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Cake day: June 6th, 2023

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  • I’ve got two:

    1. The Cat-Call

      Not quite the same level as yours, but: once I saw my cousin’s cat meow at its kittens to call them for milk.

      On a spur of the moment random impulse, I meowed the same way, inadvertently replicating the mother cat’s meow down to some exact degree of mimicry such that all the cats turned to look at me; the kittens stopping mid-stride to look at me for a source of milk, their confusion expressed in a footfall hesitations of whether to come to me or not.

      The mother cat meowed again, and the kittens resume their journey to her, and she threw me an irritated look.

      I have not once been able to replicate this. It was just one of those once a million moments where all the odds of the universe stacked up in favor of me, and paid out in the most realistic cat sound known to either man or cat.

    2. Call to Prayer

      This one has more hidden steps: once, when I was a kid, I was bored watching endless TV coverage about the Royal family

      It was a show about the latest gossip on Princess Dianna, and there was literally nothing else to watch on another channel. So I did what any well-adjusted kid did, and that night I got down on one knee and prayed for her die. Prayed. I’m not religious nor was I raised religious in any sense.

      Anyway, one week later, she popped off. The guilt stayed with me for a while, until I decided that if God’s taking messed up requests, then that’s on him and not me.


  • They horde metals, and it is not out of question that it’s likely their food source. Ingest enough:

    • Nickel, and the hydrochloric acid in your stomach will start producing Hydrogen gas
    • Silver, and nitric acid (let’s just assume they have an organ for that) is explosive
    • Gold, and any organ that produces ammonia will produce “fulminating gold”, an explosive purple compound that triggers on light exposure.









  • Oh wow, that’s quite the memory to have, and I know just how frustrating it is to search for something that you’re sure exists only to find nothing time and time again. (I once searched for a song for 15 years until the artist finally uploaded it to the web.)

    Have you tried reaching out to Neil himself via his various social media? It might be something he did outside of Art Attack but was presented on ITV nonetheless?

    I can only say your description rings a bell for me, but I can’t remember anything concrete





  • Okay, imagine you’re down at the pub, and that actor from GoT comes in surrounded by a horde of screaming girls. He clearly just wants a drink and to be left alone, but can’t shake off the fans. The bar stool next to you is free, and you have an expression of utter repulsion on your face to ward off anyone. He’s eyeing the seat and your face with desperation. Do you let him sit with you, or do you tell him to piss off to another pub?