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Kneenibble

2012-10-19, 10:22 AM

Skill in the weapon is nothing without banter, for that sets it a-work; and learning a mere hoard of gold kept by a devil, till banter commences it and sets it in act and use.

Hereof comes it that the Playground is valiant; for the cold blood we did naturally inherit of our fathers, we have, like lean, sterile and bare land, manured, husbanded and tilled with excellent endeavour of speaking good and good store of fertile banter, that we are become very hot and valiant.

If I had a thousand sons, the first humane principle I would teach them should be, to foreswear thin discourse and addict themselves to banter.

The Previous Random Banter can be found here:
Mynxae's Maliciously Magnificent Random Banter #183 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=257322)

The Not-So-Random Rules of Random Banter:
A hot temper leaps over a cold decree
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.

5. Please don't post single line posts alerting us to your current status -- as in "I'm back." This is Random Banter, not "How to stalk Random GitP forum members."

6. Don't poke, kick or bump the thread. It will move at whatever pace it wants to. Also, please refrain from Captain Obvious comments akin to "My, the thread is fast today."

7. Random Banter can only be as good, or as entertaining, as you make it. Demands to be entertained will fall on deaf ears unless you can add something more meaningful to the conversation.

8. As this is a public forum, where the current topic is nicely recorded for you, and not a conversation where you could have missed the beginning, please refrain from asking something to the effect of "What's the topic?". Please take the time to read up a bit first.

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

10. Every post should contain two visible, legible complete sentences, Subject and Predicate. C'mon, make your old English teachers proud.

11. Remember, Random Banter is not your IM client. If you want to have a back and forth discussion with just one person, look in their contact information for IM details.

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.

Unto the Last Syllable of Recorded Banter:
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)
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Mynxae

2012-10-19, 10:26 AM

A most excellent name, Sir Nibbles. Would you like a serving of honey for your budgies? *posh voice* :smalltongue:

LaZodiac

2012-10-19, 10:33 AM

Woohoo, new thread.

Now I believe you had a question to answer unto the Pink Haired August fellow, yes? *posh voice*

Heliomance

2012-10-19, 10:41 AM

I merely pray it not be a death knell.

The Succubus

2012-10-19, 10:45 AM

Or a deaf knell. I'd hate having to type everything IN CAPS.

Dimonite

2012-10-19, 10:49 AM

A new thread? Woah Knellie! ACK! PUN POLICE ARE HERE TO ARREST ME NOOOOOOOOASDVAODFVNA'ERNWENGWJ

Cobra_Ikari

2012-10-19, 11:03 AM

*reads thread title, wonders if this means traditional boogie is to be performed in one's undergarments*

*shrugs, boogies*

...because it's fun teasing Kneen. =3

Socratov

2012-10-19, 11:14 AM

*reads thread title, wonders if this means traditional boogie is to be performed in one's undergarments*

*shrugs, boogies*

...because it's fun teasing Kneen. =3

*inhales* hmmm... New thread smell...

Anyway, this quote makes me think of shin chan. What a great show that was...

*drifts off into a nostalgic mood*

Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll

2012-10-19, 11:18 AM

I hope putting the top hat in the wash wasn't a terrible idea, because it REALLY need cleaning, and that's the quickest way to go about it...

Miscast_Mage

2012-10-19, 11:22 AM

I hope putting the top hat in the wash wasn't a terrible idea, because it REALLY need cleaning, and that's the quickest way to go about it...

Unfortunately, methinks that shall get you a floppy toppy. On the bright side though, you get a floppy toppy.

AtlanteanTroll

2012-10-19, 11:30 AM

You had the most excellent opportunity to put the name of our ship into the thread title and you did not. For that I am grateful.'

wadledo

2012-10-19, 11:34 AM

Aw man, I actually get to post on the first page of a random banter?
How wonderful.

Does anyone have any suggestions for movies along the lines of Push/the Borne series?

Sir Reingo

2012-10-19, 11:43 AM

Delightful, I get to see a new day dawn on the dias of deadly dictation.

WarKitty

2012-10-19, 12:43 PM

*reads thread title, wonders if this means traditional boogie is to be performed in one's undergarments*

*shrugs, boogies*

...because it's fun teasing Kneen. =3

What sorts of undergarments do snakes wear anyway?

Kneenibble

2012-10-19, 12:57 PM

A most excellent name, Sir Nibbles. Would you like a serving of honey for your budgies? *posh voice* :smalltongue:

Yes, but don’t forget some honey for papa bird! Lay it on me, minxy.

Shady gardens are the best. They always seem to promote cooling breezes. But unfortunately, there's only about three metres of space between the back stairs and the fence line. Though I am jealous of the neighbours' palms, which incidentally provide the aforementioned shade.
As for bleeding heart, I think we have that under the back stairs... My Mum pulled it out because she wanted to get rid of it because it was untidy, and I take cruel satisfaction in knowing that it survived her attempts.
Oh... And I've heard things about foxglove. Do be careful with them.

They are, root to leaf, fantastically poisonous, aren’t they? I shall be careful with them, certaignly. But on the other hand they are so, so beautiful, and I have a perfect spot for them to unfurl their stalks of fingertip blooms.

Not only are shade gardens cooling and refreshing, but the garden plants that thrive in shade are usually very pretty and unusual. A thriving hosta with its graceful probisces of pale purple flowers; the bunched blue-green fronds of a bleeding heart, with its arched boughs of candy-like blossoms; dainty lacy ferns; others more exotic whose name I know not.

As to bleeding hearts, are we talking about the same plant? For some reason I thought it was a pretty exclusively cold-weather perennial which would not be able to grow in your kind of climate. This? --
http://bleedingheartplant.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Dicentra.jpg

Umm... I'm going to have to say no to Mabel going any closer to my eyes than my eye brows. You know, for psychological reasons.

Elemental, you will hurt her feelings… you must let her preen you wherever she wishes, even be it the very edge of your eyelid

... Good lord are you ever scrawny. :smalltongue:

He is like a man made after supper of a cheese-paring: when he is naked, he is, for all the world, like a forked radish, with a head fantastically carved upon it with a knife: he is so forlorn, that his dimensions to any thick sight are invincible: he is the very genius of famine; yet lecherous as a monkey, and the whores called him mandrake.

Not "The French" but French. The language is as obtuse as you can get for no real benefit. It's rules are lacking mind bogglingly unconnected to what is spoken, dictation in French is pretty much exclusively an exercise in having memorized what you are going to be dictated. The speaking itself is an annoyance, an exercise in producing ridiculous sounds which are better explained as "try to sound like a Frenchmen"; I am not required to sound like an English or an American when speaking English. I do not use "sh" instead of "s", do not make nasal sounds, abuse the particle "che" or go high pitched at the end of every word when it is expected of me to speak proper Spanish. My hands are not expected to convulse at every second as much as I am not expected to sound like a stereotypical Italian every time I speak Italian.

Their Acadëmie can rot with its "Immortals", which by now are more akin to "Zombies", for all I care; at least the RAE acknowledges that words such as "blue jean" are in the parlance of the people and include it, even if in insane ways like "bluyin" (yes, that's how you are supposed to write "blue jean" in Spanish, academic works prefer to keep the quotation marks to stave the ridiculous, but at least the RAE tried).

French is the Latin bastard son which thinks higher of himself than it should. I'm complacent in understanding most of it and caring not for speaking it ever as long as my tongue is on my mouth, I suffice with Spanish and Italian, and am more than willing to become learned in Latin and Portuguese; French, maybe I'll teach my new birdie pet that.

Though I myself endeavour to improve my French constantly, so that I might one day be fluent, I am not offended by your strong opinion – rather it tickles me wonderfully. How delightfully worded!

I understand your viewpoint will be very different from mine, as a descendent of Latin culture rather than Anglo. For me the feeling of French in my mouth is elusively delicious and comprises a part of my cultural heritage as a Canadian. Though knowing that Spanish is spelt pretty much phonetically, I respect your position about French’s preposterously inefficient orthography.

ION: In a fit of mood swinging which I decided to stabilise, my personal garden has grown by two species and I have acquired a small green chested bird which I have yet to ornithologise properly. In my traditional fashion of having every lifeform available to me eventually become able of consuming animals I have decided to experiment on feeding my small bird cooked meat, however I do not wish to see him dead; is this is a reasonable endeavour?

Cuuuuuuute! Many parrot species in the wild supplement their seed diet with larvae and insects, and can therefore digest animal proteins well: budgies, for example, can safely eat small amounts of cooked lean meat or eggs [emphasis on small]. But you should identify what kind of bird it is [pictures so we can help/squee? :D] first, just to be safe.

Cobra_Ikari

2012-10-19, 01:03 PM

What sorts of undergarments do snakes wear anyway?

Well, I suppose the same ones you do, Kitty. :smallwink:

*snuggles* :smallamused:

Kneenibble

2012-10-19, 01:07 PM

I ask forgiveness for posting twice in a row: I thought it better to make two indecently long posts, rather than a single post so long as to be obscene.

Woohoo, new thread.

Now I believe you had a question to answer unto the Pink Haired August fellow, yes? *posh voice*

And has thou any questions for me this day? For I have seen thy face from afar, and the fairness woven therein; and wish to impart some boon upon one whom fortune has favoured with formliness.

*reads thread title, wonders if this means traditional boogie is to be performed in one's undergarments*

*shrugs, boogies*

...because it's fun teasing Kneen. =3

You're going to give me anaemia, dammit. I need to lie down again.

You had the most excellent opportunity to put the name of our ship into the thread title and you did not. For that I am grateful.'

Our impassioned avian lust, to an onlooker so like a shrilly bursting cottonball, has disgraced the institution of your marriage enough. And, quite frankly, the pain of its revelation is too raw and tender for me to make jokes.

I merely pray it not be a death knell.

Or a deaf knell. I'd hate having to type everything IN CAPS.

Nay indeed: it summons us to Heaven, not to Hell.

However I think you will find that deaf people are quite able to read. :smallwink:

Delightful, I get to see a new day dawn on the dias of deadly dictation.

Be welcome to our discourse, mi squale nobilis ferens barba super os.

Dimonite

2012-10-19, 01:29 PM

He is like a man made after supper of a cheese-paring: when he is naked, he is, for all the world, like a forked radish, with a head fantastically carved upon it with a knife: he is so forlorn, that his dimensions to any thick sight are invincible: he is the very genius of famine; yet lecherous as a monkey, and the whores called him mandrake.

He is like a man made after supper of a cheese-paring: when he is naked, he is, for all the world, like a forked radish, with a head fantastically carved upon it with a knife: he is so forlorn, that his dimensions to any thick sight are invincible: he is the very genius of famine; yet lecherous as a monkey, and the whores called him mandrake.

You said that twice. :smalltongue:

ION: I managed to get out of pun police lockup. In interrogation, they said they'd been after me for years, and I didn't help my case by saying "But my hearing's bad enough as it is!" They were going let me out on bail, but changed their minds when I dumped a bucketful of water on their floors instead of giving them money. I only managed to escape by threatening to tell my kayak pun if they didn't let me out. They'll be coming for me again soon, this time to kill.

AtlanteanTroll

2012-10-19, 02:00 PM

Our impassioned avian lust, to an onlooker so like a shrilly bursting cottonball, has disgraced the institution of your marriage enough. And, quite frankly, the pain of its revelation is too raw and tender for me to make jokes.

I want you now more than ever before.

Teddy

2012-10-19, 02:12 PM

My sympathies. I'm hopeful that this is a recoverable evaluation, even if at a later point in time.

Yes, I'll be able to retake the exam in January without any penalties or drawbacks (but I might lose my four bonus points I've earned together during the course). I'll just have to make sure that I don't forget everything until then.

Qwertystop

2012-10-19, 02:30 PM

LaZodiac

2012-10-19, 02:39 PM

I ask forgiveness for posting twice in a row: I thought it better to make two indecently long posts, rather than a single post so long as to be obscene.

And has thou any questions for me this day? For I have seen thy face from afar, and the fairness woven therein; and wish to impart some boon upon one whom fortune has favoured with formliness.

As ever, Cobra managed to sneak between you and get a post in before you double posted.

What are your opinion on the Shrike bird, more commonly known as the Butcher Bird. I'm curious since you're the resident bird guy.

Yes, I'll be able to retake the exam in January without any penalties or drawbacks (but I might lose my four bonus points I've earned together during the course). I'll just have to make sure that I don't forget everything until then.

Good luck Teddy!

