what satisfies your midnight munchies?

weekender

it's 2:54am, and i've just 'borrowed' my housemates beef sandwich from the fridge, as i have a severe case of midnight munchies.

and i figure he has gone to leeds and left it to go stale, so i am actually rescuing it.

piersk

Well, I'm still at work (been here since 9am GMT yesterday) and I'm gradually eating my way through caramel Rockie bars. And lots of Earl Grey tea too!

pyro

Usually either pizza or a sandwhich of some sort.

piersk

I was gonna get pizza (getting work to pay for it too 😃 ) but by the time I realised I was hungry it was midnight, when most of the pizza places round here close. 🙁

weekender

mmm caramel rocky...

piersk take it easy man! you are in, like, ALL the posts I see. phpbuilder may not survive a piersk burnout!

caramel rockies strike me as being one of those strange entities where the whole is so much greater than the sum of it's parts. ie it has biscuit, caramel, chocolate - but together it all tastes so much better than those three things.

y'know?

pyro

That's why I keep a freeze well stocked with frozen pizzas... 🙂

piersk

weekender: Yeah, I've gotta find something to do whilst backing up servers that have been hastily fixed...

pyro: unfortunately we don't have a freezer at work and when I cam in this morning, I wasn't expecting to work a 18+hr day :p

weekender

my boss had a good solution for backups...

take 1 placement student (myself)
treat badly for a year
entice him with money to stay for a further two years as a contractor
make him stay to do backups

and my solution...
change backup tape
go to pub
company credit card behind bar
return to switch tape
back to pub
back to tape
sleep on big leather sofa in office, "work from home" the following day

piersk

Ahh, a placement student like myself. And I'm the only IT guy. Hence why I'm here.

I'm assuming you're english (timezones and all that). Which Uni u at?

weekender

i'm at oxford brookes. i started in 99, did my placement in 01-02, and ever since then i've been a contractor for them. and now in my fifth and final year at uni.

what about you? which uni? how long have you been doing php? you seem to know your stuff

piersk

I'm in my 3rd year at Uni of Surrey. Been doing PHP for abuot 18 months now. Unfortunately, placement is ASP 🙁

Seem to spend quite a bit of time on here tho...

Elizabeth

Two words: Lucky Charms

LordShryku

I'm with pyro. Frozen Pizza's. Mass amounts of Mountain Dew. And some cigarettes.

weekender

can you still buy mountain dew anywhere here in the uk? haven't seen it for at least 8 years.

but i keep hearing that you yank geeks love it.

LordShryku

Yep, I drink that stuff like water on my late night coding sessions.

Moonglobe

i hate mountain dew. flame away but good coffee is my drink of choice

jebster

Originally posted by Moonglobe
i hate mountain dew. flame away but good coffee is my drink of choice

Same, I hate mountain dew to! I drink Kirkland Iced Tea, and LOTS(and I mean lots) of it! Munchies tho, not sure, whatever I can find I guess.. maybe.. carrots? 😕

Moonglobe

for munchies..... it may sound wierd but olives ill me up really well. that and ice-cold milk.

LordShryku

carrots...tea....olives....milk.......

Don't worry boys. Once ya hit puberty, you'll appreciate the finer things in life. Like Mountain Dew 😃 😃

jebster

Originally posted by LordShryku
carrots...tea....olives....milk.......

Don't worry boys. Once ya hit puberty, you'll appreciate the finer things in life. Like Mountain Dew 😃 😃

I have tried to stop eating stuff not good for me, hence the carrots. And not tea, Iced Tea! Two very different things! 😉