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there's a facebook group (or two) dedicated to uploading all of the old postsecrets if you want to see them still

Dan - there is always my sofa. The thought seems to usually usher you out of the door faster, for some reason... Yeash - partaay soon - but for now I gotta go walk 15 mins the other direction to meet two mates who aren't ready and probably aren't drinking tonight either. Woop!

Mate missed her train from newcastle so isn't coming down today, teh fewl. Partaaay tonight which some of the Sheffield n-e peeps are going to. I reaaallly want to watch loads of 24, though, but I NEED a shower. Confliction. Conundrum. Confusion. Party starts, allegedly, at 6pm, but Dan of Dare won't be there then, nor will nightwolf or her mates, a smoking-buddy mate is working 'til later, and I still don't know if shorty and/or nami want to come which leaves me to arrive at the party with my two least drink-orientated friends and I'm a little uncomfortable around my teetotaling friend when I get drunk now, as he is OBSERVING. So yah. I figure I'll sit around here 'til Dan is free and we can struggle to find the house together and... yeah!

I got SOUNDLY thrashed, there. Forgot to set my tactics properly >_< lots of lovely bookings too. I was prepared, but shouldn't have had aggression on bruise. We both managed to tightly mark each other's playmakers :P Played Haden - I told you! I'm still in 4th place, next game against the climbing Roostophe to probably decide whether I'm staying up or not, if you ask me.

I'm sorry, but the show itself isn't to blame for the fanatical crypticists that have attached themselves to it; if someone creates a platform from which a mass of people can extrapolate bonkers theories and mad-cap explanations, then surely that's to the credit of the creators/writers! It would be a dream come true if I, or you, could create something that so gripped and neutered the general public enough to spawn the wacky hypotheses that you find online. Lost cannot be primarily labelled as a sci-fi vehicle when the mystery is what drives the fans to act as crazy as you say. Just because 'they' have said that the entire premise will be explained scientifically does not mean we have to assume that the whole focus is on the scientific aspect of the show. People are people; they will look like fools regardless of what show they are pandering. To work around the expectations of such pedantic 'idiots' is no easy criterion, and surely your hassle is with the audience and not the writers themselves? Personally, I think any writer/author that is convinced sticking with one mode or genre is a fewl, for there is much to explore (in our postmodern world) in teh combining and amalgamation of mediums that is interesting. Lost is one of the best things on TV currently, and if anything I would congratulate the maniacal audience, for it is they whom provide network with ample reason to fund the show -- to provide the creators with enough money to do anything and go anywhere with their creative minds. Therhetoricblinds.

pookiablo - It's a shame you think you're not warmly received. You're a part of this forum and lots of us look forward to reading your posts. Sorry my routine bores you, though! I try to reserve my nonsense to the hwyd thread, and I'm sorry you think they're banal, pointless ramblings but sometimes I need to get stuff off my chest and if they're gonna go anywhere, that's the best place to put it. I try and counter-balance those with more productive stuff, mostly in the playground. I agree that the HWYD thread sucks the life out of a lot of other potential threads, and from time to time a collection of posts are quietly merged into a new thread, it's just that members don't get to see when or how this happens and assume it never does. *gets back to getting drunk *

Going off belgian time, you're 50 mins slow, dear boy. Happy birdizzle, Eenuh. I'm sure flinky will... yeah. Sorry.

Ashley; you fell for it. For weeks ReZ has been saying "master cheif" rather than Master Chef, and we all knew he was doing it on purpose (and it's chief, not cheif, for the Halo dude) Back from t'pub. Made it to juggling. Didn't really juggle much. That's it! Party/mate visiting tomorrow. As you were. For now; I've got 6 eps of house and Lost to watch. Wop.

You've made this thread before flinky, I'm sure. Putting off getting up and going to jugglesock, where I should've been 40 mins ago. Essay deadline was today but I think I've got an extension. Should really start reading the books that'll be on. Two cheques, one a birthday one and one for xmas still need cashing. Need to flatten the take-away pizza boxes. Look up masters. Look for a place to live. Look for a job. Have a shower. Usual stuff, I suppose.

