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EvilDuckyBec

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Well, I'm not technically new, but...
« on: 06 Aug 2015, 00:36 »

Hi.

I've been lurking on this forum for some time (look at my registration date, then add about a year... yeah) and I started reading QC in mid-2008. I'd be content to keep lurking, but it feels weird that I read RELATE and CHATTER and such without any of you knowing anything about me. So I thought I should at least introduce myself a little.

I'm Rebecca. I'm in my early-mid twenties. I love books and music and old houses. I'm anxious, depressive, severely perfectionistic. I am not usually particularly talkative on forums, but I will try to make an effort to participate a little bit more.

(I also happen to be Detachable Felix's real-life girlfriend, so yeah. That's a thing.)
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Re: Well, I'm not technically new, but...
« Reply #1 on: 06 Aug 2015, 03:11 »

Congrats on delurking! :D I made the mistake of googling "evil ducky" and won't be able to sleep tonight.
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Re: Well, I'm not technically new, but...
« Reply #2 on: 06 Aug 2015, 03:28 »

Hi Rebecca! Protect your lug wrenches.

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Re: Well, I'm not technically new, but...
« Reply #3 on: 06 Aug 2015, 03:28 »

Can confirm pretty much all of this. Glad you finally de-lurked!

*Melts your lug wrench* (Feel like if anyone gets to do this it's me  :emotrex: )
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Re: Well, I'm not technically new, but...
« Reply #4 on: 06 Aug 2015, 05:18 »

Uh oh, Felix, now you've done it. Wait until it's morning in Kiwi-land...
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Re: Well, I'm not technically new, but...
« Reply #5 on: 06 Aug 2015, 08:51 »

Mae croeso i bawb sy'n hoff lyfrau, cerddoriaeth a hen dŷ yma. 

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Re: Well, I'm not technically new, but...
« Reply #6 on: 06 Aug 2015, 10:53 »

Hello and welcome ladyfriend of Felix!

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Re: Well, I'm not technically new, but...
« Reply #7 on: 06 Aug 2015, 15:55 »

Can confirm pretty much all of this. Glad you finally de-lurked!

*Melts your lug wrench* (Feel like if anyone gets to do this it's me  :emotrex: )

*Narrows eyes and glares menacingly*



Oh, and welcome to the Forum EDB
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Re: Well, I'm not technically new, but...
« Reply #8 on: 06 Aug 2015, 22:25 »

*Re-forges lug wrench from pool of molten metal, hands it to Kugai* There you go. Have at it!

(I wish I actually had sufficient metalworking skills to make a new wrench. I don't. I made a terrible candelabrum once from wrought iron, but that's it.)
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Re: Well, I'm not technically new, but...
« Reply #9 on: 06 Aug 2015, 22:47 »

Welcome! Delurking is always the best
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Re: Well, I'm not technically new, but...
« Reply #10 on: 11 Aug 2015, 23:59 »

Have fun in our little playground!

We don't have any threads for old house fanciers, do we? Do you just live in them, or do you work on them?
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Re: Well, I'm not technically new, but...
« Reply #11 on: 12 Aug 2015, 22:33 »

Do you just live in them, or do you work on them?

Neither, alas. I can't afford to live in an old house (they are very expensive where I live) and I have no practical skills that would enable me to restore, renovate or revitalise them. I just admire them, visit them when they are visitable (e.g. houses of friends, historical houses open to the public) and hope that one day I win the lottery and can afford an old house of my own.

I think what I like about them, beyond the architecture, is the feeling that I am in a place that has  existed for decades or centuries - that people have come and gone and left their marks for me to find. From the particular choice of kitchen cabinets or fireplace surrounds to "1608" clumsily carved into a pillar at Bath Abbey (not a house, it's true), I feel like I can get a tiny insight into the life of someone I will never have a chance to meet, because they lived and died long before I was born. Does that make sense?
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Re: Well, I'm not technically new, but...
« Reply #12 on: 13 Aug 2015, 22:27 »

Oh yes.
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