Haruki's Hot 'n Holy Random Banter #153

[Haruki-kun]

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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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)
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Mr. E's Random Banter #65 of Cane Toting and Hat Tipping (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=35418)
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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)
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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)
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North's Maple Syrup Flavored Non-Alliterative Random Banter #95 Eh? (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=73464)
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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)
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Destro Yersul's Dangerously Distracting and Doubtlessly Disturbing Random Banter #103 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=4903962#post4903962)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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Recaiden's Resplendent and Rotating Realistic Random Banter #136 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=136879)
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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]
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Deth Muncher's Destructive and Meandering Random Banter #141
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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)
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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)
Rae's Really Rascally and Ridiculously Rowdy Random Banter #152 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=181296)


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!

[Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll]

Can I boogy? Am I allowed? I think I can. If so...
*BOOGIES*

[CynicalAvocado]

sorry troll, your thread is in a nother castle

[Partof1]

I approve of this boogying. May I join?

[AsteriskAmp]

Continuing from the last Random Banter thread.

but then why was she happy when she got tanged, but terrified when rei/lillith rose through central dogma
Who wouldn't be terrified when something specially in that state rose through your workplace.
And I guess she came to terms at the end.

[CynicalAvocado]

Continuing from the last Random Banter thread.

Who wouldn't be terrified when something specially in that state rose through your workplace.
And I guess she came to terms at the end.

yeah, the only transition guide that would scare me is gendo's the giant demon eva 1.... and poor aoba, tanged by force

[Rawhide]

yeah, the ending was dissapointing,
Asuka: i feel terrible
END.
*white*

Well, for one, that isn't Asuka...

As for what was said/why?




6: I recently finished 'End of Evangelion.' The ending didn't make any sense. What did Asuka mean when she said "Disgusting." It's all very confusing to me. Could you please fill me in a little if you don't mind?

I'll try... The most widely circulated translation of the last line of EoE is "I feel sick", but Amanda Winn Lee (voice of Rei Ayanami, who also directed EoE) said she asked several translators, and she felt "disgusting" was the most accurate adaptation. You could say she is disgusted with/sick of the situation or wih Shinji himself. My favorite explanation though, is this one: My husband, Matt Greenfield, directed the TV series and is very familiar with the whole Eva franchise. Matt has said that although (Eva creator) Hideaki Anno seems to change his mind frequently about what various things mean in Eva, Anno once said that Asuka's comment about feeling "sick" was a reference to morning sickness. Now THAT gives ya something to think about, doesn't it! Of course, Anno is quite passionate about the idea that every person should decide for him or herself what Eva means to them.

http://www.modusproductions.com/eva-r/tiff/stats.htm

[Eruantion]

I approve of this boogying. May I join?

Can anyone tell me where this started? I have to wonder...

[Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll]

Can anyone tell me where this started? I have to wonder...

Oh, that would be... uh...

I should know this.

Who started the new-thread-boogy?

[CurlyKitGirl]

*BOOGIE!*

From the previous thread:


I don't recall you getting any points, but I'll be happy to oblige regardless. :smallwink:

Hooray!


You didn't accumulate enough F-E F Awesome points to get a drink.

HOwever, you may get a drink anyway for bringing cookies and a pavlova.

Double hooray!
Nothing like free drinks to increase one's memory.

ION:

I love showers at the oddest times of the night. Just had one, lots of hot water, no hurry, no nothing. Now to get down to writing and drinking.
And CDs.
Sweet, Michael jackson, Steve Harley and the color=black]Co[/color]ckney Rebels, Haley Westenra, compilation CDs of glam rock or more Sweet?

[CynicalAvocado]

Well, for one, that isn't Asuka...

As for what was said/why?


http://www.modusproductions.com/eva-r/tiff/stats.htm

wasn't asuka? red har, red plugsuit...the rei style bandages was from her fight with the harpies

[Rawhide]

Can I boogy? Am I allowed? I think I can. If so...
*BOOGIES*

Uhm, no, you may not. Please do not post to this thread in order to boogie, doing so is classed as "minor spam" and will earn you a warning or infraction. Your post should be meaningful and constructive.

[AsteriskAmp]

yeah, the only transition guide that would scare me is gendo's the giant demon eva 1.... and poor aoba, tanged by force

Gendo screwed up, big time. He completely misinterpreted Yui, he had it coming.
As for Aoba, I always assumed he was a lolicon and therefore Rei was taking vengence for his unhealthy love.

And yes, at the end it was Asuka, I guess she made a mistake when posting number 6.

[Partof1]

I imagine someone simply wanted to boogy


EDIT Mod swordsage

[DraPrime]

Hooray! A new thread!

*boogies*

In other news, Allegri wrote really awesome choral pieces. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eh31j6L95Ok)

[Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll]

Uhm, no, you may not. Please do not post to this thread to boogy, doing so is classed as "minor spam" and will earn you a warning or infraction.

Sadness. My dancing days are over. Hmmm... Is tapdancing (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlgAj_29Z7U) permissable?

[Skeppio]

Ahh, that new thread smell. *inhales* Delightful. :smallbiggrin:

[Perenelle]

*gasp* New Thread!

*joins boogieing*


OMYGOD YOU GUYS. GUESS WHAT.
I made third chair All-District in the top band! :smallbiggrin: :smallbiggrin: :smallbiggrin: and since I was one of the top four flutes, I qualify for state auditions! :smallbiggrin:

[DraPrime]

Sadness. My dancing days are over. Hmmm... Is tapdancing (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlgAj_29Z7U) permissable?

Perhaps squaredancing would be more suitable? :smallamused:

[CurlyKitGirl]

I quite like Allegri, but not as much as a few other composers. This term I'll be singing Brahm's Requiem. And I'm seriously looking forward to that as I've never sung a requiem before, and I can't actually remember listening to one in a long time.
Excitement!

[Skeppio]

*gasp* New Thread!

*joins boogieing*


OMYGOD YOU GUYS. GUESS WHAT.
I made third chair All-District in the top band! :smallbiggrin: :smallbiggrin: :smallbiggrin: and since I was one of the top four flutes, I qualify for state auditions! :smallbiggrin:

That's excellent, Perenelle! *applause and high-fives* :smallbiggrin:

[Haruki-kun]

I have to turn in a photography assignment tomorrow. I went out to print the pictures and already glued them to sheets of white paper. Having done that, since I'm in the dorm's common room, I had to go to my room to get my stapler.

So I get up, go to my room, open the door. And enter.

"....What was I gonna do again?" :smallconfused: Unable to remember, I returned to the common room. Sat down, watching TV. "Right! The assignment. Now I need... a stapler, right."

I get up and go again. Open the door. And stood in the middle of the room. "What was I gonna do...?" :smallconfused: Couldn't remember. I started to walk out. Luckily, I remembered right before I did. "STAPLER!"

I am now successfully stapling my assignment. Hooray.

[DraPrime]

I quite like Allegri, but not as much as a few other composers. This term I'll be singing Brahm's Requiem. And I'm seriously looking forward to that as I've never sung a requiem before, and I can't actually remember listening to one in a long time.
Excitement!

True, there are far better composers. As far as choral works go, I absolutely love the Russians. Especially Tchaikovsky. I love his Hymn of the Cherubim.

[Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll]

Perhaps squaredancing would be more suitable? :smallamused:

No.

No, I have a better idea.

Don't worry guys, I got this. This is where everybody who knows me flinches

Highland Dancing.

[CynicalAvocado]

Gendo screwed up, big time. He completely misinterpreted Yui, he had it coming.
As for Aoba, I always assumed he was a lolicon and therefore Rei was taking vengence for his unhealthy love.

And yes, at the end it was Asuka, I guess she made a mistake when posting number 6.

aoba was a nihilist, and apparently wasn't really close to anyone, so says word of god

[DraPrime]

YOU GUYS. GUESS WHAT.
I made third chair All-District in the top band! :smallbiggrin: :smallbiggrin: :smallbiggrin: and since I was one of the top four flutes, I qualify for state auditions! :smallbiggrin:

Hooray! Congratulations Perenelle! You get a polar-bear hug.

http://cache2.allpostersimages.com/p/LRG/7/786/MB4I000Z/posters/egan-rick-bear-hug.jpg

[Perenelle]

That's excellent, Perenelle! *applause and high-fives* :smallbiggrin:

Thankses you! :smallbiggrin: I'm super excited ^.^


Hooray! Congratulations Perenelle! You get a polar-bear hug.

*snippity snip*

I love polar-bear hugs! yay! :smallbiggrin:

and thanks :smallsmile:

No.

No, I have a better idea.

Don't worry guys, I got this. This is where everybody who knows me flinches

Highland Dancing.

YES.
*laces up shoes and starts dancing*

I actually wanted to take Irish step dancing lessons for a while when I was younger... It never happened. :smalltongue:

[Rawhide]

wasn't asuka? red har, red plugsuit...the rei style bandages was from her fight with the harpies

Maybe there's some new information since then, but theories at the time (including straight from ADV) were that she was an amalgam of Asuka, Rei and Misato.

[Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll]

T

YES.
*laces up shoes and starts dancing*

I actually wanted to take Irish step dancing lessons for a while when I was younger... It never happened. :smalltongue:

My sister joined the Cadet Corp, and joined a Highland regiment. She's also a very good ballet dancer for her age and figure. She's planning on taking highland dance as soon as she can within the regiment.

[DraPrime]

No.

No, I have a better idea.

Don't worry guys, I got this. This is where everybody who knows me flinches

Highland Dancing.

This is why I don't dance. Nothing but madness ensues from it.

[Rawhide]

Ahh, that new thread smell. *inhales* Delightful. :smallbiggrin:

This too is no better than boogieing. Content please, people!

[Thufir]

True, there are far better composers. As far as choral works go, I absolutely love the Russians. Especially Tchaikovsky. I love his Hymn of the Cherubim.

Bach, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Britten, Mahler, Beethoven, Handel.
I could probably go on. I could certainly pick out specific pieces.

I think I heard some of Brahms' Requiem at some point at liked it.
I feel like I've mentioned this before.

[Perenelle]

My sister joined the Cadet Corp, and joined a Highland regiment. She's also a very good ballet dancer for her age and figure. She's planning on taking highland dance as soon as she can within the regiment.

That'd pretty awesome, good for her. :smallbiggrin:

I also reaaaally wanted to figure skate. I still do. But I don't have the time nor the money to take lessons. :smallsigh:

[DraPrime]

That'd pretty awesome, good for her. :smallbiggrin:

I also reaaaally wanted to figure skate. I still do. But I don't have the time nor the money to take lessons. :smallsigh:

Why not play hockey? It's exactly like figure skating, but without any grace and with a ton of brutality. :smalltongue:

[Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll]

Why not play hockey? It's exactly like figure skating, but without any grace and with a ton of brutality. :smalltongue:

And is much more fun to watch on tv.

It's like, the perfect sport. Football and Hockey.

[Moff Chumley]

On the subject of dancing, my version of dancing is better described as the absence of any form of stillness, if that makes sense. :smallcool:

[Perenelle]

Why not play hockey? It's exactly like figure skating, but without any grace and with a ton of brutality. :smalltongue:

:smalltongue:
I don't have the time for that either! And I'd still prefer pretty, graceful figure skating. Hockey sounds like a really scary sport to play.

[CynicalAvocado]

And is much more fun to watch on tv.

It's like, the perfect sport. Football and Hockey.

you forgot MMA

[DraPrime]

:smalltongue:
I don't have the time for that either! And I'd still prefer pretty, graceful figure skating. Hockey sounds like a really scary sport to play.

Don't worry, if you have a flamethrower it becomes much easier. Everyone is suddenly scared of you, and not the other way around.

[Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll]

you forgot MMA

Nah, never liked it. It's only Football and Hockey. And FIFA world cup. And hockey takes precedence.

[AtlanteanTroll]

I just KNEW a new one was going to be made while I was watching the Return of the King. I knew it. Oh well. 2 guys and 5 girls. Atlantean obvious Troll was obvious happy.

[DraPrime]

Nah, never liked it. It's only Football and Hockey. And FIFA world cup. And hockey takes precedence.

I'd put Rugby up on this list of sports, and maybe even lacrosse.

[CynicalAvocado]

Nah, never liked it. It's only Football and Hockey. And FIFA world cup. And hockey takes precedence.

i only watch it for the bloodied faces

[Ranger Mattos]

Yay! New thread!


you forgot MMA

Pfft, mixed martial arts. Where I come from tae kwon do's good enough.

[Perenelle]

Don't worry, if you have a flamethrower it becomes much easier. Everyone is suddenly scared of you, and not the other way around.

But then I'd melt all the ice... :smalltongue:

[DraPrime]

But then I'd melt all the ice... :smalltongue:

Thus tripping up your opponents.

