Silliness So what are you doing RIGHT NOW? - Page 171

ShortNCuddlyAm · 01-11-2009, 07:27 PM

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Originally Posted by nekokami

BTW, I've been dropping hints about what I was doing yesterday, but no one seems to have picked up on them....

Hint a bit harder, please?

nekokami · 01-11-2009, 07:29 PM

I will merely redirect you to an earlier hint.

zelda_pinwheel · 01-11-2009, 07:31 PM

i'm already jealous about that torte, if that's what you mean...

nekokami · 01-11-2009, 07:33 PM

Yeah, he doesn't make those just every day.

ShortNCuddlyAm · 01-11-2009, 07:34 PM

Tea, torte and Dr Who sounds very good

Not so sure about the exercise bike though...

zelda_pinwheel · 01-11-2009, 07:34 PM

so is that what the hints are about ?

lilac_jive · 01-11-2009, 07:46 PM

I can combine all of these things (Dr. Who, exercise bike, torte), but it comes out pretty kinky. I am not a good guesser.

Patricia · 01-11-2009, 07:48 PM

Let me guess: Neko is going to charge her iliad via her exercise bike. And probably generate enough power to surf the internet and pump water when her main supply fails.

zelda_pinwheel · 01-11-2009, 07:49 PM

oh right, and the muffin man is making tortes so she'll have lots of energy !

Seabound · 01-11-2009, 09:02 PM

Neko is setting up/decorating the home office.

montsnmags · 01-11-2009, 09:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Patricia

Let me guess: Neko is going to charge her iliad via her exercise bike. And probably generate enough power to surf the internet and pump water when her main supply fails.

Quote:

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

oh right, and the muffin man is making tortes so she'll have lots of energy !

Quote:

Originally Posted by Seabound

Neko is setting up/decorating the home office.

Maybe we need a new thread: "So what is Neko doing RIGHT NOW?"

Cheers,
Marc (I think she's Jedi-fighting droids in a galaxy far, far away)

Seabound · 01-11-2009, 09:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by montsnmags

Maybe we need a new thread: "So what is Neko doing RIGHT NOW?"

Cheers,
Marc (I think she's Jedi-fighting droids in a galaxy far, far away)

Good idea--go for it, Marc.

RickyMaveety · 01-11-2009, 11:28 PM

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Originally Posted by LazyScot

Let me guess, but Le singe est dans l'arbor as well.

And, the mouse is apparently still under the table!!! Fancy that! It's positively the dog's bullocks, your Majesty!

I purchased five albums today and spent a lovely day listening to them one by one.

montsnmags · 01-12-2009, 08:04 AM

This afternoon, out at our nature strip, on the downhill side and along the property line, I dug a small trench to lay, end-to-end, two 2.4m long treated pine "railway sleepers" on their side. We then drilled holes at each end of each sleeper, and I hammered long metal poles through them and deep into the ground.

The purpose of this will be as a "dam" to hold back hoop pine mulch on that downhill side. See, I want to get rid of the only bit of lawn we have - a 1-2 metre deep and property-width-minus-driveway strip (and it doesn't even belong to us; it belongs to the council, though we're required to maintain it) - because I resent having to mow something so perfectly pointless. So, we'll get a few cubic metres of mulch dumped in our driveway, I'll dig up the entire nature strip of lawn down to a sub-curb level, and then I'll fill it all with the mulch. Voilà! No more lawn-mowing! (Here's a tip for manual lawnmowers. Sure, they use no fuel, and are no doubt great for manicured lawns, but if your lawn is "contaminated" with leaves, twigs and bark and stuff from trees and nearby gardens, and made up tough-as-buggery grass-types, and all over a bumpy, sloping ground, your manual lawnmower will last about 15 minutes before breaking. It's not the bits of leaves twigs and bark and tough grass and uneven ground that'll break it - it's that its repeated jamming on things will cause you to swing it around like you're an Olympic hammer thrower and hurl it up the driveway or down the road, and apparently manual lawnmowers don't like that, but screw them they should have a warning label on them about their situational uselessness if they don't want to be tested aerodynamically).