Dimonite

2012-10-19, 03:13 PM

Ummmm......
I see a reference to my earlier post is in order:

A new thread? Woah Knellie! ACK! PUN POLICE ARE HERE TO ARREST ME NOOOOOOOOASDVAODFVNA'ERNWENGWJ

Amidus Drexel

2012-10-19, 03:29 PM

Gotta love that new thread smell... :smallbiggrin:

ION: I'm helping out with a local Halloween/haunted trail this weekend and next weekend. Hooray for scaring little kids! :smallbiggrin:

Kneenibble

2012-10-19, 04:13 PM

You said that twice. :smalltongue:

ION: I managed to get out of pun police lockup. In interrogation, they said they'd been after me for years, and I didn't help my case by saying "But my hearing's bad enough as it is!" They were going let me out on bail, but changed their minds when I dumped a bucketful of water on their floors instead of giving them money. I only managed to escape by threatening to tell my kayak pun if they didn't let me out. They'll be coming for me again soon, this time to kill.

No I didn't :smallredface:

This will not march, Dimonitus. This is my thread, and here we have not pun police, but pun gestapo; paronomasia is known to be curable by electroshock therapy.

I want you now more than ever before.

Don't you start teasing me now. There is only so much my little birdy heart can endure.

As ever, Cobra managed to sneak between you and get a post in before you double posted.

What are your opinion on the Shrike bird, more commonly known as the Butcher Bird. I'm curious since you're the resident bird guy.

I did not know of this bird, and having Googled, I must say I am partly disturbed and partly enthralled. How curiously and delightfully brutal.

Do you have this bird where you live?

Also

As ever, Cobra managed to sneak between you and get a post in before you double posted.

Cobra managed to sneak between you

sneak between you
:smallamused::smallredface::smallbiggrin: *dies*

He is a tricksy snake, isn't he

Dimonite

2012-10-19, 04:47 PM

No I didn't :smallredface:

This will not march, Dimonitus. This is my thread, and here we have not pun police, but pun gestapo; paronomasia is known to be curable by electroshock therapy.

Down with the pun gestapo! Pun bomb, go!

There was once an eskimo paddling his boat down a river. He got very cold, and decided to light a fire in his boat. Naturally, the boat sank, proving that you can't have your kayak and heat it too.

Qwertystop

2012-10-19, 04:48 PM

Down with the pun gestapo! Pun bomb, go!

There was once an eskimo paddling his boat down a river. He got very cold, and decided to light a fire in his boat. Naturally, the boat sank, proving that you can't have your kayak and heat it too.

Kayak is pronounced nothing like cake.

LaZodiac

2012-10-19, 05:01 PM

I did not know of this bird, and having Googled, I must say I am partly disturbed and partly enthralled. How curiously and delightfully brutal.

Do you have this bird where you live?

Also

:smallamused::smallredface::smallbiggrin: *dies*

He is a tricksy snake, isn't he

None that I'm aware, it's just a thing I recently learned about as well.

Yes, yes he is :smallamused::smalltongue::smallredface:

Tragic_Comedian

2012-10-19, 05:20 PM

I hope putting the top hat in the wash wasn't a terrible idea, because it REALLY need cleaning, and that's the quickest way to go about it...
You should have took it to a hat cleaner and got it cleaned and blocked. It's probably gonna be out of shape when it dries.

Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll

2012-10-19, 05:39 PM

Update, the hat's perfectly fine. Because it's so damn cheap.

AtlanteanTroll

2012-10-19, 05:41 PM

Don't you start teasing me now. There is only so much my little birdy heart can endure.
C'mere moi petite Budgie.

Heliomance

2012-10-19, 06:11 PM

Sir Reingo

2012-10-19, 06:22 PM

Those puns were... Painful. Coming from someone who loves dumb puns.

Devmaar

2012-10-19, 06:24 PM

Those puns were... Painful. Coming from someone who loves dumb puns.

Painful?

I think you mean punishing :smallamused:

WarKitty

2012-10-19, 06:30 PM

*recruits snake, sets up hug booth*

Sir Reingo

2012-10-19, 06:40 PM

Punishing? They made me want to punch someone in the face.

Dimonite

2012-10-19, 06:48 PM

Punishing? They made me want to punch someone in the face.

Then punt them from a rooftop?

Kayak is pronounced nothing like cake.

And yet you got the joke.

Sir Reingo

2012-10-19, 06:50 PM

Something like that. Say, is anyone here from Australia? Then we could say they're from the Land Down Punder.

Heliomance

2012-10-19, 06:52 PM

Those puns were... Painful. Coming from someone who loves dumb puns.

Mine? You wound me, sirrah.

Sir Reingo

2012-10-19, 06:54 PM

I do believe that the strength of my words were lent power by the great force of intent.

And how dare you, calling me sirrah? We both know that is a term used for those of lower social rank, and I shall not condescend to accept any apologies. A duel it is!

Kyrian

2012-10-19, 06:55 PM

I have decided to overthrow this thread and turn all the attention towards me!

Oh...no one I know is really on? Pooh.

Carry on with your semiregularly scheduled random banter.

On Topic: I'm putting my gold on the winner.

Heliomance

2012-10-19, 06:56 PM

Sir Reingo

2012-10-19, 06:59 PM

You think I'd use Haddocks? No! We shall duel with Herrings, at midnight, and it shall be a Lumberjacking contest!

Teddy

2012-10-19, 07:24 PM

Good luck Teddy!

Thanks, I'll find good use for it! :smallsmile:
...
It won't grow stale if I save it for three months, will it? Can you put good luck in the freezer to make it last longer? :smallconfused::smallwink:

Coidzor

2012-10-19, 07:26 PM

You think I'd use Haddocks? No! We shall duel with Herrings, at midnight, and it shall be a Lumberjacking contest!

You shall wield a car. I, a terrier! :smallamused:

LaZodiac

2012-10-19, 07:52 PM

Thanks, I'll find good use for it! :smallsmile:
...
It won't grow stale if I save it for three months, will it? Can you put good luck in the freezer to make it last longer? :smallconfused::smallwink:

Yha, it should be fine if you do that.

Coidzor

2012-10-19, 08:49 PM

Personally I find boiling the luck and catching the steam in a balloon is the best way to keep it, but it's a bit time consuming.

Soon. Soon Monster baking will be complete. Muahahhaha. Even I don't know what I've created here, mostly because I decided to randomly throw ingredients together.

Rawhide

2012-10-19, 10:38 PM

Hey LaZodiac, medical science would like a word with you (http://kotaku.com/5953124/sexual-arousal-doesnt-cause-bloody-noses-says-medical-science)!

Cobra_Ikari

2012-10-19, 10:55 PM

Hey LaZodiac, medical science would like a word with you (http://kotaku.com/5953124/sexual-arousal-doesnt-cause-bloody-noses-says-medical-science)!

Clearly, Zodi is part anime. Don't hate on her culture! :smalltongue::smallamused:

LaZodiac

2012-10-19, 11:20 PM

Hey LaZodiac, medical science would like a word with you (http://kotaku.com/5953124/sexual-arousal-doesnt-cause-bloody-noses-says-medical-science)!

I'm quite aware of this. I'm going to go wtih Cobra's diagnosis since he's a doctor.

Either that or it's a coincidence. Whicever seems more likely.

Mynxae

2012-10-20, 12:34 AM

Something like that. Say, is anyone here from Australia? Then we could say they're from the Land Down Punder.

Funnily enough, yes. :smallsigh:

LaZodiac

2012-10-20, 02:11 AM

Tragic_Comedian

2012-10-20, 02:53 AM

I have a couple blankets with me at college that people gave me as presents. The most interesting thing about the one is that I use it as a curtain when I'm sleeping so the sun won't shine on me and wake me up.

Teddy

2012-10-20, 04:40 AM

Personally I find boiling the luck and catching the steam in a balloon is the best way to keep it, but it's a bit time consuming.

Doesn't sound especially space efficient either...

Teddy mentioned his blanket before, and I feel I should share with you guys what MY blanket is. It was put together by my Auntie. One side is black, the other side has a lizard and tropical floral print (I like lizards, you see). It's so warm and relaxing that it's all I need in any weather, and simply having it over me makes me sleepy. It's pretty sweet.

Man, I wish I had a duvet cover like that. Mine are just blue or green with nonsensical patterns...

...a sky blue one, with a mighty bird of prey spreading its wings to cover me as I lie resting in my bed. And small white cotton-clouds to provide ambience to the background...

See, now you got me dreaming again. :smallwink:

Cobra_Ikari

2012-10-20, 06:37 AM

Teddy mentioned his blanket before, and I feel I should share with you guys what MY blanket is. It was put together by my Auntie. One side is black, the other side has a lizard and tropical floral print (I like lizards, you see). It's so warm and relaxing that it's all I need in any weather, and simply having it over me makes me sleepy. It's pretty sweet.

Everyone should share a story about their blankets.

Aww, could you be more adorable? I think not. :smallsmile::smallredface:

Also, just lizards, or all reptiles? It's important, you see. :smallwink::smallredface:

On blankets: I'm quite fond of them, but I don't really have any with personal memories. Still, it's not that uncommon to find me curled up with a fluffy one. Or, more likely, rolled up in it and hanging off the furniture. It's comfier that way. >.>

The Succubus

2012-10-20, 06:49 AM

*didn't actually know that. Oops.*

Very well then! Haddocks at dawn!

A pun duel. This must be done.

Serpentine

2012-10-20, 07:40 AM

I did not know of this bird, and having Googled, I must say I am partly disturbed and partly enthralled. How curiously and delightfully brutal.

Do you have this bird where you live?If you can, try to find a video with its call. The butcher bird, at least the pied butcher bird which I'm familiar with, has a really beautiful, delicate call. Quite out of step with its brutal nature.

I have decided to overthrow this thread and turn all the attention towards me!

Oh...no one I know is really on? Pooh.Oh hey, it's you! You're that guy! o/

So I dropped by here because I was just watching the James Bond movie, The World Is Not Enough, in which there was an exchange that went something like this:
James Bond in disguise: "My name is [Russian doctor's name]. And you are Miss...?"
Woman he'll probably shag at some point: "Doctor. Doctor Jones. Don't bother making any jokes, I've already heard them all."
James Bond: "I do not know any Doctor Jones."

Is... Is that an Indiana Jones reference?

edit: Aw. Never mind. I looked up the quote and, sadly, I missed a word that makes it very clearly not an Indiana Jones reference. The actual quote being:
James Bond: and you are miss?
Dr. Christmas Jones: Doctor Jones. Christmas Jones, and don't tell me any jokes, I've heard them all.
James Bond: I don't know any doctor jokes.

*sigh* :smallfrown:

randman22222

2012-10-20, 07:42 AM

If you can, try to find a video with its call. The butcher bird, at least the pied butcher bird which I'm familiar with, has a really beautiful, delicate call. Quite out of step with its brutal nature.
Oh hey, it's you! You're that guy! o/

So I dropped by here because I was just watching the James Bond movie, The World Is Not Enough, in which there was an exchange that went something like this:
James Bond in disguise: "My name is [Russian doctor's name]. And you are Miss...?"
Woman he'll probably shag at some point: "Doctor. Doctor Jones. Don't bother making any jokes, I've already heard them all."
James Bond: "I do not know any Doctor Jones."

Is... Is that an Indiana Jones reference?

I always heard it as "I do not know any doctor jokes." :smallconfused:
And I thought the doctor said her name was "Christmas Jones" or something. Something with Christmas, and that's why she mentioned the jokes.

EDIT: Beaten by your own edit. :smalltongue:

Serpentine

2012-10-20, 07:44 AM

Yep. See my edit, I just discovered that.
Also, why are you in Dvil's pants? That's where I'm meant to be, and I have the Secret to prove it! :smallannoyed:

randman22222

2012-10-20, 07:51 AM

Yep. See my edit, I just discovered that.
Also, why are you in Dvil's pants? That's where I'm meant to be, and I have the Secret to prove it! :smallannoyed:

Eh heheh. It was kinda his idea... I think the idea is that anyone is allowed to join in. :smalltongue:

Mutant Sheep

2012-10-20, 08:00 AM

Those puns were... Painful. Coming from someone who loves dumb puns.

Indeed. They hurt my bwain much.

Also, I hereby post in the grand thread of Knee, expecting much funs. Is there to be fun, or merely pun? :smallamused:

Devmaar

2012-10-20, 08:04 AM

Indeed. They hurt my bwain much.

Also, I hereby post in the grand thread of Knee, expecting much funs. Is there to be fun, or merely pun? :smallamused:

You'll appreciate the fun more if you have to wad through the pun to get to it

Mutant Sheep

2012-10-20, 08:07 AM

... That wasn't very punny. *Binky Laugh*

Sir Reingo

2012-10-20, 08:09 AM

Is that pun patent punding?

LaZodiac

2012-10-20, 11:11 AM

Doesn't sound especially space efficient either...

Man, I wish I had a duvet cover like that. Mine are just blue or green with nonsensical patterns...

...a sky blue one, with a mighty bird of prey spreading its wings to cover me as I lie resting in my bed. And small white cotton-clouds to provide ambience to the background...

