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Jibar

2010-01-18, 09:27 AM

Random Banter

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Previous Threads:
Amotis' Random Banter #1 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13484)
Dhavaer's Random Banter #2 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13401)
PhoeKun's Random Banter #3 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13319)
Rei Jin's Random Banter #4 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13205)
Toxic Avenger's Random Banter #5 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13146)
Jibar's Random Banter #6 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13026)
Ego Slayer's Surrogate Random Banter #7 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12939)
Sneak's Random Barroom Brawl #8 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12918)
Sophistemon's Solemnly Random Banter #9 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12855)
Vaynor's Very Random Banter #10 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12834)
Bookman's Blathering Random Banter #11 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12809)
Gralamin's Glorious Random Banter #12 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12785)
Rilik's Resplendently Random Raillery #13 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12766)
Gezina's Growling Grazing Random Banter #14 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12747)
The Zerglings Utterly And Geeky Random Banter #15 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12740)
jaqueses Truthfully Randomly Fireside Banter # 16 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12735)
Jack Squat’s Jubilantly Quixotic Random Banter #17 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12693)
Cardel's Banter of Cookie Jubilation #18 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12668)
Archonic's Chaotically Random Banter of Rods #19 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12657)
The Rod's Inanimate Temple of RANDOM banter #20 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12638)
Lucky’s Loquaciously Loud-Mouthed Random Banter#21 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12630)
Deckmaster's Divinely Delightful Random Banter #22 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12614)
Saithis' Soliloquy of Random Banter #23 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12598)
Loveable Lianae's Ludicrous Lampooning Lottery #24 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12578)
NEO|Phyte's Neolithic Nest of Weasel Banter #25 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12544)
Target's Random Banter of "non-violence" #26 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12533)
Tarnag40k's Random banter of "grammar errors" #27 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12515)
Kyrian's Random Banter of ADHDness #28 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12507)
El Jaspero's Random Drunken Ramblings #29 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12503)
Boss Smiley's Eloquently Eggy Banter #30 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12494)
Lykan's Looney Explosionarama & Random Banter #31 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12482)
Iames's Iambic Yarn of Yammering #32 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12468)
Dispozition's Deviously Distressed Banter #33 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12458)
CP's Copiously Combusting Banter of Carnage #34 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12445)
Alarra's Altar of Random Banter #35 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12432)
Eloquent Rune's Electrifying Rambling Banter #36 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12423)
E_P's Very Own Quite Popular Random Banter #37 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12419)
Hydrogelic's Foolish Mortal Random Banter #38 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12413)
Ink's Smudgy Splotchy Random Banter #39 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12405)
Azrael's Big Black Book of Banter #40 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12397)
The Logic Vampire's Rational Random Banter #41 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12387)
Shiny's Shimmering Space-hitchin Random Banter #42 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12376)
ZombieRockStar's Random Banter #43 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12360)
Nostrabel's Realm of Cookies and Random Banter #44 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12342)
Charity's Cheery Chatter Circle #45 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12328)
Samiam's Spontaneous Scintillating Soliloquy #46 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12310)
LLama's Masked Mysterious Random Banter #47 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=26599)
Ravishing Rydia's Recumbentibus ^_^ Random Banter #48 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=27622)
Penguinizers Perilous Random Banter #49 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=28083)
Death's delightfully morbid surrogate random banter #50 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=28444)
Wayril's wonderfully weird surrogate random banter #51 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=28990)
Rawhide's Deck of Random Banter (52 Cards) (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=29697)
Korith's Sorrogate Random Banter of Zombie Killing #53 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=30353)
Surrogate thread of random Bor-dom #54 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=31109)
Rex Idiotarum's Painfully Pogoing Thread #55 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=31512)
The Wrath of KHAAAAAANtalas’s William Shatner Flavored Random Banter # 56 (Surrogate) (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=32080)
EmeraldRose's Random Banter of Lashing Wit #57 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=32494)
Captain van der Decken's Surrogate Ship of Random Loot (Banter) #58 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=32847)
SDF's Neverending I-Don't-Have-an-OotS-Avatar-Yet Story Banter #59 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=33465)
Mauril's Surrogate Dwelf Banter of Fantasy Race Confusion 60th Edition (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=34165)
Rockphed's Dice Rolling Toga Party of 61 Drunken CIA Analysts (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=34568)
var Lord_Magtok = Random(Banter*62) + Surrogate (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=34801)
Jibar's Retro Random Banter #63 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=35014)
Malina's Random Spanish Banter #64 of morphical annoyance (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=35256)
Mr. E's Random Banter #65 of Cane Toting and Hat Tipping (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=35418)
Ego Slayer's Hellishly Random Banter #66.6 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=35596)
Purple Gelatinous Cube o' Doom's bowl of bantery j-e-ll-o randomness #67 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=35859)
Zephra's Random Banter of Ghostly Wailings, and Howling Fun#68 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=36317)
Cobra Ikari's Random Banter #69 of Rampant Hugging, Guttermindedness, and ;-) Kinky. (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=36977)
Scorpina's Random Banter #70 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=37480)
Raistlin1040's Super Special Awesome Random Banter #71(Now with 20% more tacos) (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=37824)
Uberblah's Random Banter #72 Of Caffeine And Sleep Deprivation Induced Randomness (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=38225)
Lucky’s Random Banter #73 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=38987)
Castaras's Random Banter #74 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=37836)
D'anna Biers RB #75 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=39495)
Zeb The Troll's RB#76 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=39801)
Egdpollard's RB #77 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=40128)
Gezina's and Calamity's Random banter #78 of double entendre and doom (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=40410)
Random Banter #79 In Loving Memory of Hexa_Regina (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=40909)
Zeratul's random banter #80 of throwing puppies off bridges (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=41778)
Vespe's Random Banter #81 of singing dolphins and mostly harmless planets. (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=43254)
CSK's Giant in the Playground Forums Addicted Anonymous, Random Banter #82 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=44919)
Iames's Ramblingly Erratic Belldandy-Charged Random Banter #83 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=47592)
Serpentine's Scintillating Sensually and Sinuously Seductive Stochastic Satire #84 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=49048)
Radikalskippy's Random Banter #85 of lost ideas and where to find them... (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=50658)
Moon Called's Random Banter #86 of Sexy Anime Boys and Fangirl Squeals (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=51825)
Lilly's Lovely Random Banter #87 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=52783)
FdL's Fuzzbox-Fueled Random Banter #88 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=54612)
SweetRein's Sugary Restrained Random Banter #89 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=59668)
Midnight's Mutant Motorcycle Madness Random Banter #90 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=62430)
Em's Extremely Extraordinarily Epic Random Banter #91 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=65645)
Dragonrider's Random Banter in Conjunction with the Weighted Cube #92 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=67629)
Bushranger's Bodaciously Buffed Random Banter-y Rooster #93 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=69425)
Haruki's Historically Hilarious Honey-covered Random Banter #94 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=71161)
North's Maple Syrup Flavored Non-Alliterative Random Banter #95 Eh? (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=73464)
Wadledo's Weirdly Warbling Watercress Watching Washing Machine Only Random Banter #96 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=75946)
SMEE's Random Banter #97 of gender bending and closet bursting (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=78694)
Raiser's Rambunctiously Rambling Random Banter #98 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=81626)
Dr. Bath's Random Banter, dripping with daring deeds of dastardly deipnosophists #99 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=84068)
VOTE, the Democracy Demon's Devilishly Devious and Decidedly Diabolical Desultory Derision (Random Banter) #100 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=84914)
Jack Squat's Justlessly Juxtaposed Random Banter #101 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=87577)
Dallas-Dakota's Dundering Dandelion's Devilish Damsel's Distress Random Banter #102 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=4790602#post4790602)
Destro Yersul's Dangerously Distracting and Doubtlessly Disturbing Random Banter #103 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=4903962#post4903962)
Aziraphiles Actually Alliterative and Awesomely Affluent Random Banter #104 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=92718)
Cristo's Consistently Confusing and Constantly Casual Random Banter #105 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=94491)
Dish's Delightfully Deranged and Deliciously Deliquent Random Banter # 106 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=95905)
Slayer's Seemingly Sweet and Socially Silly Random Banter # 107 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=97703)
Zero's ambrosial and aberrantly adventitious, abstemiously erudite Random Banter #108 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=99100)
Coplantor's Completely Creative Cautious and Contemplative Random Banter #109 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=100414)
Rutskarn's Roly-Poly Rebellious and Rejected Random Banter #110 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=101156)
TwoBitWriter's Tubular Tracts of Thought-Talking Random Banter #111 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=5600540#post5600540)
Phase's Phully Phormed, Phalangeal, and Phantasmagorical Random Banter #112 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=101988)
Wolfbane's Wonderfully Wacky and Wildly Wandom Random Banter #113 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=102865)
The Kiwi's Kinkily Knotted and Kookily Kickass Random Banter #114 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=103674)
Jude's Judgmental Jugular Jab and Jibber Jabbery Random Banter #115 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=104480)
The Throne of Thufir's Thoroughly Theoretical and Therapeutic Random Banter #116 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=105584)
Random Banter #117 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=106698)
Dragonprime's Dynamically Dangerous Dextrous and Destructive Random Banter #118 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=107882)
Farmer Felix's Fantastic FRandom FBanter #119 (may contain traces of fnuts) (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=109007)
Groundhog's Random Banter of Weather Prediction and Anti-Gopherness (part one) (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=110963&page=50)
Groundhog's Random Banter of Weather Prediction and Anti-Gopherness (part two) (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=113197)
Mrmud's Mixed-Up and Minimally Mechanized Random Banter #121 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=114623)
Dogmantra's Dastardly, Despotic and Dangerous Random Banter #122 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=116660)
Alteran's Amazingly Anachronistic, Altruistic, and Antagonistic Random Banter #123
(http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=118380)Admiral Euphoria's Random Banter Thread of Delusional Grandeur #124 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=6614894)
Fred's Flying Fishy, Fighting, Fiery, Fantastic Face Off Random Banter #125 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=121385)
Cyrano’s Non-Alliterative Inaugurational Random Banter #126 To Usher In The Future (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=122977)
Thanatos's Tharmturges Present: Tropical, Tipsy, and Typically Random Banter #127
loopy's Legendary and Long-Awaited Lollipop Fuelled Random Banter #128 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=123816)
Shadow's Shady Shop of Sharks, Shingles, Shammies, Shiny and Random Banter #129 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=125667)
KataraAltinaII's Premature Not So Short & To-The-Point Random Banter #130 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=126557)
Supagoof's Supa-Sensational Silly Symphonies Set Sizzingly On Fire Random Banter #131 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=128570)
Pyrian's Pyrotechnic Pyre of Pyrrhic Pyros with Pyrotic Pythics Random Banter #132! (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=130459)
Perenelle's Pleasantly Playful and Passionately Peculiar Random Banter #133 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=131814)
Rpgsr4me's Ravenous, Roaring, Raging Rampage of Random Banter #134 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=7373844#post7373844)
Il'deav Ilah'naie's Indiscreet Intimacies on Indigo Iceboats Random Banter #135 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=134438)
Recaiden's Resplendent and Rotating Realistic Random Banter #136 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=136879)

Oh, and of course:

*BOOGIE!*

And now I believe this makes me the only person to have 3 Random Banters. :smalltongue:

KuReshtin

2010-01-18, 09:35 AM

Oh, and of course:

*BOOGIE!*

And now I believe this makes me the only person to have 3 Random Banters. :smalltongue:

Show off!:smalltongue:

cycoris

2010-01-18, 09:38 AM

*boogies*

You, Jibar, are special. And going to the -special- hell too, if Book is anything to go by. Gah preposition fail!

Why does my body persist in believing that it must wake up at 5:30 A.M.? It's been doing this for two weeks now, regardless of when I go to bed and whether I have class or not. :smallsigh:

Well, at least I don't have to worry about sleeping through my day off! Now, what to do with it...

bosssmiley

2010-01-18, 10:09 AM

*EGGY!*

#137? Dang that's a lot of jabbering under the bridge. About 67,000 posts worth...

unrelated: the Royal Mail are a bunch of workshy post-fondling trade unionists who need to die in a ditch and clear the way for people who actually want to do the job. They are delaying my pre-order copy of The Dungeon Alphabet and this will not be tolerated.

Royal Mail delenda est! :smallannoyed:

Perenelle

2010-01-18, 10:15 AM

Ooh. Good start to the morning, I wake up to find a new Random Banter thread. :smallbiggrin:

the name of the thread sounds like the name of a sequel to a movie.

Now Presenting;
JIBAR'S RANDOM BANTER #137:
Return of the Cat-Muffin
*dramatic music*

Dallas-Dakota

2010-01-18, 10:15 AM

Eggeh!
It's almost 4 years since RB began... So around 67000 posts over almost 4 years....

Also
*omboogienomnom!*

Cissy: I feel your pain, having sleep troubles as well, m'self.
Atleast your body says it needs enough sleep. Mine decides it doesn't want to sleep, and when I do get to sleep, it wants to wake up at random times, also it likes 6 AM for me to start a solid hour of being awake.

And then when I go to class/noon, it decides it doesn't have enough energy and is tired.:smallsigh:

Dragonrider

2010-01-18, 10:21 AM

*EGGY!*

#137? Dang that's a lot of jabbering under the bridge. About 67,000 posts worth...

Except wasn't the forum default page length only 25 posts in the early threads?

I wasn't around at the time. But that's what I heard last time we had this discussion. :smalltongue:

Dallas-Dakota

2010-01-18, 10:24 AM

Hmm, yes.
Therefore early RB's only went up to 25 pages. Till Samiam's RB #46 where it goes to #50.

