Forum Staff's Random Banter of Oh My Gosh You Guys Really Talked for 200 Threads???

[Forum Staff]

My gosh, you people really do talk far too much. 200 threads of random chit-chat...

In honour of the occasion, this thread shall go to 100 pages!


List of Previous Random Banter Threads
Amotis' Random Banter #1 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13484)
Dhavaer's Random Banter #2 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13401)
PhoeKun's Random Banter #3 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13319)
Rei Jin's Random Banter #4 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13205)
Toxic Avenger's Random Banter #5 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13146)
Jibar's Random Banter #6 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13026)
Ego Slayer's Surrogate Random Banter #7 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12939)
Sneak's Random Barroom Brawl #8 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12918)
Sophistemon's Solemnly Random Banter #9 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12855)
Vaynor's Very Random Banter #10 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12834)
Bookman's Blathering Random Banter #11 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12809)
Gralamin's Glorious Random Banter #12 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12785)
Rilik's Resplendently Random Raillery #13 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12766)
Gezina's Growling Grazing Random Banter #14 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12747)
The Zerglings Utterly And Geeky Random Banter #15 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12740)
jaqueses Truthfully Randomly Fireside Banter # 16 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12735)
Jack Squat’s Jubilantly Quixotic Random Banter #17 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12693)
Cardel's Banter of Cookie Jubilation #18 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12668)
Archonic's Chaotically Random Banter of Rods #19 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12657)
The Rod's Inanimate Temple of RANDOM banter #20 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12638)
Lucky’s Loquaciously Loud-Mouthed Random Banter#21 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12630)
Deckmaster's Divinely Delightful Random Banter #22 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12614)
Saithis' Soliloquy of Random Banter #23 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12598)
Loveable Lianae's Ludicrous Lampooning Lottery #24 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12578)
NEO|Phyte's Neolithic Nest of Weasel Banter #25 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12544)
Target's Random Banter of "non-violence" #26 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12533)
Tarnag40k's Random banter of "grammar errors" #27 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12515)
Kyrian's Random Banter of ADHDness #28 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12507)
El Jaspero's Random Drunken Ramblings #29 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12503)
Boss Smiley's Eloquently Eggy Banter #30 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12494)
Lykan's Looney Explosionarama & Random Banter #31 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12482)
Iames's Iambic Yarn of Yammering #32 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12468)
Dispozition's Deviously Distressed Banter #33 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12458)
CP's Copiously Combusting Banter of Carnage #34 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12445)
Alarra's Altar of Random Banter #35 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12432)
Eloquent Rune's Electrifying Rambling Banter #36 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12423)
E_P's Very Own Quite Popular Random Banter #37 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12419)
Hydrogelic's Foolish Mortal Random Banter #38 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12413)
Ink's Smudgy Splotchy Random Banter #39 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12405)
Azrael's Big Black Book of Banter #40 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12397)
The Logic Vampire's Rational Random Banter #41 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12387)
Shiny's Shimmering Space-hitchin Random Banter #42 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12376)
ZombieRockStar's Random Banter #43 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12360)
Nostrabel's Realm of Cookies and Random Banter #44 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12342)
Charity's Cheery Chatter Circle #45 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12328)
Samiam's Spontaneous Scintillating Soliloquy #46 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12310)
LLama's Masked Mysterious Random Banter #47 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=26599)
Ravishing Rydia's Recumbentibus ^_^ Random Banter #48 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=27622)
Penguinizers Perilous Random Banter #49 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=28083)
Death's delightfully morbid surrogate random banter #50 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=28444)
Wayril's wonderfully weird surrogate random banter #51 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=28990)
Rawhide's Deck of Random Banter (52 Cards) (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=29697)
Korith's Sorrogate Random Banter of Zombie Killing #53 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=30353)
Surrogate thread of random Bor-dom #54 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=31109)
Rex Idiotarum's Painfully Pogoing Thread #55 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=31512)
The Wrath of KHAAAAAANtalas’s William Shatner Flavored Random Banter # 56 (Surrogate) (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=32080)
EmeraldRose's Random Banter of Lashing Wit #57 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=32494)
Captain van der Decken's Surrogate Ship of Random Loot (Banter) #58 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=32847)
SDF's Neverending I-Don't-Have-an-OotS-Avatar-Yet Story Banter #59 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=33465)
Mauril's Surrogate Dwelf Banter of Fantasy Race Confusion 60th Edition (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=34165)
Rockphed's Dice Rolling Toga Party of 61 Drunken CIA Analysts (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=34568)
var Lord_Magtok = Random(Banter*62) + Surrogate (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=34801)
Jibar's Retro Random Banter #63 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=35014)
Malina's Random Spanish Banter #64 of morphical annoyance (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=35256)
Mr. E's Random Banter #65 of Cane Toting and Hat Tipping (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=35418)
Ego Slayer's Hellishly Random Banter #66.6 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=35596)
Purple Gelatinous Cube o' Doom's bowl of bantery j-e-ll-o randomness #67 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=35859)
Zephra's Random Banter of Ghostly Wailings, and Howling Fun#68 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=36317)
Cobra Ikari's Random Banter #69 of Rampant Hugging, Guttermindedness, and ;-) Kinky. (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=36977)
Scorpina's Random Banter #70 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=37480)
Raistlin1040's Super Special Awesome Random Banter #71(Now with 20% more tacos) (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=37824)
Uberblah's Random Banter #72 Of Caffeine And Sleep Deprivation Induced Randomness (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=38225)
Lucky’s Random Banter #73 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=38987)
Castaras's Random Banter #74 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=37836)
D'anna Biers RB #75 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=39495)
Zeb The Troll's RB#76 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=39801)
Eldpollard's RB #77 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=40128)
Gezina's and Calamity's Random banter #78 of double entendre and doom (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=40410)
Random Banter #79 In Loving Memory of Hexa_Regina (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=40909)
Zeratul's random banter #80 of throwing puppies off bridges (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=41778)
Vespe's Random Banter #81 of singing dolphins and mostly harmless planets. (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=43254)
CSK's Giant in the Playground Forums Addicted Anonymous, Random Banter #82 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=44919)
Iames's Ramblingly Erratic Belldandy-Charged Random Banter #83 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=47592)
Serpentine's Scintillating Sensually and Sinuously Seductive Stochastic Satire #84 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=49048)
Radikalskippy's Random Banter #85 of lost ideas and where to find them... (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=50658)
Moon Called's Random Banter #86 of Sexy Anime Boys and Fangirl Squeals (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=51825)
Lilly's Lovely Random Banter #87 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=52783)
FdL's Fuzzbox-Fueled Random Banter #88 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=54612)
SweetRein's Sugary Restrained Random Banter #89 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=59668)
Midnight's Mutant Motorcycle Madness Random Banter #90 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=62430)
Em's Extremely Extraordinarily Epic Random Banter #91 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=65645)
Dragonrider's Random Banter in Conjunction with the Weighted Cube #92 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=67629)
Bushranger's Bodaciously Buffed Random Banter-y Rooster #93 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=69425)
Haruki's Historically Hilarious Honey-covered Random Banter #94 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=71161)
North's Maple Syrup Flavored Non-Alliterative Random Banter #95 Eh? (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=73464)
Wadledo's Weirdly Warbling Watercress Watching Washing Machine Only Random Banter #96 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=75946)
SMEE's Random Banter #97 of gender bending and closet bursting (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=78694)
Raiser's Rambunctiously Rambling Random Banter #98 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=81626)
Dr. Bath's Random Banter, dripping with daring deeds of dastardly deipnosophists #99 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=84068)
VOTE, the Democracy Demon's Devilishly Devious and Decidedly Diabolical Desultory Derision (Random Banter) #100 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=84914)
Jack Squat's Justlessly Juxtaposed Random Banter #101 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=87577)
Dallas-Dakota's Dundering Dandelion's Devilish Damsel's Distress Random Banter #102 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=4790602#post4790602)
Destro Yersul's Dangerously Distracting and Doubtlessly Disturbing Random Banter #103 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=4903962#post4903962)
Aziraphales Actually Alliterative and Awesomely Affluent Random Banter #104 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=92718)
Cristo's Consistently Confusing and Constantly Casual Random Banter #105 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=94491)
Dish's Delightfully Deranged and Deliciously Deliquent Random Banter # 106 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=95905)
Slayer's Seemingly Sweet and Socially Silly Random Banter # 107 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=97703)
Zero's ambrosial and aberrantly adventitious, abstemiously erudite Random Banter #108 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=99100)
Coplantor's Completely Creative Cautious and Contemplative Random Banter #109 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=100414)
Rutskarn's Roly-Poly Rebellious and Rejected Random Banter #110 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=101156)
TwoBitWriter's Tubular Tracts of Thought-Talking Random Banter #111 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=5600540#post5600540)
Phase's Phully Phormed, Phalangeal, and Phantasmagorical Random Banter #112 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=101988)
Wolfbane's Wonderfully Wacky and Wildly Wandom Random Banter #113 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=102865)
The Kiwi's Kinkily Knotted and Kookily Kickass Random Banter #114 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=103674)
Jude's Judgmental Jugular Jab and Jibber Jabbery Random Banter #115 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=104480)
The Throne of Thufir's Thoroughly Theoretical and Therapeutic Random Banter #116 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=105584)
Random Banter #117 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=106698)
Dragonprime's Dynamically Dangerous Dextrous and Destructive Random Banter #118 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=107882)
Farmer Felix's Fantastic FRandom FBanter #119 (may contain traces of fnuts) (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=109007)
Groundhog's Random Banter of Weather Prediction and Anti-Gopherness (part one) (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=110963&page=50)
Groundhog's Random Banter of Weather Prediction and Anti-Gopherness (part two) (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=113197)
Mrmud's Mixed-Up and Minimally Mechanized Random Banter #121 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=114623)
Dogmantra's Dastardly, Despotic and Dangerous Random Banter #122 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=116660)
Alteran's Amazingly Anachronistic, Altruistic, and Antagonistic Random Banter #123
(http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=118380)Admiral Euphoria's Random Banter Thread of Delusional Grandeur #124 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=6614894)
Fred's Flying Fishy, Fighting, Fiery, Fantastic Face Off Random Banter #125 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=121385)
Cyrano’s Non-Alliterative Inaugurational Random Banter #126 To Usher In The Future (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=122977)
Thanatos's Tharmturges Present: Tropical, Tipsy, and Typically Random Banter #127
loopy's Legendary and Long-Awaited Lollipop Fuelled Random Banter #128 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=123816)
Shadow's Shady Shop of Sharks, Shingles, Shammies, Shiny and Random Banter #129 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=125667)
KataraAltinaII's Premature Not So Short & To-The-Point Random Banter #130 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=126557)
Supagoof's Supa-Sensational Silly Symphonies Set Sizzingly On Fire Random Banter #131 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=128570)
Pyrian's Pyrotechnic Pyre of Pyrrhic Pyros with Pyrotic Pythics Random Banter #132! (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=130459)
Perenelle's Pleasantly Playful and Passionately Peculiar Random Banter #133 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=131814)
Rpgsr4me's Ravenous, Roaring, Raging Rampage of Random Banter #134 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=7373844#post7373844)
Il'deav Ilah'naie's Indiscreet Intimacies on Indigo Iceboats Random Banter #135 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=134438)
Recaiden's Resplendent and Rotating Realistic Random Banter #136 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=136879)
Jibar's Random Banter #137: Return of the Cat-muffin (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=138879)
Edge's Effluence of Extravagant and Effulgent Random Banter #138 (”http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=7876065”)
Zeb The Troll's Zecond Go At Ze Random Banter #139 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showpost.php?p=8061505&postcount=1)
Curly's Rambunctious and Erudite Random Banter #140 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=148462)
Deth Muncher's Destructive and Meandering Random Banter #141 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=150904)
A Thread in Which Banter Most Random is Expulsed Into Existence, By Ravens_cry #142 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=8722755)
Several Silly Sealions Stuffed Seaweed Southward Swiftly (Or, Random Banter #143) (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=159998)
The thread that changed name one last time, with style. (Random Banter #144) (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=161407)
Banjo’s Bodacious & Boosted Bumper Bulletproof Box of Banter Most Random #145 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=162819)
Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=164224)
KuReshtin's Vociferously Ruminating Harbinger of Random Banter - #147 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=166664)
Archonic's Archaic Acronymical Antidisestablishmentarianism Random Banter - #148 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=169890)
Skeppio's Splendidly Strange & Superbly Scintillating Random Banter - #149 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=173056)
Teddy's Turbulent and Topicless Random Banter #150 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=175338)
Fifty-Eyed Fred's Ferociously Fanatical and Fabulously Fascinating Random Banter #151 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=178205)
Rae's Really Rascally and Ridiculously Rowdy Random Banter #152 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=181296)
Haruki's Hot n' Holy Random Banter #153 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=10176275#post10176275)
MoonCat's Magnificently Mythopoeic Random Banter #154
(http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=187576)Eadin's Exchange of Extraterrestrial Excuses AKA Random Banter #155 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=190034)
Happy HalfTangible's Horrific Hail of Random Banter #156 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=10629167#post10629167)
AtlanteanTroll's Atrocious and Terrific Arcade of Terror - RB #157 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=196302)
LaLa’s Laughably Silly Random Banter Thread – RB #158 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=198767)
Zaydos's Zany Zooetic Random Banter - RB #159 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=200208)
Blue's Blessed and Blissful Random Banter - RB #160 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=201653)
Absolmorph's Azoic Arete of Adventitious and Aimless Random Banter - RB 161 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=202546)
Gwyn's Gloriously Green Garrumphing Garter of Garrulous Gabble! Random Banter #162 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=203954)
Eruantion's Euphoric, Elephant-filled Elevated Epoch of Eurhythmic Random Banter #163 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=205487)
ATW's Awesome Androgynous Avaricious Azure Ardent Adamant Alluvial Random Banter #164 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=207269)
Cynical Avocado's Absolutely Admirable Accumulation of Random Bantering #165 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=209860)
August's Pink Plushy and Phantasmagorically Random Banter Thread #166 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=212011)
Heliomance's Everchanging Thread Title Random Banter #167 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=213053)
Tragic_Comedian's Tremendously Tropical Random Banter #168 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=215180)
Qwertystop's Quickly Quilted, Quip-filled Random Banter #169 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=217326)
Thufir's Thupremely Thatithfying Thecond Random Banter With a Lithp #170
(http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=219654)Feytalist's Fantastically Freakish First Random Banter #171 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=222713)
Dragonprime's Dashing Delight-fu Dazzling Dualistic Random Banter #172
Castaras' Random Banter #173: Bringing back your nostalgic Great Old Ones (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=229164)
Pokemon-freak89's Random Banter number eleventy-twelve... uhh... I mean... number 174 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=231235)
Dark Elf Bard's Random Banter #175:Playin' Underdark Jazz since the Drow went dark. (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=235950)
Mutant Sheep's Post Septaquintaquinquecentennial ApRiL fOoLs Random Banter: #176 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=238117)
Elemental's Excitingly Excellent Random Banter: No.CLXXVII (177) (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=13163770)
Amiel's Appeasingly Appropriate Arbitrary Amusement (Random Banter): No.CLXXVIII #178 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=245179)
"Your Angel of Banter Awaits." ThePhantasm Presents Random Banter #179 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=13535351)
Serpentine's Secretly Sapphic Salacious Sacrarium of Random Banter #180 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=253047)
Dimonite's Decidedly Draconic Devious Discussions: Random Banter #181 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=254409)
Mercenary Pen's Meticulously Planned Machine of Prose Random Banter #182 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=255754)
Mynxae's Maliciously Magnificent Random Banter #183 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=257322)
Kneenibble's Knack for Knightly Knickers: a Knell for Random Banter #184 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=258878)
Coid's Crowing Conundrum of a Canticle of Crookedly Random Banter #185 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=260837)
Amidus Drexel's Alliterative and Awe-Accentuating Anvil of Random Banter CLXXXVI (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=262894)
Absolmorph's Awkwardly Amorous Albeit Alliterative Advances of Random Banter #187 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=265267)
Wombat's Whimsical Wonderland of Random Banter #188 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=267137)
Death's Daunting but Daring Denouement of Random Banter #189 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=270487)
Dragon Eggs in Lederhosen and Burning Drakes with Random Banter (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=274807)
Devmaar's Notably Unalliterative Random Banter #191 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=278435)
Cuthalion's Creatively Created Cranny for Random Banter #192 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=280998)
TaiLiu's Tea-Filled Tome of Random Banter #193 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=283292)
FinnLassie's Fantabulous Facade of Random Banter #194 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=286018)
Taet's Acrostic: Everyone's Tuned into Random Banter #195 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=289349)
Random Banter #196 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=291872)
House of Much Random Banter and Haluesen's Various Wondrous Cookies #197 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=294114)
Dallas-Dakota's Dastardly and Devious Dancing Debate of Random Banter #198 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=298986)
Random Banter #Who really knows anymore? #Rawhide knows it's 199 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=304868)



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:elan: Anyone found breaking the rules will be sent to stand in the corner and receive a very stern talking to! :elan:

[Zar Peter]

Well, congratulations to the 200th iteration of Random Banter to you all who are bantering around here!

[Rawhide]

I'd like to know what everyone's first Random Banter was, if they remember (general vicinity, if not). First one they posted on, that is.

[Mynxae]

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

*totally doesn't point at Rawhide with a grin* :smallbiggrin:


I'd like to know what everyone's first Random Banter was, if they remember (general vicinity, if not). First one they posted on, that is.

Pretty sure the first one I posted in was Serpentine's Secretly Sapphic Salacious Sacrarium of Random Banter #180... At least, to memory anyhow.

[Rawhide]

*totally doesn't point at Rawhide with a grin* :smallbiggrin:

I was almost asleep too...

[Mynxae]

I was almost asleep too...

To be honest I'm surprised that I'm not asleep yet. I should be, I've got a date tomorrow. Although I've only been staying awake 'cause I'm leveling a character in WoW and I'm texting said date. :smalltongue:

[Serpentine]

OMG POLL

pollpollpollpollpollpollpollpollpollpollpollpollpo llpollpollpollpollpollpollpoll

:biggrin:

No idea what my first one was. Before mine, obviously...

[Qwertystop]

I'm not sure.It was definitely before 169, but I don't actually remember any of the prior threads.

[Castaras]

Somewhere around #50-#60. Not sure exactly.

I hope there's still a few on the playground from RB #1. Think there's a couple.

[LaZodiac]

I forget the number, but it was MoonCat's thread. Made me think she was a super big shot important person :smallamused:

[Rawhide]

Somewhere around #50-#60. Not sure exactly.

I hope there's still a few on the playground from RB #1. Think there's a couple.

I was definitely around for it.

[AtlanteanTroll]

I think my first was in the late 130's, because I remember the big fiasco over three people thinking they had the #151 spot. Namely, me. :smalltongue:

[Amidus Drexel]

I'd like to know what everyone's first Random Banter was, if they remember (general vicinity, if not). First one they posted on, that is.