See, now you got me dreaming again. :smallwink:

Dreaming is a good thing :smallwink:

Aww, could you be more adorable? I think not. :smallsmile::smallredface:

Also, just lizards, or all reptiles? It's important, you see. :smallwink::smallredface:

On blankets: I'm quite fond of them, but I don't really have any with personal memories. Still, it's not that uncommon to find me curled up with a fluffy one. Or, more likely, rolled up in it and hanging off the furniture. It's comfier that way. >.>

I like all reptiles :smallwink:

Kyrian

2012-10-20, 11:18 AM

Oh hey, it's you! You're that guy! o/

Yay I'm loved!

<3

LaZodiac

2012-10-20, 11:21 AM

Yay I'm loved!

<3

I recognize you too :smallbiggrin:

How's your baby doing?

Kyrian

2012-10-20, 11:54 AM

I recognize you too :smallbiggrin:

How's your baby doing?

She's doing great, three months old already. Holy *%#$ she's already that old??? Where did time go?? o.O

LaZodiac

2012-10-20, 11:55 AM

Time went thataway (points in all the directions).

AtlanteanTroll

2012-10-20, 12:00 PM

She's doing great, three months old already. Holy *%#$ she's already that old??? Where did time go?? o.O

If what my parents said last month is true, she'll be 18 before you know it.

Kneenibble

2012-10-20, 12:08 PM

Teddy mentioned his blanket before, and I feel I should share with you guys what MY blanket is. It was put together by my Auntie. One side is black, the other side has a lizard and tropical floral print (I like lizards, you see). It's so warm and relaxing that it's all I need in any weather, and simply having it over me makes me sleepy. It's pretty sweet.

Everyone should share a story about their blankets.

Nice.

I have an unremarkable blanket [quite small, more of a shawl] of beige wool that belonged to a man who walked coast to coast across Canada and back.

When I met him, I saw his aura, which is the only time I've experienced something paranormal like that.

If you can, try to find a video with its call. The butcher bird, at least the pied butcher bird which I'm familiar with, has a really beautiful, delicate call. Quite out of step with its brutal nature.

I have just done so: how cute! I see it was an Australian bird, too. Do you see it in your environs? Can this bird be convinced to cuddle?

Eh heheh. It was kinda his idea... I think the idea is that anyone is allowed to join in. :smalltongue:

Thou! Thou nobile scarcity!

Kyrian

2012-10-20, 12:08 PM

If what my parents said last month is true, she'll be 18 before you know it.

We have (well trying to have) an understanding. She's not allowed to get any bigger. Until I'm ready

Kneenibble

2012-10-20, 12:10 PM

We have (well trying to have) an understanding. She's not allowed to get any bigger. Until I'm ready

For the future, a great way to keep her safe is to tell her boyfriends "Don't do anything to my daughter you wouldn't want me to do to you."

Kyrian

2012-10-20, 12:13 PM

For the future, a great way to keep her safe is to tell her boyfriends "Don't do anything to my daughter you wouldn't want me to do to you."

OMG THIS! YES!!! I just fell out of my chair laughing at this. I'm nearly in tears. <3

Serpentine

2012-10-20, 12:15 PM

I have just done so: how cute! I see it was an Australian bird, too. Do you see it in your environs? Can this bird be convinced to cuddle?I do, on occasion! And hear it, too - took a while to realise that was what was making the noise.
As for cuddling... I'm not sure. I imagine it's as tameable as any other bird if you raise it from a chick, but I can't say I've ever heard of anyone having one as a pet.

Rawhide

2012-10-20, 12:19 PM

These are the birds you want. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u81EwwKBvqc)

LaZodiac

2012-10-20, 12:21 PM

Nice.

I have an unremarkable blanket [quite small, more of a shawl] of beige wool that belonged to a man who walked coast to coast across Canada and back.

When I met him, I saw his aura, which is the only time I've experienced something paranormal like that.

That sounds like an interesting story and I would like you to share.

Coidzor

2012-10-20, 01:01 PM

The imitable Warren Zevon had some words on the subject of daughters, I seem to recall.

Something about Tenderness on Blocks or some such. :smalltongue:

Personally, I'm still waiting for Johnny to strike up the band myself, but I'm just an excitable boy.

That's pretty interesting, Kneen.

AtlanteanTroll

2012-10-20, 01:04 PM

We have (well trying to have) an understanding. She's not allowed to get any bigger. Until I'm ready

What about the missus?

AsteriskAmp

2012-10-20, 01:06 PM

I have just done so: how cute! I see it was an Australian bird, too. Do you see it in your environs? Can this bird be convinced to cuddle?There are actually two types of "butcher-bird".

The Butcherbird which is indeed Australian and the Shrike or Butcher Bird which is the one that is indeed... a butcher and isn't native to the southern hemisphere.

Mutant Sheep

2012-10-20, 01:07 PM

For the future, a great way to keep her safe is to tell her boyfriends "Don't do anything to my daughter you wouldn't want me to do to you."

...:smallwink:

In my personal teenage whine news: Today feels like a school day. Damn tests. Make me sad. :smallfrown:

Coidzor

2012-10-20, 01:09 PM

...:smallwink:

In my personal teenage whine news: Today feels like a school day. Damn tests. Make me sad. :smallfrown:

Just remember. This too shall pass and then you'll long for the days you had to play in the sun while not having to work in order to not freeze to death in the winter. :smalltongue:

Hell, I just miss having the time to really sit down and read a good book.

Rawhide

2012-10-20, 01:14 PM

Try not to confuse the butcherbird with the magpie. The latter will swoop down and bombdive you with its beak.

Australia, where even the birds will attack you.

randman22222

2012-10-20, 01:18 PM

Snip.

Thou! Thou nobile scarcity!

Nobile? Since when?

These are the birds you want. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u81EwwKBvqc)

Ohhhhh yes. Those birds are INSANELY friendly. Even semi-wild ones will sometimes happily eat from your hand and hang around a while. It was a cool mix of bizarre and d'aww when I first came across some Loris. :smallbiggrin:

LaZodiac

2012-10-20, 01:23 PM

Try not to confuse the butcherbird with the magpie. The latter will swoop down and bombdive you with its beak.

Australia, where even the birds will attack you.

One of the birds steals shiny things. The other one impales other birds on spikes. The difference COULD save your life.

AtlanteanTroll

2012-10-20, 01:23 PM

Try not to confuse the butcherbird with the magpie. The latter will swoop down and bombdive you with its beak.

Australia, where even the birds will attack you.

I was under the impression that it was emus that'd attack you in Australia. :smalltongue:

Rawhide

2012-10-20, 01:30 PM

I was under the impression that it was emus that'd attack you in Australia. :smalltongue:

If you play dead, emus will just stomp on you a few times, maybe break some bones. Magpies, on the other hand (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NaNmXLK9c0)...

Coidzor

2012-10-20, 01:30 PM

Huh. I guess that explains why they named anti-tank missiles after those birds then. ...Now I want a Shrike...

I was under the impression that it was emus that'd attack you in Australia. :smalltongue:

Emus will attack you anywhere, not just in Australia. :smallwink:

Rawhide

2012-10-20, 01:36 PM

He's on my tail, I can't shake him! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoJ_295OutM)

AsteriskAmp

2012-10-20, 01:37 PM

Emus will attack you anywhere, not just in Australia. :smallwink:Elsewhere you list the things that attack you, in Haustralia you list those that don't.

MoonCat

2012-10-20, 01:47 PM

Coidzor

2012-10-20, 01:56 PM

Downstairs, my dad is reading a 150 year-old 'sequel' to the King Arthur story written in Dutch. It's in language style from a 150 years ago trying to sound as if it were written 900 years ago.

I honestly have no idea how or why I tried to read a few sentences and succeeded.

Apparently it's pretty funny though. Dad, who is fluent in Dutch, says that it's like trying to read a Terry Pratchett book featuring the Nac Mac Feegle, if the book were written 150 years ago, and Pratchett were trying to make it sound even older.

Yeah, that always was my experience with Old English and Dutch when I've encountered them. Not completely incomprehensibly foreign like French or German or Cantonese or Arabic or Swahili, but enough that I feel I'd understand it better after I'd loosened up a bit.

LaZodiac

2012-10-20, 02:01 PM

Teddy

2012-10-20, 03:11 PM

Ahh, nightly walks. Senses sharpened to the limit to take in absolutely nothing, a moment's respite for my mind. To experience peace...

On the other hand, the enhanced hypersensitivity can have its downsides as well. Such as when someone on the other side of a building (and probably a good 50-100 metres away from where you are) makes a sudden outburst to his friend next to him, and it feels like a gunshot in your ears. Ow.

Coidzor

2012-10-20, 03:20 PM

How are you able to take such nightly walks and yet have people living in any proximity to you? :smallconfused:

That...actually sounds hilarious.

That too, haha. Touching base with one's inner Feegle is good for you.

As long as there's not literally a Feegle inside of you. That's just bad for your digestion. And life expectancy.

Teddy

2012-10-20, 03:46 PM

How are you able to take such nightly walks and yet have people living in any proximity to you? :smallconfused:

I live in the suburbs less than 500 metres from the countryside. There usually aren't many people out at half past nine in the evening, and I can usually evade those who are by taking a quick turn onto another street.

Also, it isn't pitch black or anything, if that's what you think. Just silent and very still. Streetlights have this ability to give everything an air of presentness. It's like everything else becomes irrelevant, which is the mindset I strive for when I need to pace down.

Heliomance

2012-10-20, 03:55 PM

Time went thataway (points in all the directions).

No, time went thataway *arm disappears*

LaZodiac

2012-10-20, 03:58 PM

Coidzor

2012-10-20, 04:13 PM

I live in the suburbs less than 500 metres from the countryside. There usually aren't many people out at half past nine in the evening, and I can usually evade those who are by taking a quick turn onto another street.

Also, it isn't pitch black or anything, if that's what you think. Just silent and very still. Streetlights have this ability to give everything an air of presentness. It's like everything else becomes irrelevant, which is the mindset I strive for when I need to pace down.

Mmm, their flickering deaths when I stroll by has a different effect on me, if I understand you rightly.

Then again, I can't concentrate because the light keeps changing on me, haha. Messes with the animal life I encounter before I even get near it too.

...Been too long since I've been able to stroll in the countryside under a moonless, starless night...

Or skulk in back alleys and rooftops under a dead sky, for that matter.

Teddy

2012-10-20, 04:23 PM

Mmm, their flickering deaths when I stroll by has a different effect on me, if I understand you rightly.

Then again, I can't concentrate because the light keeps changing on me, haha. Messes with the animal life I encounter before I even get near it too.

Ahh, flickering lights. It was years since I last saw one.

...Been too long since I've been able to stroll in the countryside under a moonless, starless night...

Or skulk in back alleys and rooftops under a dead sky, for that matter.

Speaking about dark nights, I once biked through a forest on a moonless, starry night (those are the darkest around these parts. The city lights are reflected in the clouds on cloudy nights and bathes the landscape in a dim, cold orange light) without any kind of illumination. At a good pace no less. That was quite an experience. Sadly, dark, moonless and cloudless nights are quite rare around these parts.

MoonCat

2012-10-20, 06:45 PM

SLightly embarrassed to realize that, due watching the literal dozens of AMV's set to Gay or European from animes I watch, I know all the words.

The same goes for the more popular Avenue Q songs, for the same reasons, despite never having seen the play.

LaZodiac

2012-10-20, 07:05 PM

Qwertystop

2012-10-20, 07:26 PM

Heliomance

2012-10-20, 07:39 PM

Or... you could just drink water :smallconfused:

enderlord99

2012-10-20, 07:41 PM

No, time went thataway *arm disappears*

No, we went time's way, and other stuff went the opposite way in comparison. Time is a direction, so it can't move. I fully expect that the duration (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkxieS-6WuA) for which I am uncorrected will be small.

Qwertystop

2012-10-20, 07:42 PM

Or... you could just drink water :smallconfused:

Yeah but that doesn't have the whole "mixing up a batch of mineral water" thing.

I hope I didn't sound like a snob who only drinks mineral water or something. Just thought it was a cool thing to find that you can mix the stuff. And you can't deny it does taste different than tap.

Mutant Sheep

2012-10-20, 08:00 PM

It tastes like colored water, to me. :smalltongue:

Teddy

2012-10-20, 08:12 PM

Hey guess what? I found recipies for mineral water!

That is, a spreadsheet that figures out how much of various salts you need to add (in milligrams) and several blog posts by someone else simplifying the whole thing enormously.

I didn't know that was a thing you could do, but it'll certainly be cheaper if I can convince my parents enough to get them past the "mad science" feeling it gives at a glance.

Yeah, that's pretty much how the manufacturers do it: take common tap water and add a cocktail of different salts. Actually, I think I once saw such a salt cocktail being on sale in handy spice bags for personal use, but then again, it might be an (unintentionally) fabricated memory.

