The Bloated Pig - A Place for Weary Flingers Page 1492
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  • Hi, @rdnzlrips82 -- are you still hanging out here? Don't know why I'm up so late; will probably pay for it tomorrow morning...
  • I am still around. Just catching up on some flinging. It's been a long 4 days and I haven't gotten much fling time in. How is it going?
  • And if I happen to disappear, it's because I fell asleep while flinging because it's been a long 4 days. But it was all worth it.
  • OK -- nice weekend, weather was lovely. But Saturday morning a really weird problem appeared on my Dell laptop when I resumed from hibernation. It was as if it thought the laptop was connected to a large project or something, and things don't fit on the screen.

    I've tried downloading the latest drivers, messing with screen resolution and every other display setting I could think of, and nothing worked. Spent two hours on chat with Dell tech support basically doing all the same stuff, then going back to an old restore point, which of course did nothing, then I had to restore to the uh, original restore point just to get back to the mess I was in originally.

    But other than that, the weekend was fun! Got to spend some time outside, work on my "experimental" crochet projects, puttered around the house, cooked some good meals, stuff like that.

    How about you?
  • Tucks @rdnzlrips82 in for the night, puts out the light, and tip toes off quietly....
  • Hey @all just wanted to pop in and say Happy Easter Everyone! :)
  • Hi there BP! What's up in Place for Wearing Flingers? How is your holiday? Happy Easter to all, I believe it is non working day for most of you. Speaking on working and non working days I have to say that I really admire to all Americans and their working ethics. I mostly see you here during late night hours for you and almost never during your working hours. Does it mean that you really never „steal“ work hours from your employers loosing time on Internet? Well, I must admitt that I do just that. I am more likely to spend my spare time with family but well, that's normal isn't it?
  • Lol @cosmo I can't speak for anyone else but for me I respect greatly the Doctor and sometimes the Doctors I work with and as I work from my home office I am ever aware that I have to have good working habits because I make my own hours, also I see it as He/they see the patients and I do the billing/payments for those patients so if one of us isn't doing their job then the other doesn't get paid! So when I work I try to just work, After work well then it's all about my friends and ABN activities!! :D It's a win win situation!! :)
  • @cosmo2503 as an employer that drives me crazy. I know it goes on, but it hurts me in the pocket book to know I'm paying someone to play. Between my husband and me, we run 6 businesses. When we find that someone doesn't value their job, we try first to work with them to find out what's behind it. If we find they would rather simply surf the Internet or play games, we have no choice but to show them the door. I could go on and on but truth is, I've been known to pop into the BP during my work day but not on a daily or even weekly basis and always when I'm taking a break. Just please be careful - is it really worth risking your job over?
    @kimmiecv is so right, if my employees aren't productive then I'm not making as much money which translates into fewer jobs that I can afford to provide. So directly or indirectly, you're hurting yourself as we'll as your employer.
  • Ok, time for my pillow walk. G'night @kimmiecv. G'night @cosmo2503. G'night OB.
  • @birdaddict I value your statements. I also value, as I said earlier that I noticed that most Americans don't steal working hours from their employers.
    I don't risk at all. I apprecieate my job and know and give all that I can to finish all my assignments before dead line. But...it is just different. Our society hasn't reached that level of working ethics yet.
  • Picture this if you wil......it's for sure spring in northern Cali, therefore it comes as no surprise that once again........Oh yeah you got it!!!! The slimy snails with their homing pigeon slimy brains are out if FULL FORCE!!!!! :( Now when I say out I'm not kidding! I think they have topped it this year!! All winter they must have been laying their slimy snail eggs by the BILLIONS!!! I have Never seen this many! Not even at the scariest worst time last year when they were using their homing pigeon slimy brains to find their way back here after I "relocated" them in the field a few houses down from us and they came back WITH FRIENDS!!! Nope it's been waaaay worse!!!
    So picture this if you will: it's my sister and her handy dandy flashlight, Tig and Boo and I and we have a nice sized pitcher ready to fill up and I've devised a New plan of a action that I'm SURE will be permenant!! We start by my all important fountain and whataya know YEP sooo many sliming around mucking it up with their poop!! Argh!!! So we are grabbing them as fast as we can dumping them in the container, then to the area around the fountain, I should add all our lovely bulbs have been fast growing even a few with flowers already! Next morning NOTHING BUT STUBS!! No leaves and no Flowers! Gone!! With slimy snail trails all over the stumps!!! GAH the HORROR!! :( So this is why all 4 of us are on the recon at oh 12 ish midnight last night!! So Of Course Tig and Boo are sniffing around to help us locate the buggers as its Dark and my sister isn't the greatest at using the flashlight! And I've got the container, so as we make all our way around the center garden before we are even half way THE CONTAINER RUNNITH OVER WITH SLIMY SNAILS!! I kid you not!!!! :O OK here's where my new plan comes in! We have a trash bin just for grass, branches and the like I'm sure they make mulch or whatever with it so I run over to that bin and YEAHHHHH I dump them in with the ground stuff! Plenty to eat and when trash day comes Wednesday they are off to their new home and I'm POSSITIVE it's too far for they slimy homing pigeon brains to Find Me! WAHAHAHAAAHA take that you evil slimy snails!!! :D Yeahhhhhh I win!!! Take your suitcases and backpacks cause your NOT COMING BACK HERE!!!! Heeheee So we all actually went through the ENTIRE backyard from center to the far reaches, through the grass, did you know they will travel through the grass to get from one location to another??!!! Our hands were not only slimy (BLECK!!) but muddy as heck it was Disgusting Dirty work! They were EVERYWHERE!!! We had to crawl under things and over things and My God we filled up that huge container to OVER FILLED a total of 5 times!! I believe it's a GALLON PITCHER!! 5 TIMES!!!! Of course when we hit the grass both Boo and Tig decided it was much more fun to chase eachother than to work! But before that we were a real team!! :) Tonight I only found a few slimy snails but I'm possitive word got out the recon was back with help and they're hiding and waiting it out! What they don't know yet is my sister also bought a bucket load (well more than that!) of wood chips and we've put them around our flowers and my fountain in hopes they will conform to what the guy told my sister and NOT cross over them to eat our poor innocent plants and poop and sleep in or on my fountain!! And I will continue to recon and then DUMP them in the mulch bin so they go far far away!! And maybe just maybe when they have their next slimy snail town meeting they will decide we aren't suckers anymore and move to a new home and torment them ( my hope is they will go next door to the nasty, mean to their poor dog, neighbours house and do their dirty work there!!!) :D
    The End (Erm for now!!)
  • Good night @Bird-addict sleep well :) I gotta go to draw, I saw you and JLZ-666 sent me one so I'm on it!! :)

