A tribute to the best and greatest thread in the world: Off Topic

[Mr Mystery]

*walks in front of mirror*

Better view.:cool:

#narcissism

Hall of Mirrors stylee?

[DrLove42]

How is it that a bank can transfer money from a payment instantly, but it takes 5 working days to clear a cheque

The result of this is that I have £11 left in my account (including my overdraft) until Thursday.

[eldargal]

Nope, just one big mirror.

[Wolfshade]

*walks in front of mirror*

Better view.:cool:

#narcissism

It is for this very reason I do not have mirrors in my house, Vanity, vanity everyting is vanity

[eldargal]

Mirrors are great.

[Mr Mystery]

Nope, just one big mirror.

Is that because of the size of your *removed on legal advice to prevent kicking*

[eldargal]

Nope, it's more tall than widescreen.:p

[Mr Mystery]

Ah fair enough!

I have but a single mirror. In the bog. It is used pretty much just for shaving.

[eldargal]

I don't need a mirror to shave.

[Wolfshade]

I don't need a mirror to shave.

Same here.

[Mr Mystery]

You do when you have a beard you don't want to shave #goateeftw.

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

You do when you have a beard you don't want to shave #goateeftw.

I'm with Mystery.

[Mr Mystery]

Yup!

[eldargal]

#cantgrowagoatee

[DrLove42]

#notonyourfaceatleast

:P

[Wolfshade]

Psh you need a goatee shaving stencil:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B001F2B3P8

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

#cantgrowagoatee


#notonyourfaceatleast

:P


Kinky.


Psh you need a goatee shaving stencil

Now with new Bane cosplay feature.

[eldargal]

#stillcantreally:p

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

Oh yeah, I remember.

[eldargal]

#forgetswhatshetoldyou

#hashtagsarefun

[DrLove42]

I don't think I wnaa know what you two talked about

#yep

I can see how twitter caught on.

[eldargal]

My <REDACTED> mostly.

Hur, <REDACTED>






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[Mr Mystery]

#cantgrowagoatee

#clearlynottryinghardenoughtypicalwoman

[Wolfshade]

Alopecia Universalis:o

[DrLove42]

My <REDACTED> mostly.

Hur, <REDACTED>


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Raises Eyebrow

#redacted

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

My <REDACTED> mostly.

Hur, <REDACTED>






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Good times were had.

None of you are even ON Twitter, you all suck.

#actualtweeter

[DrLove42]

I am thank you very much

@DrLove42 (unsuprisingly)

Although I do mostly use it to stalk celebrities

[Wolfshade]

I think the PM has the right idea:

Too many tweets make a ****

Also if I want to say something I shall be as verbose as I desire, not limited to a burst of characters that niether include context or meaning.

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

I am thank you very much

@DrLove42 (unsuprisingly)

Although I do mostly use it to stalk celebrities

Have a follow

[eldargal]

Good times were had.
Even though you never got within LoS of it.:p

[Wolfshade]

Cricket resumes:

WICKET- Cook lbw b Harris 0 (Eng 0-1)

[DrLove42]

Was it Nightfighting? Is that why?

[DrLove42]

Cricket resumes:

WICKET- Cook lbw b Harris 0 (Eng 0-1)

Having watched all of Yesterday....Urgh

Come on rain. We've just got to outlast the day

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

GOTI.

5th close out of 6 today, so tired.

[Wolfshade]

Or 564 balls...

[Mr Mystery]

Monday afternoon. And Mr M has no work to do.

Pod Seniors are all off (two on holiday, the other injured) so unlikely to find more work to do today. Hopefully tomorrow.

So bored! Though if Bilal is kicking about, I might harangue him for some extra stuff.

[Wolfshade]

Monday afternoon. And Mr M has no work to do.

Pod Seniors are all off (two on holiday, the other injured) so unlikely to find more work to do today. Hopefully tomorrow.

So bored! Though if Bilal is kicking about, I might harangue him for some extra stuff.

How I now think you work:

http://www.virginmedia.com/images/frozen-planet-orca-pod-antartica-590x350.jpg

also why would this man give you work?

http://www.games-workshop.com/MEDIA_CustomProductCatalog/m2860228a_99800101107_Belial01_445x319.jpg

[DrLove42]

Sometimes I hate cricket.

Work today is fun. Looking at graphs and weeping gently

[Mr Mystery]

No no no. That's Belial. I meant Bilal, one of the managers.

But good linkage!

[Wolfshade]

:) word play is fun, if a little taut

[Mr Mystery]

I can has tasty penguin now?

[Wolfshade]

Only if you can take the wrapper off

[DrLove42]

Lunch is over.

Work resumes.

[Mr Mystery]

Lunch is over.

And thanks to a minority of colleagues insisting on streaming video on their lunch, everyone else faces intermittent interwebs time. The selfish sods.

[DrLove42]

Cricket Watch - 35-3

England are doing absolutly ****e. Luckily the covers are on and its raining again

Gotta go 4 hours without losing those last 7 wickets....

[Wolfshade]

Looking at the rain I am thinking that I will get rather damp this evening

[DrLove42]

73 overs....7 wickets.

Come on boys, we only need a draw...

[Wildeybeast]

Superman is an emo. Wears weird clothes, isolates himself from the human race, lives in Fortress of Solitude talking to his dead father. How much more emo can you get?

[Wolfshade]

Superman suffers from dissosiative identity disorder. His "alter ego" is a functional member of society who has a job and interacts with society.

[Wildeybeast]

That sounds better than emo. We'll go with that. If I were Freudian, which I'm not, I'd suggest he clearly has some unresolved daddy issues too. After all, if you are superman, who can you look up to?

[eldargal]

Power Girl!

[DrLove42]

Boobs

Still raining in Manc. 3 hours to go....

[Mr Mystery]

Duh. Superman looks up to Zod....once he has KNEELED BEFORE ZOD!

[Wolfshade]

After all, if you are superman, who can you look up to?

Hello!

[Wolfshade]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23575249

A luxury toilet controlled by a smartphone app is vulnerable to attack, according to security experts.

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

Dredd, after Dredd has shot him with Kryptonite bullets!

