Wall of Mouths

That’s great news, congrats - glad things are going well!

^No, but when I was a teenager they were meant to be decent to work for.

My worst job was my first one – when I was 16 I worked as a glass collector / glass washer at a nightclub in Bangor. Apart from the constant abuse I got for having long hair, the worst part was that I had to run around the whole hotel at the end of the night taking orders from staff for the chippy. I was never given enough money for the 20 or so orders, and because I was only paid £2.50 / hr, I ended up making *minus* money every shift :-/ I only lasted a month or so, but it gave me the work experience I needed to get a job with Dunnes

Ah, Mr Brooker… always perfect for that Monday morning mood!

I meant to bump this thread a while ago to tell WOMbles about this guy:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Ligotti

He’s kind of like a modern HP Lovecraft. Was trying to get something by him for ages, and one of his books was finally published in the UK a couple of months ago (Teatro Grottesco) and it didn’t disappoint

I like wearing suits! Especially to work, it means you’re “in work mode” when you have it on, but you can relax more when you change out of it. I got mine in Dunnes! :-D

They have Dunnes Stores in the UK too! Just not in Britain. I used to work for ‘em…

I know, I’m a pedant ;-)

Ha! I did an MA in English as well… if you’re definitely doing a PHD in a year, it doesn’t really matter what work you do (you can leave it whenever you like). What about bar work or somethin? Or a call centre? Easy money, and you won’t be there forever!

It’s tough at the moment man. It’s at times like this that you realise the “credit crunch” isn’t just media talk :(

A friend of mine was unemployed for a while there, started getting him down a lot – you’ve just gotta be relentless with those application forms / job agency interviews – you’ll get somethin eventually :)

I was only ever on the dole once – was for a month and a half or so when I was 21. I bought myself a second hand guitar and started teaching myself to play – was getting pretty decent at it before I got a job; never picked it up again unfortunately.

That’s mad. Did u get to meet Cowell etc? What did u sing?

I didn’t see it tonight, usually enjoy the audition rounds tho

My parents brewed homemade beer when I was a kid, only memory is that the vats of it stank the bathroom out with yeast / hops.

Wasn’t as shocking as the Old Firm on Sunday

Here you go:

1 HC Näsi Simo Kettunen 54 107
2 —-Droudge’s Boys—- Ryan Droudge 52 105
3 Storzi Wanderers FC ad storz 43 102
4 Butter United Micheal Hill 55 98
5 Bhoys A Dear Dermot Lynn 54 97
6 Pip Project Mk II Philip Kelly 58 94
7 Captain Beefheart alan lee 46 94
8 Sweating Bullets FC Brendan Hill 44 89
9 Pasta-Gravy Sauce FC Andrew Campbell 50 88
10 Pieces Of 8 Christian Davies 44 84
11 children in heat Colm Lenihan 41 82
11 JRD United Jack Dening 37 82
13 Bottom 3 At Best Phil Remington 35 82
14 Big Stav’s XI Big Stevie E 48 81
15 FC Jolperin Veto Herra Lehtolainen 48 79
15 Change Name Zip Less 41 79
15 Cross-Eyed Mary Sean Bintley 44 79
18 dynamo kebab cam attrill 39 74
19 Mama’s Kumpquat Dave Judge 39 71
19 Self Destruct United Sam Destruct 49 71
21 I love Colin :] colin Steele 33 52

Getting a bit off topic here, but these links are reminding me of this one:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloop

Freaky!!

Bump! 21 teams now - kick off is tomorrow, so this is your last chance…

Yeah, it was Bus Eireann. I’ve never seen an inspector on them either mind. Especially not at 01.00 AM on a cross border service on a wet and windy tuesday morning. But I guess those girls weren’t to know that :-)

They were arguing about that, but only children under 4 are free or something.

The bus driver was basically telling them “I can only sell you as many tickets as you have money for, but I won’t be counting how many of you are getting on the bus. If a ticket inspector comes on board and any of you don’t have tickets it’ll be on you, not me” but they weren’t really taking the hint to just get on board an be done with it.

The fact that everyone involved was speaking in their non-native language didn’t help matters.

I was getting the bus back from Dublin to Belfast at 01.00AM yesterday after flying home from Budapest. It hadn’t rained once the whole two weeks I was away, and I came home to *torrential* rain, standing shivering in a shitty bus centre for an hour waiting for it to turn up. Grim.

To make matters worse, once we were all on board, about 6 African women and a little girl tried to get on board, but they were about 20 EURO short. After arguing with the Polish bus driver for 20 mins (“How could you sleep, knowing that you’ve let a little girl stay out in the rain overnight?” etc) some random passenger just banged the money down for them and they were all like “you’ve a beautiful heart mister!” etc. So I’ve had my fill of Irish travel for a while thanks :-)

Yes Mr SD, only the hardcore of us remain ;-)

And Colin, that really is a fantasy :-p

Bump! One week to enter your team…

Just out of interest, The Guardian’s one is up and running now:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/fantasyfootball

It *does* seem pretty good… but I guess we’ll stick with last season’s “official” game - too confusing to change at this point I reckon. 15 teams in the WOMble league now!

Um… not really giving anything away, but just in case…

***SPOILERS***

I already knew before I went in that it had a seriously downbeat ending, but nothing could have prepared me for that lol. A seriously feel bad film!!

The only let down for me was the tentacle creature at the start… thought it just looked stupid. But the rest was great

@ Dennis I *had* been watching and enjoying Big Brother very much until this week- I don’t know why, but I’m losing interest a bit.

I’m off on holiday for 2 weeks soon, hopefully that’ll wean me off it for good this year.

Saw The Mist a couple of weeks ago, cracking film

Oops… I’ll learn how to post images some day!!

This is it:

I have this tattooed on my upper right arm:

[img]http://static.boomkat.com/images/72684/333.jpg[img]

In black. It’s the cover of this album:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_Riot_for_New_Zer%C3%B8_Kanada

Got it done on my 18th birthday. Even then a part of me always knew I would turn into an office dullard. I wanted something to look back on and think “you know what?… I used to rock!” ;-)

Always intended to get a T? one at some stage (was going to get the infernal love ? mark heart done very small over my own heart) but never got round to it. Don’t think I’ll ever get another tattoo now

^Actually, don’t bother :-)

Fantasy football, eh? :-D

^Name me a better paper

I read at least some of it online nearly every day at work… it’s got a good footy section too

Intriguing. We’ll see what it’s like when it’s launched; if more people want to do that one it’s fine – still only 8 people signed up so far

8 teams entered already - keep ‘em coming!

By the way, if andrew / silverginger pm’s me his address I’ll send him a mix CD (as I promised the winner would get one at the start of last year’s thread)

“bintley” lol

This is my team… I’m sure it’ll change a lot in the next month and a half too. All depends whether Ronaldo, Adebayor, and Lampard hang about, and who else comes in.

Cech [che]
Ferdinand [mun], Terry [che], Wheater [mid], Baird [ful], Dunne [man]
Ireland [man], Modric [tot]
Torres [liv], Ashton [whm], Rooney [mun] (c)

subs - Scwarzer [ful], kranjcar [por], mendes [por], kilbane [wig]

I agree that Torres will be top scorer… will prob have a bet on it in fact. I think Portsmouth will have a good season too - FA Cup winners last year, and this year it looks like they’ll have a forward line of Crouch and Defoe

I no. Its just not good enuff