Conquer Club

Juan_Bottom wrote: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?

...catching up on "share my views".
Sorry about the bees - my claivoyance failed to see the other bunch of 'em.

Pity you didn't get it on video, else we'd now know the bees dance-language for
"You decoy him into the centre, then we'll hit him from the flank with the reserves".

ON your latest question, we appear again to have hit a cultural divide.
I have no idea what Jerry Curl is.
Assuming that it's some sort of "perm" for your hair, the answer is "no" (well, it's "no" whatever it is as I've not heard of it - but neither do I use any other artificial curl-inducer).
My hair is naturally curly, and I would also point out that despite my advanced years compared to most of CC, I'm neither greying nor balding. My waistline however is middle-aged.

Nikolai wrote:

jonesthecurl wrote:

Nikolai wrote: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!

Just spotted I hadn't followed this up.

AAARG! was designed to simulate swashbuckling adventure like INdiana Jones or ancient Saturday-Morning cinema, pulp figures like Doc Savage and so forth.

The original impulse was when I was watching Indy use an inflatable raft first as a parachute, then a sled, then a boat, etc. I thought "I'd love to put that in a roleplay session - but there's no way you wouldn't all just die".

So I studied the way things work in such adventures, and built into the system the fact that the greater the oddds against you, the poorer the enemy's aim becomes: the less you know about an individual the easier they are to overcome (think of all the squads of uniformed Mexicans or the Sherrif of Nottingham's men, who can be brought down by stretching a rope across a door) - and in really desperate circumstances, the more daring the action the more likely it is to succeed.

The system has no particular setting, and I and others have used it for superheroes (including Watchmen), Robin Hood, Philip Farmer's World of Tiers, spies, cops, generic fantasy, commandos, intrepid explorerers in hidden valleys of dinosaurs, etc.

It's a very simple system, so I'd often buy modules for discontinued games and adapt them.

I've seen and played a huge number of roleplay systems, and in my very humble opinion it's the second best I've ever played.

Mr. Thecurl,

Please share your views.

Anarchy: Why Would Someone Who Is Not the Leader of an Evil Army Determined to Dominate the World Want To Discuss It So Badly? Huh?

Jones, what county do you live in?

Sounds interesting. If my group went for the swashbuckling type of thing, I'd check into getting it... but alas. My group is mostly about burning things. (Not that I mind. )

jonesthecurl wrote:I've seen and played a huge number of roleplay systems, and in my very humble opinion it's the second best I've ever played.

Second-best?

LYR wrote:Jones, what county do you live in?

I live in the US, and have done for two years now.
I was born in London, grew up in the English Essex, and lived more recently in various other parts of the English South.

Oh, sorry - you said "county". Well, just as I grew up in the Englihs Essex, now I live in the NJ Essex.

In loving memory off suggsie


Jones share your views on boobies!!!!





this ? is suggs approved

Boobies The universe's most beautiful 4-dimensional curve.

Some people like big ones, ( walkies!)

Some like small ones.

I don't care. They are, after all, boobies.


I once knew a girl (rest her soul) who had "mild" tatooed on one and "bitter" tatooed on the other. A Biker chick I knew had a gorgeous tatoo of a panther on hers. In both cases, I'd rather have just seen booby.

Please, ladies, don't tatoo 'em or pierce 'em, stick silicon balloons in 'em or otherwise mar em.
They start off being boobies, and it's hard to improve on that. Just wear 'em with pride.

a message from suggs
suggs says:
too damn right!
suggs says:
lol good ol jonesy

I miss Suggs.

Me too.

pimpdave wrote:Mr. Thecurl,

Please share your views.

Anarchy: Why Would Someone Who Is Not the Leader of an Evil Army Determined to Dominate the World Want To Discuss It So Badly? Huh?

Just because I'm not really the leader of an evil army bent on world domination, sitting here in the abandoned G.I. Joe factory on the outskirts of Newark(assuming there was one), doesn't mean I'm not interested in anarchy.

Actually, I've become less convinced of the merits of anarchy since moving to the US - the "obey the rules" mindset here is much stronger, there seems to be a much stronger desire to be regulated.How many street adverts have I seen giving safety advice which ends with the most telling argument - IT'S THE LAW?

AN anarchist says - "show me a rule and I'll decide whether to obey it". Not "show me a rule and I'll break it" (that's nihilism)
or "show me a rule and I'll find a way around it" (that's corporate capitalism).

Anarchists are often very moral people,as they realise that only they are responsible for the consequences of their actions.

Incidentally, Juan, Pfizer have now lost the exclusive rights to Zirtec, so you can buy generic cetirizine in the supermarket now - this (as a seasoned allergy sufferer) I find to be the best (well, except there was one they took off the market a few years ago because of side-effects).

When I first got here, I was badly allergic, the doc prescribed a mixture of Zirtec and Singulair. Then I realised it was the dust in the heating/air conditioning which was giving me grief, got rid of it and have calmed down a lot. I don't appear to be so allergic to US plant life as European, so I'm actually better off here in that respect.

Mr. Thecurl.

Please share your views.

Zyrtec: Why has your nefarious organization determined to dominate the world unleashed such a poison upon the world? Anti-histamine, my ass, more like make-pimpdave-go-to-sleep-amine.

My wife's nefarious organisation, actually - she works for Pfizer.

Does it seriously make you drowsy? I've been taking anti-histamines for 30 years now and this is one of those that really doesn't for me. Some of them (especially in the beginning of that era) were very very sleep-inducing. I perfected a method at work of lecturing with my face in profile, and closing the upstage eye.

Provided you turn 180 degrees every now and again, it's a reasonable sleep substitute. It doesn't work if you're not doing something to keeep the remaining half of your brain active, like taking( to other people)

And if you don't like cetirizine/zirtec, try Singulair. I'm not sure if those are still prescription-only.

Bumble-bee baseball.... Is this my best option to ride my yard of my nefarious foe?

Are you sure what kind of bee your dealing with?
Are their nests in the ground?

Some bees move their site each year, otheres do not. This may be good or bad news depending on what type you have.

They are Bumble Bees. BIG ones too. The entrance to their nest is bigger around than a quarter.

If they are bumble bees, then they are probably reusing a burrow built by a mouse or whatever burrowing rodent you have in your parts.

The good news is that, if they are of the bumbly variety they will use that nest only for a few more weeks anyway. They will not return to the same nest next year.

The queens will find somewhere to overwinter, and make new ones in the spring. Look for other likey nest sites (eg other old burrows) and sprinkle some boric acid around them at the end of the winter - this may do the trick. An old-fashioned household goods store or chemist may be able to sell you boric acid rather than a more expensive and probably no better insecticide. It also pretty safe stuff for people and animals.

Jones knows everything!(a good thing!)
I imagine his wife is a tired, and broken woman. Good work jonesthecurl!

Jonesthecurl, are you Welsh? If so, do you shag sheep? Do you furthermore believe it is the place of government to legislate such matters?

Sorry, Nappy, still can't hear you. Foed you ages ago as I was tired of listening to the incessant drip-drip-drip- of your omniphobic drivel.
The 'foe' option is very helpful to a devotee of phenomenological existentialism.