[CynicalAvocado]

dudes, i was just in the kitchen making something when this commercial came on and played the hallelujah chorus. i went into meerkat mode

[Tonal Architect]

On the absence of stillness: You do realize that typing, writing, doing the laundry, even Eating, would qualify as dancing, right?

*Proceeds to do the Typing boogey thing*

(...)

Evangelion-wise... I always took that line for meaning "I just got stabbed into oblivion, disintegrated into a gooey mass, somehow worked up the will to reform myself, and right now I'm getting hugged by my love interest/last guy I wanna see right now, I have all the bloody right to want to puke in this moment".

I never took her for a Rei/Misato/Asuka amalgam. Just for a cranky newly-reborn girl.

[CynicalAvocado]

On the absence of stillness: You do realize that typing, writing, doing the laundry, even Eating, would qualify as dancing, right?

*Proceeds to do the Typing boogey thing*

(...)

Evangelion-wise... I always took that line for meaning "I just got stabbed into oblivion, disintegrated into a gooey mass, somehow worked up the will to reform myself, and right now I'm getting hugged by my love interest/last guy I wanna see right now, I have all the bloody right to want to puke in this moment".

I never took her for a Rei/Misato/Asuka amalgam. Just for a cranky newly-reborn girl.

that wasn't hugging... he was strangling her

edit: wo do you think your transition guide will be when 3rd impact is initiated in about... 4 years?

[Tonal Architect]

Sorry, it's been a while since I've last watched Eva... Well, I must have gotten that down as an act of honest love, and given that Evangelion is twisted like that, I guess it just stuck.

[Coidzor]

Highland Dancing.

Now you've got me wondering if you have the know how.


Why not play hockey? It's exactly like figure skating, but without any grace and with a ton of brutality. :smalltongue:

And if your team wears black you become ultraviolent instead of just regular violent! [/Cracked]

ION: I just had a dream where a giant Mr. Scruffy rampaged through Tokyo while being ridden by several members of the playground who were also going pew pew with their zappy guns/firing their lasers. Who then proceeded to start baking people into pies whole. Not sleeping for awhile and then sleeping can lead to some strange stuff.

[CynicalAvocado]

Sorry, it's been a while since I've last watched Eva... Well, I must have gotten that down as an act of honest love, and given that Evangelion is twisted like that, I guess it just stuck.

eh, i thought the same the first time i watched it

[Moff Chumley]

On the absence of stillness: You do realize that typing, writing, doing the laundry, even Eating, would qualify as dancing, right?

If silence is defined as the absence of noise, and people are constantly making noise, no matter how subtle, does that mean that silence is impossible? Yes, but it's still rather unhelpful to point this out.

Also, who said anything about posting, eating, or doing the laundry not counting as dance? :smallyuk:

[Thufir]

ION: I just had a dream where a giant Mr. Scruffy rampaged through Tokyo

You mean like Kitten Kong (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2J6uUMeAVW8#t=1m30s)?

ION: Why is it I only seem to be able to do job applications when it's so late at night it's practically early in the morning?

[Coidzor]

You mean like Kitten Kong (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2J6uUMeAVW8#t=1m30s)?

Only larger and combined with a laser light show, yeah. Also, that's hilarious but I can't figure out why.


ION: Why is it I only seem to be able to do job applications when it's so late at night it's practically early in the morning?

You can only contemplate the seriousness of your predicament when all pretense or ability to distract yourself from crushing, impending reality is stripped away?

[AsteriskAmp]

Well, for one, that isn't Asuka...

As for what was said/why?


http://www.modusproductions.com/eva-r/tiff/stats.htm

I think this makes it clear it is Asuka and not an amalgam.


Originally posted by: Wikipedia http://www.giantitp.com/forums/images/buttons/lastpost.gif (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_of_Evangelion#Production)
The final line has been quoted by several works such as Megatokyo.[15] During the english translation of the film, Manga Entertainment originally translated Asuka's closing line, "気持ち悪い。" ("Kimochi warui."), as "How disgusting." It can also be ambiguously translated as "really disgusting",[16] simply "disgusting",[17] "I feel unwell/terrible/sick," "gross",[18][19] "feeling is bad",[20] or "unpleasant feeling"[21] According to an episode of the Japanese anime show Anime Yawa aired March 31, 2005 on NHK's satellite TV, the final line was initially written as "I'd never want to be killed by you of all men, absolutely not!" or "I'll never let you kill me." ("Anta nankani korosareru nowa mappira yo!") but Anno was dissatisfied with Miyamura's renditions of this line.[22] Eventually Anno asked her a question which described what he was going for with this scene:
"Concerning the final line we adopted, I'm not sure whether I should say about it in fact. At last Anno asked me 'Miyamura, just imagine you are sleeping in your bed and a stranger sneaks into your room. He can rape you anytime as you are asleep but he doesn't. Instead, he masturbates looking at you, when you wake up and know what he did to you. What do you think you would say?' I had been thinking he was a strange man, but at that moment I felt disgusting. So I told him that I thought 'Disgusting.' And then he sighed and said, 'I thought as much.'" [23]

[Rawhide]

I think this makes it clear it is Asuka and not an amalgam.

I've actually read that before, but I still have the question. How does what she said have anything to do with whether she's an amalgam or not?


And yes, at the end it was Asuka, I guess she made a mistake when posting number 6.

For that matter, whether she is Asuka or an amalgam, how does it change the answer to number 6?

Who she is and the meaning of what she said are two different things.

[absolmorph]

Holy mother of pearls, my download speed is rocking tonight. It peaked at 580 kb/s.
Normally, I'm lucky if I break 100 kb/s.
Finishing an 820 MB download in half an hour is a good feeling.

[Teddy]

Ahh, a new thread. I wonder how much I'll participate, given that I'm in the latest days have become a complete Minecraft addict.

ION:
Bad sleep tonight. I am not very pleased. The positive effects of my large cup of tea wore off on my slippery way to school. Well, well, I will prevail and, hopefully, I'll sleep better tomorrow.

[CynicalAvocado]

Ahh, a new thread. I wonder how much I'll participate, given that I'm in the latest days have become a complete Minecraft addict.

ION:
Bad sleep tonight. I am not very pleased. The positive effects of my large cup of tea wore off on my slippery way to school. Well, well, I will prevail and, hopefully, I'll sleep better tomorrow.

bleh, it's only 2:oo here, stupid xkcd and tvtropes >.>. thank god i'm off tomorrow

[KuReshtin]

I've been at work for 40 minutes so far today, and so far I'va managed to accomplish: Breakfast.

I really need to start getting things done.
I've got a Mountain Dew Energy drink bottle here at my desk. It's only got water and some lemon juice in it a the moment, but if I pretend hard enough, maybe it'll give me the boost I need to get started.

[AsteriskAmp]

I've actually read that before, but I still have the question. How does what she said have anything to do with whether she's an amalgam or not?

Only Asuka could have known of Shinji's presence in that room and what he did.



For that matter, whether she is Asuka or an amalgam, how does it change the answer to number 6?

Who she is and the meaning of what she said are two different things.

There is no indication she is an amalgam of anyone unless you consider the bandages a part of Rei, and nothing indicates Ritsuko., I thought you were using the point that since it was Rei's seiyu the one who spoke it meant she was an amalgam. Rei voice actress directed EoE, Asuka's voice actress delivered the line. The poster of what you provided was Asuka's voice actress for the English dub.

My point stands though, there is no evidence, except, maybe [as in improbable] the bandages that she is an amalgam.

I always understood it as Shinji and Asuka separating themselves from the collective of humanity because they are so screwed up. Rei herself would turn into Yui I think, as for Misato, there is no evidence she is art of that being or she is anywhere for that fact.

[Teddy]

bleh, it's only 2:oo here, stupid xkcd and tvtropes >.>. thank god i'm off tomorrow

In the morning? Is it today or tomorrow you're off? 2 in the morning is early bedtime for me on the weekends. In the weekdays, however, I try to get to bed before 23:00.


I've been at work for 40 minutes so far today, and so far I'va managed to accomplish: Breakfast.

I really need to start getting things done.
I've got a Mountain Dew Energy drink bottle here at my desk. It's only got water and some lemon juice in it a the moment, but if I pretend hard enough, maybe it'll give me the boost I need to get started.

There is nothing that pretending really hard won't solve. At least I pretend really hard that this is true, so it has to be true, right?

[Amiel]

No.

No, I have a better idea.

Don't worry guys, I got this. This is where everybody who knows me flinches

Highland Dancing.

Per the immortal and infamous quip tagline, "there can be only one".
Preferably said dancing does not involve kilts and riverdancing.


This is why I don't dance. Nothing but madness ensues from it.

Cthulhu is happy. And by happy, I mean he expresses unnatural and energetic interest in your well-being and furthering your talent. Cthulhu believes only wholesome activities* can arise from this.
*That do not involve psychic lobotomies.



Speaking of Evangelion, Evangelion Good Or Don't Be Piano Cover (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StqbK_DkM5Y).

[KuReshtin]

In the morning? Is it today or tomorrow you're off? 2 in the morning is early bedtime for me on the weekends. In the weekdays, however, I try to get to bed before 23:00.

I have found myself getting to bed at around 2:30am-3am on weekdays in the past few months, mainly because my shift at work was moved from an 8-4 shift to a 9-5 shift.

Weekends, I usually don't go to bed until about 4-5am. This past weekend, I went to bed at 730am on Saturday night/Sunday morning. it's not good to do that too often, I tell you. Especially for an old man like me. :smallbiggrin:




There is nothing that pretending really hard won't solve. At least I pretend really hard that this is true, so it has to be true, right?

So, since my employer pretends to pay me, can I just pretend to work?

[Teddy]

So, since my employer pretends to pay me, can I just pretend to work?

You don't already? I pretend that I'm doing my schoolwork all the time, and it seems to work.

[Amiel]

So, since my employer pretends to pay me, can I just pretend to work?

You could tell your employer that reading and participating in the various threads on the Giantitp forums is intellectually nourishing and vital for keeping one's productivity up, and it must take priority over any "paid" work :smallbiggrin:

[AsteriskAmp]

Speaking of Evangelion, Evangelion Good Or Don't Be Piano Cover (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StqbK_DkM5Y).
Isn't that cruel angel thesis?
Not me playing (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRBwtqNqE8Y)

[Amiel]

Apparently there's a track off the Evangelion OST by the name of Good or Don't Be (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWEt_VgLOWY).

[AsteriskAmp]

Apparently there's a track off the Evangelion OST by the name of Good or Don't Be (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWEt_VgLOWY).
It's a non-pop piano version of Cruel Angel Thesis.
If one would try to play Cruel Angel Thesis in piano, the result would be that, so I guess all of the Cruel Angel Thesis piano videos are the same as the Good or Don't be videos (of course until someone decides to play it on something else).

Evangelion, mindraping you through it's soundtrack titling.

[Coidzor]

Evangelion, mindraping you through it's soundtrack titling.

Really? I'd just find that annoying myself. As the worst thing about it would appear to be spending an extra half hour on the process to double check things for getting it all collected on, say, an mp3 player without redundancy.

[AsteriskAmp]

Really? I'd just find that annoying myself. As the worst thing about it would appear to be spending an extra half hour on the process to double check things for getting it all collected on, say, an mp3 player without redundancy.
The problem with the OSTs is other, the titles... the titles are pretty much Track 1, 2, 3, named track, track 4, 5, 6, named tracked, it's annoying.
And also, there are 25 "fly me to the moon"s plus the ones by each seiyu.

[KuReshtin]

Maybe I should pretend to work a little harder. :smallannoyed:
I don't feel like it today.

ION: What's a really cleveer way to try and save your local library from being closed down?
This is one way. (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-12204369)

[AsteriskAmp]

Maybe I should pretend to work a little harder. :smallannoyed:
I don't feel like it today.

ION: What's a really cleveer way to try and save your local library from being closed down?
This is one way. (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-12204369)

British never seem to amaze me, first by their tea and now for their love of culture, if only I could move over to England...

They have everything Earl Grey, Azam, a monarchy, Westminster, Oxford, Standford, Elemental, the list goes on...

[Heliomance]

This too is no better than boogieing. Content please, people!

I am indeed content. We have a new thread!
Bad puns count as content, right?

[AsteriskAmp]

I am indeed content. We have a new thread!
Bad puns count as content, right?

I guess they do.

[Amiel]

It's a non-pop piano version of Cruel Angel Thesis.
If one would try to play Cruel Angel Thesis in piano, the result would be that, so I guess all of the Cruel Angel Thesis piano videos are the same as the Good or Don't be videos (of course until someone decides to play it on something else).

Evangelion, mindraping you through it's soundtrack titling.

Well, various compositions use recurring themes throughout their length. This is an example of such.
For example, this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V35jN5y8_Tw) (Only the Beginning of the Adventure) is structurally similar to this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDtEtI1QDxc&feature=related) (Evacuating London); and they're two separate pieces.

