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oooh awesome! i do hope he shaves the beard before they go back on the road, though :P. i just prefer clean shaven. but the hair looks beaaaaautiful....i hope he keeps that for a long time.

jeans and tshirts, no question. i think it suits them much more.

YAY FOR CURLS! BOO FOR BEARD! anyway, ok, i just got here from not visiting allll day, and i'm a bit confused. i'm in the process of downloading the audio and video, and i don't have time to look back and read this whole thread, but did chris perform lost? or LITii? :uhoh:

in my experience, guys are more likely to let you down in matters that don't really have any bearing on life in the long run. my guy friends are more likely to bail on plans or be really disorganized and forget things, but i've found that when things really, really matter, they're more reliable. my girl friends tend to be more likely to keep plans and remember things, but aren't as reliable when things really go wrong. they tend to be more flakey when things matter. then again, this might just be the nature of my particular friends, and not guys or girls in general.

hmm. good point, good point.

i actually think that made a lot of sense. i just don't get so fed up with online friends in the same way that i do with real people a lot of the time. there's something inherently different about it, i think probably because rather than going through real experiences together like real friends do, online friends can really only reflect on past experiences and plan out future ones. there's less space to be aggrivated with the present, which is where i tend to get most annoyed with my friends, personally. now THAT didn't really make sense.

i miss having my guy friends around :bigcry:. i have such a lack of guy friends these days, i think mostly because i'm not at high school anymore, and i don't really have friends at college at all. it's harder to see my guy friends, i think, because it's not as normal for me to just call them up and for us to just hang out at one of their houses and talk with no real plans. they always seem to want to be DOING something and GOING somewhere rather than just relaxing together and catching up, and that's what i like to do best. it seems like to see them, i always have to go to some party or something, and i don't like parties. i miss the goofiness and the uncomplicated friendships, but i have to say, it's much easier to keep up a strong friendship with my girl friends they seem to be ok with just hanging out and talking.

ooh ooh oooh! :uhoh: but who to vote for? james, jack and ren because they're cool, briggs because he makes me laugh, or nathan because i agree with him a lot? i now know how undecided voters feel :bigcry:. i can't afford to waste a vote! IT MEANS TOO MUCH. decisions, decisions.

god, i think that line all the time! :P sometimes i think everyone i know has got the bends. oh man, my friends do that all the time! i want to strangle them, because i'm the sort of person that doesn't commit to something until i'm entirely sure, and my entire life is in a calendar and is ruled by plans. like emma, i'm a completely non-confrontational person too, and i never ever say how i truly feel about someone. sometimes i think online friends are better than real-life friends, just because you get to bypass a lot of the crap, and i'm much more able to say how i feel in writing rather than in person :P

thanks so much for the gifs! :nice:

if coldplay wins some other awards, i'd be fine with radiohead winning best album. i love them both, but coldplay means more to me so of course i want them to take it all, but radiohead is my other love (one of many), and i can't lie and say i'm not rooting for them a bit too. and i was wondering about the new outfits too; i think this might be where we see them in all their glory, though i was wondering if chris might wear his new outfit at the NRJ award thingy. either way, i kinda just wish they would wear street clothes and not do the whole outfit/uniform thing.

i think if they're really ok, they should just do the grammy thing :P. that would put an end to the rumors for a bit, i think, and on a selfish note, i'd just like to see them together :nice:. but i think if they don't go together and aren't seen together, that doesn't mean anything either despite what the tabloids say, since that's the way they always are :rolleyes:.

ooh, that's a good point, carla! it's weird, though...i wonder how many cards i hope there are. i almost don't want there to be TOO too many, just because i doubt they'd get around to reading them if there are like, 400 of them :P. but obviously i want there to be LOTS so it shows that we worked hard and that we had all the best intents :D oh god, if debs lurks around coldplaying more than we think, i bet she thinks we're a bunch of loons :lol:. well, we are. i think if i ever knew a popular band on a personal level and knew them from the start, i'd probably be a bit weirded out by their rabid fans! :lol:

aww ren, that's pretty sucky. i think it's a kind of weird situation, because you kind of want someone to ask how you are and all that, but if you were in their shoes, it would be really awkward for you to say something and ask about them. i think i know what you mean, but in a somewhat different way. in the past few years since my friends and i have left high school, i've changed a lot, but i think they've mostly stayed the same. we still get together and all that, but rarely do i have as fun a time as i used to, and at the bigger gatherings, i just find it awkward. what's worse is that everyone's seemingly noticed the change, but they just make faces or big sighs or say that i'm different rather than asking me about my life between high school and now or letting me explain myself. i think they just don't understand that i'm not like them anymore in the same ways i used to be, and that there are stories behind those changes rather than just me wanting to be different. sometimes i wish i could just tell it all to them and have them understand, but i know they wouldn't really understand even if they said they did. anyway, i hope your days stop being shitty, and i hope that things get better soon :smiley:

i bet she's been periodically picking them up from the PO box in batches, or at least i hope she has been, since if there are as many as i think there are, they're not going to all fit inside an average size PO box! :lol:. my PO box at uni is so small it barely holds anything :P

