No numbers, no pack drill: it's the top new answers thread that isn't location specific

I wanna see Spidey.
Trish, you poor thing! Sounds like you need a water pill for the HBP, like Lasix or something.

Spider-Man 3 is worth it for Sandman, he's excellent.

Has anyone else noticed how fast the feathers are coming in on the peregrines? They seem to have doubled in length in a day!

I might actually manage to see Spidey this weekend, having failed to do so on at least three separate occasions already.

My weekend is scarily mirroring Onimo's - cup final + pub today, lots of house-based moving of things tomorrow (though no baby to nick my spare room, haha). We are selling our house, so decluttering/repainting/furniture-moving type things are afoot in an attempt to, um, unearth its hidden potential, or something.

(I stayed up until 3 am playing Bloons the other night, and refused to let myself go to bed until I'd finished the whole thing. I did it though, yay me, even if I was horribly knackered at work)

Yay! You'll be ready for MORE BLOONS!

You be evil :-(

My sister's here, so she and I will plant annuals in my mother's garden. I got cosmos, snaps, zinnias, cleome, trailing verbena, tall verbena, short pink ageratum, tall blue ageratum, supertunias, etc etc.
Also all new dahlias, as I let last year's die in the ground.
This should be on the gardening thread! I'll be lazy and just copy and paste it over there.

we got our granite counterops today. THEY ARE GORGEOUS! I'm just standing around the kitchen, caressing.

I've lost the cord to my camera and can't find another or I'd post pictures. :(

Granite countertops! You will have to train yourself not to plunk your wine glasses down too abruptly.

Up to the 46th one on Mo' Bloons. But am stuck, again. Sigh.

I am Bloons champion now! Hurrah! I am back doing them all again trying to refine my strategy and getting higher scores.

Can you tell me how to do no. 46 plz Ailsa :)

Aim your first arrow up so it arcs down and hits the lightsabre thing, clearing the top. From there, you want to get the boomerang and get it into the box. I think I gained the boomerang by arcing through it and hitting the bouncy bricks so I knocked out a few extras with that arrow, so there was less for the balloon to get. Then it's just trial and error with the boomerang.

(if you're very clever, you can get the boomerang AND the lightsabre with your first arrow. I did that a few times, but the time I completed it, I hadn't done it - I'd done what I said above. But if you get the doubler with your first arrow then you have a spare one for clearing up random balloons with, I guess)

"less for the balloon to get" = less for the BOOMERANG to get. My brain is addled with bloons.

Level 47's a corker. I had to go googling for a hint for that.

And when you're done with all the blooning help me start my lawnmower.

My stupid car doors have decided to stop locking, for no reason that I can fathom.

Are they central locking?

Such a weekend. Chocolate in it's liquid form is much nicer than when solid. Soooo good! Lots of wine and beer, Mayo is lovely I have to say. Sister was looking lovely and her fiance keeps getting sounder. His family are v friendly and great craic. All in all, I approve of this match*! How was everyone's weekend? Glad to hear lawnmower is working Beth Spam-ker!

*For what that's worth!

They are central locking. And it's not just that they do nothing when you turn the key or press the handle, it's that they think about it for a second and then firmly unlock themselves, rejecting the key-makes-door-lock hegemony.

Bastard things.

Oh, I'm glad your sister's prospective in-laws seem nice. I've suffered through the unpleasantness of horrible families following my brothers around, and you just wonder how a sibling of yours ever got themselves in with such a crowd of awful people.

Ha ha!

Re. your door. Is there a reset switch or something? Could the computer that controls them be on the blink? Sadly I lack enough manly manliness to say anything as if I knew it were correct!

Yeah, I wouldn't worry about it too much. Mister M is slightly freaking out, because if the car gets robbed and it's not locked then it's not insured, but if the cat gets robbed it'll likely get torched as well, so no-one will know it wasn't locked.

The cat will get torched?! That's rough!

They'll know. They always know... You've met the average guard, Holmes has nothing on those boys. Honest.

How does one joyride a cat anyway? (PLEASE TO NOTE: NO DIRTY JOKES)

I wish someone would torch my cat.

(NB: I do not wish someone would torch my cat.)

I have called the ISPCA. Poor kitty, cruel monkey.

The new low-budget film from Ang Lee.

You being taken away by ISPCA? Ah, you meant the cruel monkey bit obviously... I like the idea of your arrest being filmed, with Ang Lee it'd be four hours long with loooooong tracking shots of beaches and things.

Granite countertops! You will have to train yourself not to plunk your wine glasses down too abruptly.

For the sake of the glasses or the countertops? I'm very worried about cracking them actually.

The glasses or the countertops?

hm, yes, well the countertops are much, much more expensive than the glasses.

Plastic cups! Saves on the washing up as well so score etc etc

I have missed you all.
This is the semester that never ends.
I'm not sure where to start, so...Bloons!
My SO, well, I mentioned it to him, and now there's a "Blooodeybloop! Bloodabeybblimp!" sound every morning as he Bloons himself to death before going to work. (He often gets up at 3:30 a.m. for work, and spends 1/2 an hour on the computer. Doing God know's what. well, God and I now know it's Bloons.)
Accentmonkey - I hope you have some restorative cure in soon - and the trip to Rome sounds fantastic.
Kv-nol - thanks for the link - my brother is Episcopalian, and gay, so I don't think he can get those garbs. He actually isn't into the vestments so much. His job - and life - are too complicated to explain right now but...he's also a concert pianist and composer and will be working specifically on sacred music, and doing some pastoral work. He usually preaches in a simple organists robe, or a suit. i might order BOTH YOU AND HIM some red socks, if such a thing is possible.
Ms. Misery - the sandbox had so many great photos of your renovations - congrats on the granite!You can chop away without a cutting board, right? or do you have to still be careful? The tile stuff you were doing was amazing - post more pics, or revive the thread!
I'm a renter, I still don't have to really care about the countertops - but i always think the stone countertops are FOR convenience as well as for beauty. Like, it's your countertop! You make the mark on it!
(But yes, making an impassioned point about something and slamming the wineglass down will result in shattered glass. "I told you not to click on Bloons! I fucking told you!!!"
That's a huge exageration.
Blomdelymblink? Bloondylumblum. Wheeeooosh. Blumdeyblumbloonk?
I am going to see my mother this weekend. I hope to see more of you, here, before then - but - I guarantee a long and boring post to brighten up next monday!

Can't find the granite pics. Which thread are they on?

I watched 12 Angry Men last night & thoroughly enjoyed it. I may be completely dense, but the only part that was unclear to me was **SPOILER!** the reasoning behind juror #3 changing his vote. Was it because he didn't have the courage to stand against the majority as juror #8 did, or was it more to do with his relationship with the boy in the photo (I assume his son)?

GO SOX!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e391/marthasminions/florida-maze.jpg

Does that represent your feelings on the Sox, Beth?

I have no pictures of the counters yet as I CAN'T FIND MY FREAKING CAMERA CORD! argh, can you sense my frustration?

Perhaps by the time I have a replacement I can post pictures of the entire finished kitchen.

Make a pinhole camera!

i was at the red sox, yankees game yesterday, beth. sorry your team didn't win but good luck to them tonight.

HLA, I am going to have to watch it again - I just thought the whole thing was about making a BIG POINT - as so many of those wonderful films did - about questioning any outcome, respecting arguments, etc.
I am not an expert, so I am not going to make any sweeping statements.
OK, fuck that, I think 12 angry men and many other films from that era have a moral sense that is EXACTLY like the modern directors who grapple with the subject.
Law and Order and all of the bastardizations, like CSI, are the spawn of this brave era of film. Everyone wants an answer. I just happen to like black and white.
I also love Law and Order - the show - and can quote the entire lead in when prompted.
"In the criminal justice world..."

