A Thread in Which Banter Most Random is Expulsed Into Existence, By Ravens_cry #142

[Rawhide]

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[Cobalt]

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For a second there, I thought that was going to be a thread explaining why your avatar has changed. Ha.

Though now I miss your stick figure. Aw...

...By the way, what is your new avatar?

[absolmorph]

For a second there, I thought that was going to be a thread explaining why your avatar has changed. Ha.

Though now I miss your stick figure. Aw...

...By the way, what is your new avatar?

Artistically arranged pixels.

[Rawhide]

For a second there, I thought that was going to be a thread explaining why your avatar has changed. Ha.

Though now I miss your stick figure. Aw...

...By the way, what is your new avatar?

A test pattern used by a TV station. Well and truly over the 120x120 limit.

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It's for testing only, normal avatars will resume shortly.

[Cogwheel]

Eadin: Good luck. I can't really offer any advice that Rawhide didn't already give, but I hope it all turns out fine.


Oh, and since pictures were requested, here they are.

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Part of the face is visible, yes, but I had to see out of that thing somehow. And breathe.

Basically, pair of cardboard masks tied together. One face on my actual face, one on the back of my head. Cane's a bamboo stick with the top sawn off (you'll see why soon) and painted black. The cape's, well, a cape.

Sorry about the room in the background. That's the (rather messy) living room.



Picture 2, which is rather less good. The blurry thing I'm holding is the sword, actually a wire from a pipe cleaner, embedded into the tiny bit of bamboo I cut off the top of the cane. The blade itself is sheathed inside the rest of the cane, and the two bits of bamboo are held together by means of my hand. Not a very good costume, I know.

Also, yes, that's the other side of the mask. The face of great sadness.

[Rawhide]

ATTN: Aussies

Shaolin Soccer. Tonight. SBS 2.

[KuReshtin]

Gah! I just realised that I've had a local gaming shop in the town where I live for the past four years, and I hadn't noticed it.

Sure, I'd seen it as I drove past it, and I'd noticed the banner that showed the War Hammer 40K logo in a corner of the window, but never realised they actually had lots of gaming stuff.
Of course, the name (Bus Stop Toy Shop) doesn't really shout "GAMING STORE" at you.
I need to go there to have a look at some point during the week. I wonder if I can make it there after work before they close... It's about a 25 minute drive from work there, I finish at 5PM, they close at 5.30PM...

[Dogmantra]

Gah! I just realised that I've had a local gaming shop in the town where I live for the past four years, and I hadn't noticed it.

I realised I had a local gaming shop that had been around for... a year or so. I went in once briefly to have a look around. Then ever since, it's been "closed for restocking". That was several months ago. I don't think it's restocking.

[KuReshtin]

I realised I had a local gaming shop that had been around for... a year or so. I went in once briefly to have a look around. Then ever since, it's been "closed for restocking". That was several months ago. I don't think it's restocking.

My main problem will likely be that their gaming nights on Thursdays are for WH40K, Yu-Gi-Oh and M:tG, all of which I have no experience in or interest in.
They do have a '40k in 40 minutes' thing on Sunday mornings, but considering that most Sundays are out for me because of Football officiating, those sessions seem a bit out of the question.

[Trobby]

We had a gaming shop up at the mall a few years ago, but it closed due to lack of sales.

It wasn't really focused on "gaming" so much as it was focused on board games though, but it was still a nifty store.

[Totally Guy]

Ouch. I've got sun burn on my feet.

I'm on vacation in sunny California. Except we've not really seen much sun... it's been pretty overcast.

But I've still managed to burn my feet... I forgot to apply sun tan lotion to them...

[Neko Toast]

Ouch. I've got sun burn on my feet.

I'm on vacation in sunny California. Except we've not really seen much sun... it's been pretty overcast.

But I've still managed to burn my feet... I forgot to apply sun tan lotion to them...

I'm assuming you mean the tops of your feet? It would be really bizarre if the bottoms of your feet were sun burned.

Either way, burning any part of the foot is strange. You don't really expect that area of your body to burn. Kinda like the top of your ears or your hairline. Always sucks when you burn those places, too.

[Ranger Mattos]

I went to the Renaissance Faire yesterday. Saw jousting and jesters, looked at deadly weapons, and fought people with less-than-deadly weapons. And saw someone with an OotS shirt

[Trobby]

Which shirt was it? =3 You must give us this detail!

[Ranger Mattos]

It was the one with Banjo the Clown!

[Thufir]

Mmm... failed attampts at gingerbread houses are delicious. It's great having a housemate with a baking habit.

[absolmorph]

Ouch. I've got sun burn on my feet.

I'm on vacation in sunny California. Except we've not really seen much sun... it's been pretty overcast.

But I've still managed to burn my feet... I forgot to apply sun tan lotion to them...

If you're in Southern California: the weather is hot in the summer and sort of in the middle during the winter, with ups and downs at random. Example: the last 3 or 4 days have been chilly.
I have no idea what Northern California is like, though.

[CurlyKitGirl]

So London was awesome, saw so many famous things. And it was hot.
And the weirdest thing is that the further south I got on the way home the colder and greyer it got.
It was comparatively freezing when I got home, and when I said this to Mum she said, "What the hell are you talking about? It's unbearably hot here, and it was worse last night. We had to sleep with the windows and doors open. And even so we had to sleep on top of the covers."

