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banjo1985

2010-08-03, 09:59 AM

Da' Rules You readz these! :smallannoyed:

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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)
Eldpollard'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)
Jibar's Random Banter #137: Return of the Cat-muffin (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=138879)
Edge's Effluence of Extravagant and Effulgent Random Banter #138 (”http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=7876065”)
Zeb The Troll's Zecond Go At Ze Random Banter #139 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showpost.php?p=8061505&postcount=1)
Curly's Rambunctious and Erudite Random Banter #140
Deth Muncher's Destructive and Meandering Random Banter #141 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=150904)
A Thread in Which Banter Most Random is Expulsed Into Existence, By Ravens_cry #142 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=156548)
Several Silly Sealions Stuffed Seaweed Southward Swiftly (Or, Random Banter #143) (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=159998)
The thread that changed name one last time, with style. (Random Banter #144) (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=161407)

At the end of #144:
We were all wondering what to have for dinner.
Wall-E is either good or trash, depending on who you listen to.
Dogmantra was consdiering how many more lunch related items could be made with his post.

Let the banter commence!

EmeraldRose

2010-08-03, 10:00 AM

So, how many name changes do you think this RB will go thru?

Tiger Duck

2010-08-03, 10:01 AM

None at all, I think it won't be as funny a second time.

Edit: Also Boogies.

2010-08-03, 10:03 AM

It wasn't funny the first time. Sing along ya'll! X2's opinion and no one elses

Trobby

2010-08-03, 10:03 AM

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

My work is done here. :smallamused:

2010-08-03, 10:04 AM

Oh Introbulus do you ever stop being amusing?

No. You do not.

EmeraldRose

2010-08-03, 10:05 AM

So, how many threads has it been since Ego's been in to do the boogie blessing? I feel as though I've missed a few dozen since the last time I was in here...

Maybe I should spend more time home during the day, and not at work.

Yes, that would be nice.

Archonic Energy

2010-08-03, 10:05 AM

Oh Introbulus do you ever stop being amusing?

No. You do not.

is that your op....

sorry couldn't resist! :smallamused:

Phase

2010-08-03, 10:06 AM

This thread has the official blessing of science, being the first thread opened at the main terminal in my research laboratory.

Now we must boogie for the sake of all mankind, lest she blind us WITH SCIENCE.

2010-08-03, 10:07 AM

Failure in communication is the problem of the communicator.

Epic disagree.

The communicator could speak fluent English loud and clear so he cant be faulted if the intended listeners are letting off firecrackers next to each other so they cant hear.

EmeraldRose

2010-08-03, 10:07 AM

banjo1985

2010-08-03, 10:09 AM

For Science!

As for Ego, I haven't seen her on here for a year or more unfortunately. That might have more to do with me being here less and less often more than anything else though?

also *sets off firecrackers with joyous abandon*

Serpentine

2010-08-03, 10:09 AM

*sigh* I was hoping we could leave it in the old thread.
Fine, in the vast majority of cases, including, in my opinion, this one, failure of communication is the resposibility of the communicator. If someone - especially multiple someones - interprets something you say differently to what you meant, then to not even consider the possibility that it might be that you need to communicate better is pure egotism. Especially if it an incredible simple matter to correct it.

Atreyu the Masked LLama

2010-08-03, 10:10 AM

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

My work is done here. :smallamused:

SQUEEE!! *WOOLY HUGGLES*

Sorry, couldn't resist. The cuteness must be huggled.

Archonic Energy

2010-08-03, 10:11 AM

*Mind Control*

you know what to do Llama Boy...

Dance!

Quincunx

2010-08-03, 10:11 AM

Dear Canned Food Manufacturers:

Whilst I and others appreciate that you are trying to lower the fat/salt/other gooey sticky thingies content of your foods, the substitutes do not always yield the same effect. Please take an example from the lead of Coca-Cola and introduce new products as new while simultaneously selling the old. I won't mind buying "Extra Unhealthy Flavor" if you want to use "Same Great Taste" with the old packaging and the new formula, but please keep--selling--the proven food!

--Yours,
A Consumer Whose Casserole Just Fell Apart.

P.S. If unfeasible, just send a list of those countries which are not legislating the lowering of fat/salt/other gooey sticky thingies content, and let me import from there. Thank you.

You could always make a nice cup of tea with it? Well, nice being subjective. I've never tried post tea before. I did have about four teeny tiny cups of delicious Earl Grey the other day, though I didn't expect it to be delicious at first because apparently you're not supposed to put milk in it. What's that all about? Everyone knows the proper way to drink tea is milk and no sugar. Not two and a half sugars like those builders next door who are doing nothing but banging! BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG. I suppose it beats buying an alarm clock in as much as it's cheaper, but if only I could time them to start when I wanted to be woken, then I suppose it'd be better (I'd set them to go off at 7pm, just for a laugh).

Or you could just laugh at the AMAZING pun. That's what I'd suggest.

(prints this out, sets it to soak in boiling water)

It can't taste any more like old paper than that box of "oolong tea" did.

2010-08-03, 10:11 AM

If someone - especially multiple someones - interprets something you say differently to what you meant, then to not even consider the possibility that it might be that you need to communicate better is pure egotism. Especially if it an incredible simple matter to correct it.

Yeah that sounds about right.

EmeraldRose

2010-08-03, 10:12 AM

Hmm...tea would be good.

*goes to make a cup*

Form

2010-08-03, 10:12 AM

For Science!

All hail almighty science! :smalltongue:

Also, the paperwork for the new thread is not yet in order! It needs one last stamp.

http://solarpowerrocks.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/approved1.jpg

There. Now it is.

Serpentine

2010-08-03, 10:12 AM

Yeah that sounds about right.Well that's a good start.

Thufir

2010-08-03, 10:13 AM

From the last thread:

I also trust that she's not aiming the criticism at you, it's a real trend nowadays to not like the cool thing just because it's popular, or to think that since you're the underdog, you're always right.

Perhaps they're taking Ibsen a bit too literally.

Well that's their problem then isn't it. I believe its certifiably odd to think that my review was trying to pass itself off as fact. totally X2's opinion ya'll love hate clouds

Actually, the person it causes a problem to is you, since you're the one who comes across badly to these people as a result of your phrasing. They are not in the least inconvenienced by thinking that, whereas you are.

From this thread:

So, how many threads has it been since Ego's been in to do the boogie blessing?

A lot? I think she sometimes still did it when I started posting in RB, but not always. Mostly it was JibJab. And he's not around so much any more either, so Curly does it. Only sometimes she's not around, but Introbulus made an adorable avatar for the purpose.

is that your op....

sorry couldn't resist! :smallamused:

I was going to say something like that, but let's face it: That one is fact.

Phase

2010-08-03, 10:15 AM

SQUEEE!! *WOOLY HUGGLES*

At least those hugs are not whoosy. When one feels whoosy it can often lead to your head falling off and bone failure.

banjo1985

2010-08-03, 10:17 AM

You know what that needs? More calcium. The head might still fall off, but at least your bones will be okay. In the end, isn't that what's important?

2010-08-03, 10:18 AM

Well that's a good start.

Excellent! Now that you know that I'm an evil egotistical person who thinks that misinterpreting obvious opinions is pants-on-head stupid and I know that you know this I look forward to years months days hours days of talking to you on this fine forum.

Serpentine

2010-08-03, 10:19 AM

Won't this be fun.

EmeraldRose

2010-08-03, 10:19 AM

Man, I feel like it's been ages since I've been around in here. This is what I get for mostly being in SMBGs for the last however long.

It hasn't helped me any that so many people have changed their names. Half the time, I have to look at the join date to figure out if I probably know someone or not...

Allan Surgite

2010-08-03, 10:20 AM

So, how many name changes do you think this RB will go thru?
Not enough.

Atreyu the Masked LLama

2010-08-03, 10:21 AM

*Mind Control*

you know what to do Llama Boy...

Dance!

http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i278/wolfshonor/llamas/disco.gif

Disco (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-m9ZP_tTtLc) never dies!!

I never got the hang of clubbing. So often, things I think look stupid turn out to be legitimate "dance" moves.

2010-08-03, 10:21 AM

YPU

2010-08-03, 10:21 AM

I go for a coffee brake on page 48, I come back to a new RB. I never had time to say goodbye to my monstrous creation.

Banjo, you took it from me! :smallfurious:

I like the new title. and boogies.

Serpentine

2010-08-03, 10:23 AM

I bumped my head pretty bad a few hours ago and now I'm afraid to go to sleep. I'm a worryer you see and always assume the worst outcome is going to happen out of any given situation. It's frustrating.Doctor Mum says there's no reason to stop anyone with a concussion from going to sleep. If they're gonna go into a coma, that ain't gonna stop it.

Mr. Mud

2010-08-03, 10:24 AM

Player_Zero

2010-08-03, 10:26 AM

Excellent! Now that you know that I'm an evil egotistical person who thinks that misinterpreting obvious opinions is pants-on-head stupid and I know that you know this I look forward to years months days hours days of talking to you on this fine forum.

I like the cut of your jib.

banjo1985

2010-08-03, 10:26 AM

I go for a coffee brake on page 48, I come back to a new RB. I never had time to say goodbye to my monstrous creation.

Banjo, you took it from me! :smallfurious:

I like the new title. and boogies.

:smalleek: I'll give it a proper burial I promise! Next to my old budgies, and that hanster that I forgot to feed!

Me? Leave? I'm in a state of permament semi-goneness really, I manage to get in here once a week or so to annoy old acquantences with inane and meaningless chatter, but that's about it. Can't get rid of me that easily. :smallamused:

2010-08-03, 10:26 AM

Doctor Mum says there's no reason to stop anyone with a concussion from going to sleep. If they're gonna go into a coma, that ain't gonna stop it.

I was hoping for a bit more reassurance actually. Man. Now I'm never getting to sleep.

I like the cut of your jib.

What?

Archonic Energy

2010-08-03, 10:26 AM

ForzaFiori

2010-08-03, 10:27 AM

Doctor Mum says there's no reason to stop anyone with a concussion from going to sleep. If they're gonna go into a coma, that ain't gonna stop it.

You can let them sleep, but your supposed to wake them up every hour or so to make sure that they haven't slipped into a coma. That way you can get the to a hospital sooner than if you go in to their room the next morning and they can't wake up.

Or at least, that's what the doctors told me every time I've had a concussion, and I've had plenty.

SpiderMew

2010-08-03, 10:28 AM

I have too much stuff to which i can fill my time with. I want to do it all yet want to do nothing.

EmeraldRose

2010-08-03, 10:28 AM

quick change the title before it gets locked! :smallamused:

This! Do this now!! :smallbiggrin:

Player_Zero

2010-08-03, 10:28 AM

A jib is a triangular staysail set ahead of the foremast of a sailing boat.

YPU

2010-08-03, 10:31 AM

This! Do this now!! :smallbiggrin:

In its honour, I have done so.

banjo1985

2010-08-03, 10:31 AM

I have too much stuff to which i can fill my time with. I want to do it all yet want to do nothing.

Procrastination is a bihatch aint it? When there are a dozen things to do, you always end up sitting in front of the TV in your underpants eating cheesy Wotsits don't you? I sure do. :smalltongue:

2010-08-03, 10:31 AM

Player Zero I am even more confused now than when I started.

Form

2010-08-03, 10:31 AM

:smalleek: I'll give it a proper burial I promise! Next to my old budgies, and that hanster that I forgot to feed!

Well, someone should bury it. Before it starts to fester...

I was hoping for a bit more reassurance actually. Man. Now I'm never getting to sleep.

I would say something reassuring, but I wouldn't actually know what I'd be talking about and then I'd be lying. Or, technically, speaking out of ignorance.

Yeah, I'm not very useful here. :/

Phase

2010-08-03, 10:32 AM

He likes the cut of your jib. I think he likes you, which is more affection than he's ever shown to anyone ever.

YPU

2010-08-03, 10:32 AM

Procrastination is a bihatch aint it? When there are a dozen things to do, you always end up sitting in front of the TV in your underpants eating cheesy Wotsits don't you? I sure do. :smalltongue:

And we wonder why you are so rarely online. :smallbiggrin:

EDIT: Phase I am sure all affection was lost again when X2 did not get to jibs with it.