Dragonrider

2010-01-18, 10:28 AM

Hmm, yes.
Therefore early RB's only went up to 25 pages. Till Samiam's RB #46 where it goes to #50.

Well, it went up to 50 pages, but there were only fifteen posts to a page. :smalltongue: In the new software, they scoot it over to fill the gap.

KuReshtin

2010-01-18, 10:32 AM

I am happy now.
I just owned a co-worker that is oblivious to everything and generally messes up a whole heap of things all the time.

He and I are the only two left on the lines between 3pm and 4pm.
So he decidec to strike up a random conversation, telling me that "Well, at least things weren't too bad today for being a Monday. The phones have been pretty quiet today, haven't they?"
So I dial up the call management system to check who's done what over the course of the day, finding that the rest of the team has been pretty busy, it's just that he's done about half the work compared to everyone else.

Ok, so proving to a colleague that he's crap might not be a big thing, but it kind of brightened my day a bit.

Also, even if I've taken double the amount of calls than he, I've also spent a large chunk of time discussing DnD stuff with the colleagues that are in my DnD group. :smallwink:

blackfox

2010-01-18, 10:32 AM

Oh Jibar. We love you. :smalltongue:
Also, 67000 posts? Holyboop, that's a lot... I should come by RB more often.

Perenelle

2010-01-18, 10:32 AM

Hmm, yes.
Therefore early RB's only went up to 25 pages. Till Samiam's RB #46 where it goes to #50.

why were they changed to the 50 page system? I wasnt around when they were only 25 pages.

Phase

2010-01-18, 10:38 AM

Jibjab, you handsome rogue, good on you.

Also, The Giant himself should make Random Banter #250.

Jibar

2010-01-18, 10:42 AM

You, Jibar, are special. And going to the -special- hell too, if Book is anything to go by. Gah preposition fail!
.

Not the first to say that to me.
Either of them.

*EGGY!*

#137? Dang that's a lot of jabbering under the bridge. About 67,000 posts worth...

unrelated: the Royal Mail are a bunch of workshy post-fondling trade unionists who need to die in a ditch and clear the way for people who actually want to do the job. They are delaying my pre-order copy of The Dungeon Alphabet and this will not be tolerated.

Royal Mail delenda est! :smallannoyed:

See, I'm ordering Lego and I know if I trust it to regular post I'll not get it for weeks.
Thankfully I can abuse free trial delivery and get it tomorrow. :smallbiggrin:

Ooh. Good start to the morning, I wake up to find a new Random Banter thread. :smallbiggrin:

the name of the thread sounds like the name of a sequel to a movie.

Now Presenting;
JIBAR'S RANDOM BANTER #137:
Return of the Cat-Muffin
*dramatic music*

Well I originally went with Return of the Jedi, so when my fourth comes around I get to start the New Trilogy.

Jack Squat

2010-01-18, 10:42 AM

why were they changed to the 50 page system? I wasnt around when they were only 25 pages.

They still went to 50. The thing is that with the old board software (YaBB) each page only had 15 posts displayed. Our current software (vBulletin) displays 30 posts per page. So all the threads from the old software now appear to have been only 25 pages.

Perenelle

2010-01-18, 10:47 AM

They still went to 50. The thing is that with the old board software (YaBB) each page only had 15 posts displayed. Our current software (vBulletin) displays 30 posts per page. So all the threads from the old software now appear to have been only 25 pages.

Oh okay. Thanks for clarifying.

and I keep finding money around my house. yesterday I found that $20 bill under my bed, and now I just found $5 in my flute case for some reason. :smallconfused: and $1 on the couch.

Thufir

2010-01-18, 10:50 AM

New RB is made by Jibbers => New RB is epic.

However, Eggy's avatar has changed => Thufir confused.

Dragonrider

2010-01-18, 10:55 AM

However, Eggy's avatar has changed => Thufir confused.

Me too. In fact, I didn't realize it was him. :smalltongue:

Gullara

2010-01-18, 10:55 AM

Oh okay. Thanks for clarifying.

and I keep finding money around my house. yesterday I found that $20 bill under my bed, and now I just found $5 in my flute case for some reason. :smallconfused: and $1 on the couch.

I wish I was you at the moment, I'm pretty much broke.

Jack Squat

2010-01-18, 10:56 AM

Don't think too hard about finding money - you might figure out who's it really is :smalltongue:

Perenelle

2010-01-18, 10:58 AM

I wish I was you at the moment, I'm pretty much broke.

I've been hoarding all my Christmas money over the years for a while now. :smallamused: I am quite proud of myself. Normally I end up spending it on some electronic thing within the first couple months.

Dragonrider

2010-01-18, 11:00 AM

I've been hoarding all my Christmas money over the years for a while now. :smallamused: I am quite proud of myself. Normally I end up spending it on some electronic thing within the first couple months.

I'm a hoarder. Then my mum gets annoyed because all my clothes look trashy and buys new ones for me because I won't spend my own money. :smallwink: That wasn't my strategy--I just don't like spending money--but it's a nice side benefit.

Perenelle

2010-01-18, 11:03 AM

I'm a hoarder. Then my mum gets annoyed because all my clothes look trashy and buys new ones for me because I won't spend my own money. :smallwink: That wasn't my strategy--I just don't like spending money--but it's a nice side benefit.

haha, my grandma does that. :smallamused: I dont really like spending money either, but I have a weakness for electronic things and random gadgets. :smalltongue:

...and stuffed animals. =3

Dragonrider

2010-01-18, 11:05 AM

...and stuffed animals. =3

Totally :smallbiggrin: I have about sixty of them in a net in my bedroom. Somehow my brothers get them and I find that . . . pretty soon . . . they've migrated to my room.

Perenelle

2010-01-18, 11:08 AM

Totally :smallbiggrin: I have about sixty of them in a net in my bedroom. Somehow my brothers get them and I find that . . . pretty soon . . . they've migrated to my room.

I have this 5 layer shelf thing that I've been meaning to clear off and cram all my stuffed animals on. I dunno If they'll all fit though. :smalltongue:

Gullara

2010-01-18, 11:18 AM

haha, my grandma does that. :smallamused: I dont really like spending money either, but I have a weakness for electronic things and random gadgets. :smalltongue:

...and stuffed animals. =3

I'll pass on the stuffed animals but I'll agree with the electronics (mostly games), and don't forget Magic cards, and books. I want to hold on to my money but there's so much good stuff to buy. :smallbiggrin:

Recaiden

2010-01-18, 11:22 AM

I'll pass on the stuffed animals but I'll agree with the electronics (mostly games), and don't forget Magic cards, and books. I want to hold on to my money but there's so much good stuff to buy. :smallbiggrin:

Books for sure. I should really buy fewer of them.

DraPrime

2010-01-18, 11:35 AM

Pffft, all this buying of books, gadgets, and stuffed animals matters not to me. I spend all my money on music, in the form of CDs or vinyls. And damnit, it's awesome.

Trobby

2010-01-18, 11:42 AM

:o Yaaay! New Thread! ^o^ *Starts a brand new Bonfire*

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b244/Introbulus/g2471.png

...This is just the old bonfire, isn't it?

...Yup...just the old bonfire.

Oh well! ^^ It's good to recycle!

On-topic: Also, my big expenditure tends to go towards two things: New Video Games, and visiting my girlfriend. And trust me, at roughly $100+ dollars for every set of round-trip tickets, plus eating out and other date-related activities, it adds up pretty quickly. ;-; Sadly, I don't think I'll be able to afford going on our planned rendezvous to Otakon this year, as I save up money to afford an apartment for myself. I...really can't stay here in my parent's house much longer without my dad driving me insane. @_@;

Groundhog

2010-01-18, 11:59 AM

Pffft, all this buying of books, gadgets, and stuffed animals matters not to me. I spend all my money on music, in the form of CDs or vinyls. And damnit, it's awesome.

This means that you have a record player. *jealousy*

This is rather sad, but I think I spend the most money on gas for my car. I can't buy much of anything that takes up physical space, because I won't have anyplace to keep it.

@V: I know that, but my family's record player died shortly after my birth, and I don't have the money to buy one now.

DraPrime

2010-01-18, 12:05 PM

This means that you have a record player. *jealousy*

This is rather sad, but I think I spend the most money on gas for my car. I can't buy much of anything that takes up physical space, because I won't have anyplace to keep it.

Having a record player isn't that difficult. It's not like they're ancient artifacts from a long gone civilization of 1 legged hamsters.

KilltheToy

2010-01-18, 12:09 PM

Dawww. I was hoping to actually post on the first page of a random banter for once. You people move fast. :smallfrown:

So, what does it say about one's brother's choice of friends if one has to threaten them with a craft knife to make them leave your room? Because I just had to do that. Twice.

Phase

2010-01-18, 12:11 PM

Having a record player isn't that difficult. It's not like they're ancient artifacts from a long gone civilization of 1 legged hamsters.

Then... Then what are they?

Totally Guy

2010-01-18, 12:12 PM

Thought the title read Cat-Muffin Mac-Guffin for a moment there.

DraPrime

2010-01-18, 12:14 PM

Then... Then what are they?

Machinery that only became obsolete in the last couple of decade.

Totally Guy

2010-01-18, 12:18 PM

Machinery that only became obsolete in the last couple of decade.

Obsolete? I don't much like my brother's music and DJing but I think I'd support him in disagreement.

They still sell them.

Edit: I think I've just done that thing where you look like you're arguing with the person you agree with.:smallwink:

DraPrime

2010-01-18, 12:22 PM

Obsolete? I don't much like my brother's music and DJing but I think I'd support him in disagreement.

They still sell them.

Edit: I think I've just done that thing where you look like you're arguing with the person you agree with.:smallwink:

Ok, well they're not totally obsolete. I still certainly enjoy them. Still, to the general public record players might as well be non-existent.

CurlyKitGirl

2010-01-18, 12:32 PM

Wow, my tute went better than I'd expected.

The C20th Gothic Literature lecture was beyond amazing. And in less than two hours I'm off to my first rehearsal for Beethoven Mass in C (Op. 86) Choral Fantasia for piano, ochestra and chorus.
:cool:
:biggrin:

I am also temporarily bereft of work. No essay titles for next week's essay on The Dream of the Rood quite yet, two maybe three lectures tomorrow.
How peculiar. And all the work I have left for this week is to annotate Batter My Heart (John Donne), Carrion COmfort (Gerard Manley Hopkins) and I, Lachrimae Verae (Geoffrey Hill).
For the record, anyone know what the title of the latter is in English? I, [something about tears] [something].

Jibar

2010-01-18, 12:36 PM

Thought the title read Cat-Muffin Mac-Guffin for a moment there.

WHY HAVE I NOT MADE THIS JOKE BEFORE HOLY CRAP

CurlyKitGirl

2010-01-18, 12:49 PM

So, I'm on Amazon and I'm torn between buying House of Leaves and American Gods. Then I get the prices.
I could buy four American Gods (plus p&p) for one House of Leaves.

Guess what book I'll have in my hands by the end of the week.:smallcool:

Rutskarn

2010-01-18, 01:54 PM

WHY HAVE I NOT MADE THIS JOKE BEFORE HOLY CRAP

I have. (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=133617&highlight=Jibar)

Suck on that.

Coidzor

2010-01-18, 02:03 PM

WHY HAVE I NOT MADE THIS JOKE BEFORE HOLY CRAP

...Now I want a Cat McMuffin. And I don't even like McDonald's. :smalleek:

Having a record player isn't that difficult. It's not like they're ancient artifacts from a long gone civilization of 1 legged hamsters.

I'll... I'll be in the car... *runs off crying*

So, I'm on Amazon and I'm torn between buying House of Leaves and American Gods. Then I get the prices.
I could buy four American Gods (plus p&p) for one House of Leaves.

Guess what book I'll have in my hands by the end of the week.:smallcool:

You're getting house of leaves since you could easily get American gods at any time?

Perenelle

2010-01-18, 02:54 PM

My grandpa just threw a box of M&M's at me and it hit my keyboard and broke the "6" key off. like completely broke it off, it wont snap back of again. :smallannoyed:

Stupid M&M's...

Gullara

2010-01-18, 02:56 PM

My grandpa just threw a box of M&M's at me and it hit my keyboard and broke the "6" key off. like completely broke it off, it wont snap back of again. :smallannoyed:

Stupid M&M's...

M&M's, breaking electronics since 1941.

Coidzor

2010-01-18, 03:03 PM

My grandpa just threw a box of M&M's at me and it hit my keyboard and broke the "6" key off. like completely broke it off, it wont snap back of again. :smallannoyed:

Stupid M&M's...

A box of M&Ms? ...wat

Thrown? Silly grandpa.

Phase

2010-01-18, 03:17 PM

You're getting house of leaves since you could easily get American gods at any time?

Nah, she's obviously getting four copies of American Gods. She'll give one to each of her best friends: Rutskarn, Player_Zero, Yourself, and Myself. And she'll keep one, of course.

Trobby

2010-01-18, 03:27 PM

My grandpa just threw a box of M&M's at me and it hit my keyboard and broke the "6" key off. like completely broke it off, it wont snap back of again. :smallannoyed:

Stupid M&M's...

...Okay, granted that's pretty bad for a keyboard, but why was your grandpa throwing M&Ms at you in the first place? And why did it come in a box? did you go to a movie recently or something?

Coidzor

2010-01-18, 03:36 PM

Nah, she's obviously getting four copies of American Gods. She'll give one to each of her best friends: Rutskarn, Player_Zero, Yourself, and Myself. And she'll keep one, of course.

I always wanted to meet Myself and Yourself. I wonder which one she's going to end up taking home to keep.

