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Rae Artemi

2010-12-27, 07:10 PM

Random Banter

Ladies and Gentlemen, I bid you welcome to this most glorious of threads, Random Banter! Do kindly read the rules, for the preservation of all that is good in those posts which are yet to come is of a supreme, if understated importance...
Rules

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15. Whenever the word "banter" is uttered, posters are to respond with "EXCELSIOR!" in order to win Fifty-Eyed Fred Awesome Points.

Previous Threads:
Amotis' Random Banter #1 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13484)
Dhavaer's Random Banter #2 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13401)
PhoeKun's Random Banter #3 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13319)
Rei Jin's Random Banter #4 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13205)
Toxic Avenger's Random Banter #5 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13146)
Jibar's Random Banter #6 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13026)
Ego Slayer's Surrogate Random Banter #7 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12939)
Sneak's Random Barroom Brawl #8 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12918)
Sophistemon's Solemnly Random Banter #9 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12855)
Vaynor's Very Random Banter #10 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12834)
Bookman's Blathering Random Banter #11 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12809)
Gralamin's Glorious Random Banter #12 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12785)
Rilik's Resplendently Random Raillery #13 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12766)
Gezina's Growling Grazing Random Banter #14 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12747)
The Zerglings Utterly And Geeky Random Banter #15 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12740)
jaqueses Truthfully Randomly Fireside Banter # 16 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12735)
Jack Squat’s Jubilantly Quixotic Random Banter #17 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12693)
Cardel's Banter of Cookie Jubilation #18 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12668)
Archonic's Chaotically Random Banter of Rods #19 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12657)
The Rod's Inanimate Temple of RANDOM banter #20 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12638)
Lucky’s Loquaciously Loud-Mouthed Random Banter#21 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12630)
Deckmaster's Divinely Delightful Random Banter #22 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12614)
Saithis' Soliloquy of Random Banter #23 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12598)
Loveable Lianae's Ludicrous Lampooning Lottery #24 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12578)
NEO|Phyte's Neolithic Nest of Weasel Banter #25 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12544)
Target's Random Banter of "non-violence" #26 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12533)
Tarnag40k's Random banter of "grammar errors" #27 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12515)
Kyrian's Random Banter of ADHDness #28 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12507)
El Jaspero's Random Drunken Ramblings #29 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12503)
Boss Smiley's Eloquently Eggy Banter #30 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12494)
Lykan's Looney Explosionarama & Random Banter #31 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12482)
Iames's Iambic Yarn of Yammering #32 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12468)
Dispozition's Deviously Distressed Banter #33 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12458)
CP's Copiously Combusting Banter of Carnage #34 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12445)
Alarra's Altar of Random Banter #35 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12432)
Eloquent Rune's Electrifying Rambling Banter #36 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12423)
E_P's Very Own Quite Popular Random Banter #37 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12419)
Hydrogelic's Foolish Mortal Random Banter #38 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12413)
Ink's Smudgy Splotchy Random Banter #39 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12405)
Azrael's Big Black Book of Banter #40 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12397)
The Logic Vampire's Rational Random Banter #41 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12387)
Shiny's Shimmering Space-hitchin Random Banter #42 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12376)
ZombieRockStar's Random Banter #43 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12360)
Nostrabel's Realm of Cookies and Random Banter #44 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12342)
Charity's Cheery Chatter Circle #45 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12328)
Samiam's Spontaneous Scintillating Soliloquy #46 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12310)
LLama's Masked Mysterious Random Banter #47 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=26599)
Ravishing Rydia's Recumbentibus ^_^ Random Banter #48 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=27622)
Penguinizers Perilous Random Banter #49 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=28083)
Death's delightfully morbid surrogate random banter #50 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=28444)
Wayril's wonderfully weird surrogate random banter #51 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=28990)
Rawhide's Deck of Random Banter (52 Cards) (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=29697)
Korith's Sorrogate Random Banter of Zombie Killing #53 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=30353)
Surrogate thread of random Bor-dom #54 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=31109)
Rex Idiotarum's Painfully Pogoing Thread #55 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=31512)
The Wrath of KHAAAAAANtalas’s William Shatner Flavored Random Banter # 56 (Surrogate) (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=32080)
EmeraldRose's Random Banter of Lashing Wit #57 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=32494)
Captain van der Decken's Surrogate Ship of Random Loot (Banter) #58 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=32847)
SDF's Neverending I-Don't-Have-an-OotS-Avatar-Yet Story Banter #59 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=33465)
Mauril's Surrogate Dwelf Banter of Fantasy Race Confusion 60th Edition (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=34165)
Rockphed's Dice Rolling Toga Party of 61 Drunken CIA Analysts (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=34568)
var Lord_Magtok = Random(Banter*62) + Surrogate (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=34801)
Jibar's Retro Random Banter #63 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=35014)
Malina's Random Spanish Banter #64 of morphical annoyance (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=35256)
Mr. E's Random Banter #65 of Cane Toting and Hat Tipping (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=35418)
Ego Slayer's Hellishly Random Banter #66.6 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=35596)
Purple Gelatinous Cube o' Doom's bowl of bantery j-e-ll-o randomness #67 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=35859)
Zephra's Random Banter of Ghostly Wailings, and Howling Fun#68 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=36317)
Cobra Ikari's Random Banter #69 of Rampant Hugging, Guttermindedness, and ;-) Kinky. (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=36977)
Scorpina's Random Banter #70 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=37480)
Raistlin1040's Super Special Awesome Random Banter #71(Now with 20% more tacos) (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=37824)
Uberblah's Random Banter #72 Of Caffeine And Sleep Deprivation Induced Randomness (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=38225)
Lucky’s Random Banter #73 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=38987)
Castaras's Random Banter #74 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=37836)
D'anna Biers RB #75 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=39495)
Zeb The Troll's RB#76 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=39801)
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)
Zeb The Troll's Zecond Go At Ze Random Banter #139 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=7876065”]Edge's Effluence of Extravagant and Effulgent Random Banter #138[/URL]
Curly's Rambunctious and Erudite Random Banter #140
Deth Muncher's Destructive and Meandering Random Banter #141
A Thread in Which Banter Most Random is Expusled Into Existance, By Ravens_cry #142
[URL="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)
Banjo’s Bodacious & Boosted Bumper Bulletproof Box of Banter Most Random #145 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=162819)
Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=164224)
KuReshtin's Vociferously Ruminating Harbinger of Random Banter - #147 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=166664)
Archonic's Archaic Acronymical Antidisestablishmentarianism Random Banter - #148 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=169890)
Skeppio's Splendidly Strange & Superbly Scintillating Random Banter - #149 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=173056)
Teddy's Turbulent and Topicless Random Banter #150 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=175338)
Fifty-Eyed Fred's Ferociously Fanatical and Fabulously Fascinating Random Banter #151 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=178205)

So, my most wondrous friends in the Playground, with this post I let it be proclaimed all over the boards that Random Banter shall now commence!

KuReshtin

2010-12-27, 07:13 PM

EXCELSIOR! And thus collecting Fifty-Eyed Fred Awesome Points.

You rascally Rae, snatcing the new thread before the Troll , the Pie or the Avocado could get to it. :smallwink:

AtlanteanTroll

2010-12-27, 07:14 PM

*sniffs*

I miss my baby. And by baby, I mean Child that I raised whose legitimacy was always under question, and in the end was assumed to be someone elses. I knew better, I did, but did I care? HELL YES!! :smallmad:

EXCELSIOR! And thus collecting Fifty-Eyed Fred Awesome Points.

You rascally Rae, snatcing the new thread before the Troll , the Pie or the Avocado could get to it. :smallwink:

:smallfurious:

*bangs head on desk*

I don't care.

*cries*

:smallfrown:

CurlyKitGirl

2010-12-27, 07:14 PM

Cross-posted from old thread just to be sure:

I'm sure you do. :smallamused:

Yes.

So, there, you see, the alcoholic...ness... will be from the post- and possibly the during.

That makes sense.

...
I don't quite know whether to :smallamused: or :smalleek:
You're deliberately prompting and propagating dirty thoughts and conversation trends, this is not normal!
Also, I need to watch that film.

Both perhaps? Either way you definitely need to rewatch that film again. 'Tis good.
I don't see how I'm prompting and propagating dirty thoughts though, I'm as innocent as the day is long, so all you're doing is reading into my words. :smalltongue:

Is that a good kind of aaaargh or a bad kind of aaaargh?

Bit o' both. It's exceptionally sweet icing.

It is, however, new and exciting! :smallbiggrin: I for one welcome our Koorly Overlady.

I've only ever caught bits and pieces of the film, but the parts I have seen make me want to pick it up if I ever see it. Still eludes me, however.

Hooray!
It's all in the internet. See, I'd go watch the film on duh vuh duh right now, but it's gone missing.
Which is sad.

Silly Koorly. There's no such thing as a double bonded hydrogen atom. :smallwink:

. . .
*eyes glazed over*
Buh?

Whyever not? :smallconfused:

He's intimidated by my sheer me-ness.

Oh, I welcomed her some time ago (IF you know what I mean), but this departure from the normal run of things (If you know what I mean?) nonetheless arouses* my questioning nature (...if you know what I mean (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RunningGag))

You see. This is what it has done to me!

ION: The vagaries of my internet connection amuse me sometimes. The last few posts I made before this one were made from my bed, upstairs. The modem is downstairs. Occasionally my internet connection cuts out as a result of the distance. When this happens, my usual response is to take my laptop off my legs and put it down on the surface of the bed. And then it generally starts working again.

*OK, slipping that in there (If you know what I mean) was a bit of a stretch (If... OK I'll stop now)

Well... Why? She's, like, 3 years older then me.

How do you know?
For all you know I don't even exist.
I'm actually an alt account set up and jointly run by all the male Britlanders who frequent RB. All the female britlanders are. Even her.
And now we're screwing with your minds by fabricating this entire world, and our entire lives for the sake of trolling the entire rest of the world.
I don't even exist!
The photographs and such? Very cleverly manipulated photographs or simply getting one of our female friends in on the deal.
We do this because there are no women in Britland anymore. This is a complete scam which we concocted in order to kidnap foreign women and use them to beget chilgren which shall carry on our race. The men we simply use as slaves.
DD doesn't exist any more. He is one of our mindless drones.
And then we shall take over the world.
It's a perfect plan.

Also, age doesn't matter. Freddie Mercury, David Bowie and Helen Mirren and Emma Thompson are ridiculously pretty and/or sexy and I would so date any of them. Even though one of them's dead so I'd have to date a ghost. Or zombie. But the latter would be a little weird.

ION:
*BOOGIE!*

AtlanteanTroll

2010-12-27, 07:16 PM

How do you know?
For all you know I don't even exist.
I'm actually an alt account set up and jointly run by all the male Britlanders who frequent RB. All the female britlanders are. Even her.
And now we're screwing with your minds by fabricating this entire world, and our entire lives for the sake of trolling the entire rest of the world.
I don't even exist!
The photographs and such? Very cleverly manipulated photographs or simply getting one of our female friends in on the deal.
We do this because there are no women in Britland anymore. This is a complete scam which we concocted in order to kidnap foreign women and use them to beget chilgren which shall carry on our race. The men we simply use as slaves.
DD doesn't exist any more. He is one of our mindless drones.
And then we shall take over the world.
It's a perfect plan.

Also, age doesn't matter. Freddie Mercury, David Bowie and Helen Mirren and Emma Thompson are ridiculously pretty and/or sexy and I would so date any of them. Even though one of them's dead so I'd have to date a ghost. Or zombie. But the latter would be a little weird.

Grah, stop making me think.

KuReshtin

2010-12-27, 07:19 PM

How do you know?
For all you know I don't even exist.
I'm actually an alt account set up and jointly run by all the male Britlanders who frequent RB. All the female britlanders are. Even her.
And now we're screwing with your minds by fabricating this entire world, and our entire lives for the sake of trolling the entire rest of the world.
I don't even exist!
The photographs and such? Very cleverly manipulated photographs or simply getting one of our female friends in on the deal.
We do this because there are no women in Britland anymore. This is a complete scam which we concocted in order to kidnap foreign women and use them to beget chilgren which shall carry on our race. The men we simply use as slaves.
DD doesn't exist any more. He is one of our mindless drones.
And then we shall take over the world.
It's a perfect plan.

And now you've gone and ruined it by divulging the plan to everyone.
Dammit, man, we agreed that we'd not use the Curly persona to tell anyone.

Also, age doesn't matter. Freddie Mercury, David Bowie and Helen Mirren and Emma Thompson are ridiculously pretty and/or sexy and I would so date any of them. Even though one of them's dead so I'd have to date a ghost. Or zombie. But the latter would be a little weird.

Emma Thompson.. *dreamy eyes* Yes please.
Also, Meg Ryan.

CurlyKitGirl

2010-12-27, 07:27 PM

Grah, stop making me think.

Easy enough to do.

And now you've gone and ruined it by divulging the plan to everyone.
Dammit, man, we agreed that we'd not use the Curly persona to tell anyone.

But you know it's my day to use this persona, and what the Controller says goes unless there's a two-thirds majority vote against it.
Except, of course, on bank holidays when all we need is a simple majority.

Anyway, who's going to believe this?
What's easier to believe? One girl exisiting and just mucking about, or an entire host of male Britlanders acting as part of a conspiracy in order to further another conspiracy which all leads into the Ultimate Conspiracy?
Exactly.
They're all going to think this is a joke. It's on them of course, but they'll never notice.

Emma Thompson.. *dreamy eyes* Yes please.
Also, Meg Ryan.

Tch.
After what she did when Parky interviewed her? Man to man, put me right off her.

Thufir

2010-12-27, 07:36 PM

Cross-posted from old thread just to be sure:

I did actually quote that post before coming here, but this is easier.

Both perhaps? Either way you definitely need to rewatch that film again. 'Tis good.

No, no: watch. I haven't seen it yet.

I don't see how I'm prompting and propagating dirty thoughts though, I'm as innocent as the day is long, so all you're doing is reading into my words. :smalltongue:

Yeah, but you're making me do it.

He's intimidated by my sheer me-ness.

OK, this one I'm prepared to believe was accidental on your part. Have you seen/listened to Commentary! The Musical?

How do you know?
For all you know I don't even exist.
I'm actually an alt account set up and jointly run by all the male Britlanders who frequent RB. All the female britlanders are. Even her.
And now we're screwing with your minds by fabricating this entire world, and our entire lives for the sake of trolling the entire rest of the world.
I don't even exist!
The photographs and such? Very cleverly manipulated photographs or simply getting one of our female friends in on the deal.
We do this because there are no women in Britland anymore. This is a complete scam which we concocted in order to kidnap foreign women and use them to beget chilgren which shall carry on our race. The men we simply use as slaves.
DD doesn't exist any more. He is one of our mindless drones.
And then we shall take over the world.
It's a perfect plan.

The reason Curly is so well-read and erudite is because she has all the combined knowledge of all the male Playgrounders responsible for the illusion. Of course, this makes talking to her a tad confusing. Especially if said conversations stray into the flirtatious.

Also, age doesn't matter. Freddie Mercury, David Bowie and Helen Mirren and Emma Thompson are ridiculously pretty and/or sexy and I would so date any of them. Even though one of them's dead so I'd have to date a ghost. Or zombie. But the latter would be a little weird.

Most people would find such a big age gap a bit off-putting for an actual relationship, though not for simply admiring.
Three years, on the other hand, is really not that big a difference.

ION:
*BOOGIE!*

*Boogies*

Grah, stop making me think.

You see, you are unwilling to think about the plan, and that is why it will succeed.

And now you've gone and ruined it by divulging the plan to everyone.
Dammit, man, we agreed that we'd not use the Curly persona to tell anyone.

Silence! Do not talk back to your superiors, Swede! Don't you have duties to attend to?

CynicalAvocado

2010-12-27, 07:39 PM

EXCELSIOR! And thus collecting Fifty-Eyed Fred Awesome Points.

You rascally Rae, snatcing the new thread before the Troll , the Pie or the Avocado could get to it. :smallwink:

drat and double drat.

*vanishes in a cloud of smoke*

Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll

2010-12-27, 07:42 PM

*SKANKS* (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJCaFe1yamg&playnext=1&list=PLD0E5A2693B84802F&index=3)

Cause Fishbone.

Also, that vid is kinda wack.

And the yam fries? They were the best I've ever had. And soooo easy!

AtlanteanTroll

2010-12-27, 07:44 PM

Easy enough to do.

:smallmad:

Quiet you.

