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A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To Barbelith...

 
 
Quantum
17:09 / 06.10.05
So yesterday I saw a guy in the back stockyard of a scrap metal merchants in the industrial zone, wearing a suit, taking a hand-and-a-half (bastard) sword out of the back of a car (In fact I think it may have been a two hander as it had the leather covered bit above the guard, but anyway a big frickin' sword) so of course I compliment him whilst thinking THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE. STRONG TRUTH!.

Not something you see every day. I also saw a squirrel the day before that thought it was a bird (never seen a squirrel making noises like that before), and a mod on a vespa with a spaniel puppy sticking it's head out of one of those square vinyl bags. Aww.

This thread for things you didn't get a picture of. And GIR jokes (I saw a squirrel! It went like this! Ee-ee-ee!')
 
 
Mourne Kransky
17:26 / 06.10.05
I didn't know squirrels made that squawky sound either till the one that terrortises our cats did. Maybe they're evolving from peaceful nut gatherers to furry killing machines, all along the south coast. Godzquirlla!
 
 
Quantum
18:21 / 06.10.05
Ultra Peepi!



wait, he's a hamster. Look at the evil squirrelly face of doom-

 
 
A fall of geckos
18:48 / 06.10.05
DEAR SWEET JESUS FRICKING CHRIST, what the hell is that around the squirrel monsters jowls?

Is it meats?

Meats of evil?
 
 
Mistoffelees
18:51 / 06.10.05
That´s an awesome pic!

Here are two I made in London last year:

 
 
Mourne Kransky
18:58 / 06.10.05
Clever and acrobat but still meeeeeeeean!
 
 
paranoidwriter waves hello
19:25 / 06.10.05
When I was a little kid I saw a TV program about squirrels in which they showed footage of a bloke picking up a squirrel and then getting his hands shredded to a bloody pulp; a kind of "This is why you should never catch a squirrel and hold it with bare hands" bit of public safety info. It left a lasting impression and I've had a lot of respect for the little furry ones ever since -- imagine if one pounced from a branch and landed on your head!
 
 
Mourne Kransky
21:17 / 06.10.05
This is a good site that seeks to make war on the evil squirrel and what it calls skwerlhuggers everywhere. Their "wholly scientific and reliable poll" on whether there are squirrels in heaven is currently being won by the skwerlhuggers though, so vote! vote! vote!

 
 
agvvv
21:24 / 06.10.05
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hung..
 
 
toughest, fastest, fatest
22:36 / 06.10.05
i saw two pigeons pecking the guts out of a dead squirel the other day.

didnt get a pic though
 
 
The Falcon
23:15 / 06.10.05
The best thing I've seen between visits to Barbelith recently was a gang of old men walking under an arch looking hardcore and evidently communicating using twittering birdsong.

I SWEAR I AM NOT MAKING THIS UP AND HAD TAKEN NO DRUGS.
 
 
mondo a-go-go
14:11 / 07.10.05
Ah, yes, those moments when you wish you had a camera because no one will believe you...

I have a camera now. There are still many things I do not manage to get photos of, due to my camera often being situated at the bottom of my bag (or left at home on the bed). I also have a bit of a problem with being at times self-conscious with my camera, and not feeling comfortable taking photos of people I don't know. (I try to get over this by getting into the practice of just whipping my camera out and taking photos of friends. They may hate it but they are less likely to actually clobber me than strangers might)

Just now I was walking past a small alleyway where there was an abandoned supermarket trolley, one of those ones with the high basket so you don't have to bend down so far to take things out of it. A very well-dressed woman was taking advantage of it and using it as a dressing table whilst she applied some make-up. I so wish I'd got a picture; it was so incongruous.

And I also wish I'd got a picture of the juggling class I passed a few days ago.
 
 
Quantum
14:26 / 07.10.05
Communicating in birdsong? WTF?
Anna, that sounds brilliant- like a rich bag lady!

While we're on squirrels though, once while camping I found that a little furry-tailed-rat-bastard had chewed through the flysheet and inner of the tent, through a rucksack, through some plastic bags to eat the loaf of bread stored within. Little. Bastards.
Has anyone else seen Highlanders? Can anyone get a pic of the sword with the leather bit at the base of the blade?
 
 
lord nuneaton savage
14:42 / 07.10.05
This was a while ago but once, on my way down to a night club of vile repute, I saw a very large, very intense looking, American Indian kinda dude staring at a street lamp and challenging it to some kind of cosmic battle. He really was making some of the most terrifying gestures toward it. It was really scary.

Also, and perhaps only of interest to fellow Brighton Barbeloids, I once saw the person that everyone in Brighton knows as "Bus-clapping Man" (In that he walks up and down the high street, you guessed it, clapping at buses) standing outside the institute of scientology in the middle of the night, while the alarm was going off, pointing at it and laughing uncontrollably. It was utterly bizzare.

