of cheese. I am still trying to work out exactly how, coming to the conclusion that she probably left a knife in the cheese.

Post by **cowsmanaut** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 2:52 am

shows you just how irrational people can be.. they just grab something in the heat of anger.. doesn't matter what and attack..

interesting that when you need your brain the most (afraid, angry) when you could potentially hurt someone or be seriously hurt yourself.. your brain shuts off. How is that survival of the fittest?

meh

Post by **Zyx** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 7:08 am

It's rather survival of the cheesiest.

JCG · Post by **JCG** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 7:44 am

cowsmanaut wrote:.... Though if we get rain.. people walk outside with out umbrellas wearing shorts... because we are so used to rain.

so, I'll be dreaming of a WET christmas I think..

A friend from Vancouver told me : In Vancouver you don't tan, you rust !

On my side, it was the first real snowstorm of the season in Ottawa today.

Trantor · Post by **Trantor** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 9:34 am

First snow of the year today! I wonder how long it will stay.

beowuuf · Post by **beowuuf** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 11:44 am

And will it keep leaving the bathroom in a mess and eat all the cheese?

Adamo · Post by **Adamo** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 1:03 pm

once we read an article from "The Sun" (on english lesson) about a women, who divorced with her housband after she saw him making sex with a frozen chicken !!
"The Sun" considered, that it was a decieve. It`s a pity, that this famous newspaper isn`t approachable in Poland!

PadTheMad · Post by **PadTheMad** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 2:09 pm

Hahaha, sounds like something 'The Sun' would publish! 'The Sun' is just a glorified comic really, just for amusement, not really for fact. Now 'Daily Star' is a reliable source of information...

Trantor · Post by **Trantor** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 2:11 pm

I'd like to take a peek at The Sun as well... In Germany, we have the Bild-Zeitung, similar to The Sun in quality and style, but I heard that The Sun is still the undisputed master of Rubbish Papers.

PadTheMad · Post by **PadTheMad** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 2:16 pm

It is, everyone seems to have read it at some point, my nana reads it religiously and believes it too

I've read some corkers in there but alas, my memory doesn't serve me well at the moment

Post by **PaulH** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 5:53 pm

"Rock Star Ate My Hamster".

The greatest Sun headline ever (front page too)

Refers to Freddy Starr.

RIP Bestie

PadTheMad · Post by **PadTheMad** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 6:25 pm

RIP Bestie indeed. I'm not a football follower but I know that Best was good at what he did and he was certainly a large character who was always in the spotlight for various reasons, both good and bad. He will be sorely missed by many people, most of all his family. My sympathy goes out to them with deepest condolences...

Post by **Ameena** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 7:04 pm

We had some snow today...well, it was kinda pathetic, really...just, like, some wimpy little flakes falling for about 10 mins and not settlig or anything. If we get any "proper" snow down here, it's meant to be tonight. Not that I'd go out if there WAS some decent snow - every idiotic kid in the local area kind of converges on our road (since the local park is at the end, = hills for sledging) and so all the snow gets trampled on, used up in snowball fights, and anyway all the kids I see round here are Chavvy wazzoks. Probably because all the halfway-decent ones are hiding away inside as well

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Adamo · Post by **Adamo** » Sat Nov 26, 2005 4:47 pm

we have a polish clone of "Bild" ("Fakt"), even released by the same publisher (Alex Springer I think), but I read it and it`s not AS GOOD as "The Sun". Just like the extremally stupid political comments of naked girls on the last page (like "dear Prime Minister, I heard that you have a problem with economic growth? Make me your deputy and I`ll stimulate your growth").

Post by **PaulH** » Sat Nov 26, 2005 5:55 pm

I read another cracking story today in the Mirror about this mad Australian who phoned the police to complain about the helicopter that kept flying over. He threatened to 'blow it out of the sky' with a homemade bazooka that he had loaded with tomatoes.

Post by **PaulH** » Mon Nov 28, 2005 11:26 pm

Can I put my privet hedge in the 'for pruning' forum?

Post by **Gambit37** » Mon Nov 28, 2005 11:33 pm

Sure. My nasal hair's going in there too. I shall see to them both with my suspiciously large chopper.

Post by **PaulH** » Mon Nov 28, 2005 11:35 pm

Never get your chopper tangled in a bush. Catch allsorts.

beowuuf · Post by **beowuuf** » Tue Nov 29, 2005 12:24 am

And the winner of the most barrel scraping innuendo goes to...

And funnily I was going to do a santa hat after seeing paul's last week, but missed my chance in all the business and now I come back to find it wll look like band wagonning. Then again, maybe fun band wagonning...

Post by **PaulH** » Tue Nov 29, 2005 12:26 am

Could have a compo for best seasonal Avatar!

Post by **PaulH** » Sat Dec 03, 2005 7:15 pm

Adamo: your avatar is scaring me!

Adamo · Post by **Adamo** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 5:33 pm

hehe.. that`s a face of Polish former goverment spokesman from early 80`s (now he is a chief-editor of his newspaper and I found that on his site)

PadTheMad · Post by **PadTheMad** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 7:56 pm

Looks like a sensible guy...

Sera · Post by **Sera** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 1:29 am

adamo, seriously, that pic it deterring me from this forum, i used to have nightmares of ugly things like that when i was a young munchkin, i dont want them again