Monoclinic

Don't think me strange but I vote for watching random people doing random things. Or just putting oddballs in here for their entertainment value. Now being the inquisitive sort this could equally go in room 101 as you never quite know WHY they do the things they do. Today on the train a couple of rows in front of me were an oldish couple. Already in a bay of four the gentleman decided to sit diagonally behind the lady but would incessently go back and forth to fiddle with the bags throughout the hour I was aboard. Here is the action I found most bizarre: In his own private bay of seats he produced a can of Coke Zero and another 500 mL bottle 5/8 th full of what looked like Coke Zero again. Each of these bottles were in clear plastic bags. He rummaged around for a key to open the ringpull then poured in some of the contents to the Coke bottle then after another faff produced a 500 mL bottle of water which was about 1/2 drunk. He poured in some water to the now topped up bottle of coke but it still looked like Coke. To the bottle of water he added the rest of the can of Coke. This took on the colour of a Long Island iced tea, which is undoubtedly a favourite of mine (when accompanied with all its *white spirits* and sours and not in this case water). He examined the colours in turn and then took a long drink from both bottles before wrapping them back up in their bags. At this point I was a bit miffed he wasn't going to pour them into each other to even up the concentrations. Anyway, for room lovely I'd like to put in strangers as there's nowt so queer as folks. Even if hell is other people, from a distance they're really quite funny.

Don't know about any German but there was this guy from the NME tour.

Sorry, bad choice of vocab there. Baggies are the names of their spirits as they come (yes you guessed it) in a bag. So you too can look like a complete chav pikey whilst been robbed blind for the price of a mouthful of paint stripper. I believe they're permanently on BOGOF to boot. However yes, the resealable bag is about as useful as a wet teatowel. (I've even had to swap from the clear plastic bag you buy fruit and veg in at the supermarket for one of the 1L resealable ones. The more plastic we use the less petrochemicals remain, feck the environment eh?) I wonder when they'll realise that the litre bottles of spirits and also the perfumes in duty free pose a big flammable hazard as well as a source of broken glass?

Yep, totally agree Godot. The Eurostar train has a much better arrangement, in that if you wish to recline, then your own seat part slides forward and the "back" portion remains fixed, so you can recline without affecting the poor sod behind you. Much better all round -- if *you* wish to alter *your* seating, then that's what you do, without impinging on someone else. Rail 1 Planes 0. But have you noticed that all the "Whistle Stop" shops are disappearing from stations, unless you plan ahead, the only option is a warm can of beer at £4 from the elusive trolley. I suppose at least you can still drink the beer you brought with you on the train. 2-0 to rail. Gare du Midi station you can buy an own brand 500 mL bottle of water for 34 cents if I remember correctly which as you quite rightly point out you can take on board with out getting frisked to the rectal probe degree. There's always one Johnny terrorist that has to spoil it for the rest of us. IMHO I think we should be allowed to take water through airport security if we drink a bit as proof. It's just wrong that they are allowed to rape us of excessive amounts of Euros once we're through to te other side. I reckon the liquid bombers was in fact a Ryanair tip off to make more of us buy their bloody baggies.

Are you dismissing our Britain's* got talent entry in favour of the Nazi loving Swiss? * Come Sunday as Federer raises that trophy he'll no doubt be Scottish again.

Technical question for the lads to ponder. Is it at all possible to pull one off whilst confined within a straitjacket? Typing I imagine was carried out by some kind of microplunger device strapped to the forehead. This would therefore account for the frequency of typos such as their in place of they're thus avoiding the tricky two key shift + apostrophe manoeuvre. However attacking the one eyed tiger prawn shrimp whilst dressed as a failed escape artist, surely not possible? Apologies to anyone intent on eating sausage for tea.

Which reminds me Windy, I've a counter argument for you. All these people saying "Michael may have slept with kids, but he was a fantastic singer" make me sick. You don't hear them talking about how nurturing a father Joseph Fritzel was. Oh and just before I fetch my coat, what's the difference between Jacko and Casper? One's white and scares children the other's a ghost.

Apparently Saint Peter has refused Jacko entry. Heaven doesn't take plastic.

Warning! Potentially sick content!

Seeing as it appears to be a very slow news day today I'd like to take the occasion to congratulate ATJ on his cup success!

If Michael Jackson does die within the next year, I will forever leave this site. Bet on it. If MJ does die, and I come back to post on this site, the mods can be ban me. I'm willing to do that. I do hope you are going to honour that promise BC. Assuming that conspiracy theories are for the eccentric: MJ dead, post death BC posts, Lady G has Mod status. What's the worst that could happen? If only, unfortunately only admins have the power to ban members. I do like the conspiracy theory though, I wonder if OoO can account for his whereabouts yesterday, I'm sure I read somewhere that the police are searching for the 'doctor' who administered Jacko a painkilling injection shortly before he died . To add fuel to the conspiracist's fire, whose daughter did he marry again?

Good work on the lyrics. I did like Elt's choice of dedication at the party mentioned in the link, "Don't let my son go down on him".

