The Bloated Pig - A Place for Weary Flingers Page 2443
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  • @Rat Wow, I can see you really put some work into it :) Just curious why it's hanging in my aunt's kitchen? Seriously, pretty darn identical.

    @JLZ Just in case you do get one and are planning on replicating that stunt, better get the extended warranty. :)
  • Naaaah @kelani,that's just my normal drive into work in the morning ;)
  • My luck, I'd have the stunt lined up perfectly, be diving toward Earth in the perfect trajectory, and then a herd of deer would walk onto the ramp.

    On an unrelated note, you'd all be getting venison stew for Christmas.
  • So you expect to survive hitting the herd of deer @Kelani?
    BTW, I don't think you need to teach women how to get what they want. They do very well on they're own. Thank you very much.
  • Oh @sweetp you really don't know my husband lol! Nope,that wouldn't work as its MY dream car so it'll be MY pennies used to buy it! All this talk of the new car is making me feel guilty about my gorg little baby Lola! I've only had her just over a year and she's fab!
    Love Venison stew @kelani so get driving ;)
    @birdleader awesome rank! Well done and thanks for everything!
    Great fanfare @mumsie42! You've got a spectacular set of lungs for a wee old lady!
    Have you and @hunnybunny seen the news today? Looks like you're in luck. The mass field will be dismantled but you'll get to see the wave and the window thingy (can't remember it's name!) there's some great photos in the article as well @all @karen68 @mvnla
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-29965477
  • @jlz666 thanks for the update. Those pics take my breath away every time.
    My daughter is going to London on a school trip in the spring which includes a trip to the Tower, but it sounds like they'll be off on tour somewhere else, which is too bad.
    @mumsie, @hunnybunny I hope you get to see them in person!
  • Lucky girl @karen68! All this talk is giving me a real urge to go back down. Heck this Santa list is getting more and more expensive ;)
  • @JLZ666 -- Do you celebrate Veteran's Day the same day we do, which is next Tues?
  • O.k hi all quick catch up
    @Pa loove the banner :)
    @jlz666 wooohoo that is one helluva ride!! Did i see your plate on that one or was I imagining?
    @Mumsie @hunnybunny have a wonderful day in london is it? What a beautiful sight to behold and i like rat hope you get to meet before one of you gets arrested or locked in the Looney bin..hee hee I can picture 2 women whispering to strangers 'Mumsie? ' ' hunnybunny?
    Of course Mumsie is probably common lol not so much hunnybunny hee hee..
    Ob I'll have a Spacepigkiller while i continuereading :)
  • WooooHooooo Congrats @BirdLeader !!! Well Deserved and Thank you for the Nest! !
    Drinks on the house OB for the weekend :)
  • @Jlz666 love your avatar also. .and i am curious also so you celebrate veterans day or is that also a oooh what's the name Guy Fawkes Day ?
  • Sooory @mvnla2 I was talking over you. .Hi :)
  • Yes we do @mvnla but tomorrow is Remembrance Sunday. It's held on the Second Sunday in November (the closest to the 11th) Most towns and cities have war memorials and they hold a public ceremony on Sunday morning which the local dignitaries and war vets etc attend. At 11am there is a nation wide minute silence. The biggest ceremony is in London at the Cenotaph where the royal family and prime minister lay wreaths. It's a wonderful but emotional occasion,especially the veterans parade. We normally watch it on TV and it never fails to make my bottom lip wobble!
  • Thanks @JLZ666.
    @Kathy -- Hi! Been wondering what you were up to. Seems like a while, but maybe it's me who's been MIA.
    A new Epic Event started Fri, but thankfully it's only 48 hrs, and seems to be pretty much a bust. Oh well, time to do other stuff, like real life, whatever that is.
  • Oh hey @kathy! Sorry we're all blethering over each other! Well I answered your question as well then I see. @kathy you crack me up girl! What was it you called it? Harvey wall banger day?! LMAO!! No....Guy Fawkes tried and failed to blow up the Houses of Parliament way back in ermmmm 1600 and something! It's nothing to do with the 11th November ;)
  • No @mvnla2 not you I've been very tired lately busy real life stuff and just not in a chatty mood lately so just been lost in Space lol .
    I've still not tried Epic but am planning to once done with space
    So the new event didn't go well? Are you playing with @Annifrid or do they just match you up with random players?
  • Oooh lol @Jlz666 sorry for the mix up of name :/ so you celebrate Guy Fawke because he failed or because he tried? I'll have to look it up is peaked my curiosity lol.
    And Sunday is Remembrance day kinda like Veterans day for us
  • @Kathy -- They match you with random players. The first 2 events were pretty good, but I'm beginning to think this one was thrown in to fix a bug from the last one.
    Hope your real life stuff gets better soon.
  • Ooh I see @mvnla2 I'll probably have a ton of questions when i start it.
    And ty I hope real life slows down soon.
  • Very interesting @jlz666 I've just googled it and i didn'read the whole thing but I see is celebrated that King James survived the attempted assassination . The reason for celebration:)
  • Battery dying..bbiab I think i will go for anew phone today or tomorrow. Thinking of getting the Nexus phone as i loove my nexus tablet ;)
  • Sorry @kathy,hubby just about finished making dinner so can't stop. Hope things are better today. Please update (hugs) Ermmmm I don't know if it's his trying or failing lol! It's an excuse to put fireworks up and nothing more IMO ;)
    Gotta go X
  • Haahaaaa! Thanks @kathy! I learned it all at school then swiftly forgot ;)
  • Hee hee enjoy your dinner @Jlz666 and yeppers I hear ya ANY excuse for burgers and Fireworks! ! Will catch up later (((((((hugs)))))
  • Well I'm going to take advantage of the quiet And 'earplugs'
    Cc 2-21 is near impossible for a one birder