And you could always tap up your finished batches on used mineral water bottles and see if they notice the difference. Given, testing crazy-sounding stuff on others without their knowledge is kind of iffy, morally speaking, and generally frowned upon by your subjects (when they find out about it). It's probably to invite them to an official taste testing with the water served in small glasses. People are much more willing to drink strange stuff if it's served in small glasses for some reason. :smallwink:

Coidzor

2012-10-20, 08:28 PM

Ahh, flickering lights. It was years since I last saw one.

Speaking about dark nights, I once biked through a forest on a moonless, starry night (those are the darkest around these parts. The city lights are reflected in the clouds on cloudy nights and bathes the landscape in a dim, cold orange light) without any kind of illumination. At a good pace no less. That was quite an experience. Sadly, dark, moonless and cloudless nights are quite rare around these parts.

What's weirdest is when the sky shifts and roils with the clouds and snow and the reflections of reflections go till they die and purple and orange are one and the same.

Reminds me of the discussion of octarine, really...

That does sound like an experience worth repeating if one could get some assurances as to motor vehicles...

People are much more willing to drink strange stuff if it's served in small glasses for some reason. :smallwink:

Makes it taste free, no? :smallamused:

Serpentine

2012-10-20, 08:36 PM

What do you guys mean by "mineral water"? Cuz I know it as sparkling mineral water, which would requiew carbonation, or just bottled water, which is... water. Neither of which requires a recipe.
There are actually two types of "butcher-bird".

The Butcherbird which is indeed Australian and the Shrike or Butcher Bird which is the one that is indeed... a butcher and isn't native to the southern hemisphere.The Australian butcherbird is a "butcher" as well.

One of the birds steals shiny things. The other one impales other birds on spikes. The difference COULD save your life.You're thinking of the Euopean or possibly American magpie. Australian magpies are more closely related to crows and currawongs, and could kick those magpies' arses.

Teddy

2012-10-20, 08:50 PM

Makes it taste free, no? :smallamused:

I was thinking more along the line of "less poisonous", but yeah.

What do you guys mean by "mineral water"? Cuz I know it as sparkling mineral water, which would requiew carbonation, or just bottled water, which is... water. Neither of which requires a recipe.

The first (I think), which, apart form being carbonised, also contains minerals (at least in my part of the world), and quite a cocktail of minerals at that. Modern declarations of content are boring and won't always list the specific amounts of each individual mineral, and instead just mention something generic like "added minerals", but I've seen bottles where they meassure the individual metals in µg. Those are always interesting to read.

Also, there are also those wells that produce natural mineral water (i.e. water with a high mineral content). Meassuring the radioactivity of the water in those can be quite interesting. :smallwink:

Qwertystop

2012-10-20, 08:51 PM

What do you guys mean by "mineral water"? Cuz I know it as sparkling mineral water, which would requiew carbonation, or just bottled water, which is... water. Neither of which requires a recipe.

Mineral water is water with minerals dissolved in it. They make it taste different. Generally that includes carbonation, but not always (there's other minerals too). Nominally (that is, going by the packages of any namebrand I've seen - San Pellegrino, etc.), the minerals get there naturally in the groundwater and then they sterilize it without filtering out minerals and bottle it.

What I found (in Wired mag, actually, not some foodie thing) was the URL of this blog (http://blog.khymos.org/2012/01/04/mineral-waters-a-la-carte/), which has said ratios. That post has links to another blog (the bit about someone else testing it), which gives more info in how to do it if you don't have a scale that measures tenths of a miligram.

Serpentine

2012-10-20, 09:48 PM

But... ALL water has minerals dissolved in it, unless they're all distilled out :smallconfused:

LaZodiac

2012-10-20, 10:01 PM

It's almost as if paying more money for BRAND WATER is stupid or something :smallwink:

Dimonite

2012-10-20, 10:10 PM

But... ALL water has minerals dissolved in it, unless they're all distilled out :smallconfused:

Bah! I drink only distilled, de-ionized water. There are no molecules in it aside from hydrogen and oxygen. I don't even BREATHE on it. Well, that's what I would do if I was filthy rich, anyway. As is, I can barely afford tap water.

AsteriskAmp

2012-10-20, 10:11 PM

It's almost as if paying more money for BRAND WATER is stupid or something :smallwink:Lies, my consumption of Evian is perfectly reasonably, I have no dependency to it's mineral formula; no dependency at all!

Qwertystop

2012-10-20, 10:16 PM

But... ALL water has minerals dissolved in it, unless they're all distilled out :smallconfused:

Well... Yeah. When you say it like that...

They're more concentrated though (compared to tap water). Something like that. Can't deny it tastes different, anyway.

Serpentine

2012-10-20, 10:35 PM

Bah! I drink only distilled, de-ionized water. There are no molecules in it aside from hydrogen and oxygen. I don't even BREATHE on it. Well, that's what I would do if I was filthy rich, anyway. As is, I can barely afford tap water.I've been led to believe that distilled water tastes weird.

Well... Yeah. When you say it like that...

They're more concentrated though (compared to tap water). Something like that. Can't deny it tastes different, anyway.I can. In fact, there've been experiments done where they put tap water in a brand-name bottle and bottled water in a cup and said it's tap-water, and people have insisted that the tap water in the bottle was better.
Granted, it depends on the tap water: the stuff where I am now tastes fine but has an odd chemical smell, and the tap water in Armidale was HORRENDOUS, even leaving white scum everywhere at the uni colleges. Conversely, though, I often prefer GOOD tapwater to some bottled water, which I tend to find slightly too sweet.

Mutant Sheep

2012-10-20, 10:46 PM

I am so unable to do anything due to laziness... augh. Water is that wet stuff, right?

MoonCat

2012-10-20, 10:50 PM

Hey guys, Homecoming starts in 10 minutes, should I go?

Kneenibble

2012-10-20, 10:54 PM

These are the birds you want. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u81EwwKBvqc)

I am a gooey puddle of squee right now. I will kidnap all Rainbow Lorikeets from Australia to kiss their fluffy bellies and feed them raspberries. You have been warned.

That sounds like an interesting story and I would like you to share.

The fellow in question entered the room I was sitting, and I was momentarily overwhelmed by a feeling of warmth and a bright saffron-yellow light. This was very shortly after he had finished his pilgrimage, too. After that first flash I didn't see it again, but he was a lovely sweet man with kind eyes.

He did not give it to me himself -- another monk gave it to him, who gave it to me. The shawl/blanket is very soft but quite plain and kind of ugly, in contrast to the other luxurious & gaudy textiles I collect. But it is more special than they.

Nobile? Since when?

Your global peregrinations, and the privileged family that permits them; your refined pastimes; your retinue of artisanal friends; your aristocratic features: nobile, sir.

Bah! I drink only distilled, de-ionized water. There are no molecules in it aside from hydrogen and oxygen. I don't even BREATHE on it. Well, that's what I would do if I was filthy rich, anyway. As is, I can barely afford tap water.

Drinking distilled water is actually bad for you. The water sweeps up minerals from your body and takes them with it on the way out.

Archpaladin Zousha

2012-10-20, 10:58 PM

Coidzor

2012-10-20, 10:59 PM

^: This is the closest I could find after a cursory search. (http://dragonith.deviantart.com/art/Emoticone-s-Tears-of-Joy-198249636)

Hey guys, Homecoming starts in 10 minutes, should I go?

If you have to ask, and violence is unlikely at worst, then the answer is yes. :smalltongue:

Even if you don't enjoy it, it is a life experience and can come in handy somehow if you play it right.

Mutant Sheep

2012-10-20, 11:01 PM

Homecoming and school dances lack fun without A. The best group ever to happen ever or B. You iz futbal

However, they are fun. If'n you has fwends. Or is a futbal.

Coidzor

2012-10-20, 11:05 PM

Homecoming and school dances lack fun without A. The best group ever to happen ever or B. You iz futbal

Ah, but learning to make your own fun, or, failing that, mischief, is all part of the process.

Though, yes, it is easier with a group of like-minded confederates. Though malcontents eager to be lead are not always so hard to find for the persuasive. Or that hard to persuade if one comes up with a good plan.

Kneenibble

2012-10-20, 11:11 PM

My parents came home today after a week-long vacation in Florida, just the two of them, to celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary. After catching up with each other and going out to dinner, I started playing this "Alter-Ego" game I found where you play as someone right from birth and make decisions that affect their personality and life. Going through it made me think about my life, all my parents have done for me, and all the places they kept me from harm, and it just makes me cry with happiness that they're home and safe. I love them so much. Don't know where to find an emoticon indicating that you're crying but happy.

*hugs* I'm happy that you can appreciate your family in this way.

Homecoming and school dances lack fun without A. The best group ever to happen ever or B. You iz futbal

It took me a while to figure out how this works grammatically. At first I thought the periods after the letters denoted the end of sentences, trying to figure out what you meant by "A", going cross-eyed at the second part, and laughing at the random insult at the end.

Dimonite

2012-10-20, 11:11 PM

Ah, but learning to make your own fun, or, failing that, mischief, is all part of the process.

Though, yes, it is easier with a group of like-minded confederates. Though malcontents eager to be lead are not always so hard to find for the persuasive. Or that hard to persuade if one comes up with a good plan.

Well I certainly wouldn't want to be lead. I'm heavy and toxic enough as is! :smalltongue:

But I've never actually been to a school dance. I can't dance and people are annoying, especially when they're doing inappropriate things with each other under the guise of "dance" to music best described as a sheet of tin falling off a cliff while the world's angriest man gets a root canal with no anesthesia. (I REALLY don't enjoy most modern music)

Coidzor

2012-10-20, 11:18 PM

Well I certainly wouldn't want to be lead. I'm heavy and toxic enough as is! :smalltongue:

But I've never actually been to a school dance. I can't dance and people are annoying, especially when they're doing inappropriate things with each other under the guise of "dance" to music best described as a sheet of tin falling off a cliff while the world's angriest man gets a root canal with no anesthesia. (I REALLY don't enjoy most modern music)

Capital! With that much of a hands-off, not wanting to touch it with a ten foot pole attitude, they're positively ripe with [opportunity].

Though, really, you should do something about that toxicity, I hear you can find someone to help in your local city. Once I just got a bit of bleach on my tongue and it's only just now starting to grow those pieces back.

Dimonite

2012-10-20, 11:22 PM

Capital! With that much of a hands-off, not wanting to touch it with a ten foot pole attitude, they're positively ripe with [opportunity].

Though, really, you should do something about that toxicity, I hear you can find someone to help in your local city. Once I just got a bit of bleach on my tongue and it's only just now starting to grow those pieces back.

Oh, no bleach on my tongue, good sir; I simply store copious amounts of venom there. Reserved, of course, for those who are fool enough to wrong me.

LaZodiac

2012-10-20, 11:23 PM

Hey guys, Homecoming starts in 10 minutes, should I go?

Maybe I don't know! If you don't go come online at the very least :smallwink:

The fellow in question entered the room I was sitting, and I was momentarily overwhelmed by a feeling of warmth and a bright saffron-yellow light. This was very shortly after he had finished his pilgrimage, too. After that first flash I didn't see it again, but he was a lovely sweet man with kind eyes.

He did not give it to me himself -- another monk gave it to him, who gave it to me. The shawl/blanket is very soft but quite plain and kind of ugly, in contrast to the other luxurious & gaudy textiles I collect. But it is more special than they.

That sounds really awesome Knee. It's cool that you got to have such an expierance :smallsmile:

Mutant Sheep

2012-10-21, 12:23 AM

It took me a while to figure out how this works grammatically. At first I thought the periods after the letters denoted the end of sentences, trying to figure out what you meant by "A", going cross-eyed at the second part, and laughing at the random insult at the end.
Yeah, I don't know how the "reason A and reason B" thing works. Sorry. :smallfrown: (Yeah, thats one of my top insults I use. It is futbal. :smallbiggrin:)

Also, a Canadian Conteniental traversing monk sounds epic and deserving of a cool-ass musical and/or killer movie.

MoonCat

2012-10-21, 01:07 AM

Skipped Homecoming in favor of watching Doctor Who for the first time.

High-fives?

Mutant Sheep

2012-10-21, 01:09 AM

HIGH FIVES FOR THE MOONCAT. :smallbiggrin: *high fives, then low five AND in the middle away we go or however that rhyme went I cant remember*

Turnabout is a better dance anyway. :smallwink:

LaZodiac

2012-10-21, 01:17 AM

Skipped Homecoming in favor of watching Doctor Who for the first time.

High-fives?

High fives! Woo!

MoonCat

2012-10-21, 01:43 AM

HIGH FIVES FOR THE MOONCAT. :smallbiggrin: *high fives, then low five AND in the middle away we go or however that rhyme went I cant remember*

Turnabout is a better dance anyway. :smallwink:

There's a rhyme? Anyway, the dance is over in 21 minutes and I didn't even know if anyone I knew would be there.