About #182, I think. I could go back and check, but I'm pretty sure it's either that one or #183.

Also, polls! :smallcool:

ION: Free time? How did this happen? *quickly schedules things to do*

[Dimonite]

*Boogies, gavottes, etc.*


I'd like to know what everyone's first Random Banter was, if they remember (general vicinity, if not). First one they posted on, that is.

#179, page 13. I said this:


Twenties? That seems low.
If true, you're very lucky.
Coldness is the best.

(I will be posting,
But only in Haiku form.
please pardon poor verse. )


Obviously, that didn't last. :smalltongue:

[Aurenthal]

This is definitively the first of the RB threads I have commented on. But I think that the first I saw was around 140, not really sure. I decided to make a coment because I participated in the poll above :)

[Wayril]

RB Poll! Yes Please! I'm so glad to see this is still here and at 200.

I can't say with certainty, but I think it was #33. I hope Amotis is still around to see the monster he created. :smallbiggrin:

[HalfTangible]

Absolutely no idea.

[MoonCat]

POLLLLLLLL!

I remember looking through the oldest undeleted threads and seeing the polls. That was so cool.


I'd like to know what everyone's first Random Banter was, if they remember (general vicinity, if not). First one they posted on, that is.

Haruki's Hot and Holy #153, I joined right after the sequence of pig puns, iirc.

[Socratov]

My Google fu tells me it's #183 I bantered ramdomly for the very first time. I think at least. Without the serach function in this site and my abysmal google-fu I can't be sure if it was...

[EmeraldRose]

200....Wow....

My first RB was probably 30-ish? Mine was 57, so it was before that. Most of the early links seem to be broken, so I can't go back and figure it out.

For awhile back then there were times we could make it thru a thread in a matter of hours it seemed.

[Hiro Protagonest]

I'd like to know what everyone's first Random Banter was, if they remember (general vicinity, if not). First one they posted on, that is.

This one. :smalltongue:

[Haluesen]

I'd like to know what everyone's first Random Banter was, if they remember (general vicinity, if not). First one they posted on, that is.

I know mine was Random Banter #196, because I made the one right after! :smallbiggrin: And I guess because it was so recent.


To be honest I'm surprised that I'm not asleep yet. I should be, I've got a date tomorrow. Although I've only been staying awake 'cause I'm leveling a character in WoW and I'm texting said date. :smalltongue:

Ooh Mynx has a date? Well I hope it goes very well, and I am rather extremely happy for you!


I couldn't quote from before so I just want to try to comment to Ele that I question the clubs here because where I live is so very small, but still I don't feel I have time to dedicate myself to a club currently. And I suppose I can ask my optometrist about prescription sunglasses, but I have no way to pay for it right now, so first I need to work that out.

So how is everyone this morning? Or whatever time it is where you are? :smallbiggrin:

[Dallas-Dakota]

Somewhere around #50-#60. Not sure exactly.

I hope there's still a few on the playground from RB #1. Think there's a couple.

I think your thread, #74, was my first random banter.:smallsmile:

Thank you all for some wonderfull banter.

[Thufir]

I'd like to know what everyone's first Random Banter was, if they remember (general vicinity, if not). First one they posted on, that is.

Somewhere in the 90s, let me dig through the archive a bit... OK, so #95 was the current one when I joined the forums, but I don't think I started posting in RB until #96. First post in RB... I've found this one (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showpost.php?p=4217670&postcount=1310), but I don't know if there are any others before that and I don't have time to do a thorough search right now because I'm in a show in under an hour. The full dose of nostalgia and weirdness will have to wait.

[Mutant Sheep]

My first? It was AThousandWord's, back in what, 164? I came in and Eon was pretending to be Blue Ghost, and I was confused and almost left.:smalltongue:


<proffers the candy> No, post count means nothing. The content does, so yeah, if every single post recorded has me being awesome and meaningful (instead of talking about how surreal my life is when it starts raining after I step outside on a sunny day), then yes, I suppose I suppose would be a pretty awesome forumite, however, my posts aren't all meaningful brilliance, whereas most of yours I've seen have been pretty cool. And who's Bruce Campbell? (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showpost.php?p=11584629&postcount=212)

YE SAID MAH POSTS WERE COOL.:smalltongue::smallbiggrin:

[Taet]

I came in because TaiLiu talked about tea in #193. It gave me some way to say hello. I will refill and heat the kettle on the stove now. Does anyone want plain black tea in teabags that can go in the compost later or Chinese restaurant tea or black tea with vanilla in a plastic mesh teabag? I have sugar cubes ready and I will buy fresh milk and lemons at the farmer's market this morning.


200....Wow....

My first RB was probably 30-ish? Mine was 57, so it was before that. Most of the early links seem to be broken, so I can't go back and figure it out.

For awhile back then there were times we could make it thru a thread in a matter of hours it seemed.

The first link that is not broken is #86.

What happened at Random Banter #79? :smalleek: I wanted to look but by the time the threads came back the story was gone.

[randman22222]

No, it works fine. You just have to type "compare apples with oranges." (https://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=google+comparison+feature&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8#channel=fs&q=compare+apples+with+oranges)
Ohh. Okay. I just can't get it to compare Cockatiels and African Greys now. I just did manual research, which I was gonna do anyway. :smalltongue:

ION: RANDMAN CUT HIS HAIR NNOOOOO AND I REFUSE TO BELIEVE IN FAIRIES.

... although, there's six of them chasing Randman, well, his character, at the moment. :smallamused: *hides in tree*
Oh shush I look dashing. :smalltongue:

And uh. I have plans. God I hope they work. If not I'm screwed. :smalleek:

So I'm testing out my build for Kayle in League of Legends. It starts rather hard, the enemy bots are crushing my bot team. But then I get my Rageblade and suddenly Kayle starts stomping everyone.
Weird. I actually feel like playing LoL again. :smallconfused:

I'd like to know what everyone's first Random Banter was, if they remember (general vicinity, if not). First one they posted on, that is.
Oooh, I actually found my first ever post (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=4414547#post4414547) in a random banter. It was in Raiser's Rambunctiously Rambling Random Banter #98, and was a rather lazy post. :smalltongue:

[Zar Peter]

I came in because TaiLiu talked about tea in #193. It gave me some way to say hello. I will refill and heat the kettle on the stove now. Does anyone want plain black tea in teabags that can go in the compost later or Chinese restaurant tea or black tea with vanilla in a plastic mesh teabag? I have sugar cubes ready and I will buy fresh milk and lemons at the farmer's market this morning.



The first link that is not broken is #86.

What happened at Random Banter #79? :smalleek: I wanted to look but by the time the threads came back the story was gone.
I think Hexa Regina was a member here who was said to have died in the Iraq. That's the reason the people made a Random Banter in her memory.

[inuyasha]

This is my first random banter thread, hello new world!!

[Haluesen]

This one. :smalltongue:


This is my first random banter thread, hello new world!!

Both of you welcome to the banter! :smallbiggrin: Have fun and be chatty. :smalltongue:


I came in because TaiLiu talked about tea in #193. It gave me some way to say hello. I will refill and heat the kettle on the stove now. Does anyone want plain black tea in teabags that can go in the compost later or Chinese restaurant tea or black tea with vanilla in a plastic mesh teabag? I have sugar cubes ready and I will buy fresh milk and lemons at the farmer's market this morning.

Ooh I am curious about that tea with vanilla. :smallsmile: And probably some milk. I like the sound of tea, I haven't had any in a while.

[Castaras]

I think Hexa Regina was a member here who was said to have died in the Iraq. That's the reason the people made a Random Banter in her memory.

Yeah, I believe it turned out to be a load of poo, from what I recall.

[Topus]

I think it's my first post in a random barter, though i usually like reading the titles.

[Rockphed]

I started bantering back in 2009. I remember because I would go to the library after class to banter. I think that puts my first about 50. I know I made 60, though I understand the link no longer works. Also, I did a really bad job naming it. I'm sorry. Please forgive me.:smallfrown:

After 1 week of the new job, I have decided that I prefer this one to the old one. There I did slightly interesting things to make really boring products(literally just specialized computers), now I do boring things to make interesting products(I tell robots how to dance!) Feel free to boogie!:smallamused:

[enderlord99]

It might technically be possible to buy the website example.info.

Is it actually possible, or no?

If it is, who would you be buying it from?

[Sunken Valley]

I'd like to know who this forum rules is exactly. Is it Rawhide, Roland, The Giant, A shared account?

[Mutant Sheep]

I'd like to know who this forum rules is exactly. Is it Rawhide, Roland, The Giant, A shared account?

Well, Forum Staff's Signature says

The above words represent the consensus of the entire Giant in the Playground staff, including the moderators, the webmaster, and Rich Burlew.

(The PM box for this account is not regularly monitored; please direct any PMs to the forum staff to Roland St. Jude, the forum guru. Thank you.)
So probably a shared account Rawhide took control of for this.

Also, i noticed this earlier but forgot to say it:Rawhide can make another thread after this, because it's not his thread, it's the Staff's.:smallamused:

[DJ Yung Crunk]

190-something. But that's just my best guess. Can't exactly say I have nostalgia for this, just yet.

With all these "Let's..." threads going about maybe I should do one, a "Let's Listen" if you will.

[Hiro Protagonest]

Both of you welcome to the banter! :smallbiggrin: Have fun and be chatty. :smalltongue:
I was drawn in by the poll symbol. O.o

With all these "Let's..." threads going about maybe I should do one, a "Let's Listen" if you will.

I'm currently tossing around the idea of "Let's (Re)Watch Kim Possible".

[DJ Yung Crunk]

I'm currently tossing around the idea of "Let's (Re)Watch Kim Possible".

If I did a "Let's Listen..." it'd probably be of Lil B's 700 song mixtape. That'll provide me with plenty of material.

I vaguely recall a Kim Possible... Is that a cartoon?

[AtlanteanTroll]

I see no point to anything but LP's. I seem to be in the minority on this site.

[DJ Yung Crunk]

I see no point to anything but LP's. I seem to be in the minority on this site.

Bear in mind I only have the faintest inkling of what these things actually are. Still, how hard could it be?

[Hiro Protagonest]

I vaguely recall a Kim Possible... Is that a cartoon?

An excellent high school dramedy/action here parody. Seriously.

(if you read "seriously" in Motor Ed's voice, have a cookie)

The majority of the episodes are available online (those that aren't are probably lost in the coding on Disney's site, there but not actually viewable because they never give you the link).

Relevant Link (http://video.disney.com/shows/kim-possible-4ba34a96fd91059e961b9666)
Relevant Link 2 (http://sharetv.org/shows/kim_possible/watch)
Relevant Link 3 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Kim_Possible_episodes)

Season 1 is fairly meh. Season 2 sees a new director/producer/whatever and starts going in a slightly different direction. Not the best, but the three-parter is great ("Eat hot plasma Supreme One stooges!" "Viva La Resistance!"). Season 3 I haven't actually watched most of in a while, so I forget how good it is. Season 4 is by far the best.

[Neftren]

I was drawn in by the poll symbol. O.o

As was I.

I don't think I've seen a poll on this site in I don't even remember how long. Probably never... :smalleek:

[Rockphed]

I see no point to anything but LP's. I seem to be in the minority on this site.

Pshaw! LPs are not the way to go. Real music enthusiasts bind the soul of their preferred musician into an atrocity of science to perform the music live (or dead) for all eternity!

[AtlanteanTroll]

Pshaw! LPs are not the way to go. Real music enthusiasts bind the soul of their preferred musician into an atrocity of science to perform the music live (or dead) for all eternity!

Let Play's, not ... Long Performances ...

EDIT: I wish regular members could make threads with polls. :smallbiggrin:

[DJ Yung Crunk]

(if you read "seriously" in Motor Ed's voice, have a cookie)

Who the heck is "Motor Ed"? Also, sorry, but I don't do links. If I'm on GitP it's because I'm listening to music and want something for my hands to do while my ears are being pleasured and I don't pause albums for my own mother.

But, based on what I've read online, I really have no inclination to check it out. Who knows? I might be depriving myself but that's my choice. Sorry.

[Hiro Protagonest]

As was I.

I don't think I've seen a poll on this site in I don't even remember how long. Probably never... :smalleek:

I've seen one in the Snips, Snails, and Dragon Tails thread.

Edit:

Who the heck is "Motor Ed"?
One of her rogue gallery. He's the most brilliant mechanical engineer in the country (although her brothers are probably better as of season 4. Motor Ed stole a rocket. They built a car to catch up to that rocket). He's also got a mullet and likes to rock out on air guitar. His catchphrase is "seriously".
Also, sorry, but I don't do links. If I'm on GitP it's because I'm listening to music and want something for my hands to do while my ears are being pleasured and I don't pause albums for my own mother.

...Okay?

[Mx.Silver]

I think I made one post in the last thread, if that counts as a 'first time'.

[factotum]

I honestly can't remember what RB I first posted in. A quick Google search shows I had a post in RB #161, but I doubt that was the very first one and I don't want to check all 26,000 results to figure out which it was!

[DJ Yung Crunk]

...Okay?

Wanted to preempt inquiries about whether or not I watched the linked episodes.

[FinnLassie]

*sadly looks at the lock up of previous thread*

But but what if I wanted to quote stuff?! :smalleek:


Ah, well.

Today has been very uneventful.

[DJ Yung Crunk]

Today has been very uneventful.

You're telling me. Keep in mind it's only 6AM over here and I'm currently still curled up in bed surrounded by a stack of CDs.

I feel like a dragon on his hoard.

EDIT: Did I seriously write "hear" instead of "here"? The music's going to my hear head

[Mx.Silver]

You're telling me. Keep in mind it's only 6AM over here and I'm currently still curled up in bed surrounded by a stack of CDs.

I feel like a dragon on his hoard.

EDIT: Did I seriously write "hear" instead of "here"? The music's going to my hear head

I dread to imagine what your life is like when you're complaining that things are uneventful at 6AM on a weekend...

[Haluesen]

*sadly looks at the lock up of previous thread*

But but what if I wanted to quote stuff?! :smalleek:


Ah, well.

Today has been very uneventful.

Very much in agreement. :smallsigh: Been up four hours, still just on the computer. Eh. Maybe there will be fun stuff later.


You're telling me. Keep in mind it's only 6AM over here and I'm currently still curled up in bed surrounded by a stack of CDs.

I feel like a dragon on his hoard.

EDIT: Did I seriously write "hear" instead of "here"? The music's going to my hear head

Heh I like that comparison. :smallbiggrin: Must protect the hoard!

[DJ Yung Crunk]

I dread to imagine what your life is like when you're complaining that things are uneventful at 6AM on a weekend...

"Complaining"? Did you not hear me compare myself to a dragon?

How is that anything but awesome?


Heh I like that comparison. :smallbiggrin: Must protect the hoard!

If I was more creative I'd construct some elaborate metaphor about how music is, in a sense, a "treasure" but it's 6AM and I don't think I'm that "Disney".

Whatever, got my dragon swag on anyway. #dragon #2013 #protectthehoard #swag #realtrapmusic

[Mx.Silver]

"Complaining"? Did you not hear me compare myself to a dragon?


Alright then: I dread to think what your life is like when you're proclaiming that things are uneventful at 6AM on a weekend.

That better, your draconicness?

[TaiLiu]

I'd like to know what everyone's first Random Banter was, if they remember (general vicinity, if not). First one they posted on, that is.
Hm. Somewhere around one hundred and seventy and one hundred and eighty, I think.

I came in because TaiLiu talked about tea in #193. It gave me some way to say hello. I will refill and heat the kettle on the stove now. Does anyone want plain black tea in teabags that can go in the compost later or Chinese restaurant tea or black tea with vanilla in a plastic mesh teabag? I have sugar cubes ready and I will buy fresh milk and lemons at the farmer's market this morning.
I'll take my tea without teabags.

Yeah, I believe it turned out to be a load of poo, from what I recall.
Still, it is certainly an interesting reason to create such a thread.

[Astral Avenger]

Well, I've been reading the random banter threads for a long time, but my google fu is making it look like I've never actually posted in the threads.

[AtlanteanTroll]

Well, I've been reading the random banter threads for a long time, but my google fu is making it look like I've never actually posted in the threads.

I've been around here and posting in them since you've been on, and I don't recall ever seeing you around.

[DJ Yung Crunk]

Alright then: I dread to think what your life is like when you're proclaiming that things are uneventful at 6AM on a weekend.

Mile-a-minute, you know how it is. Flights to Paris, champagne by the bottle, Versace suits, gold chains, gold watches.


That better, your draconicness?

I'm still a little concerned you people think I default to complaining and arguing. I like to think I'm a pretty nice guy. Granted I know I'm not helping myself here but... putting that aside am I really such a scrooge?

I am genuinely upset by this. :smallfrown:

[TaiLiu]

I'm still a little concerned you people think I default to complaining and arguing. I like to think I'm a pretty nice guy. Granted I know I'm not helping myself here but... putting that aside am I really such a scrooge?

I am genuinely upset by this. :smallfrown:
Oh, I'm sorry, comrade. You are not.

[DJ Yung Crunk]

Oh, I'm sorry, comrade. You are not.

I wasn't fishing but thanks, I really appreciate it. :smallsmile:

I guess I'm on guard because in the real world I do have a reputation as something of a grouchy snob. It's not fun, I'd like to prevent it here if I can.

[Deathkeeper]

In Penn station. Got in just when a train left and have to wait another half hour to get on our train.
Regardless, a very nice experience. I got a few neat t-shirts and a pair of gundam models.

[Haluesen]

If I was more creative I'd construct some elaborate metaphor about how music is, in a sense, a "treasure" but it's 6AM and I don't think I'm that "Disney".

Whatever, got my dragon swag on anyway. #dragon #2013 #protectthehoard #swag #realtrapmusic

Heh really 6AM currently? Nearly 2 in the afternoon here. But you don't need to confince me, I already know that there is great worth in music. :smallbiggrin: Sadly, I do not really know much about musical genres and artists. I just know when I enjoy or hate a song that I hear.


I'm still a little concerned you people think I default to complaining and arguing. I like to think I'm a pretty nice guy. Granted I know I'm not helping myself here but... putting that aside am I really such a scrooge?

I am genuinely upset by this. :smallfrown:

Well I did apologize last thread for my rude assumption...it isn't that I think that you default to that though. It's more like I can see that you are very strong with your opinions which is a good thing, but I personally have never been good with my own opinions. It isn't that I think you are very argumentative, but that I think if I tried to really discuss my opinion on something versus yours, I may make an argument of it when I shouldn't, which is not what I want to do. I like discussion but am not sure how to properly go about it I guess. I haven't really talked to you here in RB as I have Teddy or Kneebs or Finny. I think that is the best way to put my words? No, even then I am still not sure that I put that right. Part of it also is that I can tell by the last thread that we do have some conflicting interests, like Big Bang Theory and Disney movies, and I know I saw other things I disagreed with you on but I can't recall at the moment.

