Bumblebee - that was so evocative - you had me lolling in the haystacks there!
Sparkplug - pure poetry! I've never had dragonsblood incense wafted under my nostrils though so can we make that a date and you bring some over to Hemp Lovers in May?
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Taste/Scent Related Memories - Have you ever had one of those....
by Crumpet inhave you ever had one of those intoxicating moments where you are walking down a supermarket aisle and you suddenly caught a perfume that you'd not smelt since you were small and it brought back a flood of memories, your first grade teacher, an auntie?
or a taste?
i just had a taste moment - i kind of feel bad about admitting to it though.
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How much does a house cost in your area - Is it affordable???
by Witness 007 inwhere i live in australia nice newer 3 bedroom brick houses go for $220,000 up.
i think this is reasonable.
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I live in the fourth most expensive place on the planet - I think its fourth anyway.
Average Cost: £396,131 which is approx US$800,000 Detached: £687,151 approx US$1.4 million Semi-detached: £335,373 approx US$670,000 Terraced: £273,161 approx US$550,000 Flat - one bed apartment: £214,412 approx US$430,000
And no its not affordable. I'll never be able to afford my own place here or even in the UK. (By the way I don't even live in London! This is half an hour by train from Central London and about 2 hours by road in the middle of the night). -
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What are your Guilty Pleasures of a geeky/nerdy variety?
by Crumpet ini don't mean the ones we know about already - things people wouldn't think you did or enjoyed to look at you.. i love watching ray mears extreme survival and learning about how to survive and find food and shelter in extreme climates even though there is a strong possibility that i shall never try and escape naked from a japanese prisoner of war camp, or crash without a flagon of water into the sahara, or come stuck in my ship in a freezing ice plateau in deepest antartica.
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Delilah and Burger Time (who I can't find on face book so check my link in my profile here) I'll play you both, but I have 9 games on the go, so I owe it to my opponents to finish before I start any new ones!
There's another geeky Puerto Rican I was expecting to show up any time soon on this thread - but he was probably up late watching Star Trek, or playing with his Star Wars figures and is late to the office...
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What are your Guilty Pleasures of a geeky/nerdy variety?
by Crumpet ini don't mean the ones we know about already - things people wouldn't think you did or enjoyed to look at you.. i love watching ray mears extreme survival and learning about how to survive and find food and shelter in extreme climates even though there is a strong possibility that i shall never try and escape naked from a japanese prisoner of war camp, or crash without a flagon of water into the sahara, or come stuck in my ship in a freezing ice plateau in deepest antartica.
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Claiming my 100 geek points saywhat! DT - what are sackbuts?!!! I like listening to late 1970's folk (Fatfreek can back me up there I think), but I don't know what sackbuts are?! On that note - anyone remember Roger Whittaker? Well I have a secret pleasure in his whistling. You know its sad but true.
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Taste/Scent Related Memories - Have you ever had one of those....
by Crumpet inhave you ever had one of those intoxicating moments where you are walking down a supermarket aisle and you suddenly caught a perfume that you'd not smelt since you were small and it brought back a flood of memories, your first grade teacher, an auntie?
or a taste?
i just had a taste moment - i kind of feel bad about admitting to it though.
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Have you ever had one of those intoxicating moments where you are walking down a supermarket aisle and you suddenly caught a perfume that you'd not smelt since you were small and it brought back a flood of memories, your first grade teacher, an auntie?
Or a taste? I just had a taste moment - I kind of feel bad about admitting to it though. I just bit into a plump juicy blackberry from Mexico (hence the guilt) and whilst its not the first blackberry I've had in twenty-five years it reminded me of one of the first, wandering gorse laden cliffs in Wales, under a dizzyingly blue sky, our skin scorching outide the realms of our floppy hats, with my two little sisters on short chubby legs, safe enough to be out of our parent's sight, collecting berries for a pie whilst my parents made love back in the chalet. Eating so many none of us wanted pie by the time we got back to the chalet. The taste brought back the memory so strongly I reeled a little in my kitchen.
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Ozzy Osbourne's new album "Black Rain"
by Must obey! ini've been a fan of ozzy for about 10 years.
just bought his new album.
anyone else got it and listened to it yet?
