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Em Blackleaf

2007-12-05, 05:56 PM

The Rules. You! Read these!

In order to try and keep these threads from becoming unmanageable, some rules have been created, and they accent the forum rules. Please read those first.

1. Spam. For the purposes of RB one word posts should be spam everywhere. Likewise, posts that are nothing but *actions like this* should also be considered spam. Quality of content trumps speed of response.
2. Ditch the "competition for control of the universe". It has ceased to be funny, and often branches out into little mock battles that fall into the spam definition laid out above. We've got a PbP section for fights, and even the Town has an arena, I believe.
3. If it's already a thread, don't bring it to RB. RB has such a huge range of subject matter even restricted to the little snippets that probably don't warrant their own thread, it doesn't need legitimate thread topics cluttering it up as well.
4. Stop advertising other threads in RB. Just because these new threads move at speeds more appropriate to a message board than an IM session doesn't mean you need to come over to RB and brow beat people into posting in your latest brainchild.
5. Please stop with single line posts alerting us to your current status -- as in "I'm back." This is Random Banter, not "How to stalk Random GitP forum members."
6. Do not poke, kick or bump the thread. It will move at whatever pace it wants to. Also, please refrain from Captain Obvious comments akin to "My, the thread is fast today."
7. Random Banter can only be as good, or as entertaining, as you make it. Demands to be entertained will fall on deaf ears unless you can add something more meaningful to the conversation.
8. No asking "What's the topic" or the ilk. This is *not* a conversation where you could've missed the begining, it's a forum where the current topic is nicely recorded for you. So read up a bit first.
9. Thread Creator must include the words "Random" and "Banter" as well as the thread #. Try to be concise as well.
10. Every post should contain two visible, legible complete sentences, Subject and Predicate. C'mon, make your old English teachers proud.
11. Remember, Random Banter is not your IM client. If you want to have a back and forth discussion with just one person, look in their contact information for IM details

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

Previous Threads:
(We all have too much spare time)

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)
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Lykan's Looney Explosionarama & Random Banter #31 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12482)
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CP's Copiously Combusting Banter of Carnage #34 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12445)
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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)
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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)
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D'anna Biers RB #75 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=39495)
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Egdpollard's RB #77 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=40128)
Gezina's and Calamity's Random banter #78 of double entendre and doom (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=2366704#post2366704)
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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)
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This thread is for random discussion, not random chit chat. There is an IRC chat thingy (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12321) set up for that sort of thing. Not only will you not annoy the people here, you will also help increase the popularity of the IRC chat. It's win/win/win!

And now, without further ado, commence bantering!

wadledo

2007-12-05, 05:58 PM

Sleep in middle of new banter.

*Snoooorrrrrrrre*
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North

2007-12-05, 05:59 PM

one word.

PINEAPPLE!!!!

reorith

2007-12-05, 06:04 PM

one word.

PINEAPPLE!!!!

pineapples are pretty nifty. have you ever had waffles with chunks of pineapple?

PaladinFreak

2007-12-05, 06:04 PM

Pineapple? I'd pick chocolate!

Hannes

2007-12-05, 06:05 PM

Not waffles. But pineapple chunks in syrup is yum.

Dr. Bath

2007-12-05, 06:07 PM

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Dragonrider

2007-12-05, 06:07 PM

Woo! Em got the RB! :smallbiggrin:

@^^: that sounds good, actually. :smalltongue: I made pancakes with peaches in them for lunch on Monday. THAT was REALLY good.

Thanatos 51-50

2007-12-05, 06:10 PM

I had some of that on ham last night. It was surprisingly tasty. Yakiniku and Ramen are still much better, though.

zeratul

2007-12-05, 06:22 PM

Heh, nice title Em. Gotta love that alliteration goodness!:smallamused:

CurlyKitGirl

2007-12-05, 06:24 PM

North

2007-12-05, 06:25 PM

Aw noone got the Chuck reference.

What kinda geeks are you:smalltongue:

zeratul

2007-12-05, 06:27 PM

I can't stand pineapple. I gag even if there was apiece of pineapple in frit salad; even if I don't eat it.
The smell, the look, the taste. Pineapple is one of the worst fruits ever.

Oh, and Bath: Cool artwork.

oh my god! I've found it! Curly's one flaw! The fact that you do not like pineaple will suffice. Now, go start loving pineapple!:smallsmile:

unstattedCommoner

2007-12-05, 06:28 PM

Gaelbert

2007-12-05, 06:29 PM

I love pineapple. When I went to Hawaii I got to go to a pineapple plantation and it was amazing. They also have something called a Dole Whip. It's some sort of cold dessert, nondairy I believe, that tastes incredibly light and pineappley and delicious. Mmmm... pineapple.

jmaccabeus

2007-12-05, 06:35 PM

Never much liked pineapple, myself. That's rather odd, too, since I usually like any kind of fruit I can get my hands on. Taste can be a very odd thing sometimes...

ocato

2007-12-05, 06:48 PM

Oh man, have you guys tried the Hardees Hawaiian chicken sandwhich with a slice of pineapple on it? It's really good.

My grandmother also makes Pineapple upside down cake, pretty much cake with pineapple on it. It too is very delicious.

Now I'm hungry...

Atreyu the Masked LLama

2007-12-05, 06:52 PM

Curse you, Ocato! I'm hungry now, too.
*Tosses a box of Bath at Ocato.*

I'm off to eat something and do laundry. Bye everybody.

Hmmmm....I should contribute something meaningfull to give my post some merit. I know, a random fact should do that. Did you know that Sneak once wrote a rather amusing webcomic?

Em Blackleaf

2007-12-05, 06:58 PM

I like pineapple! But they give me canker sores. Hmm. :smallfrown:
I took this personality quiz that tells you what fruit you are, and I'm a watermelon, which is apparently most compatible with pineapple and least compatible with passion fruit.

Saithis Bladewing

2007-12-05, 06:58 PM

That is one awesome box, I must say.

Cobra_Ikari

2007-12-05, 07:05 PM

Box...of Bath?

...idea!

...a wet and potentially dangerous one!

>.>

The Bushranger

2007-12-05, 07:08 PM

We gave up on Hardee's a long time ago. We have a large collection of horror stories about the local one from before that...

Sean92k

2007-12-05, 07:10 PM

Yeah, that must have taken a lot of time :smalleek:

Copacetic

2007-12-05, 07:19 PM

Has anyone ever made a poodle out of Tfu? It must taste horrible!

ocato

2007-12-05, 07:35 PM

Having a box of bath thrown at me makes me feel like I was a dirty, smelly person.

Also, how does Pineapple give you canker sores? That's odd to me.

Em Blackleaf

2007-12-05, 07:37 PM

I don't really know. It just seems to whenever I eat them. I guess it's the juice.

Almighty Salmon

2007-12-05, 07:39 PM

The same thing happens to me when I eat apples, Em.

And I like apples :smallfrown:

Rogue 7

2007-12-05, 07:48 PM

I don't really know. It just seems to whenever I eat them. I guess it's the juice.

Probably some sort of allergic reaction. Wouldn't recommend rubbing that on your skin.

Em Blackleaf

2007-12-05, 08:08 PM

Probably some sort of allergic reaction. Wouldn't recommend rubbing that on your skin.

Guess so. If I eat them on pizza or something, so that they don't have any juice left, they don't do that.

AmberVael

2007-12-05, 08:28 PM

Dragonrider

2007-12-05, 08:40 PM

If I eat too much pineapple, the roof of my mouth and my tongue hurt for a couple days afterwards...the same thing happens with oranges but I think that's the citric acid. If I have a pineapple allergy I think I'll be ready to do murder, being allergic to cheese is bad enough...it's not fair when you like something and can't eat it. :smalltongue: :smallyuk:

smellie_hippie

2007-12-05, 08:41 PM

Yay for game glitches. It's like when I fall through the ground while playing Morrowind... :smallannoyed:

Grim Greyscale

2007-12-05, 08:43 PM

Yay for game glitches. It's like when I fall through the ground while playing Morrowind... :smallannoyed:

That's not a glitch. There's invisible pits of quicksand all over the place. Didn't you read the manual?

Raiser Blade

2007-12-05, 09:00 PM

Does anyone have any relatives in omaha? :smalleek:

I do I hope they are OK.

Em Blackleaf

2007-12-05, 09:00 PM

Yay for game glitches. It's like when I fall through the ground while playing Morrowind... :smallannoyed:

I can go through the surface of islands while swimming when I play Donkey Kong 64. I get stuck all the time. And one time, when my dad was playing Call of Cthulhu, he fell through the ground and you could see a whole dark map of the area. It was pretty cool, but he couldn't move or get out of that place.

Trog

2007-12-05, 09:01 PM

Raiser Blade

2007-12-05, 09:07 PM

You guys heard about the Omaha shooting right?

Serpentine

2007-12-05, 09:12 PM

Another shooting? Yay.

Pineapple is... okay. I don't like the crunchy bits.

