Bite me.

Things which my phone does, that my computer does not:
1. Fit in my pocket.
2. Make telephone calls.
3. Play hi-definition h.264 encoded video in an MKV container.

Somewhere along the line, I cannot help but think something has gone wrong here.

I just watched Panty & Stocking (with Garterbelt).
As far as I can tell, someone took Ren & Stimpy, pasted on some pubescent Powerpuff Girls, and then filled the mutant monstrosity to bursting point with JAPAN.
I am so confused.

Can someone who is seeing Jessie in London tomorrow give me a buzz between 10-2 as they go through Frideswide sq in order to pick up her phone? She won't be able to do it, because she doesn't have her phone...

Stolen from logmplus1: A meme of the more important things in life. Mostly this is intended for characters you tend to play, but feel free to answer for yourself if you prefer. I give you the 'whisk me away to a life of adventure' meme:

1. Would you prefer to rescue or be rescued?
It is the duty of those who can bring salvation to rescue those who cannot save themselves.

2. Adventure beckons. Do you need forcing, or do you leap into action?
First, could you explain why you are still standing there?

3. The phone rings. An anonymous voice says you have one minute to get out of the house, before they come for you. What do you do?
Grab weapon, leave.

4. If you were attacked right now by ninjapiratezombiegoblins, what would you use to defend yourself?
Fanatics, preferably other peoples.

5. What form of media would best be used to commemorate your adventures (books, movies, improvised street theatre etc)?
Stories are told person to person, across a fire or while travelling. Pinning them down kills them.

6. What songs would be on your soundtrack?
The songs of my people, both hereditary and adopted.

7. The world is in peril from evil scientists. Only a small band of mis-matched heroes can save it. Which side are you on?
The world is still here, which side were you on?

8. When picking a stylish evening outfit, how much does practicality become a consideration?
If it will slow a weapon and hasten my pace, that is enough.

9. When picking a practical adventuring outfit, how much does style become a consideration?
Slow a weapon, hasten my pace. Stop asking the same questions.

10. As sexual tensions simmer during the tango, fortunes are won and lost in the casino and secrets are bought or stolen in the bar, where are you and what are you doing?
Outside the tent, listening to the conversations inside and out.

11. How much of a team do you ideally prefer to work with, or do you usually operate alone?
3 or 4 competent team mates.

12. What sort of future prospects would your love interest or sidekick have? Is it worth them enquiring about the pension fund?
I give them even odds of outliving me.

13. Trapped in the barn and tied to a post. Your captor takes some of the tools down from the wall to sharpen, in preparation for your impending DOOM, leaving you alone for a few moments. What do you do now?
Makes sure they never forget the experience.

14. News of the death of your sidekick/partner/love interest reaches you by letter. How could this have happened?
Presumably I wasn't secretive enough.

15. Revenge is a dish best served how?
In the face. With an axe.

16. An anonymous letter invites you to a clandestine meeting. Do you go?
Perhaps. Depends how much I already knew about the meeting, and how many people I can suround it with.

17. What is the correct number of knives?
One more than you think you need.

18. What would be your perfect date?
A short moonlit walk in the woods.

19. If the perfect date was interrupted by Zombie Apocalypse, how would you react?
With an axe.

20. Did your perfect date already include a Zombie Apocalypse before question 19? In hindsight, would you have changed your answer?
Only once. But the zombie didn't catch our faces.

21. Have you been on many dates which would have been improved by global armageddon?
Each one is one step closer to preventing it.

22. How competently could you disguise yourself?
Not as well as some I know.

23. Is there space for romance in the course of your adventures?
I appear to be surrounded by several.

24. How well do you cope with sudden shifts in genre and pace?
It is where I feel most alive.

25. If you could pick anywhere to have exciting adventures, where would it be?
Philip Island.

I'm moving, can anyone help?
Please?

Most of the moving is going well, and I can complete all but a few items on my own. However, I'm not convinced I can move that TV without help. On the upside, thanks to moving I can offer substantially more bedspace that weekend.

I plan to rent a small van or similar for the weekend, and have got a lot of moving already done, so it shouldn't be a major hassle if I can get just a little bit of muscle to help.

Options given by anotherusedpage

Of Faith, Buffy, and Xander which would I shag, marry, and throw of a cliff. Really bloody obvious.

If you want to play, comment and I'll give you three people.

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I really don't like war in books. I find it dry. You tend to need an a1 pad of paper and 4 different colours of marker to keep up with what is going on. Its full of characters who are bland and unlikeable, the ones who were likeable have usually been missing for so many pages of tactical description that you've forgotten who they are. There is desperate attempts at larger than life herocs to remind you that you are meant to care for these people. But above all, I always come away with a feeling akin to having accidently wandered into the authors living room to find him furiously masterbating over a picture of Winston Churchill.

Why littlefeltfangs, you must really hate theinsectman's latest book then? Its full of war, barely a chapter goes by without some troop movement, and some chapters are devoted entirely to how the war effort is going.

( Cut for spoilers up to the first engagement of Sarn and the Empire )