TaiLiu's Tea-Filled Tome of Random Banter #193

[TaiLiu]

My comrades crowd into
My little house.
They are all served a tiny cup
Of tea.
Ah! What a wonderful smell!

Comrades, welcome to yet another Random Banter Thread! No, I do not have anything witty to say, unfortunately.

The Previous Random Banter can be found here:
Cuthalion's Creatively Created Cranny for Random Banter #192 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=280998)
Amotis' Random Banter #1 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13484)
Dhavaer's Random Banter #2 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13401)
PhoeKun's Random Banter #3 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13319)
Rei Jin's Random Banter #4 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13205)
Toxic Avenger's Random Banter #5 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13146)
Jibar's Random Banter #6 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13026)
Ego Slayer's Surrogate Random Banter #7 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12939)
Sneak's Random Barroom Brawl #8 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12918)
Sophistemon's Solemnly Random Banter #9 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12855)
Vaynor's Very Random Banter #10 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12834)
Bookman's Blathering Random Banter #11 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12809)
Gralamin's Glorious Random Banter #12 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12785)
Rilik's Resplendently Random Raillery #13 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12766)
Gezina's Growling Grazing Random Banter #14 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12747)
The Zerglings Utterly And Geeky Random Banter #15 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12740)
jaqueses Truthfully Randomly Fireside Banter # 16 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12735)
Jack Squat’s Jubilantly Quixotic Random Banter #17 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12693)
Cardel's Banter of Cookie Jubilation #18 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12668)
Archonic's Chaotically Random Banter of Rods #19 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12657)
The Rod's Inanimate Temple of RANDOM banter #20 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12638)
Lucky’s Loquaciously Loud-Mouthed Random Banter#21 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12630)
Deckmaster's Divinely Delightful Random Banter #22 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12614)
Saithis' Soliloquy of Random Banter #23 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12598)
Loveable Lianae's Ludicrous Lampooning Lottery #24 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12578)
NEO|Phyte's Neolithic Nest of Weasel Banter #25 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12544)
Target's Random Banter of "non-violence" #26 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12533)
Tarnag40k's Random banter of "grammar errors" #27 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12515)
Kyrian's Random Banter of ADHDness #28 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12507)
El Jaspero's Random Drunken Ramblings #29 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12503)
Boss Smiley's Eloquently Eggy Banter #30 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12494)
Lykan's Looney Explosionarama & Random Banter #31 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12482)
Iames's Iambic Yarn of Yammering #32 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12468)
Dispozition's Deviously Distressed Banter #33 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12458)
CP's Copiously Combusting Banter of Carnage #34 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12445)
Alarra's Altar of Random Banter #35 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12432)
Eloquent Rune's Electrifying Rambling Banter #36 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12423)
E_P's Very Own Quite Popular Random Banter #37 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12419)
Hydrogelic's Foolish Mortal Random Banter #38 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12413)
Ink's Smudgy Splotchy Random Banter #39 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12405)
Azrael's Big Black Book of Banter #40 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12397)
The Logic Vampire's Rational Random Banter #41 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12387)
Shiny's Shimmering Space-hitchin Random Banter #42 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12376)
ZombieRockStar's Random Banter #43 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12360)
Nostrabel's Realm of Cookies and Random Banter #44 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12342)
Charity's Cheery Chatter Circle #45 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12328)
Samiam's Spontaneous Scintillating Soliloquy #46 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12310)
LLama's Masked Mysterious Random Banter #47 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=26599)
Ravishing Rydia's Recumbentibus ^_^ Random Banter #48 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=27622)
Penguinizers Perilous Random Banter #49 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=28083)
Death's delightfully morbid surrogate random banter #50 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=28444)
Wayril's wonderfully weird surrogate random banter #51 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=28990)
Rawhide's Deck of Random Banter (52 Cards) (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=29697)
Korith's Sorrogate Random Banter of Zombie Killing #53 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=30353)
Surrogate thread of random Bor-dom #54 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=31109)
Rex Idiotarum's Painfully Pogoing Thread #55 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=31512)
The Wrath of KHAAAAAANtalas’s William Shatner Flavored Random Banter # 56 (Surrogate) (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=32080)
EmeraldRose's Random Banter of Lashing Wit #57 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=32494)
Captain van der Decken's Surrogate Ship of Random Loot (Banter) #58 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=32847)
SDF's Neverending I-Don't-Have-an-OotS-Avatar-Yet Story Banter #59 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=33465)
Mauril's Surrogate Dwelf Banter of Fantasy Race Confusion 60th Edition (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=34165)
Rockphed's Dice Rolling Toga Party of 61 Drunken CIA Analysts (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=34568)
var Lord_Magtok = Random(Banter*62) + Surrogate (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=34801)
Jibar's Retro Random Banter #63 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=35014)
Malina's Random Spanish Banter #64 of morphical annoyance (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=35256)
Mr. E's Random Banter #65 of Cane Toting and Hat Tipping (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=35418)
Ego Slayer's Hellishly Random Banter #66.6 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=35596)
Purple Gelatinous Cube o' Doom's bowl of bantery j-e-ll-o randomness #67 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=35859)
Zephra's Random Banter of Ghostly Wailings, and Howling Fun#68 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=36317)
Cobra Ikari's Random Banter #69 of Rampant Hugging, Guttermindedness, and ;-) Kinky. (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=36977)
Scorpina's Random Banter #70 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=37480)
Raistlin1040's Super Special Awesome Random Banter #71(Now with 20% more tacos) (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=37824)
Uberblah's Random Banter #72 Of Caffeine And Sleep Deprivation Induced Randomness (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=38225)
Lucky’s Random Banter #73 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=38987)
Castaras's Random Banter #74 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=37836)
D'anna Biers RB #75 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=39495)
Zeb The Troll's RB#76 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=39801)
Egdpollard's RB #77 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=40128)
Gezina's and Calamity's Random banter #78 of double entendre and doom (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=40410)
Random Banter #79 In Loving Memory of Hexa_Regina (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=40909)
Zeratul's random banter #80 of throwing puppies off bridges (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=41778)
Vespe's Random Banter #81 of singing dolphins and mostly harmless planets. (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=43254)
CSK's Giant in the Playground Forums Addicted Anonymous, Random Banter #82 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=44919)
Iames's Ramblingly Erratic Belldandy-Charged Random Banter #83 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=47592)
Serpentine's Scintillating Sensually and Sinuously Seductive Stochastic Satire #84 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=49048)
Radikalskippy's Random Banter #85 of lost ideas and where to find them... (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=50658)
Moon Called's Random Banter #86 of Sexy Anime Boys and Fangirl Squeals (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=51825)
Lilly's Lovely Random Banter #87 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=52783)
FdL's Fuzzbox-Fueled Random Banter #88 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=54612)
SweetRein's Sugary Restrained Random Banter #89 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=59668)
Midnight's Mutant Motorcycle Madness Random Banter #90 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=62430)
Em's Extremely Extraordinarily Epic Random Banter #91 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=65645)
Dragonrider's Random Banter in Conjunction with the Weighted Cube #92 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=67629)
Bushranger's Bodaciously Buffed Random Banter-y Rooster #93 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=69425)
Haruki's Historically Hilarious Honey-covered Random Banter #94 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=71161)
North's Maple Syrup Flavored Non-Alliterative Random Banter #95 Eh? (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=73464)
Wadledo's Weirdly Warbling Watercress Watching Washing Machine Only Random Banter #96 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=75946)
SMEE's Random Banter #97 of gender bending and closet bursting (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=78694)
Raiser's Rambunctiously Rambling Random Banter #98 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=81626)
Dr. Bath's Random Banter, dripping with daring deeds of dastardly deipnosophists #99 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=84068)
VOTE, the Democracy Demon's Devilishly Devious and Decidedly Diabolical Desultory Derision (Random Banter) #100 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=84914)
Jack Squat's Justlessly Juxtaposed Random Banter #101 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=87577)
Dallas-Dakota's Dundering Dandelion's Devilish Damsel's Distress Random Banter #102 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=4790602#post4790602)
Destro Yersul's Dangerously Distracting and Doubtlessly Disturbing Random Banter #103 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=4903962#post4903962)
Aziraphiles Actually Alliterative and Awesomely Affluent Random Banter #104 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=92718)
Cristo's Consistently Confusing and Constantly Casual Random Banter #105 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=94491)
Dish's Delightfully Deranged and Deliciously Deliquent Random Banter # 106 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=95905)
Slayer's Seemingly Sweet and Socially Silly Random Banter # 107 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=97703)
Zero's ambrosial and aberrantly adventitious, abstemiously erudite Random Banter #108 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=99100)
Coplantor's Completely Creative Cautious and Contemplative Random Banter #109 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=100414)
Rutskarn's Roly-Poly Rebellious and Rejected Random Banter #110 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=101156)
TwoBitWriter's Tubular Tracts of Thought-Talking Random Banter #111 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=5600540#post5600540)
Phase's Phully Phormed, Phalangeal, and Phantasmagorical Random Banter #112 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=101988)
Wolfbane's Wonderfully Wacky and Wildly Wandom Random Banter #113 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=102865)
The Kiwi's Kinkily Knotted and Kookily Kickass Random Banter #114 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=103674)
Jude's Judgmental Jugular Jab and Jibber Jabbery Random Banter #115 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=104480)
The Throne of Thufir's Thoroughly Theoretical and Therapeutic Random Banter #116 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=105584)
Random Banter #117 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=106698)
Dragonprime's Dynamically Dangerous Dextrous and Destructive Random Banter #118 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=107882)
Farmer Felix's Fantastic FRandom FBanter #119 (may contain traces of fnuts) (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=109007)
Groundhog's Random Banter of Weather Prediction and Anti-Gopherness (part one) (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=110963&page=50)
Groundhog's Random Banter of Weather Prediction and Anti-Gopherness (part two) (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=113197)
Mrmud's Mixed-Up and Minimally Mechanized Random Banter #121 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=114623)
Dogmantra's Dastardly, Despotic and Dangerous Random Banter #122 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=116660)
Alteran's Amazingly Anachronistic, Altruistic, and Antagonistic Random Banter #123
(http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=118380)Admiral Euphoria's Random Banter Thread of Delusional Grandeur #124 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=6614894)
Fred's Flying Fishy, Fighting, Fiery, Fantastic Face Off Random Banter #125 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=121385)
Cyrano’s Non-Alliterative Inaugurational Random Banter #126 To Usher In The Future (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=122977)
Thanatos's Tharmturges Present: Tropical, Tipsy, and Typically Random Banter #127
loopy's Legendary and Long-Awaited Lollipop Fuelled Random Banter #128 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=123816)
Shadow's Shady Shop of Sharks, Shingles, Shammies, Shiny and Random Banter #129 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=125667)
KataraAltinaII's Premature Not So Short & To-The-Point Random Banter #130 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=126557)
Supagoof's Supa-Sensational Silly Symphonies Set Sizzingly On Fire Random Banter #131 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=128570)
Pyrian's Pyrotechnic Pyre of Pyrrhic Pyros with Pyrotic Pythics Random Banter #132! (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=130459)
Perenelle's Pleasantly Playful and Passionately Peculiar Random Banter #133 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=131814)
Rpgsr4me's Ravenous, Roaring, Raging Rampage of Random Banter #134 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=7373844#post7373844)
Il'deav Ilah'naie's Indiscreet Intimacies on Indigo Iceboats Random Banter #135 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=134438)
Recaiden's Resplendent and Rotating Realistic Random Banter #136 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=136879)
Jibar's Random Banter #137: Return of the Cat-muffin (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=138879)
Edge's Effluence of Extravagant and Effulgent Random Banter #138 (”http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=7876065”)
Zeb The Troll's Zecond Go At Ze Random Banter #139 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showpost.php?p=8061505&postcount=1)
Curly's Rambunctious and Erudite Random Banter #140 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=148462)
Deth Muncher's Destructive and Meandering Random Banter #141 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=150904)
A Thread in Which Banter Most Random is Expulsed Into Existence, By Ravens_cry #142 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=8722755)
Several Silly Sealions Stuffed Seaweed Southward Swiftly (Or, Random Banter #143) (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=159998)
The thread that changed name one last time, with style. (Random Banter #144) (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=161407)
Banjo’s Bodacious & Boosted Bumper Bulletproof Box of Banter Most Random #145 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=162819)
Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=164224)
KuReshtin's Vociferously Ruminating Harbinger of Random Banter - #147 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=166664)
Archonic's Archaic Acronymical Antidisestablishmentarianism Random Banter - #148 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=169890)
Skeppio's Splendidly Strange & Superbly Scintillating Random Banter - #149 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=173056)
Teddy's Turbulent and Topicless Random Banter #150 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=175338)
Fifty-Eyed Fred's Ferociously Fanatical and Fabulously Fascinating Random Banter #151 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=178205)
Rae's Really Rascally and Ridiculously Rowdy Random Banter #152 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=181296)
Haruki's Hot n' Holy Random Banter #153 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=10176275#post10176275)
MoonCat's Magnificently Mythopoeic Random Banter #154
(http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=187576)Eadin's Exchange of Extraterrestrial Excuses AKA Random Banter #155 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=190034)
Happy HalfTangible's Horrific Hail of Random Banter #156 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=10629167#post10629167)
AtlanteanTroll's Atrocious and Terrific Arcade of Terror - RB #157 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=196302)
LaLa’s Laughably Silly Random Banter Thread – RB #158 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=198767)
Zaydos's Zany Zooetic Random Banter - RB #159 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=200208)
Blue's Blessed and Blissful Random Banter - RB #160 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=201653)
Absolmorph's Azoic Arete of Adventitious and Aimless Random Banter - RB 161 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=202546)
Gwyn's Gloriously Green Garrumphing Garter of Garrulous Gabble! Random Banter #162 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=203954)
Eruantion's Euphoric, Elephant-filled Elevated Epoch of Eurhythmic Random Banter #163 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=205487)
ATW's Awesome Androgynous Avaricious Azure Ardent Adamant Alluvial Random Banter #164 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=207269)
Cynical Avocado's Absolutely Admirable Accumulation of Random Bantering #165 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=209860)
August's Pink Plushy and Phantasmagorically Random Banter Thread #166 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=212011)
Heliomance's Everchanging Thread Title Random Banter #167 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=213053)
Tragic_Comedian's Tremendously Tropical Random Banter #168 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=215180)
Qwertystop's Quickly Quilted, Quip-filled Random Banter #169 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=217326)
Thufir's Thupremely Thatithfying Thecond Random Banter With a Lithp #170
(http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=219654)Feytalist's Fantastically Freakish First Random Banter #171 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=222713)
Dragonprime's Dashing Delight-fu Dazzling Dualistic Random Banter #172
Castaras' Random Banter #173: Bringing back your nostalgic Great Old Ones (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=229164)
Pokemon-freak89's Random Banter number eleventy-twelve... uhh... I mean... number 174 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=231235)
Dark Elf Bard's Random Banter #175:Playin' Underdark Jazz since the Drow went dark. (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=235950)
Mutant Sheep's Post Septaquintaquinquecentennial ApRiL fOoLs Random Banter: #176 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=238117)
Elemental's Excitingly Excellent Random Banter: No.CLXXVII (177) (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=13163770)
Amiel's Appeasingly Appropriate Arbitrary Amusement (Random Banter): No.CLXXVIII #178 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=245179)
"Your Angel of Banter Awaits." ThePhantasm Presents Random Banter #179 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=13535351)
Serpentine's Secretly Sapphic Salacious Sacrarium of Random Banter #180 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=253047)
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[LaZodiac]

Indeed. I didn't really understand what was going on.


... Wot was that?:smalltongue:


I'm. ... What? ...

I think I need to go have a lie down now.

It's the My Little Pony movie that's coming out.

Don't forget to post (in big text) the link to the new thread in the old one.

[Dimonite]

*gavottes*

mmmmmm........ thread.

So. Dairy Queen is now serving Blizzards IN WAFFLE CONES. The only problem I ever had with Blizzards was that I had to get them in a cup, which (to me at least) doesn't taste as good, and you waste ice cream that way. But now? BLIZZARD IN A WAFFLE CONE. This is kinda a big deal for me.

[LaZodiac]

*gavottes*

mmmmmm........ thread.

So. Dairy Queen is now serving Blizzards IN WAFFLE CONES. The only problem I ever had with Blizzards was that I had to get them in a cup, which (to me at least) doesn't taste as good, and you waste ice cream that way. But now? BLIZZARD IN A WAFFLE CONE. This is kinda a big deal for me.

We don't have a Dairy Queen. We did by the guy intentionally run it poorly to get like, tax breaks or something like that. Point is we don't have one and that makes me sad.

[TaiLiu]

Don't forget to post (in big text) the link to the new thread in the old one.
Ah, I forgot about that. Thanks!

[Dimonite]

We don't have a Dairy Queen. We did by the guy intentionally run it poorly to get like, tax breaks or something like that. Point is we don't have one and that makes me sad.

THAT'S HORRIBLE! :smallfrown:
And probably illegal. But do you at least have an awesome local ice cream shoppe to make up for it? I mean, most places have one of those. Even Hackensack and Fountain here in Minnesota have those, and their combined total population is under 1000. Even larger places like Rochester have them - Flapdoodle's is strictly local, but it has the BEST ice cream of anywhere I've been.

[TaiLiu]

THAT'S HORRIBLE! :smallfrown:
And probably illegal. But do you at least have an awesome local ice cream shoppe to make up for it? I mean, most places have one of those. Even Hackensack and Fountain here in Minnesota have those, and their combined total population is under 1000. Even larger places like Rochester have them - Flapdoodle's is strictly local, but it has the BEST ice cream of anywhere I've been.
What an odd name. :smallconfused:

[LaZodiac]

THAT'S HORRIBLE! :smallfrown:
And probably illegal. But do you at least have an awesome local ice cream shoppe to make up for it? I mean, most places have one of those. Even Hackensack and Fountain here in Minnesota have those, and their combined total population is under 1000. Even larger places like Rochester have them - Flapdoodle's is strictly local, but it has the BEST ice cream of anywhere I've been.

Nope.

Also I think he was the mayor who did that. Or like the former mayor or something. I don't know.

[Coidzor]

THAT'S HORRIBLE! :smallfrown:
And probably illegal. But do you at least have an awesome local ice cream shoppe to make up for it? I mean, most places have one of those. Even Hackensack and Fountain here in Minnesota have those, and their combined total population is under 1000. Even larger places like Rochester have them - Flapdoodle's is strictly local, but it has the BEST ice cream of anywhere I've been.

I believe there's an expression about selling ice cream to an eskimo or something equally offensive. I think that in Lala's case, her proximity to Santa Claus may also effect the viability of such business models.

Trying to extrapolate from Texas or Minnesota to anywhere else is going to lead to a bad time. Except possibly Texas to Kansas and Minnesota to Wisconsin.

[LaZodiac]

I believe there's an expression about selling ice cream to an eskimo or something equally offensive. I think that in Lala's case, her proximity to Santa Claus may also effect the viability of such business models.

Trying to extrapolate from Texas or Minnesota to anywhere else is going to lead to a bad time. Except possibly Texas to Kansas and Minnesota to Wisconsin.

Ice, not ice cream, but yes.

[Deathkeeper]

Today the Forum Dice Roller actually gave me a natural 20 on an actual useful roll. Just today, all is right in the world of LDK.

[Dimonite]

What an odd name. :smallconfused:

It's meant to be. Their slogan is "Flapdoodle's: where the only thing that makes sense is the ice cream." Their walls and tables are decorated with nonsensical proverbs and jokes, and their signature thing is serving upside-down cones in bowls, in sizes named after various types of sailing ships.


Nope.

Also I think he was the mayor who did that. Or like the former mayor or something. I don't know.

Well, I'm reasonably certain that's insurance fraud, whether it was the mayor or not. :smallannoyed: But either way, that's sad.


I believe there's an expression about selling ice cream to an eskimo or something equally offensive. I think that in Lala's case, her proximity to Santa Claus may also effect the viability of such business models.

Trying to extrapolate from Texas or Minnesota to anywhere else is going to lead to a bad time. Except possibly Texas to Kansas and Minnesota to Wisconsin.

Well, I figured Minnesota to Canada was fairly safe. :smalltongue:
But really, it would make more sense to me for other places to have more ice cream restaurants than the state that's frozen over for half the year. Well, not Canada. That I figured was the same.

[LaZodiac]

Well, I figured Minnesota to Canada was fairly safe. :smalltongue:
But really, it would make more sense to me for other places to have more ice cream restaurants than the state that's frozen over for half the year. Well, not Canada. That I figured was the same.

Going by pure math, the town where I live gets less then 24 hours of sunlight in our coldest winter month. So yes, we get pretty damn cold :smalltongue:

The only fast food restaurants we have are McDonalds and KFC. Subway and Quiznos too, if you count sub places.

[Coidzor]

Well, I figured Minnesota to Canada was fairly safe. :smalltongue:
But really, it would make more sense to me for other places to have more ice cream restaurants than the state that's frozen over for half the year. Well, not Canada. That I figured was the same.

Wisconsin and Minnesota are renowned for being dairy-obsessed though, even to dairy-obsessed people. Like, Vegans spontaneously lose their veganity or are expelled from the state by a sort of reverse-osmotic pressure. That's how dairy-obsessed they are. :smalltongue:

The main similarity seems to be the accent from what I've gathered, and I've never been able to tell if that's actually an accent or a cultural in-joke of putting everyone else on...

[Teddy]

@TaiLs:
Your link in the previous post directs you to the Friendly Banter subforum, not this tread.


And yet you wouldn't hurt a fly :smallamused:

True, although for the sake of the show, that tank got to play the role as a flogiston thrower for a day.


Man, that sounds awesome though. Glad you had fun! How're things going, by the way? If I may ask.

Stressful. For the upcoming days, my schedule will look like this:
Wake up
Go to Uni
Do tons of programming
Go home
Eat dinner
Study stochastics
Go to bed

I should hopefully start getting my evenings clear again by Wednesday, but that depends on how well the programming goes. In the worst case, we'll probably have to devote an evening as well just to get our prototype running on time...


I've been there when I was a wee thing, methinks! Not too sure though. Steampunk event sounds cool though (I lurked the photo thread), were a lot of interested in it? :smallsmile:

For the record, it's in Gävle, consists of a large carbarn filled with different locomotives and carriages, and has a large open field with bushes and small rolling hills through which a mini-train takes passengers for a short ride.

And some were. We failed a bit at linking together my outfit with the event (our table was a bit offside, I think many may've missed it), so I'm afraid most of those who I managed to boggle won't have a term to link it together with. And we were too late to be spotted by the press, who only visited the area in the earlies hour. But, I think it was good anyway.


Hope your shoulders recovers quickly and you don't have to strain them again for a while.

Nah, now I'll only have to lug my everyday backpack with my computer back and forth to school for a whole week. I can already hear my back sing of joy... :smallwink:

[/QUOTE]The reaction of the children to you reminds me that I had some children ask if I was a pirate because of the way I was wearing the bandana I was wearing the other day...[/QUOTE]

Heh, on no less than two separate occations, some parents suggested to their children that I must've been from Harry Potter. I kinda understand it with the long robe and those glasses, but with the pesticide tank and old fire extinguisher, not so much...

[Mercenary Pen]

How does that work?
Very creative use of the forum die roller- I've rolled more d37's on there than actually exist.


Your link does not work, mate.
Apologies- Sheep's link does work and I'll fix mine in just a moment.


