To the vet
So my little furry monster has had a sort of allergy for as long as I've known him but it always went away on it's own. These last weeks he had been licking his fur out again and now developed a wound from it so I made an appointment with the vet.
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I've never tried to eat catfood either, having had plenty of cats on my lap licking themselves after dinner to know that smell is not going to tempt me. In catfood factories they do employ people who taste it though.
Mickey gets Iams dry catfood for the older cat. And some other wet food because he likes it. He doesn't seem to get bored eventhough he only has one flavor of dry food. But I'm sure all cats will pick the things they like best first.
Well, logic plays no part in fear usually. Cars should freak us out but we're more afraid of a planecrash. But then again people survive a carcrash all the time but once that plane goes down you;re pretty much dead already.
New illnesses are great for fear, anything that happens to very few people is too. A new pandemic that actually does kill half the population is statistically overdue anyway so we're just waiting.
I'm not sure if building a safety shelter is good or bad, post apocalyptic worlds are usually not much fun to live in at least the first years.
~Iflie
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Missy gets one flavour of dried catfood, but it consists of more than one type if you know what I mean. And she gets wet catfood as wel, Whiskas as well, 4 or 5 different flavours in one 12 pack box. She's a rather spoiled kitty :p
Fear itself is rather strange. Humans are usually too curious for their own good. "Let's spilt up and find the axe wielding murderer" :p, but we're scared of things like a simple spider.
With all the 'oh my god, we're all going to die' deceases in the last few years, I'm not scared that much by a new one.
I've seen enough post apocalyptic movies to know how to kill mutant zombies :p
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My cat gets "chicken" but because cat's can't digest much fat it will not be the bad parts we get. Just in internals I guess.
Mine gets Sheba lately but he also gets a bit cheaper Felix bags. I need to gos tock up on those again. Oh and he gets some ham, he gets whiney and I thought ham is pretty easy as a snack, jsut a few bites and he's happy. Luckily I don't have to worry about him getting fat.
In the things we learn from movies I should also get a negligee or big white nighty that screams virgin and go walking around outside after I heard a noise. (the white does show the bloodspatter better you see)
I'm not scared of spiders though I don't like them hanging in my face, walking into them or as I've had happen of late, when they use my waterglass as a drinking pond.
Seriously I've caught spiders in my glass and last week one was danging from the ceiling about to land in my glass. I'm sure I've drunk spiderwater without realising it.
If a new illness pops up there is little we can do but hope we have the right genetics to fight it. Or that we had a less deadly variant which offers some immunity.
I don't think there will be real zombies but deranged people are a real possibility whether from an illness or trauma, and in any world humans are the biggest threat to other humans. It would be good if at least enough people died that there wouldn't be any gang activity to steal the few left resources.
Ah well I love apocalyptic movies. I just keep hoping for a better outcome.
~Iflie
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Kitty happily eats her food and doesn't appear to want much else. At the moment she's happily snoring in my guitar case.
Yes. And I should have a sawed off shotgun or baseball bat with nails in it in the hallway closet. I'll go take a look.
I always catch the spiders and release them. The only animals which deserve to die (imho) are mosquitoes. They are pure evil.
No zombies? You mean the movies lie? Damn :(. But yes, I think most people would go crazy is half of the population would get wiped out all of a sudden. And be in their right to do so, I think.
As far as kinda apocalyptic movies go, I like old zombie and vampire movies. But there are a few good post apocalyptic movies out there. I even own a few :p
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You need to take a picture of her right now, cute needs to be shared. *nodnod*
I want a crowbar and an axe. But mainly to do the raiding and breaking into places for food, I want about 5 sturdy males to protect my ass.
I have a mosquito net and somehow this years mosquitoes were not very smart and I could squish most between my hands as they flew in front of my face. The mosquitonet was the best thing ever for my good nights sleep or even reading before bed. So goooood.
Otherwise I would have been almost asleep and having to chase tiny flying things across the room until I could see it and swat it. (no one was going to do it for me)
They are making more and more sci fi and apocalyptic movies thes edays. Not all are great but they are a lot better than in the nighties.
~Iflie
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Picture taken.
She looks a bit scary though :p
Axe and crowbar make sense too, but you're the screaming female in white, remember? And you want 5 sturdy males in your closet?
We don't get that much mosquitoes here. Far from the sea and lakes and all. And I'm not that tasty anyway. I am usually the last one to get bitten by them.
I rather enjoyed 28 days later. And recently bought a few zombie movies like Dawn of the Dead on DVD. Relatively good, though not as nice as the originals. Remakes seldom are.
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Him taking my lap as something he is always entitled to is a way to pay for the adorableness of him on my lap. Though any angting of him makes me feel bad too so it's also good for me.
I can't count on having 5 sturdy males to protect me from the start and while I will rely on stealth I need to be able to break open places with foodstores. Screaming doesn't suit my style and I think my white nightly will have to be replaced with camowear...and a chastitydevice.
The 5 guys do not have to live in the closet, they should be around me at almost all times in the chaotic world where anything could happen. Hopefully I can get them young so they can be infuenced easier. I'll be the queenbee and take care of them and they will be my muscle. *nodnod*
I'm very tasty, sweet blood they sometimes call it. But I try to confuse them by having lots of lavender oil around my pillow and things. Men tend to have thicker skin and they don't like that much.