SpiderMew

2010-08-03, 10:32 AM

Procrastination is a bihatch aint it? When there are a dozen things to do, you always end up sitting in front of the TV in your underpants eating cheesy Wotsits don't you? I sure do. :smalltongue:

sept we are all out of cheesy wotsits.
Im already sitting arround in my underpants :smallamused:

2010-08-03, 10:34 AM

He likes the cut of your jib. I think he likes you, which is more affection than he's ever shown to anyone ever.

Well thank you Player Zero. I just met you but you make a decent first impression. I hope this blossoms into weeks days hours days pie weeks of friendship. At least

EmeraldRose

2010-08-03, 10:34 AM

Player Zero I am even more confused now than when I started.

To clear things up for ya. (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=I%20like%20the%20cut%20of%20your%2 0Jib)

banjo1985

2010-08-03, 10:34 AM

Quavers will do at a pinch, or Twiglets. The specific type of snack doesn't really matter, as long as it's teamed with the liberation of wondering around the house in your altogethers.:smalltongue: Just be glad I don't go online like that, what with webcams and all that new techy stuff that's around nowadays.

*casts craft disturbing mental image*

2010-08-03, 10:36 AM

To clear things up for ya. (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=I%20like%20the%20cut%20of%20your%2 0Jib)

Thank you Emerald Rose Fendleman Tyler

SpiderMew

2010-08-03, 10:36 AM

I could rip up some tortillas and fry them up and make nachos.....

EmeraldRose

2010-08-03, 10:37 AM

In its honour, I have done so.
Perfect!

Thank you Emerald Rose Fendleman Tyler
:smallcool:

banjo1985

2010-08-03, 10:42 AM

I could rip up some tortillas and fry them up and make nachos.....

And lo did the random banter return to the subject of food! I wonder whether staplers could be rendered down into something edible...otherwise I'm going to have to consume this monitor, which will make it rather difficult to post.

2010-08-03, 10:43 AM

And lo did the random banter return to the subject of food! I wonder whether staplers could be rendered down into something edible...otherwise I'm going to have to consume this monitor, which will make it rather difficult to post.

I believe this happened when I jokingly asked "What's for dinner?"

SpiderMew

2010-08-03, 10:45 AM

And lo did the random banter return to the subject of food! I wonder whether staplers could be rendered down into something edible...otherwise I'm going to have to consume this monitor, which will make it rather difficult to post.

If your that hungry, you should boil your shoes. Leather is edible, metal not so much.

Form

2010-08-03, 10:45 AM

And lo did the random banter return to the subject of food! I wonder whether staplers could be rendered down into something edible...otherwise I'm going to have to consume this monitor, which will make it rather difficult to post.

I suggest consuming other parts of your computer first, such as the mouse. It is entirely possible to use the forums with only the keyboard...

YPU

2010-08-03, 10:46 AM

Hey banjo, could you change the name of the previous thread in the first post list. :smallbiggrin:

EmeraldRose

2010-08-03, 10:47 AM

And lo did the random banter return to the subject of food! I wonder whether staplers could be rendered down into something edible...otherwise I'm going to have to consume this monitor, which will make it rather difficult to post.

Nah, it'll just make it hard to tell what you've posted. You could still do it...

Serpentine

2010-08-03, 10:48 AM

I was hoping for a bit more reassurance actually. Man. Now I'm never getting to sleep.Well, look at it another way, then: If you were going to fall into a coma, you would've already.

Atreyu the Masked LLama

2010-08-03, 10:50 AM

Nah, it'll just make it hard to tell what you've posted. You could still do it...

Yeah. I'm sure that Banjo has the site layout memorized in his head.

I've dreamed that I've surfed the forums in my sleep before. Its probably pretty similar.

KuReshtin

2010-08-03, 10:50 AM

Hello, new thread.
Pleased to meet you.

Time for final rush at work to get things sorted away before I go home for the day, I think. :smallbiggrin: Yeah, right. Like i'm going to get anything done in the next 10 minutes.

YPU

2010-08-03, 10:51 AM

Hello, new thread.
Pleased to meet. you.

Time for final rush at work to get things sorted away before I go home for the day, I think. :smallbiggrin: Yeah, right. Like i'm going to get anything done in the next 10 minutes.

Wait, you have had this problem before haven't you?

banjo1985

2010-08-03, 10:52 AM

I suggest consuming other parts of your computer first, such as the mouse. It is entirely possible to use the forums with only the keyboard...

Mouse has already gone I'm afraid, as has the gel from inside the mousemat. The guy that sits next to me is off today...maybe I could eat his instead...

Hey banjo, could you change the name of the previous thread in the first post list. :smallbiggrin:

Done....git :smalltongue:
If you change it again I'll hunt you down with a tea strainer.

Nah, it'll just make it hard to tell what you've posted. You could still do it...

True, but as Llama said, posting about consuming computer equipment in the Board Issues sub-forum would get me some funny looks I'd imagine. At least I wouldn't be able to see them.

KuReshtin

2010-08-03, 10:53 AM

Wait, you have had this problem before haven't you?

Only on Mondays, Tuesdays and Fridays.

Well, most Thursdays as well, to be honest.
And a majority of Wednesdays.

Form

2010-08-03, 10:53 AM

Mouse has already gone I'm afraid, as has the gel from inside the mousemat. The guy that sits next to me is off today...maybe I could eat his instead...

It's a shame he's gone. You could have eaten him instead. :smalltongue:

YPU

2010-08-03, 10:55 AM

Eat his chair!

banjo1985

2010-08-03, 10:56 AM

Eat his chair!

Well...it is blue and ergonomic, sounds tasty! Or I could just go home and eat the aforementioned chicken wraps. Dull, but not quite so hazardous to my health. :smallbiggrin:

EmeraldRose

2010-08-03, 10:56 AM

Well, enjoy eating computer related items!

I'm off for my massage. When I return I shall be sublimely relaxed. :smallcool:

KuReshtin

2010-08-03, 10:56 AM

Isn't there a vending machine nearby?
I know that would spoil the running gag, but still. :smallwink:

Mr. Mud

2010-08-03, 10:57 AM

Watching Entourage whilst eating toast. With cranberry jam.

KuReshtin

2010-08-03, 10:58 AM

Watching Entourage whilst eating toast. With cranberry jam.

I didn't know cranberry jam enjoyed watching Entourage.

YPU

2010-08-03, 10:58 AM

Isn't there a vending machine nearby?
I know that would spoil the running gag, but still. :smallwink:

Yea, he would be eating office furniture instead of computer related items.

Atreyu the Masked LLama

2010-08-03, 10:58 AM

If Banjo eats a whole vending machine, he'll ruin his appetitie for supper and Mrs. Banjo will kill him.

Mr. Mud

2010-08-03, 11:00 AM

I didn't know cranberry jam enjoyed watching Entourage.

You'd be surprised. I have to keep him settled down, or else he'll get together with Apricot, and all well will break loose.

KuReshtin

2010-08-03, 11:00 AM

Right.. Didn't think of that.

ION: Would you look at that? I managed to not get anything done in those last ten minutes of work after all.
Time to go home, I guess.

Form

2010-08-03, 11:00 AM

Isn't there a vending machine nearby?
I know that would spoil the running gag, but still. :smallwink:

Shush! Eat this guy up here.

...

Yeah, eating the vending machine is probably a better idea.

Player_Zero

2010-08-03, 11:46 AM

He likes the cut of your jib. I think he likes you, which is more affection than he's ever shown to anyone ever.

That's not quite fair. I wasn't always so hateful you know.

Keld Denar

2010-08-03, 11:58 AM

I've dreamed that I've surfed the forums in my sleep before. Its probably pretty similar.

I dreamed last night that a bunch of my forum friends all got banned, so I sent a PM to Roland asking why they got banned, and he sent me back a picture of a locked door with a chain across it and the words "You shall never know" written beneath it and then banned me.

What a nightmare. 2nd one in a row, although the first one was work related. lol.

Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll

2010-08-03, 12:01 PM

I dreamed last night that a bunch of my forum friends all got banned, so I sent a PM to Roland asking why they got banned, and he sent me back a picture of a locked door with a chain across it and the words "You shall never know" written beneath it and then banned me.

What a nightmare. 2nd one in a row, although the first one was work related. lol.

Heh. The picture thing makes me think you're mixing Roland and Rawhide's characteristics in your psyche. 'cause while Roland is the banmeister, Rawhide is the one with all the pictures.

Trobby

2010-08-03, 12:34 PM

SQUEEE!! *WOOLY HUGGLES*

Sorry, couldn't resist. The cuteness must be huggled.

Quite alright, mysterious talking Llama. *Fuzzy nuzzles*

http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i278/wolfshonor/llamas/disco.gif

Disco (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-m9ZP_tTtLc) never dies!!

I never got the hang of clubbing. So often, things I think look stupid turn out to be legitimate "dance" moves.

I think it has something to do with your excessive supply of legs.

Two left feet. :smalltongue:

A jib is a triangular staysail set ahead of the foremast of a sailing boat.

Yar, this be true.

He likes the cut of your jib. I think he likes you, which is more affection than he's ever shown to anyone ever.

Record previously set when PZ congratulated himself on a job well done. He then promptly scolded himself for such a display of affection.

That's not quite fair. I wasn't always so hateful you know.

Of course not. You had to work hard to get where you are today.

ION: Quote barrage. Hopefully not too big.

IOON: This is how my lunch went.

Brain: Eat that can of chili.
Mouth: Okay.
Hands: *pour chili, rinse can*
Brain: You could put that into the pot and save the bits that are stuck inside.
Mouth: Ooh, tasty.
Hands: *pour it in*
Brain: That looks a bit watery...use some of that leftover tomato sauce to thicken it up.
Stomach: Won't that make me terribly upset later?
Mouth: Bah, it sounds nummy.
Hands: *Pour it in*
(Cooking time later...)
Mouth: MMM! It's like a spicy soup now!
(5 minutes later)
Stomach: GRAAAAAWWWRRR~!
Brain: ...Okay, so maybe he had a point. Uugh...

Fortunately, the arghness has subsided. Mostly.

EmeraldRose

2010-08-03, 12:38 PM

Ahhh...MUCH better! For any woman who's pregnant (or men if they can manage it), I absolutely recommend getting a pregnancy massage!!

Now for food!

Mr. Mud

2010-08-03, 12:38 PM

Doesn't sound particularly fun. I drizzled a bit of chill... sauce? over popcorn the other day. It was epic.

Thajocoth

2010-08-03, 12:44 PM

So... Umm... What WAS the moral of Wall-E? Since people seem to think it was pretty obvious and, as I said in the last thread, I didn't notice one... Best I could think of is that humans shouldn't sit on their butts for several generations in a row or they'll evolve fat. Am I missing something somewhere?

Trobby

2010-08-03, 12:50 PM

@ Mud: Chili Sauce exists. If you are a huge fan of spice, it can be good on anything. I'm only a moderate fan though.

@ Thajocoth: The moral is essentially not to allow yourself to become dependent on the convenience of society, lest it turn you into something less than human. The fact that the main robots of the film exhibit more emotion than any of the humans initially do, and that only through interacting with the titular character do they learn anything about the world around them is the crux of this moral.

Though there's another one there as well - the industrialization of society, with a "one-time use" mindset, will eventually lead to city-sized garbage dumps and an uninhabitable planet if we allow it to spiral out of control.

Mr. Mud

2010-08-03, 12:58 PM

@ Mud: Chili Sauce exists. If you are a huge fan of spice, it can be good on anything. I'm only a moderate fan though.

I guess I'm a huge fan? But I can't stand things that are obnoxiously spicy. I love that slightly above mild, and kinda-tangy-sweet chili.

EmeraldRose

2010-08-03, 01:02 PM

I guess I'm a huge fan? But I can't stand things that are obnoxiously spicy. I love that slightly above mild, and kinda-tangy-sweet chili.

Try some Thai sweet chili sauce. Gives you a little bit of both, with enough of a kick to make it interesting. You can either buy it in the grocery store, or you could probably make some pretty easily.

Mr. Mud

2010-08-03, 01:06 PM

Will do. Thai food has always been largely awesome.

ION, Do we have any Chipotle (http://www.chipotle.com/en-US/Default.aspx?type=default) fans-itp? Jeez, the stuff is the best.