VICTORY!!!!!! G'night, all!

system." I'm an L$O charlatan! i blame the L o S T thread.

WTF is a guy named Coco Crisp? Plus, they all get so bummed out when they don't hit the ball.
I like the Roman red socks.

One question - related to baseball -
so, the Red Sox played two home games, and changed uniforms. I thought the uniform was standard for home games, and changed for "away" games.
They played ina traditional white uniform, and then switched into a (nasty, in my opinion) red uniform the very next day!
I thought there was some tradition about this - you have home uniforms and away uniforms.
enlighten me.

usually home team wears white, road team wears grey (or actually "light" and "dark" which works out to white and grey) then there some teams employ the "alternate" uniform. near as anyone can tell it's only worn so that major league baseball has another shirt to sell for an additional revenue stream.

GO BOSOX.

Thanks.

hi dere

i forgotted about this thread again :(

atp was teh pwn. again.

Nice one. Who'd you see?

shellac x2, les savy fav, builded2spill, sparklehorse, a few bits of a few others.

and ken c.

Ha ha like most ATPs I dunno who they are!

So Ken C will go to ATP but won't make his way to South-Rofflington? Shocking!

central roffleberg.

the biggest flaw in the bluewater fap plan was that none off us arranged to meet up so we all stayed at home and played games. you can't just blame ken; we're all hopeless.

I blame everyone! Especially David Cameron and his all star funk band!

Ftchow! Give me a medal cause I cycle to work!
Pow! Tony Blair is such a jerk!

That was my David Cameron funk band impression.

Well done. Medals all round!

Oh wait...

No medals for people who fooled me into thinking they cycled in.

I joined facebook! It is terrifying who is on the damn thing!

But... but I wroted song! No medal for song?

You know how people say "do you want a medal?" whenever other people seek praise? Well, I do. I want a medal. Just call me Muttley.

Now tell me who's on Facebook, so I don't have to look for myself.

MEDALS FOR SONG!!!!

http://www.2die4jewels.com/images/necklaces/MEDALLION/deco%20medallion%20(34).JPG

V bling bling man!

All people that I knew growing up and things. Fuck this, it's really creepy!

Also that's from 2die4jewels.com ROFL!

I will accept that medal. Hooray!

*kisses on both cheeks*

VIVE LA FRANCE!!!

Aim, when is your semester over?

I joined Facebook a couple of weeks ago but didn't fill out my profile and haven't gone back.

Beth, how do you make a pinhole camera!

my semester is over when I decide to clean up my ugly pile of incompletes.
I'm a terrible student - but, when I manage to write a paper, it's genuinely good.
If i can just get through the math requirement I will be ok.
My mother is insane, as usual. Here's her latest message:

"Hi Alison, Alan and Stewart -

The St. James Ave. exit from I-291 closed today for about 6 weeks so it can be checked to make sure it is structurally sound. Here are alternate directions!

Take the Liberty St. exit. Go straight and bear left around the big traffic circle which is Liberty st. At the intersection with Carew,turn right. There is a light at Newbury and Merrimac is the 9th street after Newbury.

If you miss the Liberty exit. Go to the one after St. James. (It's the old one for I.O.) Be careful to take route 20 east which is Page Blvd toward Spfld. Page becomes St. James Blvd and then becomes Carew. You'll recognize the area when you see Van Sickle School."

This would seem helpful, normal - IF you are not one of us.
I mean, y'know, we all know where she lives. A construction project is not going to deter any of us from visiting. (other things deter us from visiting.)
It's sort of sweet - none of you have ever been here, and I defy you to find my mothers house based on those diretions.

Your mum is cute!

She is very cute - thanks. There's a big family wedding in three weeks - and a party for Alan, the newly ordained priest, so I will be avoiding the bad exit while schlepping her. Hither and thither. She is a very bad passenger.
I have literally pulled over, gotten out of the car and stood there, arms across chest, foot tapping, saying "if you want to drive, go right ahead!"
She always talks me down.
i think we're both stubborn, and so arguments don't get resolved. We just agree to disagree.
I spent six hours planting and mulching her gardens for Mothers Day - I'm not a bad daughter!
She is wacky.
i can't believe tonight is the season finale for L O S T. There will be no l O S T until January!2008! WTF - well, at least the LOST thread will be recreated. I can't download 56067 posts. i just can't.

My mother and I can butt heads like nobody's business. I'm too tired right now to enumerate the ways.

Coco Crisp can run like the Road Runner.

Things not going so well for Sox at the moment.

Why aren't you watching L O S T?
Oh wait, I tivoed the episode so...I'm in real time - which is fake because ILX has no time frame.
those hunky guys are still playing baseball?
back to the Losties for me!
Love, Alison

Ha ha, poor teh_kit uses this thread to escape L O S T speculation and updates! Will we keep it spoiler free or torture him?

Also Alison, just because he's gay and an episcopalian (Sp?) doesn't mean that he can't have nice robes!

ya, plz don't taint my haven.

It wasn't a plane at all! It was a... shrubbery!

Also Alison, just because he's gay and an episcopalian (Sp?) doesn't mean that he can't have nice robes!

There's a very sad story in the Irish media at the moment about a priest who has been outed by a tabloid "newspaper" because he was cruising for pickups on gay message boards. His bishop (who actually is a good guy) has given him some time off to get his head together, but the poor bloke is being hounded over absolutely NOTHING, and now he says he's ashamed of himself. Why should he be ashamed of himself? He has done nothing wrong. Crusing for gay adult sex on gay adult message board, big wow.

I was actually really pleased that on the vox pop they did about this in his parish, the response they got from the public was "he's got the right bishop, but the wrong pope".

Um, isn't cruising for any kind of sex a bit frowned upon in the priesthood, what with celibacy being a job requirement and that?

Oh come on it was only a bit of gay sex, that hardly even counts!

</father dougal>

Why did I bookmark the Lost thread? It's just sitting there daring me to click it :(

haha, I've been trying not to click it for WEEKS.

Eek, my house is now officially FOR SALE!

Um, isn't cruising for any kind of sex a bit frowned upon in the priesthood, what with celibacy being a job requirement and that?

Technically, yes. But I guess I just think there are more important things to worry about than OMG priests have sex! Priests out on the missions have sex all the time, and have families and raise kids and nobody gives a rat's ass as long as they're not fucking kids and they're doing good work.

I just get really angry when people are made to feel ashamed about sexual feelings that are completely normal.

i have a bad feeling today is gonna be really long.

Is that because you're waiting for your SECRET UNMENTIONABLE PROGRAMME to come down the interpipes?

I'm worried my t0rr3nt isn't working. I'm tempted to take a half day to go home and make sure I get Lost.

(that and this hangover deserves a half day)

yarr, am i so predictable?

O, i'm tempted to engineer some kind of industrial 'accident' for the same reasons.

(lol interpipes)

Haw, Onimo, that's why I took a half day today, except I am not hungover because i am not a big girl's blouse like you and I have been up since 6.30 doing house-doctory type things to make my house look pretty so that people want to buy it.

I sometimes get hangovers after two drinks :(

I should stay at Minehead. I got rat-arsed every day without a hint of a hangover at ATP.

I deleted my Lost bookmark. That wee red star was getting to me.

