Around about the waist, I'd imagine.

My wife used to nibble the baby's toes. He would die laughing.

BrunoMaggiore wrote:

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My wife used to nibble the baby's toes. He would die laughing.

As someone who also finds feet revolting, this is as near to a vision of hell for me as it is possible to conjur up on this plane of existence using words alone.

I wonder if he'll grow up with a foot fetish?

Babies' toes have to be among the cutest things in the world.

Now, if she were into nibbling the toes of the elderly, I'd be there with you, Clive.

It's not as gross before they're wearing shoes or walking, either.

GOOD STUFF TODAY:

my lunch break ended up being an hour and a half long. i popped into a record shop run by a friend of mine and picked up £12.50s worth of excellent vinyl: 'microeconomics' by hewhocorrupts, and 'rejection/unclean' by asbestodeath (sleep before they became sleep, jerusalem fans.) anyway, i got to chatting and whiled away far too long. came back to the office and everybody i work with has fucked off all afternoon leaving me here by myself.

my excellent, fabulous local, the new oxford is having a three-day belgian beer festival, starting today. i'm going to finish work in about an hour, get my stomach nicely lined with homemade hamburgers, then dip into a selection of 300 beers.

after that, some friends of mine who put on a club night (called invest in property, if anyone is au fait with the manchester club scene or what have you) are having their farewell do in an old mill that is pretty much across the street from my flat. all i know about the place is it looks a bit ropey, and the ting tings practice there. anyway, that runs midnight to six am, by which point i might be a bit tired. or still full of beans. who knows?

then tomorrow, joe kinnear makes his bow against blackburn, and normal service is resumed.

saucy tramp! wrote:

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GOOD STUFF TODAY:

my lunch break ended up being an hour and a half long. i popped into a record shop run by a friend of mine and picked up £12.50s worth of excellent vinyl: 'microeconomics' by hewhocorrupts, and 'rejection/unclean' by asbestodeath (sleep before they became sleep, jerusalem fans.)

This had me looking at the screen, tilting my head like a quizzical dog. I've never heard of these bands! I know they're probably guitar-y stuff, but I'm still going to have to check them out, just to re-orient my musical compass, now!

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my excellent, fabulous local, the new oxford is having a three-day belgian beer festival, starting today. i'm going to finish work in about an hour, get my stomach nicely lined with homemade hamburgers, then dip into a selection of 300 beers.

I'm betting you only make it to 200.

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This had me looking at the screen, tilting my head like a quizzical dog. I've never heard of these bands! I know they're probably guitar-y stuff, but I'm still going to have to check them out, just to re-orient my musical compass, now!

hewhocorrupts are a grindcore band, who play sort of "clean" sounding and quirky; very tight, excellent skills, and have some sort of "businessman" gimmick going throughout their presentation. look on youtube for "master of profits".

asbestosdeath i've not heard, but they went on to be the most excellent sleep, who have been discussed on here before. most famous for taking a major label advance, spending it on weed and amplifiers, then recording an hour long song in their mate's shed. it turned out to be the best stoner rock record ever, but the london records didn't want to know. anyway, asbestosdeath are apparently the same kind of thing, but a bit more metal.

also, seeing as i'm on the subject, i might as well plug OM (not olympique marseille), the band the drummer and bassist from sleep formed. they're fucking great.

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I'm betting you only make it to 200.

i'm going to be on the gulden draak: it'll probably only be about 150.

We should have a 'thon in Bierodrome some time. Or go back to that odd German place in Lambeth.

The first Obama - McCain debate is on tonight.
I'm seriously looking forward to that.

'also, seeing as i'm on the subject, i might as well plug OM (not olympique marseille), the band the drummer and bassist from sleep formed. they're fucking great.'

Excellent band. High On Fire are good as well, even allowing for the utterly daft Dungeons & Dragons lyrics.


Anyway, good stuff:

Phoning in sick on a Friday when I feel fine.

Listening to the new Dillinger Four album. A lot.

Using most of my savings to book flights to America. And the knowledge that in about a month I'll be doing lots of touristy stuff in New Orleans before going to Gainesville for The Fest.

Eating 4 day old apple strudel cake.

And Season 5 of The Wire arrived today. Woo hoo.

saucy tramp! wrote:

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hewhocorrupts are a grindcore band, who play sort of "clean" sounding and quirky; very tight, excellent skills, and have some sort of "businessman" gimmick going throughout their presentation. look on youtube for "master of profits".

asbestosdeath i've not heard, but they went on to be the most excellent sleep, who have been discussed on here before. most famous for taking a major label advance, spending it on weed and amplifiers, then recording an hour long song in their mate's shed. it turned out to be the best stoner rock record ever, but the london records didn't want to know. anyway, asbestosdeath are apparently the same kind of thing, but a bit more metal.

also, seeing as i'm on the subject, i might as well plug OM (not olympique marseille), the band the drummer and bassist from sleep formed. they're fucking great.

Cheers for that. I'll check them out, as I have a friend who is into all kinds of extreme metal and punk, including hardcore and he might be interested in them, although chances are that he probably already knows them - he makes my knowledge of electropop seem pathetically insignificant with his knowledge of those genres. (Sadly he can't go to gigs anymore, as he suffered permanent hearing damage at a Foreheads In A Fishtank gig he accidentally went to, and now suffers from terrible tinnitus.)

Kind of on the same subject (but corrupting this thread still further) those into extreme guitar music might like the album 'Grist' by Drumcorps. I chanced across it the other day and took a bit of a flyer by downloading it. Turns out it's probably the most perfectly balanced crossover between Drum'n'Bass and Hardcore/Metal I've ever heard. It's got the clinical minimality (and beats) of D&B, with metal guitars and vocals. Download it from this blog. It was from 2006, so not exactly new.

(I've also recently downloaded albums by Zyklon and Genghis Tron, as I heard they were extreme, slightly different and good.)

As you were.

good things... hmmm... being able to watch 'Zwartboek' at 3:45 in the morning, I suppose.

And having a ticket to London for later, I also supose...and I need a p

supposedly.

New seeds for the vegetable garden, with a variety of lettuce that should survive through the first couple of frosts.

Glasvegas... played loud (and knowing that I didnt put it on my CD player... someone else likes them).

Realising that Tesco have put their prices up, and then flashing my staff discount card... which includes petrol (saves me a fortune on meths)

Getting an unexpected cheque in the post. Finding out that you won serious amounts of money on the Eurolottery on Friday. I didnt, but I did win the Postcodelotterij in Holland last month...

Realising that its Monday morning, and the sun is shining, and your birthday is at the end of the week, and you are off on holiday, and you have just spent the weekend in London, with a friend who took you to Blood Brothers, and you knew you were going, and thought it was going to be crap, and it turned out to be stupendous.... (although I think one of the audience died, but will know later ) ... going to an Italian restaurant in Frith Street, and then realising that 75% of the diners were gay... fortunately their ankles werent.

Realising that if you use ... anymore often, people will think you are a wanker... realising you are a wanker, and not being bothered.

Finding someone on a gay website, who has the same name as someone on this website, and laughing uproariously at the fact that they could never be more different.

But most of all... a friend bringing you coffee in the morning, and even though he is not going to be a friend for much longer, and he knows it, meaning it. If there isnt