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lizblackdog ([personal profile] lizblackdog) wrote2006-01-05 12:06 pm

The wonder never grows old

Goooood morning LiveJournal!

Just come from the evil corner shop. I know, technically, that Asda are far more evil, but the corner shop (which in any case is also part of a big corporation) is a much greater evil influence in my life. The customers are all chavs, someone always turns up with another dog (usually a Staffie) while my lads are tied outside and I'm stuck in the queue for the cash till, and, worst of all, they not only sell no real food whatsoever, they also continually perpetrate buy-one-get-one-free offers on things I really don't need to be eating more of, like delicious evil fat-laden pastry slices, mini chocolate rolls and (today's special) Cadbury's Creme Eggs. I know I could buy just as much unhealthy fatty food at Asda, but at least they also stock alternatives and I can buy my dogfood there too.

The icing on the corner shop cake today? Some lackwit bottom feeding chavscum wankmonkey had left a pile of dog crap on the ground right outside the doorway. Some poor bastard had already trodden in it. I caught myself ranting about it to the poor lady behind the counter, the man with the Jack Russell that my dogs barked at (until I asked them to stop - YAYYY DOGS! We still haven't mastered not barking at strange dogs in the first place, but at least I can get them to stop) and a random lady who stopped to admire the boys. I ought to watch that. I'm already more than halfway to being the Mad Dog Lady - I'm not sure being Mad Ranting Dogshit Lady is going to win me friends and influence people.

Although if some of them start picking up after their dogs for fear of being unseamed from the nave to the chops when I catch them at it, perhaps it'd be worth it...

Enough, already. I was cheered up on the way home by a glorious aerial dogfight over my head - a carrion crow and two of the bigger gulls (I'm not sure what they are - I'm guessing either herring gulls or lesser black-backs) were trying to pirate a chicken bone from a black-headed gull. The bigger birds are faster and more intimidating, but black-headed gulls a. don't scare easily and b. are as agile as fuck. It reminded me of Spike stealing Squish's ball and Squish chasing him to get it back - Squish is much, much faster than Spike, but since Spike can go to full speed from a standing start, stop dead in his tracks at full speed and twist, dodge and change direction without noticeably slowing down, Squish can never, ever catch him. The black-headed gull pulled a Crazy Ivan on them and flew off with its bone while the other three birds were still wondering where the hell it had gone.

And I won't have to beg for car rides or put myself through gruelling bus journeys to buy dog food or put up with the Evil Corner Shop any more, because Sainsbury's is reopening today! Ding dong, the witch is dead! I am going to go down there tonight and lick the cash tills and dry-hump the store manager.

Or I might just buy some frozen chicken parts and something nice for my supper with an air of quiet jubilation. We'll see.

[identity profile] nyecamden.livejournal.com 2006-01-05 05:04 am (UTC)(link)
Ah, nice to read about your life Liz. You write so well. IMHO, it is better to be a Mad Dog Woman than a Mad Cat Woman becuase the latter smell.
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[identity profile] lizblackdog.livejournal.com 2006-01-05 05:14 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you :-D

I've been feeling uninspired, but the writing mood seems to have caught fire again. I really enjoyed writing that.

[identity profile] cottonmanifesto.livejournal.com 2006-01-05 05:21 am (UTC)(link)
Hooray for an actual market! Definitely a life-improving thing.

I like mad dog women especially the kind that yell about turds!
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[identity profile] lizblackdog.livejournal.com 2006-01-05 05:35 am (UTC)(link)
Little do they know, we mad ranty dog women are the only thing saving the civilised world from being smothered in dogshit. And eaten by zombies.

Regretfully, I've only once actually managed to catch the turd-bandits in the act of not picking up after their dog. That was a glorious, glorious moment. I relive it in my dreams...

Your dog icons are so much better than mine. I'm going to play with Paintshop Pro today and practise putting words on some of them. This one with Squish's intensely dumb expression is crying out to read "I can kill you with my brain!"

[identity profile] cottonmanifesto.livejournal.com 2006-01-05 05:38 am (UTC)(link)
I've caught people several times and even handed out bags so they've been forced to *gasp* pick up dog shit! Once I picked up some poop and went running after the offender screaming "you dropped something!" My poor husband, he's frequently embarrassed by my ranting at strangers.

Making icons is fun!
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[identity profile] lizblackdog.livejournal.com 2006-01-05 05:45 am (UTC)(link)
HOORAY!!! I love it when you can do that. Usually I just find the evidence long after the perpetrators have gone on their merry shit-strewn way. This is why I invented "the poo police" as an LJ interest.

Gods, I really am obsessed. I scare myself sometimes... still, it's saner than a lot of things people rant about, I suppose.

[identity profile] cottonmanifesto.livejournal.com 2006-01-05 06:29 am (UTC)(link)
I think my rants are fairly evenly divided between shit-leavers and off-leash dog people (of which i saw 3 this morning, damn them).
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[identity profile] lizblackdog.livejournal.com 2006-01-05 06:56 am (UTC)(link)
Luckily, the people with offleash dogs around here tend to be the ones whose dogs are under control - I can see how it can be a problem but it's never actually been one for us. *touches wood*
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[identity profile] lizblackdog.livejournal.com 2006-01-05 06:07 am (UTC)(link)
I made an icon!

