Random MSN Gibberings XCVIII - Pass me the Valium please / Shammy's big boner

[Myshkin]

I know there's a Sportball thread somewhere, but I don't really want to post in it...

Fucking funny, loads of the football fans at work today managed to get so excited by the England game tonight they even started babbling about how England might WIN the fucking cup....

I know fuck all about any sportball, but I know England ain't gonna win, and i know that cos of this fucking match, when I go to the Co-Op in 5 mins to get some Westons in, the shelves will be bare.

I'll have to drink Damson vodka.

I can see guys on the factory floor just edging towards the doorway in expectation. Me? I'm going to slap in an hour's overtime and forget about it.

It does make me laugh how at every single tournament the expectations get raised to a stupidly unrealistic height. Followed by the backlash when those expectations are inevitably shown to be pie in the sky, to put it mildly.

 

[Acidtek]

England will not win the tournament, end of!

 

[Mr Smokes Blunts.]

Stupid proles

 

[Acidtek]

Proles??

 

[Mr Smokes Blunts.]

I was taking the piss lol

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proles
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proletariat

 

[Acidtek]

Ah, fucking proles!

 

[Mailmonkey]

Ah well, got 4 bottles of Westons in.

Might as well turn the telly on.

Pretend to enjoy it for me son's sake, i know he'll get bored after 10 mins or so anyway, but he claims he really wants to watch it

Popped a vallie too to speed time up, slow it down, do whatever it does to ease the way in times like this.

 

[Myshkin]

La Marseillaise: Now there's a proper national anthem for you.

Even sounds inspiring when it's filtered through plywood walls and masked by the sounds of clanging metal and grinding pallet trucks.

 

[jancrow]

What, the fucking soccer's on? Cripes. This day gets better and better.

 

[Myshkin]

Yeah, the soccer's on. You've come back to the Best of British.

Believe me, even international football hysteria's worth it (jingoism included) if you get to hear the French National anthem with a moody industrial backdrop.

 

[jancrow]

Aha, this would explain why I saw someone wearing an Italian flag like a cape yesterday.

What were the sikhs wearing t-shirts with AK-47s on them all about?

 

[Mailmonkey]

Al Quaeda

edit>>>i been living in Devon too long

 

[trammies]

Oh dear, England's just scored...

 

[Shambles]

Ahem. Footy thread puh-leeeeeeeeeze. Comes to something when even a man's Gibberings - traditional home of entertainingly inconsequential chitchat - is infiltrated by truly inconsequential chitchat devoid of any conceivable entertainment value. That's why we have a ghetto to herd you footy folk into

*attempts to herd footyfans but suspects a losing battle*

... when I go to the Co-Op in 5 mins to get some Westons in, the shelves will be bare.

Fuckin' tell me about it. Weston's cider is basically always on offer at Co-Op here (2 for £3) and for ages I seemed to be the only fella who noticed this handy factoid and made regular use of it. Then we had that bit of warm weather for a few days a few weeks back during which time the local teens discovered it. Ever since then it's been like gold dust. Especially the 8.4% one. They've consistently sold out completely within 24h max since then, the 7.4% variants last another 24h at most then bare shelves for a week or two til the next delivery comes in. Managed to pick up two bottles of Katy's instead today but the rest of the decent bottled cider section was barren

 

[Allein]

very good

suppose you've got to keep up some pretense of moderating....

I think that may have been genuine, as I was actually pulled up for eluding to same a while back, I'm sure there is endless conclusion behind the scenes to ensure complete continuity down to the finest detail.....not

 

[Mailmonkey]

Fuckin' tell me about it. Weston's cider is basically always on offer at Co-Op here (2 for £3) and for ages I seemed to be the only fella who noticed this handy factoid and made regular use of it. Then we had that bit of warm weather for a few days a few weeks back during which time the local teens discovered it. Ever since then it's been like gold dust. Especially the 8.4% one. They've consistently sold out completely within 24h max since then, the 7.4% variants last another 24h at most then bare shelves for a week or two til the next delivery comes in. Managed to pick up two bottles of Katy's instead today but the rest of the decent bottled cider section was barren

Our Co-Op ONLy sellsthe 8.4% one.

Devon Irie.

