Dark Elf Bard's Random Banter #175:Playin' Underdark Jazz since the Drow went dark!

[Dark Elf Bard]

Playing Underdark Jazz since I joined, her's my random Banter!
Rules and such:
1. Spam. For the purposes of RB, one word posts are generally considered spam. Likewise, posts that are nothing but *actions like this* are also be considered spam. Remember that the quality of the post's content is much better than the speed of your response.

2. This isn't the Play by Post or Town forum, nor is it the Silly Message Board Games or Structured Games forum. Please avoid continuous roleplay or mock battles and fights such as the "competition for control of the universe".

3. If it's already a thread, don't bring it to RB. RB has such a huge range of subject matter even restricted to the little snippets that probably don't warrant their own thread, it doesn't need legitimate thread topics cluttering it up as well. The exception to this is to bring something that is off-topic from one thread, but on-topic for RB and the subject doesn't warrant a thread of its own.

4. Don't advertise other threads in RB. Just because these new threads move at speeds more appropriate to a message board than an IM session doesn't mean you need to come over to RB and brow beat people into posting in your latest brainchild.

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9. Thread Creator must include the words "Random" and "Banter" as well as the thread #. Try to be concise as well.

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12. Whenever a new thread is created, all "first post", "first page", and all posts of that nature will be deleted by the administrators. Please avoid doing this, as it is frustrating for them to deal with one-lined posts like this.

13. Double-posting is not your friend. We have edit buttons for a reason.

14. Once you have made a Random Banter thread, you must wait 50 threads before making another one.

15. If you can avoid dibs calling on making the next thread, that will avoid people needing to wait if the thread hits 50 pages while the dibs-caller is asleep.



Past Random Banters
Amotis' Random Banter #1 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13484)
Dhavaer's Random Banter #2 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13401)
PhoeKun's Random Banter #3 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13319)
Rei Jin's Random Banter #4 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13205)
Toxic Avenger's Random Banter #5 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13146)
Jibar's Random Banter #6 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13026)
Ego Slayer's Surrogate Random Banter #7 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12939)
Sneak's Random Barroom Brawl #8 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12918)
Sophistemon's Solemnly Random Banter #9 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12855)
Vaynor's Very Random Banter #10 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12834)
Bookman's Blathering Random Banter #11 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12809)
Gralamin's Glorious Random Banter #12 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12785)
Rilik's Resplendently Random Raillery #13 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12766)
Gezina's Growling Grazing Random Banter #14 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12747)
The Zerglings Utterly And Geeky Random Banter #15 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12740)
jaqueses Truthfully Randomly Fireside Banter # 16 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12735)
Jack Squat’s Jubilantly Quixotic Random Banter #17 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12693)
Cardel's Banter of Cookie Jubilation #18 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12668)
Archonic's Chaotically Random Banter of Rods #19 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12657)
The Rod's Inanimate Temple of RANDOM banter #20 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12638)
Lucky’s Loquaciously Loud-Mouthed Random Banter#21 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12630)
Deckmaster's Divinely Delightful Random Banter #22 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12614)
Saithis' Soliloquy of Random Banter #23 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12598)
Loveable Lianae's Ludicrous Lampooning Lottery #24 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12578)
NEO|Phyte's Neolithic Nest of Weasel Banter #25 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12544)
Target's Random Banter of "non-violence" #26 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12533)
Tarnag40k's Random banter of "grammar errors" #27 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12515)
Kyrian's Random Banter of ADHDness #28 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12507)
El Jaspero's Random Drunken Ramblings #29 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12503)
Boss Smiley's Eloquently Eggy Banter #30 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12494)
Lykan's Looney Explosionarama & Random Banter #31 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12482)
Iames's Iambic Yarn of Yammering #32 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12468)
Dispozition's Deviously Distressed Banter #33 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12458)
CP's Copiously Combusting Banter of Carnage #34 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12445)
Alarra's Altar of Random Banter #35 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12432)
Eloquent Rune's Electrifying Rambling Banter #36 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12423)
E_P's Very Own Quite Popular Random Banter #37 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12419)
Hydrogelic's Foolish Mortal Random Banter #38 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12413)
Ink's Smudgy Splotchy Random Banter #39 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12405)
Azrael's Big Black Book of Banter #40 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12397)
The Logic Vampire's Rational Random Banter #41 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12387)
Shiny's Shimmering Space-hitchin Random Banter #42 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12376)
ZombieRockStar's Random Banter #43 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12360)
Nostrabel's Realm of Cookies and Random Banter #44 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12342)
Charity's Cheery Chatter Circle #45 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12328)
Samiam's Spontaneous Scintillating Soliloquy #46 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12310)
LLama's Masked Mysterious Random Banter #47 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=26599)
Ravishing Rydia's Recumbentibus ^_^ Random Banter #48 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=27622)
Penguinizers Perilous Random Banter #49 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=28083)
Death's delightfully morbid surrogate random banter #50 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=28444)
Wayril's wonderfully weird surrogate random banter #51 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=28990)
Rawhide's Deck of Random Banter (52 Cards) (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=29697)
Korith's Sorrogate Random Banter of Zombie Killing #53 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=30353)
Surrogate thread of random Bor-dom #54 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=31109)
Rex Idiotarum's Painfully Pogoing Thread #55 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=31512)
The Wrath of KHAAAAAANtalas’s William Shatner Flavored Random Banter # 56 (Surrogate) (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=32080)
EmeraldRose's Random Banter of Lashing Wit #57 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=32494)
Captain van der Decken's Surrogate Ship of Random Loot (Banter) #58 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=32847)
SDF's Neverending I-Don't-Have-an-OotS-Avatar-Yet Story Banter #59 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=33465)
Mauril's Surrogate Dwelf Banter of Fantasy Race Confusion 60th Edition (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=34165)
Rockphed's Dice Rolling Toga Party of 61 Drunken CIA Analysts (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=34568)
var Lord_Magtok = Random(Banter*62) + Surrogate (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=34801)
Jibar's Retro Random Banter #63 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=35014)
Malina's Random Spanish Banter #64 of morphical annoyance (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=35256)
Mr. E's Random Banter #65 of Cane Toting and Hat Tipping (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=35418)
Ego Slayer's Hellishly Random Banter #66.6 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=35596)
Purple Gelatinous Cube o' Doom's bowl of bantery j-e-ll-o randomness #67 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=35859)
Zephra's Random Banter of Ghostly Wailings, and Howling Fun#68 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=36317)
Cobra Ikari's Random Banter #69 of Rampant Hugging, Guttermindedness, and ;-) Kinky. (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=36977)
Scorpina's Random Banter #70 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=37480)
Raistlin1040's Super Special Awesome Random Banter #71(Now with 20% more tacos) (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=37824)
Uberblah's Random Banter #72 Of Caffeine And Sleep Deprivation Induced Randomness (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=38225)
Lucky’s Random Banter #73 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=38987)
Castaras's Random Banter #74 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=37836)
D'anna Biers RB #75 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=39495)
Zeb The Troll's RB#76 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=39801)
Egdpollard's RB #77 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=40128)
Gezina's and Calamity's Random banter #78 of double entendre and doom (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=40410)
Random Banter #79 In Loving Memory of Hexa_Regina (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=40909)
Zeratul's random banter #80 of throwing puppies off bridges (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=41778)
Vespe's Random Banter #81 of singing dolphins and mostly harmless planets. (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=43254)
CSK's Giant in the Playground Forums Addicted Anonymous, Random Banter #82 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=44919)
Iames's Ramblingly Erratic Belldandy-Charged Random Banter #83 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=47592)
Serpentine's Scintillating Sensually and Sinuously Seductive Stochastic Satire #84 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=49048)
Radikalskippy's Random Banter #85 of lost ideas and where to find them... (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=50658)
Moon Called's Random Banter #86 of Sexy Anime Boys and Fangirl Squeals (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=51825)
Lilly's Lovely Random Banter #87 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=52783)
FdL's Fuzzbox-Fueled Random Banter #88 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=54612)
SweetRein's Sugary Restrained Random Banter #89 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=59668)
Midnight's Mutant Motorcycle Madness Random Banter #90 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=62430)
Em's Extremely Extraordinarily Epic Random Banter #91 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=65645)
Dragonrider's Random Banter in Conjunction with the Weighted Cube #92 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=67629)
Bushranger's Bodaciously Buffed Random Banter-y Rooster #93 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=69425)
Haruki's Historically Hilarious Honey-covered Random Banter #94 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=71161)
North's Maple Syrup Flavored Non-Alliterative Random Banter #95 Eh? (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=73464)
Wadledo's Weirdly Warbling Watercress Watching Washing Machine Only Random Banter #96 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=75946)
SMEE's Random Banter #97 of gender bending and closet bursting (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=78694)
Raiser's Rambunctiously Rambling Random Banter #98 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=81626)
Dr. Bath's Random Banter, dripping with daring deeds of dastardly deipnosophists #99 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=84068)
VOTE, the Democracy Demon's Devilishly Devious and Decidedly Diabolical Desultory Derision (Random Banter) #100 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=84914)
Jack Squat's Justlessly Juxtaposed Random Banter #101 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=87577)
Dallas-Dakota's Dundering Dandelion's Devilish Damsel's Distress Random Banter #102 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=4790602#post4790602)
Destro Yersul's Dangerously Distracting and Doubtlessly Disturbing Random Banter #103 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=4903962#post4903962)
Aziraphiles Actually Alliterative and Awesomely Affluent Random Banter #104 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=92718)
Cristo's Consistently Confusing and Constantly Casual Random Banter #105 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=94491)
Dish's Delightfully Deranged and Deliciously Deliquent Random Banter # 106 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=95905)
Slayer's Seemingly Sweet and Socially Silly Random Banter # 107 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=97703)
Zero's ambrosial and aberrantly adventitious, abstemiously erudite Random Banter #108 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=99100)
Coplantor's Completely Creative Cautious and Contemplative Random Banter #109 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=100414)
Rutskarn's Roly-Poly Rebellious and Rejected Random Banter #110 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=101156)
TwoBitWriter's Tubular Tracts of Thought-Talking Random Banter #111 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=5600540#post5600540)
Phase's Phully Phormed, Phalangeal, and Phantasmagorical Random Banter #112 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=101988)
Wolfbane's Wonderfully Wacky and Wildly Wandom Random Banter #113 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=102865)
The Kiwi's Kinkily Knotted and Kookily Kickass Random Banter #114 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=103674)
Jude's Judgmental Jugular Jab and Jibber Jabbery Random Banter #115 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=104480)
The Throne of Thufir's Thoroughly Theoretical and Therapeutic Random Banter #116 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=105584)
Random Banter #117 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=106698)
Dragonprime's Dynamically Dangerous Dextrous and Destructive Random Banter #118 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=107882)
Farmer Felix's Fantastic FRandom FBanter #119 (may contain traces of fnuts) (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=109007)
Groundhog's Random Banter of Weather Prediction and Anti-Gopherness (part one) (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=110963&page=50)
Groundhog's Random Banter of Weather Prediction and Anti-Gopherness (part two) (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=113197)
Mrmud's Mixed-Up and Minimally Mechanized Random Banter #121 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=114623)
Dogmantra's Dastardly, Despotic and Dangerous Random Banter #122 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=116660)
Alteran's Amazingly Anachronistic, Altruistic, and Antagonistic Random Banter #123
(http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=118380)Admiral Euphoria's Random Banter Thread of Delusional Grandeur #124 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=6614894)
Fred's Flying Fishy, Fighting, Fiery, Fantastic Face Off Random Banter #125 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=121385)
Cyrano’s Non-Alliterative Inaugurational Random Banter #126 To Usher In The Future (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=122977)
Thanatos's Tharmturges Present: Tropical, Tipsy, and Typically Random Banter #127
loopy's Legendary and Long-Awaited Lollipop Fuelled Random Banter #128 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=123816)
Shadow's Shady Shop of Sharks, Shingles, Shammies, Shiny and Random Banter #129 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=125667)
KataraAltinaII's Premature Not So Short & To-The-Point Random Banter #130 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=126557)
Supagoof's Supa-Sensational Silly Symphonies Set Sizzingly On Fire Random Banter #131 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=128570)
Pyrian's Pyrotechnic Pyre of Pyrrhic Pyros with Pyrotic Pythics Random Banter #132! (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=130459)
Perenelle's Pleasantly Playful and Passionately Peculiar Random Banter #133 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=131814)
Rpgsr4me's Ravenous, Roaring, Raging Rampage of Random Banter #134 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=7373844#post7373844)
Il'deav Ilah'naie's Indiscreet Intimacies on Indigo Iceboats Random Banter #135 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=134438)
Recaiden's Resplendent and Rotating Realistic Random Banter #136 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=136879)
Jibar's Random Banter #137: Return of the Cat-muffin (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=138879)
Edge's Effluence of Extravagant and Effulgent Random Banter #138 (”http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=7876065”)
Zeb The Troll's Zecond Go At Ze Random Banter #139 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showpost.php?p=8061505&postcount=1)
Curly's Rambunctious and Erudite Random Banter #140 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=148462)
Deth Muncher's Destructive and Meandering Random Banter #141 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=150904)
A Thread in Which Banter Most Random is Expulsed Into Existence, By Ravens_cry #142 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=8722755)
Several Silly Sealions Stuffed Seaweed Southward Swiftly (Or, Random Banter #143) (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=159998)
The thread that changed name one last time, with style. (Random Banter #144) (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=161407)
Banjo’s Bodacious & Boosted Bumper Bulletproof Box of Banter Most Random #145 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=162819)
Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=164224)
KuReshtin's Vociferously Ruminating Harbinger of Random Banter - #147 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=166664)
Archonic's Archaic Acronymical Antidisestablishmentarianism Random Banter - #148 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=169890)
Skeppio's Splendidly Strange & Superbly Scintillating Random Banter - #149 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=173056)
Teddy's Turbulent and Topicless Random Banter #150 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=175338)
Fifty-Eyed Fred's Ferociously Fanatical and Fabulously Fascinating Random Banter #151 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=178205)
Rae's Really Rascally and Ridiculously Rowdy Random Banter #152 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=181296)
Haruki's Hot n' Holy Random Banter #153 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=10176275#post10176275)
MoonCat's Magnificently Mythopoeic Random Banter #154
(http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=187576)Eadin's Exchange of Extraterrestrial Excuses AKA Random Banter #155 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=190034)
Happy HalfTangible's Horrific Hail of Random Banter #156 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=10629167#post10629167)
AtlanteanTroll's Atrocious and Terrific Arcade of Terror - RB #157 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=196302)
LaLa’s Laughably Silly Random Banter Thread – RB #158 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=198767)
Zaydos's Zany Zooetic Random Banter - RB #159 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=200208)
Blue's Blessed and Blissful Random Banter - RB #160 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=201653)
Absolmorph's Azoic Arete of Adventitious and Aimless Random Banter - RB 161 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=202546)
Gwyn's Gloriously Green Garrumphing Garter of Garrulous Gabble! Random Banter #162 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=203954)
Eruantion's Euphoric, Elephant-filled Elevated Epoch of Eurhythmic Random Banter #163 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=205487)
ATW's Awesome Androgynous Avaricious Azure Ardent Adamant Alluvial Random Banter #164 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=207269)
Cynical Avocado's Absolutely Admirable Accumulation of Random Bantering #165 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=209860)
August's Pink Plushy and Phantasmagorically Random Banter Thread #166 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=212011)
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(http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=219654)Feytalist's Fantastically Freakish First Random Banter #171 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=222713)
Dragonprime's Dashing Delight-fu Dazzling Dualistic Random Banter #172
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Pokemon-freak89's Random Banter number eleventy-twelve... uhh... I mean... number 174