Hmm, not sure yellow's the right colour for the text at the bottom. Might try it in red.

[identity profile] cottonmanifesto.livejournal.com 2006-01-05 06:27 am (UTC)(link)
I think yellow is a fine color - can you outline it in black to make it stand out a bit?
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[identity profile] lizblackdog.livejournal.com 2006-01-05 06:33 am (UTC)(link)
That's a good idea. I haven't the foggiest idea how to make Paintshop Pro do it, but knowing what I want to make it do is a good start. Thank you!

I did one in orange to see if that would be more legible, but I think yellow/outlined is the way to go.

Squish always reminds me of River, except for the not actually being a genius part. He does have that idiot-savant batshit insane big puppy eyes thing going on...

[identity profile] cottonmanifesto.livejournal.com 2006-01-05 06:34 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe he's just waiting for his trigger? He needs to watch more tv. :)
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[identity profile] lizblackdog.livejournal.com 2006-01-05 06:48 am (UTC)(link)
That may be the scariest thought I have ever had in my life 0_o


I made another icon, look!

[identity profile] cottonmanifesto.livejournal.com 2006-01-05 07:30 am (UTC)(link)
Hooray for Firefly dogs! :)
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[identity profile] lizblackdog.livejournal.com 2006-01-06 04:50 am (UTC)(link)
I still can't work out how to do the outline thing in Paintshop Pro, but I thought of a lateral-thinky way to solve the legibility problem, look...
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Two by two, hands of blue?

[identity profile] lizblackdog.livejournal.com 2006-01-06 05:06 am (UTC)(link)
...we met a bunch of kids who wanted to pet the dogs yesterday, and Squish looked at one kid and FREAKED.

Kid was wearing blue gloves. Squish wouldn't go near him till he took them off.

Do I spend too much time watching TV with my dogs or what?

Re: Two by two, hands of blue?

[identity profile] cottonmanifesto.livejournal.com 2006-01-06 05:11 am (UTC)(link)
I warned you!!!

[identity profile] bites-the-sun.livejournal.com 2006-01-05 05:47 am (UTC)(link)
I'm giggling madly, picturing a seagull doing a Crazy Ivan.
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[identity profile] lizblackdog.livejournal.com 2006-01-05 05:50 am (UTC)(link)
He did! The other three birds had to stall in the air to avoid hitting a building and the blackheaded gull just swooped straight up and buggered off. They're very very good at this flying lark.

[identity profile] topbit.livejournal.com 2006-01-05 06:27 am (UTC)(link)
Ah, but does he go left, or right in the bottom half of the hour?
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[identity profile] lizblackdog.livejournal.com 2006-01-05 06:51 am (UTC)(link)
Both, I think. It happened so fast...
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[identity profile] gwenhyffar.livejournal.com 2006-01-05 07:20 am (UTC)(link)
maple & pecan plaitmaple & pecan plaitmaple & pecan plaitmaple & pecan plaitmaple & pecan plaitmaple & pecan plaitmaple & pecan plaitmaple & pecan plaitmaple & pecan plaitmaple & pecan plaitmaple & pecan plaitmaple & pecan plaitmaple & pecan plaitmaple & pecan plaitmaple & pecan plaitmaple & pecan plaitmaple & pecan plait

52p at the Coop.

maple & pecan plait!!!

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[identity profile] lizblackdog.livejournal.com 2006-01-05 07:23 am (UTC)(link)
Oh Lord, Sainsbury's sell those too...
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[identity profile] gwenhyffar.livejournal.com 2006-01-05 07:26 am (UTC)(link)
I've been trying to find a recipe so I can make them here, but so far no luck.
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[identity profile] lizblackdog.livejournal.com 2006-01-06 05:17 am (UTC)(link)
I bought some. And I am about to eat them for brunch. :-D
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[identity profile] gwenhyffar.livejournal.com 2006-01-06 08:24 am (UTC)(link)
stabbity stabbity stabbity!

[identity profile] sheikhyerbouti.livejournal.com 2006-01-05 09:30 am (UTC)(link)
Being a Yank, I'm kinda dodgy on what a "chav" is. But from the link you've provided, they look like the British equivalent of the American "guido", only without plucked eyebrows. (That's right, there is a caste of STRAIGHT guys in America who sculpt their eyebrows.)



The mind reels.

[identity profile] james-the-evil1.livejournal.com 2006-01-05 10:20 am (UTC)(link)
From what she said & what the website showed, they're kind of like preppy Wiggers...

[identity profile] romulantbonz.livejournal.com 2006-01-05 10:16 am (UTC)(link)
Had she just said "Hoodie", I wouldn't have had to click on the link.

Last time I was in England, they talked about "Hoodies" all of the time.

[identity profile] james-the-evil1.livejournal.com 2006-01-05 10:21 am (UTC)(link)
Glad your market's back :-D
LOVE the slang & culture references!
And that should be "BARKING Mad Ranting Dogshit Lady"