Just...look, all that aside I don't dislike you or anything like that. I'm just trying to figure out how to talk to someone that seems to have so much different from me without seeming like a jerk. I think I am failing at that. At the very least, I never intended to make you feel upset or to judge you. I'm very sorry for that AllIHaveIs (think you said to use that instead of Crunk last thread, I could be wrong). :smallfrown:

[TaiLiu]

I wasn't fishing but thanks, I really appreciate it. :smallsmile:

I guess I'm on guard because in the real world I do have a reputation as something of a grouchy snob. It's not fun, I'd like to prevent it here if I can.
Understandable. I have a similar reputation; during a loud party, I was compared to a grumpy college professor. :smalltongue:

In Penn station. Got in just when a train left and have to wait another half hour to get on our train.
Regardless, a very nice experience. I got a few neat t-shirts and a pair of gundam models.
Indeed! Did you take photos?

[FinnLassie]

I'm still a little concerned you people think I default to complaining and arguing. I like to think I'm a pretty nice guy. Granted I know I'm not helping myself here but... putting that aside am I really such a scrooge?

I am genuinely upset by this. :smallfrown:

Well, you do often express yourself in a rather snappy, hostile manner. At least it puts me off from discussing with you. It's the internet, so I can't really imagine a tone of voice, so I assume intentions and such through used words and punctuation.

[TaiLiu]

Well, you do often express yourself in a rather snappy, hostile manner. At least it puts me off from discussing with you. It's the internet, so I can't really imagine a tone of voice, so I assume intentions and such through used words and punctuation.
Ah, such strong assumptions! I believe there was a quote on this...

[Rockphed]

Let Play's, not ... Long Performances ...

EDIT: I wish regular members could make threads with polls. :smallbiggrin:

:smallredface: I thought you were speaking of vinyl records, sometimes called LPs, and being all audiophile on us. With that context, I agree that Let's Plays are interesting and worth reading. Other similar things are generally less interesting. Then again, when I did a Let's Play, nobody read it, so I might just have run in to the lower quality works and there are worthy Let's Reads or Lets Listens.

[Mx.Silver]

Mile-a-minute, you know how it is. Flights to Paris, champagne by the bottle, Versace suits, gold chains, gold watches.
I'm assuming that's a reference to one of those 'rap musics' I hear the kids are all into these days.
Do people still wear watches, incidentally? I'd have thought the fact that basically every piece of pocket-sized electronics has a clock function had made them a bit redundant.




I guess I'm on guard because in the real world I do have a reputation as something of a grouchy snob. It's not fun, I'd like to prevent it here if I can.

Speaking from personal experience, you'll probably find you have more fun once you stop worrying about how other people view the bars you set for things. Sure, you'll get the odd 'hard to please' and 'hates everything' remark, but that's just how it goes.

(Incidentally, my reading of it as a complaint is because FinnLassie's original remark read like one, and you seemed to be agreeing with her)

[TaiLiu]

Do people still wear watches, incidentally? I'd have thought the fact that basically every piece of pocket-sized electronics has a clock function had made them a bit redundant.
They do. Perhaps for other reasons than the ability to know the time, but they do.

[MoonCat]

My first? It was AThousandWord's, back in what, 164? I came in and Eon was pretending to be Blue Ghost, and I was confused and almost left.:smalltongue:



YE SAID MAH POSTS WERE COOL.:smalltongue::smallbiggrin:


Aww, I was so cheerful back then!

Still no idea who Bruce Campbell is. Aaaactooorror?

[FinnLassie]

Do people still wear watches, incidentally? I'd have thought the fact that basically every piece of pocket-sized electronics has a clock function had made them a bit redundant.

I started wearing a watch when I came to uni. I did have a watch before that, but I found them somehow super strange... However, ho and behold comes autumn 2012 and I have a new watch, and well, I would like to say I still have it but that'd be lie... I lost it, and bought an identical one to replace it... :smalltongue:

... What was my point? Ah. Yeah. I feel naked without it. I like keeping things analog, and I just sort of like having it on me. The ticking's loud but comforting. I've also found that having a watch has made me less obsessed about my phone, as before after looking the time I would go "well, I have it in my hand now, might as well do something else", but now I just quickly check the time (and date) on my watch, boom, done, back to being relatively productive.

[Coidzor]

I'd like to know what everyone's first Random Banter was, if they remember (general vicinity, if not). First one they posted on, that is.

Around the low 100s/upper 90s. Earliest one I know for a fact is 108.

[DJ Yung Crunk]

I'm assuming that's a reference to one of those 'rap musics' I hear the kids are all into these days.
Do people still wear watches, incidentally? I'd have thought the fact that basically every piece of pocket-sized electronics has a clock function had made them a bit redundant.

I wasn't referencing a specific hip hop song, more the general lifestyle. It's escapism at its purest, really. Some folks fantasize about alien worlds or fighting dragons, my fantasies tend to involve me overlooking New York from my penthouse loft, clad in a very expensive Giorgio Armani suit even though I'm a wealthy spokesperson for Gucci. Typically I'm clutching a cigar when a very attractive person (I don't like to be picky :smalltongue:) walks in and hands me a glass of chilled rosé. And maybe I have seven gold chains on, or something. I dunno, my fantasies tends to be inconsistent when it comes to jewelry.

I think people mostly wear watches for fashion these days, though I might be wrong. For all my adoration of that lifestyle I really can't name a watch brand other than Rolex.


Speaking from personal experience, you'll probably find you have more fun once you stop worrying about how other people view the bars you set for things. Sure, you'll get the odd 'hard to please' and 'hates everything' remark, but that's just how it goes.

Believe me, I'd love to 'let it go' and not care what people think. And with fortnightly sessions with a psychologist maybe someday I'll get there. But for the time being I take negative feedback like a freight train. Though, in this case, I'm mostly very frustrated that I'm still being seen as some hostile snob despite my best effort to reign that part of me in. I feel like the effort wasn't even worth it, y'know? See, this is why I like 4chan. Even uncut and uncensored I'm one of the nicer folks there.

And, honestly, who wants to scare people off merely because they have different opinions? I'd like to exchange ideas, who knows, maybe someone will get me to change my mind. I think you'll find a post of me denouncing Adventure Time on one of those threads and now look at me! I love it! Dreams can come true, folks, but you won't know if you don't try.

Thread #200, guys! How do you like it?

[Haluesen]

So far it is quite active and I am enjoying that. :smallbiggrin: I should probably be trying to do something else though. Maybe D&D preparations, those still matter. :smalltongue:

[LaZodiac]

LaZodiac shambles into the thread, shouts "POKEMON" and leaves.

This is so much fun.

[TaiLiu]

LaZodiac shambles into the thread, shouts "POKEMON" and leaves.

This is so much fun.
Oo, what is happening? How is the plot?

[LaZodiac]

Oo, what is happening? How is the plot?

Not far enough yet and won't spoil it.

[Hiro Protagonest]

I wasn't referencing a specific hip hop song, more the general lifestyle. It's escapism at its purest, really. Some folks fantasize about alien worlds or fighting dragons, my fantasies tend to involve me overlooking New York from my penthouse loft, clad in a very expensive Giorgio Armani suit even though I'm a wealthy spokesperson for Gucci. Typically I'm clutching a cigar when a very attractive person (I don't like to be picky :smalltongue:) walks in and hands me a glass of chilled rosé. And maybe I have seven gold chains on, or something. I dunno, my fantasies tends to be inconsistent when it comes to jewelry.

My ambitious fantasies all involve the military. I would like to become a Brigadier-General or an Army Ranger someday, or maybe an ace pilot or paratrooper (the latter two are more likely, because if I join the military I'm going through the Air Force first). Otherwise, I would like to revolutionize something that should've been implemented but hasn't because budgets and patents and other politicking get in the way, like designing a squad automatic weapon that can have its sturdy machine gun barrel switched out with a thinner, shorter barrel that is comparable to the M4 Carbine, or dig up the gyrojet (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyrojet) and turn it into a sniper weapon.

What I actually hope to do is be a mechanic or a weldor (welder is what the machine is called), or maybe an engineer if I can get through college. Maybe gunsmithing as a hobby/part-time job.

[Castaras]

Do people still wear watches, incidentally? I'd have thought the fact that basically every piece of pocket-sized electronics has a clock function had made them a bit redundant.

I adore my watch, and cannot go anywhere without it. I even sleep with it on, just because it's easier to look at the face than try and scramble for phone and get blinded.

Also quicker to glance at wrist than to take phone out of pocket.

[Mx.Silver]

See, this is why I like 4chan. Even uncut and uncensored I'm one of the nicer folks there.
While I understand the value of taking whatever positive feedback comes your way, 'being nice by 4chan's standards' sounds like a status you'd have to work to avoid :smalltongue:



Thread #200, guys! How do you like it?

Well I've made more than one post in it so that's a new record for me. Not sure if that says anything positive about the thread, mind you.



Oo, what is happening? How is the plot?
Ash blunders around ineffectually in exactly the same way he has done for the last eleventy billion episodes/films?

[Hiro Protagonest]

Ash blunders around ineffectually in exactly the same way he has done for the last eleventy billion episodes/films?

I think they're talking about the game. :smalltongue:

[Mx.Silver]

I think they're talking about the game. :smalltongue:

... Those have plots now?

[Hiro Protagonest]

... Those have plots now?

One of them did. One of the Black and Whites.

[AtlanteanTroll]

Ah, such strong assumptions! I believe there was a quote on this...
Is it really an assumption if it's based on something, though?


:smallredface: I thought you were speaking of vinyl records, sometimes called LPs, and being all audiophile on us. With that context, I agree that Let's Plays are interesting and worth reading. Other similar things are generally less interesting. Then again, when I did a Let's Play, nobody read it, so I might just have run in to the lower quality works and there are worthy Let's Reads or Lets Listens.
Ahaha, I know that LP is also vinyl. :smallwink: There seems to be at least one good Let's Watch on here, but it still strikes me as somewhat bizarre.


LaZodiac shambles into the thread, shouts "POKEMON" and leaves.

This is so much fun.
I know right!? Alas, I really should be writing my Seminar Paper. Non-fiction, prose research paper. Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay.


... Those have plots now?
They have for a while. They've been getting better and better as they go. Last game's was pretty good.

[DJ Yung Crunk]

My ambitious fantasies all involve the military. I would like to become a Brigadier-General or an Army Ranger someday, or maybe an ace pilot or paratrooper (the latter two are more likely, because if I join the military I'm going through the Air Force first). Otherwise, I would like to revolutionize something that should've been implemented but hasn't because budgets and patents and other politicking get in the way, like designing a squad automatic weapon that can have its sturdy machine gun barrel switched out with a thinner, shorter barrel that is comparable to the M4 Carbine, or dig up the gyrojet (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyrojet) and turn it into a sniper weapon.

What I actually hope to do is be a mechanic or a weldor (welder is what the machine is called), or maybe an engineer if I can get through college. Maybe gunsmithing as a hobby/part-time job.

I can't decide which fantasy is better. Being the one percent or designing kill-weapons. Decisions decisions.


While I understand the value of taking whatever positive feedback comes your way, 'being nice by 4chan's standards' sounds like a status you'd have to work to avoid :smalltongue:

I'm trying, damn it! I'm trying!

[Hiro Protagonest]

I can't decide which fantasy is better. Being the one percent or designing kill-weapons. Decisions decisions.

Let me mangle a quote for this. When you live, you get to be a king. When I die, I get to be a legend.

Some people want money. I want respect. I want to have an impact.

[DJ Yung Crunk]

Let me mangle a quote for this. When you live, you get to be a king. When I die, I get to be a legend.

Some people want money. I want respect. I want to have an impact.

I'd like to be around to reap the rewards, I suppose. Plus, who's to say I won't become a legend? 2pac sold ten times more albums when he was dead than when he was alive.

Oh, right, I forgot to mention I moonlight as a rapper in this world.

[TaiLiu]

Not far enough yet and won't spoil it.
Curses!

... Those have plots now?
I suppose so.

Is it really an assumption if it's based on something, though?
If it isn't, it is a false conclusion, at least.

I'd like to be around to reap the rewards, I suppose. Plus, who's to say I won't become a legend? 2pac sold ten times more albums when he was dead than when he was alive.

Oh, right, I forgot to mention I moonlight as a rapper in this world.
That is quite the life you imaginatively live in, comrade.

[Mynxae]

Ooh Mynx has a date? Well I hope it goes very well, and I am rather extremely happy for you!

It's one of those "not that great looking but really awesome personality" dates. Here's hoping it goes well :smallbiggrin:


So how is everyone this morning? Or whatever time it is where you are? :smallbiggrin:

I am fantastic Hally, how about you? :smalltongue:


Well, Forum Staff's Signature says
So probably a shared account Rawhide took control of for this.

Also, i noticed this earlier but forgot to say it:Rawhide can make another thread after this, because it's not his thread, it's the Staff's.:smallamused:

OH DEAR GOD WHY RAWHIDE WHY! YOU LITTLE LOOP-HOLE EXPLOITING SON OF A.. :smallsigh:

[Rawhide]

OH DEAR GOD WHY RAWHIDE WHY! YOU LITTLE LOOP-HOLE EXPLOITING SON OF A.. :smallsigh:

I have no intention of making thread 101, but I'm obviously not going to be held to the 50 thread rule if I decide to make one sometime in the future...

Also, in honour of the centenary of threads, I hereby decree that this thread shall go to 100 pages.

[TaiLiu]

I have no intention of making thread 101, but I'm obviously not going to be held to the 50 thread rule if I decide to make one sometime in the future...

Also, in honour of the centenary of threads, I hereby decree that this thread shall go to 100 pages.
Hooray! Let us celebrate with a hundred platters of steamed fish!

[Thufir]

On further investigation, I believe this (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showpost.php?p=4155646&postcount=733) was my first ever post in a Random Banter thread.
My first ever RB post was talking about the weather. How very British of me.

[LaZodiac]

I have no intention of making thread 101, but I'm obviously not going to be held to the 50 thread rule if I decide to make one sometime in the future...

Also, in honour of the centenary of threads, I hereby decree that this thread shall go to 100 pages.

Understood captain!

[Mutant Sheep]

On further investigation, I believe this (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showpost.php?p=4155646&postcount=733) was my first ever post in a Random Banter thread.
My first ever RB post was talking about the weather. How very British of me.Oh god. Aprill 2008. Gah. *NAME* was still in charge back then!:smalleek::smallconfused:


I have no intention of making thread 101, but I'm obviously not going to be held to the 50 thread rule if I decide to make one sometime in the future...

Also, in honour of the centenary of threads, I hereby decree that this thread shall go to 100 pages.:smallbiggrin::smallwink:

Does this mean this thread can count as two for the "Wait 50 threads" rule, for those wanting to make a new thread? (Say, the 225th?:smalltongue:)

Sweet, 99 votes on the poll. Apparently we don't understand what a poll is.:smallbiggrin:

[Rawhide]

I just made some of this thread disappear. Sorry about that.

---

I also think that thread 101 should be created by a university student.

[LaZodiac]

But...isn't Thread 101 already past? This is thread 200.

[Taet]

I wasn't referencing a specific hip hop song, more the general lifestyle. It's escapism at its purest, really. Some folks fantasize about alien worlds or fighting dragons, my fantasies tend to involve me overlooking New York from my penthouse loft, clad in a very expensive Giorgio Armani suit even though I'm a wealthy spokesperson for Gucci. Typically I'm clutching a cigar when a very attractive person (I don't like to be picky :smalltongue:) walks in and hands me a glass of chilled rosé. And maybe I have seven gold chains on, or something. I dunno, my fantasies tends to be inconsistent when it comes to jewelry.

I think people mostly wear watches for fashion these days, though I might be wrong. For all my adoration of that lifestyle I really can't name a watch brand other than Rolex.

So that's why I thought you were in New York City. It was your hope. And the rough way that you talk. It is normal NYC talk. :smallwink:


Ooh I am curious about that tea with vanilla. :smallsmile: And probably some milk. I like the sound of tea, I haven't had any in a while.

It is very strong tea behind the vanilla flavor. Don't drink it after dinner. :smalleek:


I see no point to anything but LP's. I seem to be in the minority on this site.

I don't either. Not even Let's Play. Not even watching a Let's Play for a board game that I have. D&D 4th Edition. It just showed that nobody else understood the rule about throwing corpses at the problem until it goes away when the problem is a new monster. :smallmad:


I'll take my tea without teabags.

I still don't have a tea ball. How are you going to get the tea leaves out? :smallyuk:

[Mystic Muse]

Also, in honour of the centenary of threads, I hereby decree that this thread shall go to 100 pages.

Wouldn't 200 make a little more sense given that it's the 200th thread?

That might cause issues I'm unaware of though.

[TaiLiu]

Wouldn't 200 make a little more sense given that it's the 200th thread?

That might cause issues I'm unaware of though.
Probably. And, hello, Mystic Muse! I haven't seen you in a while.

[Mystic Muse]

Probably. And, hello, Mystic Muse! I haven't seen you in a while.

Probably because I stormed out of the LGBTA thread, and haven't been back since for a variety of reasons.

[Hiro Protagonest]

So, I decided to see if Hulu had Sword Art Online...

<_<

>_>

*hides metaphorical cookie crumbs*

[Rawhide]

But...isn't Thread 101 already past? This is thread 200.

Yes, yes it is. I am le tired. :smallsigh:


Wouldn't 200 make a little more sense given that it's the 200th thread?

That might cause issues I'm unaware of though.

I decided not to make it 200 from the get go, but it is still a centenary - the second centenary. So, 100 is applicable, doable, and been done before.

[TaiLiu]

Probably because I stormed out of the LGBTA thread, and haven't been back since for a variety of reasons.
Well, I figured so for the former, but I did not predict the latter. In any case, it is nice to have you back.

[Mystic Muse]

I decided not to make it 200 from the get go, but it is still a centenary - the second centenary. So, 100 is applicable, doable, and been done before.

Alright. Just curious. :smallsmile:


Well, I figured so for the former, but I did not predict the latter. In any case, it is nice to have you back.

Thanks. Like I said, there are reasons for the latter, but I won't go into them on here. No need to cause strife for my comrade, right?

Plus, y'all don't care about my random troubles. :smalltongue:

[Mx.Silver]

Oh god. Aprill 2008. Gah. *NAME* was still in charge back then!:smalleek::smallconfused:
Looks that way. Surprising you'd remember that, considering your join date...




Sweet, 99 votes on the poll. Apparently we don't understand what a poll is.:smallbiggrin:
Well whatever it is I'm not voting in it :smallwink:



I still don't have a tea ball. How are you going to get the tea leaves out?
I rather think the point of loose-leaf is that the leaves stay in.


So, I decided to see if Hulu had Sword Art Online...

I should probably get around to seeing that at some point. Probably once I cycle back around to the 'S' section on my Crunchyroll binge.




I decided not to make it 200 from the get go, but it is still a centenary - the second centenary.

I think 'bicentenary' is the word you're looking for here.