Thanatos 51-50

2007-12-05, 09:12 PM

...weirdest thing happened to me.
So I was playing Assassin's Creed, and I killed a guard, and after death, he morphed. Distorted. Deformed.

This is a picture I got of it...
http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h107/sjunderw/Other/weirdx2.jpg

That is singularly awesome! Which version do you have, because if its the 360 one, I need to boot it up and start shanking guards.
Also:
Why the blending? you're only being watched with an open courtyard right in front of you! Thats time to run away from the scene, duck around the corner and climb up a wall before anybody important (I.E. "With swords") shows up.

Raiser Blade

2007-12-05, 09:14 PM

phoenixineohp

2007-12-05, 09:18 PM

While playing WoW and going through the barrens, the last patch had glitches in some of the seeding's interaction with the ground. So a giant dinosaur is glitch hopping up and down in the middle of a mountain. Very amusing to see. :smallamused:

Em Blackleaf

2007-12-05, 09:45 PM

As far as I know some guy walked into a mall in Omaha and shot some people and then killed himself.

I have family in Omaha....

I are teh worried.

Edit: I just found out that the shooter was 19 years old. Such a tragic event.

And right before Christmas and stuff! :smallfrown:
That's so sad.

Thanatos 51-50

2007-12-05, 09:58 PM

As far as I know some guy walked into a mall in Omaha and shot some people and then killed himself.

I have family in Omaha....

I are teh worried.

Edit: I just found out that the shooter was 19 years old. Such a tragic event.

I know how you feel - from what I heard, there were nine dead in total, counting the shooter.

Death is (almost) always tragic.

Dragonrider

2007-12-05, 10:31 PM

phoenixineohp

2007-12-05, 10:42 PM

Everyone says that it's horrible, but I had all 4 done at once, by a great doctor, was put under for it and given enough pain meds after.

And you know what? I really enjoyed the experience.

Honest.

I had little bruising or swelling or pain. Every time I could count to 20,they gave me more meds. I slept like a rock. I had no stress. (I happened during a semester switch in highschool, and no stress is pretty much a new feeling for me.) The physiological experiences were amazing to undergo.

The only downsides were the sutures coming out, (I accidentally swallowed one so I pulled the other out), keeping the gums clean from food, and craving EVERYTHING that was on t.v. I'm a veggie and usually ads don't affect me at all. But at that point if The Simpsons were eating burgers, I wanted a burger. That was weird.

So what I mean to say is... I wouldn't worry to much about it. There is little you can do but sit back and find the silver linings. :smallsmile:

AmberVael

2007-12-05, 11:01 PM

That is singularly awesome! Which version do you have, because if its the 360 one, I need to boot it up and start shanking guards.
Also:
Why the blending? you're only being watched with an open courtyard right in front of you! Thats time to run away from the scene, duck around the corner and climb up a wall before anybody important (I.E. "With swords") shows up.
360 here.

And I'm blending so that the guards won't come up and attack me while I try and use the digital camera. :smalltongue:
Let me tell you, that got annoying until I put the duct tape on the A button.

FdL

2007-12-05, 11:05 PM

Congrats to little cute Em for getting her own Random Banter. You are now officially a forum celebrity.

Serpentine

2007-12-05, 11:07 PM

I'm getting my wisdom teeth out approximately 14 hours from now. I'm kinda worried. :smalleek: I'm doing all four, none of them are "through" yet, and they're putting me under full anesthesia for the process...I had appendicitis when I was 12 so I've been through the anesthetic thing before, but this is quite different. For one thing, I have time beforehand to think about it. :smallsigh:
All four of mine are coming through without any problems at all ^_^
Goff's, on the other hand... Only two of his seem to have existed, and they were growing in sideways, pushing all his teeth to the front. He had to get them torn out, and then they went and got infected, one after the other. He didn't like the Codeine very much...
Urm. Good luck?

Skippy

2007-12-05, 11:07 PM

Wooo!! New thread!!!

Hmmm... Once again, I had something to say and I forgot it. Ah well...

I should begin worrying about my short term memory. Is there any way I can improve it?

FdL

2007-12-05, 11:09 PM

I never got any wisdom teeth...It's weird now i think of it. Might be somehow related to my occlusion problem? hmmm
Teeth and stuff are so annoying... 9_9

Jack Squat

2007-12-05, 11:13 PM

I'll echo pxp by saying that wisdom teeth removal wasn't too bad for me. It took a little longer than I'd have thought to put me out (laughing glass didn't do anything on it's own, didn't even notice it until they gave me the IV stuff, which took at least 4 shots). I was out for about an hour and a half, procedure took about 50. Slept most of the first day, took plenty of pain meds, did that salt-water thing that they told me to, and was eating solid food 2-3 days later.

Hope yours is as easy as mine is, Dragonrider. Good luck :smallsmile:

jmaccabeus

2007-12-05, 11:29 PM

I've not had any wisdom tooth trouble, but I kind of cheated: I had four premolars removed. That gave them room to move in, as well as helping my other teeth line up (which was the primary reason for pulling them). Two have come in perfectly, while the other two haven't yet come in but aren't causing any trouble.

Hope your tooth removal goes well. Once the ordeal is over, you'll feel fine, and won't have to worry about it again.

EDIT: For those curious, my premolar pulling was a sort of "wisdom tooth lite": still required anaesthetic, but not as much, nor painkillers afterward. Local anaesthetic didn't work, though. Still don't know why, must just have odd nerves or something.

Midnight Son

2007-12-06, 12:56 AM

EDIT: For those curious, my premolar pulling was a sort of "wisdom tooth lite": still required anaesthetic, but not as much, nor painkillers afterward. Local anaesthetic didn't work, though. Still don't know why, must just have odd nerves or something.I can feel it every time with the local. I just tell the dentist to go ahead and ignore me when I make a sound cause he hit a nerve. It's highly uncomfortable, but not really painful(usually).

MCerberus

2007-12-06, 01:02 AM

I went with the "night night gas" option (well actually it was an injection with some nitrous oxide to boot). I woke up in a comfy chair some time later and my gums didn't even hurt unless I tried to eat.

A bit of advice though: if they give you Vicadin for a pain killer, drink a glass of milk and/or eat a slice of bread before taking the pill. It's a great way to avoid it making you sick.

Lemur

2007-12-06, 01:12 AM

I got really nervous prior to having my wisdom teeth pulled, even though I knew I'd get used to it. It's not terribly comfortable to think about having parts of your body removed. I asked if I could keep them afterwards though, so I still have the teeth in a jar now :smallsmile:

The process itself is... I don't even remember. Whatever they put me on completely shorted out my long term memory process. I just sort of came back to reality some time after the operation.

You should feel better once it's over, DR.

Zeb The Troll

2007-12-06, 01:30 AM

Dragonrider, aren't you a bit young to be getting your wisdome teeth pulled? I got mine out when I was in my mid 20's. All four at once. No needles that I was aware of. They gave me some gas as a relaxer and I felt fine, then the dentist said "okay, we're going to add a different gas to the mix that will put you under now. By the time you wake up, we'll be done." I saw him reach and twist and then a few seconds later I was out. I woke up some time later in the waiting room and my sister was there to take me home.

I did have a little bout with dry socket a couple days later, but that was easily remedied by the dentist's office by simply packing some anesthetic bandages in the sockets.

My point being that, for me, the experience wasn't bad at all considering I'd just had surgery. I predict a similar experience for you.

Rockphed

2007-12-06, 02:12 AM

Getting my wisdom teeth out is one of only 2 time in my life where I have been Unconscious and not asleep. (The other was when I got hit by a car.) But they put me under, I woke up a bit later minus 4 teeth. Spent all day asleep on the couch which I think I wasn't supposed to do. Stopped taking the pain meds the next day, and went back to school on Monday. Then again, I have a high pain tolerance. Don't worry. It will be alright.

ocato

2007-12-06, 08:13 AM

Today is the last day of classes for me this semester!

And none too soon!

Archonic Energy

2007-12-06, 08:17 AM

Congrats to little cute Em for getting her own Random Banter. You are now officially a forum celebrity.

so... you need a RB thread to be a cleb eh....

Thanatos 51-50

2007-12-06, 09:30 AM

Ah, that explains the blending, then.

In REF:
Wisdom teeth.
I only had two come in (my bottom two). They were pulled in bootcamp. Iwas restriceted to my rack (and the head, obviously) for two days thereafter, and put on light limited duty for a third.
Additionally, I was on a "soft food only" diet.
Those were the worst three days of Boot.
Nothing hurt (even when I "forgot" to take the pain pills), but I would have rather been training.

Skippy

2007-12-06, 09:53 AM

Well, today I realized I spend a lot of time here. Yeah, I knew it before, but with things like what happened today, one gets conscious.

I live in an apartment. Today, there was a fire in an apartment below mine, and my mom woke us up really early to avoid getting us killed. So, of course, I woke up and immediately walked out of my apartment. Fortunately, nothing serious happened, there were no injured people and the material damages were minimal. Some neighbors were quick enough in the use of the fire extinguishers and were able to put down the fire within a short time, which was a relief, because the gas lines were really close and there could have been a huge explosion if it had passed more time.

