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Author:  Cras [ Thu Jul 21, 2016 11:38 ]
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Indeed. The challenge does quite clearly state to take a photo.

Author:  Mr Dave [ Thu Jul 21, 2016 11:38 ]
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Grim... wrote:
I think some people aren't taking their photos in response to the challenge.

I did.
I don't usually have an Allosaurus attacking an Allosaurus sized goat while an avatar of death looks on.

They're usually totally peaceful.

Author:  Mimi [ Thu Jul 21, 2016 11:39 ]
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haha, that is simply amazing.
Also, Darwin and I shared a curry at 10:30am, Becca should dine with us.

Author:  flis [ Thu Jul 21, 2016 11:42 ]
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As a parent of children over the age of Hearthly Jnr, I don't think this would be my hill to die on. She drew it, so she also has to be part of implementing it - it works both ways.

The fact she conforms enough for school is a total win, if having a little more control at home over those sort of things is the compromise then it's no bad thing in my book. You can romanticise the amount of control you think you'll have, but kids are people with their own quirks and personalities. Squishing them into little boxes of exemplary behavior over every aspect of yours and their life is not realistic. Invariably, they could be so much worse :D

Maybe it's a bit hippy but I try to agree terms with my kids before punishment gets doles out. Having a tidy room is such a nonsense if you chose to apply it by your own metric and that shit escalates when you have a child who isn't a meek little angel. The agreement in our house is that it gets tidied to a set standard once a week, they choose the day and the week starts Monday and ends Sunday night. If that doesn't happen, the following week they lose 3 days of internet privileges. They know the rule and they helped negotiate it. Same goes with the time the internet goes off at night, I find it reduces the amount of whinging when the rules are enforced.

Author:  Hearthly [ Thu Jul 21, 2016 11:54 ]
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I have mentioned this before but just for the record Hearthly Jnr is autistic, albeit 'high functioning' as you're not supposed to call it these days. (She is considered disabled enough for Mrs Hearthly to get Carer's Allowance and we get medium level DLA for Jnr.)

As such there is an extra dimension when it comes to things like lunchtime, which isn't to say that techniques and strategies that one would use with other children are irrelevant or wrong, but the approach often needs/tends to be different.

What we don't want her to do is make her world smaller by creating all these rules and restrictions for herself, the ten minute window in which lunch 'HAS' to be served being a case in point. (And tea has to be ready between 3:30pm and 3:40pm, so you can imagine how limiting that is for planning stuff to do at the weekend.)

Author:  Mimi [ Thu Jul 21, 2016 11:59 ]
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Oh, that's a sadder end to what is a wonderful piece of art and planning by clearly a very well thought out, well drawn and well executed piece of work. Hearthly Jnr is very, very well written, too (obviously I don't know her age, but for a child of any age she seems to have a great use of language.)

Author:  MaliA [ Thu Jul 21, 2016 12:01 ]
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Can you change all the clocks in your house?

Author:  Mr Russell [ Thu Jul 21, 2016 12:02 ]
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MaliA wrote:
Can you change all the clocks in your house?

It's not a problem he's trying to fix.

Author:  Mimi [ Thu Jul 21, 2016 12:08 ]
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Nobody can change all the clocks in their house. I think it's the one on the oven that people usually forget how to control, or the microwave. Or the thermostat.

Author:  Mr Russell [ Thu Jul 21, 2016 12:09 ]
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And then spend a few seconds wondering if your phone updated automatically or not.

Author:  Mimi [ Thu Jul 21, 2016 12:12 ]
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I got this book from the library this morning to teach Darwin about Russell's terrifying origin story.

Author:  Hearthly [ Thu Jul 21, 2016 13:28 ]
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Grim... wrote:
I think some people aren't taking their photos in response to the challenge.


I took the YOU GET TOLD photo last night, and what I posted earlier was a screenshot of it from Google Drive. I will take a photo of the signage when I get home to be in full compliance with the rules.

Author:  DavPaz [ Thu Jul 21, 2016 14:04 ]
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How about this shifty fucker looming behind me in cathedral?

Author:  Mr Russell [ Thu Jul 21, 2016 14:19 ]
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Rocket Crab will destroy everything you love.

Author:  Grim... [ Thu Jul 21, 2016 14:25 ]
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Family shmamily. If he said he was going to murder my PC I might get upset.

Author:  Mimi [ Thu Jul 21, 2016 14:30 ]
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Actual rocket crab > drawing of rocket crab

Author:  Mr Russell [ Thu Jul 21, 2016 14:32 ]
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Always upstaged by a superior creative force.

Author:  Mimi [ Thu Jul 21, 2016 14:34 ]
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More terrifying than rocket crab is the bring you can defeat rocket crab with not one, not two, but THREE chompy teeth...

Author:  Mr Dave [ Thu Jul 21, 2016 14:37 ]
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Mimi wrote:
Actual rocket crab > drawing of rocket crab

Vomit crab, the new supervillian from Marvel.

Author:  myp [ Thu Jul 21, 2016 14:41 ]
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I think you guys have heard the word 'cute' instead of 'scary'. I don't think either of you could do scary if you tried.

