I think I might stay here this week.
*crawls under her desk whimpering about ghosts and black eyed freaky children*

Is it can be fluffeh tiem now plees?
( Maladicta, Thu 3 Jul 2008, 14:04, 46 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

*gives you a kitten*
I don't know if I'm welcome here as a not often contributor to QOTW, but have a kitten anyway.
(The Oncoming Storm, Thu 3 Jul 2008, 14:11, Reply)

* Waggles piece of string in vague attempt to tempt Maladicta out from under desk *
* Gives up - tries cake? *

* Still nothing - tries Fluffeh? *


( Fireflier La la la la, not listening on, Thu 3 Jul 2008, 14:12, Reply)

If you have a kitten
they're gonna love you here!

Welcome.
( thealternativefact, Thu 3 Jul 2008, 14:12, Reply)

@ Fireflier
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa*breathe*aaawwwwwwwww!

Yes. Bring the fluffeh tiem.
( Maladicta, Thu 3 Jul 2008, 14:15, Reply)

@ Storm
All who bring kittins and/or are not here to troll will be made welcome. Have some of Fireflier's cake :)
( Maladicta, Thu 3 Jul 2008, 14:15, Reply)

Yay! Cake!
I'm not a troller.

I'm just shy :D
(The Oncoming Storm, Thu 3 Jul 2008, 14:20, Reply)

Me too, I'm a big scaredy cat cowardy custard
I've got to lock up the theatre later, alone, and I just KNOW there's something there...

*hides under bedclothes*
*quivers*

edit: hello storm! hello M!
editedit: woss a troll?
(happylittletulip helpless and delicious, Thu 3 Jul 2008, 14:21, Reply)

@ hlt
Come join the bunker... I'm in and out at the moment as I'm moving today but I'm not going to read QOTW much after dark... *proffers cake*

And a troll is, as a rule, some twunt from /talk who comes over here to cause drama.
( Maladicta, Thu 3 Jul 2008, 14:25, Reply)

*fluffs*
If you want fluffeh, I suggest you don't read what I just posted up above you! :)

Afternoon all! Everyone well?
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Thu 3 Jul 2008, 14:27, Reply)

I am well
despite having read your post!

K2k6 is stumbling around somewhere - hopefully he's on his way.
( thealternativefact, Thu 3 Jul 2008, 14:28, Reply)

'lo devil!
*accepts comforting nice fluffeh cake from Miss 'dicta*

*thinks about kittens*

I liked your story, devil, although I didn't find it very scary - more atmospheric.
(happylittletulip helpless and delicious, Thu 3 Jul 2008, 14:30, Reply)

*stumbles in*
Ah, here you are.

The fluffeh thread. Makes a change from the dark side of the QOTW.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 3 Jul 2008, 14:32, Reply)

Fanks, HLT!
I don't do scary very well, it ends up reading like a bad horror flick.

So 'atmospheric' is what you get. :)
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Thu 3 Jul 2008, 14:40, Reply)

I liked it DIT
I've got one ready to type up at home, not at all QOTW related, although maybe in a roundabout way.
It's 10 pages of A4 though so a wee bit too long.
( Boss Keloid Got your mother's maiden name tattooed on my arm, Thu 3 Jul 2008, 14:50, Reply)

Ah you read
the black eyed kids story I linked, did you?

Good, isn't it?
( Kroney, Thu 3 Jul 2008, 14:53, Reply)

Is there any room under that desk?
After some of the things I've read (and seen....OMFG!!! The youtube video!AAARRGGG!!!) I just want to crawl under a desk and look at fluffeh pictures.
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Thu 3 Jul 2008, 14:58, Reply)

*makes room for Chickenlady*
I'll be brave out here, away from the desk!
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Thu 3 Jul 2008, 15:05, Reply)

Ooh, I know
We could move this sofa to the desk area, then make a roof with this blanket!

See!