Yay for people being sensible, boo for intolerance from 'on high'. I suppose if he was planning on breaking vow of celibacy (which is stupid, the vow I mean) then that is bad in a moral/man of honour sense (also the amount of crap handed down from the pulpit by people who aren't fit to condemn me or anyone else was one of the main reasons I left the church*) but as an unfortunate who had to spend far too long studying Dante in university the church has always (extremely hypocritacally) condemned homosexuals. FFS he even had his professor who he flatters throughout their meeting in hell for sodomy! It's unfortunate that as a catholic he can't choose a different (better) church, they've changed so much (removing limbo [how they could put parents through that horror of "Your baby's not in heaven, hell or purgatory. It's just stuck in stasis." Bastards) that it irks me to think that they still have it marked as a sin. Ah to have a time machine, then I could be a LIBERAL IN TIME!

It was sad when Rowan Williams didn't invite the gay bishop. Methinks the Anglican church is due a split. V scary conservatives there, they make old Ratty look charming.

*At a catholic school I was the first student to demand that I didn't have to go to mass. I had a long enough struggle convincing parents etc but in the end the priest was so bad on the phone to my father ("Hello, x? It's Father y" if only he hadn't done that and called him mr. x I would still have been forced to go to weekly mass I'm sure!). I spent the wednesday mornings with the other Godless children. Great fun actually!

Wow. I am still very wound up about church things. Odd. Must be the guilt :)

Congrats Ailsa! I am not hungover but stayed up until two catching up with v old friend. I am knackered! Onimo, you weren't hungover until much later. The body saves it up to really fuck you up when you least expect it.

I will watch teh LO5T when it comes out on box set. Not before! It does sound sillily ott though!

We've been having terrible trouble with our interpipes lately. Mister M has set up an automatic programme that looks for torrence and starts them, but lately it's been pulling down fake ones that try to redirect you to a website that is now doubt stuffed with worms and trojans and all the other good things of the internet. It happened with Sunday's Sopranos, and with Heroes, and with Entourage. V. annoying.

Kev-lol, do you mean that some priest rang your dad and just used his last name as if it was the army or something? What a dick.

Churches be dicks. I'm agin 'em.

Nah sorry, what I meant was that he called my father by his first name while making sure to use his own title. No one takes to being talked down to, especially by a particularly bad priestly specimen (smug and full of his position etc. Sounded like the person in "Office Space" who always had the mug). He was unreal, I always hoped he'd be picked up for something. I'm still waiting!

Oh god, yes. I hate people who do that. I find it hard to believe, for example, that there are still doctors like that. "Hello Patricia, I am Dr. Keaveney". Do you not have a first name? Or do I not have a second?

OK, we now have a For Sale sign outside the house. This is EXCITING!

(perhaps we should have told the neighbours first)

Good luck, Ailsa. I hope you get a good price.

Start baking bread! It's meant to up the price because of comfort or similar. I dunno, I heard it somewhere.

Yeah, we have full fruit bowls and fresh flowers and I've heard the bread-baking (and also brewing fresh coffee, apparently) thing too.

Now we just need to get the house we want to move to (though we're quite happy to rent for a couple of months if need be).

Best of luck with that! I'm currently at the househunting/mortgage approval seeking stage myself. I am having total joy with the first but unfortunately the second won't let me really go for anything I'd really like!

Yeah, we're getting kind of fed up of seeing lovely houses and then going "oops, we totally can't afford that". I just want a non-tiny kitchen and a garden that gets the sun on the 2.7 days per year that it actually comes out. Is that really too much to ask?

(apparently it is)

(some bedrooms and stuff would be nice too, obviously, I don't *just* want a kitchen and a garden)

I am going to attempt to eat mulligatawny soup. If it doesn't go well I'm going home.

See? You're setting your sights too high!

No, I agree. I'm looking for much the same. I'm trying to avoid flats whereever possible, they tend to be really badly made nowadays and don't keep their value!

Onimo, stop being such a wimp. (I love not being hungover and being able to say this. Normally I'd sympathise!)

I drank a big bottle of fresh orange juice thinking of the liquid+sugar+vitamin C benefits - forgot to factor in the acid indigestion risk :(

Someone had left wee packs of biscuits out for the office and I thought "that's just what I need with my morning coffee" then I had a dunking disaster and had to drink lumpy coffee.

I should have stayed in bed.

You're rubbish. Do you want to go for lunch/medicinal pint - I'm heading into town to go to exciting jobs fair in a minute or two and I have small amounts of Noel-money left from last night.

(some of which, I guess, is technically yours)

(not really coz I stood at the back clock watching while you and al shouted answers at each other)

oh and no offense but stick yr medicinal pint :)

Hair of the dog as administered by a good friend? Bliss!

Oh.

omg spiciest soup ever. It's like stewed pepper.

I've never been a hair of the dog type - which I'm kind of grateful for as that way lies ruin.

You get used to it. Needs must, on occasion.

Every time I've done it there has been ruin. It's almost like you tap back into the mood of the night before.

Spices are U & K for burning all the evil out of you. That and ryvita to fill stomach. They are boring but after excesses of the night before one hardly deserves flavour really...

In that case, surely it's really Farley's rusks you need.

I would find it difficult to justify rusks on the weekly tesco order for work...

Wow, they buy you free stuff in work? How cool.

Where do sent posts go when they don't get sent?
I just wrote a huge, elegant post about: selling houses, the Catholic church vs the Episcopalian church, ghosts, my appreciation of "A girl's blouse" as an insult, arsing as a phrase that accentmonkey used three years ago that i still use, even when muttering to myself...
and it's all gone.
Perhaps the God of the internets decided that you don't really need to read every single thought I have about...stuff.

Also, after I log in, there's just a big white screen. But if I backtrack, the post is usually there. Also, the pink link thing - I don't get it.
I am striving to use "a girl's blouse" as a witty insult today.
I have been successful with calling people "Silly McGoofsalot". Not on purpose - it just happens. "Don't be such a..silly mcgoofsalot! i can't be arsed with this."
I'm not sure how to fit "a girl's blouse" into my basic everyday communication.

Accentmonkey, you need to go to this:

http://www.kerlin.ie/present.html

Lovely. Went during lunch. Hard to find the gallery though.

Aimurchie, I've been having the same problem re. post eating. G_kit claimed it was him but I dunno. There are some suggested solutions in the Moderator Forum for the screen going blank.

i done never claim to eat no posts dude, waht?

stop eating posts kit. we know it's you.

k sry :(

It was on the top poster May 2007. Sorry man. I'll find it for you:

kvlol made a post but i eated it

-- g-kit, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 14:30 (Wednesday, 23 May 2007 14:30)

DAMNED BY YOUR OWN ADMISSION!

Oh, you apologised. That's okay then. I am no longer </3

lol@ppl paying attention to what i say. it's cute!

We are watching g-kit. Watching and taking notes...

I am intrigued to hear tales of onimohangover, he looked right as rain when he left last night.

(HI DERE I AM IN AN AIRPORT)

to where do u fly?

iosnt LOSTT on abc.com?

yes, but you can't watch it outside of the US without going through tedious anon proxy mischief. i have to wait til i get home, where my t()rR3|\|7z0rz are waiting for me.

Torrence! It's much easier, no?

I'm sorry everyone's posts are getting et. Things I type get et too, (brut-ay) sometimes, but it's because my iBook is old and knackered and if you lean on it the wrong way it thinks you're trying to delete things. Poor old yoke.

I is flying home after being out in glasgow with onimo and ailsa last night. (And the meeting I had this morning that paid for it, because I'm not hardcore enough to fly to glasgow just to watch a football match on teh telly with them, lovely though they are.)

