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toe knee hand
Jun 20, 2012

HANSEN ON A BREAKAWAY

HONEY BADGER DON'T SCORE

UnnaturalSELECTION posted:

There is creepy wind outside


i have a cat

cats are an antidote to creepy wind

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toe knee hand
Jun 20, 2012

HANSEN ON A BREAKAWAY

HONEY BADGER DON'T SCORE
also i have unmodded the guys from the irc channel cuz i realised how weird it is to be a guy who wants to hang out in a womens thread and/or irc channel

poopkitty
Oct 16, 2013

WE ARE ALL ONE

Portals posted:


if cats didn't give a poo poo about you they wouldn't do any of that stuff, sorry you think that all affection should include drool

My cat drools. He is brain damaged, though. Really. He's functional and stuff, but he wobbles a little and I have to lift him on to the bed. And he drools and his tongue sticks out.

toe knee hand
Jun 20, 2012

HANSEN ON A BREAKAWAY

HONEY BADGER DON'T SCORE
cats are good. i like cats.

Crow Jane
Oct 18, 2012

nothin' wrong with a lady drinkin' alone in her room

detectivemonkey posted:



I went to the comic book store today and found a graphic novel that has a bunch of different artists' interpretations of Belle and Sebastian songs and I am so excited.


Last page, but just wanted to say that I own this and it's as adorable as you'd expect.

Belle and Sebastian are a strange thing for me. I wouldn't consider them my favorite band or anything, but I own almost all their albums, listen to them on a regular basis, and have seen them live more times than any other group. Consuming then is almost an obligation for me at this point, but they always put out quality work so I'm okay with that.

Shithouse Dave
Aug 5, 2007

each post manufactured to the highest specifications


Cat picture tiiiiiiime!

toe knee hand
Jun 20, 2012

HANSEN ON A BREAKAWAY

HONEY BADGER DON'T SCORE
very fluffy. i approve.

Facebook Aunt
Oct 4, 2008

wiggle wiggle




toe knee hand posted:

i have a cat

cats are an antidote to creepy wind

Cats are great for things that go bump in the night. "What was that noise? Eh, probably just the cat." Reading some of the ghost stories where it isn't a story it's just a collection of weird things that happened and made them think their house was haunted and you're thinking, "cat, cat, cat, I think you dreamt that part, and cat."

AriadneThread
Feb 17, 2011

The Devil sounds like smoke and honey. We cannot move. It is too beautiful.


UnnaturalSELECTION posted:

There is creepy wind outside

if it knocks on the door, asking for a cup of hot chocolate say that no one is home

Dice Dingus
May 4, 2010
Did I miss book chat? I just finished a lit class and it did just what I hoped, exposed me to some actual good authors and got me motivated to read regularly again. I'm crazy into Baldwin right now. I was at Powell's and read part of Nobody Knows My Name and it's so good. And I really want to find a good book about the history of San Francisco's Chinatown.

As an aside, Pick is the best threadmaker in GBS.

peter banana
Sep 2, 2008

Feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.

detectivemonkey posted:


Please describe baby and how awesome it was to hold. Did it make giggly sounds at all? Did it just keep trying to get to your boob because that's what they usually do to me.

The baby was pretty chill. Kind of like a potato. He was just sort of taring at me until I started booping his nose and started giggling. I nibbled on his tiny baby feet. He smelled like good baby smells. Mom is looking pretty chill as well. He has the same name as my husband which is kind of hilarious because it's a weird Irish name that will haunt him forever.


But yeah kittens are cool too. I foster cats for a local animal shelter & every May they find a ton of kittens on the streets and send out an email like, "Kittens, anyone? Can anyone take 2-3 kittens?" And I always do, because they come when they're like 9 weeks old and usually get adopted by the time their 12-16 weeks old, so I get the best kitten play time.

grapey
Oct 10, 2012
So far my new black Friday peacoat is the bright spot of this month. It's been a lovely month of bad news. Maybe I'll stay off Facebook until January so I don't feel the urge to punch another happy person in the face.

Thanks for letting me inject this e/n rant.

Dice Dingus
May 4, 2010
My brother just brought home the most perfectly adorable white kitten and named him Castiel. He's super affectionate but tends to go and hide when there are too many people, as opposed to our older cats Sam and Darwin who will climb up into perfect strangers laps after a cursory sniff.