[AsteriskAmp]

Well, various compositions use recurring themes throughout their length. This is an example of such.
For example, this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V35jN5y8_Tw) (Only the Beginning of the Adventure) is structurally similar to this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDtEtI1QDxc&feature=related) (Evacuating London); and they're two separate pieces.

Recurring themes is one thing, 90% identical is another. I approve of sampling and re-utilizing themes, it bugs me when peoples concept of remix becomes running it through another set of instruments and it annoys me when it is done in a OST and the piece didn't even crop up in the series. It's exactly the same in this case, only it's a piano instrumental version, they should call it like that.

On another note, Epic Narnia music, had forgotten how awesome the music, had two female sociopaths (AKA my sisters) screeming at my sides at every sight of a male lead or lucy, for the three movies.

[Heliomance]

Not unless properly formatted

I am ashamed that it took me four tries to get that right. I am further ashamed that someone quoted my shame.

[Amiel]

Recurring themes is one thing, 90% identical is another. I approve of sampling and re-utilizing themes, it bugs me when peoples concept of remix becomes running it through another set of instruments and it annoys me when it is done in a OST and the piece didn't even crop up in the series. It's exactly the same in this case, only it's a piano instrumental version, they should call it like that.

The Wiki article admits a connecting genesis, but goes on to say "both are considerably different in feel from the more hard driving techno-dance original".

I think this is what they mean by separation from the origin.


On another note, Epic Narnia music, had forgotten how awesome the music, had two female sociopaths (AKA my sisters) screeming at my sides at every sight of a male lead or lucy, for the three movies.

Wholly agreed. The music of Narnia is epic. I'm partial to The Battle (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBt5D7DPFtw&feature=related), but they could've cut it short, the final few minutes weren't really needed.

[CurlyKitGirl]

Aha!
One essay done, two poems thoroughly wossnamed, now to go cheat my way through understanding the other two.

Today has been awesome. Fantastic lecture done, great lunch with Friend Who Does French, been walking around brazenly flouting my meetup shirt, good tea, and a thoroughly interesting lecture later on. Followed by choir practice!
Woo!

This term is off to a good start. here's hoping I don't humiliate myself at the tutorial. :smalleek: :smallworried:

[AsteriskAmp]

The Wiki article admits a connecting genesis, but goes on to say "both are considerably different in feel from the more hard driving techno-dance original".

I think this is what they mean by separation from the origin.

I doubt its only a "connecting genesis" they are the same, only one is a piano instrumental, the harmony and the melody line are the same.

Played side by side, the first seconds are exact match, then timing get weird but they remain the same in melody and harmony, not just structure, mind that the "Cruel Angel Thesis" is the complete version, so it's longer than the OP (referred normally as "TV sized") which is does end simultaneously with Be Good.


http://www.youtubedoubler.com/?video1=http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3D0kFhPVAhV_o&start1=23&video2=http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DnWEt_VgLOWY&start2=7&authorName=Not+Sure


Wholly agreed. The music of Narnia is epic. I'm partial to The Battle (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBt5D7DPFtw&feature=related), but they could've cut it short, the final few minutes weren't really needed.

I think the first seconds on the begging feel like they belong somewhere else along with the last seconds, they would have made another song, and it would have been awesome, in "The Battle" they just seem out of place.

[Coidzor]

On another note, Epic Narnia music, had forgotten how awesome the music, had two female sociopaths (AKA my sisters) screeming at my sides at every sight of a male lead or lucy, for the three movies.

Really? They go for Lucy? :smallconfused: That just seems wrong even if they were of compatible age brackets... :smalleek:

[AsteriskAmp]

Really? They go for Lucy? :smallconfused: That just seems wrong even if they were of compatible age brackets... :smalleek:
My younger sister has an unhealthy obsession for cute characters, she got that from watching too much anime by my side, she "outgrew" anime, not the fixation on cute characters.

[Thufir]

Only larger and combined with a laser light show, yeah. Also, that's hilarious but I can't figure out why.

The Goodies were comedic genii. Fact.


You can only contemplate the seriousness of your predicament when all pretense or ability to distract yourself from crushing, impending reality is stripped away?

Well, it's more that doing job applications takes me out of my comfort zone a bit, so I need to be in otherwise comforting circumstances, which includes preferably no-one else being around.
Still a bit stupid though.


I really need to start getting things done.
I've got a Mountain Dew Energy drink bottle here at my desk. It's only got water and some lemon juice in it a the moment, but if I pretend hard enough, maybe it'll give me the boost I need to get started.

In my experience, lemon juice is rather effective for getting me going. But then, I pretty much run on citrus fruit, so...


British never seem to amaze me, first by their tea and now for their love of culture, if only I could move over to England...

They have everything Earl Grey, Azam, a monarchy, Westminster, Oxford, Standford, Elemental, the list goes on...

We are the best country.


Aha!
One essay done, two poems thoroughly wossnamed, now to go cheat my way through understanding the other two.

Hello, Parrot, where's Eric?


Today has been awesome. Fantastic lecture done, great lunch with Friend Who Does French, been walking around brazenly flouting my meetup shirt, good tea, and a thoroughly interesting lecture later on. Followed by choir practice!
Woo!

Flaunting, surely?
What are the lectures about? I'm generally interested in your studies (You keep making me want to go back to uni and do an English degree - or at least sit in English lectures learning things but maybe not actually do the work so much)


This term is off to a good start. here's hoping I don't humiliate myself at the tutorial. :smalleek: :smallworried:

You'll be fine.

ION: I am listening to the Jurassic Park theme 1000% slower (http://soundcloud.com/birdfeeder/jurassic-park-theme-1000-slower). It's good! Also, still kind of recognisable.

[AsteriskAmp]

ION: I am listening to the Jurassic Park theme 1000% slower (http://soundcloud.com/birdfeeder/jurassic-park-theme-1000-slower). It's good! Also, still kind of recognisable.
Sounds like the music they play at those weird spas were there are yoga and meditation classes.

Also, math classes from Randall Munroe.

[CurlyKitGirl]

The Goodies were comedic genii. Fact.

A man died laughing while watching them.


Well, it's more that doing job applications takes me out of my comfort zone a bit, so I need to be in otherwise comforting circumstances, which includes preferably no-one else being around.
Still a bit stupid though.

Not really. That essay that was all but complete last night, the one that just needed some actual writing around my notes to it?
The one that I was sure I'd finish in a couple hours?
Went to bed at half six, still not finished, but finished it in one hour forty minutes throughout the morning.
That was stupid.


Hello, Parrot, where's Eric?

He decided to take a chance with the most beautiful woman in the world after all. Brave choice. Brave choice.


Flaunting, surely?
What are the lectures about? I'm generally interested in your studies (You keep making me want to go back to uni and do an English degree - or at least sit in English lectures learning things but maybe not actually do the work so much)

Flout as in to show disregard for commonly accepted behaviour, but also flaunt.
Lectures in no particular order:
Approaches to Middle English
Language and Gender
Standardisation and the History of English
Shakespearean Tragedy
Shakespeare and the Medieval
The Identity of Post-Conquest Writing (fascinating, seriously)
Medieval Romance
" Drama
Older Scots Poetry
Troilus and Criseyde
Body and Belief: Devotional Literature in the Late Middle Ages
Middle English Literature: Reading the Manuscripts
From Old to Middle English
Chastelaine de Vergy (lang) and (text) separately
Medieval French Translation Classes
Translating Medieval French
Literary Commentary on Medieval French Texts
Beroul's Tristan
Dante's Purgatorio and Paradiso
Dante: Lecture
And probably some others, I definitely haven't got down all the Shakespeare ones I'd like to go to
Doi -
Angevin England
History of French
Maybe
History of Italian
It's now just a case of sorting out clashes and times to get from one place to the other.

I'm perversely glad I'm making you want to go back to uni for an English degree, that shows that I can get some of my enthusiasm and joy through the internet. Not to mention that chances are you'd either heard of what I was expounding upon or had read said text/similar ones recreationally.
If nothing else, if you've got absolutely nothing else on you could nick up your uni and sit in on some lectures right?

The tutorial was excellent though. Surprisingly so. My essay was on whether there was any consolation for the frail individual in the face of overwhelming perfection in the poems of Gawain-MS with reference to at least two poems.
We managed to discuss Monty Python and the Holy Grail and Robin Hood: Men In Tights as legitimate similes and analogies for the representation of Arthur's court as shown in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
Result: awesome.
Next essay's looking promising too. Middle English Romances. Probably going to focus on verse ones.
And my tute partner this term's great as well.
Truly an excellent start to the term.

[Thufir]

Not really. That essay that was all but complete last night, the one that just needed some actual writing around my notes to it?
The one that I was sure I'd finish in a couple hours?
Went to bed at half six, still not finished, but finished it in one hour forty minutes throughout the morning.
That was stupid.

We can both be stupid about productive things we have to do!


He decided to take a chance with the most beautiful woman in the world after all. Brave choice. Brave choice.

Really? Then I suppose I'll leave him to his wossname and stop looking for him. As the great philosopher Didactylos once said, "Bugger this for a game of soldiers."


Flout as in to show disregard for commonly accepted behaviour, but also flaunt.

Well, but in that case it's the commonly accepted behaviour that you're flouting by wearing the meet shrit, not the meet shirt itself.


Lectures in no particular order:
Approaches to Middle English
Language and Gender
Standardisation and the History of English
Shakespearean Tragedy
Shakespeare and the Medieval
The Identity of Post-Conquest Writing (fascinating, seriously)
Medieval Romance
" Drama
Older Scots Poetry
Troilus and Criseyde
Body and Belief: Devotional Literature in the Late Middle Ages
Middle English Literature: Reading the Manuscripts
From Old to Middle English
Chastelaine de Vergy (lang) and (text) separately
Medieval French Translation Classes
Translating Medieval French
Literary Commentary on Medieval French Texts
Beroul's Tristan
Dante's Purgatorio and Paradiso
Dante: Lecture
And probably some others, I definitely haven't got down all the Shakespeare ones I'd like to go to
Doi -
Angevin England
History of French
Maybe
History of Italian
It's now just a case of sorting out clashes and times to get from one place to the other.

I'm perversely glad I'm making you want to go back to uni for an English degree, that shows that I can get some of my enthusiasm and joy through the internet. Not to mention that chances are you'd either heard of what I was expounding upon or had read said text/similar ones recreationally.
If nothing else, if you've got absolutely nothing else on you could nick up your uni and sit in on some lectures right?

Well, yeah. I'm pretty sure I said something once in a previous RB thread about you being eloquent in expressing your passion for the subject or some such.
Of course, it also helps that I love literature anyway.
I could do that potentially, but I'd feel guilty about spending my parents' money on the metro fare to get into town to do so (And I'd rather not use my own money without an income by which to replenish it). Maybe if there are interesting things on days I have to get the metro anyway, since return tickets have been universally replaced by daysavers...


We managed to discuss Monty Python and the Holy Grail and Robin Hood: Men In Tights as legitimate similes and analogies for the representation of Arthur's court as shown in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.

Well, they are.
On the subject of slightly odd comparisons, I just realised last night where my mental image of the grown up Arthur in The Once and Future King (Little way into The Queen of Air and Darkness) comes from - Noggin the Nog.
Not the appearance, of course, but the personality and attitude to a certain extent fit. Decent and kind, but sometimes requires prompting to tihnk things through properly, and maybe a bit naive.

ION: Using the internet from my bed places me in the rather odd situation of occasionally having to grab my laptop and hold it down a bit off the side of my bed so that something will load.

[Fifty-Eyed Fred]

Hmm. I flaunted (whilst flouting the impositions of those we may term 'haters') my meetup t-shirt yesterday. :smallcool:

ION:
I never thought Lolita was going to be so dull. I'm quite surprised, but then I suppose that paedophilia is in this instance rather a gimmick. Sometimes Hype Backlash happens in literature, too.

[AsteriskAmp]

Hmm. I flaunted (whilst flouting the impositions of those we may term 'haters') my meetup t-shirt yesterday. :smallcool:

ION:
I never thought Lolita was going to be so dull. I'm quite surprised, but then I suppose that paedophilia is in this instance rather a gimmick. Sometimes Hype Backlash happens in literature, too.
Yes, Lolita is rather dull if you are into it to see how it handles certain aspects. I liked it though, with all its play in ethics and the narrator's viewpoint.

[Moff Chumley]

Holy mother of pearls, my download speed is rocking tonight. It peaked at 580 kb/s.
Normally, I'm lucky if I break 100 kb/s.
Finishing an 820 MB download in half an hour is a good feeling.

I'm in the midst of a 7 gig download, at 200 kb/s...

It's gonna be a long day. :smallannoyed:

[CynicalAvocado]

i still say asuka's bandages were from her fight with the mp evas, bandaged arm- bisected by a lance, eyepatch- eye was destroyed by a Longinus Lance replica

[CurlyKitGirl]

We can both be stupid about productive things we have to do!

Hurrah! As it is I'm already delaying working on my essay to make veggie enchiladas and have a movie night.