The heck's that?

High fives! Woo!

Woooo.

ION: Due to roleplaying my DnD character drunk right now, I keep on accidentally typing my normal posts in drunk speak as well. This is proving to be slightly annoying.

IOON: My mom just walked in to see a paused image of Christopher Eccleston. She immediately said. "Oh look, a Brit.' Then she correctly guessed approximately what area. I can attest to her lack of knowledge on this beforehand.

I think my mom is magic.

LaZodiac

2012-10-21, 01:52 AM

There's a rhyme? Anyway, the dance is over in 21 minutes and I didn't even know if anyone I knew would be there.

The heck's that?

Woooo.

ION: Due to roleplaying my DnD character drunk right now, I keep on accidentally typing my normal posts in drunk speak as well. This is proving to be slightly annoying.

IOON: My mom just walked in to see a paused image of Christopher Eccleston. She immediately said. "Oh look, a Brit.' Then she correctly guessed approximately what area. I can attest to her lack of knowledge on this beforehand.

I think my mom is magic.

Magic, ooor she just is good at hiding that she knows how to identify british people. Either or could work, honestly.

MoonCat

2012-10-21, 02:55 AM

Magic, ooor she just is good at hiding that she knows how to identify british people. Either or could work, honestly.

What kind of magic power is that?

ION: My History teacher played us A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum because she didn't want to try and fail to make us study on Homecoming Week. I love that class.

But now I've got Comedy Tonight stuck in my head for a whole week. <grumbles>

LaZodiac

2012-10-21, 03:00 AM

What kind of magic power is that?

ION: My History teacher played us A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum because she didn't want to try and fail to make us study on Homecoming Week. I love that class.

But now I've got Comedy Tonight stuck in my head for a whole week. <grumbles>

A fairly useless but interesting magic power.

I'm unsure if that's good or not.

Mynxae

2012-10-21, 03:01 AM

Magic, ooor she just is good at hiding that she knows how to identify british people. Either or could work, honestly.

Wouldn't it be by either accent or sexiness? :smalltongue:

ION: My Lords of Creation game is falling around my ears 'cause everyone is fighting and at least one person has quit already. :smallfrown: <- That face barely contains my sadness and tears about this. I had such high hopes for it..

MoonCat

2012-10-21, 03:01 AM

A fairly useless but interesting magic power.

I'm unsure if that's good or not.

It's good. Me loves the Sondheim.

Elemental

2012-10-21, 03:35 AM

Try not to confuse the butcherbird with the magpie. The latter will swoop down and bombdive you with its beak.

Australia, where even the birds will attack you.

Hmm... I've never been attacked by one. In fact, they don't seem to be concerned when I walk near them.

Elsewhere you list the things that attack you, in Haustralia you list those that don't.

I do not want to work for the Department of Tourism. At least not without getting paid.

I've been led to believe that distilled water tastes weird.

Merely because people aren't used to drinking it.

Anyway... On the topic of birds, I know magpies can be tamed by offering them food. My Great Aunt does that and they show up every afternoon.
But I wouldn't put them in the cuddly category.

You think I'd use Haddocks? No! We shall duel with Herrings, at midnight, and it shall be a Lumberjacking contest!

*ahem* Challenged gets first choice of weapon. Therefore, if Heliomance wants Haddocks, then Heliomance gets Haddocks.

They are, root to leaf, fantastically poisonous, aren’t they? I shall be careful with them, certaignly. But on the other hand they are so, so beautiful, and I have a perfect spot for them to unfurl their stalks of fingertip blooms.

Not only are shade gardens cooling and refreshing, but the garden plants that thrive in shade are usually very pretty and unusual. A thriving hosta with its graceful probisces of pale purple flowers; the bunched blue-green fronds of a bleeding heart, with its arched boughs of candy-like blossoms; dainty lacy ferns; others more exotic whose name I know not.

As to bleeding hearts, are we talking about the same plant? For some reason I thought it was a pretty exclusively cold-weather perennial which would not be able to grow in your kind of climate. This? --
http://bleedingheartplant.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Dicentra.jpg

Indeed. And they retain their poison even when dried. Let me see... Poisonous leaves, poisonous roots, poisonous pollen. Even the water in the vases that they are placed in becomes poisonous.

And I agree. There are so many beautiful and exotic plants that would wither away before direct sunlight. Down the side of the house we mainly have orchids, a few ferns placed on purpose, and several opportunistic ferns, including a tree fern under the back stairs.

And no, that's not what I meant by Bleeding Heart. I'm not sure of the exact variety, but it's a climbing vine...
Let's see if I can find a picture...
http://alwaysgrowing.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/bleeding-heart-buds-redu.jpg
That's as close as I could find. Clerodendrum I think it is...

Elemental, you will hurt her feelings… you must let her preen you wherever she wishes, even be it the very edge of your eyelid

But I like my eyes...

I am a gooey puddle of squee right now. I will kidnap all Rainbow Lorikeets from Australia to kiss their fluffy bellies and feed them raspberries. You have been warned.

I don't know if they'd eat raspberries... And indeed, it may be too cold for them in Canada.
As such, I can't allow you take them all, only some.

ION: My Lords of Creation game is falling around my ears 'cause everyone is fighting and at least one person has quit already. :smallfrown: <- That face barely contains my sadness and tears about this. I had such high hopes for it..

Maybe if you had spelt discord correctly...
Anyway... What happened to it?

Teddy

2012-10-21, 04:25 AM

Bah! I drink only distilled, de-ionized water. There are no molecules in it aside from hydrogen and oxygen. I don't even BREATHE on it. Well, that's what I would do if I was filthy rich, anyway. As is, I can barely afford tap water.

In that state, I think breathing it is your only option. I mean, its drinkability is actually unfavourably compared to its flammability. :smallwink:

ION: My Lords of Creation game is falling around my ears 'cause everyone is fighting and at least one person has quit already. :smallfrown: <- That face barely contains my sadness and tears about this. I had such high hopes for it..

Ahh, the glory of intra-party conflict. Is it the players or just their characters who are fighting?

Mynxae

2012-10-21, 04:46 AM

Maybe if you had spelt discord correctly...
Anyway... What happened to it?

Ahh, the glory of intra-party conflict. Is it the players or just their characters who are fighting?

Everyone's just been fighting and whinging about things not going their way, when those things are meant to happen in a Lords of Creation game. Happens to me all the time but do I rant about it? No. :smallmad:

Essentially everyone ganged up on one person first, then after that person was forced to quit because of that (I think they did anyhow, they've been posting in other places yet not a word in the OOC), and now they're all attacking someone else who is now wanting to leave. :smallfurious: Part of me wants to just close down the whole game because of it.

EDIT: And it's both the players and characters in-game who're fighting. :smallfrown:

Elemental

2012-10-21, 05:29 AM

Everyone's just been fighting and whinging about things not going their way, when those things are meant to happen in a Lords of Creation game. Happens to me all the time but do I rant about it? No. :smallmad:

Essentially everyone ganged up on one person first, then after that person was forced to quit because of that (I think they did anyhow, they've been posting in other places yet not a word in the OOC), and now they're all attacking someone else who is now wanting to leave. :smallfurious: Part of me wants to just close down the whole game because of it.

EDIT: And it's both the players and characters in-game who're fighting. :smallfrown:

Tell me a bit about the characters who the others ganged up on.
After all, if someone's playing the God of Devouring Souls and Killing Things, and everyone else is playing a kind deity, then conflict is inevitable.

Mynxae

2012-10-21, 05:43 AM

Tell me a bit about the characters who the others ganged up on.
After all, if someone's playing the God of Devouring Souls and Killing Things, and everyone else is playing a kind deity, then conflict is inevitable.

He's playing essentially the God of Justice. The first one who left (I think) is the God of Magic I think..

Elemental

2012-10-21, 05:50 AM

He's playing essentially the God of Justice. The first one who left (I think) is the God of Magic I think..

Justice can be an annoying one to have properly mesh in.

Mynxae

2012-10-21, 05:52 AM

Justice can be an annoying one to have properly mesh in.

He's trying to lock up a God of Murder and a God of.. I dunno actually, a big wolf dude who's played by HalfTangible, so anything happens (evil though).

And the pantheon of eleven people, are on the bad guys side, not the God of Justice's side.

randman22222

2012-10-21, 06:58 AM

Skipped Homecoming in favor of watching Doctor Who for the first time.

High-fives?

Normally I'd say just try out a dance with your friends; even if you don't like it, it'll be an... interesting experience, I guess. (I myself have a dancing quota. I only feel like dancing about once every three or four years.)

Snip.
The fellow in question entered the room I was sitting, and I was momentarily overwhelmed by a feeling of warmth and a bright saffron-yellow light. This was very shortly after he had finished his pilgrimage, too. After that first flash I didn't see it again, but he was a lovely sweet man with kind eyes.

He did not give it to me himself -- another monk gave it to him, who gave it to me. The shawl/blanket is very soft but quite plain and kind of ugly, in contrast to the other luxurious & gaudy textiles I collect. But it is more special than they.

Your global peregrinations, and the privileged family that permits them; your refined pastimes; your retinue of artisanal friends; your aristocratic features: nobile, sir.
Snip.

What an extraordinary experience...
And HAHAHA at the bolded bit. My friends are great people, but that's not how I'd describe the vast majority of them.

Snip.
ION: My Lords of Creation game is falling around my ears 'cause everyone is fighting and at least one person has quit already. :smallfrown: <- That face barely contains my sadness and tears about this. I had such high hopes for it..

Everyone's just been fighting and whinging about things not going their way, when those things are meant to happen in a Lords of Creation game. Happens to me all the time but do I rant about it? No. :smallmad:

Essentially everyone ganged up on one person first, then after that person was forced to quit because of that (I think they did anyhow, they've been posting in other places yet not a word in the OOC), and now they're all attacking someone else who is now wanting to leave. :smallfurious: Part of me wants to just close down the whole game because of it.

EDIT: And it's both the players and characters in-game who're fighting. :smallfrown:

Try PMing them all and telling them that this type of game usually goes like that... Though, to be honest, eleven players could just be too much to handle. It could also just be the wrong group of players. :smallfrown:

Elemental

2012-10-21, 07:26 AM

Try PMing them all and telling them that this type of game usually goes like that... Though, to be honest, eleven players could just be too much to handle. It could also just be the wrong group of players. :smallfrown:

I'd read through Mynxae's game, but it's reached the point where I can't be bothered to.
But, I have played in a couple Lords of Creations before, and eleven isn't too many.

@Mynxae: Have you placed alignment restrictions to keep the balance of good and evil in check?
Law and chaos aren't as important, but it still needs watching.

Mauve Shirt

2012-10-21, 07:35 AM

When will hotel internet be cheaper and automatically included in the bill like water and TV and getting your room cleaned every morning?

Elemental

2012-10-21, 07:37 AM

When will hotel internet be cheaper and automatically included in the bill like water and TV and getting your room cleaned every morning?

Well... People kind of expect water and clean rooms at a hotel...
It's traditional!

But the Internet on that other hand, isn't traditional yet.

Dimonite

2012-10-21, 07:38 AM

He's trying to lock up a God of Murder and a God of.. I dunno actually, a big wolf dude who's played by HalfTangible, so anything happens (evil though).

And the pantheon of eleven people, are on the bad guys side, not the God of Justice's side.

*as god of murder, feels at least partially responsible*
HalfTangible's god is a god of war, chaos, bloodshed, etc. I feel like what's happening is that people are getting too involved OOC with their character's IC motivations, (I'm certainly guilty of this) so my plans to sow discontent and strife IC are causing those things OOC. I swear I didn't intend to do that. :smallfrown:

Elemental

2012-10-21, 07:41 AM

Yeah... Deities of Indiscriminate Murder are hard to play...

Mynxae

2012-10-21, 08:04 AM

*as god of murder, feels at least partially responsible*
HalfTangible's god is a god of war, chaos, bloodshed, etc. I feel like what's happening is that people are getting too involved OOC with their character's IC motivations, (I'm certainly guilty of this) so my plans to sow discontent and strife IC are causing those things OOC. I swear I didn't intend to do that. :smallfrown:

It's just that every single person is against him, as they were against the other person (goddess) before who either quit or hasn't bothered posting. :smallfrown:

Elemental

2012-10-21, 08:11 AM

It's just that every single person is against him, as they were against the other person (goddess) before who either quit or hasn't bothered posting. :smallfrown:

And you expected a God of Murder to have allies...?

Mynxae

2012-10-21, 08:12 AM

And you expected a God of Murder to have allies...?

They were against the Justice God, not the God of Murder. :smallannoyed:

Elemental

2012-10-21, 08:21 AM

They were against the Justice God, not the God of Murder. :smallannoyed:

You expect the living personification of justice to do what the others think is best?

Rawhide

2012-10-21, 08:42 AM

People actually use internet connections provided by hotels? I just carry around a 3G data plan...