[HalfTangible]

First

things first on a story: gotta pound out that first draft...

but first, i need food. And to sleep. It's almost midnight =O

I said first three four five times and only the first was intended...

EDIT2: Oh, and thread 174 isn't linked

[Cobra_Ikari]

First

things first on a story: gotta pound out that first draft...

but first, i need food. And to sleep. It's almost midnight =O

I said first three four five times and only the first was intended...

EDIT2: Oh, and thread 174 isn't linked

Well, this thread WAS made 9 hours before we were done with the old thread by someone who immediately logged off afterwards...*grumblegrumble* >.>

But enough of me whining about early re-threading. Though, for future reference, wait until 50 to call a thread, call it in the thread before you make it, link the old post, and PM a mod to close out the old thread. *nodnod*



*temporarily becomes muffin, blesses with boogie*

[AtlanteanTroll]

I miss the alliteration.

[Elemental]

Random banter you say?
I could get into this...

I too miss alliteration... All my alliterated sentences seem so superficial, so I no longer engage in that activity as much as I should.

[Grue Bait]

Ooh aliteration with "E!"That'd be fun.

Now, how would I do that with Gr...

[LaZodiac]

So, for those of you following my DND thread, the overleveled Lich I just threw at them is almost bloodied.

I just wonder what'll happen if they beat it, hehehe :smallamused:

[Feytalist]

So apparently Neil Gaiman is writing the pilot for an American Gods TV series.

Pilot. American Gods.

I think I just had a fangasm.


Also, if I read his blog right, he's also busy with a sequel. Which would be pretty great.

[Cobra_Ikari]

So, for those of you following my DND thread, the overleveled Lich I just threw at them is almost bloodied.

I just wonder what'll happen if they beat it, hehehe :smallamused:

*blink*...liches have blood?

[Elemental]

They do if they've just become a lich.

[Coidzor]

Depending upon how good of care they take care of themselves and their age, IIRC, liches could actually look about the same as a necropolitan.

Then again, usually I imagine necropolitans as X, but greyer and mustier.


Ooh aliteration with "E!"That'd be fun.

Now, how would I do that with Gr...

Grey groundskeepers grumble about Grisham's grisly grind-rails. would be the minimum I'd say. There's plenty of adjectives such as grand, grandeloquent, grandiose, grisly, grey, gray. Grandeur's always handy, though tends to be linked to delusions.

[Heliomance]

I got about 7 hours of sleep last night, and we've only just had the weekend (where I tend to lay back any sleep debt I've accumulated over the week). So why do I feel so utterly shattered?

[Elemental]

Perhaps you're coming down with something? That always makes me feel tired.

Or maybe you just had bad sleep. Seven hours of bad sleep doesn't do anyone any good.

[LaZodiac]

*blink*...liches have blood?

Bloodied is a 4E catch all term for "half hp".

For me atleast, the description changes based on the type of monster. Elementals bleed their element, constructs crumble or crack, the works.

[Rain Dragon]

People have said six hours or more sleep is healthy, but in more recent times similar people have recommended eight or more hours, ten or more if you're still growing up. Although much more is oversleep, surely? Oversleeping can lead to feeling tired, as does malnutrition... Or you could just be sick as above posters have said. I'm just paranoid and look at everything when I feel tired personally.

Oh, and after five days of sleeping three or so hours a day average sleeping all weekend doesn't typically fix it unless you're an insomniac like I was. In which case, sleep just never comes. :smallfurious:

--EDIT-- 4E has 'catch terms'? That could be helpful to new DMs trying to come up with things more RP-y to use.

[Feytalist]

I wake up tired over the week regularly. Combination of lack of sufficient exercise, day-to-day worries and stress, and overworked mind.

My cure is to go for a run or something and just lie down on the bed or couch or whatever. Don't sleep, and don't read or watch TV or anything, just lie down for 15 minutes or so.

Works for me.

[LaZodiac]

People have said six hours or more sleep is healthy, but in more recent times similar people have recommended eight or more hours, ten or more if you're still growing up. Although much more is oversleep, surely? Oversleeping can lead to feeling tired, as does malnutrition... Or you could just be sick as above posters have said. I'm just paranoid and look at everything when I feel tired personally.

Oh, and after five days of sleeping three or so hours a day average sleeping all weekend doesn't typically fix it unless you're an insomniac like I was. In which case, sleep just never comes. :smallfurious:

--EDIT-- 4E has 'catch terms'? That could be helpful to new DMs trying to come up with things more RP-y to use.

I've found that, unless school is involved I can coast on 5 or less hours of sleep a day.

Also, I'm not entirely sure what you're getting at there with the "catch all term" I mentioned. Care to elaborate please and thank you?

[Coidzor]

^: Probably means common terms and jargon that don't really mean anything except with regards to the game's mechanics. HP is an example of one that became so mainstream that it's almost part of the lingua franca.
I got about 7 hours of sleep last night, and we've only just had the weekend (where I tend to lay back any sleep debt I've accumulated over the week). So why do I feel so utterly shattered?

Never heard the term shattered applied to feeling sleep deprived before, I must admit. Maybe something else is bugging you instead?

[Heliomance]

I think it's a Britishism. Fairly common term, though.

[Rain Dragon]

Also, I'm not entirely sure what you're getting at there with the "catch all term" I mentioned. Care to elaborate please and thank you?

I'm not sure how other DMs feel, but I don't like using "You rolled a 17 which means you successfully hit the goblin. You rolled a 3, so you hit it for 3 damage with your longsword." more like "The goblin staggers slightly under the sure blow of your longsword." or something. I'm normally more creative during the day. Hahaha

A 'bloodied lich' or something sounds a lot better than 'a half health lich'. I haven't read the entirety of the DM book, but I haven't really seen a whole lot of guidelines on such phrases to use.

--EDIT-- It might be a Britishism. I use the term 'shattered' too to mean awfully tired or hungover, but mostly tired. I believe it's more common to mean hungover here in AUS, but don't quote me on it.

[LaZodiac]

I'm not sure how other DMs feel, but I don't like using "You rolled a 17 which means you successfully hit the goblin. You rolled a 3, so you hit it for 3 damage with your longsword." more like "The goblin staggers slightly under the sure blow of your longsword." or something. I'm normally more creative during the day. Hahaha

A 'bloodied lich' or something sounds a lot better than 'a half health lich'. I haven't read the entirety of the DM book, but I haven't really seen a whole lot of guidelines on such phrases to use.

--EDIT-- It might be a Britishism. I use the term 'shattered' too to mean awfully tired or hungover, but mostly tired. I believe it's more common to mean hungover here in AUS, but don't quote me on it.

Ahhh, understandable.

Also, then you'd love my DMing style. I very rarely make mention of the numbers, and sometimes do things usually not explicitly alloud (hinting at when the creature is nearly bloodied and such).

Shattered could work as a term for hunger or sleepiness if you assume it shatters your mind, I guess. My explanation anyway.

[Grue Bait]

Grey groundskeepers grumble about Grisham's grisly grind-rails. would be the minimum I'd say. There's plenty of adjectives such as grand, grandeloquent, grandiose, grisly, grey, gray. Grandeur's always handy, though tends to be linked to delusions.
I may have to call the next thread just so I can use these. They're good.

And Heliomance, my best guess is that you're either stressed, or coming down with something.

[Feytalist]

I've heard the term "shattered" in conversation before, meaning hungover or deathly tired. Guess that means it's a Britishism, being Commonwealth and all.


By the way, I had read somewhere not long ago that while a 9-hour sleep was common a generation ago, the current average is about 7 hours, and is actually slightly more healthy. I can't remember the reasons given or the source though.

[Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll]

So apparently Neil Gaiman is writing the pilot for an American Gods TV series.

Pilot. American Gods.

I think I just had a fangasm.


Also, if I read his blog right, he's also busy with a sequel. Which would be pretty great.

Ooooh exciting.


And I like 10 hour sleeps. 7 hour sleeps just don't cut it for me, I end up yawning and tired for the rest of the day.

[Elemental]

Ten hours is good.
Unfortunately, I seem to suffer from low quality sleep. It just doesn't refresh me as much as it should.

[Teddy]

I've figured out that 7 and a half hour of sleep is optimal to me. I usually strive for 8 hours, because it's impossible for me to actually get in bed early enough to manage that long (hehehe), but if I sleep that long, I'll usually just end up tired in the following day. I can usually manage 6 hours or even less without too much loss of mental abilities, but it's generally not a good idea to rely on it.

The last week, however, I've been sleeping very much (compared to my regular sleep), making it 8 to 9 hours on days where I don't set my alarm. I blamed a need to wind down from all the hectic work last week, but I figure it's actually just a fling of spring fatigue. Silly phenomenon (and I can't decide whether I should be surprised that my translator actually accepts "vårtrötthet" ("spring fatigue") as a word, or not).

[Coidzor]

Mmm, my body is a bit random. Sometimes 4.5 hours is good. Sometimes 6. Sometimes 9. I dunno if I took the whole 90 minutes thing too much to heart or what, haha.

And then other times I'll wake up after 10 hours of sleep and want to doze for another hour. :smallconfused: Not nearly as annoying as the times when I'll wake up and then pass out in the middle of getting out of bed without a sufficiently stringent alarm or person there.

[Triscuitable]

Got about 8 hours last night, if that's what we care about. 1st period is cancelled for the rest of the week, so I'm just taking advantage of it. Normally I wake up at 4:30... Ugh. :smallsigh:

[Elemental]

I'm personally just going to put the whole sleep thing down to the body not knowing what it's doing, being controlled by a brain distracted by shiny things.

[HalfTangible]

I'm personally just going to put the whole sleep thing down to the body not knowing what it's doing, being controlled by a brain distracted by shiny things.

I've overslept before (at least i think so) ...it's weird. Your body keeps screaming at you to sleep, and you try, but you only sorta fall asleep, fading in and out of consciousness for hours until eventually you decide you have to get up... and then you're still tired.

[Castaras]

Shattered means tired round here. Yep, Britishism methinks.

I end up feeling really out of it after waking up most days. Sometimes I wake up feeling all high and awake (mostly when it's nice and chilly). But mostly I just want to curl up and continue dozing a few more hours. :smalltongue:

[Elemental]

Shattered does indeed mean tired.
Also exhausted, worn out, on the verge of collapse, semi-conscious, unable to think due to a lack of oxygen going to one's brain...

You know, that general idea.
I haven't heard it used that way here in Australia, but it does make sense.

[HalfTangible]

YouTube.

What the FRACK were you thinking?!?! How am i supposed to find my favorites?! Why on earth would you make it impossible to watch videos on a channel and have to go out to get to it?! Why was this change necessary?! Why does it have to take even more clicks to get to anything?! Who is this supposed to help?! What color is the sky in your world?!

[Elemental]

I choose not to visit their world in order to find out the colour of the sky.
However, I too have noticed a disturbing change. There was a channel with a number of songs on it I often enjoyed listening to, and I didn't want to have to make a new search for each one, but now everything is less user friendly!
It's reprehensible I say!

[LaZodiac]

Youtube is the universal master of ignoring the one rule you rule them all, "If it aint broke, don't fix it"

[HalfTangible]

Youtube is the universal master of ignoring the one rule you rule them all, "If it aint broke, don't fix it"

I thought the first rule was KISS.