    WWWwwwHhhhhhiiiiiinnnnneeeee WWWwwwHhhhhhiiiiiinnnnneeeee
  • Very Pretty @Kakadu (haha ) had to leave it Is anew one !! @kelani you feeling better?
    Sounds like an ancient Hawaiian god :/ Hail kakadu lol
  • Catching up

    A bit late on this one, but who would ever call @kelani a hateful name? Silly name: bring them on;-)))

    @rat GOLDFLINGER, woo hoo, but shouldn't there be a "bestest ever Space flinger, but slightly comudgedly, old rat" badge Suit you to a tee ;-)

    @kelani (again) I first met the old grumpy rat here when he came into BP to drum up some support for new flinging badges. The "top ten" is top of my list, albeit I've slipped out of that honour in TT, but another couple of hours, and it's mine! Seriously that takes some doing, ask @kathy who managed it before me.

    @mumsie I'm planning a three o'clock arrival at "The Poppies" on Friday! I'll be whispering in my Welsh accent, if you could just whisper in Liverpudlian

    @rat Bermuda. Sun. Heat. Sand. Sea. Waiters bringing G&Ts. Jealous. No. I lie......

    @jlz666 and others not on Facebook. My last (and hopefully final) job took me all over England and Wales. Met some lovely people who I know I will never see again, but that once in a while, catch up, photo, what their kids are doing, is priceless. And caught up with a long lost friend there, next time she's within "eating and drinking" distance we are going to have a ball!

    @jlz666 if this little beauty ever comes on the market (it's a concept at present) it may just make me get a another job! Like you I love my car, but.....

    And you can't see it! iOS 8 failed me again. Anyone bored enough to look at the Alpha Romeo Spyder concept car, it's in my album. Kel might he loves a sporty number. Off to look at his trees.

  • 00/ was that hateful ? Didn't mean so my phone did it!!
    @hunnybunny I thought you and Mumsie were going today?
  • Good trees @kelani
    Good new silly name for kel @kathy
    Goodnight all
  • No @kathy my ref to hateful went back days ago, we LOVE your silly Kel names;-)))
    And the poppies get taken down after Rememberance Day (11/11 same as your Veterans Day) but there are 800,000+, some are going to be left, and it's taken months to plant them all, so me and mumsie are hoping that the majority will still be there on 14/15 November
    Goodnight again
  • @Mumsie @hunnybunny -- Didn't at least 1 of you post a photo in your album? Would make it a lot easier to recognize eachother. Or you could both pin an AB pencil topper to your jacket.
  • Hello Mrs. Bunny. I don't know if you're aware but I've got every new release since Pig Dipper in the top ten. That's four worlds at once. Whoo Hoo! This new whippersnapper (Romo) is about to force me into the top five in Beak Impact #1. I've only got one 6th and one 7th place left to go. I wasn't trying to get into the top five. But he keeps finding more points which forces me to do the same. Ironically, he's not even in the top ten but has an unbelievable score on level twenty which has forced me to take the other levels to the extreme. I'm eventually going to need to match his score on level twenty to stay competitive. There's only about twenty thousand points left for either of us in all levels if we top score every one. Points is tight!!!

    Edit: BTW @Kelani I still think a top ten or sharpshooter badge is a good idea, but I stopped caring quite some time ago.

    Edit #2: I'm very impressed that we've had two of our ladies join the underground Top Ten Club. As @Hunnybunny said, "It ain't easy".

