T-38 - Tired but happy

We woke up early this morning, and we stopped to look at a flat in Meldreth, Cambs. To say it was tiny would be an understatement - with the dishwasher and the washing machine, there would have been no room for the fridge or freezer! It had originally been a large house, and has been cut down not into two, but THREE seperate properties! It's been on the market for some time, and TBH it was very easy to see why!

Caroline is still happy with the one we saw yesterday in Foxton, and has been remembering all the sizes and layouts etc. of the place. There is a cat flap on the back door, so plenty of scope for a cat. Caroline was talking about getting one, either an existing one (that she already knows), or perhaps from somewhere like the Wood Green shelter. I said Pusskins might well feel left out, which resorted in a rather nice hug...

... Anyway, a few more things from the retail park, and then we drove back to Royston.

Flounce

As a group moderator/forum admin for the past nine years, I am well aware of this sort of behaviour. I'd never actually heard it called that, before - so what did it mean?

From Encyclopedia Dramatica

A flounce post is when one must proclaim that they are leaving a community forever. These attention whores are nearly as amusing as those who use "deleting your LiveJournal" for attention. Rather than quietly leaving an LJ community, they feel they must leave a long ass, boring, nonsensical post explaining why they are so much more highly evolved than anyone else in the community. Names may be named, events may be recalled, but they are, at essence, a nice, delicious whine. Like any good whine, flounces are varied in their history, maturity, texture, quality, bouquet and mouth feel, but all boil down to a subtle, inherent, and slightly fruity expressiveness...

Attention Whore

By the looks of things, I might spend an afternoon clicking through Encyclopedia Dramatica... which is a very good find!

Attention whore

Most commonly found on the Internets, an attention whore is almost invariably a sixteen year old girl who desperately craves attention in any form. More than a handful of attention whores are completey insane. Most of the attend your high school

While it is widely believed that there is a special circle of Hell for attention whores, the truth is that their own miserable lives are worse than any punishment that Satan could create...

In order to obtain their necessary daily dosage of attention, attention whores will employ variety of tactics. Common examples include:

• Telling outrageous, usually untruthful stories about things which they claim happened to them. These stories may include incidents during which they were almost raped, most times by a close family member or friend; claiming that they have been (or are being) stalked; claiming that they were shot in the spleen, et cetera.
• Cam whoring.
• Claiming to be bisexual.
• Breaking up with you, citing "im just not ready for a relationship right now" then going and fucking all of your friends at the same time
• Making signs, Or begging others to make signs for them.
• Posting poetry which alludes to their "dark and mysterious" past.
• Write a fanfiction that has a Mary Sue that is supposed to be them and their character has a "dark and mysterious past."
• Wanting answers to their retarded questions by exclaiming: "I'm so confused!"
• Tricking guys into the Friend Zone.
• Saying "im fat" leik every 10 minutes, when [irl] they whey leik 90 pounds.
• Contributing to Encyclopedia Dramatica.
• Stealing from Encyclopedia Dramatica.
• Posting song lyrics meant to describe their "no one understands me!" emotional states.
• Cutting or occasionally half-heartedly attempting suicide.
• Deleting their LiveJournals, only to return 48 hours later.
• Insulting or ridiculing certain people in public forums or IRC channels, in hopes of sparking a flame war.
• Upon starting a flame war and getting called out on bullshit, claiming they "don't really care," but returning numerous times to leave butthurt responses.
• Shameless self promotion.
• Recording and posting over 9000 videos on Myspace and YOUtube to make it look they have a life.
• Claiming to have every selectable ethnicity in their online profiles (eg White, Asian, Black, Middle Eastern, Native American, Latin, Other) when they're probably just a dumb white slut.
• Claiming whatever the maximum height they can choose is. Interestingly, they will never select the minimum height.
• Diagnosing oneself as having Asperger Syndrome, OCD, Bipolar disorder, Borderline personality disorder, or depression and flaunting it, or just using it as an excuse to be an asshole.
• Wearing very little or very slutty clothing IRL.
• Posting Bulletins on myspace every 2.5 seconds.
• Upon breaking up with her boyfriend, changing her status on her Myspace profile to “Divorced”.
• Deleting and recreating MySpace after MySpace.
• Claiming on their Myspace that they make $250,000 or more a year.
• Selecting Islam or Muslim as their religion when their pictures show them to be fans of such untowelhead behavior as showing skin and collecting piercings.
• Taking hundreds upon hundreds of pictures of their face at various angles and degrees of lighting and posting them upon the internets
• Answering questions with an obnoxious non-sequitor that has nothing to do with the question posed.
• Asking people to comment on their blog or "new" pictures, only to tell them to "fuck off" moments later, and then begging them to "please come back", over and over again.
• Claiming not to be an attention whore, even when damning evidence is presented.

Beware! If you have sex with one of these people she or he will tell the whole Internets how shit you were. In detail. Even if you're really good. Furthermore, if you end a relationship with an attention whore, she may invite the whole world to an online self pity party and reveal to everyone what a evil person you are.

LOLCat

The real reason I started off researching this, was the phenomenon known as LOLCats. From the Wiki...

Lolcats are image macros combining photographs of a cat with a humorous and idiosyncratic caption. The name "lolcat" is a compound word formed from lol and cat.^[1][2] The phenomenon is also referred to as Caturday by users of 4chan and, by others, cat macros.^[3] Lolcats are created for photo sharing imageboards and other internet forums.^[4] Lolcats are similar to other anthropomorphic animal-based image macros such as the O RLY? owl,^[5] but the cuteness of cats "enhances"^[6] the appeal and increasing prominence^[7][8][9] of the Internet meme.

The term lolcat gained national attention in the United States when it was covered by Time magazine, ^[10] which wrote that non-commercialized phenomena of the sort are increasingly rare, stating that lolcats have "a distinctly old-school, early 1990s, Usenet feel to [them]."

Of course, here on livejournal, there is the cat_macros community, but a lot more exist (see the foot of that page). They just seem to me to be inane, simple and clever, all at the same time. FTW - For The Win, and Fail - self-explanatory.

New home sick - already!

Caroline has just said how much she wants to move in to our new place. NOW.

(Slightly overlooking everything else happening in the next seven weeks or so!)

I must admit, I do share her enthusiasm. I guess buying removal boxes at Staples earlier on was the first step...

... See what's started...

Caroline has just finished packing up her DVD collection into 7 archive boxes...