Wall of Mouths

mrs h wrote:

The smell of pernod :S I once drank a litre of pernod in a weekend. I was not at all well, as far as I can remember.

Ohhh yeah :eek: indeed. Aniseed-flavoured alcoholic drink? Whyyyy? Whose idea was that?

Actually, same applies to all drinks of a similar ilk … dangerous and best avoided. Ouzo, for one, and a number of years ago I also once had a … errr … lost weekend after drinking too much Turkish grape-spirit, after which I apparently spent some 36 hours lumbering around Istanbul trying to find where I was staying. By the time I finally found my hotel, I was missing one of my shoes and, curiously, a single tee-shirt sleeve. Not to mention several million brain cells. And the hangover, I’ve had NOTHING worse, before or since …

mrs h wrote:

That’s not what I meant - I meant ‘efil ym etah I soc gninthgil etihw no thgin yreve detnuc teg I’ …

That sounds remarkably Welsh. But then I only had a few Welsh language lessons. When I was six. Thirty years ago. And I HAVE drunk far too much etihw gninthgil during the intervening period. Mostly in a graveyard. Cider doesn’t have give me severe nausea now, but ohhhh GOD does the smell of red martini do that …

Hmmmm … maybe I shouldn’t post this message, it’s rubbish … ooops, DAMN!

deadsetgav wrote:

Listen noobie - this should go in chit-chat! dont you know anything?

:D

just joking by the way ;)

Hee hee :)

Title: What other boards are you members of?

I like this board, it’s one of the best I’ve visited thus far … good subject matter, good banter … above all in good spirit too. What you’re looking for in a board, really, natch.

Previous experiences of some message boards have not always been all that postive, though.

It’d be bad form to name names, I’m sure ;) … but I’ve found some boards to be incredibly cliquey, and some of the members (especially long-term) astonishingly proprietorial - issuing condescending or smug responses to contributions by anyone new, and putting rather too much effort into one-upmanship and coming across in their postings as “We’re wayyy too cool for you” (No you’re not! You’re boring twats! :rolleyes: ) rather than encouraging interesting discussion (perish the thought!) or having a shared laff that isn’t exclusive to the “chosen few” …

All of this (quite apart from being downright irritiating … GROW UP!!!) is completely object-defeating!

Oooh. This is a cranky message, innit? :eek: Baaaad day at work. Sorry ;) To put a more positive spin on it, what boards are GOOD, and worth a visit? :)

Title: Hey!

Hey, only just noticed this thread after having posted elsewhere. Bit slow, me. Must be me age. Or a very enduring hangover.

Anyway. Already used the following tale of woe elsewhere on the board, but it just seemed such an appropriate way to introduce myself …

I first heard T? through buying “Pleasure Death” on a whim (well, actually, it had quite a lot to do with the cover … ;) ) just after it came out, as part of a record buying spree on my 22nd birthday. Definitely one of my better whim buys, and I’ve been a beeg beeg fan ever since, that’s for sure!

I still have the LP, but not quite in its original format - an ex-girlfriend of mine melted it under the grill, by way of a … um … leaving present :eek: Such heathen behaviour (albeit imaginatively vindictive) and just what you’d expect of someone who liked Phil Collins, and musicals including “Joseph and his Technicolour Dreamcoat” :rolleyes: We clearly weren’t suited ;) Anyway, the outside edges of the record all curled up and it now makes a rather natty, if over-large vinyl-ashtray. I also love the dark irony of having an ashtray called “Pleasure Death” …

Here’s hoping you’ll put up with my postings, provided I don’t warble on too often about my often hapless existence ;)