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I don't think I've heard it yet, but I loved listening to him when I was exiting. He's got a really distinctive voice. I remember discovering that actually he was from Black Sabbath and feeling really worried about it remembering the bonfire my parents convinced a bible study to have to get the demons gone - principle fuel was Black Sab albums.
I also saw him perform live at a private gig year before last which was awesome. Lionel Richie, Annie Lennox and Pink were on as well, but Ozzy I think out performed everyone - he has awesome charisma.
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Swaying Whilst Singing
by KW13 inwhy did we used to do this?
whenever we sang/prayed we used to sway like crazy lol.
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I don't recall ever swaying.
Sacrificial loon - you were too introverted to sway! KW13 - I remember the swaying. I thought we did it because its actually quite hard to stand still for that amount of time wearing high heels. And the prayers - I swayed then because I used to get dizzy, again the altitude from the high heels. No excuse for the guys though.
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What are your Guilty Pleasures of a geeky/nerdy variety?
by Crumpet ini don't mean the ones we know about already - things people wouldn't think you did or enjoyed to look at you.. i love watching ray mears extreme survival and learning about how to survive and find food and shelter in extreme climates even though there is a strong possibility that i shall never try and escape naked from a japanese prisoner of war camp, or crash without a flagon of water into the sahara, or come stuck in my ship in a freezing ice plateau in deepest antartica.
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Mytsery Science theatre rocks!
Watch the Masters of Science Fiction series showing on Bravo on Monday nights. It's really good - proper actors, written by the world's greatest sci fi authors and introduced and concluded with something thought provoking by Stephen Hawking. I have to record and watch it in segments because it sends me off into spirals of what-ifs like:
what if we had tiny elephants and 6 legged daschunds?
what if we had human-looking landmine detectors that evolved and learnt human qualities?
what if the president did a nuclear strike and started a worldwide nuclear war and only 800 people survived, one of whom was him but he'd lost his memory?
what if humans started sending the disabled into space stations in space....see, this is why I can't get anything done!!!
what if the sexual energy of women in their thirties could be harnessed and could provide pollution free power for the whole world? (Okay that one hasn't been dramatised yet. yeah I know, I'm rather silly.
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What are your Guilty Pleasures of a geeky/nerdy variety?
by Crumpet ini don't mean the ones we know about already - things people wouldn't think you did or enjoyed to look at you.. i love watching ray mears extreme survival and learning about how to survive and find food and shelter in extreme climates even though there is a strong possibility that i shall never try and escape naked from a japanese prisoner of war camp, or crash without a flagon of water into the sahara, or come stuck in my ship in a freezing ice plateau in deepest antartica.
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scrabble
Ooooh scrabble - love it, love it!
Marius - you do know that facebook has scrabble on it which you can play against anyone else on facebook and chat?
And cookery programmes, can't get enough of them - not all of them but anything with Gordon Ramsey and definitely the Masterchef programmes!
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What are your Guilty Pleasures of a geeky/nerdy variety?
by Crumpet ini don't mean the ones we know about already - things people wouldn't think you did or enjoyed to look at you.. i love watching ray mears extreme survival and learning about how to survive and find food and shelter in extreme climates even though there is a strong possibility that i shall never try and escape naked from a japanese prisoner of war camp, or crash without a flagon of water into the sahara, or come stuck in my ship in a freezing ice plateau in deepest antartica.
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what's your guilty geeky pleasure?.
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I see - you're all coming out of the closet now!
Burgertime - in my part of the world not liking football is geeky. I also have a huge Simpson's poster in my bedroom right opposite the naked Cindy Crawford picture. (I swear I'm not really a teenage boy honest!)
FHN - I love listening to our national radio stations - Radio 4 especially - it has comedy, quiz shows, gardening programmes, political debates, interviews, feminist discussions, drama and news. Been my favourite since I got my first radio when I was 11 years old and opened up the world to me. I still plug into it in bed when I can't sleep or listen as I wash up or do chores. Very soothing.
Brinjen - yours the most surprising - how funny and cute!
I also love maps - I don't collect as such, but I love the Lord of the Rings map. I have an Elder Scrolls map of Vardenfell on my wall as well as a map of the world.
Anyone else love making lists - or am I going way down the anal retentive route now?