Perenelle

2010-01-18, 03:48 PM

...Okay, granted that's pretty bad for a keyboard, but why was your grandpa throwing M&Ms at you in the first place? And why did it come in a box? did you go to a movie recently or something?

he was sitting on the couch on the other side of a table I was sitting behind, and I was like "ooh! are those M&M's!? Can I have some??" and so he says "sure take the whole box" and throws the box at me and I was typing on my laptop, so I didnt see it coming and it hit my face, bounced off, and hit the keyboard.

and I dunno why they were in a box. They just were. :smalltongue:

Thufir

2010-01-18, 03:54 PM

This reminds me, I have an amazon voucher I need to spend.
Hmm. Books? DVDs? This must be considered...

Rutskarn

2010-01-18, 04:07 PM

I always wanted to meet Myself and Yourself. I wonder which one she's going to end up taking home to keep.

Actually, that would be me.

On an unrelated note, anyone know how to get through a padlock? Materials: dog collar, teeth, fingernails, terror.

Trobby

2010-01-18, 04:09 PM

Actually, that would be me.

On an unrelated note, anyone know how to get through a padlock? Materials: dog collar, teeth, fingernails, terror.

...Is this a survival question, or are you stuck outside of your house?

CurlyKitGirl

2010-01-18, 04:24 PM

Just for the record, Beethoven's Choral Fantasia is in German. A language I haven't learnt for four years. Thank Libraries for the traditional Repeat After Me way of learning things.

Totally Guy

2010-01-18, 04:55 PM

...Now I want a Cat McMuffin. And I don't even like McDonald's. :smalleek:

Not a good day to be a cat in the Coidzor household.

First you make Serpentine cry, now this! There's a trope for this kind of behaviour.:smalltongue:

Quincunx

2010-01-18, 05:34 PM

Bloody hell, the taps have gone dry again! First-world country, people! At least we had forewarning and a convenient tank for this sort of thing. . . .No wonder tea got to be so popular around here, it was a good excuse for boiling your water and it doesn't get you drunk.

Neko Toast

2010-01-18, 05:40 PM

Anuan

2010-01-18, 06:42 PM

:smallwink: But you've already got Felix to do that for you. *rawr*

Late response, but dude, ew D:

Rutskarn

2010-01-18, 06:43 PM

...Is this a survival question, or are you stuck outside of your house?

What, you thought I was kidding about Curly?

Also, there's this strange banging to my right. I can't get my head through the bars, but I can detect Player_Zero's presence even from here.

He smells like fresh-cut flowers, you see.

Trobby

2010-01-18, 07:00 PM

My appetite just got shot in the face. I guess this is a good thing, seeing as I return to college on Sunday. It'll keep me from overeating at the cafeteria.

It'll be good to go back. I've been a borderline shut in for the past two weeks because most of my friends have already returned to their schools for winter term classes and TA positions. That, and some of my classes look pretty interesting.

...;-; Times like these I truly envy you younguns, heading off to attend college and all that.

A poor old man like me has to coop himself up in his home and take college from afar, lest it break his weary bones.

Phase

2010-01-18, 07:11 PM

Om nom nom nom.

Lasagna Mondays.

Om nom nom.

Jibar

2010-01-18, 07:25 PM

CurlyKitGirl

2010-01-18, 07:52 PM

Excuse me while I rage across the internets.

RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRGHHHH HHHHH (http://meandmybigmouth.typepad.com/scottpack/images/pringles.jpg)

I SHALL DEFEAT YOU

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH

So. Many. Pringles!
*eats*
Well, all the sour cream and onion ones; and the salt and vinegar ones. And the paprika ones.

Perenelle

2010-01-18, 07:52 PM

So. Many. Pringles!
*eats*
Well, all the sour cream and onion ones; and the salt and vinegar ones. And the paprika ones.

I wanted some..... =3

AshDesert

2010-01-18, 07:58 PM

Well, the semester ended on Friday for me, so today was a Teacher Planning Day (and Friday was a half-day, I love Finals Week), meaning I got to stay home and watch the Mythbusters all day marathon. :smallbiggrin:

Also, so many Pringles...

Trobby

2010-01-18, 08:25 PM

@Pringles: ...Man, I could really go for some fries right now. :smallconfused:

Edit: Incidentally, I know this has gone around a few times now, but I just re-found this: http://us.akinator.com/

V'icternus

2010-01-18, 08:39 PM

I wanted some..... =3

<.<

>.>

*Shares Pringles*

Perenelle

2010-01-18, 09:13 PM

<.<

>.>

*Shares Pringles*

:smallbiggrin: yay! *huggles*

Thankses you. =3

On another note, Does anyone here eat cream cheese on potato chips? or am I just strange like that? :smalltongue:

DraPrime

2010-01-18, 09:22 PM

:smallbiggrin: yay! *huggles*

Thankses you. =3

On another note, Does anyone here eat cream cheese on potato chips? or am I just strange like that? :smalltongue:

No, but upon reading that I tried it, and it tasted good. I believe you've given me a new addiction.

Perenelle

2010-01-18, 09:24 PM

No, but upon reading that I tried it, and it tasted good. I believe you've given me a new addiction.

:smallbiggrin: that just made my day.
My grandpa does it, and so I got it from him. I havent met very many other people that eat them together.

Zocelot

2010-01-18, 09:55 PM

Cream cheese is very good when mixed with other stuff to make dips. I guess it'd be ok by itself, but I'd rather tailor it to my preferences by adding toppings and herbs.

Speaking of which, who here pronounces the h in herbs? I certainly do not.

Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll

2010-01-18, 10:05 PM

I sometimes do, but not usually. It's one of those words I never decide which way I say. I try and say silent 'h' most of the time.

Anuan

2010-01-18, 10:11 PM

:smallbiggrin: yay! *huggles*

Thankses you. =3

On another note, Does anyone here eat cream cheese on potato chips? or am I just strange like that? :smalltongue:

This sounds terrific. I often spread it on toast, by itself, no butter or anything like that to ruin the taste. It's fantastic.

I pronounce the h in herbs. Because I'm cool like that.

Perenelle

2010-01-18, 10:18 PM

This sounds terrific. I often spread it on toast, by itself, no butter or anything like that to ruin the taste. It's fantastic.

me too. :smallbiggrin: I love cream cheese..

randman22222

2010-01-18, 10:24 PM

Well, my favourite chip dip is made from mostly cre— Lies and slander. Not cream cheese, sour cream...

My dad and brother eat tortilla chips with Nutella. What is this I don't even... :smallconfused:

Anuan

2010-01-18, 10:29 PM

Perenelle

2010-01-18, 10:40 PM

...My brain just exploded D:

........I think mine did too. >.<

My kitty cat just tried to steal a french fry from my grandma. :smalltongue:

Trobby

2010-01-18, 10:46 PM

........I think mine did too. >.<

My kitty cat just tried to steal a french fry from my grandma. :smalltongue:

This is totally in keeping with cat behavior. They will steal whatever they feel they can get away with. Probably he figured he'd have an easy time snatching it and getting away.

Also, the image of a kitty eating a french fry is adorable. :3

Phase

2010-01-18, 10:49 PM

Those are called aneurisms. They are dangerous things. try to stay away from difficult concepts such as the above, or you my just have another.

The more you know...

Perenelle

2010-01-18, 11:33 PM

This is totally in keeping with cat behavior. They will steal whatever they feel they can get away with. Probably he figured he'd have an easy time snatching it and getting away.

Also, the image of a kitty eating a french fry is adorable. :3

He's been known to try and steal food.

yes, It was pretty adorable. but then I had to go pick him up and give him cat food, so he was rather disappointed.

V'icternus

2010-01-18, 11:33 PM

Those are called aneurisms. They are dangerous things. try to stay away from difficult concepts such as the above, or you my just have another.

The more you know...

...The less I care.

Sorry, habit... :smalltongue:

Cobra_Ikari

2010-01-19, 12:12 AM

:smallbiggrin: yay! *huggles*

Thankses you. =3

On another note, Does anyone here eat cream cheese on potato chips? or am I just strange like that? :smalltongue:

Nope. Never heard of this. Somewhat intrigued, though...

...but then, this weekend, I tried bacon cheddar waffles with raspberry yogurt, so... >.>

Alteran

2010-01-19, 01:03 AM

........I think mine did too. >.<

My kitty cat just tried to steal a french fry from my grandma. :smalltongue:

Rassin' frassin' felines, got no respect for the law...

Nope. Never heard of this. Somewhat intrigued, though...

...but then, this weekend, I tried bacon cheddar waffles with raspberry yogurt, so... >.>

That's...well...how were they?

Totally Guy

2010-01-19, 02:57 AM

Speaking of which, who here pronounces the h in herbs? I certainly do not.

This is probably a regional thing. You'd be hard pressed to find someone around here that says 'erb.

On the other hand there are a few that'll say 'otel around these parts.

Jibar

2010-01-19, 05:37 AM

Man, I hate just sitting here waiting for my Lego to arrive.
I'm an emotionally stunted 19 year old gorramit. I needs mah plastic little bricks!

Phase

2010-01-19, 06:14 AM

This is probably a regional thing. You'd be hard pressed to find someone around here that says 'erb.

I pronounce "herb" as 'erb. However I pronounce "Herbivore" as it's spelled. I wonder why...

CurlyKitGirl

2010-01-19, 07:55 AM

Argh. I'm feeling kind, generous and sisterly!
Attended a lecture on Hamlet (part of a Shakespeare Trgedy series) and thought shortly afterwards:
"Little Sister would like this, she's just started doing Shakespeare
- wonder what play she's doing . . .
- I bet she'd love these notes. Maybe I should type up all my Shakspeare notes for the term and email them to her. And since she can't have the handouts of quotations I'll type those up for the relevant sections."

WHY?
She's only in Y9 (I think that would be 8th[sup] Grade for those who follow the American system)!

ION:
Best breakfast ever: a piping hot sausage roll and a piece of triple chocolate shortbread eaten on the way to a lecture. That'll teach me to wake up [s]lateearly.

IOON:
My bread is stale, but I have more than half a loaf left. This slightly annoys me.

Dogmantra

2010-01-19, 08:12 AM

I pronounce "herb" as 'erb. However I pronounce "Herbivore" as it's spelled. I wonder why...

I feel more Cockney just reading "herb" written without the H.

Astrella

2010-01-19, 08:19 AM

Just got back from my Differential Equations exam. Five hours of stressing and digging for answers in my skull... My brain feels like mush. :smallfrown:

Totally Guy

2010-01-19, 08:24 AM

I feel more Cockney just reading "herb" written without the H.

Cockney doesn't sound the H at the start of any word.

Jibar, what are you going to be building with your Lego?

I've just had an idea for bath robes as a wedding gift for an androgyness type couple... Hre's and Hir's. Both grey. I can't tell if it's hilarious or dumb.

Jack Squat

2010-01-19, 09:56 AM

Just got back from my Differential Equations exam. Five hours of stressing and digging for answers in my skull... My brain feels like mush. :smallfrown:

I know the feeling. Of course, this only strengthens my reasons against getting in a major where I have to take Diff Eq.

I've just had an idea for bath robes as a wedding gift for an androgyness type couple... Hre's and Hir's. Both grey. I can't tell if it's hilarious or dumb.

I laughed, if that's any consolation.

Astrella

2010-01-19, 10:13 AM

I know the feeling. Of course, this only strengthens my reasons against getting in a major where I have to take Diff Eq.

I'm lucky in that it's the last real math course I had to take for my Physics degree. So if I pass this one, no more maths. :smallbiggrin:

Nameless

2010-01-19, 10:17 AM

*makes a very late entrance*

NEW THREAD! WOOT! *burns*

Jibar

2010-01-19, 10:17 AM

Jibar, what are you going to be building with your Lego?

First of all, the regular sets.
Then experiment.

Also, Holy Crap I'm really excited about the box its arrived in its a really nice box.

Quincunx

2010-01-19, 10:21 AM

Just came in from a walk through the local park, where the red-breasted little twittering birds, too bold during mating season to fly away from a human's passage, were silenced by a rattling crash of wood striking wood from just behind me. A hawk had struck the bush, and flapped heavily to regain altitude instead of soaring, so that by the time it passed beyond my hoodie's edge and I realized what had happened, it was almost out of sight. One less bold red-breasted bird in the world. . .

Glug, the bathrobes are useful even if they're not seen as funny, so I think you're good. Then again, this is the opinion of someone who thought the best wedding gift was the matched set of his-and-hers army-surplus helmets, what with love being a battlefield and all.

cycoris

2010-01-19, 01:35 PM

It's January, right?

Cos it's sunny and 13 Celsius outside. It even smells like spring. I think I may actually be cheerful!

Trobby

2010-01-19, 01:44 PM

Mnn...:< Today is not a good day to be a Trobby.

Classes start today, and while I'm optimistic about them, already I feel myself not wanting to do any of the work. Not a good sign when the assignments have only just started, and are supposed to be incredibly easy. They are, too...I just don't have the energy to do the work right now.

I think I know why though...and that makes it worse. My girlfriend is going through a rough time, and lately I haven't had the profound impact on her spirit that I used to have, so there's little to nothing I can do to ease her worries, and because of that I feel like I'm being a selfish bastard whenever I do anything that isn't helping her...so yeah, I have an overinflated sense of duty towards others. :/ And this is increasingly sounding like something that should go in the depression thread.

On the other hand, classes seem to mostly be pretty interesting this year. Anthropology of Virtual Worlds, means I might actaully be able to effectively shoehorn in the Playground as a research subject. :3 And Advanced Web Design is something that I've wanted to do since forever, because I CAN actually build websites, just not very GOOD websites. :/

I should get a daily planner, and start living by it. I do so much better at things when I have a schedule.