We brough Sam home when he was about three years old, and he's a maine coon so he probably won't live much longer. He's kind of unwell, but still mostly happy. :unsmith:

Darwin was from a litter that a stray we brought home had, I've known him since he was like three hours old, and he is my perfect baboo. :kimchi:

Tjadeth
Sep 16, 2012

:minnie: Cat Army :minnie:
2nd Battalion
VOLUNTEER
:nyan:

Dice Dingus posted:

My brother just brought home the most perfectly adorable white kitten and named him Castiel. He's super affectionate but tends to go and hide when there are too many people, as opposed to our older cats Sam and Darwin who will climb up into perfect strangers laps after a cursory sniff.

A) Don't be alarmed, but there's a slim chance your brother has stumbled into Supernatural fandom. If he begins to say things along the lines of "my feels" or "ftwincest", put him into quarantine immediately.

B) "catsiel" :colbert:

Dice Dingus
May 4, 2010
A) I've watched most of it with him. It's mediocre but it's family bonding, and better than hardcore ice road pawn auctioners. He just likes to giggle about Deans repressed homosexuality.

B) Aww. I do the same thing to Sam. As far as I'm concerned he's Samwise Catgee.

vaguely
Apr 29, 2013

hot_squirting_honey.gif

Just got back from my friend's baby's christening, and she is the nicest best behaved baby! She's 7 months so she's pretty robust now but I still won't hold her because what if I break her and oh my god how do I baby

She likes it when I play peekaboo with her though :3:

Aaaaand another one of my school friends announced that she's 3 months pregnant, why are we all so old now? It's making me a bit paranoid and I'm gonna get an IUD put in the moment I finish my holiday, thanks to whichever ladythread poster it was who said it's not such a big deal as I was making it out to be. My uterus will be a blasted wasteland in which nothing grows

My powerful urge to not babies is matched only by my equally powerful urge to cat

Gotta get cat

Pick
Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost
IUD can hurt terribly or be pretty trivial. I'll admit mine hurt, but certainly less than a lot of other medical procedures, or less than wrestling in a gravel pit which I had been doing beforehand (I got concern at the women's clinic for all my scrapes and cuts).

Agent Burt Macklin
Jul 3, 2003

Macklin, you son of a bitch

Fabulist posted:


Don't have babies if you can't deal with a sharp decline in time.

Fixed that for you

Tora! Tora! Tora!
Dec 28, 2008

Shake it baby

Pick posted:

IUD can hurt terribly or be pretty trivial. I'll admit mine hurt, but certainly less than a lot of other medical procedures, or less than wrestling in a gravel pit which I had been doing beforehand (I got concern at the women's clinic for all my scrapes and cuts).

Mine was so painful we gave up. But I also have major stenosis from some previous LEEPs that made it much more difficult.


HipGnosis posted:

But yeah kittens are cool too. I foster cats for a local animal shelter & every May they find a ton of kittens on the streets and send out an email like, "Kittens, anyone? Can anyone take 2-3 kittens?" And I always do, because they come when they're like 9 weeks old and usually get adopted by the time their 12-16 weeks old, so I get the best kitten play time.

Kittens are like dogs and children, best when they belong to someone else so I can enjoy them in small doses. I'm always so glad when they become awesome chill grown up cats instead of cute but hyper things that don't let me sleep.

Representative of my lap atm:

vaguely
Apr 29, 2013

hot_squirting_honey.gif

The only thing I'm worried about with the IUD is the thing where it's harder to put it in women who haven't had kids, other than that my uterus is pretty well behaved so hopefully it won't be too bad?

Kittens are super cute but I wouldn't have the time to raise them properly, hoping to move into a new place in May/June and then I'll think about getting a pair of adult cats from a shelter :3: There's a super friendly neighbourhood cat who's just about keeping me in line right now but once I don't have Chubbs any more I'll be sad

Pick
Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost
Bazooka is a sweet cat, clearly raised by someone with love and care, but I really wish they'd gotten him to run around at 4AM a little less.

ZombieGravy
Feb 5, 2008

Cats are awesome, my cat used to give me hugs when I picked him up :3:

Got all my Christmas shopping done with no issues. Getting food was another matter though. The thing we wanted turned out to be far too big (feeds 10) so had to go with plain old turkey. Pretty much everywhere had sold out of parsnips too, managed to find some in a cheap poo poo shop in the end. I'm knackered now though from all the walking and feel like my legs are on fire :(

Anne Whateley
Feb 11, 2007
:unsmith: i like nice words
:siren: Too Cute has a holiday special :siren:

You know, just in case you're back at your family's with nothing else to do. Guys, there are snowshoe cats and spotty cats and weimaraners and also some ugly ewok things.

defectivemonkey
Jun 5, 2012

toe knee hand posted:

also i have unmodded the guys from the irc channel cuz i realised how weird it is to be a guy who wants to hang out in a womens thread and/or irc channel

Really? I like the guys who hang out here and feel like we should accept all ladies, whether they have penises or no.