Author:  Grim... [ Thu Jul 21, 2016 14:44 ]
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Also: one go each, ffs.

Author:  Mimi [ Thu Jul 21, 2016 14:55 ]
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Sorry, I didn't read that in the rules.

devilman wrote:
Oh, er, yeah..forgot about this. Ok.. nice open-ended one... take a photo of something scary. :)


You're just grouchy because you ordered the worst lunch ever.

Author:  DavPaz [ Thu Jul 21, 2016 15:08 ]
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Lonewolves wrote:
I think you guys have heard the word 'cute' instead of 'scary'. I don't think either of you could do scary if you tried.

ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view!
Boo!

Author:  Grim... [ Thu Jul 21, 2016 15:34 ]
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Mimi wrote:
Sorry, I didn't read that in the rules.

devilman wrote:
Oh, er, yeah..forgot about this. Ok.. nice open-ended one... take a photo of something scary. :)

"a photo"

Author:  Mimi [ Thu Jul 21, 2016 15:47 ]
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I took a photo.

I also took another photo.

Haha. 'Naked burrito'.

Author:  Hearthly [ Thu Jul 21, 2016 18:31 ]
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Here we are. Added scares provided by Diego, who is the king of all the animals in the house.

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Author:  Grim... [ Thu Jul 21, 2016 20:23 ]
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.

Author:  devilman [ Thu Jul 21, 2016 23:03 ]
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I liked DavPaz's sinister cathedral pic, so that's the winner for me. :)

Author:  DavPaz [ Fri Jul 22, 2016 0:31 ]
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Holy crap!

Author:  DavPaz [ Wed Jul 27, 2016 13:13 ]
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Since I'm out and about tomorrow, here's your challenge in advance...

Take a picture of today's (Thursday's) newspaper defaced in an amusing or interesting way.

Author:  Mimi [ Wed Jul 27, 2016 14:05 ]
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... Buy a newspaper? How quaint.

Author:  DavPaz [ Wed Jul 27, 2016 14:20 ]
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Didn't say buy...

Author:  KovacsC [ Wed Jul 27, 2016 14:21 ]
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Steal?

*insert liverpool joke*

Author:  Grim... [ Wed Jul 27, 2016 14:41 ]
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KovacsC wrote:
*insert liverpool joke*

Image

Author:  devilman [ Thu Jul 28, 2016 13:40 ]
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DavPaz wrote:
Since I'm out and about tomorrow, here's your challenge in advance...

Take a picture of today's (Thursday's) newspaper defaced in an amusing or interesting way.


De-faced, rather than defaced.
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Author:  Mimi [ Thu Jul 28, 2016 13:41 ]
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Good work!

Author:  Cras [ Thu Jul 28, 2016 13:42 ]
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Clever!

Author:  markg [ Thu Jul 28, 2016 13:43 ]
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That looks deranged. Which one are you going to kill first?

Author:  myp [ Thu Jul 28, 2016 13:46 ]
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You missed one.

Author:  devilman [ Thu Jul 28, 2016 13:59 ]
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markg wrote:
That looks deranged. Which one are you going to kill first?


Myp ;)

Author:  DavPaz [ Thu Jul 28, 2016 17:11 ]
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Clear winner so far. The rest of you suck.

Badly.

Losers

Author:  DavPaz [ Thu Jul 28, 2016 22:21 ]
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Devilman winner.

Pussies

Author:  Hearthly [ Thu Jul 28, 2016 22:26 ]
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It was a tough gig man, no one really has newspapers these days.

We get a free one delivered once per week but I just look through the CRIME section to see if any names I recognise have been sent down for random acts of drunken violence, and then chuck it in the bin.

I think the essence of the challenge is something that folks can do with objects that they have readily to hand, such as cuddly toys or Moregasms.

Author:  devilman [ Thu Jul 28, 2016 22:40 ]
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40p well spent :)

Author:  DavPaz [ Fri Jul 29, 2016 7:13 ]
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Hearthly wrote:
It was a tough gig man, no one really has newspapers these days.

We get a free one delivered once per week but I just look through the CRIME section to see if any names I recognise have been sent down for random acts of drunken violence, and then chuck it in the bin.

I think the essence of the challenge is something that folks can do with objects that they have readily to hand, such as cuddly toys or Moregasms.

"Challenge"

Author:  Hearthly [ Fri Jul 29, 2016 8:30 ]
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I've used all my challenge powers on DOOM, I have nothing left for the Thursday Challenge save for a flaccid shrivelled cock that just wants a cuddle and doesn't like to read newspapers.

Author:  Grim... [ Thu Aug 04, 2016 9:21 ]
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Challenge us, Devilman!

Author:  devilman [ Thu Aug 04, 2016 9:34 ]
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Ok.. how about... take a photo of some things balancing on top of each other

Bonus points for height, ambitiousness and precariousness.

Author:  DavPaz [ Thu Aug 04, 2016 9:57 ]
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I'll get you started...
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Author:  TheVision [ Thu Aug 04, 2016 10:22 ]
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Finally... My stone balancing skills pay off!

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