"Yeah, so I need that body." "I wish you'd said that earlier."
So the Romanian barely talked about Jews on the Friday morning shift. However...
Buffalo Kisser asked me, in the manner he often does, "Do you have any experience with girls?"
"Some, yes."
"Tell me your conclusions about girls. Have you got any?"
Gah. This is a little vague, since whenever he approaches things like this he's looking to apply them to a specific case.
"Can you narrow this down for me a bit?"
Basically it's like this:
Boy and girl (his labels, but they're probably about 22-25 years old) have a relationship. No sex, but it's a romantic one. This goes on for about six months.
Then girl finds a new guy, and is with him (still no sex, although I'm not sure why he keeps emphasising this) now. But she keeps calling up the original boy and talking to him on the phone for hours, and sometimes even complaining about the new boy to the old boy.
And that's what Buffalo Kisser wanted to know about - why would she do that?
He also wanted to know if it's possible to be friends after you've been romantic (to him, that means "in love with") with somebody, and also if it's possible to have sex with a friend but never change their status away from friend.
Confused?
The conversation was going fairly well (albeit slowly) as I told him about the different mores here (a breath of perspective and tonic, you might say), until the Romanian showed up.
I'm not going to repeat things word for word, as it went on for literally hours, but the gist is this:
"The fucking bitch is cheating on him!"
"Who cares if she's calling - it's only so she can keep her options open to fuck him over at her convenience."
"The best thing to do is to fuck a slut, then when she starts with this (makes yapping gesture with hand), throw her away and say `Hey honey, when you learn to shut your mouth guys will want to fuck you again.' and move on to the next one."
And so on. Yikes.
I did my best to counter his venom in the fairly impressionable Buffalo Kisser, but I don't know how well that went.
I knew the Romanian had issues (duh!) with women, but he's never gone off so hatefully and for so long before. I'm hoping it's just because he was in the middle of working ten days in a row, as opposed to the three or four days in a row he's used to.
But at least the shift ended. :P
From there, Squirrel and I met my folks for breakfast and they gave me my GST cheque, which gets sent to their place. Whoo, how will I spend the riches? :P
Then, grocery shopping although for once Squirrel was caught without her list - either physical or mental - and was at a bit of a loss as to what we needed.
I usually leave the deciding of what we need up to her, since she has baby considerations and is also a bit pickier about her food than me (I can eat anything). So we got some stuff, but it was less thought out and more "Hey! I used to eat beef stew at grandma's - I'll get a can of that!" sort of shopping. ;)
Ah well, it worked out okay. Hey! Beef stew!
Game started late, so I got an extra hour's sleep! That goes a long way to making sure I don't fall asleep during game, as I can't pull a 58-hours-awake every day.
One of the characters in our coterie, Depaxus, has turned into quite the combat machine. With a combination of good attributes/skills/disciplines, and lots of good dice rolls, he blasts his way through increasingly unlikely odds.
My character, which I thought would be the brute of the group, manages to hold his own, but not like Depaxus's character does.
Of course, throw a candle at him and watch him run like a girl. ;)
And our remaining member, Squirrel's character, doesn't always do so well in a fight, but in anything else she's untouchable.
Fortunately she's not quite aware of that yet, so she doesn't dominate the game. Yet. =8^O
I should add that for a week or two, I've been looking forward to seeing Oldboy. I saw a trailer for it at some other movie a couple of months back, and I liked what I saw. Unfortunately, it's only playing at one theatre in town, but that's not a biggie since it's easily accessable.
So... didn't go last weekend, but this weekend for sure!
Except... those of us playing game started getting IMs from people who'd just seen Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
We were already predisposed to see the movie anyway, since we've read the books, listened to the radio plays, and said "Zarking photons, frood!" more than our share of times. We know where our towels are.
Anyway, Squirrel started leaning away from Oldboy (which she'd never heard of) towards going to HHGttG, and it was a short plunge for me too. So no Oldboy for me. :(
I'm just hoping that because it's only in one theatre, that doesn't mean it's going to vanish before I get to see it. :P
Before the movie, though, Squirrel and I headed out to wander around for the day, since that's what she likes best. By purest whim, we rode the SkyTrain to the western extreme, then took the Seabus across to North Vancouver.
