Christmas Bank Holiday Monday thread

[lolly]

That's just .. ODD

It's fucking SCARY, but whatever floats your boat, I guess!

[Eileen]

even Davina will be at home flicking her bean.

[Agnetha]

I'm FINALLY leaving the house!

[Christian]

Oh LORDY

There's a straight version of it now apparently. I wonder how successful it is.

[Eileen]

I've just seen the video to Roll Deep's Green Light. The lead singer is fabulous.

[RobotBoy]

I've just seen the video to Roll Deep's Green Light. The lead singer is fabulous.

She is the singer of my FLOP Song For Moopy entry 'Tell Me I'm Wrong'.

[RobotBoy]

To answer all your coffee related questions, it's a small De'Longhi espresso/cappuccino maker. It fits perfectly into my little kitchen area and I love it. It's only big enough to make one espresso at a time, two at a push, so it's a good everyday one for me when I'm working at home.

I do not know which bean grinder I will get - I'm hoping to get a decent one in a sale. I also need a small milk frothing jug and some NICE FRESH BEANS.

[Floppet]

It is FULL ON snowing outside and I'm supposed to go shopping today. I know WORST IDEA ever but my sister (in a moment of post-wedding silliness) got me a voucher for Christmas, which means I have today or tomorrow to spend it. So we are all going to the Trafford Centre. This is going to end BADLY.

Nooooooo! Yesterday it took me longer to get from Bolton to Sale, usually a 15 minute drive, than it did to get from Sale to Stoke on Trent (an hour's drive). All because of the eejits trying to get to the Traffic Centre by 11am. There were two junctions of the motorway containing one lane of standing traffic waiting to go there with the second lane devoted to twatty Merc, Q7 and X5 drivers attempting to queue-jump because they have big cars and own the road so do not need to wait like the hoi-polloi in pov cars.

[lolly]

It said on the radio there were EIGHT THOUSAND PEOPLE queued outside Selfridges on Oxford St before it opened yesterday. EIGHT THOUSAND. IN THIS WEATHER. DURING A TUBE STRIKE.

Can it EVER be worth it? It's my idea of HELL.

[[insert your best offer here]]

My cofffee machine, just because

[Floppet]

It said on the radio there were EIGHT THOUSAND PEOPLE queued outside Selfridges on Oxford St before it opened yesterday. EIGHT THOUSAND. IN THIS WEATHER. DURING A TUBE STRIKE.

Can it EVER be worth it? It's my idea of HELL.

My idea of hell too! I dread going to the Trafford Centre on a normal evening. Have they never heard of internet shopping? No bargain, however wonderful, would entice me to queue outside a shop before it opened. At least the Trafford Centre people were sat in nice warm cars, but standing outside a shop? You have to be a speshul kind of shopping-obsessed freak for that one! Like those people who camp outside for days just to get a hundred quid off a telly. Lickpennys.

[Floppet]

My coffee machine consists of a kettle and a jar of instant coffee, I can offer demerara sugar though. Coffee is really bad for your insides.

[lolly]

It's the ones who queue outside Next for a 5am opening that REALLY make me laugh. At least in Selfridges there are some lovely things, and real bargains, even if I'd never think the slim possibility of geting one would ever be worth it. But NEXT? Getting up at 4am or before on Boxing Day to queue in line so you can come home with luridly coloured surf shorts or a five pack of socks for three quid? ARE YOU MAD?

[lolly]

My coffee machine consists of a kettle and a jar of instant coffee, I can offer demerara sugar though. Coffee is really bad for your insides.

I'm cutting back. Well, on the REAL stuff, anyway. Instant (we also have it at home for when I can't be bothered to make it properly) just doesn't have the same impact. But I noticed I was getting sort of palpitations from drinking too much of the good stuff a few weeks back.

[octophone]

I don't drink coffee. The machines look nice tho'. Shiny.

[octophone]

ARE YOU MAD?

The Next sale is HELL. I once wandered past the Argyle Street branch about 5 minutes after it had opened (I had been a dirty stopout and was wandering home by the way so this is a good few years back) and it made the average rugby scrum look like The Nutcracker. I swear there was gouging involved. And all for a top with a pattern that could have graced some 70's wallpaper.

[Apocalypt_flyer]

I'm not REALLY a fan of instant coffee.

I usually have a cup of coffee or two at some point in the morning but it's nearly half milk half coffee. I used to drink much more at the old job.

[lolly]

Well this is the thing, isn't it? I dare say there are a few relative bargains to be had (although surely only stuff that was hanging around on the racks for too long and they couldn't sell in the first place), but surely most of it is just an excuse to sell ANY OLD TAT that people are STUPID enough to buy just because it's got a label with 70% OFF!!! on it. Not that anyone in their right mind would actually buy it at that price, or that it is needed or wanted at ANY price.