    @cosmo I know for a fact there are Plenty of Americans who play instead of work, it's not that uncommon here at all! Honestly when I worked in an office or when we owned a restaurant it drove me crazy! I just can't do it and never have been able to because I'd always feel to guilty! The only time during work hours you'll see or hear from me is when I come outside for a ciggy otherwise I'm plugging away at work. So no not everyone here in the US is working instead of playing believe me! ;)
  • @Bird-addict if you read this later your draw isn't there which is weird cause it said I had a "nudge" from you but I got Nothin!! :( Stupid peeps need to fix these stupid glitches! I lost all my bombs because of there ineptness! Too bad I can't ship my slimy snails to them!!
  • Hahahahahahahahaahahahahahahahahahahaahaahahmawahhahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahamawahahahaa @kimmiecv YOU CRACK ME UP!!! Oh Luuuuuuuucy.... You gave great descriptions so I can "picture" you, your sis, Tig and Boo out hunting down slimy snails! Girl you need an army of Angry Birds to keep those buggers under control. Kimmie's new game "Angry Birds meet the Slimy Snails" eeewwww
    Can't think of all I want to say, to be clever and funny cause I can hardly stay awake... But thanks for the laughs and the entertainment..too bad it's real life though :((((( I'm sure it's less than funny to you. Can't wait to hear how your devious plan, to ship the snails to the dump, works out for you. But why don't you just put them out of their slimy misery, instead of letting them live on to reproduce?
    I've been have issues with draw too...
  • Can't kill em @Bird-addict wouldn't be right! Let em lay a billion slimy eggs somewhere else they outta my garden!! :D As frustrating as it is we were giggling quite a bit at Boo and Tigs antics!! :D I finally got your draw and sent it back! Now Go to Bed!!
    Mwaaaah
    Time for me to hit my pillow walk too.......Luuuuuucy has left the building!!!! ;D
  • hey @everyone!!! happy April fools day!
  • Morning, ya'll, uploading my new avatar now:)
  • Stupid Gravatar:( Any minute now;)
  • @kimmiecv I always wondered why you choose snails for your avatar. God, you made me laugh. I mean LOL, that's so funny when you describe it, but not so funny for you.
    @angermanagement you have nice scores in ABSW, congratulations my boy.
    @mvnla2 I uninstalled The Croods. After I lost progress of several hours playing, trading with Ugga, and feeding creatures with over 60 soups to level them up I finally lost temper and patience, so it is over. Those kind of games take too much of real life and I certainly don't need it. As @lostgreybird told nothing happen after Grug made forklift. I am pretty much calm and satisfied now.
  • Thanks, @cosmo2503, I only have 'good' scores in the Boba Fett Missions though;) I don't think I have the perseverance to do the same in all other ABSW levels:(
    Oh look, gravatar is now working. You like my new avatar for April, BP peeps:)
  • @angermanagement it's all in persistance. If you really want to improve scores in all episodes you will get it easily. You already have clue of game which makes game easy. Good luck :-)
  • Thanks, @cosmo2503:) I got the nick of the birds abilities easily, now it's my favourite game:D
  • Good afternoon all!! Hope the ones that are free today are enjoying the Easter Monday!