28 days later was great, I especially loved the part where the guy wakes up and wanders through the empty city. It was one of the movies I saw without knowing what it was about, best way.
The sequels weren't as good but I still want to know what happened next.
~Iflie
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She's well behaved enough to lay next to me :p. Though when I'm lying on the couch and she's curled up against me, it can get rather hard to get up. She doesn't want to move when she just woke up.
So you want them to appear just after the world ends? Handy. Hadn't thought of that.
I wouldn't know if you're tasty. :p. I know that mosquitoes preferred my housemates over me usually.
Never saw the sequel(s? I thought there was just one?). And most remakes of movies are just the same, with added blood and CGI/special effects, which kinda take away from the original story. For instance, I have "Night of the Living Dead" on DVD. The original. It's a great movie. But the remake is just blood and gore. The same goes for Dawn of the Dead for instance. And of course things like War of the Worlds. Even Narnia or The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy suffer from it, though far less.
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Well after the world as we know it ends the survivors will have to band together. I think the female influence on a pack of young males will give them extra survival chances without making them dangerous for me. Though I have spoken to a few older guys who may be willing to join my group...but they are all too far away.
I don't make huge habit out of eating myself either but the mosquitoes know where I am just fine. I more tend to smell myself actually hehe.
I think there was 28 weeks and 28 months? But I'm not totally sure, there is a mish mash in my mind of movies that were based on a sort of 28 days idea.
Too much blood and gore isn't my idea of fun, same goes for too many explosions, it gets boring. That was a big part of my issue with the latest Transformers movie, if you have great action but it never lets up it just becomes a blur.
~Iflie
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With you being on the other side of the country banding together might be difficult. I am older, but young at heart :p
Yeah, 28 months. I saw that one as well. Not nearly as good at the days one. And it's a common theme, yes. There is only so much you can do in post apocalyptic movies.
Didn't see the Transformer movies. Don't want my childhood soiled :p
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Well I guess as long as I already know the guy he can be out of his teens. But in a world gone mad other older guys may be a bad bet and I;d have to pay them with sex or something, or they would just take what they liked. They wouldn't need me as much as younger boys. (see thought about this hehe)
Yet I still love post apocalyptic movies all the same. I just want to see it played over and over but I hate the depressing ones you sometimes get where in the end even the survivors die.
The transformer movies are in fact not bad. Sure you get female flesh that shouldn't be in there at all and they made some characters cooler than they should be but at the same time especially the first movie has heart.
The autobots and especially Optimus are funny, move great and are lovable heroes without making them into toys. Good jokes in there.
They did some damage in the second movie to that but you should at least try the first one. *nodnod* And I used to watch Transformers as a kid too.
~Iflie
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You clearly have given this all too much thought. I kinda love sad endings. Did you see The Myst? Based on a book by Stephen King.
I think I've just read too many bad reviews on the Transformers movies to be able to watch them. I understand the producers want to make movies out of our childhood memories, because they're surefire way to make money. But they really shouldn't. Get original new ideas. It may be a bit harder, but better in the long run.
How long before they'll make a Dr Snuggles movie? Or a CGI CareBears? *shivers*
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I hate sad endings, I want the angsting to get repaid. I did see The Mist (at least I thought I did), fog all around people in a mall? I tend to prefer the movies to his writing. Frank herbert wrote The Fog a long time ago and that was actually more scary to me, but that was good writing and you;d never know who was infuenced.
Hm I think I saw good reviews for Transformers, but I still didn't expect anything but good CGI. But you are right original ideas are best and they are making good stuff now. Though I found DIstrict 9 and 9 depressing.
I have no idea what DRSnuggles is and well the carebears didn't have very much story and are already cartoons. They could just show they again as is.
I do want to see Elfquest as a good movie a la LOTR and without that stupid hollywood casting they did for x-men. I'd want all unknown actors, or as good as. I think Johnny depp could play one of the elves without being a bother.
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Yep, that's the movie. His writing is rather good. He manages to make ordinary things be scary without actually doing anything. He messes with the minds of his characters more than do actual scary stuff.
I've only read Frank Herbert's Dune series (and I have the movie on DVD).
Never heard of District 9.
Dr Snuggles might be before your time. It's an early 80's cartoon about an inventor.
Now I don't know ElfQuest. But I see Johnny Depp being able to play almost anything. I have alot of his movies on DVD. Though all directed by Tim Burton. I'm more of a Burton than Depp fan :p
And I thought Patrick Steward and Ian McKellen were rather good as Xavier and Magneto. The rest was not as well cast though.
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District 9 is very new, aliens and humans interacting. 9 is a fantasy movie taking place after all humans are dead.
Yes Johnny Depp is an actor mainly and he just fits into elfquest bodywise too. You can't have mussclebound elves. Patrick Steward and Ian Mckellen were ofcourse good but what other old actors are you going to find in hollywood, bad ones are long gone by that age.
Wolverine was cast okay the rest was makeshift.
And Elfquest is available OL to read on it's own site.
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I'll have to look for those two movies.
Connery is still a good actor, but not really fitting the x-men style. There are a few more, but Steward and McKellen undoubtedly are the best in their field.
Wolverine was okish. He did at least have that animalistic quality.
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