It had to be pointed out to me...

[slowfox]

...that we haven't got any heating in the office. Again.

See, since I walk in, the building feels warmer than the outside world, and therefore it doesn't immediately register that it's cold. The drivers who've come aways, though (thus discounting the short-hop folk where the cars don't really warm up) definitely do notice.

The same thing happened yesterday; it's just that yesterday, we didn't have snow settled on the ground.

In other news, the tangential discussion on this week's Football Weekly was collective astonishment on the panel's part that Jimbo (the host) hadn't seen Pretty in Pink nor The Breakfast Club nor The Goonies (yeah, 'football' weekly :-) Also good for learning how to poach eggs). He had, somewhat redeemingly, seen Ferris Bueller's Day Off and The Lost Boys. For my part, I've not seen Pretty in Pink, nor the Breakfast Club and I'll also volunteer the cultural disadvantage that is not having seen St Elmo's Fire, nor even Heathers.

Any other 80s classics that I should've seen?

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[stripped]

Oh wow. It stars John Cusack, and is perhaps one of the most quoted films of the 80s (at least on this side of the pond). My friend saw it my senior year of high school, made me go see it, and it became one of those cult classic things. Basically, very funny (if occasionally darkly humorous, but not nearly so dark as Heathers) film about a guy whose girlfriend breaks up with him to go out with the most popular ski dude in high school, and he decides he simply CAN'T go on without her. Except in the process of trying to NOT go on, he finds an entire new life he didn't expect. It's... very tongue in cheek, very much over the top, and just wonderful. I highly recommend it.

[slowfox]

My favourite John Cusack film of that era has to be The Sure Thing, which has some brilliant moments.

I also rather liked Say Anything, and am something, then, of a Cusack fan (High Fidelity and Grosse Pointe Blank). So I'll definitely look out for Better Off Dead :-)

[stripped]

I'm pretty sure I've seen The Sure Thing but oh man, it was long ago. I actually didn't see Say Anything until very recently. I remember when Grosse Pointe Blank came out, and several of us rather felt like it was a sequel (it isn't, not really) to Better Off Dead just because of certain similarities between the two.

Now I want to go on a Cusack movie binge.