Mr L has gone in town, but didn't leave until about 9am. He WILL go in there though, I'm sure. He used to be part of the 5am brigade until a few years ago. He does have to dress more formally than me for work, so I wouldn't be surprised if he comes back with a couple of work shirts. But I bet there will be another pair of FUCKING USELESS OVEN GLOVES (who cares about the fact they have the heat insulation of KLEENEX when they have a PRETTY PATTERN? ), and some FESTIVELY SHAPED NIBBLE DISHES.

I'm off for a lie down after that

[RobotBoy]

Next is hell on earth at the best of times. I do like a lot of their homeware stuff though, so I MIGHT pop in today if it's looking manageable. Probably not then.

[Mats]

RB, I sat next to your Eurovision friend Ole all the way home to Copenhagen on the train yesterday. he was shamelessly cruising on gay sites

[Raucous Bitch]

I am at work. There are loads of cancellations cos of the bad weather. I am having to take calls because of said cancellations. KILL ME NOW.

[Eileen]

Coffee is really bad for your insides.

I concur.

[lolly]

Is that the flights to the US east coast, or still cancellations in the UK?

[RobotBoy]

RB, I sat next to your Eurovision friend Ole all the way home to Copenhagen on the train yesterday. he was shamelessly cruising on gay sites

Ole T or Ole MH? I'd believe it of EITHER.

[cwej]

I'm trying to confirm online but getting a bit confused: tomorrow is a bank holiday too right?

[monsta]

YER

[Mats]

Ole T or Ole MH? I'd believe it of EITHER.

the former. is he some kind of hot shot in the Eurovision universe? I saw he was working for DR

[RobotBoy]

He's so nice. Yes, he works in radio doesn't he? I think he attends Eurovision for fun more than anything though.

[Floppet]

I concur.

It's the one thing that my other half is banned from drinking by the Doctor because of his dodgy stomach and his weird heart thing. So he only has two cups of black coffee in the morning now.

[delirium]

WHOOPS

*kills self*

A bit OTT but I appreciate the sentiment nonetheless. Just don't be messy.

[delirium]

AS IF though - I actually know this one's name which is more than Deli can normally SAY

I love it when Moopy gets all MORAL

POT-KETTLE-PINK

You BITCH

[jivafox]

ooh i wasn't as hungover as i feared today. now i need to do some food shopping and tidy up. i've really let myself GO* over xmas.

*NOT in a fat way though. ew.

[delirium]

Oh and the Trafford Centre was actually fine. It appears most (stupid) people turned up around 2/3pm, i.e. when we were leaving. We passed Next and there was a queue (seriously, I cannot imagine a worse place to get clothes) and even Baby Next had a queue too. Anyway, I spent my voucher and we even got a quick shop in the Disney store

[Loufoque]

I haven't read this thread properly but I think it can be summed up as grinder > Grindr > grinder, NO? I KNOW WHICH BIT WAS MY FAVOURITE

[Raining On Me]

I'm SO SICK My nose feels like it's about to drop off, my head is fuzzy. If I feel like this tomorrow I'm not going to work Wednesday. Especially when there's NO fucking point.

Also lolly, does your other half know about your grindr fetish? Even if it was just for a laugh I think my bf would raise a few eyebrows (and broken bottles) in ANNOYANCE. Not that he's controlling or anything (he actually isn't).

[lolly]

Also lolly, does your other half know about your grindr fetish? Even if it was just for a laugh I think my bf would raise a few eyebrows (and broken bottles) in ANNOYANCE. Not that he's controlling or anything (he actually isn't).

Oh I usually sit here and go 'ooh, look at him'. I don't have a profile pic (or a name or indeed anything that would identify me) and have no inclination to actually DO anything, and I think he knows that. I don't get many messages (no doubt due to the lack of profile or any info), and all those I have had I've just ignored.

[Raining On Me]

Well that's all MORAL and GOOD then. I had visions of you thinking of any reason to send him out on a sales run that pops into your head ("we need a cheap wind chime and FAST") whilst furiously storming through profiles while he was out. I'm not sure which I'd prefer to imagine

[Loufoque]

There's nothing like a bit of UNDERCOVER GRINDING. I had it on at Christmas Dinner.

Although, sadly, the calibre of gentleman caller in Luton leaves a little to be DESIRED.

[Star]

I left work an hour early. To be honest I'm feeling better, but the manager was telling me to go, so why not

[Pingu]

Currently at a big family "Boxing day" thing, which is such intense fun that it's clearly going completely over my head and I'm BORED out of my mind!!

I hope I get back to Belfast in time to get out clubbing while it's still empty enough for me to get away with requesting September's new single.