mc5 - The Banter Page

nights

hey, no playing with drills. play friendly, you lot.

blamelewis

hole hog

[flerdle] Send the hole over - can you attach it to an email?

Néa

*drops a pin*

Tuj

looking down

Ooh, a pin! *picks up pin*

Dujon

Shaking

At approximately 0642 local time, Monday 29th August, I believe Sydney suffered a mild earth tremor.

Rosie

(Dujon) So it it didn't wake you up, then? Nothing whatever would awaken me at twenty to seven in the morning. Maybe a full bladder. Maybe even a half-full one. :-(

Chalky

shakey

[Duj] Was that the moment England won the 4th test match?

Dujon

Awakening

[Rosie] Néa may awaken me any time. (Sorry, Néa, it's only a bit of joshing - OK?)
[Chalky] What on Earth are you doing at this ungodly time of the morn? In answer to your query, no, see the response above. Still, I might now have a cigarette. Care to join me?

Néa

Awwwww

[Dujon] I bet you say that to all the girls you play MC with.

Dujon

[Néa] Only the ones who drop pins. Handkerchiefs are so passé. :-)

Néa

Handkerchiefs

Also, presumably that wouldn't wake you.

Inkspot

Yet another on back from hols

Brittany was great with a short stroll over the sand dunes to the beach, and come back to home to a scorhing Indian Summer. To make the most of this glorious weather, the ironing board will be set up on the patio this evening. Life is about to settle down into more routine with the schools starting to go back tomorrow.

penelope

*message for Chalks*

I'm doing ancient history tomorrow (thursday)... might you be in for a cup of tea later in the day? I'll txt...

momus

not a good reader of handbooks or rules

As things seem to be rather bleak on the matress front since March I have decided to place an ad in the Personals in the London Review of Books. Might be scuppered by a medical indifference to reading. Advice as ever appreciated

Chalky

*penelope*

*plans to ~~buy~~ bake a cake* :-)

rab

Ah yes. I might not be around for a bit. Keep the place tidy, will you.

Chalky

at home with Mr Kipling

[rab] you dropping in as well?

Chalky

just an observation

Funny thing. This Banter Game, although fairly quiet at present, appears to be kept alive by a regular group of MCers. Yet many other long-standing games on this server have a completely different and prolific group of contributors - most of whom never post an entry in here. Why do you suppose that's the case?

Rosie

maybe an explanation

(Chalky) I suspect many of those who contribute to the games but not to the banter are quite young and lack the confidence to spout off here. Also, older people tend to find their niche and stick with it whereas when you're young you tend to have broader but shallower interests in which contributing a word or two to a game is quite sufficient. There could be other reasons but that'll do for the moment.

Projoy

The age of garrulity

I thought traditionally it was the young who overconfidently spout off and the older, and wiser, who keep their counsel. Admittedly, seven years here has been enough to disabuse me of this fanciful notion. Some people (such as me) are spouters and some, like Drewsxpa for instance, are containers. :)

Rosie

Containers

(Projoy) What sort of container is Drewsxpa, then? A 45-gallon drum, rucksack, ladies' purse, breadbin, boxfile, skip, biscuit barrel? I think we should be told.

flerdle

not a weather report, honest. Oh, ok, perhaps a little.

Just went for the first walk of the season; the temperature's been down a bit these last two or three days, and that plus a nice breeze was enough to prompt us to go for a walk in the evening (last time was some time in May, we think). Amazing. And we didn't even die.

Chalky

[flerdle] It's been rather uncomfortably humid here in mid-south UK which has made for a very weary sort of day. I've been reading your blog the last few days so I know that what we're experiencing bears no comparison ....
... which helps me understand how going for a walk in a nice breeze is something to celebrate :-)

rab

*peeks from round the corner, notes an absence of vandalism, disappears again*

Ella

Posting Habits

Going back a few posts, if I may comment, the reason I (and possibly others) don't often post here (although I read fairly often) is that it feels a little intrusive, as though butting in to someone else's conversation. I suppose 'eavesdropping' is just as rude, if not worse though! *feels ashamed and shuffles off*

Projoy

[Rosie] I long to ask him, but I don't know he'd care to tell me.

Rosie

Intrusion

(Ella) If you've got something to say, say it. And even if you haven't, still say it, be it ever so banal. This place may appear cliquey to the relatively infrequent poster but it isn't. Even if we assume it is, all you have to do is put up a few remarks and you'll be part of the clique anyway. :-)

Néa

*sprays "rab is a weneir" on the wall*

Rosie

graffiti

(Néa) A what? Is it rude?

Chalky

*intrigued*

Tuj

[Rosie, above]

Tuj

Well, that was informative

Curse these fingers! I was going to say that it's also easy to get left behind by an ongoing debate, which if you come in halfway through or just simply aren't interested in, is very difficult to comment upon. Does that sentence look coherent?

Projoy

* crosses out weneir and replaces with "weiner"*

Néa

Exactly

[Projoy] It's nice to be understood :-)

flerdle

*crosses out weiner and replaces with "Weimar"*

ImNotJohn

*crosses out Weimar and replaces with 'whiner'*

Ella

*crosses out whiner and replaces with 'wino'*

...and nods in agreement with Tuj's comment about getting left behind while welcoming Rosie's invitation to join the clique.

Darren

*crosses out 'wino' and replaces with 'window'*

Tuj

*crosses out "window" and replaces with "willow"*

Irouléguy

*crosses out "willow" and replaces with "tara"*

...and is with tuj and Ella on this one.

Inkspot

*crosses out "tera" and replaces with "terror"*

I'm on the bean bags for this one with the break out area through the patio doors just by the swaying palm trees.

In the last couple of days I've killed so many wasps. We have a very low eaves house and they have made a nest behind the bargeboard. There have been too many flying around to spray during the day, but in the dark just after sunset when they are all inside, it’s spay time. In the past 2 two there have been over 200 on the ground outside and another 100 in the lobby as they have found a way from the cavity though the blockwork to come up behind the skirting but the are drowsey even a four year old can kill them – hitting them several times before they stop twitching. The good news is this year we were not plagued by flying ants, it was the neighbours turn to run inside one the summers evening.