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Reall?

I meant fo' realz, obv.

Aw, our dog got on well with both of our cats when I had dogs and cats in my younger days. I think Sandy (dog) was kind of confused by sudden appearance of The Cat, but by the time the The Ginger Cat came along (necessitating The Cat's name to be changed to The Grey Cat) he was fine with it and they became bestest of friends.

Yr dog wz a pussy

The dogs have no problem with grown cats. They understand they are fellow family members who are allowed on the furniture (unlike them) and are not to be messed with.

It's just baby cats I worry about. Poor thing. None of them want her around.

Poor smidger. Nobody loves her.

I do let my dogs on the furniture. Because, fuck it, nobody visits me anyway.

Ah, see, we got both our cats as grown-ups, The Grey Cat chose us after getting fed up with her current owners, and The Ginger Cat was taken from the rescue home after The Grey Cat moved on from us to a family across the road.

I prefer grown-up cats. Mostly b/c kittens almost always will get adopted before adults will. I pity the unwanted.

This one is the baby of one of the neglected cats we've been feeding. I had been aiming to eventually take one of them in but this kitten was on our front porch chair yesterday. So far none of the kittens have ventured across the street from the drug dealers' house. They are moving (yay!) and G. thinks they left it on our porch so we'd take care of it. Hmm. I disagree but I'll let him stick with his romantic story.

It's black, opposite of white Q-Tip who I had to put down last Dec., so I'm calling her Bizarro Q-Tip at the moment.

We had a dog that was too high-bred aka nervous wreck, a street cat that ran away, two stupid cats (one still living). If I were a cruel man I would love to get them both in the same house for a day.

Anyone have any tips re. cookies, firefox and getting flickr to work?

I have mine set at "Accept cookies from sites" and "keep until they expire" and flickr's never given me any problems.

Arse. I think I do too... I'll check when home.

Cultural question: Does the use of 'arse' as an exclamation stem from the Jed Thomas character in 'The Fast Show' or does it predate the show?

In Ireland it has been used since the dawn of arses. I cannot speak for others beyond these shores.

So yiz say it like 'shit' or 'damn', then? As in, "Arse, I forgot to pull out!"

Yes. Like that. Also like "I made a right arse of that" and "I arsed it up big style" and "I got it all arseways".

arseways sounds brilliant.

sick with a head cold that's sapping my will to live (hi 5 luna!), but I do get to call a small town police chief to let him know I'm coming to town.

That sounds intriguing, patita...

accentmonkey, I've heard all the others, it's just as an exclamation that I only knew it from the show.

"Arseways here we come"

Michael, we have a long-idle Scrabulous game still in progress. Want to finish it, eh eh wot wot?

I think "Arse!" said loudly in a West Country accent might have originated from the show. "ARSE!" said even louder in a fake Irish accent comes from Father Ted. Same writers.

Arsepost.

If I have any long-idle games, please feel free to force a win. I'm so swamped with work (and kittens) I can't promise any regular up-keep.

I can't put scrabulous on my facebook profile because annoying "friends" I don't actually like will probably try to engage me in a game.

Rock, and whoever else I have neglected on facebook, I was out for much of August and played about a zillion games but now that I'm back at work where it's blocked, I just haven't had much time. My sincerest apologies. Feel free to kill it, if you can or I'll concede when I get a chance so it doesn't ruin your ranking.

Accentmonkey, feck, I'd totally forgotten about Father Jack.

I hate to force-forfeit games. I wish there was a "game cancelled by mutual agreement" function.

I have updated my flickr! I am so proud of myself.

Link it, kv nol.

jamais!

Quel dommage!

Ha ha. I'll have to label stuff first. Also get over fear of being spied upon. Sad but true, totally over value myself!

Yeah, I still have to label photos I took over a year ago. *Whistles* I'll, uh, get around to it, eventually.

I hate to force-forfeit games. I wish there was a "game cancelled by mutual agreement" function.

Although I can't speak for anyone I would like to say that force-forfeiting on me is by mutual agreement.

I will upload a couple of pics of baby cat whenever she stops napping on my chest.

