jayseven

INTERNETTT!! Back in Sheffield to continue my life of lostness! Printing off a CV after I've checked the forums. Signed on again today. It is raining. Netto afterwards. Then lots of alcohol. Bit of nicotine. Maybe. Boring life. Must continue until point of excitement. /me tempts Dyson a little more... Just noticed that myself! Bit snazzy, like. Got my exam re-take on Friday 14th August -Fallentines Day. Or something. Failentines? We'll see. Those videos left me feeling HUUUGELY uncomfortable. Reflects the day as it was for me anyway, I guess! At my flat, they first renovated the restaurant under us, then the one next door to that. You kinda get used to it. I saw Becka the other day, in Brighton!

Heh... Well I'm hoping to have it all set up and working ANY DAY NOW! ... But the previous tenants still haven't ceased their contract, so yeah. Asked my landlord to give me the tenant's new address, and send a letter/go round with led piping and candle sticks.

I've been unable to set tactics efficiently for my official team for the last few weeks - pulled off a couple of draws but slunk to 2nd-bottom :'( Well I don't mind. I'm not giving up! I had a quick look-over with my team, and I've surprised myself -- I can get all of my players at 100% except for, I think, one or two - one that I'm going to sack about... now.

Well... yeah! Teh meetz. I didn't feel like I was there all that long, and I felt a bit pressed for time. I didn'treally get to talk for extended periods of time toanyone. I think being there first, then talking topeople as theyarrive is definitely the bet way to go! I've only gt the net for another 15 mins, so no fancy write-up frm me! This hppened last year -- A big group picture with everyone... except me :'( CRYFACE.

Two players leaving me one is only 30 as well! Sad, sad times.

Oh, and I recommend you fancy folks with permanent internets arrange for some sort of register/roll-call of definites now/tomorrow and make sure everyone has a number to call! I'm sure ReZ's number is readily found on these forums someplace... Not sure if I'll be online tomorrow, so saturday i get into pancras at midday and I'm probably going to have to walk to hyde park from there (sighs!), so I guess i'll be at the Spot by 1pm. See ya!

Indeed - the X on the map in the first post. Also where we met last year. We were under a coupla trees, so if there are showers we'll be alright. Last year in the morning it was raining, and we found some cool tree-cave things. Could go there!

Soo... Went to job centre today, and they told me to go away and call a number. I went away, called the number, it still didn't work, so i called the job centre to re-arrange signing on next week, they told me to come back in (sigh), so i went in, filled in a form, and as they processed it they realised that they had fucked up my application, not me, THEM, and it was all their fault. They'd tried to get me ESA (whatever that is) without my request, permission, and without any paperwork whatsoever. Also they sent all my forms to scotland. Twice. So yeah, should get some dole-dough next week I suppose this should go in the job-seeking thread, really... but meh. Been really getting into Assassin's Creed (you were right, shorty), just generally feeling invincible killing a city-full of guards, only to be unable to SWIM. FUCK THAT. Me and my housemate Will have basically taken it in turns to do 7-hour shifts on the game in the lazyboy chair. It's fun living with another money-less pal as we struggle to have fun with no money. Netto is amusing for about 30 mins. YEAH INTERSTING. Excellent dude very pleased for you! Buy me a drink on sat ploz? n-e meeeeeet! We'll put some party in you. I'd say fuck it and go to the meet, for starters. Having a good, fun day is always a welcome break from the nothingness of poverty. I feel you on the job centre front, too...

Wow. You win some xkcd points for the totally unnecessary use of graphing! There are clearer ways of saying that, so you lose points for being patronising. I love nagative correlations. What? I'm an English student. I'll be as up-nosed as you, if I like. UNNECESSARY GRAMMAR ATTACK. I lose. I can't really argue about the secret terrorist plots that have been stopped before they even sprouted, as I don't disagree that it happens, but I dispute how strong a piece of quantitative evidence it is when there aren't even any facts or figures to put on your fancy graph to really show any sort of correlation. That's the thing about all of this - it's not an exact science, it's a balancing game. If you think near-genocide is the answer, then you're wrong. But you insinuated that losing a relative in 7/7 would be all it takes for me to support? If you're into conspiracy theories then you're a novice. WAT IF DA GOVEMMMENT DID IT?!! It's hard to stay rational when empiricism has been thrown out of the window, when logic is determined by blobs of ink on a paper, pixels on your screen. An entire history of the world set in stone, shaping your thoughts, your way of life. Bleh. Life. As I'm sure I said, I don't have a great knowledge of the armed forces - but here your problem is that I don't know what you do for a living. So excuse me for not giving enough of a shit about your job, but I don't know what 95% of the people here do. I can't argue with you about the art of war, or enemy adaptive techniques, because you know the beans there. I don't know the situation in particular, and I have no idea if you do or not, so I can't argue about it at all. Those metal masks they have on Army of Two. In all seriousness, we're both being a little pendantic here. I'm beng argumentative because I know you aren't at all listening to the other side of the argument. You ignore some points I make, which is fair enough, but you can't expect me to respect your responses if you do this all the time.

