Today I'm neither Angry nor Happy about....

[mummywhycantieatcrayons]

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/wife- ... 83205.html

I opened the Evening Standard to horrible news yesterday. Someone who taught me at university died on Sunday after a fall or maybe a suicide from the roof of the law faculty when he no apparent reason to be there.

He was one of those older guys who thrived on the energy of being around young people. I know he will be very sadly missed.

My thoughts are with you. I had a shock from the local paper yesterday too. A guy who used to own the local bakery where I worked many years ago, a man who kept us fed, was generally decent to us and seemed very friendly, was locked up for 10 years for repeatedly sexually assaulting one of his vulnerable employees A tragedy for both the victim and the guy's family.

Thanks Bob. It's not like I was close to him or anything - I haven't been in touch since leaving his classes in 2009. Just such a sad reminder that somebody can seem blissfully happy and content, but you can never know what's really going on - and indeed that if you don't get in touch with someone today, then you might have missed your chance by tomorrow. Urgh.

[mrkint]

did a gig last night in balham. bit weird - there was no audience. just comics performing to each other. so everyone was a bit :/ but after we got used to it it turned into a laugh.

So crazy though...there was a guy there who's quite famous in Canada, and he came down to do five minutes to a crowd of basically no one? Comedy is mental.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tljvPJQBjUQ" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[mummywhycantieatcrayons]

did a gig last night in balham. bit weird - there was no audience. just comics performing to each other. so everyone was a bit :/ but after we got used to it it turned into a laugh.

So crazy though...there was a guy there who's quite famous in Canada, and he came down to do five minutes to a crowd of basically no one? Comedy is mental.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tljvPJQBjUQ" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Meant to ask how that went.

Why was there no audience - by design?

[mrkint]

It's the nature of the beast. The reason that a lot of 'new' comedy nights insist on +1s (like on Monday) is not only to keep the bar happy, but to make sure that the comics are performing in front of actual punters rather than competitors, so to speak. Just gives the night a better feel for the performers. With the one last night it's completely up to the gods - last time i was there it was packed, this time it wasn't. But it still seems to work alright.

anyway if you enjoyed monday there's a lot of good stuff at the Camden Head in angel, which is probably the best in London for me. Reet funny. They have a lot of good pro acts on friday and saturday too whcih are sometimes free as well. freeandfunny.co.uk

[Montreal Wanderer]

did a gig last night in balham. bit weird - there was no audience. just comics performing to each other. so everyone was a bit :/ but after we got used to it it turned into a laugh.

So crazy though...there was a guy there who's quite famous in Canada, and he came down to do five minutes to a crowd of basically no one? Comedy is mental.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tljvPJQBjUQ" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Our best known comedian is probably Russell Peters - he can be very funny.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Hommity Pie and Gravy. There is something fundamentally wrong there I feel.

[Bruce Rioja]

Hommity Pie and Gravy. There is something fundamentally wrong there I feel.

I've just looked homity pie up. The addition of gravy can only help make something so very wrong, right.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Hommity Pie and Gravy. There is something fundamentally wrong there I feel.

I've just looked homity pie up. The addition of gravy can only help make something so very wrong, right.

Actually, you might be coming at this from a better angle than I was. I may even survive the experience later with no after effects if I manage to channel that certainty.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

^ A note of explanation. It (Homity Pie and Gravy) is on the menu for the meal I'm being forced to partake of tonight. When I say menu, it is a little misleading as my understanding of menu is "a list of dishes available in a restaurant or at a meal". The list in this case consists of the one item, which therefore does not constitute a list. Indeed the very thought that Homity Pie might even be a dish seems to be stretching the point...

[Montreal Wanderer]

Hommity Pie and Gravy. There is something fundamentally wrong there I feel.

I've just looked homity pie up. The addition of gravy can only help make something so very wrong, right.

I had to look it up too. I do recall eating many disgusting things caused by war shortages, but not that. Actually it sounds a bit like a vegetable quiche.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Hommity Pie and Gravy. There is something fundamentally wrong there I feel.