EmeraldRose

2010-08-03, 01:12 PM

I love Chipotle!!!! I usually get the chicken bowl with rice, black beans, hot salsa, sour cream, cheese and lettuce.

In fact, that's what I ger every time...:smallredface:

ZombieRockStar

2010-08-03, 01:19 PM

Ahhh...MUCH better! For any woman who's pregnant (or men if they can manage it), I absolutely recommend getting a pregnancy massage!!

I think I've read that fanfic. "Cloud Gets a Massage."

"Ooooh," moaned Cloud. "My stomach hurts."

"What's the matter, honey?" asked Vincent, rolling over on his side. He stretched one arm out and lay it on Cloud's swollen belly. "Our little boy getting restless again?"

"He won't stop kicking," whined Cloud. Vincent leaned over to kiss his belly. Soft lips pressed over Cloud's navel.

"You know, I think I've heard of a sort of massage you can get to help with that. In fact, I think Cid might know a few techniques..."

...

...

...I apologize for killing anyone's braincells with that. The ushers are currently passing out bottles of bleach for those who need to use it on their eyes and brains.

Mr. Mud

2010-08-03, 01:22 PM

I love Chipotle!!!! I usually get the chicken bowl with rice, black beans, hot salsa, sour cream, cheese and lettuce.

In fact, that's what I ger every time...:smallredface:

I always get a burrito with rice, black beans, steak (sometime I ask for half chicken and half steak, and they give you a full amount of each :smalltongue:), hot salsa, corn salsa (it's kinda sweet, I really like it), cheese and lettuce.

I never wanted to work fast food because the pay and benefits were never good enough for the time, according to peers, but I'd kill for a job at a Chipotle.

EmeraldRose

2010-08-03, 01:24 PM

Yeah, it's pretty good food, and the quality seems to compare between locations. Not to mention it's enough food to feed an army. :smallbiggrin:

@ZRS: wow....I'm not even sure what to say to that. Certainly puts the games into a different perspective...:smalltongue:

Keld Denar

2010-08-03, 01:37 PM

ION, Do we have any Chipotle (http://www.chipotle.com/en-US/Default.aspx?type=default) fans-itp? Jeez, the stuff is the best.

Q'Doba >>>>>>>>>>>>> Chipotle

3 magical words: Queso Chicken Burrito.

That is all.

Mr. Mud

2010-08-03, 01:39 PM

Q'Doba >>>>>>>>>>>>> Chipotle

3 magical words: Queso Chicken Burrito.

That is all.

Q'Doba? Is it a chain? Never heard of it. HOW CAN YOU BEAT CHIPOTLE?

EmeraldRose

2010-08-03, 01:41 PM

Q'Doba is good too. Thing is, there's way more Chipotle's around here than Q'Doba. I was mad at them when they quit making the chicken mole though...it was the best! After that went away, I never really found another one that I liked...

@Mud: pretty much the same thing, but Q'Doba calls theirs the 'naked burrito' rather than burrito bowl :smallwink:

Q'Doba's queso is 5000000000billion times better than Chipotle's...which doesn't exist...

CurlyKitGirl

2010-08-03, 01:42 PM

From last thread:

All the same, CurlyKitGirl, you do owe it to future students to put Black Biro back into circulation and buy yourself a different copy of the book. The annotations alone would make it valuable, but the additional sources cited turn it into a legacy. Maybe you can also buy other inexpensive copies to recycle into the book stream, beginning a legacy of Blue Fountain Pen the Bringer of Insight. The work in these Random Banters was appreciated, but it won't endure. . .

Tempting. And I am enough of a nerd to copy out all annotations from one volume into another.

This thread:

A lot? I think she sometimes still did it when I started posting in RB, but not always. Mostly it was JibJab. And he's not around so much any more either, so Curly does it. Only sometimes she's not around, but Introbulus made an adorable avatar for the purpose.

It's not my fault you amke the new threads when I'm not here!

*BOOGIES!*

You may now proceed to your regularly scheduled banter.

I think I've read that fanfic. "Cloud Gets a Massage."

"Ooooh," moaned Cloud. "My stomach hurts."

"What's the matter, honey?" asked Vincent, rolling over on his side. He stretched one arm out and lay it on Cloud's swollen belly. "Our little boy getting restless again?"

"He won't stop kicking," whined Cloud. Vincent leaned over to kiss his belly. Soft lips pressed over Cloud's navel.

"You know, I think I've heard of a sort of massage you can get to help with that. In fact, I think Cid might know a few techniques..."

...

...

...I apologize for killing anyone's braincells with that. The ushers are currently passing out bottles of bleach for those who need to use it on their eyes and brains.

I've read worse. Much worse. I could probably write worse, but it would end up in me falling into troll territory.
Although it would depend on whether I wrote the subiect matter very well or not.
Even the worst subiect matter could be improved by really skilled writing.

Note: I've only ever played two hours of FFVIII, so while I have an extremely sketchy knowledge of VII, I know nothing! Except they're all guys and on opposing sides of conflict? Perhaps.

ION:
Hai ER! *hugs*
Everyone is coming back! :happy:

IOON:
Littlest Brother is driving me more insane than usual. I nearly punched him earlier. This is bad.
Any ideas for anger management?

Player_Zero

2010-08-03, 01:43 PM

Littlest Brother is driving me more insane than usual. I nearly punched him earlier. This is bad.
Any ideas for anger management?

Proper diet, relaxation and excerise.

Mr. Mud

2010-08-03, 01:44 PM

Worira

2010-08-03, 01:46 PM

Q'Doba's queso is 5000000000billion times better than Chipotle's...which doesn't exist...

Huh. You'd think they would have at least some cheese.

Mr. Mud

2010-08-03, 01:48 PM

Huh. You'd think they would have at least some cheese.

They do. It's just not melted as traditional queso is. I kinda prefer it to a melted variant. It seems more... refreshing and flavorful this way?

EmeraldRose

2010-08-03, 01:51 PM

Yeah, I know! I was so disappointed to find they didn't have the queso. It's the best thing at Q'Doba. So very melty and cheesy....

You can get chips and guac though. Their guac is pretty good. Sometimes too many onions though. :smallyuk:

EDIT: On a completely unrelated note, listening to Shinedown's The Sound of Madness, and playing Plants vs Zombies is pretty cool! :smallbiggrin:

CurlyKitGirl

2010-08-03, 01:59 PM

Proper diet, relaxation and excerise.

P_Z, is that you?

With the exception of that last one I do all those things. And even the exercise I do, iust not as much as I should.

Worira

2010-08-03, 02:08 PM

Yeah, I know! I was so disappointed to find they didn't have the queso. It's the best thing at Q'Doba. So very melty and cheesy....

As cheese has been known to be, yes.

Keld Denar

2010-08-03, 02:12 PM

Exercise releases endorphines and dopamine, which are pretty much like cocaine for your brain, except natural...and legal. People who exercise are generally happier than people who don't, and muscle tone helps with self-esteem. If you ever get really mad, something easy to do is to just go to your room and do jumping jacks as fast as you can until you literaly can't anymore. This'll get your heart rate up, get the drugs pumping, and generally make you feel good. If you want to kick it up a notch, go find a treadmill. I wouldn't really recommend getting started by running outdoors, as its really hard to pace yourself appropriately, but treadmills are great for that.

EDIT: What is Plants vs Zombies? I'm intrigued and seek enlightenment.

EDIT EDIT: Its funny, because in Seattle, across the street from nearly every Chipotle is a Q'Doba. You'd think they'd at least have the sense to seperate them by a block or 2...nope, straight across the street. Then again, this is the city where there are literally 2 Starbucks across the street from each other. Its like a cruel trap, because after you finish being snobby with your $7 coffee, you exit the building, see the Starbucks across the street, and get that desire to light another $7 on fire so you can feel haughty and superior. Its a never ending cycle of caffine and cynicism.

Player_Zero

2010-08-03, 02:13 PM

If you ever get really mad, something easy to do is to just go to your room and do jumping jacks as fast as you can until you literaly can't anymore.
Because if you're angry that's EXACTLY what you'll want to do. I know when I'm angry I think to myself 'GODAMNIT I HATE EVER-Oh yeah, jumping jacks!'

Screw punching the wall, jumping jacks all the way.

CurlyKitGirl

2010-08-03, 02:16 PM

EmeraldRose

2010-08-03, 02:17 PM

As cheese has been known to be, yes.

:smallwink:

Player_Zero

2010-08-03, 02:19 PM

You could try what I do when I'm angry and insult people over the internet.

Trobby

2010-08-03, 02:23 PM

Exercise really is the best thing for anger though. Get all of that adrenaline put into something productive.

Thajocoth

2010-08-03, 02:25 PM

@ Thajocoth: The moral is essentially not to allow yourself to become dependent on the convenience of society, lest it turn you into something less than human. The fact that the main robots of the film exhibit more emotion than any of the humans initially do, and that only through interacting with the titular character do they learn anything about the world around them is the crux of this moral.

Though there's another one there as well - the industrialization of society, with a "one-time use" mindset, will eventually lead to city-sized garbage dumps and an uninhabitable planet if we allow it to spiral out of control.

I more saw these things simply as "The setting". A story needs a setting, right?

The general mindlessness of the people was to make them seem initially scary. Then we find out they're friendly. There were certainly aspects of their personalities that couldn't be explained by merely saying "hi" to some robots... I saw this like something that's sleeping getting poked and waking up, really, which makes sense given the setting.

Same for the garbage dumps. How else can one human-built robot be so foreign to another? How else could Wall-E be so isolated and alone in the beginning?

I think an awful lot of people have a tendency to over-think fiction and come up with all sorts of underlying and hidden stuff that the original work's creators would have no idea what they're talking about. But I know that as someone who doesn't believe things like "foreshadowing" actually exist in fiction, I'm in the minority. (By this I mean the majority of what's covered in English class as far as fiction-analysis goes.)

Explanatory side mini-rant:
I believe such things are merely a coincidence of plot. Using foreshadowing as an example (because it's one of the easier ones to explain): Thing A happens before thing B. B couldn't've otherwise happened. This is exactly how events work in the real world. The old expression "Hindsight is 20/20" comes from this. Looking backwards, it looks like A foreshadowed B, but going forwards there is no way to know. I don't think it's ever purposeful. (Without feeling really forced and awkward, at least...)

Back in High School when I took English courses, I remember I'd just make stuff up about how entirely unrelated stuff was related, and always get As. I found it kinda funny, really.

Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll

2010-08-03, 02:50 PM

Speaking as a writer though (if an amateur one), I know I certainly do use foreshadowing. When I'm writing something that seems like an echo of something else earlier, it's for a reason. When an object is mentioned, seemingly offhand, it's for a reason.

Of course, when it comes to MORALS, I don't do that. I write for story, plain and simple.

CurlyKitGirl

2010-08-03, 03:00 PM

I more saw these things simply as "The setting". A story needs a setting, right?

The general mindlessness of the people was to make them seem initially scary. Then we find out they're friendly. There were certainly aspects of their personalities that couldn't be explained by merely saying "hi" to some robots... I saw this like something that's sleeping getting poked and waking up, really, which makes sense given the setting.

Same for the garbage dumps. How else can one human-built robot be so foreign to another? How else could Wall-E be so isolated and alone in the beginning?

I think an awful lot of people have a tendency to over-think fiction and come up with all sorts of underlying and hidden stuff that the original work's creators would have no idea what they're talking about. But I know that as someone who doesn't believe things like "foreshadowing" actually exist in fiction, I'm in the minority. (By this I mean the majority of what's covered in English class as far as fiction-analysis goes.)

Explanatory side mini-rant:
I believe such things are merely a coincidence of plot. Using foreshadowing as an example (because it's one of the easier ones to explain): Thing A happens before thing B. B couldn't've otherwise happened. This is exactly how events work in the real world. The old expression "Hindsight is 20/20" comes from this. Looking backwards, it looks like A foreshadowed B, but going forwards there is no way to know. I don't think it's ever purposeful. (Without feeling really forced and awkward, at least...)

Back in High School when I took English courses, I remember I'd just make stuff up about how entirely unrelated stuff was related, and always get As. I found it kinda funny, really.