[DrLove42]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23575249

A luxury toilet controlled by a smartphone app is vulnerable to attack, according to security experts.

I imagine a hacker who is just making it constanlty flush looking at himself in a mirror and wondering where he wasted his life....

[eldargal]

I think anyone who uses a ****ing app to control their toilet needs to look at themselves in the mirror and re-examine their life.

[Wolfshade]

I think anyone who uses a ****ing app to control their toilet needs to look at themselves in the mirror and re-examine their life.

I don't know, the number of times at work the bowl is not fresh, it would be nice for you to be able to flush before enthronement. Though would need to include some pressure sensor on the seat to stop it being flushed mid-reign.

[eldargal]

Will they ever install luxury lavatories at your work?:p

[Kirsten]

Hall of Mirrors stylee?

welcome to the mirror world!
there are over seventeen mirrors in mirror world.

[Wolfshade]

welcome to the mirror world!
there are over seventeen mirrors in mirror world.

Top Tip for navigating Mirror Mazes:

Look between knee and waist height to see the impressions made my children collisions with the walls, these invariable sticky marks will show where the glass is and isn't saving you the trouble of walking around like a zombie!

[eldargal]

I just freaked myself out by reading a topic in 40k General,clicking back to General discussion, forgetting I wasn't in the Oubliette and having a fit when I saw non-Oubliette topics.

[Wildeybeast]

There there, your back now, nice and safe with us where you belong. We told you the outside world was scary and you had to stay with us. Forever.

[Wildeybeast]

Benedict cumberbatch hates liquids. http://imgur.com/gallery/wdtyD

[Mr Mystery]

Spain is being silly again (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23578559)

Both Spain and Argentina really need to get a better grasp of self determination!

[Kirsten]

it is pretty ridiculous, you'd think Spain had more pressing concerns given their dire state right now.

[Mr Mystery]

Yup.

But more concerning.... I'm 33 now. And still getting hair in new places. Like my chest. Previously barren. Now getting hairier by the month.

WTF PUBERTY???

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

I'm nearly 21 and I have a hairy chest.

WTF MYSTERY???

[Deadlift]

I'm nearly 21 and I have a hairy chest.

WTF MYSTERY???

I have a hairy "everything" all except where I really would like some more, my head :o

[Mr Mystery]

I'm nearly 21 and I have a hairy chest.

WTF MYSTERY???

I know right!

And Deadlift, I'm otherwise pretty hairy. Just not really my chest.

I don't get it!

[DrLove42]

Its ok Mystery I'm the same.

Morning all. Man I'm sleepy.

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

I'm onto my 60th hour of working solid, with 7 more hours to go, then I get 2 days off.

Oh boy am I f*cked.

Then the Flower Show this weekend! Just super.

[DrLove42]

Sad panda.

[DrLove42]

More important question....is your day going better than this?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViggInNO8-Q&feature=player_embedded

He really doesn't care either

[Kirsten]

ha, I love the 'sh*t... ok...'

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

More important question....is your day going better than this?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViggInNO8-Q&feature=player_embedded

He really doesn't care either

Well, I don't start until 5, so yes.

[energongoodie]

I have a hairy "everything" all except where I really would like some more, my head :o

Testify

[Mr Mystery]

I've still got my old hairbrush from when I had long, flowing locks.

Perhaps I could sell you gents some hair from it to cover your balding pate?

[DrLove42]

Having a productive day at work

Drawn up my new Dark Heresy character. Takes longer for me as I run a very support based character

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

I thought you meant that you drew him. xD

[DrLove42]

No, thats another of our players (or DM for this session). Shes the artsy one

[Mr Mystery]

I'm having a crisis of conscience.

I like to eat as ethically as possible, without going into the hippy dippy silliness of veggie or vegan.

However, I'm now craving Whitebait...dredge in seasoned flour, deep fried and served hot with freshly squeezed lemon juice.

Trouble is, being the equivalent of fish toddlers, it's not what you might call ecologically sound, viable or sustainable.

But I crave them so!!!

[Wildeybeast]

Go fish your own and then you can be sure that you are only taking a small amount.

[Mr Mystery]

But that would involve skill and effort!

Thankfully, the Intertubes has conspired to stop my fish-child scoffing....

Shipping is a tenner....the fish £3 odd.......bah!

[Wildeybeast]

You don't have a fishmongers near by?

[Mr Mystery]

Yup.

Will have to try my luck on Saturday I guess.

[eldargal]

Good fish Guide (http://www.goodfishguide.co.uk/)

I recommend fresh anchovies instead if you can get them. Or fresh sardines.

[Necron2.0]

And speaking of "ethical eating," I'm sure our friends in the UK are aware scientists have taste-tested a new form of hamburger. The meat of the burger was grown in a vat from cow stem cells, meaning that nothing was killed in the making of the burger.

CBS News Story on Vat Grown Burger (http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57596978/burger-grown-from-cow-stem-cells-in-laboratory-put-to-taste-test-in-london/)

Still, I must confess that I'm not sure if I feel revolted or feel that this is progress. I still think I'd prefer my food to have died screaming.

[eldargal]

They think they will be able to make it cost effective for massed production, which would be brilliant when it comes alleviating food shortages. It also means I can refer to the beef I eat as Trueborn. So I'm all for it.

[Wildeybeast]

Given the current cost of production, it may be sometime before we see it on the supermarket shelves.

[Mr Mystery]

I too am all for it.

Beefs are tasty!

[Necron2.0]

Woah! I just had an epiphany! With this synthetic meat, mankind could almost become a self-sustaining, environmentally neutral creature. I mean think about it – all of our biological waste matter could be collected and reconstituted into growth medium for the vat-grown meat. Even the dead could be broken down into amino acids and what not as a resource for the vats, providing the efficiency of cannibalism without the unsavory moral quandary. Naturally there would need to be some input of external organic matter to keep the system going, and also naturally it would only be the power elite who would-be-allowed/could-afford to eat the real food, but hey … that’s progress.

