Taet's Acrostic: Everyone's Tuned into Random Banter #195

[Taet]

He won't be breaking any more bones now so that's good. And we know who he is because he made music and someone put it up on YouTube. I suppose that's good. It's not any good for him because he's still dead. But there's supposed to be some reason that being remembered is good. The music is good whether we remember it or not though.

[Sabeki]

And bonus, since he's dead he needn't worry of critics.

[Elemental]

Oh, hell no, we're not building anything new! Don't give in to Amididdles! It'll just encourage his need for dominance!

Nonsense. We build several new corners, each one more amazing than the last. That way we'll all have a corner if we need one, and Amidus will realise that control over a single corner is meaningless.

But then... Who knows how his various personality fragments will interpret things...



Eh, rounding difference. Point is, the popular image of him as a shortarse is completely spurious. Fun fact: the reason for that is because France's unit of measurement differed ever so slightly than that of Britain. In France, he was measured to be 5'2" or something, which was roughly the same length as Britain's 5'7" I was taught 5'6" in History class dammit.

And of course, when the British press got a hold of this fact, they ran wild. And somehow that caricature stuck. Just shows you what an important role the correct management of information can have, I guess.

And don't forget that his personal guard consisted of really tall people. Everyone looks short when the next shortest person is a head taller than you.


Coidzor, the Great and Powerful:

Elle:

You need posture! Stat! :smalleek: Don't want to get bent over until you're Old Manandorf, and even then not if you can avoid it.

Well, I'm comfortable either way. Mostly just a thought that crossed my mind since I was going to be seeing an old friend again that I haven't seen in ages and I kinda dig her but she's bringing along her sister and it's not like anything could happen anyway because we're going to be around a group of friends all evening anyway.

Hmm, yeah, that makes a bit of sense, actually, though I've never actually heard of anyone combining the sexes for determining average height before. :smallconfused:[/QUOTE]

*gasp* You spelt it with two L's! Monstrous!

Eh... You try telling the unfortunate curvature of my spine to fix itself. It's a family curse.

Well, whatever you do decide to do, remember that it will grow back.

Why not? If you want the average height of everyone, then you should be able to combine the average of half the group with the average of the other half. Unless I'm completely and utterly wrong. Let me do some test sums...
Yep. It works in at least one instance.



Dem Scandinavian longshanks. :smallamused:

Indeed. It's almost like they're trying to make sure that their tallness genes are spread across the globe. Hmm... I feel like I'm subconsciously comparing them to the Borg... It does sound Scandinavian after all.



Quite. Lucky stroke, that.

Hmm. Now if only I wasn't both scared and fascinated by the Netherlands. I suppose that I am a smidgen Dutch, though I can't remember if we even remember what subtype of lowlander or area we hailed from.

While I admit a certain fascination with the Netherlands, culturally, historically and linguistically, I don't find them at all scary...
Is it because they live in constant defiance of the ocean? Because that's almost unholy in a way...



Really the worse the economy gets, the more one has to set one's self aside from the masses in order to be fancy properly and rub in one's opulence.

Backbreaking labor and battling creatures from the dungeon dimensions? Sounds like fun.

Yes, but then you're just digging yourself in deeper. I mean... When the economy decides to turn against your investments in experimental genetic engineering, where will you be then?

I was just going to hire somebody... But I suppose that works too.



I need to take up dancing again. Also actually start working on that drawing crap. Oh, so many things to do and so much to procrastinate with.

I've always wanted to learn to dance, but I've never got around to it because I don't do things well with others. I've also wanted to take up archery, but that's more because I'm too lazy to find a local archery club.
And yes. The drawing thing. I need to be more prolific, but alas, it's one thing to say something, the difficult thing is doing it.



Why not?

Elepapa has sweet beard? Sweet. The Cookzor what spawned me, has a demi-Santa Claus himself. I need a better nickname for him...

Why do people keep saying that?It's almost like there's some kind of conspiracy to keep me scared of ever looking at what's under my beard. Next thing you know, they'll be telling me that there's no chin underneath my beard, only more beard or something... :smallconfused: I honestly don't think my beard would properly mountain-man out anyway, since it goes curly the more there is of it.

Neatness of my beard? :smallconfused: What pictures have you been looking at? It's a scruffdom in thar. :smalltongue:

None of my flannel shirts fit me any more, and they're really only suitable for Winter. So I guess I just stopped buying them. Plus, it is really hard to find a decent flannel shirt these days.
You would not believe the narrow range of attire available to me at affordable prices.

Yes he does, and most of the men in his family have the potential to grow one as well. It's a genetic thing.

Having never seen a picture of you clean shaven, it is very difficult to tell. However, I do believe you have a jaw line that is best suited supporting a beard. Technically, I am the same, but I really hate having one despite being too lazy to get rid of it.
Of course, I could be wrong, so feel free to disregard this opinion.

In comparison to my own.



Well, he's descended from the guy who lost New Amsterdam because he was so unlikeable no one would fight the British with him. Or descended from someone immediately related to him anyway, so there's apparently a long line of people making and losing fortunes in that family, since on the other side he's actually traceable to William the Conqueror's inner circle of Bros.

I just found out yesterday actually that one of my great-great grandparents was a bastard who became a self-made man and one of the wealthier people in the state he was living in. I'm from the American South though, so it's about 50-50 whether any person around here who has roots that go far back enough in the country has connections to some relation who lost everything as a result of the Civil War or its after-math.

Ouch. That's never fun. :smallfrown:

That is a story that is both hilarious and tragic. Personally, my Dad's family is apparently descended from the peasantry and my Mum's family is also with a dash of upper class English and incredibly minor Russian Aristocracy a hundred or so years back.

If I believe Harper Lee, everyone and everything in the South has a story relating to the Civil War, but that could be exaggeration on the part of her chosen narrator.

Well... It's not particularly bad either. Wealth dwindles unless your ancestry is more direct and/or recent. I mean... We're distantly related to Governor Davey of Tasmania, but that was when it was technically still Van Diemen's Land. Two hundred years is a rather long time after all.



Meh, there are many trees around. I honestly like the novelty of having a tree with such horrible berries around. It brings flavour to the world, if you're so inclined. :smallwink:

One also has to remember that not every cherry tree is cultivated for its cherries. They are rather ornamental if one recalls correctly. And as you say it is in a park, I'd be inclined to believe it was a variety chosen because it was both hardy and attractive, rather than prone to producing high quality fruit.



Well, "up to date" is a stretch (neglected maintenance, and since we were some of the first to electrify our national railways, the very underlying architecture is a bit dated, to say the least), but yeah, it works and it usually works quite well, and it's getting better. I actually find it hard to envision a country without some form of national rail communications for passengers...

Australia. We are a very large country with population centres that are rather distant from one another. A high speed rail rail down the East Coast from Brisbane to Melbourne via Sydney would be a good start, but there is no infrastructure and all our states have different gauge railroads.
Especially here in Queensland. They went for the cheapest to build because Queensland is huge. About four times the size of Sweden to put in context, or roughly sixty one standard Belgiums.
One could ask the state government to reopen all the rail lines they closed in the past, but the cost would be too great and the demand too low. I mean... There's a rail line to Proston where my brother lives, but there's really nothing there.



Oo, that reminds me of the time a bunch of fire fighters ran into my house. They had to bend down at the doorway!

Hm. I suppose my environment does influence my perception of height as well.

Personally, I'd be more concerned as to why fire fighters decided to run into your house. Though you should perhaps pretend to go house hunting and marvel at the high ceilings available in older houses.
Well... Older houses around here... And newer houses... Houses of an intermediate age seem to not have high ceilings... I wonder what's with that...

Probably. Environment is the primary influence of perception, after all, one sees it every time they open their eyes.



The one I'm normally referring to is on that list. (as for which one, you'll have to guess or try to work out). Au contrare; you know more, but realize that even your greater knowledge is proportionately less than you thought it was.

Even disfiguring scars wouldn't bother me. It could be an ugly gash down the side of my face and I wouldn't care.

Of course it is. I looked up a list on Wikipedia and copied it in approximate order of population. All the signs point to it being a town with a population larger than five thousand. (I'm actually too lazy to work out which one it is.)
Well, that's kind of what I meant. At first, I thought that I knew everything about Virginia that I could possibly need to know, and now I realise that I need to know more, and the V encyclopaedia isn't under my desk for some reason...

I never said they'd bother you, but they would bother some people. In my case, it would depend on where the scar is and how larger it is.
I mean... The burn scars on my fingertips are pretty disfiguring, but one would have to examine my fingertips closely to realise that it looks like someone melted my skin and let it cool unevenly.



ION: I'll be going to WVA tomorrow, and staying for a few days.

Notice how that doesn't have any exclamation marks. That's because WVA is boring as hell. There's no plan, and I'm going to probably try to pass the time with music and GBA games. No internet or cell service in much of the state either.

Hmm... You're right. I looked up West Virginia on Wikipedia, and not one part of the article really intrigued me enough to make me read it. My initial assumption is that it is a sparsely populated mountainous region with nothing to do unless you like the wilderness and hate cell phones.
And I can go somewhere like that in Australia.



I'm not sure caffeine even is considered an abusable substance...

Easily. It's very easy to reach the point where one feels they need it to get through their day. That's not really abuse, but the line is easily crossed.


Hmm... I thought I had news to convey about my exciting life... But apparently I don't. Well... That's interesting in its own way I suppose.

[Amidus Drexel]

Of course it is. I looked up a list on Wikipedia and copied it in approximate order of population. All the signs point to it being a town with a population larger than five thousand. (I'm actually too lazy to work out which one it is.)
Well, that's kind of what I meant. At first, I thought that I knew everything about Virginia that I could possibly need to know, and now I realise that I need to know more, and the V encyclopaedia isn't under my desk for some reason...


Heh, it's population is several times that; it's one of the more populous (well, comparatively, anyway) cities in VA. (Well, I think I've given away enough information for that to be worked out, although it's by no means an easy task.)

I don't imagine VA's encyclopedia entry will give you very much, but it's worth a shot.



Hmm... You're right. I looked up West Virginia on Wikipedia, and not one part of the article really intrigued me enough to make me read it. My initial assumption is that it is a sparsely populated mountainous region with nothing to do unless you like the wilderness and hate cell phones.
And I can go somewhere like that in Australia.


There are a handful of touristy things, but... pretty much. (also, from my grandfather "Well, Charleston has a bunch of whorehouses." :smallamused:). There's also a reasonably large facility with satellite dishes there; they're there to pick up radiation from space, I think.

[Coidzor]

What a... stork contrast to reality. :smallamused:

I'm sure he'll be fine. He's got internet; how bad can it be? :smalltongue:

Heh :smallamused:

Meh. Pun-pun is a bit silly, if you ask me.

There's no need to dwell on one of many times I got pissed off at something. I calm myself down by becoming as fatigued as possible as quickly as possible; the steps in between there are just me making sure I don't break anything. I'm perfectly capable of dealing with raw knuckles - it's far from the most painful thing that's happened to me.

Don't worry about it. :smallwink:

Heh, no. I doubt we'll be doing anything nearly that exciting. :smallamused:

Nah. He's got a good job that he likes, and he's good at what he does. That's several steps up from most of the people I know. It doesn't really bother me.

Also, the fact that my mind has been redirected to Bon Scott twice tonight is probably a sign of some sort, so I'm going to go listen to lots more AC/DC. :smallcool:

hyuck-hyuck. :smallamused:

They could stick him in a Lotus-Eater Machine?

:smallwink:

That's part of the appeal of the Pun, I believe.

Ahh.

Oh, fine.

Hopefully not.

Well that's good then.

AC/DC is always fun. :smallbiggrin:


Heh, it's population is several times that; it's one of the more populous (well, comparatively, anyway) cities in VA. (Well, I think I've given away enough information for that to be worked out, although it's by no means an easy task.)

There are a handful of touristy things, but... pretty much. (also, from my grandfather "Well, Charleston has a bunch of whorehouses." :smallamused:). There's also a reasonably large facility with satellite dishes there; they're there to pick up radiation from space, I think.

Eh, don't care, still think of you as from Arkansas about half the time. :smalltongue:

The National Radio Astronomy Observatory (https://science.nrao.edu/facilities/gbt/), you mean? I thought that was more central WV than southern WV.

[Amidus Drexel]

They could stick him in a Lotus-Eater Machine?

AC/DC is always fun. :smallbiggrin:

Eh, he'd probably enjoy it. :smallamused:

AW YEAH! :smallcool:

[TaiLiu]

Personally, I'd be more concerned as to why fire fighters decided to run into your house. Though you should perhaps pretend to go house hunting and marvel at the high ceilings available in older houses.
Well... Older houses around here... And newer houses... Houses of an intermediate age seem to not have high ceilings... I wonder what's with that...
Hm. I'm wondering how old my house is, now.

[enderlord99]

Does anyone here know what א≠ is?

[Coidzor]

Elemental, Mercurial, Martian, Venetian, and, uh... Jovan?
Coidzor, the Great and Powerful:

*gasp* You spelt it with two L's! Monstrous!

Eh... You try telling the unfortunate curvature of my spine to fix itself. It's a family curse.

Well, whatever you do decide to do, remember that it will grow back.

Why not? If you want the average height of everyone, then you should be able to combine the average of half the group with the average of the other half. Unless I'm completely and utterly wrong. Let me do some test sums...
Yep. It works in at least one instance.

Indeed. It's almost like they're trying to make sure that their tallness genes are spread across the globe. Hmm... I feel like I'm subconsciously comparing them to the Borg... It does sound Scandinavian after all.

That's not all I do with two things. :smallamused:

Yikes. That sounds rather unpleasant. I'm sorry.

For better or worse, aye.

I suppose so, but we never really compare ourselves or others with the general population in terms of height, but rather peers or at least things roughly analogous to peer-groups in certain ways, such as sex or ethnicity. If the average height of men and women together is 5'7", but that's outside the first standard deviation for height for both sexes, then a man who is 5'7" when the main range for men is 5'9" to 6'0", he's going to be considered short, for a man, even if he's thoroughly average when you compare him to the total adult population. So it's... novel in a way?

Hah! Bjork, Torg, yeah, I can see that.


While I admit a certain fascination with the Netherlands, culturally, historically and linguistically, I don't find them at all scary...
Is it because they live in constant defiance of the ocean? Because that's almost unholy in a way...

Yes, but then you're just digging yourself in deeper. I mean... When the economy decides to turn against your investments in experimental genetic engineering, where will you be then?

I was just going to hire somebody... But I suppose that works too.

I've always wanted to learn to dance, but I've never got around to it because I don't do things well with others. I've also wanted to take up archery, but that's more because I'm too lazy to find a local archery club.
And yes. The drawing thing. I need to be more prolific, but alas, it's one thing to say something, the difficult thing is doing it.

Never heard of any fascination with them linguistically, and I must confess I've always meant to look up more of their history, especially how the Spanish came to rule them in the first place... I imagine part of it is because of the associations my mother caused me to form at an impressionable age. Though the bit where they're basically one hurricane-equivalent from living in Atlantis always weirded me out.

Riding dragons made out of solid gold, I imagine, given the general trend of the rich getting richer and the poor having children.

Hire? Poppycock. Grab a pan-dimensional spanner and Jerry-Saw and we'll roebuck the sears out of the wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey stuff.

You can do it. Hell, I think the internet can even help a bit with the basics. Aside from ballroom and the like, because, well, partners.


None of my flannel shirts fit me any more, and they're really only suitable for Winter. So I guess I just stopped buying them. Plus, it is really hard to find a decent flannel shirt these days.
You would not believe the narrow range of attire available to me at affordable prices.

Yes he does, and most of the men in his family have the potential to grow one as well. It's a genetic thing.

Having never seen a picture of you clean shaven, it is very difficult to tell. However, I do believe you have a jaw line that is best suited supporting a beard. Technically, I am the same, but I really hate having one despite being too lazy to get rid of it.
Of course, I could be wrong, so feel free to disregard this opinion.

In comparison to my own.

That is most unfortunate. :smallconfused: Have flannel shirts completely been forgotten and left by the wayside? Or are you just incredibly hard to fit?

Good genes those. :smallbiggrin:

I suppose I could dig one up, but I am getting a tad le tired. I'm sure I posted one from a while back... which reminds me, I'm back stuck around 200-odd pounds or between 14 and 15 stone or ~93 kg. Time to actually bone up on fitness regimens while I still have cool mornings and evenings to work with.

Why do you hate having a beard? :smallconfused:

Ah. I really do need to be better about keeping mine neat, honestly. Been going a bit too long without a functional trimmer or a proper set of beard scissors with guide comb.


That is a story that is both hilarious and tragic. Personally, my Dad's family is apparently descended from the peasantry and my Mum's family is also with a dash of upper class English and incredibly minor Russian Aristocracy a hundred or so years back.

If I believe Harper Lee, everyone and everything in the South has a story relating to the Civil War, but that could be exaggeration on the part of her chosen narrator.

Well... It's not particularly bad either. Wealth dwindles unless your ancestry is more direct and/or recent. I mean... We're distantly related to Governor Davey of Tasmania, but that was when it was technically still Van Diemen's Land. Two hundred years is a rather long time after all.

Mostly just hilarious with the distance and time involved and his family's sense of humor. My grandfather always said he didn't want to shake the family tree too hard for fear of how many horse thieves would fall out. Me? I'm more worried about that one Welshman. I mean, I try not to be prejudiced, but a man hears things and there's some trees that aren't really supposed to be clambered up and all... I just don't like the look of him.

Just about, save for the people who are new or those who don't have any memory past those currently alive. It's actually rather fortunate that my family just got disowned, since it distances us from some of the more unsavory details. Though since we're on the subject of WV I am descended from men who fought for and against it splitting off from Virginia. And I think one woman.

It is at that. I always forget that Australia was a thing before the 1840s.


One also has to remember that not every cherry tree is cultivated for its cherries. They are rather ornamental if one recalls correctly. And as you say it is in a park, I'd be inclined to believe it was a variety chosen because it was both hardy and attractive, rather than prone to producing high quality fruit.

Darn shame, that, really, a cherry tree that never knows the joys of providing cherries.

[Taet]

Nonsense. We build several new corners, each one more amazing than the last. That way we'll all have a corner if we need one, and Amidus will realise that control over a single corner is meaningless.

We will build a star chamber?

Also, that is why R. Buckminster Fuller's spheres were not popular houses. People like corners. Sphere houses don't have enough of them.

[FinnLassie]

And expensive trains are stupid. We have a pretty good train service here in Sweden, though, we just haven't realised it yet. :smallwink:

I think I can understand that. Also, it'd probably feel a bit strange for me to have 10 minutes of hasty drawings used by someone for something serious, because I could do something which looks much better, only I forbid myself to do so...


The national rail system has come up with a new pricing plan... The earlier you order, the cheaper you get. Bollocks, let me tell ya! I mean, well, it's ok if you order on time, but the "last minute" tickets have become rather expensives.

But, it's super adorabubbles!


I've always wanted a big, fluffy dog - like a Newfoundland, or a Samoyed.


Dimooooo! :smallbiggrin: *hug*

Samoyeds <3


YOU BROUGHT PLANTS INTO MY CORNER AND THREATENED TO PAINT IT.

Standing, madam.

No blue? I mean, it's a hideous colour, yes, but I would have thought you'd have it.

I don't think anyone here has ever heard me play... you'd have no way of knowing. I could be horrible, you never know. :smalltongue:

I wasn't complaining... just pointing out inaccuracies. :smalltongue:

ION: I'll be going to WVA tomorrow, and staying for a few days.


It's not just your corner! It's all of our corner! I'm just making it nicer so people can visit this place more! Idiot! I-i-it's not like I wanted to be here anyways, someone sent me here to cry in the first place! :smallmad: I have a hard time remembering who made me cry but I BET IT WAS YOU. >=|

Oh no, you're sitting there right now! Chaining you down now, darn it. :smallmad: Hrmmphm..

My greyblue pen is in Scotland. That's the jean colour I'd put on you instead of a hideous screaming bright blue... Hrmph.

Oh, anyone? :smalltongue: And yeah, you're totally horrible.

With you it's the same thing.

Gahahahahahahah :smallbiggrin: Serves you right. no, wait, the bard's leaving! crap! ;_;



Hrm? It's not so much cutting myself as it is not taking precautions against punching a rough surface. I've only walked away from the punching bag with bleeding knuckles once. :smalltongue:


But have you ever bloodied your knuckles trying to open a bottle? Try topping that.


Teddy should you tour Canada, you must seek this biome: for leaping and frolicking and juniper-sniffing and blueberry-eating.

This exchange is very amusing, because dear Finnapple is taking rather egregious liberties with your personal space and then taking rather egregious offense at your indignities. :smallbiggrin:

I'm afraid I have fallen into a rather engrossing love affair with Dwarf Fortress these past few weeks.

I'll join, I'll join!

Amigawd is a big, big meanie who deserves a bit of shaking up. Humf.

Excellent. Fun times!


:smallwink: Everyone loves Teddy. He just doesn't realize it yet. :smallamused:


Ahem... He's only borderline likeable to me!

[Teddy]

I hadn't heard of that.

Ahh, the great advantage of reguarly reading the newspapers...


BURN YOU REFLECTIVE AIR PARTICLES! BUUUUURN.

Actually, I think "refractive" would be the correct word here. :smallwink:


Nowhere is like that. Not even poorly researched vampire/werewolf towns are like that. (Also, 'Murica is the land of sunshine and rainbows.)

Ahh, Sheep, this is exactly the form of callback references I love the most. Also, sunshine and rainbows? I'll believe it when you manage a rainbow which beats the one we had a pair of months ago. It was the most magnificient rainbow I've ever seen.


Not Teddy's nerdtopia, filled with attractive people!:smalleek:
Note:The attractive people part is entirely extrapolated from Teddy, and assuming he is only slightly above average in his Swedish genetics experiment town.

Well, I don't think any of my friends do it, but all of Sweden isn't like my nerdosphere, you know. :smallwink:


I hope it is.:smalleek: Seriously Teddy, you crazy bear. Admittedly, that's a common perspective on caffeine, but still! :smalltongue:

Actually, I'm most definitely not caffeine addicted. All I drink is tea, and only one cup a day on average (given, one cup equals one OotS cup, which in turn can contain no less than half a litre of tea-y goodness.


If you'd still like everyone to make make-out propositions, just ask.:smalltongue::smallamused: /shall never make one for fear of being rejected by the most noble and stunningly handsome Teddy:smallbiggrin:

Nah, I'll let people decide for themselves. Plus, I wouldn't want to offend anyone by acting pushy and asking for them to grease my ego. If people are to make make-out proposals, it should come from their hearts, not mine.