. . .
*asplode-y head*

No, you actually make a good point when you say X couldn't have known that what X was writing contained A, B, D and G.
Sometimes writers don't know. Other times, they most definitely bloody well do.
It's called planning, and good writing.

Watch.
Okay . . . okay . . . I need a premise, what do I see around me. A dirty plate with some rubbish on it I need to take down (do so after this), the original trilogy of Indiana Iones, likewise for Star Wars, lots more things. CSI on TV.
Okay.
Space archaeologists uncover a secret environmental danger that will wipe out an entire planet.
Also there are murders.

So, foreshadowing then. Let's have MultiCorp Cliche-Ometra sponsor the dig, and seem really righteous. Dude. However, if in the first act we have people in the back ground commenting on Sucky McDealings at the Cliche-Ometra dig - iust one example. Umm, putting too-extreme provisos on where to dig.
THEN! an intrepid archaeologist - Montana Smith - goes too far from the approved sites and winds up dead! Yeah.

And it turns out the the liason between Archaeo-Awesome and Cliche-Ometra has contacts in a mercenary group! And she's the one who had Montana Smith (AKA: Monty. Oh, she hates that name, she doesn't even like Spam or parrots) murdered.
Her . . . assistant and her friends go on the usual epic quest after finding some notes written in SECRET SHORTHAND CODE.
At the end let's have an epic space battle with helicopters, things like X-Wings and Constellation class starships duking it out with tons of explosions and lasers!

And now we have our premise, our plot (ever-so-basic-that-it-is) we can incorporate themes, messages and foreshadowing into it.

Most people will pick Shakespeare as example of He Didn't Know ABout This Theme So He Couldn't Have Meant It, but if you can find examples of said theme and it fits, then it's a theme in the work.
Take, *cliche-matic draw . . . . * Hamlet. Maior (popular) themes are: insanity (Obvious), Oepidal complex (also 'obvious', but did Shakespeare 'know' about it? Potentially, but it can be seen as a maior theme because he loves his mother, and he doesn't want his uncle to be married to her because uncle killed father. Hence possible incest as a theme), and homosexuality/homoeroticism/homosociality. (Wait, but homosexuality was illegal then so Shakespeare couldn't have written it. And yet the reluctance of Hamlet to marry Ophelia and his closeness with . . . oh lord, I haven't even read this play a quarter of the way through . . . Polonius? No. Umm, his bosom buffy. His closeness with his friend and the crude sexual banter (17th century slang for the win) between them suggests otherwise)

Basically, iust because the author mayn't have meant it doesn't mean it's not a theme.
And if you plan your writing you can fit in literary tropes and techniques. You should. Makes for fun writing.
And subconsciously one can do the same. I've forgotten the number of times I've been rereading some of my own fiction and noticed foreshadowing etc. I didn't deliberately put in.

Fifty-Eyed Fred

2010-08-03, 03:01 PM

PhoeKun

2010-08-03, 03:08 PM

. . .

Most people will pick Shakespeare as example of He Didn't Know ABout This Theme So He Couldn't Have Meant It, but if you can find examples of said theme and it fits, then it's a theme in the work.
Take, *cliche-matic draw . . . . * Hamlet. Maior (popular) themes are: insanity (Obvious), Oepidal complex (also 'obvious', but did Shakespeare 'know' about it? Potentially, but it can be seen as a maior theme because he loves his mother, and he doesn't want his uncle to be married to her because uncle killed father. Hence possible incest as a theme), and homosexuality/homoeroticism/homosociality. (Wait, but homosexuality was illegal then so Shakespeare couldn't have written it. And yet the reluctance of Hamlet to marry Ophelia and his closeness with . . . oh lord, I haven't even read this play a quarter of the way through . . . Polonius? No. Umm, his bosom buffy. His closeness with his friend and the crude sexual banter (17th century slang for the win) between them suggests otherwise)

I know that you know this already, but I don't think anybody who has actually read Shakespeare's sonnets could possibly say with a straight face that the man would only include "accidental" references to homosexual relationships. :smalltongue:

In any event you're right - themes and messages exist in writing independent of authorial intent, although a skilled writer who cares about her work should strive to be aware of the meanings behind what she's putting on the page.

Incidentally? She'll fail. Every time. >.>

CurlyKitGirl

2010-08-03, 03:21 PM

Normally, even if an author isn't trying to moralise, their beliefs and opinions will come through in their writing. All authors manipulate language and use plot elements and devices in order to convey what they want the reader to be feeling to the reader.

So while an author may write purely for the story, it is often possible to analyse their work all the same. Stories contain messages inherently, after all.

Yup. This all the way. Lots of writing is subconscious. Lots of writing is deliberate. Frellin' Iude the Obscure driving me ka-razy with their religious themes and stupity and general creator breakdown.

Edit: Don't forget revenge! Hamlet has lots of that. :smallbiggrin:

That too.
Hamlet, how can I classify thee? Let me count the ways:
Iacobean play. c. 1600s.
Revenge tragedy cf. Webster and Marlowe.
Incest-y via Oedipal complex cf. The Duchess of Malfi (I adore that play)
Insanity cf. Malfi, MacBeth, and most other plays around then.
Romance.
Homosexuality cf. sonnets, Romeo and Iuliet, more
Malcontent cf Bosolo via Hamlet.
Supernatural cf MacBeth, Midsummer - specifically ghosts.

Ergo: Theatre of Blood. Hits all the main points - revenge, insanity, ghosts, blood guts 'n' gore, betrayal and some more. Oh! A spectacle. In the sense of the dwarf play.

I know that you know this already, but I don't think anybody who has actually read Shakespeare's sonnets could possibly say with a straight face that the man would only include "accidental" references to homosexual relationships. :smalltongue:

Natch my Phoe-sama. I haven't actually read many of his sonnets. Only 'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day' and a few others. Distractions are my things.
Plus Little Sister went off with my Complete Works and I can't re-find it.
But it's definitely not accidental references. At least not all the time.
Shakespeare's iust a really bawdy fellow. Hehe, that's why I enioyed the country matters scene so much when the Beeb produced Hamlet.
It's all about teh sex.

In any event you're right - themes and messages exist in writing independent of authorial intent, although a skilled writer who cares about her work should strive to be aware of the meanings behind what she's putting on the page.

Incidentally? She'll fail. Every time. >.>

Very much. I don't doubt that writers will think long and hard about them, but they'll miss a lot. I think in a way that's a good thing as well because it surprises you and shows you new aspects of your own writing.

Thufir

2010-08-03, 03:22 PM

Watch.
Okay . . . okay . . . I need a premise, what do I see around me. A dirty plate with some rubbish on it I need to take down (do so after this), the original trilogy of Indiana Iones, likewise for Star Wars, lots more things. CSI on TV.
Okay.
Space archaeologists uncover a secret environmental danger that will wipe out an entire planet.
Also there are murders.

... Have I mentioned that I love you?
Seriously, that's iust awesomeness.

And yet the reluctance of Hamlet to marry Ophelia and his closeness with . . . oh lord, I haven't even read this play a quarter of the way through . . . Polonius? No. Umm, his bosom buffy.

Horatio? Very much not Polonius, Polonius is Ophelia's father.

Shakespeare's iust a really bawdy fellow. Hehe, that's why I enioyed the country matters scene so much when the Beeb produced Hamlet.
It's all about teh sex.

This is something which tends to come up when me and my family occasionally end up talking about teaching Shakespeare in schools. That probably a lot of the people who say "Everyone should learn Shakespeare!" probably don't know it that well. They think it's High Art, all fancy and cultural, when it's actually full of dirty jokes.

Coidzor

2010-08-03, 03:27 PM

Cats are quite stressful little creatures. Especially when they get pneumonia.

And especially when you hear they're getting put to sleep as the first thing you hear upon waking up. And then get rushed out into the backyard to finish digging the grave so the mom won't bawl too much about seeing the furry corpse before it's time to interr it. And then work for about an hour enlarging the hole up to spec. Then come inside to get a glass of water and find another one of the cats decided to just vomit on a book for no reason, like it's proud of this newfound ability to binge eat and then vomit on command. Stupid bulimic cat.

And then after dealing with that get told that the cat found out we were going to put it to sleep so it started eating again so they decided not to put it to sleep. balrghelaghalghal. Screw today, I'm just going to sleep until tomorrow, hopefully that one'll be less stressful.

This is something which tends to come up when me and my family occasionally end up talking about teaching Shakespeare in schools. That probably a lot of the people who say "Everyone should learn Shakespeare!" probably don't know it that well. They think it's High Art, all fancy and cultural, when it's actually full of dirty jokes.

Hey now, everyone needs to learn their roots and that dirty jokes are a long-standing tradition amongst English-speakers so they can begin the necessary internal rebellion against the bloody Victorian repression you all exported 200 years later. :smalltongue:

arguskos

2010-08-03, 03:30 PM

Will do. Thai food has always been largely awesome.

ION, Do we have any Chipotle (http://www.chipotle.com/en-US/Default.aspx?type=default) fans-itp? Jeez, the stuff is the best.
Son, I've got family in the Chipotle business. I've got ACCESS and SOURCES. I get free burritos fairly frequently. I've met one of their suppliers (nice fellow). I've used their ingredients at my house to cook before. Yeah, I like Chipotle. :smallamused:

Of course, their marketing campaign is... eh these days. Ever since they bought themselves from McDonald's, their PR department has gone way downhill.

PhoeKun

2010-08-03, 03:43 PM

This is something which tends to come up when me and my family occasionally end up talking about teaching Shakespeare in schools. That probably a lot of the people who say "Everyone should learn Shakespeare!" probably don't know it that well. They think it's High Art, all fancy and cultural, when it's actually full of dirty jokes.

On the contrary, everyone should learn Shakespeare precisely because they have all those expectations that need to be torn down.

Shakespeare is High Art. He is fancy and cultural... and a long string of sex puns. Or general puns. Just fun. High Art knows that there are no taboos, and raises the level of the unspeakable and the immature to something at once more entertaining and more enlightening. And to be sure, that's not all High Art is or does, but there is a perception of it in modern society that is is dry, boring, and stuffy, and...

And it's full of dirty jokes.

Thufir

2010-08-03, 03:45 PM

Hey now, everyone needs to learn their roots and that dirty jokes are a long-standing tradition amongst English-speakers so they can begin the necessary internal rebellion against the bloody Victorian repression you all exported 200 years later. :smalltongue:

Oh, I have no problem with children learning dirty jokes in school. But I suspect some people would, and some of them may also be people who will insist that the same children have to learn Shakespeare because it's part of our culture and so on.
Which is also true, though it would be nice to have some other playwrights taught pre-A-level, rather than 5 years of Shakespeare, not necessarily that well taught.

Player_Zero

2010-08-03, 03:47 PM

Timotei.

Timotei.

Timotei.

YPU

2010-08-03, 03:48 PM

Didn't Shakespeare write his stuff mainly as amusement for the masses? If I remember this correctly then isn't it somewhat predictable its full of lewd jokes?

EmeraldRose

2010-08-03, 03:56 PM

Son, I've got family in the Chipotle business. I've got ACCESS and SOURCES. I get free burritos fairly frequently. I've met one of their suppliers (nice fellow). I've used their ingredients at my house to cook before. Yeah, I like Chipotle. :smallamused:

Of course, their marketing campaign is... eh these days. Ever since they bought themselves from McDonald's, their PR department has gone way downhill.

*is jealous*

Keld Denar

2010-08-03, 03:58 PM

High Art knows that there are no taboos, and raises the level of the unspeakable and the immature to something at once more entertaining and more enlightening.

This is what they call "Full Circle". Its so taudry and naughty that it pushes the bottom of the depraved catagory so hard it breaks through and lands somewhere in the nose turned up snobbery catagory.

Kinda like the David. On one hand, its a brilliant piece of art. On the other, its a teenage boy with his flacid naughty bits exposed. Its 3D child porn! Njuk Njuk Njuk!

Ugulu!!

2010-08-03, 04:11 PM

I can ride my bike with no Handlebars. Can you?

Dogmantra

2010-08-03, 04:14 PM

I can ride my bike with no Handlebars. Can you?

No, but I can advance through several political ranks until I become slightly power crazed, kill my best friend when he starts to protest against me, then look sad as the song fades out.