Perenelle

2010-01-19, 01:49 PM

*makes a very late entrance*

NEW THREAD! WOOT! *burns*

hey, you aren't allowed to burn down the thread. :smallfrown: *tsk tsk*

*grabs fire extinguisher*

CurlyKitGirl

2010-01-19, 02:54 PM

Modified rapture! (https://www.rsc.org.uk/whatson/8960.aspx) Morte d'Arthur by the RSC! :smallbiggrin: :smallbiggrin:
IN Stratford-Upon-Avon :smallsmile:
In August! :smallfrown:

Must. Go . . . But so far.

DraPrime

2010-01-19, 04:50 PM

hey, you aren't allowed to burn down the thread. :smallfrown: *tsk tsk*

*grabs fire extinguisher*

No no, allow the thread to burn. I wanna see at least one of these end before even reaching a fifth page.

Pyrian

2010-01-19, 04:53 PM

Shouldn't be hard to start a flame war given that you're still on fire! :smallwink:

DraPrime

2010-01-19, 04:55 PM

Shouldn't be hard to start a flame war given that you're still on fire! :smallwink:

Errr...yes. Look, I like this avatar so much that I'm keeping it even after the week is done. It's just too well drawn. Besides, it's not like I can do gender bender. I'm a friggin steak.

Anuan

2010-01-19, 06:19 PM

You could be a steak with boobs and a little pink bow :smalltongue: and our next entry for the Most Disturbing Image Contest will be...
Also, Pyrian should do GB Week by procuring an oldschool Bonnet. Like one of those poke-bonnets.

DraPrime

2010-01-19, 06:22 PM

You could be a steak with boobs and a little pink bow :smalltongue: and our next entry for the Most Disturbing Image Contest will be...

I considered that. It seems too horrific to use.

Groundhog

2010-01-19, 06:24 PM

You could skip the boobs and just use the bow...

Trobby

2010-01-19, 06:26 PM

Do not tempt the gods of GB, DragonPrime. Did you not see what I did to Cobra Ikari? I can do the same to you, foolish cut of meat!

*holds up an Inkscape pen* I HAVE THE POWER!!

Though actually I'd need your original avatar at least, so that it can at least be somewhat based off of your current avatar.

DraPrime

2010-01-19, 06:35 PM

You could skip the boobs and just use the bow...

Eh, doesn't seem effeminate enough.

Rutskarn

2010-01-19, 06:36 PM

If I have the time, I'll probably do one of my trademark brainbreakers.

Dr. Bath

2010-01-19, 06:45 PM

And look like Maggie Thatcher again? Good times.

The steak needs lipstick and false lashes. And be in some kind of dress. Yes it is all falling into place.

Neko Toast

2010-01-19, 06:48 PM

Hm. You'd think that babysitting for 9 1/2 hours would make someone crabby. Not me, that's for sure.

On another note: Those kids know how to make an awesome fort.

DraPrime

2010-01-19, 06:54 PM

And look like Maggie Thatcher again? Good times.

The steak needs lipstick and false lashes. And be in some kind of dress. Yes it is all falling into place.

This is almost as strange to imagine as a steak with breasts.

Phase

2010-01-19, 07:14 PM

Hm. You'd think that babysitting for 9 1/2 hours would make someone crabby. Not me, that's for sure.

On another note: Those kids know how to make an awesome fort.

What else do children DO besides make forts?

Seriously, I don't know. What are children doing nowadays?

Zocelot

2010-01-19, 07:16 PM

What else do children DO besides make forts?

Seriously, I don't know. What are children doing nowadays?

I hear they're up to no good on those newfangled interwebz! If they knew what was good for 'em, they'd be playing sports in the middle of the street. Yes, that's much safer than inside where they're probably talking to pedophiles pretending to be 12 year olds.

Neko Toast

2010-01-19, 07:25 PM

What else do children DO besides make forts?

Seriously, I don't know. What are children doing nowadays?

Uhm... Well, my two-year-old cousin likes to play in his pretend kitchen and make pretend food.

He also likes feeding that pretend food to a puppet.

Cristo Meyers

2010-01-19, 07:28 PM

Hm. You'd think that babysitting for 9 1/2 hours would make someone crabby. Not me, that's for sure.

On another note: Those kids know how to make an awesome fort.

Don't worry, I'm crabby enough for both of us! :smalltongue:

I should make a fort sometime...but there's a distinct lack of building materials...

Neko Toast

2010-01-19, 07:43 PM

Don't worry, I'm crabby enough for both of us! :smalltongue:

I should make a fort sometime...but there's a distinct lack of building materials...

The first thing I want to do when I get an apartment (no idea when that'll be) is to build a fort in the living area. I can imagine how the situation would go...

Me: My fort! No roommates allowed!

Unknown Roomie: But I need to get past it to get to the bathroom!

Me: MINE!

randman22222

2010-01-19, 08:19 PM

The first thing I want to do when I get an apartment (no idea when that'll be) is to build a fort in the living area. I can imagine how the situation would go...

Me: My fort! No roommates allowed!

Unknown Roomie: But I need to get past it to get to the bathroom!

Me: MINE!

I've had too many bad roommates. Hard to see the humour now. :smallconfused:

I think I should just get a single...

Of course, if my roommate let me join in the fun, I could definitely live with that. :smallwink:

EDIT: Also, on that note, my roommate is watching The Biggest Loser (I think) and my gawd is that a STUPID show. (It's about weight loss, by the way.)

DraPrime

2010-01-19, 08:39 PM

I've had too many bad roommates. Hard to see the humour now. :smallconfused:

I think I should just get a single...

Of course, if my roommate let me join in the fun, I could definitely live with that. :smallwink:

EDIT: Also, on that note, my roommate is watching The Biggest Loser (I think) and my gawd is that a STUPID show. (It's about weight loss, by the way.)

Well yeah, it's reality tv. Of course it's dumb. Trying to get any intelligence out of that sort of show is like trying to find a vein of marshmallows deep underground. Futile, but theoretically enjoyable.

randman22222

2010-01-19, 08:41 PM

Well yeah, it's reality tv. Of course it's dumb. Trying to get any intelligence out of that sort of show is like trying to find a vein of marshmallows deep underground. Futile, but theoretically enjoyable.

I appreciate that analogy. Very much. :smallbiggrin:

DraPrime

2010-01-19, 08:56 PM

I appreciate that analogy. Very much. :smallbiggrin:

Hooray! I'm appreciated!

Or at least my analogies are.

CurlyKitGirl

2010-01-19, 08:58 PM

Trobby

2010-01-19, 09:06 PM

People, people, people. We need to think in stereotypes here.
Steak is stereotypically a MANLY meal.
Therefore we need a steroetypically girly meal.

As such dragonprime's GB''d avvie is a salad! With a little motif of pink bows on the bowl.

Really? Well...there are salads that incorporate accessories for protein...maybe a dragon salad?

Alternatively, we could try the companion to the dragon prime; a nice glass of red wine! Sophisticated, classy, yet still fun at parties. Definitely the kind of girl I'd like to get to know better. :smallwink:

DraPrime

2010-01-19, 09:20 PM

Really? Well...there are salads that incorporate accessories for protein...maybe a dragon salad?

Alternatively, we could try the companion to the dragon prime; a nice glass of red wine! Sophisticated, classy, yet still fun at parties. Definitely the kind of girl I'd like to get to know better. :smallwink:

You know, as much as I appreciate all these attempts to give me a gender bent avatar, I'm going to stay as a steak. A totally, completely male steak.

And Curly, you forgot to capitalize the first leter of my username. :smallfrown:

Dragonrider

2010-01-19, 09:32 PM

Alteran

2010-01-19, 09:52 PM

EDIT: Also, on that note, my roommate is watching The Biggest Loser (I think) and my gawd is that a STUPID show. (It's about weight loss, by the way.)

Well, my first thought was that it was a game show about belittling the contestants. So at least it's better than that.

Edit: Well, it's about weight loss, so I suppose belittlement could still be taking place,

Well, back in school, DeeRee has a 7-10pm class for which she must leave in five minutes.

....

What am I doing? I don't *like* talking in third person.

The gnarled hand of madness is gripping ever more tightly, ever more tightly, ever more tightly around you.

Within days, you will have invented fourth person pronouns, just so that you can use them to refer to yourself.

Alternately, if you consider words such as one ("One must be prepared.") to be fourth person pronouns, you will invent fifth person pronouns. Have fun.

Phase

2010-01-19, 11:25 PM

Neko Toast

2010-01-19, 11:36 PM

Heh, I just spent 8:16 to 10:32 having a reeeeeally long AIM conversation with a friend and his friend (now my friend.)

But then I heard a plethora of bad news from another friend, dampening my mood. Feh.

I know what will help!
Look! IS A KITTY! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DMXzrPnSnw&feature=related) :D

Phase

2010-01-19, 11:42 PM

Awwww.

That actually did help, thanks.

Trobby

2010-01-20, 12:58 AM

Well, back in school, DeeRee has a 7-10pm class for which she must leave in five minutes.

....

What am I doing? I don't *like* talking in third person.

This class is "historical methodologies" and we're going to study different methods of studying history. Well, we're going to study the people who studied the French Revolution. :smalltongue: And it sounds cool and it's required for my major and it's from my favorite prof but 7-10 at night? SUCKS.

Ahh yes, late classes. :p I had several when attending at SUNYIT. 6 to 9 they were...Which always caused me to either have to eat fast, or skip dinner entirely. ^^; Often if I ran late, I wouldn't eat. D: Not a good plan for a 3-hour class. Hopefully they give you a break somewhere in the middle?

EndlessWrath

2010-01-20, 02:35 AM

on a random note. Coughing one's lungs out really sucks. especially when its non-stop for a couple minutes. and then a couple minutes rest...and then repeat cycle.

on a different note. Wrath Got an awesome new T-shirt yesterday as a late b-day present. Its of the most amazing super hero ever. From this point forward you may refer to me as Wrath or Steve Rogers whichever you prefer.

-Wrath / Steven "Steve" Rogers / Best hero Ever / Capt.

Quincunx

2010-01-20, 07:18 AM

Hr-hm. I could have sworn that notice of throttled Internet was a limitation per minute, not per file size. We have applets to load and banking to do and they are not loadable.

Anuan

2010-01-20, 07:20 AM

There was no sparring tonight.

Am very disappointed.

Player_Zero

2010-01-20, 07:30 AM

Any convergent sequence within a closed subset within metric space has its limit within the subset itself, whereas an open subset may have sequence limits within the complement.

The existence of three dimensional solutions and singularities in the Navier-Stoke's equations modelling the flow of fluids is one of the Millenium Prize Problems.

Methods for solving non-homogeneous partial differential equations are highly dubious, as the solution to the non-homogeneous specific solution relies quite heavily on the function in question. Guesswork is often required!

KuReshtin

2010-01-20, 07:44 AM

"If the truth can be told so as to be understood it will be believed"

Human history represents such a radical break with the natural systems of biological organisation that preceded it that it must be the response to a kind of attractor or dwell point that lies ahead in the temporal dimension.
- Re:Evolution - The Shamen 'Boss Drum' - 1992

Jack Squat

2010-01-20, 08:33 AM

There was no sparring tonight.

Am very disappointed.

I've tried talking my friends into becoming sparring partners - I can even provide all the pads (save jockstrap and mouthpiece, neither of which should ever be lent out), but no one will take me up on the offer.

I'm 8 years rusty, too cheap for a gym/dojo, and my black belt friends are afraid to fight me. This doesn't speak well for them, plus I may have to break down and actually start taking classes again at some point if I want to practice.

In short, if you were on this side of the pacific, I'd offer to spar with you.

randman22222

2010-01-20, 10:18 AM

Wow. So my roommate really does hate me. I always thought so...

I was in the shower, and when I stepped out of the bathroom, he had locked our door. Fortunately, another suitemate was coming into the apartment at the same time. I asked mentioned that I had been locked out, and he said that my roommate was still in the hallway, waiting for the elevator. (Well, I had just heard him left a not quite a minute before I got out of the bathroom.) So the suitemate yelled down the hallway, and told roommate what he "accidentally" did. Roommate shrugged, said he didn't care, and got in the elevator.

<Expletive describing a route of excrement.> :smallmad:

Christ! I try to be civil with the guy! I'm the one who tries to find compromises to problems like us both wanting to shower at the same time in the morning, like he for some reason needing the TV on to sleep, and I not being able to sleep at all with it on.

What the hell is WRONG with this guy?!

ION: Uni of Strathclyde is now processing my application. Joy!

Trobby

2010-01-20, 10:30 AM

Nameless

2010-01-20, 10:47 AM

Hmm... There's a free anime/cosplay picnic with free food and free drinks and free everything coming up... Sounds to good to be true if you ask me. e_e

randman22222

2010-01-20, 10:52 AM

Hmm... There's a free anime/cosplay picnic with free food and free drinks and free everything coming up... Sounds to good to be true if you ask me. e_e

Definitely a plan to kidnap people like you and convert you into Scotsmen.

Gullara

2010-01-20, 11:05 AM

Hmm... There's a free anime/cosplay picnic with free food and free drinks and free everything coming up... Sounds to good to be true if you ask me. e_e

Speaking of cosplay I'm playing Final Fantasy X and part of me wants to get Auron's outfit custom made and wear it next halloween. Unfortunately I am poor and will be poor for the next 4 to 5 years.

KuReshtin

2010-01-20, 11:27 AM

Trobby

2010-01-20, 11:36 AM

Hmm... There's a free anime/cosplay picnic with free food and free drinks and free everything coming up... Sounds to good to be true if you ask me. e_e

Eh...go for it. :smallbiggrin: Probably the best time I ever had at college was when we had our own Anime Convention (Sitacon, if you're wondering) and I managed to get an authentic-looking Bokken for only 5 bucks. :3

CurlyKitGirl

2010-01-20, 12:24 PM

Wow. So my roommate really does hate me. I always thought so...