When the hell did I start doing this sort of thing?:smallconfused: I blame Knee.:smallmad::smallbiggrin:

Kneen has much to answer for. I hereby ask of the jury to convict him to no less than ten years of opulent living and a lifetime's supply of fine port and bourbon. :smallwink:


Oh, freight trains and inadequateness, how I know thee. Just this weekend, and by that, I mean the 5th, my family was trapped by two different freights. Me after the other. Both stopped completely at a major crossing of the tracks because some **** about the yard. Took an hour. Blocked traffic for ages. Screwed Harlem, and by extension, Odgen. Let alone the rest.:smallsigh: (Yay, I got to squeeze in a mention of my 4th! Yaaaay!)

Ahh, being stuck behind trains at a crossing is never fun. We got stuck for a quarter once, but I assume your wait was much longer, yes?


Think metaphorically. A doggy makeout is to a doggy kiss as a makeout is to a kiss. Long, involved, over-eager (or passionate for regular makeouts), and often very wet.

Well, metaphores aren't really that simple to put down on a piece of paper. I could draw your doggy-wolf licking me, but I wouldn't be able to make it look like he's making out with me, no...


P.S. Unrelated, but how would you categorise these?
*dog lickings*

Dog licking, dog licking, dog licking and low resolution dog licking. All filed under the supercategory of lickings.


You had a caffeine overdose and refuse to consider it an abusable substance?

Yes, and this was after a full night and 2 litres of tea, and I'm anything but acclimatised to it. One part of "abusable" kind of demands that the regular abuser's dose in itself becomes a health hazard or otherwise carries side effects which causes the abuser to become a liability to society. Caffeine doesn't really do very much of that...


If you can overdose on it I'm pretty sure constant habit based compulsory consumption qualifies for abuse.

Only if your compulsory consumption actually is likely to take you up to overdose levels. The reason it happened to me was because I didn't go to sleep and had to pour more caffeine into myself to stave off the tiredness.


I on the other hand find soft mornings more liberating and able to appreciate that indeed I didn't die horribly in my sleep.

Who said my mornings aren't soft? It's a watch, not a block of dry ice, and I'd claim the worst part of my morning routine is actually my alarm clock.


As for chance of me falling back asleep, that's what my cane is for, the maid prods me with it until I finally can stand on my own if I happen to fall asleep after tea.

See, you've already managed to make your morning routine seem more uncomfortable than mine. :smallwink:


Making yourself one is rather simple it seems, you just need a way to control the amperage and some disregard for safety, alternately, knocking in the electrical engineering faculty with cash on hand.

Amperage is easy, you just need to find some capacitors capable of holding charge long enough for you to disconnect the power source and zap yourself. What i mean is that you need to make a project of it, when you could spend that time sleeping and probably reach the same effect anyway. :smallwink:


I listen to exactly one song while studying and stock up on mints. The song and mint flavour vary depending on subject. It produces association between event and subject, so merely putting the same song back and eating a flavoured mint helps in terms of recalling; that and loci method for anything memory based.

Hmm, interesting method. We're not allowed to bring music to exams, but perhaps I should suggest the mints (or anything edible, really) method to some of my less fortuitous friends...


High volume rapid alternation is for projects where I need to stay awake throughout it all. I never study past 12, heck, in all uni I've yet to pull an all nighter; proper planning seems to have taken care of that not happening nicely.

Yeah, my problem is that too invasive music steals away my concentration by making me listen to the music rather than doing what I was supposed to do, so I only use low-intensive, low-volume music to blur out outside stimuli.


Nonsense. We build several new corners, each one more amazing than the last. That way we'll all have a corner if we need one, and Amidus will realise that control over a single corner is meaningless.

Well, unless you overdo it and we all just end up with a full circle and no corners at all...


Indeed. It's almost like they're trying to make sure that their tallness genes are spread across the globe. Hmm... I feel like I'm subconsciously comparing them to the Borg... It does sound Scandinavian after all.

Well, it is a Scandinavian word, meaning "castle" or "stronghold". It's the same as the German "Burg", incidentially.


If I believe Harper Lee, everyone and everything in the South has a story relating to the Civil War, but that could be exaggeration on the part of her chosen narrator.

Well, I bet pretty everyone at the time after the war must've known someone who was affected directly by either the Civil War itself or its consequences, but I doubt everyone were themselves (apart from the general war shortages and etc). I mean, sure, the plantage owners were highly affected, but they didn't just stop producing cotton, so the textile mills stayed running, and the textile workers would have works to go to both before, during and after the war...


One also has to remember that not every cherry tree is cultivated for its cherries. They are rather ornamental if one recalls correctly. And as you say it is in a park, I'd be inclined to believe it was a variety chosen because it was both hardy and attractive, rather than prone to producing high quality fruit.

Actually more of a playground than a park, and it was built at a time when edible trees and bushes were planted just because children should have a chance to pick for themselves (there were many currant bushes in the park as well, and even one for gooseberries, but they were all removed when they renovated the playground). Sadly, this isn't the case any longer today...

That said, I wouldn't be suprised if cherries have the same "unstable DNA" thing going as apples do, meaning that even if you cross two highly sweet and tasty trees, you aren't guaranteed to get another such tree as a consequence. And I don't think the municipality bothered very much with getting the highest quality trees availible on the market...


Australia. We are a very large country with population centres that are rather distant from one another. A high speed rail rail down the East Coast from Brisbane to Melbourne via Sydney would be a good start, but there is no infrastructure and all our states have different gauge railroads.
Especially here in Queensland. They went for the cheapest to build because Queensland is huge. About four times the size of Sweden to put in context, or roughly sixty one standard Belgiums.
One could ask the state government to reopen all the rail lines they closed in the past, but the cost would be too great and the demand too low. I mean... There's a rail line to Proston where my brother lives, but there's really nothing there.

Well, a high-speed railroad generally requires so great investments in infrastructure anyway that there's no reason to stick to old standards anyway, but they're extremely expensive, which might be a problem...

And yes, the only reason for the existence of a railroad across large, desolate areas to be motivated is if there is bulky yet valuable goods for you to transport across it...


Well... Older houses around here... And newer houses... Houses of an intermediate age seem to not have high ceilings... I wonder what's with that...

Probably built at a time of urbanisation when lots of cheap houses were needed. It's common, especially for cities which have undergone periods of rapid industrialisation...


Of course it is. I looked up a list on Wikipedia and copied it in approximate order of population. All the signs point to it being a town with a population larger than five thousand. (I'm actually too lazy to work out which one it is.)

Hmm, since he's mentioned it as being the only 'burg around where he lives, try double-checking them with a map and remove anyone which has another 'burg within, say, two hours driving distance.


Darn shame, that, really, a cherry tree that never knows the joys of providing cherries.

Nah, you can probably squeze some shadenfreude out of it. Plus, it's the only tree whose berries you dare using for fake blood or otherwise painting the ground and other various objects with. Honestly, I think it has a role to fulfill in this society much greater than the boring Swedish Whitebeams they plant nowadays...


We will build a star chamber?

Hmm, not a bad idea, actually, but with the possible downside that you won't be able to see all corners if you stay in one yourself...


The national rail system has come up with a new pricing plan... The earlier you order, the cheaper you get. Bollocks, let me tell ya! I mean, well, it's ok if you order on time, but the "last minute" tickets have become rather expensives.

Yeah, they did the same over here a few years ago, except as a member of a "priviledged" group in society (two actually: students and young adults) I can buy "last minute" tickets at a gretly reduced price if SJ thinks they won't be able to sell out all tickets at the normal rates.


But, it's super adorabubbles!

Naww... :smallredface:


Ahem... He's only borderline likeable to me!

Well, for as long as...
as you don't hate me, I...
I suppose I should be...
happy... *silent sobs*

[Coidzor]

The national rail system has come up with a new pricing plan... The earlier you order, the cheaper you get. Bollocks, let me tell ya! I mean, well, it's ok if you order on time, but the "last minute" tickets have become rather expensives.

But, it's super adorabubbles!

Almost predatory in a way, really. :/

She's right, you know, Emprah.


Oh, anyone? :smalltongue: And yeah, you're totally horrible.

But have you ever bloodied your knuckles trying to open a bottle? Try topping that.

So jelly.

Impressive.


Ahem... He's only borderline likeable to me!

So Tsun. Hm. Have I dubbed ye Finn-tsun, yet? :smallamused: Finn-tsun does have a nice ring to it in my head at least.


Ahh, Sheep, this is exactly the form of callback references I love the most. Also, sunshine and rainbows? I'll believe it when you manage a rainbow which beats the one we had a pair of months ago. It was the most magnificient rainbow I've ever seen.

But was it a double rainbow all the way? :smallamused: We had one of those stretching over almost the entire town and just about everyone and their mother stopped and took photos and flooded facebook with them about a... a week ago now I think.


Well, I don't think any of my friends do it, but all of Sweden isn't like my nerdosphere, you know. :smallwink:

Actually, I'm most definitely not caffeine addicted. All I drink is tea, and only one cup a day on average (given, one cup equals one OotS cup, which in turn can contain no less than half a litre of tea-y goodness.

Nah, I'll let people decide for themselves. Plus, I wouldn't want to offend anyone by acting pushy and asking for them to grease my ego. If people are to make make-out proposals, it should come from their hearts, not mine.

Though I did seem to recall Sweden being renowned for being full of attractive people and/or people with bear in their ancestry.

That's nae cup, that's like... a stein. A stein of tea! :smallbiggrin:

Fair enough, just remember to strike while the iron is hot in your own affairs. :smallwink:


Kneen has much to answer for. I hereby ask of the jury to convict him to no less than ten years of opulent living and a lifetime's supply of fine port and bourbon. :smallwink:

Well, metaphores aren't really that simple to put down on a piece of paper. I could draw your doggy-wolf licking me, but I wouldn't be able to make it look like he's making out with me, no...

Hear hear!

It'd start to get a bit weird anyway. May have actually started to anyway. :smalltongue:


Yes, and this was after a full night and 2 litres of tea, and I'm anything but acclimatised to it. One part of "abusable" kind of demands that the regular abuser's dose in itself becomes a health hazard or otherwise carries side effects which causes the abuser to become a liability to society. Caffeine doesn't really do very much of that...

Just makes 'em grouchy and blech when they start to go into withdrawal, mostly. Mostly.


Nah, you can probably squeze some shadenfreude out of it. Plus, it's the only tree whose berries you dare using for fake blood or otherwise painting the ground and other various objects with. Honestly, I think it has a role to fulfill in this society much greater than the boring Swedish Whitebeams they plant nowadays...

Nah, schadenfreude usually requires something with a bit more oomph and a bit more animosity.


Well, for as long as...
as you don't hate me, I...
I suppose I should be...
happy... *silent sobs*

*pat pat* The call of the tsun is a siren song, aye.

[Teddy]

Whoops, accidently erased this one...

But have you ever bloodied your knuckles trying to open a bottle? Try topping that.

Little brother had a teacher who cut up his wrist trying to do the same. With a sabre. :smallwink:


She's right, you know, Emprah.

:redface:

[Coidzor]

Whoops, accidently erased this one...

Little brother had a teacher who cut up his wrist trying to do the same. With a sabre. :smallwink:

:redface:

Heh. Timed it just in time for my edit to ninja you, too.

... I've heard of cutting off the tops of bottles but yeesh!

:smallwink:

[Teddy]

But was it a double rainbow all the way? :smallamused: We had one of those stretching over almost the entire town and just about everyone and their mother stopped and took photos and flooded facebook with them about a... a week ago now I think.

Double rainbow all the way across the sky, and no less than two green-violet ribbons lacing the primary one, both clear as a day.


Though I did seem to recall Sweden being renowned for being full of attractive people and/or people with bear in their ancestry.

Well, none of this has anything to do with nerdery now, does it?


That's nae cup, that's like... a stein. A stein of tea! :smallbiggrin:

And a glorious one at that!


Fair enough, just remember to strike while the iron is hot in your own affairs. :smallwink:

Sure. I just need to find the hot iron to start with. Thousands of kilometers of distance may be a problem, for one.


Nah, schadenfreude usually requires something with a bit more oomph and a bit more animosity.

I think these berries may be oomph enough, but whatever you say...


Heh. Timed it just in time for my edit to ninja you, too.

Are you sure? Because I'm pretty sure your edit wasn't there when my post got through...

EDIT:
Yep, I went back and checked. No edit there.


... I've heard of cutting off the tops of bottles but yeesh!

Sabrage (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabrage). He was trying to do it but the bottle exploded in his hand.

[LaZodiac]

Sabrage sounds like a pokemon name. Maybe it's because one of the new ones is called Honedge.

[The Rose Dragon]

People who know Japanese! I have a strange question for you!

Is there a version of the name Shinichi that is divided as "shi-ni-chi" instead of "shin-ichi"? Which kanji would I have to use to make it work out like that?

[LaZodiac]

People who know Japanese! I have a strange question for you!

Is there a version of the name Shinichi that is divided as "shi-ni-chi" instead of "shin-ichi"? Which kanji would I have to use to make it work out like that?

I'd ask Somewhere (this guy (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showpost.php?p=15579588&postcount=543)) about that. He's the only guy who knows Japanese that I know of on the forum. Though Pinkhair is learning I think...

[Dimonite]

I prefer to the the positive side of thing, mostly because there are way too few of us to start with, and way too many who only see the bad and start screaming about it.


I like to look at the positive, but I tend to see the negative more by temperament.



As someone who have fought and won that battle himself, I recommend you to be careful with what you're wishing for. I'm still working at rebuilding my self-assurance, and this has gone on for years...


At the very least I feel I should dial it back a bit. I'm trying to find a nice little niche somewhere between "egotistical maniac" and "no self-confidence," but I'm currently a bit too far towards the former.



Dimooooo! :smallbiggrin: *hug*

Samoyeds <3


Blargh!*is hugged*

I actually plan on having three big fluffy dogs named Bennigan, Bandersnatch, and McCafferty. But who knows if I'll ever be able to afford having three dogs, or the concomitant living space?



But have you ever bloodied your knuckles trying to open a bottle? Try topping that.


I once bloodied my knuckles just by making a fist! Because it was the dead of winter and my hands were incredibly chapped and I've now learned that lotion is my friend.

ION: Power was out for about an hour this morning. HOW DID PEOPLE LIVE BEFORE THE INTERNETS?

[enderlord99]

ION: Power was out for about an hour this morning. HOW DID PEOPLE LIVE BEFORE THE INTERNETS?

They probably read books and rode bicycles, and then crashed because it's hard to steer your bicycle when there's a book in front of your face.

[Coidzor]

I like to look at the positive, but I tend to see the negative more by temperament.

At the very least I feel I should dial it back a bit. I'm trying to find a nice little niche somewhere between "egotistical maniac" and "no self-confidence," but I'm currently a bit too far towards the former.

Hm, yeah, I'd say I'd feel about the same way. I'm actually not sure if it's training or temperament, but I always look at the negative with an eye towards improving it or even if I can see a way making a weakness into a strength. Has lead to being accused of being overly critical by a few girlfriends, but, y'know, if they're actually going to ask me how they could look better rather than if they already look drop dead gorgeous, they're kind of walking into commentary on going a shade darker on the lipstick and maybe emphasizing the violet in the red-violet mix they've got going on next time or going with a lipstick that doesn't smear quite so badly when stealing a kiss. :smallamused:

That golden mean is hard to balance out sometimes.


Blargh!*is hugged*

I actually plan on having three big fluffy dogs named Bennigan, Bandersnatch, and McCafferty. But who knows if I'll ever be able to afford having three dogs, or the concomitant living space?

*follows up the previous hug with an evil hug before moving on to toss Dimo up into the air and onto a trampoline*

Now why would you want to do that? Are you planning on shunning the frumious Bandersnatch? :smalltongue:


I once bloodied my knuckles just by making a fist! Because it was the dead of winter and my hands were incredibly chapped and I've now learned that lotion is my friend.

ION: Power was out for about an hour this morning. HOW DID PEOPLE LIVE BEFORE THE INTERNETS?

Ouch. That is some level of chapping! :smalleek: Which reminds me, I should probably go and use some lotion soon.

Booze, reading, plowing the fields, wrassling, television, seduction, the theatre, maybe sometimes music, idk. :smalltongue:


Double rainbow all the way across the sky, and no less than two green-violet ribbons lacing the primary one, both clear as a day.

green-violet ribbons? lacing? :smallconfused: How do you mean, exactly?


Well, none of this has anything to do with nerdery now, does it?

And a glorious one at that!

Sure. I just need to find the hot iron to start with. Thousands of kilometers of distance may be a problem, for one.

I suppose so.

:smallamused:

Quite, it's a very curious pain when one's only extant avenues are all LDRs. :/ *evil hug*


I think these berries may be oomph enough, but whatever you say...

Are you sure? Because I'm pretty sure your edit wasn't there when my post got through...

EDIT:
Yep, I went back and checked. No edit there.

Sabrage (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabrage). He was trying to do it but the bottle exploded in his hand.

Berries with oomph are good, but I thought you said that they weren't bearing fruit.

words words words. x,x

Totally edited in my response to the rest of your post at the same time as you posted your first response to my other post.

Bad bottle or just bad luck Brian? ...I didn't think you were supposed to be the on holding it in the ritual, I must admit, just in swashbuckling movies.

[FinnLassie]

Yeah, they did the same over here a few years ago, except as a member of a "priviledged" group in society (two actually: students and young adults) I can buy "last minute" tickets at a gretly reduced price if SJ thinks they won't be able to sell out all tickets at the normal rates.

Well, for as long as...
as you don't hate me, I...
I suppose I should be...
happy... *silent sobs*

Does Sweden have any private rail lines? Can't really remember... I could get a student rail/bus card but it's so much bureaucracy for me to get it (as I study abroad) that I really cannot be bothered at all.

Nalle, so moeeeeee~ :smallredface:



So jelly.

So Tsun. Hm. Have I dubbed ye Finn-tsun, yet? :smallamused: Finn-tsun does have a nice ring to it in my head at least.

Why so jelleh, mistah?

You have.


I actually plan on having three big fluffy dogs named Bennigan, Bandersnatch, and McCafferty. But who knows if I'll ever be able to afford having three dogs, or the concomitant living space?

I once bloodied my knuckles just by making a fist! Because it was the dead of winter and my hands were incredibly chapped and I've now learned that lotion is my friend.

Hehehee, those names sound fluffy! :smallbiggrin:

Oh no, dry hands! Mammy Finn needs to find her supergood hand cream!

[Coidzor]

Nalle, so moeeeeee~ :smallredface:

Why so jelleh, mistah?

You have.

Told you. :smallwink::smalltongue:

Implying you've gotten to hear Amidus play when he hoards it away from the rest of us. :smalltongue:

Ah, well, at least it's not too shabby for re-use.

[LaZodiac]

Nalle, so moeeeeee~ :smallredface:

Question, why do you call Teddy "Nalle"? I'm going to guess that's what bear means in finnish or something.

Also, it's been at the back of my mind for awhile, but what exactly is with the scribbling thing? Like, I'm just curious why that's what you do to people who upset you. Just curious.

[FinnLassie]

Question, why do you call Teddy "Nalle"? I'm going to guess that's what bear means in finnish or something.

Also, it's been at the back of my mind for awhile, but what exactly is with the scribbling thing? Like, I'm just curious why that's what you do to people who upset you. Just curious.

It means teddy both in Swedish and Finnish. =3

I... I dunno... It was just something that Nalle provoked me to do and after that I've just felt like scribbling on people when they frustrate me or are pestering me a bit too much!

[LaZodiac]

It means teddy both in Swedish and Finnish. =3

I... I dunno... It was just something that Nalle provoked me to do and after that I've just felt like scribbling on people when they frustrate me or are pestering me a bit too much!

Ahh, okay times 2. Good to know!

[FinnLassie]

Ahh, okay times 2. Good to know!

I'll be sleeping under your bed tonight, Zoozie, as the big meanie's away and I don't need to watch him in case he tries to destroy my flowers. :smallbiggrin: *yays*

[Teddy]

I like to look at the positive, but I tend to see the negative more by temperament.

Yeah, I love my outlook. I may be naive when I tune down on the critical thinking, but my does it make the world look like a lovely place. :3


At the very least I feel I should dial it back a bit. I'm trying to find a nice little niche somewhere between "egotistical maniac" and "no self-confidence," but I'm currently a bit too far towards the former.

Yeah, I kind of had some "help" in breaking down my ego, so I overshot the line by far before I got out of the tailspin...


I actually plan on having three big fluffy dogs named Bennigan, Bandersnatch, and McCafferty. But who knows if I'll ever be able to afford having three dogs, or the concomitant living space?

I approve of these names.


That golden mean is hard to balance out sometimes.

Word.


green-violet ribbons? lacing? :smallconfused: How do you mean, exactly?

On especially prominent rainbows, you can see a continuation inside (I think) the innermost bow, with one or two additional lines of alternating green and purple.


Quite, it's a very curious pain when one's only extant avenues are all LDRs. :/ *evil hug*

Eh, I get along. At least these avenues are inhabited by the the best of friends, are they not? :smallsmile:


Berries with oomph are good, but I thought you said that they weren't bearing fruit.

Uh, yes they are. The thing with this very tree is that it bears fruit which is utterly inedible. They're not quite ripe yet, however, so I haven't been able of fulfilling my annual tradition of testing one out to reaffirm that they actually are as horrible as I remember them.

Speaking of cherries, my next-to-favourite and much more productive tree is starting to ripen as well. Still not at numbers worth climbing it for, but still...


Totally edited in my response to the rest of your post at the same time as you posted your first response to my other post.

Hmm, I guess Cloudflare's forum caching may've made us both right. I couldn't see your edit directly after my post, but thanks to Cloudflare, I suppose you may not have seen my post directly after posting your edit. As to who was objectively first, only Rawhide with the server log knows. :smallwink:


Bad bottle or just bad luck Brian? ...I didn't think you were supposed to be the on holding it in the ritual, I must admit, just in swashbuckling movies.

Could be either, actually. This specific teacher had a track record of personal injuries. And pyromania. We all hypothesise he was the reason little brother's entire class (including little brother) turned pyromaniacs...


Does Sweden have any private rail lines? Can't really remember... I could get a student rail/bus card but it's so much bureaucracy for me to get it (as I study abroad) that I really cannot be bothered at all.

With a few industrial or museum exceptions, no. There are a few private freight train companies, and a few regional non-state-owned passenger train companies, but only state-owned SJ does national passenger traffic.


