General conversation thread: Chat about anything that's not WipEout.

[yeldar2097]

God only knows why, they're disgusting

[SaturnReturn]

Agreed. I once had to eat as many cold baked beans as I could with a toothpick in a minute as part of some stupid party game. It was like torture. Just realised it's related to the uni thing a bit. Family would always crack those lame stereotypical jokes with me about always cooking beans on toast for dinner, but I naturally had to disappoint them.

Did anyone watch the last Inbetweeners? I've not really watched it properly before, mainly because I don't like any of the characters. It was pretty hilarious for the first half though. The uni that 'featured' in it is where I went, and now makes me wonder if it has some kind of reputation.

[Dark_Phantom_89]

I had the longest day ever mainly due to Rush Hour traffic in London. I was in Kensington today and said to myself "right, I'll leave at 3pm when I've done everything I need to do so I'll avoid the rush." Well, 3pm became 4pm and I hit the traffic on the way home. It took 3 and a half hours to travel 80 odd miles home.

[DreamyElf]

that sounds bad DP...
luckily i live in a small city so i dont have traffic issues...
but i can totally understand you, whenever i've been to Athens(and some other big cities) the traffic was unbearable, it made me go mad! lol

[Greenix]

baked beans... almost as bad as brussel sprouts.

[OBH]

Jacket potato - cheese - not too many beans - cheese

gorgeous

Gotta love how Britain eat over 90% of the worlds baked beans!

[LurifaxFlux]

Baked Beans are alright as long as they are not alone

For example, Chili con Carne without Baked Beans? No way ;P


When I was a kid I used to eat cold Baked Beans straight from the Heinz can

[amplificated]

Sooo anyway, today I found out my cousin is getting married. I also found out that she was gay and marrying a girl!



Almost embarrassed to say it, but this just goes to show how well I know some members of my extended family... not much at all!

[infoxicated]

Is she hot?

[mdhay]

The cousin? haha

[infoxicated]

Either... I'm not fussy... but I would like photographic evidence!

[SaturnReturn]

I don't understand the fascination with lesbians (not real ones anyway). They're just two more women that definitely aren't interested in any of us.

[Jav]

Haha, couldn't agree more Saturn. Couldn't care less if they're never gonna be interested.

[infoxicated]

Yeah, okay - mostly they're not all they're cracked up to be.

There's this crazy loud lesbian woman who gets on my train sometimes, who's definitely the dungaree wearer of the relationship, if you get my drift. And I kid you not, she talks to anyone she vaguely knows about how gorram great it is being a lesbian and how much her and her partner "connect", which I didn't think was possible for them without accessories, but there you go - her loud words, not mine.

This is on the early train. The 8:01 express. I don't even want to hear about straight sex between really hot people at that time in the morning, never mind her butchness telling tall tales of rug munching goodness.

I've actually switched carriages on the train to avoid her a few times - even my noise isolating earphones (Shure SE115's, audiophiles!) can't block her lesbosity out entirely. Do not want.

Anyhoo, I just wondered if amplificated's cousin or his new in-law were of the fantasy lesbian variety.

[SaturnReturn]

That sounds more like an issue with loud people. I'm not a fan of loud people who seek attention either, especially on the train.

On a slightly related note, did I ever tell everyone about what I heard on the train one day? This guy was with his little kid (3 years old or something), who was asking all those little kids questions - what's that? why's the sky blue? why this? why that? - then all of a sudden, he comes out with, "Daddy, is that woman a pwostitrute?" I couldn't believe it, and assumed at first that I must have misheard, but I turned my head in the toward the part of the platform where the kid was pointing and there was a woman with a shortish skirt and boots on. OMG! Then the Dad confirmed it by making a disapproving remark about her attire and comparing her to someone else they know who he obviously didn't approve of.
I was so shocked, especially as I have a memory of being about 10 before I first heard the word. Two girls in my class were having an argument, with one calling the other a prostitute and me thinking, "My Dad's a prostitute, what's wrong with that?". Turns out my Dad was a Protestant. Then there's me telling my parents at the dinner table I studied e-lesbian history in class that day. Stupid Elizabethans! Happy days!

[infoxicated]

Quality!

I took my daughter for a walk by the reservoirs at the top of town a week or so back and there were so many people walking dogs it was like crufts. She's at the asking questions all the time stage, so she was going "Daddy, why are those people waking their dogs?"

"Because it's a nice place to walk dogs." I replied.

Some time later we see more people and she asks again "Daddy, why are those people walking their dogs, too?"

"Like I said, because it's a nice place to walk dogs." I replied.

Back at the car park and an estate (station wagon for our trans-Atlantic cousins) pulls up beside us and the folk unload three dogs from the back.

"Wow, daddy! More dogs. Why are so many people walking their dogs here?" she asks again.

"Well, like I said - this is a great dogging spot." I replied. Straight face, too.

I couldn't help myself. Internally I was pissing my pants, but no doubt this will come back to haunt me when she tells her grandma to take her cocker spaniel up to the reservoir because it's a great dogging spot!

[SaturnReturn]

I can already feel the evil glares that you got coming your way.

[blackwiggle]

Sooo anyway, today I found out my cousin is getting married. I also found out that she was gay and marrying a girl!



Almost embarrassed to say it, but this just goes to show how well I know some members of my extended family... not much at all!

Doesn't surprise me.
Seems lesbianism is the "New Black" around Australia atm, they are appearing everywhere, IMHO I think in a lot of cases it's just girls imitating these fake lesbian romances certain Hollywood wannabes are saying are happening just for publicity.
Might be the main reason The Ellen DeGeneres show seems very popular ATM, god knows why, it's so plastic.

[Colonel]

Doesn't surprise me.
IMHO I think in a lot of cases it's just girls imitating these fake lesbian romances certain Hollywood wannabes are saying are happening just for publicity.

Don't knock it for f*ck's sake!

[amplificated]

Is she hot?

Well, let's just say that nobody on that side of my family is unattractive
Haven't met her fiancee yet though.
I'm with SatReturn as well, I don't see the big deal about lesbianism....

Doesn't surprise me.

I don't know much more than what I've already mentioned, so I can't really comment on that. It's a possibility, and she's in her early 20's... but I guess we'll see what happens. Like I said, I obviously don't know her very well