Well, but in that case it's the commonly accepted behaviour that you're flouting by wearing the meet shrit, not the meet shirt itself.

True, but the phrasing was ambiguous I suppose.


Well, yeah. I'm pretty sure I said something once in a previous RB thread about you being eloquent in expressing your passion for the subject or some such.
Of course, it also helps that I love literature anyway.
I could do that potentially, but I'd feel guilty about spending my parents' money on the metro fare to get into town to do so (And I'd rather not use my own money without an income by which to replenish it). Maybe if there are interesting things on days I have to get the metro anyway, since return tickets have been universally replaced by daysavers...

Hooray!


Well, they are.
On the subject of slightly odd comparisons, I just realised last night where my mental image of the grown up Arthur in The Once and Future King (Little way into The Queen of Air and Darkness) comes from - Noggin the Nog.
Not the appearance, of course, but the personality and attitude to a certain extent fit. Decent and kind, but sometimes requires prompting to tihnk things through properly, and maybe a bit naive.

If it fits it fits. I mean, the stories are influential enough.


Hmm. I flaunted (whilst flouting the impositions of those we may term 'haters') my meetup t-shirt yesterday. :smallcool:

ION:
I never thought Lolita was going to be so dull. I'm quite surprised, but then I suppose that paedophilia is in this instance rather a gimmick. Sometimes Hype Backlash happens in literature, too.

Excellent!
Yes, I found Lolita overhyped too. I was okay, intense with some great psychological moments, but I've read better.

Okay, I now have a tea shelf. I will have to take a photo later. Yes, this shelf is only for tea.
Yes, it's still in the beginning stages, but I have twelve varieties of tea and a total over over two hundred bags. Which I'm told is a lot.

[Fifty-Eyed Fred]

Okay, I now have a tea shelf. I will have to take a photo later. Yes, this shelf is only for tea.
Yes, it's still in the beginning stages, but I have twelve varieties of tea and a total over over two hundred bags. Which I'm told is a lot.

I have two varieties here, but I wouldn't be surprised if they comprise 200 bags. :smalltongue:

[absolmorph]

I think we have one kind of tea in our house.
Maybe a dozen bags.
We're not really tea drinkers.

[AsteriskAmp]

We used to have at least 5 varieties and at least 20 bags at a time in my house, but when my grandmother left it became 1 variety - Herbal and two bags at most.
If I ever want tea I have to visit my grandmother flat for any chance of decent tea.

[CynicalAvocado]

i have gensing, oolong, jasmine, a bamillion types of green tea, english breakfast tea, earl gray, a buttload of herb teas, and ginger tea

[AsteriskAmp]

i have gensing, oolong, jasmine, a bamillion types of green tea, english breakfast tea, earl gray, a buttload of herb teas, and ginger tea

This thread has made me crave for some decent tea, calling my grandma to check if she by any chance has ginseng or assam.

[Moff Chumley]

Vampire Weekend vs The Black Keys in a sellout contest.

I love the Colbert Report...

[Coidzor]

Yes, I found Lolita overhyped too. I was okay, intense with some great psychological moments, but I've read better.

Did you find it boring? All of my friends that read it seemed to reach that general consensus.

ION: Cracking open a can of tuna and dumping it, cheap tomato sauce, and lemon juice into a saucepan was surprisingly enjoyable as a pasta sauce.

[AsteriskAmp]

Did you find it boring? All of my friends that read it seemed to reach that general consensus.

ION: Cracking open a can of tuna and dumping it, cheap tomato sauce, and lemon juice into a saucepan was surprisingly enjoyable as a pasta sauce.

Isn't that how pink-sauce is made?

[Coidzor]

Isn't that how pink-sauce is made?

Wouldn't know because I've never heard of pink sauce before. :smallconfused: All wikipedia gave me was Fry sauce. (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Fry_sauce)

The other things I can find quickly seem to refer to mixing tomatoes and dairy/white sauces.

[AsteriskAmp]

Wouldn't know because I've never heard of pink sauce before. :smallconfused: All wikipedia gave me was Fry sauce. (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Fry_sauce)

The other things I can find quickly seem to refer to mixing tomatoes and dairy/white sauces.

Weird, I hear it all the time, if I remember correctly I ate it in Italy and in Miami as well as my local Italian Restaurant. I may be confusing it with something else though.

[Heliomance]

200 teabags isn't particularly impressive, they come in boxes of 50 or more. It's just a supply to last for a reasonable amount of time.

[AsteriskAmp]

200 teabags isn't particularly impressive, they come in boxes of 50 or more. It's just a supply to last for a reasonable amount of time.

Depends, some of the more expensive ones come in packs of five, from what I've drank.

But teabags isn't really a good measure, the ideal unit would be pounds.

[Rawhide]

Only Asuka could have known of Shinji's presence in that room and what he did.

You're forgetting many things, including the whole human instrumentality project thing which could have lead to anyone knowing about it. You're forgetting that if the person is an amalgam, she could very well (probably would actually) know everything Asuka knew. You're also forgetting that maybe she didn't know (and that question asked to the voice actress was just to get the acting response, but not is not canon character knowledge).


There is no indication she is an amalgam of anyone unless you consider the bandages a part of Rei, and nothing indicates Ritsuko., I thought you were using the point that since it was Rei's seiyu the one who spoke it meant she was an amalgam. Rei voice actress directed EoE, Asuka's voice actress delivered the line. The poster of what you provided was Asuka's voice actress for the English dub.

I never mentioned Ritsuko, I mentioned Misato. Have you listened to the commentary in the English language version of the DVD? The theory of the amalgam is presented there. They mention the bandages and how they mirror Rei, while also mentioning the injuries (which were never treated with bandages) from the S1 units. I believe the Misato part of it comes from the eyes, but that I'm not so sure. The Asuka part of course comes from the majority of the body and the voice actress delivering the line.

Also, I said nothing about who delivered the line in so far as to why the theory of the amalgam is possible, only to show that the theory of the meaning of "disgusting/I feel sick" was presented by an insider, not an internet theory crackpot. (Which, again, is a separate issue to the amalgam theory.)

[Coidzor]

So, since we're still playing Evangelion pong... Did you guys like any of the main characters? Or is it just Shinji that's universally loathed by all fans?

[Rawhide]

So, since we're still playing Evangelion pong... Did you guys like any of the main characters? Or is it just Shinji that's universally loathed by all fans?

I wouldn't say universally loathed, considering that I like him.

[CynicalAvocado]

So, since we're still playing Evangelion pong... Did you guys like any of the main characters? Or is it just Shinji that's universally loathed by all fans?

the only one i didn't like was ritsuko, as far as shinji goes, wouldn't you be the same way if you were in his position?

[AsteriskAmp]

You're forgetting many things, including the whole human instrumentality project thing which could have lead to anyone knowing about it. You're forgetting that if the person is an amalgam, she could very well (probably would actually) know everything Asuka knew. You're also forgetting that maybe she didn't know (and that question asked to the voice actress was just to get the acting response, but not is not canon character knowledge).

You are in fact right as for the actress response not necessarily being cannon, but it is impossible to discuss the working of Instrumentality as there is no explanation about it and why the end result shown to us looked like that.


I never mentioned Ritsuko, I mentioned Misato. Have you listened to the commentary in the English language version of the DVD? The theory of the amalgam is presented there. They mention the bandages and how they mirror Rei, while also mentioning the injuries (which were never treated with bandages) from the S1 units. I believe the Misato part of it comes from the eyes, but that I'm not so sure. The Asuka part of course comes from the majority of the body and the voice actress delivering the line.

Also, I said nothing about who delivered the line in so far as to why the theory of the amalgam is possible, only to show that the theory of the meaning of "disgusting/I feel sick" was presented by an insider, not an internet theory crackpot. (Which, again, is a separate issue to the amalgam theory.)

Ritsuko was a lapsus, one for which I'm sorry.

I lack the English language version of the DVD, I prefer the Omake to understanding what's being said, as that can be found subbed online.
But in respect to the Amalgam theory, I don't think those are Misato's eyes (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=PXJ73Wsi3UA#t=229s), and how she could be an amalgam, and more importantly why are beyond my reach. I would like to invoke Occam's Razor or lex parsimoniae, and say that assuming she is 100% Asuka is by far less convoluted and makes the least number of new assumptions than assuming the Amalgam theory.


Originally posted by: Evangelion Wikia http://www.giantitp.com/forums/images/buttons/viewpost.gif (http://evangelion.wikia.com/wiki/Asuka_Langley_Soryu)
One point of debate regarding the final scene is whether or not Asuka is actually Asuka, as she is drawn with brown eyes rather than blue, and her left eye and right arm are bandaged, a mirror image of the bandages that Rei had when Shinji first met her. This has led some to argue that the Asuka that is with Shinji is an amalgam of Asuka, Rei, and Misato. Others believe that these resemblances are merely figurative or coincidental, since souls can't combine now that the Third Impact has ended. This argument posits that Asuka's eyes are still blue, only appearing brown like Misato's because of the notably red lighting of the environment, and that the bandages simply coincide with the injuries she suffered while battling the mass produced Evas and have no more significance than a call back to Rei's previous injuries. This argument is backed up by color analysis of the cel of that scene, which was later published as a card.

-Goes to local Hobby Shop to buy some Evangelion Merchandise.



So, since we're still playing Evangelion pong... Did you guys like any of the main characters? Or is it just Shinji that's universally loathed by all fans?

I like Asuka for being German, Gendo for being Insane and torturing Shinji and Ritsuko because she's the least insane of the main cast for the first half of the original run.
I don't loathe Shinji, I just want him to suffer, I know his angst is justified, but I don't want to see him crying 50% of the time.
In Rebuild it becomes more manageable.

[Coidzor]

the only one i didn't like was ritsuko, as far as shinji goes, wouldn't you be the same way if you were in his position?

Wouldn't know, wasn't very entertained by the series so I never kept with it beyond the 3 episodes and half of End of Evangelion I watched once. Just notice a lot of complaining about the characters from the fans when the show is brought up, so I thought I'd ask about that while we were visiting the subject.

[AsteriskAmp]

Wouldn't know, wasn't very entertained by the series so I never kept with it beyond the 3 episodes and half of End of Evangelion I watched once. Just notice a lot of complaining about the characters from the fans when the show is brought up, so I thought I'd ask about that while we were visiting the subject.

I always considered Shinji one of the kids that cry in public places. You know he totally has reasons to do so, you just don't want to hear it.

[Rawhide]

The very fact that it is not explained makes everything after that unexplainable... Let me explain, there are a number of possibilities for what could have happened, including "bleed over" from one person's knowledge to another.

Also, I've heard someone say that Asuka knew about the incident because she mentioned it in Shinji's internal sequence. That Asuka is part of Shinji's mind/imagination, so that Asuka's knowledge is not the same as the real Asuka.


Without trying to push this as the "correct" theory, only one that is indeed possible: If you look at it through Freud's "Id, Ego, Super Ego" glasses, an amalgam of at least Rei and Asuka makes a bit more sense. If you look at it through Shinji's ideal woman glasses, an amalgam of either Rei and Asuka or Rei, Asuka and Misato also makes a fair bit of sense.


Edit: You edited your reply...

If the colour of the eyes is indeed just because of the tint and Misato has been ruled out, that still doesn't rule out an amalgam of Rei and Asuka.

[CynicalAvocado]

I like Asuka for being German, Gendo for being Insane and torturing Shinji and Ritsuko because she's the least insane of the main cast for the first half of the original run.
I don't loathe Shinji, I just want him to suffer, I know his angst is justified, but I don't want to see him crying 50% of the time.
In Rebuild it becomes more manageable.

why do i like asuka?
"Even without my umbilical cable attached... I've still got 12,000 plates of fortified armor! And I've got my AT field..."
[EVA-02 projects its AT field like a weapon, destroying several hoverjets]
"...There's no way I can lose..."
[EVA-02 grabs a hoverjet by its tail]
"...EAT THIS ____!"
[EVA-02 swings the hoverjet by its tail so its front smashes into a second hoverjet. In one fluid motion, it roundhouse kicks a third, then flings the remaining tail piece of the first a fourth one, destroying them. The JSSDF is in full route]
and after waking up from a coma no less. if that isn't a curbstomp battle, i don't know what is

[Thufir]

Hurrah! As it is I'm already delaying working on my essay to make veggie enchiladas and have a movie night.

Well the former is perfectly reasonable of course. You have to eat.
Movie night is unambiguous procrastination assuming it was impromptu (But not if it was pre-planned), but you're far from being the only person do such things. What are you watching?


If it fits it fits. I mean, the stories are influential enough.

Does this refer to Once and Future King or Noggin the Nog? Or still Monty Python and Robin Hood: Men in Tights?
Wait, I missed that point before, how is Robin Hood: Men in Tights an analogy/simile for Arthur's court? (Bear in mind I have yet to see it)


Yes, it's still in the beginning stages, but I have twelve varieties of tea and a total over over two hundred bags. Which I'm told is a lot.

