Octopus Overlords

Cross posted from facebook, a picture of my new personalized license plate:



Don't worry, I don't think it makes me better than any of you plain-bellies.

I saw someone driving a crappy mid 90's car with Hawaii plates over the weekend. I'm sure someone can come up with a good reason for this, but I got nothing...

You're some kind of transmitted bully?

Jolor wrote:You're some kind of transmitted bully?

You're as bad as my brother. He wanted a strawbelly milkshake after seeing it.

Ooooh. That almost sounds good!

MHS wrote:Cross posted from facebook, a picture of my new personalized license plate:



Don't worry, I don't think it makes me better than any of you plain-bellies.

You say that, but we know the truth. Why else put stars on thar cars.

I am totally figuring out how to make a strawbelly milkshake tonight.

MHS wrote:Cross posted from facebook, a picture of my new personalized license plate:



Don't worry, I don't think it makes me better than any of you plain-bellies.

no idea if this will work but I don't have a way to rehost it from work:



No Isgrimnur, I haven't paid for tapatalk!

It came through.

coopasonic wrote:no idea if this will work but I don't have a way to rehost it from work:

That album is greatness. There was a question about Low Red Moon on the Impossibly Hard Fretmute Compatibility Test.

New online crush - Rosanna Pansino - reminds me of my wife

The letter I just drafted to an IRS officer starts:

Dear Mr. Schmuck-

Yes, that's actually his name.

This is why I love Montreal. 1.65 million people. 35 murders in 2012. 18 of those are underworld related. 10 were conjugal violence. Leaving 7 murders only that you could call stranger on stranger. There might be a safer place out there but this will do nicely.

Hawaii. 1.4 million people. 7 murders in 2011. 1 rifle, two knife, 1 other, and 3 from physical assault.

Isgrimnur wrote:Hawaii. 1.4 million people. 7 murders in 2011. 1 rifle, two knife, 1 other, and 3 from physical assault.

No snow.

I see that as a plus. YMMV.

But if you really want to see it, you can climb Mauna Loa, Mauna Kea or Haleakala. I hear it snows up there over the 9,000 ft mark.

Just make sure there's no one standing behind you.

I think it was Haleakala I was on top of at one point, but it was summer and I couldn't really see the ground to check for snow because there was so damn much fog. We were so impressed we took several pictures of the fog... of course there's no way to tell we were anywhere special.

Isgrimnur wrote:

Just make sure there's no one standing behind you.

Does climbing a mountain make you fart or something?

A nonny mouse wrote:

Isgrimnur wrote:

Just make sure there's no one standing behind you.

Does climbing a mountain make you fart or something?

43% of all murders in Hawaii in 2011 (3 of 7) didn't involve a weapon of any kind. A footnote on the statistic indicates that murders by pushing are in the hand/foot/etc category.

tjg_marantz wrote:This is why I love Montreal. 1.65 million people. 35 murders in 2012. 18 of those are underworld related.

Were the victims primarily vampire or lycan?

tjg_marantz wrote:This is why I love Montreal. 1.65 million people. 35 murders in 2012. 18 of those are underworld related. 10 were conjugal violence. Leaving 7 murders only that you could call stranger on stranger. There might be a safer place out there but this will do nicely.

My city is like that. Something around 55 murders last year. Probably 45 of them gang on gang violence. Not belonging to a gang I feel pretty safe.

Our cat is a reverse-mouser. She brings in mice and sets them free to play with them. Invariably one gets away and sets up shop in our residence. Off we go to get mouse traps.

Enough wrote:Our cat is a reverse-mouser. She brings in mice and sets them free to play with them. Invariably one gets away and sets up shop in our residence. Off we go to get mouse traps.

Sorry, but, lol.

Enough wrote:Our cat is a reverse-mouser. She brings in mice and sets them free to play with them. Invariably one gets away and sets up shop in our residence. Off we go to get mouse traps.

Heh... she's a rancher.

silverjon wrote:I am totally figuring out how to make a strawbelly milkshake tonight.

Did ya?

BTW, very cool MHS

Basically a strawberry milkshake with jelly for extra flavour, except I had to use jam.