Eating corpse-fed beef instead of corn-fed beef would diminish man’s footprint on the Earth significantly, since there wouldn’t need to be as much real estate wasted on cattle and farms. Mankind’s impact could be further reduced if human habitats were forced to conform to Paulo Soleri’s hive arcology vision. Combine this with a dramatic expansion in nuclear power, and with draconian restrictions of conventional combustion, and mankind’s impact on the planet could almost be rendered negligible. This of course means the planet would then have the capacity to host many hundreds of times more humans than are already here, perhaps even thousands of times more.

With so many people and so few opportunities for employment (assuming the pace at which automation replaces human labor keeps up), mankind will be free to pursue the one thing he has truly excelled at throughout all ages of time … warfare! Unlike in the past, however, there won’t be any fear of starvation or disease, because the honored dead will literally be the source of the victory banquette, and nothing would be left to fester and rot on the battlefield. After several ages of struggle and strife, when mankind finally steps out into the stars, he will be well prepared to spread like the virus he truly is – crushing all opposition, be it from green skins, space fey or post-organic automata.

HOT DAMN!! I’m starting to get excited about this technology now!! :D

[Kirsten]

cannibalism without the unsavory moral quandary.

there is a moral quandry about cannibalism? >.>
I knew that... <.<
I wouldn't do it, obviously...

[Necron2.0]

They say any society is never more than a few missed meals away from revolution. Recent discoveries however would suggest the actual truth is no society is ever more than a few missed meals away from cannibalism.

[Deadlift]

They say any society is never more than a few missed meals away from revolution. Recent discoveries however would suggest the actual truth is no society is ever more than a few missed meals away from cannibalism.

I would have to be in a dire situation to resort to eating a person, it would have to be at least 8 hours without food before,I would even consider tucking into a friend ;)

[Kirsten]

and four before tucking into someone you didn't know?

[Deadlift]

and four before tucking into someone you didn't know?

Well you have to have a starter don't you :D

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

No, thats another of our players (or DM for this session). Shes the artsy one

I want someone to draw Artor... >.<
I don't have time to get my drawing up to scratch again.

[eldargal]

*tries to avoid making an awful double entendre about eating people*

*passes her LD test*

Yay!


Girls are artsy:
http://www.lounge.belloflostsouls.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=4495&d=1375852423

[Wolfshade]

If it is grown in a lab how will I know if it is still mooing?

[eldargal]

It will never have mooed so the default answer would be 'no it isn't'. Need to keep eating Trueborn Cows.

[Wolfshade]

TruCow (TM) now with added gibblets and fiber

[eldargal]

I'm so proud, my mother has chosen her gamer tag; LacyUnicorn.

[Wolfshade]

Did you not warn her of the dangers of identifying yourself as female online?

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

Or having any association with equines? Fictional or otherwise?

[eldargal]

Did you not warn her of the dangers of identifying yourself as female online?

Yep, I think she did it deliberately so as to taunt them.

[Wolfshade]

Should have been PrincessUnicorn, splogy would love that

[Kirsten]

"The UK Independence Party has asked one of its senior politicians not to use the phrase "Bongo Bongo Land" again, warning that people abroad might find it "disparaging"."

you don't say...

"Questioned on the BBC News Channel, Mr Bloom, MEP for Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire, said it would be "absurd" and "ridiculous" to label his comments racist.
He said Bongo Bongo Land was "a figment of people's imagination. It's like Ruritania or the Third World".
He added: "It's sad how anybody can be offended by a reference to a country that doesn't exist.""

[Wolfshade]

Bongo Bongo Lands cheif export are tropical fruits (47%), percussion instruments (32%), arms manufacturing (16%).

A benelvant dictator ship has ruled since gaining it's independence from european powers in the late 70s. Most of Bongo Bongo land is given over to agriculture, though a number of tourist resorts are springing up, however without an international airport this market is stymied.

[Kirsten]

we can obviously make jokes about Mr Bloom's brain then because clearly that doesn't exist either.

[Wolfshade]

It is unfortunate that he is making a point that a lot of people are not happy with but his terminology leaves a lot to be desired.

For instance aid to india I find distatesful given that they are embarking upon their own multi-billion £ space programme, that they have more millionaires/1,000 population that the uk. They have a serious problem rich-poor divide which apparently they are unwilling to do anything about.

But by referring to these countries as bongo bongo land he then makes the whole thing a farce and loses any credibility (if any) he had prior.

Perhaps he was used BBL so that he did not get drawn up in specific countries or as a general catch all. Eitherway he obviously is not taking his mentats

[Mr Mystery]

The man is clearly a moron. You should see some of his other 'clangers'.....

Though it does make me wonder if, in a couple of years, UKIP are simply going to be revealed as a long term, performance art project to celebrate the Carry On films.

[eldargal]

It's a little disappointing actually because Farage is actually quite articulate and intelligent in person and has been spot on about the EU in many cases. Then you have this streak of bigotry and downright idiocy in the party,:rolleyes:

In other news, Bruce Willis dropped from Expendables 3 for being 'greedy and lazy (http://uk.movies.yahoo.com/stallone-brands-bruce-willis--greedy-and-lazy---hires-harrison-ford-090046176.html)' lulz.

[Wolfshade]

I do always find it worrying when I see an interview with Farage and actually either feel sorry for him based on the hostile interviewing technique or agreeing with is points that he makes.

I also enjoy the fact that he goes to the pub at lunch, perhaps he is the most normal polititian out there...

[Mr Mystery]

Can't stand the greasy little Weasel.

Plus, caught attempting a bit of tax avoidance. Then pipes up that it's actually all OK, because he managed to lose money.

And you want us to let you run the country? Really? Really really??

[Wolfshade]

Strava is a logging app that is favoured amongst the (road) cycling community. Last Saturday they logged almost 5 million miles cycled and decided to plot it all on a heatmap.

http://app.strava.com/saturday-heatmap#0|10|6|54.17614|-1.74421

Thought it was neat so would share

If you look between 00:00 - 07:00 the Dunwich run is clearly visible :)

[Cap'nSmurfs]

Farage's impression of being a "just like you!" regular pint and crisps Bloke is a calculated PR position. He's a politician. Politics is all about image management and presentation. Don't ever imagine that the versions of themselves they present to the public are necessarily anything like they really are as people.

