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SHIFT! LATE! SHIFT! LATE! MONSTERS! MONSTERS!

 
  

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STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
21:18 / 12.02.06
I did actually think of the webcam thing. But someone pointed out it'd be a bit, well, weird, really.
 
 
Mistoffelees
21:26 / 12.02.06
*tsk tsk*
Humbug!

You post a link on Barbelith of the webcam, and we can all watch out for Sheena!
 
 
Alex's Grandma
21:48 / 12.02.06
I've just put a shot of vodka in my mother-in-law's hamster's water bottle. Consequently, I find myself wondering - am I a good person, or am I a bad person? The beast seems happy enough, but I don't suppose it's ever really going to play tennis again. Although ze might manage 'Fives.'
 
 
Tryphena Absent
21:51 / 12.02.06
I worry about how old your mother in law must be. Deep into her hundreds I should think. Is she capable of caring for a hamster?
 
 
Mistoffelees
21:54 / 12.02.06
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
21:55 / 12.02.06
Oh, anyone who was shifting last night- I've spoken to the boyfriend-in-law, who's an ornithologist, and even he reckons a badger could take a swan if they were fighting on land.
 
 
Tryphena Absent
22:12 / 12.02.06
Shifting? Why would being a werewolf have anything to do with swans?

That is genuinely what I thought when I read your post.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
22:21 / 12.02.06
Oh my god, Nina. Don't tell me Molatar's got to you too?
 
 
Bed Head
22:31 / 12.02.06
a badger could take a swan if they were fighting on land.

As opposed to.... what? Flying or swimming? The swan has the advantage pretty much anywhere *except* on the ground.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
22:37 / 12.02.06
On open ground the badger would win... on open water the swan would have a better chance. But a badger can still fight while swimming.

On a badger's home turf, obviously, the swan would have no chance whatsoever as there would be no room to unfurl its mighty arm-breaking wings.
 
 
Saint Keggers
23:52 / 12.02.06
Hello?
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
23:53 / 12.02.06
Hello! I'm still here... still at work for another hour.
 
 
Saint Keggers
00:02 / 13.02.06
Stoatster! How's things at work?
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
00:04 / 13.02.06
Yeah, not bad... as I say, I've only got an hour left, having taken the second half of the night off cos it's the first night my new puppy's been left on her own, and I want her to get used to it gently. So it's all quite good at work, really, and my week off is starting four hours early!

How's you?
 
 
Saint Keggers
00:09 / 13.02.06
Awww, what kind of dog?

As for me things are alright, Im stuck out here in the country for a while yet and Im really looking forward to returning to civilization.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
00:22 / 13.02.06
Mostly lab/collie... there're some pictures in this thread.

Ah, I'd love to fuck off to the countryside for a bit. That would be way cool. I'm still tempted by the idea of moving to iceland, where there are sod all people. I think it'd be nice.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
00:25 / 13.02.06
Although I guess I'd probably also end up looking forward to returning to civilisation after a while...
 
 
Saint Keggers
00:49 / 13.02.06
Yeah I really missing all the amenities of the city. No drink here, no people that I'd want to spend time with and the internet access is just shit.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
00:51 / 13.02.06
No drink... ouch.

Actually, that's one of the things about Iceland- there is booze, but it's fucking expensive. About five quid a pint- not sure what that is in dollars, but it's a lot of them.
 
 
Saint Keggers
00:54 / 13.02.06
Its not that there isnt any drink here its just that I hadnt expected to be staying here so long so I've run out of the money I brought with me.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
00:56 / 13.02.06
Ah. That sucks too!

I'm just about to leave work- I may be back on the Shift later, otherwise take care of yourself and goodnight!
 
 
alas
01:13 / 13.02.06
anyone still up?
 
 
Saint Keggers
01:16 / 13.02.06
Alas! Im still up! Its only 10:16 here.
How's things?
 
 
alas
01:19 / 13.02.06
Yes, we're in the same time zone, you and I! I am fine. My dogs and my cats are all curled up around me, but I wish I had something to drink.
 
 
Saint Keggers
01:31 / 13.02.06
Exactly the same situation here. The only thing I have to drink is coffee and Im going through half a tin a week of that stuff. Thank goodness caffeine doesnt affect my sleep.
 
 
Alex's Grandma
01:33 / 13.02.06
Alas, Keggers, yeah, still up.

Although I remain very worried about this poisonous idea whereby a badger can apparently do a swan in a fight. They can take a man's arm off, those birds. Nobody's ever said the same about a glorified ferret, or related.
 
 
alas
01:35 / 13.02.06
And nobody's ever written a poem about a woman being raped by a badger.
 
 
Saint Keggers
01:40 / 13.02.06
Although I hear badgers are used in murder trials quite a bit. "You honour, I protest, please tell the prosecution to stop badgering the witness!"

And then there's the swan dive and swan song, neither of which sound all that great.
 
 
Alex's Grandma
01:41 / 13.02.06
That's hopefully true...
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
01:43 / 13.02.06
Hey kids!

I just got home- doggy was fine. She'd knocked over a stepladder, but I think that was my fault for leaning it against the wall so precariously, and apart from that everything's cool, and my comics appear to be untouched.
 
 
alas
01:45 / 13.02.06
What are you doing out there in the hinterlands, mon cher Kegs? I think you told us earlier, but I've forgotten.

(I do actually have access to drink, to some decent wine, in fact, but my cat's on my lap and I hate to wake her and, more importantly, I'd have to walk all the way downstairs....too lazy to drink. A sad situation. Where's Jeeves when you need him, hmmm? Why have i never had a man servant, I ask you, for you to covet?)
 
 
Saint Keggers
01:46 / 13.02.06
And what about Swan Lake? Youhave to be a pretty impressive animal to have a lake named after you. Nobody's ever heard of Badger Lake or even Ferret Pond.
 
 
Saint Keggers
01:49 / 13.02.06
I wouldnt covet your manservant.

Im up here taking care of the house and animals while my grandmother is in recovery from surgery.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
01:49 / 13.02.06
All the major composers were afeared of the badgers. They didn't want to go through the same shit Mozart did with the Freemasons.
 
 
alas
01:51 / 13.02.06
And then there's the swan dive and swan song, neither of which sound all that great.

But they're surely better than "badger dive" which sounds like, I don't know, a kind of dodgy bar in Wisconsin, or "badger song," which you gotta admit just doesn't have the same gravitas...
 
  

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