I was in the shower, and when I stepped out of the bathroom, he had locked our door. Fortunately, another suitemate was coming into the apartment at the same time. I asked mentioned that I had been locked out, and he said that my roommate was still in the hallway, waiting for the elevator. (Well, I had just heard him left a not quite a minute before I got out of the bathroom.) So the suitemate yelled down the hallway, and told roommate what he "accidentally" did. Roommate shrugged, said he didn't care, and got in the elevator.

<Expletive describing a route of excrement.> :smallmad:

Christ! I try to be civil with the guy! I'm the one who tries to find compromises to problems like us both wanting to shower at the same time in the morning, like he for some reason needing the TV on to sleep, and I not being able to sleep at all with it on.

What the hell is WRONG with this guy?!

Can't you file a complaint or something?

ION: Uni of Strathclyde is now processing my application. Joy!

*boogies*
Hopefully you'll get in and you can come to Britland! With UK Meetups and everything!

@KUResh: He's currently in American trying to get into Strathclyde.

Thufir

2010-01-20, 12:33 PM

Really? I thought Randman was somewhere weird and more eastern. And desert-like. United Arab Emirates or one of those places.

randman22222

2010-01-20, 12:50 PM

Muahaha! You shall never track down my location. Always a step ahead of you, I am!

Anyway...

Was in Abu Dhabi, was in Malaysia, am in the U.S., will be in Scotland.

Curly: I did complain about it, and the resident hall coordinator supreme councillor person asked if I could tough it out until the end of this week, because that's when transfers start. I figured I could. So I'll just drink lots of gripe juice until then.

KuReshtin

2010-01-20, 01:33 PM

*slightly less confused now* Okay, then.

Gullara

2010-01-20, 01:36 PM

*slightly less confused now* Okay, then.

*slightly more confused now*:smallwink:

blackfox

2010-01-20, 01:40 PM

I just slept for 12.5 hours straight.
I don't believe I have ever done that before.
.-.

Dogmantra

2010-01-20, 02:00 PM

Poo.

I have an awesome idea for a crossover picture but it's been let down by the fact I can't draw. Now I feel guilty because I'm listening to the opening song of one of the games involved.

Pyrian

2010-01-20, 02:08 PM

One weekend, when I was living in a dojo, working, and going to school, I went to bed Friday night after class. I woke up for class Saturday morning. Then, I went to bed after class. Next, I woke up for class Sunday morning. Then, I went to bed right after class, again. Finally, I woke up Monday morning finally ready to face a new week... :smalltongue:

cycoris

2010-01-20, 02:24 PM

Dr. Bath

2010-01-20, 02:27 PM

Oh no! Social interaction! A horror indeed.

Don't let them eat your brain. I hear that is what these 'friends' do to show affection to each other. An odd ritual.

Lyesmith

2010-01-20, 02:33 PM

Oh no! Social interaction! A horror indeed.

Don't let them eat your brain. I hear that is what these 'friends' do to show affection to each other. An odd ritual.

Man, what crazy freinds you got? We just make bitchy comments and cause pshycological scarring.

And occasionally ritual sacrifice of a year 7.

cycoris

2010-01-20, 03:12 PM

Oh no! Social interaction! A horror indeed.

it's just unusual for me to actually welcome it.

Someone just danced down the hallway singing 'Safety Dance (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcOZ6xFxJqg)'. I <3 my life.

EDIT: And my admiration for Randman continues to grow.

randman22222

2010-01-20, 03:23 PM

it's just unusual for me to actually welcome it.

Someone just danced down the hallway singing 'Safety Dance (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcOZ6xFxJqg)'. I <3 my life.

My friends and I had improvised Gregorian chant sessions where we'd proceed through a dorm. >.>

Trobby

2010-01-20, 03:31 PM

We once halted a campaign and had a group sing-along of "Still Alive", while all of our characters marched down a hallway.

...Naturally, we all died at the end. But damn it was a fun campaign. :smallbiggrin:

Dallas-Dakota

2010-01-20, 03:36 PM

...I somehow seem to have gotten myself into tutoring some of my classmates. In sociology.

Sociology is not my area of expertise.
Teaching to native English speakers is also not my area of expertise.

How did I get myself into this? Is this a side effect of trying to be friendly?

And the strangest thing is that I don't mind in the least. I'm actually even looking forward to it, because they're neat people who are fun to be around.

My life is collapsing around me. I'm going down the rabbit hole of friendliness. I actually may, for the first time in my life, end up having friends at school! This is...bizarre. What do I do? :smallconfused:

Heh, I just realised that 'Oh crap, this means that I'm actually going to have to do the readings!' :smallbiggrin:
So you want to talk sociology with non-native english speakers?

I'm your man!:smallcool:

___

I'm most likely going to this free(within cycling distance, know somebody who has tickets left over and is willing to give me one) Japan-con.

I've never cosplayed, I don't read manga and I don't watch anime.

I'm purely going to see people I know.

And pown one of my best friends at Mario Karts in a contest.
Though considering that she plays it online regularly and is good and I rarely play it...

Yeah, I'm totally going to win.:smalltongue:

___

Also, I once knew the full lyrics of the Safety Dance, and actually skipped through a festival while singing it. I gained three followers and I might have almost started a insta-dance thingy...:smalleek::smallcool: Then again, only one of my three followers actually knew the lyrics good.

Edit: So now I made a 10-minute long playlist of Scrubs Safety Dance. o.0

Dogmantra

2010-01-20, 03:37 PM

We once halted a campaign and had a group sing-along of "Still Alive", while all of our characters marched down a hallway.

Some of my friends tried to organise a rousing chorus of Still Alive for me on my birthday but it kinda didn't materialise.

Rutskarn

2010-01-20, 04:58 PM

We had a six-person rendition on the last day of the last class of my Senior year of High School.

Dogmantra

2010-01-20, 04:59 PM

I am cursed to always be one upped by golly goshdarned Rutskarn.

Where's Coidzor? I need someone to blame.

Alteran

2010-01-20, 05:00 PM

I am cursed to always be one upped by golly goshdarned Rutskarn.

Have you considered murder?

Like, just a little bit.

DraPrime

2010-01-20, 05:01 PM

And pown one of my best friends at Mario Karts in a contest.
Though considering that she plays it online regularly and is good and I rarely play it...

Yeah, I'm totally going to win.:smalltongue:

You'd be surprised. Some people can be naturally insane at Mario Kart. For example, my girlfriend owns it, plays it regularly, and is pretty damn good at it. I however, played it a few times when I was 7 years old on a Nintendo 64. The first time I played this game with her, I completely kicked her ass, despite not having played it in a decade.

So in conclusion, if you take a transfusion of my blood, you will become a god at Mario Kart.

Neko Toast

2010-01-20, 05:04 PM

You'd be surprised. Some people can be naturally insane at Mario Kart. For example, my girlfriend owns it, plays it regularly, and is pretty damn good at it. I however, played it a few times when I was 7 years old on a Nintendo 64. The first time I played this game with her, I completely kicked her ass, despite not having played it in a decade.

So in conclusion, if you take a transfusion of my blood, you will become a god at Mario Kart.

I have a somewhat natural skill at Mario Kart Wii. Though, only with the Wiimote+Nunchuck combo. The motion detection with the Wii Wheel is terrible.

blackfox

2010-01-20, 05:06 PM

We had a six-person rendition on the last day of the last class of my Senior year of High School.It's hard to overstate my satisfaction.

Jack Squat

2010-01-20, 05:07 PM

I don't know of anyone who sticks with the wii-wheel for more than 5 minutes - less if they're just holding the controller and don't have an actual wheel.

I'm decent at Mario Kart, though since I don't play it often, I never really stick with the skill to do power slides and what not.

Dogmantra

2010-01-20, 05:07 PM

Have you considered murder?

Like, just a little bit.

"If the Weighted Companion Cube does speak, the Enrichment Centre urges you to disregard its advice"

That's not an order though is it? I guess just once won't hurt...

Trobby

2010-01-20, 05:20 PM

"If the Weighted Companion Cube does speak, the Enrichment Centre urges you to disregard its advice"

That's not an order though is it? I guess just once won't hurt...

"The Enrichment Center reminds you that the Weighted Companion Cube will never threaten to stab you, and in fact, cannot speak."

...I still want to share my cake with my cube. ;w;

Nameless

2010-01-20, 05:33 PM

Mmm... Cake. *wanders off to get some cake*

Dr. Bath

2010-01-20, 05:37 PM

Man, what crazy freinds you got? We just make bitchy comments and cause pshycological scarring.

And occasionally ritual sacrifice of a year 7.

Ha, ha, ha, you mistake my jest for a serious statement of course no brains are ever consumed that would be barbaric...

Considering we just had a mop joust and there is currently a proliferation of items as part of the escalation of pranks I wouldn't actually say my friends are sane, really.

Zocelot

2010-01-20, 05:43 PM

"The Enrichment Center reminds you that the Weighted Companion Cube will never threaten to stab you, and in fact, cannot speak."

...I still want to share my cake with my cube. ;w;

Except you murdered it!

Alteran

2010-01-20, 06:18 PM

"The Enrichment Center reminds you that the Weighted Companion Cube will never threaten to stab you, and in fact, cannot speak."

I'll never threaten to stab anybody. I don't give warnings. I'm very much like a ninja, except I'm a regular geometric shape.

...I still want to share my cake with my cube. ;w;

Aww, of course we can share! <3

Except you murdered it!

OH HAY THAT'S RIGHT. :smallmad:

Phase

2010-01-20, 06:56 PM

We had a six-person rendition on the last day of the last class of my Senior year of High School.

Aww dang, Rutskarn! Why you gotta do a thing?

DraPrime

2010-01-20, 08:46 PM

Except you murdered it!

That cube had it coming!

Zocelot

2010-01-20, 09:35 PM

That cube had it coming!

Yes, yes. Now we don't have to share the cake with anyone. IT'S ALL OURS! AHAHAHAHA!

DraPrime

2010-01-20, 09:40 PM

Yes, yes. Now we don't have to share the cake with anyone. IT'S ALL OURS! AHAHAHAHA!

I don't care about the cake. I just hate blocky things.

randman22222

2010-01-20, 09:57 PM

EndlessWrath

2010-01-20, 10:44 PM

Blehhh. I didn't fence so well today. My parries are too wild. I could've made a million repostes if my parries were more controlled...

Still had tons of fun. :smallbiggrin:

EDIT: Footwork. I need more agility in my footwork as well.

I wish I could take fencing classes :smallfrown: ~is insanely jealous~

I did fencing with real swords for a play (go shakespeare!) so i have a basic knowledge. Footing is a big thing and I was pretty good with parries. I lost footing during one of the practices and my friend did as well, my girlfriend at the time said "don't step on the caterpillars!" (millions of them everywhere >.>') so i had the choice of getting run through by the cutlass or stepping on a caterpillar.

I made the wrong decision :smallcool:. awesome play though, and I still love swordplay of all kinds. Took on 2v5 at one point, and that was fun. I need to pick it up again some time soon
-Wrath

Kneenibble

2010-01-20, 11:18 PM

Blehhh. I didn't fence so well today. My parries are too wild. I could've made a million repostes if my parries were more controlled...

Still had tons of fun. :smallbiggrin:

EDIT: Footwork. I need more agility in my footwork as well.

Randvir, I'm pretty sure you were born in the wrong century, from everything I know about you. The 18th century European nobility is thataway, sir.

I know choreographed fencing and tumbling and fighting... :smallfrown:

randman22222

2010-01-20, 11:32 PM

Randvir, I'm pretty sure you were born in the wrong century, from everything I know about you. The 18th century European nobility is thataway, sir.

I know choreographed fencing and tumbling and fighting... :smallfrown:

Funny. You're the first person on the internet to tell me what my real life friends tell me. That I should have been born in <insert decade here>, or <insert time period here>, or <anywhere but here>.

I think that no matter where I was born, I'd be no happier or sadder.

EDIT: @V: Perhaps.

Kneenibble

2010-01-20, 11:35 PM

Perhaps we old souls resonate.

Coplantor

2010-01-21, 12:20 AM

Guys, I'm in Argentina right now, I'm going to see Metallica, this is the first big concert I'll ever go, so it's going to be awesome. Also, here they have starbucks, and oh my god I just had the best coffee ever, EVER!

Dragonrider

2010-01-21, 12:42 AM

someonenonotyou

2010-01-21, 12:47 AM

I just had a weird thought why do we have eyebrows what do they do, besides help show expressions, really why do we have them?

Dallas-Dakota

2010-01-21, 12:49 AM

We have them so that the sweat from our foreheads didn't/don't drip too much into our eyes.

Recaiden

2010-01-21, 12:49 AM

I just had a weird thought why do we have eyebrows what do they do, besides help show expressions, really why do we have them?

Keep water and sweat out of the eyes, as well as the expressiveness. Either is a perfectly sufficient reason on its own.

someonenonotyou

2010-01-21, 12:52 AM

We have them so that the sweat from our foreheads didn't/don't drip too much into our eyes.

oh right that...

Zeb The Troll

2010-01-21, 12:59 AM

So. Tired.

Things to do this week:

-read chapters 1-6 of Augustine's Confessions.
-read 85 pages of The Medieval World View.
-read the letter from Pliny to Trajan, the Nicene Creed, and something titled "Ciceronian Dream'
-read the first two chapters of some writing book.
-begin a three-page paper.
-plan a 25-page research paper I will be writing over the course of the semester.
-find a journal article on which to write a 5-page paper.
-Spanish homework
-oh yeah - attend classes

:smallsigh:

I'm interested in all these things, but every week for the rest of the semester is going to look like this. I read an entire book on the French Revolution today.And this is why I fear I'll never get any sort of graduate degree. I am NOT a fast reader. Any two of the first four things on your list would take me the whole week to do. And the doing would cause me to not have any time to do anything stress-relieving.