She was delighted to find a Quay full of shops and things to look at there, so we spent the afternoon moseying about, and sampling various tasty things. She found a sour apple candy stick ("Hey, I had these when I was in Disneyland when I was ten!") that she liked, and I flirted with some Greek food that I don't usually get to have.
We looked at baby clothes and kid's toys, unusual board games (and met a loquacious shopkeeper who wanted to talk about buying property in New Westminster - I took that bullet for Squirrel, and she owes me for it :P) and other sundries.
Then we headed to Metrotown.
On the train, a guy slipped in behind us and was like something out of a movie. He was talking into his phone loudly, and it went something like this:
"Yo man, I needs to make me some paper, some bills, some dollars... you know what I mean? Hell yeah, I gots to get paid! I ain't even worryin' about dat, it's all about the coin, cuz I needs them bills!"
And so on. For a few stops. I was wondering where Spike Lee's cameras were.
The movie was... hmmm. I really liked the books, and there was lots of fun in the radio plays. But once again I'm forced to confront that what they can do on screen doesn't trump the kinds of pictures I can make in my head.
Still, it was fun. Although I'm curious what someone who's had no exposure to the Guide would think of it - I'd have to think it would just be a bunch of random images, silly CGI, and no story.
Coming out, there was a giant guy in front of us. He must have had close to thirty cm on me, and I'm 179. His backpack was the size of Squirrel, for that matter. He shambled out to the ticket ripper out front, and shows him his ticket. Then looks at the next theatre and says "I was supposed to be in there! How could you let me go in the wrong theatre? When does the next one start, because that movie was a piece of shit!"
What kind of person sits through a two hour movie like Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy when he went to see XXX: State of the Union?!
And, for those fellow geeks who play Generals with me, check out the GLA's scud storm! It's in Seoul, so I'll get my PUCs ready and you send in a carpet bomber.
Sigh. Those with maturity don't know what they're missing.
Buffalo Kisser asked me, in the manner he often does, "Do you have any experience with girls?"
"Some, yes."
"Tell me your conclusions about girls. Have you got any?"
Gah. This is a little vague, since whenever he approaches things like this he's looking to apply them to a specific case.
"Can you narrow this down for me a bit?"
Basically it's like this:
Boy and girl (his labels, but they're probably about 22-25 years old) have a relationship. No sex, but it's a romantic one. This goes on for about six months.
Then girl finds a new guy, and is with him (still no sex, although I'm not sure why he keeps emphasising this) now. But she keeps calling up the original boy and talking to him on the phone for hours, and sometimes even complaining about the new boy to the old boy.
And that's what Buffalo Kisser wanted to know about - why would she do that?
He also wanted to know if it's possible to be friends after you've been romantic (to him, that means "in love with") with somebody, and also if it's possible to have sex with a friend but never change their status away from friend.
Confused?
The conversation was going fairly well (albeit slowly) as I told him about the different mores here (a breath of perspective and tonic, you might say), until the Romanian showed up.
I'm not going to repeat things word for word, as it went on for literally hours, but the gist is this:
"The fucking bitch is cheating on him!"
"Who cares if she's calling - it's only so she can keep her options open to fuck him over at her convenience."
"The best thing to do is to fuck a slut, then when she starts with this (makes yapping gesture with hand), throw her away and say `Hey honey, when you learn to shut your mouth guys will want to fuck you again.' and move on to the next one."
And so on. Yikes.
I did my best to counter his venom in the fairly impressionable Buffalo Kisser, but I don't know how well that went.
I knew the Romanian had issues (duh!) with women, but he's never gone off so hatefully and for so long before. I'm hoping it's just because he was in the middle of working ten days in a row, as opposed to the three or four days in a row he's used to.
But at least the shift ended. :P
From there, Squirrel and I met my folks for breakfast and they gave me my GST cheque, which gets sent to their place. Whoo, how will I spend the riches? :P
Then, grocery shopping although for once Squirrel was caught without her list - either physical or mental - and was at a bit of a loss as to what we needed.
I usually leave the deciding of what we need up to her, since she has baby considerations and is also a bit pickier about her food than me (I can eat anything). So we got some stuff, but it was less thought out and more "Hey! I used to eat beef stew at grandma's - I'll get a can of that!" sort of shopping. ;)
Ah well, it worked out okay. Hey! Beef stew!
Game started late, so I got an extra hour's sleep! That goes a long way to making sure I don't fall asleep during game, as I can't pull a 58-hours-awake every day.
