ALL NIGHT DISCO WRECKED MY WEEKEND

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Cyfarthfa1's picture Cyfarthfa1 replied on

'ray_rad' does not exist.

He is the front for a committee of misanthropes.

has anyone actually ever met 'him'?

'He' is in fact a 75 year old retired latin mistress from Runcorn.

wackojacko replied on

Yeah, just 3 more exams and then it's a whole summer until uni (IF I get the grades).

Still, you're probably right, invigilating looks incredibly dull...

Krasnyi's picture Krasnyi replied on

Dullest job in academia. Which uni are you aiming for and what are you planning on studying? (And how old do you think you'll be by the time you pay off your loans?)

wackojacko replied on

Nottingham for Economics with French but I need A*AA so it will be seriously touch and go. Otherwise Leeds. And I'm hoping to run off to France and leave my responsibilities behind. I think we'll find that a huge proportion of people just don't pay off their loans (unless the rules get changed). I'm just going to have to consign myself to debt and forget about it, live carefree. Or sell my soul and follow the rest of the people on my course into the City...

Krasnyi's picture Krasnyi replied on

Good luck! The fees hike was the dumbest, most ill-thought-out piece of legislation even this cretinous government could come up with. I don't know a single academic (as opposed to the clueless 'managers' that now run our universities) who was in favour of it. Don't go down the KPMG route!

peridot's picture peridot replied on

 

> 'He' is in fact a 75 year old retired latin mistress from Runcorn.

Drat! He had me fooled with that carfully constructed image of a raffish philosphical rake, bestriding the continent like a modern day Lord Byron.

 

 

scousebaby's picture scousebaby replied on

Good luck with the exam WJ....and enjoy Bruce. Lets hope the weather holds out for us.I'm really looking forward to it. Any idea who the support is? Can't seem to find any info anywhere.

scousebaby's picture scousebaby replied on

Loved Bruce. I thought the weather was okay....We took advantage of the undercover seating on the left hand side of the stage. Had a great time.Thought he was tremendous. My only probelm with the City ground as a venue is it is just so hard getting back into the city centre afterwards.

 

wackojacko replied on

Glad you enjoyed it. You're right, weather was fine for the show, it's just that we queued from early in the morning :P Show well made up for it though and I met some of the band at their hotel for IOW :)

Cyfarthfa1's picture Cyfarthfa1 replied on

That's right Krasnyi you tell 'em. No discipline some of them.

Right- back on topic. One of my weekends was wrecked by an all night disco

taking place in the basement of a hotel in Windsor. My room was a couple of floors above.

Dreadful shite pop music. I hate Windsor, but Leggoland is OK

Elizabeth McEvoy's picture Elizabeth McEvoy replied on

It's not just the weekend........My two eldest have returned from Uni for the summer having developed very irritating nocturnal lifestyles, so every night in our household resembles an all night disco! Green Man will come as a welcome relief.

Elizabeth McEvoy's picture Elizabeth McEvoy replied on

....all excellent suggestions Cyfarthfa and Fergal; but  would necessitate me financing their Green Man tickets in the first place and bringing them along with me; which kind of defeats the object......I'll just leave them at home to trash my lovely house and eat all the food. 

Cyfarthfa1's picture Cyfarthfa1 replied on

I wasn't suggesting that they actually came into the festival with you. Merely that you offered them for hire, perhaps at the main gate.

Elizabeth McEvoy's picture Elizabeth McEvoy replied on

....and of course they would only be available to provide this service in the tiny time-slot between getting out of bed at about 3pm and lying on the couch to watch a repeat episode of Big Bang Theory.

...and it would be "uhhh, like work?"

GAster's picture GAster replied on

I'm quite looking forward to this year's all-night shindigs - don't think they're going to wreck my weekend.

Can't quite bring myself to say 'disco' (apart from just then obviously). Funny how words slip in and out of cool. When I were a lad an' all this was fields we used to say 'rave' without any embarrassment, but it quickly became hideously un-hip; the sort of word used only by po-faced news readers issuing dire warning about the criminal justice bill ("repetitive beats" etc.). Then a couple of years ago 'der kidz' (at least some of those I used to teach) started using it all over again. Funny that...there was a point to this comment, but it seems to have slipped my mind.

 

ray_rad's picture ray_rad replied on

hmm...

i think those particular bon mots may have more to do with class than currency

whereas i like to use 'daddio' after getting hep on tea and gassing with some gone chicks

ray_rad's picture ray_rad replied on

fred astaire did pretty much everything best, if you ask me

in fact, this evening, i may very well watch 'top hat' again to remind myself of just HOW well he did it

Cyfarthfa1's picture Cyfarthfa1 replied on

well my treat this month is a buffet and dance in the Penydarren Social Club and Instiute. There's a disco there but it prob won't last all night. The use of the word 'daddio' would be about right I think, for the livlier guests. Bollocks. I'm pissed off. 

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