I own a grand total of one variety of tea. My dad, on the other hand, has a considerable variety, but I don't know if I'm allowed to drink it.

ION: The relation between Gilbert & Sullivan and tongue twisters is quite a close one. I keep accidentally singing "Arquebus from sentry sneezing," instead of 'seizing'.

[AsteriskAmp]

#Rawhide: We've reached an impasse, I'm willing to admit it's a valid theory. And that neither one can be in effect proved wrong or right at least until Rebuild ends.


why do i like asuka?
"Even without my umbilical cable attached... I've still got 12,000 plates of fortified armor! And I've got my AT field..."
[EVA-02 projects its AT field like a weapon, destroying several hoverjets]
"...There's no way I can lose..."
[EVA-02 grabs a hoverjet by its tail]
"...EAT THIS ____!"
[EVA-02 swings the hoverjet by its tail so its front smashes into a second hoverjet. In one fluid motion, it roundhouse kicks a third, then flings the remaining tail piece of the first a fourth one, destroying them. The JSSDF is in full route]
and after waking up from a coma no less. if that isn't a curbstomp battle, i don't know what is

I don't know why I always associated Germans with that sort of Badassry, but I'll admit your arguments are better than mine for liking Asuka.

ION: Bought Girlfriend of Steel 1 and 2, and an assortment of random crap from the Local Hobby Shop, I know I shouldn't have but the fact that I hadn't been there in months made me spend half of my disposable savings.

Also, got TEA!
Nothing fancy, only ginseng, but it makes me happy.

[KuReshtin]

ION: Cracking open a can of tuna and dumping it, cheap tomato sauce, and lemon juice into a saucepan was surprisingly enjoyable as a pasta sauce.

I totally agree. I do like to have a bit of onion in there as well, though.

I need to start cooking better food and bring in to work for lunch.
Not only is it cheaper than buying food from the canteen at work, it's likely more healthy as well.

Also, I need to take out the rubbish as tomorrow is collection day.

[CurlyKitGirl]

I have two varieties here, but I wouldn't be surprised if they comprise 200 bags. :smalltongue:

My boxes are two of fifty (but depleted), one brand new of forty, two brand new of twenty, and four boxes of depleted twenty.


Did you find it boring? All of my friends that read it seemed to reach that general consensus.

I wouldn't go as far as to say it was entirely boring, parts of it were exceedingly dull, and very intense. Let's just say that it didn't really grab my attention although it was an acceptable read for a half day.


200 teabags isn't particularly impressive, they come in boxes of 50 or more. It's just a supply to last for a reasonable amount of time.

As you can see above, mine are pretty small boxes, but I've a good variety. Earl Grey; chai; masala chai tea; masala chai cinnamon; masala chai ginger; masala chai cloves; masala chai black pepper; masala chai cardamom; green tea with apples and pear;; peppermint; raspberry, strawberry and loganberry; camomile and spiced apple; camomile, honey and vanilla and finally, orange, cinnamon and valerian tea.
I like varying my tea intake, so I collect flavours.


Well the former is perfectly reasonable of course. You have to eat.
Movie night is unambiguous procrastination assuming it was impromptu (But not if it was pre-planned), but you're far from being the only person do such things. What are you watching?

It was all unplanned. Everything I do with Lawyer Friend is unplanned. Our veggie enchiladas morphed into a kind of enchilada lasagne with added peppers and mushrooms and an entire block of cheese.
Plus we made this mess for dessert. Melt butter and sugar in a saucepan, add fruit (strawberries and blackberries), add more sugar and butter; then add milk and flour. Then add crushed up biscuits somewhere along the way
Very sweet, very yummy. Takes a while to eat though because of the metric tonne of sugar and sweet things involved.
Then we watched the first episode of The Dresden Files followed by the 2007 version of Pride and Prejudice.
Very heavy food. Long day.
Bed after tea.

[QUOTE=Thufir;10181352]Does this refer to Once and Future King or Noggin the Nog? Or still Monty Python and Robin Hood: Men in Tights?
Wait, I missed that point before, how is Robin Hood: Men in Tights an analogy/simile for Arthur's court? (Bear in mind I have yet to see it)

All of them, but especially Noggin the Nog and The Once and Future King.
Men in Tights can be seen as an analogy for Arthur's court as shown in Sir Gawain and the green Knight because it's very exaggerated, lots of laughter (think legs akimbo, booming jolly laughs (or the actors from Blackadder the Third)) and it seems to be almost a satire on the expectations of Arthur's court, even though this court is implicitly an immature one, much given to games and frivolities despite the seriousness of what has happened.
It's the tone of the film that reminded my tutor of the court as seen in Gawain and the Green Knight.

[CrimsonAngel]

My entire face hurts. Going to the orthodontist and then the eye doctor with only an hour between will do that.

[Rawhide]

#Rawhide: We've reached an impasse, I'm willing to admit it's a valid theory.

I wouldn't exactly call it an impasse, but it is an interesting discussion.


And that neither one can be in effect proved wrong or right at least until Rebuild ends.

Oh great, now we'll never know.

[AsteriskAmp]

I wouldn't exactly call it an impasse, but it is an interesting discussion.

We've reached an impasse, we've held and interesting discussion. There are no longer relatively official sources to draw more information from, ergo we are in a stalemate until more is provided, which leads me to:



Oh great, now we'll never know.

Yes we will, the Rebuilds are coming at steady pace, it will however take time.

[Rawhide]

We've reached an impasse
Only if you're trying to claim that one particular interpretation is "right", rather than discuss the best theories and interpretations.


Yes we will, the Rebuilds are coming at steady pace, it will however take time.

I'm a little more pessimistic. :smalltongue:

[CynicalAvocado]

#Rawhide: We've reached an impasse, I'm willing to admit it's a valid theory. And that neither one can be in effect proved wrong or right at least until Rebuild ends.



I don't know why I always associated Germans with that sort of Badassry, but I'll admit your arguments are better than mine for liking Asuka.

ION: Bought Girlfriend of Steel 1 and 2, and an assortment of random crap from the Local Hobby Shop, I know I shouldn't have but the fact that I hadn't been there in months made me spend half of my disposable savings.

Also, got TEA!
Nothing fancy, only ginseng, but it makes me happy.

i heard GoS was pretty bad....

[AtlanteanTroll]

You know what? Some people are just too nice. And you know what? They never get acknowledged. :smallannoyed:

[AsteriskAmp]

Only if you're trying to claim that one particular interpretation is "right", rather than discuss the best theories and interpretations.

I'm quite willing to discuss the best theories and interpretations, but the best standing options for that particular scene are pretty close to each other in term of canonical supporting evidence. Though I'll admit I'm not that up to date in Evangelion theories as I used to be, the related merchandise has spoiled me.



I'm a little more pessimistic. :smalltongue:

If they aren't doing it for the art, they are doing it for the money, and if not that, then for the hordes of Evangelion fan who dissected it frame by frame, they have to finish it, they'll think of the children.

[CynicalAvocado]

i just watched rebuild 2.0.... wow. Mari is a certified badass

[AsteriskAmp]

i just watched rebuild 2.0.... wow. Mari is a certified badass

You kinda get the idea right from the start, also, it's interesting to note that she was designed to look british. I guess Anno has a fondness of Saxon people.

Also, Rei apparently is a human being this time.

[Thufir]

It was all unplanned. Everything I do with Lawyer Friend is unplanned. Our veggie enchiladas morphed into a kind of enchilada lasagne with added peppers and mushrooms and an entire block of cheese.
Plus we made this mess for dessert. Melt butter and sugar in a saucepan, add fruit (strawberries and blackberries), add more sugar and butter; then add milk and flour. Then add crushed up biscuits somewhere along the way
Very sweet, very yummy. Takes a while to eat though because of the metric tonne of sugar and sweet things involved.

That sounds delicious if a bit complicated. When I was in Fenham I generally would just melt butter and sugar in a pan, then pour it over bread. Though a couple of times I burnt the sugar, which was less good.


Then we watched the first episode of The Dresden Files followed by the 2007 version of Pride and Prejudice.
Very heavy food. Long day.
Bed after tea.

N'aww, is tired Koorly tired?
I still haven't seen the 2007 P&P. Is it any good?


You know what? Some people are just too nice. And you know what? They never get acknowledged. :smallannoyed:

Well, that's pretty pessimistic, and not necessarily accurate.

[CynicalAvocado]

You kinda get the idea right from the start, also, it's interesting to note that she was designed to look british. I guess Anno has a fondness of Saxon people.

Also, Rei apparently is a human being this time.

well she is half british. and the badass is established right away with her singing a jaunty tune while attacking the angel

also i loved kaji's attempt to speak english

[AsteriskAmp]

well she is half british. and the badass is established right away with her singing a jaunty tune while attacking the angel

also i loved kaji's attempt to speak english

Did you manage to find Rebuild 1?

And for those willing to be amused by Kaji (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sOMvf5fBAU)

[CynicalAvocado]

Did you manage to find Rebuild 1?

yeah. in french:smallsigh:

[AtlanteanTroll]

Well, that's pretty pessimistic, and not necessarily accurate.

Sure feels that way around here right now. :smallmad:

[AsteriskAmp]

yeah. in french:smallsigh:

That's alright, I guess...
I'm looking forward to Rebuild 3 You will (not) understand and Pirate Asuka

[CynicalAvocado]

That's alright, I guess...
I'm looking forward to Rebuild 3 You will (not) understand and Pirate Asuka

aye, me too

EDIT: i also like how shinji actually made good on his threats after the unit 03 incident

EDIT EDIT: best line of that movie?
"I'll show you the power of an EVA that has abandoned its humanity...

invert mode,

secret code: THE BEAST!"
set to this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQBi2IIMmpQ)beauty

[Ranger Mattos]

My entire face hurts. Going to the orthodontist and then the eye doctor with only an hour between will do that.

Yep, that'll do that.

ION: It finally is snowing heavily here. And our neighbor has a snowplow, so he's pushed all the snow on our driveway up into one pile for us. A couple more days and I'll have enough snow to build a magnificent fortress :smallbiggrin:

[AsteriskAmp]

aye, me too

EDIT: i also like how shinji actually made good on his threats after the unit 03 incident

EDIT EDIT: best line of that movie?
"I'll show you the power of an EVA that has abandoned its humanity...

invert mode,

secret code: THE BEAST!"
set to this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQBi2IIMmpQ)beauty

I find it amusing japanese use english as their ominous latin chanting language though I guess it's probably an Anno thing, you know, like the crosses.

In the end the final decision we all must take, timotei

will decide what will be and our destiny.

If we lose the fight armageddon will finally tell,

burn in hell, there will be no after, be no other day.

Also, this time they made their own Classical styled music instead of using well known classics, I guess it's less entertaining and more epic.

[MoonCat]

Wow, this is gaining pages fast.

[CynicalAvocado]

I find it amusing japanese use english as their ominous latin chanting language though I guess it's probably an Anno thing, you know, like the crosses.

In the end the final decision we all must take, timotei

will decide what will be and our destiny.

If we lose the fight armageddon will finally tell,

burn in hell, there will be no after, be no other day.

i prefer this one


What will the future hold? How will I be rewarded? Have I the right to riches in a world where there are no prizes? Who makes the clock tick by? When will my fate be ready? Do I get prior warning? Am I told? Are there no surprises? I have to count my blessings, I have to learn my lessons, my fate is in the balance, I must go on believing

[AsteriskAmp]

i prefer this one
That's #6 Fate, exactly the song I clicked after #15 you gave me, weird coincidence.

[CynicalAvocado]

That's #6 Fate, exactly the song I clicked after #15 you gave me, weird coincidence.

well i guess it's one for one then because i was listening to the final descision when you described it:smalltongue:

[Partof1]

Man for random banter, this looks a lot like media discussion :P

ION, I'm done classes for the semester! Now, just 2 more exams and a spanish oral interview. Maybe 3 exams, depending on how I did in history.

[AsteriskAmp]

Man for random banter, this looks a lot like media discussion :P

ION, I'm done classes for the semester! Now, just 2 more exams and a spanish oral interview. Maybe 3 exams, depending on how I did in history.

Yes, It's getting awfully close to an Evangelion media thread.
Buena suerte en tu examen de español.

[Eruantion]

You know what? Some people are just too nice. And you know what? They never get acknowledged. :smallannoyed:

What did you (or whoever you're talking about) do that wasn't acknowledged? And most nice people are nice without the intent of having anyone reward them for it.

[Skeppio]

What did you (or whoever you're talking about) do that wasn't acknowledged? And most nice people are nice without the intent of having anyone reward them for it.

True, but a little recognition is always nice. :smallannoyed:

[Perenelle]

True, but a little recognition is always nice. :smallannoyed:

True. But sometimes I don't really like to be acknowledged when I do nice things....