It has been a long week, despite me supposed to be on a work to rule.

xpost to Mr Kitten

title and capitals make kit feel important

why they fuck won't they let international people watch it?

Kit, I listen to what you say.

I am intrigued to hear tales of onimohangover, he looked right as rain when he left last night.

I know! I wasn't even tipsy. I am a Big Girl's Blouse.

Anyway... I am home. I got LOST!

BEARD!

teh_kit ego lvl up +1

why they fuck won't they let international people watch it?

bcz mean.

I listen to Kit as well. He told me not to move the lamp, and I didn't.

I am a Big Girl's Blouse.

???

You will love Lost.

move lamp, waht?

i don't even listen to me!

It was in my dream.

Back to work, then off to vote! Elections are exciting, aren't they? It's a bunch of suited-up guys, or some people who used to be associated with terrorists. Decisions, decisions.

oh, you should always listen to dreamland_kit. i'll lead you to the Pearl! BETTER TAKE TEH_AXE.

I dreamt about Jack in the funeral parlor last night.

d'oh sorry for any potential spoiler! :(

I'm angry at g-kit.
There's no reason behind my anger - except for not noticing a stripey shirt comment I made that never got posted!
How dare you not respond to a reference about stripey shirts even if you never saw the reference!

see, kvlol? i get the ego +1, now the backlash starts.

g_kit lvl down -5 confidence

that'll be -10 if you keep giving me an underscore

Also I voted this morning. Green Party FTW!!!! Passed Ru4r1 Qu1nn on the way to work. Said Howya. Gave him my no. 2 (vote. I didn't hand him a poo). I am so good to people!

LOL @ teh_kit.

Shit, your post. Not you!

Lost can be watched on DailyMotion right now i believe. if you were desperate to watch it, have the time and could do so at work/wherever you are now.

i might try watching it on DM tonight if the torrent isn't done by then (seems likely)

i know this

I hear that the end of LOST is that they meet a load of boys whose plane crashed and bad things happen. That's what happens when you let NAMBLA sponsor you... The alternative ending is that the hobbit one gets eaten by everyone, they get food poisoning and die.

Oh dear. I regret hitting submit very much now!

wizard

Gandalf? That would make a certain amount of sense...

No it wouldn't. NOTHING MAKES SENSE ANYMORE!

hey, welcome to my world

http://www.acc.umu.se/~zqad/cats/1166518423-PXQMK3AWZUFPVQIVPG7HORSMICMGISVZ.jpg

</3

It took me ages to figure out that symbol. I kept thinking it was a 99.

aye, it should mean "i bought u a 99 but i droppeded it"

Insert childish joke about about creamy heads...

How does that look like a 99 (the symbol I mean)?

you have to imagine you've droppeded it... it's on the floor, like.

but you ate the flake before it felled out of yr hand

Nope. Sorry man, not seeing it.

Really want an ice cream now though.

Americans, do you get 99's in the states? They look like this:

http://www1.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/845948/2/istockphoto_845948_ice_cream_cone_vector.jpg

LOL @ WTF:
http://bonald.blogspot.com/aa_ice%20cream%20cone.JPG

No, no, the little braek hart line is the flake. This chap: /

And the 3 is the ice cream with a big lick gone out of it into MY BELLY!

Before a bee came along and I dropped it. ;_; for my 99.

oh, i see. my artistic interpretation was slightly different, yet this does certainly doesn't marr the original work.

A+++++ WLD LOOK @ YR ASCII PIX AGANE

mmm, I loved those ice creams when I was in the UK

But do you have similar in the States?

i haven't eaten ice cream for months and months, maybe years.

I will be having some on the walk home from restaurant tonight. I am having south african burgers. I think. It's called J0burg3r so I'm guessing it's south african anyway!

well we have soft-serve ice cream but not from trucks (at least not in the south). But they don't stick Flakes in them. :(

We do have this though:

http://www.garrettsvillehiramarea.com/members/DQ/col_cone.jpg

The chocolate dipped one is num.

Kinda looks a little like poo though, no?

Obviously, a very neat poo, but still...

that's some bulbous, fluffy poo!

Hey, we all have issues.

I used to work in a shop that sold ice cream cones in the summer, and, like many people who have worked in food production or service, my experience kind of put me off. But it was fun trying to let my friends get away with as much ice cream as possible. I would stuff one and a half flakes down the handle of the cone, then fill the rest of the handle with ice cream before twisting the rest around the top of the cone. And then put another flake on top. I would also put three twists on the ice cream instead of the regulation two. Oh yes. Hard core.

Are they marshmallow creamy stuff inside? I used to eat similar as a kid!

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I like the way the poos are so friendly on the cover!

There was also this bad man driving around when I was a kid:

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which had so much good in it. I am drooling here!

Drooling even more after story above!

We used to call the ones above NUN'S TITS. They are extremely yummy.

Just bought a ice cream machine, even though I rarely eat ice cream. I'll test it tonight. First banana ice cream and then... hmm maybe macha ice cream.

The Dairy Queen cones are just ice cream, dipped in chocolate if you like. No weird marshmellow!

They used to do that in denmark as well. with hazelnuts. Now I feel very old :(

Kev-lol, those marshmallow poos above look very like Tunnock's tea cakes. Are they similar?

Man, I could eat a whole box of Tunnock's right now.

BE STRONG! DEFEAT FATNESS!

The ice cream truck has just recently emerged from it's winter place- and it's playing a creepy version of "Fur Elise".
Beethoven via three tinny music makers.
I have been annoyed by the ice cream truck, but now I am offended.

it's weird! Jimmy Crack Corn and I don't care - that's the tune i want from an ice cream truck.

Graham Central Station. I don't want to describe it because you can't have it. And Tasty Top just opened for the summer, so I suffered for many months.
graham cracker ice cream with chocolate chunks - sorry,I had to write that out. also, I get hot fudge sauce on the whole thing.

Also -Tasty Top is an ice cream/ hot dog stand that is connected to the driving range -five bucks for a small bucket of balls.
It's a perfect americana/ classic thing - but, of course, it might not last.
Stop and Shop - a big grocery corporation - wants to buy the land and open a big store.
I will die defending my graham central station! And my bucket of balls.

LOST is going to take some digesting, think I'll avoid the thread until it plays out in my head.

Suffice to say OMG and WTF and YES! and OH NOES! and bloody hell and wait waht?!

I can't read the LOST thread, because it is too far ahead of where we are up to here. Last night was the episode where Locke's father pushed him out the window. Another great WTF! momement was when Locke asked Ben where the submarine was.

I have just watched the end of the first half. ZOMG etc.

