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Posted January 05, 2015
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Stilton: I've kind of been doing both - lots of plundering and hunting, but getting fat too because the plundering and hunting was in the larder for another armful of mince pies to take back to the sofa where my bum was more than pleased to take over while I watched another three hours of Poirot of Foyle's War. I tell you, these period detective dramas are enough to turn a Viking against his ancestors (not to mention the mince pies).
I'm disappointed, that plundering the larder for mince pies is not a story worthy of a fierce Viking Warrior. I was hoping you'd return with grand adventures to tell of. Though I've watched a few episodes of Foyle's War, and must say that I was pleasantly surprised.
Posted January 05, 2015
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AgentBirdnest: Hahaha. I have no idea how to eat it. I am still afraid to try. I almost just want to frame it and put it on my wall.

I think the strategy is just... hold it like a hamburger and dive in?
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Stilton: You'd better wear your WW2 helmet ;-)
XD
I might need to use my grandfather's WW2 machete to get started.
Post edited January 05, 2015 by AgentBirdnest
Posted January 05, 2015
This is fun....downloading large items from a website that not only has crappy speed, but also a limit on how many times you can download each item, despite you having paid for it.
Keep wondering when the bottom's going to drop out and crash so I can expend another allowed download to start all over again.
Posted January 05, 2015
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Stilton: Ever seen a Viking who's been charmed by an unexpectedly nice remark? We're talking opposites here, almost as extreme as King Kong in a tutu. Vikings are warriors who live for battle and copious quantities of barbecued meat washed down with gallons of ale and followed by deep slumber populated my dreams of victory and accompanied by volcanic flatulence and the kind of belches that can rot tree bark at fifty paces. But this one's sitting here feeling all warm and cuddly.

Dammit, snap out of it, man!! Think of your forebears!!!
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CarrionCrow: Think of yourself as a renaissance Viking. You can maintain pleasant conversation in between killing things with sharp objects. ;)
A Renaissance Viking - I like that. Kind of Leonardo da Stilton, one moment designing weapons of sublime efficiency (LOTS of sharp objects spinning with clicking-purring perfection in contraptions that defy the mind), the next clubbing the heads off my enemies with a dead sheep after I've taunted/belched at them. Sounds uncommonly civilized.

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Stilton: I've kind of been doing both - lots of plundering and hunting, but getting fat too because the plundering and hunting was in the larder for another armful of mince pies to take back to the sofa where my bum was more than pleased to take over while I watched another three hours of Poirot of Foyle's War. I tell you, these period detective dramas are enough to turn a Viking against his ancestors (not to mention the mince pies).
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HypersomniacLive: I'm disappointed, that plundering the larder for mince pies is not a story worthy of a fierce Viking Warrior. I was hoping you'd return with grand adventures to tell of. Though I've watched a few episodes of Foyle's War, and must say that I was pleasantly surprised.
The grandest tale I can tell, I'm ashamed to say, is how I managed to get to the top of the stairs on only the fifth attempt after a heavy pie eating session and almost got completely undressed before I fell onto the floor beside my bed. Its a life of excess I blame it on - all that shouting and yelling, hurling heavy objects about, stuffing my face and swilling ale all the time. It makes it tough when the gentler, more poignant moments come along. Maybe I should take up knitting to temper those hardened edges...
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Posted January 05, 2015
Knitting can do wonders, you should try it.


OK, going to try and see if I can catch some rest, but don't be surprised if you see me back here in an hour or two. ;-)

Night everyone.
Posted January 05, 2015
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CarrionCrow: This is fun....downloading large items from a website that not only has crappy speed, but also a limit on how many times you can download each item, despite you having paid for it.
Keep wondering when the bottom's going to drop out and crash so I can expend another allowed download to start all over again.
Those things make me despair. I'd rather go without whatever they're offering than suffer the annoyance of using their badly limited and irritatingly naff 'service'. Is it your relative's audiobooks you're trying to get hold of? If so you'll have to turn on 'Enforced Patience Mode' and play games in the meantime. Be great if it was like going into a shop (remember doing that once upon a time?) where you could use something called 'money' and another one called 'conversation' and leave the shop a few minutes later with the thing(s) you wanted. 'Progress' appears to have taken on its exact opposite definition these days, although I'm pretty sure 'badly implemented crap' still means what it always has.
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HypersomniacLive: Knitting can do wonders, you should try it.