Keep It Simple, Stupid

[LaZodiac]

There are many rules, Half tan. Many, many rules.

[Eon]

There are many rules, Half tan. Many, many rules.

Isn't that rule number 274? That there is always an excessive amount of rules? :smalltongue:

[Cobra_Ikari]

Youtube is the universal master of ignoring the one rule you rule them all, "If it aint broke, don't fix it"

You only say that because you don't have a Facebook account.

[LaZodiac]

You only say that because you don't have a Facebook account.

Yup. That's probably why.

Also, clearly you guy's haven't seen "How I Met Your Mother". The number one rule is "every rule is the number one rule".

[Heliomance]

No, no. Rule one is "do not act incautiously when confronting little bald wrinkly old smiling men".

[Nix Nihila]

I received some strange news today. The fiber artist who I work with has just been personally invited to apply as a contestant for Project Runway. Which basically means that she wouldn't have to go through the screening round that they have, and would automatically be in the semi-finals to get onto the show.

It startled us both a little bit, because she doesn't consider her pieces to be fashion, but rather art. Though it sounds like she is going to apply just to see how it goes. There does seem to be a history of the judges getting rid of the more experimental artists though, so she's rather skeptical that she would get very far.

[Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll]

All this talk of rules and no Fight Club, nor Tautology Club? Impressed!

[LaZodiac]

I received some strange news today. The fiber artist who I work with has just been personally invited to apply as a contestant for Project Runway. Which basically means that she wouldn't have to go through the screening round that they have, and would automatically be in the semi-finals to get onto the show.

It startled us both a little bit, because she doesn't consider her pieces to be fashion, but rather art. Though it sounds like she is going to apply just to see how it goes. There does seem to be a history of the judges getting rid of the more experimental artists though, so she's rather skeptical that she would get very far.

I'd like to note that her clothing being considered art is probably WHY she was invited. They WANT art, not fashion.

Anyway, tell her to go. Even if she doesn't get far, look at people like William Chung. They BOMBED American Idol, they still make tons of money. Failing doesn't always mean losing, sometimes it means winning differently.


All this talk of rules and no Fight Club, nor Tautology Club? Impressed!

The first rule of Tautology Club is that you don't talk about Fight Club talking about Tautolohy club.

Oh, also, from one of my more favorite Gainax animes, since we're talking about rules.

RRRRRUUUUUUUURRRRRU

[Coidzor]

Yup. That's probably why.

Also, clearly you guy's haven't seen "How I Met Your Mother". The number one rule is "every rule is the number one rule".

I got more of a "unless she's hot," vibe myself. :smalltongue:

In the end though, there's only really one way to live, and that's to kick reason to the curb and go beyond the impossible. :smallamused:

[LaZodiac]

I got more of a "unless she's hot," vibe myself. :smalltongue:

In the end though, there's only really one way to live, and that's to kick reason to the curb and go beyond the impossible. :smallamused:

Row row fight the power (also your boat).

[Tragic_Comedian]

Youtube is the universal master of ignoring the one rule you rule them all, "If it aint broke, don't fix it"
For sooth.

Things aren't what they used to be.

[Dark Elf Bard]

Did you know 'ain't' is in the dictionary?

[Rain Dragon]

Well it's more slang is why it isn't in the dictionary.

Although I do despise people using the word 'to verse' rather than X versus Y or 'to challenge'. It sounds tacky.

Oh yeah! Nevermind, they're adding that to the dictionary now I'm wrong and it's perfectly acceptable, not completely stupid. World, why do you always have to make my pet peeves worse?

[Form]

Well it's more slang is why it isn't in the dictionary.

Although I do despise people using the word 'to verse' rather than X versus Y or 'to challenge'. It sounds tacky.

Oh yeah! Nevermind, they're adding that to the dictionary now I'm wrong and it's perfectly acceptable, not completely stupid. World, why do you always have to make my pet peeves worse?

That's what you get when language is dynamic. If enough people say something wrong then it becomes the right way to say it and becomes part of the official language.

I see the same thing happening in Dutch. There's this one thing which always makes me cringe just a little every time I hear someone say it, but it's becoming so common these days I wonder when the change becomes official.

C'est la vie.

[Teddy]

Youtube is the universal master of ignoring the one rule you rule them all, "If it aint broke, don't fix it"

What Cobra said, although they're both notorious when it comes to reshuffling their interface at the same very moment as you've learned to navigate the old one seamlessly.

However, there are times when that rule doesn't apply (or when at least "broken" is rather loosly defined). When it comes to computer science, it's usually worthwhile to assume that everything is at least slightly broken, as computer science is still a relatively young field of study, so there aren't especially many established facts yet and a lot of things can still be done better.

When it comes to programming itself, however, this exception to the rule still applies to some extent, but due to a rather silly tendency among programmers to want to build their libraries from scratch, it shouldn't be too strongly emphasised. :smallwink:

[LaZodiac]

What Cobra said, although they're both notorious when it comes to reshuffling their interface at the same very moment as you've learned to navigate the old one seamlessly.

However, there are times when that rule doesn't apply (or when at least "broken" is rather loosly defined). When it comes to computer science, it's usually worthwhile to assume that everything is at least slightly broken, as computer science is still a relatively young field of study, so there aren't especially many established facts yet and a lot of things can still be done better.

When it comes to programming itself, however, this exception to the rule still applies to some extent, but due to a rather silly tendency among programmers to want to build their libraries from scratch, it shouldn't be too strongly emphasised. :smallwink:

Well of course. But when it comes to things like say...the interface of a website, it's probably not best to change it to something completely unwieldly compared to the original.

[Teddy]

Well of course. But when it comes to things like say...the interface of a website, it's probably not best to change it to something completely unwieldly compared to the original.

Oh, yes, that's completely true.

[Elemental]

Well of course. But when it comes to things like say...the interface of a website, it's probably not best to change it to something completely unwieldly compared to the original.

Obviously, they assumed they were fixing a problem, and in doing so, wrecked something else.
Perhaps if we sent them a politely worded email they'll consider restoring it to the former setup?

[Rain Dragon]

The only problem they were trying to fix is how could they make more money really. Most of the changes have been either that, or trying to make channels look better... Which they don't need to, but graphical updates are fine. Rearranging things causes YouTube rage.

[LaZodiac]

Obviously, they assumed they were fixing a problem, and in doing so, wrecked something else.
Perhaps if we sent them a politely worded email they'll consider restoring it to the former setup?

All the politeness in the world couldn't help us now.

[Cobra_Ikari]

When people put effort into changing something, nothing in the world will stop them from aborting said change.

See: every time Facebook has updated and my feed gets filled with angry comments about wanting it back the way it used to be. Which started...about the time they introduced the feed in the first place. >.>

Of course, now, they make new changes optional. In the sense that you can change to the new way of doing things permanently, or wait, have an annoying pop-up message trying to convince you to change, and apparently, just roll around and force you to change at some random date. Grr, FB. Grr. *glares*

[Thufir]

No, no. Rule one is "do not act incautiously when confronting little bald wrinkly old smiling men".

This guy knows what he's talking about.

That or "The Doctor lies."

[Feytalist]

Being as technologically backward as I am, and using YouTube only very irregularly and Facebook not at all, I find this rant kinda amusing every time it pops up :smallbiggrin:


Humid days. Meh. If if could turn up for work wearing only boardshorts and flip flops, I would.

[Elemental]

I hate humidity.
If I wanted everything to feel sticky, I'd build a glue gun.

[Triscuitable]

Humidity is the one thing that I lack in my hometown. Y'know what we have as an alternative? Allow me to list:


No sun.
Rain.
5 degree (C)/35 degree (F) weather.
Clouds.
More rain.
Starbucks.
Even more rain.
Sparkly vampires.
Sparkly vampire fangirl tourists.
More rain than sparkly vampire fangirl tourists.

[LaZodiac]

We have heat too! Just...sometimes. Like for a month. That's about it, then it goes back to cold.

[Cobra_Ikari]

We have heat too! Just...sometimes. Like for a month. That's about it, then it goes back to cold.

Cold is infinitely better than heat, though. You can always put on more clothes/blankets and snuggle up to someone. There is a limit to how naked you can get.

[LaZodiac]

Cold is infinitely better than heat, though. You can always put on more clothes/blankets and snuggle up to someone. There is a limit to how naked you can get.

Understandable. Though requires someone TO snuggle with.

[Coidzor]

You can put more clothes on to an extent, yes. On the other hand, I'd gladly take a temperature of 90-100F (~32-~38C) degrees than -20F (~-29C).


Humidity is the one thing that I lack in my hometown. Y'know what we have as an alternative? Allow me to list:


Rain.
Clouds.
More rain.
Even more rain.


Eh? No humidity? Humidity (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humidity) greater than the atmosphere can hold (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dew_point) at that temperature results in precipitation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precipitation_%28meteorology%29), last I checked. :smallconfused:

[Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll]

I dunno, in England it rains a LOT more than here in Toronto, but when I was there people were complaining about how humid it was, and it was REALLY DRY compared to what it was at the same time here. Which wasn't abnormally humid.

[Form]

We have heat too! Just...sometimes. Like for a month. That's about it, then it goes back to cold.

Canada sounds great to me now. How warm does it get during your summers?

[Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll]

Canada sounds great to me now. How warm does it get during your summers?

Canada's a big place. Vancouver it get's to 40C. Here, it gets to 35C. 2 summers ago, it reached 45, which is like 115F or something. Up where Lala is, I doubt it reaches much beyond 20, on account of she lives near the North Pole, or something like that.

[LaZodiac]

Canada sounds great to me now. How warm does it get during your summers?


Canada's a big place. Vancouver it get's to 40C. Here, it gets to 35C. 2 summers ago, it reached 45, which is like 115F or something. Up where Lala is, I doubt it reaches much beyond 20, on account of she lives near the North Pole, or something like that.

Gwyn is fairly accurate, though seeing as how we get the sun pointed directly at us for around 23 hours a day, it CAN get pretty hot here.

[Triscuitable]

Eh? No humidity? Humidity (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humidity) greater than the atmosphere can hold (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dew_point) at that temperature results in precipitation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precipitation_%28meteorology%29), last I checked. :smallconfused:

Seattlites recognize humidity as how susceptible you are to sweating, and "feeling" a cloud of heat on your skin. We rarely use it in it's proper term. Or at least, my local area, just outside of Seattle.

[Dark Elf Bard]

It's Pie day!

[Coidzor]

Seattlites recognize humidity as how susceptible you are to sweating, and "feeling" a cloud of heat on your skin. We rarely use it in it's proper term. Or at least, my local area, just outside of Seattle.

Seattlites have the final say on all language matters now, do they? :smallamused:

It's rather hard to be kept warm by humidity when one is in a cold environment, as the only way humidity makes one feel warm is by slowing/preventing sweat from evaporating on our skin and thereby cooling us. If it's raining though, it's humid, and if it is cold and humid, then one has the delicious feeling of never being able to feel properly warm or dry for that matter.

Hardly a good exchange going from one to the other though.

[Cobra_Ikari]

Understandable. Though requires someone TO snuggle with.

*volunteers to keep Zodi warm* ;)

*snuggles* =P


You can put more clothes on to an extent, yes. On the other hand, I'd gladly take a temperature of 90-100F (~32-~38C) degrees than -20F (~-29C).

See, where I live, in summer, it regularly breaks 100F, and has been hot enough out that I have set a metal tool down, walked inside for 2 minutes to get a glass of water, gone back out, and burned my hand picking up said tool. That seems excessively hot to me. >.>

On the other hand, I've danced naked in snow before. And been comfortable in snow in a t-shirt and thin pajama pants. So... >.>

[absolmorph]

Seattlites have the final say on all language matters now, do they? :smallamused:

It's rather hard to be kept warm by humidity when one is in a cold environment, as the only way humidity makes one feel warm is by slowing/preventing sweat from evaporating on our skin and thereby cooling us. If it's raining though, it's humid, and if it is cold and humid, then one has the delicious feeling of never being able to feel properly warm or dry for that matter.

Hardly a good exchange going from one to the other though.
They do have the last say on their dialect.

[Triscuitable]

Seattlites have the final say on all language matters now, do they? :smallamused:

Superiority through miserable weather! :smallbiggrin:

So, yes. In fact, that might actually be true. *Google* No, that's Washington D.C., not Washington State. Bummer. However, we do introduce the Combine, and the Citadel, and certain PhDs from specific universities born in Seattle working in formerely unexploded facilities in New Mexican deserts wearing glasses in a hazard suit. *Cough*


It's rather hard to be kept warm by humidity when one is in a cold environment, as the only way humidity makes one feel warm is by slowing/preventing sweat from evaporating on our skin and thereby cooling us. If it's raining though, it's humid, and if it is cold and humid, then one has the delicious feeling of never being able to feel properly warm or dry for that matter.

Hardly a good exchange going from one to the other though.

It's raining right now. A lot.

[the geekish one]

It's Pie day!

Not in Europe, friend. 14/3, which is sad really. It's steak and blow job day though.

[Triscuitable]

Not in Europe, friend. 14/3, which is sad really. It's steak and blow job day though.

Those who spend time underwater will also not celebrate Pi day. :smallwink:

[Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll]

Aye, today it's 14/03/12. You know, because days are smaller than months, which are smaller than years.

Also, before anyone says anything, I DO say "the fourteenth of March" rather than "March fourteenth", so it makes sense that way too.

[Cobra_Ikari]

Aye, today it's 14/03/12. You know, because days are smaller than months, which are smaller than years.

