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Raiser Blade

2008-05-28, 06:45 PM

The Rules.
You Read Them!
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" eh. 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

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

Previous Threads:
(We all have far 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)
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/Rockphed%27s%20Dice%20Rolling%20Toga%20Party%20of% %20%202061%20Drunken%20CIA%20Analysts)
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://%e2%80%9dhttp//www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=2287506)
Castaras's Random Banter #74 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/newreply.php?do=newreply&p=2302444)
D'anna Biers RB #75 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=39495)
Zeb The Troll's RB#76 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=39801)
Egdpollard's RB #77 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=40128)
Gezina's and Calamity's Random banter #78 of double entendre and doom (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=2366704#post2366704)
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?p=2878620#post2878620)
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?p=3471053#post3471053)
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://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)

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!

Now, ladies and genteelmen, let the bantering begin. :smallamused:

Player_Zero

2008-05-28, 06:46 PM

I will end you for this.

And then violate your corpse.
And then do some bad things...

Pfft... And my set up wasn't just a copy and paste too...

Oh well, at least I'm still more handsome. :smalltongue:

Zephra

2008-05-28, 06:47 PM

yayyy! new thread!! soon we'll be up to 100-- then there'll really be competition over who gets the new thread...

Cobra_Ikari

2008-05-28, 06:48 PM

Well, Player Zero, that's what you get for not posting. You CAN do it any time after page 50 is hit, you know. :smallamused:

Raiser Blade

2008-05-28, 06:48 PM

I will end you for this.

And then violate your corpse.
And then do some bad things...

But I've been in line since... a looong time ago. From way back in RB #92.

Edit: Hey my mommy says i'm more handsome then you so nyaaah!

Player_Zero

2008-05-28, 06:51 PM

But I've been in line since... a looong time ago. From way back in RB #92.

Edit: Hey my mommy says i'm more handsome then you so nyaaah!

Heh... Yeah, I understand...

I'd just got it all editted and ready an' all, though... I used blue text and everything! Blue text! :smalltongue:

One shall stand ... one shall fall!

(Also, Hot Rod sucks.) :smalltongue:

Why would you throw away your life so foolishly?

@\/ ...A little.

Raiser Blade

2008-05-28, 06:52 PM

Heh... Yeah, I understand...

I'd just got it all editted and ready an' all, though... I used blue text and everything! Blue text! :smalltongue:

Does this make you feel better? :smalltongue:

Dragonrider

2008-05-28, 06:54 PM

NEW THREAD! YAY! :smallbiggrin:

Yeah, Raiser's been wanting one FOREVER. Like, since I got mine. :smalltongue:

Haruki-kun

2008-05-28, 06:59 PM

NEW THREAD! YAY! :smallbiggrin:

Yeah, Raiser's been wanting one FOREVER. Like, since I got mine. :smalltongue:

Actually, yes it's true!
Now, time to banter in Raiser's Banter.

Previously on Random Banter

Haruki was attacked with a link to TV Tropes and Teleported into a Realm from which he could not escape. Face of Evil, having caused this, rejoiced from it as he got rid of the Angel, he thought, for good. In the meantime, the others banters. Caught in a Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Yu-Gi-OhTheAbridgedSeries?from=Main.YuGiOhTheAbridgedSer ies) trope, Haruki tried desperately to find a way out. And then he lost The Game.

Also, Curly is English.

*Opening Sequence Plays*

Copacetic

2008-05-28, 07:02 PM

Hmm, cool, a new banter. Now all we have to do is decide what to banter about. I suggest Kittens. Aren't they so fluffly and adorable?

Raiser Blade

2008-05-28, 07:04 PM

Hmm, cool, a new banter. Now all we have to do is decide what to banter about. I suggest Kittens. Aren't they so fluffly and adorable?

I like them best when served with a nice soup. It helps balance the delicate flavor.

CurlyKitGirl

2008-05-28, 07:05 PM

Also, Curly is English.

Damn straight.
Also, TV Tropes is too addictive.

DraPrime

2008-05-28, 07:05 PM

This may seem like a weird question, but how do you leave an anonymous tip to the police in America?

Player_Zero

2008-05-28, 07:06 PM

Hmm, cool, a new banter. Now all we have to do is decide what to banter about. I suggest Kittens. Aren't they so fluffly and adorable?

The kitty is so soft and pretty. Would you like to pet the kitty?
Hey look, I'm petting the kitty! Pet, pet, pet.

Kitties are perhaps the best of all animals, since they are both soft and pretty.

Also, on the subject of Curly being English: This is still unsubstantiated, Curly is clearly German.

Copacetic

2008-05-28, 07:12 PM

The kitty is so soft and pretty. Would you like to pet the kitty?
Hey look, I'm petting the kitty! Pet, pet, pet.

Kitties are perhaps the best of all animals, since they are both soft and pretty.

Also, on the subject of Curly being English: This is still unsubstantiated, Curly is clearly German.

And Lazy. Don't forget lazy. Cat's are like rugs. Except Pretty.

Also, Curly is most likely English. There is still an off-chance she is lying and is actually French, But I doubt it.

This may seem like a weird question, but how do you leave an anonymous tip to the police in America?

Leave a note at the frot of the police station. OR just e-mail them. some things are just that simple.

Raiser Blade

2008-05-28, 07:13 PM

This may seem like a weird question, but how do you leave an anonymous tip to the police in America?

Prepaid cellphone. Also now I am curious why you want to know this...

Player_Zero

2008-05-28, 07:19 PM

And Lazy. Don't forget lazy. Cat's are like rugs. Except Pretty.

Also, Curly is most likely English. There is still an off-chance she is lying and is actually French, But I doubt it.

Cats aren't lazy, it's just that they're compared to dogs, and they're rambunctious and whatnot...

Also, French? Of course! Why didn't I think of it myself! It's so clear now!

Mauve Shirt

2008-05-28, 07:25 PM

Curly's English? When did that come up?

Copacetic

2008-05-28, 07:25 PM

Cats aren't lazy, it's just that they're compared to dogs, and they're rambunctious and whatnot...

Also, French? Of course! Why didn't I think of it myself! It's so clear now!

My Cats were lazy. But then again, having random warm spots lying around the house is an attractive quality.

Becuase I'm smarter than you. :smalltongue:

Player_Zero

2008-05-28, 07:30 PM

Curly's English? When did that come up?

Probably right about when she started adding:

I am English

To all her posts... Which she did because of confusion and then disbelief that she was English, I eblieve.

Cobra_Ikari

2008-05-28, 07:38 PM

BTW, has a close request been sent for the last thread? >.>

Curly is Cornish. *licks*

Mauve Shirt

2008-05-28, 07:39 PM

Probably right about when she started adding:

I am English

To all her posts... Which she did because of confusion and then disbelief that she was English, I eblieve.

I was joking. :smallannoyed:

Player_Zero

2008-05-28, 07:42 PM

BTW, has a close request been sent for the last thread? >.>

Curly is Cornish. *licks*

A Southerner? Pah. The midlands is where it's at, yo.

Can I hear a second on that? :smalltongue:

...Also, who's got the next thread, then? 'Cause I did say I'd shotgun the next one, and I'd hate to not fulfill my obligations. :smalltongue:

I was joking. :smallannoyed:

I considered the idea that you were... But then I thought, "Hey, I can just deny it if anyone asks." So, yeah. I knew you were joking. :smallredface:

Copacetic

2008-05-28, 07:44 PM

A Southerner? Pah. The midlands is where it's at, yo.

Can I hear a second on that? :smalltongue:

...Also, who's got the next thread, then? 'Cause I did say I'd shotgun the next one , and I'd hate to not fulfill my obligations. :smalltongue:

Oh, me! Pick me! I wanna do the next thread! Pick Me!

[/innerchild]

Why are we discussing who is going to make the next thread while we have another 50 pages to go on this one?

Zakama

2008-05-28, 08:02 PM

*Was supposed to have SMEE's RB*

*Missed another one*

:smallsigh:

EDIT: Also, The Giant should get #100.

DraPrime

2008-05-28, 08:04 PM

Prepaid cellphone. Also now I am curious why you want to know this...

I've received some death threats.

Copacetic

2008-05-28, 08:06 PM

I've received some death threats.

Go tell the police. In Person. Death threats are not to be trifled with.

North

2008-05-28, 08:11 PM

I dont know if the Rich pays enough attention to this to start up a new thread.

Uncle Festy

2008-05-28, 08:12 PM

And then he lost The Game.

:smallfurious:
Hate you. So much.
... not really. Just hate the Freaking Game.
Ooh, first page!

Player_Zero

2008-05-28, 08:16 PM

TANGENT!

Who here has read Knights Of the Dinner Table (KoDT)?

I'm sure a lot of you have, and I've just read the first four volumes again, so let's discuss it!

For those who haven't: Here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knights_of_the_Dinner_Table) and here. (http://www.kenzerco.com/index.php?cPath=22_23_53) :smallsmile:

Zakama

2008-05-28, 08:55 PM

I dont know if the Rich pays enough attention to this to start up a new thread.

That's why we PM him.

