Not location specific, No rules: Welcome to ILX heaven

Poor fellah, finds love then loses the way to express it :(

Yeah, it's $90 at the city pound, but much less at county ones because of the "save a life" program they're running. One pet per household, dogs $37, cats $32.

I found him online - I occasionally look through the pound websites, just because.

Poor fellah, finds love then loses the way to express it :(

Yeah, I know. I feel bad for him, but the pounds won't release an animal unless it's been spayed or neutered. I didn't think about it with Zero because he was only 3 months old, but this guy's had his yambag for 10 years now, he knows what's what!

Good luck Luna.

Esssh SO it's 20 past 5 on a Friday and I COOOOULD draft up the email and final contract and issue to the person for Monday OR I could take work home and do it there over the weekend with pop music to listen to and cakes to eat, yeah, I think imma gonna be doing that because it's ujst not happening here...

Go home and work, def.

yambag

haha, I've never heard this.

not releasing them without being fixed is a good thing. If those morans across the street would have spayed their cats we wouldn't be pouring so much of our money and time into taking care of the cats they abandoned.

My friend Todd came up with it a few years back and it always makes me laugh because it's so crude. This may be the first time I've ever used it myself.

yambag

Yowza! Great word.

Right, have a good weekend everyone. Remember to spay and neuter your friendspets!

Yes, Sarah, you should definitely go home. I'm trying to think of reasons to leave early today myself.

Have a good one, kv!

huh. i've got to work up another 40 minutes on my clock.

and i'm too busy to spend it here. friday sucks.

I have 8 hours to go. Woo. Hoo.

i'm willing to guess my shift started before yours, if this is a contest [-|

I'm going shopping.

Maybe I'll finish my work later when accompanied by some beers.

Well, I'm still working. Also I would still be posting even if I wasn't working.

My adoption policy with animals seems to be all based around the story. So I usually end up with the fag ends of animals that were left out in the cold because they were a bit mental. As a result I have one dog who picked up some kind of parasite or something while living rough and can only eat special expensive food or he'll die, one dog who won't pee or poop while he's on the lead and can't be left in the back garden or he howls the neighbourhood down, one cat who pees on any soft furnishings he encounters (although he's a bit better now) and one beautiful, flaw-free cat (except for the ringworm and weepy eye) who I managed to get in there and adopt before she was old enough to be fucked up by anyone else.

I admire you, Luna, for your policy towards bull breeds. They passed a law here that people who live in public housing can't keep them anymore. It's really obnoxious.

i'm willing to guess my shift started before yours, if this is a contest [-|

haha - nope, it's not!

I didn't want a pit when I went to the pound the first time to get a puppy, but my husband was so sad that this wee little guy's sister was getting adopted and he wasn't that I couldn't say no to the little beggar, and it turned out so well that I got another, and now I'm one of the "deed, not breed" people. It makes me so sad how many pitties are in the pound because people don't understand that not all of them are BAD DOGS.

Could you have resisted this? http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v240/lunacee/babyzero.jpg

No. I certainly could not.

Trish, you shunned me for cat-related illness. It sounds like you have more trouble than me.

I know this is shameless but I'm bored, so screw it:

Me babbling on about a cool exhibition at the SF MOMA

Trish, you shunned me for cat-related illness. It sounds like you have more trouble than me.

No way! Mine are all a bit screwy, but they're happy and good-tempered.

I am sorry I shunned you because of the ringworm. I was shallow. Like that chick in Cyrano de Bergerac.

Um, I dn't mean to suggest that anyone here doesn't have happy, well-adjusted animals. I'm just saying that I know people whose animals are kind of bad-tempered.

Cool exhibition, MW. Maybe I should send Mister M to it.

Only Wheezy is bad-tempered. All myy rest are lovely.

Hi everybody! I've been missing you! Trying to learn Portuguese from an immersion program, so when I sit at the computer I make myself just do that. It's kicking my ass.

I tried to adopt a pit/brittany a while ago. I had her for a week and ended up taking her back to the shelter because she was going to kill my old boy dog Puck. It would start out rough-and-tumble fun and morph into something else. A low rumbly growl as she went for his throat. It seemed out of her control. She was an absoluted sweetie, except for the gonna-kill-Puck thing. I cried and cried. I had even re-named her, from Lucky to Lucy. She was a girl, fer chrissakes. When I took her back they told me that she had come from a family of problem dogs—her mother was a repeat cat-killer. Thanks for the full disclosure, guys.

hi everyone i r drunk and going to bed and have only skimmed thred.

Well done luna on saving dog lives. I wish I wasn't allergic coz I love dogs. I'm going to see my Staffie-in-law Floyd tomorrow and he's going to make me sneeze but he's great and is worth popping a coupla Piriton for.