Nalle, so moeeeeee~ :smallredface:

:redface:


Oh no, dry hands! Mammy Finn needs to find her supergood hand cream!

Cream with tar in it? :smallcurious:

I'd love some good, tar-smelling hand cream...

[TaiLiu]

They probably read books and rode bicycles, and then crashed because it's hard to steer your bicycle when there's a book in front of your face.
Extreme book reading! I should try that.

I'd love some good, tar-smelling hand cream...
Tar-smelling...?

Does tar smell nice?

[FinnLassie]

Tar-smelling...?

Does tar smell nice?

It's divine, that's what it is.

[TaiLiu]

It's divine, that's what it is.
Huh. Interesting...

[Teddy]

Tar-smelling...?

Does tar smell nice?

It's divine, that's what it is.

As Finn said, tar is absolutely lovely. Perhaps not objectively such, but definitely recognised by anyone(-ish) who's been in contact with traditional farms or old wooden boats, because of its traditional application for water-proofing wood.

ION:
Just spent several hours reading up on conference and convention harassment policies and their enforcement, as well as real life examples on both policies and cases of harassment and discussions thereof, all to help write up our own for the steampunk festival next year. A serious topic, but highly interesting, and it got my gears spinning...

IOON:
The (relatively) long and hot summer drought has been briefly interrupted by a deligthful summer downpour. Pleasing wafts of rain-scented air sweep through the window, and vitalises the evening atmosphere. Ahh...

[Taet]

Next time, when I buy herbs from the farmer's market in season, remind me to trim out the stems before I season my lunch. The flavors are too intense. Parsley should not make my tongue burn and go numb. Right now even one of Teddy's sour pollinator cherries would taste good.

[Dimonite]

Hm, yeah, I'd say I'd feel about the same way. I'm actually not sure if it's training or temperament, but I always look at the negative with an eye towards improving it or even if I can see a way making a weakness into a strength. Has lead to being accused of being overly critical by a few girlfriends, but, y'know, if they're actually going to ask me how they could look better rather than if they already look drop dead gorgeous, they're kind of walking into commentary on going a shade darker on the lipstick and maybe emphasizing the violet in the red-violet mix they've got going on next time or going with a lipstick that doesn't smear quite so badly when stealing a kiss. :smallamused:


No one ever solicits criticism from me, because I give it out freely.
:smalltongue:



*follows up the previous hug with an evil hug before moving on to toss Dimo up into the air and onto a trampoline*


*bounces off trampoline and aims massive self back to land on Coidzor*



Now why would you want to do that? Are you planning on shunning the frumious Bandersnatch? :smalltongue:


No, just telling people to watch out for him because he can be frumious at times. Besides, Jabberwocky is my second-favorite poem, after "The Bagpipe Who Didn't Say No."




Ouch. That is some level of chapping! :smalleek: Which reminds me, I should probably go and use some lotion soon.


It's pretty much the norm up here in the winter for people who don't use lotion. It gets DRY.



Booze, reading, plowing the fields, wrassling, television, seduction, the theatre, maybe sometimes music, idk. :smalltongue:


But now all of those things are done on the internet! Except booze. :smalltongue:



Hehehee, those names sound fluffy! :smallbiggrin:


They were chosen with fluffiness in mind! :smallbiggrin:



Oh no, dry hands! Mammy Finn needs to find her supergood hand cream!

I already have Scandinavian hand cream to soothe my chapped skin. Which is why that hasn't happened for years. :smalltongue:


Yeah, I love my outlook. I may be naive when I tune down on the critical thinking, but my does it make the world look like a lovely place. :3


I believe the proper term for this is "rose-tinted lenses." Or am I just crazy?




Yeah, I kind of had some "help" in breaking down my ego, so I overshot the line by far before I got out of the tailspin...


People who try to give me that kind of help usually get kicked hard in the legs.

[CurlyKitGirl]

So I disappear from RB for a short while and someone else starts writing quotestorms. Teddy . . . :smallannoyed:
:smalltongue:

ION:
Welp.
Bought some compressed air cans from amazon because my laptop's seriously started overheating recently (protip: not only is a full house cleaning in a heatwave tiring, exhausting, headache-inducing and dusty, but it isn't good for your laptop's health either). But the problem is I bought it off amazon, and instead of being a good girl, studiously saving money I decided to look at my recommendations. And in doing so was sidetracked by that little bar just below the item information where it says "Other items customers recently bought with this".
So my compressed air cans are coming with three books. And two other books to be dispatched later due to the joys of second-hand books.
I quite gleefully blame Dragonprime for all of this because, thanks to his recent holiday and our general topics of discussion here in RB and PMs, I am now the proud owner of:
another book about Thomas Aquinas
a 1200 page book about the history of Christianity
a 700 page book (by the same author of the above) specifically about the Reformation and how it affected (primarily) Europe
a book about how (mostly) medieval philosophers (mostly religious) helped 'create' modern science
and a short little thing to help me with Latin grammar*
Yep, about two and a half thousand pages of medieval religious thought.
I blame DP for all of this. :smallcool:
He's awesome like that.

*Honestly Curly, inflections shouldn't be that hard for you to master, you are, after reasonably, reasonably fluent in two highly inflected languages, and can more or less read two other inflected languages.
And three of those languages are Romantic too.
Tch.

IOON:
And this heatwave. The thing about Britainland and its inhabitants (for the most part), is that while we complain endlessly about the weather being awful, or just glum, we seem incapable of handling any form of temperature outside 5 - 21*C, or extreme weathers such as snow. Yeah, mostly snow.
What does it say about a country (or collection thereof) where we seem more blasé about flooding than we are about even a light scattering of snowfall?
So here, at quarter to four in the morning, it's 16*C, with a humidity of 66%. Do you even know what that's like? (Of course you do, your weather is actually weather and not just one of three default states) And this is relatively cool. Elsewhere it's getting up to 30*C during the day. No one can sleep, doing anything is hard work. Even lying down is hard work.
The people of this country cannot handle any weather outside a specific range. It's knackering.

[TaiLiu]

So I disappear from RB for a short while and someone else starts writing quotestorms. Teddy . . . :smallannoyed:
:smalltongue:
Well, at least you have company now. :smalltongue:

a 1200 page book about the history of Christianity
a 700 page book (by the same author of the above) specifically about the Reformation and how it affected (primarily) Europe
a book about how (mostly) medieval philosophers (mostly religious) helped 'create' modern science
and a short little thing to help me with Latin grammar*
Yep, about two and a half thousand pages of medieval religious thought.
How... How much did those cost?

[enderlord99]

So I disappear from RB for a short while and someone else starts writing quotestorms. Teddy . . . :smallannoyed:
:smalltongue:

Please don't compare yourself to Teddy, or vice-versa. Teddy is not a hubristic, Machiavellian narcissist. Nor does he claim to be better by virtue of being a small pebble in a heap of large sand grains, when there is effectively no difference anyway (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorites_paradox).

[TaiLiu]

Please don't compare yourself to Teddy, or vice-versa. Teddy is not a hubristic, Machiavellian narcissist. Nor does he claim to be better by virtue of being a small pebble in a heap of large sand grains, when there is effectively no difference anyway (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorites_paradox).
Comrade! That is a terrible thing to say. :smallfrown:

[CurlyKitGirl]

Well, at least you have company now. :smalltongue:

It's always good to have company in the Land of Verbosity.


How... How much did those cost?

Not including p&p or the compressed air? Between £35 and £40 off the top of my head. Oddly, the Reformation book was the most expensive.


Please don't compare yourself to Teddy, or vice-versa. Teddy is not a hubristic, Machiavellian narcissist. Nor does he claim to be better by virtue of being small pebble in a heap of large sand grains, when there is effectively no difference anyway (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorites_paradox).

What are you talking about? I'm a goddess, not a pebble! However, I do thank you for the compliment.

EDIT:

Comrade! That is a terrible thing to say. :smallfrown:

Oh you shouldn't be so offended. 'Machiavellian' is a compliment.
But maybe Teddy should be offended? I mean, quotestorming is when you have a lot to say, but can so organise it so that each salient point is a response to something mentioned earlier in the conversation, and you can have multiple conversations going on at once, reducing the need for people to read every single comment in a quotestorm unless they really want to. I think that's a good thing.

[enderlord99]

Comrade! That is a terrible thing to say. :smallfrown:

No. A terrible thing to say would be "I'm better than you because I'm a god, and you can't say I'm not a god, because I say I am and I'm better than you."


'Machiavellian' is a compliment.

Really? It wasn't meant as one. I thought it was a neutral term, like "elderly person," as opposed to the complimentary "venerable one" and the insulting "senile old fart."

[Taet]

The long lists of quotes cut other people out of the conversation. I feel that they do. A quote list is a talk between the quoted person and the posting person and no one else. Maybe it is just me and I should become more familiar with Twitter. Is that true?

[TaiLiu]

Not including p&p or the compressed air? Between £35 and £40 off the top of my head. Oddly, the Reformation book was the most expensive.
...Really? I mean, all those pages in the books....

Oh you shouldn't be so offended. 'Machiavellian' is a compliment.
I suppose compliments are relative, but the word seems to have negative connotations.

No. A terrible thing to say would be "I'm better than you because I'm a god, and you can't say I'm not a god, because I say I am and I'm better than you."
I suppose, but it's said in jest, no?

[enderlord99]

I suppose, but it's said in jest, no?

Well, I suppose exaggerated bragging in one's signature is a tradition and such... but usually it's in the form of quotes from other people.

...

*checks links*

...

...and that's exactly where the links lead. Never mind.

[TaiLiu]

...and that's exactly where the links lead. Never mind.
Worry resolved, then?

[enderlord99]

Worry resolved, then?

That is largely the case. Nonetheless, I still find circular logic irritating, even if there's slightly less of it than I expected. That is my own problem, however.

[TaiLiu]

Mostly, yeah. I still find circular logic irritating.
I think said circular logic is meant to be part of the jest, but I suppose I can see the vexation it could cause.

[Taet]

Wait. Is it true that people don't read a reply unless there is a quote box from their own post on top of it?

I guess I'll never get an answer to that if the answer is "yes" but it would explain a lot.

Wait again. Let me edit.


I mean, quotestorming is when you have a lot to say, but can so organise it so that each salient point is a response to something mentioned earlier in the conversation, and you can have multiple conversations going on at once, reducing the need for people to read every single comment in a quotestorm unless they really want to. I think that's a good thing.

Now it should get a reply.

[TaiLiu]

Now it should get a reply.
And it did! The prophecy came true! :smalltongue:

[enderlord99]

Wait. Is it true that people don't read a reply unless there is a quote box from their own post on top of it?

I guess I'll never get an answer to that if the answer is "yes" but it would explain a lot.

Wait again. Let me edit.


(stuff)

Now it should get a reply.

The (stuff) wasn't on the top, though.:smalltongue:

[CurlyKitGirl]

The long lists of quotes cut other people out of the conversation. I feel that they do. A quote list is a talk between the quoted person and the posting person and no one else. Maybe it is just me and I should become more familiar with Twitter. Is that true?

Perhaps? I don't really know much about Twitter, and personally I've never really felt blacked out of conversations taking place in multiquotes. It's really no worse than talking with one person, but dividing the talk into bullet points (for me at least). When I do skim over long conversations it's mostly because they're talking about things that I freely admit to not being very interested in.
Maybe it's because I've been on this forum for a while and I know a lot of the people in the threads I frequent (surprising that isn't it? *eyeroll*), so I feel fine just leaping head first into an ongoing chat? Maybe it's because in real life I'm actually fairly socially isolated outside a small group of people, so here's the only place I really feel safe to talk with people I don't really know all that well? Maybe I'm just socially ignorant and people actually feel annoyed when I do that, but are too polite to say so?
I suppose it depends on the person.


...Really? I mean, all those pages in the books....

Supply and demand, combined with second-hand sellers and amazon cutting prices on things. But if you're really that interested, let me know and I can check my invoices for more accurate prices. I know it does seem a steal, and I myself was pretty surprised by the overall cost, but that's how it turned out.
I mean, my little Latin grammar only cost £3.07 - and £2.80 of that was p&p.


I suppose compliments are relative, but the word seems to have negative connotations.

Machiavellian: to use cunning, devious, and sometimes unscrupulous means to achieve one's goal, esp. in politics and government.
Cunning and devious are just other ways of saying 'thinking things through', 'planning ahead, and for other eventualities', perhaps also 'thinking long-term' and 'unscrupulous' is just 'pragmatic'. And I am self-confessedly unscrupulous at times.


Well, I suppose exaggerated bragging in one's signature is a tradition and such... but usually it's in the form of quotes from other people.

...

*checks links*

...

...and that's exactly where the links lead. Never mind.

It's an in-joke from, I kid you not, over five years ago. Also a bit of reappropriation given that one of the reasons I was nicknamed 'goddess of the written word' was because I really like talking about books, and I seem to know rather a lot (or just enough to participate in a conversation about said topic while learning more about it) about a fair amount of stuff.
Also I talk a lot.
Frankly, I'm more surprised that people ignore the squid bones thing.


Worry resolved, then?

In-jokes can be confusing to newcomers.
Out of curiosity, how many people reading/posting in this thread remember that when RB started people used to go hang out in 'their rooms' of RB - the library, the ball pool and so on and so forth?

EDIT:
@Taet: Usually that's true when RB gets a little frantic; but before I joined (and occasionally afterwards) the Playgrounders could go through an RB in under twelve hours, and when RB gets very busy you can sometimes write a post and find over half a dozen more people have posted something in the meantime (or you could have five more pages of posts to read - that was a frantic day indeed).
You don't necessarily have to quote someone, but bolding their name draws a person's attention so they know you're talking to them and not someone else.
It's also a good idea to quote someone because the post could be back a page, or just up the top of the page, so reading their post before your reply to it helps refresh their memory.

[Mutant Sheep]

CurlyKitBoy (When will you change that???), no one knows what you're talking about anymore.:smalltongue: All we have is the MAKEOUT corner for Finn and Amidus. (It's also a scribble center):smallbiggrin:

I want those books... History... STUFF I LIKE.

Nice avatar, too. Purty.:smallsmile::smallbiggrin:

Oh, yeah. What Curly said fits word better. It can be negative, but it does mean a rather clever and effective, if cynical, plot. Machiavellian plots are plots that work, after all. (Though, considering what the Prince actually is, shouldn't the word mean something else?:smallconfused::smalltongue:)

Quoting, Bolding, good ways of getting the conversation with someone else going. Coidzor induced Spoilered-conversations... Weird. Don't do those.:smalltongue:

[enderlord99]

Frankly, I'm more surprised that people ignore the squid bones thing.

Well, you only mention it once in your signature (rather than 3-to-7 times), and it looks more like a random, nonsensical fact than... whatever it actually is (unless, of course, it is a random, nonsensical fact.) By the way it's technically inaccurate: squid have a "mantle," which is made of bone.

[CurlyKitGirl]

CurlyKitBoy (When will you change that???), no one knows what you're talking about anymore.:smalltongue: All we have is the MAKEOUT corner for Finn and Amidus. (It's also a scribble center):smallbiggrin:

Sheepy, look at my avvie. She's a (literal) goddess this time. I finally got tired of people thinking I was a dude, when I am a best occasionally gender confused, so I changed.
Plus I was bored.


I want those books... History... STUFF I LIKE.

Tell me about it darling.
I'd actually read part of Reformation for an essay, but three days just isn't enough time to give it the attention needed, especially when working on two essays, so I'd always wanted it and boom. Cheapness.
That probably explains the buying spree really. I love medieval theology, philosophy, religion, literature and art. And hsitory.
As if that was a total mystery.
Reformation: Europe's House Divided (Diarmaid McCulloch) can be found on Google Books though. Or at least a sizeable chunk of it.

EDIT:


Nice avatar, too. Purty.:smallsmile::smallbiggrin:

Oh, well now you see it.
can you guess from the clues in my location and Curly! ______ of the Written Word her identity?


Oh, yeah. What Curly said fits word better. It can be negative, but it does mean a rather clever and effective, if cynical, plot. Machiavellian plots are plots that work, after all. (Though, considering what the Prince actually is, shouldn't the word mean something else?:smallconfused::smalltongue:)

Quite likely. But different strokes for different people, and Machiavelli was demonised/disliked for The Prince for quite a while, so it's likely early commentators (and later ones too) affected people's perceptions of the work.


Well, you only mention it once in your signature (rather than 3-to-7 times), and it looks more like a random, nonsensical fact than... whatever it actually is (unless, of course, it is a random, nonsensical fact.) By the way it's technically inaccurate: squid have a "mantle," which is made of bone.

The squid bones came about because of Zar Peter and the Kiss or Kill threads down in SMBG. He *stab*bed me with a squid bone, I said they didn't exist. War happened. We memorialised it. It comes back occasionally.
And the proliferation of the 'deity'ness is just a collection of people complimenting me for different reasons that I linked to under that because I made the sig format back during the 'hey day' and now I can't be bothered to change it.
It's kind of a classic now.

[TaiLiu]

I know it does seem a steal, and I myself was pretty surprised by the overall cost, but that's how it turned out.
Speaking of the books, what are their titles?

Machiavellian: to use cunning, devious, and sometimes unscrupulous means to achieve one's goal, esp. in politics and government.
Cunning and devious are just other ways of saying 'thinking things through', 'planning ahead, and for other eventualities', perhaps also 'thinking long-term' and 'unscrupulous' is just 'pragmatic'. And I am self-confessedly unscrupulous at times.

Oh, yeah. What Curly said fits word better. It can be negative, but it does mean a rather clever and effective, if cynical, plot. Machiavellian plots are plots that work, after all. (Though, considering what the Prince actually is, shouldn't the word mean something else?:smallconfused::smalltongue:)
I suppose. It's just that I usually see the word used in negative contexts.

All we have is the MAKEOUT corner for Finn and Amidus. (It's also a scribble center):smallbiggrin:
Oh, my.

By the way it's technically inaccurate: squid have a "mantle," which is made of bone.
I am learning all sorts of things today!

[Mutant Sheep]

Sheepy, look at my avvie. She's a (literal) goddess this time. I finally got tired of people thinking I was a dude, when I am a best occasionally gender confused, so I changed.
Plus I was bored.



Tell me about it darling.
I'd actually read part of Reformation for an essay, but three days just isn't enough time to give it the attention needed, especially when working on two essays, so I'd always wanted it and boom. Cheapness.
That probably explains the buying spree really. I love medieval theology, philosophy, religion, literature and art. And hsitory.
As if that was a total mystery.
Reformation: Europe's House Divided (Diarmaid McCulloch) can be found on Google Books though. Or at least a sizeable chunk of it.

Oh NOW YOU ZEE ET. /ANGRY AUSTRIAN

Smething dislike Machiavelli Czech prince SmethingI mean your gender marker. Your Avvies usually are female, or at least feminine. (I can't actually remember seeing CurlyKitBoy... BEING your avatar. Ever.:smallconfused: I've seen it, but not as an avvie.).
Good reason, that.:smallbiggrin:

Yay! Name of book! /want want want

What sane person doesn't?:smallamused: (Don't answer that)

I prefer solid book.

Yes, Und I like it. Identity... Well, Thrace is quite Greek. And I could swear that samothrace is an island, and there's that winged statue thing Inread an article about in 6thish grade. Therefore, I postulate you are a Greek goddess/statuette on tour.:smalltongue:

Yeah. Because he was actually joking.:smalltongue:

[TaiLiu]

Sheepy, look at my avvie. She's a (literal) goddess this time.
To be fair, not everyone's avatars match their genders.

I mean your gender marker. Your Avvies usually are female, or at least feminine. (I can't actually remember seeing CurlyKitBoy... BEING your avatar. Ever.:smallconfused: I've seen it, but not as an avvie.)
I think one was fairly androgynous, if I remember correctly.

[CurlyKitGirl]

Nnnngh. Last post. It's five a.m.


Speaking of the books, what are their titles?

Reformation: Europe's House Divided 1490 - 1700 - Diarmaid McCulloch (£9.59)
The History of Chistianity: The First Three Thousand Years - ibid (£9.59)
Thomas Aquinas: A Very Short Introduction - Fergus Kerr (£5.99)
Aquinas: A Beginner's Guide - Edward Feser (£6.89)
God's Philosophers: How the Medieval World Laid the Foundations For Modern Science - [I forget]; it seems a literal pop history/theology/cultural, but interesting nonetheless (£7.47)

So about £40 for five books.

Now I must away!

EDIT:
But wait!
@TaiLu: I have a few of those; the one with the dog is CurlyKitBoy.

@Sheepy: Nike of Samothrace. A statue of Nike, the Winged Victory discovered on Samothrace, now on permanent display at the Louvre.
Ground floor of the denon wing in fact. Right next to the Winged Victory of Samothrace staircase/escalator.

[TaiLiu]

Reformation: Europe's House Divided 1490 - 1700 - Diarmaid McCulloch (£9.59)
The History of Chistianity: The First Three Thousand Years - ibid (£9.59)
Thomas Aquinas: A Very Short Introduction - Fergus Kerr (£5.99)
Aquinas: A Beginner's Guide - Edward Feser (£6.89)
God's Philosophers: How the Medieval World Laid the Foundations For Modern Science - [I forget]; it seems a literal pop history/theology/cultural, but interesting nonetheless (£7.47)

So about £40 for five books.
Nice! Thank you for the list; I'll look those up.

Now I must away!
Have a good respite!

@TaiLu: I have a few of those; the one with the dog is CurlyKitBoy.
Ah, I see.

[enderlord99]

In-jokes can be confusing to newcomers.

Do you have any fingerboxes I could borrow? I accidentally mine.

[TaiLiu]

Hey, Taet! Do you have any fingerboxes I could borrow? I accidentally mine.
Pf ha ha ha! I looked it up, and it is quite hilarious.

[LaZodiac]

Okay, I don't care how good it is, do not read "It's Not My Fault I'm Not Popular"

Do not do it.

I'mma curl up into a ball now...

[TaiLiu]

Okay, I don't care how good it is, do not read "It's Not My Fault I'm Not Popular"

Do not do it.

I'mma curl up into a ball now...
Okay. Is it a frightening book?

[LaZodiac]

Okay. Is it a frightening book?

It's a manga. It's not frightening.

Unless, like...reading about having a terrible life and going "oh man that reminds me of me...and that's horrible" is scary...

[TaiLiu]

Unless, like...reading about having a terrible life and going "oh man that reminds me of me...and that's horrible" is scary...
Ah. My condolences, comrade. :smallfrown:

[Taet]

Time for hot tea and for something more sunny to read for LaZodiac. I will bring the tea and sugar and almond milk because it mixes in better than real milk does. Let's see, something sunny and no silly emotions. Try this, Master Keaton (http://www.batoto.net/comic/_/comics/master-keaton-r3491). Americans got Indiana Jones. Japanese got Master Keaton.

