From: Cane on
On 22 Mar, 15:42, darsy <da...(a)sticky.co.uk> wrote:

> [1] funnily enough, and I never did find out why[2] but I had the
> Babylon ring my doorbell last night around 03:30

The 'what'?
From: Simon Wilson on
On 23/03/2010 12:19, Cane wrote:
> On 22 Mar, 15:42, darsy<da...(a)sticky.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> [1] funnily enough, and I never did find out why[2] but I had the
>> Babylon ring my doorbell last night around 03:30
>
> The 'what'?

I guessed what it meant, but had to look it up:

"Jamaican English term for corrupt establishment systems, often applied
to the police. Derived from the Rastafari movement."

--
/Simon
From: Cane on
On 23 Mar, 12:26, Simon Wilson <siwil...(a)nodamnspamn.hotmail.com>
wrote:

> >> [1] funnily enough, and I never did find out why[2] but I had the
> >> Babylon ring my doorbell last night around 03:30
>
> > The 'what'?
>
> I guessed what it meant, but had to look it up:
>
> "Jamaican English term for corrupt establishment systems, often applied
> to the police. Derived from the Rastafari movement."

Sorry, so the Enfield Police are playing knock down ginger at 3am?
From: Switters on
On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 11:24:19 GMT, Grimly Curmudgeon wrote:

> We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
> drugs began to take hold. I remember Switters <me(a)privacy.net> saying
> something like:
>
>>On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 01:30:58 GMT, Grimly Curmudgeon wrote:
>>
>>> Otoh, this is rather unique.
>>
>>It's either unique or it isn't.
>
> And?

If you want shades of grey, speak to Champ.
From: Simian on
darsy wrote:

> On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 19:26:06 +0000, Andy Bonwick
> <nospam(a)bonwick.me.uk> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 12:48:45 -0600, vulgarandmischevious
> ><vulgarandmischevious(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >>darsy <darsy(a)sticky.co.uk> wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 11:18:37 -0600, vulgarandmischevious
> >>><vulgarandmischevious(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> >>>>darsy <darsy(a)sticky.co.uk> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > [1a] just in case any of you need putting off their dinner,
> > > > > > it's to be noted that I normally sleep naked,
> > > > >
> > > > > who doesn't?
> > > >
> > > > people who need to wear incontinance pants.
> > >
> > > A good number of UKRMers, then. Twats.
> >
> > I stopped sleeping naked when I'm in a hotel after I opened the
> > wrong door and ended up in the corridor instead of the bathroom.
>
> hah - I thought I was the only idiot who'd done that.
>

I did it in my own home once - first week in a new flat, missed the
bathroom and ended up naked outside my front door. *click*

This would have made a much better story if the police had turned up
/before/ I'd managed to break back in.