Then I can plant the strip a bit, and maybe put some stepping stones in, and it'll all look nice and pretty with the rest of the nature-strip garden we maintain (why the hell we have 5-7m-wide nature strips, I don't know). If the council doesn't like what I'm doing (after all the other houses on the street have planted their nature strips so you can't even walk on them), I'll happily donate to them a near-new, almost-working, manual lawnmower, and they can have it straight away if they will just help me find a spot to put it by bending over forward for a moment.

Incidentally, it appears some lazy-arsed electrician or linesman has buried power cables or telephone cables about 15cm (about half a spade-blade thrust) under the ground from the pole out the front to wherever they're going. Those government/electricity supplier warning ads shouldn't say "Watch where you dig!"; they should say "Watch where you dig because when we put the lines in we really couldn't be farked getting off our lazy, uncaring, fat arses-where-we-keep-our-brains and doing much more than scraping off the top layer of humus to "bury" our cables before breaking for another smoko and heading home at 2pm or earlier if the temperature got to a blistering 20C or fell to a chilly 19C or if a small cloud appeared in the sky that could only have looked like rain if there was a sprinkler going somewhere nearby to add to our hopeful-but-limited imaginations, but our lawyers said if we issued this warning we can't be sued because it's all your fault for not making the obvious assumption that we are a pack of retarded dickheads who should be bludgeoned to death with hessian bags filled with half-bricks before we get a chance to procreate", but I suppose that might not fit in the necessary 30 second "community announcement" ad-slot.

Cheers,
Marc

Sweetpea · 01-12-2009, 08:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by montsnmags

The purpose of this will be as a "dam" to hold back hoop pine mulch on that downhill side. See, I want to get rid of the only bit of lawn we have - a 1-2 metre deep and property-width-minus-driveway strip (and it doesn't even belong to us; it belongs to the council, though we're required to maintain it)

I'd be very simple in that... I'd buy some cement, get a big bucket and mix it (or, if I wanted to do something outrageous, I'd rent a cement mill). Then, I'd pour it all over that piece of that property-that-isnt-mine-but-what-I-should-maintain. Tada, no more lawnmowing either. And you get a great place to park your bike/car/camper/cavaran (depending on the size of it).

The problem with mulch is that weed will poke out of it sooner or later. I know, I have plenty of mulch in my garden, and the weed is poking out of it already (and we put it down in December, after we had that big tree cut down)

01-12-2009, 08:04 AM	#2564
montsnmags Grand Sorcerer Posts: 10,155 Karma: 4632658 Join Date: Nov 2007 Device: none	This afternoon, out at our nature strip, on the downhill side and along the property line, I dug a small trench to lay, end-to-end, two 2.4m long treated pine "railway sleepers" on their side. We then drilled holes at each end of each sleeper, and I hammered long metal poles through them and deep into the ground. The purpose of this will be as a "dam" to hold back hoop pine mulch on that downhill side. See, I want to get rid of the only bit of lawn we have - a 1-2 metre deep and property-width-minus-driveway strip (and it doesn't even belong to us; it belongs to the council, though we're required to maintain it) - because I resent having to mow something so perfectly pointless. So, we'll get a few cubic metres of mulch dumped in our driveway, I'll dig up the entire nature strip of lawn down to a sub-curb level, and then I'll fill it all with the mulch. Voilà! No more lawn-mowing! (Here's a tip for manual lawnmowers. Sure, they use no fuel, and are no doubt great for manicured lawns, but if your lawn is "contaminated" with leaves, twigs and bark and stuff from trees and nearby gardens, and made up tough-as-buggery grass-types, and all over a bumpy, sloping ground, your manual lawnmower will last about 15 minutes before breaking. It's not the bits of leaves twigs and bark and tough grass and uneven ground that'll break it - it's that its repeated jamming on things will cause you to swing it around like you're an Olympic hammer thrower and hurl it up the driveway or down the road, and apparently manual lawnmowers don't like that, but screw them they should have a warning label on them about their situational uselessness if they don't want to be tested aerodynamically). Then I can plant the strip a bit, and maybe put some stepping stones in, and it'll all look nice and pretty with the rest of the nature-strip garden we maintain (why the hell we have 5-7m-wide nature strips, I don't know). If the council doesn't like what I'm doing (after all the other houses on the street have planted their nature strips so you can't even walk on them), I'll happily donate to them a near-new, almost-working, manual lawnmower, and they can have it straight away if they will just help me find a spot to put it by bending over forward for a moment. Incidentally, it appears some lazy-arsed electrician or linesman has buried power cables or telephone cables about 15cm (about half a spade-blade thrust) under the ground from the pole out the front to wherever they're going. Those government/electricity supplier warning ads shouldn't say "Watch where you dig!"; they should say "Watch where you dig because when we put the lines in we really couldn't be farked getting off our lazy, uncaring, fat arses-where-we-keep-our-brains and doing much more than scraping off the top layer of humus to "bury" our cables before breaking for another smoko and heading home at 2pm or earlier if the temperature got to a blistering 20C or fell to a chilly 19C or if a small cloud appeared in the sky that could only have looked like rain if there was a sprinkler going somewhere nearby to add to our hopeful-but-limited imaginations, but our lawyers said if we issued this warning we can't be sued because it's all your fault for not making the obvious assumption that we are a pack of retarded dickheads who should be bludgeoned to death with hessian bags filled with half-bricks before we get a chance to procreate", but I suppose that might not fit in the necessary 30 second "community announcement" ad-slot. Cheers, Marc Last edited by montsnmags; 01-12-2009 at 08:06 AM.