Case in point is Boris Johnson. If you judge him by his deeds, Boris really isn't a very nice man at all, and he certainly isn't anything like as dunderheaded as he makes out.

[Wildeybeast]

Advice needed. What's a reasonable amount to spend on wedding presents? My mum seems to think it should vary according to which bits of the wedding you are invited to and suggested £50 if you are invited to the whole shindig. That seems rather a lot to me, so I want to canvass opinion. I have that awful dilemma of not wanting to look like a cheapskate whilst not wanting to spend more money than I have to.

[Wolfshade]

It depends on various factors:

+ Do you know the bride or the groom or both?
+ How well do you know them?
+ What part(s) of the wedding are you invited to?
+ What is your disposable income?

If you buy them birthday or christmas presents, then consider that figure and maybe double it.

[Wildeybeast]

I have two weddings coming up, we don't do birthday presents, I know both couples in both cases, though mainly socialise with the grooms and I'm invited to the evening do in one case and the whole shebang in the other.

[Mr Mystery]

Socks!

[Wildeybeast]

Socks would be easy, but it's one of those contribute online things

[Wolfshade]

If both grooms know each other then you'll need to be about equivalent. Otherwise £30 for the first £40 for the second

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

Dressed to impress!
Going out tonight for drinks with le femme fatale. Let's see if I can get Objective 4 sorted.

Operation: WINNING! for the win.

[Wildeybeast]

If both grooms know each other then you'll need to be about equivalent. Otherwise £30 for the first £40 for the second

Yeah they do know each other. I was wondering about whether they wer likely to discuss gift amounts for their respective weddings. I'd feel bad if they did, though one of them has only invited me to the evening do.

Good luck TDA

[Mr Mystery]

Dressed to impress!


http://www.socialtailor.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/sigue-sigue-sputnik-degville.jpg

???

[Wolfshade]

How to commute: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-23589161

[Wildeybeast]

It only saves him 5 minutes. Seems rather pointless to me.

[Wolfshade]

It is novel and less likey to have disruption, plus the benefits to health and well being

[eldargal]

New Thor 2 trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvKjS2s1v0k

[Wildeybeast]

But it only saves him 5 minutes in walking, so he can't be putting much more effort in than he does when walking. As he himself says, he's unlikely to do it in the winter and with the added risk of falling in, it just seems like more hassle than its worth. As long as he enjoys, my opinion doesn't really matter.

[Wolfshade]

New enterprising cat scratch post:

http://craziestgadgets.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/star-trek-cat.jpg

http://craziestgadgets.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/star-trek-cat-tree.jpg

[Wildeybeast]

New Thor 2 trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvKjS2s1v0k

Looks pretty good to me. Still waiting for a Winter Soldier trailer myself.

[eldargal]

Yeah I want more Black Widow. Oh and Captain America, he's ok. Actually I liked him, that character could have been so horribly handled it just wouldn't have been funny but he was actually rather pleasant.

[Kirsten]

I was very very pleasantly surprised by captain america and thor. both of them had a great many opportunities to fall on their face. a norse god, and a guy in stars and stripes filled with patriotism. but both were actually handled incredibly well and managed to fit tricky characters superbly snugly into the slightly more realistic world of iron man and co.

[Wolfshade]

Yes I was pleased seeing Captain America because it would have been so easy to get the tone wrong and have it to be a peice of kitsch patiotict tat that would have no appeal outside of USA.

[Kirsten]

just finished mass effect 3 for the third time, still totally amazing.

hate that feeling you get when you finish an epic book/film/game and everything else seems depressing...

[Wolfshade]

Sharknado on syfy at 2100!

[Wolfshade]

Continunig the shark theme:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwOQKlVZZsc

[Deadlift]

Sharknado on syfy at 2100!

Watching it on Sky +, so bad it's good. Tara Reids looking a bit rough. If I'm not mistaken that's Kevin Mcalisters Dad from home alone too :D

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

Good luck TDA

Impressed everyone except femme fatale. Goddammit.

[Kirsten]

That's Numberwang!

http://www.reddit.com/r/britishproblems/comments/1jvgn6/i_said_numberwang_to_the_pet_shop_cashier_when_my/cbioq86

[Wildeybeast]

Impressed everyone except femme fatale. Goddammit.

Bad luck mate. Have you managed to get another date set up or did you totally crash and burn?

[Kirsten]

and people say footballers are out of touch:

http://sport.uk.msn.com/trending-blog/shaun-wright-phillips-escapes-jail-because-he-doesnt-open-his-own-post1298327

[Wolfshade]

After Sharknado I watched Human Centipede....

[Mr Mystery]

Lame!

This week, I upgraded to Sky Movies.

And have so far watched Deathly Hallows Pt 2, Mad Max 3, and another one I can't remember for some reason.

Not bad for around 50p a day!

[DrLove42]

I'm back after my sick time off. Everyone having fun?

[Mr Mystery]

Yes!

We is r improve BoLs with clevery-smartypants threads and that in 40k General!

[DrLove42]

Lets see how long that lasts....

[Mr Mystery]

No way, bum face!

This is cool!

[Wolfshade]

I've just switched to Strava to capture my cyclings and yesterday got a 3rd place on one of the segments.

http://veloviewer.com/SigImage.php?a=2a3a63&r=3&c=5&u=M&g=p&f=abcdefghij&z=a.png

[DrLove42]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mxPFHBCfuU

Awesome Game, awesome cast...

[eldargal]

Ha, that was great.

[DrLove42]

http://rt.com/business/man-outsmarts-banks-wins-court-221/

Winning at life.

In short a chap edited the small print on his credit card contract. And the bank, not reading it signed to agree to it

And hes now managed to make a mint off them

[Mr Mystery]

Local government, you're doing it right! (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hereford-worcester-23628872)

Seriously chuffed for these folks. I love to hear of a pub being preserved and reopened!

[Mr Mystery]

Suddenly!

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/69192000/jpg/_69192287_pandacub624.jpg

Rawr! I r Panda Bear!

