[TheRetiredBridgeburner]

Tiste Simeon, on 11 January 2021 - 08:27 PM, said:

Do you ever get a moment where you're reminded once again why you're with your partner?

We've been doing jigsaw puzzles in the evening and today Mrs Tiste said "We should stick Lord of the Rings on while doing the jigsaw!"

I think when Mr Not a Blacksmith's suggestion for Valentine's Day a few months into seeing one another was "Do you want to come over for a meal and we can put Fellowship of the Ring on?", I was pretty sure he was the one!

[Macros]

Is he though? I note a serious lack of blacksmithing ability...

[TheRetiredBridgeburner]

Macros, on 12 January 2021 - 08:51 AM, said:

Is he though? I note a serious lack of blacksmithing ability...

Nobody's perfect!

[Tiste Simeon]

TheRetiredBridgeburner, on 12 January 2021 - 09:01 AM, said:

Macros, on 12 January 2021 - 08:51 AM, said:

Is he though? I note a serious lack of blacksmithing ability...

Nobody's perfect!

You realise that should you get married you are legally obligated to add "Not A Blacksmith" to your name?
Or he has to become a Blacksmith.

Either's good.

[TheRetiredBridgeburner]

My bad. When getting married was discussed I did not stipulate this. Back to the drawing board!

[Tiste Simeon]

Also me and Macros are bridesmaids but that's a given.

[TheRetiredBridgeburner]

100% not disputed!

[QuickTidal]

Viral Sea Shanty TikTok is the energy we need in 2021.

Credit to the original artists stitched in this multi-dueted video (he's the main voice you hear) is Scotsman Nathan Evans.

I sing this song to my son at bedtime now and he loves it.

This post has been edited by QuickTidal: 13 January 2021 - 05:33 PM

[champ]

QuickTidal, on 13 January 2021 - 05:32 PM, said:

Viral Sea Shanty TikTok is the energy we need in 2021.

Credit to the original artists stitched in this multi-dueted video (he's the main voice you hear) is Scotsman Nathan Evans.

I sing this song to my son at bedtime now and he loves it.

I've had this bloody song stuck in my head all day. I heard it yesterday on Reddit where a couple of guys were singing it on a road trip and it's never left my thinkymeat. Bully in the Alley is another great shanty.

[Tiste Simeon]

I saw that video of the dudes in the car and I've been humming it ever since!

Most of the shanties I know are from AC Black Flag haha

Edit: check out this awesome thread with a ton of versions (including the electroshanty) and some analysis of the lyrics etc. I'm obsessed! https://twitter.com/...3950145537?s=19

This post has been edited by Tiste Simeon: 13 January 2021 - 09:37 PM

[Malankazooie]

Ha ha ha! I just have the biggest grin on my face. Tom Terrific and the Swashbuckling Bradettes beat them boy diddling pedo priest enablers. Bye Felecia.

[Macros]

Finally

FINALLY

The steel for the driving my range is going up

[Mentalist]

Had our Epiphany family dinner tonight. The winter holiday season officially over.

Back to real life now...

[Macros]

Cladding is going on today.
Builder is hopefully available next week to pour floors and start walls.

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

Finally got my elderly cat to drink more water and eat---managed to get same-day delivery of chicken broth for cats and seafood broth for cats. She'd been refusing to eat since she vomited her treats about 48 hours ago. Trip to the ER would be traumatic for her and the stress might finish her off (though I doubt it---if they would take her in time, which they might not given her age and triage priorities). High-calorie nutrient gels for sick cats are on their way tomorrow (didn't find overnight or same day shipping to my address, and didn't realize at first that cats could die or experience liver failure from three days without food---though she's not obese, so her risk of quick onset of fatty liver disease is low, and she's also not underweight). Hopefully she'll feel better and start eating her solid food again soon; it seems to be a nausea issue and not a tooth issue. But it's been an hour and a half and she's kept it all down without issue. Also, examining her urine output from the previous time I got her to drink a good amount, she's probably not experiencing kidney failure (urine output was moderate relative to the amount she drank, and happened after about eight hours, when she crawled out of her box and I brought her over to her litter box). She may still die soon, but her short-term chances seem much better now.

This post has been edited by Azath Vitr (D'ivers: 21 January 2021 - 01:39 AM

[Gwynn ap Nudd]

I can hear a penny whistle. That is amazing. With things like the penny whistle solo in Call me Al or Home for a Rest it is hard to hear over the rest of the music, but I can hear it if I concentrate. Just penny whistle by itself I hear most of easily. Amazing.

[Ain't_It_Just_]

Just struck me today how much I enjoy working where I do - the location is great, my team are cool and my team leader is a legend. Sadly its a contract which'll be done in 2.5 months, but it's still nice

Also in honour of the aforementioned sea shanties:

[Tiste Simeon]

Aww yiss, beating the bin dippers. Glorious.

[Malankazooie]

More evidence of normalcy returning. A president without any pets is a damaged person.

[Aptorian]

Today I learned that British government offices around Downing Street have office cats and that those cats are a common topic of news articles.

Sometimes they fight which has to be some kind of abstract metaphor for politics and bureaucracy.

https://www.bbc.com/...n-2017-40263942