Gibberings CXIII : A walk in the park

[parttime crackhead]

I know mate, what is it about dressing slutty on Halloween! Never really understood that although I do enjoy having a few fit 'slutty' women around! It's great for a male ego!

That does my nut in. Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining about hot birds in next to no clothing but it's the whole "I'm dressed as Batwoman" ... "No pal, you're dressed as bat-slut!". "I'm a nurse" ... "In what fucking hospital do the nurses look like that?".

A hot bird in a stupid costume is well better than a standard or stinking bird in a slutty outfit. Hottest bird I've seen out at Halloween was in The Arches a few years ago, she was smoking hot, but she was dressed as a giant tin of spam. Sense of humour > Sluttiness.

After a quick scan through some of this years Halloween photos on FB from parties that I was at I've only managed to find one of my female friends who didn't take the opportunity to wear something at least slightly slutty. Funnily enough, she was the one I went home with (to sleep in her spare room, in an old pair of trackies haha).

It's SFW, just saving space. Apparently it's something from Dr Who? I wouldn't have a scooby.

NSFW:

I could post dozens of pictures of my pals in slut-gear, but I'm not doing that lol.

 

[Mental Kenny]

^ Mate the amount of photos on the book face is crazy, I have "friends" who are well into their mid-thirties who posted photos of themselves in their slutty costumes, some girls have like 3 kids. Now I'm not some grumpy guy but seriously at some point you have to behave your age, it's not fresher's week and you're not 19 anymore enjoying your student loan and being away from home for the first time.

 

[Sepher]

I could post dozens of pictures of my pals in slut-gear, but I'm not doing that lol.

Raaaaargh, you little tease. Post the fucking pics. Do it! I like your mate. Any bird wot's into Dr Who is alrite by me. She's a stone angel btw.

proper weird disturbing vivid lucid dreams last night, odd

Me too Dan, me too. Woke me up at 4am, super vivid. Had to have a brew and a fag before I went back down, make sure my head was clear of whatever it had had in it. Still having mad ones right the way to the alarm going off, proper disorienting at first waking up.

 

[StoneHappyMonday]

I had a dream Arsenal beat Reading 7-5 after being 4-0 down.

Some weird shit our heads make up sometimes.

 

[Myshkin]

It's Halloween tonight. I never once celebrated, never did as a kid as back then we hadn't been completed littered by yank pop culture yet(children these days do celebrate, it's pathetic)

It's a shame that it's become so debased, as the festival itself (let's drop the name 'Halloween' and all its associations for a second) is actually very western European in origin.

It's the end of the harvest season and the beginning of the dark, cold months, and was celebrated as such for centuries throughout all the western Celtic nations (as well as elsewhere in northern Europe). Essentially, it's far more 'British' than the Last Night of the Proms.

In fact, its popularity helped it endure to the extent that the church had no option but to Christianise it in the 9th century and move All Souls' Day to coincide. Hence the change in the name.

I'm not one for 'trick or treating' or dressing up, but research reveals they're probably derived from the custom of collecting for the feasts that would occur at this time of year and 'guising' (an Irish and Scottish tradition), respectively.

 

[parttime crackhead]

It's a shame that it's become so debased, as the festival itself (let's drop the name 'Halloween' and all its associations for a second) is actually very western European in origin. It's the end of the harvest season, and was celebrated throughout all the western Celtic nations. Essentially, it's far more 'British' than the Last Night of the Proms.

In fact, its popularity helped it endure to the extent that the church had no option but to Christianise it in the 9th century and move All Souls' Day to coincide. Hence the change in the name.

Yawn. If you're a wean you get to wear stupid shit & get free sweets. If you're (supposed to be) an adult you get to wear stupid shit & get wasted.

There you go. The true meaning of Halloween folks.

 

[badandwicked]

Now I'm not some grumpy guy but seriously at some point you have to behave your age

What page of the rule book does it say this?

I agree the stone angel looks cool, much cooler than a slutty something or other. I've never not once in my life worn fancy dress. so boring.

 

[jancrow]

I think if you've got children you shouldn't try and bridge two worlds by bringing them to the pub, especially for marathon weekend lunches, and if you're over 16 you shouldn't really try to have sex with people under 16, or get them to work for you. It's acceptable to shit yourself a lot at both ends of the spectrum. These are the only rules about ageing that matter.

 

[Myshkin]

Yawn.

Go on. Ignore your national heritage and ancient culture. I don't care.

I mean the one that doesn't involve Bucky, cholesterol and Presbyterian bigotry by the way.

 

[Sepher]

Now I'm not some grumpy guy but seriously at some point you have to behave your age

What page of the rule book does it say this?

Quite right. Day I act my age it's all over. It's important we continue to nurture our inner Peter ( and Petra ) Pans as much as possible, don't matter how old we are, always being sure they're accompanied by a responsible adult, of course!

I agree the stone angel looks cool, much cooler than a slutty something or other. I've never not once in my life worn fancy dress. so boring.

Me either. Stupid pastime. Definitely never gone prancing round Canal Street in Mancimoo in anything slutty either here. Proper boring!

 

[Mental Kenny]

It's a shame that it's become so debased, as the festival itself (let's drop the name 'Halloween' and all its associations for a second) is actually very western European in origin.

It's the end of the harvest season and the beginning of the dark, cold months, and was celebrated as such for centuries throughout all the western Celtic nations (as well as elsewhere in northern Europe). Essentially, it's far more 'British' than the Last Night of the Proms.