[Mutant Sheep]

Looks that way. Surprising you'd remember that, considering your join date...

Well whatever it is I'm not voting in it :smallwink:


I rather think the point of loose-leaf is that the leaves stay in.


I should probably get around to seeing that at some point. Probably once I cycle back around to the 'S' section on my Crunchyroll binge.


I think 'bicentenary' is the word you're looking for here.I wasn't born in 2010, unlike some people i know.:smalltongue:

I have no idea what you're talking about.

But if the leaves stay in, how can you tell Autumn from Spring?:smallconfused::smalleek:

Bah. The only tv show one needs is The backyardigans.:smallcool::smallbiggrin:

I want the 225th or 226th, because the word for 225th is Quasquibicentennial. I had the 176th, and i got to call the thread the post-Septaquintaquinquecentennial thread.:smallbiggrin: (Also, if i remember right, the first day was on April Fool's and we all got ponified. I hope to continue the tradition.)

[KuReshtin]

The first post I could find by me in a RB thread was in thread 134, and it was truly a random post, as I then left and didn't say anything for what seems quite a while after that.




Quote:
Originally Posted by Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll
I feel loved. I just got recognized on Google Wave. I said I was Gwyn and they said "Gwyn of the long name?" "With the skull avvie?"

It makes me feel special.
Well, a steampunked skull is kind of recognisable, isn't it? That, combined with a name looks almost unpronounceable makes you stand out a bit.

I really should go to bed. I need to leave the house in about 6 hours to head up to Aberdeen for a football game. Gonna be a looong day tomorrow.

[Rawhide]

I think 'bicentenary' is the word you're looking for here.

No, bicentenary refers to completing 200 years threads, while centenary refers to completing 100 years threads. This is the first bicentenary of this thread, and the second centenary.

Here (http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00136242) is the term second centenary used in a published academic journal.

[Hiro Protagonest]

I should probably get around to seeing that at some point. Probably once I cycle back around to the 'S' section on my Crunchyroll binge.

Apparently, Season 2 (which Hulu lists as Season 1, much to the confusion of some people who have heard there are two seasons) has some pacing problems, but that literally whizzed right by me because I watched it all at once. There's also complaints about Asuna being turned into the captive princess, but they managed to do it naturally enough and the new girl is strong enough. It also has a legit happy ending, which is practically nonexistent for shorter anime/manga (might help that it started as light novels and this is just an adaptation).

Only problem I have with Season 2 is that it's only a small leap to get Kirito = Kazuto, one that Leafa didn't make until he outright put a bridge down for her by telling her that he's here to save Asuna. Well, okay, that's not the only problem I have... there is a bit of squick. Thankfully the incest is prevented before it got physical (I doubt Kirito/Kazuto would've ever allowed it even if it wasn't incest, since he loves Asuna).

[Duck999]

Best poll I hsve ever seen. 28 votes for no, including me-no, now thatI have voted I will not vote on the poll.

And bicentenary does mean sense.

[Cuthalion]

Yay new thread! Thanks FS. I think I came around Amidus's whatever it was whatchamacallitythingy Etcetera. :smalltongue:

[Trav]

Alright, hear me out...

In X-Men, the humans hate the mutants, whom most of which just want to co-exist with the "normals" and live their lives...

The mind behind Mutant Rights is Professor X; a mutant that teaches that, with discipline over their mutations, Mutants can live among humans, and that humans can learn to live with mutants. He dreams of a Utopia where human and mutant are seen as equals and are treated the same.

However, Magneto, the leader of the rebellious Brotherhood of Mutants, thinks the only way for the mutants to survive, they must take the offensive against humanity. He preaches hate to his followers towards humanity and their crimes against their kind...

When thinking back to the Civil Rights Movement in America, doesn't Professor X kinda start to sound like Martin Luther King Jr., and Magneto like Malcolm X?

[enderlord99]

I am le tired. :smallsigh:

Well, have a nap-AND THEN FIRE THE CIGARETTES MISSILES! Is that the reference you were going for?

[Mx.Silver]

I wasn't born in 2010, unlike some people i know.:smalltongue:

True, I just found it surprising you'd remember something that happened on this forum two years before you joined this forum.

Unless... You're the legendary secret disciple of Atticusxt.


No, bicentenary refers to completing 200 years threads, while centenary refers to completing 100 years threads. This is the first bicentenary of this thread, and the second centenary.

So in other words: second centenary = bicentenary. I'm glad we got this sorted because otherwise we could have been stuck here for over two half-hours :smalltongue:

[TaiLiu]

Thanks. Like I said, there are reasons for the latter, but I won't go into them on here. No need to cause strife for my comrade, right?

Plus, y'all don't care about my random troubles. :smalltongue:
Oh, I'm quite interested; new information is always interesting.

[Taet]

Now I am finished making filter coffee too. It takes longer than tea. Maybe I will get quicker with more practice. Coffee for AllIHaveIsCrunk and whoever else does not like tea. Please drink all you want because I will not want any.


Well, have a nap-AND THEN FIRE THE CIGARETTES MISSILES! Is that the reference you were going for?

I hope not. I didn't like that movie.


True, I just found it surprising you'd remember something that happened on this forum two years before you joined this forum.

Unless... You're the legendary secret disciple of Atticusxt.



So in other words: second centenary = bicentenary. I'm glad we got this sorted because otherwise we could have been stuck here for over two half-hours :smalltongue:

Maybe he just said something that sounded right. I don't know what either of you are talking about but I nodded anyway. It sounded right. But who is Atticusxt?

It's six of one and half a dozen of the other. :smallcool:


Oh, I'm quite interested; new information is always interesting.

And Mystic Muse said it was random too and this is random banter.

[Mystic Muse]

Oh, I'm quite interested; new information is always interesting.

If you're really that interested, we'd have to take it off the boards. Board rules still apply within PMs, and I believe expressing why I'm staying gone may violate them, in spirit if not in letter.

I have no intention of doing that, so I can't divulge why I'm staying away on these boards.

[Coidzor]

I wasn't born in 2010, unlike some people i know.:smalltongue:

On the other hand, are three-year-olds really people? :smallamused:


It's one of those "not that great looking but really awesome personality" dates. Here's hoping it goes well :smallbiggrin:

In other words, a blind date, then?

[TaiLiu]

If you're really that interested, we'd have to take it off the boards. Board rules still apply within PMs, and I believe expressing why I'm staying gone may violate them, in spirit if not in letter.

I have no intention of doing that, so I can't divulge why I'm staying away on these boards.
Ah, I see. Do you want to take it to our IRC?

[Mystic Muse]

Ah, I see. Do you want to take it to our IRC?

I'd rather not, just because I'd be paranoid about accidentally offending somebody. Sorry.

[TaiLiu]

I'd rather not, just because I'd be paranoid about accidentally offending somebody. Sorry.
Ah, that's fine. Thank you for trying, anything. :smallsmile:

[Elemental]

First Random Banter I hear you ask? That is a good question and I can't remember. But I did just check, and it was one hundred and seventy-five as far as I can tell.



The pendant was cheap and I wore it for maybe a week at most then got bored of it, so that can be thrown out unless someone there wants it. Laptop is essentially yours (and your sisters) 'cause I don't even use it unless I have no other option. Beads were for a cosplay that I never ended up doing anyways. The glass was just something I got from a promo at McDonalds, so you can have that. Other smaller things, just send me a PM about them and I'll guarantee that the majority of 'em could just be thrown out. I threw out a whole garbage bag of stuff when I moved.

Gosh, you actually cleaned out everything else?

I'd do something cool in Terraria but when I was without internet and kept trying to play it, my worlds kept disappearing. Made several topics on the official forums in the pc tech support section and never got a reply, so meh.

You should have gotten something prettier, rather than just going by the supposed health benefits of wearing crystalline minerals.
Anyway... When I have time, I shall do an inventory of the stuff you left behind and send it to you in a PM.

Mostly. All that remains is that bookcase to dust and the cupboard where I'm storing your stuff to go.

Is that still happening? That is decidedly odd if I do say so myself.



I couldn't quote from before so I just want to try to comment to Ele that I question the clubs here because where I live is so very small, but still I don't feel I have time to dedicate myself to a club currently. And I suppose I can ask my optometrist about prescription sunglasses, but I have no way to pay for it right now, so first I need to work that out.

I thought that was the case... Still, when you do have time, it is an option to consider.
You don't have to get them right now. It's just an idea for when you next go in for glasses.



*sadly looks at the lock up of previous thread*

But but what if I wanted to quote stuff?! :smalleek:

You could do what I did to quote Mynxae. What one does, is one copies the text, places it in a quote box, remembering to add in the formatting to add who the quote is from, and voilà! Instant quote!



If I was more creative I'd construct some elaborate metaphor about how music is, in a sense, a "treasure" but it's 6AM and I don't think I'm that "Disney".

There's no need! Treasure can be defined as anything valuable/desirable and tangible that can be stored securely. Therefore, a stack of CDs can be considered treasure.
Of course, there are many more possible definitions of treasure, but that one works the best in this situation and requires very little philosophy.



Do people still wear watches, incidentally? I'd have thought the fact that basically every piece of pocket-sized electronics has a clock function had made them a bit redundant.

I do, all the time. In fact, I'm wearing two watches, but one's twenty minutes slow.
But, that could just be because I really don't like pocket-sized electronics.



Still no idea who Bruce Campbell is. Aaaactooorror?

Doesn't he make soup?



I started wearing a watch when I came to uni. I did have a watch before that, but I found them somehow super strange... However, ho and behold comes autumn 2012 and I have a new watch, and well, I would like to say I still have it but that'd be lie... I lost it, and bought an identical one to replace it... :smalltongue:

... What was my point? Ah. Yeah. I feel naked without it. I like keeping things analog, and I just sort of like having it on me. The ticking's loud but comforting. I've also found that having a watch has made me less obsessed about my phone, as before after looking the time I would go "well, I have it in my hand now, might as well do something else", but now I just quickly check the time (and date) on my watch, boom, done, back to being relatively productive.

Oh Finn... That's the oldest trick in the book! And a rather successful one at that... Unfortunately, it wouldn't work if I lost my watch as people would ask what happened to all the scratches on it and why it suddenly has a very slightly different band.

I too am a fan of analogue time pieces. I find the ticking very soothing, though I only hear it when it is very quiet. Also, I can kind of feel the ticking of my pocket watch from time to time, and I think that's cool.
But yes, nothing's more convenient than looking at one's wrist and immediately being able to ascertain the time and date. One just needs to remember to adjust it on the first of the month five times each year.



Also, in honour of the centenary of threads, I hereby decree that this thread shall go to 100 pages.

We just need to not instinctively revert to new thread mode at forty-eight pages.



On further investigation, I believe this (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showpost.php?p=4155646&postcount=733) was my first ever post in a Random Banter thread.
My first ever RB post was talking about the weather. How very British of me.

In that case, I suggest that the British be in charge of initial discussions with alien species. After all, most inhabited worlds are likely to have weather.



(Also, if i remember right, the first day was on April Fool's and we all got ponified. I hope to continue the tradition.)

That was a fun April Fool's... Was it this year or last year? I can't recall...



Now I am finished making filter coffee too. It takes longer than tea. Maybe I will get quicker with more practice. Coffee for AllIHaveIsCrunk and whoever else does not like tea. Please drink all you want because I will not want any.

What if we don't like tea or coffee?
In any case, you need not concern yourself as I already have a beverage.



On the other hand, are three-year-olds really people? :smallamused:

They're proto-people, and thus interesting to study in order to better understand why people exist.

[Deathkeeper]

So, officially back to my dorm from Comic Con.
results: 2 gundam models, 3 T-shirts: one "Essential NPC- Do Not Kill", one Charmander Shepard, and one "So many books, so little time" with a dragon on it. No one got the outfit I was wearing, probably because I couldn't find a single Fallout cosplayer. Got to see Dark Souls 2. Will have pictures once my parents get them off their camera.

[TaiLiu]

So, officially back to my dorm from Comic Con.
results: 2 gundam models, 3 T-shirts: one "Essential NPC- Do Not Kill", one Charmander Shepard, and one "So many books, so little time" with a dragon on it. No one got the outfit I was wearing, probably because I couldn't find a single Fallout cosplayer. Got to see Dark Souls 2. Will have pictures once my parents get them off their camera.
Excellent! I look forward to them with eager eyes.

[Mystic Muse]

Does anybody know why FM radio stations all end in odd numbers instead of even?

I'd google it, but I suck at googling and knowing what to enter.

[DJ Yung Crunk]

Power went out again. *sigh*

It's really giving me the ****s, I tell you.


Now I am finished making filter coffee too. It takes longer than tea. Maybe I will get quicker with more practice. Coffee for AllIHaveIsCrunk and whoever else does not like tea. Please drink all you want because I will not want any.

I love tea. I can't drink coffee any more for reasons I'm not inclined to disclose.

Not that reason! Heaven's sakes, what are you, five?

[Rawhide]

Does anybody know why FM radio stations all end in odd numbers instead of even?

I'd google it, but I suck at googling and knowing what to enter.

Stations are spaced 200khz apart (generally), if one is set on x.1, then the next one will be x.3, etc...

[TaiLiu]

Power went out again. *sigh*

It's really giving me the ****s, I tell you.
Most vexing! Do you know what happened?

I love tea. I can't drink coffee any more for reasons I'm not inclined to disclose.
Ah, I love tea, too! That's two similarities!

[Taet]

What if we don't like tea or coffee?
In any case, you need not concern yourself as I already have a beverage.

No other drinks take time to make when someone asks for them. So they can be given at any time. :smallsmile:


So, officially back to my dorm from Comic Con.
results: 2 gundam models, 3 T-shirts: one "Essential NPC- Do Not Kill", one Charmander Shepard, and one "So many books, so little time" with a dragon on it. No one got the outfit I was wearing, probably because I couldn't find a single Fallout cosplayer. Got to see Dark Souls 2. Will have pictures once my parents get them off their camera.

I like the Essential NPC T-shirt. Even people who do not game can understand that a "Do Not Kill" T-shirt is useful.


Does anybody know why FM radio stations all end in odd numbers instead of even?

I'd google it, but I suck at googling and knowing what to enter.


Stations are spaced 200khz apart (generally), if one is set on x.1, then the next one will be x.3, etc...

That was also something I wondered but never knew.


Power went out again. *sigh*

It's really giving me the ****s, I tell you.



I love tea. I can't drink coffee any more for reasons I'm not inclined to disclose.

Not that reason! Heaven's sakes, what are you, five?

I feel the same. The power is only going out for my desk lamp but it is still annoying. Some wire is loose. It's not a year old yet and I will be very annoyed if it stops working. I like this lamp's light a lot.

Ok but I won't put milk in your tea either until you stop blowing bubbles in it. :smalltongue:

[DJ Yung Crunk]

Most vexing! Do you know what happened?

Eh... It just goes out a lot where I live. I've got to learn to live with it.


Ah, I love tea, too! That's two similarities!

It was bound to happen eventually. But, yeah, not to be excessively vague but it's my favourite drink.


Ok but I won't put milk in your tea either until you stop blowing bubbles in it. :smalltongue:

Then what's the point? :smallmad:

[TaiLiu]

Eh... It just goes out a lot where I live. I've got to learn to live with it.
Huh. Was it in the description when you entered your home?

It was bound to happen eventually. But, yeah, not to be excessively vague but it's my favourite drink.
As stated beforehand, likewise.

[DJ Yung Crunk]

Huh. Was it in the description when you entered your home?

Nope. I got hustled big time.


As stated beforehand, likewise.

I didn't know it was your favourite.

[TaiLiu]

Nope. I got hustled big time.
Ugh. You should probably file a complaint, for false advertising and the like.

I didn't know it was your favourite.
Well, now, you do! Our local budgie and I discussed it, one time.

[DJ Yung Crunk]

Ugh. You should probably file a complaint, for false advertising and the like.

It's out of my hands. Can't really afford my own place. I just live here.


Well, now, you do! Our local budgie and I discussed it, one time.

Is that, like, a Calvin and Hobbes thing?

[enderlord99]

Is that, like, a Calvin and Hobbes thing?

Tai is referring to Kneenibble.

[sparky9042]

My first random banter?

This one!

Right now!

[TaiLiu]

It's out of my hands. Can't really afford my own place. I just live here.
Oh, I see. My condolences.

Is that, like, a Calvin and Hobbes thing?
Ha ha! No:

Tai is referring to Kneenibble.

[Coidzor]

My first random banter?

This one!

Right now!

Hello hello! Hope you enjoy our random silliness.

[DJ Yung Crunk]

Tai is referring to Kneenibble.

I feel like a character who was introduced to the show halfway through the fifth season. I hope I have the ire of the fans. That's how my characters roll.

[TuggyNE]

Like vastly many others, I was drawn in to this, my first random banter, by the tantalizing sight of a poll icon! HOW COULD I RESIST?

I'm not really much of one for directionless chatter. :smalltongue:

[Elemental]

Stations are spaced 200khz apart (generally), if one is set on x.1, then the next one will be x.3, etc...

And here I was thinking it was because odd numbers sound snazzier. Guess I was wrong.



Power went out again. *sigh*

It's really giving me the ****s, I tell you.

Where do you live such that the power is so intermittent? It seems strange to me that it would be.



No other drinks take time to make when someone asks for them. So they can be given at any time. :smallsmile:

You would be surprised. But then, it doesn't matter because I really don't drink anything complicated.


Also; welcome to all the new people who stopped by to say hello. Stay a while and listenjoin in on our discussions.
Feel free to help yourself to anything in the fridge. Except the orange juice, I laced that with poison.

[Killer Angel]

I'd like to know what everyone's first Random Banter was, if they remember (general vicinity, if not). First one they posted on, that is.

mmm... hard to tell. Usually I don't post too much in random banter, but I can certainly say that the first 150 iterations of this thread, were done without me.

[Skeppio]

I'd like to know what everyone's first Random Banter was, if they remember (general vicinity, if not). First one they posted on, that is.

Hm, I dunno... I know I've been around since at least Random Banter #149, since I made that one. :smalltongue:

[SMEE]

I'd like to know what everyone's first Random Banter was, if they remember (general vicinity, if not). First one they posted on, that is.

I can't quite remember, but I believe it was somewhere around #50 or so.
I used to mostly lurk around till 2006 and 2007.

And now onto something completely random: www.smeenet.org/SillyRecording_2.wav

[Rawhide]

And here I was thinking it was because odd numbers sound snazzier. Guess I was wrong.

There are some countries that use 100khz spacing, and some that use 50khz, but the latter is being eliminated as most digital scan (as opposed to the analog knob) FM radios can't tune in an x.x5. The further the gap, the less interference between close channels and the more wideband the channels can be.

[Mynxae]

In other words, a blind date, then?

No no no, I knew what he looked like. He's not very physically appealing, but he has a very kind heart. :smallsmile:


You should have gotten something prettier, rather than just going by the supposed health benefits of wearing crystalline minerals.
Anyway... When I have time, I shall do an inventory of the stuff you left behind and send it to you in a PM.

