Two good friends of mine are moving to London for a year. They head out to Jolly Old England at the end of December.
And I'll be out to visit them, probably some time in April.
To all the English on the forums:
Run.
Posted by WizArtist (Member # 1095) on :
200 years later...."The Americans are coming, The Americans are coming"
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
Oh, no, this is far too tempting. I mean, if Tom was scared of meeting Lee, I dread to think what Jeff will be like.
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
New meat. . . BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAH!
Actually, he may be lucky - April 1 is our target date for leaving for NZ.
Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :
I wanted to meet Lee
I'll be back over the summer, though.
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
You know, it'd be a lot cheaper to come visit me in Texas. As an added bonus, I'm only five miles from the Harris County GOP headquarters building. We could hang out, go to one of Houston's several hundred strip clubs, and I could drop you off at the GOP HQ for a couple hours to taunt them.
Posted by Balaam Xumucane (Member # 419) on :
Where are you going in NZ, Lee?
Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :
Lee is going to the Neutral Zone??? Daem!
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
We're currently thinking about Hamilton.
Posted by Styrofoaman (Member # 706) on :
Isn't Hamilton a type of blender?
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
*sigh*
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
What do you do for a living again Lee????
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
By day, he's a mild-mannered nature documentary narrator. By night, he's a costumed vigilante sexual assault fighter.
Posted by Balaam Xumucane (Member # 419) on :
quote:Originally posted by Lee: We're currently thinking about Hamilton.
(Ahem) South Island. (ahem)
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
quote:Originally posted by Lee: Actually, he may be lucky - April 1 is our target date for leaving for NZ.
If you make that, I am a tiny little gerbil.
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
BX: Why South Island? Give us the Letterman List!
Liam: Oh? Well, don't let Richard Gere hear you say that. . .
Posted by Balaam Xumucane (Member # 419) on :
Hey, took a bit, but my kiwi friend finally gave me her list...
quote: top ten: (south island only)
Kaikoura (where the whale watching is -�dumb tourists aren't too abundant here (yet))
Christchurch (cool city, can get away from dumb tourists easily)
Lake Tekapo and Lake Pukaki - beautiful colour lakes, near mountains, great scenery
Mt Cook - highest mountain in new zealand blah blah blah, not much up there in the "village" but some great hikes and it's beautiful if you catch good weather
Wanaka�- getting a bit touristy now, but not as bad as...
Queenstown - where most of the "extreme" sports are, full of people trying to be "extreme" but very beautiful and nice restaurants and when i lived there (ahem, 14 years ago now) the nightlife was great, ummm, some of the best hikes in new zealand are in this area
Milford Sound - most touristy of all - ugh - and the sandflies (little bastard mosquito things) - but it is truly truly spectacular even in rain because of all the waterfalls... an alternative is Doubtful Sound - also great and a bit less touristy, get there from a place called "Te Anau" which is 2 hours or so from Queenstown on the way to Milford Sound
whole West Coast (especially southern bit, from Haast Pass up to Hokitika, but skipping Hokitika is fine because it's a shithole full of hoons and bogans) including the glaciers (Franz Josef and Fox glaciers, very cool, you can walk up onto them, or one of them, can't remember, but the West Coast generally is beautiful but it rains a lot there and they really do fuck sheep there. no but they do.)
Nelson is a nice town, but i'd recommend if he's going that way to go to Abel Tasman National Park - where you can go kayaking around the coastline (beautiful orange-sand beaches) or there's a track with huts along it, about 3 or 4 days of hiking - if he's into that? and if he's there for a decent amount of time then Golden Bay is really worth it (if he likes outdoorsy things and it's artsy fartsy craftsy and also he'll be able to find weed easily if he wants and if he does he should give my parents some because they need to chill out).
so basically, after all that, it depends how long he's there for and how he's getting around and what he's into. another place i love that isn't too touristy is Arthur's Pass - Craigieburn, Broken River, around there, middle of the Southern Alps�- very rugged and kiwi and quiet and cool and ok yes i'm biased because i spent half my childhood up there checking the weather towers with my dad. anyway. umm. how many's that? that must be about ten...
She's talked a bit about how the North Island (well Auckland in particular) has become pretty touristy and silly, and I suppose it all depends on what you're going for, but there you go...
[ October 29, 2003, 07:08 PM: Message edited by: Balaam Xumucane ]
Posted by Ultra Magnus (Member # 239) on :
Dude, I saw Whale Rider.
I was the only one who did.
And then I sat alone on the bus.
BUT THE LIBRARY TODAY MADE UP FOR IT.
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
Nice list, BX. Thanks to you and your friend. But, you know, here's the thing - we, like, need jobs. Most of the kind of which we do are usually to be found in North Island. Lots of IT in Hamilton. We definitely plan to avoid Auckland (unless it's commuting there).