Ugulu!!

2010-08-03, 04:15 PM

No, but I can advance through several political ranks until I become slightly power crazed, kill my best friend when he starts to protest against me, then look sad as the song fades out.

YAY! You caught my refrence. lol.

Trobby

2010-08-03, 04:21 PM

Timotei.

Timotei.

Timotei.

...

*puts a fan in front of your face*

Dogmantra

2010-08-03, 04:22 PM

YAY! You caught my refrence. lol.

I rate it maybe 63%.

Ugulu!!

2010-08-03, 04:24 PM

I rate it maybe 63%.

The refrence, or the catch-ability?

Dogmantra

2010-08-03, 04:26 PM

Either. I'm not particularly fussed as long as I get to use the phrase "I x it maybe 63%"

Ugulu!!

2010-08-03, 04:27 PM

Either. I'm not particularly fussed as long as I get to use the phrase "I x it maybe 63%"

I like "ITS OVER 9000!" myself

CurlyKitGirl

2010-08-03, 04:31 PM

... Have I mentioned that I love you?
Seriously, that's iust awesomeness.

I'll TM it and write it up as a cliche-ridden mass of awesome.
Oh, and because I want it, there'll be a teampunk'd cat. With a monocle.

Horatio? Very much not Polonius, Polonius is Ophelia's father.

That's it! Horatio.
I get confused because I've read a grand total of maybe three hundred lines of disiointed Hamlet over the years. Should have remembered though what with the oft-misquoted "I knew him Horatio."

This is something which tends to come up when me and my family occasionally end up talking about teaching Shakespeare in schools. That probably a lot of the people who say "Everyone should learn Shakespeare!" probably don't know it that well. They think it's High Art, all fancy and cultural, when it's actually full of dirty jokes.

Even the Exeter Book Riddles are like that. They're basically filthy iokes.
And people say Old English is all battles and Beowulf.
They know nothing.
And when you get to Iacobean plays half the time they're about whores ('Tis Pity She's A Whore), sex, murder, incest, bestiality, murder, insanity, crazy-face soap opera plots, murder, beautiful writing, romance and weirdness. Oh, and ghosts.
They're basically 18 and R-rated films. And for the common masses.

Cats are quite stressful little creatures. Especially when they get pneumonia.

And especially when you hear they're getting put to sleep as the first thing you hear upon waking up. And then get rushed out into the backyard to finish digging the grave so the mom won't bawl too much about seeing the furry corpse before it's time to interr it. And then work for about an hour enlarging the hole up to spec. Then come inside to get a glass of water and find another one of the cats decided to just vomit on a book for no reason, like it's proud of this newfound ability to binge eat and then vomit on command. Stupid bulimic cat.

And then after dealing with that get told that the cat found out we were going to put it to sleep so it started eating again so they decided not to put it to sleep. balrghelaghalghal. Screw today, I'm just going to sleep until tomorrow, hopefully that one'll be less stressful.

:smallfrown:
*hugs*

Hey now, everyone needs to learn their roots and that dirty jokes are a long-standing tradition amongst English-speakers so they can begin the necessary internal rebellion against the bloody Victorian repression you all exported 200 years later. :smalltongue:

Hey! The Victorians weren't as repressed as people think! There were a hell of a lot of taboos, but the subtext was almost text. If you look in the right place at least.
Also, the Trogland Victorians were in some ways more repressed than the Britlander Victorians.

On the contrary, everyone should learn Shakespeare precisely because they have all those expectations that need to be torn down.

Shakespeare is High Art. He is fancy and cultural... and a long string of sex puns. Or general puns. Just fun. High Art knows that there are no taboos, and raises the level of the unspeakable and the immature to something at once more entertaining and more enlightening. And to be sure, that's not all High Art is or does, but there is a perception of it in modern society that is is dry, boring, and stuffy, and...

And it's full of dirty jokes.

Exactly! Shakespeare wrote for the common groundlings iust as much, if not more than the nobles, but he covered pretty much everything. From reworkings of great Roman and Greek plays to romance to epic political machinations, fantasy and histories and comedies.
Iack of all trades Shakespeare. A Iack of all trades.

Oh, I have no problem with children learning dirty jokes in school. But I suspect some people would, and some of them may also be people who will insist that the same children have to learn Shakespeare because it's part of our culture and so on.
Which is also true, though it would be nice to have some other playwrights taught pre-A-level, rather than 5 years of Shakespeare, not necessarily that well taught.

I only got taught two Shakespeare plays pre-A Level. One in Y9 and one in Y10. The other play was An Inspector Calls by . . . some guy in the 1930s whose name I forget.
I'd certainly advocate other pre-1900 plays besides Shakespeare. I'd love to see the faces on some Y9 children when you throw Webster, Marlowe or some other Iacobean playwright.
Filthy people. Filthy people they were. And so funny. I class Bosolo and Duke Ferdinand as some of the funniest people in a play ever.
It's satire.

Didn't Shakespeare write his stuff mainly as amusement for the masses? If I remember this correctly then isn't it somewhat predictable its full of lewd jokes?

Yep. He was the Michael Bay of the Elizabethan and Iacobean times.
*runs away*
Never actually seen a Michael Bay film, but I'm at a loss for analogues.

Ugulu!!

2010-08-03, 04:32 PM

Yep. He was the Michael Bay of the Elizabethan and Iacobean times.
*runs away*
Never actually seen a Michael Bay film, but I'm at a loss for analogues.

What're wrong with Michael Bay films? I like the first Transformers...

YPU

2010-08-03, 04:36 PM

What're wrong with Michael Bay films? I like the first Transformers...

You wouldn't happen to have some full body armor lying around would you, cause chances are you stirred a hornets nest, only the hornets are enraged bulls.

@The curly one
I would disapprove, but to be honest I think you might be right. Lets just hope this doesn't say anything about how people will think of bay in the future.

Ugulu!!

2010-08-03, 04:50 PM

You wouldn't happen to have some full body armor lying around would you, cause chances are you stirred a hornets nest, only the hornets are enraged bulls.

Errmmmm. Nope. No I do not. I have a leather jacket and a cup though.

Teddy

2010-08-03, 04:57 PM

My brother bought Battlefield: Bad Company 2 today, and now he's playing it right next to me. Let me tell you: he doesn't like the combination "attack choppers-enemies in your back-inept allies" at all. :smallamused:

ION: Crickets are awesome.

Ugulu!!

2010-08-03, 05:09 PM

Getting on here and typing with my Wii is such a pain...

Rawhide

2010-08-03, 05:13 PM

Getting on here and typing with my Wii is such a pain...

Far better than using a regular controller or T9.

P.S. You can plug in a USB keyboard.

Ugulu!!

2010-08-03, 05:17 PM

Far better than using a regular controller or T9.

P.S. You can plug in a USB keyboard.

I wish I could, but I dont have one. :/

Trobby

2010-08-03, 05:18 PM

Been there, done that. And it is a total drag. ^^;

Make sure you steady your arm, so that the wii vibrations don't make it fall asleep. That, or turn it off.

Ugulu!!

2010-08-03, 05:24 PM

Been there, done that. And it is a total drag. ^^;

Make sure you steady your arm, so that the wii vibrations don't make it fall asleep. That, or turn it off.

Or, go borrow my dad's computer. like I am now...

Player_Zero

2010-08-03, 05:25 PM

...

*puts a fan in front of your face*

Nothing to watch this season? Screw this, I'm rewatching Lucky Star! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MOlCAHZR1c)

Ugulu!!

2010-08-03, 05:27 PM

Nothing to watch this season? Screw this, I'm rewatching Lucky Star! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MOlCAHZR1c)

Man, I thought you meant Fist of the North Star. Oh well ...

Player_Zero

2010-08-03, 05:28 PM

Man, I thought you meant Fist of the North Star. Oh well ...

Kenshiro used Timotei shampoo?

super dark33

2010-08-03, 05:33 PM

i think not,
but leeroy jenkins's mother was buying blue spaceships in their cuttems

Ugulu!!

2010-08-03, 05:35 PM

Kenshiro used Timotei shampoo?

I dont understand

Fifty-Eyed Fred

2010-08-03, 05:43 PM

Yep. He was the Michael Bay of the Elizabethan and Iacobean times.
*runs away*
Never actually seen a Michael Bay film, but I'm at a loss for analogues.

I'd liken him to some of the classic British comedies (things like Monty Python) myself; he appealed to huge amounts of people and the masses while at the same time being witty and in some areas highly innovative, and left a massive mark on popular culture as a result. :smallcool:

Ugulu!!

2010-08-03, 05:46 PM

Fifty-Eyed Fred

2010-08-03, 05:48 PM

Except Monty Python is 10x better

In your opinion. I like them both myself. :smalltongue:

CurlyKitGirl

2010-08-03, 05:57 PM

I'd liken him to some of the classic British comedies (things like Monty Python) myself; he appealed to huge amounts of people and the masses while at the same time being witty and in some areas highly innovative, and left a massive mark on popular culture as a result. :smallcool:

But whereas Monty Python wasn't immediately popular Shakespeare was. Monty Python was more of a cult classic than became a classic classic.
Shakespeare, well, noone really thought he'd last as long as he did.

I can certainly see the similarities though. Both were crude, had genius material, immensel varied and nonsensical at times.

Monty Python = Shakespeare.

Ugulu!!

2010-08-03, 05:58 PM

In your opinion. I like them both myself. :smalltongue:

I like Bay too, but, well, IDK. I just havent seen nearly as much of his work.

Trobby

2010-08-03, 06:02 PM

Interesting note: I only saw the ending to "The Holy Grail" for the first time last week. I've seen every other bit of the movie, but never past the bridge crossing until last week.

Fifty-Eyed Fred

2010-08-03, 06:04 PM

I like Bay too, but, well, IDK. I just havent seen nearly as much of his work.
What?

Monty Python = Shakespeare.
This has to be a quote.

SpiderMew

2010-08-03, 06:06 PM

Interesting note: I only saw the ending to "The Holy Grail" for the first time last week. I've seen every other bit of the movie, but never past the bridge crossing until last week.

What took you so long to get to watching the ending?

Ugulu!!

2010-08-03, 06:07 PM

Interesting note: I only saw the ending to "The Holy Grail" for the first time last week. I've seen every other bit of the movie, but never past the bridge crossing until last week.

Should've avoided it. The ending ruins the rest of the film. well, it did for me

EmeraldRose

2010-08-03, 06:09 PM

So, back to the waaaaaaay earlier topic of 'what's for dinner', looks like pan seared chicken with corn and mashed potatos.

EDIT: Also, in answer to my son's attempted dodge from having corn, peanut butter is not a veggie. :smallwink:

Ugulu!!

2010-08-03, 06:14 PM

EDIT: Also, in answer to my son's attempted dodge from having corn, peanut butter is not a veggie. :smallwink:

le gasp! Of course it is! Vegetarians eat it, thus, it is is a vegetable.

Phase

2010-08-03, 06:14 PM

Should've avoided it. The ending ruins the rest of the film. well, it did for me

Just you, then. I loved the ending.

Ugulu!!

2010-08-03, 06:16 PM

Just you, then. I loved the ending.

We are talking about the cops coming in and arresting them after the failed storm of the castle yes?

Fifty-Eyed Fred

2010-08-03, 06:18 PM

EmeraldRose

2010-08-03, 06:18 PM

Ugulu!!

2010-08-03, 06:21 PM

Vegetarians who eat fish are truly idiotic. I knew a girl who did this, and when asked "If you're a vegetarian, why do you eat fish?" she responded:

"Because fish aren't animals; they're mammals."

Just- Wha- but- WHAT?!?

It's been years and I still haven't gotten over it...

The simple thing to do is eat meat

Also, why must they always put a smoke detector in the worst possible place in the house for when you are cooking? :smallsigh:

S, if I hit it repeatedly with a broom handle until it stops, how much will that mess up the stupid thing?

Thats not how to turn off a Smoke Detector

Jack Squat

2010-08-03, 06:22 PM

We are talking about the cops coming in and arresting them after the failed storm of the castle yes?

Well, they hadn't stormed the castle, but yeah. And I enjoyed it as well. Entirely anti-climactic, but even still.