Hi dere Beth long time no read.
Shame about dog nearly being killer dog :(
Good luck with Portuguese (I copied and pasted that or I'd have been typing all night) - we know a Portuguese/Scottish couple who decided that Mum would always/mostly speak Portuguese to their wee girl and Dad would always/mostly speak English and it's amazing to hear her switch between languages like it's the most natural thing in the world. They sometimes speak to each other in the secret language of French but their daughter has started picking that up too. I think she's only about 6 years old and has two and a bit languages in the bank already.

I'm rambling. I'm going to bed.

Meant to mention: teh_kit posted on ILG the other day so he's not dead, which is good.

I am rapidly becoming fed up with ILx again, thanks y'all for being so lovely.

this is a HUGE xpost, but thanks aldo - i think you're right; there is much greater risk in not doing this big thing. i figure i'm young enough, free enough to give this a go. i don't have any financial or employment commitments, i haven't started my career, i haven't travelled. worse case scenario: we don't have any physical chemistry - but there's an utterly amazing friendship there which i know will survive. if it doesn't work i can always move on. it's not like i haven't had my heart broked before, so i'll survive this no matter what happens.

I have just got up, after SingStarring last night (and becoming the EVERYONE'S WOES REPOSITORY again, but thta's a whole other story) and have to meet GB on the rough cider boat in an hour and a half. Bleh.

Dying this morning. Swallowed just short of an OD of painkillers to straighten me out. I'll try to wrestle a pint down during the football. You need text updates Al?

I promised to do a bucket of arrabbiata for the party I'm going to later. Never make promises to do anything the day after a booze session.

I have no basil :(

I'll be watching the footie on my phone, so I'm OK without updates. I am also NOT TEMPTING FATE.

I feel like shite. And I have to leave the house in half an hour.

Great to see you back Beth. I still have your card. Somewhere. I am a VERY BAD PERSON and might just buy another card and send it quickly. Sorry.

Meant to mention: teh_kit posted on ILG the other day so he's not dead, which is good.

He's also on facebook!

I'll be watching the footie on my phone

Wow!

"watching" = having the Orange commentary on (which is brilliant btw, they're right sarcastic bastards) and hitting refresh.

Right, I am now off out to attempt to drink rough cider.

That sounds pretty sweet! I don't think we have anything like that here!

Enjoy cider. I'm off out to watch rugby.

I'm, um, doing the work that YOU PEOPLE kept me from during the week, and then going to the theatre later on.

I am dying of booze-related badness and am about to go and watch the football and attempt to kill my hangover by drowning it in new booze. This may be a bad plan, but it's all I got.

I'm finished with ILx as of today - the witch hunt that seems to be going on by people who don't know me, have never spoken to me, or asked for my side of whatever stories they're being told is too much to bear given what's happened in my life this year so far, and so I just concede. If they want to believe I'm fake and a liar and a parody, they are welcome to. Y'all can email me if you have the desire, but the time has come (okay it was probably 3 years ago) for me to bow out gracefully and so I shall. xxx

Luna, please don't let one idiot spoil it for you. At least hang round here?

Yeah, come on Luna. In fairness, I'm so clueless about the politics of the board that I really have no idea what these people are on about, nor do I wish to know.

Hang with us. I like to see pictures of pit bulls. And, you know, hear stories of the old country.

Luna, this is the only thread I go to, pretty much, so I have no idea what's the matter. No matter, just give me some names and I will beat them up and curse them in Portuguese. Or at least tell them that their socks are purple.

why dont you explain yourself then?

You accuse someone of being fake and think it's them that has the explaining to do? Do you mean fake as in "there is no luna this is a construct dreamt up by a fat 94 year old sex offender" or "this isn't the same luna that posted to old-ilx but someone squatting her alias"?

Like accentmonkey I have no idea what's behind this but people using aliases and talking about any old crap on the Internet doesn't really need anyone to call it out as fake.

fwiw luna I hope you don't leave. You've never been anything but nice to people as far as I've seen, except where assholes needed telling.

Rough Cider FAP:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/aldo_cowpat/006.jpg

Friends who bring you ace things are ace:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/aldo_cowpat/007.jpg

Unfortunately the chocolate tasted like shite:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/aldo_cowpat/008.jpg

OK, what in the holy hell is that?

It's a bit of chocolate with an oven-roasted cricket in it. Obviously.

I also got to try aldo's GINGER SURPRISE he has planned for ATP. I think those who attend may well like it.

RUIN

Oh yeah, definitely RUIN.

I think people going around accusing others of being fake are deflecting attention from their own fakeness. Either that or some old IlX0rs are finally going off the deep end. Surely we've seen other regulars devolve into trolls and then outright loonies. Should be interesting.

you couldnt be farther from the truth.

Would you care to explain the truth about luna's fakeness, as onimo has suggested, since you're all about making this public?

im just puttin two and two together. not that difficult people!!! have any of you ever met her?