CurlyKitGirl, those are ironic titles? I hope they are ironic titles. Short history, several hundred pages? Three thousand years?
Almost forgot to make it bold.

TaiLiu, I have a very hard time with the word prophecy. My Bible study keeps changing the meaning of that word every time I ask. So I have to ask again. I can make a prophecy too?

Still forgot to make some names bold.

[TaiLiu]

TaiLiu, I have a very hard time with the word prophecy. My Bible study keeps changing the meaning of that word every time I ask. So I have to ask again. I can make a prophecy too?
Of course you can! You should make one right now!

[Hattish Thing]

I think Sweeney Todd and Alice in Wonderland should be just... Made into one thing. It would completely destroy everyone's childhood spontaneously, all at once.

[FinnLassie]

Okay, I don't care how good it is, do not read "It's Not My Fault I'm Not Popular"

Do not do it.

I'mma curl up into a ball now...

Oomph! I read it! Addictive.

[LaZodiac]

Oomph! I read it! Addictive.

You must of had a good life :smallsmile:

[MoonCat]

I think Sweeney Todd and Alice in Wonderland should be just... Made into one thing. It would completely destroy everyone's childhood spontaneously, all at once.

Hmm. Johanna is Alice, and the Hatter is there, but pays little attention to her as he is more preoccupied with plotting revenge on the Red Queen, who immediately makes Joalice a favorite of her court while adding a lot of gay subtext to guest's treatment. The Cheshire Cat is female and supports Hatter Todd while failing to mention the White Queen was not killed when she was deposed. The Nellie Cat also is there as an adult figure for Joalice, treating her like a Toby Hare she had also guided with Hatter Todd in the past.

When traveling across Wonderland in a search for a sailor to help him on his latest entirely nutters revenge plan, Hatter mentions Joalice, and the sailor becomes obsessed with seeing her. Sneaking into the palace with him, Hatter sees the imprisoned White Queen, and in the belief it is a trick of the Red Queen, kills her. Nellie Cat appears and confesses her motives, while Joalice arrives in time to see the Hatter kill the Cat, followed by the sailor.

Hatter Todd proceeds to force-feed Joalice their corpses, babbling to her of their power to shrink those who ate them. Joalice's mind snaps, and she joins the Hatter and the equally mad Toby Hare to an eternal crazed tea party.

Any one who passes by their table is given some oh-so-popular cakes.


EDIT: Oh hey, I just realized what your name is. Wasn't referring to youas the nutty killer-haberdasher, I promise.

[LaZodiac]

Hey Moony!

How you doing?

[Hattish Thing]

Hmm. Johanna is Alice, and the Hatter is there, but pays little attention to her as he is more preoccupied with plotting revenge on the Red Queen, who immediately makes Joalice a favorite of her court while adding a lot of gay subtext to guest's treatment. The Cheshire Cat is female and supports Hatter Todd while failing to mention the White Queen was not killed when she was deposed. The Nellie Cat also is there as an adult figure for Joalice, treating her like a Toby.

When traveling across Wonderland in a search for a sailor to help him on his latest entirely nutters revenge plan, Hatter mentions Joalice, and the sailor becomes obsessed with seeing her. Sneaking into the palace with him, Hatter sees the imprisoned White Queen, and in the belief it is a trick of the Red Queen, kills her. Nellie Cat appears and confesses her motives, while Joalice arrives in time to see the Hatter kill the Cat, followed by the sailor.

Hatter Todd proceeds to force-feed Joalice their corpses, babbling to her of their power to shrink those who ate them. Joalice's mind snaps, and she joins the Hatter and the Hare to an eternal crazed tea party.

Any one who passes by their table is given some oh-so-popular cakes.


EDIT: Oh hey, I just realized what your name is. Wasn't referring to youas the nutty killer-haberdasher, I promise.

...Marry me! :smallredface:

That literally made my day... Er, night. That was pure amazingness. However, Perelli appears to have been forgotten! Perelliapillar challenges Hatter Todd to a spelling bee, and when he loses recognizes Hatter Todd as The Red Queen's murderous enemy. Perelliapillar eventually comes to blackmail Hatter Todd into spending his days as Perelliapillar's scribe, but Hatter Todd kills him with a teapot! :smallbiggrin:

Honestly, no offense either way. Seriously, marry me. :smalltongue:

[FinnLassie]

You must of had a good life :smallsmile:

Hmm, good life is an odd concept.
I read it because I can relate to her.

[MoonCat]

Hey Moony!

How you doing?

Hi! I'm well, though I just realized my first post in... I dunno, since I gave stopped posting to promise I'd be back to normal participation soon was a post describing an insane math world with the presence of cannibalistic murderers thrown in.

So, yes, I think I'm well, if slightly concerned about the image I present to the world.


...Marry me! :smallredface:

That literally made my day... Er, night. That was pure amazingness. However, Perelli appears to have been forgotten! Perelliapillar challenges Hatter Todd to a spelling bee, and when he loses recognizes Hatter Todd as The Red Queen's murderous enemy. Perelliapillar eventually comes to blackmail Hatter Todd into spending his days as Perelliapillar's scribe, but Hatter Todd kills him with a teapot! :smallbiggrin:

Honestly, no offense either way. Seriously, marry me. :smalltongue:

Sounds good. One requirement, you have to have seen the actual Sweeney Todd, not the crap Tim Burton put out. My favorite stage version was 1982, Hearn and Lansbury. You?

Yeah, I really was trying to work fast (I was afraid someone else would get it done before me), so I didn't pull out any research and I skipped over a few points/characters. :smallredface: I like your version, let's put it in!

Also, jsut so you know, everyone in this accursed thread ships me with anyone I so much as talk nicely to, so you've signed your own warrant here to be mercilessly paired with me in every conversation. I apologize. So very much.

[Hattish Thing]

This. All the way. One of my favorite Sweeney's, Judge Turpin's, and Lovett's. The rest were... Okay, to me. Wheeeee! Brown teeeext! (http://www.youtube.com/youtube.comwatch?v=qWA-eRewQrA)

Hey, at least Tim Burton didn't cast Russel Crowe. Thank the gods. :smallsigh:

Oh. It appears I have walked into my own trap. :smalleek:

EDIT: In case my text is a fail, Patti Lupone and George Hearn are personally ,y favorites. :smallsmile:

[LaZodiac]

Hmm, good life is an odd concept.
I read it because I can relate to her.

Same here. Bro hug? Or sister hug I guess though the accepted term is bro hug?



So, yes, I think I'm well, if slightly concerned about the image I present to the world.

Long as you're having fun, I'm good :smallamused:

[FinnLassie]

Same here. Bro hug? Or sister hug I guess though the accepted term is bro hug?

We can make our own special hug! Hmm, what should we call it? Two-Awesome-People-Hug?

[LaZodiac]

We can make our own special hug! Hmm, what should we call it? Two-Awesome-People-Hug?

Don't ask me to name things that involve two people becoming one, I'll reference Symetrical Docking and we don't want that XP

[FinnLassie]

Don't ask me to name things that involve two people becoming one, I'll reference Symetrical Docking and we don't want that XP

*sad slow walk into corner*

O-ok...

*sob*

[MoonCat]

This. All the way. One of my favorite Sweeney's, Judge Turpin's, and Lovett's. The rest were... Okay, to me. Wheeeee! Blue teeeext! (http://www.youtube.com/youtube.comwatch?v=qWA-eRewQrA)

Hey, at least Tim Burton didn't cast Russel Crowe. Thank the gods. :smallsigh:

Oh. It appears I have walked into my own trap. :smalleek:

The link is borked, but I might know it by the yea,r if it's one of the Broadway productions.

Who the hell thought it was a good idea to give a character who is supposed to be very motherly to Helena Bonham Carter? I mean, the lady is a brilliant actor, and her singing surprised me by not sucking horribly, but a major part of Mrs. Lovett's character is how jarring the incredible depth of her evil is compared to the personality she shows as a bouncy, cheerful, motherly person! Having her be a ****ing creepy black-clad and clearly ominous figure form the start ruins part of what makes her so interesting, and just further pushes Burton's work into his ridiculous descent of Commercial Gothic.
I could go on further, trust me, but I'm pretending to be normal for the sake of my new courtier. :smalltongue:

Yeah, I'm really shippable for some reason to these guys.


Long as you're having fun, I'm good :smallamused:

I'm having ALL the fun!

[LaZodiac]

*sad slow walk into corner*

O-ok...

*sob*

No, no! Don't be like that! I want to hug you and be awesome and stuff, you're my friend *hugs*

Just, this is Symmetrical Docking (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANpcimIOgac). You can see why I didn't want that associated with you :smalltongue:



I'm having ALL the fun!

Yay! I hope one day we can have fun together more often :smallbiggrin:

[Hattish Thing]

The link is borked, but I might know it by the yea,r if it's one of the Broadway productions.

Who the hell thought it was a good idea to give a character who is supposed to be very motherly to Helena Bonham Carter? I mean, the lady is a brilliant actor, and her singing surprised me by not sucking horribly, but a major part of Mrs. Lovett's character is how jarring the incredible depth of her evil is compared to the personality she shows as a bouncy, cheerful, motherly person! Having her be a ****ing creepy black-clad and clearly ominous figure form the start ruins part of what makes her so interesting, and just further pushes Burton's work into his ridiculous descent of Commercial Gothic.
I could go on further, trust me, but I'm pretending to be normal for the sake of my new courtier. :smalltongue:

Yeah, I'm really shippable for some reason to these guys.



I'm having ALL the fun!

Well... Not sure the year, but it wasn't broadway, it was an honorary concert in honor of Stephen Sondheim. Hearn really is a perfect Sweeney Todd. I do believe he played Javert as well one time, which must have been great. (Though no Javert can ever be better than Philip ****ing Quast.) ((I have a problem, don't I? :smalleek:))

Yes, I know. She's supposed to be the Yin of evil compared to Sweeney's obvious Yang of evil. Sweeney is cold, hateful, vengeful, harsh, cruel, and anti-social. Lovett is kind, intelligent, affectionate, but guiltless. It's a super creepy combination of villains.

Thaaaaan there's Turpin. Just... Ew. No Turpin. No. What are you doing Turpin. No. Stahp. :smalleek::smallyuk:

[MoonCat]

Yay! I hope one day we can have fun together more often :smallbiggrin:

I'll get to that. At the moment, I have a test I was supposed to take today, two movies to plan, and I still haven't contacted the girl who'll be living with me in three weeks. Oh, and I still have to keep studying, and I'm tkaing a Guerilla Theater class next week. BUSY!


Mad Hatter, you bastard, now I'm listening to the Johanna Quartet because of you.

[Hattish Thing]

No, no! Don't be like that! I want to hug you and be awesome and stuff, you're my friend *hugs*

Just, this is Symmetrical Docking (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANpcimIOgac). You can see why I didn't want that associated with you :smalltongue:



Yay! I hope one day we can have fun together more often :smallbiggrin:

Oh gawds. I googled it, having never heard of such a thing. 24 years old and I don't know that. Maybe that's good? And the first thing I come across is pretty much human My Little Pony porno. :smallsigh::smallyuk::smallyuk::smallyuk::yuk:

[FinnLassie]

No, no! Don't be like that! I want to hug you and be awesome and stuff, you're my friend *hugs*

But, but *sob* you said you didn't want to be a part of our awesome hug! :smalleek:

[Hattish Thing]

I'll get to that. At the moment, I have a test I was supposed to take today, two movies to plan, and I still haven't contacted the girl who'll be living with me in three weeks. Oh, and I still have to keep studying, and I'm tkaing a Guerilla Theater class next week. BUSY!


Mad Hatter, you bastard, now I'm listening to the Johanna Quartet because of you.

Todd's epiphany. Or a Bit of Priest. Those are the pinnacle songs of the show. That and... A Barber and His Wife makes me tear up every time I listen to the music. The world's always been a ****ed up place. Poor Sweeney. Is it bad I sympathize with him?

[MoonCat]

Well... Not sure the year, but it wasn't broadway, it was an honorary concert in honor of Stephen Sondheim. Hearn really is a perfect Sweeney Todd. I do believe he played Javert as well one time, which must have been great. (Though no Javert can ever be better than Philip ****ing Quast.) ((I have a problem, don't I? :smalleek:))

Yes, I know. She's supposed to be the Yin of evil compared to Sweeney's obvious Yang of evil. Sweeney is cold, hateful, vengeful, harsh, cruel, and anti-social. Lovett is kind, intelligent, affectionate, but guiltless. It's a super creepy combination of villains.

Thaaaaan there's Turpin. Just... Ew. No Turpin. No. What are you doing Turpin. No. Stahp. :smalleek::smallyuk:

Oh, the birthday concert? I watched that and bought the DVD. :smallamused: Did you see the version with Patti Lupone from some years before? It was just singer sand music, no set, it had Neil Patrick Harris as Toby. Frankly, I couldn't stand Lupone's voice, but it was still interesting, especially as it kept in songs and lines that I hadn't seen in other versions.

And the weird part is how he, full of rage and hate and revenge, is the more human and pitiable character, while Lovett, the comic and loving is utterly beyond care for anyone beyond herself.
AND THE DAMN FILM WAS JUST LIKE "NOPE! LET'S HAVE HER BE CREEPY AND MAKE SWEENEY SING IN THE SMAE TONE AS HIS SPEECH. DULL AND EMOTIONLESS."

Hehe. Turpin. That perv.


Todd's epiphany. Or a Bit of Priest. Those are the pinnacle songs of the show. That and... A Barber and His Wife makes me tear up every time I listen to the music. The world's always been a ****ed up place. Poor Sweeney. Is it bad I sympathize with him?

Oh gods, Epiphany. That song. That damn song. Chilling. Bit of Priest is excellent fun, especially when I finally caught on they were having a contest with rhyming. THe only place in the world I've been able to tolerate puns was that song.

I learnt A Barber and His Wife by heart the first time I heard it. It's an incredible song. Have you noticed that the ballroom music when Lucy enters Turpin's house is a slowed down version of (spoilers to every who hasn't seen this) the tune the Beggar Woman sings to herslef when looking for Beadle in the final act?

And no, you're supposed to sympathize with him, and then feel horrible conflict when he crosses the lines.

[Hattish Thing]

Oh, the birthday concert? I watched that and bought the DVD. :smallamused: Did you see the version with Patti Lupone from some years before? It was just singer sand music, no set, it had Neil Patrick Harris as Toby. Frankly, I couldn't stand Lupone's voice, but it was still interesting, especially as it kept in songs and lines that I hadn't seen in other versions.

And the weird part is how he, full of rage and hate and revenge, is the more human and pitiable character, while Lovett, the comic and loving is utterly beyond care for anyone beyond herself.
AND THE DAMN FILM WAS JUST LIKE "NOPE! LET'S HAVE HER BE CREEPY AND MAKE SWEENEY SING IN THE SMAE TONE AS HIS SPEECH. DULL AND EMOTIONLESS."

Hehe. Turpin. That perv.

Ooh, Oooh! That version, with Harris! I personally really liked that version. Really. Mainly because Turpin was actually intimidating in that version, and it ws awesome to see George Hearn hamming it up. They kept some... Creepy lines. Turpin's song, "Deliver Me." That was one of the more painful things I have ever had to watch. :smallyuk:

That's the point of Sweeney Todd, the horror. The punch of the play is that Sweeney is just a good, naive, and foolish man in love... Who lost it all. And how good, loving family men can stoop to the lows of complete selfish psychopaths like Mrs. Lovett.

EDIT: And yes, I noticed that. Little things like that really made the experience so much more scary to me. And tragic. And oh so beautiful...

[LaZodiac]

I'll get to that. At the moment, I have a test I was supposed to take today, two movies to plan, and I still haven't contacted the girl who'll be living with me in three weeks. Oh, and I still have to keep studying, and I'm tkaing a Guerilla Theater class next week. BUSY!

Okay! Tell me about all that stuff later, atleast!


Oh gawds. I googled it, having never heard of such a thing. 24 years old and I don't know that. Maybe that's good? And the first thing I come across is pretty much human My Little Pony porno. :smallsigh::smallyuk::smallyuk::smallyuk::yuk:

That is all kinds of wrong and bad since it's from GaiGaoGar.


But, but *sob* you said you didn't want to be a part of our awesome hug! :smalleek:

That's not what I meant Finn, honest! Infact, here *gives crayons* you can scribble on my face all you want, relieve that stress :smallsmile:

And then hug me, since I want to be part of the awesome hug!

[MoonCat]

Ooh, Oooh! That version, with Harris! I personally really liked that version. Really. Mainly because Turpin was actually intimidating in that version, and it ws awesome to see George Hearn hamming it up. They kept some... Creepy lines. Turpin's song, "Deliver Me." That was one of the more painful things I have ever had to watch. :smallyuk:

That's the point of Sweeney Todd, the horror. The punch of the play is that Sweeney is just a good, naive, and foolish man in love... Who lost it all. And how good, loving family men can stoop to the lows of complete selfish psychopaths like Mrs. Lovett.

EDIT: And yes, I noticed that. Little things like that really made the experience so much more scary to me. And tragic. And oh so beautiful...

Yeah. That was the first time I got to see Turpin's "Johanna" song (I just call all the songs aobut her Johanna songs, since there are so freaking many!), and I was thirteen. I just froze up and got totally engrossed. And grossed, because, seriously.

There was a barber and his wife/And she was beautiful/A foolish barber and his wife/She was his reason, and his life...

Yeah. I still haven't ever checked what the Beggar Woman babbles before Anthony talks to her though, I always forget right after I'm reminded and am curious.


Okay! Tell me about all that stuff later, atleast!

Certainly. I shall and there will be cake, and it...

I just remembered my entire conversation here so far. I swear, I wasn't even thinking about that and then I remembered the Alice in Sweeneyland cake line of thought.

[Hattish Thing]

Yeah. That was the first time I got to see Turpin's "Johanna" song (I just call all the songs aobut her Johanna songs, since there are so freaking many!), and I was thirteen. I just froze up and got totally engrossed. And grossed, because, seriously.

There was a barber and his wife/And she was beautiful/A foolish barber and his wife/She was his reason, and his life...

Yeah. I still haven't ever checked what the Beggar Woman babbles before Anthony talks to her though, I always forget right after I'm reminded and am curious.



Certainly. I shall and there will be cake, and it...

I just remembered my entire conversation here so far. I swear, I wasn't even thinking about that and then I remembered the Alice in Sweeneyland cake line of thought.

That and just the image of him whipping himself, over lust over a woman about fifty years younger, daughter to a woman he raped, and a girl who's in love with another is just... Disturbing. That whole character is disturbing.

Erm... She's actually talking about having sex with him. >_>

Cake. Yes. "God that's good!"

[LaZodiac]

Certainly. I shall and there will be cake, and it...

I just remembered my entire conversation here so far. I swear, I wasn't even thinking about that and then I remembered the Alice in Sweeneyland cake line of thought.

Yay cake *oblivious :smallbiggrin:

[FinnLassie]

That's not what I meant Finn, honest! Infact, here *gives crayons* you can scribble on my face all you want, relieve that stress :smallsmile:

And then hug me, since I want to be part of the awesome hug!

Waaah! B-but Zoozie, I don't want to scribble on your face, you're too nice... :smallfrown: *glomp*

[LaZodiac]

Waaah! B-but Zoozie, I don't want to scribble on your face, you're too nice... :smallfrown: *glomp*

D'aw, thanks Finn *glomps!

Mmm, nice tree tar smell and stuff~

[MoonCat]

That and just the image of him whipping himself, over lust over a woman about fifty years younger, daughter to a woman he raped, and a girl who's in love with another is just... Disturbing. That whole character is disturbing.

Erm... She's actually talking about having sex with him. >_>

Cake. Yes. "God that's good!"

Oh, yes. Disturbing and perverted and entirely without dimension beyond that. But still, what he manages to do to an audience in a one-dimensional is stunning.

Oh, not that babbling, right after he sees Johanna for the first time, that babbling. I think it starts with "only a hot bottle..."

Stoppit, that one is way too easy get stuck in my head. I can't deal with that song in my head right before I go to bed.


Yay cake *oblivious :smallbiggrin:

<hands cake>

[LaZodiac]

<hands cake>

OM NOM NOM CAKE.

Mmmm, Moony made cake. So desuna~

[Hattish Thing]

Oh, yes. Disturbing and perverted and entirely without dimension beyond that. But still, what he manages to do to an audience in a one-dimensional is stunning.

Oh, not that babbling, right after he sees Johanna for the first time, that babbling. I think it starts with "only a hot bottle..."

Stoppit, that one is way too easy get stuck in my head. I can't deal with that song in my head right before I go to bed.



<hands cake>

It is kinda frightening how a completely one dimensional character like the judge can just completely bother people so much. I was never really bothered by him, though I imagine his character may effect women a bit differently.

O.o I do not recognize that line.

Honestly, I always go to bed (If I sleep) with Into The Woods in my brain. Dammit Sondheim.

[MoonCat]

OM NOM NOM CAKE.

Mmmm, Moony made cake. So desuna~

And now you should be about my height. :smalltongue:


It is kinda frightening how a completely one dimensional character like the judge can just completely bother people so much. I was never really bothered by him, though I imagine his character may effect women a bit differently.

O.o I do not recognize that line.

Honestly, I always go to bed (If I sleep) with Into The Woods in my brain. Dammit Sondheim.

He never bothered me as such as I found him enjoyably horrifying. Although I was at a young enough age when I first watched it that, while I was old enough to understand everything that was going on and the emotion behind it, I was less likely to personally be affected by a character like the Judge's.

Hmm. I'll elaborate tmorrow. Going to bed now.

...Another person who actually has seen Into The Woods. I must be dreaming. I get "Ever After," "Giants in the Sky," and "Moments in the Woods" stuck a lot, how about you?

[Hattish Thing]

And now you should be about my height. :smalltongue:



He never bothered me as such as I found him enjoyably horrifying. Although I was at a young enough age when I first watched it that, while I was old enough to understand everything that was going on and the emotion behind it, I was less likely to personally be affected by a character like the Judge's.

Hmm. I'll elaborate tmorrow. Going to bed now.

...Another person who actually has seen Into The Woods. I must be dreaming. I get "Ever After," "Giants in the Sky," and "Moments in the Woods" stuck a lot, how about you?

Hmm. I kinda found him flat until his song "Deliever Me". Then he was just... Really uncomfortable. Nothing too scary like some of Sweeney's songs. He's kinda a very flat character, like you said.

