I am Unwell, at home. Given up trying to do anything useful & work related. Feel too guilty to go outside. I'm stuck inside with daytime TV & Radio 4, which is currently broadcasting a depressing play about a kid going missing.
Entertain me, I beg you. Tell me what you're having for lunch. Tell me what you saw on TV last night. Tell me a joke. Tell me your favourite line from a film (and let us guess which film.) Ask me a question. Anything. The floor is yours.
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Well, you did ask. The Russian and I watched a documentary about the bridge they built between Denmark and Sweden. We even watched to the end, in spite of early protestations that the programme was better suited to heterosexual males.
An English man, an Irish man and a Scottish man... (complete as appropriate).
And get well soon!
hi - just me. poor you. ill again?!! pesky children.
I need to speak with you about L's wedding day - you need to come to mine around 12:00 - we're getting a cab all together (E&D&P, me and you).
ok - well I am making a Tuna sandwich with cucumber. It's not exciting but I have no money and there is nothing else.
I watched a film called A Good Year. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Good_Year
very good and made me want to move to France.
My favourite line from a film is
"Open the pod bay doors, (please) HAL."
Joke: An inflatable man had a pin and decided to go around deflating everyone and everything. As he deflated his inflatable mother she said "you've let everyone down".
Shit - not sure that's funny anymore.
Question for you:
is there any kind of art or painting that you really dislike and can you find me a photo of it.
BiB - 'in spite of early protestations that the programme was better suited to heterosexual males' - was that how they introduced it on the telly? 'Gay viewers, please switch over now, you won't like it.'
Bah, you mean that even gay men are not immune to the FACTS AND FIGURES obsession...?
Thank you.
Thanks, Sar, that will keep me entertained. At least the germs from the junior kids don't seem as virulent as the germs from the little ones. Or maybe my immune system is finally kicking in.
Haven't heard more about the hen night, have you? I saw a bit of that before I crashed out. The clothes!!! Scarlet Johanssen was v foxy. Ha! I love that joke. Genius.
Interesting question. Virtually any of the art at the recent China Art at the Saatchi gallery, which is a shame. But especially this one:
http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/yue_minjun.htm?section_name=china_art
It hurts my eyes just to look at it.
Ha - I liked that one - it's funny.
No, we watched because it was what was on one of the few channels we can receive in a language we can both understand in the five-minute slot that we spend together each day. (The protestations came from my beloved.)
What d'ya call a man.../My wife's so ugly.../The Germans bombed our chippy.../Knock, knock...
yikes - modern day China indeed!
Hen - meeting for lunch on Saturday in Borough - you need to email Alice to confirm she sent original email. Just let her know what bits you're coming to. I am doing lunch and film. Not evening.
Huh??? I think Yue Minjun's great.
I don't love you any more.
(But do get well soon, babe.)
Oh Tim... *sniff*
Okay, I'll look at it again.
No, no, it still hurts my eyes. Please explain to me why you like it, I'm genuinely interested.
I watched three episodes of the West Wing in a row and got so involved that I became convinced that I actually have a high-powered speechwriting job in the White House.
My favourite line from a film is "These aren't accidents. They're throwing themselves into the road, gladly, to escape all this hideousness." No prizes for guessing where that comes from, though. My other favourite is "Talking monkey, yeah yeah, came here from the future, ugly sucker, only says 'ficus'."
P, did you know that Obama's speechwriter was 27? 27!!!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/20/barack-obama-inauguration-us-speech
I love that bit in Withnail. I'd happily quote the entire script.
I'm guessing the second is from 12 Monkeys? No?
Oh, and Bad Sar's is from 2001, I think.
Mini-Moviewang: guess the film:
"What am I gonna say? "I killed the president of Paraguay with a fork. How've you been?"
Hope you're feeling better soon. Being ill is why God invented DVD box sets.
ooh ooh, I know this one Boz: it's Grosse Pointe Blank, one of my favourites. Our lovely hosts at Christmas got me a DVD player as a present, but I haven't got a scart lead yet. Will just have to watch illegal telly on the internet.
Well done. Take Ten Boz Points!
(NB: Boz Points are not valid as legal tender in any known country and have no actual monetary worth. nor will they get you into heaven faster.)
I have a day off today and I have used it to buy foot lotion.
Billy, was it Body Shop Peppermint Foot Lotion? You are metrosexual.
Annie, I'm feeling all psychic. Or has someone already mentioned Beautiful Thing? But, if I'm not mistaken, I think that's how one of our heroes allows himself to first touch the other, by massaging Body Shop Peppermint Foot Lotion into the other's bruised back...
The cottage from Withnail and I is up for sale. Should we have a whip-round and buy it? You'd/we'd surely get some peace and quiet there.
...sorry, and feeling psychic because I was googling Beautiful Thing like mad yesterday.
Lunch: Smoked gouda all up in here.
Joke: A group of chess enthusiasts had checked into a hotel and were standing in the lobby discussing their recent tournament victories. After about an hour, the hotel manager came out of his office and asked them to disperse. "But why?" they asked, as they moved off. "Because," the manager said, "I can't stand chess nuts boasting in an open foyer."
Line: I'm a soldier, not a monster.
BiB, I've never seen it, though I'd like to. I think we should definitely buy the cottage. 'Are you the farmer?'
Emordino, you are sophisticated. I love - LOVE - that joke. It's terrible.
That's the first line I don't recognise. It is from a Stallone film by any chance?
I have another joke!!
Q: What do you call Harry Potter when he picks his nose?
A: Harry Snotter!
(I can hear you all groaning).
Body Shop? Nah, it was from Boots.
My favourite line from a film:
'I can find only three words to describe the female sex. None of which are worth expressing'
In fairness, the gouda came from Aldi, so not that sophisticated.
The line is from Mr Jeremy Irons, playing what is off the top of my head my favourite villainous role of all time in Die Hard 3.
I love the chess nuts joke.
Sorry, I have nothing else to add. get well soon, namesake. X
I like Yue because he subverts the fixed grins of Cultural Revolution poster art ('The Workers of the Wang Pu Division 13 Foundry Salute Chairman Mao Zedong And Say He's Looking Pretty Studly For A Man His Age And, Y'Know, *Would*') into something that mocks the source, and mocks what replaced it (Deng's Capitalism With Chinese Characteristics).
So blimmin' there.
The small ginger one is ill too - he thinks he has 'weasles'. I couldn't bear to correct him. Have you got weasles too Miss? Get better soon XXX
Annie, get well soon! Entertain you? Erm, silly placenames? And The Meaning of Liff? Ely, Corriecravie and Kettering are some of my favourites.
Thank you, everyone. I was back at work, feeling better but having to pretend to still be recovering in case they thought I was just off with a hangover or something.
Tim, that's a good defense, and I take your point. But it is still hideously ugly. I know this is a lowbrow way of looking at art, and I don't think all art should be pretty, but if I had it on my wall it'd give me nightmares.
RoMo - weasles - teehee!
Thanks Anne - I love Douglas Adams.
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