 

[Marmalade]

Ahem. Footy thread puh-leeeeeeeeeze. Comes to something when even a man's Gibberings - traditional home of entertainingly inconsequential chitchat - is infiltrated by truly inconsequential chitchat devoid of any conceivable entertainment value. That's why we have a ghetto to herd you footy folk into

*attempts to herd footyfans but suspects a losing battle*



Fuckin' tell me about it. Weston's cider is basically always on offer at Co-Op here (2 for £3) and for ages I seemed to be the only fella who noticed this handy factoid and made regular use of it. Then we had that bit of warm weather for a few days a few weeks back during which time the local teens discovered it. Ever since then it's been like gold dust. Especially the 8.4% one. They've consistently sold out completely within 24h max since then, the 7.4% variants last another 24h at most then bare shelves for a week or two til the next delivery comes in. Managed to pick up two bottles of Katy's instead today but the rest of the decent bottled cider section was barren

hah el-oh-el at Shambles the Grumpeteer. Saved me from having a winge anyways

Mailmonkey/Shambles: .. the 8.4% Westons is giving away loads of prizes via an online comp, and I actually managed to be arsed to register for it. There's a code printed on the underside of every bottle top from the 8.4% ones, & after registering, you can enter the code and see if you win. If you're already doing it yourselves, then ignore the following, but if neither of you are doing it, then if you have any spare bottle tops ... if you can be arsed to save em, could you type the codes here at some point ... as and when youve drunk em or just save em up or whatever & do it when youve got time or remember to. If they win I'll let yah know. If you win one of the Lotus cars tho, you could cut me in ;p


my co-op's still got a fuckton of 8.4% and Katy's. I live in a Carling town unfortunately ... but it has its perks occasionally

 

[33Hz]

Everything changes 33HZ.

The UK economy isn't likely to fully recover for at least 10 years, meaning less better jobs to choose from. Not too mention the fact I can't really afford to spend 4 years at uni at my age for a career change. I need the money I have now. The best offer I have at the mo is working as a sales rep for my bro in Australia at the end of the year. Up until then I'll just have to grit and bear it in my current job and hope I don't completely lose the plot and go on a "Falling Down" style rampage. Anyway, I feel better now. I just fucking hate Monday mornings. 8)

 

[Shambles]

Our Co-Op ONLy sellsthe 8.4% one.

Devon Irie.

Ah yes. You be in zoider-drinker zentral I spose. Remember being gifted a jug of "proper" Devon scrumpy a few years back. By Jiminy that stuff is fuckin' rancid 8(

Can see why it only seems to be sold to locals and - I imagine mostly to - tourists. Not likely to be many repeat customers surely 8(

Noticed that the garage cum supermarket down the other end of town here has also started selling Weston's in semi-hemi-demi-johns of late. Can't remember quite how much is in 'em but probably 1-1.5l. Think they're charging £4.50 which ain't too bad. They definitely had Old Rosie and two others I think. Dunno which ones but not the ones the sell in Co-Op anyway. Will have to investigate. Am getting a bit of a taste for zoiderz of late. Seem to be much better value than beer since the price of the latter went insanely high after the budget.

Marmzajookz: Noted. Am not a competetion enterer by nature (not ones you have to register for anyway - email spam filter meltdown 8() so my tops are your tops. As and when Co-Op gets a fresh delivery in anyway 8)

 

[DS_]

hah el-oh-el at Shambles the Grumpeteer. Saved me from having a winge anyways

Mailmonkey/Shambles: .. the 8.4% Westons is giving away loads of prizes via an online comp, and I actually managed to be arsed to register for it. There's a code printed on the underside of every bottle top from the 8.4% ones, & after registering, you can enter the code and see if you win. If you're already doing it yourselves, then ignore the following, but if neither of you are doing it, then if you have any spare bottle tops ... if you can be arsed to save em, could you type the codes here at some point ... as and when youve drunk em or just save em up or whatever & do it when youve got time or remember to. If they win I'll let yah know. If you win one of the Lotus cars tho, you could cut me in ;p


my co-op's still got a fuckton of 8.4% and Katy's. I live in a Carling town unfortunately ... but it has its perks occasionally

Katy's is a fine cider if i do say so myself.