You see, you are unwilling to think about the plan, and that is why it will succeed.

But, but, there is no plan. :smallconfused:

Thufir

2010-12-27, 07:59 PM

But, but, there is no plan. :smallconfused:

That's what we want you to think. :smallamused:

AtlanteanTroll

2010-12-27, 08:00 PM

That's what we want you to think. :smallamused:

*purses lips*

Whatever.

*goes to play Pokemon and watch Mythbusters*

Coidzor

2010-12-27, 08:02 PM

Heck, Koorly is 3 years younger than me. :smallwink: Yeah, I went there.

And if Koorly is as innocent as the day is long... :smallamused: Well, let's just say usually people get more boring in the winter time.

*SKANKS* (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJCaFe1yamg&playnext=1&list=PLD0E5A2693B84802F&index=3)

Cause Fishbone.

Also, that vid is kinda wack.

And the yam fries? They were the best I've ever had. And soooo easy!

You terrify me, but not as much as that video does. :smalleek:

But I agree, Yam fries and sweet potato fries are delicious! :smallbiggrin:

AtlanteanTroll

2010-12-27, 08:03 PM

KuReshtin

2010-12-27, 08:04 PM

But you know it's my day to use this persona, and what the Controller says goes unless there's a two-thirds majority vote against it.
Except, of course, on bank holidays when all we need is a simple majority.

Anyway, who's going to believe this?
What's easier to believe? One girl exisiting and just mucking about, or an entire host of male Britlanders acting as part of a conspiracy in order to further another conspiracy which all leads into the Ultimate Conspiracy?
Exactly.
They're all going to think this is a joke. It's on them of course, but they'll never notice.

True, of course. But still. You bringing it out in the open gives them that glimmer of a doubt creeping into their consciousness.

After what she did when Parky interviewed her? Man to man, put me right off her.

I've only heard of that interiew. I don't think I've actually seen it. And since you make it sound as if it would ruin my image of her, I think I'll not watch it. :smalltongue:

No, no: watch. I haven't seen it yet.

Same here. It's sitting somewhere around here after I bought it for a mere £3, but I have not watched it as of yet.

Silence! Do not talk back to your superiors, Swede! Don't you have duties to attend to?

Yeth, mathter. Apologieth, mathter. Doorth need creaking, thpider webth need produthed and that meanth the thpiderth need encouragement. Whipth uthually workth well ath motivation for the tpiderth.*

SMEE

2010-12-27, 08:04 PM

Oh, good. We only got one thread this time.
Now I'll resume being pure and chaste.

AtlanteanTroll

2010-12-27, 08:05 PM

Oh, good. We only got one thread this time.
Now I'll resume being pure and chaste.

Not nearly as exciting.

Ranger Mattos

2010-12-27, 08:08 PM

Coidzor

2010-12-27, 08:08 PM

I need Brain BLEACH now. Thanks. Thanks a lot.

I'm not old! I'm 22! That's not old! Twenty! Two! (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0168.html) :smallfurious:

AtlanteanTroll

2010-12-27, 08:16 PM

I'm not old! I'm 22! That's not old! Twenty! Two! (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0168.html) :smallfurious:

Well, sure, but the way your phrased it... *shivers*

Savannah

2010-12-27, 08:17 PM

ION: My friend came up with an idea: a complete rip-off of C. S. Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia. This rip-off shall be known as the Chronicles of Yarnia, and the scenes shall be constructed of yarn formed into various shapes. More details to follow when we think of them.

I'd suggest learning to crochet. You can make some pretty good figures that way. Maybe a wire core for anything you want to pose....

CrimsonAngel

2010-12-27, 08:19 PM

Rae is king of Random Banter! All hail!

May he live long, far past the days of Page50...

Thufir

2010-12-27, 08:24 PM

Heck, Koorly is 3 years younger than me. :smallwink: Yeah, I went there.

And if Koorly is as innocent as the day is long... :smallamused: Well, let's just say usually people get more boring in the winter time.

:smallamused: I see what you did there sir.

Yeth, mathter. Apologieth, mathter. Doorth need creaking, thpider webth need produthed and that meanth the thpiderth need encouragement. Whipth uthually workth well ath motivation for the tpiderth.*

And don't forget to dribble the candles! These new ones look... well, new. It's terrible for the atmosphere!

I need Brain BLEACH now. Thanks. Thanks a lot.

Not nearly as exciting.

Wait, so SMEE being not innocent would be exciting, but for Curly to be so prompts you to brain bleach? :smallmad:

Heliomance

2010-12-27, 08:30 PM

AtlanteanTroll

2010-12-27, 08:33 PM

Wait, so SMEE being not innocent would be exciting, but for Curly to be so prompts you to brain bleach? :smallmad:

That quote wasn't about SMEE and you know it.

Coidzor

2010-12-27, 08:36 PM

:smallamused: I see what you did there sir.

What can I say, I'm a fan of the Winter Solstice. :smallbiggrin:

Wait, so SMEE being not innocent would be exciting, but for Curly to be so prompts you to brain bleach? :smallmad:

Either that or it was the idea of me going there. :smallamused: Though, who knows where there is.

Thufir

2010-12-27, 08:37 PM

That quote wasn't about SMEE and you know it.

Well... now I know it, since you've just told me so, but prior to that, no, no I didn't know that.

CurlyKitGirl

2010-12-27, 08:41 PM

:smallmad:

Quiet you.

But you asked me to stop, so I did.
Unless you want me to start all over again. :smallamused:

Heck, Koorly is 3 years younger than me. :smallwink: Yeah, I went there.

And if Koorly is as innocent as the day is long... :smallamused: Well, let's just say usually people get more boring in the winter time.

Two years. Practically.
That's what I was going for anyway when I wrote that.

I need Brain BLEACH now. Thanks. Thanks a lot.

For what? A little bit of harmless chatting? The fact that people over sixteen have sex? Quoi?

True, of course. But still. You bringing it out in the open gives them that glimmer of a doubt creeping into their consciousness.

But they'll never bring it up because they'll think it'd make them look like proper wallies.

I've only heard of that interiew. I don't think I've actually seen it. And since you make it sound as if it would ruin my image of her, I think I'll not watch it. :smalltongue:

It's that bad. I won't link to it.
Have some Only Fools and Horses (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nMVWAVrVAw) instead (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63rcdLeXiU8&NR=1&feature=fvwp).

Same here. It's sitting somewhere around here after I bought it for a mere £3, but I have not watched it as of yet.

It must be watched. For it's sheer campy amazingness and Jareth! It. Must. Be. Watched.

Yeth, mathter. Apologieth, mathter. Doorth need creaking, thpider webth need produthed and that meanth the thpiderth need encouragement. Whipth uthually workth well ath motivation for the tpiderth.*

:smallbiggrin:
Hooray for Pratchett! I knew the book even for I read the footnote. Pratchett is as amazing as we all say isn't it?

And don't forget to dribble the candles! These new ones look... well, new. It's terrible for the atmosphere!

Not to mention that the cobwebs are looking rather small and neat. Where ae the ominous draping, clinging dusty ones?
Really now Igor.

Wait, so SMEE being not innocent would be exciting, but for Curly to be so prompts you to brain bleach? :smallmad:

Double standard?

Coidzor

2010-12-27, 08:41 PM

^: Congratulations, you've both thoroughly confused me.
Quoting SMEE:
Not nearly as exciting.

Quoting My quip, related to Koorly:
I need Brain BLEACH now. Thanks. Thanks a lot.

Thufir calling a comparison between the two reactions
Wait, so SMEE being not innocent would be exciting, but for Curly to be so prompts you to brain bleach? :smallmad:

Denying that the quote from you in response to SMEE's statement was about her?
That quote wasn't about SMEE and you know it.

The one definitely seems to be about SMEE and the other one definitely seems to relate to either Koorly or myself and would fit into what Thufir was commenting on.

ION: Mulled cider mixed with a bit of spiced wine and then heated is rather nice. :smallbiggrin:

Koorly: What's a Wally? :smallconfused: A silly person or something worse? ...And does saying the word make you want waffles? Because I'm craving waffles after saying the word "wallies," aloud. :smalleek:

Mmmm.... Peanut butter waffles with chocolate....

AtlanteanTroll

2010-12-27, 08:46 PM

But you asked me to stop, so I did.
Unless you want me to start all over again. :smallamused:

:roy:

For what? A little bit of harmless chatting? The fact that people over sixteen have sex? Quoi?

*rolls eyes*

It was a creepy thing to say.

Double standard?

No.

Not nearly as exciting.

Was about the 3 R&B 151's. Not about SMEE. My God.

Well... now I know it, since you've just told me so, but prior to that, no, no I didn't know that.

Sure.

Snares

2010-12-27, 08:49 PM

Ooh, new thread...

Also, age doesn't matter. Freddie Mercury, David Bowie and Helen Mirren and Emma Thompson are ridiculously pretty and/or sexy and I would so date any of them. Even though one of them's dead so I'd have to date a ghost. Or zombie. But the latter would be a little weird.

I'd say dating a ghost would be just as 'weird' as dating a zombie, myself. :smalltongue:

And anyway, Freddie Mercury is alive and well - or at least his spirit (and voice) is. It just happens to be living in a guy called Eric (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tg4CPaKzSUU) Nally (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sp0wbrzRghA).

Coidzor

2010-12-27, 08:50 PM

*rolls eyes*

It was a creepy thing to say.

Which part? :smalltongue: That I have an age? Or that I went there? :smallamused:

AtlanteanTroll

2010-12-27, 08:51 PM

Which part? :smalltongue: That I have an age? Or that I went there? :smallamused:

That you went there. This is another creepy post.

KuReshtin

2010-12-27, 08:53 PM

And don't forget to dribble the candles! These new ones look... well, new. It's terrible for the atmosphere!

In deed, mathter. Terribly negligent of me, methter. I'll get right to it, mathter.

But they'll never bring it up because they'll think it'd make them look like proper wallies.

Thiths iths true. They would, wouldn't they?

It's that bad. I won't link to it.
Actually, come to think of it, I believe I have seen it, but I've just decided to forget it and purge the memory of it from my brain.

It must be watched. For it's sheer campy amazingness and Jareth! It. Must. Be. Watched.

Okay, okay, okay. I'll get to it. Eventually. Possibly tomorrow. Maybe.

Hooray for Pratchett! I knew the book even for I read the footnote. Pratchett is as amazing as we all say isn't it?

It's not bad. I guess I could get into it once I have read a few more of his books. Luckily, I did buy those three books before going to Sheffield.
And no, I haven't read them, yet. I don't read as often, or as fast, as you do.

Not to mention that the cobwebs are looking rather small and neat. Where ae the ominous draping, clinging dusty ones?
Really now Igor.

Thorry, mithtreth. The thpiderth have been acting rather tetchy thethe patht few dayth.

Coidzor

2010-12-27, 08:58 PM

That you went there. This is another creepy post.

So you're saying that as long as I go there, or at least, say I went there, it's automatically creepy, eh?

Interesting. Now how to harness this for E-VILLE?!

CurlyKitGirl

2010-12-27, 09:01 PM

Koorly: What's a Wally? :smallconfused: A silly person or something worse? ...And does saying the word make you want waffles? Because I'm craving waffles after saying the word "wallies," aloud. :smalleek:

A wally: a bit of a silly person.

I'd say dating a ghost would be just as 'weird' as dating a zombie, myself. :smalltongue:

And anyway, Freddie Mercury is alive and well - or at least his spirit (and voice) is. It just happens to be living in a guy called Eric (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tg4CPaKzSUU) Nally (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sp0wbrzRghA).

Except a ghost isn't always corporeal, and to many dating a zombie would be necrophilia.
Which is weird.

Thiths iths true. They would, wouldn't they?

Exactly. :smallsmile:

Actually, come to think of it, I believe I have seen it, but I've just decided to forget it and purge the memory of it from my brain.

During my A Level Eng Lang we had a spoken language section, and for it in one lesson we watched an example of a successful interview and then an "utterly catastrophic" interview. That's my quoting my lecturer there.
That Meg Ryan interview had all of us cringing.

It's not bad. I guess I could get into it once I have read a few more of his books. Luckily, I did buy those three books before going to Sheffield.
And no, I haven't read them, yet. I don't read as often, or as fast, as you do.

At least you're giving them a try. And at least the series has enough diversity you'll probably find something you like.

No worries about the not having read them all yet thing, according to local memetic mutation and in-joke, nobody reads as fast as I can. As such I have trained myself to appreciate any instance of you lowly mortal beings finishing a book. :smalltongue:

Thorry, mithtreth. The thpiderth have been acting rather tetchy thethe patht few dayth.

You must have forgotten to give them their Christmas dinner. Silly person.

Haruki-kun

2010-12-27, 09:02 PM

Hey, so guess who just got Fallout: New Vegas?

NOT ME! Cuz I got BlazBlue: Continuum Shift! :smallbiggrin: New Vegas'll have to wait.

AtlanteanTroll

2010-12-27, 09:02 PM

So you're saying that as long as I go there, or at least, say I went there, it's automatically creepy, eh?

Interesting. Now how to harness this for E-VILLE?!

Yes. But that post wasn't creepy for some reason.

Coidzor

2010-12-27, 09:04 PM

Oh well, I went there for science, after all.

Koorly: I think the risk of getting your brain munched is the more pertinent reservation people have about zomblebees over ghosts, Koorly, as both would be considered necrophilia.

...Ghosts are less rotty-looking and usually if they can manifest at all, not rotty-feeling at all, so that's definitely a clear win there.

Also, danke. ...But I still want waffles because of you. Do you eat waffles over in WalesCornwall?

Moonshadow

2010-12-27, 09:05 PM

Coidzor

2010-12-27, 09:06 PM

soooo I'm making a drinking game out of being rejected on dating websites.

1 drink for "Sorry, but you're not my type", 2 drinks for "I'm too busy at the moment" and 3... well, I haven't figured out what 3 drinks are worth yet.

If I actually drank, I think I'd be up around 20 drinks by now :smalltongue:

Well, that either means A. you've not been at it long or B. you've managed to get an impressive number of replies, even if they were negative ones.

CynicalAvocado

2010-12-27, 09:08 PM

i hate getting stuck behind drunk drivers:smallannoyed:

Moonshadow

2010-12-27, 09:09 PM

Coidzor

2010-12-27, 09:16 PM

I've been at it for 2 days, good sir. At least by turning it into a somewhat warped positive by making it a drinking game, it helps stave off the negative for a while.

And it beats watching daytime TV :smalleek: I can't believe how much crap is on during the daytime...

True, though if you're lucky game shows might be on.

20 responses, 2 days... That's more responses than I got in my first week of actually looking around on the only one I ever joined and was actually somewhat serious about at least getting some pointers about good restaurants in the area I was moving to.

10 responses a day, even rejections is higher than the norm, especially for guys. Most of the time you don't even get responses at all.

Then again, you could be overtaxing yourself by writing too many messages in a go and thus burning through your abilities too quickly. So I guess it really more depends on how many messages you put out over the course of two days....

i hate getting stuck behind drunk drivers:smallannoyed:

I hate being on the road within 500 feet of drunk drivers myself. :smallfrown:

I think that's as far as I'm able to see at night on the highway, anyway.

CynicalAvocado

2010-12-27, 09:20 PM

I hate being on the road within 500 feet of drunk drivers myself. :smallfrown:

I think that's as far as I'm able to see at night on the highway, anyway.

i was close enough to see him, and far enough to hit the brakes if he did something stupider

Snares

2010-12-27, 09:23 PM

Except a ghost isn't always corporeal, and to many dating a zombie would be necrophilia.
Which is weird.

But I'd find the mere existence of a ghost a little weird, never mind dating one. And I wonder if dating the undead does count as necrophilia... does a reanimated corpse still count as a corpse? :smallconfused:

Moonshadow

2010-12-27, 09:24 PM

No game shows, just OPRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH.

And see, this site I'm on, it don't let you write messages as the initial contact, you have to pick from like, a set list of random applications of interest in people, and then hope they add you to the site messenger thing.

And my losing streak got broken just then, dang. Now I have to start the game over :smallfrown:

Thufir

2010-12-27, 09:26 PM

It must be watched. For it's sheer campy amazingness and Jareth! It. Must. Be. Watched.

It's on my list of things which must be watched. Unfortunately it's quite a long list. So I'm not especially likely to watch it that soon without outside interference, like if I'm hanging out with a friend and we suddenly decide to watch a DVD and they're all Labyrinth!

^: Congratulations, you've both thoroughly confused me.

Always fun.