[Kirsten]

I r panda bear!

this panda was traumatised by an earthquake

http://i1216.photobucket.com/albums/dd380/KirstenIGMB/panda_zps5de87bbc.jpg (http://s1216.photobucket.com/user/KirstenIGMB/media/panda_zps5de87bbc.jpg.html)

[DrLove42]

Suddenly!

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/69192000/jpg/_69192287_pandacub624.jpg

Rawr! I r Panda Bear!

That is th emost adorable thing ever

That said we should let Pandas die off. They're trying to kill themselves, and we keep stopping it.

They're carnivores....who only eat plant life. Their teeth are not designed for plants, and they need to eat 24 hours a day to get close to enough to meet their needs

The female is only fertile for like 48 hours a year

Male and Female Pandas are not attracted to each other

They're doing everything they can to die out and its just us stopping it happening!

[Deadlift]

Watching Bedknobs and Broomsticks with the nippers this morning and something dawned on me.
http://i844.photobucket.com/albums/ab3/joenortonjones/5b0593061dac93eb9a219f6c6c228e51.jpg

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

Oh lawd.

[DrLove42]

Got my FW Apoc book in the post. Anyone want to know anything

FYI all the Eldar stuff has been shafted

[Build]

@Deadlift

You are a very bad man!

I just snorted black coffee over my desk.

[eldargal]

Got my FW Apoc book in the post. Anyone want to know anything

FYI all the Eldar stuff has been shafted

Gosh, what a surprise.:rolleyes: How have they mediocritised the Scorpion/Cobra?

[Deadlift]

@Deadlift

You are a very bad man!

I just snorted black coffee over my desk.


I live to serve ;)

[DrLove42]

Gosh, what a surprise.:rolleyes: How have they mediocritised the Scorpion/Cobra?

Cobra is i think 75-100 points more expensive. And is now only a 7" blast. its got some wirrd residual effect that only affects things for 1 turn on a 6.

Scorpion might be more expensive ive only skimmed

warp hunter is not only worse its more expensive

Hornets are roughly the same, but have a snap fire on flatout ability.

I dont know much more off head. the DE Tantalus is unchanged as far as i can tell

[Kirsten]

this is beautiful


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGSahdrH1IQ&feature=youtu.be

[eldargal]

Need the weather to cool off so I can wear my new acquisition courtesy of Mothers Wardrobe c1968, a gorgeous crimson crushed velvet suit. Very Mod, looks amazing on. Not so comfortable in this weather.:(

New low point in Saints Row 3: mistaking an apartment building in the distance for a group of prostitutes I needed to kill for an assassination mission and driving off a cliff into the sea trying to run them down.

[Mr Mystery]

Crushed Velvet suit?

How very Austin Powers baby, yeah!

[Gotthammer]

New low point in Saints Row 3: mistaking an apartment building in the distance for a group of prostitutes I needed to kill for an assassination mission and driving off a cliff into the sea trying to run them down.

http://snarkerati.com/celebrity-gossip/files/2011/01/lindsay-lohan-dawn-holland-payoff.jpg




this is beautiful

Epic Dr Who troll (http://the-pietriarchy.tumblr.com/post/57751200701/mixmastacopycat-the-pietriarchy).

[Kirsten]

New low point in Saints Row 3: mistaking an apartment building in the distance for a group of prostitutes I needed to kill for an assassination mission and driving off a cliff into the sea trying to run them down.

funnily enough I have been replaying Saints Row 3 yesterday and today as well, may get 4 in a few weeks.

[eldargal]

Crushed Velvet suit?

How very Austin Powers baby, yeah!
It's kind of amusing because despite watching Austin Powers with mother several times she never mentioned it, but she did mention it when I made my Saints Row 3 character a crushed velvet looking suit.:rolleyes:


funnily enough I have been replaying Saints Row 3 yesterday and today as well, may get 4 in a few weeks.
I'll be getting 4 too, love 3. So over the top and silly it redeems any of the potentially offensive things in my opinion. Plus I can make a female character who dual wields SMGs and carries a rocket launcher.

[Mr Mystery]

It's kind of amusing because despite watching Austin Powers with mother several times she never mentioned it, but she did mention it when I made my Saints Row 3 character a crushed velvet looking suit.:rolleyes:


I'll be getting 4 too, love 3. So over the top and silly it redeems any of the potentially offensive things in my opinion. Plus I can make a female character who dual wields SMGs and carries a rocket launcher.

Combine the two with machine gun jubblies!

[Kirsten]

I'll be getting 4 too, love 3. So over the top and silly it redeems any of the potentially offensive things in my opinion. Plus I can make a female character who dual wields SMGs and carries a rocket launcher.

personally I would like a slight toning down in silliness, somewhere between 2 and 3, so a little skeptical about 4 going even more over the top, but I expect it will still be fun.

[eldargal]

I never played 2 and I like silly things so it works for me.:p

[Kirsten]

2 is much the same, just a bit more serious, a few really dark moments. like making a rival gang boss who drives a monster truck in stunt shows unknowingly crush his own girlfriend to death in the boot of a car he drives over...

[eldargal]

Icky.:( New SR3 mishap:
http://www.lounge.belloflostsouls.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=4553&d=1376232902
Parked it upside down, don't ask me how.

[Kirsten]

I accidentally bailed out of my VTOL earlier, it went plummeting to the ground, landed the right way up and somehow took no damage, so I landed beside it, hopped back in, and took off again...

also got in the car with Zimos after rescuing him, and the car, without actually driving anywhere and still parked, flipped over onto its' roof. had to go get another.

[Aenir]

Eldargal and Kirsten you two watch gamefails on youtube?

seems like something you both might like :)

bunch of silly things across many games (though, many are Halo related)

[Wolfshade]

Mental note, do not let Kirsten borrow anything with an engine

[Kirsten]

hey, first time there were no ill effects and second time had nothing to do with me

[Wolfshade]

Yeah yeah heard it all before...

[Mr Mystery]

Inadvertent Sunday drinking.



Whoops!

[DrLove42]

Mornign all.

So. Fecking. Sleepy.

Had my in laws down this weekend. Apparantly they are of the belief that once you wake up, you should get everyone else up and do day stuff.

At 6 in the morning. Both days of the weekend.

