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Magnus is probably right (that is, he's pretty much always right :P) - sounds like you're afraid of rejection, which is funny because you have nothing to lose. Plus I still think that meeting people while out and pissed isn't really the place to meet relationship-material. If you're so aware of being a virgin then it's always going to be tricky to do it this way. But best of luck to you, serebii

... I have to have a 'long' night. I don't understand it. If I've had a difficult, stressful, massively tiring day, I get home fairly tired but... instead of going to sleep I stay up for extra hours until I'm exhausted. It's like I'm 'catching up' on 'free time'. ''. Does anyone else even remotely know what I mean?

First week for the hurricanes is annoying... Ell didn't play! Harshness. I choose the number 2, please big H!

I'd genuinely donate £1 a month. I'm sure a dozen or two other members might feel the same. Might go some way to make things more feasible, if at least in the short term?

Genuinely can't comprehend spending £400 on a bike. I'd rather spend maybe £200 on a bike that causes me a leeetle bit of stress, requires more effort to use but leaves me with £200 to spend on stuff. Entertaining stuff. But then I know nothing of bikes. Just a lot on thrift living.

Yeah it does amuse me - the world's economy is in meltdown mode and we're facing a future of barbed wire and mob-rule. I think we should be more concerned, but then again inciting panic will surely only accelerate the impending doom, so perhaps taking our minds off the big issues with a nice little light-hearted bit of news is a good thing. I think the farmer had a point - stripping with impressionable 'fans' nearby sends what sort of message of adulthood to them?

Sorry to hear it, Gizman. We're here for ya if you want a heart-to-hearts

Tevez is still in a Man City shirt because City want top dosh to sell him on. 200k a week is alright if you can pick up 50m for him when he leaves. Of course, he's being an idiot because if he doesn't play then he'll garner less interest/lose form. His value will go down and surely nobody will offer to match his wages.

Really enjoying my work. Balancing stock counts, accurate money counts, thousands of customers and a team of staff that have a different skill-set each week. Then there's two other kiosks to liase with, and I've started doing my manager's job a little bit by taking up the challenge of making sure all three kiosks are properly stocked, and setting off to other parts of the stadium to try and amend problems. My last shift I was 2nd out of 16 kiosks in terms of financial accuracy (money count vs. actual money/takings, etc) -- by 5p, and I knew about 20p that was miscounted but didn't realise we were keeping score. I'd've been 15p better than the top kiosk, earning a grand minus of 39p! Plus the top kiosk was one that is a bar for the players and their families, so they only have like 100 customers versus my 2k. previously I was fairly slow on finishing up -- ending my shift at midnight when other leaders were out by half 11 or earlier. The reason being is that I'm actually doing the paperwork. Today I finished everything up by half 11, and could've finished earlier if a genuinely massive cock-up hadn't happened. So yeah! Great having a job with responsibility, and doing well at it. A friend of mine also told me there's a part-time short-term admin job at her Comet store - she texted me out of the blue about it, so felt good that she thought of me. Should hear about it tomorrow. Fingers crossed, I should have Major Life Plans set in motion this time next week, too!

The Wire is essentially no-frills, gritty realism. It's informative, but to some extent there's very little character growth, just the idea that the 'game' is kind of a stagnant cancer that restricts escape and instead creates a world where the only way is down, down, breaking bad down. There are few in-jokes, and any humour in it at all is wry and kinda sad. But the script and portrayal of the baltimore streets and the different aspects of the 'war on drugs' is fascinating, and the show is generally just very well made, which is why it's so necessary to watch. Especially if you want to work in that sort of medium!

MURRAY: At home I have an en-suite loo, for which the seat is kept up the majority of the time. When I go to any other house, I put the lid down as well as the seat, unless it's an all-male habitat. However, my last house had 6 guys living in, and two toilets. We mostly subconsciously agreed to use one as a pisser and one as a shitter, so one seat was up and the other down -- however, if everyone was drunk and one was in use, they'd inevitably just pee on teh 2nd's seat. Once the seat has wee on and further users just want a piss they seemed more likely to just pee on it again rather than wiping then lifting the seat. (One of my housemates was a sufferer of alcohol-induced narcolepsy. He once tried to wee on the plugs in the lounge, wee down the stairs, and even weed on a toilet seat that was down. The time I basically saved his life and stopped him from weeing on the plugs he ended up staggering upstairs and just weeing in the corner in the bathroom.) Thread rip a-go-go!

Not really :P Gotta use up my mental energy somehow!

Happy Birthday Peeps! And happy birthday eddage for yesterday...