That you went there. This is another creepy post.

You seem to have a rather odd idea of what that phrase means. Clear indication of a dirty mind.

In deed, mathter. Terribly negligent of me, methter. I'll get right to it, mathter.

Thorry, mithtreth. The thpiderth have been acting rather tetchy thethe patht few dayth.

"Call this atmosphere? Where's the slime? Where's the decay? Would a Phantom live in a place like this? You jest - would a Dracula? He wouldn't be caught dead in it!Now this is not good enough. This is a special occasion, and this place should be revolting."

Except a ghost isn't always corporeal, and to many dating a zombie would be necrophilia.
Which is weird.

Dating a zombie would be pretty :yuk: what with the putrefaction and stuff, not to mention the loss of certain functions would cause issues with certain elements of the relationship.
Whereas a ghost remains as an idealised version of the person as they were. It doesn't decay or anything, retains all faculties, may even be more attractive due to being idealised or regressed to a younger age according to the individual's mental image of themself. Only issue would be the inability to touch them.

Oh well, I went there for science, after all.

OK, now it sounds kind of wrong, but also kind of awesome. FOR SCIENCE!

AtlanteanTroll

2010-12-27, 09:35 PM

You seem to have a rather odd idea of what that phrase means. Clear indication of a dirty mind.

:smallconfused:

Who the hell said my mind was out-of-the-gutter?

absolmorph

2010-12-27, 09:37 PM

*rolls eyes*

It was a creepy thing to say.
... I'm not sure if I need to lower my standards for creepy or if you need to raise yours.
Honestly, that's not worth brain bleach. Three years is a pretty small age gap, no matter what the actual ages are.
Now, if Coid had mentioned, say... a hot pink octopus with a pedo 'stache, I might be more understanding. Especially if he'd been manipulating his post in order to encourage dirty thoughts.

IRN: I gave my friend a necklace today for Christmas. It's a hot pink, mustachioed octopus. She was very happy with it :smallbiggrin:

AtlanteanTroll

2010-12-27, 09:39 PM

Now, if Coid had mentioned, say... a hot pink octopus with a pedo 'stache, I might be more understanding. Especially if he'd been manipulating his post in order to encourage dirty thoughts.

Isn't bad that this doesn't worry me?

Coidzor

2010-12-27, 09:41 PM

:smallconfused:

Who the hell said my mind was out-of-the-gutter?

It was sorta implied by you needing brain bleach for something as tame as my going there. :smallwink: I mean, I know I'm a werewolf and all, but Koorly's koorly regardless of having went there or not. And as far as I recall, it was only I who went there.

She's just apparently in a good mood. :smallbiggrin:

Now, if Coid had mentioned, say... a hot pink octopus with a pedo 'stache, I might be more understanding. Especially if he'd been manipulating his post in order to encourage dirty thoughts.

IRN: I gave my friend a necklace today for Christmas. It's a hot pink, mustachioed octopus. She was very happy with it :smallbiggrin:

That's awesome! :smallbiggrin: but how did you find out my true form!?

KuReshtin

2010-12-27, 09:42 PM

IRN: I gave my friend a necklace today for Christmas. It's a hot pink, mustachioed octopus. She was very happy with it :smallbiggrin:

Was it a pearl one? Now, THAT is how you drag it into the gutter.

Trobby

2010-12-27, 09:46 PM

o.o It has been awhile, but this must be done.

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b244/Introbulus/BoogieCouple2.png

Thread Blessed. :smallwink:

Coidzor

2010-12-27, 09:48 PM

o.o It has been awhile, but this must be done.

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b244/Introbulus/BoogieCouple2.png

Thread Blessed. :smallwink:

Was it a pearl one? Now, THAT is how you drag it into the gutter.

Awesome, two posts that this reply applies to! :smallamused:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3611/3469032073_a26949ebda.jpg

IRN: Introbulus, have you considered creating a scene of kuppies doing the dances the Peanuts kids do?

AtlanteanTroll

2010-12-27, 09:51 PM

CurlyKitGirl

2010-12-27, 10:18 PM

It was sorta implied by you needing brain bleach for something as tame as my going there. :smallwink: I mean, I know I'm a werewolf and all, but Koorly's koorly regardless of having went there or not. And as far as I recall, it was only I who went there.

She's just apparently in a good mood. :smallbiggrin:

"Koorly's koorly"? Well, yes, I am me.
Is this about my semi-permanent obliviousness to inneundo and things like that? Prolly is isn't it?

But yes, I am in a good mood, the liberal application of lots of alcohol over three days and it being Christmas definitely helps. Annoyingly, despite having consumed the better half of a bottle of a martini and several glasses of wine and honeey mead wine and brandy-in-the-shape-of-a-cake-with-icing-on-top I remain sober. Not even mildly tipsy.

ION:
Yay. Just discovered how to work the webcam.
Now to ignore it for forever and a day.

Thufir

2010-12-27, 10:28 PM

ION:
Yay. Just discovered how to work the webcam.
Now to ignore it for forever and a day.

*Legasp*

I still don't really know how to use the webcam in my laptop.

CynicalAvocado

2010-12-27, 10:33 PM

*Legasp*

I still don't really know how to use the webcam in my laptop.

i used to be able to work mine, but since i had my lappy rebuilt i can't for the life of me find it now

Coidzor

2010-12-27, 10:49 PM

"Koorly's koorly"? Well, yes, I am me.
Is this about my semi-permanent obliviousness to inneundo and things like that? Prolly is isn't it?

Nah, think more about mental images, individuals' mental conceptions of us, and what we look like. Most people are going to have a more flattering image of you, whereas I'm, well, a werewolf! :smallwink: But yes, you are quite koorly indeed. :smallamused:

But yes, I am in a good mood, the liberal application of lots of alcohol over three days and it being Christmas definitely helps. Annoyingly, despite having consumed the better half of a bottle of a martini and several glasses of wine and honeey mead wine and brandy-in-the-shape-of-a-cake-with-icing-on-top I remain sober. Not even mildly tipsy.

Well then, if this is you with alcohol and not even feeling it... Sounds like you might be more fun than a barrel of monkeys once you really get going. :smallamused:

Also, I'm now reminded of how I've never yet tried mead. ...This shall be rectified.

Though are you sure the bottle was of martini and not of martini mix? :smallconfused: That seems kind of odd if it was.

ION:
Yay. Just discovered how to work the webcam.
Now to ignore it for forever and a day.
Obviously this is a sign that you should grace the You thread with your divinity. :smalltongue:

Thufir

2010-12-27, 10:59 PM

Nah, think more about mental images, individuals' mental conceptions of us, and what we look like. Most people are going to have a more flattering image of you, whereas I'm, well, a werewolf! :smallwink: But yes, you are quite koorly indeed. :smallamused:

Are you turning koorly into an adjective?

Well then, if this is you with alcohol and not even feeling it... Sounds like you might be more fun than a barrel of monkeys once you really get going. :smallamused:

I have had similar suspicions for some time now. I really want to find out first hand, but I've yet to have an opportunity.

Obviously this is a sign that you should grace the You thread with your divinity. :smalltongue:

YES. This is a thing which should happen.
Said pictures need not be taken with the aforementioned webcam, if you'd rather use your camera. It probably gives better picture quality anyway.
But CurlyPics are always a Good Thing.

Coidzor

2010-12-27, 11:08 PM

Are you turning koorly into an adjective?

Well, I'd had my suspicions for a while now about how many parts of speech Koorly would fit. :smallwink: Still trying to work out how to have nothing but Koorly come out of my mouth and still have it be meaningful...:smallconfused:

I have had similar suspicions for some time now. I really want to find out first hand, but I've yet to have an opportunity.

Well, if I were a religious man, and I am a man, I'd say that this idea smells like a holy quest to me. :smallamused:

YES. This is a thing which should happen.
Said pictures need not be taken with the aforementioned webcam, if you'd rather use your camera. It probably gives better picture quality anyway.
But CurlyPics are always a Good Thing.

Indeed! :smallbiggrin:

AtlanteanTroll

2010-12-27, 11:13 PM

Ranger Mattos

2010-12-27, 11:31 PM

Coidzor

2010-12-27, 11:36 PM

My cat seems to be avoiding me :smallfrown: Since this afternoon, every time I walk near him he slowly walks away. He meows at me like he wants to be petted, but then he goes into the next room, walking me in circles.

He wants out or feeding or his litter box cleaned up or is trying to tell you that something is wrong.

Have you checked into all of those?

Thufir

2010-12-27, 11:42 PM

Well, I'd had my suspicions for a while now about how many parts of speech Koorly would fit. :smallwink: Still trying to work out how to have nothing but Koorly come out of my mouth and still have it be meaningful...:smallconfused:

Well, personally, I koorly that koorly the koorly 'koorly' for koorly koorly koorly would koorly koorly koorly. As I am koorly koorly. I koorly this koorly gets my koorly koorly?
I'm going to koorly koorly this koorly, koorly it's koorly koorly for me as koorly as for koorly. Koorly koorly all I'm koorly is koorly the koorly 'koorly' for koorly koorly I koorly koorly in what I'm koorly.

Well, if I were a religious man, and I am a man, I'd say that this idea smells like a holy quest to me. :smallamused:

Given she's my Goddess, I'd consider it a pilgrimage.

Ranger Mattos

2010-12-27, 11:49 PM

He wants out or feeding or his litter box cleaned up or is trying to tell you that something is wrong.

Have you checked into all of those?

1. He doesn't go outside
2. I'll feed him a can of food soon.
3. Just cleaned his litter box.
4. I don't think so, but I'll check.

CynicalAvocado

2010-12-27, 11:51 PM

My cat seems to be avoiding me :smallfrown: Since this afternoon, every time I walk near him he slowly walks away. He meows at me like he wants to be petted, but then he goes into the next room, walking me in circles.

my cat whiskers is the same way, lately the only times she interacts with me is when she needs food/water or litter cleaned out.

Coidzor

2010-12-27, 11:54 PM

Well, personally, I koorly that koorly the koorly 'koorly' for koorly koorly koorly would koorly koorly koorly. As I am koorly koorly. I koorly this koorly gets my koorly koorly?
I'm going to koorly koorly this koorly, koorly it's koorly koorly for me as koorly as for koorly. Koorly koorly all I'm koorly is koorly the koorly 'koorly' for koorly koorly I koorly koorly in what I'm koorly.

Well, that's quite a fair few koorlys. And cheeky too! :smallamused:

Given she's my Goddess, I'd consider it a pilgrimage.

Hmm and 'tis the season, after all... :smallbiggrin:

KuReshtin

2010-12-28, 12:09 AM

Stalin's a verb.

It is. You just misspelled it. You forgot an 'l' in the middle and a 'g' at the end.:smallwink:

CynicalAvocado

2010-12-28, 12:15 AM

Well, personally, I koorly that koorly the koorly 'koorly' for koorly koorly koorly would koorly koorly koorly. As I am koorly koorly. I koorly this koorly gets my koorly koorly?
I'm going to koorly koorly this koorly, koorly it's koorly koorly for me as koorly as for koorly. Koorly koorly all I'm koorly is koorly the koorly 'koorly' for koorly koorly I koorly koorly in what I'm koorly.

it makes sense in a buffalo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_Bu ffalo_buffalo) kind of way

Partof1

2010-12-28, 01:41 AM

it makes sense in a buffalo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_Bu ffalo_buffalo) kind of way

Waaaaaahh!

I understood it, but not before it broke me.

Thanks a whole lot.

absolmorph

2010-12-28, 04:23 AM

Was it a pearl one? Now, THAT is how you drag it into the gutter.
Smooth :smallamused:

Fifty-Eyed Fred

2010-12-28, 06:17 AM

EXCELSIOR! And thus collecting Fifty-Eyed Fred Awesome Points.

MEGA Fifty-Eyed Fred Awesome Points for you!
*showers Ku in Awesome Points, exalting him forever more*

Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and Boxing Day were full of family fun, and then my regular schedule of fantastic times with friends has been resumed as of yesterday. Due to once more being out and about I have been making an admirable use of my new coat that I got for Christmas. It's brilliant. Long and in my favourite clothing colour - black - it exudes greatness. Particularly with me inside it. :smallwink:

I now plan to procure a top hat to wear to my lectures next term. Black, of course - my friend who is going to do the same has a grey one.
My pub quiz team (with whom I have won every pub quiz at uni - yes, we're awesome) are also going to be in the same seminar group as me next term. Long live The Quadruple Alliance! :smallwink:
And since my friend and I have a drama society meeting straight after that seminar every week we may well be in costume for Wyrd Sisters (play version of the Discworld novel) on multiple occasions. Discussing literary theory in my ghostly Verence outfit will be incredibly fun. :smallbiggrin:

Heliomance

2010-12-28, 06:21 AM

I now plan to procure a top hat to wear to my lectures next term. Black, of course - my friend who is going to do the same has a grey one.

Excellent! Top hats are awesome, and should make a comeback.

Top hats are cool.

Amiel

2010-12-28, 09:17 AM

New thread smell.

ION: My friend came up with an idea: a complete rip-off of C. S. Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia. This rip-off shall be known as the Chronicles of Yarnia, and the scenes shall be constructed of yarn formed into various shapes. More details to follow when we think of them.

Another would be to replace all mention of wand in Harry Potter with wang; purely for science of course.

Also win;
http://s1.b3ta.com/host/creative/30035/1258375306/peasmade.jpg

Fifty-Eyed Fred

2010-12-28, 10:16 AM

Excellent! Top hats are awesome, and should make a comeback.

Top hats are cool.

As are frock coats. In fact, Victoriana are generally made of pure awesome. It's the reason I support Steampunk despite not taking an active part in it myself.
Actually, a friend of mine in the drama society is writing a Steampunk novel. Upon telling me this I just beamed at her and went "that's so awesome." I love the drama people. :smalltongue:

KuReshtin

2010-12-28, 11:02 AM

Another would be to replace all mention of wand in Harry Potter with wang; purely for science of course.

Classic Bash.org quote.

AtlanteanTroll

2010-12-28, 11:03 AM

It is. You just misspelled it. You forgot an 'l' in the middle and a 'g' at the end.:smallwink:

...

Oh jeeze.

Thufir

2010-12-28, 12:00 PM

I now plan to procure a top hat to wear to my lectures next term. Black, of course - my friend who is going to do the same has a grey one.

I approve.

And since my friend and I have a drama society meeting straight after that seminar every week we may well be in costume for Wyrd Sisters (play version of the Discworld novel) on multiple occasions. Discussing literary theory in my ghostly Verence outfit will be incredibly fun. :smallbiggrin:

And that's really awesome. Bonus points if you ever end up discussing Macbeth in that seminar. Or Wyrd Sisters, obviously.

Excellent! Top hats are awesome, and should make a comeback.

Top hats are cool.

"I'm going to need a SWAT team ready to mobilise, street level maps covering all of Florida, a pot of coffee, twelve jammie dodgers and a fez!"

As are frock coats. In fact, Victoriana are generally made of pure awesome. It's the reason I support Steampunk despite not taking an active part in it myself.
Actually, a friend of mine in the drama society is writing a Steampunk novel. Upon telling me this I just beamed at her and went "that's so awesome." I love the drama people. :smalltongue:

I feel likewise. The difficulty involved in the acquisition of Victorian era clothing is a source of great consternation to me. I want a tailcoat damnit!

Ranger Mattos

2010-12-28, 12:38 PM

it makes sense in a buffalo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_Bu ffalo_buffalo) kind of way

That is amazing. It is as amazing as how colorless green ideas sleep furiously (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorless_green_ideas_sleep_furiously).

ION: I can't believe how little snow Wisconsinland has so far. We've got around 2 inches at most where I live, where we would usually have around 6 or 7 by this time of year.

IRN: Atlanta, Georgia, has it's first snowfall in over 100 years, IIRC. That's where all our snow went! :smallmad:

AtlanteanTroll

2010-12-28, 12:45 PM

IRN: Atlanta, Georgia, has it's first snowfall in over 100 years, IIRC. That's where all our snow went! :smallmad:

The South has horrible luck, let it have it's fun.

Coidzor

2010-12-28, 02:14 PM

I want a tailcoat damnit!

What if we just have you in a regular coat, but we add a tail to ya? :smallamused: I knows a guy what knows a guy...

Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll

2010-12-28, 02:27 PM

I want a tailcoat damnit!

I'm wearing one to a new-years party.
:smallbiggrin:

AtlanteanTroll

2010-12-28, 02:29 PM

I'm wearing one to a new-years party.
:smallbiggrin:

:smallconfused:

Why would you wear clothes to a new-years party?