[Wolfshade]

It is official Strava makes me crazy.

Saturday was great fun on my bike, came down a hill with 16% decent and almost crashed over a wall as I was going slightly too fast to get round the corner.

I have new doors throughout my house huzzah!

[Cap'nSmurfs]

I'm glad y'all are having so much fun; my toilet's leaking. :(

[Wolfshade]

I'm glad y'all are having so much fun; my toilet's leaking. :(

I do hope that it is fresh water not erm pre-used water...

[Cap'nSmurfs]

Mercifully, yes. I've turned off the water supply to it, just need the plumber to call.

[Wolfshade]

You know what went wrong?

With my mine the in-flow valve broke because the water pressure was too high, fortunately now everything has isolator switches.

[Mr Mystery]

Have you tried kicking it?

[DrLove42]

I have nothing to say. But wanted to post somehting cos i'm really fecking bored

[Wolfshade]

Public out cry as government proposes to spend £94m on cycling, which is somewhere between what was spent on Pensions for members of the Atomic Agency for Q1 this year and by the CPS in the same period, or about as much as the FSA spends in the year.. Outrageous expenditure...

[jgebi]

well I wish australia would do that, but I ride everywhere so little bias, but everyone is one or the other sometimes both but not always and not enough if you ask me

[DrLove42]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23663337

Top Baby names of the Year.

Not a racist, but does it speak volumes of the population of London that Mohammed is the most popular boys name....

[eldargal]

Public out cry as government proposes to spend £94m on cycling, which is somewhere between what was spent on Pensions for members of the Atomic Agency for Q1 this year and by the CPS in the same period, or about as much as the FSA spends in the year.. Outrageous expenditure...
I find it helps to remind people that the UK guvmint budget is around 700 BILLION pounds a year, one hundred million pounds is a tiny amount. Mind you we live in a country where people still think being a millionaire is significant so whatever.

[Wolfshade]

I do find it strange that you can name your child Mohammed but not a teddy bear.

Next year my prediction is that George will be the most popular boys name.

[DrLove42]

Well thats links into this http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-23665106

[eldargal]

Well thats links into this http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-23665106

The land of freedom and small guvmint, where judges can force you to rename your child.:rolleyes:

[Wolfshade]

I find it helps to remind people that the UK guvmint budget is around 700 BILLION pounds a year, one hundred million pounds is a tiny amount. Mind you we live in a country where people still think being a millionaire is significant so whatever.

It is a drop in the ocean, especially when you consider Dutch analysts have also studied the cost benefits of mass cycling in reducing traffic jams, pollution and road maintenance costs and boosting health. They found that the economy made a 35p profit for every mile travelled by bike instead of by car.

Now we have a long way to go before we can get to that level but British reports suggest that the NHS in particular could see £4 return for every £1 invested through reduced obesity treatements.

[DrLove42]

The land of freedom and small guvmint, where judges can force you to rename your child.:rolleyes:

Its beyond that. According to it theres aload of other out there with the same name, its just that this one got a pushy group on them and religious crazy judge who was willing to overlook freedom of speech for her own religious beliefs...

[Wolfshade]

Don't forget in a number of countries there is a list of approved names and if you want to change your name you have to be able to prove that you are eligable for it.

[Mr Mystery]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23663337

Top Baby names of the Year.

Not a racist, but does it speak volumes of the population of London that Mohammed is the most popular boys name....

Not as much as you might think..... By the last census, around 4% of the UK identified as Muslim, so the EDL can hush about it being '40%' etc.

And amongst the Islamic community, Mohammed, and various spellings thereof (all of which are lumped as Mohammed on these polls, distorting things a bit) is a ridiculously popular boy's name.

[DrLove42]

I once got locked in a pub because of the EDL...

Was a 40K comp, the room they rent is above a pub. There was a scheduled EDL "protest" march planned to meet, march and retrun to the grass area outside the pub. So manager let us all in and locked the place up.

[Mr Mystery]

Guess that's a silver lining to the shaven headed racist morons.

[Wolfshade]

Can you be against mass immigration and not be labeled a racist?

Did you know 100% of illegal immigrants are foreigners?

[Mr Mystery]

You can be, but the EDL are quite obviously and horribly racist.

They object to certain cultures 'distroying r herrutage'....yet not so much a cheap at the increasing Americanisation of our society....

Silly bleeders.

[Cap'nSmurfs]

Having misgivings about immigration doesn't automatically make you a racist. There's a lot of attitudes towards immigration which *are* racist, however, or at least xenophobic. Some of them are obvious (like the EDL) and some are more subtle. Take the concept of "mass immigration". How many people does it take for immigration to be "mass"? What are the numbers, where's the cutoff - and why is the chosen number bad? What effect does it have? What are the numbers of people *emigrating* from the country, in comparison (if I recall, they're quite substantial). Basically: what's the evidence that "mass migration" exists, and what effect does it have? The term is used carelessly by politicians and the mainstream press as a way of demonising and rendering into black and white an issue which is really quite complicated - and also serves to "other" people who are living, feeling human beings.

This isn't to accuse you, or anyone, of anything; just to show that the terms we use and the ways we think about these things are often loaded with meanings we may not intend or understand, which sometimes help people we'd never want to be associated with. I'd argue that the current framing of the immigration debate is full of terms and assumptions which are ammunition for the hard right; the further problem is that the whole discussion is full of misinformation and ideologically dodgy framings all 'round.

Also, Mystery's point above is apposite. One of the absurdities of the current immigration regime is that, from the point of view of the people who've instituted it, it's had perverse outcomes. They like the United States, but it's way harder for someone from the US to enter the country at the moment (even if, as with my wife, we were getting married) than it is for someone from an EU country that the Tory backbenches like much less. The crackdown was a farce, all for appearances: they can't touch EU migration because it's hardwired into membership agreements. So they just ended up hurting a bunch of people from countries which the Tories consider major partners, like the United States and India.

Personally I'd have much more open borders pretty much everywhere, but that's me. ;)

[Wolfshade]

It is all joined together with the idea that people are on the scrounge.
The rhetoric that people come to the UK to enjoy our benefit system without contributing to it. It is full of hyperbole and woefully inadequate stats.

