The Bloated Pig - A Place for Weary Flingers Page 2442
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  • @jlz66 - have NO idea how small it will look on a phone!
  • Fantabulous page header @mumsie42! I hate to think what you're talking about. Me thinks I'd better read back ;)
  • Lol!!! Didn't even know I was a page changer!
  • @mumsie42, @jlz666 love your avatars!
    And Happy Guy Fawkes Day to my flinging friends across the pond :)
  • Whew! That could've been interesting @mumsie ;) Yep it's teeny. Fling and pray Mumsie,that's all you can do. Fun level though. I've managed 155k but no idea as yet if this is bad or good?
    I'm seriously loving the idea of 2 woman creeping around London whispering "Mumsie" and "hunnybunny" to complete strangers LOL! Nice one ;)
    Hi @karen68 Thanks! I forgot just how confusing it got last year when everyone changed their avys. We're going round to a neighbours house tonight for some food and fireworks.
    @tompuss Thanks for the links to horror! I'll watch them later.
    I've gotta dash,OB can I get a large strong black to go please?
  • I secretly hope that @Mumsie42 and @HunnyBunny do recognize each other at the Tower of London on Saturday.

    Please don't misinterpret my intentions. I understand why we try to separate the virtual and real world. But it seems foolish the lengths we'll go to avoid relationships these days. We're living in a time when most people don't even know their next door neighbor anymore. It makes me a little sad. I love the sense of community I get from living in a smaller town. I could never live in a large city where people look at you, but never see you. I'm not saying I like everyone I know. And I can definitely be a hard pill to sallow at times. But I don't hide behind lies and misrepresentations in the virtual world. I am who I am. Love me. Hate me. It's your call. But at least you'll do it for who I am. An egotistical, occasionally blunt to the point of rudeness, competitive old codger who wears his heart on his sleeve. I still have a dream that the internet can, and will, make this a smaller, friendlier, more peaceful world.

    *LOUD CRASH*

    Dadburn it! I need to lose some weight. I just crushed the soap box I was standing on.
  • Oh, btw, good morning everybody.
    Hi @JLZ666, @Karen68, and @Mumie42. Jeez! That's a lot of numbers.
  • Hi @rat - I was surprised you're still talking to me after the hug I gave you in B&R! Hope it made Mrs Rat smile!
  • It's good evening for me now @rat but hi anyway!
    Well that was a lovely speech @rat,really it was. I think I know deep down I won't be meeting any of my friends from the nest in real life. It does make me sad but I'm truly grateful for what I have with them at the moment. A certain Dutchie has a habit of infiltrating my dreams though! So far I've met her in her house which happened to be beside a funfair at the back of my late Nana's house and also on a bus on the way to the airport where she was translating for a chinese guy!!!! Yeah I know! LOL!! So until the day we can all meet in a pub and share a drink,I'll make do with this place :)
    I'm going to eat my words if we get a pic next Saturday of Mumsie and bunny!!
    BTW Only you could make such a negative personal C.V sound loveable!
    Ok sorry if I'm rambling....again;) Just in from work and need to quickly get changed and wrapped up warm for fireworks at the neighbours. We've all chipped in so its burgers,hotdogs and hopefully hot coffee because it's bloomin freezing!
    Goodness sake! The neighbourhood is booming already! What a noise!
    (Cats are fine btw. Not bothering their backsides about the bangs.)
    Have a nice night all
    Byeeeeee :)
  • @mumsie42 hi & bye! Sorry I was talking over you.
  • @Rat That's a pretty big windmill there. :) I agree with you 100% and am glad I'm just old enough to remember when it wasn't this way. In my small town 1984, every neighbor within a half-mile would get together once a month for a cookout. Us kids played outside, wives played bridge and got drunk, husbands played poker/pool and got even drunker. They had committees to handle the scheduling, worked to get sidewalks and extra street lights added, and took up collections when someone has having a rough time. 30 years later, all those people have moved or died and nobody knows anyone, even their next-door neighbors. I helped my last neighbor sell off her stuff and move out, and greeted the new guys who moved in. That was 6 months ago. I've never seen them since.

