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Gin and a moat

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paxillin · 16/06/2017 17:05

Not by one of the Queens this time... But we can drink here.

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QueenMorpheacadoChamelepen · 05/10/2017 21:13

I'll need proof for the patent. Self barbecuing fish sounds like an excellent munny maker.

TheMortificadosDragon · 05/10/2017 21:52

It'd have to be a flying fish, I think. A real dragonfish.

SchadenfreudePersonified · 05/10/2017 23:04

We need Yan from GBBO to science the probability of fire-breathing fish turning a moat into 4 million gallons of boulliabaise (can you make boulliabaise out of raw sewage, drowned harpies, mermatdrons and dragon micturition? I wonder . . . . )

paxillin · 05/10/2017 23:11

It will be really salty, with some unidentifiable vegetable and slightly fishy, just like the real thing.

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QueenMorpheacadoChamelepen · 05/10/2017 23:36

Is it just me or is it getting cold in the castle? Did we install heating? Where are all the dragons? Hmm

TheMortificadosDragon · 05/10/2017 23:51

The main problem with this castle is that no one has finished installing the walls.

If you make them with a system of ducts, I expect I can organise some of the dragonlets to provide hot air heating. (Just ensure these ducts are entirely separate from the outfalls from the garderobes. I heard of one lord who tried to cut corners who couldn't sit down for a month)

GHiguchi · 06/10/2017 11:43

Mossad Attacks!
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The first rule of Fight Club is: You do not talk about Fight Club. I always recall this outstanding quotation from the iconic movie, when I face another amazingly naive statement that Mossad allegedly operated hard against the Soviet Union and nowadays it doesn't operate against Russia. The Israeli information warfare pros still work perfectly, if they've managed to hammer such a delirious thought into so many heads.

Actually, Mossad always avoided involving local Jews into the field work to get rid of the outbreaks of anti-Semitic unrests, if it failed. However, it entirely doesn't mean that Israel didn't spy on the USSR and doesn't spy on Russia. The case is the non-Semitic agents are recruited. Just take a thought how Mossad could let go out of sight the USSR which was supplying arms to Arabs – the mortal enemies of the Israeli state!

Nowadays, Russia stands together with Iran in Syria, actively transforming for its own benefit the geopolitical map of the world. Until the war began in 2011, Iran couldn't directly threaten the Israeli borders, because it had neither a common frontier, nor access to the Mediterranean. By the present autumn of 2017 the units of the IRGC, supported by some armed groups of the pro-Iranian Shia movement Hezbollah, almost approached the Israeli border. I hope I don't need to explain what kind of concern it causes in Tel Aviv. Indeed, Iranians don't want to stop and they're looking to break on through to the Mediterranean. There's a great opportunity to observe at anchorage near the naval supply & maintenance base in Tartus not only a Russian squadron, but also an Iranian one. Keeping in mind Tehran's geopolitical plans about Houthis Yemen, where local Shias boldly destroy expensive Western military hardware with Saudi staff inside, the situation goes really dangerous for Israel.

By all means, the Israeli aren't going not to do a hand's turn. September 12 a Bulgarian website Novinite referred to the Chinese Xinhua News Agency claiming that the Israeli Air Force were holding large-scale exercises in Bulgaria. According to Novinite, the Israeli part was represented at the exercises by 42 aircraft including the F-15 Eagle & F-16 Fighting Falcon. Bulgaria took a part in the exercises with the Fulcrum jet fighter aircrafts and land-based anti-aircraft systems including the SA-10 Grumble. The exercises in Bulgaria were a part of wide-scale Israeli exercises which are usually held twice a year. Curiously, these exercises have become the largest for the last 19 years. Save the ground and air force units, the Israeli Military Intelligence & Navy also participated in the exercises. It was noted in the article, the distance between Israel & Bulgaria approximately corresponded to the distance from Israel to the central regions of Iran, and IRIAF and Iranian Air Defense Force were armed with the Fulcrum and the SA-10 Grumble systems. Obviously, a strike on the territory of Iran was trained during the exercises.