I've considered that before but, to give an example of how far behind I am on the metagame of Yu-Gi-Oh, I don't fully understand how synchro-summons work :smalltongue:

I was much the same way when I first got back into this... I'd say the best way to understand these things is to practice them (preferably around people who won't take offence when you get it wrong- from experience, that helps)

[Sylthia]

The DQ the I had growing up would inexplicably close down, then re-open a few months later. They eventually built one on one of the main roads in my town, though, so it's nice if I ever feel like going there.

Unfortunately, I'm more or less broke until my residency starts this summer. It's nice to be able to game twice a week or so, though. I guess you can have time or money, but not both.

[Elemental]

Yes, and it tasted terrible.

Oh, my. The wedding reception was still enjoyable, I hope.

Those people whom you know that do: did they ever confirm the kind of tea?

Ah. Good luck in your endeavours, and I hope your mother likes them.

How do the foul-flavoured ones taste like?

Odd. My mother says the opposite, but she's not an expert on American dining...

Do they? I've never had that experience before. :smallconfused:

As I said, that is really too bad. A good carrot cake is delicious.

It was. After all, I don't drink tea or coffee.

No. The people I know who like tea just like tea.

She will.

It's hard to say... They have a kind of after-taste that's difficult to describe.

That's okay. Mum's aren't always right.

Well... The sandwiches are usually cut before they reach your table.



ION: Wtf pneumonia is a real thing. And it IN MAH LUNGSSSS.:smallfrown:

Oh dear... Hopefully you'll get better soon Mr. Sheep.



We're America. Of course we do things differently. :smalltongue:

Granted, I can't remember who had the bright idea to make it so that proper eating was cutting the food, setting the knife down, switching the fork, taking a bite, switching the fork back, picking up the knife, and then cutting the food again. Needless to say, I don't abide by that set of mores.

Not that kind of cut up. The kind where you eat it with a knife and fork, defeating the entire point of a sandwich unless it's an open-faced sandwich. Though why open-faced sandwiches are called sandwiches I'll never know.

It's acceptable if you can't do it the proper way.

Well... If a sandwich is that large or overfilled, then it's not really a practical sandwich. And that would be because the open-faced sandwich was invented by a person who intended to make an ordinary sandwich but then realised he only had one slice of bread left. For some reason, the idea caught on.



Hey all you pony people

Pony Movie: http://t.co/yljY9vJjeV

They should make the skin colour more...human. Also I think Twilight's love interest is her brother?

Either way, "wat".

No. That's not her brother. Her brother would have differently coloured hair.


In related news: My Brother is an idiot. How can he possibly have expected me to know he was asleep at six in the evening if he doesn't tell me? All he did was yell at me whenever I made the slightest noise, which is no different from an ordinary evening.
I really wish he would realise that swearing at me just makes me ignore him.

[Archonic Energy]

tea, English Breakfast, Hot.

mmmmmm.

thinking about it. why didn't the enterprise computer just fire out tea steam vapour at JLP... it's hot.

[Elemental]

It's obviously reasonably user friendly when it comes to beverages. Also, it's not programmed to not hurt people.

[DJ Yung Crunk]

Let's see if I can keep up with you guys this time


tea, English Breakfast, Hot.

mmmmmm.

thinking about it. why didn't the enterprise computer just fire out tea steam vapour at JLP... it's hot.

Tell me about it. I've been trying to get my replicator to do that for nine years. Things a piece of crap. I ask for a McRib Sandwich and it tells me it can't replicate copyrighted food. Considering CraigsListing it.

[FinnLassie]

I always get so confused by how the page limit is 50... I'm so used to the 500 on another forum (then again, there's a whole bunch more of registered & active users). :smalltongue:

Anyways, to quoting people from the previous thread...



An excellent pun! :smallbiggrin:

I made a pun? :smallconfused:


Hrmph. I'm not dim, just illumination-challenged. :smalltongue: :smallamused:

Eh, I had a bunch of different avatars, then the same one for close to six months or so, then changed it a whole bunch, then had the same one for a month or two, and now I'm changing it again. It'll settle out eventually.


Oh, wee thing. All nicknames given are out of pure affection. Sometimes. :smallamused:

Noooo.... Stay with one forever, nooow... :smallsigh:



That's good. I mostly can't eat storebought frosting and can only stomach small quantities of homemade frosting at any one time. Never could figure out why my tolerance was so low compared to just about everyone else.

Well, yes, they are not good for you, but it's also cake. It's unlikely to be good for you at the best of times and circumstances, even when homemade. :smalltongue:

The names alone of those dishes sound intimidating. Granted, I've always been kind of leery of liver, especially when I learned what gout was. :smalleek:

How so? It's sweet, baked porridge, isn't it?

Amidams, eh? Heh. That'd give us the distaff counterpart of Amigams. :smalltongue: Mmm, gams... :smallamused:


Ooh, snap, you just can't handle the deliciousness that is called frosting, then! :smallbiggrin:

At least when you start baking the cake from scratch you are aware of the ingredients that you use. That way you have the power and hopefully skills (at least the skill to google!) to change whatever you need to for example make the cake healthier.

I only like liver when it's minced and made into a casserole with some yum yum raisins. It's rather sweet. :smallsmile: Liver in all other occasions - kill me now. :smallsigh:

Since when has mämmi been sweet... :smalltongue:

... I have this feeling that I'm missing something as I have no clue what Amigams is or anything. :smalltongue:

[Devmaar]

I was much the same way when I first got back into this... I'd say the best way to understand these things is to practice them (preferably around people who won't take offence when you get it wrong- from experience, that helps)

Would the thread present such an environment?

[Amidus Drexel]

*eyes the dancers jealously, then returns to sipping lemonade*

Woot, new thread! And I am now off to class, because I still have a few weeks left of this crap.

[Elemental]

I always get so confused by how the page limit is 50... I'm so used to the 500 on another forum (then again, there's a whole bunch more of registered & active users). :smalltongue:

Well... It's not actually a limit, more a guideline to improve forum operation or something. I don't really know.
Rawhide could explain better.



Noooo.... Stay with one forever, nooow... :smallsigh:

But the occasional changing of avatars is traditional! Like when I finally finished the one I started weeks ago.
You could always get a half-Finnish half-Scottish lion if you wanted. Okay... I'm not sure how that would work, but someone could manage it.

[DJ Yung Crunk]

Let's see if I can keep up with you guys this time

Nnnnope!

The problem is you guys know each other. You've got your own little inside jokes and conversations already going, even when I force I can't seem to find an in. The best I can hope for is posts like this to potentially break through.

On a new topic, my sister just told me she got engaged. I guess I should be happy, but I'm really apathetic, which unfortunately came through in my clinical and awkward congratulations. What an awful time to start using the phrase "super duper".

[Elemental]

Nnnnope!

The problem is you guys know each other. You've got your own little inside jokes and conversations already going, even when I force I can't seem to find an in. The best I can hope for is posts like this to potentially break through.

It can be hard for new people. It's not impossible, but it can be done. Of course, I can't remember how...



On a new topic, my sister just told me she got engaged. I guess I should be happy, but I'm really apathetic, which unfortunately came through in my clinical and awkward congratulations. What an awful time to start using the phrase "super duper".

Do you not like or know the guy?
When my older brothers got engaged I was happy for them because they both had long engagements and I got to know my sisters-in-law before the event.

[DJ Yung Crunk]

Do you not like or know the guy?
When my older brothers got engaged I was happy for them because they both had long engagements and I got to know my sisters-in-law before the event.

I know him. I like him. I think he's great.

It's just that they hang out together all the time anyway, so it won't really change much for me. They'll still be hanging out all the time, but officially.

[Elemental]

I know him. I like him. I think he's great.

It's just that they hang out together all the time anyway, so it won't really change much for me. They'll still be hanging out all the time, but officially.

Hmm... Give it a while to sink in. That could be the difficulty.

[Archonic Energy]

I've been trying to get my replicator to do that for nine years. Things a piece of crap. I ask for a McRib Sandwich and it tells me it can't replicate it.
snipped...

Also, it's not programmed to not hurt people.
your answer.:smallbiggrin:

I suppose you can't just go the replicator and ask for "hydrogen, plasma, 20 square millimeters" though that would make for entertaining pranks.

"APRIL..."
*the enterprise is consumed in a large explosion*

... cut to end credits

[TheWombatOfDoom]

Nnnnope!

The problem is you guys know each other. You've got your own little inside jokes and conversations already going, even when I force I can't seem to find an in. The best I can hope for is posts like this to potentially break through.

On a new topic, my sister just told me she got engaged. I guess I should be happy, but I'm really apathetic, which unfortunately came through in my clinical and awkward congratulations. What an awful time to start using the phrase "super duper".

Super Duper. That's hilarious (and potentially comes across as sarcasm in todays turns of phrase). Do you like her significant other, or are you ambivilent? I have a friend who's getting married soon that I'm not happy with who she picked to spend the rest of her life with...and its hard not to say so...

As for jokes and conversations and such, the best thing is to just dive in, though I often have similar feelings to you...lets converse together!

[DJ Yung Crunk]

Super Duper. That's hilarious (and potentially comes across as sarcasm in todays turns of phrase). Do you like her significant other, or are you ambivilent? I have a friend who's getting married soon that I'm not happy with who she picked to spend the rest of her life with...and its hard not to say so...

See also...


I know him. I like him. I think he's great.

[TheWombatOfDoom]

referenced comment on fiance person of sister person

Ah well at least there's that.

ION: I heard that there's some sort of recruitment list for volenteers to go to mars in the future...Anyone else hear about that? And would you like to go? If so, why? If not, why?

[FinnLassie]

Well... It's not actually a limit, more a guideline to improve forum operation or something. I don't really know.
Rawhide could explain better.




But the occasional changing of avatars is traditional! Like when I finally finished the one I started weeks ago.
You could always get a half-Finnish half-Scottish lion if you wanted. Okay... I'm not sure how that would work, but someone could manage it.

Aye, I did notice that it's not a precise limit, but something else. It's still a limit even if it's a guideline, I suppose. :smallbiggrin:

But it's so confusing for my little, poor brain... :smallsigh::smalltongue:
I actually requested an avatar on the avatar thread not too long ago. I feel so dirty. =P

[LaZodiac]

True, although for the sake of the show, that tank got to play the role as a flogiston thrower for a day.

Stressful. For the upcoming days, my schedule will look like this:
Wake up
Go to Uni
Do tons of programming
Go home
Eat dinner
Study stochastics
Go to bed

No idea what a flogiston thrower it, but I presume it involves blowing stuff up, so tell me about it :smallbiggrin:

Jeez, sounds rough. I'm here for you if you need it!

[Asta Kask]

Flogiston was the element in stuff that burned. Which is not a bad idea, even though it's wrong. Then they noticed that stuff actually grows heavier when it burns (because oxygen is added), so for a while they toyed around with flogiston having negative mass. But in the end Lavoisier and Scheele independently showed that oxygen was the thing.

[factotum]

Flogiston was the element in stuff that burned.

Phlogiston, I think...just in case anyone wants to look it up on Wikipedia or something. :smallsmile:

[FinnLassie]

Phlogiston, I think...just in case anyone wants to look it up on Wikipedia or something. :smallsmile:

It is phonetically correct... :smalltongue:

[Cuthalion]

Phlogiston, I think...just in case anyone wants to look it up on Wikipedia or something. :smallsmile:

Ay. Phlogiston.

Just thought I'd stop by and say hi.

[LaZodiac]

Well every nyan, I've got a date with THE LAAAAAAW. In 30 minutes I'm off to see if I'm part of the jury for a thing!

[Qwertystop]

So, a new thread has been strung up...

And nobody's boogied yet?!

Wow.

[LaZodiac]

So, a new thread has been strung up...

And nobody's boogied yet?!

Wow.

Well, someone did some sort of dance, you know.

[AsteriskAmp]

So, a new thread has been strung up...

And nobody's boogied yet?!

Wow.The gavotte is what's in epoch now.

Or Freestyle Disco. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTchxR4suto)

[LaZodiac]

Jury Duty canceled. This makes me kinda sad cause I wanted to do it dangit :smalltongue:

[TheWombatOfDoom]

Jury Duty canceled. This makes me kinda sad cause I wanted to do it dangit :smalltongue:

I've had that happen to me twice now. I've always wanted to, but haven't gotten the chance. Once for local, and once for federal. :smallannoyed:

[Teddy]

It can be hard for new people. It's not impossible, but it can be done. Of course, I can't remember how...

Well, there are a number of approaches. Mine was the "lurk around and post stuff whether people respond to them or not until you just become an integrated part of the thread", while the other extreme seems to be the "respond to everyone to maximise exposure (and responses). I suppose you can find someone who loves the same topic as you do and just engage in long multi-page conversations as well, but that generally requires some thread familiarity to start with...

An approach which practically never works, however, is to post links to different Internet phenomenons out of the blue and expecting people to respond to them. It may be called Random Banter, but we generally prefer it to be personal randomness.


Jeez, sounds rough. I'm here for you if you need it!

Right now, I don't think I have the time. Sorry.


Phlogiston, I think...just in case anyone wants to look it up on Wikipedia or something. :smallsmile:

Huh, yeah, my translator suggested both. I just went with the one which made people the least likely to accusing me of just cribbing off TF2...

[Kneenibble]

Wasn't there a conversation once about transliterating φ as ph vs. f? Doesn't Swedish tend towards the latter?


Ay. Phlogiston.

Just thought I'd stop by and say hi.

Hello Cuthillius. What news from your end of the world? Here is a cake made from poppy seeds and honey for you.


Now to go mucking through the old thread for the replies I owe...

[Asta Kask]

Wasn't there a conversation once about transliterating φ as ph vs. f? Doesn't Swedish tend towards the latter?

Ph does not exist in Swedish except as a measure of the activity of hydrogen ions.

[LaZodiac]

Right now, I don't think I have the time. Sorry.

I know. I'm just saying it for when you DO have time :smallsmile:

[Coidzor]

Ooh, snap, you just can't handle the deliciousness that is called frosting, then! :smallbiggrin:

At least when you start baking the cake from scratch you are aware of the ingredients that you use. That way you have the power and hopefully skills (at least the skill to google!) to change whatever you need to for example make the cake healthier.

I only like liver when it's minced and made into a casserole with some yum yum raisins. It's rather sweet. :smallsmile: Liver in all other occasions - kill me now. :smallsigh:

Since when has mämmi been sweet... :smalltongue:

... I have this feeling that I'm missing something as I have no clue what Amigams is or anything. :smalltongue:

Most of them are pretty tasteless. They've somehow managed to find ways to make sugar no longer taste like anything, so all that is left is the feeling of one's pancreas slowly writhing in agony. If it actually has flavor I can eat it.

I'm sorry the idea of healthier and cake is still confusing me. The only idea remotely similar to that I'm familiar with has been using fructose and milk powder in order to cut down on the amount of glucose because of diabetes.

My main experience is with the foul smell of liver and onions and the horrible chalkiness of fried chicken livers. Also pate. Pate is the most disgusting spread I've seen to date.

Hm, the recipe seemed to call for predominantly sugar without actually burning it. What flavor is it supposed to evoke to be eaten as a dessert then if there's no sweetness to it? :smalltongue:

Gams are, well... gams (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/12/reese-witherspoon-short-shorts-photos_n_3262823.html).


I actually requested an avatar on the avatar thread not too long ago. I feel so dirty. =P

One of Us! One of Us! :smallamused:


It's acceptable if you can't do it the proper way.

Not good enough, we must headbutt all adherents to formal dining etiquette into submission or something. :smalltongue:


Well... If a sandwich is that large or overfilled, then it's not really a practical sandwich. And that would be because the open-faced sandwich was invented by a person who intended to make an ordinary sandwich but then realised he only had one slice of bread left. For some reason, the idea caught on.

I don't even know where you're going or coming from with this line of thinking. :smallconfused: The idea communicated to me, which seemed to have been confirmed was of an ordinary sandwich that would be served to be eaten with one's hands instead being cut up into bite-sized chunks at the table and eaten with a knife and fork to the possible chagrin and almost certain confusion of the establishment.

Besides, making a sandwich bursting at the seams is an American tradition (https://www.google.com/search?q=dagwood,+sandwich&client=firefox-a&hs=RJd&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=gSKRUYSYMOGfyQH664CwCw&ved=0CDoQsAQ&biw=1901&bih=943).

The tricky thing about open-faced sandwiches and that explanation is how they're typically slathered with gravy, hollandaise sauce, or substances that you can only hope are hollandaise or bearnaise sauce because the alternatives are too horrifying to contemplate.


In related news: My Brother is an idiot. How can he possibly have expected me to know he was asleep at six in the evening if he doesn't tell me? All he did was yell at me whenever I made the slightest noise, which is no different from an ordinary evening.
I really wish he would realise that swearing at me just makes me ignore him.

Whap him with a rubber chicken and remind him that you can't anticipate his wishes and he needs to communicate his thoughts to you in a direct and intelligible fashion and that if he continues to spew nothing but profanity at you, you will continue to ignore him save when it comes time to administer his daily rubber chickening?

[Mercenary Pen]

Would the thread present such an environment?

Well, I'm perfectly happy teaching people, and I can't think of many other people who'd have a problem in that regard- so if you want lessons with Synchro or Xyz summons then feel free to come on over...

[Devmaar]

Well, I'm perfectly happy teaching people, and I can't think of many other people who'd have a problem in that regard- so if you want lessons with Synchro or Xyz summons then feel free to come on over...

*hasn't even heard of Xyz summons*
I will do, but late tonight, or possibly tomorrow :smallsmile:

[Amidus Drexel]

Nnnnope!

The problem is you guys know each other. You've got your own little inside jokes and conversations already going, even when I force I can't seem to find an in. The best I can hope for is posts like this to potentially break through.

On a new topic, my sister just told me she got engaged. I guess I should be happy, but I'm really apathetic, which unfortunately came through in my clinical and awkward congratulations. What an awful time to start using the phrase "super duper".

Heh :smallamused:

Just jump in! It's like a swimming pool with stupidly cold water: it feels really awkward when you start, but eventually you get used to it, and then you die of hypothermia. /bad analogies are fun

All joking aside, though, respond to stuff. Eventually we'll be forced by social convention to say something in response. :smallamused: (I imagine you could start a conversation on music with some degree of success (I think you're the person that knew stuff about music... was it someone else? I can't remember))
Congrats to them! (and you, sort of, by extension). I'm sure they'll just gloss over you not seeming incredibly enthusiastic; you can always write it off as being used to them being together.



ION: I heard that there's some sort of recruitment list for volenteers to go to mars in the future...Anyone else hear about that? And would you like to go? If so, why? If not, why?

I remember hearing about that a while ago... Not really. I like Earth. Earth has enough gravity to keep up my wonderful metabolism. (also, I'm nowhere near physically fit enough to qualify for going, either.)



Now to go mucking through the old thread for the replies I owe...

*glares at intently* :smallamused: :smalltongue:

Welcome back! How was your weekend?



Besides, making a sandwich bursting at the seams is an American tradition (https://www.google.com/search?q=dagwood,+sandwich&client=firefox-a&hs=RJd&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=gSKRUYSYMOGfyQH664CwCw&ved=0CDoQsAQ&biw=1901&bih=943).

...I've never seen a sandwich that large in real life.

[FinnLassie]

I'm sorry the idea of healthier and cake is still confusing me. The only idea remotely similar to that I'm familiar with has been using fructose and milk powder in order to cut down on the amount of glucose because of diabetes.

Pate is the most disgusting spread I've seen to date.

Hm, the recipe seemed to call for predominantly sugar without actually burning it. What flavor is it supposed to evoke to be eaten as a dessert then if there's no sweetness to it? :smalltongue:

Gams are, well... gams (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/12/reese-witherspoon-short-shorts-photos_n_3262823.html).



One of Us! One of Us! :smallamused:


Hmmh. Healthy cakes are good. They're mostly healthy only to the soul though, if you catch my drift. :smallwink:

Paté is gorgeous! How- how- how could you! :smallfrown:

Oh darling, the only way to describe mämmi is to say it tastes like mämmi! You better visit Finland some Easter time. :smallamused:

I guess there's no going back... :smalleek:

[Mutant Sheep]

Oh dear... Hopefully you'll get better soon Mr. Sheep.

In related news: My Brother is an idiot. How can he possibly have expected me to know he was asleep at six in the evening if he doesn't tell me? All he did was yell at me whenever I made the slightest noise, which is no different from an ordinary evening.
I really wish he would realise that swearing at me just makes me ignore him.The only one who noticed! *swoon*

If only most people realized that.:smallsigh::smallannoyed::smalltongue:


Nnnnope!

The problem is you guys know each other. You've got your own little inside jokes and conversations already going, even when I force I can't seem to find an in. The best I can hope for is posts like this to potentially break through.

On a new topic, my sister just told me she got engaged. I guess I should be happy, but I'm really apathetic, which unfortunately came through in my clinical and awkward congratulations. What an awful time to start using the phrase "super duper".The key is to leap headfirst into the conversation. Posting a story about your life when there's already a conversation going on just leaves you gathering dust. How do you think I ever managed to get in here? LOUD RESPONSES AT PEOPLE.:smallbiggrin::tongue:

Meh. "Oh sis, you're getting hitched? Super duper" is a rather tolerable response, I think.


*hasn't even heard of Xyz summons*
I will do, but late tonight, or possibly tomorrow :smallsmile:THEY R STUPID.:smalltongue:




Now to go mucking through the old thread for the replies I owe...Yeeeeees.... Respond....:smallbiggrin:

ION-ey:Oh, hey, Tedz and Asta. I just recently discovered this: The Scottish blood I had? Actually Svedish.:smallamused:

Coidzor, you make a perfect Borg-Child.:smallbiggrin::smallwink:

[Mercenary Pen]

THEY R STUPID.:smalltongue:

They may be, and indeed the name may make me cringe every time I hear or read it- not only because I preferred the original translation conjecture of Exceed summons but because the name also tramples upon XYZ-Dragon Cannon by its very existence.

However, regardless of my opinions on the matter of the name, Xyz summons are a thing, and by now quite a potent one, and to ignore them is often to hand victory to your opponent (considering that even with the dominance that synchro monsters had prior to the advent of Xyz monsters there are precious few synchro focused decks that reach the upper echelons of the current tournament scene- and whilst some of this can be attributed to the under-utilisation of synchro-based archetypes, it also must be the case that Xyz monsters have reached the point that Xyz monsters have the effect power and the attack power to hold their own, for otherwise entire tournaments would fall to the one guy who brought a synchro deck...)

[Coidzor]

Hmmh. Healthy cakes are good. They're mostly healthy only to the soul though, if you catch my drift. :smallwink:

Paté is gorgeous! How- how- how could you! :smallfrown:

Oh darling, the only way to describe mämmi is to say it tastes like mämmi! You better visit Finland some Easter time. :smallamused:

I guess there's no going back... :smalleek:

Hmm, I think I just might... :smallamused: That's how I feel about most pies, I'll admit...

Whenever I encounter pate I can't help but think of liver. Also, foie gras. :smallyuk:

The fact that I don't know how to pronounce mämmi (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaSkLgTciJ8)just makes it all the odder. Almost like I'm being exhorted to eat someone's mother. :smallconfused:

Once you go GITP you never hipt. Or something. :smalltongue:


...I've never seen a sandwich that large in real life.

Shh! :smalltongue: Me neither, sadly...


