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[Juan_Bottom]

I have a strange feeling that BLACK ADDER makes the cut.....

Which one? The Third series was a massive dissappointment after the 2nd

LOL, wut?

[jonesthecurl]

What's your RPG called? I've only played a couple of not-massive-company-produced RPGs, but it's worth asking....

It's the "All-Adventure Action Roleplay Game", or "AAARG!"

[jonesthecurl]

Your thoughts on older men with ponytails?

I think it can look quite good.
Exception: if they're going bald - then it looks just silly. Like those ropes of seaweed that you see sometimes on a cliff-face below the high tide line.

[jonesthecurl]

Why do books and movies always repeat the same sci-fi crap?
"Space-time continuem, warp drive, crystal power sources, aliens calling our system the Sol system, ect."

I saw many years ago a flow-chart, originally from OMNI magazine, which included every sf plot ever. It was amazingly good.
Why sf writeres can't come up with more new ideas I don't know - and tv/movie sf seems to be about thirty years behind written sf usually.

HG Wells covered most of the sf classics - time travel space travel, invading aliens, suspended animation, scientific experiment runs wild, artificial mutation. As well as prediciting air war, joysticks, tanks, aaand I don't know what all else.
He's still hard to beat.

What I want to know about Star Trek is things like :

When they're going faster than light, how do they see the enemy spaceship/large monster/ball of energy following them by looking through the rear viewscreens? The light can't catch up, by definition...

What's this with a neutrino detector? Neutrinos can sometimes pass through an entire planet without reacting with anything...

How come they never fitted seat belts?

When they're going faster than light, surely the forward-firing photon torpedoes would be suicidal? Photons travel at the speeed of light, and as soon as they fired them they'd be going faster than them and thus the torpedo would rip through the ship...

[jonesthecurl]

Hey Jonesy

What's the top 5 British TV comedies?

I'm not much of a one for lists, but I'd have to inclkude some of the following:

Black Adder (especially the WWI one)
Coupling (not the final series) - includes the immortal chat-up line "you have the eyes of twelve women! oh, I don't mean in a jar.."
Monty Python
Morning Sarge
The Thin Blue Line
Mitchell and Webb
Till Death do us Part (very old classic)
Men Behaving Badly
Absolutely
Who's Line is it Anyway (which I think came out in the UK first)
As Time Goes By (this isn't particularly funny, but the standard of acting is awesome)
and the almost-forgotten Tellygoons, which was the radio recordings of the Goon Show, acted out by puppets.

those are the ones that come immediatly to mind, I'm sure I've missed loads.

[jonesthecurl]

Oh, and juan, I don't think I'm very different in real life than I appear here.
Fatter, maybe.

[jonesthecurl]

bw the dice creamed us in that game wiht your cousin. It was a doubles and my partner went three rounds wihtout winning a die roll, while the opposition had very good dice. up until then , I felt certain of a victory, but soon it was me vs 2, and that way lies oblivion.

[Nikolai]

What's your RPG called? I've only played a couple of not-massive-company-produced RPGs, but it's worth asking....

It's the "All-Adventure Action Roleplay Game", or "AAARG!"

Nope, haven't played it... and I have to say, if the acronym is synonymous with the exclamations of the players, I may be afraid to try!

[Juan_Bottom]

bw the dice creamed us in that game wiht your cousin. It was a doubles and my partner went three rounds wihtout winning a die roll, while the opposition had very good dice. up until then , I felt certain of a victory, but soon it was me vs 2, and that way lies oblivion.

LOL, wut?

I would have put money down on that game too....

[jonesthecurl]

Must be the prayers...

[jonesthecurl]

which reminds me:
walkies!

[Neoteny]

Virus: alive or dead?

[jonesthecurl]

Most certainly not dead.
Has a large number of the aspects required to be "alive", but not quite all -
which goes to show that the exact definition of a word can seem important. To humans, not reality.
The universe as a whole ignores our semantic bickerings and carries on.

[Juan_Bottom]

Hey, any way I can make bumble-bee poison out of common houshold cleaners?

I have Ajax, Bleach, Baking Soda, Windex, Fabric Fresh, Dishoap, The Works-Toilet Bowl Cleaner, Pinesol, and some orange stuff.

Thanks.

[jonesthecurl]

Well, now, bees, I'm not sure. I like bees anyhow.
But wasps and flies can be offed in droves quite simply:

cut the top third off of a large fizzy drink bottle, so you have effectively a jar and a funnel. Put a coupla inches of sugar water of anything sweet in the "jar" and put the topback on upside-down. Make sure that the end of the "funnel" has at least two inches clearance from the liquid.The buzzy pests get in becuase they like the smell. Most of them will not find their way out.

[Juan_Bottom]

Well, now, bees, I'm not sure. I like bees anyhow.
But wasps and flies can be offed in droves quite simply:

cut the top third off of a large fizzy drink bottle, so you have effectively a jar and a funnel. Put a coupla inches of sugar water of anything sweet in the "jar" and put the topback on upside-down. Make sure that the end of the "funnel" has at least two inches clearance from the liquid.The buzzy pests get in becuase they like the smell. Most of them will not find their way out.

You let me down sir.... I thought you could do anything... like McGyver, only accessible...
I like bees too. But I'm allergic and was lucky enough to discover a bumble bee nest in the corner of our yard, with my mower....

They got me good, bro....