[absolmorph]

I give the really nice people I know (and recognize as such) plenty of recognition. I take note pretty regularly.

[Eruantion]

True, but a little recognition is always nice. :smallannoyed:

True, especially if you're making an effort to do so. If you're being nicer than usual, recognition can reinforce the belief that you're doing the right thing. But when people are naturally "too nice", it's instinctive for them, and they usually don't consider what they do particularly commendable.

[AsteriskAmp]

True. But sometimes I don't really like to be acknowledged when I do nice things....

This happens to me too, sometimes...

[AtlanteanTroll]

What did you (or whoever you're talking about) do that wasn't acknowledged? And most nice people are nice without the intent of having anyone reward them for it.

Not me, my Dad. (And to a lesser extent a friend of mine.) Getting people jobs because of connections and working himself way too hard (and working w/o pay). And maybe so, but it doesn't mean they don't deserve it.

[Eruantion]

Not me, my Dad. (And to a lesser extent a friend of mine.) Getting people jobs because of connections and working himself way too hard (and working w/o pay). And maybe so, but it doesn't mean they don't deserve it.

I never said they didn't deserve it. But that's good for him. Perhaps he'll get his reward in time.

[Haruki-kun]

Yup. Don't underestimate a little recognition from people around you. Or rather, a little display of gratitude.

ION: So I've got two teachers. One of them had a paper published, the topic being "Teachers giving students assignments that won't help them at all". The other one asked me for a one page essay about why my major is important to society.

Guess which one I like more? :smalltongue:

[AsteriskAmp]

Yup. Don't underestimate a little recognition from people around you. Or rather, a little display of gratitude.

ION: So I've got two teachers. One of them had a paper published, the topic being "Teachers giving students assignments that won't help them at all". The other one asked me for a one page essay about why my major is important to society.

Guess which one I like more? :smalltongue:

The one that reminds you that your major is important?

[Haruki-kun]

The one that reminds you that your major is important?

Doesn't really remind me... just gives me another assignment to stress about.

[AsteriskAmp]

Would you happen to have a link, or at least know the publication in which that article about useless homework came out?

[Haruki-kun]

Would you happen to have a link, or at least know the publication in which that article about useless homework came out?

No. My teacher just told us about it.

[Amiel]

Holy mother of pearls, my download speed is rocking tonight. It peaked at 580 kb/s.
Normally, I'm lucky if I break 100 kb/s.
Finishing an 820 MB download in half an hour is a good feeling.

That's some blitzing speeds right there.
My internet averages a respectable 520 kb/s, but alas can rarely exceed that; it's actually not bad for a broadband infrastructure that is lacking in most areas.
Occasionally and very randomly, the speed would spike to 700 kb/s.




ION, Good news, everyone, I managed to get into the HIM (Health Information Management) Master's program.
It means that I'm officially a Master's student :D

[Haruki-kun]

ION, Good news, everyone, I managed to get into the HIM (Health Information Management) Master's program.
It means that I'm officially a Master's student :D

Congratulations! Best of luck!

In previous news... I finished. *slumps on bed* I'm exhausted.

[absolmorph]

ION, Good news, everyone, I managed to get into the HIM (Health Information Management) Master's program.
It means that I'm officially a Master's student :D
Congratulations! Good luck!

[KuReshtin]

That's some blitzing speeds right there.
My internet averages a respectable 520 kb/s, but alas can rarely exceed that; it's actually not bad for a broadband infrastructure that is lacking in most areas.
Occasionally and very randomly, the speed would spike to 700 kb/s.


Same here. In the UK, the broadband infrastructure is pretty appalling. They're just now starting to convert to fiber optics, and that's still only in a few select places, whereas the rest of the country will have to settle for the old copper wires for another 5-7 years.

I think my download speeds maxed out at about 320kbps once. And that was very much an anomaly. Usually it hovers about 80-90kbps.



ION, Good news, everyone, I managed to get into the HIM (Health Information Management) Master's program.
It means that I'm officially a Master's student :D


Congratumalations.

[Teddy]

ION: It finally is snowing heavily here. And our neighbor has a snowplow, so he's pushed all the snow on our driveway up into one pile for us. A couple more days and I'll have enough snow to build a magnificent fortress :smallbiggrin:

Envy! It's been thawing for several days over here. Still plenty of snow, but it's depressing to see it shrink away into puddles of water, and somehow the snow instantly becomes unbelievably mired the same second the temperature swings over to the positives. :smallannoyed:


ION, Good news, everyone, I managed to get into the HIM (Health Information Management) Master's program.
It means that I'm officially a Master's student :D

Congratulations, bro!

[CynicalAvocado]

oh boy meets world, you and your life lessons mixed in with silly shennanigins

[Coidzor]

ION: So I've got two teachers. One of them had a paper published, the topic being "Teachers giving students assignments that won't help them at all". The other one asked me for a one page essay about why my major is important to society.

Out of curiosity, what is your major?

[Ranger Mattos]

ION, Good news, everyone, I managed to get into the HIM (Health Information Management) Master's program.
It means that I'm officially a Master's student :D

Great job http://www.giantitp.com/forums/images/icons/icon14.gif

[Heliomance]

That's some blitzing speeds right there.
My internet averages a respectable 520 kb/s, but alas can rarely exceed that; it's actually not bad for a broadband infrastructure that is lacking in most areas.
Occasionally and very randomly, the speed would spike to 700 kb/s.



Same here. In the UK, the broadband infrastructure is pretty appalling. They're just now starting to convert to fiber optics, and that's still only in a few select places, whereas the rest of the country will have to settle for the old copper wires for another 5-7 years.

I think my download speeds maxed out at about 320kbps once. And that was very much an anomaly. Usually it hovers about 80-90kbps.


Wow, people have slow internet. I'm also UK, and on (admittedly rare) occasions, my download speed has broken 1Mb/s.

[KuReshtin]

Wow, people have slow internet. I'm also UK, and on (admittedly rare) occasions, my download speed has broken 1Mb/s.

My connection is supposedly a 2Mbps connection, but I don't think there's any possibility of me ever getting up to those speeds.
I'm pretty sure that i'm located too far from teh switch to get those types of speeds.
It's improved over the past few months, though.

[Rawhide]

Wow! You people actually have an internet connection? Here we connect everything with strings and send twangs down the line!

[Haruki-kun]

Out of curiosity, what is your major?

Computer Graphics / Digital Art


Wow! You people actually have an internet connection? Here we connect everything with strings and send twangs down the line!

:smallbiggrin:

[AtlanteanTroll]

I never said they didn't deserve it. But that's good for him. Perhaps he'll get his reward in time.

[Insert pessimistic statement here]

♫ It's time the Fat Cats had a heart-attack. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8KQmps-Sog) ♫

[Teddy]

[Insert pessimistic statement here]

♫ It's time the Fat Cats had a heart-attack. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8KQmps-Sog) ♫

Heh, I had never seen the music video to that song. I find the evil teddys pretty hillarious, even though they were defeated too soon after their arrival. Sort of anticlimactic when they just start burning.

[Atreyu the Masked LLama]

Heh, I had never seen the music video to that song. I find the evil teddys pretty hillarious, even though they were defeated too soon after their arrival. Sort of anticlimactic when they just start burning.

Very random video. It amused me, greatly. Teddy's avatar amuses me, too!

[CurlyKitGirl]

That sounds delicious if a bit complicated. When I was in Fenham I generally would just melt butter and sugar in a pan, then pour it over bread. Though a couple of times I burnt the sugar, which was less good.

It was delicious, but not really complicated at all. Lawyer Friend and I follow a very simple cooking method: put things in a pot. And no recipes What we set out to make is never what we end up with.
Sugar-bread? Sounds a bit icky. Why make it?


N'aww, is tired Koorly tired?
I still haven't seen the 2007 P&P. Is it any good?

Yes, she was very tired. Went to bed at the dazzlingly early time of about one o'clock!
Today's been a nice day. It was actually sunny. In January. Boggled I was, boggled me mehds.



ION, Good news, everyone, I managed to get into the HIM (Health Information Management) Master's program.
It means that I'm officially a Master's student :D

Congratulations! Hope you have a good time doing your MA? MSc?

[Thufir]

It was delicious, but not really complicated at all. Lawyer Friend and I follow a very simple cooking method: put things in a pot. And no recipes What we set out to make is never what we end up with.
Sugar-bread? Sounds a bit icky. Why make it?

That was pretty much my cooking method after a while. Originally I followed recipes, but then I got into the habit of just using up whatever ingredients my housemates had left, so I developed a more improvisational approach.
Sugar-bread is delicious. I'd make it because I had to put that melted sugar on something because once it cooled down it'd just stick.


Yes, she was very tired. Went to bed at the dazzlingly early time of about one o'clock!
Today's been a nice day. It was actually sunny. In January. Boggled I was, boggled me mehds.

*Legasp*
'Mehds'?

[AtlanteanTroll]

My Dog just chewed up my Retainer. Damn it. :smallmad:

[AsteriskAmp]

My Dog just chewed up my Retainer. Damn it. :smallmad:

Wash it?
Or is it seriously damaged?

[Perenelle]

My Dog just chewed up my Retainer. Damn it. :smallmad:

Ugh, that happened to me twice :smallmad: I feel your pain. Now that I have Invisalign, I'm incredibly cautious when it comes to where I leave my trays sitting around.

[Coidzor]

Ugh, that happened to me twice

How?


My Dog just chewed up my Retainer. Damn it. :smallmad:

why did you have it in a place the dog could get at it?

[Perenelle]

How?


Honestly, I have no clue. But I always used to accidentally leave my retainer on the kitchen counter or something, and somehow the dog ended up getting it. :smallconfused: :smallannoyed:

[Coidzor]

Honestly, I have no clue. But I always used to accidentally leave my retainer on the kitchen counter or something, and somehow the dog ended up getting it. :smallconfused: :smallannoyed:

hmm. Well, I'd avoid bleeding near it if it has a taste for your flesh and is willing to break the rules to get at it..

[Partof1]

Man, I feel lucky that I've always had good teeth. My eyes are kinda lame, but it's easier to clean glasses than braces, I suppose. But I have contacts now :smallbiggrin: And then there;s my cousin and brother, who have glasses and braces.

[absolmorph]

I should probably put on my retainer at some point in the near future.
It's been a while since the last time.
About as long as it's been since I went to the orthodontist.
And they said to keep doing what I was doing! Which I've been doing.
Go, me!

Actually, I might be getting slapped more, but that's always funny, so I tend to forget about it when considering problems.

[AtlanteanTroll]

Wash it?
Or is it seriously damaged?
She ripped a hole in it, and it's been sort of crushed.


Ugh, that happened to me twice :smallmad: I feel your pain. Now that I have Invisalign, I'm incredibly cautious when it comes to where I leave my trays sitting around.
Well, I've had my Braces off for like a year now, so I don't need Invisalign. (But my Retainer was clear. I'm bummed though because I only needed to where it at home.)


why did you have it in a place the dog could get at it?
I didn't. Some friends were over (we were playing D&D). It was around 6 so we decided to head over to Wendy's. I took out my retainer and knocked it off the table. I went upstairs to get some cash and when I came down, I heard my dog chewing on something. I thought it was a friends rather pricey mini, so I ran to pull it out of her mouth. (I would've pulled anything out of her mouth though.) Sadly, it turned out to be my retainer.

[Rawhide]

Press "Listen". (http://translate.google.com.au/?hl=en&tab=wT#de|de|rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrtttttttttttttttt ttttaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaffffffffffffffffffffffffff fffffffffffii)

Needs more instruments though.

[AsteriskAmp]

Press "Listen". (http://translate.google.com.au/?hl=en&tab=wT#de|de|rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrtttttttttttttttt ttttaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaffffffffffffffffffffffffff fffffffffffii)

Needs more instruments though.
I think you mean backing percussion.

[Rawhide]

I think you mean backing percussion.

No, I mean more instruments in general.

[AsteriskAmp]

No, I mean more instruments in general.

I could get a piano part for this, may add add flute, but CVP 501 crappy midi quality may ruin it. Percussion is definitely in though.

Done>
http://www.box.net/shared/c4qm8voefy

Crappy MID exporting didn't allow percussion part though, I hate myself for not buying the CPV-503 in my rush for a new clavinova instead of the CVP - 501.

This forum is driving me insane, I'm now composing to onomatopoeic German screams.

[Moff Chumley]

Speaking of music, anyone here listen to Sunn 0))) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1HEiQJEmBg)?

[Rawhide]

Speaking of unusual music, have you seen this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9is5gJORl4)? Warning, there is a swearword right at the end, but you can pause as soon as the music is over as there's not much more to see.

[Moff Chumley]

That was pretty awesome. Reminds me of a DISTINCTLY NSFW video by Deadmau5's.

[Heliomance]

Random Banter Topic Recursion!