OK, going to try and see if I can catch some rest, but don't be surprised if you see me back here in an hour or two. ;-)

Night everyone.
Sleep well, sheep well, sheep well, sheep well, sheep well....

That's four sheep to start you off - have fun with the rest ;-)


3am here, so I'm going up the stairs the Bedfordshire. Sleep well all, it was nice coming home ;-)
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Posted January 05, 2015
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Stilton: Peanut butter cups sound niiiice. Are they like those orange and yellow packaged ones (sorry, can't recall the name). Whenever I eat those I feel like I'm converting to some kind of hedonistic but oh so enjoyable new way of life and its hard to stop.

And good for Bumberluppins - I'm going to hang on to my snow until the real thing arrives, and then hang on to it some more.
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AgentBirdnest: Yeah. Reese's is the name. This is what the half-pound cup looks like. Serving size = 1/6 of that behemoth.

I'm glad you are keeping the snow. It is comforting. :-)
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HypersomniacLive: How have you been doing lately? I hope much better than the previous days.
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AgentBirdnest: My cold came and went in only 5 days. Feelin' much better now.
I got those big ass Reese's cups for my wife for Christmas...
Posted January 05, 2015
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Good looks like everyone's gone to bed,Umm time to get up to some mischief.
What's in here?
Post edited January 05, 2015 by gunsynd
Posted January 05, 2015
Hello, everyone !
Good morning, Gunsynd ! or... afternoon ? evening ?...
Dammit, it was hard to crawl out of my bed this morning !!!
3__3
I will be also hard to keep my eyes open until tonight...
Coffee will help, I presume !

How are you going, Australian fellow ? :)
Post edited January 05, 2015 by LaPtiteBete
Posted January 05, 2015
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LaPtiteBete: Hello, everyone !
Good morning, Gunsynd ! or... afternoon ? evening ?...
Dammit, it was hard to crawl out of my bed this morning !!!
3__3
I will be also hard to keep my eyes open until tonight...
Coffee will help, I presume !

How are you going, Australian fellow ? :)
Good Day Angry,
All's well,Tea in the morning.Coffee at night..
Posted January 05, 2015
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Stilton: Hi little owl! How was/is your Christmas? Very good, I hope ;-) And a very Happy New Year to you, too!!

My New Year's resolutions are to be as creative as possible (because it makes me feel good) and to end the year feeling fitter than I do now (because it also makes me feel good). I keep telling myself that if I take each of these things in small stages I'll get there, so here goes....

How about you, have you made any unshakable promises to yourself?

I like your TV viewing - I've just watched a Poirot and I have a box of Sherlock Holmes DVDs that are calling to me to watch them. TV channels here aren't great, so a bit of what I like to watch is nice to have close by.

And HUGS back, by the way :-)
Hi again, Stillton !! :-)
X-mas was good ; we've seen our families a lot. Eaten far too much, too. ^^
What do you do from a creative point of view ? Music ? Art ? Writing ? Others ... ?
I haven't made any good resolution yet...
I'd like to lose a few pounds (10 would be OK...), but I don't do any sport (walk ? maybe... since I can't run... I like to swim, but I'll never have the guts to go to the pool alone ; neither in any sports room, anyway :-(... hum... there is a long way to go !)

Good luck everybody, because it's monday (and [url=http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTb0aDneF5xE7S3Kf5YQnCW7NveWunYwWpu709wFZYu36djYeiWdhXTnfvhQg]no one likes mondays[/url]... )
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gunsynd: Good Day Angry,
All's well,Tea in the morning.Coffee at night..
Looks like it's more cocktail hour at your place ! :)
Post edited January 05, 2015 by LaPtiteBete
Posted January 05, 2015
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gunsynd: Good Day Angry,
All's well,Tea in the morning.Coffee at night..
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LaPtiteBete: Looks like it's more cocktail hour at your place ! :)
8pm,I'm a non-drinker nowadays.Doesn't agree with my ulcer.Doctor told me to have at least one drink a day,then he'd forgive me for my 30 to 40 cigs a day.:_)
Post edited January 05, 2015 by gunsynd
Posted January 05, 2015
Gooood Morning GOOOOG!

As some of you may have noticed, (most will not, I mean, who pays attentions to the ramblings of a psychopathic bunny whose first soluton for any given problem is always chainsaw?) I've been rather insistent with the whole date of epiphany, almost obnoxiously so.