ION-ey:Oh, hey, Tedz and Asta. I just recently discovered this: The Scottish blood I had? Actually Svedish.:smallamused:

Coidzor, you make a perfect Borg-Child.:smallbiggrin::smallwink:

Awwww.

:smalltongue: Who you calling Child?

Hope you get over the pneumonia. Not sure how I missed that. Almost wouldn't be here because of pneumonia almost killing both my father and my grandfather at one point or another, nasty stuff that.

[Mutant Sheep]

They may be, and indeed the name may make me cringe every time I hear or read it- not only because I preferred the original translation conjecture of Exceed summons but because the name also tramples upon XYZ-Dragon Cannon by its very existence.

However, regardless of my opinions on the matter of the name, Xyz summons are a thing, and by now quite a potent one, and to ignore them is often to hand victory to your opponent (considering that even with the dominance that synchro monsters had prior to the advent of Xyz monsters there are precious few synchro focused decks that reach the upper echelons of the current tournament scene- and whilst some of this can be attributed to the under-utilisation of synchro-based archetypes, it also must be the case that Xyz monsters have reached the point that Xyz monsters have the effect power and the attack power to hold their own, for otherwise entire tournaments would fall to the one guy who brought a synchro deck...)
Yes, but my issue with them (and the entire metagame, now) is that there are no costs. Really. The only one that you could even say is Solomn, and that's a flat negate. But before, if you were gonna get a 3k/2.5k monster, it wouldn't ALSO have a BLS destroy-once-a-turn power. BLS is still OP, of course. But it's in the lower echelons of idiotic-power-level considering some synchro/xyz monsters.(Oh, and Exodia decks suck too, because ONE DAY OF PEACE ONE DAY OF PEACE ONE DAY OF PEACE->Have 2 cards left in deck.:smallannoyed:). I COMPLAIN ABOUT THE YUGIOH METAGAME.

Coid:Meh. If not Scot, Svedish seems a decent blood to have. No Dane, but still.:smalltongue:

"One of us" is a very Playground thing to say, hmn?:smallwink:

I dunno. Only found out Friday. Is a weekend SUPPOSED to end this sort of thing? WHY IS I GOING TO SCHOOL MAN.

[Mynxae]

You know that saying "When one door closes, another door opens"? Well it's the same for my computer at the moment. "When one problem is fixed, another one arises". :smallannoyed: First it was the graphics card so I thought, which actually turned out to be a dust problem, and now it just restarts when I use too many processes at once, which could be RAM, it could be the motherboard, it could be the CPU. Ugh. Why won't it just WORK! :smallfurious:

/endrant :smallsigh:

[DraPrime]

Oooooh, new thread, new summer vacation, new bottle of milk...*takes a swig*...this looks like a good day.

[Mutant Sheep]

Oooooh, new thread, new summer vacation, new bottle of milk...*takes a swig*...this looks like a good day.

Whyyyy remind me I still have weeks of school? WHYYYYYYYYYYYY.

[TaiLiu]

Whyyyy remind me I still have weeks of school? WHYYYYYYYYYYYY.
Comrade, don't fret. We can suffer together. :smalltongue:

[LaZodiac]

I'm going to share something with you guys. I think most of you haven't seen it.

Metal Wolf Chaos - Digest Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Genl242_ZU8)

[DraPrime]

Whyyyy remind me I still have weeks of school? WHYYYYYYYYYYYY.

Hey, be happy that none of your exams involved translating Cicero. You're getting off easy punk. :smalltongue:

[Amidus Drexel]

Comrade, don't fret. We can suffer together. :smalltongue:

Suffering! :smallcool:


I'm going to share something with you guys. I think most of you haven't seen it.

Metal Wolf Chaos - Digest Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Genl242_ZU8)

...What did I just watch? :smallamused:


Hey, be happy that none of your exams involved translating Cicero. You're getting off easy punk. :smalltongue:

Indeed I am.

[Coidzor]

Whyyyy remind me I still have weeks of school? WHYYYYYYYYYYYY.

Get a job. :smalltongue:


I'm going to share something with you guys. I think most of you haven't seen it.

Metal Wolf Chaos - Digest Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Genl242_ZU8)

I can't find an image macro potent enough to convey the existential crisis caused by that video.

[TaiLiu]

I made a pun? :smallconfused:
Yes, to Comrade Amidus Drexel. His avatar is dim, no?

Suffering! :smallcool:
Hooray! Let us celebrate with tear-stained tea!

Get a job. :smalltongue:
You would wish him more stress? His poor teacup is overflowing!

[LaZodiac]

...What did I just watch? :smallamused:

Greatness.



I can't find an image macro potent enough to convey the existential crisis caused by that video.

Close up of his face from this: http://bulk.destructoid.com/ul/user/3/33286-178201-metalwolfchaosscreen3jpg-620x.jpg

But in the Obama "change" poster style, with the words "Metal Wolf"

[Amidus Drexel]

Yes, to Comrade Amidus Drexel. His avatar is dim, no?

Hooray! Let us celebrate with tear-stained tea!

You would wish him more stress? His poor teacup is overflowing!

I don't think it was meant that way, but sure. :smallwink: :smalltongue:

I never drink... tea. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiXEGG8rkyw) :smallamused:

Jobs are good. Job=money. Money can be used to purchase things. This is generally accepted as a good thing.


Greatness.


This is madness!

[LaZodiac]

This is madness!

This! Is! METAL WOLF CHAOS!

[DJ Yung Crunk]

This is madness!

Certified madness! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7WaV8hkqXM)

[TaiLiu]

Certified madness! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7WaV8hkqXM)
I... I, uh... :smallconfused:

[Amidus Drexel]

Certified madness! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7WaV8hkqXM)

*nods* Pretty good stuff. Although it probably deserves an NSFW tag.


I... I, uh... :smallconfused:

Well, rap can do that to you. :smallamused: :smalltongue:

[TaiLiu]

Well, rap can do that to you. :smallamused: :smalltongue:
My computer was muted, so all I saw was an odd picture of a man in a mask.

How... How bad was the rap? :smalleek:

[Dimonite]

Hey, be happy that none of your exams involved translating Cicero. You're getting off easy punk. :smalltongue:

Translating Cicero sound like... fun, actually. I only wish I had the Latin knowledge necessary to do that.

[DJ Yung Crunk]

My computer was muted, so all I saw was an odd picture of a man in a mask.

How... How bad was the rap? :smalleek:

Bronson's genius is not of this world. With naught but NY inside jokes, pop culture references, a scholarly command of the English language and the most elaborate food metaphors this side of a TV cooking contest he rips some old school boom bap beats a new one.

I'm kind of in love with him.

[Amidus Drexel]

My computer was muted, so all I saw was an odd picture of a man in a mask.

How... How bad was the rap? :smalleek:

Heh :smallamused:

In answer to that:

*nods* Pretty good stuff. Although it probably deserves an NSFW tag.

ION: This backstory I am writing is treading the line between very cheesy, incredibly depressing, and morbidly hilarious, and given that it's late, I'm probably going to fall over into morbidly hilarious and cheesy if I keep writing. :smallamused: (I mean, my DM will probably appreciate the humor, but I'd like to keep it at least a little serious.)

[TaiLiu]

Bronson's genius is not of this world. With naught but NY inside jokes, pop culture references, a scholarly command of the English language and the most elaborate food metaphors this side of a TV cooking contest he rips some old school boom bap beats a new one.

I'm kind of in love with him.
Ah. I'm glancing at the lyrics, and he doesn't see to be for me (though I dislike music in general). He does sound interesting, though.

ION: This backstory I am writing is treading the line between very cheesy, incredibly depressing, and morbidly hilarious, and given that it's late, I'm probably going to fall over into morbidly hilarious and cheesy if I keep writing. :smallamused: (I mean, my DM will probably appreciate the humor, but I'd like to keep it at least a little serious.)
Oh? What's this character about?

[DJ Yung Crunk]

Ah. I'm glancing at the lyrics, and he doesn't see to be for me (though I dislike music in general). He does sound interesting, though.

I can dig it if you don't enjoy it because it is unpleasant and/or offensive. Can't really help that. But I've never bought into the belief that the topic of lyrics were, in any way, a factor in their evaluation. You can have wonderfully creative and poetic lyrics about being awesome and getting all the ladies and utterly inane and awkward lyrics with more social/political relevance.

I'm not saying that's what you were doing but, for me personally, the topic of the lyrics are tertiary compared to the lyrics themselves.

NOTE: And, in my humble opinion, self aggrandizement tends to attract the types of people who pay more attention to lyrical finesse. I dunno.

[TaiLiu]

I'm not saying that's what you were doing but, for me personally, the topic of the lyrics are tertiary compared to the lyrics themselves.
Ah. I could not hear the music itself, and could only read the lyrics. Perhaps I would have enjoyed him more if I could actually hear the sound itself.

[DJ Yung Crunk]

Ah. I could not hear the music itself, and could only read the lyrics. Perhaps I would have enjoyed him more if I could actually hear the sound itself.

Ehhh... In some cases. But not in this one. Generally hip hop plays things in reverse compared to other genres, where the lyrics are their to aid the music. In hip hop the lyrics are the headliners and the beats are there to bring that out. So, in Bronson's case, you should have been able to read them and appreciate them nonetheless.

Again, if you didn't I won't be offended. Even as a creepily obsessed hip hop fanatic I'll be willing to admit it can be a hard genre to love sometimes.

[Amidus Drexel]

Ah. I'm glancing at the lyrics, and he doesn't see to be for me (though I dislike music in general). He does sound interesting, though.

How could you dislike music in general? :smallconfused: That's horrible! That's like saying you don't like food, or language!

I cannot accurately convey in words my immediate physical reaction to this, so I will attempt to sum it up as such:

*gestures wildly at you in confusion and frustration*


Oh? What's this character about?

He's a devil-worshipping cleric that has a thing for summoning undead spirits to fight for him. I've got the backstory up to the point where he joins the diabolical cult, but I'm going to take a break from it for tonight.

(I would have played a good-aligned character, but he wanted us to be evil... not a problem for me. :smallamused:)


I can dig it if you don't enjoy it because it is unpleasant and/or offensive. Can't really help that. But I've never bought into the belief that the topic of lyrics were, in any way, a factor in their evaluation. You can have wonderfully creative and poetic lyrics about being awesome and getting all the ladies and utterly inane and awkward lyrics with more social/political relevance.

I'm not saying that's what you were doing but, for me personally, the topic of the lyrics are tertiary compared to the lyrics themselves.

NOTE: And, in my humble opinion, self aggrandizement tends to attract the types of people who pay more attention to lyrical finesse. I dunno.

Eh, I've never been much on lyrics. I much prefer to listen to how the vocalist delivers them, rather than what they actually are, or what they mean. I'll acknowledge there's talent in writing them, but I'm far more interested in a vocalist's ability to, well, sing (or rap/speak/scream, as the genre may demand).

[DJ Yung Crunk]

Eh, I've never been much on lyrics. I much prefer to listen to how the vocalist delivers them, rather than what they actually are, or what they mean. I'll acknowledge there's talent in writing them, but I'm far more interested in a vocalist's ability to, well, sing (or rap/speak/scream, as the genre may demand).

Oh absolutely, that's certainly true. Waka Flocka Flame, for instance, can't pen a lyric to save his life, but we continue to listen to him because his rap snarl is just so damn infectious.

Certainly hip hop, perhaps alongside folk, is the most lyric-heavy genre of popular music out there so, in this case, it's important but with other genres like rock or metal I've never been too bothered by lyrical failings. My favorite rock group CAN were no lyricists, nor did they try to be. If you chastise CAN for failing to deliver the clever lyrics you're probably missing the point.

[TaiLiu]

Ehhh... In some cases. But not in this one. Generally hip hop plays things in reverse compared to other genres, where the lyrics are their to aid the music. In hip hop the lyrics are the headliners and the beats are there to bring that out. So, in Bronson's case, you should have been able to read them and appreciate them nonetheless.

Again, if you didn't I won't be offended. Even as a creepily obsessed hip hop fanatic I'll be willing to admit it can be a hard genre to love sometimes.
Hm. Perhaps the tempo is not for me, then.

How could you dislike music in general? :smallconfused: That's horrible! That's like saying you don't like food, or language!

I cannot accurately convey in words my immediate physical reaction to this, so I will attempt to sum it up as such:

*gestures wildly at you in confusion and frustration*
I apologise if this offends you, but I simply do not find comfort in music. It's grating, and one of the very few things that can, in theory, throw me into a furious outrage.

My favourite sound is the sound of silence. :smalltongue:

He's a devil-worshipping cleric that has a thing for summoning undead spirits to fight for him. I've got the backstory up to the point where he joins the diabolical cult, but I'm going to take a break from it for tonight.

(I would have played a good-aligned character, but he wanted us to be evil... not a problem for me. :smallamused:)
Oh, very nice! I hope your DM likes it!

If you chastise CAN for failing to deliver the clever lyrics you're probably missing the point.
What, exactly, does CAN deliver? :smallconfused:

[DJ Yung Crunk]

What, exactly, does CAN deliver? :smallconfused:

CAN? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QLL2j8ZtxE)

In general I find rock to be at its best when it's trying not to be rock. The tropes and imagery of rock are marketable and time tested, sure, but they're stagnant and have been holding back a genre that, by now, really should have reached a higher realm than "entertainment". Bands like CAN (and CAN especially) make rock art by acknowledging and warping the tropes and cliches of the genre (if not outright ignoring them) and merely exploring the sounds the traditional five piece rock group can make on their own terms, away from preconceived notions of what that kind of set up should play.

How important are vocals?
Aren't these blues influences dated?
For that matter, why is melody so emphasized?

CAN doesn't feature traditional influences, I'm almost positive any similarities to funk, progressive rock and psychedelic rock are entirely coincidental. While freed from pop/blues structures they were basically able to explore in any direction they wanted, be it 20 minute bass and drum driven jams, strings of expressive guitar solos, reverb/distortion/feedback experimentation. Their music is a triumph of experimentation over outright indulgence and progression over traditionalism. It's still rock, certainly, it doesn't divorce itself entirely from that label but the things it does to that label are just exquisite.

[Teddy]

Ph does not exist in Swedish except as a measure of the activity of hydrogen ions.

No, that's pH. Ph is a singer. :smallwink:


ION-ey:Oh, hey, Tedz and Asta. I just recently discovered this: The Scottish blood I had? Actually Svedish.:smallamused:

That's cool. Wikipedia tells me Chicago has a very mixed heritage with many immigration groups, with 0.91% considering themselves of Swedish blood, so I'm not all too surprised. Still cool, though. You should dig a little in your family history, see where people came from and why they left (even though the answer to the second is probably "famine")...


How could you dislike music in general? :smallconfused: That's horrible! That's like saying you don't like food, or language!

I cannot accurately convey in words my immediate physical reaction to this, so I will attempt to sum it up as such:

*gestures wildly at you in confusion and frustration*

Hey, wasn't there someone in here who disliked almost all tastes of food, and would prefer not to eat if it was physically possible, or am I mixing this up with another source?

Also, I don't you can compare it to language just straight away. Language is mainly a tool of communication and evolves with the introduction of new concepts and the simplification of old ones, while music primarly is a means of creating or expressing emotion, and evolves as musicians find new ways which pleases them. Food is more like music in that we cook to give it a pleasing taste, and new flavours are invented as cooks try new ways to achieve that.

Also, I find disliking music in general to be pretty legit. At its highest level of abstraction, it's a long stream of ever-changing noise, and as such, I'm not surprised some only find it tiresome...

[Elemental]

your answer.:smallbiggrin:

I suppose you can't just go the replicator and ask for "hydrogen, plasma, 20 square millimeters" though that would make for entertaining pranks.

"APRIL..."
*the enterprise is consumed in a large explosion*

... cut to end credits

Damn... I accidentally leave a word in after rearranging my sentence, and I turn the Enterprise computer into a murderous psychopath...



ION: I heard that there's some sort of recruitment list for volenteers to go to mars in the future...Anyone else hear about that? And would you like to go? If so, why? If not, why?

If I could live in comfort and style and not have to toil to make a home for myself, I'd consider it.
I think it would be invigorating to leave the Earth behind and dwell on another world and build up a new society with its own culture. I might open a book store and grow flowers out the front.



But it's so confusing for my little, poor brain... :smallsigh::smalltongue:
I actually requested an avatar on the avatar thread not too long ago. I feel so dirty. =P

You'll get used to that.
I noticed. But I thought it would be pointless to call you out on that. Besides, I think it's a neat idea, especially the little sketch.



No idea what a flogiston thrower it, but I presume it involves blowing stuff up, so tell me about it :smallbiggrin:

It's more properly spelled as Phlogiston. Anyway... It's from an incorrect theory in which people used to believe that fire was caused by the release of a substance called Phlogiston that was contained in all flammable materials in differing quantities. If we throw modern science to the wind and instead assume that alchemy is reasonably correct, then a Phlogiston Thrower would be a device to hurl Phlogiston, probably distilled from various sources using elaborate copper and glass equipment, at things to set them on fire.
Of course, I can't remember the entirety of the Theory of Phlogiston, so I'm probably wrong on numerous points.



Flogiston was the element in stuff that burned. Which is not a bad idea, even though it's wrong. Then they noticed that stuff actually grows heavier when it burns (because oxygen is added), so for a while they toyed around with flogiston having negative mass. But in the end Lavoisier and Scheele independently showed that oxygen was the thing.

Yeah. That's a better explanation.



It is phonetically correct... :smalltongue:

So is Phlogiston, which comes from Ancient Greek.



Ay. Phlogiston.

Just thought I'd stop by and say hi.

Hello!



Wasn't there a conversation once about transliterating φ as ph vs. f? Doesn't Swedish tend towards the latter?

I too assumed that it was a difference between English and Swedish.
It makes sense in a way. When it comes to transliterating words and roots from one language into another, it's best to use a method that would appeal more the people who are going to end up using it.
Naturally, I know nothing about the prevalence of ph in Swedish, so I'm probably wrong about this particular case.



Ph does not exist in Swedish except as a measure of the activity of hydrogen ions.

Oh look. Confirmation. Again... Damn you Asta!
I should wake up earlier so I can better participate. Okay... Not that early...



Not good enough, we must headbutt all adherents to formal dining etiquette into submission or something. :smalltongue:

Usually I just give up on any pretence of formal dining etiquette after laying the table. None of my siblings listen to me anyway. One starts eating before everything is served and another refuses to use a knife even when steak is served.



I don't even know where you're going or coming from with this line of thinking. :smallconfused: The idea communicated to me, which seemed to have been confirmed was of an ordinary sandwich that would be served to be eaten with one's hands instead being cut up into bite-sized chunks at the table and eaten with a knife and fork to the possible chagrin and almost certain confusion of the establishment.

Besides, making a sandwich bursting at the seams is an American tradition (https://www.google.com/search?q=dagwood,+sandwich&client=firefox-a&hs=RJd&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=gSKRUYSYMOGfyQH664CwCw&ved=0CDoQsAQ&biw=1901&bih=943).

The tricky thing about open-faced sandwiches and that explanation is how they're typically slathered with gravy, hollandaise sauce, or substances that you can only hope are hollandaise or bearnaise sauce because the alternatives are too horrifying to contemplate.

Well... The theory is, if the sandwich is meant to be cut up, that'll be done before it's served. The default is to cut the sandwich in question into two triangular halves, triangles being deemed fancier than rectangles. If not, then no knife should be provided.
I don't know, I try not to judge people on whether or not they eat their sandwich with a knife and fork.

Is there anything impractical that isn't an American tradition?

Actually, the real problem with that explanation is I made it up on the spot. I assumed I would be called out on it, but apparently not... Anyway... Obviously, I've not grown up around such strange and unnecessary sandwiches. Open-faced sandwiches around here are just bread with a couple of things on it of the kind that aren't often a staining hazard.



Whap him with a rubber chicken and remind him that you can't anticipate his wishes and he needs to communicate his thoughts to you in a direct and intelligible fashion and that if he continues to spew nothing but profanity at you, you will continue to ignore him save when it comes time to administer his daily rubber chickening?

That has as much chance of working as building a nuclear bomb out of hats. Theoretically possible, but not at all likely to be practical. I told him that there was no possible way for me to know, but he ignored me because he's self-centred at all times and a notorious grump when tired. I'm grumpy when tired, but at least I don't endeavour to verbally bite the head off anyone that annoys me. But alas, I seem to have been blessed with the ability to not use profanity.
Also... I don't own a rubber chicken.



All joking aside, though, respond to stuff. Eventually we'll be forced by social convention to say something in response. :smallamused:

Yes. Social convention is not the hindrance people think it is, it's a tool to be used for your own ends, preferably not evil ones.



The only one who noticed! *swoon*

If only most people realized that.:smallsigh::smallannoyed::smalltongue:

I was personally surprised no one else did, but I chalked it down to you editing it into a post and no one checking to see if there was a change...
Are you feeling any better?

One of these days they will, and then those of us who are meek like myself will have no reason for cynicism.



Oooooh, new thread, new summer vacation, new bottle of milk...*takes a swig*...this looks like a good day.

Mmm... Milk.



My favourite sound is the sound of silence. :smalltongue:

There's a song about that. It's about the evils of rampant consumerism and how it destroys individuality, something like that. I'll have to remember more of the work we did in English to analyse it, but that's the general gist of it.



Hey, wasn't there someone in here who disliked almost all tastes of food, and would prefer not to eat if it was physically possible, or am I mixing this up with another source?

Thajocoth, if I recall correctly.

[Deth Muncher]

*boogies on in* Ahoy! I just thought I should let you folks know I finally graduated from college, so I can finally return to the Playground to unload my free time!

Though it's been long enough I'm not sure most folks remember me. >_>

[Archonic Energy]

Damn... I accidentally leave a word in after rearranging my sentence, and I turn the Enterprise computer into a murderous psychopath...


suddenly i'm thinking of the Voyager episode where Seska reprograms the Maquis rebellion training program.

waiting for the next episode of Strip Search... anyone else been watching it?

[Mercenary Pen]

Yes, but my issue with them (and the entire metagame, now) is that there are no costs. Really. The only one that you could even say is Solomn, and that's a flat negate. But before, if you were gonna get a 3k/2.5k monster, it wouldn't ALSO have a BLS destroy-once-a-turn power. BLS is still OP, of course. But it's in the lower echelons of idiotic-power-level considering some synchro/xyz monsters.(Oh, and Exodia decks suck too, because ONE DAY OF PEACE ONE DAY OF PEACE ONE DAY OF PEACE->Have 2 cards left in deck.:smallannoyed:). I COMPLAIN ABOUT THE YUGIOH METAGAME.


But even with Xyz summons being a thing you still run the risk of losing the whole thing, complete with overlay units, to cards like Bottomless Trap Hole, Torrential Tribute and Compulsory Evacuation Device, and with priority having been abolished, that can happen before they even get their effects off- meaning that even the one for one removal cards become a lot deadlier if you're careful when you use them.

If priority were still a thing I'd see your point, but since it no longer is, its not like you can get off an Xyz monster's main effect before Bottomless banishes it since many of those are ignition effects.

[TheWombatOfDoom]

*boogies on in* Ahoy! I just thought I should let you folks know I finally graduated from college, so I can finally return to the Playground to unload my free time!

Though it's been long enough I'm not sure most folks remember me. >_>

*Boogies up to* Welcome back! Con-GRAD-ulations. Welcome to the real world, now! *jazz hands*

[LaZodiac]

But even with Xyz summons being a thing you still run the risk of losing the whole thing, complete with overlay units, to cards like Bottomless Trap Hole, Torrential Tribute and Compulsory Evacuation Device, and with priority having been abolished, that can happen before they even get their effects off- meaning that even the one for one removal cards become a lot deadlier if you're careful when you use them.