I've just looked homity pie up. The addition of gravy can only help make something so very wrong, right.

I had to look it up too. I do recall eating many disgusting things caused by war shortages, but not that. Actually it sounds a bit like a vegetable quiche.

Watery potato quiche with major air pockets. That's the fellow.

[General Mannerheim]

back in work today after two fantastic weeks off snot so bad tho, was on the 09:35 this morning which doesnt have me in till lunchtime (another bonus being that as soon as arrived at the office foyer my whole department was on its way to the pub for a leaving drinks sesh that went on till 3pm!) then im off on friday for a long weekend at Abersoch, before coming directly back to London. I realised last night as i lay in my own bed that that was my first night there in 3 weeks, (having been in London all week before the fortnight away) and, what with the Wales trip - it will also be my last for another two weeks. true Wanderer!

[Bijou Bob]

I'm neither angry, nor happy, just a tad confused. Fruit teabags. Wtf is all that about? Camomile and raspberry? Smelt gorgeous, tasted of feck all (Quick slurp of a colleague's whilst undertaking brew b1tch duty). They all do. For the life of me, I can't see the point of them.

[BWFC_Insane]

I don't know where to put this. I sort of thought about putting it in a new thread of "people who you'd like to punch in the face repeatedly" but thought I'd probably end up being a candidate for that.

So put it here.

Oliver Holt (Chief Sports writer for the Mirror) has made a complete and utter tit of himself (again). This really is embarrassing. Two articles both written by Holt this year.

Article 1 17th July 2013 - http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/cricket/d ... lk-2058443" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
In short compares Stuart Broad's refusal to walk to drug cheats in sport such as Lance Armstrong. Along with a nice bit of faux moral outrage

And you know what’s really hilarious? Chris Broad is an International Cricket Council match referee.
That’s right. He’s one of the men in charge and he thinks it’s all a great big joke.
No wonder his son felt no compunction about standing his ground.
That’s why, despite the fantasies of Steve James, I don’t blame Stuart Broad for what he did.
I blame the apologists, ­actually. I blame people who have allowed cricket to become snared in a kind of moral nihilism.
If everyone’s cheating, then no one’s cheating.
That’s what cricket tells itself.
“Aussie’s do it to us,” they say, “so it’s perfectly legitimate if
we do it back to him”.
It’s a dangerous, depressing creed to espouse.

Article 2 9th January 2013 - http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/ ... ol-1524927" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Defends Suarez handball against Mansfield in the cup with an "interesting analogy" mainly:

For quite some time, I believed that a batsman should always walk if he knew he was out.
It was the purist in me, I suppose, but the purist has receded recently and the pragmatist has taken over. I tend to agree with former England skipper Michael Atherton about it now.
When he gloved a catch to the wicketkeeper during his famous duel with Allan Donald at Trent Bridge in 1998, he refused to walk.
His rationale was that he abided by the umpire’s decision if he was given out when he shouldn’t have been.
He took the rough with the smooth. And he wasn’t out until the umpire gave him out.
That’s why I wasn’t even tempted to join in the condemnation of Liverpool’s Luis Suarez after his controversial goal against Mansfield Town on Sunday.

[Il Pirate]

Sex

[Dujon]

You mean that you're not sure as to whether you got value for money?

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Sex

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Sorry AT. The rain dance failed. Never mind eh? It'll be like home from home from home for you.

[Abdoulaye's Twin]

Sorry AT. The rain dance failed. Never mind eh? It'll be like home from home from home for you.

Thanks for trying Not been so bad here the last couple of days. 45c and low humidity. Even had a stroll out this afternoon <madenglishmanmiddaysun>

[Lost Leopard Spot]

I hate it when I misplace something. I can't find my passport. Last time I definitely had it in my greasy mitt was at Calgary a couple of weeks ago. I remember filling in that annoying slip of paper on the plane but I don't think I needed the passport to complete it, and I can't actually remember having to show it to immigration at Heathrow on the way out, I just remember collecting the bags and being waved past immigration. So the last time I saw it was in Canada. Fxck, what a pain.