Ooooh, they're scared of the reflections on the cds? That's brilliant!!
Angel: Eve. So, I guess we should, I don't know, talk? Eve: About what? Angel: About what happened back there with us. Eve: Angel, it's not like this is the first time I've had sex under a mystical influence. I went to U.C. Santa Cruz.
'Life of the Party'
Natter 67: Overriding Vetoes
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, nail polish, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
javachik - Mar 09, 2011 2:24:11 pm PST #27351 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
DawnK - Mar 09, 2011 2:30:29 pm PST #27352 of 30001
giraffe mode
Ooooh, they're scared of the reflections on the cds?
Ours are, but they also fall in the pond, so I'm guessing they aren't the sharpest of squirrels.
Calli - Mar 09, 2011 2:35:24 pm PST #27353 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
While we were looking out the window a falcon landed in the tree and commenced to tearing the shit out of something rodent shaped. This squirrel walked right out on the branch to get a better look.
Well, the falcon already had a meal.
I have a bird feeder where the squirrel weight trips a lever that shuts off food access. It doesn't fling the squirrels away, but watching them try and fail to get to the food gives my cat something to do.
Jessica - Mar 09, 2011 2:37:15 pm PST #27354 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
So I got out my laptop to read up on some financial information I need for tonight's board meeting so that I could legitimately be pissy about other people who come to these meetings unprepared and make them run long.
That was half an hour ago. I'm...caught up in Natter. And Facebook. And the first paragraph of that article about Angry Birds.
It's possible my brother's not the only one in the family with ADD. You know, maybe.
Strix - Mar 09, 2011 2:40:51 pm PST #27355 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
When I spent a month at the Huntington Library and eating in their outdoor cafe, it wasn't the squirrels so much as the damned sparrows who would dive bomb the table and carry off part of your lunch.
Yes! When I lived on the Plaza, i would get coffee and a muffin a lot at the coffee shop across the street from my apartment. The sparrows would be right under your feet, and I could sometimes coax them on the table with muffins crumbs.
My hood squirrels there were fat, cocky bastards though. They would taunt the cats outside the window; the dumpster was in the alley by my bedroom window. Man, those squirrels were rotund.
billytea - Mar 09, 2011 2:45:42 pm PST #27356 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
billytea, were we not on different continents, incompatible, unable to legally wed owing to polygamy laws and lots of other things, I would marry you.
Aww. I thank you for your ill-advised, bigamous attentions.
§ ita § - Mar 09, 2011 2:47:51 pm PST #27357 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The squirrels at McGill freaked me out. I got a bad rep as a squirrel kicker, but truth was, I extended my foot very slowly, and THE SQUIRREL SHOULD HAVE MOVED. I am supposed to win. No squirrels were harmed in the making of this story, but my rep got...exacerbated for a bit.
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 09, 2011 2:52:09 pm PST #27358 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Back at the house we lived in when I was a teen the squirrels were only problematic with regard to tomato plants, but the bluejays would harrass and dive bomb our cat whenever she went outside.
Of course, she understood concepts like transparent materials, and so would sun herself right next to back deck entrance and tempt them into knocking themselves out against the sliding glass door.
DavidS - Mar 09, 2011 2:53:24 pm PST #27359 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I got a bad rep as a squirrel kicker,
Kicker of squirrels!
Cass - Mar 09, 2011 2:55:47 pm PST #27360 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Driving on the beach at Daytona those damned seagulls KNEW I couldn't go faster than 10 mph and that I couldn't go outside the lines. I wanted to chase them with my car so very much.
Seriously, I am the more alpha creature and I am driving a mechanical crunchy coated thing - fleeeeeeeeeeee before me.