Raiser Blade

2008-05-28, 09:12 PM

So I only have 2 days left until summer break. :smallbiggrin: Now I need a job. o.o

Haruki-kun

2008-05-28, 09:13 PM

:smallfurious:
Hate you. So much.
... not really. Just hate the Freaking Game.
Ooh, first page!

Yup, it's just as they say!

Don't hate the player, hate The Game!

TRM

2008-05-28, 09:27 PM

Ooooh! I like this thread, I missed posting in Random Banter over the past few months.

So I only have 2 days left until summer break. :smallbiggrin: Now I need a job. o.o
Tomorrow's my last day! Today I had to give an "interpretive hike" presentation in front of my entire Field Natural History class; I didn't mess it up too badly :smallsigh:. Tomorrow, I have to present an entire semester's worth of writing to my entire Creative Writing class. Fun times, fun times.

That's why we PM him.
Definitely. We all PM him. :smalltongue:

Then, if he doesn't make the new thread, we should go on a RB strike until he does. I kid, I kid. We wouldn't want to miss random banter for even a day.

dish

2008-05-28, 09:31 PM

On the subject of kitties, a couple of days ago I rescued yet another stray. I reckon she's about 7 weeks old and she's pure fluffy white with blue eyes. She'd climbed up underneath and then inside the engine of my neighbour's Volkswagen Santana and was mewing pitifully inside. There was no way I could leave here there because, well, it was hideously dangerous (and potentially messy). So I spent an hour lying on my back in the street with a torch (that's a 'flashlight' in American) in one hand and globs of kitten food in the other. I left splodges of kitten food over various accesible bits of the engine (apologies to my neighbour, but it's probably better than leaving a live kitten there) and eventually managed to tempt her out far enough to grab her. She's sleeping on my lap now as I type this, but we are trying to find a place to re-home her cos I already have far too many cats.

Copacetic

2008-05-28, 09:32 PM

Definitely. We all PM him. :smalltongue:

Then, if he doesn't make the new thread, we should go on a RB strike until he does. I kid, I kid. We wouldn't want to miss random banter for even a day.

Seconded. The Giant starting the 100th Thread sounds like a good idea.

Da King

2008-05-28, 09:39 PM

Today was Hug a Musician Day. I received a 2000% increase in hugs compared to other days, thanks to playing in a band.

Haruki-kun

2008-05-28, 10:02 PM

OK, so I was surfing YouTube, and I thought of a really crazy idea to search for. Afterwards, I thought "No, of course not. It can't exist...."

Silly me. This is the Internet EVERYTHING exists.

May I present to you.... when one Meme meets another.

The Rick Roll + The Caramelldansen = THIS (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ut8qYnYeAVc) (another version) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hq05IRf0dBQ&feature=related)

Serpentine

2008-05-28, 10:47 PM

Who was it that mentioned Quite Interesting sometime ago? I have... aquired 4 seasons, and now Goff is watching it all right next to me...

The Extinguisher

2008-05-28, 11:01 PM

Lucky. I want to see that so badly.

Rockphed

2008-05-29, 12:20 AM

I just disposed of a giant ant that was on my desk. The thing was an inch long! What should I do?

Haruki-kun

2008-05-29, 12:26 AM

I just disposed of a giant ant that was on my desk. The thing was an inch long! What should I do?

Call an exterminator, I guess. Those things are never alone. If it was an ant, that is.

Serpentine

2008-05-29, 12:32 AM

Wonder what an Australian bullant was doing in Canadia?
I don't know whether they're awesome or horrible...

Zakama

2008-05-29, 12:54 AM

I just disposed of a giant ant that was on my desk. The thing was an inch long! What should I do?

O_O

AN. INCH.

Are you serious? :smalleek: Pics if you see any more!

Serpentine

2008-05-29, 01:03 AM

Hmm... Maybe I should try to get pictures of that nest at the uni if it's still there...

Rockphed

2008-05-29, 01:03 AM

O_O

AN. INCH.

Are you serious? :smalleek: Pics if you see any more!

Maybe not quite an inch, but close. I think it was one of the carpenter ants that inhabit the dead willow wood behind my house.

Also, I don't have a digital camera, so no pics:smallfrown:

SoD

2008-05-29, 02:12 AM

I just disposed of a giant ant that was on my desk. The thing was an inch long! What should I do?

Did it look like this? Because if so...Serpentine was right, it's a bullant (or bulldog ant, I think may be the correct version nobody uses. Mind you, there are 90 different types or so...almost all are only found in Australia [there's like, one type in New Caledonia...where is that place anyway?])

Is this your ant (warning, if you have a thing about big bugs, you mightn't like the picture...thou hast been warned.)?
http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j131/Super_Moppy/red_bullant.jpg

Rockphed

2008-05-29, 02:26 AM

Mine was black, not red. Aside from that I can't give details as I squished it before I really examined the thing. I think it was one of these. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_carpenter_ant)

Jibar

2008-05-29, 02:33 AM

Two pages in and no Ego is sight.
Despicadilly.

And so without further gilding the lily and with no more ado, I give to you, the seeker of serenity, the protector of Italian virginity, the original Knight who said Ni, the enforcer of our Lord Baked God, Cat'Thilli, the one, the only, Sir Jiiiiiibar Von Lichtenstein!

*BOOGIE!*

This thread has been blessed.

Dihan

2008-05-29, 03:42 AM

Groundhog

2008-05-29, 05:08 AM

Well, if that was indeed his(her?) name (which I doubt) then he wouldn't have to actually live in Lichtenstein right now. Just as long as some male-line ancestor of his was the lord or duke or whatever of Lichtenstein, the name stays.

Dihan

2008-05-29, 05:16 AM

Serpentine

2008-05-29, 05:19 AM

>pokes Name's pouty lip<
Maybe you should just get better, and more well informed, fun :smalltongue:

Dihan

2008-05-29, 05:30 AM

>pokes Name's pouty lip<
Maybe you should just get better, and more well informed, fun :smalltongue:

But but but... I like this fun!

*Continues pouting*

Phase

2008-05-29, 05:30 AM

No be sulk!

Be elk!

*Dances like an elk!*

wadledo

2008-05-29, 05:32 AM

On another note, my condition has been downgraded to pneumonia.
Which means I'm going to miss my girlfriends music recital, a friend-girls first day at school after her house was gutted by fire, and get lots of antibiotics pumped into me.

I want to use the time I have left to sayOnly press the next button if I die, or if you want to know something deep and meaningful about the world:Seriously, this is important.I'm not joking about this.If you thought 42 was mind-blowing, you should turn back now.Just telling ya'.I tried to warn you.No, you won't listen, will you.No one ever does.I hate you all.

Dihan

2008-05-29, 05:34 AM

No be sulk!

Be elk!

*Dances like an elk!*

... *Pouts*

>.>

Fine! *Dances like an elk*
How does an elk dance anyway?

Jibar

2008-05-29, 06:11 AM

Okay, now my world has been turned upside down, then right away up, then upside down, then right again, and then at just such an angle that stuff will slide off the table but I won't know why.
Apparantly Dexter Holland, lead singer of the Offspring turned down a Ph.D in molecular biology to focus on his band. (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HollywoodNerd)
SWTF?

Quincunx

2008-05-29, 06:16 AM

The Ph.D. program isn't going anywhere. Fame will dissipate. Did not someone from Queen just complete a doctorate after a thirty-year hiatus?

bosssmiley

2008-05-29, 06:19 AM

Okay, now my world has been turned upside down, then right away up, then upside down, then right again, and then at just such an angle that stuff will slide off the table but I won't know why.

Got drunk and decided to play in the washing machine again Jib?
You and your hobbies!

http://www.collectedcurios.com/SA_0184_small.jpg

Apparantly Dexter Holland, lead singer of the Offspring turned down a Ph.D in molecular biology to focus on his band. (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HollywoodNerd)
SWTF?

Well duh! Punk (and all the drugs, booze and girls that go with it) is a young man's game; you can get a boring old PHD in physics anytime. :smallbiggrin:

(although a lot of physicists do their most influential work before they're 25...)

The Ph.D. program isn't going anywhere. Fame will dissipate. Did not someone from Queen just complete a doctorate after a thirty-year hiatus?

Brian May (the man with the never-changing hair). Famous being 1/4 of "Queen" and for playing a guitar solo of 'God Save the Queen' on the roof of Buckingham Palace (http://youtube.com/watch?v=Px6NL4KFu0U&feature=related). :smallcool:

Jibar

2008-05-29, 06:23 AM

Got drunk and decided to play in the washing machine again Jib?
You and your hobbies!

1. Don't drink. Every insane thing I do is done sober... which makes so much of life totally unexplainable.
2. You say that like it's a bad thing.
3. Yay being able to fit inside a washing machine! :smallbiggrin:

Dragonrider

2008-05-29, 09:35 AM

I'm tired.
And kinda depressed.

(just so everyone knows :smalltongue:)

wadledo

2008-05-29, 09:39 AM

I'm tired.
And kinda depressed.

(just so everyone knows :smalltongue:)

Join the club.

:absenceofsmalltongue:

Serpentine

2008-05-29, 09:44 AM

wadledo

2008-05-29, 09:50 AM

Also: Aw, DR and Wadledo >hugs< I've just recently cleaned out my Inbox, plenty of room for rants :smallsmile:

Already made my rant, s' on the last page.