And what does that got to do with spending a lot of time here? Well, when I was outside, watching those guys putting down the fire, the only thing I could think about was "The guys at the forum won't believe me when I tell them this!" (http://xkcd.com/77/)

Dr. Bath

2007-12-06, 12:43 PM

"Instead of office chair, package contained Dr Bath. Would not buy from again." :smalltongue:

That's quoted. At least for a little while. I didn't make the box by the way, I just found it and altered it slightly.

I thought the thread might be the Em-azing random banter. But I guess a lot of people haven't built up pun resistance like me. (my physics/form teacher makes spur of the moment puns the whole time.)

Skippy

2007-12-06, 12:46 PM

How could I miss that xkcd reference? I must have had my mind somewhere else...

CurlyKitGirl

2007-12-06, 01:11 PM

You poor Bath. But don't worry, I'll just cast *Transmute - Bathroomware* and tun you into a sink Then you can mail yourself to a pun free college.

And I'm glad you're OK RS, I have some relatives who were in a fire and one of them was hurt.

FdL

2007-12-06, 01:58 PM

Oh, poor Skippy...That must have sucked. I hope you're all ok.
One thing that happens after a fire in an appartment below is that yours smells horrible or is dirty from the smoke and soot. Or similar things that the fires carry. Again, I hope you didn't get any of those.

so... you need a RB thread to be a cleb eh....

Well, she was a minor celebrity before. But yeah, it's pretty much an indication that you are well known or into the forums.

Dr. Bath

2007-12-06, 02:07 PM

Yes, tut tut tut, Radikal, not getting obscure references. Even when stuff is on fire. Make sure you don't put any water on chip pan fires! Then everything will explode. Not a good plan. Was it a good cause for the fire, or a boring one? It's usually something like left a teatowel in the cooker or put out a cigarette on a dog or something.

Skippy

2007-12-06, 02:11 PM

Oh, poor Skippy...That must have sucked. I hope you're all ok.
One thing that happens after a fire in an appartment below is that yours smells horrible or is dirty from the smoke and soot. Or similar things that the fires carry. Again, I hope you didn't get any of those.

My apartment still smells like burned plastic. But we're cool now.They're still cleaning and replacing crashed windows and stuff, though.

EDIT: @Bath: Apparently, it was a short circuit, since the first thing to catch fire was a washing machine

eidreff

2007-12-06, 02:17 PM

Washing machines have claimed more of my friends that i am happy with (seriously!) Although it was their own fault..

Fires are scary if you can't control them. Glad to hear that all is well though

@ Bath: Hmm, this sparks interest. *wanders away to test canine flamability*. I wonder how many spontaneous doggy combustion incidents there have been...

YPU

2007-12-06, 02:18 PM

"honey, the washing machine has caught fire..."
Somehow I find that hilarious, fire’s are never good tough. I am a bad person.
Skippy, is that a custom avi for the occasion?

CurlyKitGirl

2007-12-06, 02:31 PM

EDIT: @Bath: Apparently, it was a short circuit, since the first thing to catch fire was a washing machine

That strikes me as hilarious for so many reasons. Especially as it was Bath who got that response. Or is it just me that thought: Bath - washing machine...*laughter*

Dr. Bath

2007-12-06, 02:33 PM

Puny washing machines! They should be replaced by the all-powerful bath and it's dual-heat taps for ultimate heating power. Mwahahaha!! *ahem*

@v They're all in on it together. Those other washing appliances.

CurlyKitGirl

2007-12-06, 02:36 PM

Washing machine does not equal dishwasher.

Silly, mixed up washing appliance.

Yet, we only have a shower. :smallfrown:

Semidi

2007-12-06, 02:37 PM

Skippy

2007-12-06, 02:46 PM

"honey, the washing machine has caught fire..."
Somehow I find that hilarious, fire’s are never good tough. I am a bad person.
Skippy, is that a custom avi for the occasion?

No, it's Antiform Sora. I had it done a month ago. But everyone always told me he looks like burned, so I thought it was ad hoc with the occasion. And I also found it hillarious when they told me it was a washing machine which had caught fire.

YPU

2007-12-06, 02:52 PM

About four months ago me and my girlfriend were playing Castlevania[snip] We had to get dressed too, but you all really didn't need to know that.

I would laugh if I wasn’t sure that is something that will happen to me in the near future, now the correct reply to your post would be, what Castlevania and what platform?

Rawhide

2007-12-06, 03:12 PM

@v They're all in on it together. Those other washing appliances.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lFmZfXonqo

CurlyKitGirl

2007-12-06, 03:18 PM

No baths there. Just goes to show that all baths are LG doesn't it Bathy?
Funny though

Skippy

2007-12-06, 03:18 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lFmZfXonqo

And I thought my neighbors' washing machine was bad...

YPU

2007-12-06, 03:30 PM

No baths there. Just goes to show that all baths are LG doesn't it Bathy?
Funny though

or, its just proves that baths probably are good for home brewing Vodka and don’t need no beer.

Dr. Bath

2007-12-06, 04:01 PM

No baths there. Just goes to show that all baths are LG doesn't it Bathy?
Funny though

Yes. Lawful Good. That is what I am. Not a completely different alignment...

Now to business. What is up, my friends and acquaintances? Hopefully no other close shaves with flames and gaseous explosions.

Raiser Blade

2007-12-06, 04:03 PM

Thankfully none of my family was hurt yesterday.

Nine people dead from that mall shooting.

Anyone else have family in omaha?

CurlyKitGirl

2007-12-06, 04:07 PM

My previous lucky streak of one absent lecturer a day ended.
Today in Eng Lit we did King Lear Act III with sock puppets in our own adaptations. Can you imagine King Lear as a chav? Someone did it. :smallcool:
On the dark side we had to do a five minute presentation on a French school in French. Not fun.:smallfrown:

PaladinFreak

2007-12-06, 04:16 PM

School is in full swing for me. Calculus, Physics, Farsi, and various other classes. I am enjoying it pretty well though, so it isn't bad. Aaah! I just remembered that I have a bunch of physics problems due tommorrow. Ah well...

Telonius

2007-12-06, 04:19 PM

Lear as a chav... almost as bad as Julius Caesar as a Godfather-like gangster, complete with fake accent. We called him Don "The Caesar" Calzones. Brought down the house in 10th grade English.

Eldpollard

2007-12-06, 04:22 PM

Shakespeare would make an ace Chav drama. "By the pricking of the thumbs, something intravenous this way comes."

CurlyKitGirl

2007-12-06, 04:28 PM

That's hilarious Eldy.

Try: "Look, look a mouse; this piece of toasted cheese will do't."

Chavified: "Look, look, a tart; this piece of goldish chain will do't; innit maaaan?"

All of us were crying with laughter at one point in that that class. That's seven groups. I wish every Eng Lit class was like that.

jmaccabeus

2007-12-06, 04:28 PM

Vito Corleone / Caesar makes quite a bit of sense when I think about it. He seems like just the kind of person who would make an offer you couldn't refuse. :smallbiggrin:

Chav King Lear, though... ugh. Aren't there other, more fitting plays to choose for that? :smalltongue:

Eldpollard

2007-12-06, 04:31 PM

"What light doth shine through yonder window break?"
"Ah! Police!"

"Is this a dagger I see before me?"
"Yeah, so give me your wallet."

I amuse myself.

CurlyKitGirl

2007-12-06, 04:38 PM

"To e or not to e
That is the question.
Whether it is of the high
Or the downers."

"Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?
'Tis the poilice siren that you hear, not th'amumbulance."

YPU

2007-12-06, 04:48 PM

Hmmmmm, a slice of bread so fresh its still steaming. Anyhow, im of to bed.

Dragonrider

2007-12-06, 06:09 PM

Well, so far this wisdom tooth thing pretty much sucks. :smallyuk:

The surgery went fine; they gave me laughing gas, and since they started that before they stuck the IV in, I was already dizzy enough that the needle (in the back of my hand, since they couldn't find a vein in my arm) didn't make me pass out. I woke up and my mom was there, I couldn't talk because there were cotton balls in my cheeks.....

Everything is kind of vague for about three hours after the surgery. I remember them half-carrying me out the door of the clinic then it skips to being in the car crying (as much as I could with a mouth full of cotton balls) because I felt so awful. I remember my mom getting me out of the car and onto the couch, and I think taking my coat off..and then forcing me to drink a smoothie before she gave me my pills. My entire face was still numb (the last of it has only JUST worn off, four and a half hours later). my jaw and my gums REALLY started hurting, and I ended up taking an extra painkiller plus two ibuprofen. It still hurts but it's more managable.

Mom went out and got me a small frosty at Wendy's about fortyfive minutes ago, but it hurts to open my mouth and get a spoon in so I didn't have much of it. I iced my cheeks for an hour too, and the cold helped a little.