Also, before anyone says anything, I DO say "the fourteenth of March" rather than "March fourteenth", so it makes sense that way too.

I write it out as 14 March 2012. It just looks weird any other way. >.>

[the geekish one]

Well. I usually say March fourteenth, but I lived in the US for a long time. The justification I've seen is that some people write the date formally as 2012/03/14. Still doesn't make much sense.

[Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll]

Well. I usually say March fourteenth, but I lived in the US for a long time. The justification I've seen is that some people write the date formally as 2012/03/14. Still doesn't make much sense.

Well, that date makes the most sense for filing, because then it'll file automatically in the correct chronological order. That's why 2012/03/14 is used. 03/14/12, the only reason to use it is because in America they say "March Fourteenth, 2012". That's really the only reason.

Edit: Forteenth. Forgot that the Americans decided that they didn't need 26 letters after all :smallamused:

[the geekish one]

Well we've always got April 31!

[LaZodiac]

Aye, today it's 14/03/12. You know, because days are smaller than months, which are smaller than years.

Also, before anyone says anything, I DO say "the fourteenth of March" rather than "March fourteenth", so it makes sense that way too.

I say March 14th, though not ALWAYS. I usually just specificly the week's number and date. So like, today is Wednesday and the 14th.

[the geekish one]

True, most people have enough presence of mind to know both month and year.

[Cobra_Ikari]

Well, that date makes the most sense for filing, because then it'll file automatically in the correct chronological order. That's why 2012/03/14 is used. 03/14/12, the only reason to use it is because in America they say "March Fourteenth, 2012". That's really the only reason.

Edit: Forteenth. Forgot that the Americans decided that they didn't need 26 letters after all :smallamused:

...:smallconfused:

...the number is still four in America. It's fourteenth. =P

[Triscuitable]

...:smallconfused:

...the number is still four in America. It's fourteenth. =P

http://www.midwaysailor.com/military/salute.jpg

Enjoy your tea, and your extra "U" in COLOR. :smalltongue:

[AtlanteanTroll]

I just realized something. I like semantics. Someone, shoot me.

[Teddy]

I just realized something. I like semantics. Someone, shoot me.

Nah, semantics are fine. Especially when you realise that about half of the quarrels you encounter around you all boil down to a simple misunderstanding over what definition of a word is to be used in the given context. I find it pretty amusing how often people can talk about completely different things when discussing with eachother without noticing it. :smallamused:

[Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll]

...:smallconfused:

...the number is still four in America. It's fourteenth. =P

I know that. Just making a light-hearted jab :smallamused: Hence the ::smallamused::

[Cobra_Ikari]

I know that. Just making a light-hearted jab :smallamused: Hence the ::smallamused::

Ah. For some reason, it looked like the jab was only for the second sentence, not the entire phrase. =P

I love the letter "u". I just don't feel the need to throw it around in places it's not supposed to be. =P

...unless you want to start using "ō" as "ou", although that really doesn't make sense in English pronunciation...

[LaZodiac]

Everything my sister says is completely and utterly retarded, without a doubt.

She's talking to her friends about how "her life is so bad". Then she says that if her Dad did hit her all the time, she wouldn't tell anyone because "they would get me help without me wanting it". God she's disgusting me.

[Cobra_Ikari]

Everything my sister says is completely and utterly retarded, without a doubt.

She's talking to her friends about how "her life is so bad". Then she says that if her Dad did hit her all the time, she wouldn't tell anyone because "they would get me help without me wanting it". God she's disgusting me.

...I'm sorry, what? :smallconfused:

...so she's saying her life is so awful, she wishes she was being physically abused so that it would be MORE awful, but wants to make sure no one interferes with the abuse so that she can continue to use it to get pity?

...as someone from an abusive household...please tell her to STFU. :smallannoyed:

[Tragic_Comedian]

Everything my sister says is completely and utterly retarded, without a doubt.

She's talking to her friends about how "her life is so bad". Then she says that if her Dad did hit her all the time, she wouldn't tell anyone because "they would get me help without me wanting it". God she's disgusting me.
You shouldn't say things like that about your sister. And you shouldn't use the word "retarded" in such a fashion.

She's not even here to defend herself.

[LaZodiac]

...I'm sorry, what? :smallconfused:

...so she's saying her life is so awful, she wishes she was being physically abused so that it would be MORE awful, but wants to make sure no one interferes with the abuse so that she can continue to use it to get pity?

...as someone from an abusive household...please tell her to STFU. :smallannoyed:

Yha, don't worry. That's been done. *hugs*


You shouldn't say things like that about your sister. And you shouldn't use the word "retarded" in such a fashion.

Shouldn't doesn't mean I can't. Especialy if used accurately.

She also doesn't deserve to defend herself when she's spent four hours doing this on her blackberry,while on her laptop, while listening to her iPod.

[Tragic_Comedian]

Shouldn't doesn't mean I can't. Especialy if used accurately.
It's not accurate. You used it to mean, "I think what she says is stupid, and I disagree with it." You can find the actual definition of the word here (http://www.thefreedictionary.com/retarded), and you ought not to bandy words like that about so carelessly.

[Triscuitable]

Everything my sister says is completely and utterly retarded, without a doubt.

She's talking to her friends about how "her life is so bad". Then she says that if her Dad did hit her all the time, she wouldn't tell anyone because "they would get me help without me wanting it". God she's disgusting me.

I understand that those words are very poorly chosen on your sister's part, but I personally would like it if we could refrain from the use of the word "retard" in any way, shape, or form. My only reason is personal issues, but you'll have to take my word for it. Thank you.

[LaZodiac]

It's not accurate. You used it to mean, "I think what she says is stupid, and I disagree with it." You can find the actual definition of the word here (http://www.thefreedictionary.com/retarded), and you ought not to bandy words like that about so carelessly.

It's totally accurate. I used it as an adjective, and it works exactly the way I wanted. Unintelligent would of worked but by using this word I showed how serious I think it is. I will agree that in the end, I should of chose my words better, but anger does that to a person.


I understand that those words are very poorly chosen on your sister's part, but I personally would like it if we could refrain from the use of the word "retard" in any way, shape, or form. My only reason is personal issues, but you'll have to take my word for it. Thank you.

Ok. I'm sorry.

Still, my sister sharpened her finger with a pencil sharpener twice in a row. Put finger in, pulled, reset position, pullled again. What else do you call this?

[Cobra_Ikari]

It's totally accurate. I used it as an adjective, and it works exactly the way I wanted. Unintelligent would of worked but by using this word I showed how serious I think it is. I will agree that in the end, I should of chose my words better, but anger does that to a person.



Ok. I'm sorry.

Still, my sister sharpened her finger with a pencil sharpener twice in a row. Put finger in, pulled, reset position, pullled again. What else do you call this?

WHAT THE **** OW! D=

WHY???

And I thought my siblings were crazy... ._.

[Triscuitable]

Ok. I'm sorry.

Still, my sister sharpened her finger with a pencil sharpener twice in a row. Put finger in, pulled, reset position, pullled again. What else do you call this?

Thank you.

And I call that mind-numbingly stupid, taking my own reason and bringing it to the breaking point.

Anything that avoids that specific word is okay to me, actually. I don't know why, but it's just that word.

[AtlanteanTroll]

My favōrite colōr is fōr.

[LaZodiac]

WHAT THE **** OW! D=

WHY???

And I thought my siblings were crazy... ._.

She also stapled her pinkie to the wall, thinking it would work like pushpins do.


Thank you.

And I call that mind-numbingly stupid, taking my own reason and bringing it to the breaking point.

Anything that avoids that specific word is okay to me, actually. I don't know why, but it's just that word.

Understandable. And some words are just detesible for perfectly logical reasons. Of course "my opinion" is a reason I would call logical, so take that with a grain of salt.


My favōrite colōr is fōr.

This feels like a reference to something.

[absolmorph]

My favōrite colōr is fōr.
Really? Mine is 7a.

[Coidzor]

Still, my sister sharpened her finger with a pencil sharpener twice in a row. Put finger in, pulled, reset position, pullled again. What else do you call this?

Hmm. That's... That's something I'd have expected to be rid of by like, 5, maybe 6. :smallconfused:

How does she not constantly have her caregivers at their wits end/throttling her? :smalleek:

[AtlanteanTroll]

This feels like a reference to something.

You don't say ...


I love the letter "u". I just don't feel the need to throw it around in places it's not supposed to be. =P

...unless you want to start using "ō" as "ou", although that really doesn't make sense in English pronunciation...

ION: I have decided that if I ever get a tattoo, it's going to be the Gadsden flag or a variation of it on my upper arm. Yes. I've always liked tattoos, but I've never seen something I thought I could bare to have on me forever. That, I think, I'd be happy with.

[Triscuitable]

My favōrite colōr is fōr.


Really? Mine is 7a.

Mine is #E3E316.

[AsteriskAmp]

Mine is #E3E316.
Mine is #Aμ6μ57

[AtlanteanTroll]

Mine is #Aμ6μ57

Mine is #At1a37

Except not actually at all.

[Triscuitable]

I did not know posting a hexidecimal color code actually changes the entire post to said color.

...

#ffffff

Poo. :smallfrown:

[AtlanteanTroll]

I did not know posting a hexidecimal color code actually changes the entire post to said color.

...

#ffffff

Poo. :smallfrown:

Got to put in tags.

[AsteriskAmp]

Post

You can manually input Hex colour (useful for pbp) into the colour, but it is in no way automatic.

Other awesome things are using "transparent" for perma text invisibility, even when quoted except in certain boards and typing words in the " " part like.

Post
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[Cobra_Ikari]

Colooooooooooooooooooor!

Huh. IIRC, though, no posting in MOD RED. =3

[Coidzor]

Eh? Someone say my name?

I can't tell, my eyes keep getting all dizzy when I look at that post.

[AtlanteanTroll]

They said color. Not Coidzor.

[Triscuitable]

Colooooooooooooooooooor!

Huh. IIRC, though, no posting in MOD RED. =3

Holy cow, it's as if you spent ages working on that. You likely did. I hope you did not.

[Cobra_Ikari]

Holy cow, it's as if you spent ages working on that. You likely did. I hope you did not.

Behold, the joys of copy/paste and 6 random numbers on the pad. =P

Took maybe 2 minutes tops.

[Rawhide]

Well. I usually say March fourteenth, but I lived in the US for a long time. The justification I've seen is that some people write the date formally as 2012/03/14. Still doesn't make much sense.

Should be 2012-03-14, actually. (http://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/iso-date)

[The Succubus]

It's not accurate. You used it to mean, "I think what she says is stupid, and I disagree with it." You can find the actual definition of the word here (http://www.thefreedictionary.com/retarded), and you ought not to bandy words like that about so carelessly.

Not to poke this particular hornet's nest but I have to agree. I use a lot of adjectives to describe people I play online with but the R-word isn't one of them.

My job occasionally has me working with people that could medically be defined as "retarded", such as Down's Syndrome folks and they are some of the sweetest and most loveable folks I have ever met and certainly a lot nicer than some of my other patients.

So I ask people not to use that word please. :smallsmile:

[Heliomance]

Oh crap I am in so much trouble because I went through a bad patch a few weeks ago and so I missed a few lectures and didn't pay attention in the ones I did go to and now nothing makes any sense anymore and I've got a piece of coursework due in today and I'm staring at it and it MAKES NO SENSE and I can't understand it and I can't do it and I've got my third year project to do as well and I need to learn CPLEX for it and I'm staring at the example file I've been given and it's not working and I don't know why it's not working because I don't understand it either and I can't even tell what it's supposed to do so I have absolutely no idea why it isn't and I'm going to fail everything and oh gods I need a time machine or something to redo the semester or I'm going to fail everything and I can't afford to retake the year because I won't get a student loan for another year so I'll have to pay out of pocket and I don't have any money! :smalleek:

[Elemental]

Removed due to length.

Firstly, take a few deep breaths. Things won't look so terrible if you have some oxygen going to your brain.
Secondly, I have no more advice, because I can't handle stress either.

Having a panic attack in a public place is not fun.

[The Succubus]

Oh crap I am in so much trouble because I went through a bad patch a few weeks ago and so I missed a few lectures and didn't pay attention in the ones I did go to and now nothing makes any sense anymore and I've got a piece of coursework due in today and I'm staring at it and it MAKES NO SENSE and I can't understand it and I can't do it and I've got my third year project to do as well and I need to learn CPLEX for it and I'm staring at the example file I've been given and it's not working and I don't know why it's not working because I don't understand it either and I can't even tell what it's supposed to do so I have absolutely no idea why it isn't and I'm going to fail everything and oh gods I need a time machine or something to redo the semester or I'm going to fail everything and I can't afford to retake the year because I won't get a student loan for another year so I'll have to pay out of pocket and I don't have any money! :smalleek:

*hugs until she calms down*

If you look at it like that, your brain's going to implode and no wonder you're frazzled. Take it one step at a time:

1) You have coursework due today. You do not understand it.

A: You've understood previous courseworks, so unless you're leaping from mitochondrial biochemistry to ancient Egyptian algebra, you do have a rough idea of what it is about.

B: Speak to your classmates - find one you trust and get him to prod you in the right direction. This will be easier than going to the professor.

C: Ask for a slight extension from the prof if you can.

2) You have your 3rd year Project to do.

A: You need to learn CPLEX for it. Books and Google searches will soon fix this - it's amazing how many great tutorials there are on the interwebs. I once managed to learn basic PHP in an afternoon from one of them.

