Comments | flippy_floppy: Savoir faire

flippy_floppy

Savoir faire

Oct 09, 2006 08:42

Low expectations are good protection, and because of this my weekend was satisfactory. Original intentions once again scuppered, I merely spent much of the weekend downloading music... some of the things I've found make me want to quit my job and just listen to them endlessly, but no... not yet.

With any luck, the band will be signed by the end of ( Read more... )

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jickle October 9 2006, 08:37:14 UTC

I think I was playing Monopoly against my friend Matt. We was young, we was. I seem to recall thinking "Princess Who?".

The English have abandoned my LJ pretty bad, you know.

flippy_floppy October 9 2006, 11:45:34 UTC

I don't have a computer at home, and I've had limited oppourtunities at work... but one day... one day soon... we will return.

giro_playgirl October 9 2006, 10:12:25 UTC

The night Princess Diana died, I was losing my virginity in a grotty bedsit in Crumpsall. True story.

Nice one on you guys probably getting signed btw. Does this mean that you're going to get Meller to drop out of Uni and manage you full time as he's been threatening?

flippy_floppy October 9 2006, 11:47:06 UTC

Top that, fellow readers!

I guess Meller could be our manager, but what, aside from skimming 10+% off our earnings, would he actually do?

prilbot October 9 2006, 14:29:36 UTC

HE WOULD BE AND ALREADY IS A MUSE

flippy_floppy October 9 2006, 15:23:51 UTC

Point taken.

pirateiain October 9 2006, 11:44:17 UTC

I was at home. I remember walking into my front room and being told what had happed by my mother. I sat down, watching the news and took stock.

I was gutted. The TV schedule for the day was totally fucked.

I still have't recovered from that lost day of entertainment.

flippy_floppy October 9 2006, 11:50:24 UTC

With pleasure always comes pain.

It was like this when the Queen Mother died, as well as the 9th of November (hah)... entertaining for a while (the Queen Mother died on my dad's birthday, which left my dad to remark "the best present I could've asked for", and the 9/11 planes were fucking class... plus the drawings we did on the school blackboards were great), but the novelty wears off pretty quickly... I mean, after 9/11 the Big Breakfast wasn't on for ages, replaced by crappy fucking 'intelligent' news shows. Fuck's sake.

pirateiain October 9 2006, 13:22:27 UTC

I tried to do 9/11 drawings on blackboards as well. I was doing pretty well until a teacher walked in and asked what a 19 year old man was doing in a primary school "making crude pictures of what I can only assume to be flaming penises".

I managed to explain my way out of it by telling her that it was simply a social reaction to the day's tragedy and that the whole thing had hit me pretty hard*. They took pity and promised not to press charges so it all worked out well in the end.

*This is a lie. I was drawing flaming penises. And nobody knew.

flippy_floppy October 9 2006, 15:58:27 UTC

Always with the flaming penises...

prilbot October 9 2006, 14:27:55 UTC

I was trapped in my best friends mothers house as she tried kiddnapping me. True story.

Ack, glad you liked teh DVD, come by and I will copy you some Lee and Eggwing, which is BETTEREREREEER.

X

flippy_floppy October 9 2006, 16:10:21 UTC

I shall at some point. Got loads to watch now, so cheers.

I'm glad everyone had such fascinating days on Princess Diana's death. It's nice to have a day like that, where you can ask pretty much anyone in the country where they were, and they'd give you an answer, no matter how mundane it was. She's our JFK. For more reasons than just the above (VEILED POLITICAL JOKE TIME!!!)

prilbot October 10 2006, 22:02:45 UTC

I have no feeling for her or 9/11, that may make me dead inside, but I am kind of fine with it.

X

gypsumfantastic October 9 2006, 16:46:01 UTC

I was asleep in my bed. My Mum woke me up in the morning with the words "Diana's dead". For some reason, I thought it was my Auntie. I was tired and confused.

T'was an odd couple of days watching the nation go so OTT.

flippy_floppy October 10 2006, 12:16:45 UTC

What amazes me the most is that it still goes on with the silly conspiracy theories and the like. As I said above, it's interesting to have 'our own JFK' in terms of the fact everybody who was around knew what they were doing that day, but that's where the parallels end.

There are conspiracy theories about JFK because Oswald didn't do it... Princess Diana was in a car crash and nothing more, despite what the Daily Express might say every single day.

tryfailtryagain October 10 2006, 16:15:00 UTC

Don't be stupid James, Diana's death was a conspiracy by the MI5 to covertly raise/lower house prices.

gypsumfantastic October 10 2006, 17:45:52 UTC

The Express are convinced that it still sells papers. Sadly, it seems to.

9/11 I remember far more clearly than Di Die. I was in a Curry's at the time. Surrounded by all the TVs.

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