Heliomance

2010-12-28, 02:32 PM

I feel likewise. The difficulty involved in the acquisition of Victorian era clothing is a source of great consternation to me. I want a tailcoat damnit!

I have a morning coat. I was lucky enough to find a formalwear hire shop that was shutting down and selling off all its stock about a year and a half ago. Got myself a couple of waistcoats for a fiver apiece, two cravats at £3 each, and a pure wool morning coat for the princely sum of £35.

Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll

2010-12-28, 02:35 PM

:smallconfused:

Why would you wear clothes to a new-years party?

Because it will be cold. And because the host likes dressing people up. HE's odd like that.

I blame his sorta-girlfriend.

But 'tis all good, cause I like dressing up too.

And the various clothes won't stay on ALL night :smallamused:

Thufir

2010-12-28, 02:39 PM

I'm wearing one to a new-years party.
:smallbiggrin:

I have a morning coat. I was lucky enough to find a formalwear hire shop that was shutting down and selling off all its stock about a year and a half ago. Got myself a couple of waistcoats for a fiver apiece, two cravats at £3 each, and a pure wool morning coat for the princely sum of £35.

http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k63/Razor-Sharp_H7/Avatar/ENVY-Thufir.png

:smallconfused:

Why would you wear clothes to a new-years party?

You'd go to a new year's party naked? :confused:

AtlanteanTroll

2010-12-28, 02:43 PM

And the various clothes won't stay on ALL night :smallamused:

*nods*

Good.

You'd go to a new year's party naked? :confused:

You don't?

Thufir

2010-12-28, 02:47 PM

You don't?

No. Why would I? Why would anyone?

Gullara

2010-12-28, 03:03 PM

No. Why would I? Why would anyone?

It involves a lot of alcohol.

CurlyKitGirl

2010-12-28, 03:39 PM

I have a morning coat. I was lucky enough to find a formalwear hire shop that was shutting down and selling off all its stock about a year and a half ago. Got myself a couple of waistcoats for a fiver apiece, two cravats at £3 each, and a pure wool morning coat for the princely sum of £35.

:frown:
Sadness.
Do want. Luckily enough for me (ish) that I have a vintage shop nearby, and then in Oxcamfordbridge there'll more than likely be some shops that sell some things liike that.

AHA!
Am watching Jonathan Creek and loving it.
Bwee!
:smallnerdgasm:
Let me tell you it's a bit odd reconciling QI to this show. But awesome sauce on toast.

Thufir

2010-12-28, 04:06 PM

AHA!
Am watching Jonathan Creek and loving it.
Bwee!
:smallnerdgasm:
Let me tell you it's a bit odd reconciling QI to this show. But awesome sauce on toast.

I know very little about Jonathan Creek. I once saw one episode of it, and I know the theme music is the Danse Macabre, which we also played during the interval of the school production of the Wizard of Oz, so I knew it very well at the time when I saw that episode.

AtlanteanTroll

2010-12-28, 04:20 PM

It involves a lot of alcohol.

Pffft. I'm to young to drink. It involves agood sense of humor. (And a good sense of judging your weight.)

You people do realize I as kidding right?

CurlyKitGirl

2010-12-28, 04:27 PM

I know very little about Jonathan Creek. I once saw one episode of it, and I know the theme music is the Danse Macabre, which we also played during the interval of the school production of the Wizard of Oz, so I knew it very well at the time when I saw that episode.

Alan Davies.
This is the first time I've seen Jonathan Creek, and fitting ditzy Alan Davies of QI with Jonathan Creek who is . . . think Sherlock Holmes crossed with magic tricks. But without the condescending character.
And very funny.

EDIT:

@Troll: Unless you're under ten years old there's no such thing as too young to drink. Only irresponsible drinkers or unsupervised drinkers.
Little Sister's first drink was at thirteen, at one my Many Cousins' weddings. Little Brother was the same.
Oh. And a key part of drinking unsupervised is making sure you don't get caught.

Thufir

2010-12-28, 04:30 PM

You people do realize I was kidding right?

It could easily have been a typo (Missing word before clothes). And the thing is, kidding does not come across very well over the internet, this being why we use smilies to convey tone.
Also, generally such a thing would be expected to be amusing. What you said was merely weird.

@^: I know the general idea. Is there actual magic though? In the one episode I saw he thought it was something magical, but it turned out to be mundane.

CurlyKitGirl

2010-12-28, 04:34 PM

@^: I know the general idea. Is there actual magic though? In the one episode I saw he thought it was something magical, but it turned out to be mundane.

One. Epsiode.
However it's mostly slip-of-the-hand and exceptionally well planned tricks.
"Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable must be the truth."
Jonathan Creek disproves the improbable by making it probable.
Lots of locked room mysteries and rock solid alibies which aren't. That sort of thing.

AtlanteanTroll

2010-12-28, 05:05 PM

It could easily have been a typo (Missing word before clothes). And the thing is, kidding does not come across very well over the internet, this being why we use smilies to convey tone.
:smallconfused:

I used ":smallconfused:" in most of those posts.

Also, generally such a thing would be expected to be amusing. What you said was merely weird.
That's how I joke. :smalltongue:

Thufir

2010-12-28, 05:11 PM

:smallconfused:

I used ":smallconfused:" in most of those posts.

That conveys the wrong tone. :smalltongue: would indicate a joking manner. :smallconfused: indicates confusion - suggesting you were genuinely confused as to why anyone would wear clothes to a party.

That's how I joke. :smalltongue:

Jokes are supposed to be funny. That one wouldn't even have been particularly funny if you hadn't had to explain it after the fact.

AtlanteanTroll

2010-12-28, 05:16 PM

That conveys the wrong tone.
Orange Juice?

That :smalltongue: would indicate a joking manner. :smallconfused: indicates confusion - suggesting you were genuinely confused as to why anyone would wear clothes to a party.
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Yeah, I suppose. (Just because it's a joke doesn't mean I don't woneder. There is a Nudist Colony 15 miles from my house.)

Jokes are supposed to be funny. That one wouldn't even have been particularly funny if you hadn't had to explain it after the fact.
*shrugs*

It's still the way I joke. Be glad you never played Apples to Apples with me. Speaking of which, why did that die?

Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll

2010-12-28, 05:19 PM

@Troll: Unless you're under ten years old there's no such thing as too young to drink. Only irresponsible drinkers or unsupervised drinkers.
Little Sister's first drink was at thirteen, at one my Many Cousins' weddings. Little Brother was the same.
Oh. And a key part of drinking unsupervised is making sure you don't get caught.

Alternatively, the key part is having chill parents. My parents are chill, but the friend who's throwing the party...
His parents buy his alcohol for him.
Lucky bastard.

AtlanteanTroll

2010-12-28, 05:19 PM

@Troll: Unless you're under ten years old there's no such thing as too young to drink. Only irresponsible drinkers or unsupervised drinkers.
Little Sister's first drink was at thirteen, at one my Many Cousins' weddings. Little Brother was the same.
Oh. And a key part of drinking unsupervised is making sure you don't get caught.

Alchohlism runs in the family. I have tried some wine and beer while under my dads supervision, but it was pretty nasty stuff. (It was also old and cheap (as my dad doesn't drink much himself) so that didn't help any.)

CurlyKitGirl

2010-12-28, 05:21 PM

Orange Juice?

Non sequiter as surrealist humour has failed?

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Yeah, I suppose. (Just because it's a joke doesn't mean I don't woneder. There is a Nudist Colony 15 miles from my house.)

Then use :smalltongue: to indicate the end of a joke, and in a new paragraph muse about it seriously.

*shrugs*

It's still the way I joke. Be glad you never played Apples to Apples with me. Speaking of which, why did that die?

The purpose of a joke is to create humour. You didn't.
Therefore your joke was a failure.

Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll

2010-12-28, 05:21 PM

Alchohlism runs in the family.

Good reason to be wary, then. :smallsigh:

AtlanteanTroll

2010-12-28, 05:23 PM

Non sequiter as surrealist humour has failed?

Yes?

Then use :smalltongue: to indicate the end of a joke, and in a new paragraph muse about it seriously.
Fine.

The purpose of a joke is to create humour. You didn't.
Therefore your joke was a failure.
It'd work in person.

Good reason to be wary, then. :smallsigh:
Yeah.

Thufir

2010-12-28, 05:24 PM

Orange Juice?

Non sequitur?

Edit:

Non sequitur as surrealist humour has failed?

Great minds think alike, apparently.

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Yeah, I suppose. (Just because it's a joke doesn't mean I don't wonder. There is a Nudist Colony 15 miles from my house.)

Sure, but you don't live in it, so I rather assume that you would, in fact, wear clothes if going to a party. And even a nudist could easily understand the reasons for doing so (Traditions and cultural wossname).

Further edit:

It'd work in person.

No, I really don't think it would.

Ranger Mattos

2010-12-28, 05:31 PM

It'd work in person.

We're not talking to each other in person. And I'm not sure it would even work then.

CurlyKitGirl

2010-12-28, 05:32 PM

Alchohlism runs in the family. I have tried some wine and beer while under my dads supervision, but it was pretty nasty stuff. (It was also old and cheap (as my dad doesn't drink much himself) so that didn't help any.)

As it runs on both my maternal and paternal lines. Hence why I never drink outside of somewhere I feel safe, always with people, and seem to have an iron constitution when it comes to boozing.
After all, my inability to even get tipsy is all but a running joke now.

You'll want to try a wide variety of wines and beers. I'm not much of a wine appreciator, but I've only ever had two really good reds. I can't stand whites.
Beer? I'm more of an ale or mild fan. But not very often at all, a bit too bitter for me.
Mead's nice. My parents said it burnt their mouths and throat, but I like it. Apparently it's got 15% alcohol, but I had several glasses, mixing it with martini and lemonade in another glass. Not drunk. Not tipsy.
Me favourite's martini and lemonade obviously. Mix it meself I do.
Malibu and lemonade's a bit too sweet for me, G&T's too dry. RUm and fruit juice is lovely, neat rum burns a bit and don't taste too good. Neat vodka's not bad, don't taste of nothing though, but it's warming.
Raspberry daiquiris are lovely though. Nicely tart. There's another cocktail one can make with hazelnut liquer and cream which is very nice too.

I've tried a lot of drinks, it's a case of finding what you like and don't, being aware of how much alcohol's in each glass, what your limit is (I haven't found mine yet) and where you feel safe to drink and with whom.
Care's all you need.
A lot of care.
Hence why I drink so rarely.

@Thufir: Indeed.

ION: I'm feeling the urge to troll someone. I'm trying hard to resist it, but still.

AtlanteanTroll

2010-12-28, 05:33 PM

Sure, but you don't live in it, so I rather assume that you would, in fact, wear clothes if going to a party. And even a nudist could easily understand the reasons for doing so (Traditions and cultural wossname).
Nakedness is fun and you know it.

No, I really don't think it would.
I get my English teacher, a rather sweet woman, to laugh at least once a week about the brutal murder of children. I think I could pull it off.

good advice
Maybe. But it's sort of ilegal to drink here anywhere but at my dads house, and he doesn't buy alchohol, so I'll wait till I'm 21.

CurlyKitGirl

2010-12-28, 05:35 PM

I get my English teacher, a rather sweet woman, to laugh at least once a week about the brutal murder of children. I think I could pull it off.

Yes.
Because everyone knows brutal child murder is the perfect theme for a stan-up routine. Everyone's doing it.

EDIT:

Maybe. But it's sort of illegal to drink here anywhere but at my dad's house, and he doesn't buy alcohol, so I'll wait 'til I'm 21.

Never stopped some of my friends.
'Course, here it's eighteen, but still don't stop noone.

Anyway, you ever tried just asking him. Because you're off uni soon, and it's best to get accustomed to it (if nothing else but for social drinking) so you know when you're reaching your limit.

RE-EDIT:
@v: Yeah, I've seen it done before.

Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll

2010-12-28, 05:38 PM

Yes.
Because everyone knows brutal child murder is the perfect theme for a stan-up routine. Everyone's doing it.

If you do it WELL, though, you can end by saying "And now you guys are all laughing your heads off about a brutal child murder. Don't you just feel great about yourselves now?"

AtlanteanTroll

2010-12-28, 05:42 PM

Yes.
Because everyone knows brutal child murder is the perfect theme for a stan-up routine. Everyone's doing it.
Hey, it happens.

Never stopped some of my friends.
'Course, here it's eighteen, but still don't stop noone.

Anyway, you ever tried just asking him. Because you're off uni soon, and it's best to get accustomed to it (if nothing else but for social drinking) so you know when you're reaching your limit.
My dad says the same thing. He remembers when people could drink when he was 18, he says it's why we have more alchoholics now. Silly old man, he may be right though. Anyway, I don't care, it's avoidable and IRL, I'm a goody-goody two shoes, so meh.

If you do it WELL, though, you can end by saying "And now you guys are all laughing your heads off about a brutal child murder. Don't you just feel great about yourselves now?"
I've seen it done on Comedy Central. We tease her about it all the time. Makes her feel guilty.

Thufir

2010-12-28, 05:44 PM

You'll want to try a wide variety of wines and beers. I'm not much of a wine appreciator, but I've only ever had two really good reds. I can't stand whites.
Beer? I'm more of an ale or mild fan. But not very often at all, a bit too bitter for me.
Mead's nice. My parents said it burnt their mouths and throat, but I like it. Apparently it's got 15% alcohol, but I had several glasses, mixing it with martini and lemonade in another glass. Not drunk. Not tipsy.
Me favourite's martini and lemonade obviously. Mix it meself I do.
Malibu and lemonade's a bit too sweet for me, G&T's too dry. RUm and fruit juice is lovely, neat rum burns a bit and don't taste too good. Neat vodka's not bad, don't taste of nothing though, but it's warming.
Raspberry daiquiris are lovely though. Nicely tart. There's another cocktail one can make with hazelnut liquer and cream which is very nice too.

...you have, like, way more alcoholic experience than me. When I was your age I was still teetotal!

Nakedness is fun and you know it.

I don't see anything inherently fun about it.

I get my English teacher, a rather sweet woman, to laugh at least once a week about the brutal murder of children. I think I could pull it off.

That just means you can use black humour, which while certainly not everyone's cup of dead baby, is still funny. It doesn't mean you can make something work as a joke which is not funny.

AtlanteanTroll

2010-12-28, 05:47 PM

I don't see anything inherently fun about it.
Spoil-sport.

That just means you can use black humour, which while certainly not everyone's cup of dead baby, is still funny. It doesn't mean you can make something work as a joke which is not funny.
There is nothing inherently funny with what I say to make the teacher laugh. It works the same. (I think.)

Also dead baby jokes have gotten me grounded. And I don't even tell them. :smallannoyed:

Gullara

2010-12-28, 05:49 PM

Nakedness is fun and you know it.

Ack, no. I'm the kind of person who is as clothed as possible all the time.

AtlanteanTroll

2010-12-28, 05:51 PM

Ack, no. I'm the kind of person who is as clothed as possible all the time.
Me too, but anything extra I'd post is NSFF. So, yeah.

CurlyKitGirl

2010-12-28, 05:57 PM

My dad says the same thing. He remembers when people could drink when he was 18, he says it's why we have more alchoholics now. Silly old man, he may be right though. Anyway, I don't care, it's avoidable and IRL, I'm a goody-goody two shoes, so meh.

And you don't think I'm not?
*gales of hysterical laughter*
The problem is that people who don't know how to drink sensibly in moderation will succumb to the call.

...you have, like, way more alcoholic experience than me. When I was your age I was still teetotal!

I forgot the champage, buck's fizz and cider!
See, I've not actually been drinking on many occasions. I've just tried a wide variety of them.
A lot of them I had at the Ball, the G&T was when you came down, aside from that I have the very rare glass of martini and lemon.

I'm not a common drinker, drinking much less than once a month. Virtually, I'm all but teetotal.

AtlanteanTroll

2010-12-28, 06:03 PM

And you don't think I'm not?
*gales of hysterical laughter*
The problem is that people who don't know how to drink sensibly in moderation will succumb to the call.

Well, I'd trust myy dad before I'd trust you any day of the week about anything BUT literature. You happened to agree with him in this case, so no. But potentially, yes.

Thufir

2010-12-28, 06:25 PM

I forgot the champage, buck's fizz and cider!
See, I've not actually been drinking on many occasions. I've just tried a wide variety of them.
A lot of them I had at the Ball, the G&T was when you came down, aside from that I have the very rare glass of martini and lemon.