B: The example file makes no sense. Complete (A) so you have a rough idea of what you are looking for. Type out the code and mess around with it. From how it compiles/doesn't compile/run you may get some insights into it.

3) ohgodImgoingtofailandtheworldsgoingtoexplode

A: Don't force me to hug you again, because I totally will. This is your brain squeaking a bit because you've given it a bit too much information to deal with in one go. One step at a time, my dear and your world will look less likely of imploding.


Does any of this help/make you feel better?

[KuReshtin]

Hi.

i'm just going to poke my head in here, since I haven't really been in the RB threads very much for the past three or four threads.

What's up, folks?

Oh, and in the subject of gradient text colours, it's easy as pie to do.. (http://www.tektek.org/color/) By cheating a bit.

This is very easy to accomplish.

[KuReshtin]

Wow, that's weird..

I submitted a post, and it updated that I'd posted the last post on the index page, but when i come back to the thread, the post isn't there..


Edit: Oh, look.. There it is.. fair enough.. Sorry for the double post. :smallbiggrin:

[Heliomance]

Aaaand now the panic's faded, I'm feeling emotionally drained. I don't want to go to lectures, even though that's what got me into this mess in the first place.

[Elemental]

Would Internet tea help?

And I know what you're going through. It's a cycle of anxiety and depression that can only be resolved by going into seclusion in a mountainside monastery.

[Triscuitable]

Would Internet tea help?

And I know what you're going through. It's a cycle of anxiety and depression that can only be resolved by going into seclusion in a mountainside monastery.

Brewing crummy tasting internet coffee now.

[the geekish one]

Would Internet tea help?

And I know what you're going through. It's a cycle of anxiety and depression that can only be resolved by going into seclusion in a mountainside monastery.

And training to become the Batman.

[LaZodiac]

Brewing crummy tasting internet coffee now.

Wouldn't coffee only serve to further agitate, since it's got caffieene in it? (yes, I spelt that wrong. No idea how to spell it)

[KuReshtin]

Wouldn't coffee only serve to further agitate, since it's got caffieene in it? (yes, I spelt that wrong. No idea how to spell it)

Tea has caffeine in it as well. It can still act to calm people.

Personally, i'd recommend a glass of milk. That usually helps me. Then again, I like milk anyway.
Milk is good..

[Cobra_Ikari]

Hi.

i'm just going to poke my head in here, since I haven't really been in the RB threads very much for the past three or four threads.

What's up, folks?

Oh, and in the subject of gradient text colours, it's easy as pie to do.. (http://www.tektek.org/color/) By cheating a bit.

This is very easy to accomplish.

Hmm... *presses a few buttons*

Colooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooors!=D

Oh, winwinwinwinwin. =3 *hugs*

[Triscuitable]

Wouldn't coffee only serve to further agitate, since it's got caffieene in it? (yes, I spelt that wrong. No idea how to spell it)

Caffeine. And yes, it would, but we brew up internet coffee not to drink, but to pour out of the internet pot and say "WHAT IS THIS CRAP? :smallyuk:"

[The Succubus]

Aaaand now the panic's faded, I'm feeling emotionally drained. I don't want to go to lectures, even though that's what got me into this mess in the first place.

Oh god, I energy drained Helio! :smallfrown:

[HalfTangible]

Wow, that's weird..

I submitted a post, and it updated that I'd posted the last post on the index page, but when i come back to the thread, the post isn't there..


Edit: Oh, look.. There it is.. fair enough.. Sorry for the double post. :smallbiggrin:Yeah, that bug comes up a lot :smalltongue:

[101jir]

Well, in random news...

I just figured out the hard way that it is a bad idea to read nonsense phrases like the ones I added to my sig before doing my reading for history. Just a warning to everyone out there, don't try reading my stuff before you have serious reading to do.:smalltongue:

[Teddy]

Today I learned that the power density in modern processors is on the same level as that of a nuclear reactor. No wonder we've hit the roof of what we can cool with conventional means.

IRN:
The final period of this school year has begun with full time DARK Dig (Computer Architecture and Digital Technology, but I find the acronym funny because it always makes me think of Minecraft).

I had the last exam for now yesterday, and it was suitably challenging for most of the part. One of my two lecturers was incredibly lazy when it came to designing the problems to the exam, and most (if not all) of his questions were taken directly from the previous year's exam and only had a few of their initial premises altered. The final problem on the final part was even worse than that, as it was identical to one of the old problems, except for a line where he clarified one thing that you would need to take into concideration in order to reach a correct answer.

I had spent the whole morning going through just that exam from a year ago and torn my hair at just that problem for quite a while before realising what I had forgotten to concider. I already had all thinking done, which I actually found quite disappointing. Exams aren't supposed to be solved that way!

ION:
I've been having a lot of strange dreams as of lately. This night's dream beats most of them, however. It's a bit of a story and I've already been stretching the length of this post quite a bit with my ramblings, so I think I'll put it in spoiler tags:

It started out with a story about a kidnapping incident which evolved from a disagreement caused by a party of poker. A policeman got involved in the incident while trying to sort out the situation, and he was kidnapped as well and executed by his kidnappers the following day. (This sound pretty much like a story that could have been told of in "Veckans Brott" ("The Crime of the Week"), a TV program where they, among other things, retell and comment on an old crime in great detail that's airing here in Sweden at the moment)

Anyway, enough about that and the dream switches over to me and a few unidentified friends hanging out at the university and having a good time. That's when it struck me that that policeman from the story was me (dream logic), and that the execution would take place tomorrow (yes, apparently, that story was about the future. Dream logic). The poker game would start any minute and deteriorate into the quarrel that would lead to the kidnapping. I would try to solve the situation with diplomacy and get kidnapped myself, and then shot in the following day. A sudden feeling of my blood being momentarilly exchanged for acid coursed through my body, but my only thought on this was simply "Typical".

So I say "I'm going to die", but at the same time, I realise that I can't explain how it happens, because then my friends (soon to be kidnappers, victim and witnesses) would try to prevent it from happening and thus causing a time paradox (probably dooming us all MSPA style). It had to happen and I had to make sure everyone kept playing along. The dream ended before anything more happened, however, so I don't know how I'd reason myself out of that situation.

I'm still amazed by how fast my dream self (because I'm not sure I could ascribe myself his actions, given that I haven't been tested yet) accepted the inevitability of his fate. That he actually would go out of his way to make sure it happened as it was supposed to happen. Strange dreams...

[LaZodiac]

First of all, congrats on being really smart! That's what I gather from that first chunk of text.

From the second, wow that's a crazy dream. Have any other dreams to share, I like reading them.

Also, yay last exam (for now). That means you'll have free time, right :smalltongue::smallwink:

[101jir]

Today I learned that the power density in modern processors is on the same level as that of a nuclear reactor. No wonder we've hit the roof of what we can cool with conventional means.

IRN:
The final period of this school year has begun with full time DARK Dig (Computer Architecture and Digital Technology, but I find the acronym funny because it always makes me think of Minecraft).

I had the last exam for now yesterday, and it was suitably challenging for most of the part. One of my two lecturers was incredibly lazy when it came to designing the problems to the exam, and most (if not all) of his questions were taken directly from the previous year's exam and only had a few of their initial premises altered. The final problem on the final part was even worse than that, as it was identical to one of the old problems, except for a line where he clarified one thing that you would need to take into concideration in order to reach a correct answer.

I had spent the whole morning going through just that exam from a year ago and torn my hair at just that problem for quite a while before realising what I had forgotten to concider. I already had all thinking done, which I actually found quite disappointing. Exams aren't supposed to be solved that way!

ION:
I've been having a lot of strange dreams as of lately. This night's dream beats most of them, however. It's a bit of a story and I've already been stretching the length of this post quite a bit with my ramblings, so I think I'll put it in spoiler tags:

It started out with a story about a kidnapping incident which evolved from a disagreement caused by a party of poker. A policeman got involved in the incident while trying to sort out the situation, and he was kidnapped as well and executed by his kidnappers the following day. (This sound pretty much like a story that could have been told of in "Veckans Brott" ("The Crime of the Week"), a TV program where they, among other things, retell and comment on an old crime in great detail that's airing here in Sweden at the moment)

Anyway, enough about that and the dream switches over to me and a few unidentified friends hanging out at the university and having a good time. That's when it struck me that that policeman from the story was me (dream logic), and that the execution would take place tomorrow (yes, apparently, that story was about the future. Dream logic). The poker game would start any minute and deteriorate into the quarrel that would lead to the kidnapping. I would try to solve the situation with diplomacy and get kidnapped myself, and then shot in the following day. A sudden feeling of my blood being momentarilly exchanged for acid coursed through my body, but my only thought on this was simply "Typical".

So I say "I'm going to die", but at the same time, I realise that I can't explain how it happens, because then my friends (soon to be kidnappers, victim and witnesses) would try to prevent it from happening and thus causing a time paradox (probably dooming us all MSPA style). It had to happen and I had to make sure everyone kept playing along. The dream ended before anything more happened, however, so I don't know how I'd reason myself out of that situation.

I'm still amazed by how fast my dream self (because I'm not sure I could ascribe myself his actions, given that I haven't been tested yet) accepted the inevitability of his fate. That he actually would go out of his way to make sure it happened as it was supposed to happen. Strange dreams...

I had a similar dream once. Except I was a prison gaurd. By dream logic, I knew that if I stayed there, the prisoners would shoot me to get out, and there was nothing that I could do. If I left, someone else would have to watch them, and die in my place. I was to die at exactly 3:00 (again, dream logic), and the second I was supposed to die I woke up.

[absolmorph]

I once had a dream where I was walking around in a dinosaur mecha.
That was the entirety of the dream.
I can't remember any of my recent dreams.

[Mercenary Pen]

I once had a dream where I was walking around in a dinosaur mecha.
That was the entirety of the dream.
I can't remember any of my recent dreams.

Ever seen the anime Zoids? Just asking due to dinosaur mecha...

[Teddy]

From the second, wow that's a crazy dream. Have any other dreams to share, I like reading them.

Hmm, lets see, what have I dreamt in the last two weeks?

Two dreams where I sleep while I should be doing something important (these were during the night before the project deadline and the first exam respectively). I woke up pretty quickly from both of those, however.

One dream where I couldn't find the way out of a huge house. It had its enterances on two levels that were probably three floors apart due to being positioned next to a cliff, and I was trying to take a shortcut up said cliff by going through the house. I had already visited the house once in a dream long ago (for the same reasons, being equally lost). There were quite a lot of people moving around in the house, and I felt so out of place. I could start rambling about the interior, but that's hardly something interesting to hear about.

One dream that I'm not quite sure if I feel comfortable enough to retell due to it being of a bit too private nature. I concidered not mentioning it at all, because it'll probably just make people's imagination start running, and wherever they'll end up is pretty likely to be... further away than my dream ever went. But on the other hand, I don't feel like refusing to recognise it either. It did at least prove that my fascination/love for wings is deeply rooted in my subconscious by now...


Also, yay last exam (for now). That means you'll have free time, right :smalltongue::smallwink:

Hopefully if I could pull myself out of this state of moderate procrastination. I've saved up quite a buffer of stuff that needs to be done more or less ASAP, so I'm going start flushing it soon (hopefully tomorrow, when I should have enough time to handle some administrative stuff at least).

[Rain Dragon]

My dreams are normally to do with... Let's call them worries. Like, dreams of dead birds everywhere, the soles of my feet coated entirely in sand and cobwebs. In reality, it doesn't bother me if I have tiny ants covering them, biting them, etc. which makes it even weirder. I've even been known to have dreams of everyone drinking white coloured tea. Yes, most people I know put that much milk in it; and it actually bothers me.

On the other hand, normally when I dream and there aren't... Let's call them worries invading them, I'm normally flying too. It's human nature to be fascinated by well... Everything. Flight and wings are unsurprisingly especially fascinating.

I went through school starting projects I felt needed a ton of time on as soon as I got them. Then I got more of them, which I'd only do last minute and most of them would end up late because I was bothered by them too much to actually do anything about it for quite a while. I did most if not all speech thingy assignments impromptu because I felt I would do it best that way. One of my goals was to get into radio or something, but apparently that sort of thing's a bit hard to do...

I suppose most of what school actually teaches people is how to procrastinate.

[Cobra_Ikari]

I tend to die in my dreams. Or they involve very surreal things. Or both.

...the only one I can remember from recently was several months ago and involved my class swimming down a shark-infested river with people being attacked while a bunch of armed people on boats watched and did nothing. Actually, I was the only person who even noticed anyone was dying. And then we got to an island and I had to cut open a dead body for my anatomy professor, except I was half-naked because for some reason, the bodes got delivered to some kind of combination bathroom/boiler room. Anatomy labs do weird things to you.


Also, welcome, Hatter! =D

...or...rather...I'm assuming you're new because your avvie is both nifty and memorable but I can't remember having seen it before. If I'm wrong, then...sorry, but still, cool avvie?

[AtlanteanTroll]

I almost never remember my dreams. *inane comment about the Time Loop*




Also, welcome, Hatter! =D

...or...rather...I'm assuming you're new because your avvie is both nifty and memorable but I can't remember having seen it before. If I'm wrong, then...sorry, but still, cool avvie?

Could it be that it says "Join Date: Mar 2012?"

[absolmorph]

Ever seen the anime Zoids? Just asking due to dinosaur mecha...
Yes.
Years later.
I believe it was this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Kid) which (vaguely) inspired the dream.


I almost never remember my dreams. *inane comment about the Time Loop*



Could it be that it says "Join Date: Mar 2012?"
I can remember a grand total of 3 dreams from my 18 years of life.