Our tea stocks:
Partially used 50-box of Earl Grey
Unopened 100-box of Earl Grey
Unopened 50-box of decaffeinated Earl Grey - pretty sure this abomination was bought by mistake.

Partially used 50-box of Chai
Unopened 50-box of Chai

Paritally used 50-box of English Breakfast

Partially used 25-box of French caramel tea, courtesy of a friend living in France

Partially used 20-box of Harrod's Strawberry and Kiwi

One PG Tips bag

Bag of loose-leaf Lotus Blossom (China Black)

Bag of loose-leaf Earl Grey

[Coidzor]

Looks like soon people who live in glass houses really will be able to throw stones. (http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/107018-Science-Creates-Glass-Thats-Stronger-Than-Steel)

[Rawhide]

Looks like soon people who live in glass houses really will be able to throw stones. (http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/107018-Science-Creates-Glass-Thats-Stronger-Than-Steel)

Oh no, but then this won't work... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxSNFX5yScg)

[Coidzor]

Oh no, but then this won't work... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxSNFX5yScg)

I guess he'll just have to test whether glass houses float with Cookie Monster, (http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/107000-Cookie-Monster-Abandons-Cookies-Throws-Himself-into-Science-Instead) then.

Note to self: Start trapping people with stones in unbreakable glass houses...

[Teddy]

Very random video. It amused me, greatly. Teddy's avatar amuses me, too!

Oh, thanks. I must say that this is my best one so far (at least according to me). Also, on the topic of avatars, I've always been slightly weirded out by your avatar - not because of it's outfit as much as the fact that I can't shake the feeling that it has four peg-legs, which, actually, is sort of amusing in its own way.


On the topic of retainers, well, what is even a retainer? :smallconfused: I'm drawing blank as far as a good translation goes, and I'm too tired to google it.

[AtlanteanTroll]

On the topic of retainers, well, what is even a retainer? :smallconfused: I'm drawing blank as far as a good translation goes, and I'm too tired to google it.

Its this thing that goes in your mouh after your done with braces. It keeps your teeth in place. Honestly, up until I chipped a tooth a few weeks ago, my teeth were fine. Braces were just a drain of cash.

[Amiel]

Congratulations! Best of luck!


Congratulations! Good luck!


Congratumalations.


Congratulations, bro!


Great job http://www.giantitp.com/forums/images/icons/icon14.gif


Congratulations! Hope you have a good time doing your MA? MSc?

Thank you very, very much, everyone! :D
It's an incredibly good feeling. Ah, what future and bright possibilities await! :D
Thanks awfully for the encouragement :smallsmile:


Same here. In the UK, the broadband infrastructure is pretty appalling. They're just now starting to convert to fiber optics, and that's still only in a few select places, whereas the rest of the country will have to settle for the old copper wires for another 5-7 years.

I think my download speeds maxed out at about 320kbps once. And that was very much an anomaly. Usually it hovers about 80-90kbps.


Wow, people have slow internet. I'm also UK, and on (admittedly rare) occasions, my download speed has broken 1Mb/s.

Know what you mean, Ku, it's only just now that the Australian government, having bowed to public pressure, are starting to roll out the fibre-optic cabling that will undoubtedly form the backbone of the national broadband network.
While I applaud their initiative, this infrastructure and "nation-building" project is scheduled for at least ten years (possibly more given the Australian laid-back approach to just about anything) and an unprecedentedly high budget.


I think I'm on a rather unstable internet connection and some distance from the nearest exchange. I'm on ADSL2+, but the speeds I get tend to be erratic; I usually hover around 500 kb/s. And drop-outs tend to be a regular occurrence.
Nature also seems to have an impact on speeds; I managed slower speeds than usual the past few days due to the pervasive flooding.


On the topic of retainers, well, what is even a retainer? :smallconfused: I'm drawing blank as far as a good translation goes, and I'm too tired to google it.

Oh, it's an orthodontic device to be worn at night to secure one's teeth after having braces removed. It's to prevent drifting and realignment of teeth into their original positions.



ION, I'm ready to face tomorrow (32 degrees Celsius) after stocking up on 24 cans of Solo, 3 bottles of Coke, and 4 tubs of ice cream. I probably won't be able to feel my face after all this, but it'd be well worth it!

[KuReshtin]

Know what you mean, Ku, it's only just now that the Australian government, having bowed to public pressure, are starting to roll out the fibre-optic cabling that will undoubtedly form the backbone of the national broadband network.
While I applaud their initiative, this infrastructure and "nation-building" project is scheduled for at least ten years (possibly more given the Australian laid-back approach to just about anything) and an unprecedentedly high budget.

The fibre-optics over here will be done by BT. I'm not even sure if the government will have much to do with it at all. They had a tv ad (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuJHw4HrgD4) start last year to announce the breaking news of fibre-optic broadband.
BT had a competition a while ago, where people were encouraged to go in and register for their town to be the first ones to be connected to the fibre-optics network, and they just released the name of about five towns the other day that will get it.

It appears that there are only a few main switches in Scotland left to upgrade to this, then it's a matter of getting the local switches upgraded as well.
Apparently 'super fast broadband at up to 40Mbps' will be available.



I think I'm on a rather unstable internet connection and some distance from the nearest exchange. I'm on ADSL2+, but the speeds I get tend to be erratic; I usually hover around 500 kb/s. And drop-outs tend to be a regular occurrence.
Nature also seems to have an impact on speeds; I managed slower speeds than usual the past few days due to the pervasive flooding.

Yeah, distance from the switch, other people's internet use and the weather all influence the speed of which you can connect.




ION, I'm ready to face tomorrow (32 degrees Celsius) after stocking up on 24 cans of Solo, 3 bottles of Coke, and 4 tubs of ice cream. I probably won't be able to feel my face after all this, but it'd be well worth it!

Sounds as if it'll be a good day to spend playing StarCraft 2. in an air conditioned room.

[Eldpollard]

Well it's Burn's night in a few days. I may have to make my flatmates experience the delights of haggis. Actually this probably won't happen as I prefer to spend as little time with them as possible. I do have other people I could subject haggis to though.
I've been vegetarian for five years and haggis is the only meat based product I miss.

[KuReshtin]

Haggis is NIIIIICE.

ION: It's not a good thing when you wake up 40 minutes after your shift at work is supposed to start.
I totally slept through all the alarms that I had going today.

I had the phone go off at four different times, and also had the clock radio go off and play for two hours. Didn't notice either of them. At all.
Not a good thing. I got in to work only an hour and 15 minutes late, though...:smallfrown:

[Form]

Haggis is NIIIIICE.

ION: It's not a good thing when you wake up 40 minutes after your shift at work is supposed to start.
I totally slept through all the alarms that I had going today.

I had the phone go off at four different times, and also had the clock radio go off and play for two hours. Didn't notice either of them. At all.
Not a good thing. I got in to work only an hour and 15 minutes late, though...:smallfrown:

At least you were well rested when you got there? :smalltongue:

[KuReshtin]

At least you were well rested when you got there? :smalltongue:

Not really. The main reason for me oversleeping was that I didn't get to bed until about 3AM. The secondary reason was that I was stupid enough to try to set my alarms to a bit earlier, so i could get up and do some stuff I needed to do before I headed off to work.
Like bringing out the clippers and get rid of most of my hair.

[Teddy]

ION, I'm ready to face tomorrow (32 degrees Celsius) after stocking up on 24 cans of Solo, 3 bottles of Coke, and 4 tubs of ice cream. I probably won't be able to feel my face after all this, but it'd be well worth it!

What's this "heat" thing you're talking about? :smallwink:

ION:
DataStudio will burn in hell! An oscilloscope doesn't look like that! DIE!!!

[Miklus]

Some day at work! My boss almost dropped dead. It looked like an epileptic seizure to me, although he has no history of such. Pretty scary stuff. He could sort of sit up before he was taken to the hospital.

So, how was your workday???

[Hazyshade]

So, how was your workday???

Me and Bimmer McSalesguy from upstairs are on the same coffee cycle.

That's been the highlight.

[TheCountAlucard]

So, school got canceled today due to snow... :smallfrown:

Normally I'm pretty cool with this sort of thing happening, but see, I didn't have any classes today anyway... and there was gonna be a free lunch they were having! :smalleek:

[KuReshtin]

Work day has been pretty uneventful after the start I had (see above).
Another 5 minutes to go, then i'm off for my first training session at the gym with my team leader, who's admitted that her aim is to either get me in shape or kill me in the process. :smallbiggrin:

[Haruki-kun]

I have a pounding headache. The worst class to go to when you have a headache: Sound class. With the huge speakers. And the beats and the tempo and the.....

.....and the people in the next room hammering nails into a wall for some reason.

>.<

[Partof1]

I have Dead Or Alive's You Spin Me Round (Like a Record) stuck in my head.

It's not that bad, just mildly annoying.

And i have a math fnal tomorrow to study for.

[TheCountAlucard]

I have Dead Or Alive's You Spin Me Round (Like a Record) stuck in my head.

It's not that bad, just mildly annoying. (nodnod) Exactly. It's not like the DuckTales theme. Heck, yesterday I had the Magic School Bus music in my head. :smalleek:

[Atreyu the Masked LLama]

Oh, thanks. I must say that this is my best one so far (at least according to me). Also, on the topic of avatars, I've always been slightly weirded out by your avatar - not because of it's outfit as much as the fact that I can't shake the feeling that it has four peg-legs, which, actually, is sort of amusing in its own way.

This is the avatar that usually weirds people out as far as what I'm wearing goes.

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

The llama does have 4 stick legs to fit the Order of the Stick theme. When in RP he has regular legs, just as all RP characters have regular limbs.

[Coidzor]

(nodnod) Exactly. It's not like the DuckTales theme. Heck, yesterday I had the Magic School Bus music in my head. :smalleek:

Did somebody say DuckTales (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqyD8E1QATs)?! Sir Ian is down with the DuckTales. Though don't you dare take his milk and cookies (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNKzUXA8d0o&feature=related). He'll mess you up. Needs those to sleep, he does.

[Partof1]

Haha, I loved Ducktales. And yes, I had to go look up the theme song as well.

[Malfunctioned]

Today I helped an elderly woman carry her (very) heavy shopping home.

I feel happy for that. :smallsmile:

[KuReshtin]

Today I helped an elderly woman carry her (very) heavy shopping home.

I feel happy for that. :smallsmile:

Good job.

I just got back from my first gym session with my team leader.
I'm doubting very much I'll be able to walk tomorrow.

Ouch.

[Thufir]

I just recorded my SavoyNet auditions. Transferring to computer now.
Managed to be fairly relaxed about them in the end, despite the fact I failed to sort out an accompanist and therefore had to sing the pieces a capella. And say the dialogue to myself.
I need to work on my evil laugh though. Also I don't know if the sound quality will be particularly good.

Edit: Sound quality is better when the videos are played on a computer rather than my camera, surprisingly enough.

[Ranger Mattos]

Today I helped an elderly woman carry her (very) heavy shopping home.

I feel happy for that. :smallsmile:

Good for you :smallsmile: That should make you happy. It was very nice.

ION: For awesomeness, click this link. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp3Yl75IUfw)
IRN: Firefox recognizes the word "awesomeness" as a real word. :smallcool:

IOON: Finals start tomorrow *twitch twitch* I''m most worried about english class (we have to write an in-class essay), and sort of worried about pre-calc and honors bio.

[AtlanteanTroll]

IOON: Finals start tomorrow *twitch twitch* I''m most worried about english class (we have to write an in-class essay), and sort of worried about pre-calc and honors bio.

I got an 84 in English... Luckily, my grade is still a 91. Should've studdied Vocab more. :/

[Moff Chumley]

Just so ya'll Americans know: I'm netting a GPA of 3.43! :smallbiggrin:

...I know that isn't very good. SHUDDUP. >:C

[CynicalAvocado]

Just so ya'll Americans know: I'm netting a GPA of 3.43! :smallbiggrin:

...I know that isn't very good. SHUDDUP. >:C

beats mine.
3.19

[Haruki-kun]

This is the avatar that usually weirds people out as far as what I'm wearing goes.

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

The llama does have 4 stick legs to fit the Order of the Stick theme. When in RP he has regular legs, just as all RP characters have regular limbs.

....yeah..... see....

I know Haruki the character has regular limbs, but I keep picturing him as an OOTS avvie. :smalltongue:

[AtlanteanTroll]

Just so ya'll Americans know: I'm netting a GPA of 3.43! :smallbiggrin:

...I know that isn't very good. SHUDDUP. >:C

Pfft, that's my grade too! Which mean I average a B+. Before Mid-terms I was 3.62. :smallsigh:

[Haruki-kun]

I never understood this GPA you Americans talk about.... 4 is perfect score right?

How does it work on an out of 100 scale?

[AtlanteanTroll]

I never understood this GPA you Americans talk about.... 4 is perfect score right?

How does it work on an out of 100 scale?

It doesn't. :smallannoyed: All I can say is that I average around a 91. Something low and a 90. Something big.