Mostly. All that remains is that bookcase to dust and the cupboard where I'm storing your stuff to go.

Is that still happening? That is decidedly odd if I do say so myself.

I blame our friend J for saying I need feminine jewellery when I feel girly. :smallannoyed: Excellent, thank you muchly.

Awesome. :smallsmile:

I got sick of it after doing it twice. I even had a cool ice house and everything in the second world! :smallfrown:


My first random banter?

This one!

Right now!

Welcome, Sparky! Is your name in reference to Zuko from Avatar: The Last Airbender in any way? :smalltongue:

[AttilaTheGeek]

I've never posted in RB before (once maybe?), but the first one I remember seeing was #187.

[Teddy]

So, it took another two days, but I guess I'd start writing a few responses now. Also, I'm feeling somewhat unwell and can't maintain several levels of thought, so my writing feels like it's going to be a bit different than usual. Mostly because I can't rembember if there was something I wanted to say when I begun writing the paragraph.

Also, I should really get to my schoolwork...


My schedule already feels recursive enough... I think it'd be nice to get to a good place and just freeze it there... *drifts off*

I definitely agree. Problem is, I won't get to get to the best of places for as long as uni keeps interfering, and if I froze time, I'd never get there...


That was quite poetic Teddy. :smallredface: But to me at least the idea of rain clouds isn't bleak. They are like a sign of spreading life, of revitalization of the land, and depending on how much rain sometimes an area of peace in an otherwise tumultuous life. We had many clouds here yesterday, but they seem to have vanished now without leaving their gift, all that remains being a small chill. I believe I shall commence with the snuggling from that. :smallsmile:

Thanks! :smallredface:

Yeah, over here, the rainiest season is the autumn, when all life withers or otherwise goes into hibernation, and the autumn rain is usually cold and drab. There is no such thing as a revitalising rain in the autumn...


Hehe rather out there Teddyy, but everyone has their preferences. :smalltongue: Mine personally are (according to this math program thing) between 18 C and 26 C. Warmish without boiling me. :smallbiggrin: And failing that, I enjoy cold weather since for me it is easier than handling hot weather.

For me, half of it is about being able to keep the right body temperature throughout a multitude of activities. 25-30°C is good, because then I don't have to wear anything warm which gets sticky if I start to sweat, and -10°C and below is good, since I can easily dress warm enough for it with proper winter clothes, yet I'll seldom get too warm even if I'm active... :3


I realised I'm having a hard time deciding who's my favourite Swede - Nalle or Kurre. :smalleek: Ack! They're both so nice!

Naww... :smallredface:


Well, considering Nalle thinks I'm doubly awesome (as quoted in my sig) I must be the better Swede. :smallbiggrin:

Then again, Teddy is pretty awesome as well, restoring old trains and stuff.

Hehehe, thanks! :3

Also, we're not as much restoring as enhancing it, steampunking it up to our dreams... :smallbiggrin:


A digital version or a physical copy? From a store or through the mail?

If you got a physical copy through a store then someone might have just broken street date. It's been a while since I worked in retail, but a lot of times if a store breaks the street date (release date) and gets caught then it pretty much means everyone else gets to as well.

Admittedly, the last time I remember this happening it was almost a week and a half before street date rather than less than a day.

It was indeed a physical copy.


I'd like to know what everyone's first Random Banter was, if they remember (general vicinity, if not). First one they posted on, that is.

Curly's Rambunctious and Erudite Random Banter #140

I made exactly one post in it about 4/5ths in, then didn't write anything more until the next thread begun. Also, the first Banterite to respond to any of my posts was no one else than our distinguished Kneenie-Budgie... :3

Also, looking back through the threads, I noticed I've manage to post more than several of the Forumites I saw as great and talkactive Banterites when I GitP-grew up. The nostalgia is actually making me feel a bit sad...


Do people still wear watches, incidentally? I'd have thought the fact that basically every piece of pocket-sized electronics has a clock function had made them a bit redundant.

I do, an old watch I've had for years with a twice-cracked glass on it. I got a new watch last Christmas to replace this one, but the battery ran out within half a year and this one ticks on, so I changed back.

And part of the reason for why my phone hasn't managed to replace it is because it's much less convenient to carry around. I'm not very fond of putting larger objects in the pockets of my pants, so I've only got my fleece jackets or shorts (with leg pockets) to fall back on...


Some people want money. I want respect. I want to have an impact.

Well, going into the ballistics industry should certainly help with the impact part... :smallwink:

[AtlanteanTroll]

I want the 225th or 226th, because the word for 225th is Quasquibicentennial. I had the 176th, and i got to call the thread the post-Septaquintaquinquecentennial thread.:smallbiggrin: (Also, if i remember right, the first day was on April Fool's and we all got ponified. I hope to continue the tradition.)
No. No ponies. Never again.


Alright, hear me out...

In X-Men, the humans hate the mutants, whom most of which just want to co-exist with the "normals" and live their lives...

The mind behind Mutant Rights is Professor X; a mutant that teaches that, with discipline over their mutations, Mutants can live among humans, and that humans can learn to live with mutants. He dreams of a Utopia where human and mutant are seen as equals and are treated the same.

However, Magneto, the leader of the rebellious Brotherhood of Mutants, thinks the only way for the mutants to survive, they must take the offensive against humanity. He preaches hate to his followers towards humanity and their crimes against their kind...

When thinking back to the Civil Rights Movement in America, doesn't Professor X kinda start to sound like Martin Luther King Jr., and Magneto like Malcolm X?

Are you trolling? That's the entire point. X-Men is a big analogy to the American Civil Rights movement.

[HedgehogRanger]

So I just got back from a computer science competition and saw there was a new Random Banter thread! With a poll! Anyway, my first random banter was #199, so I'm still pretty new.

[Haluesen]

It's one of those "not that great looking but really awesome personality" dates. Here's hoping it goes well :smallbiggrin:

I am fantastic Hally, how about you? :smalltongue:

Indeed! :smallbiggrin: Very much hoping so. Nice people are treasures to find, :smalltongue:

I am...ehh. :smallfrown: Way too many worries and haven't at all found a sufficient way to vent them all out. And then I wake up 3 hours later than I mean to and discover my girlfriend called an hour ago. :smallsigh: So now? Very unwell. Though I am not wanting this to make others feel less fantastic. :smallsmile: So please stay joyous.


Also, in honour of the centenary of threads, I hereby decree that this thread shall go to 100 pages.

Woohoo! I am down for that. :smallbiggrin:


It is very strong tea behind the vanilla flavor. Don't drink it after dinner. :smalleek:

Ah I see. I have only ever really had sweetened ice tea, I just know that I enjoy vanilla coffee, so why would I not like vanilla tea? :smalltongue:


I thought that was the case... Still, when you do have time, it is an option to consider.
You don't have to get them right now. It's just an idea for when you next go in for glasses.

Oh yes I certainly shall. :smallsmile: 2 other club ideas I have for when I have some money to back it up is to maybe run an official tabletop gaming club somewhere up here, and also if a certain friend of mine starts a jujitsu dojo I would be happy to join that once I have the funds.

Yes indeed. I shall ask once I can. I'll be talking to my grandma tomorrow about insurance. But I have to keep mentioning it so I don't forget. :smalltongue:


So, officially back to my dorm from Comic Con.
results: 2 gundam models, 3 T-shirts: one "Essential NPC- Do Not Kill", one Charmander Shepard, and one "So many books, so little time" with a dragon on it. No one got the outfit I was wearing, probably because I couldn't find a single Fallout cosplayer. Got to see Dark Souls 2. Will have pictures once my parents get them off their camera.

Well I am very glad you had some fun out there. :smallbiggrin: Heh I can't believe on one there got your outfit, that is so unfortunate. :smallconfused: Well eh, at least there was still fun and great souvenirs.


My first random banter?

This one!

Right now!

Well welcome to it! :smallbiggrin: Have fun with the massive amounts of banter. And have a cookie!


Like vastly many others, I was drawn in to this, my first random banter, by the tantalizing sight of a poll icon! HOW COULD I RESIST?

I'm not really much of one for directionless chatter. :smalltongue:

Well hello Tuggy and welcome in! Yeah the poll does seem to have that siren lure to it. :smalltongue: And it isn't really directionless. It just has many different directions at once. :smallbiggrin: But there actually usually is some form of consistent communication.


So, it took another two days, but I guess I'd start writing a few responses now. Also, I'm feeling somewhat unwell and can't maintain several levels of thought, so my writing feels like it's going to be a bit different than usual. Mostly because I can't rembember if there was something I wanted to say when I begun writing the paragraph.

Also, I should really get to my schoolwork...



Thanks! :smallredface:

Yeah, over here, the rainiest season is the autumn, when all life withers or otherwise goes into hibernation, and the autumn rain is usually cold and drab. There is no such thing as a revitalising rain in the autumn...

For me, half of it is about being able to keep the right body temperature throughout a multitude of activities. 25-30°C is good, because then I don't have to wear anything warm which gets sticky if I start to sweat, and -10°C and below is good, since I can easily dress warm enough for it with proper winter clothes, yet I'll seldom get too warm even if I'm active... :3

Yes, it seems Teddy has been gone for some time. Well, welcome back! :smallsmile:

Ehh....I have school stuff to do too. :smalleek: Not helped by me not waking up until so late now... *mild panicking*

Well I did greatly like it! :smallbiggrin: I see rain as revitalizing because I love the smell of it, the cool feel, and wind that is usually part of it, and our lake here is almost dead right now, so rain is much appreciated for that.

Yeah, I suppose that is very workable. To me with clothes comfort is very important. :smallbiggrin:

I'd write more but delays...issues...gah. I think I'm gonna go curl up in a ball for today. I'll write back when I can. :smallfrown:

[DJ Yung Crunk]

Where do you live such that the power is so intermittent? It seems strange to me that it would be.

Rural suburbia?


There's no need! Treasure can be defined as anything valuable/desirable and tangible that can be stored securely. Therefore, a stack of CDs can be considered treasure.
Of course, there are many more possible definitions of treasure, but that one works the best in this situation and requires very little philosophy.

I was aiming less for philosophy and more for poetry. I failed anyway so it's a hypothetical discussion.

Tai's got a new avatar, it seems. Some sort of chewing gum rat... or something. What is that thing?

[Mystic Muse]

Tai's got a new avatar, it seems. Some sort of chewing gum rat... or something. What is that thing?

That would be Mew from pokemon.

[DJ Yung Crunk]

That would be Mew from pokemon.

Nothing, what's up with Mew...? :smallamused:

Wait... ****... no!

[TaiLiu]

I'd write more but delays...issues...gah. I think I'm gonna go curl up in a ball for today. I'll write back when I can. :smallfrown:
Feel better soon, comrade!

Tai's got a new avatar, it seems. Some sort of chewing gum rat... or something. What is that thing?
Pf ha ha ha! That is a most amusing description!

[DJ Yung Crunk]

Feel better soon, comrade!

Pf ha ha ha! That is a most amusing description!

I vaguely recognise it. Was it in the movie? I remember watching that a lot as a young'n.

[TaiLiu]

I vaguely recognise it. Was it in the movie? I remember watching that a lot as a young'n.
It was, yes.

[DJ Yung Crunk]

It was, yes.

I am so not up with the Pokemon. Until this thread I could have sworn that franchise had died. Maybe I should get X or Y and see what the fuss is about. It'd be good to play with the sound off while listening to my music.

Of course, I'd have to get a 3DS but I was going to get one of those anyway. How about it, guys, should I go for it?

[Qwertystop]

Been told the music is actually vastly improved, but yeah.

[TaiLiu]

I am so not up with the Pokemon. Until this thread I could have sworn that franchise had died.
Don't worry about it; I'm not too up to date with it, either.

Maybe I should get X or Y and see what the fuss is about. It'd be good to play with the sound off while listening to my music.

Of course, I'd have to get a 3DS but I was going to get one of those anyway. How about it, guys, should I go for it?
Oh, tough decision. One one hand, it sounds fun, and we want you to have fun. On the other hand, moving out of a habitat that regularly loses access to electricity would also be a good idea. Hm.

[HedgehogRanger]

I am so not up with the Pokemon. Until this thread I could have sworn that franchise had died. Maybe I should get X or Y and see what the fuss is about. It'd be good to play with the sound off while listening to my music.

Of course, I'd have to get a 3DS but I was going to get one of those anyway. How about it, guys, should I go for it?

I've been wondering the same thing. I thought Black and White were the best since R/S/E, but at the same time I would have to get a 3DS. Anyway, for those who have played X and Y, how do they compare to previous entries in the series?

[DJ Yung Crunk]

Been told the music is actually vastly improved, but yeah.

Probably hasn't vastly improved to my standards. But I guess I can check between sides :smalltongue:


Don't worry about it; I'm not too up to date with it, either.

Oh good, for a moment there I thought this had changed into a Pokemon board overnight.


Oh, tough decision. One one hand, it sounds fun, and we want you to have fun. On the other hand, moving out of a habitat that regularly loses access to electricity would also be a good idea. Hm.

Uh... Is the 3DS not a handheld system? That's why I was gonna get it.


I've been wondering the same thing. I thought Black and White were the best since R/S/E, but at the same time I would have to get a 3DS. Anyway, for those who have played X and Y, how do they compare to previous entries in the series?

Let's be indecisive buddies. We'll get a bracelet and have meetings and we won't invite girls. It'll be fun!

[TaiLiu]

Oh good, for a moment there I thought this had changed into a Pokemon board overnight.
No, though there's a pocket monster thread to peruse, if you wish.

Uh... Is the 3DS not a handheld system? That's why I was gonna get it.
It is, but charging might be a pain [in such a home].

[DJ Yung Crunk]

No, though there's a pocket monster thread to peruse, if you wish.

I saw that. I don't know what to say to those people. What am I going to do? Mosey on up in that thread and say...


Hey, guys! How about that last game, huh? Wasn't that a thing? I especially liked that bit at the end, you know? Kooky times.


It is, but charging might be a pain [in such a home].

Okay, it's not that bad. It's, like, weekly at worst. Still too often for my liking.

[TaiLiu]

I saw that. I don't know what to say to those people. What am I going to do? Mosey on up in that thread and say...
Pretty much. :smalltongue:

Okay, it's not that bad. It's, like, weekly at worst. Still too often for my liking.
Ah. Yes, it is difficult to like losing power.

[DJ Yung Crunk]

Pretty much. :smalltongue:

Alright, but I'm telling them this was your idea.

ION: I'd like a new avatar, I think. I can't make my own and that Request Thread is a bit of a longshot, especially given what I had in mind.

[Hiro Protagonest]

Alright, but I'm telling them this was your idea.

Technically, it was your idea. :smalltongue:

[TaiLiu]

Alright, but I'm telling them this was your idea.
Very good!

I'd like a new avatar, I think. I can't make my own and that Request Thread is a bit of a longshot, especially given what I had in mind.
Oo, I'm curious now...

[DJ Yung Crunk]

Technically, it was your idea. :smalltongue:

Tai's word against mine.


Oo, I'm curious now...

Don't be...


This is probably an excessive ask given the level of detail on the subject but is it possible to have an avatar made of the rapper Riff Raff (http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--X69fKFmwC4/URk67BoRwyI/AAAAAAAANb0/xRnG6LgEO9w/s640/riff+raff.jpg)? Preferably in the outfit he wore to the Grammy Awards (pictured) but, you know, capture his kooky essense in as much detail or accuracy as you like. It's all cool.

Hit me up.

EDIT: Here's a more complete picture. (http://i1.cdnds.net/13/07/618x1201/riff_raff.jpg) Though I'd prefer the pose from the earlier one.

Excited yet?

[TaiLiu]

Tai's word against mine.
Indeed.

Don't be...
Excited yet?
Huh. That is a complex artwork!

[CurlyKitGirl]

I thought it would be one of these/similar because I was around for the centenary.


I'd like to know what everyone's first Random Banter was, if they remember (general vicinity, if not). First one they posted on, that is.

It was around the mid-seventies I believe, probably Cassie's or D'anna's, but to be honest it might have been a little earlier.

ION:
So Sister managed to spill water all over my teas and only four boxes escaped the deluge; three because they'd not yet been opened and one only has four more bags in it. :sigh:
So much lost.
But the Harrod's stuff is all good though because I'd been working through my 'commoner' teas. Off to mourn by imbibing tea and figuring out if I'm allowed to take paracetamol on these pills, and what amount is permitted if I am.
My head is killing me.

[TaiLiu]

So Sister managed to spill water all over my teas and only four boxes escaped the deluge; three because they'd not yet been opened and one only has four more bags in it. :sigh:
So much lost.
But the Harrod's stuff is all good though because I'd been working through my 'commoner' teas. Off to mourn by imbibing tea and figuring out if I'm allowed to take paracetamol on these pills, and what amount is permitted if I am.
My head is killing me.
Oh! What teas were these?

[CurlyKitGirl]

Oh! What teas were these?

The Lost Ones:
Raspberry, strawberry and loganberry tea
Lady Grey
Rose tea
Jasmine tea
Cherry blossom tea
Earl Grey
Peppermint tea
Lemon and ginger tea
Strawberry and apple tea
Assam tea
Chamomile and honey tea
Four bags of darjeeling

Most of these were anywhere from full to a fifth full. And all but four of them were fifty bags to the box. The other four were only twenty. So I lost around one hundred and fifty bags of tea. A bit more actually, but I'm estimating roughly.

The Saved Ones:
Peppermint
Lemon verbena
Chamomile
And the four 'bags' of an expensive, house mix of hibiscus, [something] and rose hips tea that I'd bought from a speciality shop last month.

Or in terms of numbers: seventy-nine bags of tea.

Yeah. I lost a lot of tea, so I'm curled up on this saggy sofa typing online while cradling a cup of chamomile tea listening to 'White Wine in the Sun' (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCNvZqpa-7Q) because damn, that's a wonderful song.

[TaiLiu]

The Lost Ones:
Raspberry, strawberry and loganberry tea
Lady Grey
Rose tea
Jasmine tea
Cherry blossom tea
Earl Grey
Peppermint tea
Lemon and ginger tea
Strawberry and apple tea
Assam tea
Chamomile and honey tea
Four bags of darjeeling

Most of these were anywhere from full to a fifth full. And all but four of them were fifty bags to the box. The other four were only twenty. So I lost around one hundred and fifty bags of tea. A bit more actually, but I'm estimating roughly.

The Saved Ones:
Peppermint
Lemon verbena
Chamomile
And the four 'bags' of an expensive, house mix of hibiscus, [something] and rose hips tea that I'd bought from a speciality shop last month.

Or in terms of numbers: seventy-nine bags of tea.

Yeah. I lost a lot of tea, so I'm curled up on this saggy sofa typing online while cradling a cup of chamomile tea listening to 'White Wine in the Sun' (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCNvZqpa-7Q) because damn, that's a wonderful song.
Ah, my condolences. That is a massive collection lost.