:dance: i like coldplay holidays :nice:

obviously these aren't good signs, but i refuse to believe anything for sure either way. while the whole wedding ring thing is a big sign, i think we're looking into them too much. it is weird that they both usually wore then amd suddenly they're gone, but i know several couples who wore the rings pretty religiously for years but then just got a bit more lax about it and forgot to wear it some days, or just didn't bother to put it on when they weren't really going out. gwyneth looks pretty casual in the picture from today, so i would say that it's just as likely that she didn't bother to put it on as it is that they're having marriage problems. the difference with gwyneth and chris is that we see them ALL the time, in their formal and casual moments, so i think we might see them without the rings more than most other couples. that's me being optimistic and totally reaching, though :worried:. it's just that i refuse to believe anything based on just rings: that's what the tabloids do, and i like to think that i'm not a nosey tabloid, but an interested fan :P

yeah, an accurate count is impossible, because not everyone scanned their cards and not even everyone said that they sent one in--lots of noobs and lurkers did too :wink:. also, there were some other sites involved, so they might have had significant numbers of mailers too. but like pris said, the old poll...if i recall correctly, it was coming near 200! i would guess that there were between 200 and 300 cards sent, but that's just a really rough estimate :thinking:

i stink right now. i'm about to go into the shower. I WANT TO SMELLY LIKE EMILY :bigcry:

:cheesy: next week she's sharing favorite novels! all right! that's the kind of thing i like, something that EVERYONE can enjoy on any budget. then again, i like looking at the expensive clothes, but it's possible to walk into most stores in the mall and find cheaper versions of the same things. not so with hotels and $200-meal restaurants.

:lol: well thanks, lore. i wish i didn't post such long posts, though :P it's just beginning to irrationally piss me off now, so i thought i'd do one of my classic rambling posts :rolleyes:

i can't believe this argument is still going on. hasn't the committee been given a chance? as far as i can tell, it hasn't come out with anything. and yet it's still being forced on by its self-appointed chairman, who is already acting borderline despotic by not including every submission, despite his personal opinion on them. can't anyone brainstorm ideas anywhere, without a committee? i don't see why there needs to be a committee to do that, and if like three people are coming to the meetings, i doubt that a hell of a lot is going to get done. i also think that whoever thinks of whatever ideas should be the one to organize whatever needs to be organized. i doubt lore and everyone else that worked on the postcards project, for example, would have wanted to ship off the idea to some committee whose members might not have been there while the idea was taking shape. i think it's presumptious to assume that this committee, which consists of simon and whatever random members wanted to join, not necessarily people with experience or anything like that, will be any more beneficial or pump out any more ideas than any other less official group of coldplayers. i think that the best ideas happen spotaneously, not when they're forced out. and i'm not saying that you need to have "experience" to create a good idea, but i think it's self-serving to think that everyone was going to jump on the bandwagon and be gung-ho about a committee with no real credentials, and that no one besides simon anymore really sees the need for anyway. you have to realize, simon, that people aren't trying to bully you, they're trying to make you see why you're being a bit ridiculous in this whole thing. you're just showing you're naivite by barrelling on with no concrete reasons behind anything you're saying.

ooooh, thanks for the offer in this thread! i'd love any high-quality, regular-speed GIFs from the apple viva la vida ad :blush: :shy: i know there are some circulating around, but they're buried, and none of them really blew me away because lots of times they were to slow. i'd also love from 2:03 to 2:12 or so (of chris) and when chris looks directly at the camera (4:22.5 to about 4:26ish) in the shiver video [ame=http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=GBqRj8LwwEA]YouTube - Coldplay - Shiver[/ame] and any part of the twiglets part of this video (9:38-~9:37) [ame=http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Dxm37Pc_A3Y]YouTube - The Sunday Night Christmas Project 2008 - Simon Pegg - Part 4[/ame]

i think it's too late; i think my hopes are already up :bomb: must. focus. on how. nice it is. to give. must not. get ideas. about. what. debs's plan is. :uhoh:

happy birthday, noelia! :dance: see you at wembley!!!