I am bored and ill

[ewx]

IP logging is off, anonymous comments are allowed. Tell me something.

(2007-01-22 IP logging back on. Anonymity remains allowed.)

Comments

[mair_in_grenderich]

I have 5452 hot cross buns (I ate two).

walkable streets is fun.

Milton Keynes has 200km of cycle network.

Someone already invented that game where you have two words/phrases, and you have to find a series of webpages linking the wikipedia article on one to the wikipedia article on the other? You could play that.

[ceb.livejournal.com]

You could play a very boring game of bridge.

[sphyg.livejournal.com]

You need all that cycle network to burn off all those hot cross buns ;P

[mhoulden.livejournal.com]

Depends on what you're ill with, but I like this for colds and flu:

• Juice from 1 lemon, and maybe a lime as well


• A large dollop of honey


• A large measure of something alcoholic, such as Scotch, rum or brandy

Add all the ingredients to a cup and then pour on boiling water. Allow to cool slightly and then drink. Repeat if desired.

[(Anonymous)]

You have one of those smiles that makes you feel like the sun has just come out.

[ewx.livejournal.com]

Gosh. Thankyou!

[(Anonymous)]

I hate the way our social group never talk about feelings. Or if we do, it is to negate them.

[(Anonymous)]

I think this is to do with our social space being strongly hierarchical.

Also, people say very nasty things about people who aren't there, from which you can only deduce that the same would be true if you were to say something to them.

Also, there can sometimes be a kind of "unproductive" standing-order acceptance, which isn't really engagement.

Also, there can sometimes be a kind of consumer approach to social involvement, which means that you're unwilling to do things which devalue your stock.

Also, I suspect this comment is worded in a way that this anonymity is pointless, ;-).

[(Anonymous)]

Geeks. Not exactly people who are good at talking about feelings.

I don't want to talk about feelings with my friends, let allone my acquaintances. I find it difficult and embarassing, especially when I am less than entirely happy. What I want to do is drink too much port/wine/mead and argue about how bright the gorram moon is/play bridge/listen to people talk about computers.

We're Brittish damn it. Stiff upper lip wot wot. Cope with your own damn feelings, I'll cope with mine.

[(Anonymous)]

I have a hypothesis.

[ewx.livejournal.com]

Oh...?

[(Anonymous)]

When I was 15 I vacuum molded a yellow plastic lemon using a real lemon as a cast and stuck a timer in it (the plastic lemon that is).

We even got the pores in the lemon to come through.

I keep The Lemon in a tea box.

[(Anonymous)]

you are one of the more attractive men of the sgo

[ewx.livejournal.com]

Well, it's nice of you to say so.

[mtbc100.livejournal.com]

You are bored and ill.

[lethargic-man.livejournal.com]

Tell me something.

You missed out "... I didn't know," to which rysmiel's answer is "The other night, I dreamed my best friend was a horse."

I've had some strange dreams the last while, but the only one I can remember off the top of my head was the one in which I was at Limmud only it was set in Cambridge University, rather than Nottingham.

Speaking of which, there's a room in the East Midlands Conference Centre (known as the e mc²) where, if you hit a switch in the wall, all the windows instantly go frosted. How cool is that?

[armb.livejournal.com]

I hardly ever remember my dreams. The only one I remember from last year was meeting muninnhuginn in the kitchen at work. I don't know why they were there, but in the dream it wasn't a surprise. We just said "Hi" as we passed in opposite directions, and that was the whole of the dream.

[(Anonymous)]

There is an armed, undetonated hydrogen bomb in the water south-west of Qaanaaq in North Greenland. The US lost four there, but they only found three of them. The fourth one is still there.

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

I'll remember to wear a hard hat if I ever get around to taking my dream holiday in Greenland!

[kjaneway.livejournal.com]

Apparently, cats have 33 muscles just for their ears.

[nunfetishist.livejournal.com]

I want ears that flexible. If only to enhance my expression of anger towards people.

[hazyjayne.livejournal.com]

I would like to spend more time with you in a taking-pictures-way next time I am in Cambridge/you are in London, if that is ameanable to you.

I'm afraid I wasn't very social last time I saw you.

[ewx.livejournal.com]

That sounds fun, yes.

[(Anonymous)]

You should travel more. When you are well.

[ewx.livejournal.com]

I probably should.

[baljemmett.livejournal.com]

I'm confused. These comments have changed from earlier!

[I almost left an anonymous one, too, but sobriety prevailed.]

[baljemmett.livejournal.com]

No, wait, I'm an utter idiot; damerell posted this when I was sober, and now I'm not so I didn't notice the username had changed. Uhm. Oops.

[(Anonymous)]

Interestingly if you drawing pin this page and then leave an annonymous comment and then it gets replied to the email you receive includes 'someone replied to a comment in which you said' but if you further reply the email with your further comment in does not indicate that it was you who made it.

[(Anonymous)]

This is so going to get me in trouble, but fuck it, it'll cheer you up too :-)

You were always really good to me, and you're great in bed; in fact you're one of the people I most miss being with. You're also a fantastic top, and sometimes I wish my current partner could have watched us together, just for the educational value!

[ewx.livejournal.com]

Hee.

[(Anonymous)]

I think it would be educational if I could watch you top.

[kaet.livejournal.com]

ewx seems to be in much demand: he clearly needs to produce a set of videos. You would probably need an Attenborough type person doing voice-over, too. That makes things educational, don'chaknow.

[(Anonymous)]

You still remind me of David Tennant.

[(Anonymous)]

Me, too. Amusingly given the thread above, more when he was in Casanova than in Dr Who.

[uisgebeatha.livejournal.com]

It's a little known fact that the uisgebeatha is unable to merge any of these (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English-language_vowel_changes_before_historic_r#Mergers_before_intervocalic_r).

Also, you are pretty and take nice pictures of me, so please take more sometime. :)

[gareth-rees.livejournal.com]

There was (and maybe still is) a phonetics lecturer at Cambridge who merged tar, tower, and tire, and (quite deliberately, I'm sure) used these words as his canonical examples of homonyms in English.

[(Anonymous)]

Under the circumstances some of the other comments surprise me.