    And I do feel the need to comment on the "at work" sneaking in, cause I am know to sneak in on occasion and don't want to be seen as such workers that would leave their boss hanging and paying me for surfing or stuff like that. I only check in when I have cleared all the work I can do for the day. Because of the bad economics, business is not always going as great as they can be and we are stuck with nothing to do. I turned in one day voluntarily just because I was doing nothing most of the time. So went from a 4 days workweek to a 3 days workweek. Just cause I could not keep doing nothing while they (got 2 lady bosses) where paying me. And when I don't have any regular (design related) work to do, I play the janitor (fixing lightbulbs, broken stuff and more), the IT girl (fixing issues with programmes we have or finding new stuff that can help us), the gardner (cleaning out the terrace) and the secretary (putting away the papers and exemplars of the stuff we make). I think I can say with 99% certainty my bosses are more than happy with my work ethics and could not find a better one :D

    Sorry for my elaborate explanation, but like I mentioned, I am a hard worker and don't want people to see me otherwise, just cause I am sneaking in on occasion.
  • And Kimmie!!! Hahahahaa thanks for the laughs, I know it isn't funny for you, but hee hee, glad to know the avatar is still a spitting image of you backyard :D
    Do wonder what will happen when you lift the lid of the mulch bin.... I did put them in a bin a couple of years back and when I came back the next day they where crawling all over the lid and trying to find their way out hee hee... ow the sight of you 4 doing a patrol around the garden, I would love to have a real view of that... mwaaah guess the image in my head will have to do for now :D
  • @Cosmo2503 -- Congrats on uninstalling the Croods. I haven't regretted it one minute, and the post from @lostgreybird about finishing the tractor and nothing happens is really disappointing.
    As for Americans' work ethic -- We don't get as much vacation time as most Europeans; so part of the work ethic is involuntary.
    I'm retired now, but the employer I used to work for made it fairly difficult to spend work time surfing or playing. Not to say people didn't do it. You couldn't install any software on your computer that wasn't approved, and a lot of internet sites were blocked, e.g. YouTube, ABN, and any non-work related commercial site. You couldn't bring a personal computer or tablet in to work, but they finally allowed phones. So I guess you could play on a phone at work, but it would be pretty obvious. You were allowed to surf for work related info, as long as it wasn't in China (maybe some other places). I had a real reason to be looking at Chinese sites for a project at work, but couldn't do it from my work computer.
    We obviously had a very busy and very paranoid IT department. The good part was that we almost never got junk mail, spam, or viruses in e-mail. Of course, the did occasionally block e-mail from your boss, if he/she happened to use "$$$." Maybe they fixed that though.
  • hey peeps! been chipping away at Cloud City for the last few days. I tend to do this when a new release comes out, and focus on it to the detriment of the rest of the Angry Birds world. There are several levels that I just can't crack, but have managed (current) above average in most :)