Posted by Balaam Xumucane (Member # 419) on :
Riiiight. Hrmmm. Must've missed that. Thought you were just going on holiday. I'll ask if she's got any input on that.
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
Nope. Going, hopefully, for good. Might not work out, in which we'll have had a long (and expensive, but hey, it's only money) vacation, and we'll come back and start again. But I doubt it.
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
It seems odd that there seem to be more IT opportunities in NZ than in the UK, as it appears with you moving and all....
I've never pictured NZ as a technology capitol I guess, silly me....
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
I'm not moving because there are more job oppos there - there probably aren't, in a country the same size as the UK but with a twentieth the size of population. Which neatly covers one of the reasons we are moving. 8)
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
There is no world outside Amerika.
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
Lee hates people.
Posted by Styrofoaman (Member # 706) on :
So do I. That's why I got into the whole Evil CEO thing. This way I can punish people and make money at the same time.
Did you know it's legal to TAZER employees that take too long on coffee break?
Posted by LOA (Member # 49) on :
Snay's goin' to England??? I wanna go!!
Snay, can I come along? Please, please??? *puppy dog eyes* I might put out...............
Hehehe..... I make myself giggle!
~LOA
Posted by The359 (Member # 37) on :
Who left you unattended around the coffee machine...?
Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :
Balaam: "Hey, took a bit, but my kiwi friend finally gave me her list."
How could you...? Wait, did it come rolled-up in one of those small capsules attatched to her right ankle? But, but they can't fly... Now I'm scared. Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
Stop the pigeon, stop the pigeon. . .
Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :
Liz, of course you can come!
Possibly in more ways than one, even.
Posted by Cartman (Member # 256) on :
Innuendo!! Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :
Tally Ho, Barf, Barf!!!
Posted by Ultra Magnus (Member # 239) on :
ERECTION
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Flare: renowned for its ability to attract the best and brightest from all corners of the Internet.
Posted by The359 (Member # 37) on :
I shot who in the what now?
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
So no one wants to come visit me? I mean, it's not that bad down here. It's actually cooling off now.
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
I'm sure deadcujo could say exactly the same thing. . . 8)
Posted by LOA (Member # 49) on :
I'll come visit you, Siggy! I'm actually gonna be taking a trip to TX next summer, I think....... goin' to be in Houston visiting NASA with my space-geek sister Posted by Da_bang80 (Member # 528) on :
My best friend is moving to vancouver in a few days. I'm really gonna miss her. But I'll get to visit once in a while.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
You should all come here to Fort lauderdale. We're having a monsoon this weekend, but it'll be sunny and warm next week.
We've got chicks and guns and fireworks and booze and the second Matrix on the Imax and Fetish clubs and puppies and two oceans and ponies and racecars. And I've got an extra bedroom. (although, you'd have to clean it up to find the bed) All of you can stay in that extra bedroom (at the smae time), except LOA. I got space in my room for her....(insert Evil laughter here)
Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :
Whenever I hear "Fort somethingsomething" I think of Lucky Luke and outer walls made out of sharpened logs.
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
quote:Originally posted by LOA: I'll come visit you, Siggy! I'm actually gonna be taking a trip to TX next summer, I think....... goin' to be in Houston visiting NASA with my space-geek sister
Oooh, fun. I've never been to the Johnson Space Center myself. I've driven by it a few times, and I've stood outside of it a few times, but I've never actually been inside. Sounds like a fun trip.
And, if you and your sister meet up with me, I'll treat ya'll to dinner. I know a lot of good restaurants (obviously). And, unlike Jason here, I'll refrain from trying to seduce you. Mostly because it's awkward. Explaining two gigs of pornography on your hard drive to your mother awkward.
Posted by Cartman (Member # 256) on :
Mostly?
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
That's it, play it off for now..... Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
Breakdown of Siegfried Seducing a Lady:
55% awkwardness
15% embarrassment
10% tragic comedy
10% "fight or flight" reaction
5% stuttering
5% abject horror
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
0% getting laid?
Man, them's baaaad percentages, Siggy. You should have factored in at least 2% success for the Pity Factor.
Besides, I never said I'd do anything improper. BWHAHAHAHAHAA!!....er.....yeah! I'd be a perfect gentleman (snicker). Really. I'm a very nice man.
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
No one pities me. Except myself. Angst.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Just dont break into a Morissey song and I wont pity you either.
Posted by LOA (Member # 49) on :
Jason: You've got room in your bed for me? Are you sure about that? I'm a wild one, you know
Siggy: Yay, food! If we come down there, we'll have to hook up. And as for NASA, I happen to have a "friend on the inside", if you know what I mean, and he's getting us hooked up with the uber-tour! Wahoo!