I probably count as a 'steggy' student. I bought a box of 20 arial tab things, and I currently have 2 left. I bought them about november 2007. Oh dear. I just did a wash, mind you -- now I just gotta find the arse to empty the machine and find enough hangable edges to get it to dry. For the last 4 days I've been wearing shirts I've worn twice in the last 5 years, and a pair of awesome trousers that got ripped to shreds by a bicycle (held together by... er, those pin things with teh safety bit. LOL SAFETY PINS I can't believe I actually forgot what they were called. Massive internal lols. I have this thing. I buy alcohol -- lots of alcohol per week. Nearly every time I do, I buy it from the same sour-faced woman at the shop opposite my house. Earlier this week I somehow managed to make her laugh, and now the whole "I don't want her to think I'm an alcoholic" shadow-thought has started to metamorphosise stubborn limbs that desire only to bitch-slap me when I continue to buy my crates of cider - if only because we've made some sort of connection. She ACTUALLY smiles when I enter now. She is, seriously, the only person whose opinion actually bothers me. Just not enough to actually do anything about it. I like italics, ok?! BAH to that. If you are ending up together, I say go see the world - have some fun. Try your darndest to forget all about her - or attain for liver failure, whichever comes first. I've been thinking about my ex loads recently. So very, very tempted to text her BUT! ... But I know I'm incapable (through self-refusal) to be any sort of sustainable boyfriend. I mostly wish that I had some sort of hobby, or subject that I felt so damn passionate about that I could say "this is me, this is who I am" and somehow find some similar person/people to accept me, and to share themselves with me. Not that I think people don't like me for who I am, but mostly just that they stop at the like and accept me for who I appear to be. Yes, I am a big, fat, emo masochist but still the problems that I feel I face are invisible and obsolete in the grander picture - but if one of the problems is the fact that I am constantly, consistantly unable to view or care about the bigger picture, then is it worth whining about? The paradoxical moronical element is just that - I want to whine about it, but I'm far too conscious of the fact that it's all somewhat a mental excuse to continue being myself; a person I get along with, a person other people get along with - just the fear that this leads towards a slightly ironical habitat is all that worries me. The word alleyway is sooo damn crucial to my egotistical hemorrhage that it could be labelled the clotting factor. The face-off never seems to end. Is it control? Is it just a tool to distance myself; a protective layer to keep myself insulated? But surely any self-expression regarding this subject to any degree is a case against the matter? I don't believe it is a condition I encounter alone, instead it is something we are all experiencing, continuously. The conscience is, likely, the factor here. But conscience of what? Of when? Of whom? Does it have to be just one of those elements, or is it a unique combination of all of them that defines me, that shapes me, that provides for my excuse? A constant battle between self-importance and self-worth that cannot be answered merely by the self, yet the self-respect and self-pity refuse to allow any external facets to mold or form any of the internal. The only joy I can scour or scavenge is in the idea that the self-mediated battle within is the only thing that drives me to accept; to encounter and to survive. The selfishness that I so self-consciously question and analyse is precisely what prevents me from being that which I do not want to accept I might be percieved as. Perhaps simple commentary does not harm nor alter the matterafterthefact, or perhaps I just haven't quite pin-pointed the correct route through life that combines the self-awareness issue and provides the answer of absolution. OR! Perhaps I just need to stop drinking cider 'til 7am.

The best part of going to the cinema, for me at least, is the chatter and debate that happens afterwards. These discussions are huge fun, and for me a large part of what going to the cinema is all about. That combined with the massive screen and blasting sounds - otherwise, I do find it just as great, if not greater, to watch a movie in the comfort of your own home with friends. I've been to the cinema by myself once, in wales when i was staying with my grandparents and my sister wanted to see something totally different. I don't talk during movies but I do like to try and predict what's happening -- the being right phenomenon.

Bought a pack of onoin bhaji flavour just now - currently munching. I think it reminds me of that roast beef (or steak & onion?) flavour, mixed a little with the red onion crisps in the selections range. Therefore, it does not deserve to win :P ... I suppose I'll be trying all the flavours >_< Curses, capitalist brain!