Heaps of room now!
(happylittletulip helpless and delicious, Thu 3 Jul 2008, 15:06, Reply)

This is all very cosy!
Eating cake under a blanket.
Lovely.
( thealternativefact, Thu 3 Jul 2008, 15:10, Reply)

That all sounds lovely...
But have you seen Sixth Sense? The bit where the girl is in the sitting room....


*shivers*
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Thu 3 Jul 2008, 15:14, Reply)

It's a shame
That we're huddled under this blanket on such a nice, warm, sunny day though.

In fact, it's a pity I'm inside at all. I just had to go between buildings with some paperwork, and discovered what I'm missing outside.

Outdoor science. That's the answer.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 3 Jul 2008, 15:14, Reply)

@ chickenlady
Noooooo!!!!!!

*gets another blanket to hide under whilst still under the original blanket*

*safes*
(happylittletulip helpless and delicious, Thu 3 Jul 2008, 15:18, Reply)

*scuttles into the room, breathing heavily*

*throws self under blankets*

Give me a kitten, quick. I'm not a big brave girl, I'm a wee coward.

*cuddles in*
(TheWeeWitch hasn't been here much recently .., Thu 3 Jul 2008, 15:28, Reply)

Thing is...
None of these stories are freaking me out now.

It'll be when I go to bed tonight that I'll suddenly remember them and get scared!
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Thu 3 Jul 2008, 15:32, Reply)

*laughs*
I'm sure people on the talk board are terribly glad we now have a place of our own.

So am I.

*thrusts self under blanket*
( thealternativefact, Thu 3 Jul 2008, 15:39, Reply)

ah yes, frightening yourself
Last year when mrtulip worked away during the week, I used to scare myself silly by just imagining things. Especially when I went to bed, cos our bedroom was in the attic and it only had one of those velux windows things in the roof, which had a blackout blind on it. So when it was dark it was DARK. And because we lived in a village, it was deathly quiet at night - no comforting distant sirens or cars or nightime noises. I used to imagine things creeping up the stairs. Or just appearing by the side of the bed. Or being under the bed.

Thank god I had the cat. She will never know how she saved me from becoming a nervous wreck.
(happylittletulip helpless and delicious, Thu 3 Jul 2008, 15:44, Reply)

Hmm
Can I join you in your thrusting clendrix?

Sounds like fun.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 3 Jul 2008, 15:44, Reply)

I actually wonder about myself sometimes
I can scare grown men into nervous wrecks with a withering look and a few well-chosen words.

Put me alone in the house at night, and I start shitting myself because my imagination gets the better of me!

Oh, and those "lovely people" on /talk - would they be that rude face to face, or does the internet make them brave?

Discuss.
(TheWeeWitch hasn't been here much recently .., Thu 3 Jul 2008, 15:48, Reply)

It is fun
with all these warm, trembling bodies under here!
( thealternativefact, Thu 3 Jul 2008, 15:48, Reply)

HLT
Sounds like the sort of thing my gran used to do.

She would worry about things for the sake of worrying. She also had a very active imagination.

One time, my mum had been in to visit her. Shortly afterwards, she remembered something she'd been going to ask my mum and so phoned her. The phone was engaged. She left it a few minutes and tried again. Same result.

Now any logical person would have thought, "She must be on the phone".

Not my gran. In her mind, my mum had gone home, entered the house and disturbed a burglar who had bashed her on the head and taken the phone off the hook.

When in fact the phone had rung just as my mum had got back home, and it was my sister on the other end. So they'd settled down for a half hour chat. By the time my gran eventually got through she was a nervous wreck!
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 3 Jul 2008, 15:54, Reply)

@K2k6
my great aunt used to call us, and expect the person she was calling for to pick up the phone. Because we should all know when it's ringing for an individual. She'd hang up if the wrong person answered.
(TheWeeWitch hasn't been here much recently .., Thu 3 Jul 2008, 15:56, Reply)

All my imaginings
tend towards the supernatural and childish. Like "Oh my god, if I turn over now and face the other side of the bed, I'll see something in a big black cloak with claws and it'll get me!" rather than, oh mrtulip's a bit late home from work today, he must have been waylaid by robbers!