So to summarize: I've learned that I'm very sensitive to anesthesia, very resistant to painkillers, and I feel like crap. :smallannoyed:

(I know, I'm whining. I apologize.)

Gaelbert

2007-12-06, 06:26 PM

I got my wisdom teeth removed last summer. I remember counting down from 100 after they injected me with the stuff to knock me out. I got to 89 before I could feel my brain losing it. I also remember before the operation they had to wire me in multiple places because I wasn't responding to some type of machine. I think I actually had a good operation. Low pain, the only thing that really was tough was the swelling in my cheek. It makes it hard to talk and eat. I ate a lot of smoothies and yogurts and stuff like that.

Dragonrider

2007-12-06, 06:30 PM

Yeah, I'm on a liquid diet for the next week.

Gaelbert

2007-12-06, 06:37 PM

CurlyKitGirl

2007-12-06, 06:49 PM

Poor poor DRider. I haven't had mine out but most people I know who've had them out say it was relativle painless. Hope this gets you better soon.

*hugs and virtual books of pianlessness an getting better soon*

Hannes

2007-12-06, 07:14 PM

I remember my mom invented something called a happy drink. It has no alcohol what-so-ever, its composed of blueberries, vanilla yogurt, ice cream, juice, strawberries, splenda, and whatever else we have in the kitchen, all blended together.

Tomatoes, apples, yoghurt dip sauce, salt, pepper, sugar, potatoes, onions, grapes and other stuff too?

Gaelbert

2007-12-06, 07:20 PM

Tomatoes, apples, yoghurt dip sauce, salt, pepper, sugar, potatoes, onions, grapes and other stuff too?

What are these foods you speak of? Basically the only other things we had in my kitchen were apples. We didn't even have a refrigerator or cabinets. Well, maybe you're right. Its just a phrase.

Serpentine

2007-12-06, 08:54 PM

>hugs own problemless teeth<

Midnight Son

2007-12-06, 09:02 PM

Well, so far this wisdom tooth thing pretty much sucks. :smallyuk:

...friendly space saver...

So to summarize: I've learned that I'm very sensitive to anesthesia, very resistant to painkillers, and I feel like crap. :smallannoyed:

(I know, I'm whining. I apologize.)*Hugs*

You have every right to whine, so, no apologies.

Shall I tell my wisdom teeth story?

It won't make her feel any better.

I'll abreviate it then.

I had all four out at once. When I woke up, I was still on the chair, so I got up and went to call my mom. The dentist saw me walk into the lobby and exclaimed, "What are you doing up? I only just finished with you!" They made my go back and lie down. He said if I was still awake in 10 minutes, I could call my mom. 10 minutes later, I called my mom. I went home, took one painkiller, then was back to work the next day.

The drugs, they go right through my system. Painkillers don't even have much effect. Good thing my pain tollerance is high.

adanedhel9

2007-12-06, 10:23 PM

I had three wisdom teeth. The one on the left side of my mouth was coming in cleanly, and probably didn't need to be removed. The two on my right were not, and needed to be cut out. On top of the general anesthetic, they gave me local anesthetic on the right side only. And the local anesthetic stuck for several hours after having the teeth pulled. During that time, half my face was numb, which was not exactly the most pleasant experience.

Other than that, I think the pulling was pretty average. Yes, I hurt, but not much beyond the point of annoyance.

InaVegt

2007-12-06, 11:51 PM

I applied to college yesterday.

Skippy

2007-12-06, 11:55 PM

I applied to college yesterday.

Good luck Ina. Hope it's all for the best and you enjoy it a lot.

Funny thing, I think I'm having Deja Vu...

Semidi

2007-12-06, 11:58 PM

Amotis

2007-12-07, 12:02 AM

If I don't screw up my final on Tuesday... *dramatic pause* I've just had my last math class--Ever.

It's a good feeling. I had my last last one last year.

Annnnd hopefully, if I get "D's" on two of my classes this semester, I'm done with my GE's forever. Get back to doing those major classes I'm actually here for and motivated to do.

Skippy

2007-12-07, 12:03 AM

If I don't screw up my final on Tuesday... *dramatic pause* I've just had my last math class--Ever.

Ever. Ever. Ever.

Now, to study so I don't eat my words. Oh, and if I can get an A on the final I get my first A in math in... Well ever.

Well then, good luck to you! I enjoy maths a lot, but I understand people who don't. So good luck and enjoy it for the last time!

Ceska

2007-12-07, 12:46 AM

You know what I just realised when reading this thread (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=65787)?

I haven't watched a single film in '07. Not even one, not even from our school. I wasn't in any cinema in the whole year. I feel strange.

rubakhin

2007-12-07, 01:42 AM

I haven't been to cinema since ... ecch ... I don't know, since I was in New York City in February or March and had nothing better to do. Decided to catch one of those limited release films. Apparently the rest of America is too stupid to enjoy lavish adaptations of Patrick Suskind novels.

I did see a lot of films on DVD, though.

SMEE

2007-12-07, 03:40 AM

Sometimes I hate how obssessive about my work I can be...
Sleeping less than 4 hours just because I couldn't shut my brain off due to a stupid MS Excel spreadsheet is not fun... :smallannoyed:

Thanatos 51-50

2007-12-07, 03:54 AM

Wisdom tooth recomendations:
Warm water and salt (Don't swallow,its to clean the sockets).
Bread.
Yogurt.
Soup - something you can slurp.
Non-instant Ramen (As in - the stuff they sell at resturants - If you're in the States, that'll be hard to find. Forgive me being spoiled for living in Japan, right now).
MILK - MILK - MILK - MILK - MILK
Grape/Apple/Some Fruity juice of your choice (I prefer grape or lemonade)

I'm da Rogue!

2007-12-07, 10:03 AM

I had to make a wisdom tooth extraction last year.
The doctor was hot, btw. (27 or something.)
We were talking about the greek Rockwave Festival.

It didn't hurt, but I was pissed off for some days because I couldn't talk and eat.

I have kept my tooth, it's a lot bigger than I thought.

Trog

2007-12-07, 10:22 AM

Ooo... wisdom tooth stories.

I had one that was infected. Went to the dentist after an extraordinarily long break from going (2 years, right after college).

Dentist: *looks in mouth* Oh. Uh... Are... you in any pain? Right now?
Me: No.
Dentist: Really? How about... uh... back here? *poke poke poke*
Me: No.
Dentist: You don't feel that?!
Me: Nope.
Dentist: Oh. Um. Well you have a REALLY bad infection back here by this wisdom tooth coming in funny. It looks like you've lost some bone in your jaw because of it.
Me: Oh?! Funny I don't feel anything.

Got knocked out for the surgery. Only time I've had general anesthetic. Its wiiiieeerrrrd. :smalleek: And yeah, the weeks afterward le suck. :smallfrown:

Cobra_Ikari

2007-12-07, 10:36 AM

I had my wisdom teeth out this summer. Made me miss a show I had wanted to go to. :P

...I had 5 wisdom teeth, and one was completely horizontal. It was...rather painful. And anaesthesia or however you spell it makes me talk forever. I'm surprised he could get me to shut up long enough to take the teeth out. :P

I'm da Rogue!

2007-12-07, 10:39 AM

Yesterday I solved my Rubik's cube (3x3x3).:smallbiggrin:

And a couple of hours later, a friend came by and destroyed it so he could solve it too.:smallannoyed:
He never did.
And never will.

Dragonrider

2007-12-07, 10:40 AM

Yup. I now look like a chipmunk.
Fortunately, the painkillers are working better today. It only hurts if I move. :smalltongue:
I can't chew so I can't eat bread...though I can't say I've been honestly hungry since before the surgery, so I don't mind that much. I've had a couple smoothies since I have to have something in my stomach before I take my pills, but I don't much like the feeling of stuff on my gums.

I asked my mom this morning what the dentist said about the operation (I know they told me after I came out but I have no memory of it whatsoever). She says that my bottom wisdom teeth were EXTREMELY impacted, which explains why my lower gums are so much more swollen than the top ones.

Cobra_Ikari

2007-12-07, 10:40 AM

Yesterday I solved my Rubik's cube (3x3x3).:smallbiggrin:

And a couple of hours later, a friend came by and destroyed it so he could solve it too.:smallannoyed:

I wish I could still solve those...used to do one every day in math class. Or a Square One. Those things are hard! >.<

I'm da Rogue!

2007-12-07, 10:42 AM

It was my first cube!
Never tried to solve one before, and it took me 3 days.

(A bit of good luck, a lot of thought)

Trog

2007-12-07, 10:44 AM

Rubik's Cubes are easy to solve. As long as you have a screwdriver.

<.< >.>

*Takes apart. Reassembles.*

Take that Gordian Rubik! :smalltongue:

Skippy

2007-12-07, 10:48 AM

I used to be able to solve the cube a year ago. Before sad thoughts invaded my brain and used all that space I needed for the last face of the cube! Now I can't do it anymore. And i used to use the cube to attract girls...

I'm da Rogue!