This is my school's grading scale (https://parentaccess.mecdc.org/Progress/GradingScale.aspx?G=12&C=COMPUTER%20APPLICATIONS).

[Haruki-kun]

It doesn't. :smallannoyed: All I can say is that I average around a 91. Something low and a 90. Something big.

This is my school's grading scale (https://parentaccess.mecdc.org/Progress/GradingScale.aspx?G=12&C=COMPUTER%20APPLICATIONS).

Your link is broken.

Well, a 90-91 I understand. I have an 89, myself. I had a 90 last semester, but I had a pretty rough 6 months. >.<

[AtlanteanTroll]

Your link is broken.

Well, a 90-91 I understand. I have an 89, myself. I had a 90 last semester, but I had a pretty rough 6 months. >.<

No it isn't it just doesn't work if you don't go to my school. I thought that might happen.

Yeah. I use to average a 93, but as I said, mid-terms. :smallsigh:

[absolmorph]

I never understood this GPA you Americans talk about.... 4 is perfect score right?

How does it work on an out of 100 scale?
We have various grades and different values for each grade.
A (90-100), B (80-89), C (70-79), D (60-69) and F (0-59).
A is valued at 4, B at 3, C at 2 and D at 1. Fs have no value. Totally worthless.
Each class also has a value of units. If you get a B in a 3 unit class, you get a value of 3 for each of those units.
You then add up all the numbers and divide by the number of units.
For example, if you have a C in a 5-unit class, B in a 3-unit class and B in a 2-unit class, you have a 2.5 GPA. If the 5-unit class was instead an A, you'd have a 3.5 GPA.
Honestly, I don't understand how this scale was thought up. It's pretty arbitrary.

[Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll]

I had a 92 average once. Eh.
IB.
Blarg.
Actually, I think my current average is, like, 93 or 94. Having either a 99 or 100 in English class (forget which) helps to boost up scores.

[Moff Chumley]

Midterms sent me from a 2.9 or so to a 3.4.

Also, my GPA was 3.14 for a while. Which is the best GPA ever. :smallbiggrin:

[Amiel]

The fibre-optics over here will be done by BT. I'm not even sure if the government will have much to do with it at all. They had a tv ad (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuJHw4HrgD4) start last year to announce the breaking news of fibre-optic broadband.
BT had a competition a while ago, where people were encouraged to go in and register for their town to be the first ones to be connected to the fibre-optics network, and they just released the name of about five towns the other day that will get it.

It appears that there are only a few main switches in Scotland left to upgrade to this, then it's a matter of getting the local switches upgraded as well.
Apparently 'super fast broadband at up to 40Mbps' will be available.

That's pretty excellent, here's hoping BT manage a sterling and quick job of it! And do not raise current or subsequent prices to fund it.
Countries really should have planned for fast internet access, or at least considered its benefits and challenges to nation-building. Though, such considerations might have been left in disarray by the GFC.

Our government placed a tender for the admittedly few major ISP companies to develop the network, and then unceremoniously snubbed the main telco, Telstra (which was originally called Telecom; as you can see, Australians are a bastion of creativity :P). Although it could be a part-government, part-private company affair, the government prefers having oversight.
Despite Telstra and its peers being major corporations, they provide the absolute worst download-to-speed ratio, price and service. However, they have near monopolisation over the phone and ISP market, indeed, Telstra has a stranglehold over the exchanges and network already in place.

The vastness of the continent probably should've been considered, large patches of Australia are just emptiness.

Well, here's also hoping that fibre-optics doesn't become obsolete in a few years.


Sounds as if it'll be a good day to spend playing StarCraft 2. in an air conditioned room.

If only I had that game :)


What's this "heat" thing you're talking about? :smallwink:

Well, Australia is a country that is perhaps closest to the sun :smalltongue:


Good job.

Indeed, that's pretty fantastic.


I just got back from my first gym session with my team leader.
I'm doubting very much I'll be able to walk tomorrow.

Ouch.
Was it good for you? :smallamused:

Heh, like you I'm feeling pain as well; I'm freaking sore all over. I spent yesterday at the gym and worked for 2 hours. Although all that hard work might have been wrecked by my consumption of fish and chips and pizza and fizzy soft drink.



ION, might we be the first Martian immigrants, the first Martian explorers? The origins of life might have arisen from a single rock catapulted across the vast tapestry of stars.
Or might our beginnings extend beyond our own solar system or exist outside the solar system entirely?


For the GPA, I managed all As last semester :D

[Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll]

ION, might we be the first Martian immigrants, the first Martian explorers? The origins of life might have arisen from a single rock catapulted across the vast tapestry of stars.
Or might our beginnings extend beyond our own solar system or exist outside the solar system entirely?



Link svp? This sounds pretty darn out there...

[AtlanteanTroll]

Midterms sent me from a 2.9 or so to a 3.4.

Also, my GPA was 3.14 for a while. Which is the best GPA ever. :smallbiggrin:

How the HECK did Mid-Terms HELP you?

[Moff Chumley]

I know, right?

...not cheating. Don't cheat, kids. :smallsmile:

[Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll]

Hey, if he slacked off all year, but then aced all the tests and exams and such, that would help him!

[AtlanteanTroll]

...not cheating. Don't cheat, kids. :smallsmile:

I did that once (back in 8th grade). Got caught, felt horrible, not doing it again.


Hey, if he slacked off all year, but then aced all the tests and exams and such, that would help him!

I did the opposite... Not bright kids, not bright!

[Moff Chumley]

That's basically the story. I'm taking pretty easy classes ('cept for AP Calc... >.<) but I'm using most of 'em for naps, so finals are important. :smalltongue:

[Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll]

I do that on everything but Math and French. I'm really good at math and French, I just suck at taking tests in them.

[AtlanteanTroll]

That's basically the story. I'm taking pretty easy classes ('cept for AP Calc... >.<) but I'm using most of 'em for naps, so finals are important. :smalltongue:

I don't have an AP till next year. English and APUSH.

[CynicalAvocado]

i remember on freshman year i miraculously pulled a 99 semester average out of my ass after doing not a damn thing the entire semester.


i still don't know how i did it

[Haruki-kun]

We have various grades and different values for each grade.
A (90-100), B (80-89), C (70-79), D (60-69) and F (0-59).
A is valued at 4, B at 3, C at 2 and D at 1. Fs have no value. Totally worthless.
Each class also has a value of units. If you get a B in a 3 unit class, you get a value of 3 for each of those units.
You then add up all the numbers and divide by the number of units.
For example, if you have a C in a 5-unit class, B in a 3-unit class and B in a 2-unit class, you have a 2.5 GPA. If the 5-unit class was instead an A, you'd have a 3.5 GPA.
Honestly, I don't understand how this scale was thought up. It's pretty arbitrary.

Complicated. Thanks for explaining, though.

In the end, I guess we're doing the same thing, only we skip a bunch of steps. All grades here are averaged by percentages.

[Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll]

Oh man. So, in Ontario, we only have a percentage. Buuuut, in IB we have a number out of 7. A 7 is a 95-100, a 6 is a 90-95, other than that it goes down by 10, until you reach 1=fail.

[Amiel]

Link svp? This sounds pretty darn out there...

Oh, I was just pondering on the origins and meaning of life; and perhaps unduly waxing lyrical :). Though our knowledge and understanding is as yet lacking, we've already gathered that life does not require the sun or photosynthesis or indeed any terrestrial environment to thrive.


Oh man. So, in Ontario, we only have a percentage. Buuuut, in IB we have a number out of 7. A 7 is a 95-100, a 6 is a 90-95, other than that it goes down by 10, until you reach 1=fail.

Yeah, one of the my friends did IB, and those were the scores they got. I think he pulled a few 7s, which was nice.
It makes for an interesting conversation.
A: "Good news, everyone, I got *insert high score*!"
B: "I got *insert moderately average but impressive nonetheless score"
C: "I got *insert low score* in IB"
A: "Uh"
C: "It translates into a 99.95 (highest possible score)"
A: ...
B: Well done!

[absolmorph]

In unrelated news, I'm part of someone's background. I believe on her cell phone.
I've met said girl once.
One of my best friends saw the picture and didn't believe that it could be me.
Nope. It's me. On Halloween.
The girl is wearing a black dress and has fake wounds on her arm and neck, her boyfriend was wearing dress pants, a dress shirt and a vest, my adopted little sister is wearing a leather bodice and I believe a skirt and another friend is wearing a dress. Apparently I'd taken off at least part of my costume, though. Dunno why :smallconfused:
That was the day I got hit by a hatchet! :smallbiggrin:
Yeah... The friend who informed me of this was greatly confused. I was greatly amused.

In related news, the above friend went to a party a while back and my little sister was there. They hadn't been introduced. I asked my friend to lick my sister. My sister's reaction to being licked was, apparently, "HI, [absolmorph]!"

[Eon]

In unrelated news, I'm part of someone's background. I believe on her cell phone.
I've met said girl once.
One of my best friends saw the picture and didn't believe that it could be me.
Nope. It's me. On Halloween.
The girl is wearing a black dress and has fake wounds on her arm and neck, her boyfriend was wearing dress pants, a dress shirt and a vest, my adopted little sister is wearing a leather bodice and I believe a skirt and another friend is wearing a dress. Apparently I'd taken off at least part of my costume, though. Dunno why :smallconfused:
That was the day I got hit by a hatchet! :smallbiggrin:
Yeah... The friend who informed me of this was greatly confused. I was greatly amused.

In related news, the above friend went to a party a while back and my little sister was there. They hadn't been introduced. I asked my friend to lick my sister. My sister's reaction to being licked was, apparently, "HI, [absolmorph]!"

Always an interesting thing to learn...


ION:
Brr... :smalleek:
it's really cold! (was just outside.)

It feels like -20 with wind according to my brother. Some of my friends are hopeful for a day off. I on the other hand, assume I'll still have to wake up at 4 to go to swimming morning practice. Oh joy...

note: That's a few hours from now and it's supposed to get A LOT colder.
*hides under warm blanket*

[Rawhide]

Never click an unexplained link. (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10626367)

[absolmorph]

Never click an unexplained link. (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10626367)
I once read that to be wise requires that you recognize how little you truly know.
I'm likely butchering it, but I don't feel like looking through my copies of the Lost Years of Merlin series to find the exact quote.

[Rawhide]

I once read that to be wise requires that you recognize how little you truly know.
I'm likely butchering it, but I don't feel like looking through my copies of the Lost Years of Merlin series to find the exact quote.

More along that line:
The more I know, the more I know I don't know.
Being mature means knowing that it's ok to be immature some of the time.
I knew almost everything, but then I learned more, and now I know almost nothing.

(OK, I made that last one up, but having only two lines made it seem so empty.)

[Heliomance]

The last one is related to Pratchett:
Universities are places to store knowledge. Students come to university knowing everything. When they graduate, they realise that they know almost nothing. Clearly that knowledge must have gone somewhere; thus it is stored in the university, probably in the walls.

IRN: How do you beat the "I can never learn this in time so there's no point in trying" revision panic?

[KuReshtin]

Well, here's also hoping that fibre-optics doesn't become obsolete in a few years.


The BT homepage for the infinity project claims that fibre-optics are 'future proof'. So apparently, the future won't be able to get to it.



If only I had that game :)

You should totally get it.



Was it good for you? :smallamused:


It wasn't bad. I only almost passed out or almost threw up twice during the 2 hour session.
First 35-40 minutes was a run-through of the different exercises, and after that, I was breathing heavy and sweating profusely (brain bleach provided at the exit) and that's when my team leader said:

"Right, time for warm-ups!"

After the warm-ups, it was 5 minutes on the rowing machine with alternating 1 minute slow pace and one minute sprint pace (or as long I could manage the sprint pace, which yesterday was about 10-15 seconds each).
Then weight session after that, with a bunch of exercises. I believe there's about 6 stations with doing 6, 8, then 10 reps of each station with no break in between, only dropping the weight.
So first 6 reps at say 45kg bench press, then after those 6 reps, drop the weight to 40 kg, then do 8 reps, then drop to 30 kg and do 10 reps.
That's brutal, I'm telling you.

Actually, I've linked to the training program that my team leader made for me in the Deth Muncher exercise thread.



Heh, like you I'm feeling pain as well; I'm freaking sore all over. I spent yesterday at the gym and worked for 2 hours. Although all that hard work might have been wrecked by my consumption of fish and chips and pizza and fizzy soft drink.


I think I wrecked my hard work by having a couple of grilled chicken fillets when I got back home after the training. Well, I ended up having three. Way too many to be good for me.

[Thufir]

Youtube uploads are really, really annoying. And slow. And annoyingly slow.

[Rawhide]

You should totally get it.

No, he should totally get Monster Hunter Tri.

[KuReshtin]

No, he should totally get Monster Hunter Tri.

let's compromise and say that he should totally get both StarCraft 2 and Monster Hunter Tri.