Huffy Flounce

YOU MOTHERFUCKER!

Au contraire.

I guess this would be an appropriate time to post this: My wife and I are going to the U.S. Virgin Island for a week. We're leaving after St. Patrick's Day.

Too much bulky bumping in this thread. I'm considering locking it.

At least when I went to Florida for a week, all I did was work and prepare for my black belt testing. Plus the weather sucked while I was there. And I had to listen to my parents bicker.

Mal Shot First wrote:........ to the U.S. Virgin Island for a week.

There a joke in here somewhere but I am damned if I can find it.

My friend who killed himself once said he was going to move to the Virgin Islands because, ha ha, he was a virgin.

The Swollen Goiter of God wrote:My friend who killed himself once....

Sucks your buddy killed himself, but what happened the second time?

He only killed himself once. I done said!

How are the U.S. Virgin Islands different from the British Virgin Islands? Apparently, the U.S. Virgin Islands have left-hand traffic, despite their association with the U.S., so they can't be all that different from their British counterpart.

Dalty wrote:

Mal Shot First wrote:........ to the U.S. Virgin Island for a week.

There a joke in here somewhere but I am damned if I can find it.

The joke is that I also lived in Virginia for eight years. Coincidence?

He was a virgin the whole time he was there, too.

I knew somebody who, as a child, used to get terribly confused by the word "Virginia" and "Vagina".

PS - Fuck me it's hot here! We Brits are not tropical people.

The Swollen Goiter of God wrote:He was a virgin the whole time he was there, too.

In my defense, I was a minor for four of those years. Not that this would necessarily prevent anyone from having sex.

The pronunciation of the city "Regina" is a source of lowbrow comedy up here.

Mal Shot First wrote:In my defense, I was a minor for four of those years. Not that this would necessarily prevent anyone from having sex.

No defense necessary. There's nothing wrong with minimizing the chance of STD contraction while still under the parents' roof. Who wants to have that conversation with a parent? Minors can't just go and make I-think-I-have-gonorrhea appointments without their parents' knowledge/consent.

It's a little annoying to me that I never misspell or have to look up the spelling for "gonorrhea." It would be less annoying if "maintenance" didn't take me a second try half the time.

Space Tycoon wrote:The pronunciation of the city "Regina" is a source of lowbrow comedy up here.

Read it and weep, Flouncers, I will be heading to the land of Dalty this July. One night in London, where I expect Ol' Moneybags to buy me a pint, and then eight days in Bath Spa, where I will be one of 15 students in my grad program learning from the likes of Philip Pullman and David Almond. Okay, it's a working vacation, but at least I won't be cooking.

Sounds like a good time!

I know Pullman, but I don't know Almond. Looks like Almond was one of the authors who worked on Click. I've never read it, but I like it when writers get together and do things like that.

Almond's "Skellig" is an amazing piece of magical realism for kids. Plus he's done historical and is a brilliant speaker. I'm beyond excited.

One day, I will go to Britain for a vacation.

....or, the next time Britain is at war with Germany. It's kinda what we do now and then.

Nice one Negs! I am in Sussex at a wedding the weekend of the 11th and in Gloucetershire weekend of the 17th, and back in Kent for a birthday weekend of the 25th. When are you over?

Arriving lunchtime on July 7 (a Tuesday), then train to Bath the next morning. Not sure where I'll be staying, but probably not far from a Tube stop to make travel from Heathrow/to Paddington easier. Return from Bath to Heathrow a tight turnaround, so I'm really only in London proper the evening of 7th.

Heathrow Express goes in and out of Paddington, as does the train to Bath. Hmmmmm, not sure I know many bars in the Paddington area.