In Other News: I just got shafted at work. As most of you probably are aware, I work the midnight shift in a 24/7 support office. There are three of us on this shift. My schedule is M-F, roughly midnight to 8am. My two cohorts work Su-Th and Tu-Sa. This provides full time coverage every day of the year. Today I learned that our Tu-Sa guy is changing shifts. "But wait!" I say to anyone who'll listen, "Who's going to work Saturdays then?" The answer, I am now going to have to start working weekends. It's yet undetermined whether I'll pick up the Saturday morning shift, or if the Sunday guy will change and I'll get that one. Either way, it sucks and I'm NOT happy about it. Neither is Sunday guy because, in addition to there not being a M-F guy anymore, this means that instead of working every third holiday, we'll have to work every other holiday until such a time as a replacement is hired and trained up well enough to handle the desk by themselves.

:furious:

Coidzor

2010-01-21, 02:30 AM

Zeb The Troll

2010-01-21, 02:37 AM

So are you stuck away from Alarra on V-Day now? :smallfrown:

Sorry to hear about that. I wish you luck in dealing with the secondary effects.

ION: My face turned into goosebumps after shaving off my beard in rage and frustration. @_@Well, it's not like I don't get to come home after my shift is over. It's just that now my weekends don't fall on the traditional weekend anymore, without our having any say in the matter. Extra fun is that now, with the reduced staffing, four days of the week there will only be one person scheduled to be in. That means planning for a vacation that includes a weekend will, invariably, mean that it will either be denied for lack of coverage or that the other person will have to cover the vacationing person's shift as well, possibly making for 8-10 days without a day off.

Coidzor

2010-01-21, 03:00 AM

Oh yeah, I didn't even think of that. ...Something tells me that their hiring practices leave much to be desired upon realizing that and that they had a three-man system up like that.

Zeb The Troll

2010-01-21, 03:03 AM

Yeah, we've been telling them for two years now (since we lost our fourth) that they needed to have another person on our shift to insure proper coverage but apparently we amn't so smert as they be.

KuReshtin

2010-01-21, 03:48 AM

Yeah, we've been telling them for two years now (since we lost our fourth) that they needed to have another person on our shift to insure proper coverage but apparently we amn't so smert as they be.

That sounds like our situation here at the moment.
I just found out yesterday that the newest recruit at our desk has resigned and will be leaving in February. Apparently, he'd filed his resignation last week sometime, and no one had felt it necessary to tell us on the lines. No, not even he felt it necessary to tell us.
So that will leave our desk with 3 people, where the optimal head count should be 5. This will definitely hamper our possibilities of getting holidays approved, and considering one of us already has a trip to Japan booked and the holiday approved, that means tht if they can't get another person hired, we'll be down to 2 once he's going away for that three week vacation.
This also means that the job opportunity that was pre-announced just before Christmas will be something I can't apply for once it gets officially announced, because even if I apply for it, and they accept me for the position, my current department won't allow me to leave until they have a new guy up and running that can take over after me.
Which won't happen, since the starting salary is so crap that no one wants to start working here.
[/rant]

CurlyKitGirl

2010-01-21, 08:34 AM

So. Tired.

Things to do this week:

-read chapters 1-6 of Augustine's Confessions.
-read 85 pages of The Medieval World View.
-read the letter from Pliny to Trajan, the Nicene Creed, and something titled "Ciceronian Dream'
-read the first two chapters of some writing book.
-begin a three-page paper.
-plan a 25-page research paper I will be writing over the course of the semester.
-find a journal article on which to write a 5-page paper.
-Spanish homework
-oh yeah - attend classes

:smallsigh:

I'm interested in all these things, but every week for the rest of the semester is going to look like this. I read an entire book on the French Revolution today.

Wow. I always seem to forget that American universities have multiple classes on at once. Here's hoping you'll be able to sleep at some point this term.You've probably already worked this out but try and finish your research paper really quickly then you can have some small time to yourself later on.
My term is erratically busy, so it's not so bad. Essays are still the worst part, this time because while you can read the translation, they expect all quotations to be in Old English, so the half-line you want in particular means you have to translate the whole sentence to make sure it means what you think. Still have four and a half of seven real books, three real journals and cyber ones to read. At least it's only chapters of those books I have to read, not the whole thing.
I have also decided that Michael Swanton is a good essay and book writer. As is Edward B. Irving Jr - most of the time. I do like his interpretation of The Dream of the ROod though.
. . . Aaaand I babble.

I blame last night. Went out for what I thought would be a hour's birthday party. Which after that became going out (moneyless!) for a birthday meal at Noodle Nation (I love their chicken udon!) and then more hours at Brithday Girl's room. All in all, six hours well spent.
I love socialising.

Dragonrider

2010-01-21, 10:33 AM

Wow. I always seem to forget that American universities have multiple classes on at once. Here's hoping you'll be able to sleep at some point this term.You've probably already worked this out but try and finish your research paper really quickly then you can have some small time to yourself later on.

Yeah. Four at once, usually. I think I like your system better. :smalltongue:

I've been doing some planning, though, in that I got the syllabi for all four of my classes and wrote out when I was going to do what. For my reading, I hang out in the section lounge (common room for my floor, basically) and pretend I don't have three times more work than my friends. :smallamused: That would be because most first years have a relatively light load and I chose to transfer my college credit to be a second year so as to graduate sooner . . . .

I already know what I'm doing for the research paper, though, and I'm meeting with my professor this afternoon to talk about it. He has to sign off on it (to ensure there's sufficient primary source material to draw on) and he'll also recommend a place to start looking for articles.

And this is why I fear I'll never get any sort of graduate degree. I am NOT a fast reader. Any two of the first four things on your list would take me the whole week to do. And the doing would cause me to not have any time to do anything stress-relieving.

It's an undergrad . . . and I'm not planning on grad school; though I like reading and writing and learning things, they're as fun to do on my own as in school.

Castaras

2010-01-21, 10:56 AM

Hehe. On facebook, someone tried to add me who I've never met before. He lives in Cástaras, the place. :smallbiggrin: Made my day.

SMEE

2010-01-21, 11:07 AM

One would think that finding a full playboy bunny costume for sale would be easier...

CurlyKitGirl

2010-01-21, 11:13 AM

Yeah. Four at once, usually. I think I like your system better. :smalltongue:

A bit like UK College then in lesson load. The mind remains boggled.

I've been doing some planning, though, in that I got the syllabi for all four of my classes and wrote out when I was going to do what. For my reading, I hang out in the section lounge (common room for my floor, basically) and pretend I don't have three times more work than my friends. :smallamused: That would be because most first years have a relatively light load and I chose to transfer my college credit to be a second year so as to graduate sooner . . . .

I already know what I'm doing for the research paper, though, and I'm meeting with my professor this afternoon to talk about it. He has to sign off on it (to ensure there's sufficient primary source material to draw on) and he'll also recommend a place to start looking for articles.

Ah, the lackadaisical facade; how amazing it is. It does mean pulling a few most-of-the-nighters though. Hooray for the heavier load and graduating at the same time as me! Weren't you also looking into spending some time abroad as well? Or is that just me?

If I masy ask, about what are you planning on doing your research paper? I hope you'll be allowed to do it. Redirected coursework, if only on a minor point, is still annoying.

It's an undergrad . . . and I'm not planning on grad school; though I like reading and writing and learning things, they're as fun to do on my own as in school.

I'm planning post graduate studies. I want a Doctorate. Curly should not be allowed out of the academic life, she would have a terrible time if she was unleashed upon the 'real world'.
Hah, I'll be Dr. Curly [half an alphabet] by the time I'm through.

@Cassie: :smallbiggrin:

ION:
Urrrrrgh. The building work on the carpark outside finished today. Now I have the wonderful aroma of bitumen and asphalt covering my room. Gag me with a spoon please.

Furthermore; my essay must be finished by Sunday evening. Tomorrow morning is three hours of lectures (supernatural in Shakespeare (and two things I can't mention on the boards) here I come!), followed an hour later by a ninety minute class on some poems and analyses thereof. I'll probably have finished off my reading for then.
Most of Saturday then will be the writing of said essay.
I also have the opening thirty-one lines of The Wanderer plus commentary to do by Thursday next. Plus more poems for Friday CLass to do. I'm having around three lectures a day as well for the next three or so weeks.
The weekend will be busy. I'm thinking spend all Sunday on the translation?

And my new book hasn't arrived yet. :smallpout:
And I just burnt my tongue on my tea. Ow. :smalleek:

randman22222

2010-01-21, 11:22 AM

bosssmiley

2010-01-21, 11:23 AM

Hah, I'll be Dr. Curly [half an alphabet] by the time I'm through.

Several years hence: CKG doesn't have a CV. She just hands over a tin of Alphabetti Spaghetti. :smallbiggrin:

ION: My face turned into goosebumps after shaving off my beard in rage and frustration. @_@

What's the craich with the defuzzification mate? Are you going Trollslayer or something?

Dr. Bath

2010-01-21, 11:26 AM

Wait. What's this about UK schools not having more than one class going at the same time? :smallconfused:

'Class' in the sense of general subject I guess, in which you stick to one subject area almost exclusively here, but can pick and choose whatever in the US. See, I do Physics, but that is then sub-divided into 5 modules (and lab, but we don't like talking about lab), these modules are more like the US 'classes' as far as I can discern.

Hum. I should really do some Astrophysics for the exam tomorrow. And not sit here reading Scott Pilgrim (again) while listening to Explosions in the Sky. Welp. What can you do.

Dragonrider

2010-01-21, 11:30 AM

Ah, the lackadaisical facade; how amazing it is. It does mean pulling a few most-of-the-nighters though. Hooray for the heavier load and graduating at the same time as me! Weren't you also looking into spending some time abroad as well? Or is that just me?

If I masy ask, about what are you planning on doing your research paper? I hope you'll be allowed to do it. Redirected coursework, if only on a minor point, is still annoying.

Oh. Heh. :smallbiggrin: I want to do an essay on the means the English used to conquer and oppress the Welsh in the middle ages. I don't know if I should start or end with the death by treachery of Llywelyn ap Gruffydd in December 1282, the last Welsh Prince of Wales, or if it should just be in the middle. There's also the aspect that Edward I kept winning over Llewelyn's younger brother Dafydd and using him to get at the Welsh. And the whole excommunicating the entire country. That's more morale, though. But eh . . . I need an argument for the paper but I can't form one till I've done some research, I think

A note: this subject *is* sort of cheating because my mum wrote a *novel* about Llewelyn (not the one that's up for publication, but more recently) and while it's obviously fiction, she is always going on about the things she's researched and I've picked up a lot that way. But I'd love to do it formally. Not that I'm bashing your folks or anything, Koorli. :smallamused:

Wait. What's this about UK schools not having more than one class going at the same time? :smallconfused:

...I knew nothing about this, but still applied to Strathclyde... :smalltongue:

On that note, I'm in touch with them. I've sent them some more stuff they needed, and they're processing my application right now. :smallbiggrin:
*Crosses fingers, puts a single double bass note (:smallconfused:) on top of a drum roll for suspense.*

Just so I can end another sentence in a smiley face. :smallsmile:

Well, good luck!

I'm away to Spanish class!

CurlyKitGirl

2010-01-21, 12:19 PM

Wait. What's this about UK schools not having more than one class going at the same time? :smallconfused:

...I knew nothing about this, but still applied to Strathclyde... :smalltongue:

On that note, I'm in touch with them. I've sent them some more stuff they needed, and they're processing my application right now. :smallbiggrin:
*Crosses fingers, puts a single double bass note (:smallconfused:) on top of a drum roll for suspense.*

Call it a subect then. I do English Language and Literature. I take modules and only do exams on topics related to that degree. No math, no science, just juicy vaguely related to English topics.

*wishes more luck with Strathclyde*

Several years hence: CKG doesn't have a CV. She just hands over a tin of Alphabetti Spaghetti. :smallbiggrin:

:biggrin: Exactly!
I cannot be alone in thinking of Red Dwarf when I read "Alphabetti Spaghetti" can I?

Hum. I should really do some Astrophysics for the exam tomorrow. And not sit here reading Scott Pilgrim (again) while listening to Explosions in the Sky. Welp. What can you do.

Read Scott Pilgrim (again) while listening to Explosions in the Sky? And think about eating.

Oh. Heh. :smallbiggrin: I want to do an essay on the means the English used to conquer and oppress the Welsh in the middle ages. I don't know if I should start or end with the death by treachery of Llywelyn ap Gruffydd in December 1282, the last Welsh Prince of Wales, or if it should just be in the middle. There's also the aspect that Edward I kept winning over Llewelyn's younger brother Dafydd and using him to get at the Welsh. And the whole excommunicating the entire country. That's more morale, though. But eh . . . I need an argument for the paper but I can't form one till I've done some research, I think.

