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  1. jayseven
    Got mah finance forms on their way! Did washing up, washed sheets and clothes, cut my nails, cooked a roast dinner, housemate gave me a tenner (for internet bill), went to jugglesock committee meeting, went to jugglesock session and played about on teh decks in the DJ booth for an hour (so cool), went to police station, gave irish man directions, bumped into nami as she was closing shop, had a drink at wetherspoons (£7 left!), called dad to prepare him for my money-begging call tomorrow... Very productive day. Also, hot girl texted me asking if I was free, but I weren't. Turns out she wants to talk about some guy she went for coffee with. FRIENDZONEGET. Rest of life continues. Got 4 episodse of Fringe s01 left, and strongly considering slamming through them tonight. Unsure, but the guy on the phone said I may as well apply for this shit again. Giggles! ... Is that where I've been going wrong all this time?
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    Lucas is an awesome character. I loved him as he P.I. last season/season before/whenever He's not really done anything yet though...
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    Part time student, not exempt from council tax! I'm waiting for 2pm to roll around to call student finances, to get the ball rolling on the turnaround :P Nice a place as any to talk about it, then? I guess we need to work on that whole 'getting the deposit back' thing again. (I never missed a month's rent)
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    Mate just message someone with questions :P I'm sure most people will gladly answer for you.
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    The thing is I like the job, it is just maddening how ridiculously poor I am. I could theoretically work two or three short shifts there a week while on the dole to balance the pros and cons, but I can't do that before xmas because they'll be less likely to keep me hired in Jan. See? I really am doing waht you say - staying there for as long as I can even though I've considered selling my teeth. Train is the cheapest way there for me, actually! Journey's only 10mins. I did lose my train pass :P needed to get a new one in december as it was. That would cut it down to £40 indeedy! Student finance office is, 'to cope with demands', only contactable between 2 and 4pm. Once they send me the form, I fill it in, get uni to fill in their bit, send it to mum to get her to fill her bit in, then she sends it to the LEA who then go over it [and probably tell me I missed a bit] before sending something back for me to sign, then I send that back in and then they commence the beginning of the planning to start to activate the paying of me. They told me it'd be a month or so. Fingers crossed! P.S. I genuinely think I've forgotten how to 'get to the point of the thing that you are trying to say when you are telling someone something that you feel strongly about'. If you get me.
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    It's not daft to want to give this show a bit more attention with some big pictures, I assure you. Having never seen the original, I only knew of the show from vague descriptions my dad told me as well as the odd clip shown on some top 100 tv show. I've read some of the arguments on the IMDB forums, and they all centre around people who are fans of the original who aren't happy with the fact that this is not the original, that the show is tailored for a modern audience, rather than the post-cold-war neighbourhood. This is only six episodes long, no second series, no more episodes, and it is mind boggling. Seriously. Straight outta a Lynch movie, the short series exhudes feelings of paranoia, psychosis, schitzophrenia and surreal anxiety in the sound and camera alone. Basic premise; man wakes up in a place called 'The Village', where nobody has a name and everyone has a number. The place seems to be run by a Number Two, who has people acting as undercover agents in groups, or cells, spying/gathering information on their fellow villagers that have been anonymously dobbed in as 'dreamers'. Once found guilty... well, there's the clinic, or there's... Number Six, our main man, is certain he remembers a place called New York City despite everyone else denying such thoughts, even hushing him at daring to vocalise them. 11-12 is 2's son, who is ill-eased by his father relentlessly keeping his mother in an odd comatose state. Where is teh village? Who are the villagers? Is there a way out? What the hell are those bouncing white orb things? Those holes in teh ground? A truly mind fucking series of episodes (I think the last 5 minutes of Anvil are... just... incomprehensible) that keep you trying to figure out what exactly is happening. The last episode is both gratifying, yet modest enough to make you still wonder if you have it quite right. Up there with BSG, The Wire and Breaking Bad for me. Go watch it.
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    Crit, dan; I think you should find another way to express your veteran status - perhaps rather than focusing on your own ga-ga age focus on the age of the medium itself, add a bit of hyperbole to exaggerate the point (like "- and I've been playing since pacman was on acid eating ghosts" or something. Emphasises your controller-chewing statement later). shit-stirring ambulance-chasing, otherwise i'm picturing an ambulance chasing Failed while stirring some shit and taking notes. Maybe it's just me. Your comparison of videogames to pornography is worthy of expanded attention, otherwise it kinda comes across as a fairly ludicrous statement to make. Daft; I dislike your need to cling to a more reknowned critic to make your point, and I don't think that point particularly backs up what you're trying to say about dehumanisation and the absurd (maybe an element of the absurd :P) Sorry for the unasked crit. My centicles; on Dead Space I was stamping on the bodies of dead people in order to get a dismemberment achievement. I thought it was funny at first, then it started making me feel a little disturbed. But once you go full-blown disturbed then it's alright, because you're laughing like a maniac with a key to the straightjacket. EDIT: tbf daft, you did say snippet. Sorry again!
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    Yes it is, Madam.
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    Episode 9's up and around you you want to find it - preair for the ep due to be available in the wee hours of the 20th! Brian Eno music ftw. As for the rest of ep 9? Well cancer-man's stuff was fairly schmultzy, doo-wop-waa, but I think they pretty much wrapped up his entire story with it. All he has left is... predictable. The rest of the ep was average. EDIT: Man, had this window open for ages. Wups.
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    Cutting fags would save £25, cutting booze would save £40, which would tie the in/out, but don't forget I did't add food, electricity or gas! I have already cut pretty much all social occasions, please don't take away my cigarettes and alcohol :P Flink; I'd get housing benefits as well as teh dole -- but of course, I don't want to take more money from teh system. I did it for two months, just to get on my feet, and I'm here now but I'm standing in quicksand. I'll have to ask how everyone else at work copes, although I know already -- living with spouses or parents. How do you guys cope?