2007-12-07, 10:50 AM

For a strange reason, I read:

"I used to use the girls to attract cubes" :smalleek:

Almighty Salmon

2007-12-07, 10:51 AM

And i used to use the cube to attract girls...

I need to get myself one of those. fast.

I'm da Rogue!

2007-12-07, 10:57 AM

I don't think there is a version for fish..:smallconfused:

Almighty Salmon

2007-12-07, 11:09 AM

:smallfrown:

Well, there should be.

Skippy

2007-12-07, 11:12 AM

Well, it's not as effective if you don't know a few tricks with the cube as well, like making drawings with the cube. Something like this:

:smallwink: :smallsmile: :smallwink:
:smallsmile: :smallwink: :smallsmile:
:smallwink: :smallsmile: :smallwink:

Or

:smalltongue: :smalltongue: :smalltongue:
:smalltongue: :smallamused: :smalltongue:
:smalltongue: :smalltongue: :smalltongue:

That makes it easier. And they're not that hard to get.

I'm da Rogue!

2007-12-07, 11:14 AM

The Bushranger

2007-12-07, 11:16 AM

Ah, Rubik's cubes...used to have one when I was younger, can't remember if I ever actually solved it.

I have one of those "jump all but one" peg games now, it's pretty fun to play. :smallbiggrin:

Skippy

2007-12-07, 11:22 AM

http://www.awkwardzombie.com/comic53.png

Because it had to be done

Trog

2007-12-07, 11:25 AM

http://www.awkwardzombie.com/comic53.png

Because it had to be done

HEH! Awesome.

Skippy

2007-12-07, 11:28 AM

HEH! Awesome.

I know! I thought exactly the same when I saw it. She must have read my mind, because I love both the Rubik Cube and the puzzles in Zelda games. I agree that that's exactly what would happen if Link had one.

As for the key...

http://www.awkwardzombie.com/comic20.png

AmberVael

2007-12-07, 12:14 PM

:smallbiggrin:
Those two comics are awesome. They define the absurdity of Link and his games so well...

bosssmiley

2007-12-07, 12:15 PM

Or you can mess the whole thing and then call it modern art!:smallbiggrin:

:smallannoyed: :smalleek: :smallsmile:
:smalltongue: :smallamused: :smallfurious:
:smallfurious: :smallannoyed: :smallamused:

Hey! Don't diss the smileys or The Mighty Czech Cube by associating them with Modernist bilge. :smallannoyed:

Oh, tangent: is stop motion cinematography still fail after all these years?

Saithis Bladewing

2007-12-07, 01:28 PM

Hey! Don't diss the smileys or The Mighty Czech Cube by associating them with Modernist bilge. :smallannoyed:

Oh, tangent: is stop motion cinematography still fail after all these years?

Stop motion is and always will be fail. Period. Fullstop. End of line. End of story. ALWAYS FAIL!

...Okay, so I lie. Gumby kicked ass. :smallbiggrin:

Dragonrider

2007-12-07, 01:38 PM

Claymation works. That's kinda stop-motion. :smallbiggrin:

Raiser Blade

2007-12-07, 01:40 PM

Wallace and Gromit is always cool.

CurlyKitGirl

2007-12-07, 01:48 PM

Tim Burtion's Nightmare Before Christmas is a fail?!
You are kidding me. That's stop motion cinematography, as is Corpse Bride (nowhere near as good) and Wallace and Gromit.
Not all of it is fail.

Inigo Montoya

2007-12-07, 01:49 PM

The British have WAY better Television shows.

Dr. Bath

2007-12-07, 01:56 PM

Stop motion animation is the basis of all audio-visual treats, they're just faster.

And stop-motion is teh-gewd. Morph, Creature comforts, Wallace and Gromit, Noggin the Nog, Bagpuss, The Clangers, The Magic Roundabout all sorts. There's a lot of bad stuff out there, if only because it's an easy route into film making without having to bother with actors and all that jazz.

I wasn't that keen on the stop-motion Tim Burton films, but they weren't bad. 6.5/10

Dragonrider

2007-12-07, 02:00 PM

The Neverhood is a stop-motion video game! I LOVED that one, it was the best ever! :smallbiggrin:

CurlyKitGirl

2007-12-07, 02:04 PM

You fogot The Clangers. And I can't believe I forgot all those stop-animation classics.
But I never said I liked both of his more famous ones. Nightmare rocks; Corpse bride - not so good.

Skippy

2007-12-07, 02:10 PM

My ex girlfriend studies visual arts. And that includes stop motion animations. I've had the luck of watching a lot of high quality jobs. And I agree that Nightmare before Christmas is an awesome piece of stop motion animation, alongside with W&G.

Dr. Bath

2007-12-07, 02:12 PM

Don't you worry, Curly, I remembered the Clangers. I found the first series on DVD recently. Woo! Greatest program ever, I haven't finished watching it yet though.

CurlyKitGirl

2007-12-07, 02:22 PM

Have you seen the one where the Clanger swears?

Saithis Bladewing

2007-12-07, 02:29 PM

Okay, so Wallace and Gromit is good too, but Nightmare before Christmas was overrated fail.

eidreff

2007-12-07, 02:37 PM

It might just be me and a potty mouth but they seem to throw expletives about a fair bit..

I did hear a radio interview with one of the guys on the swanee whistles a few year back, and some of the scripts were a bit risque to say the least if i remember rightly.

The Soup Dragon will always be a personal hero. As will tiny clanger.

Dr. Bath

2007-12-07, 02:40 PM

Yesss, Sathis. Come to the animated-side!

@ Curly, I can't say I have. But I don't remember a lot of the episodes, I guess I'll just have to watch it again.

Did you see the remake of the Magic Roundabout? It wasn't great. The voices were brilliant though: Sir Ian Mckellen as Zeebadee and Tom Baker as evil Zebadee? Awesome.

CurlyKitGirl

2007-12-07, 02:43 PM

I never saw the CGI version. A lot of people said it was crap. But I never got around to seeing it.

FoE

2007-12-07, 02:44 PM

Did I just hear someone dissing Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas? I better not have, because you'll get me angry. And you wouldn't like me when I'm angry. :smallmad:

FACE OF EVIL SMASH!!!

jmaccabeus

2007-12-07, 03:13 PM

Stop motion is just about the exact opposite of fail. I don't think anyone here other than me has seen a 1926 movie called The Adventures of Prince Achmed, which was a stop-motion silhouette film, and did it wonderfully. And it's been good even since, between Ray Harryhausen, Star Wars, and the aforementioned The Nightmare Before Christmas and W&G.

Saithis Bladewing

2007-12-07, 03:22 PM

Did I just hear someone dissing Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas? I better not have, because you'll get me angry. And you wouldn't like me when I'm angry. :smallmad:

FACE OF EVIL SMASH!!!

*Yawns.*

Nightmare Before Christmas was possibly the 3rd most 'fail' film I've ever watched. Seriously. Everyone raved about it over and over and all I could do was sit there and go: "...yawn..."

Oh, and I do like stop-motion, I was just playing Devil's Advocate. I do not, however, like Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas in any way, shape, or form. Utter. Fail.

Raiser Blade

2007-12-07, 03:43 PM

FoE

2007-12-07, 03:44 PM

Sacrilege! Blasphemy! HERESY! I declare vendetta against thee, Saithis!

By the way, you have to change your vote in the Outsider in the Playground contest. Rex is no longer a candidate for Devil.

Saithis Bladewing

2007-12-07, 03:45 PM

What's this? What's this? People dissing Nightmare before christmas.
What's this? What's this? Something is amiss.

There's people posting insults
Instead of posting praise
How could these people not enjoy
It leaves me in a daze

Because I didn't like it and thought it was a big pile of rubbish, maybe? :smallsigh: :smalltongue:

@^ I know Rex is no longer a candidate, I told Lord Herman I didn't care enough to change my vote. And alright, your vendetta is fair enough, I'll change my vote away from you then. Since we're at war now.

Ceska

2007-12-07, 03:56 PM

So, a friend shot me playing football (the true version) today. The right glass of the glasses broke, the left is pretty much untouched. I then went to hospital to see if I had splinters in the eye, but it doesn't seem so. Luckily.

I feel left out not knowing what happened to Rex.

Haruki-kun

2007-12-07, 04:09 PM

^: Join the club. But we're not supposed to talk about it.......

I've never posted in RB before. :smallbiggrin: I don't know why.

Nightmare before Christmas? Meh............ I liked it. Just not as much as everyone seems to. Good Kingdom Hearts World, though. :smalltongue:

CurlyKitGirl

2007-12-07, 04:13 PM

One more reason I don't like football (the real version); danger with glasses and tackling.
You're lucky you didn't get any glass in the eye.

Ceska

2007-12-07, 04:16 PM

One more reason I don't like football (the real version); danger with glasses and tackling.
You're lucky you didn't get any glass in the eye.
Yup, just the eyelid, and everything around my eye. Plus usual bruises.

And it was a team-mate (and my best friend), who shot, too.