The only conclusion I can reach is that Brighton is some kind of battle ground for a whole host of cozmik superdudes who are at war with light and sound emitting appliances.

If only they'd do something about that cunt with the bass guitar and the effects pedals.
 
 
Tryphena Absent
15:05 / 07.10.05
Who thought it would be a good idea to litter barbelith with pictures of those LITTLE FUCKING BASTARD MAMMALS.

KILLTHEMALLKILLTHEMALL.

They can reach my window boxes now. They like to dig. Enough said.
 
 
Axolotl
15:25 / 07.10.05
Only yesterday someone was bemoaning the effects of squirrels on her window boxes to me. Hanging's too good for them, send 'em back to where they came from, that's what I say.
 
 
Quantum
15:59 / 07.10.05
Brighton is some kind of battle ground for a whole host of cozmik superdudes who are at war with light and sound emitting appliances.

Shut up! Grant may be watching! You can't tip our hand before the bus-clapping-man is ready!
 
 
daynah
16:21 / 07.10.05
One time at school I saw a ninja.

No, really. I walked into the student center foyer and a ninja rushed in behind me and jumped around and tried to run up the wall but then fell back on his bum and then ran out.

I walked into the cafeteria and cried out all of my emotions for all my hopes and dreams of real ultimate power had been crushed.
 
 
mondo a-go-go
16:33 / 07.10.05
See, you'd never have felt that let down if he'd been a pirate who'd fallen on his bum.
 
 
daynah
16:45 / 07.10.05
But would the pirate been trying to climb up the wall before he fell on his bum? Hmmmmm?
 
 
Mourne Kransky
18:54 / 07.10.05
Only if he'd had too much grog and was chasing a squirrel. A particularly pert young squirrel.
 
 
toughest, fastest, fatest
22:46 / 07.10.05
that reminds me, i saw a ninja flip out and cut a squirrel's head off the other day
 
 
*
23:11 / 07.10.05
Quants:



That what you're thinking of? It's from Braveheart, not Highlander. Sounds like your guy in the stockyard was a little confused.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
23:13 / 07.10.05
Squirrels on crack.
 
 
A fall of geckos
07:37 / 02.12.05
I got up this morning to find a psychotic looking squirrel sitting on my bins staring at me threateningly.

When I got to work, I checked the BBC news website to find this.

"Squirrels have bitten to death a stray dog which was barking at them in a Russian park, local media report.

Passers-by were too late to stop the attack by the black squirrels in a village in the far east, which reportedly lasted about a minute.

They are said to have scampered off at the sight of humans, some carrying pieces of flesh."

Is it wrong to fear these crack-addled dog killing bastards?
 
 
All Acting Regiment
13:34 / 02.12.05
Manchester town hall christmas decorations. It's a pretty impressive scary building as it is, being all victorian and gothic, but this particular night they'd just put up the tinsel stars and they were upside down, making little inverted pentagrams.

And then the Santa. Is huge. Is a huge, bearded man climbing over the top of the building, pressing down on the roof, carrying a space shuttle in his sack, with all thes pentagrams underneath. It's pretty archetypal and deep when it's night and there's no-one around.
 
 
All Acting Regiment
13:36 / 02.12.05


This is the building.
 
 
GogMickGog
14:01 / 02.12.05
Today I laughed off my hangover as a stray dog wandered over to the austere English faculty and shat on the lawn.

Lovely.
 
 
Gypsy Lantern
14:07 / 02.12.05
I was walking through Soho once and I saw these two guys unloading large boxes out of van that had the chillingly suggestive words "Sex Meats" written on the side of it, and taking the boxes into one of those dodgy little Soho prostitution doorways.

On closer inspection, it turned out that the door of the van was obscuring part of the company name, and it actually read "Essex Meats", and it was just a catering firm making a delivery to a café. But for a moment, I thought I'd had a disturbing, Lynchian, glimpse into some twilight, porno, Soylent Green world of Sex Meats.
 
 
mondo a-go-go
17:33 / 02.12.05
I went to feed the ducks in St James Park today, and aside from:

*b getting divebombed by seagulls which almost took my eyes out with their wings (and (one of which crapped on my nice clean coat) ,

* getting cornered between a bin and a bench and a fence by some coots who looked like they were about to peck my calves, and

* being followed half way around the lake (from the bridge to the cafe) by geese and pigeons,

I was also persued by a squirrel which ran about 50 metres down a path to catch up with me, and then quietly went on its way when it found I had no more bread. Which was quite a relief considering the rep those things have these days.
 
  
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