    Unless there's some collective backlash against all of us evolving into biomechanical internet nodes, (unlikely) I think the only thing that will stop the trend is a global catastrophe that takes out all the power grids (apologies to Mrs. Rat). Surviving that will require rediscovering how to exist in a community.
  • btw all, that last msg aside, I've got one heck of a cold, so my attendance and quick replies may be spotty the next few days.
  • @rat now if you can just make it to Hyde Park London by 15th November, me and @mumsie will meet you at Speakers Corner at 11am. We'll know you when you crash through the soap box again.....
  • Hi and bye @all - real life impinging on virtual life again!
    @kelani - a cold and spots!!!! get better soon
    @rat - so true - are too many of us talking to friends we've never met in virtual pubs??
    @jlz666 - hope you were wrapped up - we're expecting overnight temperatures of -2!
    Good night all xxx
  • Well, I guess with @Kelani under the weather it'll be pretty quiet here tonight. Anyone else around?
  • Hi @mvnla2, I'm lurking as usual :)
    Has anyone else noticed the "chatter" has changed? Used to be all the comments on the same thread were grouped together & now they're not. Also the time has been removed, & there's no longer the option to look at older comments..
    @kelani hope your cold doesn't last too long :(
  • I'm lurking also actually falling asleep.I think this weather lately is making me sleepy
    I haven't noticed @Karen68 you mean in walkthroughs? I'm in Space , they look the same to me but now I'll have to double check.
  • I know the spot well @HunnyBunny. Many relatives and friends visited while I lived in England and Hyde Park was high on their must see list. I got very good at "See London in a day". So yes, I know the location of "speakers corner" very well. But alas, I can't meet you women. I'll be on a beach in the Bahamas on the 15th. I'll try and suffer on.

    Same here @Kelani. Only replace bridge with double pinochle. And maybe we didn't drink quite as much as your neighbors. lol But now I feel good if we're on nodding terms with the neighbors. Names and faces fade as people rush by in their cars trying to get home before they miss their favorite reality show on the TV. Reality? That's what's happening all around them as they type on their laptops. It's too easy to reduce people to number, a demographic, or a statistic when their not part of something larger. *I replaced the soap box with a strong metal step stool* I miss my Wilson. You're old enough to remember him from "Tool Time" right? I enjoyed talking over the fence at the end of the day. But the fences are taller now. Well, not physically higher. But they may as well be. As you said, no one talks to their neighbor anymore. At least you won't give that cold to someone outside the house. If it wasn't for the rugrats, we could wipe out the common cold with our isolationism. lol

    Mrs. Rat doesn't mind the hugs @Mumsie. But she wasn't real happy about that dance we had though. It's been a while since I took her dancing. She loves to dance. Me...not so much. She likes to tell people that I tricked her by taking her dancing all the time right up to the wedding. Then...it's like I broke a leg. She's not far wrong. ha ha ha

    @JLZ666 I know what you mean about @Estar. I almost crossed that reality bridge. We had a trip planned to the Netherlands last month that fell through. @Burpie and I already had the café' picked out where we would meet @Estar. I was going along on a work trip with the wife but they changed the schedule. Her trip is back on for next month but I want to wait for nicer weather and the flower season before I go. I wouldn't feel like I'd been to the Netherlands unless I got to see the colorful fields of flowers.
  • @Karen68 -- Yeah, I noticed the change in the chatter page. Some comments are grouped together, and others separate. Wonder what gives?
    @Rat -- Even though we live in LA, maybe the place known for the least neighbor to neighbor interaction, we know a lot of our neighbors. Up until a couple of years ago, we used to have a yearly block party. It was really great, and you got to meet most of your neighbors. Was at least 2 blocks on our street, and 2 blocks on the cross-street. In later years it expanded to maybe anyone on any side of a 2 X 2 block square, plus friends. Unfortunately, the woman who was the principal organizer moved away, and no one took up her job, which was significant.
  • Good for you @Mvnla2. Sorry your neighbor party planner moved away. But it shows you one person can make a difference. Kudos to her.
  • Catch up tomorrow

    Night Pa
  • Night Ma
  • Yep it was a tad chilly @mumsie42 ;) First time I've had gloves,hat and scarf on so a bit of a shock to the system. Neighbour had made a big pot of hot chocolate on the stove so we were fine! Significant shift now though. It was beautiful,calm and dry yesterday but I had a scary journey in this morning :( Torrential rain,high winds and pitch dark...not a good combo :( sadly it's to last till weekend.
    Well @rat @mvnla I do have a great bunch of neighbours whom I call friends. Although we only live in an 8 house cul de sac so there's not a lot of us! We have annual street parties and like last night,little get togethers. I wouldn't think twice about running round to one of them in my jammies to borrow something! Like @mvnla,our party planner moved away last year :( Things are quieter but they didn't move too far away so we still all get together when we can find time.
    @kelani I think you've been burning the candle at both ends with this new job. Not good. Don't forget to look after yourself.
  • I hate saying it @JLZ666, but you're in the minority. But if you'd like an example of what it used to be like, I need search no further than my own Mother-in-Law. She's still friends with a large group of women she grew up with seventy years ago. They call themselves the (left out for anonymity) Belles and come together from all over the US at least once a year for a group trip. Sadly, a lot of the trips lately have been to the funerals of it's dwindling members. They, along with hundreds of other close friends, showed up for her husband's, my FiL's, funeral earlier this year. The receiving line went on for hours. And I don't know how I got sooooo lucky, but I was first in the line. I got to greet hundreds of people who knew me, or had been told enough about me that they felt they knew me, while I struggled to come up with the names of the ones I should know. In my defense, I met and married her daughter after she left home. So not being from the area...I forgive myself a little. Still, it was an interesting day.
    But I digress. My point is that people don't make or maintain those types of relationships anymore. Consider yourself lucky if you need more than one hand to count your acquaintances, let alone close friends.

