Unutterably Silly The Other Side of the World Club

[Slite]

Originally Posted by dreams

guys.... who else but this group could give me such wonderful images just before I go to bed...

Noone... thats why we are so vewy vewy spefial! Not sure that is a good thing though

[dreams]

Originally Posted by Slite

Noone... thats why we are so vewy vewy spefial! Not sure that is a good thing though

Awww... it's a spefial something alright.

Almost 3am and I'm going to bed before someone adds to my current nightmare images.

[Sweetpea]

Originally Posted by nomesque

I'm sick of wandering on here and finding out that everyone's been socialising while I slept. And that almost all the Lounge-dwellers seem to be asleep or *gasp* W***ING! when I want to gossip!

And why would anything interfere with gossip? I actually have more time to gossip in those hours I'm away from home than I have when I am at home.

Originally Posted by dreams

I mentioned Monty Python to my students and they said, "Who?" or "Was that a band?"

I hope you gave them so much homework, they didn't have time for anything else!

(watch: Life of Brian, Holy Grail, Meaning of Life, and at least 3 seaons of Monty Python)

[Wetdogeared]

Dang. I get up at 4:00am, read a few posts, and before I know it half the world has gone by.

WDE.

[kazbates]

Originally Posted by nomesque

Ya know...

I'm sick of wandering on here and finding out that everyone's been socialising while I slept. And that almost all the Lounge-dwellers seem to be asleep or *gasp* W***ING! when I want to gossip!

Sooo...

I propose the formation of a new club - the Other Side of the World Club - for those of us who are awake and chatty when sane and right-side-up folks are boringly busy.

(Other Side of the World from what, you ask? From whatever you want. Or don't want. You know.)

Can I get a second? And maybe a fiftieth? Is anyone else even awake???

Free Zany Carters?

I pretty much feel the same way about you all! Just when I finally get the last kid in bed and have some time to spend on MR, most of the contestants of the Llounge (those of the non-American variety ~ yes, both North and South) are sleeping. I might catch a few on their lunch hour if I post in the morning, though.

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by Laine

There are getting to be quite a few of us from the outer limits.

Though I think we have some alien members on here from planets where the natives don't sleep.

Originally Posted by Dylrob

On my world sleep is considered an act of cowardice!

dylrob ! my brotha ! great to see someone from back home !

Originally Posted by Slite

In the immortal words of Monty Python: I got better!

(but... better than what ?? you were so great to start with !)

Originally Posted by dreams

I mentioned Monty Python to my students and they said, "Who?" or "Was that a band?"

i think that may be the end of civilisation as we know it.

Originally Posted by acidzebra

Winging? Wanking? Wrestling?

Whittling?

whittling. yes. that's it.

Originally Posted by montsnmags

Oh, great. Now no-one's going to come into this thread, what with that image funkin' up the air.

AAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGG !!!!!

Originally Posted by acidzebra

AAAARRRRRRRGH! UNICORN CHASER! UNICORN CHASER

awwww, pretty pony.

fiou !! that's better.

Originally Posted by Wetdogeared

Dang. I get up at 4:00am, read a few posts, and before I know it half the world has gone by.

WDE.

i know how you feel. i go to bed at 4am (not on purpose. it just seems to happen...), sleep a few hours, and before i know it half the world has gone by...

nomesque, there is an obvious solution to your problem. two, actually. the obvious one : stop sleeping. you may have to work up to this gradually, but it's radically effective. if you feel this is not within your grasp immediately, just switch over your schedule to paris time (the ONLY civilised schedule to have. not that i'm on it. i seem to operating in my own personal time zone. but that's another story...). problem solved.

[acidzebra]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

(the ONLY civilised schedule to have. not that i'm on it. i seem to operating in my own personal time zone. but that's another story...). problem solved.

mmmm, you seem to be on GMT+5 or +6, which is, I dunno, Kazakhstan?

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by acidzebra

mmmm, you seem to be on GMT+5 or +6, which is, I dunno, Kazakhstan?

aha !! must be my slavic blood. i can't help myself. that explains everything.

[pshrynk]

If I stand on my head while posting, can I be in the club?

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by pshrynk

If I stand on my head while posting, can I be in the club?

i thought that was common practice. isn't it in the rules ? how have you been posting so far ?

[Wetdogeared]

Originally Posted by pshrynk

If I stand on my head while posting, can I be in the club?

No, but you can be in the "Other side of the lake" club.

[vivaldirules]

At first, I was a little miffed that, while I slept last night, you people were frolicking and carrying on and such without me. Then I saw Hasselhoff - twice. May I just say that I, too, would like laser eye surgery now?

