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I targetted Jon Dedede last night and was successful (so my PM says). I'm quiet because I'm quiet Who did you target @Sheikah?

Hello Good Stuff thread, down here on page 2! I thought I'd be struggling to get through the next month of socialising/travelling the UK when I remembered! HMRC owe me over £300 of overpaid taxes. Sweeet!

SOMEBODY ATE ALL MY HAM. A pack of 36 slices. GONE. OVERNIGHT. WTF I don't live in halls anymore, how does this happen?! Well, obviously I have a list of suspects. Grr. Also my phone ran out of credit. I've ranted about it on fb already. £10 top-up gives you however many texts/minutes a tenner can allow for, however top up £15 and you get 300 minutes, 3000 texts and unlimited internet... like, over £100 worth of 'credit' easily. I must've gotten that without realising it as £20 credit lasted me a month but £10 lasted me abour 3 days. Now I know, at least!

I've never heard a correct use of the term either! Everyone just says it, knowing that it doesn't make sense, but not really wanting to find out why. I love me idioms.

Had an awesome day out with the snow last week. Unexpected fun all day long. (let me know if these don't work) Clearly we need some sort of explosion in the background (I'm far right)

Yes biatch. It doesn't contain archives from the season(s) in question because that article was published at least 6 years before the song was played :P I've google-fu'd to the best of my ability.... Wait I've just had an idea to scour youtube for recordings-off-tv for the GOTM bits from those seasons. Fingers crossed! Searching some more, perhaps it's not GOTM music but another segment of the show.... Arg my poor memory. Can't remember the song, the segment, the season...!

Well I suppose if the point is that people are using it erroneously then that's annoying. But the phrase in itself can make sense, it's just that nobody seems to understand it. Unless you mean my use of 'proves' over 'confirms' it's just a nuance; 'proof' versus 'confirmation'; a rule saying "you are not allowed to eat spaghetti alone" itself acts as proof that you are allowed to eat spaghetti with others, whereas it's not strictly confirmation that the rule allows you to eat with others as such confirmation would have to explicitly say "you are allowed to eat spaghetti with others, but not alone." The 'proof' is in the sense that the rule can be interpreted in such a way that it allows certain factors to negate the rule. Sorry, I think I phrased my first reply incorrectly. I didn't mean to focus on that particular aspect (prove/confirm) as being the misconception, rather the meaning of the term as a whole. The correction is indeed a moot point!

DISREGARD THIS BALLBOY SHOW. WHAT IS THE SONG? AAH! SOMEONE MUST KNOW!!

That's a common misconception. The saying is "the exception that proves the rule." It's a semantics thing, really. "No entry with trainers" means that if you don't wear trainers, you are allowed in. Similarly, "no swimming without a costume" means you ARE allowed to swim, provided you are wearing a swimming costume. Essentially, you are saying "you are allowed to do things, except for when you do them in this particular way, which is NOT allowed," -- but stating "NO [x] if [y]" is simpler, shorter and more to the point. (very poorly explained by me)

@Debug Mode lol precisely! I was thinking of adding "g'day mate" to my post n'all!

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My mutual friend is out having a drink with the girl I like. Mutual friend has texted me saying "you're going to have an interesting time sunday :P let's just say you've done very good work so far dude :)" I may be grinning a bit. GRINNING HI-FIVE!

Nyaaw! Rambling is where all the fun is at though. It didn't read bad or anything. Yeah! ... Just need to make more concrete dates for it. It's been shifted back and back due to family things. Any day now I should be finding out a rough date for my return to Oz, which will allow me to set up dates for Sheff. Two of my strongest friends live 30 mins away in opposite directions (they used to date then split too, so I can't just arrange for both of them to meet me here in the middle!), so I always feel like I've got to try and see them equally but it never works out that way. I may go draw up a venn diagram of how my friends tesselate!

Alright Now it's back to saving up for a plane ticket then, eh?

No live and, currently, no xbox!"!"!"!??!$>!"I V>QT

@Josh64 why did you delete your post? I try to imagine the seating plan for a wedding. Many of the groups of friends would naturally be placed together, but the odd "Jim" or "George" would be difficult to fit!