I'm not a common drinker, drinking much less than once a month. Virtually, I'm all but teetotal.

I drink only on special occasions - i.e. parties, and sometimes G&S socials. This works out at a bit more than once a month.
The drinks I've tried a mostly just a variety of alcopops and ciders, and vodka and gin with mixers.
Don't generally like wine, or beer, don't like rum, iffy on champagne.
Mead is alright, some shot drinks are alright, but not sambuca, also I have to have something better tasting for after I take a shot, and such cocktails as I have tried have been pretty nice.

ION, Since the subject was kind of touched upon, I'm curious: What are the assembled masses of Random Banter doing for Hogswatchnight/new year?

KuReshtin

2010-12-28, 06:30 PM

ION, Since the subject was kind of touched upon, I'm curious: What are the assembled masses of Random Banter doing for Hogswatchnight/new year?

NOthing really planned, yet.
I usually head over to Edinburgh to meet up with a couple of friends, but I'm not sure if that's happening this year yet.

If not, then I have no idea what I'm doing.
Maybe spend the evening playing StarCraft or watching Doovde's.

AtlanteanTroll

2010-12-28, 06:34 PM

ION, Since the subject was kind of touched upon, I'm curious: What are the assembled masses of Random Banter doing for Hogswatchnight/new year?

Hanging with my mom, some of her colleagues, and some of her students.

CurlyKitGirl

2010-12-28, 06:35 PM

I drink only on special occasions - i.e. parties, and sometimes G&S socials. This works out at a bit more than once a month.
The drinks I've tried a mostly just a variety of alcopops and ciders, and vodka and gin with mixers.
Don't generally like wine, or beer, don't like rum, iffy on champagne.
Mead is alright, some shot drinks are alright, but not sambuca, also I have to have something better tasting for after I take a shot, and such cocktails as I have tried have been pretty nice.

Likewise for my drinking exploits.
Me, I never had an alcopop, all I know about them is that a lot of young teenagers buy them and get amazingly squiffy off them without realising because they don't taste like alcohol despite the obvious.
Vodka would probably be best as a mixer, but I've never had one. Nor a cocktail oddly enough. Doi. Aside from that one non-alcoholic one and the raspberry daiquiri.
Never had a shot though. Except that free one of whiskey I had at a ceilidh now I 'member. Shots put me off to be honest.
What's sambuca by the way? I hear it spoken of quite a lot actually, but noone ever gets around to explaining what it is.

ION, Since the subject was kind of touched upon, I'm curious: What are the assembled masses of Random Banter doing for Hogswatchnight/new year?

You know what I'm doing.

Zeb The Troll

2010-12-28, 06:35 PM

AtlanteanTroll

2010-12-28, 06:41 PM

You know what I'm doing.
Does he stalk you that much?

CurlyKitGirl

2010-12-28, 06:44 PM

As of moments ago I am planning to go to Johnson City (site of the South East Trogland meetups) and hang out with LLama and smellie hippie and Mountain Faerie and Penguinsushi and Bardic Bunny. :smallbiggrin:

Envy!
You get all the best people nearby.

Does he stalk you that much?

You ever frequent anywhere outside of this thread?
You ever heard of friends?
You ever heard of people discussing their plans outside of this thread?
You ever heard of tact?
You ever heard of people getting angry when you insult one of their friends?

AtlanteanTroll

2010-12-28, 06:46 PM

You ever frequent anywhere outside of this thread?
You ever heard of friends?
You ever heard of people discussing their plans outside of this thread?
You ever heard of tact?
You ever heard of people getting angry when you insult one of their friends?

:smallfrown:

That wasn't an insult...

Excuse me while I got to the Depression thread so I can feel better about myself.

Cobra_Ikari

2010-12-28, 06:47 PM

Friendship is not stalk-exclusive! I stalk my closest friends online!

I even have a website tool to help me! It's called Facebook! =D

...Facebook stalks everyone so you don't have to. ._.

KuReshtin

2010-12-28, 06:48 PM

Likewise for my drinking exploits.
Me, I never had an alcopop, all I know about them is that a lot of young teenagers buy them and get amazingly squiffy off them without realising because they don't taste like alcohol despite the obvious.
Vodka would probably be best as a mixer, but I've never had one. Nor a cocktail oddly enough. Doi. Aside from that one non-alcoholic one and the raspberry daiquiri.
Never had a shot though. Except that free one of whiskey I had at a ceilidh now I 'member. Shots put me off to be honest.
What's sambuca by the way? I hear it spoken of quite a lot actually, but noone ever gets around to explaining what it is.

That's a lot of 'never had a...' followed by an exception. Which kind of invalidates the 'never had a...' comment. :smalltongue:

Sambuca is a liqeur (sp?) that tastes of aniseed. MOstly consumed as a shot, in a couple of different ways. Either straight up, or with a coffee bean or two dropped into the shot glass, or you set it on fire before you down it.

Me, since I can't stand coffee, and I don't like the fact that the fire burns off the alcohol (even if it's just a very small amount) I just have mine straight up, with no additives.

Also, if you make a shot with half Sambuca and half Bailey's, you get a 'slippery nipple'. Just thought I'd mention it. :smallwink:

AtlanteanTroll

2010-12-28, 06:48 PM

Friendship is not stalk-exclusive! I stalk my closest friends online!

I even have a website tool to help me! It's called Facebook! =D

...Facebook stalks everyone so you don't have to. ._.

It's a shame. I haven't stalked a friend IRL in ages. Read, ever.

CurlyKitGirl

2010-12-28, 06:50 PM

:smallfrown:

That wasn't an insult...

Saying that one of my friends is a stalker IS an insult.

An' don't you be tryin to say twas a joke, twasn't. Not funny.
He and I frequent similar threads, and this plan of mine's been in the works for a few weeks.

EDIT:

That's a lot of 'never had a...' followed by an exception. Which kind of invalidates the 'never had a...' comment. :smalltongue:

True, but for RB I try and type how I talk, so I end up replicating verbal backspace with the written word which is unusual in a written format and makes it seem odd.

Sambuca is a liqeur (sp?) that tastes of aniseed. MOstly consumed as a shot, in a couple of different ways. Either straight up, or with a coffee bean or two dropped into the shot glass, or you set it on fire before you down it.

Me, since I can't stand coffee, and I don't like the fact that the fire burns off the alcohol (even if it's just a very small amount) I just have mine straight up, with no additives.

Also, if you make a shot with half Sambuca and half Bailey's, you get a 'slippery nipple'. Just thought I'd mention it. :smallwink:

Uuurgh.
Aniseed is icky, coffee is icky. Why would anyone want it?

AtlanteanTroll

2010-12-28, 06:51 PM

Uuurgh.
Aniseed is icky, coffee is icky. Why would anyone want it?

Because, avec milk and vanilla it is very much soo yummy.

Saying that one of my friends is a stalker IS an insult.
But he's admit it to you!

An' don't you be tryin to say twas a joke, twasn't. Not funny.

I think, that we have established that I'm not funny over the internet. Except in one exception that I had to quote and one that I thought about quoting but never did.

CurlyKitGirl

2010-12-28, 06:57 PM

But he's admit it to you!

Is called a joke.
A humourous reference to how much I talk about my activities and how well he remembers them.
And it's one thing for a friend to joke that they're stalking someone (a la FacTube stalking), and another for an acquaintance at a bar which we, and many of our mutual friends, attend to insinuate such a thing.

KuReshtin

2010-12-28, 06:59 PM

True, but for RB I try and type how I talk, so I end up replicating verbal backspace with the written word which is unusual in a written format and makes it seem odd.

I know what you mean. Just giving you a hard time about it. :smalltongue:

Uuurgh.
Aniseed is icky, coffee is icky. Why would anyone want it?

I'm not much of a fan of aniseed either, but I do enjoy the occasional binge on Sambuca. My rationalisation for it is that there's a cough sweet in Sweden (and presumably Denmark and the other Nordic countries as well) that's called 'Kongen av Danmark' (The King of Denmark) that has the aniseed taste as well, so if that' cough sweet is good for you if you have a sore throat, then Sambuca has to be good for you as well. :smallwink:

The coffee bean thing with the Sambuca, I agree, is icky.

Thufir

2010-12-28, 06:59 PM

Never had a shot though. Except that free one of whiskey I had at a ceilidh now I 'member. Shots put me off to be honest.
What's sambuca by the way? I hear it spoken of quite a lot actually, but noone ever gets around to explaining what it is.

Oh yes, that reminds me. Don't like whiskey either. Or brandy.
Sambuca is something fairly alcoholic that one drinks shots of? That's all I really know. I got a bottle of it for my 21st birthday, but I didn't like it. Oh, also a guy I know once apparently had 16 shots of it in a row (Possibly straight from the bottle) and now he can't drink it any more.

You know what I'm doing.

Still on track for that then?
And, on the actual night? Can't fault your determination, but it seems like kind of a crappy way to spend your Hogswatchnight, when usually one would be celebrating.

Does he stalk you that much?

I prefer to think of myself as a disciple.

Envy!

http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k63/Razor-Sharp_H7/Avatar/ENVY-Curly.png

You ever frequent anywhere outside of this thread?
You ever heard of friends?
You ever heard of people discussing their plans outside of this thread?
You ever heard of tact?
You ever heard of people getting angry when you insult one of their friends?

In fairness to Troll, I do stalk you a little bit. :smalltongue:

But he's admitted it to you!

I have? Before this post, I mean?

AtlanteanTroll

2010-12-28, 07:01 PM

Is called a joke.
A humourous reference to how much I talk about my activities and how well he remembers them.
And it's one thing for a friend to joke that they're stalking someone (a la FacTube stalking), and another for an acquaintance at a bar which we, and many of our mutual friends, attend to insinuate such a thing.
... For a minute their, I didn't catch the annalogy about the bar.
But Thurfir has made the joke in said bar where acquaintance can here it.

I prefer to think of myself as a disciple.
And a noble pilgrimageit is.

In fairness to Troll, I do stalk you a little bit. :smalltongue:
Admittance is the 1st step my good man. My good, manly, manly man. :smallwink:

I have? Before this post, I mean?
I remember you saying so, yes.

CurlyKitGirl

2010-12-28, 07:12 PM

I know what you mean. Just giving you a hard time about it. :smalltongue:

'S'all good in the name of fun. And quirks are always good for a laugh.

I'm not much of a fan of aniseed either, but I do enjoy the occasional binge on Sambuca. My rationalisation for it is that there's a cough sweet in Sweden (and presumably Denmark and the other Nordic countries as well) that's called 'Kongen av Danmark' (The King of Denmark) that has the aniseed taste as well, so if that' cough sweet is good for you if you have a sore throat, then Sambuca has to be good for you as well. :smallwink:

The coffee bean thing with the Sambuca, I agree, is icky.

Urrrm, aniseed is sometimes used here for cough sweets too, but not often on account of it being gross. But hey, any reason to excuse a little binge eh?

Oh yes, that reminds me. Don't like whiskey either. Or brandy.
Sambuca is something fairly alcoholic that one drinks shots of? That's all I really know. I got a bottle of it for my 21st birthday, but I didn't like it. Oh, also a guy I know once apparently had 16 shots of it in a row (Possibly straight from the bottle) and now he can't drink it any more.

They're too strong for me too. WOuldn't sixteen shots of one type of alochol in a row but anyone off it? I can certainly imagine that happening.

Still on track for that then?
And, on the actual night? Can't fault your determination, but it seems like kind of a crappy way to spend your Hogswatchnight, when usually one would be celebrating.

Yep. On the actual night too. Is going to hurt prolly, but I've been thinking about recording it, or perhaps . . . streaming it? If I can figure out how.
Chances are I'm most likely going to do the usual though, with only a little bit on video.

In fairness to Troll, I do stalk you a little bit. :smalltongue:

Eh. I know. But only here, and I'm pretty open about some of the thingies I do anyway.

EDIT:

... For a minute their, I didn't catch the annalogy about the bar.
But Thurfir has made the joke in said bar where acquaintance can here it.

So ettiquette compels you to make a harsh joke like that, in front of said people?
Because it seems to me, that people who've been friends a long time are less likely to take offense at jokes when said by a friend as opposed to a casual acquaintance.

Take Scrubs for an easy example.
Turk allows JD to call him "Chocolate Bear" and other mildly racist things, or things which can be construed as such. But if anyone else were to call him those things he'd be offended because there wasn't enough familiarity between him and Johnny Q Anonymous to make it obvious it was said in a friendly fashion.

Friends can make cruel/silly/offensive jokes about one another without meaning offense. So when a stranger/non-friend makes the same joke it's bad. See?

KuReshtin

2010-12-28, 07:14 PM

Oh, also a guy I know once apparently had 16 shots of it in a row (Possibly straight from the bottle) and now he can't drink it any more.

I once had a sambuca race with a guy from the football team (back when I was still playing) on a team night out. Actually, it was two separate Sambuca races during the course of the night.
First one, we had five shots each lines up in front of us, but we figured it would be wussy to down then one at a time, so we found a couple of empty glasses and poured all five shots into one glass, and then downed that in one go.
Second race was a 'traditional' shot race with the five shots lined up and we downed each shot one after the other.

At the end of the night, he fell asleep on a sofa in the bar and was 'escorted' out of there, while I happily continued drinking. :smallbiggrin:

I don't drink often, but when I do, I can knock them back quite a bit.

AtlanteanTroll

2010-12-28, 07:24 PM

So ettiquette compels you to make a harsh joke like that, in front of said people?
Because it seems to me, that people who've been friends a long time are less likely to take offense at jokes when said by a friend as opposed to a casual acquaintance.
But Thufir wasn't insulted!

Thufir

2010-12-28, 07:27 PM

They're too strong for me too. Wouldn't sixteen shots of one type of alochol in a row put anyone off it? I can certainly imagine that happening.

Not necessarily in and of itself, but I'm pretty sure in between the drinking and the never drinking sambuca ever again was the throwing up.

Yep. On the actual night too. Is going to hurt prolly, but I've been thinking about recording it, or perhaps . . . streaming it? If I can figure out how.
Chances are I'm most likely going to do the usual though, with only a little bit on video.

See, this is kind of my point. New year is traditionally a time when one enjoys oneself. I'll certainly be getting rather Newcastled in Newcastle somewhere. And there you'll be, doing something potentially mildly depressing. And with no company to cheer you up, even!

Eh. I know. But only here, and I'm pretty open about some of the thingies I do anyway.

Also, I don't exactly stalk you in a traditional sense. I don't follow you around observing your every move. I follow you around engaging you in conversation.

CurlyKitGirl

2010-12-28, 07:28 PM

But Thufir wasn't insulted!

I am.

I want more cake now, but my personal gateau's gone. Sadness. Maybe some Celebrations.

Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll

2010-12-28, 07:29 PM

Curly, this might be totally off the mark, but if you're going to do a Maltak binge, DON'T DO IT. :smalleek:

CurlyKitGirl

2010-12-28, 07:37 PM

Not necessarily in and of itself, but I'm pretty sure in between the drinking and the never drinking sambuca ever again was the throwing up.

There you go then. Advsere reaction coming from an instinctive reaction to purge poisons from the body.
Good training.

See, this is kind of my point. New year is traditionally a time when one enjoys oneself. I'll certainly be getting rather Newcastled in Newcastle somewhere. And there you'll be, doing something potentially mildly depressing. And with no company to cheer you up, even!

Alcohol.
Besides, got no friends down here with whom I can go out; family are family; and I don't fancy getting rat-faced or bored doing my normal stuff.
Might as well drive myself off the edge in an unusual way.

Also, I don't exactly stalk you in a traditional sense. I don't follow you around observing your every move. I follow you around engaging you in conversation.

Which is also known as friendship coupled with a good memory. Especially as said friendship is primarily conducted through the written medium.

Curly, this might be totally off the mark, but if you're going to do a Maltak binge, DON'T DO IT. :smalleek:

I am.
All of it. One night.
Mad as a lightbulb I am.
Don't know exactly how I'm going to work it though.

AtlanteanTroll

2010-12-28, 07:38 PM

I am.

Sorry.

:smalleek:

Coidzor

2010-12-28, 07:39 PM

I am.
All of it. One night.
Mad as a lightbulb I am.
Don't know exactly how I'm going to work it though.

:smalleek: ...I don't think your body can contain that much alcohol AND Maltak at the same time.

...:smallfrown: I'm so sorry.

Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll

2010-12-28, 07:42 PM

...

You are either a very brave, or a very foolish person, Curly. I pray for your soul.