A Rainy Knight

2007-12-07, 04:17 PM

I'm assuming that you're referring to soccer? I don't particularly like soccer or American football because there's tons of potential to get clobbered in both of them.

Haruki-kun

2007-12-07, 04:18 PM

Ah! Right! Football!

I thought:
http://img.alibaba.com/photo/50561747/PU_Football.jpg

But you meant:
http://el-fanatico.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/football.jpg

Such misunderstanding.......... :smalleek:

But I don't like them much, either. I'm accident-prone............ as in prone to causing acidents.......

Eldpollard

2007-12-07, 04:19 PM

One more reason I don't like football (the real version); danger with glasses and tackling.
You're lucky you didn't get any glass in the eye.

Surely you'd be more lucky not to get hit by the football at all.

Ceska

2007-12-07, 04:22 PM

Haruki, I meant what you thought I meant. American Football is referred as that here, American Football. It gets the predicate because Football is football, the real and original version.

Rainy Knight: It's okay indoors, just on grass is problematic (thanks to metal on your boots). Well, except when karatekid thinks he has to take a ball volley.

Dr. Bath

2007-12-07, 04:36 PM

Well, original football was apparently an inte-village game of violence and pig bladders. Much pitchforks and running was involved. Slightly more dangerous than the modern incarnations.

But it is often thought that modern football, occasionally wrongly termed 'soc-car', originates from an aisian game (either Tibetan or Mongolian) in which a severed head was kicked about until either it exploded or someone got it to the other end of the feild/plateau/village.

CurlyKitGirl

2007-12-07, 04:48 PM

Now I know where the DIscworld version came from. Thankee kindly Dr. :smallsmile:

Zar Peter

2007-12-07, 04:55 PM

Dr. Bath

2007-12-07, 04:57 PM

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Ceska

2007-12-07, 04:58 PM

I played Football for about 10 years and I never! wear my glasses while playing. It's dangerous enough without them.
And maybe that's the reason why I never played real good (Motto of my team: Never change a losing team)
I don't see well, I see differently and I'm a bit cross eyed. Basically I don't see a pass without glasses.
And my eyes hate contacts of any kind.

BrokenButterfly

2007-12-07, 05:15 PM

I've always wanted to try out contacts, but I'm pretty happy with glasses. Got a nice new pair last month in fact.

I just think my face looks a bit odd without a frame in-front of my eyes...

Rawhide

2007-12-07, 05:15 PM

A frog goes into a bank and approaches the teller. He can see from her nameplate that her name is Patricia Whack. "Miss Whack, I'd like to get a $30,000 loan to take a holiday."

Patty looks at the frog in disbelief and asks his name. The frog says his name is Kermit Jagger, his dad is Mick Jagger, and that it's okay, he knows the bank manager. Patty explains that he will need to secure the loan with some collateral. The frog says, "Sure, I have this" and produces a tiny porcelain elephant, about an inch tall, bright pink and perfectly formed.

Very confused, Patty explains that she'll have to consult with the bank manager and disappears into a back office. She finds the manager and says "There's a frog called Kermit Jagger out there who claims to know you and wants to borrow $30,000 and he wants to use this as collateral." She holds up the tiny pink elephant. "I mean, what in the world is this?"

The bank manager looks back at her and says...

(wait for it.........)
....."It's a knickknack, Patty Whack. Give the frog a loan. His old man's a Rolling Stone."

Eldpollard

2007-12-07, 05:18 PM

I think I may be slightly short sighted. I really should get them checked. Faraway words never used to be blurry.

Semidi

2007-12-07, 05:21 PM

A frog goes into a bank and approaches the teller. He can see from her nameplate that her name is Patricia Whack. "Miss Whack, I'd like to get a $30,000 loan to take a holiday."

Patty looks at the frog in disbelief and asks his name. The frog says his name is Kermit Jagger, his dad is Mick Jagger, and that it's okay, he knows the bank manager. Patty explains that he will need to secure the loan with some collateral. The frog says, "Sure. I have this" and produces a tiny porcelain elephant, about an inch tall, bright pink and perfectly formed.

Very confused, Patty explains that she'll have to consult with the bank manager and disappears into a back office. She finds the manager and says "There's a frog called Kermit Jagger out there who claims to know you and wants to borrow $30,000 and he wants to use this as collateral." She holds up the tiny pink elephant. "I mean, what in the world is this?"

The bank manager looks back at her and says...

(wait for it.........)
....."It's a knickknack, Patty Whack. Give the frog a loan. His old man's a Rolling Stone."

Thank you for making my day.

Rawhide

2007-12-07, 05:21 PM

Sean92k

2007-12-07, 05:23 PM

I've always wanted to try out contacts, but I'm pretty happy with glassesI would get some contacts if I were you. Im wearing a pair right now that I've had in for 14 hours (not advised but Im too lazy to take them out) they're really cool, hard to put in and they sting like hell but well worth it for not having to keep messing with glasses.

A frog goes into a bank
*Snip*
The bank manager looks back at her and says...

(wait for it.........)
....."It's a knickknack, Patty Whack. Give the frog a loan. His old man's a Rolling Stone."The joke... IT BURNS D: Jokin, it was funny

Sir_Norbert

2007-12-07, 05:38 PM

Of the many many things I will never understand about humans, the most incomprehensible of all is why people insist on pretending that puns can't be funny. Is it uncool to laugh at a good joke?

jmaccabeus

2007-12-07, 05:50 PM

Of the many many things I will never understand about humans, the most incomprehensible of all is why people insist on pretending that puns can't be funny. Is it uncool to laugh at a good joke?

I'm going to go with Isaac Asimov here and say that humor must have been given to us by aliens as part of an experiment or something. There's no other way to explain just how strange, varied, and lacking in logic it is...

Dragonrider

2007-12-07, 05:54 PM

...and yet it's funny. :smallbiggrin:

I, too, have chosen to wear glasses rather than get contacts. I prefer my appearance with them than without, since I have dark circles no matter how much sleep I get, and the glasses disguise it; in addition, the idea of putting little pieces of plastic (or whatever) on my eyeball just feels wrong. :smalltongue:

Dr. Bath

2007-12-07, 05:57 PM

Whoo! Go dark circles under eyes! We should form a club.

The thing is, I don't have any glasses to hide the shadows with, so I just look like a disheveled vampire the whole time.

Eldpollard

2007-12-07, 05:59 PM

As do I. On the other hand I don't get enough sleep. But I've had them for a long time. It would be a dull club wouldn't it? Your eyes look dark, so do yours."

The Bushranger

2007-12-07, 06:12 PM

I'm ashamed of you people.

Discussing stop-motion/claymation...

...and not a single reference to The California Raisins?

ASHAMED, I say!

:smallamused:

Sean92k

2007-12-07, 06:27 PM

I have the circles too, can I join? Pweeese? I get 8 hours of sleep, wake up more tired and looking worse. I've embraced the circles, I like them.

Dragonrider

2007-12-07, 06:35 PM

Wow, lots of us! :smalltongue:

Eldpollard

2007-12-07, 06:37 PM

It's not suprising though is it. At home on the computer staying up late or avoiding daylight.

Saithis Bladewing

2007-12-07, 06:47 PM

I'm a mild insomniac and I don't have any circles under my eyes.

...*Cries.* D:

Hoggy

2007-12-07, 06:59 PM

This forum needs a 'post here if you're drunk (in the playground)" thread.

Sean92k

2007-12-07, 07:10 PM

This forum needs a 'post here if you're drunk (in the playground)" thread.THIS GUY, I LOVE THIS GUY. HIGGLY, I LOVE YOU. Yush shee, what we weelly need ish geeshe, geeshe for the children, and for the children ash well.

I suppose I could paraphrase drunken monologues from my stoner uncles as well... *Reads forum rules* Maybe not :smalleek:

Madmal

2007-12-07, 07:27 PM

I have the circles too, can I join? Pweeese? I get 8 hours of sleep, wake up more tired and looking worse. I've embraced the circles, I like them.

weird...so do i...and i usually sleep from 7 to 9 hours. :smalleek:

EmeraldRose

2007-12-07, 07:29 PM

[de-lurk]

Sleep? Lots of sleep is good! I'm needing like 8 hours at least these days. And I'm still completely wiped out by 2pm...:smalleek:

[lurks]

Raiser Blade

2007-12-07, 07:42 PM

[de-lurk]

Sleep? Lots of sleep is good! I'm needing like 8 hours at least these days. And I'm still completely wiped out by 2pm...:smalleek:

[lurks]

Have you considered a hormonal imbalance?

Archangel Yuki

2007-12-07, 07:44 PM

EmeraldRose

2007-12-07, 07:48 PM

Have you considered a hormonal imbalance?

Meaning, do I want one? :smalltongue: No thanks...it's actually pretty normal.

Sean92k

2007-12-07, 07:49 PM

Sleep......Omg.

