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  1. pippychick
    Haha… I wish. Although I suppose if I could do anything I wanted, I’d deal with them in fiction and set Sauron on them or something. Let him hack a few fingers and toes off… maybe an entire limb or two…. make them like it.
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    That’s a good one… hasn’t the sun been quite active with solar flares recently too? Or am I just imagining that?
  3. pippychick
    That’s absolutely the point, isn’t it?
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    I’m assuming this is for Mohammed? Only if so… it would be so much snarky fun if the matter transference beam looked like an endless pillar of salt…
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    Apologies for my bit of a rant, there. I guess I just got a bit pissed off I had to spend actual time on this (putting a report together and such) when it’s my day off. Never mind… I’ve got another one tomorrow. That’s more than many people get.
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    Or there’s always this: ALIEN ONE: Something is throwing the beam off. ALIEN TWO: What is that? Oh, man… they’ve gone and built a collider! ALIEN ONE: Closest safe point is right… there! ALIEN TWO: Right. Quick and beam him from there before they turn everything to grey goo… Idiots! I can’t believe they’ve got away with running it for this long... oh, man. They voted in Donald Trump too! We need to get out of here.
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    Thanks, JayDee. I think these are older teenagers of some description, because a lot of their conversation revolves around: “B-but she was Meaaannn to me!1!!!1 All of the fandom is IGNORING me NOW. And now I Don’t Want To Write ANYMORE!!!! Everybody get her!!!!” They’re like little trainee fucking sociopaths… I haven’t reviewed their stories, btw, I just mentioned in my response to their obscene review (back in October, ffs) that they were jealous and couldn’t spell. Or use grammar. Or be coherent. They’re lucky I didn’t go further. I mean… is not going to help them in their upcoming McDonald’s career. I’ve reported it and left it at that.
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    Maybe it’s a pre-arranged rendezvous point, like in the film ‘Starman’ and there is no way to contact each other to revise it? Perhaps the discovery of electricity/radio waves/micro waves etc, means that only specific places are suitable for matter transference? If you’re looking for something more involved and technical, perhaps you could look into axial precession, and/or the movement of the equatorial line on earth messing things up a bit. I mean, we are talking in thousands of years here. While it might not be noticeable (I have no idea!), it might throw delicate instrumentation off quite a bit.
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    Melrick, I am loving all these little snippets you are posting – they’re fantastic!
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    Now I am just giggling about it! You’re all awesome!
  11. pippychick
    Well, I have followed your advice, Des and Bronx, and have submitted a report to the abuse team. Here’s hoping it can be quickly resolved. Thank you!
  12. pippychick
    Thanks, Bronx… I will hold back. Actually it might play into their hands to respond, given that this “discussion” is happening on the troll’s comments page.
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    Thank you, Des I am still thinking about it, but you are probably right. *nods*
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    Well, this is a new one on me. On another site, some time ago I received a troll review which was full of swearing and nastiness. It was deleted and reposted again and again over the course of about an hour. Since the troll review was from a registered user, I took a screenshot from my notification email and reproduced it on my review page so that I could reply, thinking that would be the end of the matter. And it was… for a while. This morning, I have a new troll, and I find there is a long rambling discussion about me on the comments section of the original troll’s story (I won’t repeat it – it’s pretty nasty), where they are encouraging each other to continue trolling. I’m hesitant about ignoring a public discussion of myself containing harrassment and namecalling, which leaves me with two options. I can either report the abuse right off the bat. Or I can calmly ask them to stop (on the review board where they’re having this public “discussion”), then report if they do not subside. The second option would seem to be preferable, but I don’t want to start some kind of flame war. I was thinking along the lines of: So… what do you guys think? I am kind of at a loss… *sighs*
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    Chapter Sixteen
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    Over Christmas (as we do every year), we watched the entirety of ‘Pride and Prejudice’ while engaging in our own particular hobbies. Mostly, the quiet ones, like sewing, although every now and again it does precipitate one to cry out in a most alarmed fashion upon discovering an earlier miscount of stitches.

    Be that as it may, I came upon a sudden startling conclusion whilst watching this year, which has to do with my dislike of our modern-day “celebrity culture”- and it is this:

    Almost everyone on the entire planet has turned into Mr. Collins!