By the way - what's ATP?
I'm still mad at teh kit, just because I have to be mad at someone while I plot a way to call someone "A big girl's blouse."
it's not easy!
Don't be such a big girl's blouse? I think that lacks the zing.
I guess I have to wait for someone to have a hangover that is, well, "a big girl's blouse."
Too many weddings on the horizon! It seems like, every time i answer the phone, it's a friend announcing marriage plans. (No way to work "big girl's blouse into THOSE conversations!)
I'm excited that two friends are getting married without the huge party. Small, simple weddings with a few family and friends in attendance. I have three weddings to attend, so I'm excited to NOT be invited.
I just have to buy a nice gift - and i generally buy art - or a very good knife.
a chef's knife. A steel blade.Which seems a bit passive/aggressive even to me - but life is much better when you have a good knife.
it's a weird present, I suppose, but I can't imagine living without a good, sharp knife.
I have three - my Joyce Chen hatchet is my favorite.Someday I will visit each of you and chop garlic. Fuck a garlic press! I am ridicoulosly good at chopping - not so good at spelling.
have we determined whether or not granite countertops are, indeed, cutting boards?
Are they too beautiful to mar? or should they be used? it's a big question.
I am substitute teaching tomorrow, MCAS again. It's the math stuff this time. I should recuse myself based on the fact that, well, I can't answer the questions.But none of the other teachers can, either, so I guess we all try to guide the students through the ludicrous tests. I give answers, really, when it comes right down to it.
The principal loves me - asks me to sub every day - so I'm not worried that I am doing something wrong.
I just bend the rules. Helpful hints. Rephrasing the question.
i FEEL like grabbing the tests away and filling in the stupid blanks and giving everyone a 100 percent.
I'm not a dummy! I have some basic knowledge! If I can't understand - never mind answer - the questions on the state/federal mandated test, well... good luck Jose and Carlos.
it's all so culturally biased - and I'm not saying every test has to embrace every culture - but (I think I wrote about this in the sandbox) using "Little Women" as a text to analyze, well ..her name is Jo, her boyfriends name is Laurie, and they have a bad ice skating incident.
These kids could not grapple with the ice skating, never mind the gender bending names. They tried to figure it out - but if you have never ice skated on a pond, well, you are three steps behind the text.
The math is worse.
Word problems. Numbers and words.
I'm psyched that I get to basically read the test to groups of students who have been deemed "special".
They're the kids I would have hung out with when I was a teenager.

ATP = All Tomorrow's Parties music festival.

I am so going to cheat the test for them. 'Did you mean to say answer B? That's what I heard!"

do ATP's happen every month? it seems like it gets mentioned a lot. i am now singing "All Tomorrow's Parties" in my head, and searching for some good songs. I dislike lou reed. Ok? i am sure i am going to get kicked off the internet now.
I don't like lou reed! I like his girlfriend. I like everything else about the Velvet Underground.

i feel like this is an AA meeting - hi, my name is Alison and I hate Lou Reed.
Nine years of hanging out with the same person - and last week I finally admitted my Lou Reed hatred.
it was glorious - he hates Lou Reed too! We commiserated on the Cale and Nico thing - big hugs - and basically got swept into each others arms. we are so much more in love, now that we have shared this knowledge.
I don't know why it took nine years to discuss it.
I think I was afraid to admit my hatred of Lou Reed.
Now I am out and proud - I Hate Lou Reed!
But i love his girlfriend, forever.

That's okay, I hate Van Morrison. All of it. Even the early stuff.

Suffice to say OMG and WTF and YES! and OH NOES! and bloody hell and wait waht?!

I am watching it on Sunday night and so you better not let anythng slip, young man!

We watched the season finale of Heroes last night and it was utter shite! Then we had a big row about it for an hour afterwards.

ATP UK happened twice in April, it happens again in December, with Portishead.

You are wrong about final Heroes being shite, unspectacular I'll give you, but not shite.

I need to watch more tv obviously!

You are wrong about final Heroes being shite, unspectacular I'll give you, but not shite.

But all they did was yap! And the final showdown was practically non-existent! And what was the scene with Shaft for, exactly, only to tell us things we already knew?

Kev-lol, certainly for conversations with me, a cursory knowledge of the latest American television programmes is advisable, unless they are police procedurals of any kind. Can't stand 'em.

F and I were talking about this last night, and Leee and I were talking about it on the Heroes thread (might have been the ILC one), but if you didn't like the last ep then NEVER READ COMICS. It worked in a very, very comics way.

Leee's good people.

I don't have time to set up Torrence and ting in the morning. I hate laptop viewing. I have a bad memory and never remember when things are on ergo I never keep up with series! I am a failure as a televisual consumer ;_;

Aw, bless.

In other news, the Irish election results are going very, very badly for all right thinking people.

Right as in correct than than right as in not left?

rather than*

even

Unbelievable isn't it Accentmonkey? I thought this would be the Green's year. Listening to RTE 1 all day and gradually getting more and more depressed.

Onimo, they're not right or left just not very exciting and very much into jobs for the boys, etc etc

Aye, I've just been educating myself. I know far too little about Irish politics.

My MRI scan was totally normal, just heard yesterday. That's a major relief. Now back to being indefinitely sick, hehe.

I think I want Michael McDowell to lose his seat more than anything else to happen in this entire election.

Congrats Rowan! Well at least it's knocked down one possibility. You heading to Garden Party?

I work opposite someone who thinks he's great for politics in Ireland. I'm horrified!

Also Onimo, I'm not sure that Irish politics is really worth the effort!

Aim, your posts! I feel like you're talking a million miles a minute in my head. ;)

Ronan, relief all round at yet more tests negative, yet apprehension at yet more tests negative.

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great news Ronan!

accentmonkey - heroes is just your tasty appetizer to the L O S T finale.(tonight?)
ms. misery - You're right. i was writing a dizzying amount of posts based on my own connection to anything...I have a hard time staying on topic at times.
I think I have to monitor the amount of time I spend here.
Life is a good monitor - I don't use this place as much when I work full time.
I should probably get my shit together and not use ILX as an excuse for "writing".

But having people listen - and understand, is so, so amazing.
So thank you!

"We will all be together on the other side of the river."

In fact, aimurchie, I completely crumbled and watched the LOST finale already. It was fan-frickin'-tastic. I think I might watch it again tonight.

You ramble as much as you like.

Beth, that guy is scary.

Accentmonkey - I THOUGHT I saw you contributing to the L O S T threads. But after hundreds of posts - and also the subject - i didn't want to say who had appeared and posted.
Plus, I barely posted my weepiness and your post came through today.
ILX is fast for the Sunday folks.

Ha! I lie in wait for your posts.

Lost spoilers sort of!

I'm too embarrassed to admit that I thought the flash forwards were flashbacks.On the big thread.
I totally didn't get it- and i watched it three times!
It just proves I'm not as bright as I thought I was.
or think I am...

I thought it was a flashback, too.

Cute story - no spoilers -
the big tree across the street is dying - it's HUGE, but it has to be taken down.
The neighbor across the street - the guy who the tree would fall on - his house...How do i describe it...
He's a good neighbor, and the tree has lost branches that have fallen on the road, on his house (not too dramatically).
So, anyway, i saw him yesterday and he's excited that the tree will be taken down by the city, as opposed to him paying for it. And he had a video in his hand as he told me this, and he said "Do you watch LOST?"

he was on his way to get the first three episodes of season two.

We were discussing a tree, and then he said the magic words. I literally sputtered...because i couldn't say anything about the finale, of course!

his wife was running errands as well, and - on a gorgeous day - he said "I'm getting the first three episodes of season two." And she said :"See you in 15 minutes."

I love that! They're in their late 50's - they have teens and grandchildren and gardens and jobs and so much going on.

"See you in 15 minutes."

I'm a little bit jealous. Althogh they will suffer the drought with us all.
They were so excited!

As for the tree - well, it's dying. It's a maple, 50 feet tall. I don't know what killed it, but there's no other option but to (cut it down) kill it. it's dying, slowly. I will not be able to watch it being cut down.
The tree pre -exists the town!
I don't care if it''s irrational, but I cannot watch big trees get toppled.
I will say goodbye before it happens.
I am going to hug that tree!

Beth - I like the being in your company.

So you didn't get it either? but we're kinda smart!
I still think I'm not allowed to talk about it...on this thread.