CurlyKitGirl

2010-12-28, 07:45 PM

It's not that bad. Honestly, you sound like it's the end of the world.

Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll

2010-12-28, 07:47 PM

It's not that bad. Honestly, you sound like it's the end of the world.

True, it's not that bad.
If done in stages.
Because it's bloody long.
You WILL be up all night.
And you WILL wish you were doing something else.
But still, if you're set on your course, I wish you luck. :smallbiggrin: And eagerly anticipate the review.

Coidzor

2010-12-28, 07:51 PM

It's not that bad. Honestly, you sound like it's the end of the world.

Well, it was the end of one world. And the beginning of another.

In its own way.

Thufir

2010-12-28, 07:54 PM

There you go then. Adverse reaction coming from an instinctive reaction to purge poisons from the body.
Good training.

Highly unpleasant though.

Alcohol.
Besides, got no friends down here with whom I can go out; family are family; and I don't fancy getting rat-faced or bored doing my normal stuff.
Might as well drive myself off the edge in an unusual way.

:smallfrown:
Sadly I can't get myself down to Cornwall or you up to Newcastle.
How do you feel about receiving late-night drunken "Happy new year!" phonecalls?

Which is also known as friendship coupled with a good memory. Especially as said friendship is primarily conducted through the written medium.

I still find it amusing when reference is made to my good memory, as my family know me for having a rather bad memory - really I just have a very selectively good memory.

Are lightbulbs particularly mad?

absolmorph

2010-12-28, 08:04 PM

Atlantean, you're just on a roll of making jokes that get people on your case.
I mean... damn, dood.

Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll

2010-12-28, 08:05 PM

Are lightbulbs particularly mad?

No more mad, methinks, than doornails are dead.

AtlanteanTroll

2010-12-28, 08:09 PM

Atlantean, you're just on a roll of making jokes that get people on your case.
I mean... damn, dood.
Only two, TWO. (And I'm still not sure about the 1st. That didn't make people mad, just confused) And I apologized.

Snares

2010-12-28, 08:09 PM

Lay off Mr. AtlanteanTroll here, I feel sorry for him. He seems to make a faux pas more often than most, but someone seems to be having some level of a go at him every time I come in here. :smalltongue:

Going to the theatre tomorrow. Off to see "Onassis". I don't know much about him, beyond that he was very rich and married JFK's widow. Should be interesting...

And also - ambient music. Anyone else like it? Who do people like? I loves me a bit of Helios, Stars of the Lid and William Basinski.

AtlanteanTroll

2010-12-28, 08:11 PM

Going to the theatre tomorrow. Off to see "Onassis". I don't know much about him, beyond that he was very rich and married JFK's widow. Should be interesting...
Theatre or movie theatre?

Thufir

2010-12-28, 08:16 PM

No more mad, methinks, than doornails are dead.

Well, if you define 'dead' as simply 'without life', then any inanimate object would count, including doornails. On the other hand, you might only consider things to be dead if they were once alive, in which case they wouldn't.

On the other hand, I imagine accepting as a given fact that lightbulbs are all mad could make for a whole new variety of "How many x does it take to change a lightbulb?" jokes.

Only two, TWO. (And I'm still not sure about the 1st. That didn't make people mad, just confused) And I apologised.

He didn't say 'mad', he said 'on your case'. I was definitely on your case.
And though it wasn't a joke, there was also your reaction last night to Coidzor going there, which absolmorph might be counting.

Snares

2010-12-28, 08:17 PM

Theatre or movie theatre?

Theatre theatre.

AtlanteanTroll

2010-12-28, 08:19 PM

He didn't say 'mad', he said 'on your case'. I was definitely on your case. And though it wasn't a joke, there was also your reaction last night to Coidzor going there, which absolmorph might be counting.
I guess what you were doing being could be called being on my case. But the Coidzor thing? That shouldn't count. (IMO.)

Theatre theatre.
Know what's a fun play? Deathtrap.

Heliomance

2010-12-28, 08:29 PM

What is Maltak?

ION: Troll, would you like this handy-dandy Oral Foot Extraction Device?

IOON: I had something that I wanted to say a couple of hours ago, and didn't get round to it. Now I can't remember what it was.

AtlanteanTroll

2010-12-28, 08:31 PM

ION: Troll, would you like this handy-dandy Oral Foot Extraction Device?
Nah. It gets stuck in there all the time. I think I'll just leave it there for a while. Let it get all nice and juicy. :smallwink:

CurlyKitGirl

2010-12-28, 08:34 PM

Nah. It gets stuck in there all the time. I think I'll just leave it there for a while. Let it get all nice and juicy. :smallwink:

That's what she said!

ION:
Am watcing an episode of Jonathan Creek called 'The House of Monkeys', the prime suspect (according to the duh vuh duh) is a gorilla.
Awesome.

AtlanteanTroll

2010-12-28, 08:35 PM

That's what she said!

Insert idiotic comment here.

CynicalAvocado

2010-12-28, 08:41 PM

i hate how when my brother has friends over he turns into (even more) of an ass:smallannoyed:

Thufir

2010-12-28, 08:42 PM

I guess what you were doing being could be called being on my case. But the Coidzor thing? That shouldn't count. (IMO.)

Well, it wasn't a joke, but we were on your case about it, so a recollection of it might have been linked to the comment he made, forgetting that it didn't fall into the category of jokes which got people on your case.

What is Maltak?

I think the general consensus is that you don't want to know.

That's what she said!

:smallamused:

ION:
Am watcing an episode of Jonathan Creek called 'The House of Monkeys', the prime suspect (according to the duh vuh duh) is a gorilla.
Awesome.

*Hears loud simian yell*
*POW*
*Birds fly around head*
"...did you get the number of that donkey cart?"

Also, you didn't answer my question:

:smallfrown:
Sadly I can't get myself down to Cornwall or you up to Newcastle.
How do you feel about receiving late-night drunken "Happy new year!" phonecalls?

Heliomance

2010-12-28, 08:45 PM

That's what she said!

ION:
Am watcing an episode of Jonathan Creek called 'The House of Monkeys', the prime suspect (according to the duh vuh duh) is a gorilla.
Awesome.

Have you seen The Scented Room yet? I know the little boy from it, he went to the same uni as me!

CurlyKitGirl

2010-12-28, 08:46 PM

*Hears loud simian yell*
*POW*
*Birds fly around head*
"...did you get the number of that donkey cart?"

Well the guy who just got killed was stabbed in the back by a samurai sword. So I don't know how the gorilla. Especially as it was in a locked room.

Also, you didn't answer my question:

Sorry, overlooked it.
Uuuum, never had any drunken phone calls so I wouldn't know. However, I don't believe I'd be adverse to one.
Although I would have to charge my phone. It died literally the day the meetup ended.

EDIT:
@Heliomance: Only seen series one. Am watching them all in order, but obviously I've only seen the first four episodes and the first 15:30 of 'The House of Monkeys'.

Aaaargh. This number pad thingy keeps getting in the way of my accustomed typing arrangement thing. Keep hitting the Num Lock button when I'm reaching for the backspace.

I'm really looking forward to 'The Grinning Man' episode though. Which is annoying as it's the last one.

PhoeKun

2010-12-28, 08:47 PM

i hate how when my brother has friends over he turns into (even more) of an ass:smallannoyed:

People have a tendency to behave differently in front of others than they do on their own. And as an addendum to that, they also behave differently depending upon how deeply into their social circle the surrounding people are. It's an unfortunate byproduct of that relationship that one or more members of the social circle are victimized in order to "show off" to those in an outer ring...

My condolences.

Also, hello people. I have become frustrated with the state of the world around me. How are you?

Coidzor

2010-12-28, 08:49 PM

Frustrated, lonely, a bit cold.

'Tis the holidays, after all. :smallwink:

CynicalAvocado

2010-12-28, 08:51 PM

People have a tendency to behave differently in front of others than they do on their own. And as an addendum to that, they also behave differently depending upon how deeply into their social circle the surrounding people are. It's an unfortunate byproduct of that relationship that one or more members of the social circle are victimized in order to "show off" to those in an outer ring...

My condolences.

thanks

Also, hello people. I have become frustrated with the state of the world around me. How are you?

ready to start my last year in this hell-hole town

CurlyKitGirl

2010-12-28, 08:52 PM

Also, hello people. I have become frustrated with the state of the world around me. How are you?

Phoe-sama!
*HUGS!*
I've not seen you in ages.
Hope you had a Merry Christmas!

I've been good, pretty good actually. Except for the massive insomnia that comes from sleeping on the settee, but that's all okay.

AtlanteanTroll

2010-12-28, 09:00 PM

I've been good, pretty good actually. Except for the massive insomnia that comes from sleeping on the settee, but that's all okay.

Dont forget my incessant idiocy that palgues plauges you both day and night.

Heliomance

2010-12-28, 09:08 PM

Dont forget my incessant idiocy that palgues you both day and night.

Irony. Top score.

Thufir

2010-12-28, 09:08 PM

Well the guy who just got killed was stabbed in the back by a samurai sword. So I don't know how the gorilla. Especially as it was in a locked room.

I was referencing the first Discworld computer game. That's what happens whenever any character says the M word.
However it also illustrates my point, namely that gorillas are apes rather than monkeys, so why the title?

Sorry, overlooked it.
Uuuum, never had any drunken phone calls so I wouldn't know. However, I don't believe I'd be adverse to one.
Although I would have to charge my phone. It died literally the day the meetup ended.

Yay! Probably a little after midnight, I'll call and you can tell me how terrible everything is.

Aaaargh. This number pad thingy keeps getting in the way of my accustomed typing arrangement thing. Keep hitting the Num Lock button when I'm reaching for the backspace.

My (relatively) new laptop has an odd keyboard layout which includes no number pad and no space to speak of between sections. I occasionally hit the up arrow instead of shift, which can wreak havoc with sentences.

I'm really looking forward to 'The Grinning Man' episode though. Which is annoying as it's the last one.

That sounds like it may have been the one episode I saw.

Also, hello people. I have become frustrated with the state of the world around me. How are you?

Unemployed and consequently without income, but happy enough.
Also my sleep pattern is insane.

Except for the massive insomnia that comes from sleeping on the settee, but that's all okay.

Why are you sleeping on the settee? :confused:

AtlanteanTroll

2010-12-28, 09:09 PM

Irony. Top score.
Oh be quiet.

Thufir

2010-12-28, 09:10 PM

Oh be quiet.

Dont forget my incessant idiocy that palgues plauges you both day and night.

Further irony, it would seem...

Heliomance

2010-12-28, 09:10 PM

Um. I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but you got it wrong again.

Gah! Swordsaged!

AtlanteanTroll

2010-12-28, 09:12 PM

Uhm, no I didn't.

EDIT: IOW, Screw commas. The one above isn't real.

Heliomance

2010-12-28, 09:12 PM

Yup, you did. It's spelt plagues.

AtlanteanTroll

2010-12-28, 09:15 PM

Yup, you did. It's spelt plagues.

Excuse me, I quit.

January 1st, I quit.

Probably.

Cobra_Ikari

2010-12-28, 09:15 PM

Uhm, no I didn't.

EDIT: IOW, Screw commas. The one above isn't real.

Plague. It's plague. Not palgue or plauge. >.>

*spreads pestilence merrily* ^_^

CynicalAvocado

2010-12-28, 09:17 PM

*reads previous posts*

avocado are confuse now

PhoeKun

2010-12-28, 09:17 PM

Frustrated, lonely, a bit cold.

'Tis the holidays, after all. :smallwink:

Nothing is sufficiently cheery such that it is immune to a little bit of pessimism and a quick series of unfortunate events, mirite?

ready to start my last year in this hell-hole town

On your way out and up? Congratulations! I too hope to someday flee the confines of the village in which I live (yes, it really is a village. No, it is not as fun as it sounds).

Phoe-sama!
*HUGS!*
I've not seen you in ages.
Hope you had a Merry Christmas!

I've been good, pretty good actually. Except for the massive insomnia that comes from sleeping on the settee, but that's all okay.

*hugs* It's been some time, hasn't it? I have been doing far more lurking than posting. Glad you're well.

I'm afraid this was one of the less merry christmaseseseses I've ever had. Approaching midnight on the 25th, I actually found myself responding to a countdown: "Meh. It's just another day." Even as early as last year, I would never have done that. It upset me a lot, because this is usually one of my favorite times of the year. But this time, the snow was melting instead of falling, I had no tree, no decorations, and no money to give gifts with. Which kind of sucks the specialness right out of it if you let it. It also doesn't help to spend your christmas facing eviction. :smallfrown:

Sorry, I shouldn't be using this to launch into a complaint fest. I'm quite well at the moment, and have recently been reading over the old Shipping archives. Getting to the end of the last thread rekindled anew my frustrations of its unfortunate demise, and has me wondering how and when I might be able to actually finish the stories I had been in the middle of writing...

AtlanteanTroll

2010-12-28, 09:18 PM

Plague. It's plague. Not palgue or plauge. >.>

*spreads pestilence merrily* ^_^

I quit now. Screw the 1st. Screw it.

:furious::furious::furious::furious::furious:

CynicalAvocado

2010-12-28, 09:20 PM

On your way out and up? Congratulations! I too hope to someday flee the confines of the village in which I live (yes, it really is a village. No, it is not as fun as it sounds).

i know, i have one year left of this infernal tech school then i'm free to do whatever. i'm either
A) joining the air force
B) applying to a 4 year college
or
C) moving somewhere (perhaps montreal?)

Thufir

2010-12-28, 09:30 PM

I'm afraid this was one of the less merry christmaseseseses I've ever had. Approaching midnight on the 25th, I actually found myself responding to a countdown: "Meh. It's just another day." Even as early as last year, I would never have done that. It upset me a lot, because this is usually one of my favorite times of the year. But this time, the snow was melting instead of falling, I had no tree, no decorations, and no money to give gifts with. Which kind of sucks the specialness right out of it if you let it. It also doesn't help to spend your christmas facing eviction. :smallfrown:

:smallfrown:
Gotta say, past couple of christmasses before this one I was a bit "meh" about (Though not due to circumstances like yours), looking forward more to an annual concert I'm in on the 30th December. Not sure why this year's grabbed me more, but it did, for whatever reason.

Sorry, I shouldn't be using this to launch into a complaint fest. I'm quite well at the moment, and have recently been reading over the old Shipping archives. Getting to the end of the last thread rekindled anew my frustrations of its unfortunate demise, and has me wondering how and when I might be able to actually finish the stories I had been in the middle of writing...

I think the best bet would be if we actually set up some other site to continue the old threads. I know at least for me, there's much less incentive to go back to any of that stuff without the incentive of having somewhere specific to put it, and hopefully people awaiting the next instalment with bated breath, and maybe even nagging me to continue.

Coidzor

2010-12-28, 09:39 PM

Nothing is sufficiently cheery such that it is immune to a little bit of pessimism and a quick series of unfortunate events, mirite?

Never really been much of one for holidays. Like most of my family well enough. But... family. Don't really relate. Despite being related.

Then again, probably personal flaw on my part.

So I'm mostly frustrated by how bored I am, then frustrated about how I allowed myself to get bored with the things available to me to do, then lonely because, well, I'm effectively single and suspect that I should probably be unarguably single, then I'm frustrated again because my self esteem is at its lowest point in the year and yet I suddenly feel... attractive, which just seems wrong that it should be when I feel bad about myself for putting on holiday weight, getting paler due to staying inside to avoid the cold, and don't even have anyone but myself to look pretty for.

And then it just seems like a waste to find myself so appealing and yet not have any latent bisexuality reveal itself. Though at least that bit amuses me and is chortle-worthy. :smallamused:

And I've never really seen anyone argue that the holidays aren't a cold and lonely time(barring being in more equatorial climes), hence why those who have those close to them huddle together for warmth.

But with family, I dunno, maybe it's a personal flaw of my own, maybe it's a flaw of my family, maybe it's a problem with the way western family units are structured and thought of, but with family it seems like we're all together in the meat flesh but we're all alone, so horribly alone in our heads. Alone together, even, which highlights the problem with the contrast.

CurlyKitGirl

2010-12-28, 10:17 PM

I was referencing the first Discworld computer game. That's what happens whenever any character says the M word.
However it also illustrates my point, namely that gorillas are apes rather than monkeys, so why the title?

Well there are thirteen other monkeys there, it's just that the gorilla was the suspect.
Turns out the murder was some out-of-work graduate from Oop North who'd poisoned an envelope flap. It was an hallucinogenic that sent the Doctor into a frenzy, then he fell on the sword which was stuck into his desk.

