Italian when drunk

[alexsarll]

Last night: lasagne (yum) and red wine (also yum) in the wilderlands of New Cross chez violentbec. I don't mind the lesbian knitters' mutterings re the evil of my gender, but once they get into the knitting technicalities I always begin to fear that they are talking in code. insecuregoddess is less of an alkie than the rest of us, so gets most comprehensively wasted, and has to be escorted back to North London. This is more challenging than you might think.
Me: Pippa, this is the street where they had the heavy police presence earlier, so maybe you could stop shouting..?
insecuregoddess: HELLO, HEAVY POLICE PRESENCE!
atommickbrane sensibly pulls up her hood and walks far enough ahead to maintain deniability.

It annoys me that Charles and Camilla are to have a civil wedding. After all, as became clear when I tried to explain the Church of England to Bec last night, the only reason the Church of England exists is to remarry royalty; it's not like they exactly have a passionately-held theological raison d'etre.

The Richard Morgan did arrive yesterday after all. No one has had their head melted yet, but I am less than ten pages in, and I don't think I'll have long to wait.

As much as I am looking forward to flailing around like a big gay goth at B Movie tonight, and shaking my alleged booty at Soul Mole tomorrow, I am slightly wondering when I'll fit any sleep into the weekend.

Comments

[violentbec.livejournal.com]

After all, as became clear when I tried to explain the Church of England to Bec last night

does this mean CoE is hard to explain or that i'm a thicko drunk what couldn't understand what ye meant :)

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Gah! The former. I mean, they originally had Catholics-who-didn't-want-to-cause-a-fuss in the same church as Puritans. Now, they have both of the above, plus a fair few people who don't actually believe in their supposed deity!

[violentbec.livejournal.com]

madness!
i should go to a CoE service just to compare...i won't be arsed though.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Don't bother. You'd have a more numinous experience going to a decent supermarket.

[innerbrat]

But she's so pretty when she's pissed!

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

I know, I know...it's just I don't normally have to negotiate her through a three-Tube journey like some nightmare Knightmare variant.

Whoo! Knightmare!

[innerbrat]

Is activating my 80s children's TV nostalgia gland my birthday present?

Re: Whoo! Knightmare!

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

In response to which subtlety, I can only say HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

(Well, either that or make a cheap innuendo about activating glands, but that would really be reaching)

[innerbrat]

Read your friends list occasionally, wouldja?

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

I do (and am currently at skip=50 from last night); indeed, I commented on your party arrangements post yesterday.

[innerbrat]

So you shouldn't need subtle hints. :P

[pippaalice.livejournal.com]

Oh dear. You poor honey. :P

[pippaalice.livejournal.com]

*coff* Thankyou. I think. ;)

Is it your birthday TODAY? Woo! :D

[innerbrat]

How can that be construed as not a compliment?

Tahnk you very much :)

[pippaalice.livejournal.com]

Just slightly worrying that me when mentalism = cute. But y'know I can live with it. ;)

You have to have cake! and wishes!

[innerbrat]

There may or may not be cake. I'll have to see.

[p-dan-tic.livejournal.com]

shouldn't charles be able to have a civil wedding if he wants to?

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Does anyone honestly believe that he has chosen a civil wedding for reasons of personal preference rather than political expediency?

Even if he doesn't want a religious wedding, he should just wait 'til his ma dies and then ditch all the religious stuff from the CofE ceremony BECAUSE HE CAN.

[p-dan-tic.livejournal.com]

no

he should do what he wants

(and i can belive he'd choose a personal press free civil wedding over the stupid pomp and circumstance of another charles and diana wedding - can't you)

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

They're being blessed after the service, in the private chapel, by the Archbishop of Canterbury.
If you have the highest ordained member of the church in the house anyway, you might as well get him to do the bloody service.

[p-dan-tic.livejournal.com]

note the word private there

read my point

try and understand my point

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

"i can belive he'd choose a personal press free civil wedding over the stupid pomp and circumstance of another charles and diana wedding"

Yes, so can I. However, what difference in levels of pomp and press is there between a private civil ceremony, and a private religious ceremony?
Have his religious beliefs changed significantly in the past 20 years?

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

he's going to be bludy king*! it's all about POMP, stuff what he wants, i want BIG, i want 100s of visiting dignitaries and a DIMBLEBY, if not TWO. if he's going to waste my tax money, i want SPECTACLE for flips sake.

also yes, he is almost in charge of CofE and thus should use it as HIS PLAYTHING, it's why henry viii set it up anyway...

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

oops missed my *

*my mum has always said "he'll never be king" i can't remember why, i think he is TEH CUR-SED (not by my mum though)

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

I quite agree; my main problem with the current royals is that they're so bloody dull.

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

andrew, bless 'im, tries, using a helicopter to go for a pint of milk etc...

i for one can't wait for prince harry to fall in with the doherty/moss crowd...

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but even he *mings*.

[beingjdc.livejournal.com]

There are other reasons for the Church of England than remarrying royalty. There's also the need to provide employment for people who want to be ministers of religion, but don't believe in God, and similarly to provide opportunities for collective worship for upper middle class atheists.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

And of course the need to provide employment for people who want to be ministers but would rather have sex with adult females, as opposed to children, and so would never fit in with the Catholics.

[beingjdc.livejournal.com]

people who want to be ministers but would rather have sex with adult females

Pfffff, yeah right.

[hazyjayne.livejournal.com]

It annoys me that Charles and Camilla are to have a civil wedding. After all, as became clear when I tried to explain the Church of England to Bec last night, the only reason the Church of England exists is to remarry royalty; it's not like they exactly have a passionately-held theological raison d'etre.

Plus we won't even get the day off to celebrate it not that I would anyway, but even so... *sigh*

y'all eat pieces of sh#t?

[angelv.livejournal.com]

Kanye. Not KanYe.

Re: y'all eat pieces of sh#t?

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I did wonder if that line was consciously nicked from Happy Gilmore.

Edited. Wonder where I got the idea that the y was a Y?

Re: y'all eat pieces of sh#t?

[big-trend.livejournal.com]

His "hip hop is back" logo always capitalises the Y. No idea why.

Re: y'all eat pieces of sh#t?

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

But not the k! Thank you. At least it wasn't all in my head.

[suicideally.livejournal.com]

>I am slightly wondering when I'll fit any sleep into the weekend

Sleep is for the week.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Quality punnage there.

But I've failed to have much this week, dammit!