Gibberings CLXXI: No Twattery Allowed - Waiting on Raas's Call

[Chatative]

I said I was horny. Not desperate.

Good distinction! I was just jesting.

 

[swampdragon]

Not sure I need any drugs today.. the scenery around here is beautiful enough as it is. Rather pretty train ride. :D

There is indeed. What do you take me for?

Tsk, I thought northern girls were usually happy with a steak bake?

Erm, yeah. But that would involve a creepy, seedy and exploitative transaction which is (in most cases) just a few rungs up the ladder from rape. That's not somebody who's 'willing' to cut out the shit, it's somebody who's paid to do so. And the only tension is between the punter's viagra-assisted-boner and the crotch of the smart-casual trousers which he picked out of the fashion pages of a men's magazine. No thanks.

Really? Huh. I was actually pondering this the other day and realised that I would quite happily pay. Was more thinking in the future in case I was alone and desperate, but.. yeah. Does that mean I have fewer morals than you?

 

[Sammy G]

Tsk, I thought northern girls were usually happy with a steak bake?

They usually are, as you know. However, she'd really have to make up for it if she did have one, what with my 20-years-of-vegetarianism and all. I'd just rather go somewhere slightly more subdued and relaxed than yer average Greggs, thanks very much! :D

Really? Huh. I was actually pondering this the other day and realised that I would quite happily pay. Was more thinking in the future in case I was alone and desperate, but.. yeah. Does that mean I have fewer morals than you?

Possibly!

I've thought about it before, must admit. More frequently when I've been in relationships than out of them, funnily enough, although at some of the most desperate times I've given it serious consideration. The idea of no emotional attachment whatsoever is the biggest draw - I sometimes wish there were places like the saunas that gay men get to go to, although you'd no doubt end up with some very scary women dominating the scene.

Unless it were someone who was pretty, smart and genuinely into what she was doing, then I can't ever imagine it happening.

 

[masaz]

I want a fucking steak bake now.

 

[Sammy G]

Not a steak bake and a happy hooker?

 

[Chatative]

Also, fun little 'mind reading' game for anyone who's bored/fucked/hasn't seen it before. It guessed a character from a fairly obscure, rare videogame that I chose, fuck knows how but it's a nice lil timewaster

It found Scarlett Johansson no bother but seems to have trouble finding Mary Timony unsurprisingly.

It managed to guess Rand al'Thor from the Wheel of Time books.

 

[masaz]

Not a steak bake and a happy hooker?

Sounds like a quality day that, to be honest

edit @ Chatative, yeah it's a weird one but got all my guesses so far. I really should find something productive to do but eh. Was going to have a bash at the AL-LAD but codeine is hitting harder and when I asked gf if she minded me taking some to try it she suggested I leave it for when I'm sober so I'm going with no for now.

Probably.

 

[Sammy G]

I think of
Michael Gira
Swans

Fucking HELL! :D

It took about 25 questions, one of which was 'Does your character sing humorous songs?'. Obvious 'no'.

By that point, I knew the game would soon be up.

Sounds like a quality day that, to be honest

In any particular order? Or does the steak bake replace Mick and Marianne's Mars bar?

 

[masaz]

Steak bake after obviously, although that image has sort of put me off my lunch a bit now haha. Mostly just because of Mick.

 

[Sammy G]

Late-sixties Mick was quite something:

But yeah, I think I know what you mean.

 

[ScotchMist]

Highly unlikely you have fewer morals than Sammy.. just not that particular one

 

[spacejunk]

Late-sixties Mick was quite something:

But yeah, I think I know what you mean.

Is that amphetamine-jaw, or are you just happy to see me?

 

[Sammy G]

Highly unlikely you have fewer morals than Sammy.. just not that particular one

Agreed.

Is that amphetamine-jaw, or are you just happy to see me?

Hahahahaha!

Y'know, that's probably the biggest reason behind the total collapse of his face in later years. Those facial muscles were used to working overtime, and then some.

 

[spacejunk]

Use it or lose it...!

 

[Sammy G]

Quite:

NSFW:

Bear in mind that's a retouched ABC News shot too. Stims will do this to your face, kids.

Though don't you think it's spooky how he's looking more and more like David Jo every year?

NSFW:

I know they always looked similar in the seventies, but come on...

 

[spacejunk]

^ I've noticed that too!
I've never had the chance to see (or meet) mick...but then again, i think the stones are far more "mock rock" (ahem) than the dolls nowadays.
Not that the dolls were ever inferior to the stones IMO.

 

[Chatative]

It's amazing how much different Charlie Watts looks for having not taken drugs as much as the others:

NSFW:

 

[Sammy G]

You're joking, right?

Charlie was a good boy when he wasn't on tour, but in the sixties, he gave most of the Stones a run for their money. There's an anecdote in the Stanley Booth book about (I think ) Keith (could have been Mick) being offered a mystery tab of 'acid'. Their response is that they don't trust street acid, but 'give it to Charlie, he'll 'ave it'!

He's also been quoted as saying "I don't sleep on tours. I just talk to people".

Charlie was the last Stone to become a heroin addict too. Right after Mick and even Keef had finished using.

But yeah, he's probably taken less overall as a result of his domesticated, happily, solidly married status.

^ I've noticed that too!
I've never had the chance to see (or meet) mick...but then again, i think the stones are far more "mock rock" (ahem) than the dolls nowadays.
Not that the dolls were ever inferior to the stones IMO.

I saw the 'New' New York Dolls in about 2002, and I think you're right. Though of course the Dolls didn't have decades of heavy royalty cheques, daily grind and interpersonal tension to blunt their enthusiasm.

I still don't say "I saw the Dolls" though, obviously.

 

[Chatative]

But yeah, he's probably taken less overall as a result of his domesticated, happily, solidly married status.

I know fuck all about that side of things really... I assume the thing is he stopped using on the whole (after breaking his ankle in the 80s?), whilst the others didn't.

Any truth behind that?

 

[Sammy G]

Keef apparently stopped using after a botched cocaine deal with Mick in Paris. The guy supplied an ounce of heroin instead of coke. Mick threw it away in disgust, while Keef scooped up about a gram for himself and left the rest. I think this was late seventies / early eighties. Whereas Charlie ignored the stuff for the better part of the sixties and seventies and got on to it in the mid-eighties. Along with speed and lots of booze.

Yes, the ankle incident supposedly stopped him, but I don't know how late on that was. Possibly went on till '88, as they toured in '89.

I think they were all still using coke until Keef fell out of the tree.