I am having a non sleeping contest with one of my friends starting the 20st, which means the night of the 19th is the last time we sleep.. This is going to be so awesome. We are going to try and go untill christmas. Then, we are going to try again on new years- we are shooting for a full week that time.

Join us in our epic adventure of non-sleep! Woo!Are you sure thats... That can't be good at all. Erm, I guess its just guys trying to show off again... Good luck for when you're physically unable to sleep when you want to.
Have fun I guess :smalleek:

Have you considered a hormonal imbalance?I think I might have one of those, a friend said that she thinks I am depressed because of hormones, so maybe it's those playing with my sleep as well. :smallconfused:

FdL

2007-12-07, 07:50 PM

*Yawns.*

Nightmare Before Christmas was possibly the 3rd most 'fail' film I've ever watched. Seriously. Everyone raved about it over and over and all I could do was sit there and go: "...yawn..."

Oh, and I do like stop-motion, I was just playing Devil's Advocate. I do not, however, like Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas in any way, shape, or form. Utter. Fail.

I didn't like it so much either. Judging it as a visual work, it's pretty good, though IMHO overrated. But as a movie I didn't like it or enjoy it a lot. I don't like musicals much for starters.

Football is the only name for the sport of kicking a round ball into a goal. All others please change their names.

Raw's joke, well...I read the punchline before the rest, so I ruined it :p

What else is new in the RB world? I have given up on keeping pace...But I'll pop up every now and then.

Edit: Oh, "non-sleeping contest"? Candidate for dumbest idea ever, maybe? It has my vote. Cmon, guys, use your time and your youth for something productive 9_9

The Great Skenardo

2007-12-07, 07:56 PM

The bank manager looks back at her and says...

Heh. This is what my grandmother calls a shaggy dog story. Here's another one.

A farmer is working in his field alongside the road, and he sees a travelling salesman's van coming down the road at high speed. Suddenly, a rabbit darts out into the road! The van swerves, but it can't evade the rabbit in time, and he hits it!

Well, the van stops and the salesman gets out to look. The poor rabbit isn't moving. The salesman stands looking sadly at the rabbit for a little while, and then he snaps his fingers. He rummages around in the back of his van among wrapped cases of bottles and pulls one out.
As the farmer watches on, the salesman uncorks the bottle and gently pours its contents down the rabbit's throat. Almost immediately, the creature leaps up and waves at the salesman, who nods happily, pats the rabbit on the head, gets back in his van and drives off.

The rabbit waves at the van as he drives away, and then hops a little ways away. Seeing the farmer, the rabbit waves to him. The bemused farmer waves back and watches the rabbit hop away.
Curious, he tromps on over to the side of the road and picks up the now empty bottle and reads the label.

"Hair Restorer.
Permanent Wave!

Raiser Blade

2007-12-07, 07:58 PM

Meaning, do I want one? :smalltongue: No thanks...it's actually pretty normal.

Are you sure you don't want one... :smalltongue:

Seriously though sometimes fatigue can be a sign of one so if you are extraordinarily tired you should make sure your hormone levels are ok.

EmeraldRose

2007-12-07, 08:02 PM

>.>

Nope, I'm pretty sure it's something else.

<.<

Haruki-kun

2007-12-07, 08:05 PM

jmaccabeus

2007-12-07, 08:06 PM

I also have dark color under my eyes despite getting enough sleep. Actually, it wouldn't be so bad, except my eyes are also somewhat back into my face, so the shadows make it look even darker.

Dragonrider

2007-12-07, 08:40 PM

Mine might have something to do with the fact that I NEVER sleep through the night...but considering that I go to bed before 9:30 pm and get up at 6:40 am every day, one would think that I get ample opportunity for sleep. But noooo. I think it's partly a product of my olive skin tone as well.

Sean92k

2007-12-07, 08:59 PM

I go to bed before 9:30 pm and get up at 6:40 am every day,I sleep from 12-8 on a school day, having to leave for school at 8:20 :smallbiggrin: As for weekends and holidays, its bed time at about 4 in the morning and waking anywhere between 5:30-12. There might be something wrong with my sleeping patterns. Oh, but every Saturday night is game night so Im up till around 8 and then I have to get up at 12 to go to my grandparents :smallannoyed:

rubakhin

2007-12-07, 09:13 PM

I just woke up. I must've only gotten an hour or two. I either sleep two hours, or I sleep fourteen, or not at all. Most often not at all. I've also started losing time because of stress/being complete lunatic. The days are all running into one another. It's surreal.

Clearly, I'm turning into the guy from Fight Club. This should end well.

Reinboom

2007-12-07, 09:17 PM

Ms_Elaneous

2007-12-07, 09:19 PM

*sneaks into thread*

>.>

<.<

What's Fight Club?

EmeraldRose

2007-12-07, 09:21 PM

Ms E!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*tacklehugs*

Long time no see!

:smallbiggrin:

Ms_Elaneous

2007-12-07, 09:22 PM

*hugglehugglehuggle*

Heya. ^.^

Madmal

2007-12-07, 09:22 PM

People! remember the RULE, please!!!:smallmad:

also, Hello Ms. E, long time you don't get around Friendly Banter...:smallsmile:

Reinboom

2007-12-07, 09:24 PM

Hi Ms. E.

Fight Club is a novel and a movie.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fight_Club_%28film%29

EmeraldRose

2007-12-07, 09:24 PM

It was a reflex Mal, sorry. :smallredface:

Where've you been hiding out Ms E? It's been ages since I've seen you post.

rubakhin

2007-12-07, 09:28 PM

It's pretty good. I was on a Burroughs kick when I first read it, so I sort of think of it as the last Beat novel. Do you like On the Road and all that?

It was also something like the most homoerotic movie I've ever seen, if you're into that.

Madmal

2007-12-07, 09:28 PM

It was a reflex Mal, sorry. :smallredface:

Where've you been hiding out Ms E? It's been ages since I've seen you post.

I was actually doing a reference about "Do not talk about Fight Club!" line....-_-U

Ms_Elaneous

2007-12-07, 09:29 PM

Oh, right. Three post rule. Gotcha.

Anyhoo, school started up, interest went down, and now it's finals week and I feel relatively free. :smallsmile:

EmeraldRose

2007-12-07, 09:29 PM

Yeah...I totally missed that. :smalltongue:

Granted it's been ages since I watched the movie.

EDIT: ^ winter break was always a fun time, especially right after that last final!

Madmal

2007-12-07, 09:33 PM

Oh, right. Three post rule. Gotcha.

Anyhoo, school started up, interest went down, and now it's finals week and I feel relatively free. :smallsmile:

Good for you, 'cause i don't...

i may fail Themes of Modern Phylosophy, and i'm still missing that's and my Faith and Actual Culture recovery exams.:smallsigh:

And i need to present a short story up to 2000 words on Monday for my Final Grade on Narrative Workshop.

So yes, i'm procrastinating.:smalltongue:

Skippy

2007-12-07, 11:04 PM

Last time I checked, three post rule was active only in the SMBG section. The first thing I thought when Ms arrived (Welcome back, BTW!) was also "Remember, do not talk about Fight Club!"

Saithis Bladewing

2007-12-07, 11:15 PM

I'm cursed, and I want to talk to people, and I was happy, and now I'm sadz... stupid curse... ~.~

ZombieRockStar

2007-12-07, 11:27 PM

Sai...we want you back! We're all lonely without you! :smallfrown:

Yeah, stupid curse. Seriously, does anyone have any idea what's causing people to randomly be ejected from AIM chats and not being able to rejoin? It is becoming extremely frustrating.

Madmal

2007-12-07, 11:40 PM

myself, it think it has finally messed up with all this people inviting themselves.

but well, i'm fairly new at AIM, so, dunno.

The Bushranger

2007-12-08, 12:22 AM

I can usually get by on five or six hours sleep. The creepy thing is, no matter what time I set my alarm clock to, I always wake up about 10 minutes before that. :smalleek:

Reinboom

2007-12-08, 12:24 AM

I can usually get by on five or six hours sleep. The creepy thing is, no matter what time I set my alarm clock to, I always wake up about 10 minutes before that. :smalleek:

I can... almost... guarantee that if you set it to 9 minutes from now, then promptly go to sleep, you will not wake up 10 minutes before it goes off.
Unless something really weird happens.
Really weird.

Rawhide

2007-12-08, 12:31 AM

Unless something really weird happens.
Really weird.

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/insomnia.png
Page stretchy goodness

Skippy

2007-12-08, 12:32 AM

Ah, yes. Well thought, Rawhide. As usual, the best.

AmberVael

2007-12-08, 12:35 AM

An XKCD for every situation, I say. ^-^

In other news, I had a rough day. I woke up late, so I had to rush out the door to get to work late, and then professors bugged me all day and some woman called insisting that an "Ashley" could be reached at my work number despite me and my coworker (who was not an Ashley) being the only two people consistently in the lab, and no women were using the lab at the time.
I then proceeded to get in a bit of a fight with a friend.
After all of this, I was tired and wanted to go home, so I got halfway there before my car decided that, what the hey, running was for wusses, and promptly conked out in the middle of the road for no obvious reason and without warning. I luckily was able to turn into a neighborhood, but there was still the fact that my car DIED.
So yay me. :smallsigh:

Midnight Son

2007-12-08, 12:59 AM

Well, I just got back from watching The Bells on Temple Square. Funny though...it wasn't on Temple Square, but across the street in the Conference Center. It was a very enjoyable performance. I've seen people ring bells and jingle bells from time to time. That's the first time I've seen people play the bells.

