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» Conspicuous Consumption
Not exactly conspicuous or consumption
So I haven't been on holiday in six years - my holidays have usually been taken up with work whether I've liked it or not, or otherwise have been borassic - and just started a new job. I've booked a week off in a fortnight's time.
What to do? Holiday in Benidorm? Holiday in Cornwall - actually scratch that, it'll cost less to go abroad than to holiday in this lousy country.
No. My schedule is:
Saturday 20 Essex v Gloucesters at Colchester
Sunday 21 Bedfords v Lincolns at Luton
Monday 22 England v India at the Oval (last day of the 4th Test, tickets £15 online. Result)
Tuesday 23 Bucks v Norfolk at Slough
Wednesday 24 Essex v Derbyshire at Chelmsford
Thursday 25 Berkshire v Hertfords at Lord's
Friday 26 Kent v Indians at Canterbury
Saturday 27 Challenge Cup Final at Wembley
Either I will be in crowds of one where no-one will notice me or in crowds of tens of thousands where no-one will notice me. So not that conspicuous. However it should set me back less than half what a week in Bognor would set me back, and I'll get just as sun tanned anyway, and enjoy it more. Just wanted to self-indulgently squawk about it. If anyone spots a Honda Accord in any of these places, it's mine.
(Thu 4th Aug 2011, 0:00, More)
Not exactly conspicuous or consumption
So I haven't been on holiday in six years - my holidays have usually been taken up with work whether I've liked it or not, or otherwise have been borassic - and just started a new job. I've booked a week off in a fortnight's time.
What to do? Holiday in Benidorm? Holiday in Cornwall - actually scratch that, it'll cost less to go abroad than to holiday in this lousy country.
No. My schedule is:
Saturday 20 Essex v Gloucesters at Colchester
Sunday 21 Bedfords v Lincolns at Luton
Monday 22 England v India at the Oval (last day of the 4th Test, tickets £15 online. Result)
Tuesday 23 Bucks v Norfolk at Slough
Wednesday 24 Essex v Derbyshire at Chelmsford
Thursday 25 Berkshire v Hertfords at Lord's
Friday 26 Kent v Indians at Canterbury
Saturday 27 Challenge Cup Final at Wembley
Either I will be in crowds of one where no-one will notice me or in crowds of tens of thousands where no-one will notice me. So not that conspicuous. However it should set me back less than half what a week in Bognor would set me back, and I'll get just as sun tanned anyway, and enjoy it more. Just wanted to self-indulgently squawk about it. If anyone spots a Honda Accord in any of these places, it's mine.
(Thu 4th Aug 2011, 0:00, More)
» Old stuff I still know
PS
Has any sod had "0181 811 8181" yet? I'll take that one to the grave.
(Sun 3rd Jul 2011, 12:17, More)
PS
Has any sod had "0181 811 8181" yet? I'll take that one to the grave.
(Sun 3rd Jul 2011, 12:17, More)
» Performance
A little longer ago
When I was six or so, the family cleared off on a package holiday to the Costa del Shit. You know the drill. In the hotel bar on the first night there was a kiddies talent contest. At this stage I could sing all the words to Yellow Submarine in that special completely tone deaf way only six year old kids can. So I did, and I won!
Can't remember what I won, but apparently my mum got some enormous cocktail befitting Del Boy (I guess vast quantities of alcohol graced with glace cherries and little umbrellas on sticks and all that palarver hadn't yet quite gone out of fashion. Along with Deirdre Barlow specs which my mum wears in all the photos of that era, despite being mid-30s at that time).
So the next night - we were back in the same bar and I was singing Yellow Submarine once more.
(So I guess my story is that my mum's a borderline alcoholic who'll pimp her own child out for a Tia Maria and Lucozade. Hmm)
(Fri 19th Aug 2011, 20:59, More)
A little longer ago
When I was six or so, the family cleared off on a package holiday to the Costa del Shit. You know the drill. In the hotel bar on the first night there was a kiddies talent contest. At this stage I could sing all the words to Yellow Submarine in that special completely tone deaf way only six year old kids can. So I did, and I won!
Can't remember what I won, but apparently my mum got some enormous cocktail befitting Del Boy (I guess vast quantities of alcohol graced with glace cherries and little umbrellas on sticks and all that palarver hadn't yet quite gone out of fashion. Along with Deirdre Barlow specs which my mum wears in all the photos of that era, despite being mid-30s at that time).
So the next night - we were back in the same bar and I was singing Yellow Submarine once more.
(So I guess my story is that my mum's a borderline alcoholic who'll pimp her own child out for a Tia Maria and Lucozade. Hmm)
(Fri 19th Aug 2011, 20:59, More)
» Performance
Yesterday afternoon
Our office is directly across the street from a hotel, and a rather nubile young lady in one of the rooms decided to get changed without shutting the curtains. Cue the entire research department doing no work for at least a quarter of an hour. Sweaty palmed virgins the lot of 'em.
(Fri 19th Aug 2011, 20:52, More)
Yesterday afternoon
Our office is directly across the street from a hotel, and a rather nubile young lady in one of the rooms decided to get changed without shutting the curtains. Cue the entire research department doing no work for at least a quarter of an hour. Sweaty palmed virgins the lot of 'em.
(Fri 19th Aug 2011, 20:52, More)
» Racist grandparents
Is there anyone posting on here
who isn't white Caucasian, with an oh-so-superior story to tell about how their (ghastly, proletarian, white) grandparents told them to keep them away from the (noble, would-be-middle-class-if-it-werent-for racists, non-white) "other"? Seems to me B3TA is in its own self-imposed "Love Thy Neighbour" bubble world here.
(Sat 29th Oct 2011, 19:39, More)
Is there anyone posting on here
who isn't white Caucasian, with an oh-so-superior story to tell about how their (ghastly, proletarian, white) grandparents told them to keep them away from the (noble, would-be-middle-class-if-it-werent-for racists, non-white) "other"? Seems to me B3TA is in its own self-imposed "Love Thy Neighbour" bubble world here.
(Sat 29th Oct 2011, 19:39, More)