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[nano_moose]

HEY EVERYBODY!

All these were taken with OMG CAMERA, the use of which I have not yet mastered. This is basically all the apology you will get for any and all crappiness encountered; however, I will apologize for the fact that they are HUUUUUUUGE.

It is a dog wot. This was basically the only one she sat still for, which is weird, since it was the first I took.

My poor abused hand. I, er, wanted to see if I could take one with my left. Yes, I really am that pale and skinny.

Books. :D I cleaned it up a lot for the picture. Usually even going near that shelf is to invite concussion, unless you are me and familiar with its habits. Larklight isn't in there because it was beside my bed for quick reading.

Shneek! I think he's meant to be a Rainbow Serpent, from the Dreamtime story - the snake who carved out the shape of the land, mountains and rivers and stuff. Man, it boggles me that most of you wouldn't know it. It was one of those ones they used to read to us all the time in Year One.


SQUEEM HERE ARE MY FREDDO PICTURES.

One from the front...

...And the back. It's orange because it has bits of Crunchie bar in it, this sort of honeycomb/nougat caramel crunchy stuff. It was all I could find at the store.

This is what they look like out of the packet. Note the rictus of terror.

Here is a side view.

Here is what happened when my patience finally snapped.


Here is the fate of all Freddos, lain bare. ...I sure hope I don't inspire a Freddo uprising or something, with these pictures. Er.

The internet is being dumb, so I have more I will upload later, including the Shneek and some more random Freddo pictures. Eee, camera.

Edit: Done. Photobucket's being crazy so I stuck them in the entry itself; watch out for that. LJ automatically resizes them, though.

Comments

[rionaleonhart]

Er, may I ask why Squeemu had a burning desire to see a Freddo? (I was going to ask 'HOW COULD YOU NOT FIND A REGULAR ONE? THEY ARE EVERYWHERE', but then I remembered that there was some sort of salmonella scare, wasn't there?)

[nano_moose]

Apparently they don't sell them in Americaland, which makes a change (WHAT IS A TWINKIE). I also wanted to learn how to use my new camera, so everybody wins. (Well, I didn't look terribly hard, because I like Crunchie bars. This is the first I've heard of a salmonella scare!)

[rionaleonhart]

OH, I AM AN IDIOT. Sorry; you're one of the people I always think of as British, even though you are completely not. There was a recall here in June, and it's still difficult to find the standard Freddo, but I sincerely doubt that the salmonella coincidentally attacked the exact same product in Australia.

[nano_moose]

AAAH YOU HAVE DISCOVERED MY SECRET. Actually people mistake me for British disconcertingly often in real life, as well. I'm still not sure why that is. For some reason the salmonella thing reminded me of this big scare years and years ago, when the Arnolds biscuit company thought their products had been poisoned. It was severely traumatizing to my little kid mind because they kept putting pictures of the cookies getting steamrollered on television. NO, NOT THE CHOCOLATE CHIP!

[squeemu.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Freddo got mentioned once and I had no idea and then became intrigued by the idea of a chocolate frog. I mean, I guess it's no more ridiculous than, like, chocolate bunnies and chocolate birds and hearts and coins and things, but I'd never heard of it before. And, I mean, frogs sound generally more slimy than the other things I mentioned.

So, uh, yes. No Freddos in Americaland. (As far as I know -- and I may be very, very wrong about this, but as far as I know, we don't have any digestives, either. Which is awful, because I became addicted to them while in Canada.)

[squeemu.livejournal.com]

HORRAY PICTURES! Now, I shall shamelessly encourage you to post more! By, uh, by telling you that I am encouraging you, ISN'T THAT ENCOURAGEMENT ENOUGH?

They aren't too terribly huge! I was expecting full-screen huge, because that's how my dad's camera works. It's rather annoying to have to rescale everything.

Hee, dog. What's her name? Also, there totally was a point in my life where I would have been able to say what kind of breed she looks like, but I can't for the life of me remember anymore. And I would mock you for your paleness, but alas. I am extremely pale as well.

Okay, so, the only books I can actually identify are: Garth Nix (so shiny!), Harry Potter, Hungry City (so pretty), something by Douglas Adams that I have not read, Artemis Fowl, which I also haven't read, and L. M. Montgomery.

Hee! FREDDO FROG, WE MEET AT LAST! Okay, see, now I really want to try the crunchy kind. It sounds so good. They are much thinner than I thought they would be! Although I wasn't expecting the rictus of terror, either, so I figure it all evens out.