    Edit #3: Bahamas, not Bermuda.
  • Night Ma
  • Night Pa
    Safe travels
  • *shocked face* @Kelani Who said it ? Lemmee at 'em ...*fists raised*m sorry folks I was lost in my bookb and notification seem not to be working again:/
  • Battery change time bbl
  • Cc 2-5 @mvnla2 @pa glitch similar to DZ. Used pa first shot ..running now

    EDIT ..Had to chargebattery not running try again tomorrow
  • Absolutely stunning car @hunnybunny! Found out we're close to another ios8 update but they haven't said when. This one has been a joke :( Mine is now having good and bad days. If I treat it very gently,talk sweetly and don't swear at it,it's copying ok (ish) ;) Keyboard still has a life of its own though. I will admit to peeking at friends Facebook when we're together. I love seeing how old school friends look now lol!! Luckily even though I'm not on FB I'm still in the loop with everything. They also never post a photo of me on a night out without asking first.
    @kelani Beautiful back yard. Do you even bother clearing up the leaves? It's a pity you don't get snow as those trees and that view would be gorgeous in the winter.
    @kathy goodness you're working your way through these phones! What the heck do you do to the batteries?
    @rat sorry,I missed your goldflinger promotion,congrats! When are you off to the sunshine?
    Well I've been up for a couple of hours and it's only 9-30am. Ridiculous for a Sunday morning but I'm enjoying the peace and quiet and the coffee pot all to myself ;) Trying today's challenge but only improved 3k. I can see it happening but just can't get the second shot right. I'll keep trying till hubby gets up.
    Ok I'm probably talking to myself so everyone over here enjoy your day and everyone over there sweet dreams. X
  • We're off to the airport in a couple of hours @JLZ666. I'm enjoying a bit of coffee myself at the moment as well.

    You want to talk about leaf raking @Kelani? I'm closing on the sale of 220 acres of hardwoods today. Now that's a lot of leaves I don't have to rake anymore. lol

    @Hunnybunny, @Mumsie. Enjoy you're trip to London. I'm pulling for ya to meet at the Tower in a few hours.
  • Have a wonderful holiday @rat! Well you're either a land baron or estate agent.....220 acres!!!!
    Which one is it? ;)
    BTW the ladies don't "meet" till next weekend.
  • Boy, the nest and AB in general sure has been quiet the last few days. Or maybe I've just gotten used to the over-the-top frantic pace of Rovio releases.
  • @hunnybunny @mumsie -- Another idea: Dr. Omega's article on AB music lists a lot of AB ringtones. You could both pick the same one, and wander around playing it on your cell phone whenever you see someone you think might be the other. (I'm sure there is a way to play ringtone without an incoming call.)
  • @mvnla2 @allwishingforthemeet
    Any chance of me running into @mumsie at the Tower is slim to say the least! There are tens of hundreds of people crowding around the Poppies.
    Now, should @mumsie be visiting Ronnie Scott's on Friday to see Stanley Clarke (Kel will know who he is) or The Savoy Theatre to see Dirty Rotten Scroundels on Saturday, there's a chance!
    @rat sea, sand, sun wherever it is, who gives a whatever, enjoy. Still jealous
    @jlz666 I was up before you, on a Sunday!, but I have to do the puzzles and crosswords in the Sunday paper before anything else
    @kathy you OK? Not posting much these days. I miss the Princess
  • Well I don't know about everyone else @mvnla but I did a huge chunk of my Christmas shopping today (all Internet) I seem to have made a significant contribution to Disney as "Frozen" is still firm favourite with the girls.
    @hunnybunny For goodness sake why?! These days I seem to have trouble switching my brain off when it wakes up. It doesn't seem to care that it's Sunday......nor do the cats who treat me like a trampoline when it hits 6-30am :)
  • Nope @hunnybunny - I'm off to see Charlie & the Chocolate Factory (there's an 11 year old involved!) apart from that I have absolutely no idea! Not even sure which train I'm getting on Friday yet as little brother is coming to look after Mumsie Senior (who really isn't very well at the moment)
  • @JLZ I have the yard guy mulch the leaves right where they fall. It helps stop the erosion we get from being on such a steep slope, but even with that, there are always piles of them everywhere. All Year Long.

    We usually get some snow during strong El Nino years, but none on the others. Luckily, a medium storm (6-8") comes along every 3-5 years, and a huge storm (12"+) every 8-10. What makes me mad is, there's a town 15 miles up the mountain that gets 3-6 feet of snow per year. :o(

    I'll take more pics when the leaves are gone :) Wish I still had my good camera. It definitely needs a proper panorama shot.

    @Rat I like the Top 10 idea too, but have a few questions about it.
    1. How long must an episode be out before a Top 10 would count? Earning it in the first weeks/months seems like it'd be too easy.
    2.Would someone get the badge just for reaching it, or would they need to stay there for a period of time?
    3. How would that be confirmed? Screenshot, I guess. But since scores are always changing, what if someone makes it, then is booted to 11th on a level before they can get the screenshot?


    edit: I sure hope those 220 acres aren't being sold to a clear-cutting timber company. :)
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