In fact, its popularity helped it endure to the extent that the church had no option but to Christianise it in the 9th century and move All Souls' Day to coincide. Hence the change in the name.

I'm not one for 'trick or treating' or dressing up, but research reveals they're probably derived from the custom of collecting for the feasts that would occur at this time of year and 'guising' (an Irish and Scottish tradition), respectively.

My dad's family is from a town near Venice and my mother's family hails from Haifa(what is now north Israel) originally so for me Halloween is a completely alien festivity, I know it has strong Celtic origins, however for most people in southern Europe/Mediterranean, Halloween is something you see in American tv series and movies. It has now become fashionable for children to celebrate, but it's just yet another cultural import that doesn't really belong. People do it because they saw it on telly, that's all. I know you lot in Britain have genuinaly historic reasons to celebrate it.

Although my fav British festivity is Guy Fawkes, lad was a legend.

 

[Myshkin]

Mancimoo

That's the first time I've ever read my home city's name bastardised in that fashion. I can only hope it'll be the last. Seriously.

It's not as annoying as the people who pronounce it 'Manchista', but it's close.

I know you lot in Britain have genuinaly historic reasons to celebrate it.

Yeah, I can see how southern European and non-'Celtic' nations might see it as alien.

It's just another excuse for us lot on the north-western fringes of the continent to get together, eat, drink and pretend we don't live in places with shitty weather.

Although my fav British festivity is Guy Fawkes, lad was a legend.

Interestingly enough (or boringly if you're PTCH) that too predates Guy Fawkes and the gunpowder plot. I'll leave it there though, as I'm aware that I'm going on a bit.

 

[Sepher]

Piss off Samhain. You think I'm giving your home town the respect you think it deserves you got another thing coming mate! I'll grudgingly take a trip down Canal Street cos it's a good night out and most of my mates over there are LGBT, one ran the door on Cruz 101 for years so group of us always got in free but that's as much recognition as it's getting from me.


*wanders off chanting Leeds, Leeds, Leeds like he's some kinda football hard-nut or summink*

p.s. Please be a City supporter or I'll lose all respect for you?

 

[Ceres]

Sources confirm that hurricane Sandy, now buffeting the U.S., was carried out by highly advanced technology developed by the heroic Iranian regime, in coordination with our resistant regime. These sources have also confirmed that experts from Syria have contributed in carrying out this work. This is the consequence of attacking Assad’s Syria and threatening its security.

not often the news makes me laugh.

 

[Myshkin]

p.s. Please be a City supporter or I'll lose all respect for you?

You had respect for me? Consider it lost!

 

[parttime crackhead]

Go on. Ignore your national heritage and ancient culture. I don't care.

I mean the one that doesn't involve Bucky, cholesterol and Presbyterian bigotry by the way.

Sorry, you're mistaken. My cultural heritage involves nothing more than your second sentence. Other than lockback knives.

 

[tambourine-man]

Cruz 101

*shudder*

 

[Sepher]

Hahahaha! Cruz is ok Tambs, so long as you don't mind a loada muscle marys strutting their stuff to hi-nrg commercial cheese. Downstairs is alrite. Had some decent nights in there, but never done the 'proper' manchester club scene. Sankey's and stuff were a bit after my going out days, all my mates too old for places like that these days.

You had respect for me? Consider it lost!

Oh Sam, how could you? Not Utd? For shame son, for shame.

 

[mattnotrik]

Just got back from the dentist, basically I chipped my tooth playing football the other week, like a massive V out the front tooth so ive got to have a fake tooth put in, so he ordered a fake tooth etc. Anyway to put it on he had to "cut away" a section of the tooth to stick it on too.

Basically using some sort of tooth cutter just chopped my front tooth in half, whilst spraying some sort of high pressured water directly into the open tooth wound, didnt even use any anaesthetic, was like being tortured but I wasnt even being restrained "you ok there?" erm not really, i think your cutting into a nerve there..." think thats the most pain ive had to sit through for 10 odd minutes. "Just go back to reception to pay the bill" .. £183????? I basically said id go to the car and get my wallet, never going back there again, fucking rip off. Rather have shit teeth

 

[parttime crackhead]

Bumped the dentist! Yas! My mate just did that, except he went for full-on £4k worth of new teeth. His logic, that he was moving to Canada & you can't get away with slightly dodgy teeth in Canada/America. Also, that he didn't have to pay any of his bill until the work was done. At which point he fucked off to Canada haha.

I've just uploaded a load of the tunes from the weekend - http://www.mixcrate.com/ad357

Ally & Dean's party was the Friday, me & 2 other guys I'd never really met playing random stuff. Techno, house, hip-hop, things like Thriller etc, then one guy (Zonk) playing pure Hard-Tek brutal stuff that I can't stand lol. It's in 3 parts.

The other new one that's called something like Angie & Amy's party is just the first 2 hours of me DJing (started about midnight, as that's when I eventually turned up to the party lol), before I got bored & left it to cunts that had no clue what they were doing, so I cut the rest of the shit out, that one should be 99% just me. Might be a couple sketchy bits as I was just set up on a kitchen table, using a guitar amp as a speaker & surrounded by drunk people touching things. Might also be one bit where I've jumped out for a fag & someone has decided to have a go lol. I jumped back on later & started playing shit like Primal Scream, Wu-Tang etc to please the folk that weren't too daft on 'dance music'. Never bothered uploading that.