Test Equipment Anonymous

tggzzz wrote: ↑Sat Mar 02, 2024 8:36 pm Pigeons are small fry compared with herring gulls; you need double the quantity for a meal.

I'm a Brighton boy, I don't need telling about bloody sodding chip guzzling herring gulls. At least you can eat pigeon and they are relatively quiet.

Is there a shotgun emoji?

Cerebus wrote: ↑Sun Mar 03, 2024 2:53 pm

tggzzz wrote: ↑Sat Mar 02, 2024 8:36 pm Pigeons are small fry compared with herring gulls; you need double the quantity for a meal.

I'm a Brighton boy, I don't need telling about bloody sodding chip guzzling herring gulls. At least you can eat pigeon and they are relatively quiet.

Is there a shotgun emoji?

I know it is "now double the quantity for a meal" since I've eaten both, in restaurants. One was called mávur.

Never managed to find kæstur hákarl, nor lundi/puffin, which might have been for the best.

mnem
the orange tabby mafia is watching your house.

mnementh wrote: ↑Mon Mar 04, 2024 3:10 pm

mnem
the orange tabby mafia is watching your house.

There was a famous 80s TV advert of a dog doing that, except that the dog disappeared down the stairs causing a cry of "help".

mnementh wrote: ↑Mon Mar 04, 2024 3:10 pm

mnem
the orange tabby mafia is watching your house.

This is why us cat people put the TP on the holder mullet-style.

-Pat

Yeah, there was a flash animation movie that made the rounds decades ago of a cat on its back unwinding the backhand roll too; caption was
"Fine... time to step up my game." or somesuch.

mnem
Cats are the embodiment of the old saw about "Making anything foolproof is impossible; fools are too damned inventive."

mnem
all hail the hypno-cat!!!

Nixie, earlier tonight:


-Pat

Went visiting today and that grandad had to walk me the 200m back home.
Wee interlude at the shed before I was rewarded with a sachet of tucker at home.

mnem

<YAWN>








-Pat

mnem

mnem
You should see what they do while you're in the shower. Well, actually, don't think aboot that too much.

mnem
You should see what they do while you're in the shower. Well, actually, don't think aboot that too much.

Like these two? (They sound like they've been chain smoking Marlboro Reds their whole lives)

-Pat

cat video from NASA:
Background:
https://www.nasa.gov/missions/psyche-mi ... ion-miles/

I am the King and don't you forget it.

defence lasers charging.

MED6753 wrote: ↑Sun Apr 28, 2024 10:35 pm I am the King and don't you forget it.

Chuffing heck! He's put on some bulk since I last saw him

He was born late May - early June last year so he's now fully grown. And yes, he has put a little extra weight. Since he is strictly an indoor cat we have already taken steps to cut back on his food and try to exercise him as much as possible.

Cubdriver wrote: ↑Sat Apr 20, 2024 1:49 am mnem
You should see what they do while you're in the shower. Well, actually, don't think aboot that too much.

Like these two?

(They sound like they've been chain smoking Marlboro Reds their whole lives)

-Pat

Siamese cats do have that very distinctive meow.

MED6753 wrote: ↑Mon Apr 29, 2024 10:33 pm He was born late May - early June last year so he's now fully grown. And yes, he has put a little extra weight. Since he is strictly an indoor cat we have already taken steps to cut back on his food and try to exercise him as much as possible.

I wasn't suggesting that he's becoming a chonker, just that he's grown. A lot. He's full CRT scope size now, he just used to be small frequency counter size.

MED6753 wrote: ↑Mon Apr 29, 2024 10:33 pm He was born late May - early June last year so he's now fully grown. And yes, he has put a little extra weight. Since he is strictly an indoor cat we have already taken steps to cut back on his food and try to exercise him as much as possible.

Perhaps you need something like this:

Crummy iPhone photo of my friend Stacey's cat Cocoa Bean - she has the most stunningly beautiful sapphire blue eyes:


Some one of these years I need to bring my DSLR over there and get some good photos of her...

-Pat

Nixie and Faraday love the one I have here, and believe it or not began using it entirely on their own. Faraday will jump up towards the one o'clock part where it's curving back overhead and wrap his front paws around the rim to really get it going.
The 'One Fast Cat' ones use roller blade sized bearings. I know this because Nixie wore them out and I had to get replacements (something like 20 for $12 from the jungle place). He was still running on it despite the fact that it was missing one of the rollers.




When I took the wheel off of the base to work on the rollers, the little bastard hopped into it and went trundling off across the room and into the wall, where he continued to roll it trying to cut through the drywall. Of course I didn't have the camera at ready - THAT would have been a video to capture. I then decided that laying it on its side was the best thing to do.