It stands to reason, an operation like this is impossible to be planned without Mossad's participation. You would ask me, what does Russia have to do with this? I can explain – some indirect evidence says, the SA-10 Grumble system has been hacked by Mossad's agents for a long time. The episode in Bulgaria wasn't "the first meeting" of the IAF and SA-10 Grumble, but it actually was a neutralization (disposal) exercise of that SAM. There's no fool in Tehran, who wouldn't understand it. The only hope for Iran not to receive a smashing strike is the integration into Russian modern layered air-defense. The Iranians won't have got access to this security umbrella before they completely enter into the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation next year. Who will say now that Mossad doesn't intensify its efforts on the Russian direction? The hunting for the secrets of SA-21 Growler and SA-22 Greyhound, the attempts to recruit agents – our Israeli friends have no end of work.

paxillin · 06/10/2017 11:48

Have you guys been up to rogue diplomacy while I slept?

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SchadenfreudePersonified · 06/10/2017 13:21

Oh,No!

We are being dragged into the Real World again!

Quick!!!!

Summon the Mythical Legions!

SchadenfreudePersonified · 06/10/2017 13:22

Hang on - this isn't a baby dragon expecting one of us tocheckhis/her homework again is it?

QueenMorpheacadoChamelepen · 06/10/2017 13:31

Nowt to do with me, I think it's a wild spam bot that's gotten lost. Can anyone work out what it's saying, is it a cry for help?

paxillin · 06/10/2017 13:49

No, a bot would be all over MN, this is the only contribution. I think Schadenfreude is right, Queen, it is one of your dragonlets. You didn't say what kind of school you got them into, it's not one of those liberal schools, is it? Maybe they got selected for the school council or joined the debate club?

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QueenMorpheacadoChamelepen · 06/10/2017 14:04

I should hope it's not one of my dragonlets, the grammar is atrocious. I'm telling you it's a lost bot, a blog bot most likely. Its a bit long for a forum and the image link is a dead giveaway.

SchadenfreudePersonified · 06/10/2017 14:04

Well, the little bugger can sod off!

I never did my own homework, so I'm certainly not going to do anyone else's, especially now that I don't even go to school any more not that I went very often then

paxillin · 06/10/2017 14:12

It is a dragonlet! She calls herself Delois G. Higuchi now and is on indybay. My, how they have grown!

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QueenMorpheacadoChamelepen · 06/10/2017 14:46

Well all this pretension isn't my doing. Don't know where they get it from. Have they been to visit their mother?

TheMortificadosDragon · 06/10/2017 15:30

I'll give her a bit of a talking-to, shall I?

paxillin · 06/10/2017 15:36

Please do. Tell her she'll have more success campaigning if she sticks to school- or dragon-issues. Wing friendly uniforms or allowing gin in packed lunches perhaps.

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QueenMorpheacadoChamelepen · 06/10/2017 15:37

Gin packed lunches Grin

TheMortificadosDragon · 06/10/2017 15:45

Not the gin. It might be ok for the ice dragons, but a no-no for the firebreathers and we don't want to be discriminatory.

paxillin · 06/10/2017 15:49

Well, you do have to ask for more than you want. So ask for gin, get wine.

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SchadenfreudePersonified · 06/10/2017 16:41

I have a new product you may want to try - Schadenfreude's Vintage Mortificadan Moat-Based-Bouillabaisse Fire-Breathing-Fish Chardonnay.

If DeLois would like some free sample bottles to take in to school, tell her to help herself but keep off the Inky Gin for obvious reasons.

I am working on a Prosecco, but am having trouble getting the bubbles in. I'lllet you know when it's ready.

TheMortificadosDragon · 06/10/2017 16:46

I am working on a Prosecco, but am having trouble getting the bubbles in

Failing the obvious solution of isolating a sufficiently robust strain if yeast, perhaps you need to develop fish which exhale a large amount of CO2 (while submerged, not the flying ones)

paxillin · 06/10/2017 16:48

Yes, put a living burpfish into each bottle, it'll be a hit no matter how revolting it tastes!

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SchadenfreudePersonified · 06/10/2017 16:48

I've got those, Dragon, bu it doesn't come from the - er, - end I'd prefer it to.

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