[9:35
AM] Mr. Blue:
If
only they could figure out that bathing in the Ganges is bad
[9:35
AM] Mr. Brown:
Well
if they would stop putting stuff in it for a while, then build a
filtering plant
However
they may have the best immune systems
[9:36
AM] Mr. Silver:
The
Ganges is holy... Not sure how you're stopping that.
(New
19th century Brit governor) "I say, all you Indian chaps.
It's just water, what? Dirty water at that, and as for holy,
well it's definitely not C of E. So we'll be putting up some
signs reminding you to stop mucking about in what amounts to your
W.C.s. Thank you. As a consolation, you're ALL invited to
the imperial cookout. Beef barbecue! You've oodles of
cattle here, so there's plenty to go round. You'll adore it!
VERY scrummy!"
(Montage
of scenes of flaming carnage and heroic English deaths)
[9:56
AM] Mr. Blue:
Dumping
dead bodies and defecating in the same river is not good
"Oh
holy river, have some trash"
[9:59
AM] Mr. Brown:
Do
they burn the bodies?
[10:01
AM] Mr. Silver:
They
do. I also recall that they know some of the fish have gotten
really big on human treats and a taste for more.
[10:09
AM] Mr. Blue:
They
did a River Monsters episode (first pic) on that
How
the catfish in the Ganges had developed a taste for humans and had
been the cause of some drownings, possibly, pulling people under.
Unlike
the bigfoot shows, that guy actually finds what he's looking for.
The
best one was the electric eel episode in the Amazon
He
found, basically, a muddy puddle miles from any major body of water
that was teeming with eels
Like
a tide pool but along the Amazon... The river had crested and then
started to fall during a drought and all the eels had clumped
together waiting for the water to rise back up. More than enough to
kill a person if they weren't watching where they were going
[10:23
AM] Mr. Silver:
Nasty
(notes
for future game)
[10:24
AM] Ms. Rose:
:-D
Eels
are creepy.
[10:24
AM] Mr. Silver:
If
I had to look at them I probably wouldn't eat them, but they are a
maki fave of mine.
[10:25
AM] Mr. Blue:
Electric
eels aren't actually eels
They're
more like catfish... some catfish are electric too
[10:26
AM] Mr. Silver:
Some
catfish are more like eels, then...
Heh
Friend
of mine grabbed an electric catfish when we were teens
[10:27
AM] Ms. Rose:
:O
Electric Catfish is a catchy band name.
[10:27
AM] Mr. Silver:
Or
an alt music club
(Ancient
job memory)
"Thank
you for calling, etc"
"Hello,
my name is Catfish Louie...that's my real name."
[10:39
AM] Mr. Blue:
Heheh
[10:40
AM] Ms. Rose:
(rofl)
[12:49
PM] Mr. Brown:
Some
parents will say “Put me in a home if I get too bad. Live your
life.”
I
would not want my kids to take care of me every waking hour
I
would want them to live their life
But
would like to be visited
[12:52
PM] Mr. Blue:
I
would probably kill myself if being put in a home was even a
possibility
[12:52
PM] Ms. Rose:
I've
brought up the nursing home thing with my mom several times. She
worked at one in the 60's and she believes they are still as bad. She
gets the terrified puppy look on her face every time I mention it and
adamantly refuses "no matter how bad it gets."
[12:52
PM] Mr. Silver:
I
read of a movement somewhere that suggested just making entire
communities of older people. Not like a managed home, like
setting up an entire age-conscious town.
Para-pitch
- “All their memories are different. All their tech is different.
All their interests are different. Culture is different, needs are
different, physical abilities are different. Why should they not
have the option to dump us kids who can't relate and live in a town
where everyone does?”
[12:58
PM] Ms. Rose:
Some
nursing homes look like the Taj Mahal compared to how my parents
live. I'm not saying they are all magical and great. But having
luxuries like no stairs and no slum landlords and – like -
plumbing that works more than it doesn't...that would be nice.
[12:58
PM] Mr. Silver:
Interesting.
The
Taj Mahal is a tomb, BTW.
[12:58
PM] Mr. Blue:
I
really hope that by the time I'm like 55 or 60 I can honestly say
that I've done enough that I can just check out on my own terms
[1:00
PM] Ms. Rose:
The
retirement town idea is really cool. I read that some place overseas
made a whole village that catered to folks with Alzheimer's. They
designed things specifically for the effects of that disease. Very
cool.