I've been, essentially, on 'holiday' for the last month. I've had about 8 days of non-contact with various friends across my hometown of Brighton, and tripped about a little bit to see friends and family as well. Yet I've realised that, whilst developing a new line-up of "core" friends based here, I've had to neglect many previously-close friends for one reason or another. How am I supposed to find the time and/or money to keep in touch with everyone? One potential option is to haphazardly converge all the social circles into one large, behemothic, polyconic sphere... However there are people that won't get on with other people for one reason or another, so it's not possible. I've still not tripped up north to collate another scattering of amigos yet, and I'm worried about how I can manage the time and resources to do so. So how do you do it? How do you make sure you're keeping up to date with your nearest and dearest and your other isolated friends? I feel like I need to invest in a diary and schedule time to meet some friends, but I'm just too lazy to do it. Do you have friends that you can't mix into your core group? Why not? Do you have friends you wish you saw more of but have a reason not to? I just feel like I'm neglecting people, even though I'm seeing people nearly every day.

Merely based on all the speculation and rumour, PS4 is more appealing to me than the next Xbox. If PS4 really is a game monster that doesn't force all this silly fancy technology down my throat like microsoft's next box is suggested to do, then I'm done. In fact, hearing the controller is being revamped really prompted me to lean towards sony a lot more. However, lack of backward compatibility would be a bit of a shame, as the entire PS3 catalogue is something I've been missing out on all these years. I guess that there'd be possibility of some sort of purchase-through-console option to play some/all/a few of the PS3 games (I don't really 'get' what the issue compatibility issue is, but I presume games could be 'ported' or whatever further down the line). But ultimately I'm just going to wait.

Wee question; what was that electroswing song used in MOTD goal of the month segments during the 2011/12 season? ... Maybe the one before that. I don't know it was was featured this season (not seen any GOTM bits yet)

I was up 'til 4am watching a movie at mine, while this girl was also watching teh same movie at hers. We talked via facebook the whole time and she wants to do a movie night again. I think she doesn't dislike me! Woo!

Soooo... There's a girl that I'm refusing to even adhere "mixed" to her signals, for I'm mixed in my reception of them, and for all I know I'm tuned in to TV but she's broadcasting semaphore, y'know? Anyway, we've a mutal friend that we're looking after in her time of need, and while we've been co-opping care plans we've also gotten to know each other a little. We have some shared interests, etc. I've only met her... 5 times? Never in a date situation. In fact, I got her phone number entirely due to an utterly, utterly depressing and totally unromantic situation involving two care workers, a social worker, a nurse and a dying 74 year old man -- and a bawling bundle of friend. So now, whilst scouring the town's papers for things to do on the weekend to get mutual friend out of teh house I've happened upon a nice little thing to do, sunday afternoon. I am certain that everyone else we know would be bored and uninterested... but would come if I asked them to, because it could be stitched between a lunch and a movie. However... Here's how I broached it; She Says: Are you gonna go? I Says: Not By Myself. I Says: I mean yeah I says: Can have an afternoon lunch nearby, then go see what it's like She Says: I'd like to go. ... Ok so I've grown the balls in teh last few minutes to push it. The balls have only reached regular-jayseven size rather than, say, recently-single-jayseven sized, or Iun-sized. IS: Ok so sunday promise to do the spun glass thing with me IS: I mean SS: ok i will but as long as you watch half nelson, you mean what? IS: Yeah I'll watch the gosling thing IS: I mean I think it'll be more fun to do it with you knowing you're into writing IS: and others could come, but wouldn't maybe be on the same page, as it were? SS:yeah it looks interesting be good to do something different SS:yeah well i dont know anyone else personally who would come, if you do you can invite [mutuals] if you want ... So basically I think I'm kinda stealing a 'date' here. My idea is that this would be a first date. I mean, what is a date? It's spending time with a potential alone doing something, right? Right. So this could be a first date. No pressure. Just get to know them. Right? ... And I said "we can invite others afterwards" and she said "OK :)" OK SMILEY FACE. IT IS ON. ... Right? EDIT: Oh fuck what do I wear

I was successful in my targetting, again.

Not really the same as everyone elses... "I'll be there in 5 minutes" translates to "I will be there at undefined point later this day because I am unable to be accurate with my timekeeping estimations." What's wrong with saying you'll be an hour if you'll be an hour? Why say you'll be 20 mins if you'll be at least three times that?! "That was delicious." When people praise your food -- the very food you've just eaten and found to be lacking. I get that it's a tactful thing to do. If I don't think the food is good, I'll say something more truthful like "that filled me up" rather than lie about their food.

I was also successful last night. In this game.

I find myself on the brink of tears fairly frequently (i.e. not daily but not yearly), but I get to a point of "ooh ooh! I might cry for the first time in ages! Cool!" and the tears dry up. I basically get meta on the sad. Getting older and experiencing more... dredgery and sourness in this world has opened a lot more dour doors. I'm sad thinking about being sad. Sad.