Enough wrote:Our cat is a reverse-mouser. She brings in mice and sets them free to play with them. Invariably one gets away and sets up shop in our residence. Off we go to get mouse traps.

One of my cats does the same thing except that he specializes in Chipmunks which, incidentally, are about 20 times harder to catch than a mouse.

Enough wrote:Our cat is a reverse-mouser. She brings in mice and sets them free to play with them. Invariably one gets away and sets up shop in our residence. Off we go to get mouse traps.

That's probably for the best. The last cat I had was a ferocious mouser (and squirreler, and gopherer, and birder, and lizarder, and pretty much anything else he could sink his teeth into-er). But he would tend to leave a rather nasty pile of intestines and viscera after consuming most of the rest of his prey.

Anonymous Bosch wrote:

Enough wrote:Our cat is a reverse-mouser. She brings in mice and sets them free to play with them. Invariably one gets away and sets up shop in our residence. Off we go to get mouse traps.

That's probably for the best. The last cat I had was a ferocious mouser (and squirreler, and gopherer, and birder, and lizarder, and pretty much anything else he could sink his teeth into-er). But he would tend to leave a rather nasty pile of intestines and viscera after consuming most of the rest of his prey.

My cat was a champion mouser in his day. He's semi-retired now but still brings down the occasional slow or elderly rodent. I used to find half-mice pretty often. He only ever ate the head end because

Unagi wrote:

Enough wrote:Our cat is a reverse-mouser. She brings in mice and sets them free to play with them. Invariably one gets away and sets up shop in our residence. Off we go to get mouse traps.

Heh... she's a rancher.

Give a cat a mouse, she eats for a day. Teach a cat to ranch...

I can't think of a wiser thing for a cat to do, then to bring a nice little pregger mommy mouse into the house and, 'ooops' it got away... Looks like it's gonna be a nice winter!

Congrats to the USA's World Junior ice hockey team. Gold medal!

And ha ha to Canada - no medal for you!

At least we didn't finish seventh...

Might as well have with all the doom and gloom about our hockey program the talking heads will be making of this

Fuck viruses. Fuck bacterial infections. Fuck cold and flu. Fuck coughing so hard you puke. Fuck getting 2 hours of sleep. Fuck, fuck, fuck.

Mrs Skinypupy is as sick right now as I've ever seen her in the 16 years we've been together. The doctors have put her on what medicines they can (she's pregnant with twins) but have basically told her they can't do much and her body's just going to need to recover on its own. Problem is, the babies get what they need (I.e. nutrition, fluids, etc) before she does so it could be a very long recovery.

I'm a little freaked out because she's actually lost 5 lbs over the past week, but neither the OB or our reglular doc seemed overly concerned. We have an ultrasound on Monday...I'll feel a lot better once we get those results.

My boyfriend's back and your gonna be in trouble.......

It's shaping up as an early and severe flu season this year. I know MA has diagnosed thousands of cases already compared to just 20-some at this time last year. I'm glad I got my shot...hope it works.

Kraken wrote:It's shaping up as an early and severe flu season this year. I know MA has diagnosed thousands of cases already compared to just 20-some at this time last year. I'm glad I got my shot...hope it works.

I can attest for the severe part. I wouldn't wish the flu I had over Christmas on my worst enemy- it was the sickest I'd been in years, I think.

pr0ner wrote:Congrats to the USA's World Junior ice hockey team. Gold medal!

And ha ha to Canada - no medal for you!

Canada gave us the business in the round-robin portion. I liked our chances for revenge, but never thought it was 5-1 type of revenge. Glad we could take down the gold medal game as well.

15-13-23! (CAN-RUS/USSR-USA!)

MHS wrote:

Kraken wrote:It's shaping up as an early and severe flu season this year. I know MA has diagnosed thousands of cases already compared to just 20-some at this time last year. I'm glad I got my shot...hope it works.

I can attest for the severe part. I wouldn't wish the flu I had over Christmas on my worst enemy- it was the sickest I'd been in years, I think.

Sickest I had been since my 2-week pneumonia bout back in middle school. Protip: don't get the same strain of flu MHS and I had this season. (Also, flu shot fail, though maybe my body-ache symptoms were reduced from MHS's non-flu shot symptoms.)