If priority were still a thing I'd see your point, but since it no longer is, its not like you can get off an Xyz monster's main effect before Bottomless banishes it since many of those are ignition effects.

Man Eater Bug eats your Exodia the Forbidden One. Not actually legit, but still hilarious to me in concept that technically, it could do this.

[Finlam]

waiting for the next episode of Strip Search... anyone else been watching it?

Nope. But it reminds me of every time I have to fly :smallsigh:

[Archonic Energy]

Nope. But it reminds me of every time I have to fly :smallsigh:

:smallconfused:
how so?

[Dimonite]

So my brother drew this:
http://i41.tinypic.com/34zaqls.jpg

and he thinks he's funny. My sense of humor is... limited, at best, so I figured I would ask others if he is, in fact, funny.

EDIT: that's huge - gimme a few minutes, I'll fix it.

FURTHER EDIT: There, that's better.

[FinnLassie]

I can't believe it, I'm putting money before comfort... Booking flights from Manchester to Helsinki just because it's so much cheaper to get a bus from Glasgow to Manchester and so on. I'm not too sure how to get the bus ticket to Manchester airport though... Because I might not be cheeky enough. I mean, if you got the ticket straight from Glasgow to Manchester airport it'd be about £31, but if I got separate tickets Glasgow-Manchester and Manchester-M. Airport it'd be about 8 to 9 quids. Why would I need to be a bit cheeky? It's the same bus that would cost me 31 quid if bought straight to the airport with no changes, so I'd basically buy separate tickets but wouldn't have to change the bus. I might need to jump out of the bus and hop back in, I don't know... Yeah, I'm not cheeky enough to do so. It's just annoying because the next bus is at 7am (the bus arrives in Manchester 4am), and not sure if I want to walk 10-15 minutes to the train station to get the train. :smalltongue:

Rant rant rant... :smallbiggrin:

Edit:

So my brother drew this:
http://i41.tinypic.com/34zaqls.jpg

and he thinks he's funny. My sense of humor is... limited, at best, so I figured I would ask others if he is, in fact, funny.

EDIT: that's huge - gimme a few minutes, I'll fix it.

FURTHER EDIT: There, that's better.

It's Moby **** mashed up with this hideous thing (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWNaR-rxAic).

EDIT2: Teehee. Can't write the name of a literacy classic without the asterisks attacking. :smallbiggrin:

[Kneenibble]

*boogies on in* Ahoy! I just thought I should let you folks know I finally graduated from college, so I can finally return to the Playground to unload my free time!

Though it's been long enough I'm not sure most folks remember me. >_>

A grubby silk train rustles across unswept floorboards like dry leaves. A figure in a mouldy wedding dress gathers a crisply dead bouqet and a single tear washes a runnel through the grime on its face.

"I knew you would come back."

[Teddy]

*boogies on in* Ahoy! I just thought I should let you folks know I finally graduated from college, so I can finally return to the Playground to unload my free time!

Though it's been long enough I'm not sure most folks remember me. >_>

I do, for all it's worth. Also, congrats on graduating. What have you been studying?

ION:
Finally got my prototypes "finished" and compiled. They still need a final revision before I can hope to link them together and get them running, but right now, there are no compiler errors, which feels nice. One and a half day of testing and debugging should do the trick...

IOON:
Stupid stochastics being all confusing for all the wrong reasons. They have such a roundabout way of describing obvious concepts that you lose yourself in the process...

[AsteriskAmp]

So my brother drew this:
http://i41.tinypic.com/34zaqls.jpg

and he thinks he's funny. My sense of humor is... limited, at best, so I figured I would ask others if he is, in fact, funny.

EDIT: that's huge - gimme a few minutes, I'll fix it.

FURTHER EDIT: There, that's better.It is moderately amusing; at least for me.


IOON:
Stupid stochastics being all confusing for all the wrong reasons. They have such a roundabout way of describing obvious concepts that you lose yourself in the process...Isn't that the general rule for statistics? Making intuitive somewhat simple concepts become bogged down with the most ridiculous names and formal procedures for things children do with Venn Diagrams. Oh and formulas lots and lots of them.

[Coidzor]

Dimonite: Your brother must have had an interesting childhood. I give it a 6/10.


I can't believe it, I'm putting money before comfort... Booking flights from Manchester to Helsinki just because it's so much cheaper to get a bus from Glasgow to Manchester and so on. I'm not too sure how to get the bus ticket to Manchester airport though... Because I might not be cheeky enough. I mean, if you got the ticket straight from Glasgow to Manchester airport it'd be about £31, but if I got separate tickets Glasgow-Manchester and Manchester-M. Airport it'd be about 8 to 9 quids. Why would I need to be a bit cheeky? It's the same bus that would cost me 31 quid if bought straight to the airport with no changes, so I'd basically buy separate tickets but wouldn't have to change the bus. I might need to jump out of the bus and hop back in, I don't know... Yeah, I'm not cheeky enough to do so. It's just annoying because the next bus is at 7am (the bus arrives in Manchester 4am), and not sure if I want to walk 10-15 minutes to the train station to get the train. :smalltongue:

Rant rant rant... :smallbiggrin:

Ahh, bureaucracy!?

Good luck with that.


It's Moby **** mashed up with this hideous thing (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWNaR-rxAic).

EDIT2: Teehee. Can't write the name of a literacy classic without the asterisks attacking. :smallbiggrin:

I like the parody (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTthJI0rDnk&list=SP1C90BDF46E6EACFD)potential (http://gawker.com/5988510/this-mash-up-of-nine-inch-nails-head-like-a-hole-with-carly-rae-jepsens-call-me-maybe-is-surprisingly-good)myself.

That's the best part about Moby ****, aye. It gets even more awkward when you're trying to talk about your Renegade playthrough of Mass Effect, because, really, there's only one name that you can give a Renegade Shep that's male. You just can't keep **** Shepard from headbutting Krogan. Granted, I don't think you can keep any Shep from headbutting Krogan...


Usually I just give up on any pretence of formal dining etiquette after laying the table. None of my siblings listen to me anyway. One starts eating before everything is served and another refuses to use a knife even when steak is served.

Sounds like you've got a bunch of barbarian bebbehs for siblings.


Well... The theory is, if the sandwich is meant to be cut up, that'll be done before it's served. The default is to cut the sandwich in question into two triangular halves, triangles being deemed fancier than rectangles. If not, then no knife should be provided.
I don't know, I try not to judge people on whether or not they eat their sandwich with a knife and fork.

So are we talking bite-sized portions of the triangular diamonds for fancification?


Is there anything impractical that isn't an American tradition?

Corgis?


Actually, the real problem with that explanation is I made it up on the spot. I assumed I would be called out on it, but apparently not... Anyway... Obviously, I've not grown up around such strange and unnecessary sandwiches. Open-faced sandwiches around here are just bread with a couple of things on it of the kind that aren't often a staining hazard.

*pat, pat* You should really try out hollandaise sauce on a roast beast sammich sometime. Just... make sure you trust the source.


That has as much chance of working as building a nuclear bomb out of hats. Theoretically possible, but not at all likely to be practical. I told him that there was no possible way for me to know, but he ignored me because he's self-centred at all times and a notorious grump when tired. I'm grumpy when tired, but at least I don't endeavour to verbally bite the head off anyone that annoys me. But alas, I seem to have been blessed with the ability to not use profanity.
Also... I don't own a rubber chicken.

Step 1. Acquire a rubber chicken.
Step 2. Exhaust all other diplomatic channels.
Step 3. Go to Sibling Rivalry Town on his Patootie.

*nod, nod*

[DraPrime]

Huh, well that's weird. I just spotted the guy who played Spiderman in the most recent movie. He's in the two Doctor Who episodes set in 1930's New York. It's funny seeing actors before they got big.

edit: Also, is it just me, or are some of the accents not quite right in this episode?

[Mercenary Pen]

Huh, well that's weird. I just spotted the guy who played Spiderman in the most recent movie. He's in the two Doctor Who episodes set in 1930's New York. It's funny seeing actors before they got big.

edit: Also, is it just me, or are some of the accents not quite right in this episode?

I believe observations have been made about both the accents and the use of English idiom in place of American idiom in that particular two parter...

[Drakeburn]

Well, yesterday was a bit odd for the family.

A package came in for my mother, and it happened to be a leather something kit.

What makes it so odd was.........

1. It was from eBay.
2. My mother shops on Amazon
3. I do not shop online (I'm too cheap for that :smalltongue:)
4. We aren't exactly sure who it is for, but we have a pretty good guess that it came from my father, who refer was "you-know-who".

I dislike getting presents from my father. Usually it is nothing more but junk.
I'm not trying to be rude or anything, but when I say it is junk, it is really junk.
Stuff from bargain bins, yard sales, etc.

Actually, the last straw happened when he sent my little bird house, that happened to have a WASP NEST in it. And for some strange reason, my mother didn't want me to throw it away. So I just put it outside. If those wasps are still there, I dare not want to check.
If the wasps were alive or not when my sister got it, I wouldn't know because I took it out really quickly.

ION: Tonight is the second last night Grimm will be on until Fall.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGHH HHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[AtlanteanTroll]

I only have one day of high school left ... It's really weird. Also, ION: My aunt letter written by my great-grandfather from back when he was a missionary in China during 1919.


I note with pleasure that gasoline is now 85¢ in Tientsin instead of $1.05 per gallon. It will go down probably to about 65¢ before long. We are mighty glad to see that. I wonder what it is at home now. Not yet back to the good old days when we used to get 10 gallons for $1!

[Kneenibble]

INCOMING
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oOL7ac9vK80/TT8fTvCFAxI/AAAAAAAADS4/wvrhNSlh8NI/s1600/385190394_d3df336778.jpg

From last thread,


There are but two kinds of poisonous spiders in Virginia; black widows, and the brown recluse. Black widows are easily identified by body shape (and their very distinctive markings), and I normally just leave those alone; I've only ever seen them outside, anyways. Brown recluses are tiny, light-brown spiders, and are reasonably difficult to differentiate from the harmless wolf spiders in poor lighting (where they're normally found).

Isn’t it frightening to see a black widow? Can’t they kill a man with their venom? Here (http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=308) is a Hark, A Vagrant! comic about the brown recluse that provides me enduring amusement.



Heh, you probably would have thought the same of one pair of socks of mine that took a trip through almost knee-deep mud because I couldn't be bothered to put my boots on. (I dried them out by the fire, and scraped the mud off later) :smallamused:

I would have put them in the fire. RUINED.



Rhy-thm
Ma-la-pro-pi-sm

I think it's a matter of how we're separating the words; regardless of whether my syllabification is correct, it sounds wrong, which fails my criteria on a different (and admittedly, far more subjective) level. :smalltongue:

No my dear fellow, I assure you, they are objectively correct, even as you break them down above. The rhyme is on đəm/ zəm. The final syllables are all that need rhyme. You may be conflating trochees with feminine endings, where the final two syllables would have to rhyme, but that is a whole other thing.



...As for actually answering your question,
Don't do it.
God dammit. Shut up, you paranoid **********er.
*grabs popcorn*
Oh, my, look at the time! Keep it up, I might just get a promotion.
I give up. See y'all later.
Hit the delete key, or I'll do it for you!
I think I'll make the decisions, thank you.

My mom's dog had to be put down due to some health issues (a rather severe case of diabetes, I think they said; he wasn't eating much, and was having some trouble walking)... It was a bit sudden for me, as I found out around the same time I posted. :smallfrown:

Man, I loved that dog, even when he got to be more like a doddering old man.

You all amuse me. :smallamused:
With all sincerity: thanks.

Aww, Speedasaurus. I’m sorry. Elderly pets dying … I understand that sad. ;___; *hug*



Seriously, Knee. If it is too "ramifications of new thing", sneak in with some budgies and do some *offensive stereotype-like activity*:smalltongue:

Offensive stereotype-like activity? Like what, tweeting lasciviously to a mirror? Eating seeds? Flinging toys off the top of my cage? And everyone will shout, “Budgies gonna budge!” and laugh in the perfume of their superiority. No, I won’t do it, Ovis! I won’t! I won’t give them the satisfaction!



I believe Canada has a long standing ban of people like me, Knee. Imagine someone as gentle as me in the land of them hairy beasts!:smalltongue

What, people like you? Papists? Anaemics? Ungulates? We are gentle to all kinds here, even Walloons. You would be fed with the choicest sirops; and though it be the life’s blood of our economy, we would set flame to a field of ripe wheat before your eyes of a drive through the country for your entertainment and comfort.



But then *Victorian Ailment* shall inflict him with a slight cough that pales his skin and will suddenly confine him to quarters in the second act!:smalleek::smalltongue:

Rodents eating is cute too.:smallwink:

Yes, yes, and later in the play when time has elapsed he’ll be wheeled out in a wooden high-backed wheelchair with a dressing gown and a tartan blanket across his lap; and decry his machinations, led by correspondence and scheming while holed up in the upper library, that will get the protagonist out of a jam!

I am still hoping you will put a cute picture of your creatures.




Alright, according to my mother the plant which I identified as hollyhock is, in fact, actually Malva. I have my doubts, but they are quite similar looking plants, and I truly find the name less relevant than their beauty. I shall, however, in deference to my mother, refer to them instead as Malva.

Oh, okay, I have never met a Malva. Was it edible?




If a substitution of cocoa may be made, then I should fly far for such foodstuffs in such company. Well, I would if my budget allowed, anyway. As it is, I fear I am fairly stationary.


If you decide to go with burning the house down, kindly take pictures during, not just afterwards. :smalltongue: I find that a good blaze is a beautiful thing, don't you?

One day, when I am a fat and wealthy librarian, I will have a car to send and we will have cocoa and scones in the shade of a grape-tangled arbor. Until that day… alas. & Heh, I agree but if the insurance company finds the pictures on my camera I may have some explaining to do.



Whether or not I decided to take pictures, it would take a veritable armada to prevent my mother from leveling her shutter at every plant within a five-mile radius. :smalltongue:
I quite agree, bleeding hearts are GORGEOUS:

(Ours from last spring)
https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/548391_3775968760620_1534812759_n.jpg
Oh, the plants which I believed to be hollyhock are aggressively perennial, and have entirely taken over the region in which they were planted. I couldn't NOT grow them if I TRIED.

Well then please find it in your heart to put some of her photographies, at least. That is a fantastic bleeding heart shot, still wearing the pink of fresh growth.

I planted out my hollyhocks yesterday evening, but they had grown flimsy and spindly from being started indoors without a grow light. I doubt they’re going to make it. ;___; & I don’t know if the growing season is long enough to start them directly from seeds. But I want them.


Well, think of wild strawberries (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_strawberry), but white and with green seeds, and with no traces of red even when they're fully ripe.

Seeing how we just got the birch leaves over here, and how our summer farm usually lies a week or so behind, I'm pretty sure the only thing that makes any verdancy worthy of notice is it's lack of existence right now. Berries are off the table for yet another month or, more likely, two.

That said, if she's willing to settle for fika, I suppose fat would be an understatement...

I am thinking of it; I am imagining what it looks like to bite in half, and see wet sweet flesh white the whole way through. I want it.

I will inform Sidney of this, though if fika be a substitute he will hardly be disappointed. As for me, looking up fika has led me into a time sink of slavering after pictures of Swedish baking.



Alas, I'd need to get a degree before I can get any benefit from such an archetype...

I believe you have the heart of a scholar, even if you do not have the trappings.



It is. But we have never purchased it. Well, there is a large range of honeys available at most supermarkets, I only suggested Red Gum because that's what we have in the cupboard. Alternatively, I can probably ask nicely enough and we can use some of the last of my Dad's honey, it is a shame his bees failed to thrive.

Fruit, possible insect eating as well, but mostly fruit. They like palm fruits when they're available and our bananas when they can get them.

In truth, they are not so bountiful. Mostly, they have been allowed to grow wild, but I like that look. We'll have to take seeds and cuttings and transplant those we can. But alas, Mum's rose garden will probably have to stay behind.

Your father kept bees? That, too, is neat. I love bees. Maybe it’s trite to you because you live it every day, but your garden sounds so neat to me. All full of crazy tropical plants and bees and bats and exotic birds.

That would be a shame, but what can you do? I plan to move in perhaps four years, and I wonder how it will feel to leave behind all the things I have planted and built.



Hey, Kneen, this guy was hanging out around our bird feeder today.

https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/936106_10201295842420939_40180566_n.jpg

He a friend of yours?

I don’t know the handsome gentleman, but I reckon that fluffy red tummy is in dear need of kisses.



*glares at intently* :smallamused: :smalltongue:

Welcome back! How was your weekend?

Thank you Armadillo. It was actually quite lovely; I spent a lovely brunch with my family on Mother’s Day and otherwise got lots of work on my bathroom renovation done. How was yours?



Oh darling, the only way to describe mämmi is to say it tastes like mämmi! You better visit Finland some Easter time. :smallamused:

I looked up mämmi and I am intrigued. I am fascinated by rye and it looks delicious. I will probably never get to eat it.



I only have one day of high school left ... It's really weird. Also, ION: My aunt letter written by my great-grandfather from back when he was a missionary in China during 1919.

O! Where did you find the letter? Is it stored properly in an acid-free housing? Does it have a smell?

[DraPrime]

INCOMING
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oOL7ac9vK80/TT8fTvCFAxI/AAAAAAAADS4/wvrhNSlh8NI/s1600/385190394_d3df336778.jpg

Bank left! Bank left!

[Drakeburn]

INCOMING
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oOL7ac9vK80/TT8fTvCFAxI/AAAAAAAADS4/wvrhNSlh8NI/s1600/385190394_d3df336778.jpg

TAKE COVER!!!!

*digs up a trench to jump into*

[AtlanteanTroll]

O! Where did you find the letter? Is it stored properly in an acid-free housing? Does it have a smell?
Not a clue. I just know my aunt found it. She's making a museum of sorts in honor of my great-grandpa or something.

Also. That Budgie. How did you get such a smooth photo?

[Amidus Drexel]

I apologise if this offends you, but I simply do not find comfort in music. It's grating, and one of the very few things that can, in theory, throw me into a furious outrage.

My favourite sound is the sound of silence. :smalltongue:

*twitch*

...excuse me for a minute.


Hey, wasn't there someone in here who disliked almost all tastes of food, and would prefer not to eat if it was physically possible, or am I mixing this up with another source?

Also, I don't you can compare it to language just straight away. Language is mainly a tool of communication and evolves with the introduction of new concepts and the simplification of old ones, while music primarly is a means of creating or expressing emotion, and evolves as musicians find new ways which pleases them. Food is more like music in that we cook to give it a pleasing taste, and new flavours are invented as cooks try new ways to achieve that.

Also, I find disliking music in general to be pretty legit. At its highest level of abstraction, it's a long stream of ever-changing noise, and as such, I'm not surprised some only find it tiresome...

I don't remember... could be.

All three are means of expression; and each of them have other purposes as well; music as intimidation or to relay commands in war (a somewhat dated concept), language as communication, and food as sustenance, but they're all similar in how they can be used.

*explodes* I'm going to go find some static, and listen to that for a while. :smalltongue:


Yes. Social convention is not the hindrance people think it is, it's a tool to be used for your own ends, preferably not evil ones.

...but all of my ends are evil ones... :smallamused:


*boogies on in* Ahoy! I just thought I should let you folks know I finally graduated from college, so I can finally return to the Playground to unload my free time!

Though it's been long enough I'm not sure most folks remember me. >_>

Congratulations and welcome back! (and I recognize the name, at least, so you're not wholly unknown)



Isn’t it frightening to see a black widow? Can’t they kill a man with their venom? Here (http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=308) is a Hark, A Vagrant! comic about the brown recluse that provides me enduring amusement.

I would have put them in the fire. RUINED.

No my dear fellow, I assure you, they are objectively correct, even as you break them down above. The rhyme is on đəm/ zəm. The final syllables are all that need rhyme. You may be conflating trochees with feminine endings, where the final two syllables would have to rhyme, but that is a whole other thing.

Thank you Armadillo. It was actually quite lovely; I spent a lovely brunch with my family on Mother’s Day and otherwise got lots of work on my bathroom renovation done. How was yours?


Their poison is indeed deadly; however, I am only afraid of death in an academic sense, and while I afforded the spiders (there have been a few occasions) a healthy respect and distance after ascertaining that they were indeed black widows, I was not afraid of them, in that sense.

Heh, I love Hark, A Vagrant! :smallamused:

Pfft. I've worn socks that were mostly holes and dirt before, without any problem. :smalltongue:

Bah, fine. It still sounds wrong. The "th" and "s" sounds are dissimilar enough that the rhyme, while technically being correct, has a dissatisfying ring to it.

I went to a graduation party with my mother and some of her friends. (both she and her friend's daughter had recently graduated college). There was lots of food and cake and such, and a good time was had by all.

ION: My stepmother has found a snake of some sort. I'm not sure of what kind, because between the when she saw it and when she finds me to go look at it, it moves away and I can't find it. She's terrified of it and doesn't want to weed the flowerbeds, and I would probably be more sympathetic if I could stop laughing. :smallamused:

[Teddy]

Isn't that the general rule for statistics? Making intuitive somewhat simple concepts become bogged down with the most ridiculous names and formal procedures for things children do with Venn Diagrams. Oh and formulas lots and lots of them.

Possibly. We're only into probability right now, but I don't anticipate any great changes as we move on to statistics...


All three are means of expression; and each of them have other purposes as well; music as intimidation or to relay commands in war (a somewhat dated concept), language as communication, and food as sustenance, but they're all similar in how they can be used.

Well, I agree with the possible parallels between music and cooking, but language doesn't work that way. You can't just invent new words on the fly and call it language, you need to stay mostly within already set borders or you're just going to be incoherent. Language changes, sure, but compared to music and cooking, it's as static as a glacier.


*explodes* I'm going to go find some static, and listen to that for a while. :smalltongue:

That's mostly an unchanging noise. Go find an old radio and wheel around with the channel selector instead. :smallwink:

[Amidus Drexel]

Well, I agree with the possible parallels between music and cooking, but language doesn't work that way. You can't just invent new words on the fly and call it language, you need to stay mostly within already set borders or you're just going to be incoherent. Language changes, sure, but compared to music and cooking, it's as static as a glacier.

That's mostly an unchanging noise. Go find an old radio and wheel around with the channel selector instead. :smallwink:

Bah, Shakespeare is credited with inventing somewhere between 1500 and 2000 (the number depends on who you ask) words by doing exactly that. Many common (and some outdated) English phrases are inventions of his as well. Language is mutable, and people invent words all the time.

Eh, I like static - it's calming to listen to. (for a while, at least). If I wanted a true sequence of disconnected sounds, there are music artists (and I use the term music broadly) that specialize in those. :smallamused:

(not to mention that the word static itself means unchanging...)

[FinnLassie]

Many common (and some outdated) English phrases are inventions of his as well.

I have to come up with an argument to this - although I have no references and this is mostly just personal opinion. I don't really think he invented everything, he simply collected what he had heard and was the first one to use those phrasings in literature. I mean, I do think that he did come up with a lot of them, but I'd say it's a bit of both.