    Quite chuffed that I overtook @AngerManagement in Cloud City total score :) Still a way from @mvnla2, obviously... and I can't see how Jolly's scored what he has :D
  • @hinarei -- Couldn't figure out what you were talking about, so had to look. Next time I look, you will probably be ahead of me, but there are lots of people even higher.
    Happy flinging.
  • Well done, @hinarei, I have mainly focused on the Boba Fett Missions for the past few days, currently 2nd, 7k behind @leggy, in 1st place. I'm now working on getting above average on all ABSW levels, finished Tatooine, and I have even found a sure fire way to get a 1-Birder on Death Star level 2-4:)
  • hoped I was clear enough, @mvnla2. You're well above me and I generally take the regulars in here as my benchmarks. Happy flingin' to you too!
  • @hinarei -- Maybe you forgot to refresh your leaderboard page? You're only 2K behind me. The reason I couldn't understand what you meant was that I'm not that high on the leaderboard, so I thought maybe you had misread something in the BP.
  • all right, all right, @AngerManagement, I see you're going easy on me :P I'll give your aiming advice a go on 2-4 :D
  • Hello, I'm back! What's up?
  • thanks mvnla! :D My go at Cloud City 4-3 pushed me up a bit more than I'd realised :)
  • evening @TienShenLong :) I'm currently hating the fact I have to go back to work tomorrow after 6 days off, and having a fling on a few of the new SW levels :D
  • I'm trying to get the last SW update on my phone via apk file... still cannot download any AB update from the market... its matter of time. grrr
  • Good evening all:) nice new avatar @angermanagement:) very creative!!
    @Kimmiecv you crack me up with your midnight recon stories..Roflmao please take a video sometime..we'll all be doing the dance her hee:)
    OB I'll take a Sunupper please, seeing as the sun is (was) shining all day a little teaase of spring today):)
  • Well very quiet night..OB..what's up with that? So sorry you're bored,, but my i must say the place is shining..;) looks like your preparing for some sort of something..expecting company are you ¿ Well I'm trying to be good so I'm saying my goodnights;) please tell the others i popped in..;)
    *places flashlight on Kimmiecv booth.oh i see E* left hers as well,, she's so busy these days she forgot to leave a note:(..that's o.k sure Kimmie will see it and shine it bright like new:),*leaves little note ty Kimmie for always taking care of us and our lights...((( hugs))) (((( hugs))) double for E* cause i know she appreciate it very much.:) love ya gonna catch your draw..then hit the pillow:) mwwahhhhxxx ooo
  • Wow I think everyone else is playing the new game!
    LOL just so you all know after the fact it's always funny to us so don't feel bad about laughing! We tend to laugh about my/our recons too! In the moment however I can't help but wonder why I don't just drown the slimy buggers, but then I come to my senses and keep fighting to WIN against those slimy snails! And e-star you have no idea!! There are so many of them in the bin they are coating the entire thing!! It's crazy! So I'm giving it a rest because lifting that lid well it's sooo not worth it! If they had legs they'd be jumping on me to get outta there! Bleck!! :O
  • @Kathy you are very welcome! :) Got to keep my girls flashlights in good fighting form!!

    *shines KitKat and estars flashlights for their use tomorrow and set out candles to see them safely to Dreamland *

    Sleep well!! Mwaaaaah :•
  • *poof* now ya see me *poof* now ya don't...I'm off to CC
  • Good morning all!!!:) OB good morning..a, large regular coffee please to go..i know boring lol:)
    Have a Fabulous Fantabulous Flinging day everyone:)
  • Afternoon, @samstyle102:) How you doing in CC & Boba Fett Missions???
  • @angermanagement 3 starred all gonna try for the score achievement on hoth. and still trying to get the achievement for 25 blocks in a single fett flight. can't figure a place to do it
  • @samstyle102, the best place is on B-1, there is a walkthrough video that is in the link below:)

    http://www.angrybirdsnest.com/angry-birds-star-wars-block-buster-achievement-walkthrough/
  • @angermanagement i was trying on B-10 with boba going towards the right and staying on the chain
  • @samstyle102, I think I would have gotten the achievement on my 114k run on B-10, as Boba destroyed the entire bottom half of the level, follow my strategy on the walkthrough:)
  • @angermanagement i did it and got a new high score as boba flew up into the chain at the top now just for the Hoth score achievement and on to the falcon
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