    Jeez! What's with me lately? I need to get off the bench and start flinging again soon.
  • I'm confused! (I can hear you saying "So what's new!” But where is the chatter page?
  • @rat I'm loving the sound of the Belles. My best friends are a bunch of girls I went through primary school with and the others are my neighbours of 11yrs. I tend to hold on to those I know & love :) I think because of the work I do,the last thing I want is more women to talk to......I'm actually not joking. I prefer to walk away from them at the end of the day rather than take then home with me (so to speak) My life would get incredibly complicated if I did that! That's probably why I'm not on Facebook. Too much like hard work!
    So yeah,I guess I am lucky. My friends and neighbours mean a lot to me.
  • Hearing you say that @JLZ666's has brought me out of my funk. SWDNF is on a plane headed home. Nothing but good news the rest of the day.
  • Uh Oh. Plane delayed. Funk returning...
  • That just gives you more time to look forward to seeing her @rat :D
  • Just lurking a bit, while I'm working.

    But to answer @Mumsie42's question, the "Monitor Chatter" page: http://www.angrybirdsnest.com/chatter/ can be found under the gold About tab
  • Thanks @sweetP - just shows I'm in a rut and only navigate to places in the nest that I know my way to!
    @rat - oh shame but it gives you more time to prepare a fantabulous welcome home banner!
  • Don't feel bad @Mumsie, there are places in the Nest I hardly get to, either.

    I know what you mean @rat, about getting to know your neighbors. That is so true, especially in the larger cities. That's why I love living in this rural neighborhood, where I know all of my neighbors, even though there's about 4 acres between most of us. This is truly a "Neighborhood Watch" community, and whenever any of us sees something suspicious or threatening, we call each other right away. Love those times when I'll be outside and a neighbor calls to me from their yard and we end up chatting for almost an hour! BTW, love your avatar, although it's a bit teeny.

  • You're lucky @mvnla2, you're in touch with many of your neighbors especially living in LA! I had a friend that lived in the Hancock Park area, and aside from her neighbors to the left, right, and across the street, they didn't know anyone else on the block. I think partly because most of these families hired a nanny to take care of their children, so the only people walking down the sidewalk was a nanny pushing a stroller for the baby's daily outing. Sad!
  • Make a welcome home banner or clean the kitchen and start dinner? The banner would be easier. What do you think @Mumsie, @SweetP, @JLZ666?
  • Duh! What was I thinking getting these flowers at the grocery store when I picked up the ingredients for red beans and rice. Y'all are right. Throw out the cheap flowers, forget dinner, leave the mess in the kitchen and MAKE THAT BANNER. That's what she'll remember. Thanks for setting me straight ladies. Dodged a bullet there.
  • Well whatever you choose to do @rat - if it's wrong don't blame me!!
  • Ha ha ha @Mumsie Weren't you the one that told me to work on a banner? I can't do it all. I'm only a man for goodness sake.
  • I don't know about you guys, but I wanna see pics of this @Rat Banner
  • The banner will be a keepsake! And she'll treasure it forever... ♥♥
  • @SweetP It is? She will? Too late. It's in the trash. But you were right @Mumsie. The banner meant more to her than the clean kitchen or dinner. Women???
  • Surprise, surprise! The daily challenge is in Space today and wouldn't you know it, they found one that I have top score on...again. They're getting harder to find. lol
    This one can be beat flingers. Good luck.
  • @Rat -- At first I thought you put it in the trash before she got home! I'm sure she liked it more than the clean kitchen or dinner, but I bet she was overwhelmed by all.
  • Sorry catch up g tomorrow tough day


    Night Pa
  • Night Ma.
  • WTG @rat!!! It's looked wonderful! I now take all the kudos!
  • Mornin all
    @rat I'm sorry I didn't get back in the nest last night. Had a very quick changeover and headed straight back out the door when I got home. Was too tired to look in the pub when I got home later.
    Very nicely done banner! I'm sure she loved it after the delayed trip home. What a sweet thing to walk into. Sorry but if I walked into that,my first thought would be "right....what have you done?" lol!
    I saw this on TV last night for the first time! Ooooooo baby!!! Do you think if I put it on my Santa list and I'm a good girl (from now on) I'll get a nice surprise?
    http://youtu.be/wzZW4mXFLho
    Wooohoooo!! First successful link in a week! Now unfortunately if I have to post a screenshot over the next couple of days,people will be getting a face full of Audi :D
  • Haahaaaa @sweetp! I had to look that up but Yep,I hear ya! After we watched the ad I gave hubby the "nudge,nudge,wink,wink" look but he just gave me the "you've gotta be kidding right?" look :( So it's all down to Santa now.
  • Lovely poppies btw @sweetp. Everyone looks beautiful :D
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