Youri McAnespie Posted October 20, 2014 Share Posted October 20, 2014 Hang this beast... In seriousness, my lower back is playing up to fuck since I've recently increased my 'sedentary' working, perhaps this bearded suspect has touched upon the right idea? http://www.diytreadmilldesk.com/build-treadmill-desk/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Youri McAnespie Posted October 20, 2014 Author Share Posted October 20, 2014 I've tried standing up to work, the laptop perched atop a (small) grandfather clock - it doesn't work, the back still aches (less so than sitting, but still). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maggie Tate Posted October 20, 2014 Share Posted October 20, 2014 Philip Roth, America's greatest living novelist, wrote all his novels in longhand stood up at a music stand thing. True fact. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Youri McAnespie Posted October 20, 2014 Author Share Posted October 20, 2014 Hemingway did it standing up. I also read Orwell used to infuriate his father by writing whilst pacing around smoking fags and drinking tea - to his father writing was sommat you did with pen and paper sat at a desk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maggie Tate Posted October 20, 2014 Share Posted October 20, 2014 Vladimir Nabokov too. Though he scribbled notes on index cards his whole life and most of his works were just bits and pieces of those shoved together. Even Lolita. Takes all sorts. I think I read that Churchill also wrote stuff standing up but this is hard to believe as he was usually too drunk to stand up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gonk Posted October 20, 2014 Share Posted October 20, 2014 Is that Frankie Boyle? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter MickyD Posted October 21, 2014 Site Supporter Share Posted October 21, 2014 (edited) Isn't a small grandfather clock known as a grandmother clock or a grandson or granddaughter? Just asking like. Edited October 21, 2014 by MickyD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Youri McAnespie Posted October 21, 2014 Author Share Posted October 21, 2014 (edited) Isn't a small grandfather clock known as a grandmother clock or a grandson or granddaughter? Just asking like. I think it is (a grandmother clock), it's f*cking horrible whatever it's called, it dates from the late 70s early 80s, when, after burning, tipping or leaving out for the dustman nice inherited period furniture and stuff during the 50s and 60s - folk then popped down to Gregory and Porrits and the like to buy reproduction furniture and stuff closely resembling the nice real wood original stuff they'd just chucked... I inherited it with all my parents' good stuff and haven't the heart to get rid, so it migrates from spare room to room or nooks and crannies - wherever it'll get least noticed - I'll probably palm it off at some point (get rid, not wank it off). Edited October 21, 2014 by Youri McAnespie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Traf Posted October 21, 2014 Share Posted October 21, 2014 Get your postman to nick it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Youri McAnespie Posted October 21, 2014 Author Share Posted October 21, 2014 (edited) They'd just wet the parcel (even when it's not raining) then rip it open, see it's shite and deliver it. In the real world, I've thought about putting on Freecycle more than once, the tightfisted side of me doesn't like the thought of someone taking it down the car boot and getting a tenner for it after I've gifted it. The soppy-arse sentimental side of me thinks of my mam seeing it in Gregory and Porrits' window (or that other one that sold lamps and that, on Bradshawgate - it had an 'arcade' you could walk through, was later a pub - Chester Moonshines/Revolution?), anyhow, I think of her seeing this naff thing in the window and thinking it was lovely and parting with probably over a hundred quid or more to get it - which was daylight robbery I might add... My sister (two aspirins on an ironing board), doesn't know it yet, but she's going to get it at some point (the clock). Edited October 21, 2014 by Youri McAnespie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maggie Tate Posted October 22, 2014 Share Posted October 22, 2014 Three for today. Quite a haul. Gunman murders at random in Ottowa Gerry Adams apologise for IRA rapists Man drives car into crowd getting off a tram in Jerusalem and kills a baby. Do you think he sent them a leaflet or a text warning them what he was going to do beforehand? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Casino Posted March 2, 2016 Moderators Share Posted March 2, 2016 surely theres a place for this cnut http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/stephen-lawrence-suspect-admits-drugs-charge/ar-BBqfpmA?li=BBoPWjQ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MancWanderer Posted March 2, 2016 Share Posted March 2, 2016 Adam Johnson? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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