*tries to sound smart, fails horribly* :smalleek:

[Amidus Drexel]

I have to come up with an argument to this - although I have no references and this is mostly just personal opinion. I don't really think he invented everything, he simply collected what he had heard and was the first one to use those phrasings in literature. I mean, I do think that he did come up with a lot of them, but I'd say it's a bit of both.

*tries to sound smart, fails horribly* :smalleek:

Honestly, it could be either way; but they're credited to him, which is all we really have to go on. (not to mention that there are a great deal of people who don't think Shakespeare wrote all the plays and sonnets history claims him to have authored, and there are even people that (with some reasonable, although not conclusive, evidence) don't believe he was a real person at all, but a pseudonym for one or more playwrights who couldn't publish their name, for whatever reason).

Nah, don't be too hard on yourself. You have a good point. :smalltongue:

[FinnLassie]

Honestly, it could be either way; but they're credited to him, which is all we really have to go on. (not to mention that there are a great deal of people who don't think Shakespeare wrote all the plays and sonnets history claims him to have authored, and there are even people that (with some reasonable, although not conclusive, evidence) don't believe he was a real person at all, but a pseudonym for one or more playwrights who couldn't publish their name, for whatever reason).

Nah, don't be too hard on yourself. You have a good point. :smalltongue:

Aye, credited for sure, but it does make me cringe a wee bit when someone says invent. I mean, that's a big load to carry on one's back.

Yeah. As if there was a Shakespeare. I mean, it's a silly name and all! :smalltongue:

Amididoo! You're making me shy. :smallredface:

[Dimonite]

Oh, okay, I have never met a Malva. Was it edible?


If it is, then the rabbits are really wasting their time with those tiny little peonies. :smalltongue:



One day, when I am a fat and wealthy librarian, I will have a car to send and we will have cocoa and scones in the shade of a grape-tangled arbor. Until that day… alas. & Heh, I agree but if the insurance company finds the pictures on my camera I may have some explaining to do.


And one day, when I'm an acclaimed actor, I shall buy you an aviary in thanks. 'Til that day, my friend.

Just say that you started taking pictures after you called the fire department, in order to document the severity of the blaze. :smallsneaky:




Well then please find it in your heart to put some of her photographies, at least. That is a fantastic bleeding heart shot, still wearing the pink of fresh growth.


When the lilies bloom, I'll post their portraits here for you.



I planted out my hollyhocks yesterday evening, but they had grown flimsy and spindly from being started indoors without a grow light. I doubt they’re going to make it. ;___; & I don’t know if the growing season is long enough to start them directly from seeds. But I want them.


I proscribe a splint, lots of water, and partial shading from direct sunlight - this should allow them to grow stronger without being fried. Of course, since you are quite knowledgeable, you may have already tried this, and simply know that their lives cannot be. If so, let me express my condolences for your loss of potential beauty.


ION: My dad now has diabetes in addition to his celiac. :smallfrown:

[Kneenibble]

Bank left! Bank left!


TAKE COVER!!!!

*digs up a trench to jump into*

OUTFLY THE EVADERS!!!
http://th02.deviantart.net/fs18/PRE/i/2007/191/f/2/Budgie_in_flight_5_by_greencheek.jpg



Not a clue. I just know my aunt found it. She's making a museum of sorts in honor of my great-grandpa or something.

Also. That Budgie. How did you get such a smooth photo?

I could only guess very fast shutter speed: it's just an Internet photo I poached. I can't photography.

Do you have the letter in hand or did you only read that excerpt? I want to know its story. It is my profession.



Their poison is indeed deadly; however, I am only afraid of death in an academic sense, and while I afforded the spiders (there have been a few occasions) a healthy respect and distance after ascertaining that they were indeed black widows, I was not afraid of them, in that sense.

I almost killed myself last night. I was working on some wiring, and suddenly realized that I had flipped the wrong breaker off and that I was handling live wires. I could literally have died. I was intellectually concerned about the possibilities, but my body experienced no sensations of fear. So I know what you mean.

Are they pretty?



Heh, I love Hark, A Vagrant! :smallamused:

Pfft. I've worn socks that were mostly holes and dirt before, without any problem. :smalltongue:

Bah, fine. It still sounds wrong. The "th" and "s" sounds are dissimilar enough that the rhyme, while technically being correct, has a dissatisfying ring to it.

I went to a graduation party with my mother and some of her friends. (both she and her friend's daughter had recently graduated college). There was lots of food and cake and such, and a good time was had by all.

Me toooooo! I wish Kate was back to drawing regular comics.

YOU THROW THOSE SOCKS AWAY RIGHT NOW, ARMSDEALER. I AM SENDING BUDGIE AGENTS AROUND YOUR PLACE TO ENSURE YOU HAVE COMPLIED.

Well I didn't write it for you! ;___; Actually I wrote it specifically for you. *runs into the bathroom crying*

Excellent times.



ION: My stepmother has found a snake of some sort. I'm not sure of what kind, because between the when she saw it and when she finds me to go look at it, it moves away and I can't find it. She's terrified of it and doesn't want to weed the flowerbeds, and I would probably be more sympathetic if I could stop laughing. :smallamused:

Perhaps it is time to sell her a rock that keeps away snakes?



I have to come up with an argument to this - although I have no references and this is mostly just personal opinion. I don't really think he invented everything, he simply collected what he had heard and was the first one to use those phrasings in literature. I mean, I do think that he did come up with a lot of them, but I'd say it's a bit of both.

*tries to sound smart, fails horribly* :smalleek:

It is not an unsound speculation -- but if you compare the ingenuity of Shakespeare's language with his contemporaries, Jonson or Marlowe for example, you can easily perceive why he remains the darling.

On a side note, the movie Anonymous was simply fabulous, which explores the idea that Shakespeare was not the author of his plays.

[Amidus Drexel]

Aye, credited for sure, but it does make me cringe a wee bit when someone says invent. I mean, that's a big load to carry on one's back.

Amididoo! You're making me shy. :smallredface:

Incidentally, a great many persons had a similar line of thinking when they met Tesla. :smallamused:

Mwhahahahaha :smallamused:
Ahem. :smallannoyed:
Bah, you're no fun. :smalltongue:

Hehehe :smallamused:

HAVE CONFIDENCE IN YOURSELF! I mean, what's the worst thing that could happen? You could say something silly on the internet. We all say silly things on the internet. I'm pretty sure that's what it's for. :smalltongue:


Just say that you started taking pictures after you called the fire department, in order to document the severity of the blaze. :smallsneaky:

ION: My dad now has diabetes in addition to his celiac. :smallfrown:

Did someone say fire? :smallamused:

Well, that sucks... I hope it doesn't get too serious.



-snip; awesome picture-

I almost killed myself last night. I was working on some wiring, and suddenly realized that I had flipped the wrong breaker off and that I was handling live wires. I could literally have died. I was intellectually concerned about the possibilities, but my body experienced no sensations of fear. So I know what you mean.

Are they pretty?

YOU THROW THOSE SOCKS AWAY RIGHT NOW, ARMSDEALER. I AM SENDING BUDGIE AGENTS AROUND YOUR PLACE TO ENSURE YOU HAVE COMPLIED.

Well I didn't write it for you! ;___; Actually I wrote it specifically for you. *runs into the bathroom crying*

Perhaps it is time to sell her a rock that keeps away snakes?

On a side note, the movie Anonymous was simply fabulous, which explores the idea that Shakespeare was not the author of his plays.

I like this picture. :smallcool:

Ooh, not fun. I shan't scare you by telling you just how low of a current can be lethal. It's 0.5 amps, if I remember correctly.

They are, in a very dark sense. The memory feels... heavy. It's an odd feeling to have that kind of respect for a creature the size of your thumbnail that's fragile enough to be crushed with the same force that one uses to type.

That was several years ago... I don't think any socks from that time period still exist now (much less that particular pair of muddy ones); they have been either destroyed, discarded, or lost in the parallel dimensions where socks and other loose articles disappear. :smallamused:

Now, don't feel bad because your rhymes were WRONG AND YOU SHOULD FEEL BAD! *sobs in corner* ...:smallamused: All in good fun, I promise. Your poem was fine.

I offered her a rake, but she didn't want it. Hopefully I'll get to see the thing eventually. :smallamused:

I think I've watched that movie, actually.

[TaiLiu]

I mean, what's the worst thing that could happen?
Well, you could grow a giant ego and spontaneously transform into Miko-Nale, spawn of Pride. :smalltongue:

[Teddy]

Bah, Shakespeare is credited with inventing somewhere between 1500 and 2000 (the number depends on who you ask) words by doing exactly that. Many common (and some outdated) English phrases are inventions of his as well. Language is mutable, and people invent words all the time.

Well, my point is that if language worked like music, we'd have to learn a new one every decade. Also, to connect back to the original topic, language is ubiquitous if you want to interact with humans at all, music isn't.

ION:
I have a strange relationship to schoolwork. I've had this maths assignment due tomorrow (or rather, later today, as it's past midnight) lying around and being relatively neglected due to much more interesting and stressful programming projects eating away all my time.

Now, I was pondering if I simply should pass upon it, seeing how it isn't mandatory and only gives a few bonus points on the exam, and I'd really like an evening off, so I even planned to do so, but it kept attracting me like an electromagnet, and now I've actually finished it (-ish, as I still need to look up a few normal-distributed probabilities to complete the final calculations, but that's a five minute task, and transcribing it to paper should be done over the lunch break).

It's funny how lawful my subconscious can be at times. No wonders I have such good grades...

[FinnLassie]

It is not an unsound speculation -- but if you compare the ingenuity of Shakespeare's language with his contemporaries, Jonson or Marlowe for example, you can easily perceive why he remains the darling.

I'm really not familiar enough with foreign literature to know all these silly names you're brining out here. *hides*


Incidentally, a great many persons had a similar line of thinking when they met Tesla. :smallamused:

Mwhahahahaha :smallamused:
Ahem. :smallannoyed:
Bah, you're no fun. :smalltongue:

Hehehe :smallamused:

HAVE CONFIDENCE IN YOURSELF! I mean, what's the worst thing that could happen? You could say something silly on the internet. We all say silly things on the internet. I'm pretty sure that's what it's for. :smalltongue:


Ooooh, I've missed you, coloured wee things! *hugs*

It's still the internet. It is a place where I have an identity, and my role on the internet is to be relatively sane and a superb creature. Not moe or tsun like some people tend to say damn it. >=(

[TSGames]

Well, my point is that if language worked like music, we'd have to learn a new one every decade. Also, to connect back to the original topic, language is ubiquitous if you want to interact with humans at all, music isn't.


Thank all that is good. I am not learning to speak Bieberish.

Besides, I'm still trying to learn Ozzy (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RP1ym5let_Q). I think I'm about 75% proficient (that 75% is all words that would be censored on these boards lol)

[Amidus Drexel]

Well, my point is that if language worked like music, we'd have to learn a new one every decade. Also, to connect back to the original topic, language is ubiquitous if you want to interact with humans at all, music isn't.

-snip; homework-

The scale on which it is involved may be different, but it is similar in many regards.

Bah, stop reminding me of all the things I haven't done for my classes. :smalltongue:


I'm really not familiar enough with foreign literature to know all these silly names you're brining out here. *hides*

Ooooh, I've missed you, coloured wee things! *hugs*

It's still the internet. It is a place where I have an identity, and my role on the internet is to be relatively sane and a superb creature. Not moe or tsun like some people tend to say damn it. >=(

Is it bad that the first thing I thought upon reading this was: "They're not foreign, those are English!" ...despite the fact that I'm not English either. :smallamused:

No, the internet is a place where people can say and see silly things without reprecussions! Look at all the inhibitions you don't have to worry about! It's a wonderful place!


Thank all that is good. I am not learning to speak Bieberish.

Besides, I'm still trying to learn Ozzy (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RP1ym5let_Q). I think I'm about 75% proficient (that 75% is all words that would be censored on these boards lol)

Heh, indeed. :smallamused:

Well, he speaks coherently when he knows what he's going to say... He still sings well. (I have it on good information that a great deal of British city-people mumble as a regular part of speech, so he's only really unique in how exceptionally incomprehensible his mumblings often are) :smallamusd:

[FinnLassie]

Is it bad that the first thing I thought upon reading this was: "They're not foreign, those are English!" ...despite the fact that I'm not English either. :smallamused:

No, the internet is a place where people can say and see silly things without reprecussions! Look at all the inhibitions you don't have to worry about! It's a wonderful place!


English is foreign. End of story. :smalltongue:

That would be true if I didn't use the same nickname in two places. Agh, curse, why did I choose to be FinnLassie here. *sad violin* :smallsigh:

[Devmaar]

Well, he speaks coherently when he knows what he's going to say... He still sings well. (I have it on good information that a great deal of British city-people mumble as a regular part of speech, so he's only really unique in how exceptionally incomprehensible his mumblings often are) :smallamusd:

That is true (I never found Ozzy particularly hard to understand)

[Drakeburn]

English is foreign. End of story. :smalltongue:


Ridiculous. English is the 2nd most spoken language in the world. Mandarin is the first.

[Amidus Drexel]

English is foreign. End of story. :smalltongue:

That would be true if I didn't use the same nickname in two places. Agh, curse, why did I choose to be FinnLassie here. *sad violin* :smallsigh:

True, although it doesn't feel that way... I suppose I'm just used to it.

Bah, how many people can be in two places at once? Two, right? So, reasonably speaking, you only have one other person to worry about.


That is true (I never found Ozzy particularly hard to understand)

Sometimes I've had to listen to what he's said a second time to get it, but normally it isn't too hard. (I mean, I mumble and slur my words when I'm not paying attention too, so I'm not unused to hearing it)

[FinnLassie]

Ridiculous. English is the 2nd most spoken language in the world. Mandarin is the first.

It's a foreign concept for me though. English language, literacy, culture, it's foreign. Just as Finnish is foreign to you.

EDIT: The most spoken is true in terms of lingua franca, but as a native tongue it's only the third.

[Mynxae]

So my brother drew this:
http://i41.tinypic.com/34zaqls.jpg

and he thinks he's funny. My sense of humor is... limited, at best, so I figured I would ask others if he is, in fact, funny.

EDIT: that's huge - gimme a few minutes, I'll fix it.

FURTHER EDIT: There, that's better.

I think it's funny. :smalltongue:

[FinnLassie]

True, although it doesn't feel that way... I suppose I'm just used to it.

Bah, how many people can be in two places at once? Two, right? So, reasonably speaking, you only have one other person to worry about.


Aye, I find using English much more natural at times (especially as I now live in an English-speaking country), but it's still very foreign to me. Idioms, phrases, puns... Oh man, I have to ask my friend what it was that got him laugh so much when I didn't understand this one pun.

I think it's more being capable of hiding some things under anonymity, especially when I'd rant to some things relating to my uni course. Unfortunately as majority of the stuff is confidential and the course knows who I am online, it sort of feels meh. VERY meh.

[Cuthalion]

Hello Cuthillius. What news from your end of the world? Here is a cake made from poppy seeds and honey for you.

Thanks be to you in the highest fashion, o king of Housebirds. (Sorry, but you aren't an eagle.)

Anyways, I have been rather busy as of late, with various projects getting in my way, and what with having some beautiful little chickens to raise. I posted a picture in the old thread, I shall post it again, for your enjoyment.
http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/3698/dsc04124z.jpg
Soon, I shall post a picture of what they look like... in the awkward age!

[Amidus Drexel]

A post in which Amidus demonstrates how not to use commas and adverbs in moderation.


Aye, I find using English much more natural at times (especially as I now live in an English-speaking country), but it's still very foreign to me. Idioms, phrases, puns... Oh man, I have to ask my friend what it was that got him laugh so much when I didn't understand this one pun.

I think it's more being capable of hiding some things under anonymity, especially when I'd rant to some things relating to my uni course. Unfortunately as majority of the stuff is confidential and the course knows who I am online, it sort of feels meh. VERY meh.

Heh, wordplay is fun. I wouldn't worry too much about idioms; they come and go. I've heard people say things that are clearly cultural idioms that I'm not familiar with at all.

Pfft, there's no such thing as anonymity. I'm confident that there's enough information online for a sufficiently determined person to figure out who I am; that goes for everyone.

Well, you still could. The likelyhood of them checking here for you is pretty low. ...confidential? How? Aren't you studying to be a teacher? Somehow, that doesn't strike me as a particularly secretive line of work.



http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/3698/dsc04124z.jpg
Soon, I shall post a picture of what they look like... in the awkward age!

I remember these!

Heh, that's the best time, when they've still got the chick heads, but the rest of their body looks like a chicken. :smallamused:

[Cuthalion]

I remember these!

Heh, that's the best time, when they've still got the chick heads, but the rest of their body looks like a chicken. :smallamused:

Like such?
http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/6136/chickensh.png

[Drakeburn]

Thanks be to you in the highest fashion, o king of Housebirds. (Sorry, but you aren't an eagle.)

Anyways, I have been rather busy as of late, with various projects getting in my way, and what with having some beautiful little chickens to raise. I posted a picture in the old thread, I shall post it again, for your enjoyment.
http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/3698/dsc04124z.jpg
Soon, I shall post a picture of what they look like... in the awkward age!

I wish for you the best of luck, and hope they don't get into any mischief....

Like the chickens at my place that uprooted everything my grandma was growing, and boy was she mad. :smalleek:

[TaiLiu]

Like the chickens at my place that uprooted everything my grandma was growing, and boy was she mad. :smalleek:
Luckily, the solution is simple and delicious. :smallbiggrin:

[Amidus Drexel]

Like such?
http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/6136/chickensh.png

Well, those look more like vultures, but yes. :smalltongue:


Luckily, the solution is simple and delicious. :smallbiggrin:

Mwahahahaha

(actually, after they get past a certain age (I think it's 1 or 2 years or so), they don't taste as good. Or so I've heard, anyway.)

[DJ Yung Crunk]

Luckily, the solution is simple and delicious. :smallbiggrin:

I guess I am the only one that finds chicken to be vastly overrated. It's fine if it's fried, because the skin is delicious. But the chicken meat? Meh... It's too stringy.

[Dimonite]

I guess I am the only one that finds chicken to be vastly overrated. It's fine if it's fried, because the skin is delicious. But the chicken meat? Meh... It's too stringy.

I actually agree - although I prefer baked to fried. But I coat it in my own blend of spices first (and I mean COMPLETELY coat it) and then the spices form this crunchy outer shell on the already yummy skin and it all ends up tasting pretty okay.

[DJ Yung Crunk]

I actually agree - although I prefer baked to fried. But I coat it in my own blend of spices first (and I mean COMPLETELY coat it) and then the spices form this crunchy outer shell on the already yummy skin and it all ends up tasting pretty okay.

That does sound delicious. Let's get the recipe to that, bro. You gotta get me the recipe to that.

[TaiLiu]

That does sound delicious. Let's get the recipe to that, bro. You gotta get me the recipe to that.
Agreed. That sounds fairly tasty.

[DJ Yung Crunk]

Agreed. That sounds fairly tasty.

You never responded to my CAN post. After I went to all that "effort"

[AtlanteanTroll]

I could only guess very fast shutter speed: it's just an Internet photo I poached. I can't photography.
How dare you trick me, sir! :smalltongue:


Do you have the letter in hand or did you only read that excerpt? I want to know its story. It is my profession.
No, the letter is some 500 miles away, my aunt just posted an except to Facebook and I found it to be most interesting.

Also. Because birds.

http://illustration.images.mangamagazine.net/30761/thumbnail-600x-shrink.png

[TaiLiu]

You never responded to my CAN post. After I went to all that "effort"
Ah. I must confess: I have no idea on how to respond to such a post.

No, the letter is some 500 miles away, my aunt just posted an except to Facebook and I found it to be most interesting.
Yes, he sounds like a most interesting human.

[DJ Yung Crunk]

Ah. I must confess: I have no idea on how to respond to such a post.

I can't tell if that's a good or a bad thing.

[AtlanteanTroll]

Yes, he sounds like a most interesting human.

My great-grandfather? Yeah, he was. He kind of did a lot. Only has a stub on Wikipedia though. I think the reason my aunt is compiling all of this stuff is so that she can expand on it.

[Dimonite]

That does sound delicious. Let's get the recipe to that, bro. You gotta get me the recipe to that.


Agreed. That sounds fairly tasty.

1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit
2. Take drumstick (or several drumsticks) and place in oven, preferably on some kind of baking pan or sheet. Or a pie tin. Anything that will both keep the chicken from touching the oven and contain the grease chicken tends to leak.
3. Bake for 15 minutes.
4. Coat in spices. My preferred mixture is one of Lawry's seasoned salt, garlic powder, onion salt, Jane's krazy mixed-up salt, and cayenne pepper, but those less accustomed to spice may wish to leave off those last two.
5. You probably didn't coat the chicken well enough. Pour a bunch of spice onto the pan/sheet/tin and roll the chicken around in it. it should be rather discolored by the amount of spice you're using.
6. Bake for a further 17-20 minutes.
7. Consume.

[TaiLiu]

I can't tell if that's a good or a bad thing.
Nor I. I think it's neutral, actually; I know nothing about music, and cannot properly respond to posts about such.

My great-grandfather? Yeah, he was. He kind of did a lot. Only has a stub on Wikipedia though. I think the reason my aunt is compiling all of this stuff is so that she can expand on it.
Oo! Any link to said stub...?

1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit
2. Take drumstick (or several drumsticks) and place in oven, preferably on some kind of baking pan or sheet. Or a pie tin. Anything that will both keep the chicken from touching the oven and contain the grease chicken tends to leak.
3. Bake for 15 minutes.
4. Coat in spices. My preferred mixture is one of Lawry's seasoned salt, garlic powder, onion salt, Jane's krazy mixed-up salt, and cayenne pepper, but those less accustomed to spice may wish to leave off those last two.
5. You probably didn't coat the chicken well enough. Pour a bunch of spice onto the pan/sheet/tin and roll the chicken around in it. it should be rather discolored by the amount of spice you're using.
6. Bake for a further 17-20 minutes.
7. Consume.
:smallconfused: You... You bake the chicken? Huh.

[DJ Yung Crunk]

1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit
2. Take drumstick (or several drumsticks) and place in oven, preferably on some kind of baking pan or sheet. Or a pie tin. Anything that will both keep the chicken from touching the oven and contain the grease chicken tends to leak.
3. Bake for 15 minutes.
4. Coat in spices. My preferred mixture is one of Lawry's seasoned salt, garlic powder, onion salt, Jane's krazy mixed-up salt, and cayenne pepper, but those less accustomed to spice may wish to leave off those last two.
5. You probably didn't coat the chicken well enough. Pour a bunch of spice onto the pan/sheet/tin and roll the chicken around in it. it should be rather discolored by the amount of spice you're using.
6. Bake for a further 17-20 minutes.
7. Consume.

Deece. Thanks a lot, saved to Notepad.

[Dimonite]

:smallconfused: You... You bake the chicken? Huh.

What part of

I prefer baked to fried.
was unclear? :smalltongue:


Deece. Thanks a lot, saved to Notepad.

You're welcome. :smallsmile:

[AtlanteanTroll]

Oo! Any link to said stub...?
Yes, but when I say stub, I mean stub. It's just a sentence that says: "Henry Smith Leiper (17 September 1891-22 January 1975) was a missionary." Which is sort of ... Really, really basic. I could expand if anyone is interested.

[DJ Yung Crunk]

Nor I. I think it's neutral, actually; I know nothing about music, and cannot properly respond to posts about such.

Yeah, I thought it was weird you, who had earlier said didn't care for music, asked me to elaborate upon my praise.