Edit: One of the baby chickens just died.
It was a black one.

Player_Zero

2008-05-29, 09:52 AM

Oh yeah?! Well I'm ill, tired, stressed, and just recently single. Stick that in your pipe and smoke it! :smalltongue:

Also: Aw, DR and Wadledo >hugs< I've just recently cleaned out my Inbox, plenty of room for rants :smallsmile:

Oh yeah? Well, I've got to get a B in Physics or I can't go to University and I've already got a C at AS level, so unless I ace my exams I'm gonna' become An Hero! I can't face repeating a year... I just can't... :smallfrown:

Also, no responses about discussing KoDT? Awww...

Skippy

2008-05-29, 10:17 AM

Well, here's some happiness to share with you all.

I bought Metal Gear Solid 3 yesterday. At the incredible price of ten bucks. I've only played for a couple hours, but it's an awesome game!

CurlyKitGirl

2008-05-29, 10:17 AM

And so without further gilding the lily and with no more ado, I give to you, the seeker of serenity, the protector of Italian virginity, the original Knight who said Ni, the enforcer of our Lord Baked God, Cat'Thilli, the one, the only, Sir Jiiiiiibar Von Lichtenstein!

*BOOGIE!*

This thread has been blessed.

Jibar, if I haven't stated me love and awe of your awesome cat-muffiny self let me do so now: You. Rock.
Direct quote and adaptation of Chaucer, Python reference, Lovecraft reference (maybe) and more.
I bow before your awesome sauce.

Serpentine

2008-05-29, 10:22 AM

I bow before your awesome sauce....
Nah, too easy :smallwink:

CurlyKitGirl

2008-05-29, 10:27 AM

Yes!
Deliberate phrasing of the last sentence made Serpie smile.:smallcool:
Oh, and QI is one of the funniest shows ever. D'you like Alan's buzzers? There's one, can't remember which show it was, but his buzzer went on for over a minute (I think) and had theentire audience and players laughing before the show even began.

Serpentine

2008-05-29, 10:40 AM

Yes! I remember that one! :smallbiggrin: 'twere awesome.

...sauce :smallwink:

Kyrian

2008-05-29, 10:44 AM

I just found out that I have G4 On Demand!

Yay! I got to watch Ninja Warrior!

CurlyKitGirl

2008-05-29, 10:51 AM

:smallbiggrin:
I found my Labyrinth DVD! Well, I say mine but it's my family's. Who cares? David Bowie, Labyrinth, the way he lounges in those tight trousers, cool songs, M C Escher song. Excellent puppetry and Sir Didymus.

Heh. So many of my favourite films are from the 80s.

Kyrian

2008-05-29, 11:04 AM

You remind me of the babe
What babe?
The babe with the power
What power?
The power of voodoo
Who do?
You do!
Do what?
Remind me of the babe!

Serpentine

2008-05-29, 11:08 AM

I saw my bay-beey
Cryin' hard as babe could cry.
What could I do?
My baby's love had gone,
And left my baby blue!
Nobody knew
What kind of magic spell to use!
Slime and snails,
Or puppydog's tails?
Thunder or lightning?
Then baby said:

rubakhin

2008-05-29, 11:14 AM

Hey, my parents are heading out this week and I'm man of the house. Which means I have free reign over the stove.

Unfortunately, the only things I know how to cook are Chechen food. And Chechen food uses Chechen ingredients which are generally found in Chechnya. Watch me try to replace sisgal flour and beerem with pancake batter and Tabasco sauce.

Serpentine

2008-05-29, 11:15 AM

Wait, you live with your parents? :smallconfused:
Your life = confusing.

Kyrian

2008-05-29, 11:15 AM

Dragonrider

2008-05-29, 11:16 AM

rubakhin

2008-05-29, 11:16 AM

Well, I'm completely unemployable, ergo, negative cash flow. It's not like I can live on my own.

CurlyKitGirl

2008-05-29, 11:42 AM

Dance magic, dance magic,
jump magic, jump magic...

And that's where my brain gets fuzzy.

Dance magic dance magic
Dance magic, dance magic
Dance
(put that baby's pell on you)
Jump magic, jump magic
Jump magic, jump magic
(put that magic jump on you)
Slap that baby, make him pay

[interlude]

I told my baby
Trying hard as babe could try
What could I do
My baby's fun had gone
And left my baby bluuueee
Nobody knew
What kind of magic spell to use
[chorus]

No I'm not obsessed with that film. Honest I'm not. >.> <.<

I can cook. Mostly. I just don't need to often. And roasts are one thing I can't do. Ever.

Kyrian

2008-05-29, 11:49 AM

No, I'm not obsessed with that film. Honest I'm not. >.> <.<

Right....

That's one of the few songs I liked from the movie.

bosssmiley

2008-05-29, 11:50 AM

Well, I'm completely unemployable, ergo, negative cash flow. It's not like I can live on my own.

Highly educated, well read Russians? Yep, a danger to themselves and all around them. I wouldn't want to work with the mad buggers! I've read English Russia (http://www.englishrussia.com/): yer all completely bonkers. :smallbiggrin:

Tangentially related:

David Bowie: terrible babysitter (http://coelasquid.deviantart.com/art/Jarethpool-Strikes-again-65535965) :smallconfused:

No I'm not obsessed with that film. Honest I'm not. >.> <.<

"GEEEEEEEK!!!"

http://www.ufodigest.com/news/0108/images/debunkers.jpg

I can cook. Mostly. I just don't need to often. And roasts are one thing I can't do. Ever.

Oh, Eggy can roast. Eggy can roast anything. Roasting is eeeeeeasy!

Pre-heat oven.
Hunt down edible thing.
Put thing on top of potatoes and parsnips.
Put thing in oven.
Go do stuff.
Take thing out of oven.
Leave thing to rest.
Carve thing.
Serve.
Gorge.
Repletion.
Done!
(/Gordon Ramsey)

Kyrian

2008-05-29, 12:01 PM

Dangit Curly!

Now I'm listening to the soundtrack... >.>

Eldpollard

2008-05-29, 12:09 PM

When did I last post here? Must have been some time ago. I shall endevour to post in these wonderful wonderful forums more often. Urgh, I hate filling in job applications, at least I managed to quote Karl Marx, so that should be amusing. Perhaps I shouldn't aim to use humour in applications. And yet... it is so tempting.

Castaras

2008-05-29, 12:30 PM

I told my baby
Trying hard as babe could try
What could I do
My baby's fun had gone
And left my baby bluuueee
Nobody knew
What kind of magic spell to use
[chorus]

No I'm not obsessed with that film. Honest I'm not. >.> <.<

I can cook. Mostly. I just don't need to often. And roasts are one thing I can't do. Ever.

I saw my baby
Crying hard as babes could cry
What could I do
My baby's love had gone
And left my baby bluue
Nobody knew...

I'm not obsessed with that film either. Honest.

CurlyKitGirl

2008-05-29, 12:34 PM

@Eggy: Thank you. Noones ever called me a Geek before.:smallredface:
@Kyrian: I'm not embarrassed at all. It's a great soundtrack.

^: It's okay to be obsessed with this film.

Kyrian

2008-05-29, 12:35 PM

It really is. ^-^

Though personally Chilly Downs gets annoying after I've been listening for a while.

Castaras

2008-05-29, 12:36 PM

I like Chilly Down. So awesome.

Within you's my favourite song on the Labyrinth soundtrack though.

FoE

2008-05-29, 12:38 PM

No I'm not obsessed with that film. Honest I'm not. >.> <.<

Neither are the contributors to TV Tropes. Honestly, I think you can find a reference to Labyrinth on one out of every five pages. (And one out of every three contains a reference to Haruhi Suzumiya or Neon Genesis Evangelion.)

Kyrian

2008-05-29, 12:38 PM

I like Underground the most I believe.

It makes me switch over to Fifth Element soundtrack and listen to "Little Light of Love."

Eldpollard

2008-05-29, 12:42 PM

I have never seen Labyrinth, perhaps I should give it a look. Pan's Labyrinth was good though.

CurlyKitGirl

2008-05-29, 12:43 PM

Within ou's the Escher one right? Where Bowie sings and Sarah's running all over Escher-land to get Toby.

Kyrian

2008-05-29, 12:44 PM

Correct CurlyKit.

I like that one for just the main line "I move the stars for no one."

CurlyKitGirl

2008-05-29, 12:51 PM

Correct CurlyKit.

I like that one for just the main line "I move the stars for no one."

I often quote that line and it's so memorable.

Castaras

2008-05-29, 01:00 PM

You've run so long...you've run so far...
Your eyes can be so cruel
Just as I can be so cruel
Oh I do believe in you
Live without the sunlight
Love without a heartbeat
I can't live
within you

<3

Underground is cool also. Fun.

FoE

2008-05-29, 01:21 PM

Raiser Blade

2008-05-29, 01:35 PM

"'Will you Bee my Valentine?' It says Bee! And there's a picture of a bee on it!"

That reminds me of Robin Williams as the genie.

"Remember beeeeee yourself."

North

2008-05-29, 01:37 PM

I like Underground the most I believe.

It makes me switch over to Fifth Element soundtrack and listen to "Little Light of Love."