[Mynxae]

The Lost Ones:
Raspberry, strawberry and loganberry tea
Lady Grey
Rose tea
Jasmine tea
Cherry blossom tea
Earl Grey
Peppermint tea
Lemon and ginger tea
Strawberry and apple tea
Assam tea
Chamomile and honey tea
Four bags of darjeeling

Most of these were anywhere from full to a fifth full. And all but four of them were fifty bags to the box. The other four were only twenty. So I lost around one hundred and fifty bags of tea. A bit more actually, but I'm estimating roughly.

The Saved Ones:
Peppermint
Lemon verbena
Chamomile
And the four 'bags' of an expensive, house mix of hibiscus, [something] and rose hips tea that I'd bought from a speciality shop last month.

Or in terms of numbers: seventy-nine bags of tea.

Yeah. I lost a lot of tea, so I'm curled up on this saggy sofa typing online while cradling a cup of chamomile tea listening to 'White Wine in the Sun' (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCNvZqpa-7Q) because damn, that's a wonderful song.

Oh my dear.. That is quite the tea collection to have lost. :smallfrown:

[Taet]

I was thinking about taking my tea out of the cabinet and putting it next to the stove. I changed my mind. :smalleek: CurlyKitGirl's sister soaked the entire kcup holder.

[Thufir]

The Lost Ones:
Raspberry, strawberry and loganberry tea
Lady Grey
Rose tea
Jasmine tea
Cherry blossom tea
Earl Grey
Peppermint tea
Lemon and ginger tea
Strawberry and apple tea
Assam tea
Chamomile and honey tea
Four bags of darjeeling

Most of these were anywhere from full to a fifth full. And all but four of them were fifty bags to the box. The other four were only twenty. So I lost around one hundred and fifty bags of tea. A bit more actually, but I'm estimating roughly.

The Saved Ones:
Peppermint
Lemon verbena
Chamomile
And the four 'bags' of an expensive, house mix of hibiscus, [something] and rose hips tea that I'd bought from a speciality shop last month.

Or in terms of numbers: seventy-nine bags of tea.

Oh noes!
Admiral Swiggins has something to say about this. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUJmPaLRHp4#t=1m14s)
The line at 4:39 also somewhat applies.


Yeah. I lost a lot of tea, so I'm curled up on this saggy sofa typing online while cradling a cup of chamomile tea listening to 'White Wine in the Sun' (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCNvZqpa-7Q) because damn, that's a wonderful song.

Yeah, despite being primarily a comedic performer, some of Tim Minchin's songs are really very touching.

[EmeraldRose]

Ahh...on the topic of teas, and just to prove that coffee is not the only beverage I partake of...I am currently enjoying a lovely cup of raspberry hibiscus tea...

*squints into cup*

And needing a refill.

[HedgehogRanger]

The Lost Ones:
Raspberry, strawberry and loganberry tea
Lady Grey
Rose tea
Jasmine tea
Cherry blossom tea
Earl Grey
Peppermint tea
Lemon and ginger tea
Strawberry and apple tea
Assam tea
Chamomile and honey tea
Four bags of darjeeling

Most of these were anywhere from full to a fifth full. And all but four of them were fifty bags to the box. The other four were only twenty. So I lost around one hundred and fifty bags of tea. A bit more actually, but I'm estimating roughly.

The Saved Ones:
Peppermint
Lemon verbena
Chamomile
And the four 'bags' of an expensive, house mix of hibiscus, [something] and rose hips tea that I'd bought from a speciality shop last month.

Or in terms of numbers: seventy-nine bags of tea.

Yeah. I lost a lot of tea, so I'm curled up on this saggy sofa typing online while cradling a cup of chamomile tea listening to 'White Wine in the Sun' (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCNvZqpa-7Q) because damn, that's a wonderful song.

Wow. How did your sister manage to spill water over all of that tea?

[Coidzor]

And that's why I keep my tea in tins. It's not just because I'm a compulsive hoarder of nice tins and there's only so many prophylactic holders a single man could possibly have call for. Honest.

[DJ Yung Crunk]

This conversation is making me thirsty. Why would you do that to me?

[Taet]

And that's why I keep my tea in tins. It's not just because I'm a compulsive hoarder of nice tins and there's only so many prophylactic holders a single man could possibly have call for. Honest.

Do you put just one teabag in every little tin? I don't see how they would fit around the tea and also fit in your pocket.

[DJ Yung Crunk]

Do you put just one teabag in every little tin? I don't see how they would fit around the tea and also fit in your pocket.

I keep mine in a cigar box. As for the cigars? They lasted, maybe, two days.

[HedgehogRanger]

Speaking of tea, I've never really liked it. It's essentially water except it tastes bad. Of course, I don't like coffee or soda either, so maybe my taste buds are just messed up:smallsmile:

[Coidzor]

Do you put just one teabag in every little tin? I don't see how they would fit around the tea and also fit in your pocket.

Most could be contained in a single re-used danish butter cookie tin that any grandma or mom would have spare lying around the house for storage. Depending upon your preference (I like to live dangerously) you can either subdivide them inside sandvich baggies or just have the teabags loose inside the tin.

[Mynxae]

Speaking of tea, I've never really liked it. It's essentially water except it tastes bad. Of course, I don't like coffee or soda either, so maybe my taste buds are just messed up:smallsmile:

What about hot chocolate? :smalltongue:

[DJ Yung Crunk]

Speaking of tea, I've never really liked it. It's essentially water except it tastes bad. Of course, I don't like coffee or soda either, so maybe my taste buds are just messed up:smallsmile:

Not liking soda I get, you're a human being. The other two perplex me. It's me and my narrow mind but I cannot imagine anyone, anywhere, from any walk of life not liking coffee or tea.


sandvich

I'm trying to decide if that's a black metal reference or a TF2 reference or a typo.

[Coidzor]

Not liking soda I get, you're a human being. The other two perplex me. It's me and my narrow mind but I cannot imagine anyone, anywhere, from any walk of life not liking coffee or tea.

I'm trying to decide if that's a black metal reference or a TF2 reference or a typo.

Indeed, from degenerate British time travelers (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eELH0ivexKA) to mad scientists descended from the horribly mutated survivors of an attempt at xenocide on the human race by aliens from beyond the stars. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFMwgOfdG_M)

TF2 reference, I'd forgotten there was one for black metal, unfortunately. :smallredface: I'd occasionally deliberately made the typo from time to time because I liked it before TF2, but that's neither here nor there, just random hipsterism.

[Hiro Protagonest]

Not liking soda I get, you're a human being. The other two perplex me. It's me and my narrow mind but I cannot imagine anyone, anywhere, from any walk of life not liking coffee or tea.

Or liking soda? :smalltongue:

Yeah it probably is narrow-mindedness. Coffee of all flavors bitter without a lot of milk and sugar, although the level varies and a good flavor can overcome that, tea is all over the place but it's possible to like or dislike all of them, and soda is super-sweet but again is all over the place (especially when you get into ones that replace the high fructose corn syrup or sugar with healthier natural stuff).

[Mystic Muse]

Not liking soda I get, you're a human being. The other two perplex me. It's me and my narrow mind but I cannot imagine anyone, anywhere, from any walk of life not liking coffee or tea.


I love soda, but can't stand coffee or most teas.

[Amidus Drexel]

:smallredface: I thought you were speaking of vinyl records, sometimes called LPs, and being all audiophile on us.

Well, to be fair, LPs sound really good. I definitely think vinyl played loudly through good speakers beats any other form of listening to music.


I too am a fan of analogue time pieces. I find the ticking very soothing, though I only hear it when it is very quiet. Also, I can kind of feel the ticking of my pocket watch from time to time, and I think that's cool.

That was a fun April Fool's... Was it this year or last year? I can't recall...

That reminds me, I need to get the battery in my pocket watch replaced somewhere...

Would have been the year before, because I don't remember it.


My first random banter?

This one!

Right now!

Hey, Sparky! :smallbiggrin:



Also, I should really get to my schoolwork...

I definitely agree. Problem is, I won't get to get to the best of places for as long as uni keeps interfering, and if I froze time, I'd never get there...

Yeah, over here, the rainiest season is the autumn, when all life withers or otherwise goes into hibernation, and the autumn rain is usually cold and drab. There is no such thing as a revitalising rain in the autumn...


...right, I have schoolwork to do. >.>

Skip to when you leave, and freeze it there, then. :smalltongue:

...I like that dark, deadening rain, though... it has a nice, grim feel to it.

I would also protest that there are revitalizing rains in autumn - we had one such rain last night. It was a light rain, akin to a mist, and it was just heavy enough to make itself obvious if you looked where it had fallen or ran through it. It was quite pleasant.


Rural suburbia?

As someone that lived in rural suburbia (with a stronger emphasis on rural than the suburbia, although there was a fair share of both) for quite a long time, we only had a serious problem with power once or twice.



Let's be indecisive buddies. We'll get a bracelet and have meetings and we won't invite girls. It'll be fun!

Heheheh :smallamused: I laughed at that probably a good bit more than I should have.


The Lost Ones:
-snip-
Most of these were anywhere from full to a fifth full. And all but four of them were fifty bags to the box. The other four were only twenty. So I lost around one hundred and fifty bags of tea. A bit more actually, but I'm estimating roughly.

The Saved Ones:
-snip-
Or in terms of numbers: seventy-nine bags of tea.

As has been said - that's quite an impressive collection of tea - both to have had and to have lost. Sorry, man. :\


Not liking soda I get, you're a human being. The other two perplex me. It's me and my narrow mind but I cannot imagine anyone, anywhere, from any walk of life not liking coffee or tea.

Some sodas are objectively better than others, and I could argue over those all day (as I'm sure several people here could do with teas and coffees). I never really liked coffee all that much, although I have had it once recently (some people were giving out free coffee one morning, and... hey, free coffee), and while what I had I'm going to assume was not the good stuff, it still wasn't bad.

Plus, sassafras tea is just plain awesome. :smallcool:


Coffee of all flavors bitter without a lot of milk and sugar, although the level varies and a good flavor can overcome that[...]

I've said this before, and I'll say it again: If you put milk or sugar into your coffee, you don't like coffee - you like milk and sugar.

[Hiro Protagonest]

I've said this before, and I'll say it again: If you put milk or sugar into your coffee, you don't like coffee - you like milk and sugar.

No, you like coffee with milk and sugar.

That's like saying that if you coat your beans with cheddar cheese, you don't like beans, only cheese. I hate cheddar by itself, but like lots of it on beans.

I don't drink coffee though, so I can't say much about that.

[TaiLiu]

No, you like coffee with milk and sugar.

That's like saying that if you coat your beans with cheddar cheese, you don't like beans, only cheese. I hate cheddar by itself, but like lots of it on beans.
What beans are these?

[Hiro Protagonest]

What beans are these?

Black beans and refried beans alike.

I guess I should have been more specific... there are lots.

[TaiLiu]

Black beans and refried beans alike.

I guess I should have been more specific... there are lots.
Indeed! So, you just put the cheese on the beans...?

[Cuthalion]

No, you like coffee with milk and sugar.

That's like saying that if you coat your beans with cheddar cheese, you don't like beans, only cheese. I hate cheddar by itself, but like lots of it on beans.

I don't drink coffee though, so I can't say much about that.

Coffee is meh.

:smalleek: Erk. Our local Asian market sells bean and cheese ice cream... but eh. Coffee beans... coated with cheese? Waste of cheese.

True.

[Rawhide]

I've said this before, and I'll say it again: If you put milk or sugar into your coffee, you don't like coffee - you like milk and sugar.

100% disagree.

I don't like coffee at all, even with milk and sugar, so I will use tea.

Milk != tea with milk and sugar
Sugar != tea with milk and sugar
Tea != tea with milk and sugar
Milk and sugar != tea with milk and sugar
Tea and milk != tea with milk and sugar
Tea and sugar != tea with milk and sugar
Only tea with milk and sugar is = tea with milk and sugar

It's a combination of all three (or the lack of one or two) that makes the drink. If you like tea with nothing added, you should enjoy it that way, if you prefer a mixture, you should enjoy it the way you enjoy it. Liking tea or coffee with milk and sugar does not make it any less of a drink or mean you're adding them because you like them and not the tea or coffee. It means you like the combination, or the way that the extra ingredients improve the flavour.

[TaiLiu]

Erk. Our local Asian market sells bean and cheese ice cream... but eh. Coffee beans... coated with cheese? Waste of cheese.
Bean ice cream is understandable (and tasty, though I haven't had any in a while), but cheese...?

Also, your avatars seem to have a distinct Kneenibble theme...

[HedgehogRanger]

What about hot chocolate? :smalltongue:

Nope, don't like Hot Chocolate either


Not liking soda I get, you're a human being. The other two perplex me. It's me and my narrow mind but I cannot imagine anyone, anywhere, from any walk of life not liking coffee or tea.


See, most people I know feel the other way. They can understand not liking coffee and tea, but think it's super weird that I don't drink soda.


Or liking soda? :smalltongue:

Yeah it probably is narrow-mindedness. Coffee of all flavors bitter without a lot of milk and sugar, although the level varies and a good flavor can overcome that, tea is all over the place but it's possible to like or dislike all of them, and soda is super-sweet but again is all over the place (especially when you get into ones that replace the high fructose corn syrup or sugar with healthier natural stuff).

I haven't actually tried many types of tea. I should probably try some others, but the tea I have had was pretty bad, so I'm not too keen to try more.

[Mauve Shirt]

What if you like coffee ice cream, eh, and you want your coffee to taste like coffee ice cream? Milk + sugar != coffee ice cream. Only milk + sugar + coffee = coffee ice cream.

[Amidus Drexel]

No, you like coffee with milk and sugar.

That's like saying that if you coat your beans with cheddar cheese, you don't like beans, only cheese. I hate cheddar by itself, but like lots of it on beans.

I don't drink coffee though, so I can't say much about that.

Well, you did specify with a lot of milk and sugar. And while I can follow your logic, I take quite a bit of issue with one disliking component parts of a composite food, and then claiming to like a specific food entirely based upon separate component parts. If you like coffee only with lots of milk and sugar, then that has to be treated as an entirely different entity from unadulterated coffee.

Judging by your response, I think we probably have a relatively close view on this subject (from a logical standpoint, although not from a visceral one), but I like to try to make myself clear.

(also, for your example, by the logic you're refuting, you only like beans, and not cheddar :smallwink:)

All of that said, I stand by my original assertion purely from the fact that I'm somewhat of an elitist when it comes to food and drink and only drink coffee black. :smalltongue:
The fact that I like bitter drinks may have something to do with this.

Edit: so many ninjas... *scrolls up and reads*


100% disagree.
-snip-
Only tea with milk and sugar is = tea with milk and sugar

It's a combination of all three (or the lack of one or two) that makes the drink. If you like tea with nothing added, you should enjoy it that way, if you prefer a mixture, you should enjoy it the way you enjoy it. Liking tea or coffee with milk and sugar does not make it any less of a drink or mean you're adding them because you like them and not the tea or coffee. It means you like the combination, or the way that the extra ingredients improve the flavour.

I think I've said as much in my response to Jade Dragon, but then you like the combination, not the drink itself. Also, I'll note again that what I was responding to mentioned a lot of milk and sugar - enough to largely overpower the inherent bitterness of coffee.


What if you like coffee ice cream, eh, and you want your coffee to taste like coffee ice cream? Milk + sugar != coffee ice cream. Only milk + sugar + coffee = coffee ice cream.

Coffee ice cream normally doesn't have much real coffee in it, I've found, and almost without exception merely duplicates the smell of coffee as a part of the flavor, not the taste of it. (and yes, there is a distinction between the two as far as flavor is concerned).

Also, in that case, one would like coffee-flavored ice cream, and not necessarily coffee.

[AtlanteanTroll]

Just got a very important email. I'm going to be one of twelve members of my college's Model UN team. We're going to debating at the actual UN and Harvard. :smallcool:

[TaiLiu]

Just got a very important email. I'm going to be one of twelve members of my college's Model UN team. We're going to debating at the actual UN and Harvard. :smallcool:
Oh, nice! Take photos and tell us the tale when you come back!

[HedgehogRanger]

Just got a very important email. I'm going to be one of twelve members of my college's Model UN team. We're going to debating at the actual UN and Harvard. :smallcool:

That's pretty awesome. Congratulations!

[Cuthalion]

Bean ice cream is understandable (and tasty, though I haven't had any in a while), but cheese...?

Also, your avatars seem to have a distinct Kneenibble theme...

I know, right?

He always *perches in my mane* or sometimes makes them for me.

[Erloas]

I don't normally post in random banter but didn't really feel like putting this anywhere else.

https://scontent-a-pao.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/q71/s720x720/1395915_733977486617601_620808953_n.jpg
About as mild of an injury as you can get with a power tool, but it was my first trip to the ER in a decade or more. Kick back on a table saw. Didn't even realize it was that bad, I finished making the cut and looked down later and saw it. I tried but wasn't able to do anything with it on my own. Didn't even need a stitch.

[Taet]

Oh no Erloas!


I would also protest that there are revitalizing rains in autumn - we had one such rain last night. It was a light rain, akin to a mist, and it was just heavy enough to make itself obvious if you looked where it had fallen or ran through it. It was quite pleasant.

Autumn should be the season for rain here to make the valley turn green again. It hasn't come yet.


What beans are these?

Don't forget the chili! Cheese goes on chili too.


Nope, don't like Hot Chocolate either

See, most people I know feel the other way. They can understand not liking coffee and tea, but think it's super weird that I don't drink soda.

I haven't actually tried many types of tea. I should probably try some others, but the tea I have had was pretty bad, so I'm not too keen to try more.

Soda starts out sweet and coffee and tea start out bitter so it's a different kind of drink.

It's Ok to not work on having a taste for those. Just know what you want to ask for instead when people are having tea and coffee. :smallsmile: But you do only need one good cup to learn.


Just got a very important email. I'm going to be one of twelve members of my college's Model UN team. We're going to debating at the actual UN and Harvard. :smallcool:

Wonderful news! Will you have to pay extra for the trip like a high school trip or will the college buy the bus ride?


Coffee ice cream normally doesn't have much real coffee in it, I've found, and almost without exception merely duplicates the smell of coffee as a part of the flavor, not the taste of it. (and yes, there is a distinction between the two as far as flavor is concerned).

Also, in that case, one would like coffee-flavored ice cream, and not necessarily coffee.

I love coffee ice cream with real coffee in it and coffee frozen yogurt but I don't drink coffee.

[Cuthalion]

I don't normally post in random banter but didn't really feel like putting this anywhere else.

https://scontent-a-pao.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/q71/s720x720/1395915_733977486617601_620808953_n.jpg
About as mild of an injury as you can get with a power tool, but it was my first trip to the ER in a decade or more. Kick back on a table saw. Didn't even realize it was that bad, I finished making the cut and looked down later and saw it. I tried but wasn't able to do anything with it on my own. Didn't even need a stitch.
Eep. Feelin' better?