[TaiLiu]

What part of-
-was unclear? :smalltongue:
Oh! I managed to miss that. I also find frying a chicken to be odd as well. Is this typical?

Yes, but when I say stub, I mean stub. It's just a sentence that says: "Henry Smith Leiper (17 September 1891-22 January 1975) was a missionary." Which is sort of ... Really, really basic. I could expand if anyone is interested.
Oh, please do. :smallsmile:

Yeah, I thought it was weird you, who had earlier said didn't care for music, asked me to elaborate upon my praise.
I do not, but the concept of music is interesting. It is mostly sound that turns me away.

Most of my devices are mute at all times.

[Dimonite]

Oh! I managed to miss that. I also find frying a chicken to be odd as well. Is this typical?


Well, I grew up baking chicken, but Kentucky Fried Chicken is a national fast food chain. I've also had it broiled, boiled, and roasted. I gotta say: boiled is easily the worst, and roasting tends to REALLY dry it out (I prefer my meat to have some JUICE in it).

[Logic]

If we are going to do more food, I can hop aboard that train!

Lemon-Bacon Baked Chicken

1. Cook bacon until fully cooked safe to eat, but still soft.
1.5. Some of you are going to say "soft bacon! Bah!" I say read further!
2. Season chicken with lemon juice, lemon zest, pepper and place in an oven-safe cooking vessel.
2.5. Additional spices may be used, this is a base.
3. Wrap bacon around chicken.
3.5. Step 1 should make more sense now
4. Bake at 375 Fahrenheit for 45 minutes.
4.5. Let cool...
5. NOMNOMNOM

[DJ Yung Crunk]

I do not, but the concept of music is interesting. It is mostly sound that turns me away.

Most of my devices are mute at all times.

You are very strange. My fault for thinking in absolutes, I guess.

I choose to take your inability to respond as dumbfounded awe at what a badass job I did defending the greatest rock group of all time.

[TaiLiu]

Well, I grew up baking chicken, but Kentucky Fried Chicken is a national fast food chain. I've also had it broiled, boiled, and roasted. I gotta say: boiled is easily the worst, and roasting tends to REALLY dry it out (I prefer my meat to have some JUICE in it).
Ah. Have you ever tried steamed chicken? That's usually what I consume.

Speaking of consuming, I notice that I haven't had soy sauce chicken in a long while.

If we are going to do more food, I can hop aboard that train!
Hm. Does the bacon's flavour not overpower the rest?

You are very strange.
Every time I state my dislike of music, I get this response.

I choose to take your inability to respond as dumbfounded awe at what a badass job I did defending the greatest rock group of all time.
:smalltongue:

[Dimonite]

Ah. Have you ever tried steamed chicken? That's usually what I consume.


Nah, my mother HATES steam-cooked food, so she refuses to even teach us how to make it. That's the only thing she won't teach us though, so we don't begrudge her that. She even lets us use the pressure cooker of DOOM! (So called because it's cast-iron and super-heavy and older than she is)

[LaZodiac]

You're all talking about eating meat and no one invited ME!?

For shame, thread. For shame.

[DJ Yung Crunk]

Every time I state my dislike of music, I get this response.

Oh, it's not that. As someone who is almost impossibly obsessed with music I can say, go your own way, it's fine by me.

It's just, try to follow this:


"I don't like music"
"Why do you like CAN?"
"..."
"I didn't respond because I didn't know what to respond to"
"I can appreciate the concept of music"

That's the part I can't follow.

[AtlanteanTroll]

Oh, please do. :smallsmile:

So my knowledge isn't nearly as extensive as my aunt's, but ...

My great-grandfather, one Reverend Henry Smith Leiper, was a missionary in China before the Boxer Rebellion took place. As a missionary he did typical missionary stuff and he also worked as a teacher and tennis coach. As a teacher one student stood out to him in particular. He let this student into the library which was usually off-limits to younger students almost every day. He was to put it lightly, very impressed and almost proud of this student. This student's name was Mao Zedong.

When he came back to the States after the Boxer Rebellion he went on to become one of the founding members of the World Council of Churches and served as a secretary for some committee. He also worked for the YMCA, met Ghandi at some point (we have his signature in the attic), and did a lot of Anti-Naziwork in Germany prior to the outbreak of WWII.

[TaiLiu]

Nah, my mother HATES steam-cooked food, so she refuses to even teach us how to make it.
Huh. Have you ever asked the reason?

You're all talking about eating meat and no one invited ME!?

For shame, thread. For shame.
I'm... I'm sorry! Here is a piece of meat to sooth your appetite:
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://blackbookkitchendiaries.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/img_6267.jpg&imgrefurl=http://blackbookkitchendiaries.wordpress.com/2011/01/18/chinese-steamed-chicken/&h=2304&w=3456&sz=4474&tbnid=oD3KLypKhR3ERM:&tbnh=90&tbnw=135&zoom=1&usg=__vqRR28LzPkywGOGjBfSTt-PNGlU=&docid=8SXhMbVxblXKMM&sa=X&ei=0hCTUf_jCYrb0QGByIHADw&ved=0CEQQ9QEwAg&dur=926

It's just, try to follow this:
That's the part I can't follow.
Wait - what exactly are you trying to follow? :smallconfused:

So my knowledge isn't nearly as extensive as my aunt's, but ...

My great-grandfather, one Reverend Henry Smith Leiper, was a missionary in China before the Boxer Rebellion took place. As a missionary he did typical missionary stuff and he also worked as a teacher and tennis coach. As a teacher one student stood out to him in particular. He let this student into the library which was usually off-limits to younger students almost every day. He was to put it lightly, very impressed and almost proud of this student. This student's name was Mao Zedong.

When he came back to the States after the Boxer Rebellion he went on to become one of the founding members of the World Council of Churches and served as a secretary for some committee. He also worked for the YMCA, met Ghandi at some point (we have his signature in the attic), and did a lot of Anti-Naziwork in Germany prior to the outbreak of WWII.
Oh, impressive! One wonders why his Wikipedia article is so short, then.

[DJ Yung Crunk]

You're all talking about eating meat and no one invited ME!?

For shame, thread. For shame.

How could we forget you!?

...

Who are you?

/thread n00b

[AtlanteanTroll]

As someone who is almost impossibly obsessed with music I can say, go your own way, it's fine by me.
You say this, but you have the word "crunk" in your name. Rebuttal? :smalltongue:

[DJ Yung Crunk]

You say this, but you have the word "crunk" in your name. Rebuttal? :smalltongue:

Crunk, like all genres of music, is great.


Wait - what exactly are you trying to follow? :smallconfused:

Well you asked for my elaboration because you can follow the concept of music? But apparently you can't follow the concept enough to respond? That seems a little inconsistent to me. It's doing my head in. It's okay, you don't have to respond. I'm not fishing for that, I'm just trying to follow the thread.

[Dimonite]

You're all talking about eating meat and no one invited ME!?

For shame, thread. For shame.

What, are you Banba from Kuragehime? :smalltongue:


How could we forget you!?

...

Who are you?

/thread n00b

That's Zodi! She's the big sister of Random Banter! Also, most likely to be shipped with Moonie. :smalltongue:

[Blue Ghost]

So my knowledge isn't nearly as extensive as my aunt's, but ...

My great-grandfather, one Reverend Henry Smith Leiper, was a missionary in China before the Boxer Rebellion took place. As a missionary he did typical missionary stuff and he also worked as a teacher and tennis coach. As a teacher one student stood out to him in particular. He let this student into the library which was usually off-limits to younger students almost every day. He was to put it lightly, very impressed and almost proud of this student. This student's name was Mao Zedong.

When he came back to the States after the Boxer Rebellion he went on to become one of the founding members of the World Council of Churches and served as a secretary for some committee. He also worked for the YMCA, met Ghandi at some point (we have his signature in the attic), and did a lot of Anti-Naziwork in Germany prior to the outbreak of WWII.

Wow. Sounds like a great guy. I want to meet him someday.


How could we forget you!?

...

Who are you?

/thread n00b

Only the most wonderful LaZodiac, heart and soul of Random Banter and local DM.


That's Zodi! She's the big sister of Random Banter! Also, most likely to be shipped with Moonie. :smalltongue:

Well, she's my little sister. And is the BlueCat era over now?

[LaZodiac]

I'm... I'm sorry! Here is a piece of meat to sooth your appetite:
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://blackbookkitchendiaries.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/img_6267.jpg&imgrefurl=http://blackbookkitchendiaries.wordpress.com/2011/01/18/chinese-steamed-chicken/&h=2304&w=3456&sz=4474&tbnid=oD3KLypKhR3ERM:&tbnh=90&tbnw=135&zoom=1&usg=__vqRR28LzPkywGOGjBfSTt-PNGlU=&docid=8SXhMbVxblXKMM&sa=X&ei=0hCTUf_jCYrb0QGByIHADw&ved=0CEQQ9QEwAg&dur=926

Image broken :smalltongue:


How could we forget you!?

...

Who are you?

/thread n00b

As said below, I'm LaZodiac!


What, are you Banba from Kuragehime? :smalltongue:

That's Zodi! She's the big sister of Random Banter! Also, most likely to be shipped with Moonie. :smalltongue:

No, I'm Bakasura the Great Devourer!

In terms of shipping, it was a bit of a joke that Zodi X Meat was the true OTP :smallamused:



Only the most wonderful LaZodiac, heart and soul of Random Banter and local DM.

D'aw, thanks Blue :smallredface:

To clarify Blue's non quoted statement, we're not actually family, but our bond is thicker then blood.

[TaiLiu]

How could we forget you!?

...

Who are you?

/thread n00b
Comrade LaZodiac is an astounding individual who is good comrades with Comrade MoonCat, who, for some reason, has slowed her posting. I think it is a computer problem, but I am not certain.

Well you asked for my elaboration because you can follow the concept of music? But apparently you can't follow the concept enough to respond? That seems a little inconsistent to me. It's doing my head in. It's okay, you don't have to respond. I'm not fishing for that, I'm just trying to follow the thread.
You... You are confusing me as well! :smalleek:

[LaZodiac]

Comrade LaZodiac is an astounding individual who is good comrades with Comrade MoonCat, who, for some reason, has slowed her posting. I think it is a computer problem, but I am not certain.

Thanks TaiLiu :smalltongue:

Was computer problem, but now just a Moony based problem. Long story short she's overworking herself in school (though for completely justifiable reasons, even if I think they are silly. Then again I coasted, so who knows!)

[DJ Yung Crunk]

You... You are confusing me as well! :smalleek:

How about we drop this before we dig ourselves deeper?

[TaiLiu]

Wow. Sounds like a great guy. I want to meet him someday.
I, uh... I think that it is a bit of an impossible goal...

Image broken :smalltongue:
Oh, no! Here is a better image:
http://cdn.biggestmenu.com/00/00/3b/3a48fa3d7e4d20ef_m.jpg

[AtlanteanTroll]

Crunk, like all genres of music, is great.
Crunk is awful and doesn't even qualify as music if you ask me. And here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAzV7g6LWoY) is a nerdcore song explaining why crunk is awful and a mockery of hip-hop.


Oh, impressive! One wonders why his Wikipedia article is so short, then.
Yeah, IDK. My aunt's retired at this point, so it's pretty much what she does now. That and direct plays for fun. And travel. But that's beside the point. It's funny really because my mother's side is steeped in American History and my dad's side are just a bunch of Italian peasants who came over in the last 100 years.


Wow. Sounds like a great guy. I want to meet him someday.
He's super, way-long dead.

[TaiLiu]

Was computer problem, but now just a Moony based problem. Long story short she's overworking herself in school (though for completely justifiable reasons, even if I think they are silly. Then again I coasted, so who knows!)
I applaud her restraint. I probably shouldn't be posting, either. :smallredface:

How about we drop this before we dig ourselves deeper?
Agreed.

Yeah, IDK. My aunt's retired at this point, so it's pretty much what she does now. That and direct plays for fun. And travel. But that's beside the point. It's funny really because my mother's side is steeped in American History and my dad's side are just a bunch of Italian peasants who came over in the last 100 years.
Replace 'Italian' with 'Chinese,' and you get my [entire] family. :smalltongue:

[DJ Yung Crunk]

Crunk is awful and doesn't even qualify as music if you ask me. And here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAzV7g6LWoY) is a nerdcore song explaining why crunk is awful and a mockery of hip-hop.

You're trying to use MC Chris to explain why crunk is bad. That's kind of an uphill battle if you ask me.

[Dimonite]

Well, she's my little sister. And is the BlueCat era over now?

Well, she's been here longer than I have, and she was really welcoming when I first came here, so she's more of a big sister to me.

I don't really know about BlueCat, because I simply don't know you as well as I know Moonie and Zodi.



In terms of shipping, it was a bit of a joke that Zodi X Meat was the true OTP :smallamused:


... Given my own love of meat, we may have a problem here. :smalltongue:

steeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaakkkkk

[AtlanteanTroll]

You're trying to use MC Chris to explain why crunk is bad. That's kind of an uphill battle if you ask me.

If by MC Chris you mean MC Lars. MC Lars is an intelligent and articulate rapper who clearly knows his stuff (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ucYtOk_8Qo). MC Chris is ... MC Chris.


Replace 'Italian' with 'Chinese,' and you get my [entire] family. :smalltongue:

Awesome. The funny thing is that I generally make a bigger deal out of being Italian that I do out of being "American." Annoys my patriotic friends to no-end.

[LaZodiac]

Oh, no! Here is a better image:
http://cdn.biggestmenu.com/00/00/3b/3a48fa3d7e4d20ef_m.jpg

Sorry, but that's not even remotely appetizing looking. The greens on it are bleh, and the meat itself looks somewhat too white for my taste (I like chicken, but not in this style, though this might not even BE chicken). I prefer steak, donair meat, and stuff like that. Also hot dogs, but not sausages.

[TaiLiu]

Sorry, but that's not even remotely appetizing looking. The greens on it are bleh, and the meat itself looks somewhat too white for my taste (I like chicken, but not in this style, though this might not even BE chicken). I prefer steak, donair meat, and stuff like that. Also hot dogs, but not sausages.
Oh, darn it! Another one:
http://www.nibbledish.com/public/images/cached/567x/recipe_images/e8b7a7c33ef5cf5e723f2f6ea292e221ramgs_hainanese_ch icken_rice.jpg

[DJ Yung Crunk]

If by MC Chris you mean MC Lars. MC Lars is an intelligent and articulate rapper who clearly knows his stuff (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ucYtOk_8Qo). MC Chris is ... MC Chris.

Ah, I didn't click either link as I am listening to an album right now so... I dunno, seems pretty silly to arbitrarily limit yourself based on some cherry picked bad examples.

[Dimonite]

Crunk is awful and doesn't even qualify as music if you ask me. And here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAzV7g6LWoY) is a nerdcore song explaining why crunk is awful and a mockery of hip-hop.



*Crochety old man mode*
Bah! The only music from this century I bother listening to is Pentatonix! You young folks and your pop music and your pokey-mans... Why can't you just sing, sing, sing (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2S1I_ien6A)?

Here Zodi, have some cow meat:
http://www.outback.com/menu/images/outback-special-and-ribs_t.jpg

[LaZodiac]

Oh, darn it! Another one:
http://www.nibbledish.com/public/images/cached/567x/recipe_images/e8b7a7c33ef5cf5e723f2f6ea292e221ramgs_hainanese_ch icken_rice.jpg

That looks much better. Not the biggest fan of rice myself, though :smallamused:



Here Zodi, have some cow meat:
http://www.outback.com/menu/images/outback-special-and-ribs_t.jpg

If I had your word that there was no bone or gross globules of fat in that left chunk, I'd likely just stab a fork in it and eat it whole like that.

[AtlanteanTroll]

Ah, I didn't click either link as I am listening to an album right now so... I dunno, seems pretty silly to arbitrarily limit yourself based on some cherry picked bad examples.
So basically you based your counter-argument in assumptions and complete disregard for your opponent. Good job. I concede defeat. Your musical taste is far superior. Clearly you should be hailed has a God among men.


*Crochety old man mode*
*Steals your crotchety old man cane and beats you with it*

PUNK MUSIC FOREVER (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xF0Mia7oYvA)!!! (Link is NSFW)

[TaiLiu]

So basically you based your counter-argument in assumptions and complete disregard for your opponent. Good job. I concede defeat. Your musical taste is far superior. Clearly you should be hailed has a God among men.
Is that bitter sarcasm I see...? :smallfrown:

[Dimonite]

If I had your word that there was no bone or gross globules of fat in that left chunk, I'd likely just stab a fork in it and eat it whole like that.

That's an Outback Special Steak. If that has bones or fat on it, I will eat my tie.

[AtlanteanTroll]

Is that bitter sarcasm I see...? :smallfrown:

Bitter? No. Biting with the sole purpose of making Crunk look like a fool? Yes. Yes indeed. :smalltongue:

Fear not TailLu, it is directed at you.

[DJ Yung Crunk]

So basically you based your counter-argument in assumptions and complete disregard for your opponent. Good job. I concede defeat. Your musical taste is far superior. Clearly you should be hailed has a God among men.

Sorry... I didn't mean to upset you. Nor did I meant to imply my tastes were any better. That implies I think a thing like "better tastes" exist.

Can we just forget the whole thing?

EDIT:
Bitter? No. Biting with the sole purpose of making Crunk look like a fool? Yes. Yes indeed. :smalltongue:.

*sigh* You're a real class act, buddy

[Dimonite]

*Steals your crotchety old man cane and beats you with it*

PUNK MUSIC FOREVER (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xF0Mia7oYvA)!!! (Link is NSFW)

My crochety old man cane is a sword cane, and you only got the cane part! :smalltongue:

*fences* (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-RPzAbW7No)

@Crunk&Troll

Stop fighting or I start shipping. :smalltongue:

[AtlanteanTroll]

Sorry... I didn't mean to upset you. Nor did I meant to imply my tastes were any better. That implies I think a thing like "better tastes" exist.

Can we just forget the whole thing?

You haven't upset me in the slightest. I just really enjoy being sarcastic and it seemed like a good time to be. Although I think one can argue that there is objectively good and bad taste solely because there is objectively bad music.

[Blue Ghost]

He's super, way-long dead.

I realize that.


Well, she's been here longer than I have, and she was really welcoming when I first came here, so she's more of a big sister to me.

I don't really know about BlueCat, because I simply don't know you as well as I know Moonie and Zodi.


And MoonCat adopted me as her little brother. The Playground family tree is really weird.

There was a period where everyone shipped me with Luna. I do not know why. It's receded now, mostly.

[AtlanteanTroll]

I realize that.
Congratulations, Blue. You have successfully confused me. :smalltongue:

[LaZodiac]

And MoonCat adopted me as her little brother. The Playground family tree is really weird.

There was a period where everyone shipped me with Luna. I do not know why. It's receded now, mostly.

Couldn't possibly be because you two met in real life and are really close friends :smalltongue:

[Blue Ghost]

Congratulations, Blue. You have successfully confused me. :smalltongue:

Death isn't forever. *shrug*


Couldn't possibly be because you two met in real life and are really close friends :smalltongue:

We're not as close anymore. You're closer to her than I am. You deserve the shipping. :smalltongue:

[TaiLiu]

*sigh* You're a real class act, buddy
A stylish, attractive class act. :smalltongue:

@Crunk&Troll

Stop fighting or I start shipping. :smalltongue:
The matchmaking wave strikes again! :smalleek:

And MoonCat adopted me as her little brother. The Playground family tree is really weird.
You would not have the family tree at hand right now, would you? :smallbiggrin:

There was a period where everyone shipped me with Luna. I do not know why. It's receded now, mostly.
Perhaps it is the fact that you know each other away from the World Wide Web.

[AtlanteanTroll]

Death isn't forever. *shrug*
How is that, exactly? I suppose you could meet him in the after-life, if you're in to that sort of thing.

[Blue Ghost]

You would not have the family tree at hand right now, would you? :smallbiggrin:

Perhaps it is the fact that you know each other away from the World Wide Web.

I do not. It does not map easily in three dimensions or Euclidean geometry.

We met once. For like two hours.


How is that, exactly? I suppose you could meet him in the after-life, if you're in to that sort of thing.

Yeah, that's what I was thinking. 'Course, I'll have to remember to do that. Considering how bad I am at remembering to arrange dates with people, it probably won't happen.

[TaiLiu]

How is that, exactly? I suppose you could meet him in the after-life, if you're in to that sort of thing.
One wonders how one would find him, though.

I do not. It does not map easily in three dimensions or Euclidean geometry.
Ah. A pity, then.

We met once. For like two hours.
:smalleek: Wow! How was she like? How are you like?

[AtlanteanTroll]

Yeah, that's what I was thinking. 'Course, I'll have to remember to do that. Considering how bad I am at remembering to arrange dates with people, it probably won't happen.


One wonders how one would find him, though.

Assuming both Blue and my great-grandfather go/went to the nice-guy afterlife, I think everything'll be fine. Assuming such an afterlife exists, my great-grandfather probably knows Blue wants to meet up with him and will seek him out once he ascends. Assuming Blue ascends to the nice-guy afterlife as opposed to descending to the nice-guy afterlife.



Stop fighting or I start shipping. :smalltongue:
Shipping is incredibly stupid and I will have no part in it. Commence at your own will. It will simply re-direct my not-actually ill-will from Crunk to you except it will not be not-actually ill-will. :smalltongue:

[LaZodiac]

We're not as close anymore. You're closer to her than I am. You deserve the shipping. :smalltongue:

Mostly because of the waaay before mentioned "Moony is working herself half to death every day".

And thanks :smallamused:

[DJ Yung Crunk]

You say this, but you have the word "crunk" in your name. Rebuttal? :smalltongue:

I actually chose Crunk because it's such a detested genre. There's no counter culture left in being open about your love of rock or metal, if you really want to turn heads choose a loathed genre like brostep or crunk.

In any case, I like to judge genres by their best element, crunk has it's crap for sure (like every other genre), but its best element is the likes of Oomp Camp and Three 6 Mafia. So, yeah, I'm going to stick with "great".

[Coidzor]

You're all talking about eating meat and no one invited ME!?

For shame, thread. For shame.

Good Night Everybody!


Sorry, but that's not even remotely appetizing looking. The greens on it are bleh, and the meat itself looks somewhat too white for my taste (I like chicken, but not in this style, though this might not even BE chicken). I prefer steak, donair meat, and stuff like that. Also hot dogs, but not sausages.

What about meat pies?

Meat Loaf? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4P_qAMAnKs)


steeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaakkkkk

It hurts, Ness… …I’m h…a…p…p…y… …friends… …It hurts, …it
hurts… Ness, Ness, Ness, Ness, Ness, Ness, Ness, Ness, Ness, Ness, Ness,
Ness, Ness, Ness, Ness, Ness, Ness, Ness, Ness, Ness, Ness, Ness, Ness,
Ness….. …go… b… a… c…k… …Ness… I feel… g… o… o… d…
…I’m so sad… …..Ness (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6P_BvrtuxAI)


And MoonCat adopted me as her little brother. The Playground family tree is really weird.

There was a period where everyone shipped me with Luna. I do not know why. It's receded now, mostly.

Shh! If you speak its name you risk awakening the beast!

Mostly because we didn't see you for, like, months or something. :smalltongue:

[AtlanteanTroll]

I actually chose Crunk because it's such a detested genre. There's no counter culture left in being open about your love of rock or metal, if you really want to turn heads choose a loathed genre like brostep or crunk.

