The ramblings of a discombobulated mind
Just a short, sentimental post today, as I am out for a birthday party later and will not be in any fit state to write anything tomorrow…unless something happens of course. SP was out last night, rumour has it he may be out tonight too…rest assured I will be taking my notebook, just in case.
So [...]
So I went out last night for Hs birthday. We went to an olde worlde German restaurant where a number of us were instantly of the opinion that we must eat Bambi.
Now don’t get me wrong, I am not an emotionless vessel of hate (not right now anyway)….I can get upset at films, books, people [...]
So let’s face it - My social life is pretty good these days. I have a lot of friends and I live above the best Irish bar in Frankfurt. Well, I claim that they are all my friends, as they spend most of their drinking lives in my living room…..
My capacity for beer has reached [...]
So, whilst SPs decline from the dizzy heights of casanovadom continues at a rapid rate of knots….he does still have his moments.
This report was submitted to LW headquarters by our roving field reporter GF.
The location: Daves living room (AKA the Anglo Irish)
Those present: SP, GF and a random American Marine
Details are sketchy as to how [...]
I don’t remember where I heard that phrase, but it is true don’t you think….sometimes you are the dog, other times you are the hydrant.
I was making myself the hydrant until recently and that has all changed now - So all of the passworded posts have gone and I am on the hunt for material….which [...]
I was sorting my photos out on the PC the other night, when I stumbled across these 2:
They reminded me of many moons ago, when I was into Paintball in a big way. The pictures you see were from Airsoft, a different kind of game, but more of that later.
I played paintball regularly and had [...]
Writer, director and occasional Silent Bob actor Kevin Smith said it best during his “An evening with Kevin Smith” DVD. He refers to using “Steal the thunder” humour, where he will put himself down about his weight etc, which leaves nothing for people to hit you with.
I have followed the same mantra for many years [...]
When I lived in Germany as a kid, we lived at RAF Gutersloh. It was a bloody huge base and often ran joint exercises between the differing allied armed forces. Sometimes they were ground based and more often than not they were aerial dogfights.
During one of these huge aerial exercises, pilots from the UK, US, [...]
I drink…I get drunk…I fall down…no problem!
A few years ago, I was working in Cardiff and had a South African colleague called Thys. Great guy and a great laugh. As he was South African he was able to get Sambuca Gold and Aftershock that… didn’t conform to european standards shall we say. [...]
Now I am, like anyone, liable to fall foul of a practical joke or wind-up occasionally. It happens, maybe I am tired, maybe drunk…but I like to think that I can spot them fairly rapidly and more often than not during the delivery.
I am blessed with the ability to do “deadpan delivery” of jokes [...]
No…I will not call it Xmas just to satisfy the PC brigade…
Anyhoo, this is a story about the inimitable SP from many moons ago, it was the 2006 works Christmas party, and, not knowing any better we all tagged along.
Free food, free beer and something resembling free entertainment (Genius really, 90% English speaking contingent….entertainment all [...]
So this weekend has been about beer. The temperature in Frankfurt rocketed to over 30 degrees Celcius, which essentially turned me into a walking fountain, something akin to the Lynx advert :
So, in an effort to help, I took to consuming vast quantities of alcohol. Starting on Friday night at a bar called Waxys [...]
Tags: drunk, friends, germanyThis is an unusual post as it isn’t about me. It is about a close friend. He will hereafter simply be referred to as SP. To those that know him, it will be abundantly clear who SP is, to those that don’t the moniker will retain some small measure of mystique.
Now SP [...]
Intimidation is a funny thing, especially if you are a big guy. Being a big guy who is surrounded by friends can be a recipe for some unfounded confidence, especially when trying to intimidate a (somewhat) bigger guy on the strength of having more friends around you than he has.
This happened to me a [...]
… I wasn’t always the upstanding IT professional that you find today. No no no, I was quite the tearaway says I…says my mum…my dad…and pretty much anyone that knew me back then.
I can’t remember exactly how old I was, I think I was around 14 or 15. Much too old to go on a [...]
Speaking of the Hop Pole massive* (as I was in a recent post). I mentioned that we would all go to the club around midnight, the reason for this was that almost all of our group worked at the Hop Pole Hotel in some capacity.
The Hop Pole used to be run by Marcs mum [...]
To quote Billy Connolly….. Jesussufferingfuck
Everytime I look around the apartment and think.. “Just another hour or so”, I discover something else that has been bloody forgotten.
Still, it would appear that I have been blessed by <INSERT DIETY OF PREFERENCE HERE>, as my friends are pretty bloody amazing. Let’s recap my last few days:
Friday:
Work as normal [...]
Tags: apartment, faux pas, friends, germanySo, as you may recall from my Don’t Panic post, I don’t have a lot of time to get quite a lot done. However, I am sorely lacking the kick up the arse required. Let me give you last night as an example, my planning was thus:
Get home
Have a bite to eat
Finish main [...]
Ahem - So it transpires that I may have occasionally slipped from the moral high ground when it comes to honesty….as was pointed out to me recently.
We were invited to Sam and Micks wedding in sunny Sunderland at an amazing hotel. The only problem was that the hotel was bloody massive. So massive, [...]
So on Friday 14th all hell broke loose due to my server being attacked. This in turn took down every site attached to it (around 15-20), a couple gameservers and a voice chat server.
At 21:03, I recieve this email
Hello!
Please stop this or your server will be disconnected.
“List of attacks to other server.”
I probably don’t need [...]
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