I heart that one part in the Fifth Element when the blue alien opera singer is singing to Mill Jovavich beating down the uggos.:smallbiggrin: The music fit it so well.

Player_Zero

2008-05-29, 01:49 PM

Well, I just took a picture of myself with 231 tictacs in my mouth... What have you done with your life? :smalltongue:

...Now, to take one donning my pirate costume with a cup of tea, as previously anticipated... :smallbiggrin:

unstattedCommoner

2008-05-29, 01:55 PM

Well, I just took a picture of myself with 231 tictacs in my mouth... What have you done with your life? :smalltongue:

Pics and corroboration by independent witnesses, or it didn't happen.

OwlbearUltimate

2008-05-29, 01:57 PM

Well, I just took a picture of myself with 231 tictacs in my mouth... What have you done with your life? :smalltongue:

I prefer my picture as the Green Knight, with a friend in a knight suit, while eating pizza and drinking choclate milk. Actully, I have a video of it, we explain Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, hence the costumes.

Player_Zero

2008-05-29, 02:00 PM

Pics and corroboration by independent witnesses, or it didn't happen.

BWAHAHAHA! ...Technically not thread advertising, since he asked for it. Here. (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=81665)

And read the time posted/editted. Specifically the bit that says 'In before 'pics of or it didn't happen'. The independant witness is the playground itself, check the third picture and look at the monitor. :smallbiggrin:

Anyone else got any stupid things the did that they want to post?

Zakama

2008-05-29, 02:13 PM

Come on... Show us the pic of you with them in your mouth! For all we know, you could have just moved a bunch of the tic-tacs away then took the second picture. :smalltongue:

Kyrian

2008-05-29, 03:46 PM

Still haven't actually started working at Wal-Mart yet and they're STILL screwing me over.

So I take my drug test last saturday, and am supposed to be hearing from them. Call them up today, they STILL haven't received results...that are only supposed to take 24 HOURS....

GRRRRRRR

Well, I'm starting my extremely part time job at GameStop this Tuesday, so that's good.

Player_Zero

2008-05-29, 03:49 PM

Come on... Show us the pic of you with them in your mouth! For all we know, you could have just moved a bunch of the tic-tacs away then took the second picture. :smalltongue:

I've long-since deleted it by now. :smalltongue:

Leave! No! EvideEEence!!

Also, as far as I know you don't have to take a blood test to work in a supermarket around these parts...

Copacetic

2008-05-29, 04:04 PM

I've long-since deleted it by now. :smalltongue:

Leave! No! EvideEEence!!

Also, as far as I know you don't have to take a blood test to work in a supermarket around these parts...

But the thing is, if someone really is taking drugs, and the media catches wind of something, it's bad news for Wall-Mart. Hired Druggy+Media coverage= Scandal for Wal-Mart and they lose money.

Kyrian

2008-05-29, 04:16 PM

Also...I'm sorta not allowed to work at Kroger's or Kroger's owned supermarkets...

>.>
<.<

Long story short, the manager I worked with was a devil.

Phase

2008-05-29, 05:19 PM

I hope all your Wall-mart woes end in a way in which Wall-mart loses.

And you win...

Zakama

2008-05-29, 05:31 PM

I hope all your Wall-mart woes end in a way in which Wall-mart loses.

And you win...

RAWR! Down with Wall-Mart.

On second thought, we need them for when the zombies come. Dang.

Copacetic

2008-05-29, 05:40 PM

RAWR! Down with Wall-Mart.

On second thought, we need them for when the zombies come. Dang.

Wait, I'm confused. Aren't they the zombies? And what would we need them for?

CurlyKitGirl

2008-05-29, 05:44 PM

Apparently 'Wal-Marts' (whatever they are, they seem like an American version of a Co-op but hated) are a good place to hide/take refuge in in case of a Zombie Apocalypse.

Rockphed

2008-05-29, 06:36 PM

...sauce :smallwink:

I think you mean:

Kinky. :smallamused:

Yay for CurlyKitGirl's Agatha Avvie! And she has the giant wrench, which makes everything better.

Copacetic

2008-05-29, 06:48 PM

I think you mean:

Kinky. :smallamused:

Yay for CurlyKitGirl's Agatha Avvie! And she has the giant wrench, which makes everything better.

Except when she hits you with it for doubting her British-ness.

Dragonrider

2008-05-29, 06:50 PM

Curly, that avvie ROCKS. :smallbiggrin:

LightWraith

2008-05-29, 06:50 PM

Apparently 'Wal-Marts' (whatever they are, they seem like an American version of a Co-op but hated) are a good place to hide/take refuge in in case of a Zombie Apocalypse.

This is Wal-Mart. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wal-Mart)
This is Zombo.com (http://www.zombo.com) <--- I'm Sorry.

Wal-Mart is huge, evil, and offers at least a decent chance for survival in the case of a Zombie Apocalypse. They offer foodstuffs, camping supplies and, locally at least, what can only be described as a disturbing amount of firepower, all in one convenient location. The only problem? They are usually giant, wide open stores, which means they are almost certainly going to be crawling with zombies. As such, they would be a good place to stock up, but I wouldn't want to hang around. No, I haven't thought too much about this.

A friend of mine actually had a dream where we all raided a Wal-Mart during a zombie outbreak. Apparently we did rather well.

Jack Squat

2008-05-29, 06:50 PM

Apparently 'Wal-Marts' (whatever they are, they seem like an American version of a Co-op but hated) are a good place to hide/take refuge in in case of a Zombie Apocalypse.

Wal-Mart is a store that sells a little bit of everything, We've got plenty over here (Target, K-Mart Costco...), but for some reason Wal-Mart is the most hated.

As for being good for zombies...not really. Besides the fact that everyone's going there, there's loads of doors and windows that would need barricading, and it'll be pitch black if/when the power goes out.

The best thing to do would be to hike/drive out to the middle of nowhere, where you can fortify a house...much like what royalty did during the plague...but with semi-auto rifles and shotguns.

Yoritomo Himeko

2008-05-29, 07:29 PM

Wal-Mart is a store that sells a little bit of everything, We've got plenty over here (Target, K-Mart Costco...), but for some reason Wal-Mart is the most hated.

As for being good for zombies...not really. Besides the fact that everyone's going there, there's loads of doors and windows that would need barricading, and it'll be pitch black if/when the power goes out.

The best thing to do would be to hike/drive out to the middle of nowhere, where you can fortify a house...much like what royalty did during the plague...but with semi-auto rifles and shotguns.

Wal-Mart is hated because they drive smaller stores out of business with their cut-throat tactics. They sell merchandise much lower due to their volume, but raise prices once the competition is gone. While other chains do this, Wal-Mart is the most successful with it.

And not to mention the fact that they are almost everywhere.

This site (http://wakeupwalmart.com/) might shed a little more light on the issue.

Em Blackleaf

2008-05-29, 07:32 PM

I just saw a picture of a giant Lego bee that Pete Wentz is giving to Ashlee Simpson as a wedding present. Proof that Wentz is the emo version of Ralph Wiggum. :smalltongue:

"'Will you Bee my Valentine?' It says Bee! And there's a picture of a bee on it!"
A giant Lego bee sounds awesome. Did you know Ashlee Simpson is pregnant? I learned that from someone with no TV service...
'Kay, I'm done being a gossip magazine addict... :smalltongue:
That whole paragraph kinda sounds like a random assortment of words.

Anyway, I don't hate Wal-Mart, but I LOVE Costco for some reason.

Phase

2008-05-29, 07:32 PM

Copacetic

2008-05-29, 07:35 PM

Best thing to do in a zombie attack? Well, logic says one of three things will happen.

1. The zombies hunger for flesh, any flesh at all. In this case, the zombies will devour each other. No worries.

2. The zombies require living flesh. In this case, just stand among them and imitate them. They're the living dead, they can't be that smart. Eventually they starve to re-death. No worries.

3. The zombies require living flesh and can detect it with zombie powers. In this case, just move at an average speed of two miles per hour.

For some reason, none of those options work in the movies. I'm not complaing, bring on the gory scenes!

Jack Squat

2008-05-29, 08:21 PM

Wal-Mart is hated because they drive smaller stores out of business with their cut-throat tactics. They sell merchandise much lower due to their volume, but raise prices once the competition is gone. While other chains do this, Wal-Mart is the most successful with it.

And not to mention the fact that they are almost everywhere.

This site (http://wakeupwalmart.com/) might shed a little more light on the issue.

Someone told me it had to do with them using cheap labor to make their in-house stuff...

Still though, I can't really complain about Wal-Mart...There's not really anywhere else within what I'd call a reasonable distance to boycott it.

Frigs: The second worked in Shaun of the Dead...they just only do it in one scene.

Zakama

2008-05-29, 10:06 PM

Best thing to do in a zombie attack? Well, logic says one of three things will happen.

1. The zombies hunger for flesh, any flesh at all. In this case, the zombies will devour each other. No worries.

2. The zombies require living flesh. In this case, just stand among them and imitate them. They're the living dead, they can't be that smart. Eventually they starve to re-death. No worries.

3. The zombies require living flesh and can detect it with zombie powers. In this case, just move at an average speed of two miles per hour.

