What have you been up to, quiet NSG?

[United Dependencies]

well school started and I have two AP courses that are loading me up with homework, so finding posting time is harder. Also I just recently bought fallout 3, and American Football at the college level has begun.

[The Archregimancy]

The rest of the time, I swing through the jungle near some lost tropical city, rescue some lost gold idol deep within the city's largest vine-covered pyramid after evading all of the traps, and then narrowly escape from the local tribesmen and their poisoned darts after being betrayed by my archrival.

I guess you came to Venezuela in one of those "swings" right?

Not yet; while I've been working with one of your countrywomen, I haven't made it over yet. We're applying for funding for an extension of our collaboration, and I'll be making several trips over to your native-infested lost tropical jungle cities if we're successful.

More seriously, if we get the funding we'll be based in Barcelona over in Anzoategui state, though there might be some scope for extending the project to artefact collections held in Caracas and Maracaibo too.

I've done plenty of swinging through the jungles of central Africa, though. I'll tell you a true story (no - really; this one's 100% true; promise!): some 20 years ago I went hunting with pygmies in the Ituri rainforest of what was then Zaire, and is now of course the Democratic Republic of the Congo again. Unfortunately, the pygmies were far too stoned - permanently - to catch anything. Afterwards we went back to their camp, where we drank heroic quantities of beer, and I taught them how to sing the Monty Python 'Lumberjack Song' - telling them (in French) that it was the national anthem of the United States, and that they would really make a good impression on passing Americans if they sang it at them. I spent the night sleeping in a hut so small that my feet poked out the bottom, where they were mosquito fodder for the night. On the way back to our main camp, we walked into a column of army ants, and I spent a painful 15 minutes picking them off my scrotum.

<sigh>

Those were the days....

You haven't lived until you've had to pick army ants off your scrotum (female readers can substitute the nearest equivalent) after hunting with stoned pygmies.

[JarVik]

So, what have you been up to, quiet members of NSG? What have you been doing lately, lurkers and deserters? Minnas wants to know.

I decided I needed a time out as I seemed to be letting life bug me more than it should, and I fear It was affecting my judgment and damaging my calm.

That and life has been busy,

I manageed to injure my neck which sucks, but I also one of my thesis chapters passed review with minor revissions and has been accepted for journal publication which is good.



It's not that the glass is half full, or half empty that bugs me, it's that it is half full of rusty nails and broken glass. Thats what bugs me.

[Czardas]

Hmf. Well, I'm officially back, although I don't think anyone remembers me except in vague terms as "one of those guys! who did... stuff!"

Mostly, it's because I've finished a few major projects, and thus have some free time (a couple of weeks) before I flee the United States to attend university or something. (I doubt I'll move back if I have the chance; I like America's history, its government is pretty good, and there are many nice places in its geography, but the American people piss me off.) Hence, I'm on NSG (and IRC, I guess, if anyone here uses that). *waves*

I remember you, hey.

I'd guess most people don't know me anymore either.

I remember you, too. Let's start our club of "Old People Almost Nobody Remembers", where we can have an institutionalized place to sit around and gripe about the grand old days of NSG or somesuch.

[Bitchkitten]

Being evicted for having 13 cats.

[Rhodmhire]

Feasting.

[Straughn]

I got H1N1 influenza.

Take care of yourself dear. You wouldn't be nearly so hot once you become a zombie eating people's brains.

On the other hand...

You might make a really hot zombie. Send pics if you become a zombie so I can judge.

You have things for zombies?

I'm curious now.

You're zombie-curious?

Well, good to be open-minded.

[The Norse Hordes]

At the begining of the summer I ended a four year relationship with someone I had planned to marry. I took a break from NSG because I had a lot going on, and was in terrible moods all the time which would just translate into me getting in trouble here. So I retired the nation of 'Trve' and departed, intending to return when things settled down.


Now I have a new place with 3 of my buddies as my roommates and its glorious.


Life twists and turns unexpectidly.

[Straughn]

Sorta going the way where Fass went.

... well, he certainly knows how to leave a mark.

[Straughn]

I'll be the only honest one. Fapping.

I was honest too. Too tired to fap, and frankly, i'd rather a few years passed before my kids ever caught me doing something like that. Many, many years.

[Straughn]

Got my high school teacher's qualification but that proved to be somewhat unrewarding so i'm studying IT at uni now. Been pretty flat-out, but it's calmed down for a bit now.

Congrats!
So, as punishment for the students ... you make them go here?
Unrewarding? Howso?

[Tunizcha]

I'm eating Kentucky Fried Kittens.