Edit@WW - can you stop a child at 10 paces in a supermarket just by looking at it? I bet you can.
(happylittletulip helpless and delicious, Thu 3 Jul 2008, 15:59, Reply)

hlt: indeed I can - and not just my own.
I can stop drunks in their tracks when they start babbling crap as well.

The only ones my powers are weak on are "bus-nutters". They don't have the sense to be afraid, ergo they refuse to take the hint and fuck right off.
(TheWeeWitch hasn't been here much recently .., Thu 3 Jul 2008, 16:03, Reply)

@TWW
Must be a generation thing. My mum once got a call from her old uncle, asking if she could phone my gran for him.

When she asked why he couldn't do it himself, he replied, "I tried, but nobody answered. I thought that you could try to ring her, and seeing as you live closer, she'd hear it!"

Mind you, he was a bit daft even when he was young.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 3 Jul 2008, 16:04, Reply)

I can make
children cry, just by hard staring at them.

They must know I'm a paedophobe*. (maybe the wrong word, but I like it)

EDIT (after TWW's post below): *Someone who dislikes children. Don't get the wrong idea!
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 3 Jul 2008, 16:05, Reply)

K2k6
you want to be careful bandying that word around. If some ned mob hears you, they won't stop to analyse the meaning. They'll go straight to "kill the fucker" mode.

And I won't visit you in hospital, just in case.
(TheWeeWitch hasn't been here much recently .., Thu 3 Jul 2008, 16:07, Reply)

@k2k6
that is ace! I like the logic.

but ww is right about your new word.
(happylittletulip helpless and delicious, Thu 3 Jul 2008, 16:12, Reply)

TWW is indeed corrrect
It's not something I'd say in public. I once used it in my sister's presence (she's a school teacher, but doesn't have kids because she doesn't like them - go figure!) and before I'd got the last syllable out I got the most horrific look from her I could ever imagine.

Shame really, as it's a good word!
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 3 Jul 2008, 16:18, Reply)

Don't get me wrong, it IS a good word
but we're talking about people who can't read beyond Janet & John stage. They hear the "paedo" bit and go up like it's 5th November.

Didn't some poor paediatrician have to change their sign to children's doctor because of some loonies (or did I imagine that)?
(TheWeeWitch hasn't been here much recently .., Thu 3 Jul 2008, 16:20, Reply)

It is a good word
And I think it's one of those Roman-Greek hybrid words as well. Like television.

edit@WW, no you didn't imagine that.
(happylittletulip helpless and delicious, Thu 3 Jul 2008, 16:21, Reply)

^^
He had his house firebombed or something similar
( Boss Keloid Got your mother's maiden name tattooed on my arm, Thu 3 Jul 2008, 16:21, Reply)

Yup
What BK said. Can't remember if it was firebombing, but it was certainly attacked.

I'm off now. See you all tomorrow.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 3 Jul 2008, 16:26, Reply)

It's a bit like that old Harry Enfield sketch...
Tim Nice-But-Dim: So what do you do then?
Man: I'm a paediatrician.
Tim: Oh. Well, I can't say I approve, but I admire your honesty.
( thealternativefact, Thu 3 Jul 2008, 16:26, Reply)

Bye K2k6
*waves decorously*

off soon myself. Have to feed the witchlets before they devour each other. Little savages.
(TheWeeWitch hasn't been here much recently .., Thu 3 Jul 2008, 16:30, Reply)

bye k2k6
*waves*

Right, I've just had really clever idea. I'm going to lock up the spooky theatre while there are still people here downstairs!
(happylittletulip helpless and delicious, Thu 3 Jul 2008, 16:34, Reply)

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Chat continues here
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( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Fri 4 Jul 2008, 0:33, Reply)