Most movie/book/tv/whatever zombies are tireless though, so the idea is that no matter how slow they are, they'll keep coming. You'll get tired, or run out of gas, or something, but they won't.

Realistically though, you can't get something from nothing, so the zombies would run out of energy. Unless they could use photosynthesis... Hmm...

Phase

2008-05-29, 10:13 PM

Realistically though, you can't get something from nothing, so the zombies would run out of energy. Unless they could use photosynthesis... Hmm...

When plant zombies attack!

It's "Night of the living dead" meets "Day of the Triffids" !

Zakama

2008-05-29, 10:21 PM

When plant zombies attack!

It's "Night of the living dead" meets "Day of the Triffids" !

No, think about it, it could work. Some sort of parasitic, carnivorous plant. It grows on you, takes you over, and wants flesh. When one bites you? You get spores.

Atreyu the Masked LLama

2008-05-29, 10:26 PM

That's crazy enough to work!! You terrify me, Zakama.

Zakama

2008-05-29, 10:28 PM

That's crazy enough to work!! You terrify me, Zakama.

:smallbiggrin: You're welcome.

Phase

2008-05-29, 10:29 PM

When one bites you? You get spores.

Spore? Spore!

http://www.mtv.com/news/photos/g/games_spore_021408/spore_tribe.jpg

18 days to the demo!

Wheee!

Zakama

2008-05-29, 10:31 PM

18 days to the demo!

O_O

nowairus?

FoE

2008-05-29, 10:32 PM

When plant zombies attack!

It's "Night of the living dead" meets "Day of the Triffids" !

Hmm. Plant zombies. I wonder if anyone (http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=89069) has (http://ww2.wizards.com/Gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?name=Vigor%20Mortis) ever (http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=88960) thought (http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=89000) of (http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=89038) it (http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=89021) before. (http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=83908) :smallwink:

I remember reading a Conan comic back in my misspent youth where he battled plant zombies. Specifically, he and Valeria were sailing by this island where this huge plant-thing resided. I don't exactly remember the details, but it placed these seeds in people's heads and turned them into zombie warriors.

The Expedition to the Barrier Peaks also introduced "vegepygmies," which were humans converted into plant-human hybrids that were basically like zombies (except they used crude weapons).

It's a cool concept, though, and it would be a nice spin on the old zombie tradition. Plants need water, and the human body is a good source of it, and photosynthesis would explain how the zombies kept moving. As to why they bit people, that's how the plants would reproduce. They just wouldn't be driven to eat flesh anymore.

Atreyu the Masked LLama

2008-05-29, 10:33 PM

Oh Wow! I was sigged! My first Youtube video uploaded and I was sigged. What an exciting hour it has been!!

^ Ooooooh, nice cards!!

Zakama

2008-05-29, 10:36 PM

Youtube vid! Link! NAOUGHW!

Also: You're welcome, again :smalltongue:

Atreyu the Masked LLama

2008-05-29, 10:42 PM

Ally vs the RC Mouse of DOOM (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1EoYJ-C7b4)

No doggies were hurt in the making of the video.

Zakama

2008-05-29, 10:44 PM

Teehee. :smallsmile:

Rockphed

2008-05-30, 12:35 AM

I just pre-ordered the 4th edition box-set from amazon. Was this a good move(I saved 45 percent) or was it credibly stupid? I don't have much experience buying things online, so this is a somewhat new experience. Furthermore, they made me give them my address! What if it wasn't actually amazon?

Dihan

2008-05-30, 04:35 AM

Spore? Spore!

http://www.mtv.com/news/photos/g/games_spore_021408/spore_tribe.jpg

18 days to the demo!

Wheee!

And 18 days until my exams are over... Atleast I have something to look forward too! :smallbiggrin:

bosssmiley

2008-05-30, 04:49 AM

Spore? Spore!

http://www.mtv.com/news/photos/g/games_spore_021408/spore_tribe.jpg

18 days to the demo!

Wheee!

*SQUEEEEEEEE!!! Licks screen in approbation and undisguised love of Spore.

18 days until I can stop grumbling about vapourware. Less than 3 weeks! :smallbiggrin:

(unrelated) Truth:

http://fc04.deviantart.com/fs26/f/2008/148/6/b/From_the_crayons_of_G__Lucas_by_jollyjack.jpg

Phase

2008-05-30, 05:23 AM

And 18 days until my exams are over... Atleast I have something to look forward too! :smallbiggrin:

Me too! The seventeenth for you too?

Dihan

2008-05-30, 05:29 AM

Me too! The seventeenth for you too?

Weeell... A few days before, but it feels like 18 days left! :smallfrown:

Jibar

2008-05-30, 06:39 AM

I leanrt something important last night.
I can sleep anywhere.
Also, Ms Marvel sucks and Iron Man is a cheating rat who builds momentum too fast.

Oh, and hooray! My last baby tooth came out.
I am now a man.

Yes! I remember that one! :smallbiggrin: 'twere awesome.

...sauce :smallwink:

It's times like this I wish I could start a meme whenever I wished.

Jibar, if I haven't stated me love and awe of your awesome cat-muffiny self let me do so now: You. Rock.
Direct quote and adaptation of Chaucer, Python reference, Lovecraft reference (maybe) and more.
I bow before your awesome sauce.

Awwww, thanks. :smallredface:

CurlyKitGirl

2008-05-30, 07:12 AM

Hee, another blush from Jib. But everything I say is true. I may go back and sig that actually.
Who's Ms. Marvel? Who's Iron Man?

EDIT:
@everyone who complimented Agatha: thankee verra much, it's excellent and it probably suits me.

Skippy

2008-05-30, 07:53 AM

Who's Iron Man?

Has he lost his mind?
Can he see or is he blind?
Can he walk at all,
Or if he moves will he fall?
Is he alive or dead?
Has he thoughts within his head?
Well just pass him there
Why should we even care?

He was turned to steel
In the great magnetic field
Where he traveled time
For the future of mankind

Nobody wants him
He just stares at the world
Planning his vengeance
That he will soon unfold

Now the time is here
For iron man to spread fear
Vengeance from the grave
Kills the people he once saved

Nobody wants him
They just turn their heads
Nobody helps him
Now he has his revenge

Heavy boots of lead
Fills his victims full of dread
Running as fast as they can
Iron man lives again!

:smallbiggrin:

I'm da Rogue!

2008-05-30, 08:03 AM

*plays Iron Man at guitar*

It's the 1st riff I ever learned to play!:smallbiggrin:

That and Electric Funeral.

CurlyKitGirl

2008-05-30, 08:07 AM

I should be scared but seeing as I can recite all of the lyrics for 'Dance Magic' I won't be. But I will say I don't really like Black Sabbath. At all.

Kaelaroth

2008-05-30, 08:16 AM

Who's Ms. Marvel? Who's Iron Man?

Both superheroes. Iron Man wears a robotic suit with a variety of super-powered, high-tech weapons and gadgets. He was recently played by Robert Downey Jr. in th Iron Man film, alongside Gwyneth Paltrow.

Ms. Marvel was a scientist or something working somewhere NASA-related, who's endowed with incredible physical ability, flight, and energy related powers by the alien race known as the Kree.

Rawhide

2008-05-30, 08:53 AM

One word: Awesome (http://granades.com/2007/05/02/loltrek/)
(Will only make sense if you have seen the episode, also, SPOILER ALERT!)

Serpentine

2008-05-30, 09:03 AM

XD
You're right. Only that one word...

CurlyKitGirl

2008-05-30, 09:19 AM

Thirded. Only the one word needed. Now I want there to be more like that.

Zakama

2008-05-30, 11:40 AM

One word: Awesome (http://granades.com/2007/05/02/loltrek/)
(Will only make sense if you have seen the episode, also, SPOILER ALERT!)

I've seen that, it's pretty raw. :smallbiggrin:

PaladinFreak

2008-05-30, 11:49 AM

Wow. That is hilarious. I have never seen the episode, but still...

Player_Zero

2008-05-30, 11:52 AM

bosssmiley

2008-05-30, 12:18 PM

Is this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkYuK3AKrxc&feature=related) scene not the best in any movie ever, regardless of whether or not Megatron should've won?

*Attempts to start 'Best scene in a movie' competition*

S'alright. But it definitely needs more death course (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DeathCourse). Scene unaccountably lacks bamboo spike traps, poison darts, Indy Hat Rolls (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/IndyHatRoll) and any sign of a giant rolling ball of death (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/IndyEscape). Also suffers from insufficient Belocq, enraged Hovitos or "Jock! Start the plane!!!" :smallamused:

V Ah, but (http://youtube.com/watch?v=YkV5oiIlvpw)... what (http://youtube.com/watch?v=dGhkWSDCnX4)... and then (http://youtube.com/watch?v=JqdJ1VkuO84)... yeah ok, you're right. :smallbiggrin::smallbiggrin::smallbiggrin:

VV That scene requires no explanation. :smallcool:

Amotis

2008-05-30, 12:39 PM

The best fight scene, ever (http://youtube.com/watch?v=wqKFadyJxwg)

Jibar

2008-05-30, 12:47 PM

The best fight scene, ever (http://youtube.com/watch?v=wqKFadyJxwg)

What the...