Wrong boards really, tbh. But I can't do anything about it, so frollick away! Wheeeee!

Well I'm going fo' sho'. Got nowhere to stay, no money to get home again... should be good Oh yeah - everyone should be praying for good weather

Mcoy; check their player pages, you can't sack recently acquired players... But your dudes don't look too recent so I don't know if that's it... I note that happenstance has just got a 19 5 skill goalkeeper from his youth - not all squalor and shame just yet mate! Can someone do me the honours of sending me the results tomorrow again? ta :P Next week I'll be without internet still, despite being at home. I hope I can find a pooter to set tactics, at least!

c) Y, please

I'm cool with it. Giving them another 6 months to develop the game can only be awsumm.

Remember to charge the camera this time!

Australia Predictable. Lack of adamantium. Nice bum. Too long. 13/20 Haha! I loved this. Meet-up needs this!

Hiyaaaaaaaa~ Lol. Er, yeah. SPENT NOT A PENNY the last 3 days... then bought train ticket for the meet today. Boo. Been MEGA BORED. Dole company FUCKING ME OVER repeatedly. Sob. Cry. Tears. Lonely. Wonely. Bumly. Grumbly. I seriously have nothing to say. I need a haircut. GET ME SOME FRENCH TOAST. Moving along like I always do, I stick my fingers inside of you. Eyes, mouth, feet or knees, armpits, knees, somewhere in-between, I don't mind, you can choose. All I want is to give you abuse. Oh shit I said knees twice.

Er... I was that dude who told everyone else which chair to sit on, who to hang out with and what colour bread they could have tomorrow. King, I think was the title?

Sheikah's got the POTT (Post of the thread... you heard it here first!) with that, but I had to reply to these; I'm sorry, but seeing our soldiering robocops versus their cavemen stick-wavers (note: exaggeration abound) and our side arguing about our equipment? If this whole argument is just about equipment being sold to the army knowingly defect, then sure, go ahead, whine about that. But the rest of my points are still valid. You can look at any sector of any country's economy/society and complain that things are not perfect, and you will be told that there is not enough money, and that you have to make do. Yes, I understand that I am belittling the lives of those little tiny young pre-adolescent lads that we are apparently sending to their deaths against their will, but the other day the traffic lights stopped working for the cars, but not for the pedestrians on my road, so it was a green man for me but a green light for the HGV that braked heavily, its wingmirror just clipping my exclaimed arm. Not kidding, if I was a woman with a buggy, I'd be dead right now. My cousin is in the army, he's served in iraq, afghanistan and a bajillion other places. Of course I have respect for teh soldiers. But I also have respect for our government ("shock horror! someone kill that man, he is clearly insane!") and the difficulties they face in balancing these endless demands. This "death of soldiers due to lack of equipment" is bugging me. I just think it's a vastly overburdened phrase that bears no real correlation to the situation at all. Please, feel free to whip some elaborative facts and figures in my face. I just can't help but picture the contrast against the Enemy and their teeming pile, their over-abundance of perfect-working equipment that vastly conquers our own. We're playing chess and the other side only has four ludo pieces, and we're complaining because we lost a rook and a knight? Yes, belittling again. Yes I do, but you said my post disgusted you, so I couldn't really leave it there, could I? They can quit, go to jail for a bit, whatever. Nobody is forcing them to kill people they don't want to kill. But if they do feel forced, then of course, they have my utmost sympathy. Why? I have no idea where you get this correlation from. Because I think the money we spend on 'defense' could be better spent actually 'defending' the country? I mean, y'know, like having more police in london and on public transport and in public places rather than in the middle east to defend me when I'm on a bus? The thing about being in the government's position; no matter how much risk is minimised, people will still accuse the government of cutting corners, of lives still being wasted. I do not confuse iraq and afghanistan, but thanks for the parenthesis. I'm loving the ambiguity of "this country was a safe haven for terror"... but anyway; the point. Deaths are avoidable? Yes. But not just with war. You, of course, feel much more emotion when it comes to deaths of our 'wee lads'. I feel the same amount of emotion for any death, besides those specific to my individuality. The majority of people have not been to war, so there goes your logic. The Fire/Medic/Police services help more people than you seem to think. Can I ask you directly - why the army, and not the police? Did the landrover spontaneously combust, or was it shot with some sort of explosive, which blows things up? How was it not safe or fit for purpose? Why is being shot in the face unavoidable? Prolonguing a war always endangers more lives. Yours, theirs, the native civilians. Yes, this is an 'anti-war' point; I don't see it ever 'ending'. Do you? Figures such as 50% are vastly exaggerated. Have you any first-hand experience of the homeless? Sure, in america I could be swayed by such figures, but here in the UK? Nuh-uh. at least 50% will be due to abuse, physical, mental, sexual or drug. I feel more sympathy for the homeless because when tehy do die it's not a shot to the face or an exploding jeep, it's years of torment, agony, spite and anger. Bleh. This isn't a cohesive argument, I know. I just don't think that you are at all aware of any of the validity of the opposing argument. You can't trump everything with the 'equipment!' line, ok?