It is, as you say, very easy for the right wing to bang the drum and point to eastern europeans coming in and "taking our jobs" when in reality the situation might be that the natives refused to work for them. Or point to how "they" come across illegally use our srvices and don't pay tax.

I think that like most stereotypes there is (or was) an element of truth associated with these but as to how accurate that stereotype matches up to the actual situation I wouldn't like to guess but I hope it would be either non-existant or limited to a tiny amount of individuals.

But as we say we don't rightly know.

I do think the loss of control of our European borders is not a good thing.

[Mr Mystery]

Anecdote is anecdote...but I seem to remember reading somewhere that there are more people emigrating from Britain, than immigrating to Britain.

Anecdote is also not up to date.....

There's also the myth that most immigrant are workshy and here to work benefits. Statistically, this is shown to be utter claptrap, as they are far, far less likely to be on benefits than a native..... Especially one assumes from looking at them, if said native is a member of the EDL.

[Wolfshade]

I think Mystery you are in danger of stereotyping and pigeon holing yourself.

The EDL has no membership so one could not be a member of the organisation...so said a spokesman for the organisation...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23475230

"Official UK migration figures are "little better than a best guess", an influential group of MPs has said."

[Cap'nSmurfs]

One of the things which made me mad was when one of the cabinet creatures of the night proposed charging migrants to use the NHS. Because, you see, "they don't contribute". Well, speaking from mine and my wife's experience, the only reason she wasn't working for the first six months of her stay here was because *she was not legally able to work because the Border Agency took its sweet time issuing our documents". As soon as she's been able to work, she has been. And, guess what? Paying taxes.

It's all just about turning people against each other, rather than being able to focus our anger on the people who are actually doing us harm.

[Wolfshade]

Ah don't get me started about the fairness of the system :)

[old rant] My wife went to Uni straight after school, graduated with a degree in her chosen field and where she wanted to work, but owing to a change of personal stance she decided to re-train and become a maths teacher (there were government incentives to do this) where she did a conversion course and completed her first year of training then because of the pressures of the paper work and through ill health had to drop out, she then tried to work part time but because of her poor mental health was unable to do so. She then investigated the possibility of getting some sort of financial support from the governemnt as she was too ill to work (signed off by GP, backed by Neurologist and Pyschatrist) but was told that because she hadn't paid enough NI contributions she was eligable for nothing. Meanwhile, my neighbour's daughter at the age of 16 had a child was given full income support and a nice two bed flat, despite the fact that she had also made no contributions and was under age to be engaging in sex anyway [/old rant]

[Kirsten]

Anecdote is anecdote...but I seem to remember reading somewhere that there are more people emigrating from Britain, than immigrating to Britain.

yeah, the Daily Fascist and the EDL neglect to mention for example that well over half of all polish immigrants for example returned home.

[Wolfshade]

yeah, the Daily Fascist and the EDL neglect to mention for example that well over half of all polish immigrants for example returned home.

Cite your sources, given that official statistics are unreliable.

[Psychosplodge]

OK a weeks quick summary...


What about the Times, Telegraph, Observer & Independent. They seem to be missing from your list. Oh and the Metro. Though that is probably so inane as to be utterly devoid of anything which could be classed as 'opinion'. Or 'reporting' for that matter. TBH, saying it contains news is a stretch.

You can't include sunday rags or we'll be here forever


Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth is £4.49 on Steam....

You considered Cthulu saves the world?


Psh, never cared for Dr Who.

Brilliant Top Gear episode, felt quite patriot!



To be honest the only way I would watch Dr Who is if they made Bill Bailey the time lord.

^These


Lunch is over.

And thanks to a minority of colleagues insisting on streaming video on their lunch, everyone else faces intermittent interwebs time. The selfish sods.

I hate that I can't watch the podcast at work anymore due to selfish colleagues doing this :D


Dredd, after Dredd has shot him with Kryptonite bullets!

Saw him bothering Anthrax on Sunday...


Should have been PrincessUnicorn, splogy would love that

Princesses are Alicorns :rolleyes:



Bongo Bongo Lands cheif export are tropical fruits (47%), percussion instruments (32%), arms manufacturing (16%).

A benelvant dictator ship has ruled since gaining it's independence from european powers in the late 70s. Most of Bongo Bongo land is given over to agriculture, though a number of tourist resorts are springing up, however without an international airport this market is stymied.

You forgot the principle export of Um-Bongo


I was very very pleasantly surprised by captain america and thor. both of them had a great many opportunities to fall on their face. a norse god, and a guy in stars and stripes filled with patriotism. but both were actually handled incredibly well and managed to fit tricky characters superbly snugly into the slightly more realistic world of iron man and co.

Yep both surprisingly better than expected.


Suddenly!

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/69192000/jpg/_69192287_pandacub624.jpg

Rawr! I r Panda Bear!

Panda's are evil and must be destroyed, as referenced in the original thread. For speed google: Beaver and steve pandas


Mornign all.

So. Fecking. Sleepy.

Had my in laws down this weekend. Apparantly they are of the belief that once you wake up, you should get everyone else up and do day stuff.

At 6 in the morning. Both days of the weekend.

Justifiable homicide


I have nothing to say. But wanted to post somehting cos i'm really fecking bored

And isn't that what this thread is for?

[Psychosplodge]

BLOODSTOCK RUNDOWN

http://i41.tinypic.com/2yxk5ec.jpg

Weather was good.
Had fun but knackered.

Friday bands
Death Angel Good, but sound issues. I described them to someone as slayeresque, and was told, no slayer are death angelesque...

Dark funeral Loud, watchable but sound issues....again...

Firewind you can see the pattern right?

Accept good, no real issues, but the front man looks like the south park style evil twin of Brian Johnson.

King Diamond can't hit the high notes but ridiculously entertaining. Fans were apparently disappointed, but as someone who didn't know what to expect I enjoyed it.

Saturday Bands

Beholder interesting, pretty standard heavy metal. not bad for first main stage appearance

3 inches of Blood second part of their 2013 european tour, enjoyed immensely, crowd was singing, love deadly sinners

Hell really entertaining, even if the songs weren't necessarily up to much

Kataklysm heavy but unremarkable

Gojira fell asleep. Literally. Late afternoon sat/sun at a festival is my nap time...