Also I am very curious to know what band you're listening to right now?
Honestly, I'm listening to The Who(just discovered 'em, amazing), Beethoven(pretty caught up on his 3rd symph), Hank Williams Sr.
(I like to listen to music whilst I play disc golf, so I need a lot)

[jonesthecurl]

If you've actually got the nest, then I believe hot soapy water will see em off. Bee-keepers use smoke to drive bees out of a hive while they collect the honey - I guess a CO2 fire extinguisher would do a similar job(then destroy the nest while they're out). However, you need to wear protective gear while dpoing any of the above.

I also think the soda-bottle method might be worth a try, though you might want to try varying the bait: honey, flowers.

[Nikolai]

I dunno... bees, bumblebees in particular, have much better hovering capacity than flies, and slightly better than wasps... they may be more able to get out.

[jonesthecurl]

Also I am very curious to know what band you're listening to right now?
Honestly, I'm listening to The Who(just discovered 'em, amazing), Beethoven(pretty caught up on his 3rd symph), Hank Williams Sr.
(I like to listen to music whilst I play disc golf, so I need a lot)

(btw Juan I don't know who/what "Mcgyver" is - probably a reference to some bit of US pop culture I've yet to meet. Is he/she/it like a "MacGuffin"?)

At the moment, while I'm sat at the computer, I have no access to music (no sound).

When not at the computer, things I have beeen istening to recently include, oddly enough The Who - I bought "Live At Leeds" recently. I realised that, back when music came on vinyl, we only ever listened to one side of it. I honestly didn't recognise the first half of it, though I'd have sworn I knew every note.

IN my opinion, the opening lyrics of The Who's "Substitute" are some of the most sublime in any pop/rock song ever -

"The North side of my town faced east
And the East was facing South"

Not only does it work (turning the compass 90 degrees), but it indicates that the posh end was like the East End of London, and the rough bit was all going South for work.

I've also been listening to a neglected classic from about the same era - Kevin Ayers and the Whole World's Shooting At the Moon. I love this album so much, I literally have the t-shirt (I only bought it about two years ago, but as soon as I discovered there was such a thing I had to have it).

Kevin Ayers wasn't that well known even in his heyday, but he's one of my favourites. He had a larger influence than it would appear, in that he discovered, teamed with, or influenced, many people who became better known: the Whole World for instance inlcuded Lol Coxhill, a big name in Brit Jazz, who appeared with such influential bands as the Damned a little later: Dave Bedford, with quite a following amongst modern orchestral fans; I'm damned if I can think of the name of the girl who sings with him on The Oyster and The Flying Fish, but she became a big name in folk music: - and this was Mike Oldfield's first recording (so far as I know).

Ayers was also a founder member of Soft Machine, which will mean much to fans of classic Brit avant-garde jazz.

When I saw him live in Hyde Park, he also played and sang with Nico (she of of Velvet Undergound fame). I believe he was romantically involved with her at one point, but I may be wrong there.

It's the school holidays, so I don't listen to much "classical" music, as the kids rather get in the way of extended concentration. [Yes (to any pedants), I know that strictly "Classical" applies to a relatively short era, but I'm using the word here as in current common usage]. I go heavily for the obvious Beethoven and Mozart, but my other favourites are not quite so obvious - Richard Strauss (not one of the waltzy Stausses), and Berlioz being among them. Not a fan of Bach in particular - too cerebral for me.
Btw, if you're a fan of Beethoven's 3rd, then the 7th is the obvious next listening step in my view.

[pimpdave]

If you've actually got the nest, then I believe hot soapy water will see em off. Bee-keepers use smoke to drive bees out of a hive while they collect the honey - I guess a CO2 fire extinguisher would do a similar job(then destroy the nest while they're out). However, you need to wear protective gear while dpoing any of the above.

I also think the soda-bottle method might be worth a try, though you might want to try varying the bait: honey, flowers.

Yes, you know all about bees, don't you?

Another sneaky technique of concealing the animal you know best (and command): COBRAS!

[jonesthecurl]

Well, you certainly can't capture cobras in a soda bottle.
Or so I hear.
not that I've tried.
Not that I know anything about COBRA, I mean cobras.

[Juan_Bottom]

Welp, for future reference, make sure that you have enough soapy water to also soak that third, hidden Bumble bee-hole. Otherwise you'll get stung again and break out in a cold sweet and be immobile because you're allergic.
Also, sugerwater in a bottle doesn't work, but honey does. But too slowly. It is awful windy here though, so I wait another 24hrs before I give up on it.

McGyver is a corny TV action hero from back in the day. His best weapon was his mind. He made all sorts of gadjets from what he had on hand. I once saw an episode where he made a little hand grenade land mine out of
A rubber band
A paperclip
An AA Energizer battery
some thread from his shirt

It was always something crazy like this.


Next question, Do you use Jerry Curl?

[pimpdave]

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[jonesthecurl]

I have decided, that, just as " " (walkies!) has come, to me, to represent, nay encapsulate the late and lamented suggsy, so " " can do a fine job of representing me, at least on this one non-topic.
It is a dead "shut up". It has ceased to be. If it wasn't nailed to the forum it would be lying on its back.

[Curmudgeonx]

I have decided, that, just as " " (walkies!) has come, to me, to represent, nay encapsulate the late and lamented suggsy, so " " can do a fine job of representing me, at least on this one non-topic.
It is a dead "shut up". It has ceased to be. If it wasn't nailed to the forum it would be lying on its back.

*shakes fist* damn plagiarist