[Cobra_Ikari]

I almost never remember my dreams. *inane comment about the Time Loop*



Could it be that it says "Join Date: Mar 2012?"

...silence, mortal! Who said you could use logic against me! >.>

:smalltongue:

...and I forgot to mention the bodies were waterlogged and full of black mold and beginning to decompose. It was a rather disgusting dream. >.<

[LaZodiac]

I only remember a few dreams. I've mentioned a few of them here.

[AtlanteanTroll]

I can remember about 5 dreams.

One in which I flying through the grand canyon on a jetpack being chased by a giant T-Rex .
One in which I became a martyr and used the power of ROCK! to save the world from Naruto villains.
One in which I was at my Elementary training to be a superhero.
One in which the prior dream was revisited as a young teen and when it was time to show everyone what we had learned to do with our powers in the gap, I had lost all of my powers.
And finally one that is completely and utterly not board appropriate in anyway.

Maybe a few more if I thought hard about it.

[LaZodiac]

I can remember about 5 dreams.

One in which I flying through the grand canyon on a jetpack being chased by a giant T-Rex .
One in which I became a martyr and used the power of ROCK! to save the world from Naruto villains.
One in which I was at my Elementary training to be a superhero.
One in which the prior dream was revisited as a young teen and when it was time to show everyone what we had learned to do with our powers in the gap, I had lost all of my powers.
And finally one that is completely and utterly not board appropriate in anyway.

Maybe a few more if I thought hard about it.

All of those sound like movies ideas. Especialy the last one.

[AsteriskAmp]

I don't remember dreams since I was 11 or 12, even when I do remember some of it and forget it five minutes into awakeness, its mainly a sound experience for me, that leitmotif I was missing, or enough of a hint to want me to look for what I was listening to.

[Teutonic Knight]

Quick question for you all.

You know how a person who steals the throne is called a usurper?

What is the term for the king that got ousted from his throne? Assuming he is still alive and just had to flee the castle and go into hiding. So I've gotten, the king-in-exile, and for laughs, "the ousted". Is there even a proper term for this?

[AtlanteanTroll]

All of those sound like movies ideas. Especialy the last one.

The one I didn't mention or the one where I lost my powers? :smalltongue:

Also, how goes the comic? :smallwink:

[AsteriskAmp]

Quick question for you all.

You know how a person who steals the throne is called a usurper?

What is the term for the king that got ousted from his throne? Assuming he is still alive and just had to flee the castle and go into hiding. So I've gotten, the king-in-exile, and for laughs, "the ousted". Is there even a proper term for this?
There is no precise proper term (since it isn't as common [or meant to happen] as to warrant its own word like defenestration). King-in-exile is sort of contradictory since he no longer would be the king. King in rags is a more poetic expression though again misleading.

Making up a word due to the circumstances of such deposition is also a possibility.

[LaZodiac]

Quick question for you all.

You know how a person who steals the throne is called a usurper?

What is the term for the king that got ousted from his throne? Assuming he is still alive and just had to flee the castle and go into hiding. So I've gotten, the king-in-exile, and for laughs, "the ousted". Is there even a proper term for this?

The king in question would be "the usurped" as far as I know.


The one I didn't mention or the one where I lost my powers? :smalltongue:

Also, how goes the comic? :smallwink:

Both.

It's going. That's basically it far as I know. Just waiting on Teddy to have time to do it :smalltongue:

[AtlanteanTroll]

Rule of Elton John says you should use the word Vagabond.

[Coidzor]

Most likely his supports would just style him the True King or rightful ruler or what have you, and others would either ignore him or back his efforts to regain the throne(or at least weaken the position and claim of the guy sitting on the throne)

[AtlanteanTroll]

Both.
I suppose if the movie was rated, like, XXX. Is that still even a rating?


It's going. That's basically it far as I know. Just waiting on Teddy to have time to do it :smalltongue:
Comics are a lot more work than they look. And they look like a lot of work.

[Kindablue]

Just going home now from seeing Billy Joe Shaver and David Garza live. It was amazing.

[Tragic_Comedian]

Just going home now from seeing Billy Joe Shaver and David Garza live. It was amazing.
Right on, man! Glad to hear you had a good time. I like Billy Joe. I'll be going to see Peggy Seeger on the 25th of this month. Her last US tour.

[LaZodiac]

I suppose if the movie was rated, like, XXX. Is that still even a rating?


Comics are a lot more work than they look. And they look like a lot of work.

I think XXX is a rating. So ok, understandable there.

And yha, they DEFINITLY are. I have no qualms about Teddy taking this long (though I do wishe he's hurry up a tiny bit, if only so I have something to show off to my friends/advisors)

[AtlanteanTroll]

Yeaaaaaah. This other forum I'm on had this thing where you try to do a One Shot in 2 months. I bombed it completely. Got, like, 8 pages done. (Of course, there was a lot of work going into OKLAHOMA! during February, so it's somewhat understandable.) Still hope to get it done by the end of the school year, but we'll see ... Either way it's been good practice.

[absolmorph]

I suppose if the movie was rated, like, XXX. Is that still even a rating?
XXX isn't actually an official rating. It got to where it is now because basically certain film producers (porn makers) figured that people would think "Hey, this film is rated X and it's got some sex stuff in it. This film is rated XXX... So it probably has more sex stuff in it!"
Since none of the ratings involving X got trademarked, submission to the MPAA isn't necessary to get them. The MPAA's equivalent is NC-17 (which covers a broader spectrum).

In Australia and France (and formerly the U.K.), though, X-rated has official meaning.

[Qwertystop]

My dreams tend to be things that seem like real life even afterwards, and often when I wake up I'm not entirely sure which bits are true and which were dreams until I've woken up a lot (around lunchtime) and cross-examined them with what I know to be true to check for discontinuity.

It gets very odd sometimes.

[AtlanteanTroll]

XXX isn't actually an official rating. It got to where it is now because basically certain film producers (porn makers) figured that people would think "Hey, this film is rated X and it's got some sex stuff in it. This film is rated XXX... So it probably has more sex stuff in it!"

Since none of the ratings involving X got trademarked, submission to the MPAA isn't necessary to get them. The MPAA's equivalent is NC-17 (which covers a broader spectrum).

Well, that dream definitely did have "sex stuff" in it ... As I said, very much so not NSFITP. I wouldn't have mentioned it, and I didn't (initially), but it is one of the few dreams I can distinctly recall. Make of that what you will.

EDIT:

Actually, I can think of 2 more.

One which I had after I started my new exercise pattern in which I was flexing and my muscles just sort of popped out of my arms and writhed on the floor.
The other one involved my legs being cut off.

I woke up shouting and in a cold sweat after both of those. Sort of u[set I remembered them now. :smallannoyed:

EDIT 2:

Guys. This song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=aOJ-ithn81A). This song. It's like hearing Harder Better Faster Stronger for the first time all over again. But better. It's like ... Someone mixed some old 8-Bit Sonic music and SSBB music then ran it through a blender which makes everything that goes through it 5x better.

[Kindablue]

Right on, man! Glad to hear you had a good time. I like Billy Joe. I'll be going to see Peggy Seeger on the 25th of this month. Her last US tour.

Have fun! Yeah, today was great for me. At one point during Garza's set all the vocal mics went out, so the band started playing a Bob Marley song (I forget which) and the entire audience screamed the lyrics for him at the top of their lungs. They were halfway through doing the same thing with Wolly Bully before the sound guys got the mics working again.

[Teutonic Knight]

Okay, thanks, but the reason I asked is because I need to find a term to call his son, technically the true heir to the throne. He was not alive at the time his father was king, but was born after. Since the throne was not taken legitimately, he is still technically next in line to be king.

What would you call him? I think because it's too indirectly related to the usurper, there can't really be a term for the son (prince) of the usurped king. :smallconfused:

[LaZodiac]

Okay, thanks, but the reason I asked is because I need to find a term to call his son, technically the true heir to the throne. He was not alive at the time his father was king, but was born after. Since the throne was not taken legitimately, he is still technically next in line to be king.

What would you call him? I think because it's too indirectly related to the usurper, there can't really be a term for the son (prince) of the usurped king. :smallconfused:

The term would be "legitimate heir to the throne" I believe.

[Elemental]

Okay, thanks, but the reason I asked is because I need to find a term to call his son, technically the true heir to the throne. He was not alive at the time his father was king, but was born after. Since the throne was not taken legitimately, he is still technically next in line to be king.

What would you call him? I think because it's too indirectly related to the usurper, there can't really be a term for the son (prince) of the usurped king. :smallconfused:

Until he's crowned, just refer to him as Prince <insertnamehere> due to his royal blood.
A technical term for this kind of thing doesn't really exist... You might consider referring to him as a Pretender, but I'm not sure if that's applicable in this situation.

[Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll]

Well, the Scots had their "King Over the Water".

[Kindablue]

Until he's crowned, just refer to him as Prince <insertnamehere> due to his royal blood.
A technical term for this kind of thing doesn't really exist... You might consider referring to him as a Pretender, but I'm not sure if that's applicable in this situation.

He'd probably be known as a pretender to the usurper's followers and as the true heir to the throne to the desposed king's followers. That's sort of what happened to Charles II, and if you care to do the digging, you should be able to find Pepys and his contemporaries calling him and his father and Cromwell all kinds of things that you could use.

[TechnoScrabble]

Can you guys help me remember something?
I was reading this webcomic the other day and I forgot the name of it...there was some guy who had just gotten back from military service in Haiti, and his friends got a weasel from a hobo...and I forget the rest. I only read a few pages.

[factotum]

What is the term for the king that got ousted from his throne? Assuming he is still alive and just had to flee the castle and go into hiding. So I've gotten, the king-in-exile, and for laughs, "the ousted". Is there even a proper term for this?

I suspect there isn't a proper term, because 99% of the time the proper way to describe someone like that would be "dead" and they probably didn't feel it was necessary to coin a special term for the corner cases. :smallwink:

[LaZodiac]

Can you guys help me remember something?
I was reading this webcomic the other day and I forgot the name of it...there was some guy who had just gotten back from military service in Haiti, and his friends got a weasel from a hobo...and I forget the rest. I only read a few pages.

...my gut reaction is to say "Sluggy Freelance" and I don't know why.

[Coidzor]

Nah, no weasels in Sluggy Freelance as far as I can recall, there is a talking ferret though. And a talking mini-lop rabbit-thing.

No military service in Haiti, either.

Should still read Sluggy though. :smallamused:

[Feytalist]

So I've been living these past few days with this uneasy feeling, this low-key kind of dread. I just realised it. And I have no idea why. It's noting to do with work or my personal life or whatever. Really weird.

[Heliomance]

I just read My Little Dashie. It is absolutely adorable.

[Elemental]

So I've been living these past few days with this uneasy feeling, this low-key kind of dread. I just realised it. And I have no idea why. It's noting to do with work or my personal life or whatever. Really weird.

Perhaps you keep having prophetic nightmares and then forgetting them, leaving you subconsciously worried.
Wow, after typing that, I realise that that sounds even crazier than it did in my head.

[Feytalist]

Perhaps you keep having prophetic nightmares and then forgetting them, leaving you subconsciously worried.
Wow, after typing that, I realise that that sounds even crazier than it did in my head.

That's... kinda weird, yeah.

Could be bad dreams, but I've never really been bothered with dreams. It's just like I'm waiting for something bad to happen. I don't usually feel like this.

I think I need a vacation, heh.

[Elemental]

That's... kinda weird, yeah.

Could be bad dreams, but I've never really been bothered with dreams. It's just like I'm waiting for something bad to happen. I don't usually feel like this.

I think I need a vacation, heh.

Well, if you can't think of a reason why you should be feeling this way, then it's probably something you aren't consciously aware of. I read somewhere about the effects certain noises can have on the human mind.
Or was that the eyes?
There's always a chance you have a virus that's affecting you, or a vitamin deficiency.
My suggestion is you see your doctor. It could be really simple.

[LaZodiac]

Nah, no weasels in Sluggy Freelance as far as I can recall, there is a talking ferret though. And a talking mini-lop rabbit-thing.

No military service in Haiti, either.

Should still read Sluggy though. :smallamused:

I know, just that it came to mind is all XP

And I do. Or rather did, should pick it up again.

[Teddy]

On the other hand, normally when I dream and there aren't... Let's call them worries invading them, I'm normally flying too. It's human nature to be fascinated by well... Everything. Flight and wings are unsurprisingly especially fascinating.

I don't think I've ever dreamed a dream in which I can fly, which is somewhat ironic (and quite typical), given that I really love the whole concept of flying, and intend to get myself a flight certificate sometime in the future.

[AtlanteanTroll]

Last paper of the year is due in 6 hours. It's suppose to be a definition essay. I'm going to redefine comics. Easy and fun. Oh yeah. :smallcool:

[Heliomance]

I don't think I've ever dreamed a dream in which I can fly, which is somewhat ironic (and quite typical), given that I really love the whole concept of flying, and intend to get myself a flight certificate sometime in the future.

I've dreamed I can fly a handful of times. One thing that seems to be common to all of them, though: I'm always REALLY bad at flying. I always find it incredibly hard to take off.

[Nix Nihila]

Whenever I have flight dreams, I don't so much have to take off. It's more like swimming, I suppose. I don't have flight dreams very often though, which is unfortunate as they're rather enjoyable.

[LaZodiac]

I've dreamed I can fly a handful of times. One thing that seems to be common to all of them, though: I'm always REALLY bad at flying. I always find it incredibly hard to take off.