Vegetarians who eat fish are truly idiotic. I knew a girl who did this, and when asked "If you're a vegetarian, why do you eat fish?" she responded:

"Because fish aren't animals; they're mammals."

Just- Wha- but- WHAT?!?

It's been years and I still haven't gotten over it...

I think most of them have better reasoning than that. Generally the notion that fish "doesn't count" as meat. I suppose the thought stems from the Church's acceptance of eating fish on "No-Meat" Fridays. But hey, I'm happy so long as we can get them to eat meat, regardless of reason.

SpiderMew

2010-08-03, 06:23 PM

Also, why must they always put a smoke detector in the worst possible place in the house for when you are cooking? :smallsigh:

S, if I hit it repeatedly with a broom handle until it stops, how much will that mess up the stupid thing?

Well if you want it to shut up, it will do wonders. Might not squeal ever again if you do it hard enough.
Or you could just remove the battery.

EmeraldRose

2010-08-03, 06:23 PM

Thats not how to turn off a Smoke Detector

Yes, I know, however, we have vaulted ceilings, and I did not have a ladder handy with which to reach it. So, broom handle it was.

Dragonrider

2010-08-03, 06:24 PM

I know we get told off for epic multiquote, but there you have it . . . .

From the last thread:

It could iust be that you keep catching that earring/part of your ear when not-brushing, or simply that too much conditioner gets in the hole.

Possible. It's also the side I sleep on most frequently.

And as for good earring backs for that kind of problem use those thin tubes of plastic like what you get with danglies.
Those backs are good for infected piercings as the air can still get to the site of infection better than with butterfly or those hideous plastic circles.

I'll definitely try that! The problem is that I'm paranoid about losing my earrings so I tend to put on really tight little backs . . . oh well. If I do that then I can start wearing my favorite dangly earrings again. (I usually put them in the second piercings because they're higher up on the ear and I don't feel like they're gonna pull out; in the first ones, the oft-infected set, I wear studs.)

I think there are very few things in life that are not like that.
Heck even the basic needs people have different opinion on.

That is because everyone constructs his or her own reality, and no matter how well he or she communicates that reality, the image of it conveyed to others will always be imperfect. Thus, we spend our entire lives misunderstanding others, never sure whether we agree with them or merely are filtering them through our own imperfect vision of the world.

From this thread:

I didn't know cranberry jam enjoyed watching Entourage.

It's very closely related to cranberry sauce, and I assure you that cranberry sauce enjoys watching ANYTHING.

I've read worse. Much worse. I could probably write worse, but it would end up in me falling into troll territory.
Although it would depend on whether I wrote the subiect matter very well or not.
Even the worst subiect matter could be improved by really skilled writing.

It's times like this I desperately miss the Shipping thread. :smallfrown:

EDIT EDIT: Its funny, because in Seattle, across the street from nearly every Chipotle is a Q'Doba. You'd think they'd at least have the sense to seperate them by a block or 2...nope, straight across the street. Then again, this is the city where there are literally 2 Starbucks across the street from each other. Its like a cruel trap, because after you finish being snobby with your $7 coffee, you exit the building, see the Starbucks across the street, and get that desire to light another $7 on fire so you can feel haughty and superior. Its a never ending cycle of caffine and cynicism.

Wal-Mart and Safeway also frequently are built right across the street from each other. I can't figure it out.

Jack Squat

2010-08-03, 06:24 PM

All the smoke detectors I've had have a low/no battery beep. The common fix to an ill-placed smoke detector that you can't remove requires a plastic grocery bag and a rubber band.

Phase

2010-08-03, 06:25 PM

I think most of them have better reasoning than that. Generally the notion that fish "doesn't count" as meat. I suppose the thought stems from the Church's acceptance of eating fish on "No-Meat" Fridays. But hey, I'm happy so long as we can get them to eat meat, regardless of reason.

Perhaps it arrises via the rabbinical verdict that Fish is not meat when regarding the laws of kashrut, whereas poultry is.

Ugulu!!

2010-08-03, 06:26 PM

Perhaps it arrises via the rabbinical verdict that Fish is not meat when regarding the laws of kashrut, whereas poultry is.

What is this "kashrut" thing?

EmeraldRose

2010-08-03, 06:26 PM

All the smoke detectors I've had have a low/no battery beep. The common fix to an ill-placed smoke detector that you can't remove requires a plastic grocery bag and a rubber band.

Yeah, but this was actually working. Turns out there is something on the burner I'm using. It caught the issue before there was actually smoke.

Hopefully the stupid thing will not be messed up.

Dragonrider

2010-08-03, 06:29 PM

I think most of them have better reasoning than that. Generally the notion that fish "doesn't count" as meat. I suppose the thought stems from the Church's acceptance of eating fish on "No-Meat" Fridays. But hey, I'm happy so long as we can get them to eat meat, regardless of reason.

Yeah, people like Fred's friend give pescatarians a bad name.

Ugulu!!

2010-08-03, 06:31 PM

Do Cheexe-Its, Pop Tarts, and 10 Calorie Fruit Punch make a well rounded dinner? My dad's in the ER, and no ones home

I should probably have some milk.

SpiderMew

2010-08-03, 06:32 PM

Do Cheexe-Its, Pop Tarts, and 10 Calorie Fruit Punch make a well rounded dinner? My dad's in the ER, and no ones home

I should probably have some milk.

No. Throw in a peporni pizza hotpocket and that will help :smallbiggrin:

ZombieRockStar

2010-08-03, 06:35 PM

And some instant ramen. Gotta make up your daily sodium recommendation somehow. :smalltongue:

Warning: do not take the zombie's advice. He may be trying to pre-season your delicious, salty brain.

Edit: :smalleek: Best wishes for your dad, though.

EmeraldRose

2010-08-03, 06:35 PM

Do Cheexe-Its, Pop Tarts, and 10 Calorie Fruit Punch make a well rounded dinner? My dad's in the ER, and no ones home

I should probably have some milk.

Milk would be good, and probably some fruit if you have any.

Is your dad ok?

Ugulu!!

2010-08-03, 06:35 PM

No. Throw in a peporni pizza hotpocket and that will help :smallbiggrin:

Hmmm. I dont think I have any.

Milk would be good, and probably some fruit if you have any.

Is your dad ok?

Yes, their are apples around, and I think a banana.

Well, no, he's in the ER. He should be OK though, it's just a Kidney Stone, he'll be fine later though.

Thufir

2010-08-03, 06:36 PM

I'll TM it and write it up as a cliche-ridden mass of awesome.
Oh, and because I want it, there'll be a steampunk'd cat. With a monocle.

:smallbiggrin:

I only got taught two Shakespeare plays pre-A Level. One in Y9 and one in Y10.

I got taught 3. Merchant of Venice in Y7, though we didn't finish it; Romeo and Juliet in Y8, Macbeth Y9, Romeo and Juliet again for GCSE. And no other plays
Hell, even for A-level it was Hamlet and Othello. We looked at Arcadia by Tom Stoppard, but that was as one of several things we could do a piece of coursework on, if we wanted to.

I'd certainly advocate other pre-1900 plays besides Shakespeare. I'd love to see the faces on some Y9 children when you throw Webster, Marlowe or some other Iacobean playwright.
Filthy people. Filthy people they were. And so funny. I class Bosolo and Duke Ferdinand as some of the funniest people in a play ever.
It's satire.

I don't remember any filthiness in the Marlowe I've read, but it's possible I iust missed it. Well, maybe a little. Not as much as Shakespeare though.

Vegetarians who eat fish are truly idiotic.

My RL Best Friend is a pescetarian. He's also one of the most intelligent people I know.

I knew a girl who did this, and when asked "If you're a vegetarian, why do you eat fish?" she responded:

"Because fish aren't animals; they're mammals."

Just- Wha- but- WHAT?!?

It's been years and I still haven't gotten over it...

That I'll grant you is idiotic.

Deth Muncher

2010-08-03, 06:41 PM

...huh. I go without internets for a while, and I come back to a new RB?

BELATED BOOGIE.

CurlyKitGirl

2010-08-03, 06:42 PM

This has to be a quote.

There are better things to quote.

Possible. It's also the side I sleep on most frequently.

That too. Happens with my left ear, but I can't sleep well on my right side or my back, so the ear has to live with it.

I'll definitely try that! The problem is that I'm paranoid about losing my earrings so I tend to put on really tight little backs . . . oh well. If I do that then I can start wearing my favorite dangly earrings again. (I usually put them in the second piercings because they're higher up on the ear and I don't feel like they're gonna pull out; in the first ones, the oft-infected set, I wear studs.)

I have mismatched earrings and backs and they work fine. I don't think half my earrings aer matched with their original backs. And trust me, tight backs can be annoying for the following reasons:
1) tricky to get off
2) if you have long nails (my left hand's nails are now between a quarter and half an inch long again!) they can get even trickier to get off.
3) prone to getting things caught in the back
4) infection
Oooh, another person who doesn't iust have danglies in the bottom piercing. So rare to see that. Me, I'll wear danglies in any of my piercings (I'd get a fourth set, but I'm too close to the cartilage and I don't think I want a cartilage set), never worried they'd pull out though.

It's times like this I desperately miss the Shipping thread. :smallfrown:

I miss it too. If I ever crack, there's always other sites.

Wal-Mart and Safeway also frequently are built right across the street from each other. I can't figure it out.

Hehe, it's the Shopping Wars. :smallamused:

Coidzor

2010-08-03, 06:47 PM

Oh, I have no problem with children learning dirty jokes in school. But I suspect some people would, and some of them may also be people who will insist that the same children have to learn Shakespeare because it's part of our culture and so on.
Which is also true, though it would be nice to have some other playwrights taught pre-A-level, rather than 5 years of Shakespeare, not necessarily that well taught.

So there's no real problem then, as most of those types are too prolish to actually read without being forced to anyway.

See, your problem here is not that they're teaching Shakespeare, it's that they're teaching nothing but Shakespeare for 5 years. That's just stupid.

Hey! The Victorians weren't as repressed as people think! There were a hell of a lot of taboos, but the subtext was almost text. If you look in the right place at least.
Also, the Trogland Victorians were in some ways more repressed than the Britlander Victorians.

Yeah, see, but you guys gave us the name for it, and thus the lasting impacts that I have to deal with on a day to day basis, you get the blame and thanks for. And your bloody queen that was a sex-maniac hypocrite.

Ugulu!!

2010-08-03, 06:48 PM

So there's no real problem then, as most of those types are too prolish to actually read without being forced to anyway.

See, your problem here is not that they're teaching Shakespeare, it's that they're teaching nothing but Shakespeare for 5 years. That's just stupid.

Im going into 10th, and havent had any (shakespear I mean) yet.

CurlyKitGirl

2010-08-03, 06:55 PM

I got taught 3. Merchant of Venice in Y7, though we didn't finish it; Romeo and Juliet in Y8, Macbeth Y9, Romeo and Juliet again for GCSE. And no other plays
Hell, even for A-level it was Hamlet and Othello. We looked at Arcadia by Tom Stoppard, but that was as one of several things we could do a piece of coursework on, if we wanted to.

*counts on fingers*
One, two, three . . . four?
STOP PRESS!
Thufir make a numerical error! The world is ending.
*panic*

But in all seriousness you weren't allowed outside of Billy Wobbledagger at all?
That's silly.
Even at A Level we did King Lear and my beloved Malfi. Where's the range and variation in 100% Shakespeare? That's iust narrowing down the wide variety of plays down ridiculously.
I don't even regret doing a C20th play, and everyone knows how I feel in general about C20th literature in general.
Now Lord of the Flies we could have done without.

I don't remember any filthiness in the Marlowe I've read, but it's possible I iust missed it. Well, maybe a little. Not as much as Shakespeare though.

He was more high brow than Shakespeare though. I will bow to your higher experience though as I've not done any Marlowe.

Ugulu!!

2010-08-03, 07:02 PM

We read Twelve Angry Men in 9th Grade. I got to be the foreigner. I had too much fun with that...

Thufir

2010-08-03, 07:08 PM

*counts on fingers*
One, two, three . . . four?
STOP PRESS!
Thufir make a numerical error! The world is ending.
*panic*

Three plays. One of them I studied twice.
Though actually, based on what happened when I payed the HMS Pinafore profits into the NUGSS account, it seems that I can't count. However I can add up.