LaZodiac

2012-10-21, 08:44 AM

Mynxae

2012-10-21, 08:51 AM

If I could help with the Lords of Creation game problem, I would. I really don't know what I'd do to solve the situation. Honestly at this point it might be best to scrap it and start over.

I feel kinda lucky now, having a campaign where the massive, party breaking infighting is all in character only.

Sounds like one time when I made a cleric who was lets just say.. A 'harlot'. She ending up constantly jumping at the paladin (who was Ele) and wrapping her legs around his head. At one point the DM got so annoyed at me constantly doing it that when the paladin raised his shield to stop me from jumping, she wiped my memories when my head collided with said shield and made me be nice instead of crazy. :smallfrown:

LaZodiac

2012-10-21, 08:57 AM

Sounds like one time when I made a cleric who was lets just say.. A 'harlot'. She ending up constantly jumping at the paladin (who was Ele) and wrapping her legs around his head. At one point the DM got so annoyed at me constantly doing it that when the paladin raised his shield to stop me from jumping, she wiped my memories when my head collided with said shield and made me be nice instead of crazy. :smallfrown:

That's a real bad way of handling that situation. I could think of a better way of handling it (IE, asking you to tone it down, or saying we can't REALLY do that (since I'm going off the asumption this would be play by post if I was DMing)) though. Basically my point is, salvage things the best you can, and dump the rest.

Mynxae

2012-10-21, 09:12 AM

That's a real bad way of handling that situation. I could think of a better way of handling it (IE, asking you to tone it down, or saying we can't REALLY do that (since I'm going off the asumption this would be play by post if I was DMing)) though. Basically my point is, salvage things the best you can, and dump the rest.

It was in real life :smallbiggrin: But the jumping on paladin did save me once, we had evil bugs on us while we went through a field, and we came across a good river, so he flung me into the river which caused me to get zapped by the conflicting energy and nearly killing me. Which now I think of it, isn't so good.. :smalleek:

Elemental

2012-10-21, 09:21 AM

Hey! It's not my fault that my paladin was afraid of your character.

Anyway, I'm going to bed.
Goodnight everyone!

Mynxae

2012-10-21, 09:22 AM

Hey! It's not my fault that my paladin was afraid of your character.

Anyway, I'm going to bed.
Goodnight everyone!

Goodnight my friend! And remember to check with your Mum about my visit! :smalltongue:

AtlanteanTroll

2012-10-21, 10:03 AM

When will hotel internet be cheaper and automatically included in the bill like water and TV and getting your room cleaned every morning?

Most every hotel I've been too recently has had free internet. Hell, motels even.

Amidus Drexel

2012-10-21, 10:06 AM

Okay, so I have a few pages to catch up on.

Responses will follow! Nevermind! :smalltongue:

ION: In case you missed it when we switched threads, I'm helping out at a local Halloween/haunted trail thing (as a zombie). For those of you that do not know the joy of scaring the crap out of little kids, you are missing out! :smallbiggrin:

Mutant Sheep

2012-10-21, 10:26 AM

Amidus Drexel

2012-10-21, 10:32 AM

STOP DOING THAT.:smallfurious::smalltongue:

Those are great. I'm bad at them though.

Doing what? :smalltongue:

Being a zombie is incredibly easy. All you have to do is moan and shamble, and maybe trip over a branch or something. I mean, even dead people can be zombies. :smallbiggrin:

Mauve Shirt

2012-10-21, 10:45 AM

People actually use internet connections provided by hotels? I just carry around a 3G data plan...

3G is hell of expensive when you're in a different country that uses a different cellular network. Even more so than the hotel's internet.

Well... People kind of expect water and clean rooms at a hotel...
It's traditional!

But the Internet on that other hand, isn't traditional yet.

I know, I'm wondering when it will become traditional. :smalltongue:

Most every hotel I've been too recently has had free internet. Hell, motels even.

The problem with expensive hotels is they like charging you for every little thing. And when you go abroad for business they don't set you up in a motel.

AtlanteanTroll

2012-10-21, 12:20 PM

The problem with expensive hotels is they like charging you for every little thing. And when you go abroad for business they don't set you up in a motel.
Hmmm. I don't stay in many fancy hotels and I guess I don't pay when
I do...

HalfTangible

2012-10-21, 12:30 PM

I can never remember to subscribe to the new RB thread immediately :smallredface::smalltongue:

Mutant Sheep

2012-10-21, 01:42 PM

Sounds like one time when I made a cleric who was lets just say.. A 'harlot'. She ending up constantly jumping at the paladin (who was Ele) and wrapping her legs around his head. At one point the DM got so annoyed at me constantly doing it that when the paladin raised his shield to stop me from jumping, she wiped my memories when my head collided with said shield and made me be nice instead of crazy. :smallfrown:
... That sounds... uh... interesting. Also, poor pally.:smallfrown: Poor Ele! :smalltongue:

I can never remember to subscribe to the new RB thread immediately :smallredface::smalltongue:
I just check Friendly Banter for the check-marks. :smallbiggrin:

Coidzor

2012-10-21, 02:09 PM

Most every hotel I've been too recently has had free internet. Hell, motels even.

At least they call it complementary wi-fi around here... They may have just raised rates across the board in secret for it though.

I can never remember to subscribe to the new RB thread immediately :smallredface::smalltongue:

I just pop in when I have time to check GITP. :smallconfused:

It's not like subscribing would give me an earlier opportunity to come find it and visit it than that. :smalltongue:

The problem with expensive hotels is they like charging you for every little thing. And when you go abroad for business they don't set you up in a motel.

They're sending you to expensive hotels without an expense account?

The fiends.

I suppose you could try to get in with the Belarus office then, as I think they've decided to make their entire nation have wi-fi.

Dimonite

2012-10-21, 05:01 PM

I've been watching a lot of Pushing Daisies this weekend, (great show, really) so I've been craving pie. I even thought, as I went down to dinner this evening "man, I hope they have pie there." Guess what? They had pie. Long story short: I am one full, happy dragonpup.

MoonCat

2012-10-21, 05:22 PM

Guys. Doctor Who. Guys.

GUYS DOCTOR WHO IS FRICKING AMAZING AND I DO NOT KNOW HOW TO DEAL WITH THIS BECAUSE I AM RUNNING OUT OF REASONS TO NOT CALL MYSELF A NERD.

LaZodiac

2012-10-21, 05:24 PM

Guys. Doctor Who. Guys.

GUYS DOCTOR WHO IS FRICKING AMAZING AND I DO NOT KNOW HOW TO DEAL WITH THIS BECAUSE I AM RUNNING OUT OF REASONS TO NOT CALL MYSELF A NERD.

XP

I'm glad you're liking it :smalltongue:

HalfTangible

2012-10-21, 05:24 PM

Guys. Doctor Who. Guys.

GUYS DOCTOR WHO IS FRICKING AMAZING AND I DO NOT KNOW HOW TO DEAL WITH THIS BECAUSE I AM RUNNING OUT OF REASONS TO NOT CALL MYSELF A NERD.

Embrace nerdternity

Devmaar

2012-10-21, 05:36 PM

Guys. Doctor Who. Guys.

GUYS DOCTOR WHO IS FRICKING AMAZING AND I DO NOT KNOW HOW TO DEAL WITH THIS BECAUSE I AM RUNNING OUT OF REASONS TO NOT CALL MYSELF A NERD.

Stop fighting it!
Join us!

Mutant Sheep

2012-10-21, 05:46 PM

Dimonite

2012-10-21, 05:55 PM

Yeeees. Come join the sane internet fandom. Snub the herd, Join Whovonia. :smalltongue: And also be a nerd. That too. (admittidly, everyones a nerd now. Even the football people.:smallbiggrin:)

Pushing Daisies was a cool show. Great murdrinmysterin thing. And also zombies!:smallbiggrin: For like, was it 2 minutes? Still cool. (also, TOUCH OF DEATH.)

They aren't zombies! He finds that term offensive. They're the "alive-again," with only his dog and his girlfriend being alive-again for longer than the 1 minute time limit before someone else dropped dead. Well, also his mom, but those of us who have seen the show know how that ended...

AtlanteanTroll

2012-10-21, 06:00 PM

LaZodiac

2012-10-21, 06:07 PM

So. Just realized. I'm still really mad about Sensei no Bludge being cancelled. I really hope we get Tankoban here in the states. There'd only be two.

It started out so strong too, dammit. :smallfrown:

I'm normally loathe to buy manga because I don't usually have the funds for it, but if Barrage got a english release I'd buy the hell out of it. I want it to do so well in sales that it gets picked up again, but anyone. Hell, put it in the same magazine Air Gear was in, it'll instantly be better then literally everything else.

Coidzor

2012-10-21, 06:10 PM

Guys. Doctor Who. Guys.

GUYS DOCTOR WHO IS FRICKING AMAZING AND I DO NOT KNOW HOW TO DEAL WITH THIS BECAUSE I AM RUNNING OUT OF REASONS TO NOT CALL MYSELF A NERD.

Well, you know, generally we don't need to call ourselves such things, we just is. :smallcool:

Honestly don't know how you've gone this long without having seen it before the other night. :smallconfused:

LaZodiac

2012-10-21, 06:15 PM

To be fair, I haven't seen Dr Who either.

AtlanteanTroll

2012-10-21, 06:20 PM

I'm normally loathe to buy manga because I don't usually have the funds for it, but if Barrage got a english release I'd buy the hell out of it. I want it to do so well in sales that it gets picked up again, but anyone. Hell, put it in the same magazine Air Gear was in, it'll instantly be better then literally everything else.

Things selling well in Japan don't bring manga back from the dead. Not normally anyway. And the market here is smaller then the Japanese one, but do.

LaZodiac

2012-10-21, 06:32 PM

Things selling well in Japan don't bring manga back from the dead. Not normally anyway. And the market here is smaller then the Japanese one, but do.

Yes but I want it to somehow sell so well it does so ;_;

Amidus Drexel

2012-10-21, 09:46 PM

To be fair, I haven't seen Dr Who either.

Same here, but then again, I'm not much for TV shows in general. The only shows I've spent much time watching are M*A*S*H and South Park.

Cobalt

2012-10-21, 10:18 PM

I really don't even know what Doctor Who is about. I think that me knowing that there are multiple Doctors is the extent of my knowledge, and I don't even quite understand if that just means multiple actors play the character or if it's like a title that's passed down. I think there's a phone booth involved, but to what extent? *shrug*

ION: Making money in Animal Crossing is significantly easier than my childhood self remembers it being. I only play for 20-30 minutes each day, but I'm paying off 10,000 from the debt before I finish every time. Hm. This is a good thing, of course. Larger houses, larger life. And by that I mean more furniture.

IOON: I injured my foot a couple of weeks ago and had to walk on it at school anyway. I had a fair limp; the injury was a cut on the very bottom of my right foot. It only hurt for a week before all the medicine worked its magic, but I was sooo glad after I was able to run on it again. Some things you just need to be able to do, to feel good about yourself, you know?

AsteriskAmp

2012-10-21, 10:52 PM

ION: Making money in Animal Crossing is significantly easier than my childhood self remembers it being. I only play for 20-30 minutes each day, but I'm paying off 10,000 from the debt before I finish every time. Hm. This is a good thing, of course. Larger houses, larger life. And by that I mean more furniture.Time travel to new year, collect, repeat to next year and then a year back. Debt Paid completely in 5 hours of play.

Cobalt

2012-10-21, 11:12 PM

Time travel to new year, collect, repeat to next year and then a year back. Debt Paid completely in 5 hours of play.

I seem to recall that this also replaces every square inch of grass in town with weeds, which I would feel saddened at. I am convinced they are in the game solely as evil incentive for the player to never stop playing, just to keep up with the spread. I checked an old memory card (they're all old) with a town on it I hadn't played in 58 months. Weeds. Everywhere.

Town deleted, never spoken of again.

Besides, the struggle is the fun part, no?

Kneenibble

2012-10-21, 11:15 PM

That sounds really awesome Knee. It's cool that you got to have such an expierance :smallsmile:

Thank you, it was. And I have his shawl to remind me of it! I am cuddling its soft ugliness right now.

Now, now you tell a story. Tell of the best Northern Lights you've seen up there in the Territories.

And no, that's not what I meant by Bleeding Heart. I'm not sure of the exact variety, but it's a climbing vine...
Let's see if I can find a picture...
http://alwaysgrowing.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/bleeding-heart-buds-redu.jpg
That's as close as I could find. Clerodendrum I think it is...

I do not know that plant, but it is very pretty. Would we could frolic through one another's gardens, swapping glimpses of foreign floral beauty. All the Australian plants you have named for me seem so exotic and lovely, and I'm sure you would enjoy Canadian florae [although, to be fair, almost all the garden plants here are part of the English tradition of import and not at all native]

I don't know if they'd eat raspberries... And indeed, it may be too cold for them in Canada.
As such, I can't allow you take them all, only some.

