Jon HancockMar 27

Today's roll is…

#FudgeRPG #RPG #Dice

Show threadKen DoyleMar 27
@BigJackBrass wrap self in bubble wrap and drink medicinal tea from a travel mug.
Show threadRoger BW 😷
@Kendoyle @BigJackBrass Iced medicinal tea (scalds). With a straw.
Mar 27 at 10:04pmWeb
Show threadJon HancockMar 27
@RogerBW @Kendoyle It's a dice roll, chaps, not an augury.
Show threadRoger BW 😷Mar 27
@BigJackBrass @Kendoyle Spoken like a man who hasn't noticed the black cat crossing his path. (Probably hoping for food.)
Show threadJon HancockMar 27
@RogerBW @Kendoyle Black cats are lucky, and I'm especially lucky to have mine.
Show threadKen DoyleMar 28
@BigJackBrass @RogerBW they are actually seen as good luck in Norway.
Show threadJon HancockMar 28
@Kendoyle @RogerBW Same in Britain on the whole, especially with sailors and actors. The universal notion that they are bad luck is primarily an American thing, but of course it spreads because of the US dominance in film and TV, a bit like Halloween as a costume party with pumpkins.
Show threadRoger BW 😷Mar 28
@BigJackBrass @Kendoyle The history of ships' cats is very under-documented, perhaps because it was often unofficial. @garius has an episode of #UntitledHistory about it.
Show threadCharnockMar 28

There are weirdly quite a few children's non-fiction books about them. My younger daughter was fascinated by them for a time.

@RogerBW @BigJackBrass @Kendoyle @garius

Show threadCharnock6d ago
@RogerBW @BigJackBrass @Kendoyle @garius
Show threadCharnockMar 28

On the whole except all the Black Cat Sithe that wants to steal your soul type myths?

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Show threadRoger BW 😷Mar 28
@Printdevil @BigJackBrass @Kendoyle The cat that sits on your chest in the night (sleep paralysis) is default black because it's at night, I think. (In some cultures it's an old woman.)
Show threadCharnockMar 28

Surely "in the dark all the cats run grey" is the expression.

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Show threadJon HancockMar 28
@Printdevil @Kendoyle @RogerBW Hey, I'm not pretending that there haven't been a few isolated individuals who have rather let the side down…
Show threadRoger BW 😷Mar 28
@BigJackBrass @Printdevil @Kendoyle "All shipwreck survivors who have reported meeting dolphins in mid ocean have said the dolphins were friendly." "All shipwreck _survivors_."
Show threadCharnockMar 28
@RogerBW @BigJackBrass @Kendoyle
Show threadJon Hancock6d ago
@RogerBW @Printdevil @Kendoyle
Show threadRoger BW 😷6d ago
@BigJackBrass @Kendoyle Make Halloween real again. The spirits of the unquiet dead roving the land to steal souls, probably of naughty children (it.s never been clear to me why everything wants to eat naughty children, I'm sure well-behaved ones are much more tender and less able to defend themselves).
Show thread Kale Mar 27

@BigJackBrass @RogerBW @Kendoyle Exactly, Jon. Exactly right.

*subtly takes a 'don't hit me with the lightning bolt' step away from Jon*

Show threadJon HancockMar 27
@DarkestKale @RogerBW @Kendoyle I'm not sure you can actually get further from me than you already are.