And all of you men around here should learn a thing or two from Siggy... he's not trying to get in my pants, which means he's the most likely to get in my pants..... well, maybe not.... no one gets in my pants, actually, but still.... Siggy is a true gentleman and my knight in shining armor! *swoon!*
Hehehe... yay, me! *claps hands* I make myself giggle again!
~LOA
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
quote:I make myself giggle again!
Empirical evidence would suggest this is not difficult.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
quote:Originally posted by LOA: Jason: You've got room in your bed for me? Are you sure about that? I'm a wild one, you know
And all of you men around here should learn a thing or two from Siggy... he's not trying to get in my pants, which means he's the most likely to get in my pants..... well, maybe not.... no one gets in my pants, actually, but still.... Siggy is a true gentleman and my knight in shining armor! *swoon!*
~LOA
I could be a gentleman! Really!
Besides I have a biiig bed with comfy sheets and stuff. "stuff" will be as far as we describe it.
SEriously, if you should find yourself in my part of the world, come to town: the museum is nice, the beach is GREAT and there's lots of cool secret spots to hang out in.
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
Jason, the only songs I'm liable to break into at the moment are "Again," "Disarm," and "Glycerine." I don't know why, but they've been stuck in a constant loop in my head all day.
quote:Originally posted by LOA: Siggy: Yay, food! If we come down there, we'll have to hook up. And as for NASA, I happen to have a "friend on the inside", if you know what I mean, and he's getting us hooked up with the uber-tour! Wahoo!
Ooh... connections. The only closest I have to a NASA connection is my best friend, who's a graduate physics student who worked for a research center here on campus that's affiliated with NASA. What does this mean? I've gotten to study in the college's observatory a couple times.
quote:Siggy is a true gentleman and my knight in shining armor! *swoon!*
This right here makes me think that you haven't been reading this thread, but this is still the nicest thing anyone's ever said to me. I'm going to print this up and put hang it on my bulletin board.
Posted by Cartman (Member # 256) on :
"0% getting laid?"
Well, he did say 10% tragic comedy... B)
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
At least you didint site the "5% Abject Horror".
Posted by Cartman (Member # 256) on :
No, that would've been below the belt. B)
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
Which is exactly where the abject horror is.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
At least it's not where the "15% embarrasment" is.
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
::says nothing::
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
"...and there's lots of cool secret spots to hang out in."
"Secret" in the sense of "they won't find the body for months".
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
or see anyone doing anything.....
Posted by Topher (Member # 71) on :
Well, I'll tell you all the truth. There's nothing to do here in Saint John. So you really shouldn't come visit. Unless you really want to see the highest tides in the world. Or something silly like reversing falls. Silly tourists.
Posted by Omega (Member # 91) on :
Siggy is a true gentleman and my knight in shining armor!
*sniff*
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
Poor, poor Omega.... If only you lived near something interesting....
Then again, I wish I did..... This plains state stuff is boring....
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
quote:Originally posted by TSN:
"...and there's lots of cool secret spots to hang out in."
"Secret" in the sense of "they won't find the body for months".
Shhhhh.....shut up! You'll blow it for everyone.
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
quote:Originally posted by Ritten: If only you lived near something interesting....
Well, Liz and her sister's excuse for visiting Texas isn't exactly close to me. It's on the opposite side of town (and technically, it's in Clear Lake and not Houston). Depending on traffic I could get to it in anywhere from 30 minutes to 3 hours.
On the other hand, I'm just a couple miles from the Galleria Shopping Center. It's a giant mall with overpriced stuff. Some people like to shop there, I like to curse the traffic as it interferes with my work commute.
I'm also a couple miles from Memorial Park, about 5 miles from the museum district and medical center, and Houston is home to over 150 gentlemen's clubs (but I doubt Liz and her sister would want to visit one). We also have a billion dollars worth of new sports stadiums housing teams that haven't have a good season in many moons (except the Aeros -- the won the Calder Cup last year, I think).
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
I live between Chicago and The Arch/TSN in the St. Louis area... Springfield has a population of over 100,000, and still has corn fields in town....
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
Oooh. Cornfields. They're fun for UFO buffs.
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
Nahhh, to small, they are only a couple of lots in size... Can't even play children of the corn in them....
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
"Springfield has a population of over 100,000, and still has corn fields in town...."
Well, it is Illinois. Somewhere in downtown Chicago is probably the only point in the state that isn't within a mile or two of the nearest corn stalk.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
mmmm....corn.
Were in America's Wang, we have citrus and a few of those "gentleman's clubs". Everyone there is a "gentleman" or the bouncers will smash you. Smash you good.