Explanting please?

CurlyKitGirl

2008-05-30, 01:42 PM

I agree with the Cat-Muffin. Explaining please.

Hephaestus

2008-05-30, 02:24 PM

The best fight scene, ever (http://youtube.com/watch?v=wqKFadyJxwg)

GO GET EM PIKACHU!

Player_Zero

2008-05-30, 02:44 PM

Also a cool clip (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkGVhmw7x9Q).

I'm gonna' need more rope.

Dallas-Dakota

2008-05-30, 02:48 PM

how is that the best fight ever? Thirded on the explaining please?

Lots of rambling to come, gtg now though, in later post.

unstattedCommoner

2008-05-30, 04:23 PM

Is it a bad sign that I desperately want this book (http://www.cambridge.org/features/mathematics/numericalrecipes/row), even though it has nothing to do with my chosen profession?

Player_Zero

2008-05-30, 04:24 PM

unstattedCommoner

2008-05-30, 04:32 PM

Poison! Numerical methods! ARGH I'm melting!!

I choose to take that as a 'no'. :smalltongue:

Rockphed

2008-05-30, 04:57 PM

Is it a bad sign that I desperately want this book (http://www.cambridge.org/features/mathematics/numericalrecipes/row), even though it has nothing to do with my chosen profession?

Yes, but only because your profession is not connected with that book. Thus when robots take over the world, you will be out of a job.

Or it could be a good sign because it shows your Renaissance Character.:smallwink:

Player_Zero

2008-05-30, 05:03 PM

Numerical methods are the Devil, however. Regardless of whether or not it makes you a well-rounded person.

Pure maths! Pure maths! Pure maths! Pure maths!

What do we want?

Abstract equations!

When do we want it?

t=0!

Raiser Blade

2008-05-30, 05:18 PM

Oh man my favorite quote from that movie. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp_K8prLfso

Such a classic.

Tragic_Comedian

2008-05-30, 05:20 PM

Hey, this is the guy formerly know as Leather_Book_wizard, I just figured I'd pop by and tall all y'all hey. Has anyone here heard anything about the Paradise Lost movie?

Player_Zero

2008-05-30, 05:21 PM

Oh man my favorite quote from that movie. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp_K8prLfso

Such a classic.

Wow... I never knew that that line was from that movie. Or for that matter, I didn't even know about the movie until a few hours ago! ...How did this one slip me by, I wonder...

unstattedCommoner

2008-05-30, 05:21 PM

Pure maths! Pure maths! Pure maths! Pure maths!

What do we want?

Abstract equations!

When do we want it?

t=0!

It takes an engineer to build an ivory tower. :smallwink:

Also, t ~ 10^18 s so I should get a move on if I were you.

Player_Zero

2008-05-30, 05:23 PM

It takes an engineer to build an ivory tower. :smallwink:

Also, t ~ 10^18 s so I should get a move on if I were you.

Touché, mon frère...

Hey, this is the guy formerly know as Leather_Book_wizard, I just figured I'd pop by and tall all y'all hey. Has anyone here heard anything about the Paradise Lost movie?

Would you say that you are the artist formerly known as Leather_Book_Wizard? Also, no. Enlighten me.

Tragic_Comedian

2008-05-30, 05:29 PM

Would you say that you are the artist formerly known as Leather_Book_Wizard? Also, no. Enlighten me.

Well, some might say that, but not me.:smallwink: I don't really know much about the movie myself, but I heard that Daniel Craig is being considered for the part of Satan, and that the movie is due for release in 2009. I also heard (but dearly hope it isn't true) that the focus would be less on the Fall of Man and more on a huge "special effects" war between Heaven and Hell.

unstattedCommoner

2008-05-30, 05:33 PM

I don't really know much about the movie myself, but I heard that Daniel Craig is being considered for the part of Satan, and that the movie is due for release in 2009. I also heard (but dearly hope it isn't true) that the focus would be less on the Fall of Man and more on a huge "special effects" war between Heaven and Hell.

It's what Milton would have wanted.

Tragic_Comedian

2008-05-30, 05:39 PM

Player_Zero

2008-05-30, 05:42 PM

A personally think they should show as little of Heaven in the film as possible, and when it is ABSOLUTELY necessary, that they should just have a bright white light and voices, because that is pretty much the only way they could do it and still have it somewhat believable. Aside: Who else thinks Christopher Lee would be awesome as the voice of God?

Well, they're never going to be able to make a believable Heaven by its definition though, are they? :smalltongue: But I take your point that they should do it tastefully...

Also, I think a lot of people could voice God well enough... Christopher Lee is no exception.

CurlyKitGirl

2008-05-30, 05:45 PM

He's already played DEATH so why not God?

Rockphed

2008-05-30, 05:52 PM

Oh man my favorite quote from that movie. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp_K8prLfso

Such a classic.

What movie is that?

Recaiden

2008-05-30, 06:07 PM

It doesn't matter what movie it is, just the quote.
Christopher Lee could do the voice pretty well, but i don't want to think up someone who can do it better.
Also,
A baby platypus, AKA a "puggle":

http://likethespider.com/wp-content/uploads/puggle.gif

Also

http://www.smh.com.au/ffxImage/urlpicture_id_1050777162459_2003/04/20/nat21platypus2,0.jpg

And finally, does Curly's avatar scare anyone else?:smallfrown:

Player_Zero

2008-05-30, 06:12 PM

Not really, I just think of Girl Genius (GG). Pretty good comic. It's no OotS, though.

Trog

2008-05-30, 06:32 PM

Dragonrider

2008-05-30, 06:47 PM

Not really, I just think of Girl Genius (GG). Pretty good comic. It's no OotS, though.

Eh...I think it's as good as OotS! I mean, I wouldn't want to have to choose between the two...but I REALLY like GG.

Copacetic

2008-05-30, 07:46 PM

Flickerdart

2008-05-30, 08:39 PM

Heh...felt kinda nostalgic, added a little stanza from an old Russian song to the sig. Rubakhin would probably appreciate it.

Rockphed

2008-05-30, 09:38 PM

Oh man are we getting one heck of a storm rolling through here. Rain whipping in every direction including sideways and hail and lots of rain falling. There's this continuous rumbling noise too.

*posts from basement with kitty*

On hit me up too. You'd think that all that protection money I give them storms would keep them away, but NOOOO. They want more. Well, next time they come around, I'll give them more. *Polishes shotgun*

Now that the storm has left, I feel the need to go dancing outside. I think I will do so at the stroke of midnight.

Zakama

2008-05-30, 09:56 PM

Me too. Hail and Tornadoes and Flash Floods oh my. :smallannoyed:

Hmm. We got all our bad weather last night.

Jibar

2008-05-31, 12:59 AM

Have you ever had the urge to wage war?
For some reason right now, I just want to start a war.
I don't know how or how I'll fight without armies but... I want a war.

Rawhide

2008-05-31, 01:14 AM

Jibar: How about we start a flame war? I'll give you some ammunition to get it started.

http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i278/wolfshonor/flamed/flamethrower1a.gif http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i278/wolfshonor/flamed/flamethrower1.gif
http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i278/wolfshonor/flamed/flamethrower3c.gif http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i278/wolfshonor/flamed/flamethrower3.gif

Midnight Son

2008-05-31, 01:14 AM

Rawhide

2008-05-31, 01:15 AM

Here are some people I've flamed in the past, with screenshots!

Llama
http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i278/wolfshonor/flamed/flamedllama.gif

http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i278/wolfshonor/flamed/flamedllama2.gif
Ms Elaneous
http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i278/wolfshonor/flamed/flamedmse.gif
EmeraldRose
http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i278/wolfshonor/flamed/flameder.gif
Syka
http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i278/wolfshonor/flamed/flamedsyka.gif
All art by the wonderful Ceika

rubakhin

2008-05-31, 01:49 AM

@Jibar If you had a war and knew what it was, you wouldn't say a thing like that.

@Flickerdart Булат Окуджава!!!! :smallbiggrin:

bosssmiley

2008-05-31, 03:53 AM

Have you ever had the urge to wage war?
For some reason right now, I just want to start a war.
I don't know how or how I'll fight without armies but... I want a war.

Oh dear, mating season. :smallamused:

Too much muffintosterone sloshing about your system (aside: you can tell by the way his chocolate chips have become inflamed). Just watch WW2 films - or possibly Arnie movies - until the swelling subsides.

Nychta

2008-05-31, 04:30 AM

Jibar, I'll flame-war you, as long as we take it off the boards.

But seriously. Why do you want a war? Of all things. :smallconfused:

Kyrian

2008-05-31, 05:03 AM

17 hours 46 minutes and counting down....

Not that I'm counting down this last day between me and my 21st bday or anything...:smallwink:

and before anyone tries to argue my math on the time (which may actually be wrong, so argue that if it is.) it's 6:14am according to my laptop, cellphone, comcast cable box, fiancee's cell, watch.

Speaking of time...it'd be nice if board time stopped getting off time?

*goes back to sleep before he says anything weird.*

Hoggy

2008-05-31, 09:16 AM

What's the big deal with being 21? You shoulda done it all already man! :smalltongue:

Atreyu the Masked LLama

2008-05-31, 09:24 AM

Here are some people I've flamed in the past, with screenshots!