Just got a very important email. I'm going to be one of twelve members of my college's Model UN team. We're going to debating at the actual UN and Harvard. :smallcool:
Congrats! :smallcool:

[AtlanteanTroll]

Oh, nice! Take photos and tell us the tale when you come back!


That's pretty awesome. Congratulations!


Wonderful news! Will you have to pay extra for the trip like a high school trip or will the college buy the bus ride?


Congrats! :smallcool:

Thanks all! My college is paying for us to go out. We were suppose to go to an international one in London and the college was going to pay for it entirely, but we couldn't get the money we wanted, so that was a bust. I'm still thrilled though. :smallbiggrin:

EDIT: The meets aren't until next semester, lots of time to prep.

[Mutant Sheep]

Just got a very important email. I'm going to be one of twelve members of my college's Model UN team. We're going to debating at the actual UN and Harvard. :smallcool:*tears*. Our little Troll, all grown up.:smalltongue: (geez man, congratulamifacations. I know a fair few debaters who have gone to Harvard, and all say it is a great experience. Those other 11 people? YOU WILL KNOW THEM.:smallserious::smalltongue:(CARNALLY. /nonserious.)


I don't normally post in random banter but didn't really feel like putting this anywhere else.

https://scontent-a-pao.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/q71/s720x720/1395915_733977486617601_620808953_n.jpg
About as mild of an injury as you can get with a power tool, but it was my first trip to the ER in a decade or more. Kick back on a table saw. Didn't even realize it was that bad, I finished making the cut and looked down later and saw it. I tried but wasn't able to do anything with it on my own. Didn't even need a stitch.Yikes. "Didn't even need a stitch" might be the best summery of such a scary looking wound I've ever heard.:smallbiggrin:

[TaiLiu]

He always *perches in my mane* or sometimes makes them for me.
Indeed!

I don't normally post in random banter but didn't really feel like putting this anywhere else.

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About as mild of an injury as you can get with a power tool, but it was my first trip to the ER in a decade or more. Kick back on a table saw. Didn't even realize it was that bad, I finished making the cut and looked down later and saw it. I tried but wasn't able to do anything with it on my own. Didn't even need a stitch.
...Oh. That looks incredibly painful.

Thanks all! My college is paying for us to go out. We were suppose to go to an international one in London and the college was going to pay for it entirely, but we couldn't get the money we wanted, so that was a bust. I'm still thrilled though. :smallbiggrin:

EDIT: The meets aren't until next semester, lots of time to prep.
Ah? You will have to pay part of the price?

[AtlanteanTroll]

*tears*. Our little Troll, all grown up.:smalltongue: (geez man, congratulamifacations. I know a fair few debaters who have gone to Harvard, and all say it is a great experience. Those other 11 people? YOU WILL KNOW THEM.:smallserious::smalltongue:(CARNALLY. /nonserious.)
Hahahaha, thanks Sheep. You always have such a way with words.


Ah? You will have to pay part of the price?
No, we're just no going to the London one this year. But there's always next year. And the year after that and the year after that ... :smalltongue::smallsmile:

[TaiLiu]

No, we're just no going to the London one this year. But there's always next year. And the year after that and the year after that ... :smalltongue::smallsmile:
Ah, that's true.

[Mutant Sheep]

Hahahaha, thanks Sheep. You always have such a way with words.


No, we're just no going to the London one this year. But there's always next year. And the year after that and the year after that ... :smalltongue::smallsmile::smallredface: Touching, AT, touching.:smallbiggrin:
You will get to know your fellow debaters though, that much is near guaranteed. And if this is a yearly thing (as I assume it is), you will get to bond over and over again in a foreign land, while chaffing under whichever poor professor has been charged with handling you.:smallamused::smalltongue: Next semester should be eventful for both of us, then.

You'll always be a junior to me, C.:smalltongue: (Junior year is weird. I have like, three assignments due half the quarter ago to get in by tuesday, haven't started them. xD)

[AtlanteanTroll]

:smallbiggrin: You will get to know your fellow debaters, that much is near guaranteed. And if this is a yearly thing (as I assume it is), you will get to bond over and over again in a foreign land, while chaffing under whichever poor professor has been charged with handling you.:smallamused::smalltongue:

You'll always be a junior to me, C.:smalltongue: (Junior year is weird. I have like, three assignments due half the quarter ago to get in by tuesday, haven't started them. xD)

Mmm, yeah, it's yearly. Although if we do the London one, I'm not sure we'd do both of the others... It's hard to say. I'll learn in time. But yes, it'll be great. Also good for making some connections.

A Junior in high school? Come on, M, I'm a college freshman! :smalltongue: But anyway, yeah. Junior year is an odd one. It very well may have been better than senior year for me. It's hard to say though ... Having a girlfriend is a major plus.

[Mutant Sheep]

Mmm, yeah, it's yearly. Although if we do the London one, I'm not sure we'd do both of the others... It's hard to say. I'll learn in time. But yes, it'll be great. Also good for making some connections.

A Junior in high school? Come on, M, I'm a college freshman! :smalltongue: But anyway, yeah. Junior year is an odd one. It very well may have been better than senior year for me. It's hard to say though ... Having a girlfriend is a major plus.London would be rather far, but i can see how that'd appeal to the UN team.:smallamused: I am curious as to the date of this harvard tourneyment, though. If its when I think it is, I will be a severe regretter of my lack of debate skills and presence on the schools team.:smallfrown::smalltongue:

Well, i debated calling you a freshman for some delicious irony, but I felt it not.:smallwink:
Ah, yes. Dating. I believe my stance on that is known.:smallbiggrin:

ION:SHINY PIKACHU IN X, YESSS. AND I KILLED THE FIRST PIKACHU I SAW TOO.:smallcool: (You see, i wanted a male, as i felt that suited Pikachu better. Well, then i realized Raichu seems more female to me, so I went hunting for another female and it took FOREVER. But i found this here shiny, and I gave it to my EV training brother. As shininess is a heriditary trait, its progeny will be as numerous (and as bright) as the stars.:smallamused::smallbiggrin:)

[MoonCat]

Guys, go watch Gravity. Now.

In totally unrelated news, I think I am currently physically incapable of sleep.

[Taet]

Thanks all! My college is paying for us to go out. We were suppose to go to an international one in London and the college was going to pay for it entirely, but we couldn't get the money we wanted, so that was a bust. I'm still thrilled though. :smallbiggrin:

EDIT: The meets aren't until next semester, lots of time to prep.

Oh. And I forgot to ask if you already know what to prep for but I guess you do. Please excuse the silly questions. I did not do debate.

[LaZodiac]

London would be rather far, but i can see how that'd appeal to the UN team.:smallamused: I am curious as to the date of this harvard tourneyment, though. If its when I think it is, I will be a severe regretter of my lack of debate skills and presence on the schools team.:smallfrown::smalltongue:

Well, i debated calling you a freshman for some delicious irony, but I felt it not.:smallwink:
Ah, yes. Dating. I believe my stance on that is known.:smallbiggrin:

ION:SHINY PIKACHU IN X, YESSS. AND I KILLED THE FIRST PIKACHU I SAW TOO.:smallcool: (You see, i wanted a male, as i felt that suited Pikachu better. Well, then i realized Raichu seems more female to me, so I went hunting for another female and it took FOREVER. But i found this here shiny, and I gave it to my EV training brother. As shininess is a heriditary trait, its progeny will be as numerous (and as bright) as the stars.:smallamused::smallbiggrin:)

Shinyness isn't hereditary, unless they've changed that. Also, lucky! I haven't found any shinies yet.

[Rawhide]

Well, you did specify with a lot of milk and sugar. And while I can follow your logic, I take quite a bit of issue with one disliking component parts of a composite food, and then claiming to like a specific food entirely based upon separate component parts. If you like coffee only with lots of milk and sugar, then that has to be treated as an entirely different entity from unadulterated coffee.

Judging by your response, I think we probably have a relatively close view on this subject (from a logical standpoint, although not from a visceral one), but I like to try to make myself clear.

(also, for your example, by the logic you're refuting, you only like beans, and not cheddar :smallwink:)

All of that said, I stand by my original assertion purely from the fact that I'm somewhat of an elitist when it comes to food and drink and only drink coffee black. :smalltongue:
The fact that I like bitter drinks may have something to do with this.

Edit: so many ninjas... *scrolls up and reads*



I think I've said as much in my response to Jade Dragon, but then you like the combination, not the drink itself. Also, I'll note again that what I was responding to mentioned a lot of milk and sugar - enough to largely overpower the inherent bitterness of coffee.

So, in other words, you don't like coffee, you only like coffee mixed with boiling water?

[Amidus Drexel]

So, in other words, you don't like coffee, you only like coffee mixed with boiling water?

Now, normally I'd ceed the point to sardonicism and just chuckle, but that's not quite true, either. Coffee is the name of the beverage, after the grinds have been mixed with water. I don't have any particular preference for coffee grinds, though, no. (although the coffee beans themselves can be pretty good). The same goes for tea, by the way - Tea is the name of the beverage, and it isn't tea until you steep the tea leaves in boiling water.

[Taet]

You did say drink to start with, Amidus. I know that you can't drink a dry bean even if you put it in a blender. Not that a blender does a good job cutting up dry beans either. If you want bean flour it's better to buy bean flour and not almost ruin a blender. :smallannoyed:

[Elemental]

There are some countries that use 100khz spacing, and some that use 50khz, but the latter is being eliminated as most digital scan (as opposed to the analog knob) FM radios can't tune in an x.x5. The further the gap, the less interference between close channels and the more wideband the channels can be.

That makes quite a bit of sense. One wouldn't want the traffic report mixed in with the weather. That could be confusing.
Still, now that I've thought on it more, odd number do sound snazzier...



I blame our friend J for saying I need feminine jewellery when I feel girly. :smallannoyed: Excellent, thank you muchly.

I got sick of it after doing it twice. I even had a cool ice house and everything in the second world! :smallfrown:

Personally, basing jewellery choices on whether they're girly or not is a terrible idea. Jewellery should be more refined and mature in my opinion.
It'll take a while to get around to doing so. I've gotten bad news today.

Perhaps reinstalling Terraria might resolve the issue? Or have you already tried that to no particular avail?



Oh yes I certainly shall. :smallsmile: 2 other club ideas I have for when I have some money to back it up is to maybe run an official tabletop gaming club somewhere up here, and also if a certain friend of mine starts a jujitsu dojo I would be happy to join that once I have the funds.

Yes indeed. I shall ask once I can. I'll be talking to my grandma tomorrow about insurance. But I have to keep mentioning it so I don't forget. :smalltongue:

Hmm... Everything always seems to boil down to the funds... If only I could determine a method of transmuting one metal into another that is both practical and cost effective. Then I could patent the process and get rich.

Fortunately we don't have to worry about health insurance as much over here. I mean, we could get private health if we wanted, but it's expensive.



Rural suburbia?

I was aiming less for philosophy and more for poetry. I failed anyway so it's a hypothetical discussion.

Hmm... Odd. As far as I can determine, electrical supply is always regular in my part of the world, from urban areas to isolated homesteads... Perhaps the climate here is more conducive to the longevity of power lines. After all, we get no snow and less rain than most places. All one needs to do is construct the telegraph poles, no idea why we still call them telegraph poles, out of a fire resistant timber, many of which grow here naturally, and avoid thick scrub and bushland if possible.

Eh... All I did was check a dictionary before beginning. I find that usually helps keep me from making incorrect statements.



ION:
So Sister managed to spill water all over my teas and only four boxes escaped the deluge; three because they'd not yet been opened and one only has four more bags in it. :sigh:
So much lost.
But the Harrod's stuff is all good though because I'd been working through my 'commoner' teas. Off to mourn by imbibing tea and figuring out if I'm allowed to take paracetamol on these pills, and what amount is permitted if I am.
My head is killing me.

Even though I admit my dislike of tea, I can understand what it's like to lose stored beverages that one was looking forward to enjoying. Particularly if they're in glass bottles and you dropped them causing shattered glass to go everywhere and have to get stitches.
One would think I'd remember that occasion vividly, but strangely enough, I can't...
Also, I hate it when medication means you have to be picky about what you take for headaches. Mine says I can't take aspirin, which is a shame because it's always worked the best for when I have headaches.



Most could be contained in a single re-used danish butter cookie tin that any grandma or mom would have spare lying around the house for storage. Depending upon your preference (I like to live dangerously) you can either subdivide them inside sandvich baggies or just have the teabags loose inside the tin.

Biscuit tins are the best for storage. Of course, I don't have anything that would make sense to store in them, so there goes that idea...



Not liking soda I get, you're a human being. The other two perplex me. It's me and my narrow mind but I cannot imagine anyone, anywhere, from any walk of life not liking coffee or tea.

I had tea once. I hated it. Adding vast quantities of sugar and much milk made it palatable for all of a minute before I had to pour it down the kitchen sink.
As for coffee... I had learned from my experience with tea that more drastic measures were in order and loaded it up with brown sugar, cinnamon, regular sugar and allspice. I was able to consume two thirds of the cup before again, pouring it down the kitchen sink.
Personally, if offered tea or coffee, I would much rather prefer hot water with a generous helping of honey.



Yeah it probably is narrow-mindedness. Coffee of all flavors bitter without a lot of milk and sugar, although the level varies and a good flavor can overcome that, tea is all over the place but it's possible to like or dislike all of them, and soda is super-sweet but again is all over the place (especially when you get into ones that replace the high fructose corn syrup or sugar with healthier natural stuff).

But sugar is natural! We grow it over here in Queensland in vast fields which we traditionally set on fire prior to harvesting, a practice which has declined due to modern farming techniques. However, if you have issue with refined white sugar, you can purchase raw sugar...
Just for reference, raw sugar tastes nicer.



That reminds me, I need to get the battery in my pocket watch replaced somewhere...

Would have been the year before, because I don't remember it.

I've said this before, and I'll say it again: If you put milk or sugar into your coffee, you don't like coffee - you like milk and sugar.

Well, if you ever go to shopping malls, as you call them in America, then you may be fortunate enough to pass by a kiosk like shop in the middle of the walking area that replaces batteries and does minor repairs on watches.
Okay, I'm not describing this very well, and it may be highly likely you don't even have such things over there.
In any case, failing that, try a jeweller. A lot of them also do small things like that. Just, don't rely on them to get your watch fixed. They'll often send it away and you won't see it again for weeks. Of course, all this depends on the jeweller in question, as I know that some of them are also watchmakers or watch repairers.

I thought as much. It is a shame you missed it though, it was a rather fun to see how everyone responded and the mods had such cool pony avatars for the occasion.

Personally, I don't think that makes sense at all. I like milk and sugar, but I hate coffee despite how much I add.
It should be better amended to: If you put milk or sugar into your coffee, you don't like coffee - you like a concoction of coffee, milk and sugar.
Damn... Other people have already made this point... Oh well. Not much to do about it now.



What if you like coffee ice cream, eh, and you want your coffee to taste like coffee ice cream? Milk + sugar != coffee ice cream. Only milk + sugar + coffee = coffee ice cream.

Hmm... Coffee ice cream... I know I hate coffee, but I like coffee cake, and I have a feeling I've had coffee ice cream before and enjoyed it... It is strange how these things work out.



I don't normally post in random banter but didn't really feel like putting this anywhere else.

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About as mild of an injury as you can get with a power tool, but it was my first trip to the ER in a decade or more. Kick back on a table saw. Didn't even realize it was that bad, I finished making the cut and looked down later and saw it. I tried but wasn't able to do anything with it on my own. Didn't even need a stitch.

That looks painful, but I can see why at the same time you probably didn't notice it at first... The ability of the human body to get impaled without noticing is amazing.



Guys, go watch Gravity. Now.

What if we have nothing on hand to knock of our desks?


In unrelated news: I went to my psychiatrist appointment this morning and on the way home stopped at a nice little bookstore in the city. I think I have a problem with impulse buying...

But in more serious news: My Grandma died recently. She'd had a stroke on the weekend, yet despite that, it still seems too soon.
And now I feel really bad for not visiting yesterday like we had originally planned, even though it's not my fault that we didn't visit... The situation hasn't really sunk in yet.

[DJ Yung Crunk]

Hmm... Odd. As far as I can determine, electrical supply is always regular in my part of the world, from urban areas to isolated homesteads... Perhaps the climate here is more conducive to the longevity of power lines. After all, we get no snow and less rain than most places. All one needs to do is construct the telegraph poles, no idea why we still call them telegraph poles, out of a fire resistant timber, many of which grow here naturally, and avoid thick scrub and bushland if possible.

I don't know what to say. Incompetence abounds over here, I guess.


I had tea once. I hated it. Adding vast quantities of sugar and much milk made it palatable for all of a minute before I had to pour it down the kitchen sink.
As for coffee... I had learned from my experience with tea that more drastic measures were in order and loaded it up with brown sugar, cinnamon, regular sugar and allspice. I was able to consume two thirds of the cup before again, pouring it down the kitchen sink.
Personally, if offered tea or coffee, I would much rather prefer hot water with a generous helping of honey.

You're an alien. I am missing black coffee so much. Maybe if I stand close to you I'll like it less and I won't miss it so much


Indeed, from degenerate British time travelers (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eELH0ivexKA) to mad scientists descended from the horribly mutated survivors of an attempt at xenocide on the human race by aliens from beyond the stars. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFMwgOfdG_M)

It is the great equalizer


TF2 reference, I'd forgotten there was one for black metal, unfortunately. :smallredface: I'd occasionally deliberately made the typo from time to time because I liked it before TF2, but that's neither here nor there, just random hipsterism.

I assumed it was TF2. Still I wanted to make sure. If I had met another black metal bro that would have been swell.


Or liking soda? :smalltongue:

Yeah it probably is narrow-mindedness. Coffee of all flavors bitter without a lot of milk and sugar, although the level varies and a good flavor can overcome that, tea is all over the place but it's possible to like or dislike all of them, and soda is super-sweet but again is all over the place (especially when you get into ones that replace the high fructose corn syrup or sugar with healthier natural stuff).

"Healthier" and "soda" are two terms I could never even fathom in close proximity. Tell me more about these "healthier" corn flavoured sodas.


I love soda, but can't stand coffee or most teas.

You disappoint me. And CAN (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac2KkpF1n3Q), not coincidentally.


See, most people I know feel the other way. They can understand not liking coffee and tea, but think it's super weird that I don't drink soda.

These people, do they run on the beach in slow motion, dodging lens-flare and smiling into the camera?

[TaiLiu]

In totally unrelated news, I think I am currently physically incapable of sleep.
Ah, yes. Those moments/days can be quite vexing, especially if one needs to awaken early the following day.

[DJ Yung Crunk]

Hey, I found my first ever post (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showpost.php?p=14189322&postcount=315). Hahaha! What the heck is wrong with me?

[TaiLiu]

Hey, I found my first ever post (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showpost.php?p=14189322&postcount=315). Hahaha! What the heck is wrong with me?
Oh! That's a rather saddening tale...