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
Even the dancers??? Not my kind of place then...
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
The dancers will grind you to death....but that's a thread for another time.
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
Yes, for hungry days....
The Booby Trap, in Detroit, on 8 Mile Road just west of I-75 was a nice place.
Posted by The359 (Member # 37) on :
Anything that has any sort of relation to the movie "8 Mile" can't be good...
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
Getting a lap dance. Yet another thing in life I have never experienced.
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
Oh, you should. It's great.
Posted by Balaam Xumucane (Member # 419) on :
And then it's depressing afterward. But it's great at the time.
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
Other side of I-75 from Mather's area, 8 Mile Road is also M-102, which is about 30 miles long.....
Lee and BX: Yes, yes it is.....
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
You know, that 359 chap is really quite cool.
[ November 10, 2003, 01:46 AM: Message edited by: Jason Abbadon ]
Posted by The359 (Member # 37) on :
That post seems to suggest you're still drunk now...
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
I really must point out that this has gotten far from the origibnal topic: Seducing LOA.
Posted by Austin Powers (Member # 250) on :
But where would be the point? She told you that no one would get in her pants - except Siggi perhaps. So why should you bother? Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
LOA's not gonna let anyone into her pants. She may tease and flirt, but she's still a woman of virtue. Okay, a woman of virtue with a weakness for car audio equipment.
And I don't want to get into anyone's pants. I'm quite happy with my current situation: look, don't touch, get drunk with bitterness and accidentally pee in the kitty litter box in a moment of intoxicated confusion.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
quote:Originally posted by Austin Powers: But where would be the point? She told you that no one would get in her pants - except Siggi perhaps. So why should you bother?
Why bother!?! Why do fish fly? Why do birds swim? Why watch a sunset?
Some great things defy any explanation but remain forever worthwhile. Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
...for everything else, there's Visa.
Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :
Well, where I come from you get farther with kindess and a gun than just kindness.
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
priceless....
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
quote:Originally posted by Nim: Well, where I come from you get farther with kindess and a gun than just kindness.
Your dates must be too afraid to press charges.
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
I would imagine it is like that most places, not too many people argue with the law firm of Smith & Wesson....
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
LOA, do NOT date Ritten. Unless you like riding in the trunk, that is.
Posted by MaGiC (Member # 59) on :
LOA come to London! Leave these scary guys behind...who needs NASA when you can have Buckingham Palace and Harrods!
PS. I have my own panties to worry about and so have no interest in yours.....
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
So...you're a woman? Another female Flarite?!? Sweet.
And you like Stephen King! I cant wait for that new dark Tower book... But I digress.
Nice pic though. Posted by MaGiC (Member # 59) on :
Yup..one day soon we female flarites will all gang up on you guys and you will realise how many of us there truly are. Pic is a little out of date now. I had lasik..so no more glasses, and am bleach blonde. But thank you.
Posted by MaGiC (Member # 59) on :
Just read my last post...looks like a dating site submission...oops!
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Hmmm...I liked the glasses! Scary, but if you'd kept the glasses and with your new blonde hair, you look like my best freind in this town.
'course, she's really a brunette too.
Lasic looks a bit iffy to me...I may need it on one of my eyes though. Was it freaky? Did they do a whole "Goldfinger" thing with the laser?
Posted by MaGiC (Member # 59) on :
Actually it was like being in a horror movie. You have youe eye held open by this gizmo and then they open a flap of youe eye and all the time you want to jump up and run away, but you know if you do it will all fuck up and you might never see again... Results are worth it...but its not pretty.
Had very pleasant swedish guy doing the laser... called Sven as I recall...so not at all goldfingerish really...
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Very Clockwork Orange.
So you eyes were dialated because of Sven anyway....hmmm..,, Nice technique, that.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
"I cant wait for that new dark Tower book..."
The one that came out a couple weeks ago or so?
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
The next damn book came out????
About damn time....
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
quote:Originally posted by TSN:
"I cant wait for that new dark Tower book..."
The one that came out a couple weeks ago or so?
WHAT!?! YOU LIE! I was at both Borders and Barnes and Noble just yesterday and saw NOTHING!
....must ....check...again...
The book is called The Wolves Of Calla and I sure hope it's out!
Just now, I'm reading the new Trek: Lost Era book (the one about Rachel garrett and Enterprise C) and a Dan Simmons collection of short stories.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Well, apparently I unintentionally hyperbolized slightly. It only came out ten days ago, not "a couple weeks".
Posted by MaGiC (Member # 59) on :
The Dark Tower Books are the only SK I haven't read. I keep putting it off in case one day I really NEED some new King..like when he dies or something. Finally read Black House the other weekend..its been sat on my shelf for a bit. Really liked it.
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