Crow Jane, that's kind of exactly how I feel about them. If you looked at my last.fm you would say they're one of my favorite bands but I would never say tht, partly because too much religious imagery. Have you ever listened to God Help the Girl? Hands down my favorite stuff to sing alone in the car.

HOWEVER, I saw B&S live a few months ago expecting it to be good, and it was HOLY poo poo WONDERFUL. I go to a lot of shows and this was definitely in my top 3. It was fun and dancy and even sad songs he made kind of silly.

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Jun 4, 2011

by LadyAmbien

Anne Whateley posted:

:siren: Too Cute has a holiday special :siren:

You know, just in case you're back at your family's with nothing else to do. Guys, there are snowshoe cats and spotty cats and weimaraners and also some ugly ewok things.

Yeah I'm back home and a little bored recovering from being really sick. I have to watch this.

Shithouse Dave
Aug 5, 2007

each post manufactured to the highest specifications


Christmas instacat.

ZombieGravy
Feb 5, 2008

Anne Whateley posted:

:siren: Too Cute has a holiday special :siren:

You know, just in case you're back at your family's with nothing else to do. Guys, there are snowshoe cats and spotty cats and weimaraners and also some ugly ewok things.

Where can I find this wonderful thing?

Kimmalah
Nov 14, 2005

Basically just a baby in a trenchcoat.


vaguely posted:

The only thing I'm worried about with the IUD is the thing where it's harder to put it in women who haven't had kids, other than that my uterus is pretty well behaved so hopefully it won't be too bad?

Kittens are super cute but I wouldn't have the time to raise them properly, hoping to move into a new place in May/June and then I'll think about getting a pair of adult cats from a shelter :3: There's a super friendly neighbourhood cat who's just about keeping me in line right now but once I don't have Chubbs any more I'll be sad

Yeah unfortunately it's kind of the luck of the draw. For me it wasn't that bad but I've heard other people have different experiences - it's a very individual thing (my uterus is also well behaved). But in any case the bad part is usually over in a matter of seconds and then you're good to go! We have a birth control megathread over in Ask/Tell full of great info. I'd recommend sticking close to it, because Googling any medical procedure will just bring up crazy horror stories that will scare you unnecessarily.

Anyway, cat chat: My cat drools whenever he gets really affectionate (which is 24/7) and if he had things his way, his feet would never touch the ground again. I've seriously never had such a crazy affectionate cat that loved to be carried around so much. :3:

Putty
Mar 21, 2013

HOOKED ON THE BROTHERS
i hear sigs are coming to lady crew

I am here to judge the sigs.

GrrrlSweatshirt
Jun 2, 2012
I can't make anything fancy so I'll just poke around for cool gifs sometime today and add some text

hopefully someone else here knows how to make good sigs

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Jun 4, 2011

by LadyAmbien
I have sigs off. They were getting too long. People had like a page of stupid sigs

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Jun 4, 2011

by LadyAmbien
Is irc still up

Corn Thongs
Feb 13, 2004

Have we become a crew now

GrrrlSweatshirt
Jun 2, 2012
well we have a thread where a bunch of regulars come and discuss random stuff about their lives and it's gone on for like a million pages

we're like vince vaughn and reese witherspoon in four christmases where we keep insisting we're never getting married but we're obviously gonna. sorry for using that movie as a simile

e: i would be reese witherspoon because i'm the one who finally came out and said it. you guys are all vince vaughns

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Jun 4, 2011

by LadyAmbien
Sandman where did your puppies go I can't see them

Corn Thongs
Feb 13, 2004

I would be OK with crewing with you ladies.

Cept I ain't wearing a sig so does that make me not crew

GrrrlSweatshirt
Jun 2, 2012
no that's totes okay, the sigs are for the real hardliners

Kimmalah
Nov 14, 2005

Basically just a baby in a trenchcoat.


Donkay NOoo posted:

I would be OK with crewing with you ladies.

Cept I ain't wearing a sig so does that make me not crew

Yeah I don't know if I want anything that identifies me as female at a glance on SA. The SA yearbook was creepy enough. :stare:

Putty
Mar 21, 2013

HOOKED ON THE BROTHERS

UnnaturalSELECTION posted:

I have sigs off. They were getting too long. People had like a page of stupid sigs

well you're just a big sack of poop!!!

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by LadyAmbien

Putty posted:

well you're just a big sack of poop!!!

I poop

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