I watched "The Last King Of Scotland" and finally understood why my Scottish dad thought his statement "Idi Amin - you're oot!" was funny. (in 1971, when I was three.)
The actual footage of the Ugandan army in kilts and regalia is...stunning. Also the Ugandan version of "Loch Lomond" breaks my heart.
It's a good movie - based on a novel- once again I did not know, so I was surprised

spoiler
spoiler

not true.
it's true he was a monster and a buffoon. Not true that the doctor was his confidante. Anyone else seen it? I'm always eight months behind movie threads.

I'm always miles behind the movie threads as well, because I no longer go to the cinema, our local video place is rubbish, and there is no decent DVD by maill service in Ireland yet.

So I haven't seen the Last King of Scotland either. I'm looking forward to it, though.

Well there's this thread started by your's truly... The book's okay. Looking back on it now, I'm less impressed with the film.

Accentmonkey, I use Screenclick and while they have a slighly loose attitude towards the order you receive your chosen films the selection is very good.

I myself have no interest in L O S T discussion but don't mind me. I'll just shout random things and claim they're spoilers for season 4!

BOXCAR!

I will try Screenclick. Cheers.

I have just stripped a roast chicken carcass while watching Genesis Of The Daleks. BEST BANK HOLIDAY EVER.

FU UK :(

I saw the Last King of Scotland, and while it was put together fine and there were good performances, I found myself questioning the use of an invented white character to be the center of a movie about Idi Amin. I know, there are no rules. But it felt off to me.

trying to attract a white middle class audience?

Yeah, that was an issue with Blood Diamonds as well. Why do there have to be whiteys in the middle of it for anyone to care? It does seem a bit stupid.

Rant follows:

I had a very annoying incident when I was walking with the dogs this morning. This guy who had two dogs with him came running towards us. I did what I always do--called the dogs over to me and held on to them to allow the other guy and his dogs to run by. He ran by, but his dogs didn't, and the big one just launched itself at Cody and started to fight him. The guy came over and apologized and pulled his dog off, but then just let it go and started running again, expecting it to follow. The dog totally ignored him and came back for another go at Cody, so I swung my foot at it and shouted at it to fuck off, which worked. Then the guy shouted at me for trying to kick his dog! I told him I wasn't trying to actually kick it, and he told me I better fucking watch myself. I shouted at him he better get some fucking control over his poxy dogs, and he told me to fuck off. Then I realised that I had actually met this same dog before, only that time, the guy's wife was walking it, but the exact same thing happened: their dog attacked my dog and I ended up being the one who had to frighten it off.

I don't want to have to start carrying a stick when I walk my dogs, but seriously, these people are cunts.

Okay, that's my rant over. You can look again now.

Carry a stick, use it on owner. Moral dilemma solved.

People can be right cnuts!

Busy morning again. 6 months of filing in two days! Joy!

kvlol otm

People who keep vicious dogs need to be euthanized along with their pets.

That's a little bit extreme. I think a beating should suffice!

Damn, Trish. It sounds like you have awful walks.

Why didn't that idiot have them on a leash if he knows they're aggressive?

the clue is in the question i think, ms mis.

Damn, Trish. It sounds like you have awful walks.

Oh, it just sounds that way because I don't bore you with the lovely walks we have most of the time. Usually we meet lovely people and lovely dogs who we're all friends with. Even the people on the horses are quite friendly (and compliment me on how well-behaved the dogs are, because they sit nice and quiet on a rock while the horses go by), and everybody loves Milo and Cody.

Also, yesterday we passed a group of kids from the local refugee centre who were out on the beach having fun, and they all wanted to pet the dogs, so we did that for a little while before going on our way.

But I think it might be time to start bringing the old shillelagh out with me when I walk the beach.

you mean kalashnikov, right?

Oh, it would be so much fun, just once, to point one at somebody.

It's nice to have people commiserate with me. I got such a fright when he shouted at me to fuck off that I then burst into tears.

Luckily nobody saw.

i guess this is why i have cats*

*ok, i don't actually have cats, but i would if i could.

woah, the kit has no cats? this has shaken my world. .

Still Trish with the kids yelling at you and then these dogs. . .Even if that was the only two times something bad happened on your walk that's two more times than me.

allergic to cats ;_;
cry every day

Ms. M, honestly, mostly it's fine. Even fun. But yes, I do get upset when people are mean. I'm a nice person, dammit. People should be nice to me.

Teh-kit: anti-histamine shots?

I am also allergic but gradually become accustomed to animals. Meeting new ones drives me nuts. Yeah do you take allergy medicines kit? See also, bathing them.

I don't take anything, no. But I don't have regular exposure to cats to make it worthwhile. I see my GF's cats once a week when we go to her mum's place, but that's it for kitty contact.
I'd be interested to do an experiment of some kind; looking after a cat for a couple of weeks while doping myself up on all kinds of stuff, but that's pretty unlikely. And would probably leave cathair all over my house for months to come. Hmmmm.

Problem (rather unsettlingly) solved:

http://www.sphynxandchis.com/11.JPG

Sphynx Cat ahoy!

I don't like the meanies yelling at Trish! That said, the dogs are a reflection of the owners, so I pity the dogs. (I, too, cry when people yell at me...even though I'm so tough talkin'! Cowardly lion - and I'm a Leo. I fit the astrological stereotype.)
landlord unwilling to deal with good, neglected dog/bad people downstairs...he has to go to court to get them out, and only when the lease is up. So - my only recourse is to call animal control. (insert frowny face emoticon).
I'm stunned that teh kit is allergic to teh kitties! I think you do get accustomed to your own - it's the saliva that causes allergies, right? I sneeze and weep when I visit my Mom - for various reasons, but including her two indoor cats. No probs with my three kitties.

Thanks for the link for the LKoScotland thread. it was interesting to read everyone's take on it.I'm glad i saw it on video because the "extras" were really informative. They include lots of real footage of Amin - including him reviewing the troops, who are all in full Highland Regiment regalia (I think - are there other regiments that wear the kilt and sporran? dunno. i could look it up), with bagpipes playing...it's just a stunning thing to see. The lead guy in the troop parade is marching but also sort of dancing.
There's a bunch of footage on youtube as well.
I also watched "Children of Men", which I didn't know was based on a P.D. James novel, even though I love P.D. James. Big dummy, me. I loved it.
The last thing i saw at the theatre was...Pan's Labyrinth? There's a very wonderful art house theatre nearby, with Wed. morning matinees (I know i have rambled on about this before) free popcorn and soda/coffee, and a local guy plays his mandolin while everyone settles in. The theatres are tiny, so watching movies is very...intimate. At "Pan's Labyrinth" all 50 of us were weeping together. (That is NOT a spoiler!)in this wonderful, communal way. And I usually hate being crowded in with people i don't know!
The other significant thing is that Kim G. and Thurston M. from Sonic Yooth are ALWAYS there. I'm always afraid Thurston will sit in front of us, because he's, like, six foot four. And I am short and cranky.
Just finished my first Ian Rankin - featuring Det. Rebus - mystery book - I have a Susan Hill ("Simon Serrailler") to gnaw into now, another new mystery author for me. These were chosen randomly from the "new releases' at the library,so my brain can recover from the semester of "thinking hard about stuff".
Anyone familiar? I seem to recall other mystery fans among us...
Yup, it's summer, and I can sit on my third floor porch (tallest building in the neighborhood), drink wine, smoke and read. All at the same time. And watch the goings on. The porch is going to be much less shady when the big maple is taken down. You see, I know the upper reaches of that tree so intimately. The woodpecker that returns every year, using the sickness of the tree to find grubs more easily. I will take pictures. The upper parts are strong and healthy, but the whole trunk is diseased. if you stand in my front room, the tree dominates the view. So maybe it's not so irrational that I will mourn it. it's my roomate, for chrissake!