Well, the reason for that is fairly obvious.


Whenever I have flight dreams, I don't so much have to take off. It's more like swimming, I suppose. I don't have flight dreams very often though, which is unfortunate as they're rather enjoyable.

That makes sense, since swiming is the closest thing we even HAVE to flying.

Myself, I've never had flying dreams. Sounds exciting, wish I did have them. Though, I'm afraid of heights to a degree :smallredface:

[Heliomance]

Well, the reason for that is fairly obvious.


It is? 10chars

[LaZodiac]

It is? 10chars

Well, since we're not creatures that CAN fly, if we were to try and fly, it might be a little akward feeling, is all.

[HalfTangible]

It is? 10chars


Well, since we're not creatures that CAN fly, if we were to try and fly, it might be a little akward feeling, is all.

And they say taking off and landing are the hardest parts of flying...

[LaZodiac]

Naw, according to the pilots I know, taking off and landing are the easy bits. A GOOD take off and landing are hard :smalltongue:

[Rain Dragon]

Just don't watch AirCrash Investigations. Most of the ones I've seen have been about things going wrong during takeoffs or landings...

[LaZodiac]

Just don't watch AirCrash Investigations. Most of the ones I've seen have been about things going wrong during takeoffs or landings...

Don't watch Mayday either. Even if my brain knows flying is safe, my body doesn't, and kinda freaks out, ever since watching that show.

I'm a big cowardy face.

[Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll]

I love flying. :smallbiggrin: Flying is fun!

[LaZodiac]

My sister is yelling about how it's NOT FAIR that everyone is good at video games except her. She legitimately wants me to video game magic her into being good at games. Like, she strait up said "I don't know how just make me better at games".

[HalfTangible]

My sister is yelling about how it's NOT FAIR that everyone is good at video games except her. She legitimately wants me to video game magic her into being good at games. Like, she strait up said "I don't know how just make me better at games".

Tell her that if she is capable of understanding that the left analog stick makes her character move, she is already better than some people.

[Coidzor]

Sounds like a request for training from hell if ever there was one. :smallamused:

Then again, she's a little sister and those kinds of padawans almost always kill their teachers. :/

[Cobalt]

My sister is yelling about how it's NOT FAIR that everyone is good at video games except her. She legitimately wants me to video game magic her into being good at games. Like, she strait up said "I don't know how just make me better at games".

Are you saying you didn't undertake a ritual of sacrificing gaming consoles to the Elder Gods for increased skills in digital battles? Or slice open the disk drive of an old computer for it to whisper its secrets of how the AI beats you every time? Or any of that?

Oh. Oh, well, then, I may have taken some unnecessary steps, then.

But hey! Headshot!


ION: So a hypothetical: If I were to have solar panels on my black roof, and black roofs hold something like 80% more heat than white roofs repelling it back off (apparently the culprit for why my house will still have higher air conditioning bills in summer than it will really need to), would the retained heat have the slightest change at all in the amount of electricity generated by solar panels, or not? I'm thinking not, but then I think some more and I need a seven hour nap right now, so the thinking's bounces around a bit.

[Elemental]

ION: So a hypothetical: If I were to have solar panels on my black roof, and black roofs hold something like 80% more heat than white roofs repelling it back off (apparently the culprit for why my house will still have higher air conditioning bills in summer than it will really need to), would the retained heat have the slightest change at all in the amount of electricity generated by solar panels, or not? I'm thinking not, but then I think some more and I need a seven hour nap right now, so the thinking's bounces around a bit.

Probably not. Solar panels work off sunlight, not heat.
However, I'm not an expert, so I could be wrong. Unlikely though it is.

[Coidzor]

I'm no sciencepert or anything, but from what I recall, our current solar panels work by being excited by the photon and that causing electrons to move which generates the electricity through means I don't recall.

Waste heat being retained by the black roof and being radiated back out again... probably not, no, especially since it wouldn't be coming in from the right angle.

All the more reason to use white shingles when you reshingle it if you go via shingles. Or find the right kind of paint and paint it white if it is a metal roof. But I don't think they usually make metal roofs that are black by default...

Hmm, come to think of it, I wonder how bad red shingles are. Because I'd swear that's the color this roof is...

[LaZodiac]

Sounds like a request for training from hell if ever there was one. :smallamused:

Then again, she's a little sister and those kinds of padawans almost always kill their teachers. :/

That'd work if I knew how TO do training from hell. It's second instinct for me, it's about as hard as teaching how to breath XP


Are you saying you didn't undertake a ritual of sacrificing gaming consoles to the Elder Gods for increased skills in digital battles? Or slice open the disk drive of an old computer for it to whisper its secrets of how the AI beats you every time? Or any of that?

Oh. Oh, well, then, I may have taken some unnecessary steps, then.

But hey! Headshot!

ION: So a hypothetical: If I were to have solar panels on my black roof, and black roofs hold something like 80% more heat than white roofs repelling it back off (apparently the culprit for why my house will still have higher air conditioning bills in summer than it will really need to), would the retained heat have the slightest change at all in the amount of electricity generated by solar panels, or not? I'm thinking not, but then I think some more and I need a seven hour nap right now, so the thinking's bounces around a bit.

Nope, no rituals on my part. Just practice, long and hard.

[Cobra_Ikari]

That'd work if I knew how TO do training from hell. It's second instinct for me, it's about as hard as teaching how to breath XP



Nope, no rituals on my part. Just practice, long and hard.

Welcome to Cobra's How To Training From Hell! =D

Step 1: Channel R. Lee Ermey.
Step 2: Force your trainee to do a task that is difficult but not quite impossible.
Step 3: Repeat Step 2 until they show moderate improvement, but not so long as to make the task trivial.
Step 4: Replace Step 2 with a new nigh-impossible task based on the trainee's improved ability.
Step 5: Repeat until the desired level of skill is reached. Remember, never congratulate your trainee with anything warmer than "I suppose you're not a COMPLETE failure" at the end of the training. This is your only permitted positive statement, and you may only use it once.

If you can somehow set it up as a montage to save time, I highly recommend doing it that way. >.>

[absolmorph]

And they say taking off and landing are the hardest parts of flying...
Landing is the easiest part of flying.
It's landing unharmed that's hard.

When someone wants to get better at a game I'm good at (or better than them), I usually just play it with them. And then play against them. And so on and so forth until we're on even footing.
I may or may not have fond memories of playing two kids on Rainbow Road in Mario Kart: Double Dash... >,>

[Coidzor]

I'm sure that if we talked about it for long enough or a dedicated thread were made for it, ideas would surface, or at least hilariously bad webcomics that have done this would surface.

Mmm, I'm feeling especially Irish all of a sudden.

[Elemental]

I'm sure that if we talked about it for long enough or a dedicated thread were made for it, ideas would surface, or at least hilariously bad webcomics that have done this would surface.

Mmm, I'm feeling especially Irish all of a sudden.

Probably because it's Saint Patrick's Day.
I even made a special point to where a green shirt.

[LaZodiac]

Welcome to Cobra's How To Training From Hell! =D

Step 1: Channel R. Lee Ermey.
Step 2: Force your trainee to do a task that is difficult but not quite impossible.
Step 3: Repeat Step 2 until they show moderate improvement, but not so long as to make the task trivial.
Step 4: Replace Step 2 with a new nigh-impossible task based on the trainee's improved ability.
Step 5: Repeat until the desired level of skill is reached. Remember, never congratulate your trainee with anything warmer than "I suppose you're not a COMPLETE failure" at the end of the training. This is your only permitted positive statement, and you may only use it once.

If you can somehow set it up as a montage to save time, I highly recommend doing it that way. >.>

Won't work. Amoung other things, don't want to waste precious time on my sister, in concerns to pointless ventures. She'll never be good at video games.

[Coidzor]

Probably because it's Saint Patrick's Day.
I even made a special point to where a green shirt.

I just wear flannel shirts myself. Mostly because I can never seem to find my green t-shirts. Very curious.

[LaZodiac]

I just wear flannel shirts myself. Mostly because I can never seem to find my green t-shirts. Very curious.

Well, worst case scanario, draw green on your face. Call it a temporary tattoo. Anything to avoid getting pinched/beat with a paddle. Unless you like that thing.

Also, can't be the first person to have green things you can't actually show you're wearing :smalltongue::smallredface:

[Coidzor]

Well, worst case scanario, draw green on your face. Call it a temporary tattoo. Anything to avoid getting pinched/beat with a paddle. Unless you like that thing.

Also, can't be the first person to have green things you can't actually show you're wearing :smalltongue::smallredface:

Well, I'd show them, but no one would want to see. :smalltongue: I already scare enough small children and dogs when I show a little leg as it is.

Sadly, I'm out of food coloring and I never could find a good source of body paint, so no Greenzor today.

[absolmorph]

Well, worst case scanario, draw green on your face. Call it a temporary tattoo. Anything to avoid getting pinched/beat with a paddle. Unless you like that thing.

Also, can't be the first person to have green things you can't actually show you're wearing :smalltongue::smallredface:
Pft. Showing underwear is easy.

Oh, and a couple things that I should mention: I achieved the age of 18 and am legally an adult. Also, I have my driver's license. I got it today.

[Feytalist]

So.

8:15 on a Saturday morning and I'm sitting at work.

Well this sucks.

[Cobra_Ikari]

Won't work. Amoung other things, don't want to waste precious time on my sister, in concerns to pointless ventures. She'll never be good at video games.

...oh, right, I had forgotten this was YOUR sister we were talking about. >.<

Still, any excuse to be R. Lee Ermey for a day, right? >=3


And as someone who used to go to a school with uniforms, and whose grad school has a color-based dress code now, green boxers have been my St. Paddy's day buddies forever! =P


*hopes isn't the only one distracted by Zodi talking of green underthings and spankings at the same time* >.>

[Elemental]

So.

8:15 on a Saturday morning and I'm sitting at work.

Well this sucks.

My heart goes out to you.
*sends internet chocolate and candy*

[Cobra_Ikari]

Pft. Showing underwear is easy.

Oh, and a couple things that I should mention: I achieved the age of 18 and am legally an adult. Also, I have my driver's license. I got it today.

...I blame tiredness if I misunderstood, but are you saying it's your birthday? Happy birthday! =D

[Elemental]

Pft. Showing underwear is easy.

Oh, and a couple things that I should mention: I achieved the age of 18 and am legally an adult. Also, I have my driver's license. I got it today.

I should really learn to read one of these days.
Happy Birthday!

[LaZodiac]

...oh, right, I had forgotten this was YOUR sister we were talking about. >.<

Still, any excuse to be R. Lee Ermey for a day, right? >=3

And as someone who used to go to a school with uniforms, and whose grad school has a color-based dress code now, green boxers have been my St. Paddy's day buddies forever! =P

*hopes isn't the only one distracted by Zodi talking of green underthings and spankings at the same time* >.>

It'd be cool, but I don't think I could do it. I don't like being mean to people.

Ah uniforms. So kinda cool.

Hahaha :smallamused::smalltongue:

[absolmorph]

...I blame tiredness if I misunderstood, but are you saying it's your birthday? Happy birthday! =D


I should really learn to read one of these days.
Happy Birthday!

My birthday was actually 2 weeks ago, but the last time I was in here was back in September, so I figured it was worth mentioning. Thanks, though!

[Cobra_Ikari]

It'd be cool, but I don't think I could do it. I don't like being mean to people.

Ah uniforms. So kinda cool.

Hahaha :smallamused::smalltongue:

Really? Hmm. I can picture you being mean really easily, but it's more the fact that you're wearing Scary Shiny Glasses more than anything. So less mean and more...manipulative villainous mastermind.Aren't you glad I didn't link TV Tropes? =P


I'm not sure what's cool about uniforms? :smallconfused: Maybe ours just weren't as special as you think?

[Elemental]

It'd be cool, but I don't think I could do it. I don't like being mean to people.

Ah uniforms. So kinda cool.

Hahaha :smallamused::smalltongue:

We had uniforms in school, it's the norm in Australia.
Fortunately, common sense prevailed, and we only had to wear our formal uniforms on Fridays.
Which was good, because it gets hot in Brisbane.
I actually quite liked our uniforms. The informal uniform (we called it the sports uniform) was a nice green with a golden yellow collar plus the school crest.
The formal was a plain white shirt, long gray pants and a tie. Simple and elegant. However, if you weren't in grade twelve and you were a boy, you had to wear all grey.

[LaZodiac]

Really? Hmm. I can picture you being mean really easily, but it's more the fact that you're wearing Scary Shiny Glasses more than anything. So less mean and more...manipulative villainous mastermind.Aren't you glad I didn't link TV Tropes? =P

I'm not sure what's cool about uniforms? :smallconfused: Maybe ours just weren't as special as you think?

Yha, I admit, my glass's are kinda scary, but they're round, which is generally kept for anti heroes or "villians with a reason" if I recall.

Maybe it's just me, but I kinda like school uniforms, if they are cool enough.

[Cobra_Ikari]

We had uniforms in school, it's the norm in Australia.
Fortunately, common sense prevailed, and we only had to wear our formal uniforms on Fridays.
Which was good, because it gets hot in Brisbane.

Huh. Our formal uniforms were late autumn to early spring wear. Weekday based uniforms just sounds weird. =P



Also, Zodi, I didn't know glasses shape had meanings. Just "shiny = planning on killing someone soon!" >.>

Our uniforms were...hmm, lemme remember. Red, white, or blue polo shirts and either grey or khaki slacks/skirts (I think there was a plaid skirt, too), unless you were a senior, when you could wear a black, sky blue, or green polo instead. Winter uniforms were white or blue dress shirts, red and black striped tie, the pants, and navy blazers with the school crest. The polo shirts had the school logo, too.