Llama
http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i278/wolfshonor/flamed/flamedllama.gif

http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i278/wolfshonor/flamed/flamedllama2.gif

YEOWWCH!!!! That's worse than the time I hugged Firefox. Get back you, you ...you...malice filled moderator of questionable quality for flaming forum fanatics!!!

*Chases Rawhide and pulls out a class 7 RGT Flamethrower*
http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i278/wolfshonor/flamed/flamethrower1a.gif

Player_Zero

2008-05-31, 09:47 AM

War is never the answer! ...Probably, at any rate...

I suppose it depends on the type of war... And the weapons involved...

I mean, if it's a beanbag throwing war, then I suppose it's okay. Any other war is out. :smalltongue:

Or maybe a waterballoon war... That'd be awesome...

Bookman

2008-05-31, 11:06 AM

Jibar

2008-05-31, 11:16 AM

I have long intended to one day find myself some giant indoor area and construct something akin to a Team Fortress 2 map inside.
Then I have two words for you:
Nerf. War.

That's not the war I wanted earlier though.
That feeling dissipated though. Very odd.

Oh, and, aaaaahhhhh. Three days, 7 exams, no revision.
Aaaaaahhhhhh.

CurlyKitGirl

2008-05-31, 11:29 AM

*posts from basement with kitty*

Waitaminute, waitaminute. How can I be there? We don't even have a basement. :smallconfused:

@Jib: I laugh at you for a second, then console you. I though my last two exams were on Tuesday, I was planning to revise Monday. Turns out the exams are Monday.
Fun.:smallannoyed: It's also date heavy as well so I'm a bit panicky now.:smalleek: But not too worried. No, I'm not acting like Bookman, who thought that silly idea? >.> <.<

What exams? Not Lang/Lit. Drama maybe? History?

Jibar

2008-05-31, 11:46 AM

Monday
History - Stalinist Russia: 45min
History - Interwar politics of Britain: 45min
History - Source Analysis Nazi Germany: 1 hour (failed this is January)

Not that bad... I know Stalinist Russia like the back of my hand, and I'm good on Interwar as long as the question comes between 1918 and 1928.

Tuesday
Philosophy and Ethics: ...

I don't actually know what the module names are. All I know is there should be two exams, but I have three because I'm redoing my January exam which, shock shock horror horror shock shock horror, I failed as well. 3 hours here.
I am in big danger of failing all this because for some reason I suck at the exams for this course. I know everything I need to but I just... I just can't get it down.
Then there's the fact that I'm the only person retaking. Everyone else got like As or high Bs back in January, and the way the other exams are set means I'm going to be the only one in the hall after the 3 hours are up.
*sigh*

Wednesday
Theatre Studies - The written bit. 2 hours.
Not bad. I still need to do my notes up but the exam is piss easy.

Anyway. Bidoofs huh? Thems snazzzy.

CurlyKitGirl

2008-05-31, 01:04 PM

Two out of three. Well, two out of two because I only guessed two. That's . . . either lucky or a scary memory.
Still, it seems you'll do fine, besides I'm doing a history retake too. You are not alone.
Which may be a quote from some film maybe?:smallconfused:
Stupid train of thought thoughty-stream-thing. *blink* It seems I'm not the most sane person today, well, not exactly focused.
Strange, 'cause I read Sherlock Holmes today and am now watching Tengen Toppa and browsing TV Tropes. Both addicting and the former is so, you know, epic. Epic doesn't even seem to describe it so I'll paraphrase something TV Tropes said: "It runs on the Rule of Cool condensed."
Maybe they're draining my concentration.
Mut be a plot of, um, what was I saying? TV Tropes is cool and totally not setting out to drain everyone's intelligence in an attempt to take over the world before the internet community realises that it's become sentient.
Phew. Escaped that thing, silly internet user nearly stumbled onto our plot.

Gaelbert

2008-05-31, 01:21 PM

Two words.

Pillow War.

:biggrin:

Those are pretty darn painful. My friend has an incredibly hard pillow, and in various wars he's shattered a number of lamps, lights, and other appliances with it.

Cobra_Ikari

2008-05-31, 01:30 PM

This is why I hold my pillow wars away from all valuble fragiles. Or...wait. Fragile valubles. There we go.

Jibar

2008-05-31, 01:52 PM

Two out of three. Well, two out of two because I only guessed two. That's . . . either lucky or a scary memory.
Still, it seems you'll do fine, besides I'm doing a history retake too. You are not alone.

That is scary.
Which exam have you got left? I know you've done English aaaaand... French?

I'm more worried about Philosophy though. I love the course so much, but I am the only person failing so I don't know if they'll let me continue it next year.

Strange, 'cause I read Sherlock Holmes today and am now watching Tengen Toppa and browsing TV Tropes. Both addicting and the former is so, you know, epic. Epic doesn't even seem to describe it so I'll paraphrase something TV Tropes said: "It runs on the Rule of Cool condensed."
Maybe they're draining my concentration.
Mut be a plot of, um, what was I saying? TV Tropes is cool and totally not setting out to drain everyone's intelligence in an attempt to take over the world before the internet community realises that it's become sentient.
Phew. Escaped that thing, silly internet user nearly stumbled onto our plot.

...

*has sooo not been reading TVTropes a couple hours per day for the past week*

...

I blame them for giving us study leave. It was bound to happen.

Groundhog

2008-05-31, 04:08 PM

Heh. I don't have exams. :smallamused:

Although that may end up being a bad thing in the end, because it means that I'll have a harder time with exams next year.

CurlyKitGirl

2008-05-31, 04:37 PM

That is scary.
Which exam have you got left? I know you've done English aaaaand... French?

Done: Eng Lang, French, Eng Lit, Classical Civilisations. Still to do: Mediaeval History.
Which means you're three (ish) for two. Super scary.

I blame them for giving us study leave. It was bound to happen.

Neither myself nor most of those I call friends and geeky friends actually understand the point of study leave. At all.
Take the 'geek/nerd' clique thingy: you'd think they actually do what you're meant to and, I don't know, actually study. But they don't. They play computer games, other games, generally lurk on the internet on time wasting sites like . . . I don't know, TV Tropes, read, do nothing, work or all of the above. Studying tends not to come into it. Ever. And this isn't just for the brainy secion either, even the stupidest of geeks will do this.
Really, the only clique (and I do hate using this word so bear with me) are the 'averages' and similar types. 'Jocks' and 'Barbies' don't.
Study Leave is just for teachers to relax. And lose either one-fifth or half their classes.

Zombie pixe

2008-05-31, 04:37 PM

Heh, i have 6 exams this week, but they are all in three days, so i get two days off, not so bad.

Hows everyones exam expiriences going?

:smallsmile:

Dihan

2008-05-31, 04:54 PM

I have four exams this coming week and three exams the following. I have a three hour one on Friday and two amounting to three hours the following Thursday. Yay for finishing school at 5pm! :smallsigh:

Player_Zero

2008-05-31, 05:27 PM

I have... Seven-ish more exams to go... Ending at the end of the month. :smallsigh:

Flickerdart

2008-05-31, 05:32 PM

Three exams, three weeks or so from now. Plus 2 weeks of school still remaining.

This also means every class has a final project due...

Kyrian

2008-05-31, 05:56 PM

4 hours and 50 minutes, and I'll be 21 finally!

Also, I feel really bad for all of you that are STILL in school.

Dragonrider

2008-05-31, 06:43 PM

I have been dreading my dad's hair ALL DAY. It has been six hours and we're still not done.

I'm not sure I like dreadlocks. :smallannoyed: But I guess he does.

Cobra_Ikari

2008-05-31, 06:53 PM

I once saw a girl with teal and magenta dreadlocks. I thought it was the coolest thing ever. Other than that, I have to agree. Ick.

Kyrian

2008-05-31, 06:55 PM

I have been dreading my dad's hair ALL DAY. It has been six hours and we're still not done.

I'm not sure I like dreadlocks. :smallannoyed: But I guess he does.

...Your dad has dreadlocks??!

*pictures his dad in dreadlocks. shudders*

That should be illegal or something...

Phase

2008-05-31, 08:27 PM

My dad doesn't have nearly enough hair to do anything with. This is mainly because, when he was little, my cousin rubbed a pickle on my dad's head and most of it fell out, never to return...

I've lovingly dubbed him, "Pickle-head"

Kyrian

2008-05-31, 08:31 PM

*cries*

So...I was going to go renew my license Monday (since they're closed tomorrow on my bday...). And I NEED a license since I start BOTH at WalMart AND GameStop Tuesday and will be out for over 12hours working....and guess what?

CLOSED Mondays....

Phase

2008-05-31, 09:50 PM

Ah, that sucks big time. I would ask if there was anything I could do, but then I would remember I'm on the internet, not real... world... life... place...

Cake?

Lies?

Kyrian

2008-05-31, 10:43 PM

I take the truthful cake, please.

T - 3 more minutes til I'm 21!

Recaiden

2008-06-01, 12:26 AM

Only 8 hours and 5-10 minutes of school left.:smalltongue: I'm really not looking forward to my english and spanish exams.
Happy Birthday Kyrian:smile: Hope you can get a liscence.