Okey-dokey. Lucky you, some of us have insomnia. :smalltongue:

Mhm! I'm weird... I know... To be honest, I found "Last Midnight", and "Agony" 1 and 2 to be really funny, and really enjoyable. Though the two princes who wing it are complete womanizing bastards.

[MoonCat]

Hmm. I kinda found him flat until his song "Deliever Me". Then he was just... Really uncomfortable. Nothing too scary like some of Sweeney's songs. He's kinda a very flat character, like you said.

Okey-dokey. Lucky you, some of us have insomnia. :smalltongue:

Mhm! I'm weird... I know... To be honest, I found "Last Midnight", and "Agony" 1 and 2 to be really funny, and really enjoyable. Though the two princes who wing it are complete womanizing bastards.

But what effect he has despite his flatness is still interesting as a study in the audience.

Well, I'm going to try to sleep I might not succeed.

...Those are the three I sing in the shower. That, plus "I Know Things Now." :smallcool:

What I find funny is how the relatively less awful prince is the one who got more screen time and is the one who is played by the same guy as the Wolf. One cheats on his wife, the other abandons his mentally damaged wife and two children, and all the attention is paid to the first guy!

[LaZodiac]

And now you should be about my height. :smalltongue:

Why does eating a cake make me shorter? Oh, right, Alice in Wunderbar Land. Okay.

Also I know nothing about Sweeny Todd so I am lost XP

Aaanyway, I'm off to bed. Fin I'mma use you as a pillow *faceplant

[Hattish Thing]

But what effect he has despite his flatness is still interesting as a study in the audience.

Well, I'm going to try to sleep I might not succeed.

...Those are the three I sing in the shower. That, plus "I Know Things Now." :smallcool:

What I find funny is how the relatively less awful prince is the one who got more screen time and is the one who is played by the same guy as the Wolf. One cheats on his wife, the other abandons his mentally damaged wife and two children, and all the attention is paid to the first guy!

Eh, I guess so. He was never very moving to me.

I can't even try. And when I do try, it's completely random and I just pretty much completely fall asleep spontaneously.

Meeeerhhhh. I loooooooathe that song. I haaaate it so much. So damn catchy, and annoying, and grr.

Yeah, I know. Sondheim had originally meant for him to get a bunch more spring time. I had the fortune to have been cast as the awful one before to be fair, he WAS blinded pretty brutally. (I get cast as horrible people. Oh well.)

[MoonCat]

Eh, I guess so. He was never very moving to me.

I can't even try. And when I do try, it's completely random and I just pretty much completely fall asleep spontaneously.

Meeeerhhhh. I loooooooathe that song. I haaaate it so much. So damn catchy, and annoying, and grr.

Yeah, I know. Sondheim had originally meant for him to get a bunch more spring time. I had the fortune to have been cast as the awful one before to be fair, he WAS blinded pretty brutally. (I get cast as horrible people. Oh well.)

Fair enough.

Mm. I just... don't sleep much.

Yeah, when you realize you know all the words without having tried, it shows you've run it through your head a couple times too many. When you start choreographing how to properly show the emotional damage and rape subtext in Red's body language and tone as she sings, you know you've gone a bit far. Spoken from experience.

He got healed! By the traumatized girlfriend he impregnated and then ditched and cheated on with Snow White after having wedded! He was a ****.

And I swear, this really is the last post. I have so much stuff to do tomorrow.

[Hattish Thing]

Fair enough.

Mm. I just... don't sleep much.

Yeah, when you realize you know all the words without having tried, it shows you've run it through your head a couple times too many. When you start choreographing how to properly show the emotional damage and rape subtext in Red's body language and tone as she sings, you know you've gone a bit far. Spoken from experience.

He got healed! By the traumatized girlfriend he impregnated and then ditched and cheated on with Snow White after having wedded! He was a ****.

And I swear, this really is the last post. I have so much stuff to do tomorrow.

....Good point. Yes, he was a ****. Most fairy tale princes are when you really think about it hard enough.

Wat. You. Wat. Leeeeet's not get into how to stage a wold raping a little girl, Kay? That...that's really odd. I wonder what in the hell Sondheim was thinking when he decided "Let's put in a song about her singing about how the wolf raped her." No, Sondheim. Bad Sondheim.

You can never leeeeeave!

[MoonCat]

....Good point. Yes, he was a ****. Most fairy tale princes are when you really think about it hard enough.

Wat. You. Wat. Leeeeet's not get into how to stage a wold raping a little girl, Kay? That...that's really odd. I wonder what in the hell Sondheim was thinking when he decided "Let's put in a song about her singing about how the wolf raped her." No, Sondheim. Bad Sondheim.

You can never leeeeeave!

Oh god, the original Sleeping Beauty myth? <shivers>

No, not that part, the part when's she's singing after having been rescued. The body language she'd show there. And it was only a metaphorical rape. In reality, she got eaten! With her grandmother. And "Hello Little Girl" beiing sung first.

YES I CAAAAAN. Wait. DAMMIT!

[Hattish Thing]

Oh god, the original Sleeping Beauty myth? <shivers>

No, not that part, the part when's she's singing after having been rescued. The body language she'd show there. And it was only a metaphorical rape. In reality, she got eaten! With her grandmother. And "Hello Little Girl" beiing sung first.

YES I CAAAAAN. Wait. DAMMIT!

Yeeeeah. That. Yeah.

Um. You. Um. Do realize he actually did rape her, right? I happen to own a big fat Sondheim book which has a bunch of his notes in it and cool stuff like that. (I actually won it) and inside it is mentioned that the wolf did indeed rape both Grandmother and Red. >_> Then ate them... Not like that.

It's five AM here.

[MoonCat]

Yeeeeah. That. Yeah.

Um. You. Um. Do realize he actually did rape her, right? I happen to own a big fat Sondheim book which has a bunch of his notes in it and cool stuff like that. (I actually won it) and inside it is mentioned that the wolf did indeed rape both Grandmother and Red. >_> Then ate them... Not like that.

It's five AM here.

Well, yes, but in a way that made it seem like a metaphor unless you had the familiarity with how twisted Sondheim can make things. Also, I want that book.

Dammit, I'm still awake???

[Hattish Thing]

Well, yes, but in a way that made it seem like a metaphor unless you had the familiarity with how twisted Sondheim can make things. Also, I want that book.

Dammit, I'm still awake???

Nuu! It's mine! My precioussssss....

Apparently. Nothing new to me really. Chamomile tea and some good old porn. :smallsmile:

EDIT: OH GODS NO. I MEANT TOAST. MY AUTOCORRECT SPAZZED. AH. :smalleek::smalleek::smallfurious:

[Teddy]

I believe the proper term for this is "rose-tinted lenses." Or am I just crazy?

No, it makes sense.


People who try to give me that kind of help usually get kicked hard in the legs.

See, I kind of was too kind for that sort of behaviour to start with. And also physically inferior...


So I disappear from RB for a short while and someone else starts writing quotestorms. Teddy . . . :smallannoyed:
:smalltongue:

Well, someone had to pick up the mantle, had he not? :smallinnocient:


ION:
*books'n'stuff*

This sounds exactly like the type of shopping spree I would engage in if I was more into medieval history and teology. And also didn't keep a quite as tight grip on my money...

Also, no one comes close to Curly when it comes to unintentionally guilting you for not reading more. :smallwink:


IOON:
And this heatwave. The thing about Britainland and its inhabitants (for the most part), is that while we complain endlessly about the weather being awful, or just glum, we seem incapable of handling any form of temperature outside 5 - 21*C, or extreme weathers such as snow. Yeah, mostly snow.
What does it say about a country (or collection thereof) where we seem more blasé about flooding than we are about even a light scattering of snowfall?
So here, at quarter to four in the morning, it's 16*C, with a humidity of 66%. Do you even know what that's like? (Of course you do, your weather is actually weather and not just one of three default states) And this is relatively cool. Elsewhere it's getting up to 30*C during the day. No one can sleep, doing anything is hard work. Even lying down is hard work.
The people of this country cannot handle any weather outside a specific range. It's knackering.

30°C? Sounds absolutely delightful! :smallwink:


It's always good to have company in the Land of Verbosity.

Agreed, although it can get a bit thick if everyone is doing it.


But maybe Teddy should be offended? I mean, quotestorming is when you have a lot to say, but can so organise it so that each salient point is a response to something mentioned earlier in the conversation, and you can have multiple conversations going on at once, reducing the need for people to read every single comment in a quotestorm unless they really want to. I think that's a good thing.

I should? :smallconfused:

And yes, quotestorms are an effort to break a wall of text into a much more legible format. I say they're good, if spaceous.


The long lists of quotes cut other people out of the conversation. I feel that they do. A quote list is a talk between the quoted person and the posting person and no one else. Maybe it is just me and I should become more familiar with Twitter. Is that true?

Think of it from the other perspective. I live in an off-time time-zone, so when I get online, I generally have one or two full pages of posts who've appeared overnight, and these are nights when I stay up late. The only way for me to respond to everything I wish to respond to is by gathering it in one post. And quotestorms spawn many quotes, as people respond to the sections which concerns or otherwise interests them, creating a lot of responses in a short time if several posters are active at the same time. Unless I'm really quick and can keep up my posting pace (kind of hard, as I'm rather verbose), this will force me to compile all quotes into yet another quotestorm. I'd love to be able to respond to posts at a 1-to-1 rate, but I just can't keep that pace up...


Frankly, I'm more surprised that people ignore the squid bones thing.

Well, I asked you about it once. Or twice, because I think you were a bit blurry on the details the first time. Either way, I remembered your story, so I never had to ask again afterwards.

[FinnLassie]

Finnish summer rain rocks. It's pouring, it's pouring! Where's the thunder?!

[LaZodiac]

Finnish summer rain rocks. It's pouring, it's pouring! Where's the thunder?!

Oh man, that sounds awesome.

[TheWombatOfDoom]

So...is it bad that I JUST realized there was a new Random Banter thread? I was on vacation last week, but I almost missed the whole thing...

What'd I miss? How's everyone?

[Rain Dragon]

Apparently. Nothing new to me really. Chamomile tea and some good old porn. :smallsmile:

EDIT: OH GODS NO. I MEANT TOAST. MY AUTOCORRECT SPAZZED. AH. :smalleek::smalleek::smallfurious:

Toasted porn and chamomile tea never made me laugh so much.

Thanks for leaving the mistake there. I quite enjoyed it.


And also didn't keep a quite as tight grip on my money...

30°C? Sounds absolutely delightful! :smallwink:

I live in an off-time time-zone, so when I get online, I generally have one or two full pages of posts who've appeared overnight, and these are nights when I stay up late.

Hmm, I wonder if keeping a tight grip on money is a personality thing? I never had much pocket money, so in my 'old age' I am very good at inexplicably having money even when I have been shopping. Oh, but on the negative side, I charge my friends interest on loans. (They must hate me right now. Muahaha!)

30°C is fairly normal in an Australian summer. It gets even toastier. The warmest summer days we endure are a little over 40°C. I would imagine Manny (from Black Books) would be insane most all the time. (88°F is around 31°C)

Yes, I follow quite a few forums and it is the same everywhere. While I am asleep the Europeans post a lot and while I am at work it is the Americans. Then when I get home, there are very few Oceanic people to chat to in Forum Chats, let alone in-thread.


Oh man, that sounds awesome.

Especially for me. I grew up during a long drought on a rural property in Australia. Buying water and getting the trucks to drive out is expensive. Also, it seems tap water at schools and in homes taste downright disgusting. I still have a little tank for water. Somehow the tap water has not killed my plants or bird yet, so it is safe just not tasty.

Also, it is funny when a dog who comes up to your knee in height is a total sook when it comes to thunder-storms.

[Rawhide]

I just wanted to share the awesomeness that is this cover. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tU-VJOzb-10)

[LaZodiac]

I just wanted to share the awesomeness that is this cover. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tU-VJOzb-10)

I...I don't know what to say.

*falls over from the amazing

[CurlyKitGirl]

Nice! Thank you for the list; I'll look those up.

And they arrived just after lunch today! I ordered them around three yesterday afternoon; I love Amazon Prime. Aside from my Aquinas stuff that is.
I'll warn you in advance that the McCulloch books can be fairly dense, but they are extremely well researched (a bibliography over over one hundred pages for History of Christianity!); and the entire Very Short Introduction series is good for just that - a brief introduction. Plus they usually about one hundred and fifty to two hundred pages long so can be read in a couple of hours.
Really, if you're not interested in, let's just say medieval theology/religion's impact on Europe, I'd perhaps advise against the McCulloch books because they go into a lot of depth about things. This guy has a whole chapter on Augustine in his Reformation book because he believes it relevant to the sub-section he's about to write.
God's Philsopher's certainly seems interesting; however, it gained an instant mark down from me because it has end notes. All of them at the end of the book. I don't like end notes anyway, because you have to keep flipping between the page you're on and the end of the chapter - and when you end up reading some of the more technical books or scholarly editions where over half the book is actually footnotes, textual notes and the like, you really grow to appreciate footnotes.
So yeah, end notes for the whole thing at the end of the book. Not good. :smallannoyed:
It also has a little glossary at the end listing important people. Definitely an easier read than most introductions to the topic.


Have a good respite!

It was so hot. If I didn't have to share a room I'd have warn my short shorts and tank top.
But worst is that my room faces east, and I cannot sleep well with the sun in my face, and the curtains are awful, so I had to improvise a canopy thing with a fleece blanket for my bed, in order to sleep. This means it's even hotter trying to sleep. To the point where I haven't been able to use any covers whatsoever.
More on that below.


Okay, I don't care how good it is, do not read "It's Not My Fault I'm Not Popular"

Do not do it.

I'mma curl up into a ball now...

Now you're just making curious. Stupid schmuck bait.


CurlyKitGirl, those are ironic titles? I hope they are ironic titles. Short history, several hundred pages? Three thousand years?
Almost forgot to make it bold.

That's okay dear, that's what the edit button's for.
Those titles aren't ironic. The Very Short Introduction series is quite popular over here for students and people who might be more interested in [topic], but don't really know where to start.
The History of Christianity most definitely isn't short at 1200 pages, but looking over the chapters and a quick read of the introduction McCulloch is writing about the first three thousand years of Christianity and its impact on the world, past and present; but given that you just can't write three thousand years of history into 1000 pages (allowing for both index and bibliography) that's going to be condensing a lot. Particularly when you consider he's also written a seven hundred page book on the European Reformation.


Well, someone had to pick up the mantle, had he not? :smallinnocient:

True that. :smallsmile:


This sounds exactly like the type of shopping spree I would engage in if I was more into medieval history and teology. And also didn't keep a quite as tight grip on my money...

You probably have an amazon/similar account right, with a Reccomendations For You section? Imagine just being tempted and then running across, I kid you not, twenty-nine things you really wanted, caving in and getting some of the more interesting titles.
Something about coding and those complicated technological things I don't understand very well.
And to fully disclose my spending spree, I had to back out of my UK Playground Meetup, so when I got my tickets refunded I spent just under half on books. Save up for a treat, and that way if the treat falls through you still get a back up treat.


Also, no one comes close to Curly when it comes to unintentionally guilting you for not reading more. :smallwink:

Sorry?
It's just I really like reading, don't have many real life friends, and the things I like reading about are either fiction books most people like and have read/want to read/will read or are about topics which are really popular in academic circles and cover interesting topics that are also quite intimidating.
I suppose I'm an accidental pretentious elitist? Or just a colossal nerd.
If it helps my brain's junk food is fanfiction and cartoons.


30°C? Sounds absolutely delightful! :smallwink:

Blergh. You're welcome to it. I feel like I'm getting sunburnt sitting indoors with the curtains partially closed.


Agreed, although it can get a bit thick if everyone is doing it.

True. Walls-o'-text can be intimidating.


I should? :smallconfused:

And yes, quotestorms are an effort to break a wall of text into a much more legible format. I say they're good, if spaceous.

Maybe? I just think quotestorms are good from an organisational point of view.


Think of it from the other perspective. I live in an off-time time-zone, so when I get online, I generally have one or two full pages of posts who've appeared overnight, and these are nights when I stay up late. The only way for me to respond to everything I wish to respond to is by gathering it in one post. And quotestorms spawn many quotes, as people respond to the sections which concerns or otherwise interests them, creating a lot of responses in a short time if several posters are active at the same time. Unless I'm really quick and can keep up my posting pace (kind of hard, as I'm rather verbose), this will force me to compile all quotes into yet another quotestorm. I'd love to be able to respond to posts at a 1-to-1 rate, but I just can't keep that pace up...

And this one! I'm in a fairly okay time zone, being GMT, but my hours are erratic, so there's often a lot of catch up involved, and then you end up creating a quotestorm.


I just wanted to share the awesomeness that is this cover. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tU-VJOzb-10)

I have never heard of this band before; I like.
As I've never heard the original I'll just say this is still a very good arrangement, and now I've gone and listened to more of their songs, and I have to say this is a good band. Plus the main singer is pretty attractive even covered in all that paint. Must be the vocals and the suit. And possibly the paint too. I very much like 'Fire Fire' and 'Automatic Electronic Harmonicas'

EDIT:
What I forgot to say!
So I'm always a restless sleeper, and I have horrible bed head, but it's been so hot that I've been getting up early when everyone else is still asleep/not moving about the house, brushing my hair, grabbing a cold drink and going back to bed. So when I finally came downstairs to eat for lunch I'd 'just woken up' (read: decided to stop reading in bed and remind people I exist), and wasn't wearing my glasses.
Mum: "Your hair looks lovely and thick; you finally worked out the flicks then. Told you it'd look wonderful on you."
Me: "Well I washed it early this morning." (about two in the morning)
Mum: "No, you did your hair."
Me: "I didn't. I'm in half my pyjamas. This is all tangled."
But on her urging I looked into the mirror, and it did look really good. She thought the slight deshabillee was deliberate, like how girls do that messy windswept look.
So here I am at half five in the afternoon, with scarcely-brushed hair feeling a little like an eighties girl in my short jeans, sleeveless 'dress'-top-thing with half a ruffled skirt and (alas) glasses feeling mildly self-conscious and still too hot.
I've changed twice today into progressively less clothing! Maybe I should go live in the freezer, coldest place in the house.

[Teddy]

Finnish summer rain rocks. It's pouring, it's pouring! Where's the thunder?!

This kind of sums up my night. Too bad i was asleep for most of it...


Hmm, I wonder if keeping a tight grip on money is a personality thing? I never had much pocket money, so in my 'old age' I am very good at inexplicably having money even when I have been shopping. Oh, but on the negative side, I charge my friends interest on loans. (They must hate me right now. Muahaha!)

I think so. Even though I've never had any financial troubles, I've just been rather frugal as a person.


Yes, I follow quite a few forums and it is the same everywhere. While I am asleep the Europeans post a lot and while I am at work it is the Americans. Then when I get home, there are very few Oceanic people to chat to in Forum Chats, let alone in-thread.

Yeah, most people around this forum seems to be Americans, and I'm 5 to 9 hours ahead of most of them, meaning that they've just gone to sleep when I wake up, and they don't get back from school/work until just before I need to go to bed, which has led to many late nights for me.
Stupid, awesome forum friends. :smallwink:


I just wanted to share the awesomeness that is this cover. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tU-VJOzb-10)

Yeah, that's pretty awesome, although I think they didn't have to mix all those tones of voices toward the end. It got a bit distracting for me...

[Kneenibble]

Finnish summer rain rocks. It's pouring, it's pouring! Where's the thunder?!

Excellent. I hope you went out frolicking and returned looking like this.
http://24.media.tumblr.com/072f8ef44568662150b587313632cb51/tumblr_mpmhs1jt5l1qan9efo1_500.jpg

It finally rained here last night, after two hot sunny weeks of teasing rain forecasts that never came. I and my garden were both so very happy. And my zinnias are about to blossom! :smallbiggrin: I sowed them directly from seed, not knowing if they would ever make it that far.

[enderlord99]

You know what would make a good name for a band, or at least an album?

Pitchblende.

Think about it: It's rock, about as hard as average, but it contains heavy metal, too. And it just radiates awesome.:smallcool:

EDIT: Upon further research, they were a real band (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prnwVMFwLNk&list=PL6BBF5B2C7DC107E5&index=2).:smalleek:

I'm not sure if they fit my description, though. I can find very few of their songs.

[Teddy]

You probably have an amazon/similar account right, with a Reccomendations For You section? Imagine just being tempted and then running across, I kid you not, twenty-nine things you really wanted, caving in and getting some of the more interesting titles.
Something about coding and those complicated technological things I don't understand very well.

Well, not really. The blessings of being a science and technology guy is that most of those who produce the interesting material are quite eager to push it up on the Internet as well, so I don't really need to buy a lot of books to satisfy my needs. No, if I want to read something complicated about coding, I'll go here (http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/) instead. :smallwink:


And to fully disclose my spending spree, I had to back out of my UK Playground Meetup, so when I got my tickets refunded I spent just under half on books. Save up for a treat, and that way if the treat falls through you still get a back up treat.

Well, I suppose I should get better at saving up for treats to start with. Or rather, I've been doing that all my life, I just need some treats to spend my savings on...


Sorry?
It's just I really like reading, don't have many real life friends, and the things I like reading about are either fiction books most people like and have read/want to read/will read or are about topics which are really popular in academic circles and cover interesting topics that are also quite intimidating.
I suppose I'm an accidental pretentious elitist? Or just a colossal nerd.
If it helps my brain's junk food is fanfiction and cartoons.

Nah, what I mean is that I have this actually rather modest pile of books I got for my birthday one and a half month ago, and I've only managed to get to the third chapter in the first book. Meanwhile, you buy roughly 3000 (4000? Less? More?) pages of books on quite heavy topics and start to dig into them immediately. It kind of puts your own reading into a bit of perspective...

And no, I wouldn't call you pretentious or elitist. This would only be the case if you were doing the reading just to impress others or looked down upon others for not reading, while you rather have become someone to measure yourself against...


Maybe? I just think quotestorms are good from an organisational point of view.

That too.


And this one! I'm in a fairly okay time zone, being GMT, but my hours are erratic, so there's often a lot of catch up involved, and then you end up creating a quotestorm.

Hmm, well, I'm not sure I agree about that, only living an hour before you... Well, at least you live a step in the right direction. I wouldn't really like to live at GMT+2 or +3...


It finally rained here last night, after two hot sunny weeks of teasing rain forecasts that never came. I and my garden were both so very happy. And my zinnias are about to blossom! :smallbiggrin: I sowed them directly from seed, not knowing if they would ever make it that far.