Ok. Just went to the Big Hoos hotel incident thread...then had to purchase a bottle of chardonnay, listened to Blues Traveller on the radio and was excited (proving it's summer, indeed.)"Runaround" - not the best song ever, but it's fun when your shitty car has a sun roof, and you can sort of blast it and sing along.
Why didn't anyone warn me not to go to that thread?
We should have thread warnings. i got so wrapped up in the debate - but then, y'know, snark snark and snark. Plus, I never remember anyone - thank god for this thread, because I can recognize you!
So listening 9virtually) to people argue with chosen monikers...it's like trying to figure out identities if a huge part of Congress decided to debate. "Wait, are you the guy who just said?...scrollback, yes! Nope, you said this, the guy i thought you were is this guy."
Which, of course, happens all the time for the residents of our great, large, nation.
I mean, I can only name a handful of Reps and Senators. I probably can't name my Representatives and/or Senators. i certainly can't remember any names from the state senate.
'Massachusetts's U.S. senators are Edward Kennedy (D) and John Kerry (D). The 10 Members of the states delegation to the U.S. House of Representatives are John Olver (D), Richard Neal (D), Jim McGovern (D), Barney Frank (D), Marty Meehan (D), John F. Tierney (D), Ed Markey (D), Mike Capuano (D), Stephen Lynch (D), and Bill Delahunt (D).
Ya see? good thing i asked.
Mr. Neal teaches a class at UMASS, and is awesome. Mr. Frank is beyond beyond with the gayness - he's an amazing politician, but he's been flying his flag for so long. he doesn't get the respect he deserves for the work he does. But he will die a happy man - loved by his constituents, and brave enough to come out without too much of a scandal.
Also, gay men are witty. I know it's a sweeping generalization. but he is consitently hilarious.
I only know a bit about the rest of my representatives.
My point being:
I'm not sure. Fly your flag and walk your dogs and live in a way that gives you comfort but keeps you active - politically, socially and otherwise.
My big point is: we're all being very mean to each other on a global, human scale, and unless you're going to straighten the world out you'd be best making good neighbors. ( Threat to neighbors from angry and pissed off people. Disregarded.)
because we are kind of pissed off.

I'll make it a manifesto .
I should NOT have read that thread.
I blame all of you.

Just kidding, of course.
There's not alot to do in Mass. - well, Martha;s Vineyard is more active with the town/Island stuff Beth might be too busy to respond. But, because it's an ISLAND , it ends up being...the great area of debate about land use and etc. in the State of Massachusetts.

Sorry - Commonwealth! Im \ don't know who to hATE TODAY

TWO WEEKS!
is it possible to take a break?
I'm going to try.
Not today, of course.

I think I have to start with baby steps.
I want to shut the computer off for for two weeks.
I lived very happily without all this - before.

When I turn it off the soundscape is very peaceful.

Have you ever had that thing where the moon watched you? I recall being in the back seat of my parents car, watching the moon follow me.
I would lie on my back and watch the moon follow me.
I'm sure I was supposed to be asleep.But the trees raced by and only the moon kept pace.
How vain! The moon was following me.
I learned, soon enough, that it wasn't true.
But I still don't believe it. I think, tonight especially, the moon is in my window just for me.

I'm actually quite pleased that I read that thread; in among the snarking there was some interesting political debate.

It's a shame that your tree has to go, aimurchie. I never really thought of something outside a person's room as having so much impact on their life inside the room, but you're right, of course it would be like losing a room mate.

We had a great walk this morning. We went early, and there were rabbits everywhere. The dogs are asleep again already, and it's not even 8am.

I've ben in work for 40 minutes getting things ready for VIPs. Cup of tea is helping no end here!

jealous of sleeping dogs

Phear teh cuetness

Unless that turns out to be an illegal link for some reason.

Nice. Bit of a horrible day so far. That said: Super classy roast beef sandwich on sourdough waiting for me. Life is good sometimes!

Argh, your horrible day. Are the VIPs wrecking your head? Screw them. Remember, you could leave at any time! The employment market is buoyant! (Don't actually leave, just remember that you could if you wanted to.)

It's my colleagues. Ridiculous at the moment. I'll tell all in person but needless to say GRRRRRR!!!

Just for you, Kev-lol:

http://www.currychips.com/order.jpg

Bwahahahahaha Genius! Thanks Accentmonkey!

I see you cuteness phear, I raise it

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In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, a dog feeds tiger triplets and her own puppy, right, at the Paomaling Zoo in Jinan, capital of east China's Shandong Province, Wednesday, May 16, 2007. The tiger triplets were rejected by their mother shortly after their birth. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Lu Chuanquan)

I don't think that's cute!

I am sorry for you, then. Your life must be an bleak desert, punctuated by bleached cow skulls and "last gas station for 50 miles" roadsigns.

You forgot the tired old prostitute who sleeps under the discarded tyres next to the shack that is the gas station of my soul dreaming of a time when grass was green, knees didn't clench up with arthritis and a smile was a happy thing.

A+ for effort though...

I like the dog substitute mom though I fear for her nipples.

That would be one hell of an album title!

Ah but, the special CUETNESS factor in my photo is that it is my own dog and cat. I am a sucker for the cuddly animals, though. I have the Daily Puppy up on my iGoogle.

Kev-lol, remind me to film your subconscious when I feel like winning Sundance.

i'm going to london tonight :(

why :( ?

to see a show at a venue (sorry to be vague, but i have to)

There's no need to be embarrassed about going to see Disney on Ice Kit.

My home internet was dead for a few days and now the LOST and BB threads have about 500 messages I haven't read. It's kind of daunting.

I lost all my bookmarks too :(

I only ever 'watch' BB through those threads. They are such a source of joy.

I love that, I make it sound like I'm posh:

"One only ever deigns to partake in plebian pursuits such as BB spectating in the rarified atmosphere of a messageboard, la"

*Bats Omino with Fan*

Does he have any fans?

He has that one he uses in his stage act.

No, wait, those are veils. Never mind.

onimo, just jump in at the bottom. That's what I do when behind unless I'm particularly bored.

I'm particularly bored :(

Try this: http://electrocity.co.nz/Game/game.aspx

Fun for a while. I have an .xml thing to open. What program do I need? HELP!

I'm going to read the full threads eventually. I have no fans.

hi people. i've been awake since 5:30 pm eastern time. what's new?

my happy-go-lucky attitude?

Some of my skin cells. See if you can guess which!

I should be working but instead am watching sitting vacantly in front of Big Brother.

Today I have been upset by ebay.

Hey stence! Long time no read.

What did ebay do to you kit?

eBay bought three handbags for me after looking at PHOTOGRAPHS of them and reading the part of the description that says "USED", then came back and moaned at me because they weren't in great condition.

WAHT???

Tough shit. People need to get better reading skills.

You mean FROM you? Are you selling handbags? Are you a purse-snatcher?

We are having our annual plague of tent caterpillars here. They're skeletonizing all the oaks. Is that why you got up so early, Stencil? The deafening sound of wormshit bouncing off your roof? When they really get going you can hear the shit sifting to to forest floor.

yes, i'm selling handbags.

5:30 pm eastern time is not early, beth! here in brooklyn, at least on my block, we have an infestation of dudes working across the street at 7 am, or something.

Beth, are you serious?

