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Nerwen · 05-16-2009, 03:57 PM

Brushtail possums. They have to be one of the most easily-tamed species on Earth, they're terribly cute as babies and even as adults... and they rip tiles off your roof, eat all your plants (including cacti) and fight with each other all night.

If you're ever in Melbourne and you hear what sounds like a leopard snarling in the night... that would be a possum. Cobra-like hiss? That's another possum that doesn't like the first possum. Horrible, ear-piercing screeching that would put a Nazgûl to shame? The two possums have decided to settle their differences by beating the living daylights out of each other.

Oh, and that's not really a horse galloping up and down on the roof in the middle of the night, just a possum running to... I don't know, express the joy of possum-hood. Or something.

A couple got in through a hole they've made behind the stove and rampaged around my kitchen at about three a.m. this morning. I'll have to do something about that. Like build a new wall.

~Nerwen the Sleepless.

TheOrcWithNoName · 05-17-2009, 11:18 AM

new fangled flat-screen TVs, their huge & overly complex remote controls and the user manual with almost as many pages as The Two Towers.

All I wanna do is plug-in & watch straight from the box, and not spend a life-time sorting out another bunch of cables, scart sockets, RGBs. USBs and a partridge in a pear tree!

Enough of the fancy specs, just give me something functional. Basically, keep it simple, stupid

Thinlómien · 05-17-2009, 01:03 PM

Computer and xbox and whatever games. They're entertaining but darn time-consuming.

Eurovision Song Contest (I know I've assigned this before) - it's so stupid but such great entertainment!

Analysis of poetry. I find it fascinating but some parts of it I just don't understand whatever I do.

Estelyn Telcontar · 05-17-2009, 02:28 PM

Lommy, I second the Eurovision Song Contest - the musical quality is nowhere near as good as the entertainment value!

TheOrcWithNoName · 05-17-2009, 02:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Estelyn Telcontar

Lommy, I second the Eurovision Song Contest - the musical quality is nowhere near as good as the entertainment value!

I only ever bothered with ESC for the dry wit & cynicism of Terry Wogan.

Replacement Graham Norton, was okay last night but on current form not quite in Wogan's league.

As for the songs? What Songs!

Rune Son of Bjarne · 05-17-2009, 05:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Thinlómien

Computer and xbox and whatever games. They're entertaining but darn time-consuming.

Eurovision Song Contest (I know I've assigned this before) - it's so stupid but such great entertainment!

Analysis of poetry. I find it fascinating but some parts of it I just don't understand whatever I do.

I don't think the consept is stupid.

It is just odd that it has to be so tacky all the time. . .

I don't get the people that hate it, and I don't get the peope that are fanatics, I guess Orthanc is just the place for it.

Eönwë · 05-17-2009, 08:34 PM

Having to stay up late to do coursework... it's late.. but its also kinda fun. (See time now)

Lindale · 05-17-2009, 11:16 PM

Reaching a conclusion for my literary criticism ii paper... which says that with a certain bestseller young adult short story collection published by our University Press interpellates kids (mostly our univ students) that militants, politically active kids, and kids whose sexual preferences are not strictly heterosexual are to be ignored and are basically an insignificant lot... even though in our college, for example, there is a dearth of straight guys and militants and rallies and demonstrations are part of our lives. Incidentally, the author of the collection is a graduate of our creative writing program.

And my teacher for that subject is a big name in the university press.

TheOrcWithNoName · 05-18-2009, 01:43 AM

Predictive text on mobile phones

Yes I understand the principles of how it works, but personally I hate using it because it hardly ever gives the words I'm looking for

05-16-2009, 03:57 PM	#1
Nerwen Wisest of the Noldor Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: ˙˙˙ssɐןƃ ƃuıʞooן ǝɥʇ ɥƃnoɹɥʇ Posts: 6,694	Brushtail possums. They have to be one of the most easily-tamed species on Earth, they're terribly cute as babies and even as adults... and they rip tiles off your roof, eat all your plants (including cacti) and fight with each other all night. If you're ever in Melbourne and you hear what sounds like a leopard snarling in the night... that would be a possum. Cobra-like hiss? That's another possum that doesn't like the first possum. Horrible, ear-piercing screeching that would put a Nazgûl to shame? The two possums have decided to settle their differences by beating the living daylights out of each other. Oh, and that's not really a horse galloping up and down on the roof in the middle of the night, just a possum running to... I don't know, express the joy of possum-hood. Or something. A couple got in through a hole they've made behind the stove and rampaged around my kitchen at about three a.m. this morning. I'll have to do something about that. Like build a new wall. ~Nerwen the Sleepless. __________________ "Even Nerwen wasn't evil in the beginning." –Elmo.

05-17-2009, 11:18 AM	#2
TheOrcWithNoName Animated Skeleton Join Date: May 2009 Location: Birmingham, central England Posts: 48	new fangled flat-screen TVs, their huge & overly complex remote controls and the user manual with almost as many pages as The Two Towers. All I wanna do is plug-in & watch straight from the box, and not spend a life-time sorting out another bunch of cables, scart sockets, RGBs. USBs and a partridge in a pear tree! Enough of the fancy specs, just give me something functional. Basically, keep it simple, stupid __________________ "No that's fame. Fame has a fifteen minute half-life, infamy lasts a little longer."

05-17-2009, 01:03 PM	#3
Thinlómien Shady She-Penguin Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: In a far land beyond the Sea Posts: 8,093	Computer and xbox and whatever games. They're entertaining but darn time-consuming. Eurovision Song Contest (I know I've assigned this before) - it's so stupid but such great entertainment! Analysis of poetry. I find it fascinating but some parts of it I just don't understand whatever I do. __________________ Like the stars chase the sun, over the glowing hill I will conquer Blood is running deep, some things never sleep Double Fenris

05-17-2009, 02:28 PM	#4
Estelyn Telcontar Princess of Skwerlz Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: where the Sea is eastwards (WtR: 6060 miles) Posts: 7,500	Lommy, I second the Eurovision Song Contest - the musical quality is nowhere near as good as the entertainment value! __________________ 'Mercy!' cried Gandalf. 'If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more do you want to know?' 'The whole history of Middle-earth...'

05-17-2009, 08:34 PM	#7
Eönwë Flame Imperishable Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Right here Posts: 3,928	Having to stay up late to do coursework... it's late.. but its also kinda fun. (See time now) __________________ Welcome to the Barrow Do-owns Forum / Such a lovely place

05-17-2009, 11:16 PM	#8
Lindale Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: midway upon... in a forest dark Posts: 975	Reaching a conclusion for my literary criticism ii paper... which says that with a certain bestseller young adult short story collection published by our University Press interpellates kids (mostly our univ students) that militants, politically active kids, and kids whose sexual preferences are not strictly heterosexual are to be ignored and are basically an insignificant lot... even though in our college, for example, there is a dearth of straight guys and militants and rallies and demonstrations are part of our lives. Incidentally, the author of the collection is a graduate of our creative writing program. And my teacher for that subject is a big name in the university press. __________________ The heart does things for reasons Reason itself cannot comprehend. - Blaise Pascal Legal Madness.

05-18-2009, 01:43 AM	#9
TheOrcWithNoName Animated Skeleton Join Date: May 2009 Location: Birmingham, central England Posts: 48	Predictive text on mobile phones Yes I understand the principles of how it works, but personally I hate using it because it hardly ever gives the words I'm looking for __________________ "No that's fame. Fame has a fifteen minute half-life, infamy lasts a little longer."