How delightful! Say, are your strawberries still being marauded by petty thieves, or have they stopped bearing fruit altogether. Or have you perchance gotten the opportunity to savour the sweet, strawberry goodness? :3

[HalfTangible]

I had a dream last night. The dream STARTED as a class on fighting magical monsters. It ended with me being murdered by a clone of myself after having all of my hopes and dreams shattered and losing the person I love (who I never actually saw in the dream, I just felt depressed about it). The clone had been ordered by my teacher to do so to hide the fact that people keep dieing under her care and being replaced by clones.

Even in a dream it feels very weird to see your own face talking to you.

[MoonCat]

I've always wanted (read: since I was bored during the HISPE last month) to called some incredibly heavy metal band the Filigree Kittens.


Nuu! It's mine! My precioussssss....

Apparently. Nothing new to me really. Chamomile tea and some good old porn. :smallsmile:

EDIT: OH GODS NO. I MEANT TOAST. MY AUTOCORRECT SPAZZED. AH. :smalleek::smalleek::smallfurious:

Hmmph! (Also, I've emptied my inbox a bit, so you can resend that PM)

:smallbiggrin: HAHAHAHAHA


<snip>

Hello, you, I'm not actually replying to anything you've said, because YOU HAVE A BACK BUTLER AVATAR DUDE YOU ARE AWESOME!

[Thufir]

Bought some compressed air cans from amazon because my laptop's seriously started overheating recently

How do they help? I've thought a few times about trying to get something to stop my laptop overheating so much, but I've no idea what I would need.


So here, at quarter to four in the morning, it's 16*C, with a humidity of 66%. Do you even know what that's like? (Of course you do, your weather is actually weather and not just one of three default states)

Well, actually I know we are definitely more humid here than some other places, which makes quite a difference - e.g. my dad was recently in South Africa, which obviously is hotter than here, but less humid so the heat doesn't feel so bad/is easier to deal with.


Well, at least you have company now. :smalltongue:

She's rarely without quotestorm company. Apart from anything else, as soon as she turns up here again, I start actually paying attention to the thread again and we'll end generally up quotestorming each other. It's a vicious cycle (She's vicious, I'm cyclical). And thus the theory of the RB time loop grows ever stronger. Even this sentence has been repeated before.


Please don't compare yourself to Teddy, or vice-versa. Teddy is not a hubristic, Machiavellian narcissist. Nor does he claim to be better by virtue of being a small pebble in a heap of large sand grains, when there is effectively no difference anyway (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorites_paradox).

Oh no, how dare she note that in her absence, someone else has started doing something she was known for doing? She must be the most terrible person who ever lived! :smallyuk::smallsigh:
Praise Momus!


No. A terrible thing to say would be "I'm better than you because I'm a god, and you can't say I'm not a god, because I say I am and I'm better than you."

Well, that's a bit out of nowhere.


The long lists of quotes cut other people out of the conversation. I feel that they do. A quote list is a talk between the quoted person and the posting person and no one else. Maybe it is just me and I should become more familiar with Twitter. Is that true?

You've never been party to a conversation between two people and then joined it when something relevant came to mind? If we wanted to have private conversations only between us and the people we were quoting, we'd go to PMs.
Twitter, I've never really gotten.


Out of curiosity, how many people reading/posting in this thread remember that when RB started people used to go hang out in 'their rooms' of RB - the library, the ball pool and so on and so forth?

Since I don't, unless some proper Old Guard happen to be reading the thread, I think it's just you.


Also, jsut so you know, everyone in this accursed thread ships me with anyone I so much as talk nicely to,

Not always everyone. I don't think you've ever been shipped with me, at least.
And, um...
...
..OK, I can't think of anyone else, but there have probably been others.


Who the hell thought it was a good idea to give a character who is supposed to be very motherly to Helena Bonham Carter?

Tim Burton has to cast Helena Bonham-Carter (And Johnny Depp) in everything though. It's just a rule with him for whatever reason.


....Good point. Yes, he was a ****. Most fairy tale princes are when you really think about it hard enough.


Oh god, the original Sleeping Beauty myth? <shivers>

Yeah, old traditional fairy tales are pretty horrific and gruesome. It's great! :smallbiggrin: Or, y'know, retellings putting that sort of thought into it (e.g. Snow, Glass, Apples by Neil Gaiman)

Sadly, I can't contribute anything to the Sweeney Todd discussion as all I really know about it comes from other people mentioning it around me and the little bit of Dodger which touches on it, and that's in a rather different fashion.


I've changed twice today into progressively less clothing! Maybe I should go live in the freezer, coldest place in the house.

I have been known, on hot days, to just go open the freezer and stick my head in for a few seconds.

ION: My sleeping, it is messed up. I get up too late, so I'm then stuck pretty much withtime to check the internet, eat, and then not long enough to really do anything else before rehearsals in the evening.

[Kneenibble]

Used to salt? This very yacht was BORN into salt, and it has lived for its 30 more years in it. Braving three earthquake tides and survived a ramming by a speedboat into it. I think it should be able to tolerate my kidnapping of it into soft Canadian waters by comparison with quite a delight.

What a veteran she must be! I'd love to be able to ride such a creature. Just rinse the salt off before you transplant her, that you not salinate the sweet crisp waters of the lake. For there is no water quite so sweet and crisp as a Canadian granite basin lake, particularly the clear springs that trickle around its shores. Mmmmm, they are the best drinking.

Do you fish big delicious ocean fish from that yacht (rhymes with catched)?



Oh yes, I will. But I fear your oversea blueberries may disappoint me. Wikipedia tell me they're both less juicy and rich in flavour than our European kind...

Oh, how delightful! Say, how many microline artifacts have your peasants blessed you with yet? Or are you more of a yak bone kind? :smallwink:

Really? I cannot but assure you [without any comparison] that the blueberries around my brother's cabin, at least, are very juicy and flavourful. When you find them amidst the thin skim of mossy soil formed in a shallow dip in the granite, their skin has a faint mist-like coating that seems to glow.

Hee! Only a fellow dwarfer could speak in this way. My favourite artefact so far has been a table made out of giant sparrow bone. My current project has been building a cistern underneath the dining hall, and filling it from the river via channels and levered floodgates -- then building a golden well and a small artificial waterfall with golden grates in the hall.

I have been able to fend off the ambushes, but I'm dreading the inevitable first siege -- I haven't really designed with much defense in mind, so it's probably going to wipe me off the map.



They are oft referred to as such by my aunts, but I always have a wide berth between "sexual kiss", as what was being mentioned, and "adorable doggy slobber lick". One is a lick, You see.:smalltongue:

When the hell did I start doing this sort of thing?:smallconfused: I blame Knee.:smallmad::smallbiggrin:

Similarly, a wide berth is important between ticklish adorable budgie nibbles on the cartilage of the ear, and sexy nibbles of the same. Otherwise life gets very confusing.

Take the log of licentiousness out of your own eye before the speck out of mine, Ovis. :smallwink:



How delightful! Say, are your strawberries still being marauded by petty thieves, or have they stopped bearing fruit altogether. Or have you perchance gotten the opportunity to savour the sweet, strawberry goodness? :3

Well, dear Teddifer, to make matters worse they are called June-bearing strawberries: unlike Everbearing varieties, they flower and fruit one harvest June-ish, and then stop until next year. I tasted perhaps seven berries from a 4' square plot, the rest were pilfered, and they shall bear no more. Those few were so tender and so juicy sweet... but alas, it is not worth the space they take up, so yesterday I razed them wholesale to make room for something else. Goodbye, strawberries! ;___; It hurt me to do it, but it was necessary.

On the other hand, a rather alarming bumper crop of black and gold raspberries are developing that should be ready soon. The black raspberry bush was maybe a foot high last year -- right now it's almost as tall as I. :smalleek:

[MoonCat]

Not always everyone. I don't think you've ever been shipped with me, at least.
And, um...
...
..OK, I can't think of anyone else, but there have probably been others.

Tim Burton has to cast Helena Bonham-Carter (And Johnny Depp) in everything though. It's just a rule with him for whatever reason.

Yeah, old traditional fairy tales are pretty horrific and gruesome. It's great! :smallbiggrin: Or, y'know, retellings putting that sort of thought into it (e.g. Snow, Glass, Apples by Neil Gaiman)

Sadly, I can't contribute anything to the Sweeney Todd discussion as all I really know about it comes from other people mentioning it around me and the little bit of Dodger which touches on it, and that's in a rather different fashion.


I think that's because you're taken. :smalltongue: Or, at least, you were back when the shipping was at its peak. Nothing changed while I was gone for a while, did it? :smalleek:

Oh, that's another thing that peeves me. Burton has freaking access to anyone in Hollywood, and you can look at his godawful Alice in Wonderland for evidence. Instead of using that to get actors who work well as their characters or make sense, he gets big name actors and wastes them. Who the **** gets Christopher Lee as the Jabberwocky and then renders him speechless in two lines?

i read that. Didn't care for it. To me, Gaiman has great ideas that would really draw you in and fascinate you, if they were well-written. And I find his writing dull. Good Omens was AMAZING because it was his good ideas and the skill of Pterry making it readable. The Doctor's Wife was brilliant, because it had actors good enough to make the awesome concept work, and good direction to boot.

I'd recommend the 1982 version if you ever feel like watching it.


Do you fish big delicious ocean fish from that yacht (rhymes with catched)?

Oh, man, that brings back memories. When I was five I had drama classes in a rented-out room of the local yacht club.It took me years before I listened to anyone who told me it wasn't supposed to rhyme with ratchet.

[Thufir]

I think that's because you're taken. :smalltongue: Or, at least, you were back when the shipping was at its peak. Nothing changed while I was gone for a while, did it? :smalleek:

I was taken for all of like four months, two years ago. I don't think that's a factor.


I read that. Didn't care for it. To me, Gaiman has great ideas that would really draw you in and fascinate you, if they were well-written. And I find his writing dull.

...this is something on which we can never agree, unless you change your mind.

[FinnLassie]

Excellent. I hope you went out frolicking and returned looking like this.
http://24.media.tumblr.com/072f8ef44568662150b587313632cb51/tumblr_mpmhs1jt5l1qan9efo1_500.jpg


Nah, ended up biking in the rain with my raincoat. I've had a cold for a while now and I left the window open last night so I'm all clogged up... No frolicking for me. :smallfrown:


This kind of sums up my night. Too bad i was asleep for most of it...


I bet the wind blew the weather from you to us. :smalltongue:


ION: Me and my best friend are checking out wedding dresses! Aaaaaah! She's younger than me she's not allowed to tie the know before I do! Quickly, someone, marry me! /jk

[Thufir]

Quickly, someone, marry me!

No way I'd marry someone without ever having met them in person. Come to the UK meetup in 10 days time and we can see how things go. :smalltongue:
But seriously, you should come to the meetup, even though I know I already suggested it back when you were newer and you said no.

[LaZodiac]

ION: Me and my best friend are checking out wedding dresses! Aaaaaah! She's younger than me she's not allowed to tie the know before I do! Quickly, someone, marry me! /jk

Okay! :smallbiggrin:

Also, speaking of ye olde grim fables, I once kind of ruined a girls life by telling her about this stuff. Now, we were both in high school and the same age so I didn't do anything wrong or bad. All I did was tell her how the real Sleeping Beauty, Little Mermaid, and such done. I then mentioned that Aslan is Lion Jesus.

She was so sad.

[Kneenibble]

Nah, ended up biking in the rain with my raincoat. I've had a cold for a while now and I left the window open last night so I'm all clogged up... No frolicking for me. :smallfrown:

ION: Me and my best friend are checking out wedding dresses! Aaaaaah! She's younger than me she's not allowed to tie the know before I do! Quickly, someone, marry me! /jk

Hey, biking is a form of frolicking! Couldn't you have a lovely steam sauna to clear your sinuses? Or perhaps a tisane of fresh ginger, cayenne, and cinnamon with honey and lemon?

Having gone to a Mennonite high school, many of the people I used to know were married with children before I even finished University... a few of them before I even started...

[HalfTangible]

Okay! :smallbiggrin:

Also, speaking of ye olde grim fables, I once kind of ruined a girls life by telling her about this stuff. Now, we were both in high school and the same age so I didn't do anything wrong or bad. All I did was tell her how the real Sleeping Beauty, Little Mermaid, and such done. I then mentioned that Aslan is Lion Jesus.

She was so sad.

Okay, I can see Little Mermaid and I don't know what happened to Sleeping Beauty, but how is Aslan being Lion Jesus bad? It's a fiction story and even then, Lion-Jesus is awesome.

[MoonCat]

I was taken for all of like four months, two years ago. I don't think that's a factor.

...this is something on which we can never agree, unless you change your mind.

...Right. I've really been out of it. Sorry.

I wont. I keep on seeing his name attached to things I love, but whenever I see something only he was creating, I've disliked it.


Okay! :smallbiggrin:

Also, speaking of ye olde grim fables, I once kind of ruined a girls life by telling her about this stuff. Now, we were both in high school and the same age so I didn't do anything wrong or bad. All I did was tell her how the real Sleeping Beauty, Little Mermaid, and such done. I then mentioned that Aslan is Lion Jesus.

She was so sad.

LaLa, you are my favorite.

EVERYONE IS MY FAVORITE. Except for Mutant.

[LaZodiac]

Okay, I can see Little Mermaid and I don't know what happened to Sleeping Beauty, but how is Aslan being Lion Jesus bad? It's a fiction story and even then, Lion-Jesus is awesome.

Prince Charming had sex with her sleeping body and the baby that resulted is the one that sucked out the thorn that kept her asleep.

She's anti religious and loves Narnia. Realizing that something she loves is basically literally something she also hates was kind of a shock to her.



LaLa, you are my favorite.

EVERYONE IS MY FAVORITE. Except for Mutant.

D'aw, thanks Moony :smallredface:

[MoonCat]

D'aw, thanks Moony :smallredface:

Of course. <bows>

[Drakeburn]

Well, I'm a bit stressed to say that I have more going on in my life than before.
(I don't think I can say, since it is about one of the topics not allowed in the forums).

Besides that, I'm scratching my head over writing.

I don't know if anybody remembers my idea for a D&D or tabletop rpg movie,so I'll say it here anyways:

I have a vision for a film that begins with a group of friends (kids or teenagers) bored on a rainy day, so one of them has an idea to explore the attic to find something fun. So they all go up into the dusty old attic, peek into some boxes, and suddenly one of them discovers a box with hardcover books, unusually shaped dice, and some small "toys" that resemble knights, wizards, dragons, etc.
So they take their discovery to the dining room or living room to figure out what it is. At this point, I can't decide if they figure out by themselves that it is a tabletop RPG, or have a parent/relative (uncle, grandpa, etc) come by, explain what it is to the group, and takes up the role of the gamemaster.

And so the rest of the film switches between the real world and the fantasy world (much in the way like in "The Princess Bride"). Although I cannot decide if the fantasy world should be done in traditional 2D animation, 3D animation, stop-motion animation (like in Chicken Run, Wallace and Gromit, etc), or live action.

Point is, I'm trying to decide how I'm going to write about a group of friends playing a tabletop RPG together. But my creativity seems to be slipping out of my fingers.

Anyways, how are you guys doing? :smallbiggrin:

[LaZodiac]

Of course. <bows>

I'm imagining you bowing to me and it's like me standing next to a foot rest. Not that I'd use you as one or anything, I just think I'm so tall compared to you XP



Point is, I'm trying to decide how I'm going to write about a group of friends playing a tabletop RPG together. But my creativity seems to be slipping out of my fingers.

Anyways, how are you guys doing? :smallbiggrin:

Sweet, looks cool. Hope things work out!

I'm doing good. Still a little down from the manga I read yesterday, but I had a nice night (though it was a late night, and it got to the point where, like 30 minutes before going to bed, my cloths vanished and I couldn't remember where they went)

[HalfTangible]

Prince Charming had sex with her sleeping body and the baby that resulted is the one that sucked out the thorn that kept her asleep.........

*HTvision*

"Watch me turn this childhood memory of yours into 100% squick, right before your eyes!" *poof* "Ta-daaaaa!"


She's anti religious and loves Narnia. Realizing that something she loves is basically literally something she also hates was kind of a shock to her.

Ah.

[MoonCat]

I'm imagining you bowing to me and it's like me standing next to a foot rest. Not that I'd use you as one or anything, I just think I'm so tall compared to you XP

The easier to break your kneecaps with, my dear.


........

*HTvision*

"Watch me turn this childhood memory of yours into 100% squick, right before your eyes!" *poof* "Ta-daaaaa!"

Hehe. I knew the originals before I knew Disney. :smallwink:

[LaZodiac]

The easier to break your kneecaps with, my dear.

Oh noes *topples over ontop of you, cuddle monsters*

[MoonCat]

Oh noes *topples over ontop of you, cuddle monsters*

Whee! <tickles>

[enderlord99]

EVERYONE IS MY FAVORITE. Except for Mutant.

Are you (1)saying I'm one of your favorites, (2)saying I'm not someone, (3)confusing me with Mutant, or (4)forgetting my existence?

...Favorite what?

[MoonCat]

Are you saying I'm one of your favorites, saying I'm not someone, confusing me with Mutant, or forgetting my existence?

...Favorite what?

Avoiding conflict. It's my new hobby.

I like the friends I have, and I'd rather not lose them over another response to your needling me.

[LaZodiac]

Whee! <tickles>

Yay tickles! This would be less weird if I wasn't preparing to take a shower right now. Ah well! *TICKLES!*

[MoonCat]

Yay tickles! This would be less weird if I wasn't preparing to take a shower right now. Ah well! *TICKLES!*

Ooh! I'm gonna go Psycho on you!

[HalfTangible]

Hehe. I knew the originals before I knew Disney. :smallwink:

..............

D=

[MoonCat]

..............

D=

Any wonders why I am me?

ION: I think we need to set up a club for Creepy Villains Who Keep Their Young Adult Protagonists Locked Away From The World. Judge Turpin, Frollo, and Mother Gothel are the chairmen.

Today's Lecture: How to make your villain song sufficiently terrifying and awesome in three easy steps!

[LaZodiac]

Ooh! I'm gonna go Psycho on you!

Oh dear! Good thing my shower has glass shower curtains and thus you can't stab me through them!


Any wonders why I am me?

ION: I think we need to set up a club for Creepy Villains Who Keep Their Young Adult Protagonists Locked Away From The World. Judge Turpin, Frollo, and Mother Gothel are the chairmen.

Today's Lecture: How to make your villain song sufficiently terrifying and awesome in three easy steps!

I approve in all respects other then Mother Gothel. She should be elevated to diety status because holy crap.

I honestly think Mother Gothel is one of the single "worst" villains in all history. Frollo? I can think of quite a few sympathetic things regarding his villainy. Not so with Mother Gothel. I've discussed this with Blue before, but basically, name a villain in Disney's canon and I can show how they're less pure evil then Mother Gothel.

[Teddy]

Really? I cannot but assure you [without any comparison] that the blueberries around my brother's cabin, at least, are very juicy and flavourful. When you find them amidst the thin skim of mossy soil formed in a shallow dip in the granite, their skin has a faint mist-like coating that seems to glow.

Yeah, I know little to nothing, having only tasted the knee-high bush Americans seem to call "blueberries" once, and reading the rest on Wikipedia. For all I know, they don't even have to be the same species...


Hee! Only a fellow dwarfer could speak in this way. My favourite artefact so far has been a table made out of giant sparrow bone. My current project has been building a cistern underneath the dining hall, and filling it from the river via channels and levered floodgates -- then building a golden well and a small artificial waterfall with golden grates in the hall.

Ahh, the mighty cistern, a true example of dwarven ingenuity. Don't forget to make it two floors deep, or the water will be laced with mud...

And gold, sign of dwarven opulence! That said, I prefer silver. I've built a mighty wall of silver all the way around the mighty quarzite tower which makes up the enterance to my underground realm, soon to be complemented with towers, gate houses and a clear glass roof to provide a safe canopy over my thriving society.


I have been able to fend off the ambushes, but I'm dreading the inevitable first siege -- I haven't really designed with much defense in mind, so it's probably going to wipe me off the map.

A tip, build a drawbridge to cover your enterance at time of siege and designate a burrow to order all dwarves inside at the occation.


Well, dear Teddifer, to make matters worse they are called June-bearing strawberries: unlike Everbearing varieties, they flower and fruit one harvest June-ish, and then stop until next year. I tasted perhaps seven berries from a 4' square plot, the rest were pilfered, and they shall bear no more. Those few were so tender and so juicy sweet... but alas, it is not worth the space they take up, so yesterday I razed them wholesale to make room for something else. Goodbye, strawberries! ;___; It hurt me to do it, but it was necessary.

Such a shame on such a wonderful plant. May your future endeavours bear greater fruit.


On the other hand, a rather alarming bumper crop of black and gold raspberries are developing that should be ready soon. The black raspberry bush was maybe a foot high last year -- right now it's almost as tall as I. :smalleek:

Yes, raspberries are quite an invasive species. They have their own will and ways, be careful around them...


I bet the wind blew the weather from you to us. :smalltongue:

Sounds likely...


Anyways, how are you guys doing? :smallbiggrin:

Desperately trying to get my fullscreen window to draw objects in Java, yet getting constantly distracted by this lovely place.
Muttermutterstupidawesomeforumfriends... :smallwink:

[LaZodiac]

Desperately trying to get my fullscreen window to draw objects in Java, yet getting constantly distracted by this lovely place.
Muttermutterstupidawesomeforumfriends... :smallwink:

*gasp* Teddy draws! Hope we get to see it later :smallbiggrin:

[enderlord99]

Avoiding conflict. It's my new hobby.

I like the friends I have, and I'd rather not lose them over another response to your needling me.


If hate is just anger that gets stretched out for a really long time, then what's the term for suddenly calming down after an equally long time?:smallconfused:

Whatever it is, I think I just did that.:smallsmile:

I was referring to you when I said that.

[MoonCat]

Oh dear! Good thing my shower has glass shower curtains and thus you can't stab me through them!

I approve in all respects other then Mother Gothel. She should be elevated to diety status because holy crap.

I honestly think Mother Gothel is one of the single "worst" villains in all history. Frollo? I can think of quite a few sympathetic things regarding his villainy. Not so with Mother Gothel. I've discussed this with Blue before, but basically, name a villain in Disney's canon and I can show how they're less pure evil then Mother Gothel.

Dude, I think you of all people would let me into the shower with you, I wouldn't even have to sneak up.

MOTHER KNOWS BEST (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJNvZRAmeqY)

Gothel is amazing for her psychological play (something I love doing is watching disney villain songs to see their individual styles of manipulating the heroes) and her villainy, but I wouldn't call her the evilest.