01-11-2009, 07:29 PM	#2552
nekokami fruminous edugeek Posts: 6,745 Karma: 551260 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Northeast US Device: iPad, eBw 1150	I will merely redirect you to an earlier hint.

01-11-2009, 07:31 PM	#2553
zelda_pinwheel zeldinha zippy zeldissima Posts: 27,827 Karma: 921169 Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Paris, France Device: eb1150 & is that a nook in her pocket, or she just happy to see you?	i'm already jealous about that torte, if that's what you mean...

01-11-2009, 07:33 PM	#2554
nekokami fruminous edugeek Posts: 6,745 Karma: 551260 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Northeast US Device: iPad, eBw 1150	Yeah, he doesn't make those just every day.

01-11-2009, 07:34 PM	#2555
ShortNCuddlyAm WWHALD Posts: 7,879 Karma: 337114 Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Mitcham, Surrey, UK Device: iPad. Selling my silver 505 here	Tea, torte and Dr Who sounds very good Not so sure about the exercise bike though...

01-11-2009, 07:34 PM	#2556
zelda_pinwheel zeldinha zippy zeldissima Posts: 27,827 Karma: 921169 Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Paris, France Device: eb1150 & is that a nook in her pocket, or she just happy to see you?	so is that what the hints are about ?

01-11-2009, 07:46 PM	#2557
lilac_jive Grand Sorcerer Posts: 5,870 Karma: 27376 Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Pennsylvania Device: PRS-505	I can combine all of these things (Dr. Who, exercise bike, torte), but it comes out pretty kinky. I am not a good guesser.

01-11-2009, 07:48 PM	#2558
Patricia Reader Posts: 11,504 Karma: 8720163 Join Date: May 2007 Location: South Wales, UK Device: Sony PRS-500, PRS-505, Asus EEEpc 4G	Let me guess: Neko is going to charge her iliad via her exercise bike. And probably generate enough power to surf the internet and pump water when her main supply fails.

01-11-2009, 07:49 PM	#2559
zelda_pinwheel zeldinha zippy zeldissima Posts: 27,827 Karma: 921169 Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Paris, France Device: eb1150 & is that a nook in her pocket, or she just happy to see you?	oh right, and the muffin man is making tortes so she'll have lots of energy !

01-11-2009, 09:02 PM	#2560
Seabound Steerage Class Posts: 711 Karma: 505995 Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Pacific Northwest, USA Device: Won't fit here anymore, see sig for a list of liseuses.	Neko is setting up/decorating the home office.