Yay! Probably a little after midnight, I'll call and you can tell me how terrible everything is.

Excellent!

My (relatively) new laptop has an odd keyboard layout which includes no number pad and no space to speak of between sections. I occasionally hit the up arrow instead of shift, which can wreak havoc with sentences.

Yep, that's pretty barmy and wracking on the sentences. Sometimes I do the same thing, but with the mousepad thing so I end up typing my words a line or two above where they're meant to be.

That sounds like it may have been the one episode I saw.

According to TV Tropes it's pretty scary. Something to do with a water tank I heard.

Why are you sleeping on the settee? :confused:

I sleep on a fold-oiut bed in the front room. The front room now has a rather large Christmas tree in it. No space for the bed, so I'm back to the settee.

*hugs* It's been some time, hasn't it? I have been doing far more lurking than posting. Glad you're well.

I'm afraid this was one of the less merry christmaseseseses I've ever had. Approaching midnight on the 25th, I actually found myself responding to a countdown: "Meh. It's just another day." Even as early as last year, I would never have done that. It upset me a lot, because this is usually one of my favorite times of the year. But this time, the snow was melting instead of falling, I had no tree, no decorations, and no money to give gifts with. Which kind of sucks the specialness right out of it if you let it. It also doesn't help to spend your christmas facing eviction. :smallfrown:

Sorry, I shouldn't be using this to launch into a complaint fest. I'm quite well at the moment, and have recently been reading over the old Shipping archives. Getting to the end of the last thread rekindled anew my frustrations of its unfortunate demise, and has me wondering how and when I might be able to actually finish the stories I had been in the middle of writing...

Oh Phoe-sama.
*hugs*
It's okay, it's just a bum year, it'll turn up better next year I hope. I'm sorry this Christmas didn't turn out so well at all.

As far as the Shipping goes, I miss it too. Maybe setting it up again outside the forum would be okay, but I don't know.

Am on series two now. 'Danse Macabre' to be precise. 'Bout an hour to go by my reckoning at the mo'.
Creek's theory at the moment is that the daughter did it with an accomplice. Seems logical.

PhoeKun

2010-12-28, 10:20 PM

For the record, I did manage to clear up the whole eviction thing and will not be going anywhere for the foreseeable future, which is why I am posting on the internets instead of... whatever I would be doing otherwise.

I think the best bet would be if we actually set up some other site to continue the old threads. I know at least for me, there's much less incentive to go back to any of that stuff without the incentive of having somewhere specific to put it, and hopefully people awaiting the next instalment with bated breath, and maybe even nagging me to continue.

I'm of a similar mind. Whatever else one might have had to say about my ships, they were of the Playground, about the Playground, and belong to the Playground. Any thoughts of continuing the work by my lonesome without at least some members of the community feels hollow, at best. Which leads me to think the only useful course of action would be to resurrect the project wholesale on an off-but-affiliated site.

And I've never really seen anyone argue that the holidays aren't a cold and lonely time(barring being in more equatorial climes), hence why those who have those close to them huddle together for warmth.

But with family, I dunno, maybe it's a personal flaw of my own, maybe it's a flaw of my family, maybe it's a problem with the way western family units are structured and thought of, but with family it seems like we're all together in the meat flesh but we're all alone, so horribly alone in our heads. Alone together, even, which highlights the problem with the contrast.

I think, if you think about it existentially enough, that describes the condition of all people on earth. There is always some core part of ourselves that, however much we may try (or do not) or how much we may want to (or not), we can never give to others, never share with them. But however comforting the idea of a hive mind may be, individuality makes us beautiful, and whether we are huddled together for warmth amidst awkward silence or chatting amicably by the fireside, or snuggled up together in a blanket with cups of hot chocolate sitting on a nearby table, there are some aspects of yourself that you share with those around you, intentionally or not.

As Futurama's Leela once said, "We're both lonely, but together we're lonely together." That is something, and I find it helps a bit to try to think of it in those terms. Hope that helps you feel just a tiny bit warmer, Coid.

Thufir

2010-12-28, 10:35 PM

According to TV Tropes it's pretty scary. Something to do with a water tank I heard.

Hmm. That also sounds familiar, but the wikipedia description doesn't.
...
I'm going to have to watch it at some point and find out aren't I...

I sleep on a fold-oiut bed in the front room. The front room now has a rather large Christmas tree in it. No space for the bed, so I'm back to the settee.

But... what happened to your bedroom? It's not something which I would take particular note of you mentioning, but I'm sure you must have had one?

As far as the Shipping goes, I miss it too. Maybe setting it up again outside the forum would be okay, but I don't know.

It could work. Of course the issue would inevitably be that it was rather tied to the community here, since they were the people we were writing about. On the other hand, I'm sure we'd be able to persuade all the old regulars of the threads to join up, so we'd have them, at least.
I don't know either, really.

@^: Similar to that Futurama quote, one could bring up a pair of lines from Billy Joel's Piano Man:
They're sharing a drink they call loneliness,
But it's better than drinking alone...

Now excuse me while I demonstrate my eccentricity by eating this lemon.

CurlyKitGirl

2010-12-28, 10:47 PM

Hmm. That also sounds familiar, but the wikipedia description doesn't.
...
I'm going to have to watch it at some point and find out aren't I...

Your choice. It's good stuff what I've seen so far.

But... what happened to your bedroom? It's not something which I would take particular note of you mentioning, but I'm sure you must have had one?

I shared the Big Bedroom with Little Sister. But then I moved out to uni so I was relegated to the front room where I'm permitted to sleep and keep some stuff.

It could work. Of course the issue would inevitably be that it was rather tied to the community here, since they were the people we were writing about. On the other hand, I'm sure we'd be able to persuade all the old regulars of the threads to join up, so we'd have them, at least.
I don't know either, really.

No idea!
All depends.

AtlanteanTroll

2010-12-28, 10:47 PM

Shipping? As in the madness that is Zutara? I made a Facebook post a day ago about the insanity of Shippers.

Thufir

2010-12-28, 10:52 PM

I shared the Big Bedroom with Little Sister. But then I moved out to uni so I was relegated to the front room where I'm permitted to sleep and keep some stuff.

Seems kind of harsh.

Shipping? As in the madness that is Zutara? I made a Facebook post a day ago about the insanity of Shippers.

Response 1: Madness? THIS! IS! SHIPPIIIIIING!!!!!!
Response 2: Pfft. You think Zutara is madness? Cabuko. Now that's real madness. And hilarious.
Ours was of a different kind, but still pretty up there on the scale of insanity. Fun though.

PhoeKun

2010-12-28, 10:57 PM

It could work. Of course the issue would inevitably be that it was rather tied to the community here, since they were the people we were writing about. On the other hand, I'm sure we'd be able to persuade all the old regulars of the threads to join up, so we'd have them, at least.
I don't know either, really.

If nothing else it's worth discussing. If there is still a desire among us (and by us I mean the GitP Shipping Community) to continue our work on fun/silly/sad/chilling/morose/beautiful little/medium/impossibly huge stories, then it's worth the effort to try to facilitate that. I think.

Of course, with my managerial skills being best compared to a stick, I'm not sure I'm the right woman for the job of organizing everything, but... people could be probed. Questions could be asked. I suppose a Mod or two could be sought for inquiry regarding our capability to advertise the existence of such a project.

If we wanted to.

Now excuse me while I demonstrate my eccentricity by eating this lemon.

But, lemons are tasty! How is that eccentric? D=

I shared the Big Bedroom with Little Sister. But then I moved out to uni so I was relegated to the front room where I'm permitted to sleep and keep some stuff.

Personally, that sort of arrangement would have driven me up a wall back in my university days. I'm sorry you've got to be going through it, particularly as sharing your bedroom with a tree is costing you sleep. Insomnia sucks.

Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll

2010-12-28, 11:01 PM

There is always some core part of ourselves that, however much we may try (or do not) or how much we may want to (or not), we can never give to others, never share with them. But however comforting the idea of a hive mind may be, individuality makes us beautiful, and whether we are huddled together for warmth amidst awkward silence or chatting amicably by the fireside, or snuggled up together in a blanket with cups of hot chocolate sitting on a nearby table, there are some aspects of yourself that you share with those around you, intentionally or not.

I think that's part of the point of a relationship, of any relationship, whether it be a RELATIONSHIP relationship or just a friendship, is that you try to take that person as much into the core person, that bit of you that makes you you. It works both ways; not only are you opening yourself up to them, and showing them what it is that makes you you, but you take them, and you make them into part of what makes you you.

As for hive minds, I've never found the idea comforting. It's always been a scary thought to me. Alien, in the truest sense of the word. Because it's a whole different mode of THOUGHT, I just can't conceive what it would feel like. Which is... strange coming from me, because of all the people I know, I'm the best at... understanding people. At understanding how people think, why they say what they say, why they think how they think, in a way, getting into their minds. Yet there's always this level of mystery, because no matter how much I understand a person, there's always another layer, another aspect that I don't understand, that I may NEVER understand, and the idea of finally understanding truly every aspect of a person...

If you go back to the whole "making them into part of what makes you you" thing, it would be taking that whole person, and melding them with me. Maybe that's normal. I dunno. I've never had that level of relationship, so this is at the point where my pseudo-quasi-psycho-philosophical thingamajibber ends, because that's the end of my experience.

Thufir

2010-12-28, 11:03 PM

If nothing else it's worth discussing. If there is still a desire among us (and by us I mean the GitP Shipping Community) to continue our work on fun/silly/sad/chilling/morose/beautiful little/medium/impossibly huge stories, then it's worth the effort to try to facilitate that. I think.

Of course, with my managerial skills being best compared to a stick, I'm not sure I'm the right woman for the job of organizing everything, but... people could be probed. Questions could be asked. I suppose a Mod or two could be sought for inquiry regarding our capability to advertise the existence of such a project.

If we wanted to.

I basically agree with everything you've said here.

But, lemons are tasty! How is that eccentric? D=

Majority opinion is against us on this point. But personally, I like being eccentric, so it doesn't bother me.

Edit: The discussion of shipping and of hive minds has given me flashbacks to Clone Week.

Phase

2010-12-28, 11:24 PM

Man, it's been ages since I've bantered randomly. What's been going on he-

shipping...

Welp. :|

I remember the shipping. That was a fun era of forum fandom. Nowadays there's really no cultural comparison. Or at least not one that's stretched as far as Gaming (Other). Oh wait, we still do shipping over there, several of which have become canon since!

THIS BANTER IS RANDOM.

I missed this place.

Thufir

2010-12-28, 11:33 PM

Man, it's been ages since I've bantered randomly. What's been going on he-

Welp. :|

I remember the shipping. That was a fun era of forum fandom. Nowadays there's really no cultural comparison. Or at least not one that's stretched as far as Gaming (Other). Oh wait, we still do shipping over there, several of which have become canon since!

THIS BANTER IS RANDOM.

I missed this place.

PHASE! I have missed you. Lately, when the conversation turns to G&S there are only two people in the thread who know anything about it.
Also, you're awesome.
*Hugs*
*Wonders what effect, if any, enthusiastically hugging the moon has on the tides.*

Phase

2010-12-28, 11:42 PM

Dunno about the tides, but Sam Rockwell ain't too happy about it.

Also I meant to post here that I saw a production of Yeoman of the Guard a couple weeks ago. I'd seen it before, but this time it struck a lot closer to home.

I am not ashamed to admit that I nearly cried. I am secure enough in my masculinity to admit that Jack Point and I are kindred spirits!

When a jester is outwitted,
feelings fester, heart is lead!
Food for fishes, only fitted!
Jester wishes he was dead! :smallfrown:

Zeb The Troll

2010-12-29, 01:00 AM

... *stuff*...PHOE!
*dances joyfully*

I'm sorry to hear you guys are having a bum holiday season. I'm supremely confident that things will turn around for the two of you. You're both just too smart and too good to let this keep you down.

*looks around for Reina*

How's your other half doing?

*sends you both some digital gingerbread cookies if Trog didn't eat them all*

*much huggleness for the boths of you!*

Eruantion

2010-12-29, 01:27 AM

I quit now. Screw the 1st. Screw it.

:furious::furious::furious::furious::furious:

Shipping? As in the madness that is Zutara? I made a Facebook post a day ago about the insanity of Shippers.

Oh, you're back? Thanks for getting my hopes up :smallannoyed:

Juuust kidding :smallwink:

Skippy

2010-12-29, 01:40 AM

Hey everyone. I'm feeling kind of down tonight. Here's what happened:

Today, here in Mexico we celebrated a minor holiday we call "Dia de los Inocentes" which is translated as Day of the Innocents, when people usually play little pranks on their beloved ones, kind of like April's Fool, but in December. These pranks go from borrowing something and never returning it to telling somebody a small lie. Or maybe not so small (this year, a journal actually announced Lady Gaga had cancelled her coming tour here in Mexico, somebody else said Daft Punk would be coming to Mexico next year, a friend of mine announced she had gotten engaged, etc.) and in the spirit of such jokes, I asked a friend of mine if she wanted to change her relationship status in Facebook from "single" to "in a relationship" with me. It's not the most original joke, but who cares, I just wanted to know who would buy it.

It turns out, nobody bought it. And it got me thinking, you know? Maybe I've been single for so long, that nobody actually believed I could score with a girl. -.-

Ah well. Maybe I'm just paranoid. But still, it's kinda depressing.

absolmorph

2010-12-29, 01:52 AM

Funny that shipping would come up: Soy sauceXBest Buy is my new OTP.
Because when I asked a friend if soy sauce expires, she said it has a "best buy" date.
:smallamused:

Eruantion

2010-12-29, 02:02 AM

PhoeKun

2010-12-29, 02:21 AM

PHOE!
*dances joyfully*

I'm sorry to hear you guys are having a bum holiday season. I'm supremely confident that things will turn around for the two of you. You're both just too smart and too good to let this keep you down.

*looks around for Reina*

How's your other half doing?

*sends you both some digital gingerbread cookies if Trog didn't eat them all*

*much huggleness for the boths of you!*

*hugs*

Hey, it's good to see... er... hear from... um... read you? It feels like its been a million forevers.

Reina's doing well. She and I are both trying to keep busy, both looking for opportunities and working on personal projects. All that wonderful game making stuff that's going to be really fun someday. We're hanging in there, and making the best of what we've got. Which mostly is each other. :smallsmile:

...And also cookies. *covertly noms*

Moff Chumley

2010-12-29, 02:28 AM

Phase

Woah. It's Phase. I missed your avatars. >.>

Amiel

2010-12-29, 05:02 AM

Also, hello people. I have become frustrated with the state of the world around me. How are you?
Less raging, more partying :smalltongue:

Or go somewhere tranquil and serene to reflect and relax.

Teddy

2010-12-29, 05:06 AM

*shuffles in*

Woot, new thread... or something. Cousines require a great deal of attention. The fact that I'm horrible at getting to bed at any decent time won't help either, and I'm constantly fighting off the effects of sleep deprivation.

EDIT:
*reads last pages*
It looks like we've created a new RB Time Loop: picking on AT's spelling (or just him in general). I can't say I approve of this, fellow banterists... :smallannoyed:

Heliomance

2010-12-29, 05:59 AM

RANDOM BANTER TOPIC CHANGE!

Do you have any souvenirs that you would really like to get at some point in your life, enough that you'd go on holiday somewhere mostly motivated by getting them? I've got two. A Venetian mask and an obsidian dagger.

Coidzor

2010-12-29, 06:03 AM

I didn't even know that mask type was named for the Venetians. I think having one or two would be quite charming, indeed.

An obsidian dagger on the other hand... I had to wonder which one is more fragile...

Amiel

2010-12-29, 06:05 AM

*shuffles in*

Woot, new thread... or something. Cousines require a great deal of attention. The fact that I'm horrible at getting to bed at any decent time won't help either, and I'm constantly fighting off the effects of sleep deprivation.

You may need some sugar to encourage you to stay awake for longer; or you could play some soothing music to encourage them to fall asleep faster :smalltongue:

Teddy

2010-12-29, 07:09 AM

You may need some sugar to encourage you to stay awake for longer; or you could play some soothing music to encourage them to fall asleep faster :smalltongue:

Well, I do have acess to free sugar. Music won't work, though. They live on others' energy. :smallwink:

Amiel

2010-12-29, 07:19 AM

Thufir

2010-12-29, 07:58 AM

Also I meant to post here that I saw a production of Yeomen of the Guard a couple weeks ago. I'd seen it before, but this time it struck a lot closer to home.