    It’s true. Think about it for one moment. Remember the ugliness of his infatuation, and how well he considers himself for enjoying the “condescension” and “patronage” of Lady Catherine de Bourgh. You could easily replace that woman’s name with any featured in the celebrity section of our news outlets today and lose little meaning. And, just as in ‘Pride and Prejudice’ Lady Catherine has little claim to our (or Lizzie’s) adulation, our admiration or even our respect, except for that which society bestows upon her.

    In light of the above, it is possible that we can draw a straight comparison here between Lady Catherine and any of the Kardashians, or Kanye West, or Donald Trump. As for Mr. Collins… I respectfully and humbly suggest that if you’re in the habit of grovelling to people with no claim to your consideration besides their excessive wealth and status – please stop. The rest of us are Lizzie. We are not Charlotte Lucas. It’s unseemly.

     

    My apologies. I haven’t been writing anything. And now I have a piano lesson. And actually, I think I might be Lydia. Oh, well.

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    I am building a small solar-powered toy robot. 

    At this point, I’m assuming the “educational” aspect of this toy for children is the eighty page assembly booklet, in Chinese.

     

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    2. GeorgeGlass

      GeorgeGlass

      Well, they say one in six children born is Chinese. Any chance your kid is one of them? :)

    3. pippychick

      pippychick

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      Well, they say one in six children born is Chinese. Any chance your kid is one of them? :)

      I have no children, for which I am genuinely grateful.

      My love of cute little toys and things to build is well known amongst my friends, however… *g*

    4. GeorgeGlass

      GeorgeGlass

      Hey, I don’t judge. *goes back to watching DisneyXD*

  18. pippychick
    Now, more than ever, we need to establish that AFF writers’ commune/Guild HQ/Union somewhere that won’t see any action. Then, in years to come, documentaries will be made about the written pornography that was circulated during WWIII. Which not only lifted spirits, but also caused a crucial delay in the activation of nuclear strikes, since the soldier with the job was waiting for just one more chapter, hereby averting total catastrophe and saving the world for future generations to slowly rebuild and enjoy.
  19. pippychick
    Write something I can get paid for. Find a future that doesn’t involve street homelessness. Go to the local Labour party meeting and use the ‘thirty minute topic’ to explain to the right-wingers why they’re all twats. Watch the slowly approaching Brexit/War in Europe/US Presidency with a sense of creeping horror. Just the usual, really.
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    2016, how I hate you. Several days ago, we were watching a modern take on A Christmas Carol, and checked to make sure Liz Smith was still alive as she has been in three versions of that story. Today, when I was showing my mother how to use the voice activated google search on her phone, she asked it first about Liz Smith, since we already knew she was all right (or so we thought).

    RIP Liz Smith, who died on Christmas Eve. :(

    Seriously, I can’t even… *sighs*

    1. BronxWench

      BronxWench

      I want to curl up somewhere and pretend 2016 never happened. Seriously. :(

    2. pippychick

      pippychick

      I was only checking on her because I wondered why she’d never been made a Dame or something like Judi Dench. I wondered if she’d refused it (because I always respect those people). No chance of that now. So sad.

    3. Melrick

      Melrick

      She was a good actress.  I used to enjoy watching her in The Vicar of Dibley. 

  21. pippychick

    And RIP Richard Adams, author of Watership Down. :(

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    2. BronxWench

      BronxWench

      I’m heartsore, and so tired of the never-ending stream of sad news. :(

    3. Melrick

      Melrick

      The only positive about Richard is that he was 96, so at least he was able to live a long life, unlike pretty much everybody else that’s died this year.

    4. DirtyAngel

      DirtyAngel

      :(

  22. pippychick
    Oh, I still like that he’s bisexual, even if there’s no explicit content in it. Pastor Mark and Imam Ozer are reminding me of that new advert for Amazon, lol. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ouu6LGGIWsc I should tell you, though, I noticed that the link in your Promote thread leads to a different story.
  23. pippychick
    Chapter Fifteen
  24. pippychick

    COUPLE OF KIDS LAST WEEK AT WORK: We’ve never heard of BlackAdder. What is it?

    :huh:

    KID AT WORK TODAY: I didn’t know who George Michael was until I saw the news this morning.

    :blink:

    Clearly, these kids live on a different planet to the one I inhabit.

    1. Melrick

      Melrick

      We’re all doomed.

    2. BronxWench

      BronxWench

      We’ve been doomed for a while. It’s horrifying how little they know.

      ::wanders off to pet collection of Blackadder dvds::

    3. GeorgeGlass

      GeorgeGlass

      Exactly what the previous generation said about us. :)

  25. pippychick
    Merry Christmas!
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