[nano_moose]

Wow, you can see my veins in the snake picture.

Her name is Janet, and she is of the Small Yapping Variety. Er, we're not entirely sure what breed she is – the shop claimed Poodle/Chihuahua Cross, but my dad thinks it might actually be Poodle/Silky Terrier. She's the most ridiculously dumb dog. She gets terribly confused when it rains – staring up at the sky all OMG WHAT IS HAPPENING. But we love her anyway.

Commence book babble: You haven't read the Salmon of Doubt? Ee. It's what happened when Adams' friends collected together a lot of his random little bits and pieces, and part of a new Dirk Gently novel he was writing before he died. It's both hilarious and very sad. One of my favourite pieces in it is when he spends about five pages complaining about 'little dongly things', those connecty bits you get with gadgets that don't seem to do anything. Have you worked out the structure of my bookshelf? The newest/best ones are at the top, then the 'eh' ones, then the older ones I still like (except for one that I kinda hate; see if you can guess which one!), and below that is all the ones too big to fit horizontal. Of course, it's pretty much arbitrary because I have at least a dozen books piled on different room surfaces at all times. (Garth Nix covers are very shiny, yes, and I'm trying to con someone into getting me the Old Kingdom Trilogy, but it looks like I'm just going to have to get them myself. Alas.) I still haven't read the entire Anne series. I adore Green Gables, though. Aren't the Hungry City covers awesome? OMG Artemis Fowl, I – I kinda pretend all the ones after Eternity Code don't exist. I love heist stories.

I hate the fact that the only Discworld book I own is 'Mort'. I want the other Death books; they've always been my favourites. Book babble complete. Returning to regular babble.

The crunchie bits tasted a little odd with the chocolate, but I ate them anyway. Chewy. Now I want to demand pictures of Twinkies or something.

[blue-oceandeep.livejournal.com]

No Twinkies in Australia? I'm shocked. =O

[nano_moose]

None at all! Pretty much all I know about them I learned for The Simpsons and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Are they really as evil as everyone makes them out to be?

[blue-oceandeep.livejournal.com]

Once you get used to the sweetness, then yes, yes they are. I would rank the sweetness around Krispy Kremes original donuts. (Got that in there?)

Once you eat one, it's SO HARD TO STOP EATING THE REST.

... they don't taste as good as they used to though... it might be my imagination, but it seems like there's less cream than there used to be.

Ding Dongs are great too.

[thebaconfat.livejournal.com]

Adorable dog!

And my, your nails are so nicely maintained!

HOW ARE YOU LIKING LARKLIGHT SO FAR? I MUST KNOW. I'm so happy you got it for Christmas! I've been so wanting you to read it that I was starting to consider hunting down your address somehow, buying you a copy and sending it off.

I totally know the rainbow serpent from that story! We have this big book 'o folk tales and fables from around the world. Some of them are hilariously bad, like "The Prawn That Caused Trouble", but the art is gorgeous and there's this one breathtaking painting in there of the rainbow serpent that I've always thought was really cool.

And wow! We finally get to see pics of the fabled Freddo! AMAZING. And it's so weird that we don't have them here. They look tasty.

[nano_moose]

It's probably because I don't bite them. I don't really have any set routine; I just try to keep them clean and also am lazy, so I rarely get into situations where I can break them.

I HAVE FINISHED IT AND I ADORE IT. It makes me happy in my soul. OMG Art! He's such a boy, and so gloriously oblivious of so many things. And Myrtle, I love her with the spider and the dithering and then the totally kicking ass forever? And Jack, you silly boy, you spent all that time pillaging and plundering and you are still a colossal sucker! That's so awesome!

I will say what I said to memlu, which is that I was expecting everybody to die and then they didn't. That was nice. And also, Victorians getting everything wrong with charming enthusiasm. OMG, I cannot wait for the movie. I - just - they had better do a good job of Jupiter. That bit is so amazing in my head; if they mess it up, I'm burning things.

...All right, I have to ask how The Prawn Caused Trouble. The Rainbow Serpent was one of my favourite stories as a kid, even though it involved a certain amount of people-eating. Man, I miss my myth book. My teacher stole it, the big jerk.

They're pretty much just chocolate, but it is Cadbury, which is the good kind. I'm going to have to work on my photo-taking skeels, though. They're very blurry.