Pollyana

Not tonight, its just a bit cooler being up now - back to bed before the sun gets going
How about you? On call?

iamthecreaturefromuranus

Yeah, just been called out. Now sat around, waiting for the Boys in Bangalore to get their acts together... could be a long wait.

Pollyana

Mmm I wouldn't hold yer breath, they are probably on a forum somewhere, asking about migration visas

iamthecreaturefromuranus

If I hear another one of them, asking me to "please do the needful"; I'm going to lose it... or maybe just start replying with "needful done"?

Kapri

I didn't win Karma Whore either!

PS, why haven't you karma'd me for saying I want you back

rasen78

Welcome back. Missed ya

scottishcelts

Where the bloody hell have you been young man? Eh eh eh?

frankrizzo

Hello Pomgolians. I'm a septic and the people on US expat sites make me want to chug a large glass of cold sick with a too saccharine and forgiving view of their adoptive country. I need something a bit darker than that. Not that I dislike life here in godzone. I'm quite well assimilated. But sometimes I need to talk outside the tribe. Is this the right place?

Perhaps I can help fill the void left behind by your departed friends - or at least touch the sides...

scottishcelts

Mmmm......attempts to track down the 'deleted' members list.

slapphead_otool

One of the many delights of BE is that you can vanish for months, do time in the slammer for years, or even die and be reincarnated as a cane toad, and when you get back to BE nothing has changed.

Its like Corrie without the scriptwriters. Price of lettuce, collapse of housing prices, and end to the mining boom, how unhappy everyone is with the heat/cold/rain/drought.

Its all there - just being recycled like an endless tape loop.

On the bright side there is a comfort zone about it. Rather like going home to visit your parents and finding your bedroom just as it was, with teddy on the pillow and your favourite blanket.

On the downside its still Ena Sharpass, Minnie Coldbum and Martha Longlegs sitting in the snug.

A thousand years from now archaeologists will pick over the threads and ask "who were these strange people...."

scottishcelts

very true Slappy.

It's the whole 'everyone in the same boat' thing that does it for me, it's somewhere to let off steam and share moans with people who know where yer coming from.

It's great for setting up meet ups and just generally meeting some life long pals.

slapphead_otool

You could be Elsie Tanner but no one understands you.

I have some videos that might interest you by the way....

scottishcelts

Hmmmpf...

slapphead_otool

The Argyle haggis munchers in Aden. I hope you dad is amongst them.

Things like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOfF7gjE-IU

scottishcelts

That's fantastic R. Couldn't see my Dad in there. Some of those men I have spoken with since my Dad died, his funeral was like something I've never seen before. The Argyll's put on a real show for him.