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If you ever need to know how great metal is, get it played somewhere you wouldn't normally hear it. 

I'm at the metal pub and Marduk's Frontswein is playing and it's the greatest thing I've ever heard.

I'm still programmed to expect 90s mild pop hits in pubs. 

It reminds me of the time my friend and I played Type O Negative's 'My Girlfriend's Girlfriend' over the PA at a school swimming sports in 1997. It was the greatest thing of all time and man we had the ladies interested.

Shit, we always had the ladies interested, amirite!!!??

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2 hours ago, deathstorm said:

Tomorrow is going to be nice and warm req surprised the ladies like that song.

Maybe how I remember it is slightly different to the reality. I remember the moment we put the song on we all jumped in the water and we threw bags of cash into the pool. It was a total party. We locked the teachers in the changing rooms then we drove our Ferraris to the club and did some blow off the medals we'd won in all the races. Pretty sure that's how it played out...

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I have two days off this week making a 4 day weekend!  Yey me!  I have a girlfriend with a birthday so I am still going to be busy though.  I will be taking a complete break from work though with my phone switched off, my laptop locked away and I will even be leaving the work Whatsapp group also for the duration of the 4 days.  It has been a tiring start to the year with work and moving house so a break is needed, plus in. Two weeks I am off for 3 weeks making full use of my leave around public holidays.

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On 29/03/2017 at 7:43 PM, MacabreEternal said:

I have two days off this week making a 4 day weekend!  Yey me!  I have a girlfriend with a birthday so I am still going to be busy though.  I will be taking a complete break from work though with my phone switched off, my laptop locked away and I will even be leaving the work Whatsapp group also for the duration of the 4 days.  It has been a tiring start to the year with work and moving house so a break is needed, plus in. Two weeks I am off for 3 weeks making full use of my leave around public holidays.

You have a work whatsaap group? Nerds. 

I am sitting on my couch with no music or tv on and I can actually hear some partiers yelling out from far away. Which is really really rare in these parts, mercifully. Australians have this habit of getting drunk and then yelling at the tops of their voices. It really annoys me. 

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6 minutes ago, Requiem said:

You have a work whatsaap group? Nerds. 

Yes, started on a drunken team night out so we could keep track of everyone if we splintered off to different pubs/clubs etc and now it survives unfortunately.  It has saved my ass a couple of times when I have been on a train or out on the road and need a colleague to urgently get a document to me as I know they check it more than they do their emails - idiots! 

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17 minutes ago, MacabreEternal said:

Yes, started on a drunken team night out so we could keep track of everyone if we splintered off to different pubs/clubs etc and now it survives unfortunately.  It has saved my ass a couple of times when I have been on a train or out on the road and need a colleague to urgently get a document to me as I know they check it more than they do their emails - idiots! 

It's good to see office collegiality is alive and well. My co-workers look at me suspiciously when I return from a tea break down at the blood bank, looking plumper and refreshed, cranberry juice stains on my shirt... They tend to steer clear.  

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15 minutes ago, Requiem said:

It's good to see office collegiality is alive and well. My co-workers look at me suspiciously when I return from a tea break down at the blood bank, looking plumper and refreshed, cranberry juice stains on my shirt... They tend to steer clear.  

Mostly they are on there bemoaning their salary when compared with the responsibilities they have and the lack of management direction blah, blah.  Oddly they never bemoan how they are wasting their lives on social media!

My co-workers never see me anymore, life working from home means it is only neighbours I have to be mindful of when disposing of bodies although I do think they wonder why do I need a vehicle which such substantial boot space for a humble Consultant.

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2 minutes ago, MacabreEternal said:

Mostly they are on there bemoaning their salary when compared with the responsibilities they have and the lack of management direction blah, blah.  Oddly they never bemoan how they are wasting their lives on social media!

My co-workers never see me anymore, life working from home means it is only neighbours I have to mindful of when disposing of bodies although I do think they wonder why do I need a vehicle which such substantial boot space for a humble Consultant.

They must be very suspicious of the sounds of digging coming from your garden in the dead of a moonless night...

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So my parents are arriving to stay with us for about three or four nights, and tomorrow my sister and her husband arrive from the US to stay with us for two nights. 

Things are going to get worse around here before they get better... I'm really going to need that pint or two of Guiness come Wednesday when I actually have some time to myself! 

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4 hours ago, deathstorm said:

Gee req isn't family great  I enjoy the night  my nieces stay over  for a night nxt takeover tonight can't wait 

I don't know whether I'd go so far as to describe them as 'great'. But they are certainly manageable at a distance. All together in my house it's going to be like one very unfunny sitcom, with me playing the straight guy.

In other news, is this forum even deader (if that's not an oxymoron) now than it used to be? Where is everyone? 

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