In any case, I like to judge genres by their best element, crunk has it's crap for sure (like every other genre), but its best element is the likes of Oomp Camp and Three 6 Mafia. So, yeah, I'm going to stick with "great".

This post I like.

The idea of being counter-culture for the sake of being counter-culture I do not. To quote one of those key 90's punk bands:


Mom and dad they quite don't understand it,
All the kids they laugh as if they planned it
Why do girls wanna pierce their nose,
And walk around in torn pantyhose, oh yeah

I like the ones who say they listen to the punk rock
I like the kids who fight against how they were brought up
They hate the trends and think it's ****ed to care,
It's cool when they piss people off with what they wear, oh yeah

Punk attitudes like those described above and counter-culture for the sake of being counter-culture in general is, well, annoying. (Don't get me wrong though, I love my blink-182. They may not be very good at times, but I admit that.) There is no root cause. Punks, and hippies, and most counter-culture movements up until this point have been prolifically anti-government. Hipsters are just anti-mainstream culture and ... Crunk really isn't even a movement, as far as I'm aware. It's just rap with a lot of vapid, materialistic, misogynist lyrics--or, at least, that's what it is in general.

I'm not sure about calling any one musical genre great either. As you said, lots of genres have terrible acts. Sturgeon's Law states that 90% of everything is crap--and that most certainly applies to music. You just have genres where more than 90% of the music is crap, and genres where that isn't the case. If you want to call an entire genre great, it best be the latter sort, and you're never going to get that from an un-biased music critic. Also judging something by the best is silly, you have to account for everything. Imagine counting GDP/capita if you only judged those with the "best" incomes.

[LaZodiac]

What about meat pies?

Meat Loaf? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4P_qAMAnKs)

Not a big fan of meat pie.

Love meat loaf though.

[Blue Ghost]

:smalleek: Wow! How was she like? How are you like?

She was very friendly and polite. Not nearly as snarky as she is on the forums. And I'm surprisingly shy when meeting people in person for the first time.


Mostly because of the waaay before mentioned "Moony is working herself half to death every day".

And thanks :smallamused:

Well, you're the one she told that, aren't you?



Shh! If you speak its name you risk awakening the beast!

Mostly because we didn't see you for, like, months or something. :smalltongue:

Right, you've been here long enough to have seen the... beast. What was it like?

Yeah, I have a tendency to disappear like that.

[DJ Yung Crunk]

This post I like.

The idea of being counter-culture for the sake of being counter-culture I do not.

It's not in black and white. There's an appropriate context for everything. I decided to be counter culture for the sake of counter culture because in this context it's cute and quirky. You know, the same reason everyone else on every message board in the world chose their screen name?

Also it tends to display the hypocrisies of blind counter culture. It's very cool to admit classic rock is your bag and the flimsy justification of "it's not played on the radio anymore" doesn't hold much water. These very same "anti-system uber trolls" would rather not admit to liking crunk because it isn't very cool.

So they're not really counter culture at all, are they?

NOTE: I actually genuinely like crunk.


I'm not sure about calling any one musical genre great either. As you said, lots of genres have terrible acts. Sturgeon's Law states that 90% of everything is crap--and that most certainly applies to music. You just have genres where more than 90% of the music is crap, and genres where that isn't the case. If you want to call an entire genre great, it best be the latter sort, and you're never going to get that from an un-biased music critic. Also judging something by the best is silly, you have to account for everything. Imagine counting GDP/capita if you only judged those with the "best" incomes.

Apples and oranges. Music is subjective, my methods hardly effect much outside of earshot. My voice doesn't carry that far, so I feel judging genres based on their best elements is the way to go. Additionally for monetary and time allocation reasons I can't possibly listen to 100 percent of a genre, or even 50 percent or even 25. Given such constraints I make a point to really only look up what I've been led to believe were the "good" examples from each genre so, in my case, the best example is really all I've got.

If I even become a professional critic I might consider establishing genres a bit more but for the time being I'm into music to enjoy it, so I'm not going to seek out bad examples just in case the information comes in handy, that's silly. Lil Jon might be the scum of the Earth but I wouldn't know.

[TaiLiu]

She was very friendly and polite. Not nearly as snarky as she is on the forums. And I'm surprisingly shy when meeting people in person for the first time.
Ah! What was the environment in which the two of you met? How and why?

It's not in black and white. There's an appropriate context for everything. I decided to be counter culture for the sake of counter culture because in this context it's cute and quirky. You know, the same reason everyone else on every message board in the world chose their screen name?
Hm. No, not really.

NOTE: I actually genuinely like crunk.
How does it sound like?

[DJ Yung Crunk]

Hm. No, not really.

Good lord, don't make me put disclaimers on my generalizations, I beg of you.

[TaiLiu]

Good lord, don't make me put disclaimers on my generalizations, I beg of you.
Well, since you're grovelling... :smalltongue:

[DJ Yung Crunk]

Well, since you're grovelling... :smalltongue:

Grovelling is very underrated. I like it, it's good. No one likes to see a grown man cry.

[TaiLiu]

Grovelling is very underrated. I like it, it's good. No one likes to see a grown man cry.
You've found a manipulative method of using it, I see. Do you have any more wise words? :smallbiggrin:

[DJ Yung Crunk]

You've found a manipulative method of using it, I see. Do you have any more wise words? :smallbiggrin:

Manipulation is very underrated. I like it, it's good.

[TaiLiu]

Manipulation is very underrated. I like it, it's good.
I'll try to contemplate your words until our next meeting, Comrade. Thank you.

[DJ Yung Crunk]

I'll try to contemplate your words until our next meeting, Comrade. Thank you.

Does that mean you're leaving? Aw :smallfrown:

Auf wiedersehen!

[Blue Ghost]

Ah! What was the environment in which the two of you met? How and why?

She was passing by my area on her way to visit her brother, I believe, so we arranged a brief meeting at the local bookstore in my town.

[Coidzor]

Manipulation is a form of power that we often seem to forget about despite experiencing its grip upon our lives every day.

Or, I suppose, because of said grip...


Right, you've been here long enough to have seen the... beast. What was it like?

Yeah, I have a tendency to disappear like that.

Well, imagine trying to portray a 5th dimensional object in a 2 dimensional space. Then factor in a universe where familial ties are like hydrogen atoms, willing and able to bond with just about anything. Season with perforations in the space-time continuum. Add violations of the laws of man, physics, and/or morality to taste.

It's ok, nobody is perfect. :smallwink:


She was passing by my area on her way to visit her brother, I believe, so we arranged a brief meeting at the local bookstore in my town.

She was a boy. He was a girl. Can I make it any more obvious?

[FinnLassie]

Pfft, there's no such thing as anonymity. I'm confident that there's enough information online for a sufficiently determined person to figure out who I am; that goes for everyone.

Well, you still could. The likelyhood of them checking here for you is pretty low. ...confidential? How? Aren't you studying to be a teacher? Somehow, that doesn't strike me as a particularly secretive line of work.


You see, before I joined this forum it has been basically impossible to find photos of me online if you searched with my real name or this nickname. Which reminds me, I need to delete that photo from the photo thread - it's been there long enough. Anyways, my point is, this is the first time in my life that I am not fully anonymous on the internet. I mean yes I'm on Facebook, but I know my stuff and you cannot even find me there unless you're a friend of a friend.

One other mistake I've done was to have my professional Twitter as Finn first. I'm now under a different nickname, but when you search this nickname you will still find my tweets. Ugh, internet footprint...

A coursemate has already received a warning for indecent discussion about the course, or well, more about placement. It's not that the course heads check them out... It's the coursemates that report you. After that the course will start looking more into what you've been blabbering about.

I chose a stupid profession to study for. :smallyuk:

[Teddy]

Pfft, there's no such thing as anonymity. I'm confident that there's enough information online for a sufficiently determined person to figure out who I am; that goes for everyone.

Heh, I read a chronicle about this this morning. Basically, just judging from your Facebook likes and some of the other information that makes up your Internet slime trails, it's generally possible to determine your sex, skin colour, class, education, religion, political ideology, nationality, personality, etc, etc with an amazing accuracy. The greatest reason for why I don't care about Internet anonymity is because I know that against those with the right tools, I don't stand a chance anyway. Partial anonymity isn't worth staying constantly paranoid for.

ION:
We had a few short blackouts this morning (although "silenceout" is probably a better term, as it was too bright for lamps anyway), and it seems to have killed the IT department's servers in the process. Now I can't get onto the terminals to continue with programming, and I'd set away this day for finalising and debugging. This is an unfortunate turn of events, but hopefully our lecturer should be understanding...

[Elemental]

Hmm... This song is admittedly gloomy, but not suicidally gloomy... You lied to me Stephen Fry!



Sounds like you've got a bunch of barbarian bebbehs for siblings.

More like a bunch of stubborn individuals determined to do things their way.



So are we talking bite-sized portions of the triangular diamonds for fancification?

I'm not really sure what you mean there...



Corgis?

Well... I'll concede that. But they're probably traditional somewhere in America.



*pat, pat* You should really try out hollandaise sauce on a roast beast sammich sometime. Just... make sure you trust the source.

I'll consider it, but I'd need to acquire the roast beef first.



Step 1. Acquire a rubber chicken.
Step 2. Exhaust all other diplomatic channels.
Step 3. Go to Sibling Rivalry Town on his Patootie.

*nod, nod*

Unfortunately, doing so would shut off any potential of defending my actions. I've manoeuvred myself into the coveted position of good child, and once there, it can be hard to get out of. At least, in my experience.



I believe you have the heart of a scholar, even if you do not have the trappings.

Alas... It is hard to get proper employment based on one's heart alone in this job climate. Maybe I'll just have to write a book and get an honorary degree. All I need is a suitably depressing topic that allows me to protest something wrong with the world.



Your father kept bees? That, too, is neat. I love bees. Maybe it’s trite to you because you live it every day, but your garden sounds so neat to me. All full of crazy tropical plants and bees and bats and exotic birds.

That would be a shame, but what can you do? I plan to move in perhaps four years, and I wonder how it will feel to leave behind all the things I have planted and built.

Indeed he did. For years he had half wild bees up at a farm somewhere, but due to distractions they went well and truly wild. But he tried to start them up again at my uncle's farm, but alas, the hives did not take.

Indeed. Year round greenery and flowers does dull the sensation a bit. But then one looks forward to those that only flower at certain times, such as the Jacarandas that bloom so gloriously as the year draws to its close. I know you would have them in Canada were it only possible for them to grow there, but alas, we of warmer climates are forced to hoard them.

Unfortunately, it needs to be done and there are some lovely houses out in the country. We'd need to do some painting and add in gardens so we can plant our own plants. But I'm looking forward to properly creating my own space in whatever house we buy, rather than being shunted to the smallest room. It is indeed fortunate that my siblings won't be moving with us.
I know what house I want, but I can't be sure that'll be the one we'll buy, so I can't really plan out what colours I want first. Anyway... Hopefully my opinion will be taken into account because I'll have to pay off whatever mortgage we have left after my parents are too old to.
I'll send you a PM with a link to the real estate site if you ask nicely.



...but all of my ends are evil ones... :smallamused:

Nonsense! I have observed you on numerous occasions performing actions that lead to non-evil ends.



YOU THROW THOSE SOCKS AWAY RIGHT NOW, ARMSDEALER. I AM SENDING BUDGIE AGENTS AROUND YOUR PLACE TO ENSURE YOU HAVE COMPLIED.

That is the best nickname for Amidus I have heard yet. Give me a moment, and I'll get you a medal.



Well, I grew up baking chicken, but Kentucky Fried Chicken is a national fast food chain. I've also had it broiled, boiled, and roasted. I gotta say: boiled is easily the worst, and roasting tends to REALLY dry it out (I prefer my meat to have some JUICE in it).

That is why they invented gravy.



That's an Outback Special Steak. If that has bones or fat on it, I will eat my tie.

What exactly makes it an Outback Special?


In other news: I visited my grandparents today. Their nursing home is actually quite nice. My mind had conjured images of something much more sterile, but I was mistaken. They have a nice pair of rooms overlooking a garden and a door out to said garden.
Though it is sad... Grandma N. (as I shall call her for the purposes of this discussion) is starting to get dementia. We brought them a National Geographic so they'd have something to read, and she almost forgot that it was for them. I don't think she realises that she's moved permanently... I think she thinks she's in respite care. But aside from that, she seems healthy despite her age and very bright.
Granddad doesn't look the greatest, but then, he's missing half his jaw. His mind is still there of course. He liked the magazines we got him.

[Mutant Sheep]

She was a boy. He was a girl. Can I make it any more obvious?
You know what? No. I shall not say SK8TER BOY AND HE WAS A SK8TER BOY the words. Let it DIE.:smalltongue:

[LaZodiac]

WOW it's been like, years since I heard that song. Probably literally decades.

[Dimonite]

She was passing by my area on her way to visit her brother, I believe, so we arranged a brief meeting at the local bookstore in my town.

Meeting... or rendezvous? :smalltongue:



That is why they invented gravy.


Yeah, I REALLY don't like gravy. It's on my list of foods I inexplicably despise, right up near the top with cheesy potatoes (I like cheese, I like potatoes, but for some reason when you cover potatoes with a cheese sauce the taste of the ensuing product makes my physically ill).



What exactly makes it an Outback Special?


It's from Outback Steakhouse. That's just the name of it. But I definitely can attest to its quality - it's the second-best steak I've ever had. The BEST came very unexpectedly from Pannekoeken.

[Devmaar]

Oh! I managed to miss that. I also find frying a chicken to be odd as well. Is this typical?

Baked and fried (though not deep-fried) are how I cook almost everything


Hm. Does the bacon's flavour not overpower the rest?

Bacon and Chicken is a magnificent combination, the basis of many fine concoctions.


Nah, my mother HATES steam-cooked food, so she refuses to even teach us how to make it. That's the only thing she won't teach us though, so we don't begrudge her that. She even lets us use the pressure cooker of DOOM! (So called because it's cast-iron and super-heavy and older than she is)

I only steam vegetables, I've never thought about steaming meats...


Death isn't forever. *shrug*

But those strange aeons take so long to kick in :smalltongue:


This post I like.

The idea of being counter-culture for the sake of being counter-culture I do not. To quote one of those key 90's punk bands:

I once heard someone say they didn't like a band because "they're too mainstream for [them]" which rather annoyed me


Heh, I read a chronicle about this this morning. Basically, just judging from your Facebook likes and some of the other information that makes up your Internet slime trails, it's generally possible to determine your sex, skin colour, class, education, religion, political ideology, nationality, personality, etc, etc with an amazing accuracy. The greatest reason for why I don't care about Internet anonymity is because I know that against those with the right tools, I don't stand a chance anyway. Partial anonymity isn't worth staying constantly paranoid for.

This is basically my view


WOW it's been like, years since I heard that song. Probably literally decades.

Unless you are a time-traveller, it has not been literally decades :smalltongue:

[LaZodiac]

Unless you are a time-traveller, it has not been literally decades :smalltongue:

I'm 21. I believe the song came out before I was ten. Therefor, literally decades. Because it's been two of them.

[Drakeburn]

WOW it's been like, years since I heard that song. Probably literally decades.

It probably has been years for me too since I've last heard that song.

I've been busy listening to soundtracks (Tron Uprising, Tron Legacy, Chronicles of Narnia, Lord of the Rings, Vectorman and Vectorman 2).

The Vectorman games were probably two of my most favorite games ever.

........ Where did my childhood go? :smallfrown:

[Teddy]

I'm 21. I believe the song came out before I was ten. Therefor, literally decades. Because it's been two of them.

If it has been two decades, then it was at least 20 years ago. You can't say that something which happened 2009 happened a decade ago, for instance, even though it happened in the last decade...

ION:
Mrglbrglallthewrongbugsinallthewrongplaces. :smallannoyed:

[LaZodiac]

If it has been two decades, then it was at least 20 years ago. You can't say that something which happened 2009 happened a decade ago, for instance, even though it happened in the last decade...

ION:
Mrglbrglallthewrongbugsinallthewrongplaces. :smallannoyed:

Aaah, okay. Good point.

Ouch, good luck Teddy!

[Coidzor]

You know what? No. I shall not say SK8TER BOY AND HE WAS A SK8TER BOY the words. Let it DIE.:smalltongue:

:smalltongue: It's my favorite song to like ironically because it's a song that decries the evils of vanity and materialism by going "neener-neener, I gold-diggered that guy so now I can enjoy all of the vanity and materialism that goes with him."


Hmm... This song is admittedly gloomy, but not suicidally gloomy... You lied to me Stephen Fry!

Here, have some apologies courtesy of Weebl. (http://www.weebls-stuff.com/songs/Stephen+Fry/)


More like a bunch of stubborn individuals determined to do things their way.

I'm not really sure what you mean there...

So little siblings that haven't been the recipient of enough sibling authority to fall into the household hierarchy, eh? That's a shame. Munchkins need a firm hand in order to transform them into humans.

You cut a sandwich on standard bread into 4 pieces, though not really diamond shaped it's sort of like you bisected a rhombus instead of a square because of doing it diagonal-like instead of making them into squares.

And this is being held in opposition to using a knife and fork to actually eat the sandwich by cutting it up into smaller, bite-sized portions.


Well... I'll concede that. But they're probably traditional somewhere in America.

Yes, they're traditional for being adorably impractical things we make fun of but also want but can't have.


I'll consider it, but I'd need to acquire the roast beef first.

Unfortunately, doing so would shut off any potential of defending my actions. I've manoeuvred myself into the coveted position of good child, and once there, it can be hard to get out of. At least, in my experience.

I suppose roast kangaroo isn't the right kind of beast, after all. I don't know if you guys can acquire anything like Texas Toast, but some thick-cut bread goes lovely underneath. Especially if it resembles garlic bread.

Hmm. What's up with that then, you've got fear of parental retribution but they're letting the rest of them be feral? :smallconfused:

[Kneenibble]

If it is, then the rabbits are really wasting their time with those tiny little peonies. :smalltongue:

And one day, when I'm an acclaimed actor, I shall buy you an aviary in thanks. 'Til that day, my friend.

Just say that you started taking pictures after you called the fire department, in order to document the severity of the blaze. :smallsneaky:

When the lilies bloom, I'll post their portraits here for you.

I proscribe a splint, lots of water, and partial shading from direct sunlight - this should allow them to grow stronger without being fried. Of course, since you are quite knowledgeable, you may have already tried this, and simply know that their lives cannot be. If so, let me express my condolences for your loss of potential beauty.

Rabbits in your peonies? Bring me my hassenpfeffer!
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4QlZmS5gO7s/SnpskIlYP7I/AAAAAAAAAZ0/P2tqQCzT8rY/s320/Hasenpfeffer03.jpg

It is my dream one day to have a big enough house to turn a bedroom into a budgie aviary. Perhaps, after your investments from your first movie pay off, you can help me remodel whatever home I inhabit at the time.

Your suggestions are sound, but I think the splints would be too finicky for how small and many there were. I'm keeping them watered and will cross my fingers they fill out, otherwise I'll have to buy greenhouse specimens, I guess. It's not as satisfying as creatures I grew from seeds myself, but it will have to do.


ION: My dad now has diabetes in addition to his celiac. :smallfrown:

I'm sorry for your father's health. Those will be a challenge to reconcile, diet-wise. Could he grow a bushy moustache and affect a southern drawl, at least?



I like this picture. :smallcool:

Ooh, not fun. I shan't scare you by telling you just how low of a current can be lethal. It's 0.5 amps, if I remember correctly.

They are, in a very dark sense. The memory feels... heavy. It's an odd feeling to have that kind of respect for a creature the size of your thumbnail that's fragile enough to be crushed with the same force that one uses to type.

That was several years ago... I don't think any socks from that time period still exist now (much less that particular pair of muddy ones); they have been either destroyed, discarded, or lost in the parallel dimensions where socks and other loose articles disappear. :smallamused:

Now, don't feel bad because your rhymes were WRONG AND YOU SHOULD FEEL BAD! *sobs in corner* ...:smallamused: All in good fun, I promise. Your poem was fine.

I offered her a rake, but she didn't want it. Hopefully I'll get to see the thing eventually. :smallamused:

:smalleek: Considering the house carries 100 amps, that is a little worrying. Oh well, I lived! No Darwin award for me! *frenzied laughter*

There is a poetry in that image. I was just reading about the symptoms of their poison -- sounds like a wild trip.

Would you like to visit that parallel dimension? Think of the treasures you could find glittering amidst the socks and the receipts and the bits of string -- wedding rings that fell down drains, old coins and keys, buttons...

*opens the bathroom door a crack and looks out with reddened puffy eyes* R... really?

I'm a rake, but I certainly don't keep the snakes away. Perhaps she is smarter than we know.



Thanks be to you in the highest fashion, o king of Housebirds. (Sorry, but you aren't an eagle.)

Anyways, I have been rather busy as of late, with various projects getting in my way, and what with having some beautiful little chickens to raise. I posted a picture in the old thread, I shall post it again, for your enjoyment.
http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/3698/dsc04124z.jpg
Soon, I shall post a picture of what they look like... in the awkward age!

I don't know about eagles, but budgies can outfly falcons (http://youtu.be/cUpGRQK7o78).

Those are cute little fluffballs. Can you cuddle them?



How dare you trick me, sir! :smalltongue:

No, the letter is some 500 miles away, my aunt just posted an except to Facebook and I found it to be most interesting.

Also. Because birds.

http://illustration.images.mangamagazine.net/30761/thumbnail-600x-shrink.png

Ooh! A cute crow! Good job on its cawing expression, especially. I like your style.



So my knowledge isn't nearly as extensive as my aunt's, but ...

My great-grandfather, one Reverend Henry Smith Leiper, was a missionary in China before the Boxer Rebellion took place. As a missionary he did typical missionary stuff and he also worked as a teacher and tennis coach. As a teacher one student stood out to him in particular. He let this student into the library which was usually off-limits to younger students almost every day. He was to put it lightly, very impressed and almost proud of this student. This student's name was Mao Zedong.

When he came back to the States after the Boxer Rebellion he went on to become one of the founding members of the World Council of Churches and served as a secretary for some committee. He also worked for the YMCA, met Ghandi at some point (we have his signature in the attic), and did a lot of Anti-Naziwork in Germany prior to the outbreak of WWII.

As an archivist, this gives me a pleasure that approaches the erotic. I hope your aunt is taking good care of his records and I hope you get a chance to see them in person one day.



Alas... It is hard to get proper employment based on one's heart alone in this job climate. Maybe I'll just have to write a book and get an honorary degree. All I need is a suitably depressing topic that allows me to protest something wrong with the world.

To be fair, it is hard to get employment based on one's degree alone as well. Whatever you do, please keep cultivating your obvious drive for knowledgeables.


Indeed he did. For years he had half wild bees up at a farm somewhere, but due to distractions they went well and truly wild. But he tried to start them up again at my uncle's farm, but alas, the hives did not take.

Indeed. Year round greenery and flowers does dull the sensation a bit. But then one looks forward to those that only flower at certain times, such as the Jacarandas that bloom so gloriously as the year draws to its close. I know you would have them in Canada were it only possible for them to grow there, but alas, we of warmer climates are forced to hoard them.

Lousy wild bees, all stingy and lazy and protective of the little honey they can be bothered to make and leeching off the state.

I think you have told me about Jacarandas before, but it was pleasant to Guggle pictures of their splendor again anyways.