My first thought: define your use of the 'middle ages'. Do you mean from the Norman Conquest the time generally agreed as being the beginning of the Early Modern period (i.e. ca. 1550)? Before then? After then? WHY? Cannot emphasise the WHY? enough.
Do you mean to make your focus range from the point Wales ceases being a 'real country' and becomes a 'province' type thingy? Because you can argue the Welsh are still being oppressed now.
Can you talk about ways the Welsh fought back, or even got their revenge by rising up in notability as far as nobility, academia, politics etc. can be concerned? How about how it's represented as a minority? Because then dipping into Shakespeare's a good bet - Henry V for example with their four man band of nations making up the overall country.
For that matter, how and when does Wales shift from country to and back. Has it ever been treated as both at the same time?
How are you going to discuss opression? Thematically? In which case: geographically, politically, religion, language, literature etc? ANd how does it compare to now? Impact of Welsh Medieval Literature on the rest of the continent? They were quite well known.
Would it be a good idea to discuss how far people [I]accepted the 'opression'? Whether it was a minority that say it as opression or the majority.
And the impact of the Welsh on English politics - positive or negative? I'm thinking the Battle of Bosworth Field here.
And then you have the inclusion of the Welsh. When recruiting for the first or second crusade the Archbishop of Canterbury (don't cite me on this) went into Wales, showing respect for them by getting a traslator to repeat what he was saying so they understood what he was saying.
ANd as for that matter: would it not be the Anglo-Normans opressing the Welsh? Was there any difference between how the 'pure' (or less noble) Anglo-Saxons were treated when compared to the Welsh considering most of their lords were Norman or Anglo-Norman?
And what about the treatment of Welsh nobles/people of note/traditions/literature of note when compared to other minorites?
Scots? Irish? Cornish? Manx? Breton? Territories in France? Technically, the majority group (the Anglo-Saxons) should be included here as the nobles were of Norman descent.
NOTE: Religion, literature of is a big indicator. At what point was here a Welsh Bible? Was there ever one? Note that between Norman Conquest and Henry VIII Bibles had to be in Latin. Pre- and post- they were aso available in Old English and English. Unofficial English Bibles existed before then (cf. WIlliam Tyndale), were there Welsh ones? Why? Why not?
Welsh impact on European/non-English politics? Welsh as dangerous to English?
How does the conquering and opression in the middle ages (term to be defined) differ from pre- and post- then? Was there any opression pre- and post-middle ages? How? Why?
Romans? Angles? Saxons? Jutes? The Celtic Fringe - Scots; Manx; Cornish; Irish; Welsh. When, where, how, why? When convert to Christianity? Forced or not?

>.>
<.<
I should stop now. But as you can see from my many questions, I love the idea of it. A lot.

A note: this subject *is* sort of cheating because my mum wrote a *novel* about Llewelyn (not the one that's up for publication, but more recently) and while it's obviously fiction, she is always going on about the things she's researched and I've picked up a lot that way. But I'd love to do it formally. Not that I'm bashing your folks or anything, Koorli. :smallamused:[/QUOTE]

Sounds like a great way to become fascinated with a period of history.
And trust me, you're not bashing my folks.
I'm Cornish. :smallamused: The vast majority of Cornish people couldn't speak a word of English until Henry VIII had the Bible translated into English officially. I'm a Celtic minority, same as the Welsh.

Coidzor

2010-01-21, 12:25 PM

What's the craich with the defuzzification mate? Are you going Trollslayer or something?

Mostly out of anger at myself for sleeping with a girl. craich is an interesting word though. Not sure what you mean by Trollslayer.

Man oh man though.

I just had like... 5 dreams in one night. @_@ Usually there's just the one dream.

One was an alternate universe where I was a more failtastic version of myself, somehow inspiring feelings of rage and homicidal tendencies in people at random due to being inexplicably creepy, even when just buying a sandwich from a sandwich shop.

Then another one I was a pair of breasts. :smallconfused:

Then I was a ninja-in-training and a mutant in a nsfw and weird way.You know about, well, **** nipples?

And I just lost the last two from writing this little snippet about the others... Wiggy how that works.

Dr. Bath

2010-01-21, 12:26 PM

Read Scott Pilgrim (again) while listening to Explosions in the Sky? And think about eating.

Pff. It is all about Decemberists now, get with the times. Ahaha, my diet is so nutricious. They called me crazy when I made a chunky peanut butter, branston and nutella sandwich, but who is laughing now?! It is not them because they are asphyxiated by a horrible sandwich stuck in their gullet.

AHAHAHahem.

The english obviously won due to having a lower valley:people ratio. Very important in war.

@Coidzor: How very Freudian.

Coidzor

2010-01-21, 12:30 PM

@Coidzor: How very Freudian.

Yeah. The fact that I ended up killing a man either by accident or on purpose in each one was rather odd.

That, and apparently the only thing I was capable of doing right was entertaining small children in the first dream. Which is amazing because I wasn't even able to walk properly and yet I didn't accidentally dash out their brains.

Dr. Bath

2010-01-21, 12:34 PM

Note to self: don't be Coidzor's father OR be wary for murder Done and done.

Each and every dream you have described both confuses me, and fills me with dread.

The subconcious is proper messed up. Well. Yours is at least.

Coidzor

2010-01-21, 12:36 PM

Note to self: don't be Coidzor's father OR be wary for murder Done and done.

Each and every dream you have described both confuses me, and fills me with dread.

The subconscious is proper messed up. Well. Yours is at least.

Yes, yes it is.

Though to be fair, I was being trained to kill people as an assassin in the ninja-dream.

I'm still not sure why or how that piano got there in the first one. It was much more comedic and slapstick than usual.

And I'm kind of filled with dread right now and may not leave my bed today due to how paralyzed with fear I am right now. :smalltongue:

CurlyKitGirl

2010-01-21, 12:39 PM

Pff. It is all about Decemberists now, get with the times. Ahaha, my diet is so nutricious. They called me crazy when I made a chunky peanut butter, branston and nutella sandwich, but who is laughing now?! It is not them because they are asphyxiated by a horrible sandwich stuck in their gullet.

AHAHAHahem.

Peanut butter and nutella? Very yes. Branston? *dies*

The english obviously won due to having a lower valley:people ratio. Very important in war.

I went all Englishy-Historian mode and specific and picky when I read DeeRee's question! I don't know why!
But yes, valley:people ratios are very important. As are pot noodle mines and choirs.
What should I have for dinner tonight?

Dr. Bath

2010-01-21, 12:41 PM

Branston pickle and peanut butter makes the best sandwich.

MY WORD IS FINAL.

Coidzor

2010-01-21, 12:44 PM

I'm just always surprised that you guys have peanut butter now.

I always heard that you european-types were disgusted by the very idea of peanuts.

DraPrime

2010-01-21, 12:46 PM

I'm just always surprised that you guys have peanut butter now.

I always heard that you european-types were disgusted by the very idea of peanuts.

That's gotta be one of the weirder stereotypes that I've heard of.

Zeb The Troll

2010-01-21, 12:48 PM

It's an undergrad . . . and I'm not planning on grad school; though I like reading and writing and learning things, they're as fun to do on my own as in school.Right, so imagine what a grad school course load would be like. Even if it's the same amount of reading, it's bound to be more involved, less skim-worthy, reading. :smallcool:

Thufir

2010-01-21, 01:18 PM

I went all Englishy-Historian mode

You mean you have other modes? :smallconfused:

I have a problem. I persuaded my mum to get me a tub of ice cream to take back to my student house, but I have to go to a rehearsal before going back there and it may melt.

Dragonrider

2010-01-21, 01:20 PM

@Koorli in general: Yeah, that's the thing . . . middle ages could be basically anything from 500 CE to the Renaissance, but I'm thinking more, like, Henry III through Edward II, because that was sort of where the really crushing defeats occurred. The Welsh were converted to Christianity by the Romans, but it was a very liberally defined and not particularly Papist brand of Christianity and basically the only Christian orders that operated there were Cistercians, of whom Christian officials weren't particularly fond. Hence the excommunication of the entire country. The Cistercians ignored the edict and continued to hold mass and such, but it gave Edward I a major weapon against them.

Can you talk about ways the Welsh fought back, or even got their revenge by rising up in notability as far as nobility, academia, politics etc. can be concerned? How about how it's represented as a minority? Because then dipping into Shakespeare's a good bet - Henry V for example with their four man band of nations making up the overall country.

I thought about this, because the Tudors were in fact descendants of Tudor ap Goronwy, one of the few of Llewelyn's men who actually benefited in the long run from the Welsh defeat. And Henry V is interesting because of the way it stereotypes those four, but looking at what you're saying I think I'm definitely less interested in later stuff (okay, yeah, ramifications are interesting, but not what I want to focus on) and more in, like, What Edward I Did To Win The War?

And then you have the inclusion of the Welsh. When recruiting for the first or second crusade the Archbishop of Canterbury (don't cite me on this) went into Wales, showing respect for them by getting a traslator to repeat what he was saying so they understood what he was saying.

Well, sort of. If you're talking about Gerald of Wales, I've read him. And though he's part-Welsh himself and presumably speaks the language (GAH I keep slipping into the present tense of literary analysis! this is what happens when you try to do history and literature at the same time!), all his speeches were in Latin and French. And all the speeches of the bishop. I can't quote it directly because I lent my copy to my mum, but he basically says

"My speeches were so inspiring that even though the vulgar Welshmen spoke not a word of French or Latin and couldn't understand me, they rose to take the cross as a result of my words."

Did I mention he's a pompous suck-up? :smallamused:

In the big struggle for Welsh Independence in the 12th and 13th centuries, we've basically got two rivalries: Llewelyn Fawr ap Iorwerth vs. Henry III and Llewelyn ap Gruffydd (the Great's illegitimate grandson) vs. Edward I. The Llewelyns hated the English kings because they refused to recognize Wales' right to its own laws and customs and didn't like bowing to the English crown. Both were initially kings of Gwynedd alone and expanded their holding to most of Wales, only to be defeated and find themselves with only Gwynedd again. It happened to Llewelyn twice. The first time, due to the urgings of his brother Dafydd (who grew up Edward I's playmate and sold his brother out to Edward at least twice), he re-took Wales eventually. The second time (11 December 1282), he went to rendezvous with Edmund Mortimer (a Marcher lord) to discuss an alliance and was killed in the woods at Buellt by some English knights.

In the three months after Llewelyn's defeat, Edward I defeated the Welsh armies, captured Llewelyn's brother Dafydd and had him hung, drawn, and quartered and dragged through the streets of Shrewbury (the first royal ever to have this dubious honor), and built a ring of castles across the north of Wales (including Ruddlan, Conwy, and Caernarfon) to consolidate his power. He killed all Llewelyn's living relatives except his daughter Gwenllian, who was an infant at the time of her father's death and lived the rest of her life in a nunnery.

So in this story there are several factors. I can see that I could limit myself just to Edward I v. Llewelyn, about which I know the most, and that would make an interesting paper (that would probably fill 25 pages) in itself. Maybe I should talk about how Edward I won the war. Which is depressing, but . . . *shrugs*

To defeat the Welsh:

a) Edward got the Pope on his side. This was pretty demoralizing for the Welsh people.
b) Edward kept getting Llewelyn's own men to betray him. This includes his brother but also a lot of the borderland lords whom Edward persuaded that alliance with Llewelyn was not expedient.
c) In order to fund his campaign, Edward I expelled the Jews from England and took their money. This isn't related to the oppression except in the sense that if he hadn't done this he wouldn't've had the funds to continue his campaign.
d) He cut the head off the snake, as it were.

To keep them defeated:

a) In destroying all living relatives, he prevented his father's mistake (allowing Llewelyn Fawr's descendants to survive) from reoccurring.
b) He built the castles I earlier mentioned.
c) I don't know if this occurred during Edward's reign or if that was later, but at some point the Welsh language was outlawed.
d) The prince of England was made prince of Wales (I'm also not sure if Edward made his son prince or if it came later, but I know Edward II was born in Wales, probably an intentional move to make the Welsh feel more charitably toward him. I don't think it worked.)

On the plus side, Edward I's campaign against Wales kept him away from Scotland for a little longer (he had not the money nor the men to battle both fronts with interest). But he was quite the guy, was Edward Longshanks.

As for the other factors you mentioned (religion - I don't believe there was a Welsh bible, and certainly not post-defeat, but I'll have to dig around about that). In the south, I think people became much more English. In the north? That was another matter . . . . .

Keep in mind that I'm just coming up with this right now and I don't have any argument or focus planned out yet - the essay is due May 18 but I need to research and write it in stages throughout (I have due dates for certain elements - a research proposal by 2 February, for example). So everything I just wrote down is off the top of my head and not particularly academic - I need a clear argument and some organization, because this is textual analysis more than Make A Statement And Back It Up With Quotes. All the topics other people've come up with are things like "The London sewers during the Industrial Revolution" (the guy sitting next to me) - nothing specific, just a vague era and subject, which we can then narrow down in discussion with the professor.

. . . Or with Professor Koorli. :smallwink:

randman22222

2010-01-21, 01:25 PM

I found this amusing. I thought I would share it with you guys. :smallbiggrin:

http://www.rockpapercynic.com/strips/2009-10-28.gif

Dogmantra

2010-01-21, 01:28 PM

randman22222

2010-01-21, 01:30 PM

Fred liked Rock Paper Cynic. He showed it to me, and now I have several of the comics on my walls. I look at the one about thinking about the 6.7 billion people who didn't get shot pretty much first thing every day.

Honestly, I haven't liked much of it, as amusing as it could be some times. The presentation is better than the content...

EDIT: Granted, the author him(her?)self doesn't actually agree with everything they say... My verb tense usage is WEAK.

Gullara

2010-01-21, 01:31 PM

I'm just always surprised that you guys have peanut butter now.

I always heard that you european-types were disgusted by the very idea of peanuts.

Mmmmmm peanut butter *drools*
Crazy Europeans :smalltongue:

Dr. Bath

2010-01-21, 02:00 PM

You crazy, coidzor. In Europe it's more that people don't like stupidly processed peanuts. Regular peanuts and chunky peanut butter is fine. Putting it in crazy things or moushing it up too much is just unpleasant.

Looking at my photobucket album I realised that in the past year I've barely made 10 avatars. Dat sum crazy shiz.