[Blue Ghost]

Zodi doesn't have a mean bone in her body. *cuddles* :smallsmile:

Spring quarter of uni is over! I survived!:smallbiggrin:
... Except for the finals.

[Elemental]

Huh. Our formal uniforms were late autumn to early spring wear. Weekday based uniforms just sounds weird. =P

Well, the climate doesn't change much from season to season in Brisbane.
But the school also provided jumpers, spray jackets and trackpants for colder weather.
But the weekday based uniform always made sense to us. Throughout the week, you'd wear the sports uniform, which didn't really matter if anything got on it or anything. Also was much better for sporting activities.
And on Fridays, when we had assembly in the hall, we'd all be dressed in our formal uniforms. It was very practical that way. Our parents would only have to buy one formal uniform, which saved them money.

[Cobra_Ikari]

Zodi doesn't have a mean bone in her body. *cuddles* :smallsmile:

Spring quarter of uni is over! I survived!:smallbiggrin:
... Except for the finals.

I dunno if I believe that. Maybe if it had been "Zodi doesn't have a non-adorable bone in her body"...


Well, the climate doesn't change much from season to season in Brisbane.
But the school also provided jumpers, spray jackets and trackpants for colder weather.
But the weekday based uniform always made sense to us. Throughout the week, you'd wear the sports uniform, which didn't really matter if anything got on it or anything. Also was much better for sporting activities.
And on Fridays, when we had assembly in the hall, we'd all be dressed in our formal uniforms. It was very practical that way. Our parents would only have to buy one formal uniform, which saved them money.

Huh. That doesn't sound practical at all, how is the school supposed to separate you from as much money as possible with THAT strategy? =P

[Elemental]

Huh. That doesn't sound practical at all, how is the school supposed to separate you from as much money as possible with THAT strategy? =P

It was a public school. And a very good public school at that.
They weren't trying to make a profit.

And besides, the uniform shop and the uniform design is mostly controlled by the P&C anyway.

[factotum]

Landing is the easiest part of flying.
It's landing unharmed that's hard.

"A good landing is one you can walk away from." --Pilot-Officer Percy Prune :smallbiggrin:

[LaZodiac]

Zodi doesn't have a mean bone in her body. *cuddles* :smallsmile:

Spring quarter of uni is over! I survived!:smallbiggrin:
... Except for the finals.


I dunno if I believe that. Maybe if it had been "Zodi doesn't have a non-adorable bone in her body"...

Atleast we can both agree, I do infact have bones. That's important!


"A good landing is one you can walk away from." --Pilot-Officer Percy Prune :smallbiggrin:

Anyone who quotes that as truth has not had a bad landing. Just saying :smalltongue:

[Cobra_Ikari]

It was a public school. And a very good public school at that.
They weren't trying to make a profit.

And besides, the uniform shop and the uniform design is mostly controlled by the P&C anyway.

Ah. In the US, uniforms are very much a private school thing, as far as I've seen. >.>

EDIT:

Atleast we can both agree, I do infact have bones. That's important!

Aaaactually, we could both be correct and you be entirely boneless. =3

Though that would make typing somewhat difficult, I think. >.>

[Triscuitable]

Ah. In the US, uniforms are very much a private school thing, as far as I've seen. >.>

I only wish it were in effect at my highschool. You have no idea how often I go about, and see midriffs, and fishnet stockings, and heaven forbid, sleeveless tees. Ugh :smallannoyed:.

[Elemental]

Ah. In the US, uniforms are very much a private school thing, as far as I've seen. >.>



We like our public school uniforms in Queensland. It helps us have pride in our educational institutions. Which are in fact, worthy of pride. At least my school was.
I remember my time there fondly.
*screen wobbles as I begin reminiscing*

Edit: @^ The advantage of a uniform is that it's easy to ban those kinds of things on non-uniform days. Not to say we didn't have our passing fads with accessories that were quickly crushed after an assembly announcement.

[Cobra_Ikari]

I only wish it were in effect at my highschool. You have no idea how often I go about, and see midriffs, and fishnet stockings, and heaven forbid, sleeveless tees. Ugh :smallannoyed:.

I...can't say I would have minded those things.

Our school was basically bored rich kids spending every waking moment in the pursuit of drugs. That's not as much of an exaggeration as I'd like it to be, I watched kids craft pipes in the back of classrooms and deal while standing onstage at an awards ceremony (off to the side of the stage, BUT STILL). As one of the few sober people at my school, it was...not that fun. I'll take skimpy outfits over arrogant junkies anytime. =3

[Coidzor]

Wait. Sleeveless T-shirts? You have a problem with those? Those are downright modest compared to tank tops. Or wife beaters. Granted, back in my day, no one was fool enough to wear a wife beater by itself to school. As an undershirt with an open overshirt sometimes, sure, but not by itself. Probably because we had a basic dress code forbidding clothing that translucent and skimpy at the same time.


Pft. Showing underwear is easy.

Oh, and a couple things that I should mention: I achieved the age of 18 and am legally an adult. Also, I have my driver's license. I got it today.

Congratumalations, Absolminthe! :smallbiggrin:


Aaaactually, we could both be correct and you be entirely boneless. =3

*snrk, snrk, snrk*

[Feytalist]

All schools except private schools have uniforms over here. Guys' clothes are at least okay (you can hardly mess up white shirt, gray pants, black jacket) but the girls' uniforms were... unflattering, to say the least.

The German international school across the road had a semi uniform of white polo shirts, jeans and sneakers, while the consulate international schools had no uniforms.

I cringe every time I hear horror stories from overseas schools. My school had almost zero bullying, a rather friendly atmosphere, and very few drug problems. Few visible drug problems, I should rather say. I guess South Africans are just conditioned to be nicer :smalltongue:

[Elemental]

All schools except private schools have uniforms over here. Guys' clothes are at least okay (you can hardly mess up white shirt, gray pants, black jacket) but the girls' uniforms were... unflattering, to say the least.

The German international school across the road had a semi uniform of white polo shirts, jeans and sneakers, while the consulate international schools had no uniforms.

I cringe every time I hear horror stories from overseas schools. My school had almost zero bullying, a rather friendly atmosphere, and very few drug problems. Few visible drug problems, I should rather say. I guess South Africans are just conditioned to be nicer :smalltongue:

It's the same here in Australia. I almost never hear school based horror stories on the news.

[LaZodiac]

Aaaactually, we could both be correct and you be entirely boneless. =3

Though that would make typing somewhat difficult, I think. >.>

Octozodi! Blbllblblblbl *octopuss*

[Elemental]

Octozodi! Blbllblblblbl *octopuss*

Actually Octopuses have a number of advantages. You'd be able to breathe underwater as well as survive on the surface for a time. You'd be able to fit through tiny gaps and into weirdly shaped tunnels.
And, depending on species, you'll be able to disguise yourself by changing shape and colour!

[Cobra_Ikari]

Octozodi! Blbllblblblbl *octopuss*

D=

SO CYOOT. *glompcuddle*


...my reaction is basically this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82utG7Q3G_k) but with "adorable" instead of "fluffy". >.>

[Coidzor]

...my reaction is basically this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82utG7Q3G_k) but with "adorable" instead of "fluffy". >.>

Indeed, one would probably not want Zodi to be all that fluffy. Considering that fluffy is generally more appropriately used to describe Coidzors. :smalltongue:

[Feytalist]

Aaaand I'm off work.

Well that was a waste of time. One and a half hours.

...back to bed.

[Teddy]

Octozodi! Blbllblblblbl *octopuss*

Actually, octupuses has a translucent plate of bone in their back that actually is a retrovolved shell. It looks and behaves just like plastic.

Also, "puss" means "kiss" in Swedish, which makes your minor misspelling quite hillarious to me. :smallwink:

[AtlanteanTroll]

My dad just played some Good Morning Vietnam to wake me up. I can't tell if I should be mad or happy.

[Elemental]

I'm listening to musicals.
And I haven't even seen the one I'm listening to. But I fell in love with the song when I first heard it sung in grade ten.
One of the girls in my music class chose it as an assessment piece, and by the heavens, she sung it well.

[LaZodiac]

Actually Octopuses have a number of advantages. You'd be able to breathe underwater as well as survive on the surface for a time. You'd be able to fit through tiny gaps and into weirdly shaped tunnels.
And, depending on species, you'll be able to disguise yourself by changing shape and colour!

And I'll be able to position my tenticles in a way to totally convincingly make myself human. I'd be like Octodad, who is totaly a human person and not an octopus.


D=

SO CYOOT. *glompcuddle*

...my reaction is basically this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82utG7Q3G_k) but with "adorable" instead of "fluffy". >.>

Thanks a lot. I don't mind being fluffy, but being adorable is great to!


Actually, octupuses has a translucent plate of bone in their back that actually is a retrovolved shell. It looks and behaves just like plastic.

Also, "puss" means "kiss" in Swedish, which makes your minor misspelling quite hillarious to me. :smallwink:

Octokiss! Eight kiss super attack!

[Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll]

I only wish it were in effect at my highschool. You have no idea how often I go about, and see midriffs, and fishnet stockings, and heaven forbid, sleeveless tees. Ugh :smallannoyed:.

I WISH.

Oh, what I would give to have more trashy white girls at my school... There is less than no dating material.

Actually, some of the grade 10s and 11s are pretty trashy, but still.

I see no problem with midriffs, fishnets, and sleevies as long as those porting them are attractive enough.

[LaZodiac]

I WISH.

Oh, what I would give to have more trashy white girls at my school... There is less than no dating material.

Actually, some of the grade 10s and 11s are pretty trashy, but still.

I see no problem with midriffs, fishnets, and sleevies as long as those porting them are attractive enough.

You...want trashy white girls? That's really strange to me. My expierance with people who are considered trashy are that...well, they're jerks who hate you.

[Elemental]

You...want trashy white girls? That's really strange to me. My expierance with people who are considered trashy are that...well, they're jerks who hate you.

Agreed. Not being an expert on relationships, don't come to me for advice concerning them, but I do know people.
If a person's the kind of person who can be described as trashy, they probably didn't get that way by being kind and generous.

[Pheehelm]

My school uniform is blue camo and steel-toed boots. Except some days it's a khaki shirt and black pants with dress shoes. On Fridays it's this black wool contraption with thirteen buttons on the waistband and minimal pocket space. That last one is different for the girls; it's still black wool, but instead of a jumper they wear a blazer over a white blouse and what I understand to be a more sane waistband.

[Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll]

You...want trashy white girls? That's really strange to me. My expierance with people who are considered trashy are that...well, they're jerks who hate you.

Yup. But they're hot.

Obviously I would prefer really hot yet amazingly smart and above all interesting girls. However, my chances are slim. (though is this one girl ever decides to happen to be online on facebook when I'm online, I haven't talked to her in a whole week, and when I did talk to her last there were promises of coffee...)



ION: the Adventure Playground, a small castle playground, in High Park? Just burned down. Arson. Why would you target a PLAYGROUND for arson?

[Tragic_Comedian]

I only wish it were in effect at my highschool. You have no idea how often I go about, and see midriffs, and fishnet stockings, and heaven forbid, sleeveless tees. Ugh :smallannoyed:.
Yes, I'm sure that must be dreadful.

Personally, I object to school uniforms.


ION: the Adventure Playground, a small castle playground, in High Park? Just burned down. Arson. Why would you target a PLAYGROUND for arson?
They probably didn't have a good reason.

[HalfTangible]

Yup. But they're hot.

Obviously I would prefer really hot yet amazingly smart and above all interesting girls. However, my chances are slim. (though is this one girl ever decides to happen to be online on facebook when I'm online, I haven't talked to her in a whole week, and when I did talk to her last there were promises of coffee...)



ION: the Adventure Playground, a small castle playground, in High Park? Just burned down. Arson. Why would you target a PLAYGROUND for arson?

So I guess you could say... the playground...
*sunglasses*
got flamed?

=D

...

OW! Who threw that?! :smallmad:

Seriously though: Arson tends to be a crime of power, right? Something you do because you CAN and to reaffirm that yes, you indeed can, not because it makes sense or brings you any real joy? That's why.

[Elemental]

ION: the Adventure Playground, a small castle playground, in High Park? Just burned down. Arson. Why would you target a PLAYGROUND for arson?

Probably someone who wanted to make children cry.
Those fiends! Why couldn't they just buy a house with a fireplace like everyone else!

[AtlanteanTroll]

I see no problem with midriffs, fishnets, and sleevies as long as those porting them are attractive enough.

I agree, in general, but at school? Do they want the boys to get no work done? :smalltongue:

[Tragic_Comedian]

I agree, in general, but at school? Do they want the boys to get no work done? :smalltongue:
I don't get any work done anyhow. And some of us have self control. :smalltongue:

Really, the biggest distraction I've ever encountered at school is a window and a sunny day. If they'd just let us outside when the weather is nice... it'd be a much better learning environment.

[Elemental]

I don't get any work done anyhow. And some of us have self control. :smalltongue:

Really, the biggest distraction I've ever encountered at school is a window and a sunny day. If they'd just let us outside when the weather is nice... it'd be a much better learning environment.

Aah... Windows... An excellent addition to any room.
But slightly detrimental in a classroom. But with the way my school was structured, very few of the classrooms looked out over the ovals.