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    Here's my breakdown; Council Tax £88pm Internet £10pm Rent £239pm Moblie £20pm Train to work: £62pm Fags: £25pm Booze: £40pm Course Fees: £120pm (missing: gas, electricity, food, going out!) Way outta hole = getting that £120pm covered (will take at least a month to sort out forms) and getting Father to give me £40 per week as a kind of dole money. As for how I'm going to cover teh rent I owe, or dig myself outta my overdraft -- especially when I will be unable to work as much next semester, even then if I still have a job -- Am I missing something? Am I being an idiot somewhere? Realistically, if I quit and went on the dole, I'd remove council tax, rent and train tickets, plus add roughly, what, £240 a month? I'd end up with a surplus of £125 with which to actually buy food and gas and electricity, plus 30+ hours extra a week to focus on uni work. Seriously. WTF.
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    I know nobody cares, but; Outgoings: £605 (minus food) Income: £540 Plus overdraft debt, plus rent in arrears = holy bejeezus. Minus course fees would leave me with £55 p/m for food. Social life obv. can't happen any more. I'm working 30 hours a week. I'd be financially better off on teh dole, plus I'd have more time to do uni stuff. CAN I GET ANY SYMPATHY YET PLZ?!
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    Calculated some of my monthly outgoings; council tax, internet, rent, course fees, phone, fags and booze = £508. Electricity isn't included, nor's gas (but we have a top-up card for that). I got paid about £500 in october. My poorness makes a little more sense now!! But hopefully I'll get the course fees covered within 28 days. November pay cheque should be closer to £700 (yay, I can afford food, too!)
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    £2.99 maybe 5 times a week :P Then cigarettes is maybe £10 a week, so that's £25 p/w I spent £110 on games earlier this month. Definitely a big reason why. Travelled home for two days, which cost me about £60 in total... Train to work is £13.30 a week. Of course, the reason I have no money is because I've spent it. But I only got £500 for the month. The above plus rent/bills/surprise demands for money from other sources... it goes by quick. And then there's food. We're all in situations like this. I've just not been handling it well at all for a fair old while, and it's crunching down on me in a way that I simply can't seem to grasp how to manage my future finances. Grumble, self-destroyed grumble.
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    TV monitors generally don't rely on your peripheral vision (much), and are a fixed distance from your eyes. I don't see how this can 'improve' eyesight, unless our definition of eyesight involves/is limited to how fast you can move them!
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    Fucking hell. Find a bigger picture?
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    I wouldn't agree that gamers have better eyesight, though. Citation needed!
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    Nearly died at work today. Colleague lost control of a ladder while I was facing the other direction. It landed about a centimetre away from me - no elaboration - if I was that much close it would've slammed through my skull. Well, I think I'd've died. Also nearly fainted due to not eating anything. My £20 to last me a fortnight" basically dissapeared today as I spent my last £3 in my bank on fags. Man, it's so depressing. Council tax sent me a letter in the post asking for an extra £255 or something. Tomorrow will be a big call-around day, sorting out paperwork for student loan and notifying various peoples-who-want-my-monies that I'm still technically a student so would they kindly fuck off. Then I suppose a trip to the Bank of Dad - basically say "Dad... Remember all those times you asked after my financial situation and I said it was fine? Well it never was. And now it's the shitbucket at the bottom of the pit between a rock and a hard place. Could you maybe give me, I dunno, £500? Maybe a grand if you're feeling generous? Normally I'd say lend but frankly I can't see how I can pay it off this school year. Ta." I just feel that being nearly 23 I should be totally in control of my finances. And I really have no control because everyone wants some. But still everyone else around me manages fine. Damn. Self-blame sucks. Ok I was trying not to make this a long post because nobody reads them anymore, and I guess I fail'd. TILDAR? My life sucks.
  19. jayseven
    For sci-fi on TV go watch V and The Prisoner (the latter is only a short 6-episode thing, but suitibly immersive/impressive).
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    V episode 2.
  21. jayseven
    Spent £5 of my last £8 on a whole chicken, 2.5kg of potatoes and three tins of chopped tomatoes. Oh, and two litres of cider, of course. Add to that my 3/4 block of cheese, three onions, bag of sultanas, pack of pasta, half pot of pasta sauce, tin of sweetcorn, jar of bovril, tin of sardines and three tins of tuna... You have my diet for the next ten days. I have plenty of condiments and herbs and garlic to make anything taste good. But I still need to borrow £10 so I can afford to get to work and back :P And I have no tobacco.
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    Finally got around to finish Dead Space. Finished with 630 gamerpoints, so starting Round 2 to try and get the cutter-only achievement. Thing is I just accidentally used my flamethrower, so I let myself be killed to let the game auto-load the last 'checkpoint'... Considering I'm only on the first level I can see myself completing the entire game and still not get the achievement... I could start again but I want to continue with this 'profile' so I can fully upgrade all guns. Going to play GTA: Episodes after a bit of this, looking forward to it!
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    damn, spambo, that's harsh!
  24. jayseven
    ganepark; the ffs is because she's probably waiting for you to make a move, hotstuff :P What's the worst that can happen?
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    Just got round to watching V. It is win. Will watch the 2nd episode before I make a proper verdict, though. My weekly show-intake looks to be thus; smallville, supernatural, V, The Prisoner, Flashforward, House, Ultimate Fighter, Friday Night Lights Catching up on Fringe, HIMYM and Gangland, and there's Lost and southlands to start up (with Breaking Bad miles off). Awsum.
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