. . .

Londinium heatwave has ruined me.

ION: I have just fully snapped the 'J' key off of my keyboard. I'm a little peeved.

[Trobby]

So London was awesome, saw so many famous things. And it was hot.
And the weirdest thing is that the further south I got on the way home the colder and greyer it got.
It was comparatively freezing when I got home, and when I said this to Mum she said, "What the hell are you talking about? It's unbearably hot here, and it was worse last night. We had to sleep with the windows and doors open. And even so we had to sleep on top of the covers."

. . .

Londinium heatwave has ruined me.

ION: I have just fully snapped the 'J' key off of my keyboard. I'm a little peeved.

Seems more like they've given you added resistance to heat. A positive thing, in my book. ;p

Hmm...do you know how to dismantle a keyboard? Do you know anyone who might? There should be a way to screw it back in if the plastic hasn't literally broken away. Though if it has, then that's just awful luck. :(

[Archonic Energy]

So London was awesome, saw so many famous things. And it was hot.
And the weirdest thing is that the further south I got on the way home the colder and greyer it got.
It was comparatively freezing when I got home, and when I said this to Mum she said, "What the hell are you talking about? It's unbearably hot here, and it was worse last night. We had to sleep with the windows and doors open. And even so we had to sleep on top of the covers."

. . .

Londinium heatwave has ruined me.

ION: I have just fully snapped the 'J' key off of my keyboard. I'm a little peeved.

you'll need a match
some superglue
duct tape, a bin-bag, 10cc of di-morphine, a 200MW blue laser, an orbital weapons platform. and a cat.

[Eldpollard]

So London was awesome, saw so many famous things. And it was hot.
And the weirdest thing is that the further south I got on the way home the colder and greyer it got.
It was comparatively freezing when I got home, and when I said this to Mum she said, "What the hell are you talking about? It's unbearably hot here, and it was worse last night. We had to sleep with the windows and doors open. And even so we had to sleep on top of the covers."

. . .

Londinium heatwave has ruined me.

ION: I have just fully snapped the 'J' key off of my keyboard. I'm a little peeved.

I went more and more North, it also became colder that way. London must be the epicentre of some giant miasma of unbearable heat. Heat I tried to escape from by drinking coffee. FYI it doesn't work at all.

[Thufir]

I went more and more North, it also became colder that way. London must be the epicentre of some giant miasma of unbearable heat. Heat I tried to escape from by drinking coffee. FYI it doesn't work at all.

I couldn't tell because my coach had those air-blower things above the seats (Do they count as air-conditioning? I don't know) and basically everyone switched them on, leading to not cool, but a more bearable level of heat. And by the time I arrived in Newcastle obviously there was no sun, so naturally it was cooler.

[Tasroth]

I think London in the Emit Remmus is always like that. I spent a good part of my childhood there, so I decided to go back and do the tourist thing about 3 years ago. Stepping off the train in London, the heat was seriously oppressive. Stepping off the train when back home in the north east, felt so much better.

And stepping off the local train when almost, oh sea air, how I missed you.

[Dragonrider]

Hee hee. It's been in the 100s fahrenheit here the last week. Got down to 85-ish today and I'm in jeans and a warm shirt.

[Starfols]

Hee hee. It's been in the 100s fahrenheit here the last week. Got down to 85-ish today and I'm in jeans and a warm shirt.

Yeah, really. If it's below 30C, it qualifies as a nice say around here.

[Phase]

Well here in the Big Apple it's around 92 last time I checked. Guess who got the only subway car without AC! That's right, the guy who works in 32 degree heat all day! Oh you devil sun and your radiation making long metal tubes into veritable ovens....

[Dragonrider]

I just checked teh internets, and according to the website I visited, the highest it's gotten in London this month is 88. Buncha *******.

Of course, it's probably waaaaaaaay more humid there than it is here.

Edit: What! Apparently something I said was censored. Maybe it's dirty somewhere. okay, well, it looks way worse now. But I'll just say "wusses" instead, I guess.

[Trobby]

Wasn't too bad here in the middle of New York State. It got up to about 87 degrees outside, but the humidity was so low that it didn't feel bad at all.

Which is good, because trying to move yet another large tree branch in scorchy humid weather would not be fun. ^^;

[CurlyKitGirl]

I just checked teh internets, and according to the website I visited, the highest it's gotten in London this month is 88. Buncha *******.

Of course, it's probably waaaaaaaay more humid there than it is here.

Edit: What! Apparently something I said was censored. Maybe it's dirty somewhere. okay, well, it looks way worse now. But I'll just say "wusses" instead, I guess.

I suppose you called us the plural of pansy?

And yep, Saturday was about 65% humidty, Sunday was 96% humidity. ANd because this was buggin all of us over the entire weekend, how does humidty work?
When DD, Archie, Thufir, Eldpollard and I were on a touristy trip of London a few people agreed that 96% humidty sould mean we were virtually underwater.
Seriously, what's up with a humidity measurement thingy?

[Dogmantra]

I just checked teh internets, and according to the website I visited, the highest it's gotten in London this month is 88. Buncha *******.

I do keep mentioning this is London, in England, the land of "just enough" and averages. Our weather during the summer is normally average... for the southern hemisphere.