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[YourFunnyUncle]

The author of the book from the cover of which my avatar is taken just wished me a happy birthday on Facebook.

[YourFunnyUncle]

Writers are the coolest celebrities.

I suspect it's because people mostly don't know what they look like, so they can live normal-ish lives...

[YourFunnyUncle]

Probably..

 

Although one time I corresponded with Anne Rice for awhile... got to talking about theology.. and she's fairly well known. They always have time for fans at readings and signings too.

 

I also think JK Rowling deserves every penny she gets. Famous as she is, she just seems like a cool person.

Rowling does seem quite grounded considering the money she's made.

[YourFunnyUncle]

Just looking through screenshots from last night... 

 

 

 

[The Loyal Nub]

I missed all the excitement!

 

Happy Birthday Uncle! Enjoy your early 40's! I know I did.

 

As for the ever raging Sera vs The Dalish War: Viv moved all my furniture last night and gave the sh*ttiest, snottiest, response for it. No option to punch her in the mouth, or kick her out of the Inquisition. I know Viv has her lovers here and they will hate me for saying this but If there is a character in this game who needs a kick out option waay more than Sera it's Viv. Best I could do last night was to take her armor and her staff from her and she will now be excluded. I will also take special pleasure in giving her the bitchy, snotty, response to her personal favor request when that comes. *rubs hands in fiendish glee*

 

Lastly I never dug basketball but last night my Philadelphia Eagles traded a decent qb to the Rams for a stiff so maybe I'll take up b-ball? Nah the Sixers are an even bigger joke!

[The Loyal Nub]

This hugging thing...

 

[YourFunnyUncle]

Happy Birthday Uncle! Enjoy your early 40's! I know I did.

 

Thanks!

 

Lastly I never dug basketball but last night my Philadelphia Eagles traded a decent qb to the Rams for a stiff so maybe I'll take up b-ball? Nah the Sixers are an even bigger joke!

 

Aren't you a Liverpool fan? After a shaky start their season has been picking up recently. Just give up on silly parochial American sports and concentrate on a a truly world-wide one.

[The Loyal Nub]

Thanks!

 

 

Aren't you a Liverpool fan? After a shaky start their season has been picking up recently. Just give up on silly parochial American sports and concentrate on a a truly world-wide one.

 

Oh I am already a bigger "football" (i.e. the proper one) fan than an American NFL fan.  The Eagles are a childhood team and there is a lot of nostalgia wrapped in that. But the game has become bloated and I already have to dvr eagles games so I can fast-forward through the endless commercials. I don't have to do that when watching Liverpool.

 

Liverpool have been coming back alive recently thanks to Emre Can showing his promise and some good play from Sterling, Coutinho, and Lallana. I hope it will be enough to sink Man United (boo hiss boo) out of that 4th spot! I already look forward to the Euros and the World Cup more than I do the Stupor Bowl and I don't follow baseball, b-ball, or hockey. 

[YourFunnyUncle]

The good thing about Football (and actually rugby too) is that the format means that you can't cut to commercials every few minutes, but that hasn't stopped it from being polluted by ridiculous amounts of money compared to how it was when I was a kid. There are premier league players who "earn" more in a week than the average Brit does in a decade...

[Serza]

same you see some1 injured you help not ignore

 

Well, in my case, I don't think I'd help - I don't know NEARLY enough first aid to consider myself useful.

 

Running or calling for help, though, well...

 

Ah, who am I kidding. It depends on the injury. I should know enough to apply basic first aid to a fracture. Actually HAVING what I need, whole different story...

 

But improvisation! So much fun! When it's not in an emergency.

 

Morning everyone! Both digits of my age seems to have changed. I don't feel much different though...

 

Well, happy birthday!

 

Well you know I'm older than you and have been gaming since the 80s. Doesn't take a mathematical genius to figure out which one fits...

 

Eighteen and twenty two years of experience?

 

Out for dinner with my wife tonight. I don't do big parties if I can avoid them...

 

Oh, that's not a bad thing. Big parties aren't my thing, either.

 

Big parties are for spying...

 

And, in your case, judging...

 

Like any other cat.........

 

Just looking through screenshots from last night... 

 

 

 

 

I found a website bug. Can't like this nearly as many times as it deserves. As those ladies deserve...

[The Loyal Nub]

The good thing about Football (and actually rugby too) is that the format means that you can't cut to commercials every few minutes, but that hasn't stopped it from being polluted by ridiculous amounts of money compared to how it was when I was a kid. There are premier league players who "earn" more in a week than the average Brit does in a decade...

 

I think that's just the common condition of pro-sports. I thought it was a peculiarly American thing when younger until I started to become aware of the silly money teams like Real Madrid will spend on players who are often not worth such sums. It also hard to take the whining of some athlete who earns 17 times what I earn in a month in a single day.

 

We need Red Jenny to sort it out.   

[YourFunnyUncle]

I used to be more into sports... don't keep up with anything now. I've been watching a lot of these "30 for 30" ESPN documentaries though. Speaking of Football (Soccer), there was one on the Hillsborough incident, when people were crushed at the stadium. Jesus...

That was truly horrific, and the truth of what caused it to  happen was covered up by the authorities for so long. Blame put on "Hooligan Fans" when it was down to terrible errors in crowd management. Thankfully after decades of campaigning the families of those who died have finally been getting some justice recently...

[The Loyal Nub]

A lot of that led by a nasty English tabloid that put about the hooligan myth as well as some conservative politicians. 

 

[raging_monkey]

Happy bday uncle

[YourFunnyUncle]

Yeah, that's partly what the doc was about.. how the blame was misdirected on liverpool.

There was another terrible tragedy in the 80s involving a team who've been doing well in the FA Cup this year, Bradford City. A stadium fire in which over 50 people died. It kind of gets forgotten a bit in the wake of Hillsborough and the surrounding controversy, but it was similarly horrific.

 

[The Loyal Nub]

There was another terrible tragedy in the 80s involving a team who've been doing well in the FA Cup this year, Bradford City. A stadium fire in which over 50 people died. It kind of gets forgotten a bit in the wake of Hillsborough and the surrounding controversy, but it was similarly horrific.

 

*snip*

 

Good lord!

[YourFunnyUncle]

 

Good lord!

 

 

Both happened in my home county of Yorkshire, sadly.

[Serza]

I don't know why.. but there's something extra horrific about dying in front of so many. Dying like that especially...fire.

 

Such as the fact that they could've helped you...?

[The Loyal Nub]

I don't know why.. but there's something extra horrific about dying in front of so many. Dying like that especially...fire.

 

Wooden stands, litter, and the habits of some fans to use flares. Even now when I see some supporters using flares in the stands I shudder.