I'm afraid I am not open to negotiation on this point, Elemental. All the Rainbow Lorikeets. They may winter in my parlour, so long as they are polite to Mabel and cuddle with me whenever I should please.

By the way, did you go camping or something this weekend? How was it?

AsteriskAmp

2012-10-21, 11:20 PM

I seem to recall that this also replaces every square inch of grass in town with weeds, which I would feel saddened at. I am convinced they are in the game solely as evil incentive for the player to never stop playing, just to keep up with the spread. I checked an old memory card (they're all old) with a town on it I hadn't played in 58 months. Weeds. Everywhere.

Town deleted, never spoken of again.

Besides, the struggle is the fun part, no?For me it was selling gameplay time to my sisters in exchange for weed picking, I'd give them an 3 hours apart from that which they needed for weed picking and trash digging. They'd in turn pick up weed and dig trash resulting in a three way benefit, for me, my town, and them.

And to me the fun part was the interior decoration and oh so wonderful garden simulator.

LaZodiac

2012-10-21, 11:21 PM

Thank you, it was. And I have his shawl to remind me of it! I am cuddling its soft ugliness right now.

Now, now you tell a story. Tell of the best Northern Lights you've seen up there in the Territories.

I've only seen them once or twice, as a kid, so I don't remember em. Sorry Knee, I'm a dissapointment when it comes to seeing fancy stuff :smalltongue:

MoonCat

2012-10-21, 11:23 PM

I remember changing the date on my computer in order to get lots of different fish types, back when I was very little and played Insane Aquarium.

Mutant Sheep

2012-10-21, 11:23 PM

I've only seen them once or twice, as a kid, so I don't remember em. Sorry Knee, I'm a dissapointment when it comes to seeing fancy stuff :smalltongue:

Booooooo.:smalltongue: As a Canadian, you are obligated to be a host greater than any other, except foodwise because Canadian Bacon is a Lie. :smallbiggrin: Now tell us a story of some Canadian thing, if stories of the Northern Lights, the weirdest natural light show this side of the Tropic Of Cancer, are unavailable to be told. :smallwink:

@Knee :I assume it is that Lala is younger, and less of a free spirit, than Your Budgieness. :smalltongue: As a person who knows world travelers, you are naturally more acquainted with natural phenomena than a simple soul such as the Teletubby. :smallbiggrin:

@Knee... again.:smallbiggrin: :Mnnnm... homemade fries.. made in the lands of the free spirited yet still subjugated French, I believe. :smallamused: The beer, I am unsure of my ability or willingless to consume, as beer of roots is my prefered beverage, but fries, I tend to accept as edible and delicious wherever the source. :smallcool:

Kneenibble

2012-10-21, 11:24 PM

I've only seen them once or twice, as a kid, so I don't remember em. Sorry Knee, I'm a dissapointment when it comes to seeing fancy stuff :smalltongue:

I am not disappointed, mea formosa, only confused -- I am many degrees of latitude south from you, and have seen them numerously in my life. How is it so?

Booooooo.:smalltongue: As a Canadian, you are obligated to be a host greater than any other, except foodwise because Canadian Bacon is a Lie. :smallbiggrin: Now tell us a story of some Canadian thing, if stories of the Northern Lights, the weirdest natural light show this side of the Tropic Of Cancer, are unavailable to be told. :smallwink:

Yes: yes, do as mi ovis mutate bids. And then let us all pool our moneys to purchase him a treat of poutine with birch beer.

Coidzor

2012-10-21, 11:29 PM

Less ability to see them while huddled for warmth inside?

Hmm.

Poutine, eh? I've always wondered what kind of gravy that had to be in order to work with the potato. Birch beer I can approve of, though I don't rightly know if American Birch Beer is like Canadian Birch Beer.

LaZodiac

2012-10-21, 11:30 PM

I am not disappointed, mea formosa, only confused -- I am many degrees of latitude south from you, and have seen them numerously in my life. How is it so?

Yes: yes, do as mi ovis mutate bids. And then let us all pool our moneys to purchase him a treat of poutine with birch beer.

Numerous factors. On the one hand, maybe I've seen them more then I recall but I just have a bad memory. Maybe the pollution due to streetlamps and stuff have blocked it out. Maybe I'm afraid of the night sky. I'm really not sure.

Kneenibble

2012-10-21, 11:40 PM

@Knee :I assume it is that Lala is younger, and less of a free spirit, than Your Budgieness. :smalltongue: As a person who knows world travelers, you are naturally more acquainted with natural phenomena than a simple soul such as the Teletubby. :smallbiggrin:

@Knee... again.:smallbiggrin: :Mnnnm... homemade fries.. made in the lands of the free spirited yet still subjugated French, I believe. :smallamused: The beer, I am unsure of my ability or willingless to consume, as beer of roots is my prefered beverage, but fries, I tend to accept as edible and delicious wherever the source. :smallcool:

Birch beer is not alcoholic, if that is your concern, and it is quite similar to your preferred racinette: only instead of spearmint [which, ironically, is the dominant flavour in "root" beer these days] its flavour is an extract of birch sap. Delicious.

As to the first... I do confess a propensity in my life for late-night adventures in wild places that renders me more likely to espy the spirit lights.

Less ability to see them while huddled for warmth inside?

Hmm.

Poutine, eh? I've always wondered what kind of gravy that had to be in order to work with the potato. Birch beer I can approve of, though I don't rightly know if American Birch Beer is like Canadian Birch Beer.

Beef gravy is the industry standard: although there is a poutine shop in my environs which also does a miso gravy for vegetarians that is differently but equivalently delicious. Actually they have 20-some different kinds of poutine and telling you this reminds me that I need to go there now that I have eschewed the vice of vegetarianism.

For Canadian birch beer, see above -- although it was once upon a time an alcoholic affair, and perhaps in Quebec -- like spruce beer -- can still be found as such.

Numerous factors. On the one hand, maybe I've seen them more then I recall but I just have a bad memory. Maybe the pollution due to streetlamps and stuff have blocked it out. Maybe I'm afraid of the night sky. I'm really not sure.

I earnestly wish that you should see a spectacular example this winter, because they are really quite sublime.

LaZodiac

2012-10-21, 11:41 PM

Thank you Knee, I'll do my best :smallsmile:

Elemental

2012-10-21, 11:44 PM

I know, I'm wondering when it will become traditional. :smalltongue:

Give it a few more years until people can't remember living without it.

Yeeees. Come join the sane internet fandom. Snub the herd, Join Whovonia. :smalltongue: And also be a nerd. That too. (admittidly, everyones a nerd now. Even the football people.:smallbiggrin:))

Does this make me weird for liking both and never combining them?

I do not know that plant, but it is very pretty. Would we could frolic through one another's gardens, swapping glimpses of foreign floral beauty. All the Australian plants you have named for me seem so exotic and lovely, and I'm sure you would enjoy Canadian florae [although, to be fair, almost all the garden plants here are part of the English tradition of import and not at all native]

My garden isn't the frolicking kind... It's actually rather dull most of the year.
Except for the nice patches. But they more than make up for those sections that need considerable work.
But I shall take you to the Botanical Gardens in the city to make up for it, and on the way I shall point out old buildings of sandstone that recall an earlier time before humanity decided to conquer the sky.

I'm afraid I am not open to negotiation on this point, Elemental. All the Rainbow Lorikeets. They may winter in my parlour, so long as they are polite to Mabel and cuddle with me whenever I should please.

By the way, did you go camping or something this weekend? How was it?

But they number in the who knows how many!
Thousands, possibly millions! They'd never all fit in your parlour.
And besides, they'd be mean to Mabel.

I didn't technically go 'camping', but I did go away. We just call it a camp because of traditional reasons that I can't explain.
My community band went up to Childers over the weekend for a concert with local bands up there. And an amazing concert it was. The audience was particularly pleased with our playing of the 1812 Overture.
Then we came home, stopping on the way for ice cream (Mmmm... Boysenberry...) and at the Gympie Gold Mining Museum where we ate our lunch.
I did manage to find a few small specks of gold.
I should have taken a camera to photograph the magnificent Jacarandas outside the museum, but alas, I always forget to take one on these trips.

Mutant Sheep

2012-10-21, 11:47 PM

Birch beer is not alcoholic, if that is your concern, and it is quite similar to your preferred racinette: only instead of spearmint [which, ironically, is the dominant flavour in "root" beer these days] its flavour is an extract of birch sap. Delicious.

As to the first... I do confess a propensity in my life for late-night adventures in wild places that renders me more likely to espy the spirit lights.It sounds quite delightful, I must say. That may be my root beer addiction speaking, however. :smallwink:

Small wink again, my friend. :smallbiggrin:

Beef gravy is the industry standard: although there is a poutine shop in my environs which also does a miso gravy for vegetarians that is differently but equivalently delicious. Actually they have 20-some different kinds of poutine and telling you this reminds me that I need to go there now that I have eschewed the vice of vegetarianism.You once went the way of the pupae-cat? For shame good sir, veganism is the way of the Californian! As the only vegan I know is my cousin. From California. And also Arizona, he went to California for a good amount of time and now lives in this great city of Chicago running a bike-rental service for visiting Europeans. (He's a cool guy. And I actually don't mock his veganism. It confuses me that I don't, but I don't. Probably that "not wanting to be an ass" thing most humans do. :smalltongue:)

@ @T: I cant cuz sleep. I should be in bed now but im scared to wake up.:smallsigh: School, it is legit scary again.:smallfrown: ANNOYING IT IS MY FRIEND.:smalltongue:

AtlanteanTroll

2012-10-21, 11:56 PM

You. Little'n. Get on AIM. :smalltongue:

(And you say it's me that's never on.)

Mynxae

2012-10-22, 01:21 AM

I should have taken a camera to photograph the magnificent Jacarandas outside the museum, but alas, I always forget to take one on these trips.

You don't even have a camera. :smalltongue: This is why it's useful having a camera phone! Especially one with a flash! :smallbiggrin: Is your Mum back yet by the way? Wondering for confirmation for visiting.

Elemental

2012-10-22, 01:46 AM

You don't even have a camera. :smalltongue: This is why it's useful having a camera phone! Especially one with a flash! :smallbiggrin: Is your Mum back yet by the way? Wondering for confirmation for visiting.

Yep. She's home.
And you can visit.

Mynxae

2012-10-22, 01:53 AM

Yep. She's home.
And you can visit.

Excellent! :smallbiggrin: I just have to make sure I don't sleep in.. I kinda went to bed at 6am this morning. :smallredface:

Feytalist

2012-10-22, 02:39 AM

So I had the weirdest, most vivid dream last night. And I never remember my dreams. Something about an epic quest to find the "perfect being", and there was a sentient tower and a ball of glowing black energy called "The Truth" and in the end I gruesomely disemboweled a bunch of guys with a hunting knife.

I should really write this stuff down before I forget it.

Also I might have some issues.

LaZodiac

2012-10-22, 02:42 AM

Gonna be perfectly honest, that oddly reminds me of the book and movie "I Am Number 4"

Feytalist

2012-10-22, 02:50 AM

Gonna be perfectly honest, that oddly reminds me of the book and movie "I Am Number 4"

Never seen it. I don't even know what it's about.

I thought it could be a mesh of The Fifth Element, which I haven't seen in years, the metal opera Avantasia, and parts of the Sandman. I'm pretty sure Dream made a cameo somewhere in the dream (heh). Also that last action sequence was pretty awesome. Well done, subconscious mine.

Rawhide

2012-10-22, 02:50 AM

Gonna be perfectly honest, that oddly reminds me of the book and movie "I Am Number 4"

There. Are. Four. Lights. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAdGhMRBbzY)

Elemental

2012-10-22, 04:55 AM

There. Are. Four. Lights. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAdGhMRBbzY)

No there weren't.
Based upon my memory of that particular episode and the way the light and shadows fell in that room, there were others as well.

The Succubus

2012-10-22, 07:07 AM

The pony is quite correct in this regard.

Anyone not being brutally tortured by a Cardassian knows that there are five.

Elemental

2012-10-22, 07:28 AM

The pony is quite correct in this regard.

Anyone not being brutally tortured by a Cardassian knows that there are five.

At the very least!

Anyway... I'm going to bed. I can read these things tomorrow when Mynxae is here.
Good night everyone!

Or maybe not... Some of them are creepy...

Remember Mynxae! I'm expecting you before twelve!

Mynxae

2012-10-22, 08:27 AM

At the very least!

Anyway... I'm going to bed. I can read these things tomorrow when Mynxae is here.
Good night everyone!

Or maybe not... Some of them are creepy...

Remember Mynxae! I'm expecting you before twelve!