Awesome post, Haden. A lot of effort went into that. Fab stuff And spot on, too - I only care about beating Cube this season :P

I'm genuinely surprised at how much lifting and setting a toilet seat bothers you. Just imagine the scenario, where the bloke enters to see the seat down, and is, like you, completely exhausted with life and finds the trivial task of lifting a seat unbearable. They instead choose to take aim and hope for the best. If they splatter, then the act of cleaning the seat with loo roll will surely be an even more insurmountable feat for such a lazy cunt. As such, this individual will, when presented with a lid-down toilet, be forced to exert a minuae of effort -- but in doing so will not only avoid any clean-up operation but also avoid a male shitter of female toilet user any stress of being faced with another's excrement. It just makes the most sense, when thinking of all scenarios. If someone comes in to poop, then they should put the lid down anyway, to attempt to contain odours (at the least), so lifting to sit/shit, then placing afterwards is just courtesy. And that's it! Courtesy. My actions offer far more in the way of courtesy -- courtesy which outweighs the split-second it takes to actually lift/set. PLUS people who touch a toilet seat are more likely to actually wash their hands, thus encouraging good personal hygeine. Also, you talk about spite and fairness. Your imagined world where everyone inputs the correct response is rather naive in assuming that a bloke will, in all circumstances, lift a seat when they need a slash. 'Consideration' includes not pissing on the seat in the first place. my method is more certain to avoid such inconsiderate actions than running the risk that one will choose not to just risk pissing on a seat. At worst, my practice is just as good/bad as any other. I lost my train of thought ages ago because I was genuinely baffled that you found going to the toilet so laborious and potentially offensive.

.. Anyone still watching this? I missed it the first week but I've caught it every other night (at least) now. I have to say, it's rather entertaining :P C5's put together a decent bunch of people and do a lot of tasks that are funny, and have avoided nonsense arguements (which i felt killed the C4's show). Yeah. Guilty pleasure!

The way I see it is that if I have to lift the seat, why shouldn't the person after me have to lift something? By putting the lid down, it's more likely that a male following me will lift the lid and the seat, thereby ensuring less piss-on-seat, making ladies more happy. That the ladies do not put the lid down only encourages men to try their luck :P What I'm saying is my method is the most equal and fair of all of them :P Except for having separate male/female (and male poo) toilets. Which is silly.

Read the first post, dazz :P ... Ok so it's not in the first post but I could've sworn I read it was all pokemon up to and including gold/silver (252 or something)? Sorry Dazz!

I lift the seat to piss, then put the seat and the lid down afterwards. Means the next person after me has to lift something, which means there's an element of equality in it all :P *senses possible thrip coming...*

Dannyboy; all I can say is that you will learn to cope with the stress. As I said, each time you hand in a piece you'll be able to objectively see how the effort you put in, or the effort you didn't, directly affected the result. For now it's all novel and alien. All I can promise is that you'll be fine. Best cure for these sorts of worries, for me, was opening a textpad and writing out everything that was filling my mind. That sometimes lead to manic posts on these forums (funnily enough since finishing uni I've had a markedly rapid reduction in my madness posts... the lack of stress, maybe?). Getting the thoughts out means you've processed them as far as you can. Once you've worried about all possible outcomes, you begin to get used to the thoughts. Or so I think, anyway.

Having that "there's no autosave! Aaah" feeling with red dead. One time I dismounted and landed in water and drowned. Need to get into the habit of using my campfire! On Black Ops I've just played like 12 games with these two guys, and because I played so well I was never put on their (group) team, but relentlessly I was still in the top 3 for each match, towards the end coming 3rd overall behind the both of them, but still most games ending with me having the only positive k/d. Was good fun, and I think I found my groove again! Not as good as a couple of weeks ago, when I was routinely getting 11 kill streaks (once twice in one game) and getting to call out the dogs. Mmmm... dominance :P

Just concentrate on one thing at a time, Danny No point stressing about something years down the line. You can still be a perfectionish if you narrow your attention down to the specific job at hand. Uni is stressful! It's overwhelming, but with each passing essay or test you'll learn how to best approach them. Oh, and get drunk. That helps.

You know what pisses me off about football? The refs are so fussy about keepers staying on their line during a penalty, sooo bothered about offside even when it's a few inches... but whenever either side gets a free kick or a throw-in, it's totally fine for them to move the ball/walk up the pitch as far as possible. Why is this so allowed, and how hard is it for people to just... put the ball down and kick it where the foul occurred. How many times does moving it a foot or two make a real difference? It's a minor thing, it just bothered me a lot during school break-time games :P

So I live on the top floor, usually I spend my nights with the attic angled window open so I can go smoke. often, the light lures in moths late at night. Once a moth kept landing on me throughout the night, so I had to go sleep in another room. Since then I've generally been "meh, it's a moth." Last night one snuck in and buzzed about and I made peace with the cloth-eating butterpeds. Since it's currently dark, I figured that the sensation on my arm was a moth. I actually went "helloo moth--" and turned to look and AAAAH SPIDAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! Flicked at it like a scared little girl and... and now I have no idea where the spider went, so I've got to get over that, too. P.S. BIG HAIRY FUCKING SPIDER.

I missed the first 35 laps. Was impressed with Button's catch-up -- funny to see the commentators say "button's got a chance to catch up now vettel's in traffic!" then later say "ooh if that traffic wasn't there, jensen would've caught up" ... if there was no traffic then vettel would've slowed down! Plus at the end you could see he slowed down loads over teh line.