[1:04
PM] Mr. Brown:
There
are places that are called “assisted living”.
They
basicaly live there and there is just staff available to help out
once in awhile
Then
there are nursing homes where they check on you all the time
But
if you do your research you can find a very reputable one that will
take care of you and not have issues
[1:05
PM] Mr. Blue:
A
home is just the beginning of the end. You're not getting better,
you're dying
[1:07
PM] Mr. Brown:
Lots
of older people are very healthy, they just can't move so well
[1:07
PM] Mr. Blue:
That's
not healthy
[1:11
PM] Mr. Silver:
What
we really need is a revival of the Norse idea that if you die an
honorless death, or not in battle...like from sickness or old
age...you are the property of Hel.
(concerned
son) "Dad, you're getting into your late 70s, and you need to
start thinking about the future.”
(worried
daughter holds out a battleaxe) “Did you put a vendetta list
together like we talked about?"
[1:17
PM] Ms. Rose:
My
dad will probably die an honorable death.
Because
he's such a mean bastard, he will live to 107, still be janitoring at
the junior high, and will fall to floor with a mop and some trash
bags in his hand.
"These
floors... *cough cough* ...will be... *gasp* ... CLEEEEEEAN!"
(announcement)
“Services will be held in the cafeteria after 3rd period, with
internment near that crappy flower bed the biology class planted by
the parking lot. K.C. Rose is survived by NO ONE."
[1:26
PM] Mr. Silver:
I
want that in my obituary:
[1:27
PM] Mr. Blue:
Heheh
[1:27
PM] Mr. Silver:
"Before
his death, Mr. Silver stated that he ‘would be survived by no one’
and then expired - glaring and laughing maniacally."
[1:28
PM] Ms. Rose:
"Coincidentally,
Katzenjammer Corp experienced a possibly-related complete failure of
services, after 85% of their staff and clients mysteriously died.
Details at 11."
[1:28
PM] Mr. Silver:
"Friends
of Mr. Silver could not be reached for comment and apparently have
been leaving town since he started into serious decline."
[1:35
PM] Mr. Blue:
Heheh
[1:36
PM] Mr. Brown:
“It
was later discovered that Mr. Silver had built a tractor beam device
at his home that has been attracting asteroids to earth. We reached
a NASA spokesman who concluded “WE ALL GONNA DIE!”.”
[1:37
PM] Mr. Silver:
Hmmm...
(notes down Mr. Brown's suggestion)
[3:17
PM] Mr. Silver:
What
is it that is so hard about "close everything open on the screen
until you are out to the icons"?
[3:18
PM] Mr. Blue:
"Oh,
so shut down the computer?"
[3:19
PM] Mr. Silver:
"I
don't have an X.”
“How
do you click that?”
“That's
gone but there's another page open.”
“Should
I close X?."
"I
have an X, a Close and a Cancel, but I don't have an X."
[3:19
PM] Mr. Blue:
"Close
everything."
"Okay.
What about (GUI)?"
"We
want to close everything."
"Okay.
And Microsoft Outlook?"
"We
wanna close everything."
"Okay.
And this-..."
[3:20
PM] Mr. Silver:
These
actually read like some very old Celtic tales, really.
Bards
must have been exasperated as Hell way back then.
[3:22
PM] Mr. Blue:
“The
Tale of the Jack and the Dell Inspiron”
[3:22
PM] Mr. Silver:
(Wicked
lord) "You'll never marry my daughter unless you save her from
the Blue Stone Tower.
(Hero)
“Yes. That's what I came all the way here to do.”
(Wicked
lord) “But you'll never save her from the Blue Stone Tower until
you
slay
the one-eyed giant."
(Hero)
"So I'll slay it."
(Wicked
lord) "Ah, but you can't slay the giant unless you capture the
piebald bull.”
(Hero)
“What for? Fine...whatever. I'll capture the piebald cow.”
(Wicked
lord) “Even so, you cannot capture the piebald bull without winning
the rainbow feather."
(Hero)
" Ok... That makes NO sense but I'll win the rainbow feather."
(Wicked
lord) "Oh, but you'll never win the rainbow feather without
finding the golden harp."
(Hero)
"So I'll FIND the bloody HARP."
(Wicked
lord) "Well, you can't find the golden harp without catching the
magic salmon of Strath Ca- "
(Hero)
"JUST TELL
ME
WHERE
THE FUCKING
GIANT
IS!!!"
[3:22
PM] Mr. Blue:
LOL