Rawhide

2008-06-01, 01:29 AM

I have no words

http://dragonsgirl.freeblog.hu/files/Jatek/Phoenix_Wright_0_b.jpg

Raiser Blade

2008-06-01, 01:34 AM

I have no words

http://dragonsgirl.freeblog.hu/files/Jatek/Phoenix_Wright_0_b.jpg

Wow that is awesome. :smallbiggrin:

They really paid attention to detail.

Jibar

2008-06-01, 01:41 AM

I have no words

http://dragonsgirl.freeblog.hu/files/Jatek/Phoenix_Wright_0_b.jpg

I do.

OBJECTION KOMBAT!

Also: uuuuuuurrrrgggghhhh.
I hate waking up after seven.

Done: Eng Lang, French, Eng Lit, Classical Civilisations. Still to do: Mediaeval History.
Which means you're three (ish) for two. Super scary.

Skills. Classics though. Oof. Most my friends do classics and my friend at the all girls school is doing mediaeval history.
Good luck.

Really, the only clique (and I do hate using this word so bear with me) are the 'averages' and similar types. 'Jocks' and 'Barbies' don't.

I've noticed that too...
Weird, huh?

Copacetic

2008-06-01, 07:05 AM

I have no words

http://dragonsgirl.freeblog.hu/files/Jatek/Phoenix_Wright_0_b.jpg

Why Phoenix Wright should never, EVER be combined with Dragon Ball Z. EVER!

Kyrian

2008-06-01, 07:11 AM

Why Phoenix Wright should never, EVER be combined with Dragon Ball Z. EVER!

Well, that and because it'd take about 15+ episodes for him to power up enough to yell 'Objection!'?

Copacetic

2008-06-01, 07:22 AM

Well, that and because it'd take about 15+ episodes for him to power up enough to yell 'Objection!'?

That, and the thought of a Super-Sayain Phoenix Wright would leave me giggling on the floor for the next few hours or so.

Kyrian

2008-06-01, 07:25 AM

That, and the thought of a Super-Sayain Phoenix Wright would leave me giggling on the floor for the next few hours or so.

Ka...Me....Ha....Me....OBJECTION!!!!

bosssmiley

2008-06-01, 07:28 AM

I have no words

http://dragonsgirl.freeblog.hu/files/Jatek/Phoenix_Wright_0_b.jpg

Huh? Looks like pretty typical behaviour for lawyers (for they are obstreperous and territorial buggers at the best of times). :smallbiggrin:

Unrelated: Russia's Dragon Lab (http://englishrussia.com/?p=1953)

"We will bury you. Under flights of dragons!!!" :smallcool:

Player_Zero

2008-06-01, 09:33 AM

Unrelated: Russia's Dragon Lab (http://englishrussia.com/?p=1953)

"We will bury you. Under flights of dragons!!!" :smallcool:

Those are dragons? They look rather demonic to me...

Also, if you did cross Phoenix Wright with DBZ then you'd have to make sure that the balls weren't inert. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NR0Yn8u-f3k&feature=related)

CurlyKitGirl

2008-06-01, 09:50 AM

Copacetic

2008-06-01, 10:27 AM

Ugh.
For some obscure reason not even I know I couldn't sleep until after two. I woke up at seven and was so angry and tired with myself I went back to sleep.
Or tried to. Last I remember it was almost eight and then I wake up at flipping half twelve.
Very not happy.:smallannoyed:

Also neer heard of Phoenix Wright.

Ohh. Bad luck. Get a firend to hit in the back of the head with a club next time. Losing Consciencenous assured!

Also, It's probably for the best.

Dihan

2008-06-01, 10:32 AM

Also neer heard of Phoenix Wright.

He's an Attorney of Lawl (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXP54rjEy8o&feature=related).

Jibar

2008-06-01, 12:29 PM

Alternatively, you have Phoenix Wrong. (http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/349811)

Ever come up with an insult but never had the opportunity to use it?
I was just sitting here when I thought to myself "If I ever had a drink for the number of times you've been ugly, I would have one. And the drink would go on forever."
I want to say that to somebody.

Copacetic

2008-06-01, 02:28 PM

...

Ever come up with an insult but never had the opportunity to use it?
I was just sitting here when I thought to myself "If I ever had a drink for the number of times you've been ugly, I would have one. And the drink would go on forever."
I want to say that to somebody.

I believe some emotionally insecure people in the Depression Thread would are free for insult testing.:smallwink:

Zakama

2008-06-01, 03:20 PM

How about we start a flame war? I'll give you some ammunition to get it started.

:smalleek:

Remember this day, kids. It's not often you see an admin wanting to start a flame war.

Copacetic

2008-06-01, 03:27 PM

:smalleek:

Remember this day, kids. It's not often you see an admin wanting to start a flame war.

I think he may be kidding.

Player_Zero

2008-06-01, 03:58 PM

I think he may be kidding.
Kidding?! On my internet!? I think not! :smallfurious:

http://img186.imageshack.us/img186/2540/internetseriousvq1.jpg

Dragonrider

2008-06-01, 04:02 PM

Groundhog

2008-06-01, 04:09 PM

@Player_Zero: Your internet? What gives here?

Zakama

2008-06-01, 04:10 PM

I seem to recall one memorable occasion on which D'anna Biers (now inactive, I believe) suggested that making Rawhide a mod was akin to making HIM one.
(if you remember D'anna, that's funny. :smallamused:)

I remember D'anna! He joined my Gabbly chat once, and Mas and I talked LIVE with him. :smalleek: It was quite the experience.

Player_Zero

2008-06-01, 04:16 PM

@Player_Zero: Your internet? What gives here?

I own and invented the internet. When people give away internets/internetz they are, in fact, giving away internet bonds which I have given out, which can then be redeemed for my permission to host their own site.

Dragonrider

2008-06-01, 04:16 PM

I remember D'anna! He joined my Gabbly chat once, and Mas and I talked LIVE with him. :smalleek: It was quite the experience.

I found him hilarious. Most of the time. Everytime you talked to him he claimed he was something different:
Sometimes he was elderly.
Sometimes he was a kid.
Sometimes he was serious.
Sometime he was spastic.
Sometimes he was straight.
Sometimes he was gay.
Sometimes he was a she.

:smallbiggrin:

Groundhog

2008-06-01, 04:20 PM

I own and invented the internet. When people give away internets/internetz they are, in fact, giving away internet bonds which I have given out, which can then be redeemed for my permission to host their own site.

Hookay... *smiles, nods, and calls the men in white coats*

Player_Zero

2008-06-01, 04:51 PM

Hookay... *smiles, nods, and calls the men in white coats*

They work for me now. They all work for me. I am Legion, for we are many.

Now... You have no journey at all, my friends. I insist you stay here with me. You will be my honoured guests - from now... Until the day you die.

http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/274/inbou2vr8.jpg

Skippy

2008-06-01, 11:33 PM

I wanna participate on Rawhide's Flame Wars!!! *picks a weapon*
*Flames*

Raiser Blade

2008-06-02, 02:09 AM

I found him hilarious. Most of the time. Everytime you talked to him he claimed he was something different:
Sometimes he was elderly.
Sometimes he was a kid.
Sometimes he was serious.
Sometime he was spastic.
Sometimes he was straight.
Sometimes he was gay.
Sometimes he was a she.

:smallbiggrin:

D'anna was awesome. I miss his/her/its randomness.

Jibar

2008-06-02, 02:30 AM

Meep.

History.

God damn you Hitler.

Felixaar

2008-06-02, 02:33 AM

woo! History! and hitler was alright... he just happened to be an *******.

Groundhog

2008-06-02, 02:41 AM

Hmmm...I never considered *******s to be all right, I thought those two terms were mutually exclusive. Nor did I ever consider genocidal maniacs to be all right. Again, mutually exclusive terms.

Jibar

2008-06-02, 02:52 AM

I couldn't care less about what he was like. What do I do care about is the fact that he had to be assigned to the source analysis section.
Git.

Player_Zero

2008-06-02, 03:51 AM

Yes... Hitler was somewhat of a git, huh? Darn him indeed. :smalltongue:

P.S. Tony Stark built this thread in a cave! With a box of scraps!

Phase

2008-06-02, 05:21 AM

Player Zero? Are you feeling alright? Your posts are exhibiting... crazy syndome.

Dihan

2008-06-02, 05:53 AM

Player Zero? Are you feeling alright? Your posts are exhibiting... crazy syndome.

It must be the current moon phase...

Quincunx

2008-06-02, 06:23 AM

*blinkblink*

Holy schamoly, that was instantaneous.

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I've been told to get more iron into my diet. On the shopping list is canned spinach (to be combined with soup for cream-of-spinach soup), some liver (it's been ages, maybe I'll like it now, and it's cheap enough to bear experiment), and black pudding (no proper blood sausage here). Any other foods which spring to mind?

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I had not expected my housemate to be so pushy on matters medical. He's leaning on the Not Only Was I a Medic During My National Service, I Was Head of the Medics, So Do As I'm Telling You authority. I look forward to telling him that I did _not_ march myself to a doctor as ordered because they're all taking the day off like the _rest_ of the country is (except those who work for multinationals).