If Michael Jackson does die within the next year, I will forever leave this site. Bet on it. If MJ does die, and I come back to post on this site, the mods can be ban me. I'm willing to do that. I do hope you are going to honour that promise BC. Assuming that conspiracy theories are for the eccentric: MJ dead, post death BC posts, Lady G has Mod status. What's the worst that could happen?

Surely Jacko is about as popular as six foot of mud at Glasto? Don't you believe it mate. What were those poshos and indie types listening to when they were kiddywinkles? Trouble with mobile phones part III: Rumours used to pass around festival sites that "insert shocking event here" had happened and you had no way of knowing. 5I vaguely remembering it happening at afestival I was at but the story escapes me!) Nowadays with these new fangled devices the people are never removed from the real world. Likewise someone a generation older than me will say how the Glastos I've experienced were rubbish in comparison. C'est la vie. I particularly liked this part: Seems like they resolved the logistics problem one way or another. Can't they just prop him up on stage and put a CD on loud? It's not unknown for pop stars to mime concerts, I see little difference. Besides with the advancements in robotics these days and him all full of long-life silicones and all, we'd be none the wiser. Not only that he has died seriously in debt so I doubt they'll be living off the inheritence. That and the fact they're all called Michael Jackson one way or another, even the one they call blanket. Didn't you get a substantial out of court settlement?

Hello ie+ and SC, is this like the second coming? We've been missing you!

Ditto Sickipedia, though it might be coincidence.

CNN is going with hospitalized and launching into a long info piece on coma and the common problem of heart disease in afro-caribbean people.

However the real question is, can the DL beat it's record for most users online? 81 and rising, so a long way off yet.

Well I suppose that's one way of getting out of those looming concerts. I expect BC Alum thinks it's his time to go as he's had a bit of a cashflow problem lately.

Hopefully that'll stop BCAlum 'moaning' for a while. Additionally, McMahon is the third The Simpsons guest star to die this year... perhaps I'll create a mundane thread about it. For the time being, yes. Anyway, I'd be lying to all of you if I didn't admit that I'm feeling a bit of, well "FINALLY!" As in, finally, I got a hit (even though I had McMahon listed for 2010, I'll still count him as a success). I'm not particularly saddened or shocked Ed McMahon died, to be frank. To me, he wasn't exactly one of the more likable TV personalities. His final years of his life were marred by financial problems and embarassing and degrading appearances on TV commercials. Most people outside America probably have never really heard of him anyway. But he's a big deal in the States. Just to clarify here after your Zsa Zsa comment, by your reckoning if you are lacking financial funds it is thus time to die? Does this mean that those living off of a basic state pension or those who've had all their savings taken from them to pay for their residential care should not bother trying to eek out their existence any longer? IMHO you are one strange character with little moral forethought. I was of the belief this site does not wish people to hurry up and die. The sooner you realise this the better. We may then get a little diversity in your posting.

I work for a crappy corporation and the last word of the acronym for their name is 'Solutions'. I work for a crappy corporation that claims to sell "solutions." I work for a crappy corporation, that requires the services of crappy corporations that claim to sell solutions, specifically because of the excellent problems I create. Ain't nowt wrong with solutions in my line of work if you arsk me innit. They're far more likeable than the unknown or indeed the fairly insoluble. Though I would like to add the word solvent (En) /solvant (Fr) to the mix (scuse pun). I don't know which language had it first but subtle changes like that are a bitch. Oh and those nasty faux amis. I reckon Guillame le Conker was in fact a dyslexic Canute and we've been paying the price ever since. Someone once told me that 60% of our language came from the French, which when considering experimental error, falls into the law of 57% of statistics are made up on the spot.

Are we supposed to cry? That's not a site, it's a message board, nowhere near as user friendly as the trusty old DL, eh? He's probably only teasing us with his imminent departure. Any rumours of an impending demise have probably been greatly exaggerated via a moribund fixation on guest posters. 2009 has been the slowest year for DL member drop offs, when compared with previous years. If we look at the statistics, last year saw significant departures such as Star Crossed, Brinsworth House Baiter, TLC, The guy with the shouty avatar that sounds something like Olive, oh and pRobABly iain, dave and their timeshare girlfriend Jill. It's taking forever for a certain member to stop posting the same drivel time and again despite being on the precipice of the tedious or just boring asshat boundary. I wouldn't be at all surprised if this isn't just another tease. If the rumours are true then it's a sad day for the DL b/c with the passing of Banshees Cream we (I) will have no scapegoat in which to hurl unwarranted abuse.

Are you well hanged?

Anything written in comic sans Ooh la la, where to start? Personally I hate the use of 'we' and 'our' in scientifc papers. I also hate 'important' and 'interesting' as words to describe "our" work. In fact anything my boss likes to put in I try to take out. I let him have the odd one or two per manuscript depending on my mood and who is first author. Life is after all about compromise. In general I hate editing and proof reading but I have no choice, the manuscripts but no additional bucks stop here. Oh and please don't forget 'nice'. It can be employed for a coastal city in France juxtaposed with a certain coastal city in England, nothing else. (Yes reluctantly I admit it works for that city too, filter man )

Do you want dry ice with that?