Unfortunately, it needs to be done and there are some lovely houses out in the country. We'd need to do some painting and add in gardens so we can plant our own plants. But I'm looking forward to properly creating my own space in whatever house we buy, rather than being shunted to the smallest room. It is indeed fortunate that my siblings won't be moving with us.
I know what house I want, but I can't be sure that'll be the one we'll buy, so I can't really plan out what colours I want first. Anyway... Hopefully my opinion will be taken into account because I'll have to pay off whatever mortgage we have left after my parents are too old to.
I'll send you a PM with a link to the real estate site if you ask nicely.

Elemental may I please see the house you wish to buy?

Yay for your own space without abrasive siblings! Yay for colours and gardens! I would help if I could!


In other news: I visited my grandparents today. Their nursing home is actually quite nice. My mind had conjured images of something much more sterile, but I was mistaken. They have a nice pair of rooms overlooking a garden and a door out to said garden.
Though it is sad... Grandma N. (as I shall call her for the purposes of this discussion) is starting to get dementia. We brought them a National Geographic so they'd have something to read, and she almost forgot that it was for them. I don't think she realises that she's moved permanently... I think she thinks she's in respite care. But aside from that, she seems healthy despite her age and very bright.
Granddad doesn't look the greatest, but then, he's missing half his jaw. His mind is still there of course. He liked the magazines we got him.

He's... missing half his jaw... :smalleek: how?

Seeing grandparents like this is one of the rougher rites of passage our society has to offer, I think.



You know what? No. I shall not say SK8TER BOY AND HE WAS A SK8TER BOY the words. Let it DIE.:smalltongue:

Well I can't say that song bears any nostalgic charm, but I was listening to 'N Sync and Backstreet Boys the other day with much relish. The music video for Bye Bye Bye was actually awesome.

Is your health okay, Ovis? Will you survive pneumania?

[Coidzor]

I chose a stupid profession to study for. :smallyuk:

:/ I'm sorry about all of that difficulty. I have to admit, my youthful indiscretions pretty much preclude me from ever taking public office or being a teacher, since there's no way to completely sever myself from them despite them being things I did last when I was 12.


Yeah, I REALLY don't like gravy. It's on my list of foods I inexplicably despise, right up near the top with cheesy potatoes (I like cheese, I like potatoes, but for some reason when you cover potatoes with a cheese sauce the taste of the ensuing product makes my physically ill).

All kinds of gravy? From Milk Gravy to Turkey Gravy, eh? Biscuits and gravy was something I despised as a kid, but suddenly I started having them grow on me after I ceased to be a virgin. Actually, weirdly, a lot of my tastes began to change after that... rather than, at, like, puberty or adulthood proper like they're supposed to...

What about loaded potatoes? What about loaded potato soup? What about baked potatoes topped with cheese, green onions, bacon, sour cream, butter, the souls of virgins, and the blood of your enemies?


ION:
Mrglbrglallthewrongbugsinallthewrongplaces. :smallannoyed:

Bugs? Also, ouch. :smalleek:


In other news: I visited my grandparents today. Their nursing home is actually quite nice. My mind had conjured images of something much more sterile, but I was mistaken. They have a nice pair of rooms overlooking a garden and a door out to said garden.
Though it is sad... Grandma N. (as I shall call her for the purposes of this discussion) is starting to get dementia. We brought them a National Geographic so they'd have something to read, and she almost forgot that it was for them. I don't think she realises that she's moved permanently... I think she thinks she's in respite care. But aside from that, she seems healthy despite her age and very bright.
Granddad doesn't look the greatest, but then, he's missing half his jaw. His mind is still there of course. He liked the magazines we got him.

That's rough. :smallfrown: I hope that you're able to spend some good time with them yet. I know one of my biggest regrets was that my grandparents almost all died when I was still a bratling and so I never really got a chance to really get to know them beyond the extent that a small child can know anyone.

My friend's grandparents ended up not taking to their nursing home very well and actually tried to escape a few times after forgetting where they were and why they were there. The family had to beg the place not to kick them out onto the street, more or less. So I hope your grandma continues to adjust well.

[Cuthalion]

I don't know about eagles, but budgies can outfly falcons (http://youtu.be/cUpGRQK7o78).

Those are cute little fluffballs. Can you cuddle them?

That is amazing. They are so cute when they stand in the water up to their hips. I also didn't know they were that agile.

You can, if you hold them on their backs. I'm not rightly sure why, but it is so. Did you see the other pictures?
http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/6136/chickensh.png

[Amidus Drexel]

I choose to take your inability to respond as dumbfounded awe at what a badass job I did defending the greatest rock group of all time.

Debatable. Extremely debatable. I don't think any band deserves that tag; it's too broad. I mean, who to give it to? The most recent? The first? The longest-lasting? The most influential? What qualifies a band for any category? What do we mean by "rock"? It's too vague.



Every time I state my dislike of music, I get this response.


There is a reason for that. :smalltongue:


How about we drop this before we dig ourselves deeper?

But I have this shovel... :smallamused:


A coursemate has already received a warning for indecent discussion about the course, or well, more about placement. It's not that the course heads check them out... It's the coursemates that report you. After that the course will start looking more into what you've been blabbering about.

I chose a stupid profession to study for. :smallyuk:

...this still strikes me as very odd. What sort of secret things could teachers be studying that they're not allowed to talk about? I suppose the kids' (and possibly schools') names, but other than that, it doesn't strike me as very, well... confidential information.

I strongly disapprove of a self-moderating body of people on the internet. That leads to mistrust between peers, be they students, co-workers, or otherwise. It's a practice that works excellently in real life where interaction is limited, but not where all information is stored and retained in a public place (like the internet).



Nonsense! I have observed you on numerous occasions performing actions that lead to non-evil ends.

That is the best nickname for Amidus I have heard yet. Give me a moment, and I'll get you a medal.

Haven't led to evil ends yet. :smallamused: (also, what actions? I can't remember...)

...my poor username... It lies in shambles at your feet. :smallamused: :smalltongue:


:smalleek: Considering the house carries 100 amps, that is a little worrying. Oh well, I lived! No Darwin award for me! *frenzied laughter*

There is a poetry in that image. I was just reading about the symptoms of their poison -- sounds like a wild trip.

Would you like to visit that parallel dimension? Think of the treasures you could find glittering amidst the socks and the receipts and the bits of string -- wedding rings that fell down drains, old coins and keys, buttons...

*opens the bathroom door a crack and looks out with reddened puffy eyes* R... really?

I'm a rake, but I certainly don't keep the snakes away. Perhaps she is smarter than we know.

Is your health okay, Ovis? Will you survive pneumania?

Well, it has to do with the current flowing through the person; humans are horrible conductors; the amount of electrical resistance in the human body will reduce your average outlet's current (outlets are 120V in the US; I'd assume it's fairly similar everywhere else) to less than 0.1 amps. You can kill yourself with your house's electricity, but it's a little harder than just brushing against a wire. (not that it wouldn't hurt - a lot - but you'd probably still live).

They sound more like getting horribly sick: nausea, vomiting, swelling, and spasms as your nervous system shuts down.

It would smell awful; I think I'll pass on the dimension of lost socks. :smallamused:

*mumbles, picking up the swatted-aside lamp and halfheartedly attempts to fix the lampshade* Yes...

*raises eyebrow* Hrm? Well, you're also over a thousand miles away; I can't expect you to keep away a snake from that distance. :smalltongue:

He'd better, or I'll call him a pansy. I survived pneumonia at a younger age, so he shouldn't have any problem. :smalltongue:

[AtlanteanTroll]

Ooh! A cute crow! Good job on its cawing expression, especially. I like your style.
Thanks! I'm currently working on a picture of a Toucan. I just have to color the beak...


As an archivist, this gives me a pleasure that approaches the erotic. I hope your aunt is taking good care of his records and I hope you get a chance to see them in person one day.
Oh, I'm sure she's taking good care of it. My mother's side is pretty seriously concerned with genealogy and history and the family's legacy and all that good stuff. I'll probably take a look around next time I'm out there.

Also! (I forgot, but) My mother used to have an old newspaper from the day after Abraham Lincoln was shot. She gave it to a history professor friend as some sort of present though.

[Cobalt]

Well, hello, Random Banter, I presume you are collectively fine this evening. Yes, quite likely so, quite likely; inform me should I be incorrect.


So my knowledge isn't nearly as extensive as my aunt's, but ...

My great-grandfather, one Reverend Henry Smith Leiper, was a missionary in China before the Boxer Rebellion took place. As a missionary he did typical missionary stuff and he also worked as a teacher and tennis coach. As a teacher one student stood out to him in particular. He let this student into the library which was usually off-limits to younger students almost every day. He was to put it lightly, very impressed and almost proud of this student. This student's name was Mao Zedong.

When he came back to the States after the Boxer Rebellion he went on to become one of the founding members of the World Council of Churches and served as a secretary for some committee. He also worked for the YMCA, met Ghandi at some point (we have his signature in the attic), and did a lot of Anti-Naziwork in Germany prior to the outbreak of WWII.

My historian senses are tingling after reading that; you have quite the ancestor! Now I want to burn the rest of the day reading through the non-fiction section of my newly-organized totally-professional-looking bookshelves. I guess I probably will do that anyway, it's getting boring around here, and information is interesting!


Oh, I'm sure she's taking good care of it. My mother's side is pretty seriously concerned with genealogy and history and the family's legacy and all that good stuff. I'll probably take a look around next time I'm out there.

Also! (I forgot, but) My mother used to have an old newspaper from the day after Abraham Lincoln was shot. She gave it to a history professor friend as some sort of present though.

It's the same with my mom's side, too. But I'm always too embarrassed to ask the elders in my family about the ol' ancestors, so I know basically very little; mainly what they talk about among themselves about their parents and grandparents. I have a lot of mechanics and engineers who went military during the World Wars in my family.

Aahh, old documents in general are excellent historical gifts. Does your family own a lot of old things? Personally, mine seems fond of keeping and getting hold of books, which is a-okay with me.


ION: So high school is over. I drop in to pick up my cap and gown Friday and then wait a week to actually graduate, but it's over since Monday. I've had a lot of quiet time to think about it the last couple days. Not sure it's been long enough yet to craft an opinion of my current situation... But still. I guess something'll probably happen now while I go about my personal plans for this mean-time prior to Uni.

Anyone else high-school-out or on the verge of being outed?

[Teddy]

Ouch, good luck Teddy!

Well, I managed to find the root of this one, so now everything's just bugging out for other reasons, which honestly is an improvement.


Rabbits in your peonies? Bring me my hassenpfeffer!
*something*

First I thought "Harepepper?", but then I realised that you'd written "Hassen-" and not "Hasen-". :smallwink:


Bugs? Also, ouch. :smalleek:

Yep, pointy sharp little things they are. You say "Execute!", and they just say "Nope, badarg". And so you take a close look at your arguments, and see them to be all sound and reasonable, and you go back and take a look at the library, and see you're indeed providing them on the correct format, and so you go back to try again, but no, "badarg".

So you become frustrated and go home, but as you let your thoughts roam freely (and by that, I mean linger around your work, because for some odd reason, you always think the best when you're not trying to think), you realise that perhaps, just perhaps, the error may originate from another source, and just propagates along the lines until it finally crashes hard against a wall, and brings the whole place burning down with it.

Erlang has the worst error messages... :smallsigh:


Well, it has to do with the current flowing through the person; humans are horrible conductors; the amount of electrical resistance in the human body will reduce your average outlet's current (outlets are 120V in the US; I'd assume it's fairly similar everywhere else) to less than 0.1 amps. You can kill yourself with your house's electricity, but it's a little harder than just brushing against a wire. (not that it wouldn't hurt - a lot - but you'd probably still live).

Actually, outside the US, I'm pretty sure 220-240 V is the predominating standard (it definitely is in Europe, at least), and that may very well be lethal to you, but on the other hand, the lower current required to reach the same power means a reduced fire hazard. It's a balancing act, really.

[Blue Ghost]

Aye, debugging is a horribly frustrating thing, is it not? Curse those insects.

[Teddy]

Aye, debugging is a horribly frustrating thing, is it not? Curse those insects.

Well, in the correct environment, it can be pretty entertaining, a bit like a challenging puzzle for which you've lost the box lid. Now, such an environment needs to provide you with a few basic features, like telling you what arguments you passed to a function in order to make it fail. Erlang doesn't do such a thing, ergo Erlang isn't very fun to debug.

Also, dynamic typing. Dynamic typing is fun until it isn't, and the point where this happens is very precisely defined as "when everything goes haywire".

[Dimonite]

Rabbits in your peonies? Bring me my hassenpfeffer!
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4QlZmS5gO7s/SnpskIlYP7I/AAAAAAAAAZ0/P2tqQCzT8rY/s320/Hasenpfeffer03.jpg


Yeah, my mom always yells at them and chases them away when she sees them, but so far they have limited themselves to just the peonies and whatever falls onto the ground from the birdfeeder.



It is my dream one day to have a big enough house to turn a bedroom into a budgie aviary. Perhaps, after your investments from your first movie pay off, you can help me remodel whatever home I inhabit at the time.


I would actually, legitimately do that. Because I have never, despite all the thought I've given it, been able to think of a better use of any money I may have than making other people happy. So yes - if I actually get enough spare cash to do that for you, I will.



I'm sorry for your father's health. Those will be a challenge to reconcile, diet-wise. Could he grow a bushy moustache and affect a southern drawl, at least?

No, for my father's side of the family is entirely beardless. Why should he do so, were he able to?

[Coidzor]

Yep, pointy sharp little things they are. You say "Execute!", and they just say "Nope, badarg". And so you take a close look at your arguments, and see them to be all sound and reasonable, and you go back and take a look at the library, and see you're indeed providing them on the correct format, and so you go back to try again, but no, "badarg".

So you become frustrated and go home, but as you let your thoughts roam freely (and by that, I mean linger around your work, because for some odd reason, you always think the best when you're not trying to think), you realise that perhaps, just perhaps, the error may originate from another source, and just propagates along the lines until it finally crashes hard against a wall, and brings the whole place burning down with it.

Erlang has the worst error messages... :smallsigh:

Oh. Well, that's better than being eaten alive at least, I suppose. I'd forgotten that Sweden is too far north for insects of any real note... :smallredface:

Good luck getting rid of them and avoiding the dreaded big bugs.


Yeah, my mom always yells at them and chases them away when she sees them, but so far they have limited themselves to just the peonies and whatever falls onto the ground from the birdfeeder.

We've made too many compromises already; too many retreats. They invade our peonies and we fall back. They assimilate entire gardens and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here! This far, no further! And *I* will make them pay for what they've done.

So, I suggest slaughtering one and drawing a line of blood in the sand. For every one rabbit that crosses it, two more are slaughtered and become dinner for the family and pets.


No, for my father's side of the family is entirely beardless. Why should he do so, were he able to?

Wilford Brimley and Diabeetus. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hNu1I9r_1A)

[Mutant Sheep]

WOW it's been like, years since I heard that song. Probably literally decades.Yup.:smallsigh: The Nineties are so far, now.


:smalltongue: It's my favorite song to like ironically because it's a song that decries the evils of vanity and materialism by going "neener-neener, I gold-diggered that guy so now I can enjoy all of the vanity and materialism that goes with him."

Here, have some apologies courtesy of Weebl. (http://www.weebls-stuff.com/songs/Stephen+Fry/)

So little siblings that haven't been the recipient of enough sibling authority to fall into the household hierarchy, eh? That's a shame. Munchkins need a firm hand in order to transform them into humans.
:I just know it from EBA. And vague kiddie memories of pop music.:smalltongue: Speaking of, HAHA I HAZ EBA.:smallbiggrin:

Weebl is awesome. Toast King is sex god.

I thought of card game, even though I KNOW the context is wrong damnit augh.:smallmad::smallbiggrin:


Rabbits in your peonies? Bring me my hassenpfeffer!
[SPOILER]http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4QlZmS5gO7s/SnpskIlYP7I/AAAAAAAAAZ0/P2tqQCzT8rY/s320/Hasenpfeffer03.jpg
Well I can't say that song bears any nostalgic charm, but I was listening to 'N Sync and Backstreet Boys the other day with much relish. The music video for Bye Bye Bye was actually awesome.

Is your health okay, Ovis? Will you survive pneumania?BLUGHF.

Heh. Backstreet Boys were a thing.:smallamused:

It seems to be mostly passed, now. I've been to school for three days and manage, though I fear giving two speeches in the next two days. I do sleep often though, and still have a small appitite. Actually, I haven't mentioned this yet, but I apperently lost weight between March and this recent bout. I'm 93 pounds!:smallwink:

IRN:Coid is awesome for reminding me neener neener is a thing.:smallamused::smalltongue:

[Amidus Drexel]

Actually, outside the US, I'm pretty sure 220-240 V is the predominating standard (it definitely is in Europe, at least), and that may very well be lethal to you, but on the other hand, the lower current required to reach the same power means a reduced fire hazard. It's a balancing act, really.

I may be wrong about ours too... I know they're different, but I didn't think it was by that much. No, we're both right; the US standard is 120, and most of Europe (and the rest of the world, actually) is between 220 and 240. (also, I think you mean resistance; generally, a higher voltage means a higher current, and resistance the opposite).

ION: Ye gods, the madness. So, apparently our DM was not really prepared for me summoning a ****ton of shadows. We decimated a bunch of giants and a dragon, killed off an entire town, and took their treasure and souls. Their bodies we will animate next session. :smallcool:

All of this was over a flowerpot.

[TaiLiu]

I may be wrong about ours too... I know they're different, but I didn't think it was by that much. No, we're both right; the US standard is 120, and most of Europe (and the rest of the world, actually) is between 220 and 240. (also, I think you mean resistance; generally, a higher voltage means a higher current, and resistance the opposite).
Indeed. I think the story behind this has to do with power lines and time, or something.

ION: Ye gods, the madness. So, apparently our DM was not really prepared for me summoning a ****ton of shadows. We decimated a bunch of giants and a dragon, killed off an entire town, and took their treasure and souls. Their bodies we will animate next session. :smallcool:

All of this was over a flowerpot.
Ah. Was it a particularly nice flowerpot?

[AtlanteanTroll]

Well, hello, Random Banter, I presume you are collectively fine this evening. Yes, quite likely so, quite likely; inform me should I be incorrect.
Si, signor. :smallwink:


My historian senses are tingling after reading that; you have quite the ancestor! Now I want to burn the rest of the day reading through the non-fiction section of my newly-organized totally-professional-looking bookshelves. I guess I probably will do that anyway, it's getting boring around here, and information is interesting!
Ah, such is life. Boredom is a terrible disease, but reading is wonderful medicine.


It's the same with my mom's side, too. But I'm always too embarrassed to ask the elders in my family about the ol' ancestors, so I know basically very little; mainly what they talk about among themselves about their parents and grandparents. I have a lot of mechanics and engineers who went military during the World Wars in my family.
That's cool. My mom's dad designed some sort of "clean" burning diesel fuel for planes back during WWII. And may or may not have helped to develop Agent Orange a little bit after that ... Which is terribly ironic if he did play a role. Seeing as his nephew sort of cut a world tour short in Cambodia after he found love. Oh well.

I can also trace back to William Bradford and Giles Corey. So that's fun.


Aahh, old documents in general are excellent historical gifts. Does your family own a lot of old things? Personally, mine seems fond of keeping and getting hold of books, which is a-okay with me.
Well, there's the Ghandi signature that's up in the attic, and I somehow wound up with an original copy of Tarzan of the Apes for Christmas last year. My mom started a tea-pot collection which sounds sort of boring, but there's some really old Asian stuff in it. She also has a collection of Matryoshka dolls from back when she was going to the USSR every year.


So high school is over. I drop in to pick up my cap and gown Friday and then wait a week to actually graduate, but it's over since Monday. I've had a lot of quiet time to think about it the last couple days. Not sure it's been long enough yet to craft an opinion of my current situation... But still. I guess something'll probably happen now while I go about my personal plans for this mean-time prior to Uni.

Anyone else high-school-out or on the verge of being outed?

Me! I have two weeks till graduation though. And it's such a weird feeling knowing your done ... I have no idea what to do with my summer. I guess get a part time job. Though that may be difficult I'm going to up-state New York for two weeks in June and might be going down to Flordia with my girlfriend and her family in August. I know I need to work on my driving and my drawing.

[TaiLiu]

My mom started a tea-pot collection which sounds sort of boring, but there's some really old Asian stuff in it. She also has a collection of Matryoshka dolls from back when she was going to the USSR every year.
What do you mean by "old Asian stuff?"

[AtlanteanTroll]

What do you mean by "old Asian stuff?"
Old Asian teapots. Two from China, one from Japan, and one from Cambodia. I guess there are some older English ones in it as well.

[TaiLiu]

Old Asian teapots. Two from China, one from Japan, and one from Cambodia. I guess there are some older English ones in it as well.
Ah, teapots! Has your mother ever used these teapots for tea brewing?

[Devmaar]

I may be wrong about ours too... I know they're different, but I didn't think it was by that much. No, we're both right; the US standard is 120, and most of Europe (and the rest of the world, actually) is between 220 and 240. (also, I think you mean resistance; generally, a higher voltage means a higher current, and resistance the opposite).

He was right
Power = Current x Voltage
Where voltage is higher less current is needed for the same power output.

[Amidus Drexel]

Ah. Was it a particularly nice flowerpot?

Quoth the DM: "It's a porcelain pot, with red, blue, tan and purple stripes."

So, pretty fancy. I think he said it was worth 25gp. (which is a lot of money for commoners, but practically pocket-change for us).

I think it'll be important to the plot later, as it's been hinted that we shouldn't break it. (nevermind that it got used as a weapon when we took it) :smallamused:


He was right
Power = Current x Voltage
Where voltage is higher less current is needed for the same power output.

I was thinking Ohm's Law (Current = Voltage/Resistance) on account of him mentioning fires (from the wires heating up, presumably) but you're correct. The lower current would be safer (as far as lethal shocks go), too, although it means that there would actually be more resistance in the wires. (because decreasing current and increasing voltage results in a higher resistance).

[AtlanteanTroll]

Ah, teapots! Has your mother ever used these teapots for tea brewing?
I think she's used the Japanese one once. And I know she's used the English ones a few times. I remember one time she started to use one of the English ones when a British colleague was over and he just hi-jacked the tea making process entirely.

[TaiLiu]

Quoth the DM: "It's a porcelain pot, with red, blue, tan and purple stripes."

So, pretty fancy. I think he said it was worth 25gp. (which is a lot of money for commoners, but practically pocket-change for us).

I think it'll be important to the plot later, as it's been hinted that we shouldn't break it. (nevermind that it got used as a weapon when we took it) :smallamused:
Heh. Why were you stealing it in the first place?

I think she's used the Japanese one once. And I know she's used the English ones a few times. I remember one time she started to use one of the English ones when a British colleague was over and he just hi-jacked the tea making process entirely.
Oh? How exactly did he do it?

[Amidus Drexel]

Heh. Why were you stealing it in the first place?

I have no idea. (presumably, because we wanted it. I'll probably add it to my backstory) The campaign started with us in possession of the flowerpot, being chased by guards for stealing it. We then killed them, and then **** went down. :smallamused:

Hrm... maybe I should write a campaign log for this. :smallamused:

[TaiLiu]

Hrm... maybe I should write a campaign log for this. :smallamused:
You should! I'll probably read it.

[AtlanteanTroll]

Oh? How exactly did he do it?
I don't remember, to be honest. I'm much more of a coffee fan myself...