Today I will explain why with some detail.

Today is the 5th, known as Night of the Kings or Night of the Magi (or epiphany's eve). It is the day before the last day of christmas and it is also known as the night of the children. Why? Because tonight the 3 wise men, or magi, will deliver toys to all the good chidren. Throughout the day, there will be parades with fantasy floats in all the major cities, and even small towns, in which the 3 magi will travel in procession, and shower everyone who comes to see with candies thrown with machine gun intensity. There's always someone who gets hit in the eye by a particularly powerfully thrown piece candy and complains about it later. Some of the smaller parades even give out small inexpensive toys. Tomorrow morning, the children will wake up to find their shoes filled with presents, or coal if they've been bad.

We give our presents on the very last day of christmas, not the first. As a child I used to despair about having to wait until the very end to get my presents. But even then, I liked having something to look forward to. As an adult, I like having an important celebration still being left after christmas and new year. Something big and flashy to finish the festivities with. I've always thought that in other countries christmas seemed to dwindle away, and went off, not with a bang, but with a whimper.

It also means we get one more day of national holiday wohoooo!

And, that in the spirit of giving, I will be doing a (very) small giveaway.
Post edited January 05, 2015 by j0ekerr
Posted January 05, 2015
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gunsynd: 8pm,I'm a non-drinker nowadays.Doesn't agree with my ulcer.Doctor told me to have at least one drink a day,then he'd forgive me for my 30 to 40 cigs a day.:_)
30-40 a day, wow ô__ô I used to smoke 10 on my bad days !

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j0ekerr: Gooood Morning GOOOOG!
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Hellow, j0ekerr !!
Nice parades you have in Spain !
Well, have a merry Christmas, so...
I hope you'll have plenty of presents and not a bunch of coal ^^
Posted January 05, 2015
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j0ekerr: Gooood Morning GOOOOG!

As some of you may have noticed, (most will not, I mean, who pays attentions to the ramblings of a psychopathic bunny whose first soluton for any given problem is always chainsaw?) I've been rather insistent with the whole date of epiphany, almost obnoxiously so.

Today I will explain why with some detail.

Today is the 5th, known as Night of the Kings or Night of the Magi (or epiphany's eve). It is the day before the last day of christmas and it is also known as the night of the children. Why? Because tonight the 3 wise men, or magi, will deliver toys to all the good chidren. Throughout the day, there will be parades with fantasy floats in all the major cities, and even small towns, in which the 3 magi will travel in procession, and shower everyone who comes to see with candies thrown with machine gun intensity. There's always someone who gets hit in the eye by a particularly powerfully thrown piece candy and complains about it later. Some of the smaller parades even give out small inexpensive toys. Tomorrow morning, the children will wake up to find their shoes filled with presents, or coal if they've been bad.

We give our presents on the very last day of christmas, not the first. As a child I used to despair about having to wait until the very end to get my presents. But even then, I liked having something to look forward to. As an adult, I like having an important celebration still being left after christmas and new year. Something big and flashy to finish the festivities with. I've always thought that in other countries christmas seemed to dwindle away, and went off, not with a bang, but with a whimper.

It also means we get one more day of national holiday wohoooo!

And, that in the spirit of giving, I will be doing a (very) small giveaway.
Good morning j0ekker! Happy holiday to you! Btw, I wonder how come you celebrate the Epiphany's Eve more than the Epiphany itself. Around my parts we'll celebrate tomorrow the 6th the Theophaneia , as Epiphany is called in Greek, which in the orthodox church commemorates rather the baptism of Christ in the Jordan river by John Prodromos, and the fact that the Holy Spirit in the form of a white pigeon showed up and the voice of God was heard saying "This is my chosen son"-which is imo way more important than the visit of the magi to a toddler Christ. Apart from the usual church liturgy, the waters are blessed and some people fall in the sea to retrieve a cross a priest throws in-whoever retrieves it will be lucky in the new year. Your holiday is certainly more paradey thus! :-) But that's still far from the whimper you mentioned other countries seem to have-plus, the 6th is a holiday around here too!
At any rate, it was nice reading about the traditions of those days from somewhere else!

P.S. Another excerpt from wikipedia that also mentions some traditions that are no longer followed(I haven't heard Epiphany carols for some years for example!).
Post edited January 05, 2015 by Treasure
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