Yay pictures of kittens. I will need them, have to talk to estate agent today :(

Just remember, Kv, the golden rule of buying a house is this:

When it's your turn to do something, it needs to be done NOW. When it's the turn of the estate agent/vendor/mortgage provider/solicitor, it doesn't need to get done for weeks, or possibly months.

If you remember this rule, you will be far less hassled and confused when documents are shoved at you and you are told to sign away 30 years' worth of salary in ten minutes, while a simple document search that your solicitor told you would get done today takes three weeks and 40 phone calls from you to accomplish.

I have bought four houses in my life so far, and this has been my experience every single time.

Did they ever go really quiet after you put the bid in? He said he'd call tomorrow and still hasn't. As colleague said: it's like I'm in love, I keep jumping when the phone rings :(

Oh god yes. Estate agents are the biggest wankers of all. (Sorry if anyone is or is fond of an estate agent.)

Morning. Swallowing paracetamol and coffee while reading in the Metro that mixing paracetamol and coffee will kill me. Ho hum.

Great night last night. A few drinks and a bite to eat and a good gig and the company of the lovely Mrs O.

iLiKEiLiKETRAiNS. Mrs O thought they were a bit meh.

I bought a 7" and 10" single. I think that's my first 10" record in about 20 years!

iLiKEiLiKETRAiNS too, but I was stuck in the company of my mother-in-law who came in half an hour before the end of the football match I was watching whilst house-sitting and proceeded to talk all over it ("oh, is this important, what's the CIS Cup, oh, does this mean you win the trophy if you win this, are you winning, what's happening blah blah" and looked a bit perturbed that I wasn't just getting up and leaving her house, and just perched on a seat looking at me watching the football rather than go through to any of the other five rooms in her house). Then my mate phoned me with about three minutes to go and I couldn't get him off the phone. I'd much rather have been at a gig.

In other news, my dad was playing golf yesterday and the bloke he was playing with dropped dead of a heart attack right in front of him. He was pretty freaked out, as you can imagine.

so hungover...having a gigantic glass of water with berocca....now have to do boring work

Oh wow ailsa, that's horrible. Your poor dad.

Ronan you are onimoed, for shame.

Onimo you are you, for shame.

Accentmonkey, thanks. Having a bit of a panic this morning :(

Hangover isn't as bad as I'd expect it to be actually. Maybe because I was drinking Guinness.

I have to deal with Stuff I Was Supposed To Have Already Done at work today. Can't handle it.

House buying is nervy, but it'll be fine. What's for you won't go by you, and all that shite. That day we bought here was the longest day ever!

Onimo, skive off work early and Go Back To The Pub. You know you want to. I am available all afternoon, like a bad Jiminy Cricket to lead you astray :-)

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1105/1444654324_78dad659f8_m.jpg

Did that work??

Thanks Ailsa. You are being a bad influence on poor young onimo...

It did. Pity it's a good bit smaller than hoped... Ah well...

Hey Trish, the run was great! Made it in 32 minutes but I could have pushed myself a lot harder - the first 4k was incredibly nice and easy so when I saw the marker for the last km I tried to speed up a bit. The race was really busy so it was actually quite hard to get yourself going at a decent pace as you kept tripping over people. I really enjoyed it! A++ would run again :)

Hey - chaps who know about cooking! I want to make some ginger cake. The recipe calls for 1tbsp of molasses - would you reckon I can just substitute golden syrup for this? You see - I <i>have</i> some golden syrup. And I like it. And it's only 1tbsp right? I *think* it would probably do. Please advise! And then GO DOWN THE PUB.

I have to be careful about arranging drinkies in the coming weeks. Mrs O pointed out to me that that was the first time we'd been out together (sans children) since our anniversary in July and that she'd only been out once since. I am a bad mang.

Pub lunch?

GET THEE BEHIND ME! I'M NOT GOING FOR A PINT!
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Wimp.

Bid rejected btw. Wondering what to do next...

Why is my Jebus vs Satan picture not appearing in my GET THEE BEHIND ME post?

They too have abandoned you... All that's left is Ailsa...