[nomesque]

Originally Posted by montsnmags

They're already free. No cramped battery-farmed Zany Carters come from here, and since I'm the sole supplier, and a militant monopolist, I second your motion with severe prejudice. FREE FREE-RANGE ZANY CARTERS FOR EVERYONE! (Excellent idea, my fellow banana-bender )

WOOHOO!!!

Originally Posted by montsnmags

Uh-oh. "Proactivising"? Work has got to you hasn't it? I suggest a double-Zany Carter Deluxe and a good lie down. Call your therapist if pain persists.

Work has, indeed, gotten to me. I'm verbifying. I'm buzz(word)ing. I'm popping coffee candies like... well, candy. A couple of ZCDs sound perfect. And I'm not breaking my conditions of employment. They just say I can't come to work under the influence, once I'm here I can drink whatever the hell I want. Sophistry, you reckon? Nuh-uh, they took out the 'don't get under the influence at work' clause cos our French office threatened to strike en-masse. Funny folk.

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by vivaldirules

At first, I was a little miffed that, while I slept last night, you people were frolicking and carrying on and such without me. Then I saw Hasselhoff - twice. May I just say that I, too, would like laser eye surgery now?

see ? some things it's *better* to miss.

Originally Posted by nomesque

Work has, indeed, gotten to me. I'm verbifying. I'm buzz(word)ing. I'm popping coffee candies like... well, candy. A couple of ZCDs sound perfect. And I'm not breaking my conditions of employment. They just say I can't come to work under the influence, once I'm here I can drink whatever the hell I want. Sophistry, you reckon? Nuh-uh, they took out the 'don't get under the influence at work' clause cos our French office threatened to strike en-masse. Funny folk.

well if you can't get drunk at work, how else are you going to bear it ? i mean, really ?

[nomesque]

Originally Posted by acidzebra

AAAARRRRRRRGH! UNICORN CHASER! UNICORN CHASER

awwww, pretty pony.

You REALLY don't know what image that caused my mind to come up with. Apparently I suffer from 'picture bleed', which causes one image to combine with the next, and... holy dooly, there's breakfast! Nice to see you again, brekky!

Originally Posted by montsnmags

Not all unicorns are good unicorns:

Huh - it IS, apparently, on the side of gay and lesbian white supremacists, though, so at least it's not completely closed-minded?

Originally Posted by Slite

Ok... I'll see your unicorn chaser and raise you THIS!

I feel sorry for the poor goggies though...

Uh-huh. I'm pretty sure there's a law against that. Or if there isn't, there should be.

Originally Posted by Slite

Noone... thats why we are so vewy vewy spefial! Not sure that is a good thing though

Of course it is. Everyone needs a chance to realise that mundane boringness has its up sides...

Originally Posted by Sweetpea

And why would anything interfere with gossip? I actually have more time to gossip in those hours I'm away from home than I have when I am at home.

I get lonely in the late afternoon when work is petering out and hardly anyone in Britain or the USA is awake and typing... *sniff*

Originally Posted by Wetdogeared

Dang. I get up at 4:00am, read a few posts, and before I know it half the world has gone by.

That should only really happen if you're sitting on the moon, right?

Originally Posted by kazbates

I pretty much feel the same way about you all! Just when I finally get the last kid in bed and have some time to spend on MR, most of the contestants of the Llounge (those of the non-American variety ~ yes, both North and South) are sleeping. I might catch a few on their lunch hour if I post in the morning, though.

Then you clearly belong in the Other Side of the World Club. Or maybe the Other Other Side of the Other World Club. Or both.

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

nomesque, there is an obvious solution to your problem. two, actually. the obvious one : stop sleeping. you may have to work up to this gradually, but it's radically effective.

Been there, done that. The police visits were a little disconcerting. Apparently a tattooed bright-haired woman talking to herself scares a surprisingly large number of peak-hour commuters. Go figure.

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

if you feel this is not within your grasp immediately, just switch over your schedule to paris time (the ONLY civilised schedule to have. not that i'm on it. i seem to operating in my own personal time zone. but that's another story...). problem solved.

See, I suggested this to my boss. Makes sense, really, cos our other dev offices are in Europe. He failed to see my point. Weird. Maybe the deranged ranting spoiled my otherwise sound argument.

Originally Posted by pshrynk

If I stand on my head while posting, can I be in the club?

Of course. In fact, you get extra roo points!

Originally Posted by vivaldirules

At first, I was a little miffed that, while I slept last night, you people were frolicking and carrying on and such without me. Then I saw Hasselhoff - twice. May I just say that I, too, would like laser eye surgery now?

Laser eye surgery won't help. Only staring very hard at the sun on a very sunny day in a place with no smog will burn THAT outta your retinas.