Raiser Blade

2007-12-08, 01:27 AM

Bravo to the mods for another successfully bagged and tagged spammer.

The Bushranger

2007-12-08, 01:36 AM

I can... almost... guarantee that if you set it to 9 minutes from now, then promptly go to sleep, you will not wake up 10 minutes before it goes off.
Unless something really weird happens.
Really weird.

Of course, since it usually takes me 30 minutes or more to go to sleep...

:smalltongue:

Haruki-kun

2007-12-08, 02:19 AM

Sometimes it takes me that long, too.

Not when I'm very tired, though.......

Logic

2007-12-08, 07:07 AM

It usually takse me about a half hour to fall asleep. In addition to that, I am a pretty light sleeper, so I wake up about every hour or so because of some noise nearby.

Rawhide

2007-12-08, 07:39 AM

Did somebody mention sleep? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GWPOPSXGYI)

rubakhin

2007-12-08, 07:54 AM

^ awww!

Damn, it's already eight o'clock in the morning. I don't think I'm getting to bed tonight. Today. Whatever.

Eldpollard

2007-12-08, 08:28 AM

Did somebody mention sleep? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GWPOPSXGYI)

But why is its face all squished. It looks like it's run into a door.

Skippy

2007-12-08, 10:07 AM

Bravo to the mods for another successfully bagged and tagged spammer.

Wow, I get a night's sleep and there's another spammer erased from the face of the forums thanks to the always vigilant team of Mods? I should sleep less...

EmeraldRose

2007-12-08, 10:31 AM

Skippy

2007-12-08, 10:42 AM

Seriously! It's like the fun stuff happens when I'm sleeping, and now I'll never know! :smalleek: :smallfrown:

Then again, I suppose I could restrain my curiousity....

Speaking of sleep, still...and cats...my stupid Grendel decided at 5 am to start yowling in the hallway and trying to dig his way into our room through the door! :smallfurious:

This went on for an hour and a half...before I fainally just got Andre to open the door and let Stupid in. Then we just had to kick him off the bed for the next hour and a half.

:smallsigh: I suppose I will try to sleep tonight...

Ah, yes. I know it. Stupid cats pretending to sleep in the same place where I am sleeping, and thinking I will allow it.

My sister's cat used to do that. And I used to kick her out of my bed. One day the cat learned it was safer to stay our of my room.

And then it died. Such is life.

Ganurath

2007-12-08, 10:48 AM

Wow, I get a night's sleep and there's another spammer erased from the face of the forums thanks to the always vigilant team of Mods? I should sleep less...Don't forget: Moderation reacts considerably faster if you report these posts, and you get to get a little bit of smug for having the impression of having contributed to a spammer scouring.

Smokey says "Only you can prevent forum flames."

Skippy

2007-12-08, 10:53 AM

Smokey says "Only you can prevent forum flames."

This should be sigged...

Dragonrider

2007-12-08, 10:54 AM

I'm confused...but that's ok.
One of my cats slept on my feet last night, and the other one was on the chair beside me. I was surprised they didn't meow all night...I guess they figured out I would go ballistic if they did. Especially as I woke up abou ten times anyway. :smallmad:

Ceska

2007-12-08, 11:00 AM

All three cats sleep in mom's bed right now. It was only one before, but they all decided they need to sleep there since my door isn't open enough.

Dragonrider

2007-12-08, 11:17 AM

My door is USUALLY closed, but I slept in the living room on a recliner last night...:smalltongue:

bosssmiley

2007-12-08, 11:19 AM

I can... almost... guarantee that if you set it to 9 minutes from now, then promptly go to sleep, you will not wake up 10 minutes before it goes off.
Unless something really weird happens.
Really weird.

"I can has TIEM PARADOX now plz?" - Schrodinger's lolcat :smallbiggrin:

CurlyKitGirl

2007-12-08, 11:24 AM

No more cat bashing!:smallmad:
I love my cat; someties she's the only thing that kept me snapping or falling into miserable pieces of self-loathing.
Portable, patient and loving. That's my Smudge.
Plus, she's the right kind of loving; not like my stalker-puppy who slobbers all over me and stalks me from room to room.

FdL

2007-12-08, 11:29 AM

Rawhide's XKCD comic post was dead on. It's exactly the feeling when you get insomnia. The worst thing you can do is look at the clock. It makes you mad.

Also, the little lights thing is also true. I put an open magazine to cover the VCR and DVD player standby lights. They can be pretty strong when you're in total darkness.

Emerald, Grendel sounds like an awesome name for a cat. Congrats :p

EmeraldRose

2007-12-08, 11:37 AM

Yeah, he's our own house demon...

Our other cat is Chewy, since as a kitten, he would pounce on people's ankles and..well..chew on them.

Dragonrider

2007-12-08, 11:37 AM

My uncle used to have a scary rottweiler named Grendel :smalleek:
He peed on the carpet a lot. :smalltongue:
I adore my cats, though. We've had them half my life, I don't know what I'll do when they're gone....

Dr. Bath

2007-12-08, 11:38 AM

"I can has TIEM PARADOX now plz?" - Schrodinger's lolcat :smallbiggrin:

I always preferred - "Im in ur quantum box. Maibe."

Serpentine

2007-12-08, 11:44 AM

My cat sleeps on my head :smallsmile:

FdL

2007-12-08, 11:58 AM

My uncle used to have a scary rottweiler named Grendel :smalleek:
He peed on the carpet a lot. :smalltongue:

EVILL!!! :p

Dragonrider

2007-12-08, 11:58 AM

@Serpentine, I'v been meaning to say this for a while....your new avatar is pretty cool :)

FdL

2007-12-08, 12:02 PM

@Serpentine, I'v been meaning to say this for a while....your new avatar is pretty cool :)

I have a huge crush on her, you know <3 <3 <3

The Bushranger

2007-12-08, 12:38 PM

Smokey says "Only you can prevent forum flames."

Three friars were behind on their belfry payments, so they opened a small florist shop to raise funds. Since everyone liked to buy flowers from the men of God, the rival florist across town thought the competition was unfair.

He asked the good fathers to close down, but they would not. He went back and begged the friars to close down, but they would not. He asked his mother to go and ask the friars to get out of the business. They would not.

So, the rival florist hired Hugh McTaggart, the roughest and most vicious thug in town to persuade them to close. Hugh beat up the friars and trashed their store, saying he'd be back if they didn't close their business. Terrified, they did so - thereby proving that...

...only Hugh can prevent florist friars.

Raiser Blade

2007-12-08, 12:58 PM

Yeah, he's our own house demon...

Our other cat is Chewy, since as a kitten, he would pounce on people's ankles and..well..chew on them.

Aw not chewy as in chewbacca? Oh well chewy is still an awesome name for a kitteh.

Dragonrider

2007-12-08, 01:07 PM

Aw not chewy as in chewbacca? Oh well chewy is still an awesome name for a kitteh.

I have a cat who's Luke after Luke Skywalker... :smallamused:

Go figure. My brother named him when he was 6...I was 8 at the time and called the other cat Charcoal. Luke and Charcoal. He was voting for Darth Vader but I didn't allow it...he used to call Charcoal "Vader" just to get a rise out of me; he'd follow me around doing it till I lost my temper and walloped him and then go running to Mom.

*sigh* siblings...

wadledo

2007-12-08, 01:52 PM

*sigh* siblings...

Siblings are great.:biggrin:

eidreff

2007-12-08, 02:08 PM

Having more siblings than most I can vouch that they really do taste great when slowly grilled, smothered in mustard and served on toast.

As for cute pets I think my friends labrador retriever was one of the best.

She had just had a litter of puppies and found his wallet (with a large amount of paper cash in it) on the worktop in the kitchen. She proceded to swipe said wallet along with all of the credit cards and other bits and bobs in it and gave it to the puppies.

She was found chewing a cellphone next to the mangled remains of the wallet.

In a blind panic, thinking he had been robbed my friend ransacked the whole house.

The puppies meanwhile had managed to get inside the sofa, and were busy making a nest out of all of those lovely soft pound notes.

About six hours of panic later they were found curled up, incredibly cute in their nest.

jmaccabeus

2007-12-08, 02:50 PM

All my siblings are considerably older than me, so I don't have any great stories of siblings. By the time I had any sense of what was good or interesting, they were already far past me. So I imagine they'd be telling those sorts of stories about me, rather than the other way around.

Also, I've never had any cute pets. Two dogs. I have been owned by a cat, though. I don't think describing it the other way around would be entirely accurate. :smalltongue: