I love my flatmates.
After years of living with people I didn't really get on with, I took a chance and moved in with my best friend and a friend who has since become another best friend.

As I type this, he's sitting opposite me rolling a cigarette surrounded by pizza boxes and coke cans.

Anyway, we moved in to this wonderful flat near the centre of Edinburgh at the end of summer 2006. Three bedrooms and a boxroom; sizable, with a very reasonable rental price.

My dad and stepmum went off on holiday and I borrowed their car. It was a hot summer of roadtrips with a ska-punk soundtrack.

One of our regular destinations was Ikea. We came for the hotdogs and left with crap we didn't need from the reduced to clear area.

One day, we arrived at Ikea and found a very interesting bargain sitting at the front door. Or, should I say, 2500 interesting bargains. Suddenly, our boxroom had a purpose beyond storing crap!



Oh yes.



A little 'recycled' wood, some screws and we had ourselves a fully functioning ball pool.

It doesn't stay up all year, it only comes out at party time.



Here are the gents themselves; David Candy and Paul Sleggs, you guys are the best friends and flatmates a guy could want.

It's not about the length. It's about the love.
(brackishboy cannot be named for legal reasons, Sat 28 Feb 2009, 0:56, closed)

Allow me to be the first to say
can I play with your balls?

Please.
(SpankyHanky, Sat 28 Feb 2009, 0:58, closed)

Many have.
*presents them*
(brackishboy cannot be named for legal reasons, Sat 28 Feb 2009, 0:59, closed)

Restrain yourselves.
Please. This is not HSH.
(porkyulelips Built for comfort, not for speed., Sat 28 Feb 2009, 1:03, closed)

Homo sweet homo?

(brackishboy cannot be named for legal reasons, Sat 28 Feb 2009, 1:08, closed)

Perhaps MSM
Mong Sweet Mong. Must get round to creating that one sometime.
(porkyulelips Built for comfort, not for speed., Sat 28 Feb 2009, 1:23, closed)

Pffftt
What a load of balls




;)
(insomniac-stuffing and sprouts smells of oranges and cloves, Sat 28 Feb 2009, 1:30, closed)

Oh. My god!
I think I love you
(europe-who, Sat 28 Feb 2009, 1:38, closed)

Your living in Edinburgh yet have not signed up for the Edinburgh bash?
*pout*



I want to play with the balls!
( big-girl's-baubles is the owner of some very fine Moorcroft, Sat 28 Feb 2009, 10:55, closed)

I'm shy!
(also- didn't know about it)

*edit*

I have just checked it out, and there's a distinct possibility I'll be working. Besides which, the bash will be full of b3ta celebs and I'll be all starstruck!
(brackishboy cannot be named for legal reasons, Sat 28 Feb 2009, 12:46, closed)

*uberclicks*
Mr Maladicta and I have a spare bedroom we're not using except for storing crap. There is an Ikea in Croydon. I think I might have to suggest this to him...

Also, this gets a click for reminding me of XKCD:


( Maladicta happy Christmas yer arse, I pray God it's our last, Sat 28 Feb 2009, 13:42, closed)

That cartoon came out around the time we first bought the balls
Although we were lucky- they were second-hand from the creche. You'll have to talk to the management and see when they're replacing them!
(brackishboy cannot be named for legal reasons, Sat 28 Feb 2009, 13:53, closed)

Balls
We'll in that case I love your length ;)
( mister.f, Sat 28 Feb 2009, 14:24, closed)

You also love my balls
Captain Grant reckons he assaulted you with our fire extinguisher at the flatwarming.

I'd like to tell you he's remorseful... but... you know him.
(brackishboy cannot be named for legal reasons, Sat 28 Feb 2009, 14:54, closed)

Fire extinguisher?
Don't remember that. I remember us play fighting, Paul breaking it up which involved throwing me onto your brothers knee. I had a black eye for a week or so.
( mister.f, Sun 1 Mar 2009, 14:44, closed)

Subliminal
This was the last thing I saw before going to bed last night.
Guess what I dreamed about :)
Wishes I had a box room now
(insomniac-stuffing and sprouts smells of oranges and cloves, Sat 28 Feb 2009, 14:30, closed)

We did that in my final year of secondary school!
Not as good as yours though, cause the room was too big ...
(Killer Vanilla puts the win in Darwin, Sat 28 Feb 2009, 18:04, closed)

*wants*

( idonthaveafunnynickname Drink-Aware? Sure. I'm aware I want another drink., Sun 1 Mar 2009, 1:45, closed)

Wha?
I don't remember this scene in Prison Break?!?!!?
(Regger, Mon 2 Mar 2009, 17:40, closed)