Third citerion is to look pretty, and she does it well. And 1 outta 3 ain't THAT bad. It's a racist comment because the golliwogs themselves are deemed relics of a by-gone era, where everyone thought wrong and now we want to make our culture forget all about it, so any charm or innocence must be sucked out of everything we mean. Ah, fuck it. Where is Gregory House when you need him?

I have an essay 'due' tomorrow, but my tutor's promised me a two-week extension. Technically I've had over a week to actually do the FUCKING work but I've wasted it all away. She wants to meet me after the lecture tomorrow, but I'll either not go, or go and dazzle her into submission with my look-how-little-work-I've-done rays, blinding her every faith inher student's abilities to actually do the fucking work. Oh, pah. She knows how shite we are. Just not me, individually. Perhaps she's heard of my awesome reputation as a Puller Out Of The Bagger In Minutes Lastest, reigning champ; 2005-2008. "It's hard to have regrets when you don't have a future to care for" ~me.

I refuse to purchase six packets of crisps and take part in the money-throwing gesture. Though some of those sound tempting. Mmm chili and chocolate...

I don't care what she did or what she said, she's far too hot to not be on TV. HER SMILE HYPNOTISES ME! The amount of useless information about local bakers, light bulbs, old people and mustard I know thanks to the promise of her face... arg. Day ruined. MInd you, there's always the new Carol Vorderman girl on countdown. I think I'm turning into an old lech. Shit.

I just said it out loud, bit major drama right there^ If there was some way to reasonably represent the social interactions that occur online in a more realistic, dynamic setting, then I would TOTALLY make a book about this forum's drama points. I just woke up ^_^

I signed up to see what the fuss was about... and yeah, it's boring, contains more malicious users than facebook and doesn't offer much different to the status updates, as tellyn says. You can update it from your phone, but I just found it far more narcissistic than the ol' FB.

lalala I'm not gonna read it *covers eyes*

FFFFFFfffshhhooooom... 13 episodes of House, 2 Jericho, a bit o' dis, a bit o' dat. Fuck uni; no point going to a repeat of a lecture I already bunked went to last year. Was hoping to at least try and stay awake 'til... 10? Unfortunately the internet's slowed down worse than my BRAIN right now. "Life is a series of rooms". "Time doesn't heal, but doing things does". Therefore (somehow) I think I need to start exploring more than just my bedroom and my lounge again; get my subconscious filled with some external currencies. Bah. Fuh. Guh. SCREEEEEWWWED!

It wouldn't surprise me if there were the odd free outfits tied to an achievement here or there, but then equally unsurprising are the conjoined ideas of either a) the exact same costume might be available for purchase anyway, or b) all the better costumes still require teh moolah. An amalgamation of the gamerscore with the trophy reward system and the trophy collection in Smash Bros Melee would be orgasmatastic.

Exploring the planets definitely got a bit tiring after the 40th attempt, but I'm looking forward to the game for the awesome story, and the inevitable inclusion of return trips to familiar lands and all that jazz. Will we still be Shepherd or a whole new character, perhaps not even human?

Dwarf; yeah, for sure playing on a harder difficulty is primarily for achievements, for me. Shorty and I went through Gears 2 on hardcore on our first run through, and to be honest it removed a bit of the hardcore fun and replaced it with hardcore frustration. Mirror's edge I did on normal, but also tried to get the don't-shoot-anyone achievement which just made the game frustrating. With Fallout, especially on your first play through, each decision you make affects the rest of the game - so a noob like me didn't select his SPECIALs very well, nor did I distribute my skill points very well so it took a lot longer than it should've done to get adequate at the game. But clearly, reducing it to a sissy girly level isn't about achievements, for there are none in the game relating to the difficulty - they're about respect from your fellow gamer :P I'm sure shorty was fairly tongue-in-cheek (considering he himself was not impartial to lowering the difficulty himself ), but there's still a factor of bravado in waving your Elite/Legendary/Insane/Very Hard completion badges around. REGARDING THE ACTUAL TOPIC! Found all the behemoths, now. Not really in the mood to plug through teh game again just yet - I always get to this point where I realise the only reason I really want to play the game again is for achievements, rather than teh game itself - and that's not really a position I want to be in.