I mean, it's hard to call any of them the evilest, but I can name some with equal or worse actions and equal or less sympathy. How about Ratcliffe?


I was referring to you when I said that.

Yes, which is why I assume the PMs to random people asking them to help you kill me have stopped. And the demands that I never post in certain parts of the forum. And the immediate attempts to fight me when I post. And the random posts in threads I hadn't even been reading talking about how I deserve a world of pain. Maybe they've all stopped.

I don't care about your post from quite a while ago. You're still trying to bait me, and I am not going to dignify your previous question with a response. I don't have to, and I'm not going to risk anything I actually value over pointless back and forth with you.

[HalfTangible]

Oh dear! Good thing my shower has glass shower curtains and thus you can't stab me through them!

... *adds Lala to the list of evil geniuses* *grumble*


I approve in all respects other then Mother Gothel. She should be elevated to diety status because holy crap.

I honestly think Mother Gothel is one of the single "worst" villains in all history. Frollo? I can think of quite a few sympathetic things regarding his villainy. Not so with Mother Gothel. I've discussed this with Blue before, but basically, name a villain in Disney's canon and I can show how they're less pure evil then Mother Gothel.

Ursula. Keep in mind all of those weird face-mouth-whatsits in her cave are people whose souls she stole. Hades brings about the apocalypse because he's jealous, laughing as he does it, and orders the cold-blooded murder of an infant after the divine equivalent of crippling mixed with brain damage is performed on said infant. Jafar tries to make Jasmine fall in love with him (mind control AND what will inevitably follow) and doesn't even blink at the thoughts of betrayal, the death of a comrade, and mass murder. Dr.Facilier wanted to steal the souls of everyone in New Orleans and constantly screws his customers over just to make a quick coin. Not even a buck, a coin. So, a greedy narcisstic bastard that deals with demons and wants to steal... 360,740 souls (in 2011, anyway - not sure what year the movie came out, but that's the most recent population info I can find)

With Disney's roster you've got a hard case to argue.

[LaZodiac]

Dude, I think you of all people would let me into the shower with you, I wouldn't even have to sneak up.

MOTHER KNOWS BEST (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJNvZRAmeqY)

Gothel is amazing for her psychological play (something I love doing is watching disney villain songs to see their individual styles of manipulating the heroes) and her villainy, but I wouldn't call her the evilest.

I mean, it's hard to call any of them the evilest, but I can name some with equal or worse actions and equal or less sympathy. How about Ratcliffe?

...be that as it may, I also have knife proofing on my back! Totally :smalltongue:

The reason I call Gothel the Eviliest is because her evil is so PERSONAL, you know? It's something we can easily relate to and it creeps me out because Gothel is the most realistic. You could find someone like Gothel in real life and that is why she's most evil.

Ratcliffe was a gentleman, he did all he did for the showmanship of it, and his rivalry with Basil. Ratcliffe is a horrible, terrible rat-person, but at no point does he manipulate a baby into being his willing slave for years. I'd end my summery that, Ratcliffe is at least equal to Gothel, because both do at the very least cause children to not have lives anymore.

At least Ratcliffe has the "decency" to drown them.

@HT: Ursula and Hades I'll give you, same with Ratcliffe.

[MoonCat]

...be that as it may, I also have knife proofing on my back! Totally :smalltongue:

The reason I call Gothel the Eviliest is because her evil is so PERSONAL, you know? It's something we can easily relate to and it creeps me out because Gothel is the most realistic. You could find someone like Gothel in real life and that is why she's most evil.

Ratcliffe was a gentleman, he did all he did for the showmanship of it, and his rivalry with Basil. Ratcliffe is a horrible, terrible rat-person, but at no point does he manipulate a baby into being his willing slave for years. I'd end my summery that, Ratcliffe is at least equal to Gothel, because both do at the very least cause children to not have lives anymore.

At least Ratcliffe has the "decency" to drown them.

@HT: Ursula and Hades I'll give you, same with Ratcliffe.

LaLa, not Rattigan, Ratcliffe. Of Pocahontas.

And impersonal doesn't make it better. If anything, doesn't t make it worse? Then you're hurting people you don't know. You're killing without any malice or personal investment. You're just knowingly ending someone's life.

[LaZodiac]

LaLa, not Rattigan, Ratcliffe. Of Pocahontas.

And impersonal doesn't make it better. If anything, doesn't t make it worse? Then you're hurting people you don't know. You're killing without any malice or personal investment. You're just knowingly ending someone's life.

...:smallredface:

Ratcliffe is actually a subject I can't touch she it'd break forum rules, but suffice to say I'll give you that one as well, but with a lot of astericks after ward that explain my positioning.

And yes, that is true. But at the same time, "a million is a statistic". Impersonal villains are themselves impersonal. Something so close to home as "this is a mother figure who is manipulating this one person, from birth, to be a slave" is just so personal, it comes out a little worse in my mind.

For what it's worth, this is the equivalent of saying "I think Gothel is a 10/10, and Scar is a 9.5/10". I'm not saying she's VASTLY more evil, I just think edges out on the others by a tad :smalltongue:

[MoonCat]

...:smallredface:

Ratcliffe is actually a subject I can't touch she it'd break forum rules, but suffice to say I'll give you that one as well, but with a lot of astericks after ward that explain my positioning.

And yes, that is true. But at the same time, "a million is a statistic". Impersonal villains are themselves impersonal. Something so close to home as "this is a mother figure who is manipulating this one person, from birth, to be a slave" is just so personal, it comes out a little worse in my mind.

For what it's worth, this is the equivalent of saying "I think Gothel is a 10/10, and Scar is a 9.5/10". I'm not saying she's VASTLY more evil, I just think edges out on the others by a tad :smalltongue:

Fair enough, but I don't think she does edge them all out.

[LaZodiac]

Fair enough, but I don't think she does edge them all out.

Understandable. Though we can definitely agree she's in the top ten. I think even Maleficient would be like "damn girl, you got some issues"

Incidently I really can't wait for the new Kingdom Hearts. We're DEFINITLY getting a Princess and the Frog level, for sure.

[enderlord99]

Yes, which is why I assume the PMs to random people asking them to help you kill me have stopped. And the demands that I never post in certain parts of the forum. And the immediate attempts to fight me when I post. And the random posts in threads I hadn't even been reading talking about how I deserve a world of pain. Maybe they've all stopped.

Yes. Yes, they have definitely stopped.


I don't care about your post from quite a while ago.

And I don't care if you care.


You're still trying to bait me,

Nope!


and I am not going to dignify your previous question with a response.

I'm not sure which question you're referring to, but okay.


I don't have to, and I'm not going to risk anything I actually value over pointless back and forth with you.

Yeah. That makes sense. Goodbye, then!

[Coidzor]

Evillest Disney Villain? Frollo. Hands down. Frollo.

Gothel is probably the most twisted though, because of the faked relationship of a mother's love for so many years.

[MoonCat]

Understandable. Though we can definitely agree she's in the top ten. I think even Maleficient would be like "damn girl, you got some issues"

Incidently I really can't wait for the new Kingdom Hearts. We're DEFINITLY getting a Princess and the Frog level, for sure.

Honestly, I've never understood the huge fandom for Maleficient. I saw it when I was ten for the first time, I think. I remember she turned into a dragon and shouted at her idiot minions, but that's it. No psychological torment for the heroes, nothing particularly badass. I don't remember anything particularly spectacular, yet everyone who's ever been a Disney fan falls at her feet whenever a Disney villain comparison is made.

What made her special?

[Coidzor]

Honestly, I've never understood the huge fandom for Maleficient. I saw it when I was ten for the first time, I think. I remember she turned into a dragon and shouted at her idiot minions, but that's it. No psychological torment for the heroes, nothing particularly badass. I don't remember anything particularly spectacular, yet everyone who's ever been a Disney fan falls at her feet whenever a Disney villain comparison is made.

What made her special?

Me neither. Never quite figured out how she took off and why she was chosen for Kingdom Hearts. I guess the word play with Magnificent helps? :smallconfused:


Mooncat, enderlord99 I believe you may both want to review the rules (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/announcement.php?f=29&a=1). I'd specify but I don't believe I really can, sorry.

[LaZodiac]

Honestly, I've never understood the huge fandom for Maleficient. I saw it when I was ten for the first time, I think. I remember she turned into a dragon and shouted at her idiot minions, but that's it. No psychological torment for the heroes, nothing particularly badass. I don't remember anything particularly spectacular, yet everyone who's ever been a Disney fan falls at her feet whenever a Disney villain comparison is made.

What made her special?

She's a dragon. People love dragons. Also her evil is PETTY. "You didn't invite me to a baby shower. So basically all of you get to sleep for eternity"

Honestly, the reason people love her is because her design is just fantastic to look at. She looks impressive. In practice, she's not actually all that impressive, she gets more crap down in Kingdom Hearts.

As it stands, she ranks fairly low on the evil scale for me, because as mentioned all she really did was cast Sleep and turn into a dragon that gets stabbed and dies.

[MoonCat]

Evillest Disney Villain? Frollo. Hands down. Frollo.

Gothel is probably the most twisted though, because of the faked relationship of a mother's love for so many years.

I dunno, Frollo is my favorite, but as before, I have difficulty choosing an evilest. Definitely top five, and if I was forced to choose one, I'd probably have said him.

Hmm, I'd say the twistyness of lusting after the girl you'e trying to hunt down and burn to death is pretty twisted. Although he didn't fake a loving relationship with Quasimodo, so...

[LaZodiac]

I dunno, Frollo is my favorite, but as before, I have difficulty choosing an evilest. Definitely top five, and if I was forced to choose one, I'd probably have said him.

Hmm, I'd say the twistyness of lusting after the girl you'e trying to hunt down and burn to death is pretty twisted. Although he didn't fake a loving relationship with Quasimodo, so...

Frollo, alongside Dr Facilier, are two villains I'd LOVE to discuss why they're sympathetic evil, but that'd be against the rules by a vast amount so I can't XP

[MoonCat]

Me neither. Never quite figured out how she took off and why she was chosen for Kingdom Hearts. I guess the word play with Magnificent helps? :smallconfused:


Mooncat, enderlord99 I believe you may both want to review the rules (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/announcement.php?f=29&a=1). I'd specify but I don't believe I really can, sorry.

I dunno, maybe?

Mm.


She's a dragon. People love dragons. Also her evil is PETTY. "You didn't invite me to a baby shower. So basically all of you get to sleep for eternity"

Honestly, the reason people love her is because her design is just fantastic to look at. She looks impressive. In practice, she's not actually all that impressive, she gets more crap down in Kingdom Hearts.

As it stands, she ranks fairly low on the evil scale for me, because as mentioned all she really did was cast Sleep and turn into a dragon that gets stabbed and dies.

Who likes petty? Better give them an evil motivation than a stupid one.

I didn't find her that impressive-looking. Green with horns and a big black dress? Meh.

Which reminds me, guys, what did you think of Turbo's design in Wreck-It Ralph?


Frollo, alongside Dr Facilier, are two villains I'd LOVE to discuss why they're sympathetic evil, but that'd be against the rules by a vast amount so I can't XP

We can discuss it online over chat sometime! But Facilier, I'll give you, Frollo, not so much.

Altohugh they both get award for sexy deep voices. :smallbiggrin:

[LaZodiac]

Who likes petty? Better give them an evil motivation than a stupid one.

I didn't find her that impressive-looking. Green with horns and a big black dress? Meh.

Which reminds me, guys, what did you think of Turbo's design in Wreck-It Ralph?

We can discuss it online over chat sometime! But Facilier, I'll give you, Frollo, not so much.

Altohugh they both get award for sexy deep voices. :smallbiggrin:

No one likes petty I just feel it's nessicary to bring up every time Maleficent shows up. She's the Mean Girls of Disney

Turbo is amazing design wise. SKULL FACE.

Yes, I'd love to! I've got work today and tomorrow though!

Totally agreed there :smallamused:

[Deathkeeper]

Which reminds me, guys, what did you think of Turbo's design in Wreck-It Ralph?



We can discuss it online over chat sometime! But Facilier, I'll give you, Frollo, not so much.

Altohugh they both get award for sexy deep voices. :smallbiggrin:

I liked pretty much everything in WiR, so I'm biased.
And yeah, Facilier has an awesome voice. I don't know if David actually sang or just did the speaking parts like a few Disney characters, but either way he's awesome.

[LaZodiac]

I liked pretty much everything in WiR, so I'm biased.
And yeah, Facilier has an awesome voice. I don't know if David actually sang or just did the speaking parts like a few Disney characters, but either way he's awesome.

I'm just judging this based on voices, but I think he did the singing as well.

[MoonCat]

No one likes petty I just feel it's nessicary to bring up every time Maleficent shows up. She's the Mean Girls of Disney

Turbo is amazing design wise. SKULL FACE.

Yes, I'd love to! I've got work today and tomorrow though!

Totally agreed there :smallamused:

Mean Girls. Pfft. Alpha Females are far better at screwing with your head than Maleficient was.

SKULLS! Which reminds me, I'm think of getting one to keep in my room.

ANd I have to go watch Whedon's Much Ado again! This time with friend!

Oh yeah.


I liked pretty much everything in WiR, so I'm biased.
And yeah, Facilier has an awesome voice. I don't know if David actually sang or just did the speaking parts like a few Disney characters, but either way he's awesome.

I'm blanking, what's WiR?

inorite? Just, like, crystalized forum-inappropriate things. :smalltongue:


I'm just judging this based on voices, but I think he did the singing as well.

Yeah, I think he did.

[LaZodiac]

Mean Girls. Pfft. Alpha Females are far better at screwing with your head than Maleficient was.

SKULLS! Which reminds me, I'm think of getting one to keep in my room.

ANd I have to go watch Whedon's Much Ado again! This time with friend!

Oh yeah.

I'm blanking, what's WiR?

inorite? Just, like, crystalized forum-inappropriate things. :smalltongue:

Yeah, I think he did.

Mean Girls is a REALLY grim movie. If I recall it legit ends with the villain getting run over by a bus and dying.

SKULLS!

PSst, Wreck It Ralph =p

[MoonCat]

Mean Girls is a REALLY grim movie. If I recall it legit ends with the villain getting run over by a bus and dying.

SKULLS!

PSst, Wreck It Ralph =p

Yeah, I've never seen it.

SKULLZOR!

Ah. :smallredface:

[Teddy]

*gasp* Teddy draws! Hope we get to see it later :smallbiggrin:

Success! I have now finally succeeded in drawing a square. Sometimes. I should probably make it stop dispatching paint events on its own volition...

[LaZodiac]

Yeah, I've never seen it.

SKULLZOR!

Ah. :smallredface:

It's actually a really good movie, it's just dark as hell because it's basically the new girl coming to school and immediately being hated, and her decision is to hate them back. It's like a female Revenge of the Nerds except even worse. Then the main villain gets killed by a bus and it's literally all the main character's fault.

I have a skull! Only one though...

@Teddy: Oh Teddy. So silly :smallamused:

[MoonCat]

It's actually a really good movie, it's just dark as hell because it's basically the new girl coming to school and immediately being hated, and her decision is to hate them back. It's like a female Revenge of the Nerds except even worse. Then the main villain gets killed by a bus and it's literally all the main character's fault.

I have a skull! Only one though...

Ah. That sounds... interesting.

Turn around. There's a human skull on the ground.

[LaZodiac]

Ah. That sounds... interesting.

Turn around. There's a human skull on the ground.

Um...I'm not seeing a skull on the ground. Now I'm nervous :smalleek:

[MoonCat]

Um...I'm not seeing a skull on the ground. Now I'm nervous :smalleek:

Turn around, turn around...

You know, I just realized how much creepier that is without the music. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pC0RlKpHZmg)

[LaZodiac]

Turn around, turn around...

You know, I just realized how much creepier that is without the music. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pC0RlKpHZmg)

Ahhhhh, okay.

Now I'm scared. Hold me?

[FinnLassie]

No way I'd marry someone without ever having met them in person. Come to the UK meetup in 10 days time and we can see how things go. :smalltongue:
But seriously, you should come to the meetup, even though I know I already suggested it back when you were newer and you said no.

:smalltongue:

Reasons not to come:
1. Still in Finland.
2. No moneys.
3. No meetups for me.


Okay! :smallbiggrin:


But Zoozie, I don't want a lady! You can be a guest though, I'll reserve you a seat next to some tar smelling friends of mine. Wait, what, Why am I planning this, first I need the person to marry!


Hey, biking is a form of frolicking! Couldn't you have a lovely steam sauna to clear your sinuses? Or perhaps a tisane of fresh ginger, cayenne, and cinnamon with honey and lemon?

Having gone to a Mennonite high school, many of the people I used to know were married with children before I even finished University... a few of them before I even started...

Hmm, I was too much in the verge of letting my insides out (very hot and humid outside) to go to sauna plus I wanted to come back home before I felt like passing out in case I get any worse. I miss my lemon & ginger tea in Scotland. :smallfrown: *cuddles Kneebsie*

My three best friends: one married at barely 20, one engaged, one probably getting engaged anytime soon.
Me: WHY CAN'T I GET A BOYFRIEND *bawl* /jk

Not feeling the pressure.

At all.

At. All.

[MoonCat]

Ahhhhh, okay.

Now I'm scared. Hold me?

Why are you scared? <tilts head quizzically >

[LaZodiac]

But Zoozie, I don't want a lady! You can be a guest though, I'll reserve you a seat next to some tar smelling friends of mine. Wait, what, Why am I planning this, first I need the person to marry!

Me: WHY CAN'T I GET A BOYFRIEND *bawl* /jk

Not feeling the pressure.

At all.

At. All.

Okay, though keep in mind, a nice lady friend can help relieve that pressure. Or at least a type of pressure.

In all seriousness I wish you luck. But know that you don't need to get married to vindicate yourself.

@Moonie: I read what you said wrong and went into the video thinking it was going to be MORE creepy. Thus, it affected me as such :smallredface:

[MoonCat]

@Moonie: I read what you said wrong and went into the video thinking it was going to be MORE creepy. Thus, it affected me as such :smallredface:

Really? In that case, this video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vw4KVoEVcr0) is horrifying, so scary like you wont believe.

[LaZodiac]

Really? In that case, this video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vw4KVoEVcr0) is horrifying, so scary like you wont believe.

I'm...I'm not gonna lie but I did get a little on edge watching that :smalleek:

It's like that "Suspense is a bomb under the table. Good suspense is the bomb never exploding". Setting yourself up for something that COULD be scary, will heighten the effect, even if nothing scary actually happens. The fact is that "something could" and that jabs the mind with little "get fear'ed" juice.

[FinnLassie]

Okay, though keep in mind, a nice lady friend can help relieve that pressure. Or at least a type of pressure.

In all seriousness I wish you luck. But know that you don't need to get married to vindicate yourself.

We can have some good green tea and talk about the colour green!

I'm just having some sort of a life crisis. Everyone seems to be getting married & having kids but me.

[LaZodiac]

We can have some good green tea and talk about the colour green!

I'm just having some sort of a life crisis. Everyone seems to be getting married & having kids but me.

Okay, sounds fun!

Don't worry about it. Just take a few deep breathes, drink some tea, it'll be fine.

[Hattish Thing]

I've always wanted (read: since I was bored during the HISPE last month) to called some incredibly heavy metal band the Filigree Kittens.



Hmmph! (Also, I've emptied my inbox a bit, so you can resend that PM)

:smallbiggrin: HAHAHAHAHA



Hello, you, I'm not actually replying to anything you've said, because YOU HAVE A BACK BUTLER AVATAR DUDE YOU ARE AWESOME!

Meehhh! Dumb autocorrect.

Oh? Okay, will do.

To be honest, My top three Disney Animated Villains would be Frollo, Facilier, and The Oogie Boogie Man. Oogie Boogie wins automatically, by the way. :smallwink:

[Deathkeeper]

Meehhh! Dumb autocorrect.

Oh? Okay, will do.

To be honest, My top three Disney Animated Villains would be Frollo, Facilier, and The Oogie Boogie Man. Oogie Boogie wins automatically, by the way. :smallwink:

Ah, so THAT'S where you got your love if obnoxious villains.

[MoonCat]

Meehhh! Dumb autocorrect.

Oh? Okay, will do.

To be honest, My top three Disney Animated Villains would be Frollo, Facilier, and The Oogie Boogie Man. Oogie Boogie wins automatically, by the way. :smallwink:

:smallamused:

Yep.

Do you play Portal? A dude made a Wheatley version of Oogie Boogie's song.

[Hattish Thing]

Ah, so THAT'S where you got your love if obnoxious villains.

I absolutely love playing the most obnoxious villains possible. They just are so much more interesting. For example, Enshadu and Martyn got **** done. And died, but oh we'll. Marcy has done... Nothing really.

Aaa anyway, Yes. The Boogie Man is always forgotten. I ever understood why, for his song is pure amazingness.

I saw that, though I've never played Portal.

[Taet]

Why are there two Hatters? This is very confusing.


I had a dream last night. The dream STARTED as a class on fighting magical monsters. It ended with me being murdered by a clone of myself after having all of my hopes and dreams shattered and losing the person I love (who I never actually saw in the dream, I just felt depressed about it). The clone had been ordered by my teacher to do so to hide the fact that people keep dieing under her care and being replaced by clones.

Even in a dream it feels very weird to see your own face talking to you.

Those were not good teachings then. The class should have taught you how to deal with clones.

Which one of you was the clone, the one in the class or the one outside of class? I guess it is explainable if you were the one outside of class.



You've never been party to a conversation between two people and then joined it when something relevant came to mind? If we wanted to have private conversations only between us and the people we were quoting, we'd go to PMs.
Twitter, I've never really gotten.


In conversations the people talking don't usually call each other by name though. Now CurlyKitGirl has explained that a quote tag is like just writing the name and I used to believe that writing the name is like an address on a letter. I still believe a thread is something different though. I can't add a YouTube clip to a conversation. I have a very old phone. People with better phones can do that maybe.


Of course you can! You should make one right now!

I tried when you asked and thought about the idea from then until now looking for more details. This is what I got.

The sky is light gray but there's not much light so everything else around is dark. You're looking up at a half moon and at the undersides of three pale chins. One of them is shaved but brown hairs still show. There's a sleepy feeling and everything is a little blurry because of the sleepiness.

But there's no sense of time. This might be the future or the past or now.

[Teddy]

@Teddy: Oh Teddy. So silly :smallamused:

Silence! This is serious. business. :smallstonecoldserious:
...
:smalltongue:


Not feeling the pressure.

At all.

At. All.