I am not ashamed to admit that I nearly cried. I am secure enough in my masculinity to admit that Jack Point and I are kindred spirits!

When a jester is outwitted,
feelings fester, heart is lead!
Food for fishes, only fitted!
Jester wishes he was dead! :smallfrown:

:smallfrown:
I will be in a production of Yeomen in late April/early May. Unfortunately, the guy they cast as Colonel Fairfax instead of me may be best described as 'wooden' in his acting.
Other than that it'll be good.

Hey everyone. I'm feeling kind of down tonight. Here's what happened:

Today, here in Mexico we celebrated a minor holiday we call "Dia de los Inocentes" which is translated as Day of the Innocents, when people usually play little pranks on their beloved ones, kind of like April's Fool, but in December. These pranks go from borrowing something and never returning it to telling somebody a small lie. Or maybe not so small (this year, a journal actually announced Lady Gaga had cancelled her coming tour here in Mexico, somebody else said Daft Punk would be coming to Mexico next year, a friend of mine announced she had gotten engaged, etc.) and in the spirit of such jokes, I asked a friend of mine if she wanted to change her relationship status in Facebook from "single" to "in a relationship" with me. It's not the most original joke, but who cares, I just wanted to know who would buy it.

It turns out, nobody bought it. And it got me thinking, you know? Maybe I've been single for so long, that nobody actually believed I could score with a girl. -.-

Ah well. Maybe I'm just paranoid. But still, it's kinda depressing.

I don't think that's the case. It was probably just timing. I mean, on April Fool's Day here, most people don't fall for things really easily. So maybe it would be more plausible on a different day? Keep your hopes up, it's a little early I think to be down on yourself :smallsmile:

This, combined with the tendency of people to put up joking relationships on facebook anyway. Also, it might have been a case of it being implausible that you would get together with that specific girl, rather than a general thing.

Phase

2010-12-29, 08:23 AM

Daww. Ain't losing out on a part you know you'd be better at awful? But so long as the production is a competent one, I suppose one can't be too unhappy.

Woah. It's Phase. I missed your avatars. >.>

Ding! Avatars back!

Fifty-Eyed Fred

2010-12-29, 08:30 AM

That was a lot of Random Banter to get through. RB drama, eh? I would simply advise Mr Troll to learn how to play audacious comments, or how to obtain that glib and jocular tone with which one can hit close to the bone and have others actually appreciate it. I'm brutally honest, but rarely does it go wrong - people tend to end up valuing my input because (to quote a friend of mine) "you say what other people don't say". :smallwink:
Thusly do I think he could avoid making a faux pas in future.
Actually, I'm unsure whether the ability to say such things without offending can be learnt without an innate propensity for it in the first place. My advice could well be useless.
I suppose the key lies in my constant incredible interest in what makes people tick. That's why I love getting to know people - I can put two and two together and analyse them in a way it would seem most people can't.
It is, of course, an automatic process, and I've done it and continue to do it with everyone I meet, ever (and by an obvious extension, everyone who posts on here).

...
Why on earth did I just type all of that? Automatic writing?
ION:
Yesterday a vegetarian acquaintance of mine opined that he has no problems eating humans, and that "when you die, they should mash you up and sell you to a supermarket", but that "eating a cow is outrageous".
So cannibalism is fine, but eating other animals isn't. :smalleek:
That beats my previous favourite tidbit about vegetarians (which I have related at least twice on here before, I believe) in terms of scary, but not in terms of funny. :smalltongue:

Phase

2010-12-29, 08:41 AM

CynicalAvocado

2010-12-29, 08:48 AM

so, i think i may be somewhat neurotic
:smalleek:

Fifty-Eyed Fred

2010-12-29, 08:48 AM

Well perhaps this acquaintance of yours is a vegetarian because of how they treat the animals on line to be slaughtered. That's one of the most common reasonings, to not support cruelty to animals. If we were to consume humans after death, there would be no problems with cruelty, nor no problems with, say, consent.

So it's an odd sentiment, but I can see where he might be coming from.

I asked him if he would eat his grandmother. He said he'd be glad to. Of course, I didn't specify whether or not she would be dead first. :smallamused:

Coidzor

2010-12-29, 08:48 AM

Well perhaps this acquaintance of yours is a vegetarian because of how they treat the animals on line to be slaughtered. That's one of the most common reasonings, to not support cruelty to animals. If we were to consume humans after death, there would be no problems with cruelty, nor no problems with, say, consent.

Actually, there'd be even more problems with cruelty and consent, since we treat those who are going to die badly enough as it is, if we're actually looking forward to eating them, it's an ethical nightmare.

And part of the reason we're no longer scavengers is because things that die of disease are not easy on the stomach and things that die of old age are not tasty.

Quincunx

2010-12-29, 09:19 AM

Neither are the Christmas Day leftovers any more. Hoo boy. . . :smallsigh: I'mma gonna go curl up and die.

Phase

2010-12-29, 09:45 AM

Actually, there'd be even more problems with cruelty and consent, since we treat those who are going to die badly enough as it is, if we're actually looking forward to eating them, it's an ethical nightmare.

And part of the reason we're no longer scavengers is because things that die of disease are not easy on the stomach and things that die of old age are not tasty.

Well I was assuming accidental death and things like that.

Elderly flesh is far too stri-I'VE SAID TOO MUCH

AtlanteanTroll

2010-12-29, 10:01 AM

Oh, you're back? Thanks for getting my hopes up :smallannoyed:

Juuust kidding :smallwink:

Im not even going to pretend to try and understand what you just said.

Fifty-Eyed Fred

2010-12-29, 10:08 AM

Im not even going to pretend to try and understand what you just said.

Oh yes, I'd also advise you not to take things too seriously. Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it. :smalltongue:

AtlanteanTroll

2010-12-29, 10:13 AM

Oh yes, I'd also advise you not to take things too seriously. Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it. :smalltongue:
Somenody, anybody, get me a brain surgeon.

Maybe thats why I suck at jokes via the internet. Hmm.

KuReshtin

2010-12-29, 10:16 AM

That was a lot of Random Banter to get through.
EXCELSIOR!

ION:
Yesterday a vegetarian acquaintance of mine opined that he has no problems eating humans, and that "when you die, they should mash you up and sell you to a supermarket", but that "eating a cow is outrageous".
So cannibalism is fine, but eating other animals isn't. :smalleek:
That beats my previous favourite tidbit about vegetarians (which I have related at least twice on here before, I believe) in terms of scary, but not in terms of funny. :smalltongue:

This will probably come across as really weird, but i don't actually see much of a problem with that either.
The circumstances would have to be quite specific, though, such as the events of that Chilean/Peruvian/Argentinian rugby team in the Andes, where there were absolutely nothing else around to eat.

However, I fear this is a topic that is very much not forum appropriate, so I'll stop any further explanation of the subject there.

I asked him if he would eat his grandmother. He said he'd be glad to. Of course, I didn't specify whether or not she would be dead first. :smallamused:

Bad Fred. Bad, BAD Fred! :smalltongue:
Shame on you.

randman22222

2010-12-29, 10:16 AM

Coidzor

2010-12-29, 10:20 AM

ION: I don't know if I'm an atypical case, but Dvorak is sooo quickly learned. Now to just get my speed up...

Is qwerty slowly learned or something? :smallconfused: I picked it up over the course of 3 20 minute classes over the course of 3 days. Where I had to wait for the rest of the class to catch up.

How quickly did you learn Dvorak?

AtlanteanTroll

2010-12-29, 10:21 AM

Dallas-Dakota

2010-12-29, 10:22 AM

I would love it if Shipping was started up again somewhere off-forum, even though I didn't write that much. It'd defintely get me writing again, even if only shorts. :smallsmile:

I also have a lot of playground people on msn, so I could poke some of those I remember in shipping. If the ones I have on msn were muchly into shipping, dunno.

Teddy

2010-12-29, 10:22 AM

Well, best wishes and good luck :smalltongue: they'll never get tired, only more annoying as the nights and weeks drag on.
Is it snowing over there? You could take them out perhaps sometime tomorrow and get them to expend all of their energy, so they'll go to bed earlier, and you can get a good night's rest yourself.

We have a lot of snow. We actually spent the day digging tunnels and caves in a moderately sized snow mountain. Of course, I did most of the digging. :smallwink:

But seriously, especially the younger one (who's as old as littlest brother, i.e. 10 years) must be an energy vampire of some sort. She eats nothing, she never rests when not sleeping, but she still flies around as a rocket all day, and when you finally are on your own, you're completely exhausted.

ION:
I have an American 5 cent coin. Coin flipping with an American coin is a completely different thing than our plain old Swedish ones. :smallwink:

randman22222

2010-12-29, 10:24 AM

Is qwerty slowly learned or something? :smallconfused: I picked it up over the course of 3 20 minute classes over the course of 3 days. Where I had to wait for the rest of the class to catch up.

How quickly did you learn Dvorak?

A week, without really trying. This is SO much faster than it took me to learn QWERTY... I was a pathetically slow typist when I was little, and learning QWERTY.

EDIT: I should add that I've been referring to touch typing this whole time.

KuReshtin

2010-12-29, 10:24 AM

I can't touch type to save my life.
I just have to have my eyes pointed towards the keyboard, even if I don't actually focus on it, to be able to type decently.

Trying to touch tupe means I get a low of errors in mu tects and I tupe rteallt slowlu. So I better just tope the wat I'm used to, so that peoplw can inderstans me.

Edit: how the hell did I misspell the word 'type' as 'tope'? The 'y' and the 'o' aren't even that close to each other on the keyboard. :smalleek:

AtlanteanTroll

2010-12-29, 10:26 AM

Randomness Incoming

My mother has taken up some sort of Metalworking (as she is a silly person) and has bought an anvil. If TV Tropes (and old Roadrunner Cartoons) have taught me nothing, think I should be quite worried.

KuReshtin

2010-12-29, 10:28 AM

Randomness Incoming

My mother has taken up some sort of Metalworking (as she is a silly person) and has bought an anvil.

That. Is. AWESOME!
I would love to be able to mess about with metal working and blacksmithing.
I don't know what I'd end up making, as I have the creativity of a slug, but still.
It would be so cool.

randman22222

2010-12-29, 10:30 AM

That. Is. AWESOME!
I would love to be able to mess about with metal working and blacksmithing.
I don't know what I'd end up making, as I have the creativity of a slug, but still.
It would be so cool.

The one time I got a chance to do some metalworking, I made a roughly square stick, with a pointed end. :smallderpgrin:

I like to think I've come a long way with creativity since then.

AtlanteanTroll

2010-12-29, 10:33 AM

That. Is. AWESOME!
I would love to be able to mess about with metal working and blacksmithing.
I don't know what I'd end up making, as I have the creativity of a slug, but still.
It would be so cool.

But she could try to hurt me with it. :smalleek: Look what always happened to Wile E. Coyote!

I guess it is pretty cool though. I wonder where she plans on putting it. It's tiny, but it's still pretty gosh-darn heavy.

KuReshtin

2010-12-29, 10:33 AM

The one time I got a chance to do some metalworking, I made a roughly square stick, with a pointed end. :smallderpgrin:

I like to think I've come a long way with creativity since then.

I predict that I'd likely start at that as well. Also, the more you work with it, the more creative you are likely to get, as you try to find new ways to improve.

Then again, I'd love to be able to make my own sword, just to be able to say that I did it myself.

Edit:

But she could try to hurt me with it. :smalleek: Look what always happened to Wile E. Coyote!

I think that would be highly unlikely.

I guess it is pretty cool though. I wonder where she plans on putting it. It's tiny, but it's still pretty gosh-darn heavy.

That's the whole point of an anvil. They're heavy because they're solid frickin' iron. Another reason why I would think it's unlikely that she'd use that to try to hurt you with. it'd be easier to just use a hammer.

Just saying...

Amiel

2010-12-29, 10:33 AM

ION:
Yesterday a vegetarian acquaintance of mine opined that he has no problems eating humans, and that "when you die, they should mash you up and sell you to a supermarket", but that "eating a cow is outrageous".
So cannibalism is fine, but eating other animals isn't. :smalleek:
That beats my previous favourite tidbit about vegetarians (which I have related at least twice on here before, I believe) in terms of scary, but not in terms of funny. :smalltongue:

Did he comment that chicken tastes like humans?
You're not much wrong about vegetarians; it's not that they're vegetarian because they like nature, they hate vegetables :smalltongue:

This will probably come across as really weird, but i don't actually see much of a problem with that either.
The circumstances would have to be quite specific, though, such as the events of that Chilean/Peruvian/Argentinian rugby team in the Andes, where there were absolutely nothing else around to eat.

Similarly, the general public should start considering stomaching the (general and then mass) consumption of insects and possibly arachnids. To overlook such an essential source of proteins and nutrients is overlooking the solution to world hunger. For science! :)

We have a lot of snow. We actually spent the day digging tunnels and caves in a moderately sized snow mountain. Of course, I did most of the digging. :smallwink:

This contains much win. It's like a real-life version of Minecraft, only more awesome.

But seriously, especially the younger one (who's as old as littlest brother, i.e. 10 years) must be an energy vampire of some sort. She eats nothing, she never rests when not sleeping, but she still flies around as a rocket all day, and when you finally are on your own, you're completely exhausted.

Heh, I have a few friends like that; they must be sustained by the very air itself, or their own amusement or they're at least solar-powered. Or any combination thereof. They may not be of this world :smalltongue:

EDIT: I never learned how to Touch Type, but I can still type amazingly fast without looking at the keyboard; I think I've memorised all the key positions (no pun intended).

randman22222

2010-12-29, 10:36 AM

I predict that I'd likely start at that as well. Also, the more you work with it, the more creative you are likely to get, as you try to find new ways to improve.

Then again, I'd love to be able to make my own sword, just to be able to say that I did it myself.

That would be cool... I wonder if I could create my own fencing weapons. I'd so make a rapier for myself once I got good... *Pushes his bard's hair strand out of his eyes.*

EDIT: Where's Anuan? He should be here.

Amiel

2010-12-29, 10:37 AM

AtlanteanTroll

2010-12-29, 10:42 AM

Hopefully it doesn't involve Acme in any way, shape or form :smalltongue:

It doesn't as far as I know, but I'm stilll warry.

Amiel

2010-12-29, 10:47 AM

It doesn't as far as I know, but I'm stilll warry.

If someone named Will E. Latrans knocks on your door, be sure not to answer it and/or deny all knowledge and possession of an anvil.

AtlanteanTroll

2010-12-29, 10:48 AM

If someone named Will E. Latrans knocks on your door, be sure not to answer it and/or deny all knowledge and possession of an anvil.

Well, there was just a UPS Man at my door. :smalltongue:

Haruki-kun

2010-12-29, 11:00 AM

Well, there was just a UPS Man at my door. :smalltongue:

Did he just carry the anvil in? :smalleek: Awesome. Our postal service people never carry anything heavier than a letter.

AtlanteanTroll

2010-12-29, 11:03 AM

Did he just carry the anvil in? :smalleek: Awesome. Our postal service people never carry anything heavier than a letter.

Oh no, he didn't deliver it. He had some medicine. I was away when my mom got the anvil. I think she got it from an older friend who wont be using it again. The question is, how did he get it?

Haruki-kun

2010-12-29, 11:06 AM

Oh no, he didn't deliver it. He had some medicine. I was away when my mom got the anvil. I think she got it from an older friend who wont be using it again. The question is, how did he get it?

Well, if memory serves me right, people in possesion of anvils are usually either physicists, rabbits, coyotes, squirrels, or construction workers in the highest floor.

No blacksmith ever uses an anvil.

Amiel

2010-12-29, 11:14 AM

Well, there was just a UPS Man at my door. :smalltongue:

It's an imposter!
http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/1631/imposterfullpic.gif :-P

AtlanteanTroll

2010-12-29, 11:16 AM

It's an imposter!
http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/1631/imposterfullpic.gif :-P

Hmm. I would've gone with:

http://knowyourmeme.com/system/icons/157/original/Atrapitis.gif?1240007111

Haruki-kun

2010-12-29, 11:17 AM

Hmm. I would've gone with:

*snip*

Nah. Too overdone. It's as if you asked how heavy an anvil is and someone answered "OVER NINE THOUSAND lbs".

AtlanteanTroll

2010-12-29, 11:20 AM

Nah. Too overdone. It's as if you asked how heavy an anvil is and someone answered "OVER NINE THOUSAND lbs".
:smallfrown:

But, but, that would've made me laugh. A lot. Seriously.