[Minnas]

I'm eating Kentucky Fried Kittens.

Nasty.

[Dyakovo]

I'm eating Kentucky Fried Kittens.

Nasty.

Not really, the special recipe and the batter coating really make the difference.

[Minnas]

I'm eating Kentucky Fried Kittens.

Nasty.

Not really, the special recipe and the batter coating really make the difference.

Please, don't tell me you've eaten cat?!

[Aelosia]

I'm eating Kentucky Fried Kittens.

Nasty.

Not really, the special recipe and the batter coating really make the difference.

Please, don't tell me you've eaten cat?!

No he hasn't. He is baiting

Once, in Tonga, a canadian asked the locals if they ate the cats, because we didn't see any in several days of stay. They smiled, answered that there were no cats or almost no cats on the island, so no, they didn't eat cats at all.

Then they described us how excellent the dog stew was, however. And offered us some.

[Dyakovo]

I'm eating Kentucky Fried Kittens.

Nasty.

Not really, the special recipe and the batter coating really make the difference.

Please, don't tell me you've eaten cat?!

OK, I haven't eaten cat.
Now am I serious, or am I just playing along with you?
No, I have never eaten cat... Pussy on the other hand is a different story entirely...

[Minnas]

I'm eating Kentucky Fried Kittens.

Nasty.

Not really, the special recipe and the batter coating really make the difference.

Please, don't tell me you've eaten cat?!

No he hasn't. He is baiting

Once, in Tonga, a canadian asked the locals if they ate the cats, because we didn't see any in several days of stay. They smiled, answered that there were no cats or almost no cats on the island, so no, they didn't eat cats at all.

Then they described us how excellent the dog stew was, however. And offered us some.

Dogs! I know dog is eaten in China, and horse in France.

[Anarcosyndiclic Peons]

College life.

[Minnas]

I'm eating Kentucky Fried Kittens.

Nasty.

Not really, the special recipe and the batter coating really make the difference.

Please, don't tell me you've eaten cat?!

OK, I haven't eaten cat.
Now am I serious, or am I just playing along with you?
No, I have never eaten cat... Pussy on the other hand is a different story entirely...

Oh dear God...

[Aelosia]

I'm eating Kentucky Fried Kittens.

Nasty.

Not really, the special recipe and the batter coating really make the difference.

Please, don't tell me you've eaten cat?!

No he hasn't. He is baiting

Once, in Tonga, a canadian asked the locals if they ate the cats, because we didn't see any in several days of stay. They smiled, answered that there were no cats or almost no cats on the island, so no, they didn't eat cats at all.

Then they described us how excellent the dog stew was, however. And offered us some.

Dogs! I know dog is eaten in China, and horse in France.

I was so drunk that night that forgot to go to the village for dinner. So I missed my golden opportunity to consume dog meat. Others did, said it wasn't good.

I have had horse meat. Not tasty. Rubbery, dry, and more chewy than I like my meat. My dad told me that he ingested lots of horse meat during the last years of the Spanish Civil War, and the years after it. Said it sucks to no level.

[Minnas]

I'm eating Kentucky Fried Kittens.

Nasty.

Not really, the special recipe and the batter coating really make the difference.

Please, don't tell me you've eaten cat?!

No he hasn't. He is baiting

Once, in Tonga, a canadian asked the locals if they ate the cats, because we didn't see any in several days of stay. They smiled, answered that there were no cats or almost no cats on the island, so no, they didn't eat cats at all.

Then they described us how excellent the dog stew was, however. And offered us some.

Dogs! I know dog is eaten in China, and horse in France.

I was so drunk that night that forgot to go to the village for dinner. So I missed my golden opportunity to consume dog meat. Others did, said it wasn't good.

I have had horse meat. Not tasty. Rubbery, dry, and more chewy than I like my meat. My dad told me that he ingested lots of horse meat during the last years of the Spanish Civil War, and the years after it. Said it sucks to no level.

I've never had any, dog or horse, meat. And I don't think I will.

[Aelosia]

I've never had any, dog or horse, meat. And I don't think I will.

You are not missing anything.

What's your favourite food?

[Minnas]

I've never had any, dog or horse, meat. And I don't think I will.

You are not missing anything.

What's your favourite food?

Tacos de lengua.

[Dyakovo]

I'm eating Kentucky Fried Kittens.

Nasty.

Not really, the special recipe and the batter coating really make the difference.

Please, don't tell me you've eaten cat?!

OK, I haven't eaten cat.
Now am I serious, or am I just playing along with you?
No, I have never eaten cat... Pussy on the other hand is a different story entirely...

Oh dear God...

My work here is done...