Nameless

2010-01-21, 02:21 PM

MAIDEN HARP! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_vbdxwI5Ck&feature=related) :D

CurlyKitGirl

2010-01-21, 02:57 PM

Pyrian

2010-01-21, 03:10 PM

:smallfrown: All I know is that it's really hard to win Medieval Total War: Viking Invasion as the Welsh. I've won it as the Picts, even, but not as the Welsh. :smallyuk:

Jibar

2010-01-21, 03:19 PM

That's because the Welsh suck. [/institutionalised racism]

Until Gavin and Stacey, Wales really didn't have any value as far Englishmen were concerned.

Dr. Bath

2010-01-21, 03:20 PM

I dunno.

There was Rob Brydon. And Charlotte Church. And the guy off'f the Snowman.

Dogmantra

2010-01-21, 03:26 PM

Wales really didn't have any value as far Englishmen were concerned.

Just like Norfolk as far as East Anglia's concerned.
Sucks to be from Norfolk, eh?
:smallwink:

DraPrime

2010-01-21, 03:30 PM

MAIDEN HARP! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_vbdxwI5Ck&feature=related) :D

*yawn*

Yeah, I saw that a while ago. It's cool, but old news.

Jibar

2010-01-21, 03:30 PM

Just like Norfolk as far as East Anglia's England's concerned.

Fixed that for you.
(Pssst. We got Steven Fry.)

Nameless

2010-01-21, 03:32 PM

*yawn*

Yeah, I saw that a while ago. It's cool, but old news.

Don't ruin my fun. :smallannoyed:

DraPrime

2010-01-21, 03:33 PM

Don't ruin my fun. :smallannoyed:

*RUIN RUIN RUIN*

Ha! Have at ye!

*pokes with some ruination*

Nameless

2010-01-21, 03:34 PM

*RUIN RUIN RUIN*

Ha! Have at ye!

*pokes with some ruination*

*takes out a viking great sword* BY THE POWER THE GOD TURISAS!

DraPrime

2010-01-21, 03:42 PM

*takes out a viking great sword* BY THE POWER THE GOD TURISAS!

*pulls out bigger sword*

BY THE POWER OF GREYSKULL!

Ok, sorry, that joke had to be made. Anyways...

*pulls out bass*

BY THE POWER OF THE GOD STEVE HARRIS!

Dogmantra

2010-01-21, 03:46 PM

Fixed that for you.
(Pssst. We got Steven Fry.)

Lies. Lies and slander. EDIT: Truths. Truths and... nonslander. I am reasonably sure that Stephen Fry hails from Bury, which lies in Suffolk, the greater of the two counties in question.

Well after checking his wikipedia page I am rather disappointed, but I do know he has relations in Bury because I once flipped past him driving near the sugar beet factory on an episode of Who Do You Think You Are?

So there!

Nameless

2010-01-21, 03:49 PM

*pulls out bigger sword*

BY THE POWER OF GREYSKULL!

Ok, sorry, that joke had to be made. Anyways...

*pulls out bass*

BY THE POWER OF THE GOD STEVE HARRIS!

*Pulls out drum sticks*
By the power of Hellhammer!

... Wait, I don't play drums...

*Pulls out Guitar*
By the power of Alexi!

Trobby

2010-01-21, 03:54 PM

*Pulls out drum sticks*
By the power of Hellhammer!

... Wait, I don't play drums...

*Pulls out Guitar*
By the power of Alexi!

D:<

*pulls out a massive pencil-shaped Sword*

BY THE POWER OF ART, AND ALL THAT IS CREATIVE, STOP SQUABBLING, YOU TWO!

Dallas-Dakota

2010-01-21, 04:05 PM

*growls and roars*

By the power of artist metalheads!

DraPrime

2010-01-21, 04:06 PM

*growls and roars*

By the power of artist metalheads!

Stop summoning the power that belongs to Nameless and I.

Nameless

2010-01-21, 04:24 PM

D:<

*pulls out a massive pencil-shaped Sword*

BY THE POWER OF ART, AND ALL THAT IS CREATIVE, STOP SQUABBLING, YOU TWO!

NEVER!

BAHAHAHA!

Dallas-Dakota

2010-01-21, 04:26 PM

Stop summoning the power that belongs to Nameless and I.
I knew knew Nameless studied art/mediadesign, but not that you did too?

It belongs to me too, considering I'm a art student as well.:smallamused:

KuReshtin

2010-01-21, 04:30 PM

NEVER!

BAHAHAHA!

In the name of Lemmy, I beseech you! Stop the madness!

DraPrime

2010-01-21, 04:31 PM

I knew knew Nameless studied art/mediadesign, but not that you did too?

It belongs to me too, considering I'm a art student as well.:smallamused:

But you aren't as much of a metalhead as Nameless and me.

Nameless

2010-01-21, 04:35 PM

In the name of Lemmy, I beseech you! Stop the madness!

Bah, I have Ozzy on my side, the grandfather of Metal. Also, Biff Bayford, who may one day be the founder of the Heavy Metal religion... Or something.

Dragonrider

2010-01-21, 04:35 PM

Any time DeeRee. :smalltongue: I just enjoyed the sound of the topic and got to thinking about problems or interesting ways one could slant the discussion.

Yeah. :smallbiggrin:

Now I have to go see my professor about it . . . in like half an hour. I *hate* going to see professors. I always feel like I'm imposing (by this I mean "taking up too much of his time", not "intimidating") or something.

Dr. Bath

2010-01-21, 05:06 PM

Who likes short films about creepy dolls? Everyone that is who (http://vimeo.com/4749536?hd=1).

CurlyKitGirl

2010-01-21, 05:18 PM

Yeah. :smallbiggrin:

Now I have to go see my professor about it . . . in like half an hour. I *hate* going to see professors. I always feel like I'm imposing (by this I mean "taking up too much of his time", not "intimidating") or something.

Try having a weekly hour long tutorial with someone who is a certified expert in their field, and you're talking about essays which you wrote. On topics he/she holds dear to his/her heart.

Who likes short films about creepy dolls? Everyone that is who (http://vimeo.com/4749536?hd=1).

*cries*
Oh godsmummynononononononononomummy.
Gods.
*cries*
Frell.
Oh gods below.
Frell.
The clicking and the music and the eyes and the faces and the eyes and the clicking and the shop and the gods.
WHY DID I CLICK ON THE CLICK WHEN I HATE DOLLS?!? WHY DID I CLICK ON THE LINK WHEN I AM PETRIFIED OF DOLLS?!
Gods Above and Sideways I can't stop shaking.
No.

I. I, no.

Dallas-Dakota

2010-01-21, 05:19 PM

But you aren't as much of a metalhead as Nameless and me.
Bah, just because I don't listen to as much mainstreammetal(though I'm pretty sure no such thing exists) as you guys.... I'm just specified, refined and so on as to what metal I listen to.

:smallamused::smalltongue:

DraPrime

2010-01-21, 05:30 PM

Bah, just because I don't listen to as much mainstreammetal(though I'm pretty sure no such thing exists) as you guys.... I'm just specified, refined and so on as to what metal I listen to.

:smallamused::smalltongue:

Did you just say I listen to mainstream metal? I take that as an insult! :smallfurious:

Trobby

2010-01-21, 05:30 PM

Try having a weekly hour long tutorial with someone who is a certified expert in their field, and you're talking about essays which you wrote. On topics he/she holds dear to his/her heart.

Actually, I would love that. Even if I'm not particularly good at the subject, I would be interested to hear what a certified and deeply interested professor has to say on whatever I happen to be studying. Far more interesting than the dispassionate and unmotivated kind. <.<;

*cries*
Oh godsmummynononononononononomummy.
Gods.
*cries*
Frell.
Oh gods below.
Frell.
The clicking and the music and the eyes and the faces and the eyes and the clicking and the shop and the gods.
WHY DID I CLICK ON THE CLICK WHEN I HATE DOLLS?!? WHY DID I CLICK ON THE LINK WHEN I AM PETRIFIED OF DOLLS?!
Gods Above and Sideways I can't stop shaking.
No.

I. I, no.

O.O Um...um...Look! Kitten! Don't you like kittens? Don't you want to play with the kitten? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNS6SUe-kGc)

Jibar

2010-01-21, 05:35 PM

STORY TIME

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a155/Jibar/100_1185.jpg

'What a lovely day to be a horrible monster, ey Mr Crab?'
*click click click*

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a155/Jibar/100_1186.jpg

'Hey look, horrible monsters.'

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a155/Jibar/100_1187.jpg

'I hate horrible monsters! Also it's dark!'

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a155/Jibar/100_1188.jpg

'Don't worry friends, I'll just kill them with this giant drill claw thing.'

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a155/Jibar/100_1189.jpg

'Well hi Mr Shark!'

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a155/Jibar/100_1190.jpg

'AAAAHHHH I'mma SHAAAAAAAAAARK'

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a155/Jibar/100_1191.jpg

'AHHHHouch'

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a155/Jibar/100_1192.jpg

'Die horrible monsters!'

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a155/Jibar/100_1193.jpg

'Oh no! I'm telling uncle Cycromanis on you!'

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a155/Jibar/100_1194.jpg

'Ha! What can Cycrosowhat do to me and my drill!'

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a155/Jibar/100_1195.jpg

'D:'

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a155/Jibar/100_1196.jpg

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a155/Jibar/100_1197.jpg

'BBBBLLLLAAAARRRRGGGG'
'AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH'

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a155/Jibar/100_1198.jpg

'OH GOD IT'S SO BLURRY WHAT IS GOING ON'

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a155/Jibar/100_1199.jpg

'OM NOM NOM'
'Oh what a horrible fate!'

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a155/Jibar/100_1200.jpg

'BBBBLLLLAAAARRRRGGGG!'
'Aaaahhh! Run for it!'

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a155/Jibar/100_1201.jpg

'Don't worry lads, I'll save you once I get all this bloom out of my eyes.'

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a155/Jibar/100_1202.jpg

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a155/Jibar/100_1203.jpg

'BLURRY'

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a155/Jibar/100_1204.jpg

'OM NOM NOM'

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a155/Jibar/100_1205.jpg

*thumbs up*
'Eyyyyy'

THE END

DraPrime

2010-01-21, 05:39 PM

STORY TIME

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a155/Jibar/100_1185.jpg

'What a lovely day to be a horrible monster, ey Mr Crab?'
*click click click*

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a155/Jibar/100_1186.jpg

'Hey look, horrible monsters.'

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a155/Jibar/100_1187.jpg

'I hate horrible monsters! Also it's dark!'

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a155/Jibar/100_1188.jpg

'Don't worry friends, I'll just kill them with this giant drill claw thing.'

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a155/Jibar/100_1189.jpg

'Well hi Mr Shark!'

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a155/Jibar/100_1190.jpg

'AAAAHHHH I'mma SHAAAAAAAAAARK'

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a155/Jibar/100_1191.jpg

'AHHHHouch'

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a155/Jibar/100_1192.jpg

'Die horrible monsters!'

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a155/Jibar/100_1193.jpg

'Oh no! I'm telling uncle Cycromanis on you!'

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a155/Jibar/100_1194.jpg

'Ha! What can Cycrosowhat do to me and my drill!'

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a155/Jibar/100_1195.jpg

'D:'

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a155/Jibar/100_1196.jpg

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a155/Jibar/100_1197.jpg

'BBBBLLLLAAAARRRRGGGG'
'AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH'

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a155/Jibar/100_1198.jpg

'OH GOD IT'S SO BLURRY WHAT IS GOING ON'

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a155/Jibar/100_1199.jpg

'OM NOM NOM'
'Oh what a horrible fate!'

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a155/Jibar/100_1199.jpg

'BBBBLLLLAAAARRRRGGGG!'
'Aaaahhh! Run for it!'

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a155/Jibar/100_1201.jpg

'Don't worry lads, I'll save you once I get all this bloom out of my eyes.'

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a155/Jibar/100_1202.jpg

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a155/Jibar/100_1203.jpg

'BLURRY'

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a155/Jibar/100_1204.jpg

'OM NOM NOM'

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a155/Jibar/100_1205.jpg

*thumbs up*
'Eyyyyy'

THE END

Brilliant! No doubt someone's going to let Michael Bay do an awful adaptation of it in the near future.

Dragonrider

2010-01-21, 05:45 PM

Try having a weekly hour long tutorial with someone who is a certified expert in their field, and you're talking about essays which you wrote. On topics he/she holds dear to his/her heart.

Yeah. He ended up thinking I was more interested in the Edward I aspect, and gave me a bunch of sources. I'm going to end up with a lot of political and military history in it, probably, which isn't necessarily what I was going for but he gave me a couple books to try and a website to look up journal articles, which is what counts.

Now allow me to collapse with exhaustion at the thought of the effort this is all going to take. I have to find primary sources that have been translated (most of what there is is still in French or Latin, which obviously I don't read). Still, my thesis is unformed and I can go where I want with it . . . plus my mum has this tome by J. Beverly Smith, this fusty old guy who's devoted his life to research on medieval Wales . . . so my chances may be pretty good.

Even though this is my favorite professor, I just always come out of my teachers' offices feeling like an idiot. Now I'll go drown my sorrows in St Augustine's confessions, thank you very much. :smalltongue:

Trobby

2010-01-21, 05:49 PM

Brilliant! No doubt someone's going to let Michael Bay do an awful adaptation of it in the near future.

Here's my Michael Bay style adaption of the story:

http://boxtofu.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/explosion.jpg
http://kenoath.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/explosion.jpg
http://www.orlandospfx.com/images/NHR%20Explosion.jpg
http://athensboy.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/dalla-gas-explosion-0558335000.jpg
http://www.debevec.org/Parthenon/ShotByShot/sequence01/previs_explosion.jpg
http://bestgamewallpapers.com/files/adrenalin-extreme-show/explosion.jpg
http://www.liquidmatrix.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/exploding_head.jpg

*EndSPLOSION!*