From: aspen_fox	Date: August 23rd, 2005 07:43 pm (UTC)		(Link)

Yay! :D

The light's wrong on the last one, but it's nice to see newer pics nonetheless. :)

	From: orinotta	Date: August 23rd, 2005 07:48 pm (UTC)		(Link)

You look great.

Didn't know you'd become a schoolmaster though! :3

x

	From: vexen	Date: August 23rd, 2005 08:22 pm (UTC)		(Link)

Thanks dude :-)

I felt like a schoolmaster for the 2 weeks putting kids on the bikes, the little shits. Masses of kids.

	From: vexen	Date: August 23rd, 2005 08:11 pm (UTC)		(Link)

The lights' terrible, I've had a few goes at rectifying it, but it's fundamentally a messed up photo, it was taken on a friends' mobile and I've had it laying on my hard drive for a while.

Photos have been very lacking over the last two years, I uploading another "London" (boring!) page of photos at the moment. My connection has gone quite poor for a week, so it takes a long time and lots of retries to get things uploaded.

One decade I'll get a photo with you!

	From: aspen_fox	Date: August 23rd, 2005 10:11 pm (UTC)		(Link)

Oh well. Any pic's better than no pic. :)

One decade I'll get a photo with you!
I certainly hope so!

	From: dresen	Date: August 23rd, 2005 07:47 pm (UTC)		(Link)

Hehee. It's kind of strange seeing you with short hair, in uniform etc. Makes me realize more how much our perception of people relies on external cues. By the way, that page looks a bit weird for me. I'm using Firefox 1.0.6. The three thumbnails are half-under the top photo, and the 'Vexen Crabtree' link is floating off to the right.

	From: vexen	Date: August 23rd, 2005 08:20 pm (UTC)		(Link)

Oh that is wierd, the thumbnails and "<P>Page by Vexen...</P> bit are all in a div block that should hold them all (with the Vexen link aligned to the right, true), with the photos in a different DIV underneath. I wonder why it's doing that? It sounds like your browser isn't rendering/inline-ing the images as part of the DIV they're in.

I can't upload edits anymore as of the last few hours because my connection has gone too poor to use FTP. I've added two clarifying paragraph blocks.

	From: hiddenpaw	Date: August 23rd, 2005 08:13 pm (UTC)		(Link)

They all look so young!

	From: vexen	Date: August 23rd, 2005 08:30 pm (UTC)		(Link)

They are, friend, they are.

It gets wierd when they crowd around, "Crabtree! Crabtree come out with us! Come to the pub! You coming out tonight? We're going to get smashed!" and all that... because some of them are 8 years younger than me, I just get embarrased being with them sometimes. But it's my *job* to get on with all my workmates, and we work as a team, and so sometimes I am out and about with them around the world.

Some of them are mature, most of them are immature, and some of them are ok people. Most of them are cunts, immoral, debased, aggressive losers. But some are cool... I get on well with these three which is probably why the photo turned out ok. Negative emotions show up in photos like rashes!

	From: rogue_summers	Date: August 23rd, 2005 09:10 pm (UTC)		(Link)

ooh~ cute guys ;)

*smiles and sighs* ;p

	From: pebblepup	Date: August 24th, 2005 12:49 am (UTC)		(Link)

Wow, your workmates are kinda hot. Mind you, you're kinda hot too. Must be that army sensibility and short haircut thing going on - that or it's just a Pavlovian reaction to have seen too much Inappropriate Porn...

From: pennypenny	Date: August 27th, 2005 08:17 pm (UTC)		(Link)

I hope my little phone number bunny has been busy collecting phone numbers for me PROVIDING they are 18+ in age.

	From: vexen	Date: August 27th, 2005 10:34 pm (UTC)		(Link)

Sometimes they ask me for your number... you could have some fun in Germany :p

From: pennypenny	Date: August 28th, 2005 06:19 pm (UTC)		(Link)

Cynically, you really could market this. But then I suppose they are chavs... Unhappy face.

	From: vexen	Date: August 28th, 2005 06:41 pm (UTC)		(Link)

They are the Über of the chav. Some of them are ok though (until it comes to things like morals, racism and misogyny). None of them are interesting, but they can talk socially in an entertaining and energetic way. And they're infamously keen on teh boobies of most kinds.

What's wrong with chavs anyway? Next you'll be saying that hip hop is annoying, pointless, cheap, meaningless trite that keeps people at the emotional levels of 13 year old angsty boys. Incidentally, a lot of my chav workmates like hip hop.

Anyway, have a hug and some hair-scruffles. Just 'cos.

From: (Anonymous)	Date: September 14th, 2005 09:45 pm (UTC)		(Link)
'workmates in bournemouth'

hi everyone im danny, the one on the far right of the 'workmates in bournemouth'picture. id just like to reply to a comment made about the photo, first of all none of the lads on the picture are chavs (no offense.) infact, if you was to ask vexen of my taste in music you would be quite suprised. And same goes with the other two lads, ok fair enough the dress sense sometimes might be abit 'chavish' but once again, you would be suprised!

take care.

	From: vexen	Date: September 14th, 2005 10:11 pm (UTC)		(Link)
	Re: 'workmates in bournemouth'

Hey Danny, meet 'the others', the eclectic commenters of my LJ, and 'others', meet Danny!

That course was the best few weeks I've spent in this job, seriously. And yes, many would be surprised at your music tastes! (And Thornton's!). There is a reason you three are all have invites to my Wedding! :-)

But... when it comes to what me and Penny were talking about, most people (by a long way) in our work are mundanes, chavs, townies, neds, etc, and are quintessential character-types of those categories.

I'm always unsure as to the difference of the terms "townie", "chav" and "ned"... some people use them to describe different types of mundanes, but I tend to use the terms interchangeably.

From: (Anonymous)	Date: September 14th, 2005 10:28 pm (UTC)		(Link)
Re: 'workmates in bournemouth'

hey vexen, bit late to be up isnt it! what with the work this week! I understand entirely what you say about most of the people in our line of work, i.e been aggressive losers etc. but lets hope they are hurting on the inside eh.

take care

From: (Anonymous)	Date: September 16th, 2005 05:45 pm (UTC)		(Link)
Furry Satanist??????

DEArest Vexen, I am new to your many web sites and somehow you tapped into the 2 things I'm interested in thse days. Furries AND Satanism!!! The last thing from you I read was all about Squirrels (wiggly woos). It was great! However I'm surprised at how Furries and Satanism can REALLY go 2gether! Please explain the connection if there be 1. I,ve always felt like a German Shepherd. I bark, I growl, and I would LOVE a place where I could wear muzzel & tail(a nice fluffy big one)& pointy ears. I am an attractive female but would look even CUTER w/ FUR!!!! Heck, we all WOULD. Even my mother thinks so!!!! But I think she would hardly expect me to go to a furry meet. I would surprise her... I live in Montreal. Are there other furries here????