But in all seriousness you weren't allowed outside of Billy Wobbledagger at all?
That's silly.
Even at A Level we did King Lear and my beloved Malfi. Where's the range and variation in 100% Shakespeare? That's iust narrowing down the wide variety of plays down ridiculously.

That's what I'm saying! There should be more variety.

He was more high brow than Shakespeare though. I will bow to your higher experience though as I've not done any Marlowe.

Yeah. That's the main reason I don't lend any credence to the theory that Shakespeare's plays were actually written by Marlowe.

Phase

2010-08-03, 07:09 PM

I have had Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, and Othello. Othello is my favorite by far, being the one what has Iago.

What is this "kashrut" thing?

Jewish laws of what one may and may not eat.

Ugulu!!

2010-08-03, 07:13 PM

Jewish laws of what one may and may not eat.

I see

Oh, and not just Twelve angry Men, but Inherit the Wind. Except we read Inherit the Wind in US Government and not English. Both fun plays.

Player_Zero

2010-08-03, 07:18 PM

Thufir

2010-08-03, 07:20 PM

I have had Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, and Othello. Othello is my favorite by far, being the one what has Iago.

Iago is a brilliant character. Macbeth's also good. A bit of interesting madness, and Macbeth is badass.

CurlyKitGirl

2010-08-03, 07:21 PM

Three plays. One of them I studied twice.
Though actually, based on what happened when I payed the HMS Pinafore profits into the NUGSS account, it seems that I can't count. However I can add up.

You're in good company then. I can't count or add up.

That's what I'm saying! There should be more variety.

If we consider that there weren't really any proper plays pre-1500 aside from Mystery Plays and the like, we have the C16th sorted, same with the C17th, C19th and C20th.
Any good C18th plays that you know of? Aside from the bastadisations of Shakespeare.

Yeah. That's the main reason I don't lend any credence to the theory that Shakespeare's plays were actually written by Marlowe.

Psh, if you listen to the theories Shakespeare was a black Queen Elizabeth from Germany who actually masterminded the entirety of Elizabethan and Iacobean theatre.
Oh, and she was a guy from the future.
And from Scotland. And was extremely poor.
And bisexual. Sure, why not?

Seriously, Shakespeare is Shakespeare. Not a coalition. Not a [insert whatever here]. The theories are annoying.
Iust pretend that Michel Foucault and Roland Barthes didn't exist. And neither did Stanley Fish.
Sure following the Russian Formalists necessitates losing an important part of the narrative, but it avoids all those moronic conspiracy theories. And whilst New Criticism ha its appeals it's hard to tell when it stops and becomes merely a tool used by everyone else.

I have had Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, and Othello. Othello is my favorite by far, being the one what has Iago.

Iago does it for the lulz. He has no motive. He's iust bored and doing it for the ebil lulz. Let noone say otherwise.

Ugulu!!

2010-08-03, 07:22 PM

I am going to put the kettle on and make a cup of tea. I am also going to obtain a tea cake to go with this cup of tea and perhaps some toast.

Which brings me to the forefront of my proposal. I ask you, what accompaniment would go well with such actions? The answer, of course is some sort of itnternet boardgame. To this end I will be requiring a number of people to play with.

Scrabble, Monopoly or Risk. Anyone want to play?

Internet Risk how? Im afraid I cant though, my comp's got no internet protection on it, and my dad is usually using this computer.

EDIT: So, incase anybody was wondering, Ugulu is my Half-Orc Barbarian witha 6 in Charisma. his full name is Ugulu Bush Clinton Kennedy Palin Reagan III. He demands your respect.

SMEE

2010-08-03, 07:27 PM

‎...
So, the census girl dropped by to do her job. My brother invited her in so she could ask the questions and then Kali, who should be afraid of strange people, kept JUMPING ON HER LAP! >.<
My kitty doesn't make ANY sense!

Ugulu!!

2010-08-03, 07:28 PM

SMEE

2010-08-03, 07:30 PM

In other countries, maybe.
Here in Brazil the work started this week, so we were interviewed today. :smallsmile:

Thufir

2010-08-03, 07:34 PM

Psh, if you listen to the theories Shakespeare was a black Queen Elizabeth from Germany who actually masterminded the entirety of Elizabethan and Iacobean theatre.
Oh, and she was a guy from the future.
And from Scotland. And was extremely poor.
And bisexual. Sure, why not?

Well, the current royal family is part German, Liz X is black and encountered the Doctor, and apparently in the future everyone is bisexual...
Can't fit in the Scottish and extremely poor bits, though I suppose it's entirely possible someone out of their own time and unused to working would end up really poor, and maybe pretend to be of a different nationality.
And the slowed body clock would come in handy for the long-term masterminding...

Ugulu!!

2010-08-03, 07:34 PM

In other countries, maybe.
Here in Brazil the work started this week, so we were interviewed today. :smallsmile:

You cant just mail something in? In the US, people come by as a last resort. And wow, you let them in your house... I think people here are trained not to do that. lol

CurlyKitGirl

2010-08-03, 07:40 PM

Well, the current royal family is part German, Liz X is black and encountered the Doctor, and apparently in the future everyone is bisexual...
Can't fit in the Scottish and extremely poor bits, though I suppose it's entirely possible someone out of their own time and unused to working would end up really poor, and maybe pretend to be of a different nationality.
And the slowed body clock would come in handy for the long-term masterminding...

Y'know, I wasn't expecting my crackpot theory to make ssense.
But now it does!

Shakespeare is Lix X! And the reason she has a Scottish accent is because she landed in Scotland and was trapped there for about five years, giving her a faint Scootish accent.
It all makes sense!

SMEE

2010-08-03, 07:43 PM

You cant just mail something in? In the US, people come by as a last resort. And wow, you let them in your house... I think people here are trained not to do that. lol

Nope. They prefer to have people gathering the census data here.
And yes, we let her in. It's quite cold outside, and it wouldn't be very nice to have her stand outside while doing her job. :smallsmile:

Player_Zero

2010-08-03, 07:43 PM

Fine. I'll eat my toast while playing alone.

I was often alone. More time for reading, and study. The Christmas holiday was a chance to get some extra work done. A time for solitude.

...They were all very much the same. Nothing ever changed.

Mr. Mud

2010-08-03, 07:45 PM

Morbid, bitter P_Z. How might I join they in Risk/Monopoly? I'm about as alone and bored as you.

Player_Zero

2010-08-03, 07:46 PM

Risk: http://landgrab.net/landgrab/Home

Monopoly: http://uk.pogo.com/games/monopoly

PhoeKun

2010-08-03, 07:46 PM

Y'know, I wasn't expecting my crackpot theory to make ssense.
But now it does!

Shakespeare is Lix X! And the reason she has a Scottish accent is because she landed in Scotland and was trapped there for about five years, giving her a faint Scootish accent.
It all makes sense!

...Well. I know what my thesis is going to be on if I ever go back for my Master's. >.>

Mr. Mud

2010-08-03, 07:50 PM

Risk: http://landgrab.net/landgrab/Home

Monopoly: http://uk.pogo.com/games/monopoly

Turns out I have to try and debug my mom's laptop. Oh Joy. I'll be on in 3 or 4 hours, though, if you don't sleep like me.

Ugulu!!

2010-08-03, 07:55 PM

Nope. They prefer to have people gathering the census data here.
And yes, we let her in. It's quite cold outside, and it wouldn't be very nice to have her stand outside while doing her job. :smallsmile:

Hmmmm.

No, but, well, here, people only come by as a last resort, and the neighboorhoods were people dont turn in the census (generally) aren't nice places to be (as I understand it).

CurlyKitGirl

2010-08-03, 07:58 PM

...Well. I know what my thesis is going to be on if I ever go back for my Master's. >.>

No prob. Iust remember to cite two semi-anonymous Britlanders as the inspiration for your thesis and we're all set for the groundbreaking Shakespearian thesis that will shatter the world of Shakespearian academia.

Speaking of, I'm still happily surprised that Blackwells up at uni has an entire section devoted entirely to Shakespeare and Criticism and Writings on Shakespeare. It's about as long as my living room is wide.

Ugulu!!

2010-08-03, 08:09 PM

Why wont my signature display?

Mr. Mud

2010-08-03, 08:10 PM

Why wont my signature display?

Appears to display for me.

And on that note, new sig :smallbiggrin:.

SpiderMew

2010-08-03, 08:15 PM

Why wont my signature display?

Because you touch yourself at night.

Ugulu!!

2010-08-03, 08:16 PM

Appears to display for me.

And on that note, new sig :smallbiggrin:.

Huh

Because you touch yourself at night.

Wait, what? Did something fall off, and should I tell my doctor/take some Zolaf?

CurlyKitGirl

2010-08-03, 08:17 PM

Hell's bells. I've got the Roobarb and Custard theme tune stuck in my head! Along with the Muskahounds one.
It's annoying, but super-nostalgic.

Oh, here come the Thunderbirds . . .

5!

SpiderMew

2010-08-03, 08:19 PM

Why wont my signature display?

Go to user CP
Go to Options

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y214/SpiderMew/OtherImages/whattolookfor.png

Look for this, make sure boxes are checked

If you cant see the image
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y214/SpiderMew/OtherImages/whattolookfor.png

Ugulu!!

2010-08-03, 08:22 PM

Kneenibble

2010-08-03, 08:29 PM

Can't anybody please help me understand the phrase "(action) like it's going out of style?"

Thufir

2010-08-03, 08:34 PM

Can't anybody please help me understand the phrase "(action) like it's going out of style?"

I think the point is that you do a lot of it really fast - since once it's out of style you'd stop doing it?
Doesn't seem a very geek-appropriate phrase...

Ugulu!!

2010-08-03, 08:41 PM

I think the point is that you do a lot of it really fast - since once it's out of style you'd stop doing it?
Doesn't seem a very geek-appropriate phrase...

Because us geeks are all nostalgic. I preffer the term nerd. Geek is more offensive

Thufir

2010-08-03, 08:44 PM

Neither is offensive.
My point is that a geek/nerd wouldn't stop doing something just because it 'went out of style'. Hence the phrase is not particularly fitting.

Ugulu!!

2010-08-03, 08:51 PM

Neither is offensive.
My point is that a geek/nerd wouldn't stop doing something just because it 'went out of style'. Hence the phrase is not particularly fitting.

Yes, I get your point, but the dictionary definition (or one of them) is, "Someone in the circus who cuts the heads off of live chickens." Is that really a lable you want?

Kneenibble

2010-08-03, 09:01 PM

I still don't really get it, especially when it's used of buying something: he's been buying hotpants like they're going out of style! So you can stockpile them for when they're no longer being made? But then you have a heap of unfashionable hotpants.

I sort of get it. But not entirely.

Thufir

2010-08-03, 09:02 PM

Yes, I get your point, but the dictionary definition (or one of them) is, "Someone in the circus who cuts the heads off of live chickens." Is that really a lable you want?

That's not exactly in common usage. I remain unconcerned, because anyone who assumes that definition to be the applicable one in the absence of any other evidence for it is not going to be someone whose opinion I really care about anyway.

@^: OK, that one doesn't make sense.

Kneenibble

2010-08-03, 09:10 PM

Yes, I get your point, but the dictionary definition (or one of them) is, "Someone in the circus who cuts the heads off of live chickens." Is that really a lable you want?

That's exactly the kind of thing a geek would know.

Ugulu!!

2010-08-03, 09:11 PM

That's not exactly in common usage. I remain unconcerned, because anyone who assumes that definition to be the applicable one in the absence of any other evidence for it is not going to be someone whose opinion I really care about anyway.

It may not be appilicable, but it [Geek] can still be used insultingly.

CurlyKitGirl

2010-08-03, 09:17 PM

It may not be appilicable, but it [Geek] can still be used insultingly.

And?
Fairy and gay are seen as offensive to homosexuals, but they've been reclaiming at least the latter and turning it (once more) into something that has no negative connotations.

Frankly, if I'm proud of being a geek and a nerd it doesn't matter if others try to use the term in an offesive manner.
Way back when I was still a bairn in sceondary school someone once said, "You're a collosal geek you know that?"
"Thank you for the compliment. I'm quite proud of being intelligent and having interests that aren't normal."