One of the characters in our coterie, Depaxus, has turned into quite the combat machine. With a combination of good attributes/skills/disciplines, and lots of good dice rolls, he blasts his way through increasingly unlikely odds.
My character, which I thought would be the brute of the group, manages to hold his own, but not like Depaxus's character does.
Of course, throw a candle at him and watch him run like a girl. ;)
And our remaining member, Squirrel's character, doesn't always do so well in a fight, but in anything else she's untouchable.
Fortunately she's not quite aware of that yet, so she doesn't dominate the game. Yet. =8^O
I should add that for a week or two, I've been looking forward to seeing Oldboy. I saw a trailer for it at some other movie a couple of months back, and I liked what I saw. Unfortunately, it's only playing at one theatre in town, but that's not a biggie since it's easily accessable.
So... didn't go last weekend, but this weekend for sure!
Except... those of us playing game started getting IMs from people who'd just seen Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
We were already predisposed to see the movie anyway, since we've read the books, listened to the radio plays, and said "Zarking photons, frood!" more than our share of times. We know where our towels are.
Anyway, Squirrel started leaning away from Oldboy (which she'd never heard of) towards going to HHGttG, and it was a short plunge for me too. So no Oldboy for me. :(
I'm just hoping that because it's only in one theatre, that doesn't mean it's going to vanish before I get to see it. :P
Before the movie, though, Squirrel and I headed out to wander around for the day, since that's what she likes best. By purest whim, we rode the SkyTrain to the western extreme, then took the Seabus across to North Vancouver.
She was delighted to find a Quay full of shops and things to look at there, so we spent the afternoon moseying about, and sampling various tasty things. She found a sour apple candy stick ("Hey, I had these when I was in Disneyland when I was ten!") that she liked, and I flirted with some Greek food that I don't usually get to have.
We looked at baby clothes and kid's toys, unusual board games (and met a loquacious shopkeeper who wanted to talk about buying property in New Westminster - I took that bullet for Squirrel, and she owes me for it :P) and other sundries.
Then we headed to Metrotown.
On the train, a guy slipped in behind us and was like something out of a movie. He was talking into his phone loudly, and it went something like this:
"Yo man, I needs to make me some paper, some bills, some dollars... you know what I mean? Hell yeah, I gots to get paid! I ain't even worryin' about dat, it's all about the coin, cuz I needs them bills!"
And so on. For a few stops. I was wondering where Spike Lee's cameras were.
The movie was... hmmm. I really liked the books, and there was lots of fun in the radio plays. But once again I'm forced to confront that what they can do on screen doesn't trump the kinds of pictures I can make in my head.
Still, it was fun. Although I'm curious what someone who's had no exposure to the Guide would think of it - I'd have to think it would just be a bunch of random images, silly CGI, and no story.
Coming out, there was a giant guy in front of us. He must have had close to thirty cm on me, and I'm 179. His backpack was the size of Squirrel, for that matter. He shambled out to the ticket ripper out front, and shows him his ticket. Then looks at the next theatre and says "I was supposed to be in there! How could you let me go in the wrong theatre? When does the next one start, because that movie was a piece of shit!"
What kind of person sits through a two hour movie like Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy when he went to see XXX: State of the Union?!
And, for those fellow geeks who play Generals with me, check out the GLA's scud storm! It's in Seoul, so I'll get my PUCs ready and you send in a carpet bomber.
Sigh. Those with maturity don't know what they're missing.
posted by Rimmy at 08:55
3 Comments:
The best part of the film was the opening credits, "So Long and thanks for all the Fish", I'm still humming the tune.
The Tune Kinda Blew in my opinion, But it wasn't bad. My onle beef was the really annoying Zaphod. The only thing I found amusing about him was I think he was designed a bit to make fun of George W. I picked up on that anyhow.
kibilz and fictional - like I said, I've been reading and rereading those books since the 1980s, and I picked up the radio plays in '99.
And it's rare for a movie based on a book to wow you, since you (or at least I) can do much more impressive things in my head.
The latest Lord of the Rings saga is an exception, of course. Wasn't quite like in my head, but still was damnfine.
depaxus - this is true. Someday I'm going to have to start concentrating and lay siege fast enough to get that "defeated enemy in under 10 minutes" online medal. ;)
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