The awkward moment when I just replied to his PM before checking this saying I'll be there after twelve. :smallredface: Guess I'll just have to magic up some clean clothes. :smallannoyed:

EDIT: Good news everyone! I found clean clothes. :smallbiggrin:

HalfTangible

2012-10-22, 10:36 AM

A thought I just had:
"If you can't come up with 4 character traits for your MAIN CHARACTER you're doing it wrong!!"

LaZodiac

2012-10-22, 11:30 AM

It snowed agaaaain :smallfrown:

Also my hand hurt like hell when I woke up, and now it's just numb.

Mynxae

2012-10-22, 11:31 AM

It snowed agaaaain :smallfrown:

How many coolers-worth do you have? I'll buy the lot! :smalltongue:

LaZodiac

2012-10-22, 11:32 AM

How many coolers-worth do you have? I'll buy the lot! :smalltongue:

Not enough snow for that yet, unfortunately.

Mynxae

2012-10-22, 11:36 AM

Not enough snow for that yet, unfortunately.

Drat. All my hopes, gone... :smallfrown:

LaZodiac

2012-10-22, 11:42 AM

Drat. All my hopes, gone... :smallfrown:

Don't worry, soon the snow will fall in ernest, and then you'll have all the snow you can afford~

Mynxae

2012-10-22, 11:47 AM

Don't worry, soon the snow will fall in ernest, and then you'll have all the snow you can afford~

Excellent, my friend! *Snape Voice* :smalltongue: (Sweeney Todd reference)

LaZodiac

2012-10-22, 11:56 AM

Excellent, my friend! *Snape Voice* :smalltongue: (Sweeney Todd reference)

Unfortunately, if I recall, the amount of snow you can afford is zero :smallwink:

Mynxae

2012-10-22, 12:03 PM

Unfortunately, if I recall, the amount of snow you can afford is zero :smallwink:

I just got paid though! And since my boyfriend moved in, I pay less rent, 'cause it's shared! :smallbiggrin:

Devmaar

2012-10-22, 12:06 PM

But I imagine the shipping costs would be significant

HalfTangible

2012-10-22, 12:22 PM

I just got paid though! And since my boyfriend moved in, I pay less rent, 'cause it's shared! :smallbiggrin:

But I imagine the shipping costs would be significant

You can't ship two people already in a relationship. That ruins the whole point of shipping.

...

:smalltongue:

LaZodiac

2012-10-22, 12:28 PM

I just got paid though! And since my boyfriend moved in, I pay less rent, 'cause it's shared! :smallbiggrin:

That sounds awesome except...

But I imagine the shipping costs would be significant

It would be unbelievably expensive, yes. I know that from where I am to where Cobra is is 250 dollars shipping for a webcam sized object. I imagine a cooler full of snow will be a luxery prize object.

Mynxae

2012-10-22, 12:30 PM

That sounds awesome except...

It would be unbelievably expensive, yes. I know that from where I am to where Cobra is is 250 dollars shipping for a webcam sized object. I imagine a cooler full of snow will be a luxery prize object.

O.O How the..

LaZodiac

2012-10-22, 12:31 PM

O.O How the..

Cross country shipping is...kind of unbelievably expensive. IF you do it yourself. Therefor, I'm pretty sure if I went to, say, Ebay or Amazon, the shipping would...maybe be cheaper? I'm not sure, does anyone who is a smart person have any answers for me?

Mynxae

2012-10-22, 12:36 PM

Cross country shipping is...kind of unbelievably expensive. IF you do it yourself. Therefor, I'm pretty sure if I went to, say, Ebay or Amazon, the shipping would...maybe be cheaper? I'm not sure, does anyone who is a smart person have any answers for me?

True. Sounds like when I got my Blizzard Authenticator (for WoW and the like), the Authenticator itself was about $6AU. Shipping was like.. $30? $40? And it's the size of a thick pea pod. :smalleek:

Cobra_Ikari

2012-10-22, 01:16 PM

If I remember right, it was closer to $180 US. Unless that converts to $250 Canadian or something? Which would be crazy. ._.

I'm pretty sure part of the reason it's so expensive is that both Zodi and I live somewhat in the middle of nowhere. IIRC, our towns are both in the 20,000 population range, and located several hours away from any major population center. For example, when I go to visit her, it'll be 3 hours of driving, then something like 18 hours between the 3 flights and layovers in the airports between them before I arrive in Zodiville. Hazards of small town living. :smalltongue:

But that's just us living on opposite corners of the same continent. I don't even want to imagine how much it'd cost to ship to the opposite side of the planet. >.<

TheCountAlucard

2012-10-22, 01:54 PM

Coidzor

2012-10-22, 01:59 PM

It occurs to me that my sister's cat drinks in a somewhat-unusual way: she dips her front paw into the water until it's nice and wet, brings it up to her face, and licks it off. Sometimes she drinks normally, but I see this behavior from her more often than not, and it's not something I've seen another cat do.

Anyone else see that sort of behavior, perhaps from an older cat?

Once or twice. I've also seen the same cat do this with canned cat food in the past when she was more middle-aged than old.

I actually don't think I've seen her do either since she officially became an old cat around 12 or so and she's somewhere between 16 and 20 at the moment. But I also haven't lived with the cat in quite some time as well, so I've only seen her do anything a couple of times when I've visited.

LordShotGun

2012-10-22, 03:39 PM

Quite a mood whiplash past couple weeks.

Finally moved out of the house and am now on my own. Found a nice little house within my starving college student budget but it held a dark surprise.

While setting up my electric and water, the electric company alerted me that the previous occupant had an outstanding ~$1200 dollar amount owed and that that amount would need to payed to turn the lights back on.

Reasonably alarmed at this news I tried to call the power company but got nothing but automated responses until I eventually lied and said that I had a downed power line to report and THAT got me a live person.

Anyway, within 10 minutes of talking to a real person I got everything straightened out and my new account set up free and clear. The person did warn me that I may get a statement asking for the $1200 but that I should return the postage with a "Person Deceased" on the envelope.

So I went from happy, to alarmed, to relieved, to worried that now I could possibly have the lights turned off at any moment when someone notices that this address has a delinquent bill and they don't bother to check that someone ELSE is now living there. :smallfrown:

Mynxae

2012-10-22, 03:41 PM

Asta Kask

2012-10-22, 03:48 PM

LordShotGun

2012-10-22, 03:49 PM

Shouldn't the landlord have been notified of this? :smallconfused:
The previous owner was an old man who had died and the bank owned the house.

MoonCat

2012-10-22, 04:59 PM

LaZodiac

2012-10-22, 05:03 PM

That sounds awesome! Most of it, anyway.

Coidzor

2012-10-22, 05:03 PM

Mutant Sheep

2012-10-22, 05:12 PM

Oh, hey guys. Didn't do much today.

I mean, I did correct my English teacher and my history teacher (widely recognized as the scariest teacher in the school, to the point where some of the more slacker teachers are scared of her) as well as get asked if I actually go home and read the dictionary for seven hours straight for fun...

But, hey not much else.
History teacher, the scariest? Damn, I would hate that school. I debate and speak with them often, I enjoy most history classes (but ya know, only if they believe in freedom). But that is a weeeeird question. Cuz i mean, some people, mr teacher, just have a decent vocabulary. (gasp!)

LaZodiac

2012-10-22, 05:15 PM

History teacher, the scariest? Damn, I would hate that school. I debate and speak with them often, I enjoy most history classes (but ya know, only if they believe in freedom). But that is a weeeeird question. Cuz i mean, some people, mr teacher, just have a decent vocabulary. (gasp!)

History teachers can be hella scary! Especialy if they're Wereyokai and can eat time.

Mynxae

2012-10-22, 05:17 PM

The previous owner was an old man who had died and the bank owned the house.

Ohh okay. You would've thought they'd take care of it though.. /rollseyes Silly bank! :smalltongue:

MoonCat

2012-10-22, 05:38 PM

Corrected them on what and what exactly yielded the dictionary discussion, Moonikins?

Granted, I did actually make a project of reading an exhaustive dictionary from front to back when I was younger.

I believe I was about a third of the way through when I discovered the Wheel of Time series and got bogged down by that and then girls. Pity, was going to follow that up by reading the entirety of the Encyclopedia Britannica just to be able to say that I had done so.

English teacher said that the Romans never bathed, and History teacher was trying to tell us that the name Senex was meaningful because it sounded like 'Sex'. :smallsigh:''

Mm. I started reading the dictionary, but unfortunately, I dislocated my arm part of the way in when it fell on me, so I had to stop due to trauma.

That sounds awesome! Most of it, anyway.

T'was! Most?

History teacher, the scariest? Damn, I would hate that school. I debate and speak with them often, I enjoy most history classes (but ya know, only if they believe in freedom). But that is a weeeeird question. Cuz i mean, some people, mr teacher, just have a decent vocabulary. (gasp!)

I am a huge history nerd. It actually works out okay, as the scary teacher an also be decent sometimes. It's just... you neve,r ever, ever want to cross her. EVER!

Which reminds me, I got handed a sheet of paper with 400 words that get used in the SAT a lot, in order to help me prep. I Found 5 words so far I don't know.

Mutant Sheep

2012-10-22, 05:45 PM

Public Bathhouses were not ONLY used for orgies, mr and mrs. Moonie-teachers. :smallamused:

Bank incompetence? Gee whillikers. Wish you luck Shotgun, home redistribution and ownership is trickiez business. :smallfrown: Old bank issues take ages to resolve.

LaZodiac

2012-10-22, 05:46 PM

English teacher said that the Romans never bathed, and History teacher was trying to tell us that the name Senex was meaningful because it sounded like 'Sex'. :smallsigh:''

Mm. I started reading the dictionary, but unfortunately, I dislocated my arm part of the way in when it fell on me, so I had to stop due to trauma.

T'was! Most?

Wow those are both horrificly bad things to try and teach.

I say most becuase reading the dictionary seems excessively cruel and boring to me.

HalfTangible

2012-10-22, 05:59 PM

English teacher said that the Romans never bathed, and History teacher was trying to tell us that the name Senex was meaningful because it sounded like 'Sex'. :smallsigh:''

...Putting aside the utter, complete falsehood and inanity of both of those statements, shouldn't they have been said by each OTHER?!

Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll

2012-10-22, 05:59 PM

People used to make fun of me cuz they though I read the dictionary.

I just read a lot of other books that were quite above what a kid my age would read, so had one helluva vocabulary.

MoonCat

2012-10-22, 06:12 PM

Public Bathhouses were not ONLY used for orgies, mr and mrs. Moonie-teachers. :smallamused:

Indeed. Although the rest of the class laughed at me when I corrected him, and then told me to stop acting crazy afterwards when I was ranting about it.

Wow those are both horrificly bad things to try and teach.

I say most becuase reading the dictionary seems excessively cruel and boring to me.

Yeah.

I don't get it. They asked me if I did, s'not like I do anymore.

...Putting aside the utter, complete falsehood and inanity of both of those statements, shouldn't they have been said by each OTHER?!

Hmm?

People used to make fun of me cuz they though I read the dictionary.

I just read a lot of other books that were quite above what a kid my age would read, so had one helluva vocabulary.

Yeah. Because of my vocabulary there used to be a rumor going around that I slept with a thesaurus under my pillow. Mainly because of my reading so many books. I'm not actually sure why, a lot of my regular words from years ago are showing up in high school vocabulary tests, it was really only this and last year, where I was back in public school, that I got hit in the face with the realization that not everyone was using those words in everyday speech.

Which reminds me, I just noticed last Thursday that I had used the word superlative in my notes to myself a few years back. I don't even know why.

Coidzor

2012-10-22, 06:32 PM

English teacher said that the Romans never bathed, and History teacher was trying to tell us that the name Senex was meaningful because it sounded like 'Sex'. :smallsigh:''

Mm. I started reading the dictionary, but unfortunately, I dislocated my arm part of the way in when it fell on me, so I had to stop due to trauma.

...That's some sizeable dictionary. :smalleek: I don't think I've ever even seen one that big.

...Putting aside the utter, complete falsehood and inanity of both of those statements, shouldn't they have been said by each OTHER?!

At least it makes sense that an English teacher would be unaware of the Roman Baths.

The other one, not so much.

MoonCat

2012-10-22, 06:41 PM

...That's some sizeable dictionary. :smalleek: I don't think I've ever even seen one that big.

At least it makes sense that an English teacher would be unaware of the Roman Baths.

The other one, not so much.

Ooh! I'll go take a picture of it!

Considering he's supposed to be a total history nerd, not as much. The two teachers are close, half of the time the two classes overlap. He teaches us philosophy and we get the full on description of Greek life three hours before we get it all again with her. (Who also teaches English, but to the year below us.) Today he starts teaching us about Roman panem et circenses, today we start the chapter on Rome in her class. He was asking us to consider 'what is man' at the same time that we were learning about the first men, and what differentiated them.

In any case, I'm planning on bringing him a book on the history of bathing if my parents let me take it out of the house.