[DJ Yung Crunk]

Oh! That's a rather saddening tale...

Really? It was a parody of internet angst and I had great fun writing it. Fundamentally unreal and, honestly, you're not supposed to sympathize with the protagonist. He's kind of a vain git without any self awareness.

[TaiLiu]

Really? It was a parody of internet angst and I had great fun writing it. Fundamentally unreal and, honestly, you're not supposed to sympathize with the protagonist. He's kind of a vain git without any self awareness.
Oh. It is not a true tale?

[DJ Yung Crunk]

Oh. It is not a true tale?

No. I was having a larf.

[TaiLiu]

No. I was having a larf.
Ah. Well, it was an amusing read, nevertheless.

[Feytalist]

I come back from a weekend away and whats this

Are we talking about coffee again? I like coffee. I think I've mentioned that once or twice before.

My mum sent me a pot of honey off some farm near where they live. It is so delicious I think I've eaten half of it straight from the pot. I miss my dad's hives :/


Also poll whoa are those back now?


Edit: who the hell maps Refresh to F9? No wonder I haven't been getting any of my mail through. I've been banging F5 like a normal person.

Silly IBM.

[Elemental]

I don't know what to say. Incompetence abounds over here, I guess.

You're an alien. I am missing black coffee so much. Maybe if I stand close to you I'll like it less and I won't miss it so much

Hmm... Incompetence is a highly plausible explanation... Is it an area with really old electrics? If the issues are as recurrent as you say, then they may need replacing.
Of course, as is the case with governing bodies, it'll take them a while to get around to it unless there's an election coming.

I could be an alien. I might even have an armada of highly advanced battlecruisers stationed on the far side of the Moon waiting for my signal to begin conquering the planet. If that were the case, I would advise you all very strongly not to resist and pay me tribute annually.
Fortunately, I don't have an armada, but I could still be an alien. Alas, I don't have the power to stop people liking tea or coffee.



My mum sent me a pot of honey off some farm near where they live. It is so delicious I think I've eaten half of it straight from the pot. I miss my dad's hives :/

Indeed. There is nothing better than honey fresh from the hives. One can never know just what the bees will manage to produce. I remember this one time when my parents checked up on my Dad's old hives and the honey was tinged green and mint flavoured. Unfortunately, I never got to taste it myself and it appeared to have been a one off fluke.
Alas, my Dad's hives all went wild and died out, and his recent attempts to start up some new hives at my Uncle's farm weren't successful. Looks like I'll just have to go and find really good honey to buy rather than have it delivered free of charge. Fortunately, if one knows where to look, one can get good stuff.
Mmm... Forestry honey...

[randman22222]

The Lost Ones:
Raspberry, strawberry and loganberry tea
Lady Grey
Rose tea
Jasmine tea
Cherry blossom tea
Earl Grey
Peppermint tea
Lemon and ginger tea
Strawberry and apple tea
Assam tea
Chamomile and honey tea
Four bags of darjeeling

Most of these were anywhere from full to a fifth full. And all but four of them were fifty bags to the box. The other four were only twenty. So I lost around one hundred and fifty bags of tea. A bit more actually, but I'm estimating roughly.

The Saved Ones:
Peppermint
Lemon verbena
Chamomile
And the four 'bags' of an expensive, house mix of hibiscus, [something] and rose hips tea that I'd bought from a speciality shop last month.

Or in terms of numbers: seventy-nine bags of tea.

Yeah. I lost a lot of tea, so I'm curled up on this saggy sofa typing online while cradling a cup of chamomile tea listening to 'White Wine in the Sun' (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCNvZqpa-7Q) because damn, that's a wonderful song.
Damn, that's a shame. :smallfrown:
And I was sad when I opened my box of Earl Grey the other day to find none left...

What if you like coffee ice cream, eh, and you want your coffee to taste like coffee ice cream? Milk + sugar != coffee ice cream. Only milk + sugar + coffee = coffee ice cream.
Coffee ice cream is fanTASTIC.

Just got a very important email. I'm going to be one of twelve members of my college's Model UN team. We're going to debating at the actual UN and Harvard. :smallcool:
Haha! Well done, AT. Sounds great. :smallbiggrin: Shame you can't do London; that place is amazing.

Guys, go watch Gravity. Now.

In totally unrelated news, I think I am currently physically incapable of sleep.
University or caffeine or a mix of both? And I've heard it's pretty cool... I'll have to check if it's out yet here.

Shinyness isn't hereditary, unless they've changed that. Also, lucky! I haven't found any shinies yet.
Did you pokemaniacs see that picture of the guy whose starting Fennekin (sp?) was a shiny? I don't even play and I'm envious. :smalltongue:


ION: I'm a little mad at Youtube. I'm trying to listen to Edvard Grieg's Peer Gynt and I'm getting ads basically every song for Avicii and other people I barely know and don't really like. Youtube failing at targeting its ads correctly. Surely there are other more suitable music ads? And I thought it was only supposed to hit you with ads every few clips?

[Rawhide]

Now, normally I'd ceed the point to sardonicism and just chuckle, but that's not quite true, either. Coffee is the name of the beverage, after the grinds have been mixed with water. I don't have any particular preference for coffee grinds, though, no. (although the coffee beans themselves can be pretty good). The same goes for tea, by the way - Tea is the name of the beverage, and it isn't tea until you steep the tea leaves in boiling water.

'Fraid not.


coffee
noun
1. a beverage consisting of a decoction or infusion of the roasted ground or crushed seeds (coffee beans) of the two-seeded fruit (coffee berry) of certain coffee trees.
2. the seeds or fruit themselves.
3. any tropical tree or shrub of the genus Coffea, of the madder family, especially C. arabica and C. canephora, cultivated commercially. Compare Arabian coffee, robusta coffee.
4. a cup of coffee: We ordered four coffees and three doughnuts.
5. a social gathering at which coffee and other refreshments are served.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/coffee


The point I'm making is that it's perfectly ok to like and say you like coffee and/or tea, but only when it has something added to modify or improve it.

Do you like coffee when it has a 1:1 ratio of ground instant coffee beans to water (or equivalent brewed)? Or when the coffee content percentage is even thicker compared to the water? You might, and some very well do, but most do not.

Do you like chocolate? I don't mean the kind with milk and sugar added, I mean the pure, bitter, original kind. Some do, most like some amount of enhancement in their chocolate. It's all still chocolate (even white chocolate, despite containing no actual chocolate).

Tea with milk and sugar is still tea. Coffee with milk and sugar is still coffee. People like their teas and coffees different ways, it doesn't change what the drink is and it doesn't mean they like the other things and not the tea or coffee.

---

Additionally, the point Jade Dragon was making was that he hates cheddar, but likes beans, and likes adding cheddar to beans to improve their flavour. So, by your original statement, he likes cheddar - but he doesn't.

Someone could quite easily dislike milk and/or sugar, but like drinking their tea/coffee with milk and/or sugar. In fact, I know a few of these people.

[Feytalist]

Indeed. There is nothing better than honey fresh from the hives. One can never know just what the bees will manage to produce. I remember this one time when my parents checked up on my Dad's old hives and the honey was tinged green and mint flavoured. Unfortunately, I never got to taste it myself and it appeared to have been a one off fluke.
Alas, my Dad's hives all went wild and died out, and his recent attempts to start up some new hives at my Uncle's farm weren't successful. Looks like I'll just have to go and find really good honey to buy rather than have it delivered free of charge. Fortunately, if one knows where to look, one can get good stuff.
Mmm... Forestry honey...

Yup. Store-bought honey over here is so tasteless and watery.

I like that you can actually taste the difference in honey from different sources of nectar. Except over here there's a tree over here (the milk... wood? no milkwood is a separate tree. It's local name is !Xoi, as if that means anything to anyone /tangent) that makes the bitterest, most inedible honey ever that tastes like turpentine. I remember my dad having to discard whole racks because of it. He had to leave the hives when we moved off the farm, more's the shame.


Someone could quite easily dislike milk and/or sugar, but like drinking their tea/coffee with milk and/or sugar. In fact, I know a few of these people.

Or someone could like the smell of coffee, but actually dislike drinking it. And I've had my coffee regularly assaulted by a friend who likes dunking stuff in coffee, but who hates it when she drinks it. So weird.

[AtlanteanTroll]

Oh. And I forgot to ask if you already know what to prep for but I guess you do. Please excuse the silly questions. I did not do debate.
Yeah, it's okay. :smallsmile: I have to take a half-credit class next semester as part of the prep, but it's no biggie.


Haha! Well done, AT. Sounds great. :smallbiggrin: Shame you can't do London; that place is amazing.
Ah, thank you! I've always got the next three years though.


Shinyness isn't hereditary, unless they've changed that. Also, lucky! I haven't found any shinies yet.
I'm pretty sure it isn't, although I hear shinies are more common this game. I think Mutant is thinking of the Masuda method or something.

[Elemental]

Yup. Store-bought honey over here is so tasteless and watery.

I like that you can actually taste the difference in honey from different sources of nectar. Except over here there's a tree over here (the milk... wood? no milkwood is a separate tree. It's local name is !Xoi, as if that means anything to anyone /tangent) that makes the bitterest, most inedible honey ever that tastes like turpentine. I remember my dad having to discard whole racks because of it. He had to leave the hives when we moved off the farm, more's the shame.

Hmm... We never get store bought honey that's watery, but you can tell they dilute it.

Unfortunately, my taste buds aren't up to the standard required to fully appreciate these things... But the difference is there, even if I mainly notice that the honey is a different colour.
It's name needs to be spelt with an exclamation mark..? I can't help but find that really weird. Name aside, it makes the honey that bad? Truly, a more diabolical tree has not yet been found, except the Manchineel. Damn that tree is scary... It is a shame you had to give up the hives though. The only reason my Dad was able to keep his despite not owning rural property is that we are lucky to have friends and relatives who didn't mind him keeping hives in the less travelled parts of their properties. Hopefully they went to someone who'd look after them.

[Qwertystop]

I just thought of something that would really improve Chrono Trigger (not that it's not already great):

If, in New Game Plus, the dialogue was changed such that it was clear that the PCs realize they're in a rerun, and are trying to follow the "script" as best they can but beat Lavos earlier. Other characters, not knowing this, would have slightly different reactions to them because none of them are good actors. After all, it is a time-travel game.

[Feytalist]

Hmm... We never get store bought honey that's watery, but you can tell they dilute it.

Unfortunately, my taste buds aren't up to the standard required to fully appreciate these things... But the difference is there, even if I mainly notice that the honey is a different colour.
It's name needs to be spelt with an exclamation mark..? I can't help but find that really weird. Name aside, it makes the honey that bad? Truly, a more diabolical tree has not yet been found, except the Manchineel. Damn that tree is scary... It is a shame you had to give up the hives though. The only reason my Dad was able to keep his despite not owning rural property is that we are lucky to have friends and relatives who didn't mind him keeping hives in the less travelled parts of their properties. Hopefully they went to someone who'd look after them.

Well... diluted, sure. Maybe watery is an exaggeration :smalltongue:

Heh, it's a Khoi word, so the "!X" is a type of click (an alveolar click, if that helps any). It's a thorny, acacia-type tree, and I have no idea what the English is. It's apparently so bitter, even most animals won't go near it, except the kudu, which eats basically everything.

Really pretty flowers, though.

[LaZodiac]

I just thought of something that would really improve Chrono Trigger (not that it's not already great):

If, in New Game Plus, the dialogue was changed such that it was clear that the PCs realize they're in a rerun, and are trying to follow the "script" as best they can but beat Lavos earlier. Other characters, not knowing this, would have slightly different reactions to them because none of them are good actors. After all, it is a time-travel game.

That's actually a REALLY clever idea, and I hope a game in the future uses it because it'd be pretty great.

[Erloas]

That looks painful, but I can see why at the same time you probably didn't notice it at first... The ability of the human body to get impaled without noticing is amazing.
It really didn't hurt much at all. Sure, when the doctor tried to remove it at first before the anesthetic it really hurt, but overall it really was not bad.

[Teddy]

Yes, it seems Teddy has been gone for some time. Well, welcome back! :smallsmile:

Yeah, Pokémon has managed to absorb me quite a bit...


Well I did greatly like it! :smallbiggrin: I see rain as revitalizing because I love the smell of it, the cool feel, and wind that is usually part of it, and our lake here is almost dead right now, so rain is much appreciated for that.

Yeah, over here and in the autumn, "cool" means "cold", and it does nothing to brighten up the few colours there are...


I'd write more but delays...issues...gah. I think I'm gonna go curl up in a ball for today. I'll write back when I can. :smallfrown:

Naww, feel better soon, Halu!
*hugs*


Skip to when you leave, and freeze it there, then. :smalltongue:

Sadly, that will make me fail 5-6 classes and make CSN hunt me down for study loans up in the ~50'000 kr level, and I kind of need that money to start with...


...I like that dark, deadening rain, though... it has a nice, grim feel to it.

I would also protest that there are revitalizing rains in autumn - we had one such rain last night. It was a light rain, akin to a mist, and it was just heavy enough to make itself obvious if you looked where it had fallen or ran through it. It was quite pleasant.

I do admit that it's awesomely cosy to snuggle up in a heating blanket and listen to the heavy drops hitting the window sills, but if your autumn rain is revitalising, you're not having a proper autumn to start with... :smallwink:


Some sodas are objectively better than others, and I could argue over those all day (as I'm sure several people here could do with teas and coffees). I never really liked coffee all that much, although I have had it once recently (some people were giving out free coffee one morning, and... hey, free coffee), and while what I had I'm going to assume was not the good stuff, it still wasn't bad.

Yeah, many of the traditional Swedish soda's are great. I reserve a special spot in my heart for Julmust, the best soft drink there is. :3


Guys, go watch Gravity. Now.

*picks up backpack, drops it from low height, sees it fall back down on chair*
:smallwink::smalltongue:

ION:
I just love to wade through an ankle-deep sea of maple leaves. Frosh, frosh, frosh, frosh... :smallcutegrin:

[Cuthalion]

Heh, it's a Khoi word, so the "!X" is a type of click (an alveolar click, if that helps any). It's a thorny, acacia-type tree, and I have no idea what the English is. It's apparently so bitter, even most animals won't go near it, except the kudu, which eats basically everything.

I kind of imagine... well, don't have time to draw it now, but the kudu eating everything.... a kudu chasing different playgrounders, ravenous, with snapping jaws.

[Cristo Meyers]

I kind of imagine... well, don't have time to draw it now, but the kudu eating everything.... a kudu chasing different playgrounders, ravenous, with snapping jaws.

I just imagined a Pac-Man board with playgrounders as the ghosts...


I'd like to know what everyone's first Random Banter was, if they remember (general vicinity, if not). First one they posted on, that is.

Thread #105 was mine, that much I remember. Other than that I couldn't say for sure where I posted my first RB post. They went so fast back then it could have been anywhere.

I'm looking back at my thread and others...happier times.

[Haluesen]

Not liking soda I get, you're a human being. The other two perplex me. It's me and my narrow mind but I cannot imagine anyone, anywhere, from any walk of life not liking coffee or tea.

Heh well I feel odd now. :smalltongue: May as well weigh in on the drink talk to try to fit in.

I am never picky about soda. Pretty much nearly any kind I just love. That's me. Probably because I love sugar. That and it is easier for my family to get it in bulk than milk. But dang love that milk. :smallbiggrin: I like sweet ice tea, but otherwise I don't care for it. I don't know enough about other types of tea, having never had the chance to explore the wonderful world of tea. :smalleek: And with coffee, I enjoy french vanilla and I like a few different kinda of creamers, but milk and sugar usually isn't enough for me to enjoy it. The smell from plain black coffee is usually just too much for me to handle. :smallyuk: Very sorry if I offended anyone, just rambling for the sake of conversation. :smallbiggrin:


Hmm... Everything always seems to boil down to the funds... If only I could determine a method of transmuting one metal into another that is both practical and cost effective. Then I could patent the process and get rich.

Fortunately we don't have to worry about health insurance as much over here. I mean, we could get private health if we wanted, but it's expensive.

Yeah it is always dealing with funds. :smallfrown: Still it's my fault I haven't been devotedly looking for a job. :smallsigh: It's a smart idea I suppose, were it possible. :smalltongue: I'd like to do martial arts again, I miss throwing people.

Yeah I've heard that's how it is in some countries. One of the things I don't care for in America. :smallsigh: I'm 21, with no job and no one I am supporting financially. Therefore there is no medical insurance for me. I think there is some in other counties in Cali for people who can't get insurance the other ways, but sadly it isn't available where I live. :smallfrown: But my grandma says she may know of something. Fingers crossed!


Yeah, Pokémon has managed to absorb me quite a bit...

Heh I'm not surprised. :smalltongue: I'll be the same way but with a different game after my birthday. Still though, just have fun Teddy!


Yeah, over here and in the autumn, "cool" means "cold", and it does nothing to brighten up the few colours there are...

Aww I'm sorry. :smallfrown: We don't have tons of colors here either, but still I like the wind. Now the chill does get to me from time to time, but that is where the snuggling into blankets comes in. :smallredface:


Naww, feel better soon, Halu!
*hugs*

Wish I could say I do now. :smallfrown: Still full of worry and panic, though at least some of that worry is calmed down so that is something. I am calm enough to be honestly happy for people and to be authentically joyous, that's good to me.


ION:
I just love to wade through an ankle-deep sea of maple leaves. Frosh, frosh, frosh, frosh... :smallcutegrin:

Awe hehe it's good to hear that you're being all happy. :smallbiggrin: I want leaves too!

*crunch* *crunch* *crunch*

...darn pine needles. :smallannoyed: :smalltongue:

*tackles Teddyness*

[FinnLassie]

Right, guys.

Shenandoah.

Really nice. A reeeally nice song.

I was really looking forward to singing it. Today in the chorus we got to it.

OH GOOD HEAVENS WHAT IS THIS AAARGH SOPRANO 1 AND 2 WHAT AM I WHAT DO I SING SHENENENENENEN AAAAAAAA MY BRAIN ASPLOOODES *breathes* NOT TO MENTION SINGING ELIJAH ROCK AHGOIHOIGHO

*huff puff*

My capslock rage is over.

[Mx.Silver]

ION: I'm a little mad at Youtube. I'm trying to listen to Edvard Grieg's Peer Gynt and I'm getting ads basically every song for Avicii and other people I barely know and don't really like. Youtube failing at targeting its ads correctly. Surely there are other more suitable music ads? And I thought it was only supposed to hit you with ads every few clips?

Youtube's been terrible about that for a while now. It seems like every time I feel the urge for some of Chopin's Nocturnes* I get bombarded by adds for 'Ibiza Floor-fillers, part 94' or some such nonsense.


*The three Op no. 9s are my current fix, on account of the mind-melting amazingness. Because seriously, it's like pianos were invented for this.

[Cuthalion]

I just imagined a Pac-Man board with playgrounders as the ghosts...

Except instead of Pac-Man, a pixellated antelope?