Heh. I'm at the point when you realise that even your goofy, carefree friends have partners, but not you. No pressure, indeed...


We can have some good green tea and talk about the colour green!

Not to interrupt on your lovely time, but I must chime in to commend you for your excellent choice of colour, as I love green, and am steadily nurturing my collection of pretty names for green in foreign languages, carefully applied to name my Minecraft worlds after.

Sadly, my love for green doesn't extend to tea, but I guess green tea was never meant to be oversteeped and drinked with milk...

Oh well, I shouldn't bother you any longer. See you later, girls! :smallsmile:
Back to trying to figure out why my square only will show 80% of the time...

[MoonCat]

I absolutely love playing the most obnoxious villains possible. They just are so much more interesting. For example, Enshadu and Martyn got **** done. And died, but oh we'll. Marcy has done... Nothing really.

Aaa anyway, Yes. The Boogie Man is always forgotten. I ever understood why, for his song is pure amazingness.

I saw that, though I've never played Portal.

Someone needs to make a series of operas about the Greek gods. And then you can play Zeus!

I didn't get too fond of his character. He just didn't do anything impressive or interesting enough for me to care about him.

Plaaaaaaaaaaay iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit!

Also, I totally recognize your avvie now!

[Hattish Thing]

Someone needs to make a series of operas about the Greek gods. And then you can play Zeus!

I didn't get too fond of his character. He just didn't do anything impressive or interesting enough for me to care about him.

Plaaaaaaaaaaay iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit!

Also, I totally recognize your avvie now!

I do believe there is one already, and Hades is just so much more badass. Even as a cartoon. Christopher Lee as Zeus and Bill Nighy as Hades. Oh so much badass. (May or may not be a Bill Nighy groupie. That accent. Ah.) also, if you don't know he is, you are scorned. :smallsmile::smalltongue: jus' saying.

His song! How many villains kidnap ****ing Santa Claus! :smalltongue:

It's totes not Javert. Is totes not. Nope. >_>

[MoonCat]

I do believe there is one already, and Hades is just so much more badass. Even as a cartoon. Christopher Lee as Zeus and Bill Nighy as Hades. Oh so much badass. (May or may not be a Bill Nighy groupie. That accent. Ah.) also, if you don't know he is, you are scorned. :smallsmile::smalltongue: jus' saying.

His song! How many villains kidnap ****ing Santa Claus! :smalltongue:

It's totes not Javert. Is totes not. Nope. >_>

I know him. Also, he was in Doctor Who!

Eh. It wasn't his idea, he wasn't even the one who got Lock, Stock, and Barrel to bring Santa to him. He just sat there and then sang an okay song. Even Jack doesn't so much as fear him as think he's a "no-account." He's the loser of Halloweentown!

:smallamused:

[The Rose Dragon]

It's been a while since I started a Random Banter thread. Since this one is nearing completion, I am hoping I am still awake when it reaches page 50 so I can start the next one.

[Taet]

You did? I don't see you on the list. Did I copy a mistake?

[Teddy]

You did? I don't see you on the list. Did I copy a mistake?

No, he's saying he wants to make the next thread when page 50 rolls around, not that he did any of the previous 50. I... I may have checked. For no particular reason...

[Coidzor]

She's a dragon. People love dragons. Also her evil is PETTY. "You didn't invite me to a baby shower. So basically all of you get to sleep for eternity"

Honestly, the reason people love her is because her design is just fantastic to look at. She looks impressive. In practice, she's not actually all that impressive, she gets more crap down in Kingdom Hearts.

As it stands, she ranks fairly low on the evil scale for me, because as mentioned all she really did was cast Sleep and turn into a dragon that gets stabbed and dies.

Well, she wanted them to die but the good fairies turned it to sleep, I had thought, or am I misremembering the film again?

She is a demon, after all. Or possibly a devil. Some kind of fiend masquerading as a fairy.

Well, she's more in the "**** tier" of in it for the evulz, which is only barely trumped by guys like Ganon who are just doing it for power. Or maybe it's basically the same tier. Ozymandias is god tier since his motives are arguably better than those of the actual protagonists. I think sympathetic villains who we can still acknowledge as inarguably worse than the protagonists are the next step down and then there's meh stuff like evil because crazy or nature.


SKULLZOR!

hmm? What's this about my cousin? :smallconfused:

[MoonCat]

No, he's saying he wants to make the next thread when page 50 rolls around, not that he did any of the previous 50. I... I may have checked. For no particular reason...

Yes, and Taet is saying RD isn't on the list as having ever made one, contradictory to his statement as having made one in the past.

I did check.:smalltongue:


Well, she wanted them to die but the good fairies turned it to sleep, I had thought, or am I misremembering the film again?

She is a demon, after all. Or possibly a devil. Some kind of fiend masquerading as a fairy.

Well, she's more in the "**** tier" of in it for the evulz, which is only barely trumped by guys like Ganon who are just doing it for power. Or maybe it's basically the same tier. Ozymandias is god tier since his motives are arguably better than those of the actual protagonists. I think sympathetic villains who we can still acknowledge as inarguably worse than the protagonists are the next step down and then there's meh stuff like evil because crazy or nature.

hmm? What's this about my cousin? :smallconfused:

Yeah, it was death. But it wasn't the whole castle, just the princess.

Maybe she's a raven.

Ursula needs more love in this discussion. That crazy bitch was badass.

Ooh, can I meet him?

[The Rose Dragon]

Yes, and Taet is saying RD isn't on the list as having ever made one, contradictory to his statement as having made one in the past.

I did check.:smalltongue:

Did you? Did you really? Did you check every single one of the threads after my join date? Because I'm pretty sure I started one.

[MoonCat]

Did you? Did you really? Did you check every single one of the threads after my join date? Because I'm pretty sure I started one.

:smallconfused: There's a list on the front page, I mean I checked to see if your name was on it. I have no doubt you made a thread, I'm just corroborating Taet's theory that somewhere along the line the thread was accidentally left off the list.

[Teddy]

Did you? Did you really? Did you check every single one of the threads after my join date? Because I'm pretty sure I started one.

Ctrl + F on "rose" finds nothing (or rather, "EmeraldRose" and "prose", but neither of those are you, so unless you've changed your name sometime in the past, or your threads was hijacked or merged, they're right...

[The Rose Dragon]

Ehehe. Tee hee. Mwhahahahaha.

Incidentally, I was very disappointed when I learned Unilever's ice cream brand wasn't called Algida everywhere. I wonder why that is.

[FinnLassie]

Heh. I'm at the point when you realise that even your goofy, carefree friends have partners, but not you. No pressure, indeed...


Argh, then there's that. The silliest friends actually being in steady relationships, cohabitating... sambo! sambo! :smallwhitetongue:
*dies as an old cat lady* /jk

[Taet]

The threads before thread 86 don't exist. The title for thread 62 looks like programming and I wanted an explanation and then I found out there was no explanation any more. Then I just kept clicking until a thread popped up again.

[Coidzor]

Argh, then there's that. The silliest friends actually being in steady relationships, cohabitating... sambo! sambo! :smallwhitetongue:
*dies as an old cat lady* /jk

Silly people do tend to go with other silly billies, aye.

Nah, plenty of time yet.


Yeah, it was death. But it wasn't the whole castle, just the princess.

Maybe she's a raven.

Ursula needs more love in this discussion. That crazy bitch was badass.

Ooh, can I meet him?

So about right, aye. Crazy lady with no sense of proportion.

Maybe I am a butterfly merely dreaming that I am a Mooncat?

Heh, in her way, aye.

No. :smalltongue:

[Hattish Thing]

I know him. Also, he was in Doctor Who!

Eh. It wasn't his idea, he wasn't even the one who got Lock, Stock, and Barrel to bring Santa to him. He just sat there and then sang an okay song. Even Jack doesn't so much as fear him as think he's a "no-account." He's the loser of Halloweentown!

:smallamused:

The loser of Halloweentown? Ouch. :smalltongue: He's not that bad, really. Just... all anti-social and you know... full of bugs. I can imagine most people wouldn't wanna hang out with a talking bug of centipedes anyway. Okay? But... but, it's one of my favorites! :smallsigh:

Oh, he was?

I must say, he as Davy Jones is one of my most favorite villains of all time. Because.

[Kneenibble]

Yeah, I know little to nothing, having only tasted the knee-high bush Americans seem to call "blueberries" once, and reading the rest on Wikipedia. For all I know, they don't even have to be the same species...

I am not certain either, although going by memory there are lowbush (usually wild) and highbush (usually cultivated) blueberries. The ones I pick near the cabin are barely taller than the moss they grow in, and the plants are thin twigs with tiny red and green leaves.

Also, aren't blueberries native to North America? - so that if you have a variety in Europe it should have an antecedent over here? Although I suppose, given the general ingenuity of European gardeners, perhaps some among you have, over the years, developed a superior berry.

Thank you for the Dwarf Fortress tips, by the way. My cistern was only one level deep and, indeed, got a little muddy. I didn't know there was a remedy. Your tower of silver and quartzite sounds wondrous to behold! It's such a cool game! It hits so many of my buttons it's no wonder I've blown so many hours on it so far.


Such a shame on such a wonderful plant. May your future endeavours bear greater fruit.

Thank you for your blessing; these plants were growing on my property when I moved in, sort of overgrown with grass and in a poor part of the yard; and I have tried to cultivate them every year, moving them around to different spots, and finally this year put them in a raised bed. Every year, it has been the same -- I get excited to see berries forming, and lose all but a scant few to pests. Slugs or birds or squirrels or whatever it is that year.

My ancient neighbour said that, once upon a time when she took care of the garden for the disabled man who lived here, the strawberries were there. This means that I have pulled the plug on several decades of descendants. The plants were very handsome, too, and the roots smelled sweetly like berries as I tore them up. ;___; Am I a monster?



Oh well, I shouldn't bother you any longer. See you later, girls! :smallsmile:

My mental image of you saying this was quite humorous, with a white blazer, turtleneck, and a lilac scarf and a finger-twiddling wave.



Argh, then there's that. The silliest friends actually being in steady relationships, cohabitating... sambo! sambo! :smallwhitetongue:
*dies as an old cat lady* /jk

Don't be sad, Finnalynn! You are fabulous!

But on the other hand, look at me several more years down the road than you, very happily on the way to being an old budgie geezer. *blank, drooling stare* It's bliiiiiiiiiiss
http://24.media.tumblr.com/a1abe506fedfac2964f2b284c9c6eef4/tumblr_mpoccqMvnV1rtu4pyo1_500.jpg

[MoonCat]

So about right, aye. Crazy lady with no sense of proportion.

Maybe I am a butterfly merely dreaming that I am a Mooncat?

Heh, in her way, aye.

No. :smalltongue:

Her voice actress was good though.

And then you wake up and are a cockroach.

Mm.

But... but... ! :smallfrown::smallfrown::smallfrown:


The loser of Halloweentown? Ouch. :smalltongue: He's not that bad, really. Just... all anti-social and you know... full of bugs. I can imagine most people wouldn't wanna hang out with a talking bug of centipedes anyway. Okay? But... but, it's one of my favorites! :smallsigh:

Please. Halloweentown is full of creepy crawlies, the fact that he's full of bugs would mean nothing. Their mayor is a clown with a rotating head! Oogie Boogie's quarters are clearly not enough to hold him, he is voluntarily staying inside all the time not interacting and playing games. The second he sees Sally's leg he's all over her, like geeks on a Star Wars booth babe. The demon-kids who hand him Santa are doing it out of their own mischief, there's nothing placing them as his minions. Jack's description of him isn't one of "keep him out he's evil," it's "keep that pathetic mess out of my plans," which fits considering Jack is the jock of Halloweentown.

And where does that leave your precious Oogie Boogie? He is the geek. The nerd. The loser.

[Taet]

I went through the first pages of the threads and found some where the person's name had changed. I even found one where the thread title was not correct in the first post and fixed it. But then I found The Rose Dragon being The Rose Dragon and his posts still said The Rose Dragon so he did not have a name change. I don't get it.

Does anybody know what thread 62 means?

[Teddy]

Argh, then there's that. The silliest friends actually being in steady relationships, cohabitating... sambo! sambo! :smallwhitetongue:
*dies as an old cat lady* /jk

Yes, the world is upside down...
Then what type of loon would I become to die? For there is no such thing as a "cat geezer", is there?


The threads before thread 86 don't exist. The title for thread 62 looks like programming and I wanted an explanation and then I found out there was no explanation any more. Then I just kept clicking until a thread popped up again.

Yes, it's programming. I can't tell what language it is, but Lord_Magtok, Banter and Surrogate would be variables, and Random a function which presumably returns a random value between 0 and the argument it takes. Basically, it declares the variable Lord_Magtok (named after the (presumed) thread creator Lord Magtok) and assigns it a random value between Surrogate and Surrogate + 62 * Banter. I have no idea of where the name Surrogate comes from.

If none of this made any sense to you, don't worry, it just means you're not a programmer. :smallwink:

[Hattish Thing]

Her voice actress was good though.

And then you wake up and are a cockroach.

Mm.

But... but... ! :smallfrown::smallfrown::smallfrown:



Please. Halloweentown is full of creepy crawlies, the fact that he's full of bugs would mean nothing. Their mayor is a clown with a rotating head! Oogie Boogie's quarters are clearly not enough to hold him, he is voluntarily staying inside all the time not interacting and playing games. The second he sees Sally's leg he's all over her, like geeks on a Star Wars booth babe. The demon-kids who hand him Santa are doing it out of their own mischief, there's nothing placing them as his minions. Jack's description of him isn't one of "keep him out he's evil," it's "keep that pathetic mess out of my plans," which fits considering Jack is the jock of Halloweentown.

And where does that leave your precious Oogie Boogie? He is the geek. The nerd. The loser.

https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQUs46igVUqyjRiucaQLqXJWza82QrtD MGdD6686LkDpCMGZr1I9w I happen to find him extremely entertaining, really. True, he does seam to hate going outside. Really, he's a big fat lazy ******* who enjoys hurting people while making the littlest effort humanly possible. :smalltongue: That's actually entertaining to me. Dunno why. He spends his free time turning children's idols into goo. That's kinda awesome.

Davy Jones just was always a very tragic villain to me...

[The Rose Dragon]

Surrogate just means he reserved the thread at the start of the previous one, and wasn't around when that thread neared completion, so someone else started it in his stead. Traditionally, the title would be decided early, so the person who started the thread could use a title decided by the person the thread is named after.

Ah, that takes me back, all the way to 2007. Good times.

[MoonCat]

https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQUs46igVUqyjRiucaQLqXJWza82QrtD MGdD6686LkDpCMGZr1I9w I happen to find him extremely entertaining, really. True, he does seam to hate going outside. Really, he's a big fat lazy ******* who enjoys hurting people while making the littlest effort humanly possible. :smalltongue: That's actually entertaining to me. Dunno why. He spends his free time turning children's idols into goo. That's kinda awesome.

Davy Jones just was always a very tragic villain to me...

Sounds sort of like Peter Griffin. :smallamused:

I've never watched Pirates of the Caribbean beyond the first film, and I didn't pay much attention when I was watching that one

[enderlord99]

Ehehe. Tee hee. Mwhahahahaha.

What's so funny, Khantalas?:smallamused:

[Hattish Thing]

Sounds sort of like Peter Griffin. :smallamused:

I've never watched Pirates of the Caribbean beyond the first film, and I didn't pay much attention when I was watching that one

....So much fail, Mooncat. :smallfrown: Davy Jones is fantasticness. He's rocking the tentacle beard, too. (http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2011/163/e/b/davy_jones_avatar_by_adorindil-d3iqwyc.jpg)

[The Rose Dragon]

What's so funny, Khantalas?:smallamused:

Curses, my secret is discovered!

Wait, that wasn't even a secret. I was totally referring to something else with that evil laugh.

[MoonCat]

....So much fail, Mooncat. :smallfrown: Davy Jones is fantasticness. He's rocking the tentacle beard, too. (http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2011/163/e/b/davy_jones_avatar_by_adorindil-d3iqwyc.jpg)

Wait, fail for not having seen the films?

[Teddy]

I am not certain either, although going by memory there are lowbush (usually wild) and highbush (usually cultivated) blueberries. The ones I pick near the cabin are barely taller than the moss they grow in, and the plants are thin twigs with tiny red and green leaves.

These no doubt sound like our European blueberries, but I don't know. Wikipedia makes no mention of them growing overseas. For the record, when I'm speaking of "European blueberries", I talk of what Wikipedia call "bilberries" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilberry), a name I find so stupid and rootlessly demeaning (I.e. Wiktionary lacks an etymology entry for it) I won't stoop down to take in my mouth ever again.


Also, aren't blueberries native to North America? - so that if you have a variety in Europe it should have an antecedent over here? Although I suppose, given the general ingenuity of European gardeners, perhaps some among you have, over the years, developed a superior berry.

European blueberries have always been native to Europe and probably Asia as well (but I'll keep calling them European, because I'm European myself), and notoriously hard to garden. Besides, I doubt any engineered blueberries would have a fighting chance in the wild...


Thank you for the Dwarf Fortress tips, by the way. My cistern was only one level deep and, indeed, got a little muddy. I didn't know there was a remedy. Your tower of silver and quartzite sounds wondrous to behold! It's such a cool game! It hits so many of my buttons it's no wonder I've blown so many hours on it so far.

The Dwarf Fortress wiki (http://dwarffortresswiki.org/) is very handy for situations like these. I've spent countless hours on it, plotting and designing for how to set up the perfect mead industry toolchain or mount my mighty cavalry of giant eagles.


Thank you for your blessing; these plants were growing on my property when I moved in, sort of overgrown with grass and in a poor part of the yard; and I have tried to cultivate them every year, moving them around to different spots, and finally this year put them in a raised bed. Every year, it has been the same -- I get excited to see berries forming, and lose all but a scant few to pests. Slugs or birds or squirrels or whatever it is that year.

My ancient neighbour said that, once upon a time when she took care of the garden for the disabled man who lived here, the strawberries were there. This means that I have pulled the plug on several decades of descendants. The plants were very handsome, too, and the roots smelled sweetly like berries as I tore them up. ;___; Am I a monster?

The end of an era is always a sad one, but nothing is eternal. Bravest of humankind's warriors, are mum and the conservators who stand by her side, fighting the inevitable in a battle they can't win, so that future generations yet may know the past, but we all must know that nothing lasts forever, and sometimes, the past has to make side for a brighter future.


My mental image of you saying this was quite humorous, with a white blazer, turtleneck, and a lilac scarf and a finger-twiddling wave.

A humorous image indeed. :smallbiggrin:

[Hattish Thing]

Wait, fail for not having seen the films?


Yesh, the second and third are great! The fourth is... meh.

His theme is also sheer badass.

[MoonCat]

Yesh, the second and third are great! The fourth is... meh.

His theme is also sheer badass.

Okay, when I'm not horribly busy I'll consider maybe doing so.

Although I'll have to take extra precaution that my mother never sees Johnny Depp in eyeliner. She might have an aneurysm.

[The Rose Dragon]

A funny aneurysm, or a serious one?

[MoonCat]

A funny aneurysm, or a serious one?

Definitely a funny one. The serious one is fifth season.

[Hattish Thing]

Okay, when I'm not horribly busy I'll consider maybe doing so.

Although I'll have to take extra precaution that my mother never sees Johnny Depp in eyeliner. She might have an aneurysm.

Mhm. Bill Nighy's performance is fantastic, as well as Geoffrey Rush. And Depp. And Bloom. Oh gawd there's so many of them.

An aneurysm, why? D:

[The Rose Dragon]

Well hopefully your fifth season is far, far away.

So, page 50? I don't know, I see 40 pages per page, so I only think it's page 50. Should I get prepared to post the new thread?

[Taet]

Yes. This is page 50.

If the birds stole that many strawberries there are probably new strawberry plants growing all over your neighborhood right underneath their nests. Also they are strawberries. They might sprout again unless you are careful with your compost. Also I would gladly have traded for those strawberries. The vines in my backyard were false strawberries and even the birds refused to eat those berries. I am ripping them out but they keep coming back.

[MoonCat]

Mhm. Bill Nighy's performance is fantastic, as well as Geoffrey Rush. And Depp. And Bloom. Oh gawd there's so many of them.

An aneurysm, why? D:

My mum has had a crush on Johnny Depp ever since Arizona Dream came out. Something about an impressive shirtless scene,


Well hopefully your fifth season is far, far away.

So, page 50? I don't know, I see 40 pages per page, so I only think it's page 50. Should I get prepared to post the new thread?

Yes, time for a new one.

[Hattish Thing]

My mum has had a crush on Johnny Depp ever since Arizona Dream came out. Something about an impressive shirtless scene,



Yes, time for a new one.

Blech, Ew. Naked Johnny Depp. :smallyuk:

He is very talented, though.

[Thufir]

:smalltongue:

Reasons not to come:
1. Still in Finland.
2. No moneys.
3. No meetups for me.

Well, come to the next one that happens while you're in the UK. Or get enough money to travel from Finland for one some time!


I'm just having some sort of a life crisis. Everyone seems to be getting married & having kids but me.

I kind of get that. Not so much people getting married and having kids (Though some of my friends have), but people generally getting on with their lives.


Well, she's more in the "**** tier" of in it for the evulz, which is only barely trumped by guys like Ganon who are just doing it for power. Or maybe it's basically the same tier. Ozymandias is god tier since his motives are arguably better than those of the actual protagonists. I think sympathetic villains who we can still acknowledge as inarguably worse than the protagonists are the next step down and then there's meh stuff like evil because crazy or nature.

Eh, I'd say it varies. Sometimes it's interesting to have a villain with a bit of a tragic backstory or whatever, or at least some explanation for why they are the way they are, but sometimes the purity of a "for the evulz" villain can be more fitting and compelling in an entirely different way.


Yes, and Taet is saying RD isn't on the list as having ever made one, contradictory to his statement as having made one in the past.

Au contraire. (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=106698)


Curses, my secret is discovered!

Wait, that wasn't even a secret. I was totally referring to something else with that evil laugh.

Sorry to spoil your fun, but I like being the know-it-all.

[HalfTangible]

Mean Girls is a REALLY grim movie. If I recall it legit ends with the villain getting run over by a bus and dying.

She gets hit by the car, but she didn't die, just got hurt.

... Of course, that didn't stop Lohan from making a joke that that's what happened first.

[FinnLassie]

Oh! I think I should bid farewell to this thread, then... Oh, it's been fun times, Taet's thread! *hugs the thread*

[The Rose Dragon]

New thread, incidentally. (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=291872)

Good times were had, old thread. We will miss you dearly.