I think most people in the Playground are proud of being geeks or nerds, so offense isn't taken when it's used.
The Playground revels in its geekery. Or haven't you noticed that it was founded to discuss a stick figure webcomic parodying D&D and other RPG tropes.

Player_Zero

2010-08-03, 09:22 PM

Cealocanth

2010-08-03, 09:28 PM

And?
Fairy and gay are seen as offensive to homosexuals, but they've been reclaiming at least the latter and turning it (once more) into something that has no negative connotations.

Frankly, if I'm proud of being a geek and a nerd it doesn't matter if others try to use the term in an offesive manner.
Way back when I was still a bairn in sceondary school someone once said, "You're a collosal geek you know that?"
"Thank you for the compliment. I'm quite proud of being intelligent and having interests that aren't normal."

I think most people in the Playground are proud of being geeks or nerds, so offense isn't taken when it's used.
The Playground revels in its geekery. Or haven't you noticed that it was founded to discuss a stick figure webcomic parodying D&D and other RPG tropes.

Preach on sister. I mean that in a non religious manner, as it is commonly used to mean keep telling people.

Also, love the new avatar. :smallwink:

Thufir

2010-08-03, 09:29 PM

It's not really something to be proud of. Just as I'm not proud of other mundanities, such as that my walls are painted blue. It doesn't make you any more or less of a person.

Geeks are not nicer people.

It'sa fairly significant part of who you are, which is something to be proud of. And I'm pretty sure you do take a certain amount of pride in that.
What would be that misquote? "A man takes pride in his geekery! With a DON!"

Trobby

2010-08-03, 09:40 PM

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It's not really something to be proud of. Just as I'm not proud of other mundanities, such as that my walls are painted blue. It doesn't make you any more or less of a person.

Geeks are not nicer people.

Somehow, this makes me even more proud to be a geek. o.o;

Also, love the new avatar. :smallwink:

Second'd.

Kneenibble

2010-08-03, 09:41 PM

Aren't geeks nicer people though? Generally speaking? I mean not always nicer for disposing some tension on a Sunday afternoon, sure, but geekery is a cousin of education and refinement and those who take shelter under its umbrella of velvet, leather, and antique brass are usually much more pleasant to be around than your drinking classes or your everymen.

Ugulu!!

2010-08-03, 09:42 PM

And?
Fairy and gay are seen as offensive to homosexuals, but they've been reclaiming at least the latter and turning it (once more) into something that has no negative connotations.

Frankly, if I'm proud of being a geek and a nerd it doesn't matter if others try to use the term in an offesive manner.
Way back when I was still a bairn in sceondary school someone once said, "You're a collosal geek you know that?"
"Thank you for the compliment. I'm quite proud of being intelligent and having interests that aren't normal."

I think most people in the Playground are proud of being geeks or nerds, so offense isn't taken when it's used.
The Playground revels in its geekery. Or haven't you noticed that it was founded to discuss a stick figure webcomic parodying D&D and other RPG tropes.

I haven't noticed that working.

OK, cool. But what's a bairn?

Right. lol

Player_Zero

2010-08-03, 09:44 PM

We've all changed a lot since those words. Well, mostly me. I don't recall being quite so misanthropic then.

It has not been a good two years.

CurlyKitGirl

2010-08-03, 09:49 PM

It's not really something to be proud of. Just as I'm not proud of other mundanities, such as that my walls are painted blue. It doesn't make you any more or less of a person.

Geeks are not nicer people.

They're more interesting at any rate.

Preach on sister. I mean that in a non religious manner, as it is commonly used to mean keep telling people.

Also, love the new avatar. :smallwink:

'Tis an old one. I also have a B&W version of the same. And a B&W King Kong (also in colour), and a Koorilyn Munroe (also in colour).

Somehow, this makes me even more proud to be a geek. o.o;

this is a good thing. :smallsmile:

Aren't geeks nicer people though? Generally speaking? I mean not always nicer for disposing some tension on a Sunday afternoon, sure, but geekery is a cousin of education and refinement and those who take shelter under its umbrella of velvet, leather, and antique brass are usually much more pleasant to be around than your drinking classes or your everymen.

Have I ever told you how much I love you?
Because you are lovable, huggable and I wish to listen more.

I haven't noticed that working.

Depends on where you live.
In Britland the reclamation's at a slightly higher level than Trogland, but as with everywhere on this maudlin globe of ours people are people.
Some types are more willing to perjore others, while others reallt couldn't care.
To use another, more well-realised example the N-word is being reclaimed by black people. It iust takes a long time is all.

OK, cool. But what's a bairn?

Baby or child. Scottish dialect, but bairn's widespread over here. Most everyone understands it.

Player_Zero

2010-08-03, 09:54 PM

They're more interesting at any rate.

I think you're forgetting the mouth-breathing types who snork when they laugh at their own jokes which they shout at high volume as if that made it less of a crime against nature.

Being a geek doesn't make you interesting.

CurlyKitGirl

2010-08-03, 10:02 PM

I think you're forgetting the mouth-breathing types who snork when they laugh at their own jokes which they shout at high volume as if that made it less of a crime against nature.

Being a geek doesn't make you interesting.

I said more. Perhaps I should have said 'comparatively' because, given the chance to talk with half of the girls in Set One English (the one who sat at the back) and my two Mortal Nemeses who sat directly behind me I'd talk to the nemeses. They were mild geeks.
'Course, as I had friends sitting to my right and in front of me I had ahrdly to talk to anyone else.
But my point stands.
Give me a certified geek and a 'normal' person I'd choose the geek because there'd be a high probability of them having something interesting to say or we'd share similar interests.

And there are geeks and then there are geeks who are shunned by even the geeiest geek. I've yet to meet one, but I may be one myself.

Player_Zero

2010-08-03, 10:13 PM

Coidzor

2010-08-03, 10:14 PM

Aren't geeks nicer people though? Generally speaking?

Hah. No. All humans have an equal probability of being butts. Just as likely to be bigotted wossnames as Joe the Plumber.

Phase

2010-08-03, 10:21 PM

I agree, people can be all butt-like regardless of hobbies or outlets. A geek or nerd is more likely to be annoying, however. Especially when a geek with worse social skills than oneself doesn't seem to grasp how it works, liking what we like without alienating other people.

Also they need to learn that spewing random nonsense phrases and mentioning works of media to not count as wit or pop culture references.

Thufir

2010-08-03, 10:30 PM

Anecdotal doesn't hold I'm afraid. Just because you have personally found geeks to be more interesting from comparing people you have met doesn't mean it is the general case. There's also the issue of personal bias.

What is more likely true is that you find geeks more interesting because you are one.

Now, you may say 'well what's to support your claim that geeks aren't more interesting than normal people?' And I'm afraid I only have common sense to back me up here. Generally speaking, people who indulge in more geeky habits such as reading and gaming are going to be more self-contained to put it lightly. If anything, they're going to have less of a personality; they won't be as engaging or personal since they have more introverted hobbies.

And I'm going to murder the first person who replies to that without regarding that that statement above is a generality. Brutally. Murder. Especially if they give yet more anecdotal evidence.

What's interesting is subjective. That I find geeks more interesting because I am one may well be true, at least partly. And that means that as far as I'm concerned, geeks are more interesting.
What makes some people more interesting than others tends to be shared interests - which obviously supports the 'because I am one' hypothesis - but also talking to someone about something is more likely to be interesting if they know more about it - and one of the typical characteristics of geeks is to get very into things, meaning that they will know a considerable amount about their particular interests.

As to the personality thing, I agree partially, but the one piece of anecdotal evidence I will bring up is that I find that while geeks may be less engaging due to having introverted hobbies, they become considerably more engaging on the subject of said hobbies.

Kneenibble

2010-08-03, 10:32 PM

Oy. Live in this city and walk home from the inner-city library you work at at 11 pm and tell me you wouldn't love to have a lot more geeks around.

Have I ever told you how much I love you?
Because you are lovable, huggable and I wish to listen more.

Not nearly enough, sweet Lady. :smallbiggrin:

Starfols

2010-08-03, 10:32 PM

Curly is saying is that geeks tend to have more interesting hobbies. This is true.
P_Z is saying geeks tend to have worse social skills. This is also true.

It's not really that hard.

ION: I love olives, and it's probably weird to eat them plain, but I don't care.

Dragonrider

2010-08-03, 10:56 PM

DeeRee just received a late birthday present. :smallbiggrin:
(http://shop.lego.com/ByTheme/Product.aspx?p=10193&cn=473&d=70)
I haven't finished it yet. LEGO-building is hard in a dimly lit room at night.

Oooh, another person who doesn't iust have danglies in the bottom piercing. So rare to see that. Me, I'll wear danglies in any of my piercings (I'd get a fourth set, but I'm too close to the cartilage and I don't think I want a cartilage set), never worried they'd pull out though.

I have really, really tiny earlobes, and the person who did my first set was (in retrospect) not particularly skilled.

I'm thinking about getting a third piercing in my left ear, or possibly in both, but for the tiny earlobe reason I'm not sure it would fit. Also I faint at pressure pain, which is what ear-piercing is (I have also fainted at changing earrings, both the first time in each piercing and once when one ear got infected), and the more cartilage you get the more it hurts.

I have had Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, and Othello. Othello is my favorite by far, being the one what has Iago.

I liked Othello, but the tragedies aren't my favorites. I've done Macbeth, Hamlet, Othello, Henry V, Twelfth Night, and Much Ado About Nothing. MAAN remains my favorite, probably just because I like the film Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson did.

It does fascinate me, though, how all the tragedies and comedies have essentially the same story up until a certain point, where one set goes one way and one another.

Can't anybody please help me understand the phrase "(action) like it's going out of style?"

I buy bell-bottom jeans like they're going out of style, because they are going out of style and soon I won't be able to get them anymore.

Actually I already can't get them. I have three pairs I got last winter that are all save one now covered with patches because I wore them so much, and when I went back to the same store they didn't have ANY. NOT ONE. Good thing I know how to flare jeans myself. Now I'm just waiting for them to trickle into the thrift stores . . . .

Thufir

2010-08-03, 11:01 PM

I liked Othello, but the tragedies aren't my favorites.

I love the tragedies. But then, I'm weird like that.

Player_Zero

2010-08-03, 11:11 PM

Bah! Birthday presents. Who needs 'em.

And I'm not saying that just because I haven't received any for years.

It's oppressive commercialism is what it is.

Dragonrider

2010-08-03, 11:15 PM

Bah! Birthday presents. Who needs 'em.

And I'm not saying that just because I haven't received any for years.

It's oppressive commercialism is what it is.

Even LEGO birthday presents?

Because, IM(notso)HO, LEGO outweighs any possible detriment of commercialism.

Partof1

2010-08-03, 11:17 PM

I hope you at least like birthday cake.

Player_Zero

2010-08-03, 11:23 PM

Well, mostly I don't really care whether people get presents or not. Although I am somewhat bitter about it; it was more just something to say.

And no. I don't like birthdays in general. They seem to consist of getting your hopes up then going to bed at 3PM in the end.

Rae Artemi

2010-08-03, 11:50 PM

I mostly use my birthday as an excuse to break my parents' "No more than one person over at a time rule". I mean hey, presents are great, but parties are awesome. Also the more people I can invite the more presents I get.:smallcool:

2010-08-04, 01:00 AM

Bah! Birthday presents. Who needs 'em?

Me... I need them... :smallfrown:

Dallas-Dakota

2010-08-04, 01:03 AM

Even LEGO birthday presents?

Because, IM(notso)HO, LEGO outweighs any possible detriment of commercialism.
Rule 1# to having a childhood: Lego's.

:smalltongue:

Atreyu the Masked LLama

2010-08-04, 01:16 AM

I thought of a pun. I thought of it at 2:30 in the morning so I don't know if its a good pun. I need to know if my pun is good.

"The God of Weed Killer is a De-Vine Being."

What do you think?

2010-08-04, 01:18 AM

I thought of a pun. I thought of it at 2:30 in the morning so I don't know if its a good pun. I need to know if my pun is good.

"The God of Weed Killer is a De-Vine Being."

What do you think?

:smallannoyed:

Just :smallannoyed:

Atreyu the Masked LLama

2010-08-04, 01:20 AM

Ooooh, I get that reaction a lot! I think its a success, then.