Sabaton If I had to pick would be my band of the festival, despite five or ten mins of issues, really made up for it with the rest of the set...

Avantasia what I saw was good, but missed half the set.

Lamb of God Technical issues, is that how you stretch an hour slot to a headline length? Disappointing. Not what I expected, though last couple of times I've seen them they've suffered Gojira's fate... Felt lacklustre but lots of crowd interaction and the lead singer seemed chuffed with crowd response *shrugs*

Sunday

Whitechapel heavy. Thrash. just start getting into a song and it'd finish. Very meh.

Sacred Mother tongue Very old school Metal, with lyrics and clean sounding guitars, not distorted stuff. would watch again.

Fozzy Very OTT in mincing around the stage, and stole Elton John's jacket, but very entertaining

Amorphis unmemorable. can't really remember them.

Exodus very heavy.

Devildriver Feels like he knows he's made it, and isn't giving the same effort as last time I saw them. Still good enough, but just felt less somehow.

Anthrax good set. crowd loved it. entertaining.
https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/1150985_10151583153336262_1478056157_n.jpg

Slayer last 30 mins were the best. everything was tight, but the fastest stuff that got the crowd going was then.
The lead singer is an amazingly softly spoken bloke considering his profession.

[Kirsten]

Slayer last 30 mins were the best. everything was tight, but the fastest stuff that got the crowd going was then.
The lead singer is an amazingly softly spoken bloke considering his profession.

shouldn't have been a surprise:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lCaZoREq_M

[Wolfshade]

Welcome back Splogmiester

[Psychosplodge]

shouldn't have been a surprise:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lCaZoREq_M

Yeah, the SO said straight away that Bill Bailey's got him nailed.


Welcome back Splogmiester

It's good to be home. Probably should have took another day for recovery but...

[Wolfshade]

Sorry was being the good husband, the wife is away so I have baked her a Victorian Sponge Sandwich for her return

[Psychosplodge]

lol

Any excuse for cake?

[Wolfshade]

She likes cake and I am awesome

[Psychosplodge]

Who doesn't like cake?

[eldargal]

The soulless and the damned.

[Psychosplodge]

Seems reasonable.

[Wolfshade]

That could be a qualifier for the exoditing...

Happy Tuesday! My legs are tired from too much cycling :(

[Psychosplodge]

Everything is sore from too much festivaling...

[Wolfshade]

So what was your favourite act?

[Psychosplodge]

Sabaton. followed by 3 inches of blood.

[Wolfshade]

Oooh I see people are decrying Space Marines as OP now we have some rules leaked

[Psychosplodge]

That's practically unheard of.

[Wolfshade]

I know right!

[Psychosplodge]

Maybe they're on the wrong forum? Isn't there one specifically for whining?

[Wolfshade]

Whingeseer? Or WingeWinge?

[Psychosplodge]

Yeah something like that.

[eldargal]

It hasn't been that bad really, apart from the fact Tigurius is now the greatest ****ing psyker in the known universe.

[Wolfshade]

Well that is a given, he is better than some magic space elf...

I want to see a US election ticket that has a Mr(s) White and Mr(s) Power, can you imagine the placards... ooops

[Psychosplodge]

Yea a female presidential candidate? what planet are you living on? :D

[eldargal]

There are a few potential female candidates being touted for 2016 apparently. Doesn't mean they will get the nomination of course.

[Wolfshade]

I should note that while I think a Ms or Miss or some other combination of it could be equal to the challenge, I think with conserative americanism the chances of a female president happening would only occur if she were married (and probably to a man)

But then again it wasn't that long ago that it was joked "It's not called the white house becuase of it's paint" (IIRC that was in an House episode)

I just wanted to see the White Power placard, then someone to realsie there mistake

[Wildeybeast]

There are a few potential female candidates being touted for 2016 apparently. Doesn't mean they will get the nomination of course.

Is Hilary one of them? I know she ran BO close, but I'd heard talk that maybe she was about old for it now(not sure whether that is from a voting perspective or hers).

[eldargal]

I'm not sure, there was a nice blonde senator from New York (I think) but I can't remember her name.

[Psychosplodge]

Didn't expect this (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-23665236)

[Mr Mystery]

Here's a story for you.....

Went out with my friend Nat that other week.

She ended up utterly wrecked, and having to be carried back to mine, and put to bed. Never seen her that messed up before, and that girl can drink.

Next morning, she doesn't remember a thing. Not even the creepy blokes that kept buying her drinks...

Net result? I think she got Roofied.

And this weekend?

I think someone tried it again, but got the wrong drink. Was feeling wonky all weekend and into yesterday morning!

[Wolfshade]

No good. Hope nothing untoward occured.

Also:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/13/ballbiting_fish_chomps_on_swedish_mens_bits/

[Mr Mystery]

Nah. I remember the night fine (I'm curiously resistant to drugs).

And with me there, nothing happened to Nat. Apart from the breaking of yet another pair of headphones when I scooped her up off the pavement!

[eldargal]

Yet you still see people (men) claim drink spiking is a myth.:( It happened to me once, fortunately my escort stopped anything happening. Last thing I remember is the bartender delivering my drink, then waking up the next morning. I pay more attention to my drink now.

I know we all like a good laugh at Warseer, but credit where it is due we just had a very sensible discussion about homosexuality in the 40k setting. There were a few people who didn't seem to understand that as a non-Abrahamic faith the Ecclesiarchy was certainly not guaranteed to consider homosexuality as anything at all deviant, but after a few people (myself included) brought up examples of homosexuality being nothing untoward in 40k they seem to have dropped it.

[Wolfshade]

Confusing indeed.

One of the things that we have is that we only see 40k through our eyes, it is a bit like First Contact that woman not being able to understand where captain Baldy-Man was coming from.

[Psychosplodge]

Which woman?

[Wolfshade]

Lily (the one on the left):
http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x54/TrueX-Ray/Movies%20Caption%20Contest/Movies23a.jpg