Right! I am so poor that I can't afford to go to brighton, then trip to london, then blah blah -- so I've got a return to london... getting the 8:33am train from sheff, arriving in pancras around midday... but my return ticket? Saturday 25th July. WATAAFAAA... So yeah. I have roughly £10 in my account that I'll try to save for booze on the saturday. Meeting some family on the same day so will have to divvie up my time between the two partays. Hopefully someone somewhere will give me money for a trip to brighton later sat/sunday... bleh. I am indeed. I just bought my ticket... Gimme buzzzzzzzzz I've had two pints - and that's it - since... I can't even remember. Been about 5 days or something RIDICULOUS!

Well, yet another 'boring' draw for my team. Marginally helpful, of course. I have the most draws in the entire league, with half of my games going for splits. The only highlights were an injury and a booking for Happenstance... I'm pleased with the point because it gave a few of my players some experience (an 18 3 and an 18 4 in midfield :P) I've got a cushion of a point over dyson, and I think he'll lose to villan. I've never lost to gaggle... so this could be the first :P I'm changing my tactics slightly (considering gaggle never changes his, it's a risk!), but not really pushing for much at all. Maintaining my undefeated streak against him will do. Shorty's not even been on x11 for a week, so I don't think he's got any chance of a come-back. Happenstance's only real chance of survival is if me and rez screw up massively, but the way i see it, dyson will be a nervous wreck 'til the last two games of the season where he faces rez then me to decide his (and, no doubt, ours too) fate. Oddy; perhaps a rule; if a team wins the league 5 times in a row, they have to start again with a new team? :P The regulars league is going as I predicted, more or less. That league is fairly set in its three tiers of teams. The three middling teams will be fighting every season with the top-tier rejects, and the battles will strengthen them greatly. My kinda league :P The bottom league is pretty much as I predicted too - Mcoy's been slow to get into his stride, an Dan Dare's old team is up where it should be, considering his awesome squad. Coolness Bears has, as predicted, totally forgotten about the league. Oddy; how is the overal activity?

I'm approximately £1,497 into mine... :D:D:D This is a time of desolation that I feel quite honoured to be experiencing. I suppose I need to feel wrecked and shitted with life before I enter my mind-cocoon and evolve into a metadult, or sorts. Job Centre... man. Signed on last week, still no money. Called today, tehy told me to call back. Twice. No money! But I got stacks of food so I'm good Lots of walks and... well today I failed to remember to bring my CV to the library so I've excused myself the rest of the day on that front. Pub later, and the gracious nightwolf has offered to buy me a couple of drinks, woop. Dan Dare said "naah don't wanna go" then I told him "btw that chick you dig who was too busy for coffee today? Yeah she said she might be going" so now he's all "oh snap, I might be going too!"

This thread... makes me... sighragelaugh. More people have died from knife crime in the UK in teh same period. You say you joined up to help your country? The majority of the country don't give a shit about any of these 'wars' that our armies are involved in. The 'peacekeeping' doesn't better serve us civilians directly at all. Join the fire brigade, drive an ambulance. Be a teacher. Just because you risk your lives for my country doesn't mean I have to be at all thankful for it. Because I'm not. How about we talk about risk and not death? You are wearing full body armour and you have a gun on you. There is a quantity of risk of bodily harm being caused to a party somewhere on the line. Sure, you don't wanna die, but frankly entering a warzone and not realising that death is a possible outcome makes you the fool. Or on roads, on the NHS, to schools, the police, charities, research, banks... The way I see it, the army takes a large chunk of money away from all these other sectors that would, frankly, better serve the country. But, of course, there's politics. Lots of black and white boxes, red tape and bullshit and ignorance around. One person says the world would work better this way, another laughs in their face. You may want to define 'moving the war forward'. Any government whose public is outraged at 10 deaths in a week is going to have a hard time with getting the public to accept a larger assault, a larger risk of bodies returning in bits and whatever. Our country is not a war machine. We do not have an economy simply to fund the front line. My priorities are different to yours, and that is why I'd rather give a fiver to the homeless then to the army. The homeless guy, if not on drugs, will be cost-efficient with his fiver. The army will spend it on 30 seconds worth of bandwidth.

Currently I still don't have any ticket sorted, but I'm bound by blood to go, so I'll appear for a few hours at least! Eddage; if bayswater to paddington is 2 mins on the tube then it won't be all THAT much more by foot :P

Not happy with result against Haden. Own goal plus missed a penalty in the draw previously means I feel a little robbed. Lost a bit of confidence, so sorta planning to concentrate on getting match experience up for all my little lemmings.