We got new succulents recently: a yucca, a couple more agaves and some weird creeping plant succulent that's really cool.

Stence has not slept.

What sort? Do you make them? (the handbags)

5:30 IS SO early!!!!!!!!!!! Damn those noisy dudes!

5:30 pm he says.. .(unless that's a typo)

I get up at 5:30 in the morning. :(

I remember the bad old days of metal trash barrels. The city trash dudes used to delight in making as much noise as possible, slamming them against the trucks. I don't blame them.

PM, yes. Careless reading. Poor Stence! Have another pot of coffee.

Sam, I am serious. This is the third year in a row of the plague of worms. Many people are having their yards sprayed with a "safe" product called "Conserve." I don'r have a whole lot of oaks so my yard's not bad, but houses where I garden are another story. They all spray, though.

No, they're all second hand(bags). My girlfriend asked me to get rid of them, so I figured eBay was a smarter choice than bin. I am now wishing I'd chosen bin.

I once bought a 2ndhandbag off eBay.

Last year, before one property got sprayed, the caterpillars dropped on me as I mowed the lawn and dangled from the brim of my hat. Sort of funny. It's an itchy junkie's worst nightmare. Every itch really IS a worm crawling on you!

xpost, obv. Not handbags.

I have many cool handbags I've gotten as gifts. I use them about once a year. I am too much of a tomboy.

I love making handbags yet I do not bother carrying one myself.

You need your hands free in case you have to punch someone in the grocery store.

Or in a restaurant.

Where is it you go with handbags?

Yes I don't like to have worry about keeping something in hand. That's what pockets are for.

I hate clothes without pockets. I'm always sliding my hands down my sides, seeking the nonexistent pocket. Them I have to figure out what to do with my hands. Cross arms over chest? Hold hands behind back? Twiddle thumbs?

start smoking

Smoke and wear hoodies = two pockets plus a hand distraction!

I just bought a pair of shorts with no pockets, they do lie very nice and flat underneath tunics & etc and they do not bulge anywhere, but I also cannot carry ANYTHING with me, and in the summertime I am unlikely to be wearing a coat or sweatshirt that can take up the slack. Fuck a designer.

When I'm really a basket case I cross my arms and pinch the flesh under them, my pinching fingers concealed, I hope, by the upper arms. So autistic.

I do have some things w/out pockets. I have some saggy cut-off leggings that I like to wear w/ tank top as next-to-naked work clothes. When I go into the nurseries to shop I just snap my checkbook into the elastic at the back of the leggings. 50-yr-old slut gardener look.

I bite my nails and pick my split ends. :(

I have a detaching fingernail and it occupies much of my attention. Scan coming!

it wasn't a typo. fortunately, my roommate just left to get more coffee.

Haha yes, last week I wore the shorts to do laundry and had to stick my phone under the waistband. Mmm sweaty keys.

I just bought two pairs of Koss Plug headphones off ebay. My 3rd and 4th set. One is for me but I can't help but give them away. They are the greatest things ever!

I wear hoodies, jeans and carry a bag. I have abandonment issues obviously :)

I have never understood the lack of pockets in girl clothes.

I pretty much only wear jeans so that is not a problem for me.

Purses and menfolk, Ed -- purses and menfolk.

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e391/marthasminions/fingernail.jpg

Now, is that a hand for carrying elegant handbags? I ask you.

haha, damn Beth! Do you not wear gardening gloves?

Perhaps I should make you a tough girl handbag. . .

The black stuff is permadirt. I've thought of getting a Waterpik to clean it out, but, then, why?
I try to wear gloves, but they always get discarded. Too clumsy.

I gotta go get (more) dirty.

One could put one's purse in one's pocket and that would be a good thing.

i wear hoodies lots, they are amazing in every situation and get a bad rep.

cold? zip up
hot? unzip
rain? hood up

rah.

cold? cowboy up!
hot? cowboy up!
rain? cowboy up!

etc.

When it is cool enough (which is not often) I wear hoodies. No bad rep here!

Ed, I carry a pink coin purse thing with cards, money, etc and stuff it in my back pocket when out and about. Sunglasses are usually the most problematic though as they don't fit in pocket.

onimo is here to make sure i NVR 4GET, obv.

sunglasses are problematic I will grant you, I often have pretty distended pockets though; Blackberry, iPod, Wallet, Change, Keys, Sunglasses case

sunglasses go on yr face. solved.

mine are prescription so I have to carry reg. glasses in a case and then switch out when appropriate, etc.

Ditto.

i was lookin' pretty boss walkin' around the neighborhood at 7:30 with some cop sunglasses, this humongous beard, long hair and a western shirt. lookin' like a junkie and/or band dude. yeeesh.

+ put blackberry in mouth & chew
put change in wallet

i am on roll here! advice 4 lief, form queue plz.

xpost aw scuppered

Get those little flippy hinged things.

xpost

We must praise the fact that it is sunny and I can ride my bike to dinner this evening.

Jor-el, any beardcare tips? I have a my first beard thing going on.

I think next time I might get those kind that darken when you go outside. A friend has some and they seem to do alright.

My guy just trims his beard with electric clippers in the shower. No other care neccessary.

you could've asked me, but i don't actually care about my beard until it gets to a certain degree of beardness, then i start to care that i have one and subsequently remove it. since i don't know, and probably never will, which is the best way to go, i'll keep on trucking through this endless cycle until i either go BEARDBALD or lose my shaver.

yah, i don't know what i'm saying

This summer I shall be experimenting with moustache wax.

I want to grow a big stupid ATP beard but Mrs O would hate it.

i just want to not have to deal with one

cowboy up!

http://www.drownedinsound.com/images/11623.jpeg

grebt beardz A+++
http://www.drownedinsound.com/images/19157.jpeg

onimo, you should come to Texas and hang out with the shit-kickers.

Mustache wax. . .hmm. Some of our friends have crazy, waxed facial hair. It is amusing and I can tell it makes them happy. But I don't think I would date someone with that kind of wacky decoration.

srsly beards are wack

I had a mustache up until recently as an experiment. It never grew into a proper one so I shaved it off. Certain ILXors have seen me with it (I think). Bought a trimmer and shaved it off shortly after. Silly me.

Haw Ed, I totally think the world is ready for a ginger dali 'tache!

With dreads of course!

yeah, a decent electric trimmer is a big help. trimming beard with scissors = too time consuming and easy to fuck up. also, i'd say every once in a while give it a good shampooing. also exfoliate and moisturize every once in a while too, as some dudes can get ingrown hairs when they grow beards (tho i haven't had a prob with it).

My tasche is already so blonde it's untrue, the sides are suburn rather than ginger, but they may head through ginger on their way to blonde (my hair sunbleaches so easily)

But I don't think I would date someone with that kind of wacky decoration.

this does not appear to be a problem so far. I shall report back when i have handlebars.

some parts around my chin are kinda blonde-ish, it's weird.

Ed, please do. I do not object to beards or mustaches but when it starts going Dick Dastardly. . .that's a little much.

I'm aiming for a James Robertson-Justice, or Vittorio Emmanuelle or Edward VII kind of thing.

Onimo, did you see Neil's ATP beard? It was all kinds of great. I was all "don't grow a beard" and then he grew a beard and it was brilliant. I think Mrs Onimo would change her mind when confronted with realities of the greatness of beards.

I like beards on guys I don't plan on doing any kissing with.

some parts around my chin are kinda blonde-ish, it's weird.

I suffer from this affliction also.
It's also a bit gingah in places too. ):

i still didn't shave